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For the car nuts, check out these coasters in the shape of disk brakes. With red calipers, the rotors are slotted and cross drilled…well, sorta. For ~$42 USD via Imaginaire, they come in a set of six.
It would have been awesome if the coasters were actual metal and drilled, but then if it had holes they wouldn't be coasters…
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Copper Point Golf Club is pleased to support many community initiatives and are proud to partner with them. A brief list of our charitable friends and organizations include:
- Longest Day of Golf in support of ALS
- Columbia Valley Rockies Annual Golf Tournament
- Lion's Day Golf Tournament
- AARC, Summit Youth Centre and Hockey Canada Skills Academy
- Golf in School Program – We donated clubs to the local EMP & J.A. Laird School's
- Kelly Hrudey Charity Golf Classic
- Feed The Town
- Westside Legacy Trail – From April – June $5 from every green fee after 2 pm was donated to the Westside Legacy Trail. A total of $9,410 was raised for this project.
- The Cure Foundation
- The Columbia Valley Centre for the month of July, $5 from every green fee on The Point and The Ridge after 3 pm, Monday-Friday will be donated to the new community centre.
- Travel Columbia Valley
July 19, 2016 – The Westside Legacy Trail
Golfers playing The Ridge Course past couple of month help us raise $9,410 for the Columbia Valley Greenways Trial Alliance in support of the building of the Westside Legacy Trail!
June 21, 2016 – Longest Day of Golf
Our 2016 ALS Longest Day of Golf was another great success! A huge thank you to W. Brett Wilson and all those who contributed to this cause. Here's the stats for how the day played out on The Ridge:
Holes played:
Brian Schaal – 262
Scott McClain – 262
Bryan Armstrong – 262
Casey Johnson – 54(further injury prevention)
Total Time – 18 hours 16 minutes. Start 04:55am. Finish 11:11pm
Total Birdies – 102 Total Eagles – 3
May 10th, 2016 – National Denim Day
Our staff at Copper Point showed their support for the Cure Foundation by wearing denim and pink to work in May. Pink balloons were also sold to raise funds for this important cause.
December 6th, 2015 – 12th Annual Feed The Town
Over 1200 people were served Turkey Dinner with all the fixings at our most recent Feed The Town event. Santa was on hand to give out toys to all the boys and girls. Over $1,800 and four truckloads of food were delivered to the Columbia Valley Food Bank.
July 7, 2015 – Lions Club of Invermere Charity Golf Day
April 9, 2014 – Copper Point Golf Academy, Director of Instruction Casey Johnson brought golf to this school's over a two week period this spring!
May 14, 2013 – Today Copper Point hosted a group of Grade 5's that read Poetry in the Clubhouse. Ms. Decosse's Grade 5 class from J.A. Laird. The kids did a great job!


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Anticipation is building for the new Florence & The Machine album and producer Paul Epworth recently revealed some insider information about the recording process.
Paul produced Flo's multi-platinum selling debut album 'Lungs' and has been busy in the studio with Flo in recent months, working on the eagerly awaited sequel.
Taking to Twitter, he wrote: "Friday night and had a week of wonderful mixes coming in for Florence 2. I love handing something over to hear it come back better..
"I feel for the A&R dept having to try and whittle these tracks down to 10 or 12 because there really are no weak ones.
"It's a weird record that sounds live in ways and like a machine in others, with sensitivity and power from both the music and Flo's voice."
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Salon's must-read on Coal River Mountain
By Luis Hestres
We've been following in this blog for awhile the ongoing struggle by activists and citizens to stop the destruction of Coal River Mountain via mountaintop removal (MTR). In that spirit, let me point you to a must-read article on Salon. The article is mainly a well-deserved profile of activist Rory McIlmoil, co-founder of Coal River Wind and a tireless advocate for wind energy as an alternative to coal. But it also serves to highlight the "madness" (in James Hansen's words) of the whole concept of mountaintop removal. Just how mad would blowing up Coal River Mountain to harvest coal be?
In December, West Virginians saw what happened at a Tennessee power plant. A restraining wall burst and a billion gallons of coal ash poured out of a pond and deluged 400 acres of land in 6 feet of sludge. The proposed mountaintop removal site on Coal River Mountain rested beside a 6 billion-gallon toxic coal waste sludge dam above underground mines. If the proposed blasting took place, a fracture along the sludge lake could be catastrophic for the communities downstream.
The residents asked: Why should Coal River Mountain be the last mountain to die for a mistake?
Why indeed--especially given the alternatives. Coal River Wind released a study last month comparing the economic benefits of a wind farm vs. mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain. From the press release:
The study shows that the proposed wind farm, consisting of 164 wind turbines and generating 328 megawatts of electricity, would provide over $1.74 million in annual property taxes to Raleigh County. By comparison, the coal severance taxes related to the mountaintop removal mining would provide the county with only $36,000 per year.
That's a pretty wide tax gap. It's also worth mentioning that wind farms don't carry the health hazards for communities that coal mining (particularly MTR) does:
According to Hendryx, the data show that people in coal mining communities
- have a 70 percent increased risk for developing kidney disease.
- have a 64 percent increased risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as emphysema.
- are 30 percent more likely to report high blood pressure (hypertension).
"We've considered that chronic illness might be prevalent in these areas because rural West Virginians have less access to health care, higher smoking rates and poorer economic conditions," Hendryx said. "We've adjusted our data to include those factors, and still found disease rates higher in coal-mining communities." Science Daily and Charleston Gazette.
People living in the vicinity of mountaintop removal operations are exposed to a host of assaults on their health. As mountains are blasted, "fly rock" fires off the mountaintops and lands on private property. In 2005, a 3-year-old boy in Virginia was killed by a loosened boulder that rolled down the mountainside, through his wall, and crushed him to death.
There's a particular urgency to saving Coal River Mountain that isn't usually there for other communities choosing between alternative economic development models. It's not as if the residents of Coal River can choose MTR, try it for a few years, realize it has produced little economic development, then choose to build a wind farm instead. The potential for the wind farm proposed by Coal River Wind depends on the existence of the mountain. If MTR is carried out, the mountain is gone -- and as Coal River Wind's co-director Lorelei Scarbro says, "once the mountain is removed, it won't grow back." No mountain, no wind farm.
This "madness," as Hansen calls it, isn't limited to MTR. Our whole reliance on coal simply doesn't make sense anymore. If we were building our economy today from scratch, with the whole range of energy alternatives before us, would we choose to power our homes and businesses with a fuel that has this many downsides?
So I leave you with a few action items:
- Read the whole Salon article, then share it via email, Facebook, Digg, whatever;
- If you haven't already, send a message to Congress: No more dirty coal power plants;
- Visit the Coal River Wind website and sign their petition.
Even if some in Washington haven't received the memo, coal's time has come and gone. It's time to re-power America using clean, renewable energy. A wind farm in Coal River Mountain would be a great start--but we need to save the mountain first.
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Nearly four years after the first reports emerged about Qatar abusing its foreign labor force to build soccer stadiums for the extravagant FIFA World Cup 2022, the United Nations has finally issued a serious warning.
