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In every realm where we exist as a collective —in society, in the global economy, on the Internet —we are blithely increasing the coupling between us, with no idea what that might entail.
"Coupling" refers to the ability of one part of a complex system to influence another. If I put a hundred metronomes on the floor and set them ticking, they'll each do their own thing, swinging at their own rhythm. In this condition, they're not yet coupled. Because the floor is rigid, the metronomes can't feel each other's vibrations, at least not enough to make a difference. But now place them all on a movable platform like the seat of a child's swing. The metronomes will start to feel each other's jiggling. The swing will start to sway, imperceptibly at first, but enough to disturb each metronome and alter its rhythm. Eventually the whole system will synchronize, with all the metronomes ticking in unison. By allowing the metronomes to impose themselves on each other through the vibrations they impart to the movable platform, we have coupled the system and changed its dynamics radically.
In all sorts of complex systems, this is the general trend: increasing the coupling between the parts seems harmless enough at first. But then, abruptly, when the coupling crosses a critical value, everything changes. The exact nature of the altered state isn't easy to foretell. It depends on the system's details. But it's always something qualitatively different from what came before. Sometimes desirable, sometimes deadly.
I worry that we're playing the coupling game with ourselves, collectively. With our cell phones and GPS trackers and social media, with globalization, with the coming Internet of things, we're becoming more tightly connected than ever. Of course, maybe that's good. Greater coupling means faster and easier communication and sharing. We can often do more together than apart.
But the math suggests that increasing coupling is a siren's song. Too much makes a complex system brittle. In economics and business, the wisdom of the crowd works only if the individuals within it are independent, or nearly so. Loosely coupled crowds are the only wise ones.
The human brain is the most exquisitely coupled system we know of, but the coupling between different brain areas has been honed by evolution to allow for the subtleties of attention, memory, perception, and consciousness. Too much coupling produces pathological synchrony: the rhythmic convulsions and loss of consciousness associated with epileptic seizures.
Propagating malware, worldwide pandemics, flash crashes—all symptoms of too much coupling. Unfortunately it's hard to predict how much coupling is too much. We only know that we want more, and that more is better… until it isn't.


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Every once in a while I come across a particularly good idea: Where someone has done something particularly clever to solve a problem. Here's one very recent example: On the iPhone (and iPod touches) you can only display icons. They can be augmented with a numeric counter, but that's all. (The idea is the app shows you the number of unread emails, for example.) But here's the idea, in a nutshell:... [More]

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compelling supporters to join your fight
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has been on a roll lately with his columns about the right — and the wrong — way for charitable organizations to compel supporters to join them in the fight to meet their mission.
Earlier this week he argued, as he had in 2007, that the public is more compelled to get involved if they see themselves as saving one person — one cute kid, one mother who has persevered — versus the millions who may find themselves in the same situation.
"There's growing evidence that jumping up and down about millions of lives at stake can even be counterproductive. A number of studies have found that we are much more willing to donate to one needy person than to several. In one experiment, researchers solicited donations for a $300,000 fund that in one version would save the life of one child, and in another the lives of eight children. People contributed more when the fund would save only one life."
People want to feel good. They don't want to think about the enormity of a problem that they can never truly solve. They want to write a check and believe they have had an impact.
Quite a few well-meaning people who see themselves as experts in issues marketing did not take too kindly to Kristof's comments. They'll have to get over themselves.
Yesterday, Kristof praised the marketing efforts of Scott Harrison, the founder of charity:water, an organization that has raised $10 million in the past three years from 50,000 individual donors and has provided clean water to one million people in Asia and Africa.
Why does Kristof think Harrison been successful?
- He can assure new donors that every sent they send will make it to the field. He can do this due to the support of 500 of his "most committed" supporters, who pay to cover all administrative costs.
- Donors can see the impact of their work. They can name wells and get the GPS coordinates to identify their wells on Google Maps.
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GCH CH Tolkien Raintree Mister Baggins
Our last group is the Herding Group and we have an outstanding bunch of likely candidates. First, we have the top Bearded Collie in history, GCH CH Tolkien Raintree Mister Baggins. Roy was the only Beardie to win an all breed BIS last year and he won 33. He also finished as the Number One Herding Dog with a phenomenal 141 Group Firsts. Roy was bred by Larry & Angela Stein, Lesley Woodcock, & Robert Lamm, who co-own Roy with Ellen Charles & Susan Ross. Roy is handled by Clifford Steele.
GCH CH Lambluv's Gambolon Blue Thunder
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Year after year Jere Marder shows up at the Garden with a great Old English Sheepdog. This year it will be GCH CH Lambluv's Gambolon Blue Thunder. Elvis kept us entertained in 2010 with nine BIS and 64 Herding Groups. Elvis was bred and is owned and handled by Jere for co-breeder Gail Radke and co-owner Kay Richardson.
GCH CH Mysharas Dream Girl
With 39 entries Australian Shepherds is one of the biggest entries this year at Westminster. The one we think will make it to judge Lynette Saltzman's final will be GCH CH Mysharas Dream Girl. Beyonce charmed her way to seven BIS and 54 Herding Groups last year ending up as the Number Six Herding Dog. Beyonce was bred by and is owned by Sharon Fontanini and handled by Jamie Clute.
GCH CH Segni At Coventry
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Worldwide the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is recognized as the dog favored by Queen Elizabeth II. The Pembroke we think is the one to watch this year is GCH CH Segni At Coventry. Shown only sporadically in 2010, Molly still collected six BIS and 18 Herding Groups. She has already collected two BIS this year. Molly was bred by Sofia L Sadler, Steve Leyerly, Beckie Williams DVM, & Bill Shelton, is owned by Alexandra Geremia & Bill Shelton, and handled by Jenny Wornall and Wood Wornall.


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I've been sucked in by Fast and Loud, ie Gas Monkey Garage. No drama, just looks like a bunch of guys goofing off most of the time.
