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Character » Zartan appears in 283 issues.
Zartan is a master of disguise and leader of the Dreadnoks. He is the occasional ally of Cobra.
Zartan appears in 283 issues
Classic G.I. Joe
Zartan's background is a mystery but many security experts believe that he must have had training at a European military academy. Others believe that Zartan's true birthplace is in Nice, France, however it is shown in modern times that he is Australian of origin. He is the brother of Zandar and Zarana. He is a master of disguise and ventriloquism. It's believed that he can speak at least 20 if you count various dialects. When Zartan takes the guise of another person he immerses himself in the role, not only looking and sounding like whoever he chooses but also being able to pass close scrutiny. He is an acrobatic-contortionist and has studied several forms of martial arts. He is also a skilled marksman and is very efficient and deadly with a bow.
Zartan was created for the G.I. Joe Toy line, and eventually comic book that was published by Marvel Comics. When Zartan was first released, Hasbro originally decided to name him The Chameleon. An ever shape-shifting reptile that could mimic and copy the looks and sounds of others. However, through careful thinking and through the process of elimination, Hasbro decided to make Zartan an advanced human with the abilities to shape-shift. Zartan was created by G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama and first appeared in G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #25 in mid 1984.
Character Story-Line
The mysterious man known as Zartan is considered as deadly, if not deadlier than Storm Shadow or Snake-Eyes. Besides being a highly accomplished martial artist, he is almost unequaled as an archer and is unsurpassed as a master of disguise. He uses a form of holography and hypnotism to change his appearance. He is also a ventriloquist, and can throw his voice in over 20 languages and dialects.
Zartan's earliest origins are unknown. Some believe he received his military training in Europe, possibly St. Cyr. At some point early in his career, he was approached in a bar by the man who would become Cobra Commander. The man offered Zartan a large sum of money for the use of his deadly skills to kill the young Snake-Eyes, the surviving member of a family who had perished in a head-on car collision with Cobra Commander's brother, who also perished. Cobra Commander blamed Snake-Eyes for the death of his brother, even though Snake-Eyes had nothing to do with it. Zartan infiltrated the ninja clan that had taken Snake-Eyes in, by becoming the apprentice of the Sword Master Onihashi. However his teacher purified him, and Zartan no longer felt he had anything to prove by killing Snake-Eyes. He had finally found satisfaction in life under his teacher. However, Cobra Commander threatened to reveal Zartan's true motives to his teacher, and thus was forced to go through with the hit.
Having access to the Arashikage household due to his position, Zartan stole one of Storm Shadow's arrows, under the guidance of the Faceless Master (Firefly). Using a sound amplifier, Zartan honed in on Snake-Eyes' breathing so he could kill him from behind the screen in the room he was practicing. He mistakenly killed the Hard Master, the clans leader, who was demonstrating to Snake-Eyes the technique "The Cloak of the Chameleon". Zartan fled and escaped, whilst the clan believed it was a jealous Storm Shadow. Onihashi could not be fooled when Zartan returned. His shame was so great over the atrocity perpetrated by his student that he committed suicide. The tragic incident took all that Zartan had wanted from him, and the guilt over his master's death drove him over the edge. He took up with a rotten band of miscreants known as the Dreadnoks, and became their leader. They set up in the Florida Everglades, frequently working for Cobra Commander as thieves and mercenaries for hire. Storm Shadow, soon joined Cobra, hoping to learn the identity of the Hard Master's murderer and to clear his name.
Cobra Commander came to Zartan whilst being sought after by the Joes: Mutt & Junkyard, Tripwire and Torpedo. After a skirmish in the swamp, the security of Zartan's hidden shack was compromised, forcing him and the Dreadnoks to abandon it. In retaliation, Zartan sought out the Joes' secret base. He and the Dreadnoks discovered the Joes' aircraft at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, destroying much of it. Storm Shadow later left Cobra, and deduced that Zartan was his uncle's murderer, and swore vengeance.
When the Joe Rip-Cord parachuted onto Cobra Island, he was confronted and subdued by Zartan. Zartan switched outfits with the unconscious Joe, and when the Joes arrived to extract Rip-Cord, they picked up the disguised Zartan by mistake. Inadvertently, the Joes brought Zartan right into their secret headquarters, The Pit. Once inside, Zartan attempted to escape, and after a long chase and battle with Gung-Ho, Sgt. Slaughter finally managed to subdue him. However Zartan was rescued soon after by his younger siblings, Zarana and Zandar. Some time after his return to Cobra Island, Zartan and the Dreadnoks sided with the Cobra Commander imposter, Fred VII, and the Baroness, against Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender in the Cobra Civil War. Mindbender cut a deal with the U.S. government, and the Joes were ordered to assist Sepentor's forces in the conflict. They were on the verge of victory, partially due to Fred VII's inept leadership, when Zartan shot and killed Serpentor. Seeing his commander die before his eyes, Mindbender buckled and cut a deal with Fred VII, ending the war.
Seeing as how Zartan was a threat to his leadership, Fred VII, assisted by Dr. Mindbender, planned to do him in. Before they could strike, they were ambushed by the Red Ninjas: renegade members of the Arashikage. The ninja clan had teamed up with Zartan in an effort to kill Storm Shadow for the trouble he had brought to their clan by bringing an outsider in: Snake-Eyes. Zartan planned to kill Storm Shadow, before Storm Shadow could kill him and reveal his plans to Fred VII. He set up an uneasy alliance with Fred once again. Zartan and the Red Ninjas attacked Storm Shadow's ninja school, but were unsuccessful in killing Storm Shadow. In a dramatic car chase through San Francisco, the chase ended when Zartan's vehicle was forced off the Golden Gate bridge and into the waters below.
Zartan escaped a watery grave and continued his criminal activities. However, he was soon confronted by the Blind Master, a veteran who had been befriended and taken in by the Hard Master many years ago. Although Storm Shadow had forsworn seeking vengeance, the Blind Master had not. The Blind Master fought and overcame Zartan, and was prepared to kill him. Just at that moment, his student, Tyrone, showed up and stopped him. As the student left in tears at the sight of his teacher about to commit cold blooded murder, the Blind Master realized his mistake and turned to go after his student and apologize. Zartan took advantage of the distraction and delivered a deathblow to the Blind Master. With his dying breath, the Blind Master revealed that Onihashi had forgiven Zartan, with his dying breath. This shocked Zartan so much, that he assumed the guise of the Blind Master and renounced his evil ways. Teaming up with Billy, the original Cobra Commander's son and Storm Shadow's ninja pupil, Zartan confronted Fred VII on Cobra Island. As Zartan and Billy attempted to expose him for the imposter that he was, the original Cobra Commander returned. The two were included with Fred VII and many of the Cobra officers that were seen as traitors. The Commander imprisoned them in the land-locked freighter and buried them alive beneath the volcano. Sometime later, Cobra Vipers found a tunnel leading out of the freighter. The freighter was filled with dead bodies. All but two of the bodies were accounted for. Zartan and Billy managed to escape and sought out Destro for asylum from Cobra Commander. Instead, they found Destro being hunted down by Cobra Commander and they decided to work with the Joes to help Destro rescue the captured Baroness. During the rescue, Zartan and Storm Shadow worked together, leaving the impression that the vendetta was truly, at long last, settled.
Cobra meanwhile, abandoned Cobra Island and recaptured the Silent Castle, held by Destro in Trans-Carpathia. Destro and the Baroness managed to escape with the help of the Joes, and joined Zartan on Cobra Island. Zartan had returned to the island and discovered that Cobra Commander planned to revive the dead Dr. Mindbender. Knowing of a computer disk that could be used to revive Mindbender, and guessing that Mindbender's body was being preserved for replication, Zartan had alerted the Joes. Together with Destro and the Baroness, Zartan managed to recapture the Silent Castle, while the Commander and most of the forces were away in Millville. In Millville the mad scientist Dr. Mindbender had been abruptly awoken. Expelling the remaining Cobra forces, Destro and the Baroness were once again lord and lady of the castle, and Zartan remained with them for asylum from Cobra. However, Cobra had backed the winner in a civil war in the neighboring nation of Borovia. Becoming the fully legitimate power behind a government of a real nation.
Cobra Commander learned from Mindbender of brain implants he had surgically placed in both Zartan and Destro back during their days with Cobra. Paying an unexpected visit on his neighbor, Cobra Commander walked right up to the castle doors alone. By revealing his face, both Destro and Zartan's implants were triggered. Soon after they were given evil personas to imitate their former allegiance to Cobra. Brainwashing the Baroness, Billy and the recently captured Storm Shadow with a new and improved Brain-Wave Scanner, Mindbender turned them to Cobra's side once again. Cobra then launched an assault on Wolkuckuckland, on the border of Borovia. The Joes aided the nation in forcing Cobra out of their country, stopping Destro and Zartan's forces in their tracks. Still bent on expanding into Wolkuckuckland, Zartan was sent to assassinate President Metz, Cobra's puppet governor of Borovia. In order to make it look like the Wolkuckucklanders were responsible, and incite Borovia into war. However upon the cruel dictator's death the people rejoiced and proclaimed Wolfgang, the man who had been framed for the assassination by Zartan, as their liberator.
Zartan and Zanya
A short time later, the G.I. Joe team was team was disbanded by the U.S. military. Soon afterward, Cobra forces fell to a unified attack by regular military forces. Most of Cobra's "high command" disappeared in the wake of the conflict. After laying low for some time, Zartan resurfaced in the United States, leading the Dreadnoks which he turned into a organized national biker gang. He also developed a seemingly incurable skin condition brought on by years of his own genetic manipulation, which was intended to enhance his chameleon-like abilities. He also met a person that he didn't even know existed, his teenage daughter, Zanya. After a few years passed, much to the dismay of Zarana, Zartan seemed intent on passing leadership of the Dreadnoks onto his daughter. In 2001, Cobra Commander reemerged and contacted his former lieutenants, hatching a new plan for world domination. He held a meeting at Zartan's Dreadnok compound in the Everglades. The Commander was hoping to add the growing number of Dreadnoks to his Cobra ranks. But soon after Destro arrived, he forcibly took control of Cobra from Cobra Commander. Zartan wasn't thrilled by the idea of following Destro's leadership, but the weapons supplier claimed that he knew how to cure Zartan's condition, and persuaded him to again work for Cobra. The first battle between Cobra and the reinstated G.I. Joe team occurred in the swamps outside of the Dreadnoks' compound. Destro revealed his plan to take over the world using nano-mites, microscopic machines, to infect not only people, but computer systems around the world, which would bring the planet's technology to a standstill. He revealed that Zartan was infected with the nano-mites. Eventually, the Joes defeated Cobra in a battle in Washington, which Zartan, Zanya and many of the Dreadnoks escaped. It was later revealed that "Destro" had in fact been Destro's son, Alexander.
After the nano-mite threat ended, Cobra Commander returned to take control of Cobra. He threatened the lives of his old high command to ensure their loyalty, and made Zartan believe the once again brainwashed Storm Shadow would carry out his long-forgotten revenge on Zartan. The Dreadnoks continued to work for Cobra, and Zartan was surprised to learn that his previous nano-mite infection had cured his skin condition. He was reunited with Zarana at the Dreadnok chapter in Chicago, where Dr. Mindbender was working on an advanced Battle Android Trooper. When the B.A.T. went berserk and escaped, the Dreadnoks and the Joes had to work together to stop the rampaging android. Some time later, Cobra Commander was captured by the forces of a revived Serpentor, and was being held on Cobra Island. Cobra, the Dreadnoks and G.I. Joe soon staged an assault on Cobra Island. During the fighting, Zartan was attacked by a soldier. In the ensuing fight, Zartan stabbed his unknown attacker, and was shocked when the soldier revealed himself to be Zandar, who had joined the Coil, and was tired of being subordinate to his brother as his power and organization grew. Zartan immediately took his Dreadnoks out of the fight and left the island, carrying his wounded brother in his arms.
