Join some of your South End friends for the Third Thursday Cruise In and socialize over dinner.
This event occurs randomly throughout the year on the 3rd Thursday of the month. So dust off your Miata and line it up with others and have a sit. If you would like to be a host and have this event at a different location, let a board member know when you attend this month.
An eat-n-greet/socializing event; no car show (other than a neat row of parked Miatas & OTMs,) no competition (other than old-time "bench racing,") no business, no road run, just a chance to eat and mingle with other car enthusiasts.
Open to all Mazda Miata/MX-5 enthusiasts and anyone who enjoys sharing "car" stories. You do not need to be a PSMC member to attend.


The Coleman Instant Canopy 13 ft x 13 ft lets you get to the fun faster. A Coleman Instant Canopy takes just three minutes and three steps to set up. The 13 ft. x 13 ft. (3.9 m x 3.9 m) shelter is 169 sq. ft. (15.7 sq. m) of shade. The lightweight, telescoping poles with ergonomically-designed comfort grips make it easy for anyone to set it up because you don't have to reach above your head. The welded steel feet keep the shelter stable on concrete and asphalt. Once it's up, the two-way roof vents keep the air moving and the UV Guard feature offers Coleman's best protection from the sun. When you're done, the compact frame design fits inside most cars.
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Sir Richard Eustace Thornton,  KCVO, OBE (10 October 1922 - 7 January 2014) was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 2 May 1986 until 29 October 1997. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married to Gay and had four daughters.

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The 12 Most Insane Things You Can Buy on the Internet
Andre Infante ·
Many people feel compelled to waste their money on lame things like clothing, food and baby formula. Fortunately, besides allowing us to download porn at the speed of masturbation, the Internet has made it possible for us to buy virtually anything we can imagine, regardless of how ludicrous it may be.
We've always been under the impression that world domination was one of those things, like family and good health, that you can't put a price tag on. Well, a Japanese company called Sakakibara-Kikai has developed a commercial battle-mech called the Land Walker, which you can buy from their website for a paltry $350,000. So quit your praying: For less than you'd pay for a shitty Studio Apartment in New York City, that global reign of terror can be yours.
There is literally no other possible application for this machine.
The Land Walker is nearly 10-feet tall, weighs over two tons and has two guns mounted on either side of the cockpit, officially making it the greatest vehicle that has ever been built. We would seriously stomp around the neighborhood asking people if they had any errands we could run, just so we could run them in a giant robot.
"Bed Bath and Beyond? No problem."
Sadly it only moves about a mile an hour, so don't take the Land Walker if you need to get where you're going in less than two weeks. Also, the guns only shoot squishy pink balls, which is a confusing tactical choice to say the least.
"We checked, sir. These balls actually cost more than bullets."
It also can't walk on anything less than a completely flat surface, so try not to wage any battles unless they take place on an indoor basketball court.
A Celebrity
If you have obscene amounts of disposable income, and a propensity for mistaking your peers' disdain for admiration, the Millionare's Concierge will rent you celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio for your private events. The website is the online face of the "private party circuit," a shadow industry that celebrities use to pad their pockets after particularly damaging coke benders.
Did the bitchy girl nobody likes bail on your wedding at the last minute? You can replace her with Paris Hilton for a ball-shriveling $100,000 plus air fare in a private jet. Did you know that the guy who plays a celebrity on Entourage is in a band? Find out just how depressingly serious they take themselves first hand, with a "$35,000 private performance." However, in the category of misjudging the market of your own appeal, nobody can top Donald Trump, who rents himself out for private parties for $300,000 a fucking hour.
If those sound like deals that could possibly seem worth it to anyone, ever, keep in mind that the celebrity doesn't even have to pretend to like you, or even be nice to you if it's not spelled out in the contract. The good news is that if you keep a close enough eye on the market, there are deals to be had. Back in 2007, Tara Reid's private appearance fee dropped from $35,000 to $3,500 in the span of a single week. Still not worth it obviously, but market forecasters predict that it won't be long before Tara Reid will pay you $20 to drink wine coolers at your Fourth of July barbecue.
The Man-Lifting War Kite
Why bother paying off your car insurance this month when you could spend the money on a giant kite from 1902?
Really, why would you buy anything except this?
The people behind Kite and Wind evidently found themselves asking the very same question, and in response are heroically offering the Cody Box Kite on their website for a mere $50. Named for Sam Cody, the bona fide cowboy who invented it, the kite was originally designed to lift a fully-armed soldier more than twice the height of the Empire State Building, presumably to teach turn of the century schoolchildren about the dangers of impractical technology.
Or to teach them how to fucking rule .
Cody took his kite to England and sold it to the British military after a breathtaking display in which he hopped inside the kite and flew across the English Channel. He was given the title of Chief Kite Instructor (holding office alongside such colleagues as the Volleyball Kaiser and the Chancellor of Freeze Tag), and his inventions were used as observation decks in the first World War, allowing British soldiers to monitor enemy troops from a distance.
Because if you're going to spy on the enemy, you want to be inconspicuous.
Kite and Wind claims their product is "replicated to original design specs," so we assume it can only be operated by white male landowners seeking a better vantage point for shooting at Indians. They go on to assure us that the kite will "thrill not only the pilot, but everyone that's within eyesight," which of course refers to the spectacular crash that will result from anyone actually trying to fly in the damn thing and getting slammed into municipal power lines by a gust of wind.
The Mercenary Autonomous Paintball Turret
Essentially a computer with a paintball gun mounted on top of it, The Mercenary could very well be the future of backyard warfare. Even if you don't play paintball, the applications for a fully-automated robotic turret are enormous.
For example, the potential here defies description.
Using a sophisticated targeting system, The Mercenary can be programmed to fire based on parameters such as movement and color, and even has an adjustable aggression setting, making it ideal for home defense and only slightly less awesome on nights you set it up to patrol for burglars and forget that your girlfriend is coming over later after work.
If this gives you paranoid visions of a future in which thousands of Tickle-Me-Elmo's march past your house, outfitted with self aiming Mercenaries equipped with live ammo, rest assured that Zero-Ops' won't sell it to any supervillains ...
Also, a note from your mother saying it's cool.
Well, at least no supervillains who feel compelled to give a detailed outline to the teenage paintball enthusiasts who unwittingly designed their super weapon.
The Ability to Walk on Water
Developed by the aptly named company Water Walking Ball, the water walking ball allows you to walk on water... in a ball. For $500.
"Our parents spent our college money and we're going to drown! Hooray!"
Of course, that price tag is to buy your own ball. If you go to Water Walking Ball's main location in Myrtle Beach, you can spend $10 to ride inside one for three minutes, which seems a little short until you read a little further on their webpage and realize that the balls can only hold about 30 minutes of breathable air, which effectively ruins our plan to have a Cracked editorial team footrace across the Atlantic Ocean.
Also, this could be a problem.
Still, despite the steep price tag and limited oxygen supply, "poor and suffocated" is how most of us are going to die anyway. Might as well do it in a giant hamster ball.
Someone to Stand in Line for You
Further solidifying Americans as the laziest people in the history of the planet, Linestanding.com allows you to pay someone an hourly rate to go to a location and stand in line for you until you show up to switch places, at which point your rented person will return home contented with the fact that he or she has just been paid to literally do nothing but occupy space.
Like this guy.
While the service is intended primarily for congressional hearings, the website does say that it will provide a line stander at any location in the greater D.C. area, which last we checked includes both Fuddrucker's and countless irony-deprived soup kitchens. They also bafflingly offer "same day delivery" and claim to be the leader in line standing since 1985, which leads us to wonder who, precisely, is competing with them.
Tara Reid is once again fooled by a job description's use of the phrase "lines stretching around the block."
