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NHL Preseason Game Night: 9/23/10 Lightning at Oilers
Yeah, we at BoltProspects always liked Magnus Paajarvi in his draft year.
Dan Ellis allowed 5 goals on 21 shots for the loss. Ugly stat line.
First Period
TB 4:33, Jones 1 (Purcell, Persson)
EDM 15:09, Paajarvi 1 (Belle, Plante)
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Not an entirely surprising outcome, I suppose, considering Edmonton had most of its regular skaters going against the Lightning's lower liners, AHLers, and prospects. The only thing really concerning is to allow 5 goals on 21 shots in that scenario. Still, I wouldn't read much into tonight unless they get blown out in Calgary against the Fighting Feasters on Saturday with most of the regulars in.
Carter Ashton had 1 goal and was +1 with 1 shot and a slashing minor in 13:26. I'm of the opinion it would behoove the Lightning to, at the very least, use the 9 game tryout on Ashton. If he can stick on the team and develop over the course of the year, he could give the Lightning a lot of roster flexibility in February.
Brett Connolly was even with 1 shot in 12:13. I think he'll get a contract and then be ushered away to Prince George fairly soon.
Radko Gudas was even with 1 shot in 13:51. I doubt he makes it past the first round of cuts. He needs to get stronger and he needs some seasoning in Norfolk.
Johan Harju was -1 with 1 shot in 13:20. He got more ice time than the 9:30 Linus Omark got for the Oilers. I expect him to be on the bubble another week.
Blair Jones was -1 in 12:53. He could not duplicate what he did against the Hawks, which is the story of Blair's pro career. Probably on the bubble another week.
Vladimir Mihalik was -1 with 1 shot and a hooking minor in 16:43. He might survive the first round of cuts, but I doubt he survives the second.
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Dana Tyrell was even with 2 shots in 14:02. He'll stay on the bubble another week, I think.
Michael Vernace was -1 with 1 shot in 22:02. He got a ton of ice time given Boucher's familiarity with him, but he was awful, by all accounts.
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It's as if she's come up with a technical reason to force you to keep quiet. It's the same old, atheists believe in nothing and so should remain quiet, canard.
Providing as you say, you aren't insulting theists for their belief she doesn't have a valid position. In order for your partnership to be equal she must allow you to be free to discuss your beliefs as well as hers. You married each other so there must have been mutual respect in the first place. She has to understand that by trying to dictate what you can and can't say she is showing a lack of trust and disrespect of you. I'm sure you want to work this out peacefully, but what she is asking is unfair. It seems like barring some kind of understanding, you will either have to agree to her terms to keep the peace or refuse and have this as an open source of contention.
Maybe there is some way to turn it around on her; how would she feel if she was unable to discuss something she doesn't believe.
This seems like an impossible contradiction to win. By the Mormon faith, it is based on a set of principles (for lack of a better word) that they believe and by nature what they don't believe in. By her argument if your sons asked if she believes in polygamy would she not set the record straight that 'mainstream' Mormons don't believe in that?
By the very virtue that you are an Atheist and your wife is Mormon, you are opposed to each other's beliefs. This doesn't mean opposed to each other, just in this area. There is nothing wrong with stating what you or she believes, the reasons for it and it can be done in a respectful manner. Out of curiosity, have you asked her why you should suppress your beliefs and what Atheism is and she should not? That would lead to a lot of contention in this casa! In our home religion is a dinner time discussion (when it comes up of course) with our girls. Luckily my husband and I are both Atheists, however, we arrived to the same conclusion via very different paths. So when our girls ask we open it to a family discussion. Do you think your wife would be open to a round table discussion with you and your sons? Perhaps taking turns with beliefs and disbeliefs? This may help your sons also see that you can be adamently opposed to another persons beliefs, while still respecting and loving the person holding the beliefs.
they are your kids to and you can tell them what you like!
I would explain to her that an Atheist is most commonly define by not 'what"' they believe, but by what they 'don't'. You have to beliefs! and explaining that to you child in an age appropriate and respective manner should be acceptable.
Just keep saying that if it comes up, stick to that point and eventually she will see it as your truth.
Hi Kevin. After reading this entire thread and some other discussions in this group, I think I may have a few potential solutions for you! All it takes is a little critical thought mixed with creativity :-) Feel free to cross out what you don't like and use what is useful:
I believe that God is an imaginary friend.
I believe the Bible is just like your other storybooks.
I believe God is a character/hero in a storybook called the Bible.
I believe Jesus is like a superhero in a comic book.
You know how you like (insert favorite TV show/film/etc. character here), well that's how much some people like God/Jesus/religion, etc.
Your mom believes that God created humans and I believe that humans created (the concept of) God.
I believe humans created religion/Christianity/Mormonism/etc.
I believe that Once Upon A Time, a very real human person created a really cool/fascinating story and they called it a religion/bible.
I believe there were many different human authors of the Bible.
I believe the Bible was only written by humans. I believe the Bible was only inspired by the imagination of real humans.
I believe the Bible is a creative fantasy.
I believe in the research I've done. My research tells me that...
I believe in using the scientific method to determine what I believe.
When somebody tells me something, I look for proof to see if it is real.
I believe that early humans didn't understand the world around them. They didn't have science like we do to explain things. We know that the sun is a (giant ball of fire/nuclear reactor) but ancient people thought the sun was a god because they didn't understand it. They couldn't see germs because they didn't have microscopes so they didn't know why people got sick. So I believe that they made up gods to explain it.
I believe that it's good to ask questions.
Another line of logic: Do you remember what you had for supper last night? Do you remember what you had for supper last year? (Keep going until you get a "no") Well, historians have said that the story of Jesus was written many years after he died. It must have been really hard for the writers to remember what Jesus had to eat at his supper. I believe that we can't trust these stories as absolute fact because maybe they didn't remember everything right.
Hope this helps!!
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of American society is the existence of a dietary villain or two at any given time. These villains change after a month or a year, but as things stand now, refined sugar is one of the new bad guys in town. Should you be eating preserves or jam at all? What about corn syrup or HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) as a sweetener? Why not switch to preserves sweetened only with concentrated fruit juice?
It's already been noted that sugar is an important component of many preserves. Most healthy people can consume refined sugars (or any other type) within reason. Some jam manufacturers use corn syrup, or HFCS in their products; the chief virtue of the two seems to be that they are less expensive than sugar. In addition, there is some evidence linking consumption of HFCS to increased caloric consumption and weight gain, although much of that evidence has been derived from soft drink consumption. Of more importance for the scope of this article is the fact that the use of corn syrup, particularly HFCS, leads to a syrupy sweetness and sticky texture in a jam or preserve. Using either or both will allow a manufacturer to produce a jam or preserve at less cost, and therefore one that can be sold at a lower price. However, the jam/preserve thus produced will almost certainly be excessively sweet and of lesser quality. Fortunately, most of these preserves are of the grocery store variety and can easily be avoided.