After Cobra Commander once again took control of Cobra Island, Zartan arrived there to reconcile his leaving in the midst of the battle, and was hoping to make up for the treacherous actions of Zandar, who had since recovered from his injuries. They made a secret deal for Zartan and Cobra Commander to switch places. When the Joes baited the Commander into attacking a military train supposedly holding Destro, it was a disguised Zartan who arrived leading the Cobra forces. Though all the Joes were believing Cobra Commander to be the culprit, it was Zartan who, after a hand-to-hand fight with Hawk, shot the Joe commander in the back, leaving him paralyzed. The still-disguised Zartan was then taken to a federal installation to await interrogation. The real Cobra Commander eventually led the Dreadnoks to rescue Zartan, and they headed back to Cobra Island, where Destro was now running the organization. Many of the Cobra agents betrayed Destro and allowed the Commander to get past the Island's defenses. Zartan and Zandar then watched as the Commander took control of the weapon known as the Tempest, a device that could seed the clouds to make it rain. With Dr. Mindbender's help, it was used to make the flesh-eating Death Angel Virus rain down upon a chosen area. Zartan had no interest in committing mass murder, and he and the Dreadnoks left the island. They remained in the Everglades while the Joes defeated the Commander's plans and dealt with a new threat known as the Red Shadows.
In the wake of their defeat at the hands of the Joes and the attack by the Red Shadows, Cobra was again scattered across the globe, and Cobra Commander's whereabouts were once again unknown. Eventually, he emerged in the United States and infiltrated the White House by disguising himself as Chief of Staff, Garret Freedlowe. He used technology developed by Zartan to impersonate Freedlowe, but Zartan was not involved. His sister Zarana had stolen the technology without his knowledge, and later let the Commander use it to disguise the faces and voices of the former Cobra agents who made up the Phoenix Guard. The group was a commando unit created by the Commander to infiltrate and kill the G.I. Joe team. Zarana under the guise of Friday, was one of its members. After attacking the Joes, the members of the Guard were defeated and arrested. Due to Zarana's treachery, Zartan showed little interest in helping to free her from prison. Zartan later encountered the Joes: Duke and General Philip Rey when the pair came to the Everglades searching for answers about Rey's past. In one of his many aliases, Zandar had some connection to the men who used the process that created Serpentor to give life to General Rey. Zartan turned Zandar over to the two Joes, believing that anything Zandar was involved in on his own, did not concern him. Duke and Rey got the information they needed and left the swamps. Zartan and the Dreadnoks have since had no contact with G.I. Joe or Cobra.
Danger Girl/G.I. Joe
After the acquisition of the Danger Girl characters by IDW it was decided to first launch the characters under the IDW banner with a crossover with one of the major properties at IDW, G.I. Joe (as they are owned by the same company it seems possible that these characters exist in the same continuity, though this is never confirmed.) The series starts off with a dog chase involving Scarlett and Flint and they are soon shot down. It is revealed that they were providing escort for a shipment of rediscovered missiles with great destructive power. They are soon shot down though and the missiles are taken by Cobra, who also take the two prisoners. Once in Cobra custody they come across Abbey Chase who is acting undercover, though the two members of G.I. Joe do not know this. Elsewhere the American president arrives to the USS Flagg and informs the Joe team to stand down and to not seek to free their teammates. General Flag orders them to stand down. The remaining female members (Cover Girl, Lady Jaye and Jinx) come up with a plan where they will contact the Danger Girl team (Cover Girl had previously met Johnny Barracuda.) The team shows up and exposes the U.S. president as Zarana in disguise. Soon enough it is revealed that the Danger Girl team already has an operative in place and she informs them of the plan. Firefly is to head to Moscow and detonate one of the missiles while Major Bludd is to go to Beijing to detonate another. Three teams head out, one to each of the two cities and the third to the Cobra base. By now Abbey is under suspicion of Baroness, Destro and Cobra Commander and is captured by Zartan when she attempts to free Scarlett and Flint. While they are trying to escape a team of Low Light, Snake Eyes and Stalker arrive to free them. Meanwhile in Beijing a team of Jinx, Johnny Barracuda and Sonya Savage stop Major Bludd while a team of Sydney Savage, Cover Girl and Roadblock stop Firefly. It is soon revealed that there is another missile which is headed for the homing beacon which Zarana has placed on the USS Flagg. Silicon Valerie, Duke and Lady Jaye quickly deal with it. Meanwhile at the Cobra base Storm Shadow has arrived to stop the Joes and he engages Snake-Eyes in combat. Eventually this group is also able to escape, while blowing up the base and they are all reunited on the USS Flagg.
Movies/Television
Sunbow Cartoon
Zartan first appeared in the G.I. Joe mini-series "The Revenge of Cobra", along with the other members of the Dreadnoks: Buzzer, Ripper and Torch. He and the Dreadnoks abduct Colonel Sharp, so that Zartan can impersonate him and free Cobra Commander from prison. In the cartoon, his disguise techniques are all masks, make-up and vocal-impersonating techniques. In "The Revenge of Cobra", Zartan and the Dreadnoks recover a piece of Destro's Weather Dominator, offering to sell it to the highest bidder: Cobra or G.I. Joe.
Zartan is also initially able to change the color of his skin to perfectly blend in with his background. Zartan's camouflage abilities are negated by the sun, causing his skin to turn blue (much like his action figure), and weakening him significantly. However, both aspects were dropped almost immediately after the first season began. "Countdown For Zartan" was the last episode to showcase this particular ability.
Zartan appeared throughout the first season of the cartoon, and was one of the few Cobra characters to carry over to season two, along with Cobra Commander, Baroness and Destro. In the second season of G.I. Joe, he expanded the Dreadnoks to include his younger siblings Zarana and Zandar, as well as Monkeywrench and Thrasher. The Zartan of the cartoon had a rivalry with Destro, who considered Zartan a petty criminal. He was also a more cowardly character, often fleeing battle when things turned against him. His loyalty usually lay with Cobra Commander, even after Serpentor took control of Cobra. Zartan also helped Cobra replace people with Synthoids in one episode.
G.I. Joe: The Movie
In G.I. Joe: The Movie, Zartan is seen being angry with Cobra Commander, for blaming his lack of courage on the troops. Zartan is given a valuable gem by Pythona of Cobra-La, so that he and his Dreadnoks will aid them in freeing Serpentor. They accomplish their task, but Zartan himself is curiously absent from then on, and is not seen during the final battle at the film's climax.
Spy Troops
Zartan appeared in the direct-to-video CGI animated movie G.I. Joe: Spy Troops, voiced by Colin Murdock.
G.I. Joe: Sigma 6
Zartan appeared in G.I. Joe: Sigma 6. His disguise techniques are due to hologram generators in his suit. He possesses an exaggerated Australian accent.
Zartan makes two appearances in the G.I. Joe: Resolute series. He first appears in a flashback at the beginning of the series, where he injures Snake Eyes, and assassinates the Hard Master. He later appears near the end of the series, where he is leading a security force guarding a Cobra base. He manages to corner Duke and Scarlett, when Scarlett gives him the option to just leave, as Zartan is only a mercenary and not part of Cobra. Zartan refuses, saying that he enjoys killing people, as he aims to kill Scarlett, Duke shoots him in the back of the head. Again, Zartan is portrayed with what is supposed to be an Australian accent.
Zartan first appears in the G.I. Joe: Renegades episode "Dreadnoks Rising." He is the leader of the Dreadnoks, and has a talent of impersonating people's voices. Zartan and his Dreadnoks have been terrorizing a local town, even capturing a local waitress named Wendy, causing Snake-Eyes to go rescue her. The other G.I. Joe members teach the town how to stand up to Zartan and the Dreadnoks. When the Dreadnoks present the captured Snake-Eyes bound in chains, Zartan fights the Joes. Zartan is taken down a notch when Snake-Eyes easily escapes at the right moment, and uses the chains as a weapon. Zartan is tackled by Sheriff Terry, who manages to defeat Zartan and arrest him. When Flint and Lady Jaye arrive in town to arrest Duke's team, they end up capturing Zartan and his Dreadnoks.
In "Knockoffs," Flint and Lady Jaye use Zartan to help them track down the Joes. He has Flint lend him a GPS, since he had a tracer on the motorcycle that Snake-Eyes stole from him. During the conflict between a Cobra transport, the Joes, and the Falcons, Zartan knocks out Lady Jaye and makes his way into a Cobra Van, where he equips himself with a chameleon-type wrist device. This outfits him in a suit (resembling the one used in the other cartoons), which will enable him to mask his appearance, by taking the form of anyone it scans. Zartan uses it to take the Cobra van and to get away from Flint. During the conflict, he tried to dispose of Scarlett by disguising himself as Duke. When the real Duke arrives, Snake-Eyes takes down Zartan, as his heartbeat is different from Duke's. Scarlett touches the suit, which results in a surge that leaves black burns around Zartan's eyes as she removes it. Zartan is taken back to prison while Baroness takes the chameleon mold to Cobra Commander. Due to the device acquiring the DNA of the first wearer, as part of the chameleon mold's "fail safe imprinting feature", Baroness ends up visiting Zartan in jail, where she makes a "get out of jail" offer that Zartan accepts.
In "Cutting Edge," Zartan posed as Cobra Commander in order to fool Jinx when she was hired to assassinate Cobra Commander.
Zartan is played by Arnold Vosloo in Stephen Sommers's film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, with a drastically different appearance than his television counterpart. He is a master of disguise, able to mimic other peoples' mannerisms and characteristics. Sent by McCullen with the Baroness and Storm Shadow, Zartan breaks into the Pit and disguises himself as a G.I. Joe Pit member. He murders Cover Girl with a knife as she reports to General Hawk, taking them by surprise. When the two Cobra agents fight their way out soon after, Zartan takes an alternate route and kills off a nearby wanderer, donning his clothing to escape detection by Pit members.
Later, with the help of nanotechnology provided by The Doctor's nanomites, Zartan gains his ability to assume exact physical appearances for a special mission (but without the mind control elements, which he quickly broke away from the machine to keep his free will). During the final battle, Zartan is sent to America using the missile crisis as a cover, where he infiltrates the White House as part of Cobra's plans for world domination, and assumes the identity of the President of the United States. Several times in the film, he whistles the tune "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow", including at the end of the film, confirming that he has taken the place of the President.
Vosloo will reprise his role again as Zartan in the 2012 sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and is expected to have a much bigger role. According to Vosloo, Zartan is still in disguise as the U.S. president and he's got the world leaders all under his thumb, war heads headed towards innocent populaces, and some new heavies on the payroll, to keep G.I. Joe at bay. The trailer reveals that he has framed the Joes as traitors and successfully eliminated all but a few of them, forcing the survivors to go "off-the-grid" to try and stop his plans, before he completes his ambitions of world conquest.
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Q: как отобразить поля которых нету в схеме mongoose? user.schema.ts
import { Prop, Schema, SchemaFactory } from "@nestjs/mongoose";
import * as mongoose from "mongoose";
import { Role } from "./role.schema";
// import { Role } from "./user.schema";