Powerskips
For anywhere between $400 and $2000, the Internet dares us to buy gas-cylindered, three-foot tall titanium devices called powerskips. Why would you want them? Because they let you run at incredible speeds and jump over cars, that's fucking why:
These cyborg kangaroo feet will turn you into a superhero, and most of us would throw an orphan into a volcano to earn that distinction. This website inexplicably offers both a standard and a pro version, because evidently there is a large enough market for robot speedboots to divide into amateur and professional classifications.
The only real drawback we can see is that if you slip or misstep, you're going to crack your head open at roughly the speed of sound, which isn't even that bad when you consider that the resulting obituary would be the single most entertaining thing ever published.
Between $600 and $1500 will buy you a Phoenix-Fly polyester bodysuit that allows you to glide through the air at incredible speeds, provided you can locate an airplane or cliff you're willing to fling yourself from and you have absolutely no reason whatsoever to live:
The suit basically turns your body into a giant birth defect complete with webbed armpits and a webbed crotch, so we figure anyone who willingly spends over a grand on one was probably going to jump off a mountain anyway.
Still, sort-of flying is seriously cool, despite the fact that to actually utilize your wingsuit you'd have to charter an airplane, which could wind up costing you just as much as the suit every single time you want to use it. So really, you might as well just send Phoenix-Fly your bank account information and throw yourself out of a helicopter. The end result will be the same and you'll save everyone some time.
And speaking of saving time, most of the suits can be put on in just three minutes, putting an end to those embarrassing emergency skydiving gaffes we all know too well.
The Levitating Hover Scooter
It's clunky, it's expensive and it looks completely stupid, but fuck it. It's a hoverboard.
Nothing says "fuck it, it's a hoverboard" quite like this picture.
The Levitating Hover Scooter rides around on a cushion of air created by using a rubber skirt to make an airtight seal against the ground. While it's possible to build your own using a few leaf blowers and garbage bags, you can always buy a preassembled one for $17,000 from Hammacher Schlemmer if you just can't wait to start looking like a douchebag from the future.
On the plus side, the Hover Scooter can travel up to 15-mph, which is slower than a bike but faster than walking, and completely free of any pesky exercise. It's essentially the Jetsons version of a Segway, or a giant Roomba with handlebars. Hammacher Schlemmer actually makes a Roomba, which sheds some light on the Hover Scooter development process.
"Stand on this, Ted. I've got an idea."
A Jetpack
Are you an adventure seeker with a small fortune and balls so big they have their own death wish? Just head on over to Jet P.I.'s website and buy a jetpack.
Unfortunately, the website has a little disclaimer saying that their jetpacks will only be sold to "qualified individuals who have undergone extensive training," giving young sci-fi fans a devastating introduction to the "need a job to get experience/can't get a job without experience" Catch-22 long before it ruins their mid-to-late 20s.
Jet P.I. doesn't provide a price for its retail jetpack either, probably because the number is so large it hasn't been invented yet, but its pilots are available for public appearances for anywhere between $2,000 and $25,000. So all's not lost, kiddo! For the price of a new Toyota you can watch a retired stuntman have the time of his fucking life.
A Tank
In the UK, when the army winds up with a surplus of armored fighting vehicles due to a redesign or a botched order, they gather the extras, remove their weapons and then market them to the general public. This is another way of saying "you can buy a tank, on the Internet."
We suddenly regret everything we have ever purchased up to this point.
According to this poorly maintained website written entirely in comic sans, all it takes to have your very own piece of armored joy is $60,000 and an import license. Accepted methods of payment include cash and wire transfer, because anyone buying a tank out of pocket using a mysterious European bank account is clearly a legitimate enthusiast and not Alan Rickman from Die Hard.
"Do you accept partially singed cash with blood on it?"
Sadly, tanks aren't exactly street legal, so unless you have a farm or a private island or something, you aren't going to get to drive it a whole lot without getting shot and/or going to jail.
Uranium, the heavy radioactive isotope that turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into craters and poisoned subsequent generations of their people, can be yours for about $200, which you may notice is less than the cost of an Xbox 360 and at least twice as bad for you.
Reading like an Overstock.com for supervillains, United Nuclear's website proudly states that no federal license is required to purchase their radioactive materials, and that their radiation counts are accurate and not affected by alpha radiation counts. Amazingly, at the time of this writing, most of their uranium stock is sold out, which makes us wonder what type of person makes bulk purchases of radioactive material over the Internet.
"Their prices are competitive but fair."
United Nuclear insists that its radioactive ores are only meant for scientific research and "professional collectors." While we're willing to believe there are people enthusiastic enough about tanks to buy them to drive around scaring the shit out of farm animals, we have to believe that the "professional uranium collector" demographic consists almost entirely of cat owning billionaires who have fed at least one secret agent to sharks.
When not writing articles for Cracked.com, Andre can be found furiously scribbling science fiction on the back of cocktail napkins at his website, www.ashtreehill.com.
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Like a brick. Keep the wing above you.
You'll need smooth air and precise brake control.
Can you get back up without dropping the wing?
On his 2nd day of kitting.
With low wind and/or small wing it is not easy to do this without bending your knees.


With a history of low voter engagement, Asian Americans have not been seen as an influential voting bloc. Despite 1.46 million new voters registered between 2012 and 2016, "voting rates among Asian American adult citizens (in the 2016 elections) remained low (49%) relative to whites and blacks (65.3% and 59.4% respectively) and was slightly higher than voting among Latinos (47.6%)," said Karthick Ramakrishnan, head of AAPI Data at UC-Riverside.
Exit pollsindicate an overwhelming 77% of Asian Americans leaning Democratic — an increase of 4% since Trump assumed office.
In Orange County, Calif., Vietnamese Americans were viewed as making a difference in close Congressional races. The county has the largest Vietnamese population in the United States. Republican Janet Nguyen was re-elected to her state senate seat in California's 34thdistrict, comprising Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Sri Preston Kulkarni, a first-time Democratic Congressional contender in Texas' 22nddistrict, spoke to voters in English, Hindi, Tamil, Mandarin and Vietnamese among other languages. His district has the highest number of Asian American voters in Texas.


When it comes to planning for a removal, the packing of your belongings is likely to be one of the more daunting tasks on your list. While Britannia Turnbulls' packing service can help with this process, the following advice on how to pack a box for a removal can help if packing alone/with family and friends or if there are boxes that need to be personally packed.
It will be an early surprise how much stuff needs need packing and the volume of stuff you actually own. At this point it is good to consider a clear out before your move. Make sure that there is a pile, box or bag ready for items that are ready to be thrown away and not part of the move. Following this, ensure that whenever a box is filled that any items have been recorded as packed and, if possible, in which box.
Having the correct materials for packing is half of the battle towards having an easy pack/move. This includes having the correct boxes that are sturdy enough to maintain a good level of weight. There is nothing worse than carrying a box to or from a house and it splitting open.
As well as having a good quality of box, having the right protective materials can help towards keeping your items safe during the move. This includes having blankets to wrap around any large items that you don't want to be scratched as well as bubble wrap for anything fragile. Other protective items that can help with packing is polystyrene chips and Styrofoam forms.
Labelling boxes may take a bit of time but is a worthwhile addition to packing in the long run. At the other side of your removal, knowing exactly which boxes go where and what items are in them will make unpacking quick and easy.
It is worth remembering that when packing boxes, they will need to be lifted to the removal van from the previous property to the new property. Firstly it is worth ensuring that none of your boxes are packed above a certain weight so that they are easy to carry. Our standard practice for this weight is 22kg but others vary. But the order in which the items are added is also important. Ensuring that heavy objects are packed at the bottom of the box will keep items safe within the box, make the box simpler to carry and make sure that the box doesn't topple over.
Make sure that some boxes are clearly marked as priority. An example of this is a box marked as last out and first in that is full of essential items that you will need on the last day of the property you are leaving behind and the first night of your new property.


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Kellyanne Conway Doesn't Do Words So Good
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Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway took to CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning to demonstrate to the American public that she truly has no grasp of the meaning of the word "magnanimous." No inkling whatsoever.