Yeah I can never figure why they don't sell some of those items online. You can tell they are gamblers and need the dough. But I can tell ya right now, if they had an expert tell me that my item is worth 12K I sure the hell wouldn't sell it to those idiots for $4,200!! I am 52 and I am only down 66 dollars in my whole life gambling. If I win $10 I just walk away and have lunch. I guess I'm just not a real gambler. Why would you play a game when you know it leans towards the house in a big way. See a casino close??? There is a reason for that. My friend said that the pawn shop was a crap hole for years. Then they got the show and fixed it all up. Now all those clowns think they are somebody. Too funny... Danny


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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A doctor will have to be present for any drug-induced abortion in Missouri starting on August 28 because Governor Jay Nixon on Friday allowed a measure passed by the state legislature to become law without his signature.
Nixon, a Democrat, said he decided not to sign the law and made no further comment.
The law applies to the so-called "abortion pill," RU-486 or any other abortion inducing chemical.
Missouri will be the 11th state to require doctors be present for administration of the drug, which is allowed up to about nine weeks of pregnancy, said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group.
The law is on hold in Wisconsin and North Dakota due to litigation, she said.
The measure is the latest of a wave of small restrictions on abortion approved by conservative states where opposition to the procedure is strong.
Abortion opponents favor the law in part because it eliminates telemedicine in which a doctor at a different location can observe a patient taking the medication. Abortion rights advocates said the law is unfair to rural residents who live far from an abortion provider and need telemedicine to get early-term abortions, Nash said.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, Missouri with the new law joins Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee.
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Distance from the CE does matter. The same force ten time the distance has a ten fold effect. It is just a lever. Move the stab farther away and it can be smaller and have less angle of incidence which should reduce drag. The compromise is the fuse needs to be stiffer which adds weight and length adds wetted area. Winglets are usually at the tops of a plane and intended to reduce the vortex created by the fluid below the wing from mixing with the fluid above the wing. This mixing creates a vortex which is really just a parachute and slows the craft. The vortex is created by the spanwise flow of fluid over the wing. As you move closer to the tips the flow becomes more parallel to the span. The winglet "tricks" the fluid into acting like there is more span. A higher aspect ratio is more efficient in terms of induc drag to lift ratios. The cost is parasite drag and stiffness.
The mast had very little to do with yaw control. It is too close to the CE to be significantly helpful. If you take a foil and keep it horizontal and move it in the direction of the wingtip instead of the nose there is zero moment of yaw. The craft is simply skidding sideways. The mast will resist the skid but not add yaw stability. What the mast is doing is acting like a daggerboard or keel on a sailboat.
In addition to rolling (tilting) the foil away from the kite to counter its pull, the mast also helps resist this sideways pull. When the foil is rolled if the mast gains an angle of attack to the water some lift is generated which can cause the setup to move towards the wingtip. A yawning motion created by the rider or a wave which will dictate if the mast lift moves the foil towards the surface or the seabed.
In horizontal flight, yaw input by the rider will create a lift component to the mast. Because of the thin profile more drag will be produced than lift. This drag will impart a rotation to the foil ad it tries to realign itself with the flow which is yaw stability but very ineffective compared to the chord of the mast since it is usually mounted near the CE. The same width chord mounted at the stab would have a massive amount of yaw stability due to the lever by comparison and this is most likely not desirable as it might make the board difficult to turn


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Non-call on final pass irks Harbaugh
New Orleans --
Jim Harbaugh tried to offer a diplomatic answer, but he was still simmering after Sunday's game - clearly upset the officials did not call a penalty on Baltimore cornerback Jimmy Smith on San Francisco's final play.
The 49ers had fourth down on the Ravens' 5-yard line when Colin Kaepernick lofted a pass toward Michael Crabtree in the right corner of the end zone. Smith appeared to hold Crabtree while the ball was in the air, but no penalty was called.
"We want to handle this with class and grace," Harbaugh said. "We had several opportunities in the game; we didn't play our best game."
And then, a moment later, he added, "There's no question in my mind there was a pass interference and then a hold on Crabtree on the last one."
Harbaugh also was unhappy about a call earlier in the fourth quarter. Baltimore's Joe Flacco threw an incomplete pass on 3rd-and-9 from his 22-yard line - but officials called pass interference on 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver, giving the Ravens a first down. (Harbaugh didn't appear to have as strong a case on this one.)
The Ravens took advantage of the penalty, driving downfield for Justin Tucker's 38-yard field goal with 4:23 left. That stretched Baltimore's lead to 34-29 at the time and ultimately provided the decisive points.
Jones' big return: Baltimore's Jacoby Jones tied an NFL record with a 108-yard kickoff return, seemingly turning out the lights on the 49ers with the touchdown on the second-half opening kickoff. It was the receiver's second touchdown of the game and put the Ravens up 28-6 - but that was before the lights really went out at the Superdome.
"I am still tired from running the 108," Jones said after the game. "As a kick returner, all you want to do is get field position and wait for one to pop. And that one popped! I was following the blockers and then I saw the daylight."
The return was originally ruled 109 yards but a review made it 108. So the record return (regular season or postseason) does not equal the longest play in NFL history. San Diego's Antonio Cromartie returned a missed field- goal try 109 yards in 2007.
The Ravens became the first team with two Super Bowl kickoff returns for touchdowns. Jermaine Lewis had one for Baltimore after the 2000 season.
Jones, from New Orleans, was definitely the Ravens' Most Valuable Player in the week before the Super Bowl, thanks to his mom's home cooking. Emily whipped up some gumbo, jambalaya, macaroni and cheese, stuffed bell peppers, potato salad and bread pudding for the players all week.
"That did play a role in the win," Jones said.
Look, no lights: Even though Sunday's third-quarter power outage seemed to rejuvenate the 49ers, the Ravens didn't seem to mind. Flacco even mused about still playing the game, semi-darkness and all.
"The funny thing is, the light was actually really good when the lights went out," he said. "I don't know what it looked like on TV, but I think the receivers still would have been able to see the ball.
"The biggest issue was with the headsets. I think our headsets were working and I think theirs (the 49ers') weren't."
No matter how it appeared, 49ers safety Donte Whitner didn't think the power outage invigorated his team.
"We barely spoke to each other during the delay," Whitner said. "Everything that needed to be said was said at halftime."
Cool stat: Colin Kaepernick's second-quarter interception was the first Super Bowl interception thrown by a 49ers quarterback. Joe Montana (11) and Steve Young (six) combined for 17 touchdown passes and zero interceptions in San Francisco's five previous appearances.