export type UserDocument = User & Document;

@Schema()
export class User {

    @Prop({ required: true, unique: true })
    name: string;

    @Prop({ required: true })
    password: string

    @Prop({ required: true, default: 'default.png' })
    avatar: string

    @Prop({ required: true, default: Date.now() })
    createdDate: Date

    @Prop({ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "User" })
    teamLeader: User

    @Prop({ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Role" })
    role: Role
}

export const UserSchema = SchemaFactory.createForClass(User)

user.service.ts
async getAll(): Promise<any> {
    const users = await this.userModel.find()
        .populate({ path: 'teamLeader', select: ['name', 'avatar'] })
        .populate({ path: 'role', select: ['name'] })
        .select('-password')
        .select('-__v')
        .exec();

    // const team = await this.userModel.find({ teamLeader: _id })

    return users
}

нужно вывести у всех юзеров поле team которое будет массивом с юзерами которых поле teamLeader равно _id данного юзера

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news, local-news, peter worsley, disability, sculptor, quadriplegic, orange, bathurst, news, western advocate
At first glance, the long driveway looks like many in the Australian bush. Straight and narrow, with a thin strip of green between two lines of dirt, surrounded by shoulder high grass. However, as you notice the letterbox – a great big rusting cage of sculpted steel, filled with rocks – you realise this isn't a normal driveway. At the end is a person-sized pear made of horseshoes, a dog made of rusted steel and a big shed full of cranes, girders and steel.  Sitting under the cranes is a man in a wheelchair. Peter Worsley is a quadriplegic, and despite the loss of movement in his hands and legs after an accident playing rugby union, he is the creator of all the steel masterpieces littering the yard of his Central West home.  With limited movement in his arms, the occasional helping hand, a few useful tools and a whole lot of determination, he has been making incredible sculptures for about 15 years.  "I've always loved welding, growing up around a farm it was always a wet weather activity was fixing things, making gates, and when I hurt myself it was a long time where I thought 'there's not much I can do in the shed'," he said. Instead, he filled those years competing in shooting at the Paralympics, competing at Atlanta, Sydney and Athens.  After Mr Worsley's occupational therapist made tools that could hold a table tennis bat and he heard about a smash repairer who had made art out of leftover scraps, he had a few friends come around to try welding.  It quickly turned from a way to make tools for gardening into something creative, despite no background in art. "I hated wasting the last couple of bit of my rods and thought I might just get them all on my bench and see what comes of it and I thought, right, that's it and just kept going," he said. After "a whole lot of trial and error", he managed to get the hang of manoeuvring his tools and machines to make extraordinarily complex and beautiful sculptures.  As the pieces got bigger he needed more space and tools, so two years ago Mr Worsley build the parts to a frame, received grants to buy some cranes and set up his shed for welding bigger and better things. "I can't work on the floor so I need to work on the bench, and bench-space is limited," he said. Mr Worsley will hold the first-ever exhibition of his work next year at Orange's Corner Store Gallery with his own show, starting April 9.
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Sculptor Peter Worsley's steely determination pays off with incredible artwork
Max Stainkamph
At first glance, the long driveway looks like many in the Australian bush.
Straight and narrow, with a thin strip of green between two lines of dirt, surrounded by shoulder high grass.
However, as you notice the letterbox – a great big rusting cage of sculpted steel, filled with rocks – you realise this isn't a normal driveway.
At the end is a person-sized pear made of horseshoes, a dog made of rusted steel and a big shed full of cranes, girders and steel.
Sitting under the cranes is a man in a wheelchair.
Peter Worsley is a quadriplegic, and despite the loss of movement in his hands and legs after an accident playing rugby union, he is the creator of all the steel masterpieces littering the yard of his Central West home.
With limited movement in his arms, the occasional helping hand, a few useful tools and a whole lot of determination, he has been making incredible sculptures for about 15 years.
"I've always loved welding, growing up around a farm it was always a wet weather activity was fixing things, making gates, and when I hurt myself it was a long time where I thought 'there's not much I can do in the shed'," he said.
Instead, he filled those years competing in shooting at the Paralympics, competing at Atlanta, Sydney and Athens.
After Mr Worsley's occupational therapist made tools that could hold a table tennis bat and he heard about a smash repairer who had made art out of leftover scraps, he had a few friends come around to try welding.
It quickly turned from a way to make tools for gardening into something creative, despite no background in art.
"I hated wasting the last couple of bit of my rods and thought I might just get them all on my bench and see what comes of it and I thought, right, that's it and just kept going," he said.
After "a whole lot of trial and error", he managed to get the hang of manoeuvring his tools and machines to make extraordinarily complex and beautiful sculptures.
As the pieces got bigger he needed more space and tools, so two years ago Mr Worsley build the parts to a frame, received grants to buy some cranes and set up his shed for welding bigger and better things.
"I can't work on the floor so I need to work on the bench, and bench-space is limited," he said.
Mr Worsley will hold the first-ever exhibition of his work next year at Orange's Corner Store Gallery with his own show, starting April 9.