As of this month, the Gulf country has 12 months to put an end to the ill-treatment (read: forces modern-day slavery) of expatriate workers or face a possible investigation, which could lead to international sanctions if the practice continues.
If history's any indication, Qatar will most likely refute the allegations — yet again — and ensure the U.N., critics, sponsors and prospective World Cup tourists that all laborers involved in building infrastructure for the soccer tournament are being paid and treated well.
The main concern here, therefore, is FIFA's reaction to the U.N. warning. Will the international governing body for soccer still stand by idly or, for a change, will it take Qatari authorities to task?
Read More: Qatar World Cup 2022: It's All About The Money
Human Rights Watch claimed in 2012 the abuse began the same year Russia and Qatar won 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, respectively.
"The Nepali embassy reported 191 Nepali worker deaths in 2010," the organization stated in its report. A more damning analysis came in 2014 when the International Trade Union Confederation estimated nearly 4,000 laborers could be dead by 2022.
In addition, it was reported Qatari authorities were keeping laborers as virtual prisoners in squalid, makeshift camps. Many of them had their passports confiscated upon arrival by their bosses.
Meanwhile, the U.N. only "urged" to reform labor practices while FIFA showed little to no interest in the matter and FIFA, despite international criticism and calls from fans and human rights organizations to relocate the event from Qatar, remained criminally silent.
"FIFA has played its part in this sorry performance," Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International's Gulf migrant rights researcher, stated in December. "It knew there were labor rights issues in Qatar. It must work closely with the Qatari authorities and business partners to ensure the World Cup is not built on exploitation."
It was only after an International Labor Organization delegation visited the Gulf State earlier this month and witnessed the mistreatment of workers first-hand that the U.N. finally said something substantial in terms of dealing with the issue.
But only after FIFA faced with a separate scandal involving corruption by its top-notch executives did it hastily appointed John Ruggie, a Harvard professor, last December to review human rights policies. Ruggie wrote a framework for human rights and business for the U.N. Human Rights Council while serving as special representative of the U.N. secretary general for business and human rights from 2006-11.
Read More: Wow. FIFA Actually Considers Itself A Victim For Taking Bribes
But a policy maker won't be able to come up with a viable strategy to deal with the issue until the soccer body confronts Qatar head-on over the allegations.
Will FIFA do it though? Especially at a time when it's embroiled in a crisis of its own?
That's something only time will tell.
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When we hear interviews with players in the field on how content is published, we hear about those with huge venture capital. But what about those organisations lacking the proprietary tech of the likes of BuzzFeed? The Next Web (TNW) began in Amsterdam in 2008 as a blog to channel news coming out of an event. Since then, it has become a multimedia company with a global spread. Content is created, content is shared.
So how is today's theme of social intelligence relevant to TNW? Clearly TNW has a desire to spread their content far and wide like any media outlet, and social intelligence is the means to understand how to share this content in the most effective way. With no access to expensive tools, Martin took us through TNW's bag of tricks. These include:
· SocialFlow chooses the best time to publish content based on the available audience and what they're interested in.
· Chartbeat offers real time analytics. Who is on the site right now and what are they looking at? It also identifies shareable content from TNW's archives, ideally something that is still being read, but perhaps somewhat difficult to find. If said content is still relevant, then this is forwarded to the editorial team who can update it if needed and re-release it.
· Parse.ly offers useful longer term statistics with the ability to truly dig deep. Content authors can search specifically and tap into their content and determine what was doing well when. Whose content received the most of clicks at a specific time? The tool also allows social shares and individual tweets that were successful.
· Newswhip Spike offers insight into a pre-viral element… what content is bubbling up that could go viral soon? What formats and titles are doing well? Do readers prefer their videos at the top?
The holy/unholy alliance of social and content
TNW has become incredibly aware of the fact that yes, an audience must be drawn in, but more importantly, said audience must be drawn to the quality of the content and want to stay and read it! While a snappy title may be eye catching, a humorous sub-heading and a visually appealing article is what will keep the reader hooked. It is this which is important to TNW. When drawing readers in, it's about the winning formula of Clickbait (far too shocking) vs meh (there is no interest to read this post) vs must-click. (Obviously the ideal scenario being the establishment of 'must-click' content…!) . "Clickbait is all well and good," says Martin, "but whatever happened to great content that stands up for itself?"
Lastly, a point for consideration is that when creating content, the push towards engagement metrics can be a dangerous game! Quality content is content that keeps its readers engaged. They take something of value from it. Hence online advertising is now being measured by time; how much time are readers spending on a particular site as opposed to simply clicking it? It is this, which is a 'marketing model for quality'. If you're creating something that really engages people then you should be rewarded for that! It's not simply about the raw clicks.
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On 05/03/12 19:18, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> 2012/3/5 Scott Ferguson <firstname.lastname@example.com
> <mailto:email@example.com>>
>> Just to clarify with Kelly about what "complicated" stands for :-)
>> IMHO you are going to get what you want in two steps: killall
>> pulseaudio && aptitude install jackd qjackctl
> Hi,
> FOA, let's say I am not interested in starting a flame war
FWIW - I think JACK is a fine sound system, also ALSA, ESD, SDL and phonon.
> nor arguing with you or anybody else about jack vs pulse.
Good also.
I never said it was JACK vs. PA. I don't know where you got that from.
Read again - you can have both if you choose.
By default WOW and Skype both use ALSA. For the OP they still do -
except that Kelly has helped him get PA working properly to manage them.
> * �jack and PA are completely different
I never said they weren't. I'm not sure where you've got that idea from
either. Read again
> (http://jackaudio.org/pulseaudio_and_jack) so there's no use in
> listing what PA can and can not do
The two things have nothing to do with each other.
I listed Pulse audio capabilities as a reason to, as the OP has since
done, fix it - instead of leaving it broken and using JACK in it's place.
I never said *don't* use JACK, only that you can have both.
> * �jack is intended for audio pro but it can address low/high level
> tasks without fiddling with upgrades as you claim.
Debian now uses pulseaudio - using JACK in it's place will create
difficulties with upgrades.
> * you run ardour but how many apps are you coupling with it? using
> jamin? hydrogen? guitarix? synth?
Relevance to fixing the Pulse audio configuration?
If you're doing a survey - the answer is "as many as I need, and the
system, and JACK, can handle".
> well all those apps can be controlled and synced by jack with a high
> level of complexity in the connection graph. Can you do it with PA
I've never tried - why would I? I do it with JACK.
PA doesn't interfere.
> * belive it or not, pulseaudio does not address pro audio needs
Nice strawman
I've never said it did. Read again.
Did the OP say anything about "pro audio needs"? I must of missed that
post... :-)
You do realise this is not 'your' usual, linuxaudio RT list, right? :-)
> * debian devs are right in using PA, they must aim at the average
> user
I don't know that they "must" do anything.
Certainly it seems they're aiming at the widest range of uses - which
would include more than just desktop users.
> last: I have SUGGESTED hime to give it a try (killall pulseaudio !=
> remove pulseaudio)
That was understood the first time. Your point being? What would be the
purpose of disabling an unconfigured and perfectly good sound system?


