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Pirates head coach Greg Smith is busy preparing the team and the school's facilities for the second annual football boot camp that is being held in place of two-a-day workouts.
The camp, which is being held Monday through Thursday, will house the entire football team on the school grounds for several days to focus on both football and team chemistry.
"It's taking the old-school two-a-day format and helping deal with the heat elements that we have to contend with every year," Smith said.
The coach said the team will sleep in the school's cafeteria, and spend every waking moment in a controlled environment.
"I get them all week and I can make sure they are taken care of for probably the most crucial practices of their football season. We sleep in the cafeteria all week long and we practice throughout the day. We watch film, we have team meetings and we get in a lot of bonding time for the team," Smith said. "It gives me the chance to have them with me where I know what they are eating, that they are drinking enough water and that they are getting enough rest."
Smith said he has held a boot camp for over 10 years, but only two while employed as the head coach of the Dover School District.
A typical day for an athlete attending the camp begins at 7 a.m. when they eat breakfast. The team takes the practice field at 8 a.m. and then the weight room at 10:30 a.m..
Besides football, Smith said the team would spend time helping the Dover community and the Dover School District in whatever way becomes available during the camp.
"We're not just trying to win football games here," he said. "We are trying to make men."
After a brief rest period, the team will travel into town and look for ways to assist the community. Last year, the team pumped gas for patrons at a local gas station.
This year, Smith said he hopes to help the school district rearrange classrooms.
"Sine we are moving a lot of classrooms this year my plan is to pop in on the principal and asking what they need done," Smith said. "They're probably going to end up moving a lot of desks."
At 4 p.m. the team will break up into position meetings, where they learn specific knowledge related to their place on the football team. After a eating dinner, the group takes the field for round two of practices. Smith said the lights go out at 11 p.m. so he can be sure the kids are getting enough rest.
"The kids had such a great time last year and the bonding that took place was very important to our team," Smith said. "If you can live in a room with 40 other football players, that's a huge accomplishment by itself."


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Harlequins 40-13 Biarritz, Heineken Cup
O'Shea allays fears over Evans' injury
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October 13, 2012
Ben Botica stepped in for the injured Nick Evans in their match with Biarritz © PA Photos
Harlequins boss Conor O'Shea has revealed that fly-half Nick Evans is likely to be out for "weeks rather than months" after the fly-half suffered an ankle injury in their 40-13 win over Biarritz on Saturday evening.
Evans limped off after 17 minutes and was later walking on crutches with his left ankle heavily strapped but O'Shea is optimistic over the nature of his injury.
"Nick will have his foot in a boot for a little while and we'll see what it's like," O'Shea said."There's no break but there's a little bit of damage. We need to wait 24-48 hours and get it scanned.
"He won't be available against Connacht next Saturday, that's for sure, but it will be weeks rather than months."
An impressive performance by replacement Ben Botica, the 23-year-old son of rugby league great Frano, ensured Evans' absence was barely felt. Botica kicked 18 points to suggest there is life after Evans should the former New Zealand fly-half - one of Europe's most sought-after players - reject a new contract at Twickenham Stoop.
"Like father like son - his goalkicking is pretty special. He ran the game really well and attacked the line," O'Shea said. "It was the biggest match he's ever played in, so his performance was a massive, massive plus. Ben was outstanding."
England scrum-half Danny Care was superb, as was number eight Nick Easter whose strong form is generating momentum behind calls for his international return. "Nick is absolutely magnificent and he will keep on knocking until someone answers," O'Shea said. "It's great for us but Nick is ambitious and is desperate to play for England.
"The boys are giving him a going-over in the dressing room, saying the England bandwagon has started again."
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I mean, they take a risk on two guys that CAN or they MIGHT NOT pan out to be STARS, but at least they will have them cheap for the first two or three years.
It will be tough to swallow but it gives small market teams a puncher's chance at contending if they pan out early.
Let's say Lin and Asik pan out this year, for example: Rockets are loaded with All-Star talent, best case, and they are way under the cap to load up.
Can go either way.
It's a Puncher's chance.


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Hey guys Im a Twi-guy too We are out there! lol
My feeling on the Edward v. Jacob thing is that They both are symbolic of Bella's mortal and immortal life. If Bella had never met Edward she would probably end up having her slightly less impressive fairy tale ending and marrying Jacob due to the whole they knew each other as kids business. Jacob represents the normal (sans the vampires and werewolfs) life Bella could have had. and Edward represents that immortal timeless love that happens to few and is craved by many, Meeting someone and just knowing they are your everything and your meant for each other. So my answer is They were both "right" for Bella but different lives she could have led. I believe in the book at some point she pictures herself with Jacob married and with kids doesnt she? Im so for Edward thought. IMHO Jacob is a little to immature for Bella and I think Bella started to like him but never loved him the way she loves Edward.


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A Clarets fan accused of lobbing a drinks bottle at QPR star Joey Barton will face no further court action.
John Pounder (26) was charged with hurling a Coca-Cola bottle at the midfielder during Burnley FC's Championship clash with Rangers at Turf Moor last year.
But now the Crown Prosecution Service has discontinued the case against Mr Pounder after reviewing CCTV evidence from the ground.
The half-full drinks bottle had struck the 31-year-old former Newcastle and Man City player on the head during the Championship fixture on October 26th.
Mr Pounder, of Cedar Avenue, Haslingden, faced one count of throwing a missile onto the playing field and another of threatening behaviour during the Clarets 2-0 win against the West London Club.
He had denied both charges and was due to face trial at Burnley Magistrates' Court on March 21st after a series of court hearings over the incident.
But now prosecutors have formally withdrawn the charges against him after CCTV footage of the incident proved inconclusive.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said: "After receiving a file of evidence from the police the CPS reviewed all the evidence in the case including the CCTV of the incident and concluded that it was not possible to prove from the CCTV images who had thrown the bottle.
For that reason there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction and following consultation with the police the CPS discontinued the case."
Mr Pounder had been barred from visiting Turf Moor as part of his bail conditions.
Burnley FC officials said a decision had yet to be made whether this would be lifted following the CPS decision to drop the case.


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Sullivan reclaims his Rusty/XCEL Pro Title and goes on to win the HPAC series
Sunset Beach, Oahu, HAWAII (November 7, 2000) – After winning the Rusty/XCEL Pro in 1998, and placing second to Bruce Irons in 1999, Pancho Sullivan was again crowned king of Sunset, and handed a $4,000 check for his efforts. Sealing the title of the Rusty/XCEL Pro also lead Sullivan to win his second Hawaii Pro Am Circuit (HPAC) title, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) qualifying series of five surf events held on the North Shore and Neighbor Islands in large winter surf.
[IMAGE 3]As the third and final day in the Rusty/XCEL Pro began, surfers were blessed with sunny skies and clean surf in the 6 to 8 foot range. During these early rounds, Sullivan showed consistent power surfing and the ability to find the tubes. As the day progressed a second swell bumped the surf up into the 8 to 10+ foot range, with waves breaking on the outside reefs during the final. As wave size increased, and the two swells formed two different peaks at Sunset, Pancho was able to be in the right place at the right time – catching nine waves in the 35 minutes final. The other three surfers in the final caught between four and six waves.