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Mayor Kim McMillan encourages citizens to attend a series of budget presentations May 7-10.
City departments will present their budget highlights to the mayor, which then will be considered as she prepares her full Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal to be presented to the City Council. The new fiscal year begins on July 1.
Department Budget Presentations: May 7-10.
Mayor's Budget Presentation and News Conference: May 24.
Budget Work Sessions for City Council: June 7, June 13.
Special Session Public Hearing and First Reading: June 14.
Special Session Second Reading: June 21.
All of the Department Budget Presentations will be in the City Council Chambers, 106 Public Square. The sessions may be viewed live on the City's website at www.cityofclarksville.com, and live on CDE Lightband Channel 3. Video recordings of the presentations also will be available for on-demand viewing on the website within 24 hours of their conclusion, and they will be replayed periodically over the next several weeks on Lightband Channel 3.
Adjustments to the schedule will be announced as necessary.


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#AgencyFocus: TILT — shifting social while making profit
by Sabrina Forbes. As the South African social media landscape continues to grow, brands are either bringing digital in-house and trying to figure it out themselves or making use of agencies that've added digital as an arm to their existing traditional repertoire (and which are also trying to figure things out). Then there are the agencies born and built for social, such as TILT.
Influence architects
They call themselves influence architects who create magnetic branded content and then amplify it like wildfire, and consider themselves the unfair advantage for brands wanting to market on social.
Co-founders Arye Kellman (of 5FM and CliffCentral fame) and Jason Levin (ex-MD of HDI Youth Marketeers) got their new agency off to a flying start when they launched in May 2017. Within their first month, they had picked up two campaigns with global brands, Kellogg's and Estee Lauder Companies. The duo didn't just get their first clients quickly; they agreed on the agency name almost immediately. TILT is about shifting the way you look at things, and according to Kellman, "four-letter words are dope."
The agency's core offering is in the influencer-marketing space. "I came from a content background — mostly radio but also podcasting and social media — [and] had watched the rise of influencer marketing and thought I had value to add to the space," says Kellman.
TILT focuses on using social media content influencers, celebrities, and trendsetters to build deep connections with digital driven audiences, millennials, and other early adopters. By focusing on "bespoke, creative-driven influence architecture", the way Kellman explains what they do, the now team of six creates content that's made for social, built in the right style, format, and duration, every time.
Had such a great time working with @mmaponyane and Lwando on this shoot! 🎬
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It's a social world
It's probably fair to say that chiropractors are making a killing these days with society's newly discovered 45-degree head position. What was once an odd sight is now becoming more commonplace: groups of humans walking like zombies, heads dropped down with focus, both arms engaged tightly to their side, their hands cradling a device that holds more computing power than the machine that got Apollo 11 to the moon. What are they doing? They're double-tapping, liking, commenting, LOLing, #tagging, meme-ing, GIF-ing, sharing, posting, and storytelling. Truth is, they're not about to stop.
The recent South African Social Media Landscape Report uncovered that over 40% of brands are using Facebook effectively. This is probably because most of the people at these brands use Facebook daily for their personal needs. It's when brands try to use platforms such as SnapChat and WeChat that they fail, specifically here in South Africa. This is another USP of the team at TILT. They're young and 'with it' enough to have large followings and engagements on all social media platforms, not just the typical. This allows them to offer their clients workable campaign ideas that are created for social, with social in mind, and for the social age.
By simply having a social media account, anyone has the ability to share and influence those around them. TILT understands that, for youth and affluent audiences, social is where it's at and that it's now easier than it used to be to get TV-sized audiences to view a single social media post for a fraction of the price of broadcast platforms. That you can also deeply target your audience by specific metrics helps to reduce the amount of marketing wastage often experienced by brand budgets going the traditional route. "The rise of the individual as a content creator and content carrier — and therefore a media vehicle — has been huge the past few years," says Kellman.
But the rise of influencers automatically brings the rise of "chancers and snake-oil salesmen", as Levin, TILT director and co-founder, put it in a recent Business Live article. Everyone with an Instagram account is trying to jump on the social media influencer gravy train and, for an agency such as TILT, whose USP is working with influencers to create value for brands, this could become a dangerous field to work in if not carefully handled. By using a bespoke, highly vetted set of influencers, the agency hopes to negate any negative or dishonest campaign metrics. It offers 100% transparency on follower bases and market rates achieved per post, plus full reporting during and after each campaign.
On the books
While it doesn't keep a set of influencers on its books, it's worked with the likes of Boity Thulo, Kyle Deutsch, Roxy Burger, Locnville, and Rorisang Thandekiso, bringing them into campaigns as and when their offerings fit.
TILT manages its influencers a little differently to other influential agencies, as explained by Levin: "We are differentiated from the 'system driven' offerings like Indahash and Webfluential by very careful influencer selection and hands-on talent management, but also by the fact that we produce and co-create content, rather than just brief them and let them do their own thing."
Kellman and his team say they don't like to brag and, when asked about recent client wins, the former's response was: "Our goal is to increase revenue for our clients; so long as we're doing that, we're #winning. Advertising agencies can often be self-indulgent in reflecting on what they think they've done right. We're about getting the job done, generating revenue for our clients, and looking to what's next."
Nevertheless, the client list after 18 months in operation includes Estée Lauder Companies, Virgin Atlantic, Investec, Kellogg's, and The Walt Disney Company.
Proudest moment
Reflecting back on the last 18 months, Kellman's proudest moment is how he's brought people into the team who are smarter than him. "Our success is 100% rooted in the team of people in the office every day," he says.
When it comes to finding new collaborative clients to work with, Kellman shares, "We present a lot. We pitch (not necessarily in formal competitive pitch processes) two-to-four times a week. We're actively out there, locally and internationally, looking for clients and trying to propose better solutions than they have in place, and it's working. We now have 15 clients. The agency world seems to be unhappy with the way pitches work forever, [but] we're trucking and rolling with it as, ultimately, great ideas will always speak for themselves. In terms of retention, we stay close to our clients, we talk to them, service them, and deliver on work that ups their revenue."
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Office locations: Joburg
Revenue band: R5m–R10m
Staff count: 6
Key clients: Investec, Estee Lauder Companies, British Council, Acer, Disney Africa
Services: Social media content creation, influencer marketing
Sabrina Forbes (IG) is an experienced and published writer covering the food, health, lifestyle, beverage, marketing and media industries. She runs her own full-stack web/app development and digital-first content creation company. For more, go to moonwrench.com. She is a contributing writer to MarkLives.com.
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But now, as a sports photographer, I can enjoy the games I may not be good at, as I can sit in the middle of the action and capture the emotion and excitement. This is why I love photography. The emotion of it all. The hard work and sacrifice that participants put into it, in hopes of having those moments of success while understanding it could all still end without the final prize.
No matter where this journey of photography takes me, I am up for the challenge of learning new things. I am excited to see what sports and activities I can highlight so that others can also get out of their comfort zone and try new things!
Love that you love learning new things. I feel exactly the same way. Good for the body mind and soul . Thanks for sharing.


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The Legend of Quito Road
by Dwight Fryer
Classification: Fiction
Imprint: Kimani Press
Publisher: Kimani Press
Parent Company: News Corporation
Paperback Description:
THE FUTURE seems to hold limited possibilities for Son Erby. The African-American child of a farm laborer in 1930s Depression-era Tennessee, his fate seems as certain as the sunset at day's end. But when his father takes him to work at the Coleman Farm and hands down the secret to making the corn liquor, everything changes. MOVING FROM from the shaded parlors of the wealthy Sawyer clan to the illegal activities in the woods along the Mississippi river, this perceptive novel explores the roots of racism, and the dangerous power of secrets that will shatter every taboo in a sleepy little town caught between the past and the future. Beginning with Son's simple plan to make his fortune with the most common drug of his era, white lightning whiskey, and speeding toward an explosive climax that will expose the twisted roots of his family tree, The Legend of Quito Road is a look at a bygone time, the sobering echoes of which can be heard today.
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The item Ali, Jonathan Eig, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library.
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The other stadium bids
Tim Nelson January 13, 2012, 10:41 AM Jan 13, 2012
Little known fact: There were NINE submissions for a Vikings stadium that made Gov. Mark Dayton's deadline yesterday.
There's the three well-known offers, from Shakopee, Ramsey County and Minneapolis. The six others were, well, let's just say more imaginative.
They include a proposal to fund the whole thing with a $4.2 billion dollar theme park in Eagan and St. Paul resident Charles Hollom's offer to pay for the whole stadium himself, or rather, on behalf of the World Desert Reclamation Society. In either Moorhead or New Brighton, no less.
Perhaps the most, um, self-aware of the bunch comes from the esteemed Journal of American Rocket Science, which claims to have designed a stadium that the authors deem fitting for Arden Hills and other northern suburbs. It apparently involves a mammoth pickup topper, a set of giant sawhorses, some railroad tracks and a fleet of Bobby and Steve's tow trucks.
Here's the raison d' etre from the proposal:
With an eye towards the recently-heralded Twins ballpark, which was lauded for its use of local materials, the Journal of American Rocket Science (JARS) took that concept several notches further, with a design inspired by local tradition, with a Minnesota cultural typology, and built with local basic materials. Vikings team owner Ziggi (sic) Wilf heralded the stadium design as "recalling the Vikings coach Buck (sic) Grand heritage," when Minnesota men stood by their team.
JARS designed the masterpiece to be built completely from materials available at Menards, fabricated by the box store's night crew. Menard's supervisor estimate the cost at three for $304,016.00, or one structure for $100,006."
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Tim Nelson is a general assignment reporter for Minnesota Public Radio News, and a 20-year veteran of local news. He's been covering the Vikings stadium issue since 2011.


