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September 30, 2009

As If We Needed Another Reason To Hate HWMNBN, And Felipe Massa News

It's finally official: HWMNBN will be driving for Ferrari in the 2010 season.  He'll be joined by Felipe Massa, and Giancarlo Fisichella will be the team's third driver.

Which means that Kimi Raikkonnen is out at Ferrari.

Of this, we shall speak no more, unless it is to heap derogatory comments upon it.

Speaking of Felipe Massa, however, he got back behind the wheel for the first time since his horrible accident in Hungary.  Sure, it was in a Kart, but it's still the first step in getting back to F1 trim.  He turned more than 60 laps on the kart track at his home circuit of Interlagos on Tuesday.

He did manage to beat Baby Yoshi and Diddy Kong, but lost to Mario.

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September 29, 2009

F1 on SPEED!: Japan 2009!

Three races left, and the F1 circus comes to the Land of the Rising Sun.  But NOT the same track we've seen the past two years!  No more Pole Position jokes.

But that's okay, because the Grand Prix of Japan is returning to Suzuka!

Understand, this is kinda like trading the Hungaroring and getting Spa in return.  The Mt Fuji circuit is nice, but Suzuka is the one track that every driver loves.  The only figure-of-eight layout on the calendar, it might have the best balance between manueverability and speed as well.  The turns are challenging, but they're placed just right so they don't mickey-mouse the track.

Which is not to say the circuit is perfect.  No, the powers-that-be took the Legendary Turn known as 130R and mangled it into Turn 14 15, now a double-apex left-hander.  130R (so-called for its radius of 130 meters) used to be, like Eau Rouge, a test of a driver's manhood: only the bravest could take it flat-out.  In 2003, however, it was broken up into two separate turns for safety's sake, as it had been extremely dangerous.  Allan McNish's crash in 2002 turned out to be the final straw.  While he walked away with minor injuries, everybody concerned knew that it was only luck that he wasn't killed.  In a cruel twist of fate, motorcycle racer Daijiro Kato was killed in the reprofiled turn in 2003.

As a high-speed circuit, don't be surprised if we see a return to prominence by the Force India cars, by the way.  While manueverability is important at Suzuka, it's high-speed manueverability we're talking about (unlike, say, Singapore or Monaco), and FI has shown that it can do that.

There's plenty of elevation changes through the length of the track, so the drivers feel like they're actually going somewhere, too.  Downforce levels are expected to be medium-to-high.

SPEED'll be bringing us all the usual action, but NOT at the usual times.  Yes, Japan is one of the few races we here in the US can actually watch live without waking up waaaaaaaay too early!  Practice 2 comes to us from midnight to 140am Friday morning, with Quals starting at the same time and going until 130am on Saturday morning.

For the race, however, SPEED is pulling out all (well, most) of the stops.  From 10p to 11p on Saturday night, we get to see "F1 Rocks!", a three-night concert during the Singapore GP.  From 11p to 1130p, they'll show us "Inside Grand Prix," the promo show brought to us by Allianz ("Doing stuff with other people's money: Allianz") and Mr Snooty-Voiced Guy.  Finally the race coverage proper begins at 1130pm and goes until 2am.

There'll be a replay from 9pm to 1130pm Sunday night.  All times are, of course, Pond Central time.  Add one hour for Eastern, subtract two hours for San Francisco time (you listening, Vauc?  Maybe find a sports bar or something!), and minus several million hours if you're a time traveler.

This time around, I expect to provide my usual coverage, so we'll see you here!

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September 27, 2009

F1 UPDATE!: Singapore 2009!

Lightning near the track, stunning in the darkness... did we get the first wet night race in F1 history?  THIS is your F1U! for the 2009 Grand Prix of Singapore!

*MCLAREN MASSACRE:  Lewis Hamilton got a gift pole on Saturday when Rubens Barrichello's crash brought out a red flag just as everybody was beginning their final runs.  The McLaren driver took full advantage of his present, running away with the victory.  The only time the reigning world champion didn't lead was when he was in the pits.  If only their car had been this good at the beginning of the season, he'd be a legit contender now.  Instead, he's just looking for as many points as he can get.