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Recently, people seem to be bragging that they "found inexpensive saffron". The stories are all similar with a "I only paid $10 for this saffron". And of course here at Gourmet Delights we want you to pay realistic prices. But are you getting your money's worth?
"It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing." - James Beard
Buying saffron involves knowing the quality of the saffron, not just the price paid. You get more flavor, and guaranteed 100% pure saffron filaments (no powder, no fillers), when you buy certified saffron from a trusted retailer like Gourmet Delights.
Are you aware that there is an worldwide grading system, an independent standard for grading saffron? The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is not influenced by the producers, importers, distributors, or retailers. It is thus a VERY useful certification because it is not a marketing gimmick, it is a grading system that is monitored worldwide.
They grade saffron as follows:
Class I of course is the best of the best with the highest flavor, color, and aroma. This is the only one we sell at Gourmet Delights, because you deserve only the best, purest, tastiest product available.
Anytime a supplier/retailer does not quote an ISO grade/Class I/UPC greater than 190, we get a little worried. That independent testing, and certification, gives you the confidence that you are buying "the real stuff" and not lesser, or even fake saffron (yes it does exist).
If we were selling the BEST saffron, and we are with a UPC of 282.01!!, then we are PROUD to give you the lab test results. This tells you, our customers, that our saffron is independently tested and graded, and certified to be the best of the best. If other retailers will not list their ISO rating.... what else are they hiding?
Our Saffron tested at an incredible UPC of 282.01!!!
Pure Spanish Saffron Threads ISO graded Class I. Rated the Finest in Spain - La Mancha.
La Mancha Spain is famous for the highest quality saffron in the world. This saffron imparts an intense golden yellow color, wonderful flowery aromas, and impressive flavor to all your meals.
Azafrán-Oro, used by the world renowned chef Ferran Adria (el Bulli), regularly tests at over 240 UPC. This pure Spanish saffron is packaged in beautiful recycled glass jars and hand-sealed with wax. It is truly amazing stuff, we've never seen such high quality saffron. This harvest was spectacular in quality.
Although saffron cultivation does not use pesticides or chemical fertilizers, it is very difficult to certify as organic due to the significant costs to the small farmers who grow it.
Contains no soy, gluten, nuts, dairy, or genetically engineered ingredients.
Some recipes:
0.8 gram beautiful recycled glass jars hand-sealed with wax.
The production of Bomba rice is limited as it is very delicate and hard to grow. Its size is equivalent to that of short grain rice, sometimes even smaller, yet Bomba rice more than doubles its size when it is cooked. Its main characteristics are its great capacity to absorb flavors and aromas, and that when cooked it is always al dente, loose, and whole; it is never sticky, mushy, or fluffy.
It is the preferred rice for paellas!
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To begin a cycle, an ending must be trailed with a beginning.
Prosisyon follows the alpha and omega of man's spiritual corruption. Man, the demigod, becomes the spitting image of his deity.
The path to perversion commences inside the toilet bowl where organic wastes, primal instincts, and phallic obsessions are dispelled, divulged. What seemingly is a discreet act transforms into a flamboyant parade of carnalities leading to a deconsecrated altar. A colossal flat iron, the anticlimax of the vile cycle, hangs overhead as a testament of man's alacrity to end the procession or to perpetuate the obscene.


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Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins play "I'll see you in my dreams" and Imagine live at Secret Policeman's Third Ball 1987. 'Imagine' by John Lennon. Great stuff. Enjoy!
"Danny's Song" written by Kenny Loggins, first appeared on Sittin' In, the debut album by singer-songwriters, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, released in 1971 on the Columbia Records. It was later released on CD on the Sony label. The song was a big hit for Anne Murray in1972. The personnel on the original recording were: Kenny Loggins – vocals, guitar, harmonica, Jim Messina – vocals, bass guitar, Lester "Al" Garth – violin, recorder, saxophone, steel drum, background vocals, Michael Omartian – concertina, keyboards, steel drum, Jon Clarke – horn, oboe, saxophone, steel drum, Larry Sims – bass instrument, background vocals, Merel Bregante – drums, background vocals, and Milt Holland — percussion.
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Tribute to Evil David Letterman / Evil Dave Letterman
(not the real Dave but the Howard Stern Show impersonator)
Screw the Late Show! Dave's true colors shine brightest when he dabbles in raunchy commentary as a Howard Stern Show sidekick!
MP3 - Dave makes comments about things like riding Robin Quivers' "slope".
RealAudio - Dave wants to view "goodies" produced by Howard's staff.
|MP3 - Dave's heartless comment about Christopher Reeve.
|MP3 - Dave's heartless comment about Elizabeth Smart
|MP3 - When Dave stubs his toe...
|MP3 - Dave's retirement plans include something near and dear to his heart.
RealAudio - This is proof that the war between Letterman and Carson has still never been laid to rest. Listen as Ed McMahon gets irritated when Dave asks, "Does Ed sit nervously when the tough black kids come on Star Search?"
RealAudio - Dave's heartless solution to starvation in Ethiopia.
1-22-03 - Evil Dave's TOP 10 list (about Pete Townsend) is in such bad taste that answers #7, #3 and #1 get bleeped by Tom Chiasano! What was the #1 answer that got bleeped?
And the #1 thing Pete Townsend might have said to you that makes you think he's a pedophile...
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure means to play my pin and balls
1-28-03 - Publicity stunt: Some guy with a band sits up on a billboard in Texas and vows to stay until a major talk show will have his band on as a guest. So Howard Stern got him on the phone with Evil Dave Letterman, who yanked his chain a little bit.
TOP 10 lists for Evil Dave (written by Junkyard Willie)
TOP 10 things I'd do in a heartbeat to get inside Britney Spears' pants...
From the home orifice in Pleasant Gap Louisiana, Top 10 things I'd do in a heartbeat to get inside Britney Spears' pants:
10. Quit my floundering late night gig, become pole dancer on next Britney tour.
9. Stand on my head, let Paul Shaffer violate me from behind.
8. Smear my nude body in feces, do jumping jacks at crowded Apollo Theater.
7. Brainwash Britney into thinking that my balding head is really just a nice resting place for her Colt 45 while I muff dive.
6. Make Justin Timberlake clean out my colostomy twice a day until he promises to lay off my woman.
5. Drive Justin to irreversable insanity by forcing him to pop pimples off Jay Leno's ass.
4. Promise to love and to hold in sickness and in health... until her sister turns 18.
3. Pinch off stinkin' brown loaf in Britney's purse, blame it on Justin.
2. Start up my OWN boy band called "Dave and the Queef Countin' Daddy's"
And the NUMBER ONE thing I'd do in a heartbeat to get inside Britney Spears' pants....
One word: Roofies!
From the home office in Gator's Creek, Georgia... TOP 10 things I plan on doing when I retire in 2 weeks....