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Allyn Johnston of Mountain Fruit Company answers this question perfectly and succinctly by asking, "What are you buying?" Much of the fruit juice concentrate used to sweeten products is from pears or grapes. Both are chosen for several factors, especially their cost; they're relatively inexpensive. They need to be, because concentrated juice isn't as sweet as sugar, so you'll need plenty of it to sweeten your fruit spread. The question should come down to how much fruit is in your jam or preserve versus how much sweetening it contains. In a jam or preserve sweetened with fruit juice concentrate or fruit syrup, you won't have refined sugar, but you'll have plenty of other sugar, albeit of a different type. Again, what are you buying? If you're going to buy strawberry jam or preserves, don't you want to be paying for a product that's mostly fresh strawberries, not white grape juice concentrate or pear juice concentrate? Hopefully, you also want a product that tastes like strawberries. Fruit spreads sweetened with grape juice or pear juice concentrate often have their strawberry taste overwhelmed, or at least greatly subdued, by these concentrates.
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Sauce, Affordable Italian Comfort Food on the Lower East Side
Sauce is the sort of eclectic, neighborhood-centric restaurant that I hope we always have on Lower East Side. While it is obviously a for-profit business, I appreciate that owner and Chef Frank Prisinzano seeks to meet community needs rather than simply cashing in on the latest fad. When he opened Frank back in 1998, he was addressing what he saw as a gap in affordable dining. His pizzeria Lil' Frankie's anticipated the Neapolitan pizza craze by several years when it opened in 2002, but perhaps more importantly, Prisinzano also opened East Village Radio in the same space to promote local and music and culture.
Sauce is described as a nose-to-tail red sauce trattoria, which I think is pretty apt. Prisinzano wanted a source of sustainable, responsibly-raised meats for his restaurants and paid the concept more than mere lip service. Rather than simply buying the most popular cuts from a butcher, he takes in whole animals and uses every part.
As a consequence, the menu is heavily geared towards carnivorous eating and very much encourages communal dining. This is not to say that vegetarians and small parties won't find comfort and joy here. But the food, atmosphere, and indeed ethos behind the restaurant are evocative of Sunday dinner in an Italian-American household. Indeed, many of the recipes where handed down from Prisinzano family.
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Tender pillows of ear-sized housemade cencione ($10.95) come doused in vibrant, sweet-tart tomato sauce. Adding grass-fed meatballs ($5) adds a heartiness to the dish, and makes it even more evocative of a Sunday dinner on Mott Street circa 1953.
The Plank—soft polenta on wood with grass-fed bolognese—is designed to serve two for a price of $9.95 per person. A foundation of creamy polenta is covered with bolognese, parmesan cheese, and a lashings of olive oil.
Another classic in the Italian-American canon is offered using either chicken ($16.95) or pork ($18.95). The parm is served alongside thick ropes of spaghetti with a passato tomato sauce spiked with garlic and basil.
There are desserts at Sauce, such as tiramisu, gelato, seasonal tortes, and the like, but I have never successfully saved room for them. The portions for for the savory dishes are large enough to satisfy.
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"Iterative reconstruction methods in X-ray CT", Handbook of X-ray Imaging: Physics and Technology: CRC Press, pp. 693-712, 2018.
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"A 4D CT reconstruction algorithm for fast liquid flow imaging", Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Helsinki, 2015.
"Accurate reconstruction of porous samples in CT", International Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (ICT), 2014.
"Compensation of affine deformations in fan and cone beam projections", Micro-CT User Meeting, pp. 187-189, 2014. Download abstract (285.55 KB)
"An iterative prior knowledge based reconstruction algorithm for increased temporal/spatial resolution in the CT imaging of fluid flow through solid matter", Interpore 2015, 2015.
"A local enhancement based tomographic reconstruction technique for radiation exposure reduction in cerebral perfusion computed tomography", European Congress of Radiology 2014 (ECR 2014), 2014.
"Region-Based SIRT algorithm for the reconstrcution of phase bins in dynamic micro-CT", Bruker Micro-CT User Meeting, 2013.
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"An Algebraic Reconstruction Technique for the Study of Local Structural Changes during CT", 1st International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures (ICTMS), pp. 137-141, 2013.
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"4D-CT reconstruction with unified spatial-temporal patch-based regularization", Inverse Problems and Imaging, vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 447-467, 2015.
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Populism, politics, and the power of Sarah Palin.
Sam Tanenhaus//New Yorker//December 7, 2009
The last time a political memoir aroused as much interest as Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Life" (Harper; $28.99) was probably in 1995, when Colin Powell's autobiography, "My American Journey," came out. Like Palin's bus tour through two dozen states (from Pennsylvania to New Mexico), Powell's twenty-three-city campaign began amid speculation, teasingly encouraged by Powell himself, that it might be a reconnaissance mission for a Presidential run, though of a more Olympian sort. "His book tour has the air of a political campaign," the Times reported. "Not the flesh-pressing campaign of a hungry primary candidate, but rather the roped-off, walkie-talkie-directed campaign of a sitting President."
Trailed by a security detail, Powell gave a cursory news conference at each stop, fending off the more penetrating questions and aiming barbs at the crowded field of Republican hopefuls—who included Bob Dole, Phil Gramm, Lamar Alexander, and Pete Wilson. Not one fired back. "He's probably the most popular person in America right now," one of Gramm's advisers explained. "Everybody admires him." When, at last, Powell declared that he would not seek the nomination, many were relieved (including Powell's wife, Alma, who had feared an assassination attempt).
Powell's stately procession appears, in retrospect, to have been the last gasp of a bygone politics. He was perhaps the one remaining figure in American politics who could plausibly present himself as a hero in the classic sense—honored not only for his military record but also for his aura of remoteness. Yet the media looked very different then, too. In 1995, cable news remained the bland civic pasture of CNN and C-SPAN; Fox News and MSNBC were not founded until the following year. Rush Limbaugh was a bumptious presence—an honorary member of the Republican caucus that he had helped exhort to victory in the 1994 elections. But other noisemakers had yet to catch up. Bill O'Reilly was between jobs, having left the tabloid-gossip program "Inside Edition." Lou Dobbs was still a business specialist, and not the ringmaster of anti-immigration furor and the "birther" controversy. And no one had ever viewed a YouTube clip.