Briefly: The 49ers lost their status as the only unbeaten team through multiple Super Bowl appearances. The Ravens, at 2-0, now hold that distinction. ... The 49ers became the first team in Super Bowl history to have a 300-yard passer, 100-yard rusher and two 100-yard receivers in a single game. Kaepernick threw for 302 yards, Frank Gore ran for 110 and Michael Crabtree (109) and Vernon Davis (104) each reached the century mark in receiving yards.


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Shawn O'Keefe mentioned I should visit the Flatstock Rock Poster Convention during SXSW. I did and discovered that poster people are into the bike too!
Vive Le Velo
More photos from Flatstock are on Flickr.
Note: I walked the show just before leaving for the Airport and didn't get the names of the poster makers. That last poster I saw before we leaving was "make some damn shit,"
A couple years ago, the focus of the talks I do and this blog was do epic shit. Our readers still remember that. Something about the slogan rang true. What it meant then and now is
Make meaningful, interesting stuff, challenge yourself, live and work hard with a fire in the belly.
It was cool to see the printer equivalent of Do Epic Shit. When I took the photo, I thought, "that's right. Make some damn shit too."…
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When a friend on Facebook the other day quoted some particularly snarky thing I'd said, my response was, "I want that on my tombstone." That got me thinking about some of the great epitaphs of history and, lucky for me, Wikipedia has a long list of them. Here are a few of my favorites:
Susan B. Anthony: "Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality"
George Burns and Gracie Allen: "Together again."
Mel Blanc: "That's all, folks!"
Winston Churchill: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Rodney Dangerfield: "There goes the neighborhood."
Jackie Gleason: "And away we go!"
HL Mencken: "If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl."
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Here are two photos taken at a Veteran's Day Ride that a friend of mine organzies every year. It is open to all bikes but it ends up being mostly HD. We visited the Veteran's Home in Cameron MO. Sorry to break the rules but I am posting two here because of the content. In the first we enter and are greeted by many veterans glad to see us. About 150 bikes by the way.
In this I saw this Gentleman sort of wistfully looking at the Flag. He turned to talk to someone off camera as I shot it.


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Carla (Age 27)
Sterling, VA
About CARLA :
"I enjoy to ride hot studs.. I keep up for hours and can't get enough to do that.. Adore to feel it so heavy in me.. If you're mellow I 'll take it in the buttocks simply in the shower it's simply so fine and hot… Ease in lightly and lightly but after you're in there….finger my pussy….cum inside me bite my neck….mmmmmm….. I really got myself wet hot horny while typing this.. Had to set my fingers up there and shoot a image for you yourself to reveal you :-*"
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Ophelia, VA
About JOSPHINE :
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Have been out of the adult dating scene for awhile and def not ready for nething serious like a relationship.. Just casual encounters; quick fix with great sex
Send me a message and I might consider you"
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About JANETTE :
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im totally ready for a big hard cock up my ass and took a pic to prove it for ya!
can you see ur cock getting up in my tight hole?? you can blow you load now and make a pic for me ;0
Sherlyn (Age 24)
Broadway, VA
About SHERLYN :
"Idiotic comments, suggestions or remarks will result in u findin ur place on my blocked list! Lemme simplify this coz it seems a lot of u r struggling ta understand :- * NO – im not interested if your in a relationship (i aint like that) * NO – i dont wanna be a part of ur 3sum * NO – KIDS (They scare me, seriously, i cant tolerate em, so i wont be playin 'mummy' to urs) * NO – i dont want your money (you wanna buy sommat? Go to the shop) * NO – i dont want to go on holiday with you * and NO NO NO NO NO! – dont continue to message me if i dont reply to you, if i dont respond then its pretty obvious i aint interested (and tellin me im 'the one', you 'love me' n other such gibberish will get you nowhere, so dont even try)"
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Honaker, VA
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As you can see my other hole feels really neglected so i decided to use a couple of fingers and stretch it up for you a bit..
I would really prefer a bit long cock just my my bf has for my other tight little hole..
Would you look to fuck my asshole while my friend fucks my pussy and takes some pics for our private stash?"


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A crew from Worcester and a water carried from Leominster attended and found a large quantity of tyres well alight.
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"can i power the arduino uno with 5 volts on the Vin header pin?"Yes.Put a 1N4001 or comparable diode from +5 (cathode) to Vin (anode) to protect from reverse biasing the regulator."6-20 are the limits and 7-12 is recommended" at the barrel jack or at the Vin pin.
Vin pin can only take up +5v....correct?(this is by passing the +5v regulator?)
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Batting in the second position for the White Sox, number 2, the second baseman Nelson Fox.
In my last post, I was going to pose a similar question -- Smoky v. Wilbur Wood (even the pre-kneecap injury Wilbur Wood).
Oh the Clydesdale Classic... Paying out win, place or show..
1st Place.... Paulie K LongFly
2nd Place.... Sherm Shield of Armour
3rd Place .... Smoky of Burgessville
14.70 4.40 3.80
Big Klu says... "When you step in the box you go to war"..
OK, going from my foggy old memory Burgess was definitely faster than Lollar. I can remember him hitting the ball hard on the ground and hustling as best he could down to first. I just don't remember him being as slow as maybe I'm supposed to. Smoky wasn't svelte that's for sure. Lollar OTOH made Konerko seem like a track star.
Smoky was able to extend his career to age 40 by being a specialist who was a fan favorite when he was called on. I think he's still up there in career pinch hits. Probably because of long minutes on the bench and his age, it was fun to watch his warm up routine in the on deck circle before pinch hitting, eventually windmilling double bats/iron rod. He would get his hit, then taken out to cheers for a pinch runner like Al Weis. I don't ever recall him actually behind the plate the few times he was, but his role was clear and needed by their lack of hitting depth (I recall the team needing to use Gary Peters as a pinch hitter). Too bad he didn't get a ring in 1964 or 1967, but he sure was special.