But Sullivan's win could have gone to Brian Pacheco had there not been a tie for first place. In this situation, judges broke the tie based on the two highest scoring waves of the competitors, instead of the normal three. Wave number six for Sullivan was a ride full of power with the knack of finding that tube ride over the inside reef section. This was reflected in the 8 point score, one of the highest scoring waves of the event.
During the awards ceremony, Sullivan was asked about what his thoughts were about the event. "To be a kid, growing up surfing in the shore break in front of Sunset, I have always dreamed of surfing out at the main break." Pancho Sullivan has shown that he can surf other breaks as well as he does out at Sunset, as is reflected in the first place win of the HPAC Series. To win a series where points are awarded for each event, competitors must make semi-finals and finals of each event, and this Sullivan did, proving he can surf Pipeline, West Side Kauai, Velzyland as well as Sunset.
[IMAGE 2]Final Results for the Rusty/XCEL Pro:
1ST Place ==== Pancho Sullivan ==== $4,000
2nd Place ==== Brian Pacheco ==== $2,500
3rd Place ==== Myles Padaca ==== $1,500
4th Place ==== Liam McNamara ==== $1,300
=5th Place ==== Shane Beschen ==== $1,000
=5th Place ==== David Cantrell ==== $1,000
=7th Place ==== Sunny Garcia ==== $800
=7th Place ==== Joel Fitzgerald ==== $800
Hawaii Pro Am Circuit 2000 Results
Place ==== Name ==== From ==== Points
1st Place ==== Pancho Sullivan ==== Hawaii ==== 700
2nd Place ==== Myles Padaca ==== Hawaii ==== 683
3rd Place ==== Brian Pacheco ==== Hawaii ==== 639
4th Place ==== Derek Ho ==== Hawaii ==== 634
5th Place ==== Jason Bogle ==== Hawaii ==== 551
6th Place ==== Liam McNamara ==== Hawaii ==== 536
Adding to the excitement, the Rusty/XCEL Longboard Challenge, a 45 minute superheat was held right before the final of the main event. In 8 to 10 foot surf, former World Longboard Champion Bonga Perkins took first place and a $1,000 prize. Winner of the Hawaiian Longboard Federation series Kanoa Dahlin placed second and won $500, with Lance Ho'okano pocketing $300 for a third place finish.


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The new normal: stars behind size-zero backlash
As film stars, TV shows and clothes shops celebrate 'normal' bodies, are we inching closer to a broader definition of beautiful, asks Glenda Cooper.
It's a story as predictable as the plot of any summer blockbuster: young English actress goes to Hollywood, suddenly shrinks to half her original size and talks enthusiastically to the Press about how much she loves chocolate while appearing on the red carpet looking increasingly gaunt.
Except that Romola Garai doesn't want to follow the approved storyline. The star of Atonement, Glorious 39, Emma and The Hour has spoken out about why she is not prepared to starve herself to fit in with what Hollywood thinks is the feminine ideal.
"My weight was a very big issue when I started acting. I was then - and am now - a very normal size 10. But that's not acceptable," said Garai this week. "I'm being airbrushed [in magazines] a lot. And I know that people... are under the impression that this is really how my body looks. That worries me. And I don't know what to do except talk about it."
But she's not the only one who is talking about it. Fellow actress Salma Hayek said in an interview recently that she pushes "the limit of chubbiness at all times. I'm not a skinny girl". Meanwhile, Dawn French, who lost seven stone last year, shrugged her shoulders when it was reported that she had put two stone back on. She said: "I am perfectly happy with how I look, and I always have been."
French and Garai may be very different shapes, but the question remains: is a backlash beginning against the size-zero ideals that have been promoted by film and media? Are Garai's comments raising the idea of fat as a post-feminist issue?
"I think this is really interesting," says Dr Helen Nightingale, a clinical psychologist. "It suggests that attitudes are changing. When Sophie Dahl was a size-16 model, society wasn't ready for it and she ended up slimming right down. Now there's a stronger movement towards seeing normal-looking women."
Take Strictly Come Dancing, for example. Lisa Riley, the soap actress, has been wowing the judges with her routines, and garnering public support over stars with more conventional dancer physiques, by defiantly stating that she is not on the programme as some kind of fat "joke" act. "What I wanted to show was that it is OK for someone like me to do a competition like this, to dress in sexy clothes and have fun."
Voluptuous Mad Men star Christina Hendricks has said of her label as a role model for full-figured women: "It's such a compliment because of all those times I had agents who said: 'You have to lose some weight,' and all of a sudden, people are celebrating it. It's like: 'Oh, thank you! Thank you for letting me be me.'?"
Meanwhile, sneers earlier this year by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld about Adele's size didn't dent the stratospheric rise of the multi-Grammy award winner. "I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that," she snapped in retort. Lagerfeld backtracked rapidly and said his words had been taken out of context.
"I think it does ask the question: who is demanding that people are thin? It doesn't seem to be the general public," says Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, who has long raised concerns about the thinness of models in the "size zero" debate.
"Yet people in Hollywood and fashion are not allowing women to be bigger, so there appears to be a mismatch between what the general public feel and want, and what the [fashion and film] business thinks."
In fact, there were signs that something might be changing in public attitudes at the end of the London Olympics. After the elation of that two-week gold rush, the nation was buoyed up and ready to celebrate at the closing ceremony. And what could be better than a glamorous raft of famous names stalking out into the stadium, parading the best of British?
I know that people... are under the impression that this is really how my body looks. That worries me.
Except that when the supermodels - including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Georgia May Jagger and Lily Cole - strutted out, they weren't greeted with the usual awe. Rather, Twitter was abuzz with snorts of derision about a competition that celebrated health and sporting achievement being marked by models whose BMIs would place them firmly in an unhealthy range.
Added to that, in a recent poll - carried out by a fitness holiday company - women (and men) voted the gold-medal winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis as their most desirable and aspirational figure, above models, actresses and reality television stars. More than a third of the women surveyed said they felt "repulsed" at the sight of skinny celebrities in the media.
Of course, part of that can be put down to post-Olympic euphoria. Also, what we tell pollsters and what we actually think often needs to be taken with a pinch of low-calorie salt. And it is worth remembering that, before the Olympics, a high-ranking British official suggested Ennis was too fat, according to her coach.
Indeed, Deanna Jade, founder and principal of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, isn't at all sure that attitudes are changing. "If anything," she says, "there are more opportunities and platforms for women to talk about weight - via Facebook, Twitter and other social media - and I think it's creating an ambience of anxiety. I'm seeing children as young as five now with eating problems." And, as Shulman says: "Women are surprisingly judgmental. If they see a picture of an actress wearing a size 12, and she looks bigger than they're expecting, they will say she's looking fat."