10. Go on the Motel Williams show, win over hearts of my Negro peeps.
9. Commit to go on Fear Factor, back out last minute, stay home and YANK IT.
8. Slowly drive by welfare line in limo, roll down window and laugh at everybody.
7. Wipe my ass with $100 bills, then flush them away.
6. Wipe my ass with $1 bills, then give them away to people in welfare lines.
5. Surf Internet looking for scantily clad boys.
4. Rob a liquor store, urinate in public.
3. Watch that big chin prick Jay Leno fail to capitalize on my vacated audience share.
2. Listen to Britney Spears play chop sticks on my skin flute.
And the number ONE thing I plan on doing when I retire in 2 weeks... Thank God and baby Jesus that I won't have to work near that FAG Paul Shaffer anymore.
Submit your own top 10 for these...........
TOP 10 things overheard in Rosie O'Donnel's dressing room
TOP 10 reasons why Paul Schaffer is queer as a steer
TOP 10 things overheard when Jay Leno breaks for commercial
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b.Ask for help with shovelling snow - particularly if you're not used to that level of exercise. We're all used to thinking we can do it, and that problems happen to other people - please don't wish you'd done it differently.
c.Make sure your vehicle is in good working order. Check the wear on your snow tires, always carry some blankets and snacks in case you need to keep warm and wait for help to come, and keep a safety triangle and flashlight handy. A small shovel may be useful!
Remember, you may need these things, OR you may be the first person to come upon someone who does.
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Like millions of others, I first learned about Dick and his son Rick via YouTube. Dick is a dad to three boys, now grown. But he is famous for his relationship with his first son, born in 1962 with cerebral palsy. Dick has run almost 1000 endurance events including marathons and the Ironman Triathlon pushing, pulling or cycling with his son. Stop for a minute and check out this amazing video:
You can see why we wanted to feature this amazing and inspirational father as our first Future Glimpse story. Our Future Glimpse articles will highlight interviews and essays from parents who have been where many of you are now. They will give you perspective and, we hope, encouragement. They will share what they have learned and what they want you to know.
Now, back to Dick Hoyt.
Although this was an era when children with severe disabilities like Rick's were rarely seen in public, the family took him everywhere. Dick and Rick's mom, Judy, strongly believed that not only did Rick deserve to be out in the world but that the world was lucky to have him and that part of building acceptance for their son and other children and adults like him was setting an example. When they added two more boys to the family, Rick's life became even richer as his little brothers included him in their roughhousing and "boys will be boys" antics. Although Rick couldn't speak, his family made sure he was an integral part of their family in all sorts of everyday ways. In his memoir, Devoted, Dick tells wonderful stories of the boys playing tricks on their parents by "hiding" Rick in a pile of leaves and of the way the three played street hockey, using Rick's wheelchair as a hockey stick.
Letting kids be kids
In a recent phone interview, asked Dick how he was able to step out and take those chances when so many medical professionals were telling him to leave well enough alone. In today's modern era where parenthood sometimes seems like a competitive sport for who can be the most on top of their kids, his response was refreshing and reassuring.
"Sometimes you got to learn by making mistakes and you can't be afraid of making those mistakes," Dick says in his strong Massachusetts accent. "I know it's very difficult for a lot of parents to let their kids go out on their own but that's the right way of bringing somebody up. You have to let them be children, that's the big thing. Let them do things and let them do things you did as a child, too. They're going to get in trouble and they're going to make mistakes but that's part of growing up."
Dick and Judy were strong advocates for Rick, working hard to help other medical professionals and educators see the funny, bright and outgoing boy they knew Rick to be. After Judy taught Rick how to read, they searched for a communication device that would allow him to "speak" and finally found a customized computer system when he was eleven. Once Rick could talk, they fought for the right to send him to school. (To learn more about communication devices, check out this Freedom of Speech article from Children's Hospital Boston!)
Keeping siblings close
All the work that went into caring for Rick sometimes made things difficult for the other boys.
"It was hard especially for Rob, our middle child," remembers Dick. "He got very jealous that we had to spend so much time with Rick. There was even a time when he said that he wished he was Rick! I said, Rob, you can go out and play. You can take your own shower. You can brush your own teeth. You can feed yourself. It took him a while but he understood it eventually."
Dick says that having their third son, Russell, made things easier but that the other thing that made a difference was letting the boys have their fun together and finding ways to include Rick in their rough and tumble, active lifestyle.
"The boys would take Rick outside and take him up into the tree hut!" Dick laughs. "Rick couldn't play baseball but we'd hold a bat in his hands and he'd swing at the ball and we'd push him to the bases. We went cross country skiing. We went camping. We'd go fishing and put the line in Rick's hands so he could feel the fish pull. We used to have a lot of fun as a family."
Still learning to let go
The doctors told Dick and Judy that their son would always be a vegetable. But as Rick himself says (in this article), "To this day, I don't know what kind of vegetable I'm supposed to be." Because his parents knew and believed in his potential, Rick graduated from Boston University with a degree in special education. While he was at college he lived in the dorms and — like many young college students — he got into trouble spending too much time partying and not enough time on his studies. Letting Rick make his own way in the world wasn't easy for his parents but they stuck by their resolve to let him figure things out.
"When he was attending college, a reporter asked him why it was so important to live independently. And Rick said, 'If I can't live independently I'd rather die.'"
His mom and dad stifled their worries but they remained on-call and were happy to drive into the city whenever Rick needed them.
"I was putting 70,000 miles a year on my car!" says Dick. "He liked the city and I'm a country boy but now he's moved out here and he lives about six miles away from me. It's a lot easier, too, that way I get to see him a lot more."
Dick turns 70 today (Happy Birthday, Dick!!!) and Rick is 48 but they're still racing and inspiring other people along the way. Instead of the clunky, old-fashioned wheelchair they used in their first race together, now they use a streamlined racer and state-of-the-art supplies. While they're both pretty competitive guys, they were never in it for the glory and now they use their fame to help others, establishing The Hoyt Foundation to support:
- The development of a curriculum at Boston Children's Museum, which teaches children what it is like to have a disability.
- Consultation to manufacturers on the development and construction of better equipment for people with disabilities.
- Donations made to Easter Seals of Massachusetts and other organizations; enabling disabled children to attend summer camp.
- Donations to therapeutic horseback riding organizations; enabling disabled individuals to take lessons.
- Donations of running chairs to groups that take disabled individuals for a run.
To learn more about Dick and Rick Hoyt and all of their many, many accomplishments, we hope that you will visit their website at TeamHoyt.com.
We hope that you are inspired by Dick's belief that letting go can be some of the best (albeit sometimes the most scary) parenting you can do. We are giving away a copy of Dick's terrific book, Devoted, to one lucky site member. Just leave a comment sharing your thoughts about Dick's work and Rick's successes. We'll choose one commenter at random on Friday June 5th at 5pmPST (at the same time we choose our Chewelry chewies winner). Remember you must be registered at the site to be entered in our contests!
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Nov 29, 2009
Skiing and Biking...
Saturday Andrew, Jacek and I headed up to Paul's Ridge to get some turns in. It was pretty horrid weather in the city and we didn't reach the snowline until very close to the parking lot to Red Heather but as we rolled into the lot snow was falling and there was fresh snow! We were stoked!