Discussing whether the President-elect would continue his ludicrous bid to prosecute Hillary Clinton for imaginary crimes, Conway revealed that her handle on English is perhaps no stronger than her tiny-fingered boss's. Sad!
"He's been incredibly gracious and magnanimous to Secretary Clinton, at a time when, for whatever reason, her folks are saying they will join in a recount to somehow undo the 70-plus electoral votes that he beat her by," she told host Dana Bash.
Let's first just clear up the definition of the word "magnanimous." From Merriam-Webster:
Hold that definition in your mind while you consider Le Trumplet's latest Twitter rampage:
Doesn't really square, does it? She also pooh-poohed the idea of Mitt Romney's potential appointment as Secretary of State. "He went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump," she simpered. "We don't know who Mitt Romney voted for." She did, however, remind viewers of the unwelcome fact that the only person selecting Donald Trump's appointees is Donald Trump. Chilling.
Not to be facile, but Trump tried to appoint Jerry Motherfuckin' Falwell as the Secretary of Education, reiterating once again his mission to staff his cabinet with the exhumed corpses of the literal worst people in America. He's equally likely to appoint Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani or an empty cup of grape Jell-O one of his aides pulled out of the trash. Hey, I've heard Bobby Beausoleil isn't doing much these days, maybe give him a call?
Is it? Is it ASTOUNDING? Is THIS what's ASTOUNDING? No. Astounding is this other tidbit from Conway's talk with Bash, on Trump's refusal to receive intelligence briefings.
BASH: But, Kellyanne, has he turned down classified briefings?
CONWAY: I really — I can't discuss that publicly. What I can tell you is that he is the most engaged individual I've ever met and brilliant to boot and he is certainly availing himself of the information as provided to him from a number of sources including those intelligence briefings.
Aaand once more:
We're going to need to rewrite the entire language. The one we have has been blunted by misuse.
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*NEW RELEASE SPECIAL* Review of NETGALLEY arc The Revenant Express by George Mann #Brainfluffbookreview #TheRevenantExpressbookreview
This is the long-awaited next book in this entertaining steampunk, gothic series featuring our two heroic crime fighters Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes.
Following their bloody encounter with the Executioner, Sir Maurice Newbury's assistant Veronica Hobbes is close to death. Desperate to save her life, Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia board a sleeper train bound for St. Petersburg, in the hope that Gustav Faberge might have the answer. But there are enemies on board, and Newbury and Amelia will need all their strength and cunning to survive the Revenant Express.
This is an action-packed read, given that it is only just over 250 pages long. Mann certainly manages to keep the tempo fast and furious as both Veronica Hobbes and Maurice Newbury are both attempting to tackle a terrible threat. Although I enjoyed the excellent action scenes, particularly on the train – I am a tad concerned about a major anomaly. We are told in the blurb that Veronica is close to death – so I actually reread the opening chapter in which she features, and at no time do we get a sense in her viewpoint that she's anything other than a tad cold and miserable while standing in the pouring rain. While close to death, she happily goes off to get involved in a demanding case with Sir Charles Bainbridge and doesn't mention feeling slightly unwell at any stage.
While in the ordinary run of things, this issues would be a dealbreaker, they aren't this time around, simply because I like the world and the characters so much. It doesn't hurt that this particular adventure is largely set on a train travelling across Europe, so a lot of the action doesn't impact the wider story arc. The gruesome nature of the infection causing all sorts of havoc presents a real danger to our trusty protagonists – and has Mann has already demonstrated that he isn't shy of killing off some main characters, I found myself paying real attention to the very dramatic fights.
That said, something clearly occurred that threw a major spanner in the works regarding Mann's writing. I hope he is able to get back on track to write the next exciting instalment, but if he can't or doesn't – that's okay, too. I do wince sometimes at the angry impatience of some readers while waiting for the next book. Everyone experiences major upsets in their lives – including authors in the middle of writing a popular series. In the meantime this series is recommended for fans of steampunk adventure with a gothic feel.
While I obtained an arc of The Revenant Express from the publisher via Netgalley, the opinions I have expressed are unbiased and my own.
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The Commercial Curmudgeon: Because "Palm Beach Research" sounds so legit!
First of all, am I really supposed to trust some guy who feels the need to start his presentation by pretending to shred a Social Security check and then can't figure out which camera he's supposed to be looking into? Shredding the check makes zero sense and doesn't make anything approaching an actual point- if he was railing against the inadequacy of the minimum wage and tried to "demonstate" his point by shredding a paycheck, would anyone react by thinking "hey, this is someone who has a valid argument, I need to listen to him?" If not, why would destroying a Social Security check add to anyone's credibility?
I think that the "point" he was trying to prove by pretending to shred a Social Security check is that he's a moron who thinks we're morons too.
Anyway, he goes on to explain that his idea comes from his "friend" Tom Dyson, who wrote a book about an obscure law allegedly signed by Ronald Reagan which we can get for free (just $5 for shipping charges) which I guess will tell us how we can get 70% more per month than that Social Security check we might as well shred because Reasons (Reasons in this case being "it's not very much, so it's nothing.") His "friend" has "given away lots of free books in the past," which is kind of a non sequitor considering that I know the difference between free and $5 at least as well as I know the difference between a small check and a handful of shredded papers. This "friend" of Tom Dyson- who I guess was too busy or too wise to the ways of the law to pitch his own scam- wants us to take advantage of this amazing offer but also warns us that his books have been snapped up quickly in the past and if we don't act very soon this one too will probably be gone before we know it so Better Click Right Now.
I suppose this junk is a cheap version of those "If You Live In (Insert State Here) You Can Save $25,000 a Year on Your Mortgage Using This Simple Trick" and "Doctors Hate Him Here's Why" ads which are forever popping up in the margins at Weather.com - just make a quick buck clickbait tossed out there in the hopes of nabbing a few very gullible fish. This one caught my eye because of the name- Palm Beach Research. It just sounds so awesome- like the "Correspondence College of Tampa" professor mentioned in an episode of The Simpsons as an expert on The UFO Conspiracy. It's got the word "Research" in it, so it must be on the level, right?
Oh, and just one more thing- I can't agree that if you're getting a Social Security check, you might as well just run it through a shredder because it's not very much money. I totally understand that it's not very much money, but you have to be a very special brand of peevish to respond to "not very much" by turning it into "nothing at all." If your Social Security check is an insult, please cash it anyway and give the money to people with less pride but a lot more common sense than you have. Let me know if you want my address. I have kids to feed.


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Pious and Pro-choice
By Rob Vischer
The Boston Globe reports on the increasing visibility of faith-based abortion rights advocacy groups. (HT: Open Book) An excerpt:
The religious abortion-rights movement, like the antiabortion movement, grounds its understanding of abortion in the Bible. Abortion-rights religious groups point to what they see as a telling silence in Scripture. ``Jesus never mentioned abortion," notes Paul Simmons, a Baptist minister and author of the forthcoming ``Faith and Health: Religion, Science and Public Policy." ``The apostle Paul wrote all these lengthy letters to the Greco-Roman world, where abortion was widely practiced, with lists of virtues and vices. If anyone was a common-sense moralist, Paul was." But the subject doesn't come up in his counsel, or anywhere else in the Old or New Testament.
In the antiabortion view, life begins at conception. Abortion opponents cite passages such as Jeremiah 1:5: ``Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you." Yet the other side contends that the Bible distinguishes between a person and a fetus. Exodus 21:22-25, for instance, stipulates the punishment for accidental harm done to a pregnant woman. If she miscarries as a result, a fine is owed to her husband. If she herself suffers injury or death, however, ``the penalty shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth."
The religious abortion-rights movement stresses that it presents these biblical readings not to promote abortion, but to endorse it as an option. The movement works toward what it calls true ``reproductive choice," envisioning a society in which education and contraception prevent unintended pregnancies, and widely available healthcare and child care foster conditions supportive of childbearing. The religious right, they charge, has largely neglected these goals in favor of pressing the fight against abortion.