Switch-hitter Al Weis broke into the big leagues with the White Sox in 1962 and would play for 10 seasons. Never a regular, the most games he ever started in a season was 83 for the '64 Sox. A career utility player, he played second base, third base, shortstop, and the outfield during his career. He would never break the .300 mark for batting average, although he did come close in 1965 with a .296 mark. finishing with only a .219 average. He would never hit for more than two home runs or 23 RBI in a season, finishing with seven and 115 for his career, respectively. The White Sox traded him to the Mets following the 1967 season, where he would finish his career. Certainly the highlight of his career came in October 1969 as a member of the Mets' World Series-winning squad. Interestingly, although he had only one plate appearance in three games during the NLCS against the Braves, he had 16 plate appearances in five games during the World Series. He made the most of the Series, batting .455 and knocking in three runs, including a solo home run that tied the game in the bottom of the 7th of the eventual series-clinching game five.
Other than having the highest batting average of his career, Weis's 1965 season was fairly typical. He appeared in many more games (85) than he started (37), seeing time at second, third, shortstop, and centerfield. Despite the high average, he had fewer at bats than the two previous years or the next year, stepping up to the plate 156 times. He would score 29 times and drive in 12 runs. Eight of his 40 hits were for extra bases; his only home run of the season came on May 7th, 1965.
The White Sox didn't play on May 6th, so the May 7th game was the first since Burgess had driven in the tying and go-ahead run with his pinch-hit single on the 5th. It was the first game of a three-game series against the Twins, the second series the two teams had played in 1965. The Twins had taken the first series two games to one but, having lost the day before, entered the game 1.5 behind the White Sox. It looked bad for the White Sox in the first inning when Harmon Killebrew hit one of his 573 career homers with two men on. But Al Weis would get the Sox back in the game with a two-run, two-out double in the 2nd inning, scoring Pete Ward and Ron Hansen. Tommy John retired the next six Twins he faced, and Hansen tied the game with a solo home run in the top of the 4th. After Ken Berry flied out to left field, Weis came up again with two outs. His solo home run was his only of the season, put the Sox ahead, and knocked Twins pitcher Dick Stigman out of the game early. The Sox would go on to score nine more runs and win 13-5. Don Buford eventually pinch-hit for Weis in the 7th, even though his performance was by far his most productive of the season.
With the win, the White Sox had won five in a row and moved to 2.5 games ahead of the Twins. A child thumbing through his White Sox cards on May 7th may have been encouraged about his own ability to be a major league player when he came to Weis's card. With a youthful face and a slender frame, the average American young man might have seen a little of himself in Al Weis.
Met Al a few years ago at Hunters Ridge Golf Club in Bonita Springs Fl where I was a part time Desk Jockey. We talked quite a bit about the White Sox of that era, he gave me a signed baseball card from the 67 season.
PS Joe Pignatano who caught for the Dodgers was a member at Hunters Ridge and always gave me the needle about the Bums beating us in the 59 Series.
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One of my favorite players growing up, though I thought he played more than he did. At the time, I started to make a song about him using the melody from a certain song in The Sound of Music:
A-al Weis, A-al Weis,
Second baseman for the White Sox,
Small and white...
That's as far as I got.
Greg Bollo
Three eventual Hall-of-Famers would have rookie cards in the 1965 Topps set: Steve Carlton, Joe Morgan, and Jim "Catfish" Hunter. So Greg Bollo was in good company when his name and likeness appeared on a rookie card that season. Signed by the White Sox as an amateur before the 1964 season, Bollo put together a 12-7 record with a 2.46 ERA in A-ball during his first professional season. He made his major-league debut the next season, on May 9th, 1965. It was mop-up duty, but Bollo made the most of his debut, pitching 2 perfect innings in a 6-1 White Sox loss to the Twins. And it wasn't an easy assignment, either. The first two batters he faced were Tony Oliva and Harmon Killebrew, who flew out to left and grounded out to shortstop, respectively. Having lost the day before as well, the White Sox had seen a 2.5-game lead dwindle to a .5-game lead by the end of the day.
Bollo's debut on May 9th was indicative of how he was used during what would turn out to be a brief career. In 15 appearances during the '65 season, Bollo entered the game with the White Sox losing in all but one. On June 28th, Bollo was called upon to protect a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 5th. Although he retired the first two batters, he then gave up a solo home run to Jimmie Hall and was promptly taken out of the game in favor of Eddie Fisher. Although Bollo would have a 2.20 ERA as late in the season as July 24th, he finished the season with a 3.57 ERA in 22.2 innings pitched, third highest among a talented batch of 1965 White Sox pitchers. Bollo would appear in three games as a late-season call-up in 1966, but never reached the big leagues again, retiring after the 1970 season.
A discerning child in 1965 might have chuckled at Topps' rudimentary "photoshop" capabilities. The cap on Bollo's head is clearly set high and to the right. It's not surprising that Topps didn't have a photo of Bollo in a White Sox uniform; he had never put on one until a few months after the cards were printed.
Floyd Robinson
Floyd Robinson was one of the White Sox most productive hitters during the early 1960s. He got his first chance as a starter in 1961, and his .310 average, 11 homers, and 59 RBI earned him third place in Rookie of the Year voting. He would go on to receive MVP votes each of the next four seasons, with his 1962 sophomore season by far the best of his career. That year he set career highs in average (.312), RBI (109), and total bases (285), and led the entire league in doubles with 45. He led the White sox in average three out of four years between 1961 and 1964, and 1965 was his last season of significant productivity. He started seeing less playing time in 1966 and after the '66 season was traded to the Reds for pitcher Jim O'Toole. He would bounce between the Reds, Red Sox, and Athletics for two seasons before retiring after the 1968 season. Robinson's .287 batting average with the White Sox is good 22nd on the White Sox all-time list, and his 875 hits and 400 RBI are good for 32nd and 34th, respectively.
Complementing Pete Ward as the only other pure lefty in the White Sox regular 1965 lineup, Al Lopez generally put Robinson first, second, or third in the batting order. He started 146 games in 1965, all but eight in right field. Robinson got off to somewhat of a slow start to the season, batting only .226 after the first game of a doubleheader on May 31st. But Robinson would never be pulled from the starting lineup, and finished the season with a .265 average. His 66 RBI tied him with Ron Hansen for second on the team, behind Bill Skowron's team-leading 78. His RBI seemed to come in bunches; in 1965 he had three or more RBI seven times. Hansen and Skowron accomplished the feat a total of seven times between them. One of Robinson's high-octane games came on May 17th.