Jacek is a machine when it comes to going up and we hammered past everyone (i think) and reached the hut in record time. We decided to just keep skinning all the way to Paul's Ridge. We took a different route and Andrew broke trail to the top of one of the main runs... surprisingly no one had skied it yet. As we finished digging a pit and changing into down mode I looked down and there seemed to be a huge train coming up our tracks... We quickly changed over and ripped it down with some frenchies... Well, when I say rip it down....I mean Andrew did and I mostly tumbled down the slope. We did a couple other up and downs. Had some lunch at the hut and headed back out as the visibility was getting worse and Andrew and I had a date for the Vinyl Cafe Show Downtown (which was great by the way). It seems like backcountry skiing is becoming more and more popular which is great! it just means we need to be a little bit more creative with where we go to escape the mass crowds! I do love backcountry skiing though, there is something amazing about the feeling of deserving each downhill turn for working hard to get to the top!
Andrew and I were both pretty zonked from the week and Saturday that we slept through our intended Cyclocross race.... OOPS. Next year.... No worries though as I got to Spin for 3 hours at Lululemon Park Royal for a spinathon raising money for cancer.
Still havin' fun!
live, love, laugh,...DREAM!
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Nov 22, 2009
Playing in the SNOW!
A bunch of us headed to Mt Baker on Saturday. Now, I don't normally ski at resorts as I love love love backcountry skiing but as I acquired a pretty little telemark set up over the past year I figured I ought to learn to telemark. Apparently it is much easier to learn on groomers rather than heavy hip deep backcountry snow... Andrew was kind enough to give me some tips and others were keen to work on their turns as well... I think there was a total of 13 of us at Apres...
Baker is awesome! It had been only my second time on the hill. My first was about 5 years ago on a snowboard (yes, I used to be a snowboarder...until I discovered friends you were into backcountry skiing and I quickly changed my snowboard for skis and fell in love with the sport).
The snow was perfect, the crowds good and my friends can't be beat... we skied from opening to close and I managed to sort of look like a telemarker. I definitely alpined it on the steep stuff but really tried to tele up my turns. Thanks to crossfit and other things my thighs could handle the constant lunging required for this style of skiing.
I had a blast and look forward to my improvements... But don't get me wrong I will never give my AT skis....
This morning Andrew, Johnny and I headed up to Cypress Nordic. First skate ski in two years.... I impressed myself... my technique needs some help but my strength is there. It was a little soft but so fun to get out in the winter landscape and break some sweat. I love skate skiing. It is a killer workout and fun too! Hopefully we can sneak in some time before the Olympics hit... I think some trips to Manning and the interior are in the making.
and that's the end of the weekend....
life is good.....
go play outside
live, love, laugh,..DREAM!
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Nov 17, 2009
I am busy..... so this will be short
Remembrance day: we took advantage of the day off and the recent snowfall and headed for the mountains. Not only did we find snow....we found thigh deep snow! We headed up the Coquihalla, to Needle Peak. Despite a pre organization to meet our Irish friends, the highway patrol, heavy snowfall, bad highway conditions and lack of phone service we failed to meet up. Dan, Paul, Andrew and I had a fantastic day anyways....
Paul took some amazing photos that you can check out here
Andrew took some pics as well here
Jack's photos here
I just skied....
This past weekend.... was our annual mud ride in comox valley..... well, we got more than mud....we got tons of snow as well... Saturday was a respectful couple hour ride in light powder snow with minimal rains while SUday turned out to be a little bit of an epic. The rain was rather torential and as we rode up frobidden the snow became deeper.
We pushed, we rode, I swore a little, we were cold and wet and yet I think I saw tons of smiles (I was too cold for smiling...hehe) it was fun but I think I am ready to hang up the bike for the skis now (for the most part)
during the week, its running, crossfit, yoga, circus, etc time.... all good things
live, love, laugh,...DREAM!
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Nov 8, 2009
EGMONT, a new special place...
This weekend, Andrew and I were going to Bike tour to Egmont.... the weather didn't cooperate and neither did my books and stress. Instead, we packed the car with mountain bikes and running gear. We were off to check out a potential wedding location..... it's beginning to feel real.. It's definitely a good thing.
We got off the ferry in Langdale and figured why not hit the mountain bike trails right here?!? The rain had temporarily taken a break so we quickly found ourselves changing in the parking lot of the Sproc Kids biking area.
We rode the Sidewinder trail and some... it was pretty cool, as the rain started to come down hard and we rode into the clouds... it had that spooky/haunted forest feel.
It was wet but the trail was in good condition... It was a great 2 hour ride and was the beginning of my destressing therapy.
We stopped in Roberts Creek for lunch, in Madeira Park for coffee and managed to make it to Egmont in the late afternoon but on the way found a cool log dock... Andrew almost fell in...haha
We were greeted with smiles at The Strong Water Camp site in the very small town of Egmont. One look around, a chat with Cheyenne and we were sold on the place. We took a little stroll to the community centre and the marina (about 2 minute walk)
and could picture our friends and family here partying and celebrating!
The cabins are cute and comfy too!
Sunday morning we were off (after our morning coffee) to run down the skookumchuck trail to watch the kayakers ride the world famous standing wave. Andrew checked the charts and we made sure we would get there at the peak of the wave's height. It was pretty impressive. The trail was great too....After some pics and checking out the paddler's tricks we ran back and made ourselves a hearty oatmeal breakfast.
We managed to run into Cheyenne and sealed the deal for the Wedding... YAY! It's gonna be awesome!
Cheyenne was worried about her duck Daisy that lived on Lake Klein so we told her we would go make sure she was okay and feed her. We found a little piece of heaven.... We borrowed her canoe and canoed around the lake alone looking for Daisy.
I really enjoyed the canoe...very relaxing and peaceful but to our despair we could not find Daisy. We docked the canoe a little sad that she might have died.... when there she was on the dock next to us.
So we managed to walk on some slippery logs and jump onto the sketchy but very cool dock with our multigrain bread(apparently she is a healthy duck, no white bread for this chick)... the docks around here are very rustic...generally it is pieces of logs tied together with rope with some random planks put randomly on top.
She eventually warmed to us and ate away...she felt like our little duck as well. I hope she is still there when we come back...
It was a fab multi sport weekend away... the sunshine coast is a special place... and I look forward to sharing it with friends and family.
live, love, laugh,...DREAM!
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Nov 1, 2009
Vampires...are they real?
Lots of lesson planning and school work for me but i did manage to take some breaks throughout the weekend. Andrew and I enjoyed a night before Hallowe'en watching "scary" movies with friends, and learning about zombies. If you ever come across one I think you need to shoot it in the head or cut off its head... good to know.
Andrew and I went for a long wonderful fall run in Lynn Valley. It was nice to get the legs moving for more than an hour. I missed those long runs. It turned out to be cool and sunny which was perfect for running. Although it was not raining at the time, it had been the night before and some parts of the trail looked more like a river rather than a trail. Andrew kept a good pace going, it was nice to have him push me on those long runs...
Saturday afternoon we carved our pumpkin and after some lesson planning got ourselves ready for some Hallowe'en fun. We were off to the Crossfit gym and Our Community Bikes for some dancing and good times. We made a good team costume this year. Andrew was a vampire and I was his most recent victim...in the process of turning into a vampire myself.