But Nightingale feels that women are slowly turning against the pressure to be thin. Even in France, spiritual home of the gamine and soignee, blogs like Le Blog de Big Beauty (www.leblogdebigbeauty.com), written by plus-size model Stephanie Zwicky, are attracting hundreds of thousands of readers. "I think Marks & Spencer is a great example of the shift," says Nightingale. "Figures out this week show that clothing sales slumped, and I think that's because there weren't enough bigger-sized clothes.
"But there has been a really positive reaction to their new advert showing normal-sized women - and they need to promote the idea, both in adverts and in their window displays, that gorgeous clothes don't just come in sizes six, eight or 10."
However, Dr Ellie Cannon, a GP, has criticised the M&S ad campaign and pointed out that the real problem in this country is obesity. According to EU figures, there are a higher proportion of obese women in the UK (23.9 per cent) than in any other country.
"I think the debate has been skewed," she says. "We're all worrying about size zero, but at least two, and perhaps three, of those women in the M&S underwear adverts are overweight. Lisa Riley may talk about being able to celebrate her size but we really need to talk about fat as a health issue."
For Shulman, it's more about balance and the need to ensure that neither extreme is celebrated. She tells me that for the January issue of Vogue they are working with someone who is "not conventional model size". A big step indeed for the fashion bible, but there is still a long way to go. "I think we are inching - or perhaps centimetering - towards a broader span of what's appropriate," she says. "And that's not just size, it's ethnicity and age, too."
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Big Bend National Park
It wasn't totally nothing. The town of Langtry has a museum honoring Judge Roy Bean. But I didn't stop, the town looked so forlorn and desolate, with only a few cars around. Then there was Dryden, and Sanderson and finally, Marathon. Turning south on U.S. 385 at Marathon and driving another 40 miles through the high desert gets you to the northern entrance of Big Bend National Park. And then, another 30 miles to the Park Headquarters and Visitors Center in the middle of the park at Panther Junction!
Of the half dozen other campers that I'd talked with at Seminole Canyon, all of them were on their way to Big Bend National Park! And they had heard that there were no camping sites available, and yet they still came, as did I. The truth of the matter is that there are a certain number of sites that are reserved and others are first come, first served. There were no more reserved sites available but there were plenty of other sites, so it was no problem.
There are three main camping areas at Big Bend. The Chisos Basin in the center of the park (and in the middle of the Chisos Mountains), Rio Grande Village on the east, and Cottonwood in the south. My first choice was the Chisos Basin, since it was closest and it was early evening. I'd end up spending five nights at Chisos. It's an amazing place. Actually, all of Big Bend is incredible. There are so many trails to hike and so many "things" to see it is impossible to do everything.
My camp site at Chisos Basin. The "little hill" in the background is called Casa Grande and it dominates the southern view from the basin.
Shadows chasing the sun up Casa Grande Peak on my first evening at Big Bend, February 20th.
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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by zapvor, Apr 24, 2007.
JRK-how did you break your hand again??thats pretty serious
Even with windows open?
I'm sort of stuck in the same situation. I swear our HVAC repair company puts something down there that makes our AC crap out even though we haven't used it all winter long.... grrrr.......
BTW- Last week of night owl for me. Going to hit outdoors first week of may and looking forward to it.
I'm just looking forward to playing relatively pain-free in the beautiful outdoors again... :cry:
yeah...85 inside my house! my new roommate was some sort of master AC person...he took a look at it, and found something that they forgot to do in the fall...so i think you're right...they're probably scamming us somehow...
how is the knee holding up?
Agreed on the Subaru. It was Love At First Sight. And I bought it even before I was married or had kids. It's a 2001 with only 71K well-cared for miles. Haven't spent a dime on it except for regular maintenance (read: oil changes, new tires and batteries). Got a CV-Joint going bad and it's scheduled to be replaced this summer but all-in-all, I can't complain. Wish the mpg were just a bit better; can't ever quite get 30mpg on the road...but 22-25 mpg around town/mixed driving isn't bad.
Went to the annual car show earlier this year, looked over all the new stuff. Hated the new Forester. Just something about the seating position was all wrong. Liked the Mazda 3 and 5, Honda Fit and, much to our surprise, the Hyundai Elantra. Whole lotta car for the money. But since my car, despite its age, is not up in the rotation for replacement, hubs will be making the next vehicle selection. Oddly enough, it's his '01 Focus that's starting to develop some problems...so, time to get out the checkbook.
But, ahhhhhh, I miss my sports car days. My first little ride was an Opel GT. Pukey mustard yellow color but it had the sweetest 2nd gear I've ever driven. Looked like a mini-Corvette but was a metal version. Cool, manual, flip-over headlights...and 150mph on the speedometer. I never had it that high, not even anywhere in the triple-digits but spoke with a few guys (in doing some maintenance homework) who'd had one out on the track. Said 120mph was doable and felt good. Not shabby for a little 4-speed, 4-cylinder.
Then I thought I'd moved up in the world when I bought my first RX-7. Black. Now that car had a smooth clutch and a quiet engine. That's the car...I'd want back.
The 3000GT was a lark purchase. It was...eh...but I got plenty of attention in it. Sold it to my dad for a profit. He tooled around in it for two more years, then sold it to some sucker...for a profit. LOL
We had 85 in the house last week (on Weds) too. AC came on, but blew...cool but not cold air. Got on the phone to the HVAC boys. One service call, 2lbs freon and $200 later. Refrigerator. Not so much for me but hubs and kids run hot. No sense in making them miserable at night so we cool the house down to sleep.
Hope you get yours fixed.
Ehhh, it's so so but at least better than in previous weeks. So it's a start! lol
thanks...i kind of knew this was going to happen...it actually stopped working in the fall, but i said, screw it -- it was getting cold, and i'll just deal with this later....
now it's later....
The 3000GT and its Dodge Stealth twin was a heavy footed beast that wasn't as good as many thought it would be. But they were pricey to maintain and really had plenty of faults. Actually most Mitsus aren't all that reliable or cheap to maintain except for a few models.
yea the mitusus are not the best quality wise. but the 3000 was dead sexyyyyyyy
OK, if an overweight cow of a vehicle is dead sexyyyyyyy - then it is! lol
This. That's why I got rid of it. Quickly.
But I'll tell this little tidbit on my dearly departed mother. She was from Germany but had a very good command of the English language. But sometimes, she'd struggle with something that seemed so easy to me. Her term for my car: A MitchyB|tchy.
And it was. LOL
Hahaha. I guess it really was fitting!
Zap, have you ever driven a 3000GT VR-4 or an NSX? It wasn't that the 3000GT was heavy (which it was) but it REALLY FELT extremely heavy, not at all nimble like a sports car is supposed to be like. There were actually sports cars that weighed similar to the 3000GT but drove much lighter and more nimble, making it so much nicer to drive. It's like a racquet that looks good with great specs making you feel like it should be really nice but it turns out to be bear to swing and performance wanting...