*BRAKES BOLLIXED:  Singapore's Marina Circuit is known to be hard on brakes.  Lots of turns mean they got hot quickly, and essentially never cool down.  As they get hotter and hotter, the carbon starts to fail, slowly sloughing away in ever-increasing clouds of brake dust.  This has the effect of causing them to go into a death spiral: the loss of mass means they have less ability to radiate away the heat, causing them to fail faster, sending more dust into the air, and losing more mass.  To make things worse, the carbon discs get so hot that the aluminum brake calipers actually begin to deform, meaning the drivers have to stomp on the brakes even harder to get them to work... and that increases the heat even farther.  Today, both Toro Rosso chargers withdrew with brake problems, as did Renault's Lettuce Grosjean.  Red Bull's Mark Webber saw his slim championship hopes disappear when his front-right brake disc exploded, sending him into the wall in a lurid skid.  His teammate, Sebastien Vettel dialed his bias nearly all the way to the rear in an attempt to keep his front brakes from a similar fate.  Championship leader Jensen Button  had to slow down late in the race for the same reason.  All of these cars use Brembo brakes.  The other teams, users of Hipco or Carbon Industry brakes, certainly had brake wear but nowhere to the extent of the Brembos.

*BUTTON, BARRICHELLO BATTLE:  WIth his fifth-place finish, Championship leader Jensen Button added another point to his lead over teammate Rubens Barrichello, who finished in 6th.  Increasing his total to 84, he's nearly eliminated Seb Vettel and his 59 points as well.  With three races left, Rubens is 15 points adrift.  As a team, BrawnGP has a 42.5 point lead over Red Bull for the Constructor's Championship as well.

*DRIVER OF THE RACE:  His career is in jeopardy.  His team is desperate for a good result.  Today, Toyota's Timo Glockenspiel announced that he needs to be looked at for 2010 by bringing his TF109 home with a strong 2nd place finish after starting 6th.  He's proven that he's a good driver this season with repeated points-scoring results after starting waaaaay down the grid (and sometimes from the pit lane), and today it all came together.

*TEAM OF THE RACE:  No one team really distinguished itself today, so we'll give the award to BrawnGP.  They finished 5th and 6th, and nearly clinched the Manufacturer's Championship in the process.  Not bad for a first-year team.

*MOVE OF THE RACE:  None whatsoever.  After the opening lap, if there was an on-track pass, we never saw it.  Oh well.  So, instead, we'll give it to the unnamed trackworker who braved oncoming cars to dash onto the circuit and remove a piece of bodywork from the racing line.  A dangerous move indeed, despite the local yellow flags.  Well done!

A winner is you!

*MOOOOOOO-OOOVE OF THE RACE: Force India's Adrian Sutil had been desperate to get past NKOTT for a few laps.  He could get close, but couldn't quite make a move.  On lap 21, however, he seemed to see something open up and made his try.  It didn't work, and in an almost comical result the Force India performed a slow-speed pirouette as NKOTT continued on his merry way.  Sutil, however, quite used to watching the world go spinning around his helmet, kept his foot on the gas pedal and kept the car rotating without coming to a stop and immediately began to advance back onto the track...
...right into the side of the BMW of Grizzly Nick Heidfeld.

Heidfeld was out on the spot.  Sutil managed to limp back to the pits despite having the entire nose back to the suspension removed, though he would retire from the race four laps later.  Whoops.

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September 26, 2009

Momzerduck's Memorial Service

The memorial service for Momzerduck was this afternoon.  There were about 200 people there, maybe 10% of whom I actually knew.  Thankfully, one of those 10% was The Librarian.  I'm glad the two of you got to meet, finally...

A big thank you needs to go out to you folks, too.  It's only fitting that the post a few days ago about her passing has the most comments in the history of The Pond.

It's gonna be tough around here for a while, but y'all will make it a little easier.

Mahabaleshwar, India, 1988
'Bye, Mom.  I miss you.

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September 23, 2009

F1 On SPEED!: Singapore 2009!

F1 marches on.

This time around, we head to Singapore, a track with a difference.  And what difference is that?

Yep, it's the only night race on the F1 calendar.  Oh, make no mistake, Abu Dhabi will have part of their inaugural race at night, it's true, but Singapore is entirely without sunlight.  Last year's race had some... um... interesting moments in it, for which Renault received a two-year suspended ban, but will the second year match up?  Let's take a look at the track map, shall we?

The street circuit at Singapore (and it is a true street circuit, unlike Valencia) is probably the most interesting track on the calendar to my eyes.  Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not as fun as Spa, or as difficult as Monaco, or anything like that, but it's full of... um... easter eggs for the watcher.