Following a night of fun we decided that a good way to release the toxins from our body would be a healthy, intense, hard cyclocross race. We drove over to Aldergrove in Langley to get a thorough thrashing. The course was 2.5km and we raced for 30 minutes. This race had an extra insentive... a 25$ prime on the second lap. First person across the line on the second lap would win the prize. I did not have many girls in my group but some nonetheless. I booked it from the start along with the others. Following the steep sand hill I managed to spring a lead half way through Lap 1.... and kept it for the rest of the race. I pushed hard to win the prime and definitely felt the remnants of last nights festivities. I pushed back the desire to quit right after lap 2 and continued to lead and work hard for another 3 laps to finish in 1st! Nice feeling! Hopefully there will be more cross races in the near future.
Live, Love, Laugh,...DREAM!
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text: On January 13, 2009, NICOLE CADE, loving daughter of Yasmin Mello, Mark Mello and Alexander Cade. She is also survived by sister Ashley Mello and Austin Mello, grandmother Clustie Ford, aunts Paulette Harris, Fay Pearson, LaTanya Forest, Corliss Bailey and Diane Downs, uncles Harry Ford, Jr., Andre Ford and Rev. Darryl Ford and a host of other relatives and friends.


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French Open champ Muguruza dominates headlines in Spain
Madrid, June 5 (IANS) French Open champion Garbiñe Muguruza dominated the headlines in the Spanish press on Sunday after winning her first Grand Slam title with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over American world No.1 Serena Williams in Paris.
The 22-year-old Muguruza prevented the 34-year-old Williams from tying German great Steffi Graf in the record books at 22 Grand Slam titles and pulling within two of Australian legend Margaret Court's all-time record of 24, reports Efe.
Muguruza's straight sets win over Williams made the front pages of newspapers across Spain, where photos of the new champion holding the Suzanne Lenglen Cup greeted readers.
The press hailed 'Reina Garbiñe' (Queen Garbiñe), with stories noting that she is the first Spanish women's champion since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1998 at the French Open, the only major played on clay, a surface on which Spanish players have had tremendous success over the years.
Mundo Deportivo headlined its front-page story on the rising star "La reina de Paris" (The Queen of Paris), noting that the Venezuelan-born Muguruza would rise to No. 2 in the world when the new WTA rankings are released on Monday.
Sport cited the "limitless ambitions" of the new French Open champ, who told reporters that she was not satisfied with winning one Grand Slam title.
"I'd like to keep winning tournaments like this one, to dominate on the court, feel like the match depends on me," Muguruza said after Saturday's final against Williams, who many consider the best women's tennis player of all time.
In 2015, Muguruza, who came up short against Williams in the Wimbledon final, became the first Spanish woman to qualify for the year-end WTA championships since Sanchez-Vicario in 2001.
The French Open has taken the careers of some Spanish tennis players like Sanchez-Vicario, who won three French Open titles and one U.S. Open championship, to the next level.
On the men's side, Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal has won Roland Garros nine times, the most singles titles captured by a male player at one Grand Slam tournament and a feat that earned the title of "The King of Clay."


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The Secret to Investing You Won't Learn at a Seminar, and it's Spelled A.B.E.
A.B.E. is the secret to real estate investing becoming a full-time gig for you!
It's not so much a secret, however, as it is a simplified concept for you to place your focus. It's a very simple business model that should you maintain it, failure will virtually be eliminated.
A.B.E. stands for Always Be in Escrow.
I interact with a large number of real estate investors, novice and accomplished alike, and I see a high percentage of them making a big mistake. I see many doing the right activities like prospecting for distressed sellers, marketing for pre-foreclosures, hustlin' at REI clubs, blanketing cities with their bandit signs, etc… but very few execute these activities with real intent, and that intent being to "Open Escrow!"
And once one escrow is opened, focus on opening the next… I mean focus with real intent!
Having one escrow open is good, but perpetually nurturing that one escrow like it's your first born making sure no harm comes to it can be a recipe for a turbulent stressful career. Once that escrow does close, it's right back to the hustle starting from square one.
Always returning to square one is bad enough, but what happens in the event that that escrow doesn't close and you have nothing lined up behind it?
Your investing career will be very short operating in such a way. The stress that accompanies a real estate investing business like this will take its toll.
Many investors operate this way and eventually end up saying things like, "This doesn't work. I'd rather have a job."
Don't be that investor!
Real estate investing is the average person's best chance of escaping the "rat race" and living the life of their dreams. If you don't believe that, I invite you to read the book The Ten Roads to Riches by Ken Fisher. After reading you will know of your ten best possibilities of joining the rich. I am confident you'll agree, real estate investing is your best shot.
Assuming we agree, a very simple focus to assure your real estate investing career is a success is Always Be in Escrow!
Operating your business with this primary focus will significantly increase your percentages of a fulfilling, fruitful and lasting real estate investing career being yours.
Here are three reasons A.B.E. is a great concept to practice:
1. In most cases, it's impossible to get paid without escrow. The ol' axiom goes "You make your money in real estate when you buy," but you don't get paid until you sell… and you're not going to be doing much selling without escrow. No sell, no pay.
2. By always being in escrow, you know there is a payday ahead. When you know there is a payday coming, you relax. You think clearly because you're not stressed out about how you're going to pay your bills. When you're relaxed and thinking clearly, you make better decisions.
3. It's the best hedge against misfortune. Face it, investing in real estate done correctly is the most secure form of investing there is, however… there are a lot of moving parts to a real estate transaction and numerous things can go wrong, and often they do. Every once in a while something happens to which there is no remedy and the deal falls through. Not to worry, though, because…
You're always in escrow!


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I've got my Christmas cd's out and even some old Christmas tapes, and the radio station in our car is tuned in to the Christmas channel. I stopped to think when I heard Kenny Chesney sing �Thank God for Kids,� which was originally done by the Oak Ridge Boys. There are many Christmas songs that wouldn�t have been written if it weren�t for kids.
See if you can guess the names of the following Christmas songs.
1�a song that might inspire a child to be good before Christmas.
2�a song about a chilly winter creation who magically comes to life
3�a song about a child who asks for something that will help him wish everyone a Merry Christmas
4�a song about a child who was naughty all year
5�a song about a baby born in an unusual crib in a barn
6�a song about a boy who gives the Baby Jesus the gift of music
7�a song about the leader of Santa�s team
8�a song about someone who took over when the leader of Santa�s team was sick (think country music)
9�a song about a magical place filled with what children hope to get on Christmas morning
10�a song about a child whispering to Santa what he and his friends want for Christmas
There are Christmas stories all around us at this time of year. If you celebrate the season in a different way, similar inspiration is sure to surround you.
Ok, here are the answers to the songs listed above:
1�Santa Claus is Coming to Town
2�Frosty the Snowman
3�All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
4�I�m Getting Nothin� For Christmas
5�Away in a Manger
6�Little Drummer Boy
7�Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8�Leroy the Redneck Reindeer
10�Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Happy Holidays to all who celebrate the season!