The NSX was quite nimble and the steering feel was great. Engine, handling, and brakes on it were decent but definitely not up to par with Italy or Germany's best during their production years. But for its price and reliability, it definitely has its place amongst the sports car world.
chris, i need a ac man.. call me..
for the rest of you
PaulMan how dare you put 3000 and nsx in the same post! the nsx actually is better then the italian counterpart. performance and relaibility wise. just ask Senna.
lol I would if he'd answer but... Anyway, no point in rambling. Believe what you want.
AQ, I can *highly* recommend the Mazda3!
most people buy them to be cool or score with chics. I think you have better luck in a ferrari. So how did the NSX exceed it?
But the time you can afford 40 grand for an NSX the Audi R8 will proabbly dip into that range though.
The one this guy had was sweet, but it wasnt on Par with the higher end deals. Its lighter weight helped in the handling department.
They looked neat, but the styling is not on Par with Italy. nothing truly special about it besides the fact thatit was a reliable daily driver.
Nowadays for that price you would be better served getting a ZO6 if performance is all you care about. Corvettes get the job done and for cheap.
HW, funny you say that. Cuz the dude that got the NSX was just that, a guy who thought he was a pretty boy that needed a hot car to score chicks with but he couldn't drive a lick. I'm certainly no Ayrton Senna, but compared to him, I might as well have been! At his urging to test it out, I drove his NSX around the "S" curve near the water park on Eisenhower Ave in Alexandria at a little over 100mph...he almost pissed in his pants. Too funny. :twisted:
is it bad that i want this now?
nope. looks good right now. just got back an hour ago from hitting. banh mi sounds good. i like lemongrass beef or double fried egg.
i had kai rabert yesterday after hitting for a few hours...it was kind of awesome....
How's the knee and did you sure the airlines yet for their tight azz isles?
Sad thing is, we have a maintenance agreement with these dudes, same company that installed when we bought our house new. Maybe your roomie can come over and check my place out. LOL!
BTW- Fresh Lux Alu rough @ 55lbs is pure magic! Won both the tie breakers I played tonight in practice. Couldn't miss. I need a reel of this stuff!
fresh alu (rough or non-rough) is awesome...period...
Knee is improving but so slowly that it's agonizing! Nah, it ain't the airline's problem for what I did. It's mine for being a dumbazz... :evil:
Is it bad I dont even know what it is and I want one?
What is that thing?
AQ -- had a '84 rx7 gsl. poop brown. 5 speed manual. sunroof. and kick azz pop up headlamps. drove like a champ and for its day - pretty fast. looked it up, 0-60 in 8 seconds. so a minivan is faster but i got mine up to 120+ mph back in the day. woot.
jrstriker -- i had dead poly/syn gut last night and it didn't feel nearly as magical as fresh alu. a lot less than magical. fortunately my game isn't dependent on hitting the strings very hard or sometimes at all. 6-0, 6-3 for middle aged slice and dice. woot again.
chris downs -- so the kai rabert isn't just chicken with basil minus the basil? i thought it's very similar. both sweet, spicy with fish sauce. not sure what else they are adding to their recipe.
WORD! Looks tasty. Where can I get one?
Hurray!!! for Middle aged slice and dice! LOL!
I swear of the racket had no strings and just a flat surface made out of the same stuff as the frame, I'd be world champ. Frame shots are a weapon
BTW- My other two rackets are strung up with a big ace/ Maxim Touch hybrid and that felt pretty good too. Not magical though.
So apparently Rio (I call her Rizzles 4 Shizzles) got into her first little scrap at daycare yesterday. She was playing with a toy phone and some other kid wanted the phone but Rio wouldn't let them have it, so he/she bit Rio on the arm. She had a perfectly red bite mark!
I guess the daycare's policy is that they can't tell us who the kid was so we can't sue or beat the **** out of the parents.
Look for the kid with the toy phone fascination and similar bite pattern/teeth pattern. Just saying...
Or beat up all the parents. Then I bet they tell you next time.
chances of being tfm's minions is very high. i think he trains his kids at an early age @ being able to chew/eat their way out of anything.. not to mention he has like 20 bazillion kids
Well I did look at the bite mark... whoever the kid was had a lot of damn teeth. Rio only has 4 on top and 3 on the bottom. Maybe I'll let her take one of my wooden kendo swords with her to daycare next time.
Time to make smiley faces at all the kids and start counting.
Zap, as much as I liked the NSX, it is not on-par with Ferrari. Ferrari is about the passion of driving, while the NSX is not. NSX is a copy of it, telling the Italians that yes, Japanese can make a car and perform nearly as good as Italian's exotics. Very much like the 1st generation MR2, a copy of a 308. The motor in the NSX is always lack luster with its 290bhp 6 cyl., even for its days, it wasn't impressive. I know you're a Honduh boy, but c'mon, really?
The Corvette with its LS7 is impressive for the price, but it's a vette, it doesn't have the prestige of their Italian competitions. Vette comes with plastic dash, doors, trunks, OHV motor, well, you get what you paid for, yes?
The_Question...now I know who to take with me the next time I go car shopping!
I was comapring a Vette to an NSX. Just from a performance standpoint.
For the price of used NSX you can get a mid 2000's ZO6. From a performance standpoint that ZO6 will compete just fine with an NSX. Add in the fact that vette parts are a dime a dozen and its way chaeper to own a better performing vette than an NSX.
The only car I would remoltey compare to Italian counterparts would have been the Ford GT which for 150 thousand was a huge value. But Im sure was no where near as refined. Those Italian Supercars just have the styling.
So I call up the Audi folks to see about them buying back my A4 like they did my other A4 (something about them needing to keep a certain amount of "used" cars on the lot).
The guy is like "sure, come on in and we'll talk, by the way we got the new A7 in stock now..."
WTF is an A7? Why would I want an A7 when I am trying to get rid of my car?
BTW, if you ever want to get an Audi, don't go to the one in Tyson's Corner. Go to the one way the f**k out in Chantilly, it's much better and the people are nicer.
hwood you're being kind. the z06 is a helluva lot faster than the nsx. heck my dad mobile sedan is as fast as a last gen nsx. honda seems to like bringing knives to a gunfight and always loses in sheer HP in just about every car segment they compete in -- and i'm a honda fan. but dems the facts.
I understand your comparison of NSX and Vette. As performance and bang for the buck goes, a Z06 will stomp a NSX stock for stock. The old saying, there is no replacement for displacement is the truth, but quality and reliability is a different issue.
Personally, 2012 Nissan "Skyline" GTR is probably the prefer choice as for dollar value, performance, handling, and technology goes...imo
JRK -- i'd recommend taking your car to carmax. my bro works in the car sales biz and he always has me take my car to carmax for an appraisal. they usually offer more than dealerships because dealerships like to say -- "oh yes we'll give you $1000 more on your trade in than carmax". and then they add $1000 more to your purchase price of your new car.
plus you can just sell the car at carmax and not buy another car. i've sold 4 cars at carmax. yes i go through cars like i go through underwear. once a year.
question -- i like bang for the buck. just like computers - there's always a sweet spot where you get 90 percentile performance at much less than 90 percentile cost.
i've been eyeing a 2003-ish audi rs6. sedan. stealth bomber. 450 hp. 0-60 in the mid 4's. about $20-25 large.
but yes. supercar performance at regular 911 money -- nissan skyline gtr.