The cars race past some interesting buildings, including the legendary Raffles Hotel and the Fullerton Hotel as well.  There's a straightaway that's actually a bridge (between turns 13 and 14).  It actually runs beneath the some grandstands in the short chute between 18 and 19.  It passes under a highway near turn 1.  There's a shorter bridge between 12 and 13.  All in all, it's a fun track to look at.

To drive, however, not so much.  To a man, the drivers decried the circuit, calling it dangerous and unforgiving.  Felipe Massa called the curbs around the track "little tortoises that would wreck the car if you get something wrong."  Lewis Hamilton said that it was twice as hard to drive as Monaco, particularly when you take into account the hot and humid Singapore weather.  The release point for the pit lane was also a major accident waiting to happen, as it had cars rejoining the track just before the entry to the first turn.  Some points of the track were also incredibly bumpy, to the point where drivers were concerned that their suspensions were at risk just from driving on the circuit.

Well, they can't do anything about the weather, but modifications to the circuit have been made for 2009.  The pit exit has been repositioned to come after turn 1, and the entry is now before turn 22, instead of actually in the turn.  The tortoises have been filed down, and some curbs have been repositioned to boot.  As a result, the track has been slightly lengthened, from 5.067km to 5.073km.  The turn 10 chicane, which was named "Singapore Sling" in a poll of local F1 fans, has been tightened up a touch, so as to slow it even more.  Finally, the worst of the bumps in the street have been resurfaced.

As one would expect with a street circuit, Singapore is a high-downforce track, much like Monaco in that regard.  It's also a very tough track for brakes, maybe as hard as the Canadian track (though in a different way).  With 23 turns, they get hot fast, then stay that way for the whole race, meaning heavy wear.  Canada has slow turns coming after long straights, meaning the brakes get too cool and don't work as well.  That means they're used harder for those turns, meaning more wear.

The good folks at SPEED will be mostly bringing us their usual sterling coverage, of course.  Friday's second practice comes to us live from 830am to 1010am.  Saturday's coverage of Quals is scheduled from 9am to 1030am, but may be shortened by a half-hour due to conflicting coverage of the American LeMans Series "Petit LeMans" race, which begins at 10am.  If that's the case,expect them to show only the last few minutes of Q1, if at all.  The race comes to us LIVE on Sunday from 630am to 9am, with a replay from 130pm to 4pm.

A programming note: there will probably be no Quals post on Saturday here at The Pond, and any post on Practice will come very late, if at all.  The F1 Update! will, however, arrive as usual on Sunday.

See you then!

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September 21, 2009

Sunday, 918am

Judy Engblom, better known to readers of The Pond as "Momzerduck", passed away at 918am on Sunday, September 20th.

The doctors had stayed encouraged regarding a liver transplant on Saturday.  Everything was progressing as they expected, though the dialysis that day hadn't pulled out as much fluid as they had hoped.  It wasn't a problem, per se, just added another day or two to the wait for being put on The List.

I had spent the entire day with her in the ICU ward, then Ph.Duck and I went back to his apartment to get some sleep.  We got there around 1030pm, and fell asleep almost immediately thereafter.

At 1130pm, we got a phone call from the ICU, asking us to come back immediately.  When we got there, we found her room filled with doctors and nurses, all of whom were moving quickly and talking in clipped, professional tones.  Two of the doctors took us into a conference room to explain what had happened.

When the nurses began to turn her (so as to prevent bedsores), her heart went into Ventricular Tachycardia, which was very much like what I had during The Cardiac Incident, except that where my heart sped up to about 250bpm, hers had stopped beating and started quivering uncontrollably.  They shocked her with the paddles, which did regain a pulse.  Just a minute or so later, however, her heart stopped again.  This time, shocking her didn't help, so they began chest compression and various drugs.  After 10 minutes or so of this, her heart restarted.

When we asked the doctors what this would do to her chances for a liver transplant, they replied frankly and honestly: "We won't know for sure until the Liver team comes in, but it probably will prevent her from being considered a viable candidate."

When the Liver team leader confirmed that, we made the decision to withdraw life support, for that was, in fact, what she was on at this time.  She had been essentially comatose for the previous three days as a result of an encephalopathy attack, aided by some light sedation to prevent her from tearing at her feeding tube and the ventilation hose (she had managed to remove the feeding tube during the onset of the encephalopathy).