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The French market for agricultural machinery grew in 2017 according to AXEMA's annual report.
In the space of 30 years, three crises disrupted the agro-equipment industry, with a drastic effect on the production levels: -24% in 1993-1994, -28% in 2009-2010 and –24% in 2016. Axema, the French association for agricultural machinery, points out that the latest of these was the result of an overall decline in the farming industry sector due to the cereal crisis. A year later, growth returned to all the sectors and the production of agricultural machinery increased by 5.4%. This growth is also observed in a significant increase in industry sales: + 10.1 % in 2017, following three years of decline.
Standing at 42.2 billion euros in total, France is the third largest producer of agricultural equipment in Europe. However, it continues to occupy the top position first in terms of trade in agricultural machinery. Furthermore, the agricultural equipment market in France (= production - exports + imports) was worth 5.1 billion euros in 2017, a 1.1% increase compared to 2016.
In 2017, global trade in agricultural equipment contributed to the dynamism of the sector. The import market represents 55 billion euros, including 54.1% into Europe. The export market reached 48 billion euros including 61.1% from Europe: tractors and landscaping equipment being the most exported products. Germany remains the leading supplier of tractors with 22% of market share, followed by the United States (12%) and Italy (10%).
The recovery of mature markets such as Europe and the United States compounded by the return to growth of emerging markets, fuelled the world business climate index which translates the proportion of industry stakeholders who expect to see their business grow in the next 6 months. Between 2014 and 2016 the index had declined, forecasting lower worldwide sales. These new figures indicate "the first signs of market recovery" emphasises Axema.


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A one-day conference was organized on the international women's day, Tuesday, 8th March 2016, by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Women in Science Chair at the Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. The conference was organized to highlight the contributions of Pakistani female researchers in scientific and social development of the country.
The conference started with recitation of few verses from the Holy Quran. Prof. Dr. Bushra Mirza, the ISESCO Women in Science Chair, briefed the delegates about the objectives of ISESCO as an organization, and the idea of highlighting the achievements of female researchers. She briefed the audience of establishment of a dedicated ISESCO link on the Quaid-i-Azam University website (http://isesco.qau.edu.pk/); the site contains short profiles of the most productive female scientists of Pakistan. The site has been designed to facilitate interaction among the female scientists of the country. Speaking at the occasion, Prof. Dr. Anwar-ul-Hassan Gilani (SI), Chairman, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), applauded the organizers on arranging this conference and bringing together researchers from very broad categories: Biological Sciences and its sub-disciplines, Natural Sciences and its sub-disciplines, and Social Sciences and its sub-disciplines. He also gave a brief introduction about PCST and the role PCST is playing in up-bringing the science and technology in Pakistan.
Speaking at the occasion, Prof. Dr. Rabia Hussain (Agha Khan University, Karachi; key-note speaker for the biological sciences session) highlighted important features of an international research program on infectious diseases, with a special focus on tuberculosis and leprosy. Prof. Dr. Bina Siddiqui (University of Karachi; key-note speaker for the natural sciences session) discussed her achievements on identifying and patenting natural products obtained from plant sources. Dr. Rubina Saigol (writer; key-note speaker for the social sciences session) deliberated the role which women researchers have played in developing the social sciences discipline.
The session was followed by the poster session and tea break. About 70 posters were at display, belonging to all three sessions of the conference. The poster presenters briefed the audience about their research.
The oral presenters included: Dr. Rani Faryal (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad) and Prof. Nikhat Ahmed Siddiqui (Zia-ud-Din University, Karachi) to represent the Biological Sciences; Dr. Naveed Kausar Janjua (Quaid-i-Azam University) and Dr. Rumana Qureshi (Quaid-i-Azam University) to represent the Natural Sciences; while Dr. Naseem Razi (International Islamic University, Islamabad), Prof. Wasima Shehzad (Air University, Islamabad), and Dr. Yasmeen Maan (Lahore College for Women University, Lahore) represented the Social Sciences session. Dr. Aneesa Sultan of Department of Biochemistry served as the stage secretary. Prof. Dr. Bushra Mirza thanked the attendees. Certificates and shields were distributed among the presenters. The final session was followed by the conference lunch.
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Mechanical problem of the engine.
Faulty exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) Solenoid.
Faulty purge control solenoid valve (PCSV).
Faulty air flow sensor (AFS).
Testing this problem using the "self–diagnosis" function in the serial diagnostic tool did not reveal a problem. Using the PicoDiagnostics cylinder balance test also did not work this time (as there was no cylinder showing low piston speed although there was a misfire in a specific cylinder).
We decided to use the PicoDiagnostics compression test to check for a mechanical problem in the engine.
In the above screen capture you will see that PicoDiagnostics showed that cylinders B, D, and E (which we will call Bank 2) were at 81%, 80%, and 80% compression, while cylinders A, C, and E (which we will call Bank 1) showed all cylinders at 100% compression. If the compression leakage had occurred from a valve or piston ring we would not see this level of compression from the Bank 2 cylinders on the engine.
Now we could narrow down the problem for the timing issue. We compared camshaft sensor of Bank 1 cylinders and Bank 2 cylinders, and the crank angle sensor.
When we see the waveform above we can tell that Bank 2 camshaft sensor is 7 teeth behind the Bank 1 camshaft sensor.
It is now clear to us that somebody has completed incorrect timing work while repairing this vehicle. The ECU had adjusted excessively well which is why there seemed to be no acceleration problems. This car had been moving from workshop to workshop to find out the real problem, which we found with our PicoScope.
It may have been easier to detect this problem if the previous garage (transmission repair center) had explained to our workshop that the customer had also felt slow transmission change (due to a low engine output), but even without this information we were still able to successfully diagnose the problem on this vehicle, thanks to our PicoScope.
When the temp decreases to fall temp the vehicle will not start (elevtrical. During warm weather car works perfectly The battery is new. It feels like the motor uses power only from the battery and does not charge the battery or allow the battery to charge It was fine all summer but is faltering now in cooler weather as it did last year.
gracias por sus datos son muy interesantes, quisiera apoyar a este foro pero mi problema es que no hablo el idioma ingles, y eso me tiene detenido en mis comentarios un saludo y mis mejores deseos para todos ustedes.
great work ... can you please tell me if you did a vacuum test before and after and what the vacuum was before the repair just thinking if the very basic done like checking vacuum before getting out scan tool and pico scope because most times you can see lower vacuum when timing is out ..
Well done,very good explains ,but I think if the timing were out that far you should get a fault code A cam sensor implausible signal or faulty ex. I have seen this fault many time .
This is another great example of both the use of Pico, and an effort by someone to show the advantages of the scope. May I be slightly pedantic to start with?
There is a slight contadiction, or wrong choice of description if I may say so, as during cranking - hot or cold - the engine hasn't actually started! In my book, "Cut-out" would be associated with an engine which has already stopped cranking; has started, and then stopped.
That out of the way, it was good to see that a list of possible causes was considered. This is most important and should if possible include the maximum mount of information from both the customer and anyone else who has had a play beforehand. The latter is always more difficult and often 'fragile' since since it often represents a failure of someone else to find the fault, meaning that they are not going to be too keen to admit the fact; nor to assist!
In this case, an important point noted early on was that a serial diagnosis with a scan tool revealed 'sweet fanny Adams.' The point here is that this is often the case; but more importantly, even if a scan tool does reveal a code - or several codes - it is often difficult if not impossible to be SURE of the problem, or the cause of the problem. It's the latter we must always focus on, and for that we need some sound and logical proof. This basically what the scope allows us to do: to prove a suggested or suspected problem.