And a very Merry Christmas to all, from my blog to your home!


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of our beloved cat but the truth is I forgot all about my PAD in the
excitement of being back home.
I did take a couple of pics when I met some good friends for coffee
but I don't think they would appreciate being posted for public
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published many works on art, chiefly English and oriental, Painting in the Far East (1908) being one of the best known. His dramas included Attila (1907) and Arthur (1923, with music by Elgar). His war poems include his much anthologized 'For the Fallen' ('…They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old…'); and he wrote two long odes, The Sirens (1924) and The Idols (1928). The Collected Poems appeared in 1931, as did Landscape in English Art and Poetry.
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When it comes to laptops the gaming category is always one of the most fun to cover. While Ultrabooks focus on balancing thinness with power gaming rigs are just putting it all out there damn the physics (and your weak arms for carrying it).
Lenovo is a relative newcomer to the gaming scene, which has been dominated by Razer and Alienware for a few years now. Perhaps that is why Lenovo is wisely teaming up with Razer to merge their flair for design with their own. The result is the top-of-the-line Ideapad Y900, a beast of a portable gaming machine. Well... 'portable' is a relative term, as this monster weighs in at a nice round 10 pounds.
We got some time with the powerful laptop here at CES 2016 so check out our hands-on video to see why this is one impressive machine.
Lenovo Ideapad Y900
- 17.3-inch IPS display has anti-glare at 1920x1080 Full HD resolution
- Intel 6th-generation quad-core Skylake Core i7-K series
- Nvidia GTX 980M with 4GB of memory
- Backlit mechanical keyboard with Chroma colors from Razer
- Dedicated physical Turbo button to overclock the CPU and GPU
- Up to 64GB DDR4 memory
- 512GB PCIe SSD and/or 1TB HDD storage
- A massive 90Wh battery (for a fun 5 hours of uptime)
- 3 x USB 3.0 ports
- 1 x USB 2.0 with always-on charging
- 1 x USB –C Thunderbolt 3
- Audio and Mic jack
- 4-in-1 card reader
- Display Port
- Ethernet port
- 10.1 lb (4.6 kg) weight
- Kitchen Sink 1.0 (that's a joke)
Lenovo is happy also to sell you a dedicated hard-shell backpack to lug this monster around. That said, once you pass over a laptop that weighs more than a few pounds it just stops mattering how much it actually weights — it's not truly 'portable', or even really a 'laptop'. In other words, while 10 pounds is hilariously heavy, it did not feel that much different from Lenovo's Ideapad Y700 (at 7.7 pounds, which we're in the process of reviewing).
Putting aside the raw specs of the Y900, which are crazy ridiculous, the attention to detail that Lenovo has given the device is evident. The keyboard palm area is a sturdy leather for a premium feel when resting your hands. The brushed metal on the outside feels like a top quality design and the machine overall says, "this is it." Even the bottom of the Y900, which is peppered with triangle-styled vents and the subwoofer, looks fresh.
Razer has lent their expertise to the chroma colored keyboard, which although unnecessary, adds that flair that so many gamers enjoy on their high-end machines. The ability to customize the color patterns, presets and the overclocking ability are also nice touches. In fact, you could have the Y900 auto-overclock particular games making the process much more automated.
Also, don't ask about the fans. There is no doubt this system can pump out some heat. It has fans, they will run.
None of this comes cheap, however, and we are looking at a $1,999 starting price. While non-gamers will balk at that price, even I have to admit that it is great to manufacturers push the extremes. If that is your thing than the Ideapad Y900 is your choice.
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The U.S. Coast Guard, which can trace its lineage back to 1789, is about to finally get something it's never, ever, had: a headquarters specifically designed just for them.
And this is not just any old HQ. It's part of the most expensive, largest federal building project in Washington since the Pentagon was built in World War II. It's a terraced, nuanced series of buildings that embody the latest in green, ecologically-friendly technology. And, located just across the Anacostia River from its former headquarters and Nationals Park, the new digs have one of the best — and hitherto rarely seen — views of the capital to be found anywhere around the region.
Ultimately, the entire complex, on land formerly occupied by the federally-owned Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, will house all 20 agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and up to 14,000 employees. But the Coast Guard has first dibs and — four years after the start of construction — the buildings will welcome their first Coastie tenants starting in early August. The service expects to complete the transfer from the old Buzzards Point HQ by November.
We were lucky enough to fly, in a government aircraft, over the site on July 10, and got off a few snaps of the new complex.
The Coast Guard's web pages about the new headquarters.
General Services Administration description of the building project.
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One cannot help but be amazed at the tenacity of the Dragon Ball Z license. Despite the absence of new tales for more than a decade, the game series continues to chug along, content to retell the same battles over and over again. Part of the sustained staying power lies in the fact that the fan base is still rabid enough to take in every iteration almost without question. The other part of the equation is that the games tend to change up the mechanics, often swapping out completely different engines while still maintaining the fighting game ethic set out so many years ago. This new entry, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi, is no different as developer Spike forgoes the advancements made by earlier games and uses the story in its own fighting engine. The results are, at best, mixed.
The fighting system feels like a mix between Burst Limit and the Raging Blast games in terms of viewpoint. Getting into melee range gives you the Burst Limit viewpoint, where the game is presented as a traditional fighter. You can unleash light or heavy attacks, block, and dash toward or away from your opponent, but you can't unleash ki-based attacks. Once you register three hits from a light attack combo, you get a short pause and determine whether your next hit will be a light or heavy attack. Pick correctly over your opponent, and you'll get a chance to unleash combos where you toss your opponent in the air, hit him further than before, and ultimately finish him off with a 20- to 30-hit combo. Pick incorrectly, and if you were on offense, you simply receive a counterattack. If you were on defense, you have to try to recover to stop getting hit and hopefully get a chance to counterattack. If you back up far enough from the opponent, the game switches over to the Raging Blast viewpoint, where the camera is an over-the-shoulder view. You can do ki attacks from here, such as throwing energy blasts of varying strengths, but you no longer have melee attack capabilities. You can also deflect those attacks and reflect them back at your opponent.
People look forward to signature moves in the series, and those are unleashed once you are close to death. When this happens, you enter a spirit mode and can unleash the attack, which has enough power to permanently deform the environment or destroy buildings. On offense, the release of the move is as easy as flicking down the right analog stick. On defense, provided you have enough ki, you can block the attack to take less damage. You can also choose to dodge the attack via a button-matching game, where losing means taking in more damage. You can also try to reflect the attack by button-mashing.
Upon playing the game for the first time, you immediately see the problems with the fighting system. Getting out the initial blows is fine, but once you get to the attack choice, your success really becomes a coin flip. Despite the fact that you're rewarded with great-looking fight sequences should you win, turning a brawl into a game of chance essentially undermines the whole experience, especially since getting to the choice option is so easy to execute.