Unfortunately, during the resuscitation attempts, they had to withdraw the sedation, as it would interfere with bringing up her blood pressure to minimum levels... and it was obvious during the time she was without it that she was in some serious discomfort from the hoses, needles and wires.  As this was all being done to get her to a new liver, which now was never going to arrive, we knew that she wouldn't... didn't... want to suffer any more.

The ventilation hose and the final drugs were removed at 915am.  At 918am on Sunday morning, September 20th, 2009, the woman that I was honored to call my mother, Judy Engblom, Momzerduck, passed away.

She was so much more than I deserved.

She loved this picture... had a copy of it on the wall next to her computer at home.

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September 19, 2009

Where's Wonderduck Now?

In Chicago, at the Hospital, at Momzerduck's bedside.

I'm unsure when I'll be back, as things will probably be progressing VERY quickly over the next few days.  My computer access will be limited to a visitor-access system that only has IE on it, so no other posting after this one... my uncle JoeDuck is loaning me his macbook for a few minutes.

Ironically, I wound up as a patient here for a few minutes.  I'm afraid I went into shock when I saw Momzerduck for the first time in a week... sedated, ventilator and feeding tubes, dialysis shunts and a christmas tree worth of IV bottles.

I'm fine now, but a classic case of shock.

So, I'll try to keep everybody updated as much as I can, but for now, everybody, send good wishes this way, as many as you can spare.  We're needing them.

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September 16, 2009

F1 News & Notes: Big Stuff Edition

With Renault's hearing on the whole Nelson Piquet Jr crash at Singapore last year coming up this Monday, it appears that the team is bracing for a bad result.  Earlier today, executive director of engineering Pat Symonds and team boss Flavio Briatore left the team, though it is currently unknown if the two jumped or were pushed.  However, there is this: Renault also announced that they "will not dispute the recent allegations made by the FIA concerning the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix."

In other words, someone at Renault, the company, has decided that someone high up in the Renault, the team asked Piquet Jr to crash, and has taken steps to try and minimize the overall damage.  Since the two most likely candidates for the order have now left F1, the team is probably hoping that the World MotorSports Council (WMSC) will be lenient in whatever penalties they hand down.

Fortunately for us, a lot of evidence has been leaked to the media over the past few days.  Everything from a copy of Piquet Jr's statement, telemetry data from his car during the crash (which shows that he accelerated through the crash, instead of braking as one would normally do when control is lost), transcripts of Renault's radio conversations during the incident, to a transcript of Symonds' interview with FIA investigators have all come to light, and it isn't a pretty picture for the team.

For example, here's a snippet from the Symonds' interview:
Investigator: "Mr Symonds, are you aware that there was going to be a crash on lap 14?" Symonds: "I don't want to answer that question."
Investigator: "Mr Piquet Jr says, having had the initial meeting with you and Flavio Briatore, you then met with him individually with the map of the circuit. Do you remember that? Symonds: "I won't answer. Rather not answer that. I don't recall it, but it sounds like Nelson's talked a lot more about it."
Investigator: "Mr Piquet Jr also says that at that meeting, you pointed out a specific place on the circuit where he was to have the accident and said it was because it was the furthest away from any of the safety or lifting equipment, and gave the most likely chance of a safety car being deployed."
Symonds: "I don't . . . I don't want to answer that question."

Ouch.  Penalties could range anywhere from a slap on the wrist to full exclusion from the season.

In other news, Team Lotus is back in F1!  They were awarded BMW's spot on the grid for 2010 since the German manufacturer withdrew from the sport after the announcement of the three new teams.  The brand is currently owned by a Malaysian consortium, though the company itself is still based in Norfolk, England.  For the time being, the team itself will stay in England until a new technical center is built at the Sepang raceway.  In a statement, the team announced that "the car will be made in Malaysia by Malaysians," and will name their drivers by October 31st.  They'll be using Cosworth engines, like the other three new teams.

Finally, BMW has been given the 14th spot on the grid.  I can hear you thinking "huh?  Didn't they quit the sport?"  Well, yes, they did... but nobody wanted a F1 team that wasn't going to be allowed to actually race in F1, so the team duly reapplied to be accepted for the 2010 season.  The FIA hasn't actually given them the right to race in 2010 yet, though.  At the moment, the 14th slot only means that if any other team drops out of the Championship *coughRenaultcough*, the team that was BMW will get their spot.  In addition, there is some speculation that the FIA will allow all 14 teams to run in 2010 anyway.  At the same time, BMW announced that the team had been purchased by Swiss company Qadbak Investments, and it appears that the Sauber name will still be associated with the team.