On May 10th, the White Sox had lost the last of a four-game series with the Twins. Finishing the series with only one win, the Twins had taken a half-game lead over the White Sox. Since the 10th, however, the Sox had won seven straight, including sweeping two doubleheaders. They entered the game on the 17th with a 2.5 game lead over the Twins, and got off to a quick start. Cater lead off the game with a triple, scored on a wild pitch, Buford doubled, and Floyd Robinson smacked a two-run homer off Athletics starter Rollie Sheldon. With Ron Hansen single later in the inning, and the White Sox had batted for the cycle and taken a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Robinson would get out the next two times at the plate, but singled twice late in the game, adding another RBI and two more runs. By the end of the night, the Sox had plated 13 runs and Robinson had three hits, three RBI, and three runs. The White Sox took a 3.5-game lead as they won their 8th straight while the Twins lost in 10 innings to the California Angels.
If a child had run across the actual card pictured above in 1965, he must have put it away in a safe place. Of 144 examples graded by Professional Sports Authenticator, 20 have received the same Mint grade and none have received the coveted grade of Gem Mint.
To this day I still marvel at Robby's 109 RBIs in 1962 with only 11 HRs. Quite a feat.
My top 5 favorite players in the go go era are in order Billy Pierce, Minnie Minoso, Nellie Fox, Floyd Robinson and Gary Peters. Robby was a line drive hitter who used the whole field.
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"Bullet" Bob Armstrong is thrilled with his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, announced on WWE.com, but by no means does he consider himself a retired wrestler. This past weekend, the 71-year-old grandfather worked four straight days.
And he's booked through June.
"I wrestle almost every weekend, sometimes through the week," Armstrong told SLAM! Wrestling. Those four days in four different cities took a toll. "That's pretty rough when you're 71."
Less rough will be the 300 miles or so he will drive ("I hate to fly, too many near-death experiences") at the end of the month to Atlanta for the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Phillips Arena on Saturday, April 1st. Atlanta, which was home to Georgia Championship Wrestling, is probably the city where Armstrong was the biggest star.
Armstrong had only recent found out about the honor.
"It was a real big surprise. It was something that I never thought would happen to me. I worked with Vince's dad quite a bit. I loved that man, he was a great guy," he said. "I was booking down south, and if I asked for Andre or one of their big stars, he'd always accommodate me, make it right for me, send them right over."
The trips north were rare and brief.
"I just went up and back, because we had TV in Miami, it was real strong up there. So I would go up there on occasion," he said. "I would go up there and defend the North American title against his top guys, Bruno [Sammartino], Killer Kowalski and the rest of those guys. Then I would always come back south. I did most of my work down south, around Atlanta."
As for Vincent K. McMahon, current WWE honcho, Armstrong is less sure. "I don't know if I've ever worked a match for him."
He is, however, positive that this will be his first in-person WrestleMania, despite the WWE stardom achieved by his son Brian -- BG James / "The Road Dogg" Jesse James, or the recently-rehired WWE referee Scott, who started back at the Hell in the Cell PPV.
It will be his four sons, all of whom still wrestle (or referee), who will be doing the inducting. "I'm certainly proud of that, nobody could have done it better," said the family patriarch.
"We've never really been apart. I've got three sons who live within 45 minutes of me, one within five minutes of me. Brad's the only one that stayed around the Atlanta area; he married a lady from HBO, and her headquarters are up there. But my other three sons are with me all the time," said Bob. "We're still together. We still wrestle tag team together, every one of them. God's been good to me."
Armstrong knows that he has been fortunate with his health, and credits the world-renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews with making it happen. "I've just been one of the lucky ones. Every time I've been hurt, Dr. Andrews is a personal friend of mine, he has put me back together, he and his surgeons, any time I thought I was finished, I went to them and they put screws, wires or clamps, and they just kept me going through the years." (Armstrong first met Dr. Andrews at the wrestling cards in Columbus, Ga.)
Wrestling keeps him in shape, and he is very conscious about his diet.
"The last two years, I've dropped about 20 pounds, because I think the older you get, you don't need that weight on your joints. So I can still move like I did when I was a younger fellow."
Naturally, retirement is a subject that comes up often.
"I think somebody up there likes me, and they'll let me know. When the injury becomes so bad that I can't recover from it, then I'll know then."
Or he'll end it with a nice round number, many years after the fireman from Marietta, Ga., got his break in wrestling.
"I've been wrestling for 49 [years]. I'm trying to reach October; October will be 50 years, and then I think I might call it quits then."


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A hiker, who fell 10 feet and snapped his ankle, used SPOT to alert a search and rescue team and lead them to his location. Timothy Nye, 60, had been hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for five weeks when the incident occurred. As Nye stepped to the edge of the trail, the ground beneath him gave away. After Nye recovered from his fall, he used SPOT to send for help and U.S. Navy helicopter arrived to lift Nye from the rough terrain.
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Agenda: January 17, 2013 for the Community Involvement PEG
Community Involvement Policy Expert Group
Meeting No. 8
Date: January 17, 2013
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue,Portland, Pettygrove Room
Meeting Goals
- Confirm CI PEG's work program going forward
- Review responses to the PEG's survey of community involvement in land use and development processes, discuss relationship to Comprehensive Plan goals and policies, and develop outline for summary memo.
- Finalize CI PEG approach to the public workshops
- Orient PEG members to the working draft of the Comprehensive Plan policy document
Welcome, Meeting Overview and Introductions (6:00 p.m. / 5 minutes)
Presenter: Deb Meihoff, facilitator
Updates and Announcements (6:05 p.m. / 10 minutes)
Presenters: Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) and Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) / PEG Co-leads
- Work and progress from the PIAC Comprehensive Plan Work Group from December and/or January meetings
- Review revised PEG work program for 2013
- CI-PEG outreach update (see also survey agenda item below)
Review and Discuss: PEG's Community Survey (6:15 p.m. / 45 minutes)
Presenters: Marty Stockton, BPS, Paul Leistner, ONI / PEG Co-leads and Greg Greenway
Description: Hear outcomes from the PEG's Community Survey - who participated and what they had to say about community participation in land use and development processes. PEG discussion about the responses, identification of any new topics for further PEG discussion this spring, and outline survey summary document that will be prepared by staff (with assistance from the PIAC work group) for public release at the February and March workshops.