The worlds of media and politics have been steadily merging, and today they seem all but interchangeable. When Anita Dunn, until recently the White House communications director, labelled Fox News "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,'' she got the power dynamic backward. As the Republican Party, leaderless and rudderless, struggles to build a new identity based on more than lockstep obstructionism, people like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have claimed the role of ideological enforcers, turning up the heat on some suspected moderates, such as Governor Charlie Crist, of Florida, and extracting pledges from others.
Internal convulsion is an essential rite of the modern Republican Party, dating back to 1964, when grassroots activists, rallying behind the Presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, routed the Party's East Coast leadership and realigned the Party along the Sun Belt axis. It happened again in 1976, when Ronald Reagan battled the incumbent Gerald Ford all the way to the National Convention; and in 1992, when Pat Buchanan harried George H. W. Bush during the primaries and then, in a televised address at the Convention, in Houston, thundered, "There is a religious war going on in this country."
A similar revolt is under way today, though as yet no insurgent tribune has emerged—except, possibly, Sarah Palin. Polls taken last November showed that she had alienated centrists, and a majority of people still eye her with mistrust. But this is beside the point. Populists, from William Jennings Bryan and Huey Long through Joseph McCarthy and George Wallace, have always been divisive and polarizing. Their job is not to win national elections but to carry the torch and inspire the faithful, and this Palin seems poised to do. That she is the first woman to generate populist fervor on such a scale enhances her appeal—and makes her, potentially, a figure of historic consequence.
Palin has yet to declare her intentions, or even to say whether she envisions a future in elective politics. But this, too, only heightens the drama, as she flexes her iron grip on the daily news cycle, down to its hourly epicycles. (At one point, four stories about her appeared simultaneously on Politico, the insiders' daybook of Beltway chatter.) Palin's national career, which began in August, 2008, with her surprise selection as John McCain's running mate, has a permanent air of improvisation and experiment—for instance, the notorious "death panel" comment that threw the entire health-care debate into turmoil last summer, after she posted it online. (Her Facebook fan page now claims a million-plus "supporters.")
She has plunged with equal fervor into tabloid-ready conflict, trading insults with David Letterman and feuding with Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, who was preparing himself for a nude spread in Playgirl just as Palin was about to begin her book tour. Even before the book was published, its score-settling account of the disastrous 2008 campaign had elicited ferocious rebuttals from, among others, McCain's top strategist, Steve Schmidt, whom Palin accuses of having "put into motion a plan to destroy my reputation." (He replied that her account is "all fiction.")
An ordinary politician would be reeling. But Palin understands more than anyone how interpenetrated the realms of politics and media have become. Her operating principle seems to be an observation made by Richard Hofstadter in 1954 that "the growth of the mass media of communication and their use in politics have brought politics closer to the people than ever before and have made politics a form of entertainment."
The message has not been lost on Palin's principal Republican rivals, the three other private citizens being mentioned as serious prospects for 2012: Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney. Gingrich—the Republican Party's putative sage, who in August offered advice to Palin (first, write a book; second, get a regular TV gig)—is now in the midst of his own tour, in support of his book "To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom," co-written with the military historian William R. Forstchen. (Sample lines: "One hell of a cause I belong to, he thought. Damn, why does it always seem to rain on armies in retreat?")
As of late November, it was marooned at the bottom of the Times' extended best-seller list. Huckabee already has his own Fox talk show and a new book, "A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the Holiday Spirit." ("Joseph was Mary's boyfriend. There was nothing unusual about a teen-ager having a boyfriend, but Mary also had a secret: She had a baby inside her, and she wouldn't be able to hide it much longer.") By normal—that is, non-Palin—standards, it has sold extremely well, thanks both to the author's own book tour and to his Web site. Only Romney lags behind. His book, "No Apology," won't be out until March, though the stops on his tour were announced last week by his publisher.
All three are crowded near Palin in recent polls, but none have anything like Palin's star wattage. It is the one point on which admirers and detractors can agree. From the left: "Palin is a bona fide celebrity," note the editors of "Going Rouge," a new anthology of anti-Palin prose, most of it published during the campaign but repackaged to capitalize on the release of Palin's own book. "She transcends politics." From the right: "On the campaign trail she discovered a power greater than public office: the power of celebrity," writes Matthew Continetti, an editor at The Weekly Standard and the author of "The Persecution of Sarah Palin," a book that combines besotted advocacy with an assault on the liberal media that "tried to bring down a rising star."
"Greater than public office": this phrase distills an emerging doctrine on the right, as its long-standing distrust of federal bureaucrats and costly programs careers off into full-scale repudiation of governance itself. On this matter, too, Palin has outdone the field, with her surprise announcement, over the Fourth of July weekend, that she was quitting her job as governor of Alaska in order to pursue "positive change outside government."
Some assumed that she had wilted under the mounting pressure of legal fees, the result of a barrage of ethics complaints, many of them filed by adversaries with long-simmering grievances. Others suspected that she was bored: after nine weeks of national electioneering—of TV cameras and photo shoots, of adoring crowds numbering in the tens of thousands—Juneau, Alaska, seemed a comedown, with its tiny government (forty members in the House of Representatives, twenty in the Senate), which convenes only ninety days a year. In her memoir, Palin adds another factor: noxious heckling from left-wing bloggers intent on proving that she is not the birth mother of her infant, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome. One way or another, it was all too much, and her only good option was to resign. "I knew we had just done the right thing for Alaska," she writes, in the first person plural that she favors when discussing her "team." "We were now going to get to fight for what is right for our state and our country."
The fascination with Palin owes something to the way that her cultish aura mirrors, or refracts, the aura that surrounds Barack Obama, the other political figure who comfortably inhabits the nexus of politics and celebrity. It has become fashionable to ridicule Palin as a tabloid creature, but it was not so long ago that Obama was being depicted as the chum of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Even now, the nimbus of celebrity clings to him, often with deflationary effect—for instance, during his recent visit to China, when at times he seemed less the leader of a major diplomatic mission than an attractive student ambassador, genially exporting good will and posing for photographs. When CNN intercut its evening coverage of Obama's trip with Palin's first bookstore appearance, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the two mise en scènes seemed eerily equivalent.