The dealership wasn't too bad... they did give us $2k more for our other (2007) A4 than CarMax would have. They did try to add that back on when we started looking at the 2010 A4 but I told them I would just keep the 2007 since I liked it. They relented and we ended up getting the 2010 for the same price we got the 2007 believe it or not.
MrsJRK is relentless at haggling prices when it comes to cars... her brother has worked for Lexus & Mercedes dealerships in TX for the last 25 years. I'm guessing he taught her a thing or two about buying a car.
My friend has a Skyline GTR and yes he is Korean. That car is massive... reminds me of something from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome if it had spikes and **** coming off of it.
<yawn> That wasn't directed at the car talk. Just a long day. I'm having a glass of shiraz....didn't play tennis this past weekend
My first car was a 1974 VW Superbeetle Convertible..red with black top...loved that car even though it was the money pit. And, it got me lots of attention (this was when I had moments of insanity and had bleach blonde hair and thought I was Kelly from 90210...ah, the good ol' days). Sadly, jump starting a car every time I had to drive, no defroster, a floor rusting out, and windshield wipers randomly flying off = unreliable transportation. But I miss that car (especially when it conveniently broke down at the beach).
Anyhoo..carry on, my fellow TWMAC'ers...hope to get some hitting in this weekend and customise my YTPP.
Ok, gang. I've probably stuffed the proverbial foot-in-mouth over in the "Juniors" forum. There's been some talk over "appropriate" dress for young girls/women playing this sport.
Sorry. Hope it doesn't spill over here.
LOL! This thread has had it's share of spill-over. Don't sweat it.
so i shouldn't wear booty shorts to the court?
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It's often the case that around the holidays — especially a highly-anticipated night like New Year's Eve — there's so much going on that more than one event falls during the same time.
Instead of committing yourself to attending one party only, why not party hop? It's a great way to catch up with all your friends and not miss out on anything.
Since party hopping is my favorite sport, I'm sharing my suggestions after the break.
- Make a chart. List out the name of each party, the host/hostess, location, and time.
- Use the chart to make a party map. Attend the party that starts the earliest first, then the next closest second, and the one that ends the latest last.
- Be responsible. If you're in college or a big city, you may be able to walk from one party to the next. But if you can't, never drive after you've been drinking. Select a designated driver or take cabs.
- Travel in a small group. Party hopping works best if you are in a pair or trio. Any more than four people and they become hard to keep track of.
- Be realistic. You can't be everywhere all at once and if there's a time restriction, say 6 to 9 p.m. on a Thursday evening, you won't be able to attend five parties. It's just not possible!
- Wear something versatile, cute, and comfortable, like a dress. It's better to be overdressed than underdressed.
- Have fun! While I've made countless party plans with grand expectations to attend three to four events in the same day, sometimes I'll get to the second party and discover that the wine and conversation are flowing. If the party is too fabulous to move on, stay there!
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OCEAN CITY — Last week, we looked at three suggestions on creating a family mission statement, courtesy of Stacy Allred, director of the Wealth Structuring Group at Merrill Lynch.
Also known as a family constitution, strategic plan or code of conduct, such a statement can be valuable first steps toward uniting everyone in a family around goals and the actions needed to make them a reality. Here are some more ideas to consider.
Keep it focused. Work together to summarize the values and goals you've defined in a crisp and memorable statement — ideally a single sentence or short paragraph. Ultimately, you're looking to create a statement general enough to be timeless, yet specific enough to apply to real-life issues. If you have more ground to cover, the overarching statement can be supplemented with a list of supporting values or guidelines. For example, wealthier families may want to make provisions for resolving conflicts among heirs to an estate, while families with a business may include a framework for distributing profits and making major decisions.
Check your authenticity. Just as sometimes happens with companies, it's all too easy for a family to create a feel-good mission statement that simply gathers dust on the wall. To be effective, your statement needs to be authentic, Allred says. In other words, don't just craft a statement because it sounds nice. "It needs to be in your words and language — to sound like you — and to be something you really believe in," she notes. "It can be a stretch, something you aspire to, but it should reflect values you are currently living and striving for."
Keep it front and center. Whether you frame and mount your mission statement or simply post it on the refrigerator, it's important to have it on hand. "This is a dynamic document — you should be reading it and using it," Allred says. She suggests reviewing your family's statement when weighing life-altering decisions, such as a job change or major financial investment. "It should not just sit on the shelf."
Put it into action. The "use it or lose it" maxim applies here — to realize the goals you've had in creating your mission statement, you'll need to make it part of your planning and decision making on a regular basis. Beyond the statement of the mission itself, it can also assist in creating a list of values or a governance procedure that can help you adhere to the statement. For example, a family whose mission statement centers on making education a priority for future generations can then, with the help of a financial advisor, create further, more specific guidance toward making savings and investing decisions. It also helps to get in the habit of asking yourself how the plans that you're making — a career change, an investment decision, community involvement — fit your values. Some families even hold brief weekly meetings to discuss issues of concern to individual family members, using their mission statement and attendant guidance in counseling one another.
Revisit and revise annually. Even if you're not holding weekly meetings, plan to get together annually as a family to discuss the mission and gauge family members' success in achieving their goals.
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Hello, I finally decided to migrate to Linux (ArchLinux) and forget the operating system from Microsoft. It has been several years and I know that I tested Linux. I always prefer XFCE over Gnome and KDE although in practice I used Gnome, because it has more software. I do not like use a graphical environment and use programs written for another. However, I turn my more about Gnome. I feel awful and Gnome 3 does not suit me. So I decided to go back to XFCE whether on a PC powerful or less powerful.
Do this several days I'm on Linux and XFCE4. I learn something new every day and I would like to contribute to the development of this environment. I searched everywhere on the internet but I have not found anything conclusive. Most sites talk about developing software for Gnome or KDE but nothing about XFCE. On the official XFCE, I have not found either.
So I just ask you what tools to program specific applications XFCE? Which programming language to use? Is there an IDE? A library?
I'm not a great programmer, I'm a beginner. I learned C # and PHP. However, C # is a Microsoft proprietary language. Programming a video game with XNA (a shooter), I realized that I go in prison. For example, to publish and dispose of Microsoft Live functions (account, profile, etc..), Must pay a $ 99 abonnemment. I do not like Microsoft's policy, hence my migration to Linux.
So I have good knowledge of C # that allowed me to develop a shooter fan but fun to play. Here is a video of the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05h3CaIVzlI.
Besides, I would one day wear it on Linux
Thank you.
You should take a look at this (it is on the xfce blog) http://gezeiten.org/post/2012/11/How-to … ce-project.
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You have the right to your opinion, but the only one acting with audacity is you. You are telling people what it is they think, based on a complex set of conspiratorial beliefs that you have associated with their thinking. You refuse to take their opinions at face-value.
What is an especially strange part of your thinking is that you assign the same thinking to multiple individuals, as if we formed our opinions together, in a manner free of independent thought.