Discussion: CI PEG Preparations for Public Workshops (7:00 p.m. / 15 minutes)
Presenter: Marty Stockton, BPS
Description: Discuss feedback mechanism for the Community Involvement station at the public workshops, including provocative question(s) and sign up for coffee with a PEG member. Develop production schedule for workshop PEG materials.
Overview: Working draft of Comprehensive Plan goals and policies (7:15 p.m. / 20 minutes)
Presenter: MartyStockton, BPS
Description: Orient PEG members to the working draft of the comprehensive plan goals and policies (expected to be published prior to the next PEG meeting), where to find Community Involvement-related information, role of PIAC work group and PEG in the review, and overall schedule for public feedback in 2013.
Public Comment (7:35 p.m. / 10 minutes)
Next Steps (7:45 p.m. / 5 minutes)
Presenter: Deb Meihoff, facilitator
- Topic(s) for next meeting
- PIAC - Comprehensive Plan Work Group
- Community Outreach
- PEG Co-leads
PEG Check-in (7:50 p.m. / 10 minutes)
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- Is the process working / what changes do we need to consider?
- Please complete evaluation form
For more information, please contact either Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-2041 or firstname.lastname@example.com; Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement at 503-823-5284 or email@example.com; or Deb Meihoff, Facilitator at 503-358-3404 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Empathy is putting ourselves in another's shoes, feeling some of what the other feels.
Empathy is the one important attribute that makes us truly human and is the basis of our morality: Do to others what you would have others done unto you.
Psychopaths and pathological narcissists, however, all lack empathy, and psychologists and criminologists say their numbers are increasing in American society….
…to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.
…to be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work.
…to be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night's sleep.
…to be silent when people pray to God for a new car.
…to control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive slower.
…to be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of flying.
…to keep from laughing when anxious parents say they're afraid to send their kids off to summer camp.
…to keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot weather.
…to control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being cold.
…to remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the dog.
…to be civil to people who complain about their jobs.
…to just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a year.
The only thing harder than being a Soldier…
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H/t gysgt1 and "thank you" for your service to our country!
In June 2012, the Pentagon said the suicide rate among U.S. active-duty military personnel now eclipses the number of troops dying in battle. Suicides have increased even as the United States military has withdrawn from Iraq and stepped up efforts to provide mental health, drug and alcohol, and financial counseling services. There had been 154 suicides, a rate of nearly one each day and an 18% increase over the 130 active-duty military suicides for the same period in 2011. If that trend continues, the suicide rate for 2012 is expected to be the highest since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago.
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The Secretary, who is appointed by the Governor, serves as the Department's chief executive officer. The Corrections Services Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary and Chief of Operations all report directly to the Secretary.
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Probation and Parole
Under the direction of the Deputy Secretary, the Division of Probation and Parole functions as a community services division and is comprised of twenty district offices located throughout the state and a Headquarters office in Baton Rouge. Probation and Parole Officers are POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) certified who supervise adult offenders who are released to the community on probation, parole, diminution of sentence, home incarceration, medical furlough, or supervised released. Officers also supervise offenders who relocate to Louisiana from other states. Officers ensure offenders abide by the conditions of supervision, identify problems and solutions, make appropriate referrals, provide general counseling, and perform arrests as needed to protect public safety. Officers perform their duties by visiting offenders primarily in their homes, at work, other places in the community, and in the office. The Division is actively involved in the Department's efforts to reduce recidivism through a variety of programs such as administrative sanctions and Day Reporting Centers.
Officers in the Division also provide investigative services to decision makers in the criminal justice system, including Judges, the Pardon Board and Committee on Parole, and the Governor's office. They also oversee the collection of victim restitution, supervision fees, and a variety of criminal justice fees.
Prison Enterprises
Prison Enterprises operates a diversified group of industry and agriculture operations located at nine different correctional facilities throughout Louisiana. These operations provide work opportunities to approximately 1000 – 1200 offenders in over 30 different industry and agriculture programs.
Today, there are approximately 18,500 offenders incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The mission of Prison Enterprises is to lower the costs of incarceration by providing productive job opportunities to offenders that instill occupational and skills training, while producing quality products and services for sale to state and local governments, non-profit organizations, political subdivisions and others. Operation of Prison Enterprises' programs serves to further the Department of Corrections Reentry Initiative by enabling offenders to increase the potential for successful rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole
Act 714 of the 2012 Legislative Session, which became effective August 1, 2012, merged the duties, functions, and powers of the Board of Pardons with that of the Board of Parole, creating a Committee on Parole. Act 714 also expanded the membership of the Board of Pardons from five members to seven, with the additional 2 members serving at-large only on the Committee on Parole and who do not serve as a member of the Board of Pardons.
All members of the Board are appointed by the Governor and are subject to confirmation by the Louisiana Senate. There are five members of the Board of Pardons. The Committee on Parole, a committee within the Board of Pardons, is composed of the five members of the Board of Pardons, and two at-large members appointed by the Governor. The at-large members serve only as members of the Committee on Parole and do not serve as members of the Board of Pardons.
In addition to the appointed members, there is an ex-officio member of the Board. The warden, or in his absence the deputy warden, of the correctional facility in which the offender is incarcerated serves as the ex-officio member. The ex-officio member is not a voting member nor is he counted for the purposes of the members necessary to take Board action.
The Board considers applications for pardon, sentence commutations, and restoration of rights and privileges of citizenship. All of the Board's recommendations for clemency are forwarded to the Governor for final action. There is no time limit within which the Governor must take action on any recommendation for favorable consideration by the Board of Pardons.
The Committee on Parole is the sole authority for granting parole in Louisiana. The Committee on Parole grants or denies parole to eligible offenders and sets supervision conditions for offenders not only released by action of the Committee but also those released by diminution of sentence. The Committee also holds hearings for offenders facing revocation for violating the conditions of their supervision.