Consequently, while going on the offense is easy since all you have to do is get lucky and then hit either the light or strong attack in conjunction with a direction, going on the defense is next to impossible. You only have a limited amount of time to button-mash in the hopes of finally teleporting away from an incoming attack. Once this is done, you have to hit the indicated face button at just the right time to initiate the counterattack. Unfortunately, the response time for that button hit is never precise, and getting to this situation in the first place never seems to happen since the game doesn't indicate how much button-mashing is needed to get this right. In fact, the only time you'll ever see this happen is in the tutorial, and even then, failing to do this move results in a bug where the whole tutorial sequence must be restarted. Coupled with the fact that the most powerful moves in the game are executed by the flick of the analog stick, and the whole system becomes less of a fighting game.
Ultimate Tenkaichi comes with quite a few big modes. Story mode is here, and while it starts off unexpectedly with the Bardock fight against Frieza, you're soon going through all of the familiar story arcs that made up the animated series. While there are plenty of fights happening, you will also get to engage in chase sequences where you have to either catch up with or outrun an opponent via Quick Time Events (QTEs). Though you've seen and experienced these story arcs countless times, you are rewarded with some HD animated cut scenes for your troubles. Also, by the end of the game, you're given bonus missions in the form of a few select story arcs from Dragon Ball GT.
There are two big complaints people will have with the story's presentation. The first has to do with the beginning of each saga. As good as the animated sequences are, the long wall of text that slowly crawls by to set up each story arc is infuriating to watch, and only the most patient will have enough restraint to not hit the X button to move on to something else. Also, the world map mode feels like it was implemented just to lengthen the adventure. Most of the time, you're simply moving from one battle location to another with this map, and considering the load screens going to and from the map, it feels like a menu would have been better.
As for the fighting, one change comes with the fights against larger creatures. Fighting against the Great Ape form of Vegeta, for example, changes the title from a standard fighting game to a platformer, where the opponent is at the center of the screen and the player is at the bottom running around, avoiding attacks, and trying to unleash a few of his own. At times, the player will have to engage in a series of QTEs to defeat the creature, and while most of them work well, the mechanic used in the recovery and counterattack of a combo comes into play here, complete with imprecise button responses. With the consequences of missing the button press being a substantial hit on the energy meter, these fights become next to impossible to win.
The big addition this time around is Hero mode, where your created hero goes on an adventure in a parallel universe. The story is even more simplified, with the tale of a warlord who successfully found all seven dragon balls and got his wish to rule the world with an iron fist. As a Saiyan warrior with a desire to bring peace to the world, you set out on your own journey to find the dragon balls. While there aren't multiple story arcs like in the main Story mode, you encounter several characters from the universe in similar roles here. Also, the game ends up being a much deeper experience since it is treated as a fighting RPG. Each battle, whether major or minor, gets you experience in several different areas, improving your character in the process. You also spar against several other characters who act as your masters in this mode. Successful sparring sessions net you skills and fighting styles that can be equipped to your character and switched on the fly. While you'll still have to play Story mode to unlock fighters, most series veterans will likely go here first because it provides a different but familiar take on the game world.
The ability to create a character in the universe is great, but it also feels limiting. When you start, you're limited to only four clothing styles and about three hairstyles. Things improve with the voices, where you can choose from plenty of attitude styles, and you can customize the colors of just about everything on your fighter, but no matter how well you mix things up, you'll still have what looks like a miscolored Vegeta, Goku or Krillin, minus the dots on his forehead. As you progress in Hero mode, you can find more clothes and styles to wear, but the options don't seem very plentiful. While it is still cool to see your character done in the style of Akira Toriyama, the limitations make it less exciting to see your creation on-screen.
Beyond this, you have the same modes you expect from this game series. The versus mode is open to just about any configuration of human and CPU players, with every unlocked fighter and environment available for play. The World Tournament also returns with the ability to host one offline for up to 16 participants, all vying to be champion. Finally, there are the tutorial and training modes, where you can learn about all of the fighting mechanics and try them out, respectively.
As far as online play goes, Ultimate Tenkaichi handles itself quite well. Lag is handled so that even when playing on bad connections, you'll never see moves go unregistered or see the action pause and break up the flow. The ranking system is quite smart about judging disconnects, penalizing the player only if it knows that network conditions took a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse. There's also a title system that gives players titles to put on their fighting cards when they accomplish certain online actions. For those going through Hero mode, you can also fight online with your created character, giving you extra incentive to ensure your fighter is as strong as he can be.
The graphics are one area where the game does just about everything right. Most of the fights are now more cut scene than interactive, so the combat looks more like the anime than ever before. Animations are quick but fluid, and there doesn't seem to be a misstep when players teleport all over the field. Characters have their colors toned down, with subtle shadowing on their clothes, making them look more like a blend between the anime and manga cover art versions of the characters. Damage, while gradual, stands out more as you see clothes being torn and scratches appearing on the characters' bodies and faces. The environments fit in with this new style, but their appeal comes from the fact that they retain the destruction put forth by some of the special moves. By the end of the fight, you'll see craters, collapsed buildings and broken stone littering the field. Speaking of moves, they look more spectacular than ever. Beyond the destruction and smoke they leave behind, the camera angles and pans go a long way in showing how massive each of these moves are, and while you may know that the Kamehameha is powerful, the cinematic treatment only reinforces that.
The sound quality hasn't changed from game to game, and with good reason. The music mimics the themes used in the animated series and movies well enough, and it even includes the "Cha-La Head Cha-La" theme, which is synonymous with the series. The effects hit with the same timbre as the series and the voice cast, both the English and Japanese versions, are the same, making the experience more authentic. With the sound quality remaining constant between all games, there's not much of a reason to change anything.
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi is a beautiful-looking game on the outside but downright ugly on the inside. The graphics and sound are both top-notch. Despite having already gone through the story several times, the addition of HD-animated cut scenes makes it worth going through just one more time if you're a big fan of the series. Even though it has a few limitations initially, the Hero mode is exactly what the series needs to keep itself from getting stale after all these years. Despite this, the fighting system is flawed in every way. Limiting projectile moves to certain distances is fine, but the random nature of combo after-effects ruins the basic mechanics, as does its overemphasis on offense over defense as evidenced by the controls. Unless you really are dying to go through an alternate version of the universe with a created character, the mechanical flaws are bad enough that it becomes very difficult to recommend this game over the older entries. If you're a big fan of Dragon Ball Z, you're better off playing any of the other games.
Score: 5.0/10
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Girl, 12, raped in Manchester park sparking police probe
COPS sealed off a popular park in Manchester after a 12-year-old girl was raped.
Police were called to Crowcroft Park in Levenshulme, Greater Manchester, shortly before 11.20pm on Thursday.
They discovered a young girl who is said to have been subjected to a serious sex attack.
Reports of concern for a teenage girl sparked the investigation.
"On arrival officers discovered that a 12-year-old girl had been raped"Greater Manchester Police
An area of the park was cordoned off as detectives probed the scene.
Two forensic tents were put up as officers search for evidence.
Crowcroft park is popular with local children with a school nearby, according to the Manchester Evening News.
A GMP spokesman said: "On arrival officers discovered that a 12-year-old girl had been raped."
"Police are currently at the scene carrying out enquiries.
"Anyone with any information about the incident should call police on 101 quoting incident number 2260 of September 1."