To address your other points, I do not "hate" Gallo, D'Antoni or Walsh. Rather, I disapprove of their involvement and, or, actions, within the organization. I would like them off of the team, because, like Isiah, they do not respect the team's history or our current needs. We have a coach that does not stress D, a GM that, in his own words, does not believe in "filling a need," and a prima donna player, being hyped up to a sickening degree.
Moreover, I respect the team's history and believe that Ewing needs to be a part of our history. I also feel that, in the same vein, when guys like Landry and Roberson have been given opportunities to play on the team, Ewing, Jr., based on his play and his father's legacy, should have gotten an opportunity.
As Jim and ABCD have already stated, the Gallo, D'Antoni connection cannot be dismissed. It is not difficult for D'Antoni to deny any involvement in Gallo's acquisition. It is gullible of you to regurgitate the organization talking points with such conviction.
And I have stated that Gallo was a bust, even before his NBA career started, based on the fact that a great center: Brook Lopez, was passed over for him. As time has passed, other players have proven to be better draft selections. This is not my opinion, this is a fact.
My evaluation on his future was, and is, based on his lack of speed, jumping ability, strength, post-up, foot-speed/agility and athleticism. He is deficient in too many areas: he is too weak and slow, in addition to lacking dexterity, to play well in the post, he cannot handle the ball (because of this) in a way that would allow him to take people off the dribble. He lacks the foot-speed to guard the three or two. He cannot play the four or five, because of lack of strength. He is a liability on both ends.
These are real reasons, not merely some sort of reaction to hate for D'Antoni. I hope this answers your questions and allows you to see that those that disagree with you have genuine reasons for doing so. I'll leave you now, so that you may wallow in your blind love for a few new-jacks to the Knicks.
Everyone else: remember, the Knicks are not Gallo, D'Antoni and Walsh. Those guys just got here. The Knicks were around, for decades prior to their arrival, and they will be around far after their departure.


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Harmon a trailblazer in long history of Reds
Cincy's first African-American player attending Civil Rights Game
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
CINCINNATI -- Chuck Harmon just wanted to play baseball and leave the history to the historians. A utility player who made the club out of Spring Training, Harmon became the first African-American to play for the Reds when he pinch-hit against the Milwaukee Braves in the seventh inning at County Stadium on April 17, 1954, seven years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Dodgers. When asked about that game or what he did with his first at-bat, Harmon says little. Then a 29-year-old, he popped out to the first baseman. "It was another day at the beach, I guess. I don't recall a lot of that stuff," said Harmon, 86, a day after he'd undergone cataract surgery. "People ask me the same old thing, 'Did you think you would make history?' I tell them, 'When you're born, you're history.' You don't realize when you're actually making history." Just before Harmon batted that day, another pinch-hitter hit ahead of him -- Nino Escalera, who was Puerto Rican of African descent. Often asked who deserved credit for being the Reds' first player of color, Harmon told the Reds Hall of Fame this for his section in the team museum: "I was the first African-American; Nino was the first black," Harmon said. "I don't know what difference it makes, but for history's sake, they might as well get it right." Harmon, who played only four seasons in the Major Leagues, was traded from the Reds to the Cardinals in May 1956 and was dealt again the following year to the Phillies. In 289 games, he batted .238 with seven home runs and 59 RBIs. The 10th of 12 siblings, Harmon was born in 1924 and already had an interesting life before he ever set foot on a Major League field. The native of Washington, Ind., was part of two Indiana high school basketball state championships and was an All-American basketball player with the University of Toledo in 1943. After a three-year stint in the Navy during World War II, he returned to Toledo and was discovered by the Indianapolis Clowns Negro League team. Harmon played just five games with the Clowns and eventually signed his first professional Minor League contract with the St. Louis Browns in 1947. His basketball career was not dormant, however, as he unsuccessfully tried out for the Boston Celtics in 1951 shortly after the integration of the NBA. After being cut, he was a player-coach for a team in Utica in the Eastern Basketball League. The Reds acquired him in 1952. Just because baseball had been integrated didn't mean that racism was over, but Harmon was never concerned about his treatment from fans or other players. "If you worried about how you were being treated or going to be treated, you don't need to be there," he said. "You have to play the game and do all the little extra things. You don't have time to wonder if someone will look at you cross-eyed or say something to you. It was enough to worry about that baseball coming at you or someone sliding into you. There were too many other things to worry about." After retiring as a player, Harmon remained in Cincinnati and scouted for the Braves, Indians and the NBA's Indiana Pacers. He also worked in sales for the MacGregor Sporting Goods Company. For 24 years he worked as an administrative assistant at Ohio's First District Court of Appeals, and he was married for 62 years to Daurel, who passed away from cancer in November. They had three children. Harmon would not say whether or not he helped make the lives of future minority players in the game any easier. "You do the best you can. Your actions show whether you can cut the mustard or not," he said. "Every little bit along the way -- how good you do -- is what sets up the history part of how you make out." But even if he won't say it, Harmon does have a reputation of going out of his way to help others. His Golf Manor home has always been open to visitors, often a young Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey's father, Big Red Machine member Ken Sr., wanted his children to see and learn from Harmon. "To guys like me who know him, he's like a great-grandfather," said Junior, who played for the Reds from 2000 to 2008 and is now with the Mariners. "Everything he says -- the message is to be a better person and a better baseball player. We didn't talk about baseball a whole lot, other than when he had to barnstorm and things like that, so I got that aspect of it, but for the most part, he was there to raise his kids and raise us. That's the beauty of Chuck Sr. No matter what was going on his life, he would always make sure you were OK." Manager Dusty Baker has known Harmon since he was a young player, and recalled being taken to Louisville by Harmon and Pee Wee Reese to pick out wood for his bats. "Mr. Harmon, he was always pulling for the Reds," Baker said. "I remember when Frank Robinson came in, he took him under his wing. Frank was a young African-American kid from Oakland coming to Cincinnati -- it was a little different back then. Mr. Harmon went through a lot and talked to Frank. "Back in the day, to be the first African-American anywhere was different. I went through being the first African-American in my school district -- me and my brother -- in high school. I know how hard it was for me in 1966, so I imagine what it was like for him in 1954." Harmon, a frequent visitor at Great American Ball Park and the Reds Hall of Fame, will attend the Gillette Civil Rights Game on Saturday. It's already a big week, since a book about his life, "The First Black Red" by Marty Pieratt, will be released on Friday. The first 20,000 fans attending the Civil Rights Game will receive a replica Chuck Harmon 1954 Reds jersey. It is something the humble Harmon was pleased to hear. "In your heart, you're proud that they're doing that and think that much of you," he said. "It was always a pleasure to give someone an autograph or have a picture taken with them. That's why they come out there. It makes you feel good. Naturally, in your heart, you say to yourself, 'I must be doing something right.' "
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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GAINSBOROUGH MP Edward Leigh has voiced his support for lowering the UK's 24-week upper time limit for abortions.
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on 31st October, Mr Leigh pointed out that the British limit is double that of most European countries.