For the moment, Obama and Palin divide the electorate, and are bound by a strange symmetry: born in the nineteen-sixties, the only candidates from outside the Lower 48 ever to grace national tickets, and the beneficiaries of powerful social movements that they were too young to have participated in (civil rights in Obama's case, women's liberation in Palin's). Just as Obama, with his "post-racial" affect and his Ivy League pedigree, made an older African-American political figure like Jesse Jackson seem the relic of a vanished era, so Palin—with her lustrous mane and form-fitting skirts, her coddling of her infant son in the full glare of TV cameras—presented a new model of the spontaneous woman politician, free of the over managed self-discipline that constrains Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
What Palin doesn't have is a serious program. Her book offers only the conservative dogmas of the moment—the sins of big government, the glories of the free market, the greatness of America. This isn't altogether surprising. Obama—himself no stranger to the political uses of the book tour—was also accused of being stronger on rhetoric than on policy detail, not least by Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Almost a year into his Presidency, we now see his intentions more clearly. He means to usher in the third phase of liberal reform that began with the New Deal and continued with the New Frontier–Great Society initiatives. But these ambitions were given shape by the conditions he inherited upon taking office, and could be glimpsed only tenuously from his apprenticeship as a state legislator and then a U.S. senator.
Palin's career—a total of some seventeen years in Alaska politics—offers few definitive clues, either, though the record looks better than some may suppose. In "Sarah from Alaska" (PublicAffairs; $26.95), Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, who covered Palin's Vice-Presidential campaign for CBS and Fox News, respectively, give a balanced and well-reported, if not especially searching, account of Palin's career. They praise her for building bipartisan coalitions and for being a genuine ethics reformer at a time when the state was being mismanaged by an entrenched club of men, many of them Republicans, including the longtime U.S. senator Ted Stevens.
Appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a regulatory agency, she reported the infractions of Randy Ruedrich*, a colleague on the commission who was also the chairman of the state Republican Party, when she discovered that he was "conducting political business from his state computer and leaking confidential information to a company he had been tasked to regulate." Palin's crusading played well with the Alaska press, and, as governor, she appointed seven reporters to her administration. Beyond this, the record is blurred. The natural-gas pipeline that she claimed as her signal accomplishment is "still theoretical," Conroy and Walshe report, and "figures to be either her crowning achievement or her most embarrassing failure." But there is no denying her popularity in the summer of 2008, when her eighty-per-cent approval ratings made her a tempting choice during John McCain's search for a running mate.
Her rise was helped along, naturally, by opportunism and persistent self-aggrandizement—familiar traits, but in Palin's case magnified, or melodramatized, to an unusual degree. Whenever "Going Rogue," which Palin wrote with the help of the Christian journalist Lynn Vincent, leaves the subject of family joys ("Every child is created special, with awesome purpose and amazing potential"), the beauties of the Alaska landscape ("Autumn in Alaska shimmers in white and gold"), or the utility of prayer ("As the months went on, Todd's prayer was answered by an offer for a permanent position with BP") and turns to politics, it becomes a narrative of almost continual embattlement.
It's the outsider against the insiders, the innocent circled by wolves, whether in the Alaska Republican Party, in the "professional political caste" that stifled and, finally, betrayed her during the 2008 campaign, or in "the liberal media." In almost every case, Palin's own part in these conflicts is scrubbed free of complicating detail, lest it add darkening shadows to her pastel self-depiction. Even her campaign for mayor of Wasilla, in 1996, is cast as a homely contest between her vision of smaller government against the incumbent Republican's preference "for more government control." In fact, Palin won by attacking her opponent over "values," in mimicry of the campaigns that social conservatives were leading in the Lower 48. Her "genius was to transform a sleepy municipal election into a philosophical grudge match," Matthew Continetti writes, one that was "fought over three issues—guns, spending, and abortion."
This aspect of the campaign is well known and, in any case, shouldn't hurt her with her base. Why airbrush it? Perhaps because Palin has taken the measure of her readers and their expectations. It is one thing to commit casual ideological libel against Obama, as Palin does when she intimates that his "past comments and associations with anti-capitalist radicals would influence his economic policy," thus implying that the true authors of the stimulus were Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers, rather than the Wall Street-friendly economists Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner. But it is quite another thing to own up to an episode of election hardball in her home town—ruthlessness on a level more likely to affront the "ordinary" people on whom she holds a special claim, particularly those captivated by her image as salt-of-the-earth supermom.
She is equally circumspect on the issue of ethnicity, pointing out that Todd, whom she met in high school, is "part Yupik Eskimo" and opened her to the "social diversity" of Alaska. (Wasilla is more than eighty per cent white.)Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii.
She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. "Hawaii was a little too perfect," Palin writes. "Perpetual sunshine isn't necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls." Perhaps not. But Palin's father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: "They were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home." In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, "because it was much like Alaska yet still 'Outside.' "
Palin's discomfort is easy to understand. Race is often the subtext of populist campaigns; their most potent appeal is to whites who are feeling under siege by changing economic and cultural conditions. Palin's strength with this constituency can only have grown since the last election. It's the reason that her bus tour is passing through the small cities and towns (Fort Wayne, Indiana; Washington, Pennsylvania) where the 2008 election might have been won. Already, she has drawn thousands of fans, some pitching tents overnight in the hope of receiving an autographed book.
She is avoiding major cities in the Northeast and on the West Coast, a pointed assertion of her contempt for metropolitan élites. When McCain asked if Palin's husband was prepared for the rigors of a national campaign, Palin assured him that he was, and also that they were the couple for the job: "We felt our very normalcy, our status as ordinary Americans, could be a much needed fresh breeze blowing into Washington, D.C."
To an extent unmatched by any recent major political figure, she offers the erasure of any distinction—in skill, experience, intellect—between the governing and the governed. As one supporter told Conroy and Walshe, "If she can run a home, she can run the government." Palin agrees: "There's no better training ground for politics than motherhood." Describing the responsibilities of managing Alaska's budget, she makes the same argument in fancier language: "Lessons learned on the micro level still apply to the macro. Just as my family couldn't fund every item on our wish list, and had to live within our means as well as save for the future, I felt we needed to do that for the state." Her insistent ordinariness is an expression not of humility but of egotism, the certitude that simply being herself, in whatever unfinished condition, will always be good enough.
In her speech at the Republican Convention, Palin cited the example of Harry Truman, "a young farmer and haberdasher from Missouri" who "followed an unlikely path to the Vice-Presidency." But Truman's early years were spent in preparation for some future exemplary role, and for the historical destiny that he hoped, against all odds, he might someday fulfill. He regarded his ordinariness as something to be overcome, not celebrated.
Though often derided in his day as a "little man," he closely studied the lives of the greats, with special emphasis on antiquity—Hannibal, Cincinnatus, Scipio, Cyrus the Great—and consciously patterned himself after them. "Reading history, to me, was far more than a romantic adventure," he said. "It was solid instruction and wise teaching which I somehow felt that I wanted and needed." As President, he formed a strong bond with his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, a product of Yale and Harvard, and a bugbear of Joseph McCarthy and his congressional allies, whom Acheson described as "political primitives."