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Emotions and feelings have a great deal to do with reality. People live and die based on emotions. Countries are toppled by what feelings they can invoke in another nation's populace and in their own people. When confidence is high inside a nation's borders there is a surge of productivity and benefits to the economy and to social welfare. The same goes for when there are good feelings and emotions inside the workplace. People's lifespans increase based on their emotions and feelings, their healing process in the hospital shortens if they are feeling good and have positive energy. Emotions and feelings most certainly affect reality. If atheists seek to foster change in the religious community, then caring about their emotions would have an effect on their progress.Scientific scrutiny has upheld that belief does guide human interaction and assumption oils the machine of social welfare and government. Research into authority figures (i.e. police officers, medical personnel, higher ranking soldiers) has shown the effectiveness of their presence simply because people feel a boost to confidence and a belief in the abilities of that figure. Erwin Goffman did a great deal of research about social cues and interactions whereby belief in various symbols affected the interaction of two people. Symbolism in society is another field that discusses how belief in various cues and objects affects people. Institutions have the faith of people such as the Supreme Court. Once judgment is based down from the Supreme Court, the majority of people accept that judgment. They may not like the judgment, but they accept the judgment.
Also, stating that my points do not hold up to scrutiny and then contending that blind faith lead to economic collapse seems a poor choice. Economy did fail through bad faith, but at the same time was created by faith and belief. Credit and currency are two prime examples of this belief. Faith has been betrayed in the recent economic collapse, leading to a great many reforms and restructures in an attempt to restore faith and confidence in the system. Economics affects all aspects of society.
As for the discussion on helpful and truth, we can end that discussion then I suppose. In my opinion a useful and helpful tool does not lose value because the item does not work as people imagined.
Having faith in something and logically concluding what something is are polar opposites
It's a simple matter that requires a simple answer.
this whole debate is because it was proposed that faith and reason are the same, and that faith is equally as important. I don't see how something like that can be rationalized by "Well, if ya look at history, something something bad apples".
Okay, this needs to be said, because people tiptoe around this line too much. Sometimes, there is a superior answer.
Goedel's First Incompleteness Theorem states that there are true statements that cannot be proven. What do we call it when we believe there is truth without the ability to prove it? And yet, Reason still holds firm.
I can't prove anything other than I'm thinking right now at this minute. I can't even prove that my life existed before this very minute, and that everything that I think I remember actually happened. I take it on faith that my memories are real, that the things that I see and hear aren't illusion, and that I actually exist in this fleshy shell that I perceive. It is a matter of faith that the world as I perceive it is real.
It's not really, though. The world behaves predictably. It conforms, more or less, with what we think we know about it. We can't prove that it's real, exactly, but we can test our assumptions about it.
As do the majority of my dreams. Predictability, conformation to expectation, and any other metric by which you can measure the world can all easily be an illusion. It doesn't require a conspiracy, or outside system to contain it either. The system of illusion can be the very mind itself - dreams, insanity, and misconceptions generally cannot be seen by the subject under their influence. It's why it's so hard to get schizophrenics or bipolar patients to take their meds - from their vantage, they're not sick. Instead, crazy people are trying to force them to take something to force a change in their very thoughts and personalities. It's no wonder they resist. The point is, you cannot know whether the world that you perceive is real.
It's also a matter of faith that when I go to sleep, that I'll eventually wake up; I have no proof that I will, but I believe that I won't die when I drift off to sleep.
It's not really, though. The world behaves predictably. It conforms, more or less, with what we think we know about it. We can't prove that it's real, exactly, but we can test our assumptions about it. Of course we might be living in the Matrix, or in Plato's cave, but I think old Occam can help us here. Which requires fewer assumptions: That the world as we see it is real, or that it's an elaborate illusion set up by someone else in order to trick us?The bottom line, though, is still that even if you can't prove that everything around you is real, you have reasons to believe it. Those reasons aren't perfect, but they're still far better than the basis on which we're asked to accept religious faith. You can't arrive at religious faith - not a specific faith - without being told or having read about it. You can't test whether the claims are true or not, because if your test fails, then it's simply that god moves in mysterious ways, or your faith is being tested. It's not supported by anything but it's own self-contradictory texts and traditions, and a lot of excuses for these.
"Occam's Razor... The simplest answer. Tell a 5-year-old about Evolution and all the minute details about it... Then tell him 'God did it', and see which one he grasps better. Occam hasn't got shit on philosophy and faith.
This is not the same as religious faith, which is simply an inordinate trust in authority.
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New laws passed last month mean that using a mobile phone while behind the wheel of a car could get you a fine of £200, six penalty points and a possible loss of licence.
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If any Hollywood survivor has some stories to tell, it's Carrie Fisher.
Debbie Reynolds' daughter – best known to a generation of lusty, nerdy "Star Wars" fans as Princess Leia, or the chick in the metal bikini – is in a mood to dish, and fortunately for Orange County she has chosen our fair corner of the Republic as the place to start. Her new comedy show/Q&A session/confessional opened Thursday at the Brea Improv. It's called "Any Questions?"
Yes, there was world-class dish. And adulation. And public semi-nudity. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Fisher has tried this kind of thing before. Her one-woman autobiographical play, "Wishful Drinking," premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in 2006, and she remounted it in various places to considerable success over the next few years.
But "Any Questions?" is a new kind of beast – a form of unscripted theater that Fisher admits is in embryonic form. It was videotaped on Thursday, presumably for future honing.
The evening's structure is simple. With her dog Gary as her only prop, Fisher sits on a love seat, pops a soda, puffs on an e-cigarette, and randomly answers questions provided on small cards by the audience (they're waiting at your table and your waiter picks them up when they're filled out).
Fisher flips through the queries, reads the chosen ones aloud, then she's off and running.
Fortunately, unlike so many actors I've met, Fisher can be acerbic, cutting, insightful and often brilliant without benefit of a script. Her fine brain seems unaffected by her life's many travails, including drug dependency and electro-shock therapy. The sparkle-drenched 56-year-old sage is Hollywood's Mark Twain.
Fisher began Thursday's show with an off-the-cuff riff on the dangers of pills that increase male sexual performance. Then she segued into another sex-tinged topic, her decision not to get breast reduction surgery. Talk show host Craig Ferguson influenced her, Fisher confessed. "He said every time a woman gets a breast reduction an angel loses its wings."
Fisher wasn't afraid to milk laughs out of ostensibly humor-free subjects, such as the death of a house guest one night – beside Fisher in her bed.