All too often we tend to rely on the scan tool, and that either through lack of understanding of how it communicates with the various systems, or even how a system or group of systems communicate. We need to understand strategies of systems; how and when they interrelate, as well how they don't or can't because of a lack of infoirmation; a lack of communication; wrong or suspect information, etc. Most of this information is coming from various sensors and often shared by numerous systems; themselves usually linked by a communciation Bus,which may or may not be working at the time of testing. Not always easy!


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Engagedly Inc. Wins Big with Six Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards 2021
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Engagedly Inc., a leader in performance management and employee engagement software, won five Brandon Hall Tech Awards announced on 9th December 2021. Brandon Hall Technology Awards conducted by Brandon Hall Group, is a leading independent Human Capital Management Research and Analyst firm.
Brandon Hall Award 2021
Engagedly won:
Gold in 'Best Advance in an Integrated Talent Management Platform' and 'Best Advance in Performance Management Technology', Silver in 'Best Advance in Rewards and Recognition Technology' and 'Best Advance in Technology Innovation for the Remote Workforce', and "Future of Work" Bronze in 'Best Advance in Social Talent Management Technology'.
Engagedly helps organizations digitize their performance management and improve employee engagement. Engagedly's cloud platform is built to enable your teams, execute your strategies, and engage your employees. It offers an easy-to-use and comprehensive set of features to ensure that people's reviews are effective and easy, so that employees stay engaged and productive.
"It's an immense honor to be associated with a passionate team at Engagedly to help other organizations build a better, more fulfilling workplace. Winning these awards is a testament to the vision of our team and our client partners, who share in that vision," said Sri Chellappa, President/Co-founder of Engagedly.
"Technology has never been more critical for success in human capital management than it is today. We were thrilled to see many new innovations in all areas, but especially related to the future of work," said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer and awards program head Rachel Cooke. "Thanks to the many innovations from our Excellence in Technology winners, organizations have many compelling options as they make important decisions on how to leverage technology to drive their people strategies."
"HCM solution providers must be experts and visionaries in technology, but they also must have the ability to anticipate the diverse needs of employers as they work to adapt to ongoing change," Brandon Hall Group CEO Mike Cooke said. "This requires a blend of curiosity, empathy and agility that is difficult to achieve. We have seen an extraordinary level of insight and creativity from our Excellence in Technology winners that has been exciting to see."
A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries based upon the following criteria:
Unique differentiators
View the complete list of winners here.
About Engagedly
Engagedly is a fast-paced growth provider and an award-winning talent management solution provider. Built upon best practices and decades of research, Engagedly's People + Strategy platform is evolving performance management, development and engagement to drive successful organizational outcomes across the globe. Engagedly's E3 unified platform combines the power of business strategy execution, talent enablement, and employee engagement into one easy-to-use software solution.
To learn more about Engagedly, visit: https://engagedly.com/
About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.:
Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.
Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement. (www.brandonhall.com)
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Janelle's services are absolutely worth every penny, and we couldn't have been more ecstatic to have her as our photographer!
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Vest, George Graham
George Graham Vest
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George Graham Vest (Congressional Biographical Directory)
VEST, George Graham, a Senator from Missouri; born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., December 6, 1830; graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1848 and from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1853; admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Georgetown, Mo.; moved to Boonville, Mo., in 1856; Democratic presidential elector in 1860; member, State house of representatives 1860-1861; judge advocate with the Confederate forces in Missouri in 1862; served in the house of representatives of the Confederate Congress from February 1862 to January 1865, when he resigned, having been appointed to fill a vacancy in the Confederate Senate; resumed the practice of law in Sedalia, Mo., in 1865; moved to Kansas City in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1885, 1891 and 1897 and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); due to ill health, retired from public life and resided at Sweet Springs, Saline County, Mo., until his death on August 9, 1904; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
"Vest, George Graham," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000091.
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TB Tasha Brewer Oct 24, Not Helpful 6 Helpful Allow your body to flow with what it wants and whatever works for you in the moment. SS Shatakshi Singh May 20, There are many different health benefits to mantra meditation including lower blood pressure and heart rate, decreased anxiety and depression, less stress, and greater feelings of relaxation and general well-being. Else-Vet Recommended for you. You may create more than one for different desires.
Mar 20, Discover the neuroscience behind why mantras make potent additions to your yogic practices, and find one that works best for you. Dec 23, A mantra is a word, sound, or phrase repeated to aid in your concentration while using a mantra, it's believed that only the.
Oct 26, The power of mantra has been used for thousands of years by different cultures. But how do you find a mantra?
We will show you and you can.
Chanting itself can be a form of meditation, but you can also choose to transition from chanting meditation to a silent meditation. You can meditate in any position, as long as you feel comfortable and alert.
Thoughts, beliefs and images in your mind will never stop, but the conversations that you choose to have with them will be more helpful and liberating with the practice of your own, personal mantra. Mantra meditation has become increasingly popular in recent years.
Figuring out why you want to use mantra meditating will help you identify the best mantras to chant and time to dedicate to your meditation practice. Read on for tips about picking the right mantra for your meditation! Think of something that you would like to achieve spiritually through your meditation.
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It can be but it seems that you will be distracted by the sun's rays unless it's not that bright.
You can write it repetitively. There are many reasons why you might get tensed up during meditation, but the most likely reason is that you are too distracted by your existing thoughts, so you need to meditate more in order to learn how to overcome this distraction.
Try to name all of the sounds you hear and thoughts you are having. I feel so much more confident.
Mar 8, It's time for mantras to lose their New Age-y stereotype.
The word mantra originates in Sanskrit and has been translated in English in various. TM is practised by silently and effortlessly thinking a mantra or sound, which has been passed on during personal instruction by a fully-trained teacher following.
Feb 4, We all know how worry and anxiety cause such great distress in our lives, yet few of us know how to use a mantra to build a different mental.
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Double check that you are using positive phrasing. Then, create a phrase that encompasses this desire. Mantra — How To Choose a Mantra.
On the apps data screen Try to name all of the sounds you hear and thoughts you are having.
Yes, you can perform mantra meditation any time of the day. VK Vimal Kumar Jun 23, You will have good days and bad days and accepting this is part of the meditation journey. The more you practice, the more your mantra will be ingrained in your unconscious mind and it will show up when you need it the most. Then, focus on your breathing and begin chanting your mantra.
Jun 23, Mantra is an ancient meditative practice that aids in creating an optimal experience.
Sakara, translated to the manifestation of thoughts into. Dec 21, In mantra meditation, you repeat a particular sound or short phrase again and again.
This can be done out loud (chanting), in your mind, or in.
Jul 19, A mantra is a word or sound used in meditation, but your own personal word can be used in everyday life to influence and inspire you.
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You can speak, sing, or yell it out loud to the universe.
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Oh No, Romo: The One Guy Dallas Can't Afford to Lose
by Bill Barnwell
Only one thing was ever going to shake the NFC East–leading Dallas Cowboys. Although they would surely suffer if they lost the likes of DeMarco Murray or Tyron Smith, there's just one truly irreplaceable player on their roster. The sole thing the Cowboys had to worry might drag them back down to the depths of the NFC's also-rans was a serious injury to Tony Romo. On Monday night, for an hour or so, that fear was briefly realized. Losing to Washington is one thing. The idea of losing Romo is another.
That two minutes during which Romo was down on the turf without moving had to be harrowing for everybody involved. I suspect if you were watching the game with Cowboys fans and were able to interrupt their prayers during the commercial break, they would have happily taken a loss on Monday night if it meant also keeping a healthy Romo. They appear to have come away with both.
Romo went down for several minutes and disappeared for most of the second half, only to come back with 1:52 left in the fourth quarter to deliver a relatively shaky performance over Dallas's final two possessions. Romo fumbled the ball during pressure from Brandon Meriweather and threw a dead-to-rights interception into the hands of impressive Washington rookie cornerback Bashaud Breeland, only for both of those footballs to somehow end up in the grateful grasp of Cowboys players. Romo was limited to quick hitches against Washington's big blitzes, was unable to elude pressure, and eventually had his final pass of the game knocked away by Breeland for a Washington victory.