The appetite for betterment that drove Truman is strangely absent in Palin. Though she says that she was a voracious reader in childhood, she nowhere indicates what she learned about politics or governance from books, from the college courses she took, or even from more experienced officeholders in Alaska. She (or her collaborator) sprinkles nuggets from Plato and Pascal, but is more convincing when she cites a motivational maxim from "author and former football coach Lou Holtz."
When the call came from John McCain to discuss her possible place on the ticket, Palin, in her favored idiom, didn't blink. It was confirmation of her self-assessment. "I certainly didn't think, Well, of course this would happen. But neither did I think, What an astonishing idea. It seemed more comfortable than that, like a natural progression." It may have seemed less natural to advisers who, prepping her for interviews and debates, were startled by the gaping holes in her knowledge. When Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard editor and writer, asked Palin who her favorite thinker was, she replied, "You." Barnes has observed that Palin's "Republican heroes, besides McCain, come to a grand total of two, Reagan and Lincoln."
"Going Rogue" does indeed invoke Reagan, as so many conservative memoirs and manifestos do, although Palin's discussion of one of his cherished principles, "Get federal spending under control," omits the fact that Reagan himself violated it. (During his Presidency, federal spending exceeded all previous levels in the postwar era; not a single major program was eliminated.) Nonetheless, Reagan the candidate personified the ideal of the citizen politician, so important to the rise of modern conservatism, and Palin is right to draw on his example.
What she ignores, though, is the fact that Reagan, like Truman, immersed himself in solitary preparation. A consultant to Reagan's first political campaign, in 1966, when he ran for governor of California, reported that "his library is stacked with books on political philosophy." The radio scripts that he wrote and read in the nineteen-seventies, at a rate of five a week, were models of concise argument, as were his letters to contemporaries like William F. Buckley, Jr. But then Reagan, again like Truman, aspired to the heroic ideal. Despite his Hollywood past—or perhaps to atone for it—he cultivated an air of almost imperial remoteness. "What stayed with me," Colin Powell writes in "My American Journey" of his first meeting with Reagan, "was the paradox of warmth and detachment Reagan seemed to generate simultaneously, as if there could be such a thing as impersonal intimacy."
This is just one of the many vivid impressions of the mighty recorded in Powell's book, the engrossing story of the path that led him from a South Bronx tenement to the inner sanctums of institutional power. Every page is informed by an acute sense of his multiple identities, which situated him at once within and apart from the worlds he inhabited. It's significant that he titled his memoir a "journey," while Palin has called hers a "life." She certainly accumulated mileage: the distance between Wasilla and Juneau is five hundred and sixty-five miles. But the sense of moral or intellectual progress is altogether absent. In this, Palin embodies the curiously arrested condition of the movement she evidently seeks to lead.
Conservatives, who used to denounce "identity politics," have fashioned their own version of it, anchored in the culture wars, with its parallel conflicts of background and class. Palin incarnates the latest version, which is a politics not of "special interests" but of the singular self. In "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" (1961), Daniel Boorstin distinguishes between heroes, whose higher example can "fill us with purpose, " and celebrities—each his own fleeting "human pseudo-event"—who "are nothing but ourselves seen in a magnifying mirror." But what about the ambitions or hopes of celebrities themselves? What is it that they really want? Sarah Palin's uncertain future raises this question.
To judge from her book, the most exciting time in her life was the election of 2008, when she was embraced by the army of "everyday, hardworking Americans," the "everyday folks," and "thousands of regular Americans coming out with their signs" who mobbed her tumultuous rallies, thrilling to her odes to the "true America." She gave them a "magnifying mirror." They reflected her own image back to her. This adoration is kept alive today by the excited autograph-seekers in Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne, in the audience that gave Oprah Winfrey her best ratings in two years, and in the various advocacy groups that have sprung up to promote Palin for the Presidency: Conservatives 4 Palin, Team Sarah, Vets 4 Sarah, 2012 Draft Sarah Committee, Sarah Palin Radio, SarahPAC. The true meaning of Palinism is Sarah Palin—nothing more and nothing less. She is a party unto herself.
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We held our annual festive get together at Forever Green on 12th December – it was great to welcome you all.
This year we asked you all to wear your best Christmas jumpers and you didn't disappoint. We awarded prizes of Hotel Chocolat hampers to the best dressed lady and gent.
Our winners were Tim Parkes from Simply Owners and Natalie Williams from Workforce Skills Support.
Thank you everyone for entering into the Christmas spirit with us, we hope you all enjoyed it.
Published: 24th May 2019
Life at Ransom Wood is about little stories that make the place a community – here we look at a few of our stories that make us more than just a business park.
Published: 13th May 2019
Today we caught up with Matt, Luke and Jenna at Roundworks IT and had the chance to take some photos of their new office at Ransom Hall.
Published: 4th April 2019
Offering private reformer Pilates sessions, Enso Pilates is the first of its kind in Mansfield.
I love this place. I have worked here for the past seven years and I can highly recommend Oak House A.
Diamond Soft Furnishings
I think I can speak on behalf of all the 'newbies' when I say that we are very pleased to be here and all of us have settled in very easily. The whole of your team are great to deal with at all levels and any matters are dealt with great expedience!
Bing Electronics
You're all stars and worth your weight in Gold and we Receptionists love and appreciate you !!
NHS Property Services, Birch House
Carl, thanks for your help today and over the last few weeks – you've been terrific, as have the whole estates maintenance team and it's very much appreciated.
Hi Jane, Tony the electrician has done exactly what was asked of him and turned it around quickly for me. Fantastic job thanks for your help.
T K Construction
Thank you for your help and support, you are always so quick to respond in our hour of need and help wherever and whenever you possibly can. It's a pleasure to work on the park with you and all of your team.
Cedar House Nursery
We here at Focus Management for Business Ltd have been part of the Ransom Wood Business Park community for over four years and we occupy the ground floor of Oak House A & B. Our experience of 'living here' is a very positive one, we find the staff around the business park very friendly and helpful.
Focus Management For Business
Hi Guys, In all seriousness as an individual I would like to thank you all at Ransom Wood Estates for the fantastic work you have all put in over the bad weather period.
Focus Management
You certainly have a wonderful team who work for you. Very impressed with the efficiency of your Workforce.
Vision West Notts
We would like to send our thanks for all the work you have done recently at Cedar House. We were really impressed with your electricians Tony and Ben as to how they refused drinks ( we thought all trades people worked on tea and coffee supplies), how polite and considerate they were and finally how tidy they left our offices.