And she's happy to laugh at herself and others.
One of several clips shown on a large screen above Fisher's head was a seldom-seen 1978 relic, "The Star Wars Holiday Special," that focused on the home life of Chewbacca and featured Fisher and the film franchise's other stars. They all looked as if they'd rather be getting root canals than participating in such a gargantuan marketing disaster. Fisher claims that "Star Wars" director George Lucas tried to track down and destroy all copies of the ill-considered project (it wasn't directed by him), but she proudly owns a videotape. "It's what they use now instead of water boarding," she said.
Questions from the audience pushed all sorts of boundaries – queries about excrement, Fisher's experiences with midgets, her first sexual encounters, her romantic relationships with gay men. "I got my first three kisses from gay men, so I think it was in the cards for me," she told the audience.
She talked frankly about her mental illness, her drug and alcohol issues, her eventful and often disastrous love life, fractious times with her mother and dad.
Princess Leia's infamous metal bikini was discussed in detail. It actually was made out of metal, she told the crowd. As a result, it did not hug her body as closely as fabric would. During a torture scene, an actor sitting above the reclining actress "could see all the way down to Florida."
While Fisher was candid about her own life, she was circumspect when talking about others. She confessed to not liking her mother very much for about 10 years, but said that unpleasant period was typical and perhaps even necessary for daughters. Fisher was surprisingly gentle on her father, Eddie Fisher, though late in the evening she fired off a zinger or two about his notorious womanizing. Harrison Ford got off easily, too, though she took a potshot about her "Star Wars" co-star's acting abilities.
"Any Questions?" is deliberately free-form and free-wheeling, so naturally it had dead spots on Friday. But it's fascinating to watch Fisher feel her way to something more substantial.
Sometimes literally. She persuaded not one but two young men to come onstage and take their shirts off (one of them re-enacted a scene from the 1991 film "Soapdish" with her). The moments, which included some playful fondling and double entendres, were deliberately awkward for the men.
The sex play was undoubtedly a bit much for some. But for others it made perfect sense. Fisher is finally getting back at the nerds for those decades of leering at helpless Leia in her metal bikini. It's payback time – and the princess is now in complete control.
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China for the first time placed restrictions on instant-messaging services—an increasingly popular platform in the country for discussion and debate.
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As lawn bowls membership numbers steadily decrease across the state, the club at Lennox Head on the state's north coast is one of the latest fighting to stay alive. So the question remains, what is the future for regional New South Wales bowling clubs?
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Mona Arandale has been a member at Lennox Head Bowling Club for more than 40 years.
The 94-year-old lives across the road from the now empty unused green, which she frequented regularly up until last year.
The club closed in November after its owners, Ramsgate RSL, undertook a review of its operations.
As with many regional towns, the Lennox Head bowling club served as more than just a lawn bowls green.
For many years, community members like Mona put in countless hours of volunteer work to keep the club going.
"Everybody has their meetings there and lunches and birthday parties, school children's concerts and everything, we had all that at the bowling club and the people are just realising they haven't got it," she says.
The club is calling for community support to raise $184,000.
Its steering community chair, Pip Carter says most of that is needed to maintain liquor and poker machine licenses.
"We're going to send letters out soon to see if people will commit some pledges, it might be $100, $250, $500, $1000 amounts, we're just going to test the waters there, we're going to see some of the larger organisations, meet those people and see if they can assist us, plus a lot of events," he says.
It's also considering ways to get different parts of the community involved.
"If we were to remain as a bowling club, it won't financially survive," Mr Carter says.
"You'll have maybe boule, rugby league, rugby union, we hope, the surf lifesaving club, may even have a gym, more entertainment, weddings. We want to have all groups here."
The region may be home to one of the state's biggest bowling clubs, located at Tweed Heads, but other smaller clubs in the area have also struggled to survive in recent times.
Financial burdens caused the Murwillumbah Bowls Club to close recently after 91 years, while the Bangalow community were able to rally together to raise funds to keep their beloved bowlo from suffering a similar fate.
Further down the coast in the city of Port Macquarie, its club has the most bowling members across the state.
With more than 350 registered bowlers and 10,000 social members, Port Macquarie City Bowls Club president Paul Brady says a combination of the town's large retiring population and a strong umbrella organisation overseeing the financial side of the club, is key to their success.
But even Port Macquarie City - and almost every NSW bowls club - suffered from dwindling membership numbers last financial year.
So how do clubs attract more people to the young man's game, dominated by a lot of older people?
And how do clubs survive financially into the future?
It's a $6million question, says Bowls NSW chief executive officer Greg Helm.
"I guess finding new ways to reinvigorate a club, it's the key to the future of the sport.
"The most successful clubs are looking at ways to diversify, getting families to go up and get involved in all different aspects, not just on the green but also social aspects as well."
Mr Helm hopes the community at Lennox Head helps revive the bowling club.
"They've got a great community asset there that no one wants to lose, but in order not to lose it, they need to get behind the club and get involved."


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Federal Offices in DC Close as Major Snowstorm Heads East
(WASHINGTON) -- Federal offices in Washington, D.C. will be closed on Wednesday as the nation's capital prepares to be hit by what could be the biggest snowstorm there in three years.
In a statement Wednesday, the Office of Personnel and Management said "non-emergency employees will be granted excused absence for the number of hours they were scheduled to work."
The storm is expected to bring 6 to 10 inches of snow inside the Beltway, up to 14 inches in the western suburbs, 10 to 18 inches in western Virginia, and up to 6 inches in the eastern suburbs. The heaviest snowfall will be on Wednesday and it is forecast to end by night time.
Elsewhere, 3 to 6 inches of the white stuff is expected in Philadelphia, with rain mixing in from time to time. New York City is forecast to get the same amount of snow, with more than 6 inches possible for eastern Long Island and just north of the city. Snowfall in both cities will end on Thursday, as the storm moves on to Boston and New England.
Already, the system has wrecked havoc on the Midwest, dropping 8 to 12 inches of snow from Minneapolis to Chicago, crippling transportation.
As of Wednesday morning, over 1,600 flights have been canceled, according to FlightAware.com. The Washington, D.C., area has the most cancellations, followed by Baltimore, Chicago and Atlanta.
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