"Sixteen of 27 EU countries have a gestational limit of 12 weeks or lower," said Mr Leigh. "Thus attempts to stir a reduction of the upper time limit as controversial have very little ground to stand on when we compare our laws with those of our European neighbours, as we often do in many other areas."
He continued: "The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recognised that abortion can damage a woman's mental health. Studies have discovered that women who have had abortions are almost twice as likely to suffer from mental health problems, three times as likely to have major depression, and six times as likely to commit suicide as mothers who do not have an abortion."
Current UK law allows for abortion up until the 24th week, or later if there is a threat to the mother's health, or if the child is suffering from a disability.
Last month, MP Leigh caused controversy by using his Standard column to speak out against gay marriage.


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Construction supply company Fastenal's board of directors has authorized the company to purchase up to an additional 1 million shares of its common stock this week.
The company has purchased approximately 2.1 million shares this year to date.
The company has approximately 149 million shares of common stock outstanding, and these repurchases have consumed all of the previous stock repurchase authorizations.
Winona, Minn.-based Fastenal sells industrial and construction supplies and has 2,150 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Singapore.


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Alps - Western Part > Uri Alps Group > Sustenhorn > Climber's Log
Sustenhorn Climber's Log
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|Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: june 2012
|Climbed the Sustenhorn on a Friday morning after having slept in Tierberglihütte. Easy but very fun descent all the way back to Steinsee.
|Posted Jun 19, 2012 11:11 am
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2012
|From Stainsee with Max
beautiful sunny day great panorama
|Posted Jun 17, 2012 11:16 am
|Ski Route from Steingletscher
Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2012
|Skiing in june! Great ascent without remarkable difficulties. Last Ski tour of the 2012 season?
|Posted Jun 2, 2012 11:12 am
|Second time
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2009
|glacier very "open" this time (aper).
|Posted Sep 14, 2009 2:56 pm
|Mister White
|Nice summit
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009
|Easy climb with great weather form the Chelenalb hut. Did it in 4.5 hours I think.
|Posted Aug 25, 2009 5:44 am
|From Tierberglihutte
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2008
|Followed the easy way from the Tierberglihutte. Although there were no technical difficulties the weather made us turn around before we reached the summit.
|Posted Aug 16, 2009 5:13 pm
|Two times
|Climbed in 1999 and 2000. from Tierberglehütte.
|Posted Sep 20, 2008 1:38 pm
|Sebastian Hamm
|One day ascent
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|See "Nikman" below
|Posted Jul 9, 2008 4:34 pm
|One day ascent
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|We started at 6 am directly from the parking area (side road from Steingletscher) after sleeping in the car the night before. We didn't use the hut, because it's possible to do the ascent all the way from the valley. We ascended all the way to the summit arriving there at 10:30. Nice pace for almost 1600Hm. Back at the car at 14:30.
If someone is up for this I would rather recommend doing it as a ski-tour than walking.
Climbed together with Sebastian.
|Posted Jul 5, 2008 3:23 pm
|normal route from tierbergli
|Shorty from the tierbergli huette (back at 10.00) so we spent the rest of the day playing Umwelt-memory.
|Posted May 2, 2008 6:28 am
|Sustenhorn 3503m
Date Climbed: May 17, 2004
|Nice ski tour to Sustenhorn 3503m
the pictures are here: Link to Sustenhorn 3503m
|Posted Nov 14, 2007 12:57 pm
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007
|Wonderful hike but clouds at the summit
|Posted Sep 7, 2007 7:24 am
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007
|We had a very nice walk in to the friendly Voralphutte over the Sustenjoch. Next day got onto the Brunnenfirn along the marked trail along the moraine and climbing route. Then to the start of the ridge proper at 3.000m. Nice climbing - great view at the top. Back down to Sustenpass via Tierberglihutte.
|Posted Jul 23, 2007 5:50 am
|mar C
|Bike to the summit
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
|With a friend of mine, Markus, we did a back-to-the-roots
tour: the plan was to go by bicycle from our hometown to the Alpes for climbing a summit, taking the whole equipment with us). We started on Jul 17 from Ringsheim, Germany, and reached the Tierberglihuette on Jul 21 (after approx. 350km). The next morning we started the glacier tour to the summit at 6.30a.m. and reached the summit at 10:30a.m. It was perfect weather and there were no problems. We reached the Tierberglihuette at 12:30a.m. and did the descent to Hotel Steingletscher the same day (we skipped Gwaechtenhorn, because people told us there's a lot of crevasses). Finally, we got back to our hometown in 3 more cycling days.
Cycling was very exhaustive, because it was very hot that time.
When we got home, they told us it was the hottest July ever :-)
|Posted Nov 2, 2006 9:55 pm
|Route Climbed: ski route from Steingletscher
Date Climbed: May 17, 1998
|Man there is some fantastic skiing here!
|Posted Jun 29, 2006 10:32 am
|Rahel Maria Liu
|Route Climbed: Normal Skiroute Date Climbed: May 30, 2004
|After having climbed the northface of Gwächtenhorn together with Andreas, I continued to Sustenhorn from Sustenlimi alone by ski (which I had taken with me through the northface), while Andreas returned by foot to the skidepot at the bottom of the face.
On this day - at Whitsun-Sunday - probably hundreds of ski mountaineers stood on the top of Sustenhorn. But when I reached it after having climbed Gwächtenhorn Northface, I was alone on the summit of Sustenhorn, although it was Whitsun :-)).
Sometimes it's useful to climb in an anticyclical manner .... ;-)
Photos of this trip are here on my webpage:
|Posted Jun 2, 2004 1:03 pm
|Mathias Zehring
|Route Climbed: ski route from Steingletscher via Tierbergli hut Date Climbed: May 11th 2002
|Ski tour at the end of the season, when driving by car is possible until Hotel Steingletscher. For a mountain of this height the climb was very easy. But the day was soon cloudy and we turned back from climbing Gwaechtenhorn in addition because we did not want to loose track in the fog.
|Posted Apr 18, 2004 7:30 pm
|andre hangaard
|Route Climbed: Kehlenalphut-Sustenlimi-Steingletscher Date Climbed: August 1997
|A wonderful day in August. All alone - no crowds.
Continued down over the Steingletscher to the Tierbergli-hut.
|Posted Apr 18, 2004 5:40 pm
|Henning Lege
|Route Climbed: from Kehlenalphuette Date Climbed: 12-july-2002
|A very beautiful walk to the lovely Kehlenalphuette. Next morning, we were the only party on that route. After the Sustenlimi, we joined the many parties from Tierberglihuette. Excellent view from the summit.
|Posted Jul 22, 2002 6:23 am


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is seeking a van with four men after a home was broken into and several guns were stolen.
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Hummingbirds at ICR
by Frank Sherwin, M.A.
The staff at ICR trusts you enjoy the hummingbird picture taken outside a window of our main building. It was noticed months ago that an adult bird was weaving a nest on a palm frond. Being a science organization and lovers of God's living creation, we closely followed the maternal events as they unfolded. The tiny eggs hatched and in due time, the two rapidly-growing hatchlings were literally bursting from the confines of their nest. It was interesting that the mother, perched on a nearby branch (always the same one), would intently watch her little ones in the nest. She would occasionally zoom around the nest, showing her crouching, bewildered offspring that "this is how you do it!"