Thanks very much and it's been a real pleasure working with you over the years also. As a landlord, you've been fantastic – always being helpful and proactive, I wish you and Jane and all the other staff at Ransomwood all the very best.
British Heart Foundation
I wanted to write to express our thanks and appreciation for all the help and support we have had from yourself and other members of your team.
Mid Trent Local Cancer Network


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The meeting point is "Centro Vela" in Cerro at 9.30am where you will meet the skipper and go aboard
You will sail along Lake Maggiore and during the sailing you will see the cities of Laveno Mombello, Porto Valtravaglia and Luino on the eastern shore and Verbania and Cannero Riviera on the western shore.
One at Cannero Castels you will taste an aperitif and, if yuo want, you can enjoy the water of the lake and dive.
The two castle emerge from the lake and are one of the favourite touristic destinations of Lake Maggiore
After the aperitif you will reach Cannero Riviera for the free lunch and in the afternoon you will sail back to Cerro
The skipper will sail also in front of the Hermitage of Santa Caterina, the view from the lake will be amazing
You will reach Cerro at about 5.30pm
Duration: 9.30am-5.30pm
Restrictions: bad weather
Price per person: € 9,00 - minimum 4 pax
The rate includes: sailing boat; Skipper; Aperitif on board (Prosecco, fruit juice, salted biscuits)
The rate does not include: Lunch
Possible services: Dinner, Transfer in taxi or private shuttle; Overnight stay at "Punta San Michele" (€ 55,00 double room - € 3,00 per person for the breakfast)
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Depression and Anxiety Support Group
June 17, 2019 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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An event every week that begins at 6:30 PM on Monday, repeating indefinitely
If you suffer from depression or an anxiety disorder, you may feel alone in your struggles.
The Foundation 2 Depression and Anxiety Disorder Support Group offers a caring and safe place to talk with others who understand what you're going through.
The emphasis of the group is developing positive coping skills, giving mutual support, and learning to manage stress.
This support group is for adults and meets every Monday evening. If interested in attending, please call the Crisis Center for more information at (319) 362-2174.
While this is a free event, donations are always appreciated.


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Monday, April 30, 2012
Pain Tolerance Level: Asian
9 comments:
- OmgItsTania said...
LOL Asian people are just cool that way. Although I seem to be a bit of an exception :(
- 10:16 pm
- Prickatron said...
*sigh* I wish I was Oriental Asian...A man can dream though...a man can dream...
- 1:33 pm
yeah not to be racist, but a consultant once told me that oriental asians complain about half the pain they feel, but south asians complain about twice the pain they feel. bit strangely worded, but u get the message...
- 5:22 pm
- The Angry Medic said...
ChocolateAndCream: NAWNSENSE. You're on ma blawg! All people on mah blawg are cool, dawg! Let's go smoke up an' shoot some nig-- okay you know what, I give up. This 'cool talk' is tiring. Damn kids.
No but seriously, let's hope we never have to find out how much pain you can tolerate!
- 9:41 pm
- The Angry Medic said...
Prickatron: Oh I know precisely why you want to be Oriental Asian. Oh ho YES.
- 9:45 pm
- The Angry Medic said...
Dr Wannabe: Normally I wouldn't condone such jingoistic remarks here, tut tut, but OMFG THAT IS HILARIOUS. I come from a med school where these memes about race are widespread and tolerated. But seriously, ROFL.
- 9:47 pm
- Prickatron said...
ZOMG, you actually replied to my comment. Excuse me while I go through my omgthereallycoolguyactuallyrepliedtomethatssoawesome*giggleslikeagirl* phase. In other news, I finally confimed my place on Med School today, so I'll see you in hel-uh,I mean- on the wards in a few years time.
- 11:15 pm
- The Angry Medic said...
Prickatron: Whoa! Congrats! Are you SURE you wanna go through with it? I'm not even kidding, most doctors I know wouldn't encourage people to do medicine these days unless you had a real passion for it. It's not financially or socially rewarding anymore, which is why my idiot investment banker friends who graduated 3 years ago are all driving Beemers around whilst I kick-start my hand-crank jalopy in the morning. Blast.
- 11:11 am
- Prickatron said...
I'll answer your question with a snapshot of my interview -
Interviewer: So, Prick, tell us, why do YOU want to do Medicine.
Me: Well, uh, you see, my parents want-
Interviewer:(sceptically)Your parents?
Me: I'm Asian, you see...
Interviewer: (nodding sympathetically) Ahh, I understand.
- 12:02 pm


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"Two men will never be able to show a woman how to be a woman," says David Tyree, by way of explaining his decision to go on the record against gay marriage. Tyree was raised in an all-female household after his parents divorced when he was one year old, and the lack of male role models caused him to become a womanizer and drug addict. Or maybe it caused him to be the kind of born-again ex-addict who campaigns to keep other people from being able to marry. What does make a person the way he or she is?
Now, thanks to "a minority, an influential minority," New York could legalize gay marriage. Tyree: "What I know will happen if this does come forth is this will be the beginning of our country sliding toward, you know, it's a strong word, but anarchy....That will be the moment where our society in itself loses its grip with what's right."
Tyree's video comes after his former teammate Michael Strahan recorded a pro-gay-marriage PSA, in which he appeared with his fiancee of two years, Nicole Mitchell, who would be Strahan's third wife —making him an ideal spokesperson, really, against the sanctity of opposite-sex marriage.


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15 February, 2011
birthday requestMy wife & I are huge fans, and "our song" that we had our first dance to at our wedding was "All I Want Is You." She turns 50 the day after this concert, and she doesn't know we're going yet...I bought the tickets as part of her birthday present. I would love to have you play that song at this concert. Please do!
11 February, 2011
Can't Wait!!!Been a U2 fan since 1981 (I was 18 then) but this will be my FIRST U2 concert...and it's been too long coming! I am so glad the lads added St. Louis to the tour...I sure hope we show you guys as good a time as you'll certainly give us! Only one small disappointment. I wish Florence + The Machine were opening the show...but, hey, life is made up of happiness and disappointment. I'm not gonna cry over this little thing. See you in July!
01 November, 2010
Sooooooooo coolThank you for adding St. Louis to the tour! Saw the 9/12/09 show in Chicago and had the time of my life. St. Louis needs U2! This is going to be the event of 2011 for me! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Cute pic of B-man at Soldier Field just before the show. B-man was most gracious and kind...
01 November, 2010
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Will SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO be there!