It's unfair to say the outcome occurred solely because Romo was injured. The Cowboys were already struggling to deal with Washington's big blitzes, with each of Dallas's first two drives ending on sacks. Those heavy blitzes should have allowed Romo to eventually take a shot downfield to Dez Bryant or Terrance Williams, but that bomb never came. Romo's only completion on a throw of 15 yards or more downfield, per the NFL's gamebook, came on that would-be interception that slipped through Breeland's hands. Replacement Brandon Weeden, who went 4-for-6 with a touchdown to Jason Witten in relief of Romo, didn't even attempt such a pass.
A steady dose of blitzes is right up Washington defensive coordinator Jim Haslett's alley, and it's also just what the doctor ordered to slow down the Dallas passing attack. Every passing attack declines in the face of opposing blitzes, but the Cowboys have been downright great when teams have laid off, and just mediocre throwing the football when teams have sent pressure, per ESPN Stats & Information:
Y/Att
QBR Rank
No Blitz 116 164 70.7% 1,397 8.5 7 4 91.8 2
Blitz 53 84 63.1% 524 6.2 9 2 53.9 17
Romo (and Weeden) have been able to produce scores against big blitzes, but those have mostly come from what their receivers have been able to do after the catch. Never the best tackling team, Washington did an effective job wrapping up Dallas's receivers in the open field.
It's an open secret that Romo is far from 100 percent these days, even before last night's injury. Although his previous brush with injury this season was unrelated to his problematic back — he stayed down after a big hit to the ribs from Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner in Week 6, but didn't miss any snaps — his back has definitely bothered him at times.1
The hope was that those back problems would get better as the season went along, but big hits like the one he took Monday night can't help. Romo was diagnosed with a back bruise and doesn't appear to have any long-term structural damage from last night's hit, but it has to be troublesome that he needed a painkiller shot to go back into the game and looked far from his best after returning. Assuming Romo can play next week, he'll be suiting up against the blitz-obsessed Arizona defense, which will surely use what Washington did to him as a field map.
One reasonable question I saw after the loss was whether the Cowboys should have brought Romo back into the game after his injury. Some of that is an ex post facto argument; if the Cowboys could have known that the Romo who came into the lineup was as limited as he was, and that they would lose anyway, it's fair to say they would have invited him to lead tours of the stadium's art installations for the remainder of the evening.
I don't think you could blame the Cowboys if they had kept Romo out, given that it's October and one of the few things capable of derailing their playoff push would be a long-term injury to him, but nobody enjoys seeing too much of Weeden. The 31-year-old backup didn't play horribly by any stretch of the imagination, but he couldn't capitalize on a 51-yard Murray run that set up first-and-goal, and the touchdown drive he led consisted mostly of a 23-yard screen pass to Murray and a 25-yard touchdown pass to Witten on a brutally blown Washington coverage. You can't complain too much, given that Weeden was at the helm for two possessions that produced a total of 10 points, but Weeden's history in Cleveland should inform the arguments against keeping Romo off the field.
If something were to happen to Romo that kept him out for any stretch of time, the Cowboys would basically be stuck with Weeden the rest of the way. Their third-stringer is rookie undrafted free agent Dustin Vaughan, a Division II star at West Texas A&M. Last year's backup, Kyle Orton, left under acrimonious circumstances and is now the starter in Buffalo. A previous backup like Jon Kitna could theoretically be an option, but he hasn't thrown an NFL pass since 2011.
It's so Cowboys to imagine Jerry Jones giving into temptation and dealing a future first-round pick to the Browns for Johnny Manziel, but a trade is unlikely. Manziel would have to learn the Dallas playbook, so even if he were a fast learner, it would take him a few weeks minimum to be ready to start under center. With so many cooks controlling different aspects of the Dallas offense, it's hard to really identify a quarterback outside the organization who would be able to take over quickly if the Cowboys lost Romo. The only option that might make sense is Rams backup Shaun Hill, who played under passing game coordinator Scott Linehan in Detroit. Even though the Romo injury happened hours before Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET trade deadline, it's hard to imagine Dallas making a trade for a quarterback.
Instead, the Cowboys might hope to use the $3.9 million in cap space they have left to acquire a linebacker. While Dallas was happy to see Romo make it back onto the field without suffering a serious injury, the team wasn't quite as lucky on the defensive side of the football. Jones said after the game that outside linebacker Justin Durant tore his biceps in the second half, an injury that should keep him out for the remainder of the season. The Cowboys have already used their short-term IR spot on defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, which makes it likely that Durant will soon hit injured reserve.
The rangy Durant had been an unsung contributor on the weak side this season. He led the team in tackles Monday, despite missing all of the fourth quarter and overtime, and there's no obvious replacement for him on the roster. At the moment, it looks like 2012 fourth-rounder Kyle Wilber, who had played just 21.2 percent of the defensive snaps before Monday, will move into the lineup. Dallas defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli has done an incredible job of piecing together a competent defense from spare parts, but Durant was one of the few players of any pedigree in the Dallas front seven. He'll be missed.
While the loss does break Dallas's six-game winning streak, it shouldn't be too alarming for Cowboys fans. The chances Dallas will make the playoffs are still pretty strong. Since the league went to its current playoff format in 2002, teams that started the year 6-2 have made the playoffs 79.3 percent of the time. Then again, the NFC East leader as of Week 8 has finished that year winning the division only once in the past five seasons, and that team — the 2011 Giants — started 6-2 before losing five of its next six games. The 2012 Giants started 6-2, finished 9-7, and missed the playoffs altogether. And Dallas actually led the division at 4-4 a year ago, only to lose out to Philadelphia in Week 17.
Given that their running game remains proficient and their defense continues to hold up, the Cowboys shouldn't collapse. If they lose Romo, though, even the combination of Murray and Marinelli might not be able to save them.
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Lamarred
Late in the fourth quarter of Chicago's 51-28 loss to New England on Sunday, Bears defensive end Lamarr Houston went unblocked on a play-action pass and sacked backup Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo for a loss of 11 yards. As he bounced away from Garoppolo after the sack, Houston decided to leap into the air and strike a pose. Coming down, Houston's knee buckled. A scan on Monday revealed that Houston tore his ACL, an injury that will bring his first season with the Bears to a close.
The sight of Houston going down with an injury brought cheers from those left in the stands in Foxborough, which speaks to a weird moral compass among fans in a league that already requires some suspension of morality to enjoy. The vast majority of fans aren't cheering injuries to the opposing team in 2014. Even Eagles fans politely applauded in support of Victor Cruz when the Giants wideout suffered a knee injury several weeks ago; they also closed ranks on a Philly sports talk radio host who made light of the incident on Twitter. The only other recent incident of fans cheering at the sight of an injury I can remember is when Texans fans cheered Matt Schaub's ankle injury last season.
Patriots fans haven't been lambasted for cheering Houston's injury, because it was self-inflicted. Apparently, because Houston celebrated at a time players aren't supposed to celebrate — trailing late in a blowout — he deserved to get hurt. That's nonsense. Booing a guy for celebrating out of some opinion that he's not grasping the bigger picture is one thing. Joking about an injury like Gus Frerotte's head-butt of the stands years later? Even that I can understand. But cheering the moment a player exhibits signs of an injury, while he's actually in genuine pain? That's pretty vile.
It's ruthless and obnoxious for another reason: You don't need to be a football player to get hurt doing something dumb. We all get injured in totally innocuous situations or while doing stuff we shouldn't be doing. If you haven't suffered some sort of serious injury out of nowhere with no rhyme or reason, you're either lying or you're next.
The Houston incident made me think about my own weird knee injury. I went to an Oktoberfest event at a local brewery, and after having a few drinks, I decided to embark upon the apparently challenging quest of walking to a bar to continue the night. Sadly, I found myself confronted by an unnavigable obstacle and was defeated by, yes, a curb. I stepped off that curb without realizing the sidewalk had ended, put my foot into a ditch, and felt my knee bend and wrench at an impossible angle.