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My favorite Rep production was The Time of Your Life in 2004, directed by Tina Landau. It was a stunning, heartbreaking, beautiful piece of theatre featuring an incredible ensemble cast and an artistic team that was in sync with each other in every way. It really exemplified the type of theatre-making that I love to participate in, both as a practitioner and a patron.
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About AndiSites
City of Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw, Georgia is a premiere destination for families and businesses looking to relocate in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The City's approximately 32,000 residents enjoy Kennesaw as a great place to live, learn, work and play.
Originally, AndiSites provided WordPress redesign and development (including conversion from Joomla). This project involved redefining Kennesaw's story from one focused mostly on history to a new, rebranded experience that more fully communicates Kennesaw's vitality, younger population, diversity, varied experiences, and opportunity. AndiSites extended that story in all aspects of the website, from refreshed content and streamlined navigation, to a much more intuitive, enjoyable user experience. We also created on online "Report a Concern" feature that allows concerned citizens to communicate concerns directly to Kennesaw departments.
In 2019, AndiSites redesigned the website again to reflect contemporary design trends; respond to the 39% increase in mobile users over the previous year; and promote the City's new brand.
Pam Davis, Communications Director, City of Kennesaw, GA
I can attest to how happy we are with the results produced by AndiSites. Andi and her team were partners in the process and kept us on track while still delivering a great design, intuitive navigation, and mobile-responsiveness. Municipal sites have specific challenges, but they were met and conquered efficiently by AndiSites.
From Pam Davis, previous Communications Manager for the City of Kennesaw:
Dollars Saved – By using a WordPress as the Content Management System, significant savings are realized versus using a company that specializes in government websites and uses proprietary software. Staff has the ability to make edits easily, promptly, and inexpensively and can shop around for plug-ins that provide exactly the functionality required at an affordable cost. Training is quick and the learning curve is short. Another benefit is that calls to city departments have been reduced because citizens get the answers to their questions on the site without needing to call.
Performance – Analytics from the previous site gave some very specific direction about what visitors were looking for, and by focusing on making the information they most valued more accessible and easier to find, the performance of the site vastly improved. Another main objective was to make the site responsive across all platforms and devices. The continued growth of accessing sites via cell phones made site responsiveness an absolute necessity. The site works effectively on big screens/monitors as well as small ones and operates well in any browser – Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox.
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Color/Appearance: Color tends to be a cream or pinkish brown color, but can also have dark red patches. Madrone is known for its burl veneer, which has many closely-packed clusters of knots and swirled grain.
Grain/Texture: Grain tends to be straight, with a very fine and even texture.
Endgrain: Semi-ring-porous or diffuse-porous; solitary and radial multiples; small pores in no specific arrangement, very numerous; heartwood deposits occasionally present; parenchyma absent; narrow to medium rays, spacing fairly close.
Rot Resistance: Madrone is rated as non-durable to perishable with regard to decay resistance.
Workability: Madrone is easy to work with machine and hand tools, and compares similarly to Hard Maple in working characteristics. The wood can be difficult to dry, and has a tendency to warp or twist. Madrone is an excellent turning wood, and also takes stains and finishes well. However, water-based glue joints should be thoroughly dry before further machining to avoid subsequent sunken glue lines.
Allergies/Toxicity: Besides the standard health risks associated with any type of wood dust, no further health reactions have been associated with Madrone. See the articles Wood Allergies and Toxicity and Wood Dust Safety for more information.
Pricing/Availability: Madrone is most often sold as burl veneer, which tends to be quite expensive. Madrone lumber, if available, is also expensive for a domestic wood species, easily costing more than other premium domestic hardwoods such as Cherry or Walnut: its price is likely to compare similarly to Myrtle, another Pacific-coast hardwood.
Common Uses: Veneer, turned objects, and other small specialty objects.
Comments: Madrone burl is highly prized as a decorative veneer, while Madrone lumber is a very dense and finely-grained hardwood that's similar in appearance to fruitwoods. The wood burns long and hot, and as a result it is also used for firewood and charcoal.
Madrone's botanical species name, menziesii, is in honor of Scottish botanist Archibald Menzies, who discovered the tree in 1792 during the George Vancouver Expedition—his name is also applied to Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii).
Scans/Pictures: A special thanks to Steve Earis for providing the burl veneer sample of this wood species.
Madrona has an appetizing sweet fruity smell when green. It's powerful–lasting in my car for several days after shuttling some rounds.
One of my favourite woods to turn. Oiled, it turns a lustrous redish brown.


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Blessed With 5 and now 6: Guess Who's Birthday Is Tomorrow?
Guess Who's Birthday Is Tomorrow?
Here are a few words to describe this darling boy!
Great soccer player, Math genius, Fantastic brother, Silly, Sassy, Curious, and Hilarious!
Only one more day, and this boy turns 11. We love you!
are a dear grandson. You are so funny and smart, and you almost always beat us at checkers unless we can get you sidetracked with TV. Also, you were a great "babysitter" to me after I had my "big fall" almost two years ago.
Happy Birthday Quinn. You bring us much joy. Have a wonderful day.


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How does the dial work?
Each side has a dial on the table to track points. For some reason I can't figure out how it works. Can you tell me how to advance this dial? Thanks.
To use it you would normally move your mouse over the number you wanted to change then holding the Left Mouse Button use E and Q to rotate the dial.
It looks like the bottom dial keeps trying to jump to the top for some reason so will probably need looking at to find out what set this off.
Thanks, yes I have the same experience with the bottom acting up. I will ignore the dial for now and test in again in a few weeks. If you know it has been fixed, please reply to this thread or via private message please. I will take note of the use technique.
This has been fixed by Berserk. So the Battle for souls scoring dials now will work as intended.


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Session times for 19.1 will be 5:30pm today, 2-4pm Sunday or any session on Monday.
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Sammy's support crew who made the trip to the Australian CrossFit Championships on the Gold Coast a few weeks ago.


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Syrian forces fire on protesters; 8 killed
Men throw stones at Syrian riot police during clashes in the coastal town of Banias on Friday, May 27.
NEW: A U.N. Security Council diplomat say there's no vote imminent on Syria
More deaths reported in southern towns
A total of five protesters were shot by security forces in a southern town, a witness says
Activist say about 830 protesters have been killed in recent months
(CNN) -- Syrian security forces fired on anti-government protesters in several southern towns Friday, killing at least eight people, organizers said.
Bullets flew in the early morning hours as hundreds took to the streets in Dael to chant for support of the military, separate from the security forces, said the witness, who refused to be named for fear of his safety.
A curfew was enforced until 6 a.m. and protesters at first were not allowed to pick up the bodies of their fallen, the witness said.
"They left our martyrs on the street and we couldn't evacuate them. Then they cut the power on the city ...," he said. "We went out and buried our martyrs -- the military still there, but the security forces gone. But they will be back again."
Four people were killed there, according to protest organizers, known as the local coordination committees of Syria. Three were killed in the suburbs of Damascus, and one death was reported in Al Zabadani.
CNN has not been granted access into Syria and is unable to independently verify witness accounts.
Will Syria be criticized at U.N.?
Since March, Syria has been torn by street protests against political repression and a fierce security crackdown against demonstrators.
The government's harsh actions toward marchers and its thousands of mass arrests have drawn widespread criticism.
Roughly 830 people have been killed in the protests, according to the Syrian Human Rights Information Link.
That number does not include security personnel, many of whom have been killed in attacks by "armed groups," according to the Syrian government.
Protesters have set up local coordination committees across Syria to organize the demonstrations, typically on Fridays, though they have been met with brute force on a regular basis.
Every week, the demonstrations have particular themes. May 20 was "Freedom" Friday in honor of the Syrian Kurdish protesters. This week's protests are themed around "Homeland Protector," in support of Syrian troops.
An e-mail from the coordination committees to participants says protesters will carry flowers for the soldiers and chant for the soldiers "to stand with them and support them."
"The protesters demand to their army that they should follow the lead of the Tunisian and Egyptian armies and defend the people against a group of mercenaries fighting for the regime."
The memo also warns against an even harsher response from security forces: "Because landlines and Internet are not working in many places, we are worried that the government repression of the demonstrations today may be severe. It will be more difficult than usual to deliver news out of Syria."
The clashes have spurred people to flee to other countries, such as Turkey and Lebanon.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials. This month, U.S. President Barack Obama singled out Syria for criticism during a speech on the Middle East.
Still, in contrast to the sweeping multi-national push against Libya and its embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi, there has not been any similar movement yet regarding Syria.
Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters Friday night that it was unlikely that there will be any U.N. Security Council vote on Syria through at least the end of May -- when France's rotation as the council president ends.
Another diplomat on the Security Council said Thursday that members did not want to submit a resolution only to have it vetoed by China or Russia, both permanent members of the council.
"As France, I think we would like a vote as soon as possible," Araud said. "But personally, I don't feel we are there."
CNN's Arwa Damon and Richard Roth contributed to this report.
Unrest in the Arab World
'Sons of Mubarak' in plea for respect
Pro-Mubarak supporters believe Egypt's former president is innocent of charges of corruption and killing protesters.
Timeline of the conflict in Libya
Fighting in Libya started with anti-government demonstrations in February and escalated into a nationwide civil war.
Who are these rebels?
After months of seeming stalemate, Libyan rebels declared they were moving in on Tripoli. But who are they?
Why NATO's Libya mission has shifted
Six months and more than 17,000 air sorties after it began, NATO's Operation Unified Protector in the skies over Libya grinds on.
Interactive map: Arab unrest
Click on countries in CNN's interactive map to see the roots of their unrest and where things stand today.
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Libya through Gadhafi's keyhole
Behind the official smiles for the cameras some people in Libya's capital are waiting for the rebels, reports CNN's Ivan Watson.
How Arab youth found its voice
Tunisia's Mohamed Bouazizi not only ignited a series of revolts but heralded the first appearance of Arab youth on the stage of modern history.