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Jay Hill, Parliament Debate
If a prime minister went against the spirit of this legislation and purely called an election because he or she felt the opportunity was ripe, that the situation for his or her particular political party was very advantageous to go to the polls, I suspect that person would quite likely be punished by the Canadian people in the subsequent election campaign.
Let's hope you're right Jay, this type of cynicism can't be rewarded.
Tom "Type A" Lukiwski Parliament Debate
We currently have a system where at the will of the government it can call an election. That obviously leads to many things along the lines of manipulating voters and manipulating dates to get the most beneficial time to the governing party to call an election. Obviously, as many speakers before me have indicated, this would bring an element of fairness to the whole equation.
That allows the governing party to have a political advantage over its opponents. Only the governing party knows the dates of the next election. If the polls happen to be favourable and it looks like the governing party might be returned in either a majority government or at least a strong minority, the governing party can call an election at its whim.
This legislation would take care of that. It would make it incumbent upon the present government and governments in the future to adhere to a fixed date for federal elections. The manipulations of governments trying to buy voters with their own money would come to an end. This is a very important step in our package of democratic reform.
Canadians do not want to think that the timing of a federal election will be held behind closed doors where a bunch of party hacks and pollsters get together and say that this would be their best chance to win the next election and that they should call the next election on a particular date. That should have no bearing on the timing of a federal election...
We want an election after four successive budgets. That would ensure that we stay in power for an awfully long time.
Party hacks, good point Tom.
Rob Nicholson, Leader of the Government in the House, during committee debate of Bill C-16:
What we have is a situation where the Prime Minister is able to choose the date of the general election--not necessarily what is in the best interests of the country, but conceivably what is in the best interests of his or her party. Bill C-16 will address this situation and produce a number of other benefits.
Rob Nicholson, Leader of the Government in the House, Parliament Debate
When the prime minister, under the current system, requests the dissolution of the House, the governor general, unless there are unusual circumstances, agrees and the country finds itself in an election. What we have is a situation where the prime minister is able to choose the date of the election, not based necessarily on the best interests of the country but on the best interests of his or her political party. I believe Bill C-16 would address those concerns.
Instead of the prime minister and a small group of advisers being the only ones who know when the country will move into the next general election, once this bill is passed, all Canadians will have that knowledge, which makes it fair.
I can't disagree Rob, who wants political advisors deciding when the country should go to an election.
Hey, have any of you guys raised these relevant points recently to your Prime Minister, or any of the political hack advisors that are manufacturing a crisis to avoid future unfavorable terrain? Oh ya, that was then...
I think the first quote would make an excellent ad ;)


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Batman and Robin have been through dozens of strange scenarios, but few compare to the time the Boy Wonder ambushed the Cape Crusader for some Eastern Promises-style fisticuffs. Such a scene went down in 1983's Batman #356. I'm particularly fond of the final panel, where it's sort of unclear if Bruce Wayne is addressing Robin by his real name, insulting him, or impassively staring up his green Underoos.
Of course, we would later discover that this Robin was one of Hugo Strange's mandroids, which is nonetheless a-okay, as "mandroid" is the finest of the portmanteaus.
Related: Hulk tries to take a shower at the YMCA.
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Whale sharks and manta rays along with kilometers of unspoiled beaches must be part of the main reasons for tourists visiting Mozambique. Several dive centers and resorts are scattered along the coast of Mozambique although there is only one village that can truly be called the Whale Shark Mecca of The World and that is Tofo with Manta reef close by.
Certain areas in Mozambique offer fantastic dolphin swimming and diving with manta rays, other areas offer great coral reefs, Humpback Whale Watching trips and then as mentioned Tofo offers the best whale shark sightings in the world. Neighboring country, South Africa, offers fantastic Big 5 viewing in Kruger National Park and also adrenaline inducing shark dives such as great white shark and tiger shark dives to name just a few.
Many leisure scuba divers also visit the exquisite islands of Mozambique as these islands offer pristine reefs and with luxury accommodation. Main land accommodation in Mozambique varies from backpackers to luxury guesthouses and resorts.
As the distances in Mozambique are quite vast for foreigners to travel by car and car rental is almost impossible in Mozambique, most tourists' fly into Mozambique from Johannesburg, South Africa and from there go on their dive destination of choice. To get the best out of your dive holiday we recommend that you allocate at least ten days to your dive holiday should you wish to visit more than one dive destination. Travelling from one destination to the next might take up two days as the flights and specific route transfers do not take place daily.
When planning a visit to Mozambique and South Africa you might find it best to ask the advice of a travel expert in order to maximize the time you have available for your holiday. Mozambique is not very well represented on the internet and so you might think you are booking a hotel in a dive location when in actual fact you are a 20 minute drive from the dive location because you know this area by the nearest town name and not by the village name where the actual diving takes place.
Mozambique has many brand new lodges and accommodation establishments which is not yet represented online. On this Scuba Mozambique website you will also just find a hand full of the best that is on offer in Mozambique. Should you wish to dive at a certain part of Mozambique which you do not find on this site, please do email us as we most probably have lodges and dive centers in that area on our books but not represented on our website.
Shark Alley Dive and Travel Centre, also known in the industry as Scuba Mozambique, is a dive travel agency specializing in dive holidays to Mozambique and South Africa. Shark Alley proudly supplies diving holiday packages to individuals and dive clubs, travel agents, tour operators and dive wholesalers worldwide. Typically Shark Alley would create a tailor made package for each individual client. Clients usually travel on their own or as part of their travel group. Shark Alley does not offer group tours where you book as an individual and then join a group of tourists for a set date tour. Shark Alley specializes in creating travel packages for individual clients, couples, small groups and larger groups of up to 28 divers.
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Spend a week in self catering accommodation (or upgrade to luxury bed and breakfast) in Praia do Tofo, Mozambique, swimming with whale sharks. Upgradeable to a luxury guesthouse.
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Daily Dives
Whale Shark Safaris
Spend this 10 day holiday diving with the great white shark, whale shark and last but not least the gentle manta ray.
All flights included
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Fantastic package combining Great White Sharks, Blue Sharks, Mako Sharks, 7 Gill Cow Sharks, Black Tip Sharks, Ragged Tooth Sharks, Tiger Sharks and much more
Location: Cape Town & Durban
Season: All Year
Experience Required: Advanced Diver with min 25 dives
All flights & Transfers incl.
Breakfast inlcuded
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Spend 7 glorious days in the sun and the sea of this unspoiled island like peninsula of Pomene.