Sadly, my friends were too drunk to realize (or perhaps care) that my knee had failed the curb test, and I was too drunk to realize that I should probably skip the next bar. I somehow ended up breaking up a fistfight on one leg before heading home, at which point the knee swelled. I later found out that I had gotten off lucky, with just torn cartilage and sprained ligaments. I was basically (more) immobile for a couple weeks, and the knee still bothers me years later. Lamarr Houston lost to a patch of turf. I lost to a curb.
Outside of getting concussed by a knee to the temple from a very small crowd-surfing girl at a show by Long Island pop-punk icons the Movielife in New York around the turn of the century, stepping into a ditch caused probably the most embarrassing injury I've suffered. I asked about your knee injuries on Twitter, though, and it led to a treasure trove of accidents and mistakes. I've put together the best of the worst.
The vast majority of the injuries were incidents suffered while participating in activities that aren't really sports:
@billbarnwell sprained both knees playing intramural football while I had staples in from my appendectomy, was too embarrassed to see doc.
— Jay (@loqiel) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell Broke my finger at bball, outta frustration kicked a chair…tore my ACL.
— Luca Timmich (@Lutze2910) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell Pre-game intro line for senior yr HS basketball, tripped on warm-up pants, fell & popped bursa sack in knee & missed key game
— Kevin Bell (@dingerc) October 27, 2014
To be fair, there's nothing he could have done about that. No way you can warm up for a basketball game without warm-up pants. You probably can't even shoot layups without them on, if I'm remembering correctly.
@billbarnwell Tore my meniscus throwing the ball from first base to the pitcher following a forceout in coed softball.
— Larry (@LarryInBath) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell I broke my ankle at a trampoline park. I was 32 years old and was not with children.
— Dave H. (@RickMuscles) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell tore ACL celebrating a chip in during a high school golf match. It was 9 holes and we were the last place team.
— Jon (@thelukeshow34) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell Dislocated my kneecap so badly it was pointed sideways playing laser tag
— Dan D. (@ddepottey) October 27, 2014
One time in high school, a bunch of my friends and I went to play laser tag. We were too old to play laser tag. I know we were too old because about two minutes in, my friend started making out with his girlfriend in one of the alleys of the laser tag arena. I felt stupid. What do you do? They were, together, like 40 percent of the other team. They weren't interested in laser tag and had found a much better way to spend their time. I, on the other hand, really wanted to win at laser tag. So I shot their backpack laser receiver things a bunch while they were making out and basically won the game for my team because they weren't interested whatsoever in playing. That's like emotionally dislocating your kneecap.
@billbarnwell For the record, usually tell people I tore it playing bball, not tag. This may finally out me if published. No more shame.
— Tim™ (@TMacInHere) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell I dislocated my right kneecap 2 times batting in slow pitch softball. Happened once, took a few years off, next time out, bam.
— Christopher Parker (@Bulldogwgr) October 27, 2014
I have to give extra credit to injuries that onlookers ignored, as further punishment continued to be inflicted. Like this:
@billbarnwell it was 8th grade gym class and my classmates kept trying to hit me with balls as I laid on the ground in pain
— Aaron Gernes (@aarongernes) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell dislocated kneecap while swinging inna batting cage. Went down, couldn't get up, balls kept pegging me.
— SamWow (@therealSamWow) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell few family members were behind me just watching. I'll try to find the video and get it to you for the post.
This poor guy resigning himself to a fate of getting hit by a stream of 60 mph fastballs while lying on the floor was maybe the funniest thing to me. I'm really sorry. Why were there family members (1) watching him take batting practice, (2) taking video of batting practice, and (3) not helping him?
Video Game Celebrations
This is a special section almost exclusively to help out Mr. Houston. Celebrating a sack in a four-touchdown blowout is far from the dumbest thing anybody has ever celebrated.
@billbarnwell Hurt my toe so bad could barely put a shoe on. Celebrating a last sec Majkowski to Sharpe Tecmo Super Bowl game winning TD.
— Andy LoFaro (@CNasty5682) October 27, 2014
I am partial to Tecmo Super Bowl because it literally taught me the rules of football. But this is basically celebrating randomness and picking the right play.
@billbarnwell beat my brother @ NCAA01. He pushed me as I walked away. Tore my mcl in the ensuing scrum. Lost my job a month later.
— Kyle Friedrich (@freddytown) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell Tore my ACL MCL and meniscus while jumping up to celebrate a MADDEN touchdown.
— Hermy (@Hermaphro) October 27, 2014
That's a catastrophic knee injury. It's way worse than what Houston did. I wanted to assume it was some meaningful comeback over @Hermaphro's best friend in some kind of semiprofessional Madden league …
@billbarnwell No….it was against the computer…..on pro difficulty
Oh, there's that, then.
I could have included maybe 100 more injury stories. There were so many incredible ones. But these were the five best stories I received.
@billbarnwell jumped up to grab the top bar on a backyard jungle gym…pulled the thing out of the ground. Jungle gym fell on top of me.
— Michael E. Alto (@altoemike) October 27, 2014
Man attacked by jungle gym is no. 5. The lack of detail makes it even more distressing. I'm just envisioning all kinds of stuff falling here. The bars of the jungle gym. A few swings somehow collapse into the pile. An entire slide falls over. My belief in the integrity of jungle gyms was unshakable until I read this tweet. I never even thought somebody could grab a bar and pull down the entire operation. That would have really shaken me up as a kid. I would have lost faith in a lot of things.
@billbarnwell blew a knee out *unloading* a bocce ball set. Didn't even have a chance to play.
— Stay-at-Home Pat (@stayathomepat) October 27, 2014
You have to immediately throw out that boccie ball set.
@billbarnwell tore scalp muscles doing the worm (poorly), could only look straight ahead for 6 weeks
— Robert Ordish (@TriGuy18) October 27, 2014
Again, the lack of detail because Robert has to fit the entire thing into 140 characters leaves such an incredible range of possibilities. I really hope he was trying to do the worm at a party to impress girls when this happened. I hope he played it off for the rest of the night even though he had torn muscles in his scalp. I'm not sure how the impact of tearing scalp muscles is that you can't use your peripheral vision for six weeks. Then again, I'm not sure how anybody does the worm without tearing their scalp muscles. This is an incredible injury. And yet, it's only no. 3.
@billbarnwell I was concussed by an umbrella in the outdoor seating of an Au Bon Pain.
— Tommy Ashton (@tbashton) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell The big table umbrella. Wind gust lifted it up, and it came down on me top-first like a javelin.
@billbarnwell Yeah, but holy cow was it hard to explain how Au Bon Pain was paying a hospital bill for me.
The flip side is that somebody in corporate at Au Bon Pain had to account for that in a budget. "That line? Oh, no, that's for the hospital bill we had to settle. No, not the one about the extra-hot coffee. The concussion. Listen, Mr. Frederick. We can't get rid of the umbrellas. That's just the cost of doing business here at Au Bon Pain. Occasionally, we're going to concuss a patron. That's just going to happen. Might as well set aside money for it each year. It's like clockwork."
I'll let no. 1 speak for itself.
@billbarnwell Not a problem. I was trying to get some light skating in before the new season (it was going to be my first since high school)
— Andrew Hirsh (@andrewhirsh) October 27, 2014
@billbarnwell And everyone but this old man was joking around and having fun. People were making fun of him because of his age, and that
@billbarnwell made him angry. He was EVERYWHERE. Anyways, I had my head down with the puck since there was no hitting allowed, but…
@billbarnwell …he charged at me and wrecked my knee with his own. Still hurts when I run.