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Game #61 Preview: Tucson vs. Colorado
Game #61 – Tucson (30-23-5-2) vs. Colorado (33-24-4-1)
7:05 PM PST, Tucson Arena, Tucson, Arizona
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Referees: #19 Tim Mayer, #17 Peter Tarnaris
Linesmen: #20 Brent Hooks, #90 Mike Sarter
The Roadrunners host the Colorado Eagles tonight at Tucson Arena, marking the 11th of 12 scheduled regular season meetings between the two teams.
A gigantic night lies ahead for the Arizona organization against that of Colorado. For the Coyotes, a win in regulation against the Avalanche at the Pepsi Center would move them into a tie in points for the NHL's second Western Conference wild card spot.
For the Roadrunners, against Colorado's AHL affiliate Eagles, a win in regulation would move them to within two points of a playoff spot in the Pacific Division.
So far in the season series, the Roadrunners have posted a 2-6-2-0 record against the Eagles. Tucson has won five of its past six games overall, stringing together a 5-1-0-0 record.
While they're down! Colorado comes into the evening having dropped each of its last three games, scoring a combined two goals while going 0-2-1-0 during that stretch. That was preceded, however, by a nine-game win streak from February 26 - March 16.
Entering the night four points back of the Eagles for the Pacific Division's fourth and final playoff spot, the Roadrunners, as detailed above, have a prime opportunity to cut that gap in half with a win tonight.
All teams in the division are active tonight except for the sixth-place Stockton Heat. The second-place San Jose Barracuda host the seventh-place Ontario Reign, while the third-place San Diego Gulls host the first-place Bakersfield Condors -- both games scheduled for 7:00 PM starts.
CHAPUT COMING THROUGH: Michael Chaput, acquired at the NHL trade deadline, has been providing in a big way since joining the Roadrunners' lineup on March 8. The veteran forward is averaging a point per game with Tucson, registering eight (4G, 4A) in eight games played, including the primary assists on each of the game-winning goals scored last weekend.
SOPHOMORE SENSATION: Lane Pederson, who netted his first-career hat trick last Saturday, leads the Roadrunners in goals (19) and points (40). The second-year pro also leads the team in scoring against the Eagles this season, totaling seven points (4G, 3A) in 10 games played against Colorado. He is just the seventh player in franchise history to register at least 40 points with the Roadrunners in a single season.
STAY DISCIPLINED: The Eagles been penalized more than any team in the Western Conference this season, and the second-most in the entire American Hockey League. Their 1,040 total penalty minutes include 36 major infractions. The Roadrunners, on the other hand, are the third-least penalized team in the league with a total of 685 minutes and a league-low nine majors. Tucson is 19-8-4-0 when scoring a power play goal this season and 28-9-6-0 when netting two on the man advantage.
TWO: Adin Hill has held opponents to two goals or fewer in each of his previous six starts, and in 10 of his last 14. He ranks seventh in the AHL among qualified goaltenders with a 2.41 GAA.
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In 2014, Stewart A. Sutton was appointed by the President of the Montgomery County Bar Association to serve on the Circuit Court's Bench-Bar Committee.
Stewart A. Sutton lives in Gaithersburg with his wife, Dr. Janet P. Sutton, who is a health care researcher. They share their home with two furry friends: a Sealyham Terrier and a Scottish Terrier.


Just some random pictures from this weekend. Including the basketball games on Saturday.
Cameron can not stay up late. He tries, though.
Josh and I had a date night. We went to see Lone Survivor and loved it. Very intense and emotional. We went to three 7-11s looking for the individual wine bottles to sneak into the theaters. Shhhhh.
Yes I took a selfie. But I don't have any pictures of myself if I don't. The occasional selfie is ok, right? As long as I don't caption it with a bunch of hash tags.
Apparently Jackson can't hang either.