Luxury Water Chalets
Fantastic reef dives
Peninsula offers island feel
Many activities available
10 Day Tofo and Zavora Dive Holiday to dive with Manta Rays, Whale Sharks and Hump Back Whales
Location: Mozambique
Peak Season: July - October
Experience Required: Advanced Diver / Deep Diver
Guaranteed Shark Diving all year round and dive with many species of shark found on the reefs of Aliwal Shoal. During shark week in Durban you will learn about the behaviour of sharks towards divers.
Location: Aliwal Shoal
Season: All Year
Experience Required: Advanced Diver with min 25 dives
Safari & Dive Combination Trips
This 13 day package takes you to the best of Cape Town, the Big 5 of Kruger National Park and the Great White Sharks of Gansbaai.
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3 White Shark Trips
Big 5 Safaris
Wine Tasting
Spend 4 days exploring the wild Big 5 of Kruger National Park after which you depart for 7 nights to dive in the Whale Shark Mecca of the world, Mozambique.
All flights & Transfers incl.
Safari incl breakfast and dinners
Casita right on the beach
Daily Whale Shark Trips
Experience the Big 5 of Kapama Private Game Reserve in luxury! Then spend 5 days on Benguera Island, one of the most beautiful islands on the Mozambican coastline. This is a trip not to miss...
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Let's take a break from baseball, softball and track for a week and talk some golf. Sportshorts'll get back with a vengeance to those sports next week as local teams begin the stretch run to the state playoffs.
Tyler Ivins was recently named head professional at the Hideout Golf Course in Monticello. Sportshorts sat down (via e-mail) with Tyler.
Sportshorts: Welcome to the Hideout. What are your thoughts about being named the head professional at the Hideout?
Tyler Ivins: It's really exciting to be back here and be involved with the course. Ever since the new course opened, it has been a goal of mine to make it back here. This course is a big reason I got into the golf business.
The Hideout truly is one of the best designed courses around. It makes you hit every club in your bag and makes you think your way around the course. It is a great place for kids to learn how to golf. It will help them develop every club, and manage their round.
Q: First of all, who did you predict would win the Masters?
A: When I got the questions on Saturday night, I thought Rory McIlroy was going to win. I thought he would shoot a 69 or 70, and that would have given him plenty of room with a four shot lead.
Q: What did you think of all the young kids playing well at the Masters?
A: It is really good for the game of golf. It encourages kids to get out and play more. If kids can relate to what they see on TV it helps.
Q: You grew up in Blanding?
A: I was born and raised in Blanding. San Juan County is a great place to grow up and to raise kids. Kids learn to work hard and be good citizens in the community.
Q: Tell us about your family.
A: In 2004, I was attending school at Southern Utah University, studying business management. This is where I met my wife, Lacey Griffin. We were married in 2005.
In 2007, we moved to Mesa, AZ so I could attend ASU's Professional Golf Management program. I graduated from ASU in 2009 with my Bachelor's degree in Agribusiness. I was elected a member of the PGA at the same time, becoming a class A member of the PGA.
In 2009, my wife and I had our first child. Her name is Aspyn Cole Ivins. We will be having our second child in September.
Q: How did you become a PGA pro?
A: I attended ASU's Professional Golf Management program. There are three levels of the PGA books, and there is one playing test. I completed these requirements and my college credits at ASU.
Q: What is your working experience as a pro?
A: I first worked at Arizona Golf Resort, in Mesa, AZ. I did my first internship there in 2007, for about nine months. Arizona Golf Resort is a 18 hole resort course, that does 50,000 plus 18 hole rounds annually.
After Arizona Golf Resort, I went to Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club. Superstition Mountain is a 36 hole private course. Both Superstition Mountain courses are designed by Jack Nicklaus, and his kids Jack Jr. and Gary Nicklaus.
At Superstition Mountain, I had the opportunity to work under some of the most well known and respected PGA golf professionals, teaching pros, and developers in the golf industry. The owner has built some of the premier country clubs around the world.
Mike Malaska, who is a top 25 teacher in the country, was the teaching pro at Superstition Mountain. He would do seminars and classes for the staff regularly. We also had a teaching certification program that was put together by him that all the staff had to complete, in order to teach, which I completed. I also had the opportunity to work during the Safeway International, which was one of the largest annual LPGA events.
Q: What do you bring to the Hideout as a pro?
A: I believe I bring the perfect balance of a home town boy that will be able to relate with the locals, and someone that has experienced the golf industry in other areas of the country.
Being from the area, I know most of the local crowd that plays golf here, and I can relate and serve their needs. And having done the PGA program and worked in other areas in golf, I can hopefully bring some other aspects and approaches to our course.
Aside from all of this, you won't find anyone that wants to see the course succeed more than I do. I grew up in the area and learned to play golf here. I look forward to doing the same for the youth and anyone for that matter.
Q: What changes have you made, or will make?
A: I don't necessarily see everything that we will be doing as changes, but I will try to make sure everyone that golfs has an enjoyable time. I am also going to try and help every golfer better understand the game, meaning their swing, the rules, etiquette, and the overall game. We also hope to increase the participation in the tournaments by getting involved with the courses in the surrounding area.
Q: Any goals?
A: My goals are pretty broad. I hope to make the course successful and an asset to the community.
Q: What is your lowest round of golf ever?
A: 65 at The Arizona Golf Resort.
Q: What is your lowest score at the Hideout?
A: I don't really know. I have broke par on each nine, but never together on a full 18-hole round. I think my low 18 hole round is probably a 73 or 74.
Q: When you play golf with family, who wins?
A: This is a really good question, because it changes every time. It used to always be my dad, brother, and brother-in-law.
Now it could be myself, David (my brother), or sometimes my nephew (Payton Halls). It is always fun to go out with the family; that is how I learned to play, going out and having a fun round with the family.
Q: Any holes-in-one?
A: None, yet.
Q: How will you make the Hideout a community golf course, where more local people play golf?
A: I think one of the best ways to get the community involved in anything is get the youth involved. That is one of the great things about this area. Parents are very supportive of the youth and the youth programs. I hope to get as many kids playing golf as possible. They are the future of the game and they also will bring more of the community to the course.
Q: Can the course become more mulitfaceted, cross country skiing in the winter, running events in the fall, etc.?
A: I think it can. It will take cooperation between people and organizations to make it work, but it is very possible.
Q: There have been a lot of changes to the clubhouse. Tell us a little about those.
A: We have changed the layout by moving the golf counter over by the food and beverage counter and tied the two of them together. By doing this we have made it easier for the employees to run the golf counter and the food and beverage by themselves.
This has also opened everything up to where people can sit and enjoy the view out the windows. It has given more room for merchandise on the floor.
We also repainted and put in new carpet, which really helps with the overall appearance of the shop. Overall the shop looks really good and we have gotten really good feedback from people coming in.


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