Hummingbirds challenge the neo-Darwinian paradigm. Their size, flight characteristics and patterns, metabolism, all point to our magnificent Creator who designed these amazing animals and created them on Day Five. Secular scientists reject this and state,
So, in fact, birds are not some separate biological entity, distinct and apart from "reptiles." Birds are dinosaurs.1
Is it really scientifically accurate to say that the ferocious T. rex evolved into birds, that it did not become extinct but sprouted feathers and is now able (in the hummingbird's case) to hover and fly rapidly backwards?
Speaking of flight, such agile flying requires power and coordination. One evolutionary publication said in regard to hummingbird flight,
Hypobaric challenge is met behaviorally through compensatory changes in wingbeat kinematics, particularly in stroke amplitude.2
Translated, this means the tiny creature has been wonderfully designed to compensate for low pressure problems encountered in flight. But did such "wingbeat kinematics" just evolve by mutations, or is there a Supreme aero-engineer? Unbelievably rapid muscle contraction is the power source of the rapid wingbeats. Skeletal muscle fibers (cells) may be divided into red (sustained use with a greater supply of blood) and white (designed for short, rapid bursts). Not surprisingly, hummingbird muscle, such as the paired supracoracoideus, are of the red type and at least 30 percent of the bird's weight—about 10 percent more than other birds.
The amazing feathered acrobat, the tiny, fearless hummingbird!
- Fastovsky, D. E. and D. B. Weishample, 1996. The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 320-321.
- Altshuler, D. L. and R. Dudley, 2002. The ecological and evolutionary interface of hummingbird flight physiology. The Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 205, pp. 2325-2336.
* Frank Sherwin is a zoologist and seminar speaker for ICR.
Cite this article: Frank Sherwin, M.A. 2006. Hummingbirds at ICR. Acts & Facts. 35 (9).
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SNOW HILL – Discharge limits have stymied Snug Harbor property owners' bid to get sewer service for the 26 undeveloped lots in that community as they will continue to have to wait to build homes.
Staff reported to the County Commissioners at last week's meeting that the county could not provide public sewer service to those lots.
County planning numbers for the Assateague Point wastewater treatment plant, which now serves 78 built lots in Snug Harbor, show that the plant is already over-committed. If all areas which are already using or have the right to use that plant were connected year round, the wastewater treatment plant would be over the discharge limit by 11.3 million gallons per year. The plant disposes of treated effluent through spray irrigation.
The Assateague Pointe wastewater treatment plant handles Assateague Point, Frontier Town, the developed property in Snug Harbor and the under construction Seaside development. The 26 unserved lots in Snug Harbor would add 2.3 million gallons of effluent if a single-family dwelling was built on each property.
The county has considered hooking the unserved and undeveloped lots into the Landings development wastewater treatment plant, but operational issues at that plant scuttled that idea.
"This has been an issue that's been going on at least seven years," said Commissioner Bud Church, pushing that something be done to connect those lots to public sewer.
While there is enough unused capacity to serve 75 EDUs, as identified by the Maryland Department of the Environment, that capacity has already been assigned to other projects.
Could the plant be tweaked to deal with another 26 EDUs, Church asked.
"The short answer is I don't know," said John Ross, deputy director of public works. "What I know for sure is there is a disposal issue. There's a major disposal issue."
The state's limits on the number of gallons of effluent the county is permitted to spray is unchangeable.
"The problem is that's a cast in stone, iron number I can't do anything with," said Ross.
"I just can't believe in my mind that we can't service those people…they're taxpayers," said Church of the lot owners.
"The problem comes from over-commitment," Commission President Louise Gulyas said, adding that it has nothing to do with building or selling those properties. "I just don't know how we can do this."
If the county can find affordable spray land, it might be able to serve the unbuilt Snug Harbor lots, Gulyas felt.
"We need to address the concerns of these 26 property owners," said Church.
"It was never said they would get service. Never," said Gulyas.
Commissioner Judy Boggs said the issue is clear.
"The facts speak for themselves. We are over-committed…you can't offer something you don't have," Boggs said.
Commission Jim Purnell said the facts are unfair.
"We continue to take tax money from 26 property owners yet they can't do anything to the land," said Purnell.
At this time, there is no way to dispose of that future effluent, said Gulyas, but that does not mean that the county is not looking for spray land.
"I think we should move forward in that direction," said Purnell.
Church asked if attorney Hugh Cropper, retained by the Snug Harbor property owners, could speak for a few minutes.
"I would really not want to get in a major lawsuit which is on the horizon," said Church.
"This is not a public hearing…we do not have the time. This will have to be handled at a different time," Gulyas said.
The commissioners voted 4 to 3 to accept the sewer committee report and reassess the situation in the future. Church, Purnell and Commissioner Bobby Cowger voted against that motion.
Betty Nichols, head of the Snug Harbor homeowners association, was disappointed that the commissioners cannot seem to work with Snug Harbor to get sewer service for lots platted since the 1950s.
"We just seem to be going nowhere. We just seem to be spinning wheels. This is not very acceptable," Nichols said. "We wanted to handle this through the county and with the county. It's gone nowhere."
Nichols said she must meet with the other owners of the unserved properties before saying what their next step will be. There are several options, according to Nichols.
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How soon will Riot's League of Legends season 3 officially start? Well right now ranked matches are down, so the season three patch can go in. Does this necessarily mean season 3 will start today, of course not! But once we've downloaded the information, Riot can turn it on at any time. This means we'll have our ranked leagues and placements in no time.
Due to Riot's post saying that Goth Annie will be available for sale for 975 RP from whenever the season 3 patch goes live until February 10th means it is any day now. Annie's digital remastering is part of the season 3 patch so the wheel is in motion – it's all coming together.
I'm personally excited, can't wait for this go live and try it all out. Yay for ELO hell and whatever bracket I get placed in. Regardless, still excited!


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I open the new section Papers & Presentations of this blog posting my latest article published on INSECURE Magazine: "Integrating ISO 17799 into your Software Development Lifecycle".
In this paper, published on the 11th issue of INSECURE Magazine (May 2007), I explain how information security controls can be integrated in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using ISO/IEC 17799 (now ISO/IEC 27002). The article includes a summary table linking specific clauses in the standard to SDLC phases starting from the risk assessment stage, prior to drawing up security requirements, and continuing right through development, testing and operations to system disposal at the end of its life.
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text: really liked this novel but have a few questions for speculation. It seems to suggest, that the mirror universe may soon have its own dominion war. Think the Galactic commonwealth would break down under such a thing? on another note... Any ideas what the Surviving members of the Mirror Ferengi Alliance will do when their homeworld was casually annihilated, just for Recognizing Earths Sovereighty? Had to have been a few Ferengi still offworld, as quickly as Ferengi tend to die in the Mirror universe.