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Torn Between Two Lovers Chp. 2A
May. 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Title: Torn Between Two Lovers
Author: Dee
Chapter: 2A/3
Pairings: Dean/OFC, Sam/OFC, Dean/OFC/Sam
Genre: Threesome – Angst, Threesome – Drama, Threesome – Episode-Related Scene, Threesome – Established Relationship, Threesome – Hurt/Comfort, and Threesome – Romance
Disclaimer: The title for my navel lint hasn't arrived yet so please do not sue. This piece is meant for entertainment purposes only with no copyright infringement intended.
Summary: Alex is stuck between Dean and Sam during the year of the Crossroad's Demon's deal.
Series: Why We Fight
Author's Note: I'm getting back to the story line here for a bit here. I figured it would be interesting to see how she reacts to the boys fighting about Sam saving Dean's life, Dean finally deciding that he wants to try to live and wanted to take a crack at the boys separating like they did during Time Is On My Side. Each of the stories under the Why We Fight Series are one-shots. They do not tie into each other so enjoy them separately.
Spoilers: Season Three episodes; specifically Mystery Spot.
~ Mystery Spot ~
"Heat of the moment!"
Sam and Alex jolted awake when the alarm went off with the most nauseating song they had ever heard blaring into their ears. They looked with bleary eyes to find Dean jamming his head to the beat while he put on his boots.
"Rise and shine, Sammy!"
"Dude, Asia?" Sam asked as he sat up in bed.
"You love this song and you know it."
"Yeah and if I ever hear it again, I'm gonna kill myself," Sam grinned as Alex stretched with a groan beside him.
"What?" Dean shouted louder as he turned up the volume. "Sorry, I can't hear you."
"Dean, turn that shit down," Alex grumbled, pulling her pillow over her face and ears.
"What's that, babe?" he said in a louder tone with a smirk on his face.
Sam laughed when Alex threw her pillow at Dean. He swatted the incoming projectile away, pointed at Sam and lip-synced the words with his head jamming before he rose off the bed. Alex groaned when Dean grabbed her arm, pulled her upright and lifted her over his shoulder before he walked her into the bathroom.
Sam shook his head in wonder at how happy his brother seemed now that he decided to fight the contract on his soul. Alex's moods had lightened considerably since Dean found her in the woods after hunting Jeremy during their dream walk. Sam's family was happy for the first time in a long time. It felt foreign to him to see them this way but he reveled in it.
Sam made his way into the bathroom to find that Dean had dumped Alex into the shower. His brother was up unusually early this morning especially after their long night of taking turns making love to their lady. Sam quickly stripped down to join her under the warm spray. He wrapped his arms around her midsection to pull her back into his chest and kissed his way from her shoulder to her ear.
"Knock it off, you two," Dean smacked the shower curtain when he heard Alex moan. "Get cleaned up, I want to get breakfast before we head out today."
"Kill joy," Sam called out. "Last night was incredible," he whispered in her ear.
"Tonight will be too," she grinned before she took his mouth in a breathtaking kiss.
Dean let Alex slide into the booth before he took a seat next to her and across from Sam. He sighed with a smile looking up at the menu on the diner wall. "Hey, Tuesday. Pig-n-a poke," he glanced at Sam with a smile.
"Do you even know what that is?"
"You boys ready?" the waitress asked with her pad in hand.
"Yes. I'll have the special, a side of bacon, and a coffee," Dean told her.
"Make it two coffees and a short stack," Sam added once he got the headshake and a look of disgust on Alex's face. His lady had higher standards when it came to food and she generally stuck with coffee when they frequented these small diners.
"You got it," the woman said with a smile.
"I'm telling you, Sam, this job is small fry," Dean turned to his brother once the waitress walked off. "We should be spending our time hunting down Bela."
"Okay, sure. Let's get right on that. Where is she again?"
"Shut up," Dean leveled a gaze at his brother.
"Look, believe me, I want to find her as bad as you do," Sam reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out some papers. "In the meantime, we have this."
"All right, so this Professor…"
"Dexter Hasselback," Sam added. "He was passing through town last week when he vanished."
"Last known location?"
"His daughter says he was on his way to visit the Broward County mystery spot," Sam glanced between his brother and the still tired Alex.
"Where the laws of physics have no meaning," Dean read off of a pamphlet.
"Three coffees—black," the waitress strode up with a tray balanced on one hand and set out their three mugs. "And some hot sauce for the…" she began before the bottle slid off the tray and shattered on the floor. "Whoops," she frowned. "Crap, sorry," she grimaced with a smile at Dean before she turned and yelled, "Clean up!"
"Sam, you know joints like this are only tourist traps, right?" Dean snatched the paper from his brother's hand while they walked along the sidewalk. "I mean, you know, balls rolling uphill, furniture nailed to the ceiling. The only danger is to your wallet," he laughed.
"Okay, look. I'm just saying there are spots in the world where holes open up and swallow people. The Bermuda Triangle, the Oregon Vortex," he listed examples.
"The Broward County Mystery Spot?"
"Well, sometimes these places are legit," Sam argued.
"All right, so if it is legit, and that's a big ass if, what's the lore?"
"Well…"
"Excuse me," a young blond hugging a bunch of flyers to her chest mumbled to Dean after she accidentally bumped into him.
"The lore's pretty freaking nuts, actually," Sam continued while Dean glanced briefly over his shoulder. "I mean, they say these places, the magnetic fields are so strong that they can bend space-time, sending victims no one knows where."
"Sounds a little X-Files to me," Dean said skeptically while they passed some furniture movers on the walk.
"All right, I'm not saying this is really happening but if it is, we got to check it out, see if we can do something."
"All right, all right. We'll go tonight after they close, get ourselves a nice, long look," Dean gave in, knowing he couldn't sidetrack his brother from a job once he was set on it. He pulled Alex closer into his side and kissed her temple. "That okay with you, baby? I know you didn't get much sleep last night and probably want to catch a few more hours," he smirked against her hair.
"Tonight's good and keep up the wise-ass cracks and all you'll be getting tonight is sleep," she elbowed him in the ribs until he released her, allowing Sam to wrap his arm across her shoulders.
"This place is bullshit," Alex whispered with a lot of irritation while Sam and Dean checked out the building with their EMF device. "Can we go now?" she huffed with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Do you have any idea what you're looking for?" Dean asked his brother in an attempt to hurry him along.
"Uh…yeah," Sam nodded before he saw the scrutinizing looks on both their faces. "No."
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Dean spun around with his gun at the ready only to find a very skittish man with a rifle aimed right at them. "Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa," he held up his hands, letting his gun dangle from the trigger guard on his finger. "We can explain."
"You robbing me?" he aimed his rifle at Sam.
"Look, no one is robbing you," he said in a calm tone. "Calm down."
"Don't move!" he yelled at Dean when he clicked the safety on his gun. "Don't move!"
"Look, I'm just putting the gun down," Dean began to crouch down before the owner unloaded his barrels into his chest.
"Dean!" Sam moved to his brother's side, uncaring of the business owner any longer, and lifted his head off the floor. "Hey. Hey," he said with a shaky voice when he saw the blood on his brother and felt him labor for breath. "Call 911," he told the stunned man with the rifle.
"I—didn't mean…"
"Now!" Sam yelled before he focused on Dean.
"Baby," Alex placed her knees under his head, holding the sides of his face. She could feel the tremors in his body pass into hers. "No, please don't," she whispered, knowing the signs only too well.
"Hey, hey, oh," Sam said in near panic while his brother choked on the blood in his lungs. "No. No. No," his tears could be heard in his voice while Dean turned his cloudy gaze from Alex to him. "Not like this."
Dean felt himself begin to fade. His strength completely gone, he gasped for breath until everything went black. He could hear the two people he loved in this world one last time before all senses were lost to him.
"Dean," Sam said in a pain-filled tone.
Alex let out a heart-wrenching scream that shook the foundations.
"It was the heat of the moment!"
Sam and Alex jolted awake when the alarm went off with the most nauseating song they had ever heard blaring into their ears. Sam looked with confused eyes to find Dean jamming his head to the beat while he put on his boots. He didn't see Alex clutching her chest before she curled up on her side.
"Rise and shine, Sammy!" he smiled, tying his laces. "Dude, Asia."
"Dean," Sam whispered with wide eyes.
"Oh, come on. You love this song and you know it," he raised the volume and began to lip sync before he got off the bed.
Sam watched with his mouth hanging open when Alex threw her pillow at Dean. He swatted the incoming projectile away, pointed at Sam and lip-synced the words with his head jamming. Alex groaned when Dean grabbed her arm, pulled her upright and lifted her over his shoulder before he walked her into the bathroom.
"What's wrong with you today, baby?" Alex asked when he joined her in the shower.
"Just had a weird dream," he said softly before he kissed the top of her head.
She smiled over her shoulder at him before she glanced down at the dark bruises that formed on her chest.
Everything was the same. Brushing their teeth to Dean's gargling, everything was the same as his dream.
"What?" Dean asked when he felt his brother's eyes on him.
"I don't know," Sam said with a frown.
"You all right?"
"No. I think I…" he looked off in confusion. "Man, I had a weird dream."
"Yeah?" Dean mumbled while he picked at his teeth. "Clowns or midgets?"
It was the same at the diner. Sam was at a loss. Dean ordered the same thing. Alex made the same face. The waitress dropped the hot sauce but he caught it before it hit the ground. Sam felt like he wanted to hit his brother if he mentioned déjà vu again.
Alex listened intently with a furrowed brow while Sam got more and more agitated. It only got worse once they left the diner.
"Sam, I'm sorry," Dean shook his head while his brother stared at a barking dog. "I don't know what the hell you're talking about."
"Look, yesterday was Tuesday, right? But today is Tuesday, too."
"Yeah, no, good," Dean glanced at Alex with a worried expression. "No, you're totally balanced."
"So you don't believe me?"
Dean laughed before the blond bumped into him, making him release his hold on Alex.
"Excuse me," she said with a backwards glance.
"Look, I'm just saying it's crazy, you know even-for-us crazy. Dingo-ate-my-baby crazy." Dean rattled on while they walked down the street. "Hey, maybe it was another one of your psychic premonitions."
"No. No way, way too vivid," Sam shook his head. "Okay, look. We were at the mystery spot, and then…"
"And then what?"
"And then I woke up," Sam said hesitantly but failed to see the faraway look in Alex's eyes. They passed the furniture movers on the sidewalk again and Alex glanced back at them before her attention snapped back to Sam. "Wait a minute! The mystery spot," he held out his hands like he found the answer. "You think maybe it…"
"Maybe what?"
"We've gotta check that place out. Just go with me on this, okay?" Sam said in frustration when he saw the uncertainty on his brother's face.
"All right. All right," Dean agreed. "We'll go tonight after close, get ourselves a nice, long look."
"Wait, what?" Sam snapped, turning towards Dean with a hand out to stop him but placed it in Alex's path. "No."
"Uh…let's just go now. Right now. Business hours," Sam said in a rush.
"My God, you're a freak," Dean looked at his brother like he'd gone mad.
"Dean!"
"Okay! Whatever. We'll go now," his voice held that superior tone that he always had when he'd made a decision even if he was just agreeing with one of their better plans. He kept going up to the crosswalk, glanced down the street before stepping off the curb with Sam and Alex a step behind him.
Sam and Alex just reached the curb when a car came out of no where, hitting Dean, flipping him into the air before his body landed hard on the asphalt. "Dean!" Sam yelled and ran out to him. "Dean. No. No. No." He turned him over in his arms. "Come on. Dean," Sam gasped as he stared at his brother's bloody face before he glanced up at the old man who was driving the car. "Hey, Dean," Sam looked down into unseeing eyes and felt himself splinter once again. "Dean," he shook him. "Dean."
Sam and Alex jolted awake when the alarm went off with the most nauseating song they had ever heard blaring into their ears. Sam looked with stunned eyes, gasping for breath to find Dean jamming his head to the beat while he put on his boots.
Alex grimaced in pain before she gently ran her fingers over the bruises on her chest, arms and legs.
"Rise and shine, Sammy!" he smiled, tying his laces.
"Hey, Tuesday, a pig-n-a poke," Dean smiled at Sam.
"Look will you listen to me, Dean, because I am flipping out," Sam said in a low tone while he barely restrained his anxiety.
"Are you boys ready?" the waitress asked with her pad in hand.
"He'll take the special, side of bacon and a coffee-black. Nothing for me, thanks," Sam rambled off quickly.
"You got it," she said and wandered away.
"Sammy, I get all tingly when you take control like that," Dean teased.
"Quit screwing around, Dean," Sam said in frustration.
"Okay, okay. I'm listening now, you think that you're in some kind of what?"
"Time loop," Sam finished for him.
"Like Groundhog Day?"
"Yes, exactly like Groundhog Day."
"Huh," Dean nodded his head.
"It's just a little crazy. I mean even-for-us crazy," Dean laughed with a smile. "You know like…"
"Like dingo-ate-my-baby crazy?" Sam rushed out.
"How'd you know I was gonna say that?" Dean looked at him seriously.
"Because you said it before, Dean. That's my whole point."
"Coffee-black," the waitress set down Dean's mug. "And some hot sauce for the…" the bottle tilted on the tray and began to fall, "Whoops, crap," before Sam snatched it out of the air without looking and held it up to her. "Thanks," she said in a surprise, taking it from him to place on the table and wandered off.
"Nice reflexes."
"No. I knew it was gonna happen," Sam said through a tight throat.
"Okay, look," Dean settled his elbows on the table and spoke calmly to his disturbed little brother. "I'm sure that there's some sort of an explanation."
"You're just going to have to go with me on this one. All right, Dean?" he shook his head. "You just have to. You owe me that much."
"Calm down," Dean whispered when Sam's voice grew louder.
"Don't tell me to calm down!" he snapped louder. "I can't calm down because…"
"Because what?"
"Because you die today, Dean."
"I'm not gonna die. Not today," he said unbelieving.
"Twice now, I've watched you die and I can't," Sam's voice was filled with sadness as he shook his head. "I won't do it again, okay? And you're just gonna have to believe me," he looked into his brother's studying gaze. "Please."
"All right. I still think you're nuts, but…" he shook his head. "Okay, whatever this is we'll figure it out."
Outside, things were the same while Sam kept a close eye on everything around them. He could sense that Alex was in full hunt mode and wasn't quite sure why she didn't argue with him in the slightest in the diner. She accepted what he said readily and was prepared to help him do whatever was necessary to figure this out. He made a point of making a mental note to ask her why she had not doubted him.
They passed the barking dog, the blond bumped into Dean, and the furniture movers were still trying to get that desk in the door.
"And you think this cheesy ass tourist trap has something to do with it," Dean threw at Sam while they walked down the street.
"Maybe it's the real deal, you know? The magnetic fields bending space-time or whatever."
"I don't know. It all seems a little too X-Files to me."
"Well, I don't know how else to explain it, Dean!" Sam shouted in frustration.
"All right! All right," Dean conceded the point. "We'll go tonight after they close, get ourselves a nice, long look."
"No, no, no. We can't," Sam held out his hand, stopping their forward motion.
"Because you…" Sam said awkwardly.
"I what?" Dean asked until Sam looked at him knowingly. "I die there?"
"Blown away, actually."
"Huh," he seemed somewhat sobered by that thought. "Okay, let's go now," he turned to move to the crosswalk. Just as he stepped into the street, Sam and Alex both grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back just as a speeding car hauled by.
"Get out of the way!" the old man from the diner yelled out his window as he zipped on down the road.
Dean looked stunned before he laughed at his good fortune. He glanced at Sam, who exhaled and gave him another knowing look. "What, did he…"
"Yesterday. Yeah," he gasped.
"And?"
"And what?"
"Did it look cool like in the movies?" he asked with smirk.
"You peed yourself," Sam gritted out in an aggravated tone, making his brother's smirk fade.
"Of course I peed myself," Dean held out his hands and talked like he was giving them a lesson in life. "A man gets hit by a car, you think he has full control over his bladder? Come on!" he snapped before he looked both ways and cautiously crossed the street.
"Alex," Sam grabbed a hold of her forearm while they followed Dean, making her glance out of the corner of her eye at him. "How did you know to pull Dean back from stepping off the curb?"
"I just had a feeling," she whispered until she saw him arch a brow at her. "Okay, I don't remember the whole day like you do but I feel the pain inside me. Some how, I remember he dies or feel it or something."
"So I'm not alone in this?" he sighed, taking her face between his palms.
"No," she shook her head. "If this day starts over again, I won't remember what happens like you do but all you need to do to convince me is to tell me he dies. You aren't alone, baby," she stood on her tiptoes and kissed his lips.
The day did start over after that damn desk dropped on Dean's head like out of a cartoon. Sam went through his usual fight with his brother day after day to convince him that what he was saying was actually happening to him. It was a fight but true to her intuition, Alex remembered each death after Sam told her that Dean dies. She backed him up but did it with a wicked migraine.
The next Tuesday, Dean ordered sausage instead of bacon and choked on it. The next Tuesday, Sam refused to let them leave the room and Dean slipped in the shower. The next Tuesday, Sam brought in take-out food, tacos to be exact and Dean died of food poisoning. The next Tuesday, Dean electrocuted himself in the bathroom. The next Tuesday, Sam took an axe to the Mystery Spot, determined to tear it down. Dean thought he was out of control and tried to stop him, getting an unintentional axe to the head.
Tuesdays seemed to go on forever. They ended up back in the diner. Sam pick pocketed the old man's keys, placing them on the table and telling his brother he didn't want him behind the wheel. He told the waitress, Doris to log in more hours at the archery range because she was a terrible shot.
"Hot sauce," Sam said grumpily.
"Coffee-black," Doris placed the mug down. "Whoops, thanks," she said in surprise when Sam caught the bottle and placed it on the table.
"I knew it was gonna happen, Dean. I know everything that's gonna happen."
"You don't know everything."
"Yeah, I do."
"Yeah, right," they said at the same time. "Nice guess," the harmony continued with Dean looking at him in surprise. Alex just covered her eyes, tired of waking up everyday with more aches and pains and being told one of her lovers was going to die.
"It wasn't a guess," Sam said on his own.
"Right, you're a mind reader," they spoke in unison again. "Cut it out, Sam. Sam!" They leaned forward to speak in a hush across the table. "You think you're being funny, but you're being really, really childish. Sam Winchester wears make up. Sam Winchester cries his way through sex. Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by the bed… and every morning when he wakes up…"
"Okay, enough!" Dean shouted in frustration and gave in.
Sam proceeded to tell them his observations of all the diner's guests that he had witnessed over the past 100 Tuesdays. He told Dean he'd lived through it, seen him die every possible way unable to stop it and then he wakes up and it's Tuesday again.
"The dog," Sam mumbled while they walked down the street and the retriever began to bark. "Where's my dang keys?" he continued, ignoring Dean and the old man repeated the same thing searching for his keys in his pockets. "Excuse me," he said before the blond bumped into Dean.
Dean asked him if he ever did this and went back to ask the woman something. When he came back he had a flyer in his hand of the missing man. Sam ran back to talk to her, leaving Dean alone with Alex. She kept an eye out for anything that might hurt her beloved but Dean went to pet the dog while her back was turned.
"Hey, buddy. Somebody need a friend?"
"Dean?" Alex whirled around with furrowed brows before the animal growled and tore into her man.
Current Mood: crazy
fic: dean winchester/ofc,
fic: dean/ofc/sam,
fic: sam winchester/ofc,
fic: sn - dean/ofc,
fic: supernatural,