@billbarnwell Right knee got destroyed in a pick up hockey game when a 81-year-old man hit me with a cheap shot
This was most notable in the second half of Week 2 against Tennessee, when the normally accurate Romo showed inconsistent and erratic arm strength.
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Nopesport - The UK Online Orienteering Community | View topic - Sheffield or Edinburgh? You decide.
Sheffield or Edinburgh? You decide.
marknixon wrote: who is confused???
You need the university of reading, not university of arithmetic.
He said medals, not medalists - six of the former, three of the latter.
lilywhite wrote: Would just like to make a quick comment in reply to Scotia's question as to when the Shuoc/Euoc rivalry started. As far as I'm aware there was no rivalry especially to speak of until we won the relays on your patch in 2002. Before then Shuoc were comfortably better than Euoc and there was no reason for bitterness.
BUSA 98 relay - SHUOC 1st, EUOC 2nd by about 15 seconds i think.
BUSA 99 relay - can't remember. think i did a streak at the relay start.
BUSA 00 relay - EUOC 1st, SHUOC 2nd. you should remember this craney, you were there and i cuffed you. last time that'll ever happen.
BUSA 01 - can' remember if that even happened. Fucken Mouth Disease?
as far as i am concerned the rivalry between SHUOC and EUOC has been pretty healthy for a fair while.
and a damn good relay it was as well. remember it fairly well now, really well planned and a cute little area. cool. bloody SHUOC!
bendover wrote: a cute little area.
Brooner, or whoever else really has control up in the 'burgh.
Remember i was on about a training weekend on 6/7/8 Feb and you boys couldn't make it, well it turns out the bloody squadies aren't going to be around so think were going to have it on 20/21/22 Feb. Any chance the EUOC massive can make it then for some O, running, beers and banter? Don't think theres anytning else on that weekend.
big bad bendover wrote: and a damn good relay it was as well. remember it fairly well now, really well planned and a cute little area. cool.
Petey. Are you back in Sheffield yet?
Yeah. I'll be going. Think sprotty and a few others will be there aswell. See ya later.
Actually Bendover, when you won in 2000 ShUOC B were 3rd. ShUOC A were disqualified by yours truly.


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...to campers who come back year after year after year to make new memories with family and friends. In fact, the campers at Troll Hollow have become such good friends that they feel like family.
You can hike the 13 miles of serene trails at Starved Rock State Park, or fish in the beautiful Illinois River. There's so much to share with your family at Troll Hollow. That's why our family has lived here for more than 30 years…making friends and helping them make memories.


The NFL's free agent market doesn't even officially open until Wednesday. But there already has been plenty of activity during the so-called legal tampering period during which players and their agents can line up deals with the teams.
Here's an early look and who's doing well and who's doing not so well.
The Raiders have a long, long way to go to reach respectability in Year 2 of Jon Gruden's return to coaching. Last year's trades of pass rusher Khalil Mack and wide receiver Amari Cooper left the roster depleted. But the Raiders are beginning to replenish their talent level. The trade for Antonio Brown gives them perhaps the league's top wideout. He's just shy of his 31st birthday, but the Raiders only gave up third- and fifth-round picks to get him. The free agent deals for offensive tackle Trent Brown and safety Lamarcus Joyner also help. It's usually a mistake in the NFL to equate free agent activity with having a sound rebuilding plan. But the Raiders need all the help they can get, and they've gotten some.
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles warms up before a playoff game against the Saints on Jan. 13, 2019.
He is a former Super Bowl MVP. He has a statue (depicting the sideline deliberation with coach Doug Pederson leading to the famed "Philly Special" trick-play touchdown in the Super Bowl) at Lincoln Financial Field. But is he a legitimate franchise quarterback? It's difficult to assert that, given the ups and downs of his career. But now he has a contract worthy of a franchise quarterback, getting $88 million over four seasons from the Jaguars, including $50 million guaranteed.
The safety somehow avoided being franchise tagged by the Giants, which would have meant a one-year deal worth $11.15 million. Instead, he gets a six-year, $84 million megadeal from the Redskins that includes $45 million in guaranteed money. That's some serious good fortune.
Winning free agency in March rarely translates into winning games between September and December. But the Jets, like the Raiders, were in desperate need of upgrading the roster, and they took some positive steps by adding wide receiver Jamison Crowder and linebacker C.J. Mosley. The Jets won a bidding war for Mosley, a four-time Pro Bowl selection while with the Ravens, with a five-year deal worth about $85 million. They also had a deal lined up with fellow linebacker Anthony Barr before he changed his mind and decided to remain with the Vikings. Still, the defense unquestionably has been upgraded. On offense, it's all about aiding the development of second-year quarterback Sam Darnold. And the arrival of Crowder helps in that regard.
The Patriots' Trey Flowers speaks a press conference beat the Rams to win Super Bowl LIII on Feb. 3, 2019.
Trent Brown gets $66 million over four years from the Raiders. Pass rusher Trey Flowers gets an estimated $85 million or so over five years from the Lions. It was very good to be a Patriots player hitting the free agent market.
The Patriots lost some very good players with the exits of Brown and Flowers. Somehow, they probably will find a way to overcome it, don't you think?
General manager John Dorsey continues to press the right buttons. The trade for pass rusher Olivier Vernon and the free agent deal for defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson fortifies the defensive front even further.
Yes, the Packers actually are making moves in free agency, with the deals for pass rushers Za'Darius Smith and Preston Smith and safety Adrian Amos. These are different times in Green Bay with Brian Gutekunst in charge as general manager.
Antonio Brown is gone. Running back Le'Veon Bell is about to pick a new team in free agency after sitting out all of this past season in a contract stare-down with the Steelers in which he did not blink. That's a problem. It's also a problem that the Steelers have so little to show for it after failing to get any of the Raiders' three first-round draft picks in the Brown trade. The Steelers might hope this is addition by subtraction. But those are two awfully productive players no longer in the offense.
Giants strong safety Landon Collins breaks up a pass intended for Redskins tight end Jordan Reed during a game on Oct. 28, 2018.
It remains inexplicable why they didn't use their franchise player tag to keep Collins.
Collins is an excellent player who will help the defense. But $84 million to a safety? Some in and around the league were baffled about that.
They chose not to franchise-tag Mosley and he got huge money from the Jets. The loss of Terrell Suggs to the Arizona Cardinals takes a mainstay out of the defensive lineup. Factor in the release of safety Eric Weddle and the free agent exit of Smith to Green Bay and that's a lot to lose for a team that leans so heavily on its defense.
The secondary absorbed some significant losses with the free agent exits of safety Tyrann Mathieu and cornerback and safety Kareem Jackson. That's not insurmountable, but the Texans do have some work to do to reconstruct their defensive backfield. That process began with the deal for free agent safety Tashaun Gipson.
Coach Matt Patricia and GM Bob Quinn are former Patriots employees and seem to be doing their best to reassemble the Patriots in Detroit, with the deals for Flowers and wide receiver Danny Amendola. Perhaps someone should tell them that as long as Bill Belichick and Tom Brady remain in Foxborough, Massachusetts, it's probably not going to work. Giving big money to a player the Patriots allow to leave, as the Lions did with Flowers, is risky. Do you really think that you know more than they do?


If you are getting updates from NYFW, you probably have already seen this wonderful collection that I'm sharing with you today. I've been in love with Altuzarra style for a while now, but this 2017 Spring RTW collection is by far the prettiest. I like the mixing of happy and feminine patterns, but what I really love the most is the way he used the python print. He's showing us that possibilities are endless with snake print; you can use it as the main focus of your outfit, as a neutral or just as a small accent. He also played around with florals, gingham, cherries and lemons and to compliment all these, he couldn't have designed better shoes and jewelry than the ones he showed us in this collection.
Today I wore a look inspired by this collection; an outfit that I created with garments from my wardrobe. The look is coming up in my next post. Stay tuned.
A mi también me fascinan. Son tan femeninas y fácil de combinar con otras prendas.