Helyszín: Dunaharaszti - Laffert Kúria, Fő út 172.
The great singer of the Vass Lajos Chamber Choir, Pappino (József Papp) is now playing with a pop music program in our institution with his friends.
Zorán, Charlie, Presser, Ákos, Magdi Rúzsa, Klára`s Katona songs are accompanied by Hobo, Tátrai Band, Kowalsky`s best works, early Bergendy and Fonographs.


It's useful to step back every now and then and survey the landscape. Change in anything can signal opportunities, threats, a necessity to adapt, or a need to get out.
Mobile banking: iPhones and Androids are all the rage right now, and one of the coolest developments of the last year is the rise of remote deposits. The ability to get a check into your account with nothing more than a phone is amazing. As soon as paying anywhere by phone becomes commonplace (it used to feel like science fiction), we'll have little need for wallets anymore.
Interest Rates: Rates continue to plummet which is bad news for savers and great news for anyone who needs to get a loan or refinance. Some mortgage rates are now cheaper than my "low-cost" school loan was 6 years ago. If you're able to borrow money today, it could be a very wise move.
Internet Use: Personal finance is spreading to the Web, though it's still for a small segment of the population. More and more friends are using sites like Mint.com to aggregate their financial lives. Closer to home, we are using YNAB 4.0's new Android App to sync our budgets on the go. As Web users grow more comfortable with having their financial information online, I think we'll see a rise of these services and an incredible market opportunity for anyone in this space.
Personal finance bloggers: There are literally more than 1,000 personal finance bloggers today, and the space is infinitely more crowded than when I started, and certainly more so than when the big boys began blogging. People are also more interested in simplicity and are more pressed than ever for time. The end result is that to the best of my perception, 95% of the personal finance traffic is limited to the "Top 10" or even Top 5 sites. Fortunately, I've also seen a handful of blogs rise quickly in the ranks to get into this top group, which means that voices are not being drowned out.
What did you observe this past year?
Thanks to "unlimited" QE3, we can expect interest rates to stay low for quite a while. From a fiancial markets perspective, serious thinkers like Ray Dalio believe that we are in a 10 to 15 year deleveraging cycle, which can be really painful for the economy.


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