So, there's the latest news from the F1 World.

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September 13, 2009

A Momzerduck Update

This has been a terrible weekend, to say the least.  I got to the hospital around 730pm on Friday night, and the first impression was... well, actually pretty good!

The swelling in her legs had gone down substantially.  In fact, they looked pretty normal, all in all, though some still persisted.  Even better, the rash/infection was much reduced.  When I last saw her on Monday night, pretty much from her knees down was a bright, fierce red.  Now it looks like a fading sunburn and is obviously going away.

Unfortunately, that infection is the one thing keeping her from going on the transplant list at the moment.  Doctors won't perform ANY surgery if the patient has an active infection going, let alone something as major as a transplant.  I know someone who needed to have a tooth pulled once, and they made her wait a week while a minor infection went away.

The bad news is that, because her liver isn't doing its job, her kidneys are being pummeled by the crap it isn't filtering out.  As a result, now they're beginning to go south.  Now, normally that's a worry, but really not all that much of one.  A liver transplant will fix the filtering problem and the kidneys usually just bounce right back.  The docs, though, are concerned that they've been damaged enough that the belief is that they won't come back.

Okay, well, the "good" news in that case is that a dual liver/kidney transplant is pretty much the most common dual transplant there is... and if there's a liver available, a kidney is usually there, too.  Another bit of "good" news from this is that all of this will put her even higher on The List once she gets on it.  Maybe not at the very top, but close enough that she'll be able to see it from where she'll be.

But all is not wine and roses.  Because her kidneys are like a boxer that's taken one too many shots to the head at the moment, they're not doing much in the way of ANYthing.  Even being cathed didn't help matters... and by Saturday night, the docs were hearing fluid buildup in the lungs.  So her liver is going south, her kidneys are going south, and now she's got all the symptoms of pneumonia (without actually having pneumonia, if you get what I mean).

Monday, they're going to start her on dialysis to take the strain off her overtaxed kidneys.  This is a GOOD thing, as she should be feeling better almost immediately, but it's still a traumatic thing to think about.

Finally, her neck is starting to suffer from the effects of having been flat on her back for the past month.  The docs have had her lie down with her feet elevated, and while you might not notice at first, that position does put a strain on the neck and shoulders.  Now try it for a month straight.  If her hospital bed is flat, it really begins to hurt... and then she begins to scream; it's that bad.  The only position truly comfortable is sitting up in a chair... which doesn't do the swelling in her legs any good.

From an emotional standpoint, that's what got to me the most.  They've got her on a good painkiller, but even that doesn't take away all the pain (they can't give her morphine; too hard on the liver and kidneys).  I know what real pain is like... 13 kidneystones and falling off a loading dock and dislocating your ankle badly enough that the foot ends up pointing backwards will do that... but I can deal with my own pain.

I spent 14 hours with her on Saturday, about 4 hours on Friday, and about the same Sunday before I had to come home, and I'm exhausted.  So exhausted that I burned the hell out of my right arm on a pizza pan making dinner.  And I feel guilty that I'm not there with her right now.

She's in the right place, with the right doctors and nurses, doing the right things for her.  I know all that.  But a part of me thinks... knows... that I've failed, somehow.

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F1 UPDATE!: Italy 2009!

Short update today, as I'm exhausted and just not into the whole writing thing after the weekend I've had.

The Brawns came up off the mat and just pummeled the field today, finishing 1-2, with Barrichello taking his third career Italian Grand Prix.  The beauty of the race was that it was, first and foremost, a strategy win.

The first brilliant move was that Ross Brawn, certified F1 genius, sent his boys out onto the track in quals with a snootful of fuel, enough to run a one-stop strategy on a circuit that rewards such things, and trusted them to make it work... which they promptly did, ending up fifth and sixth on the grid.

The second brilliant move was that the drivers, Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button, managed to make their tires last while still going fast, despite having heavy loads of gas.  On a day when the "bogie time" for a pitstop was 25 seconds, only pulling a single stop on the fastest track of the series while the other leaders were going for two meant that the Brawns basically had a 25 second lead to start the race... if they could make it work.  They did.

The third brilliant move was Jenson Button managing to keep calm under the pressure of Lewis Hamilton in the closing laps of the race.  Hamilton was faster and had KERS to help him take advantage of any mistake Button made.  The problem is, Button didn't give him that chance, and it eventually was Hamilton that made a mistake, going a little wide in the Lesmos, catching a little too much curb, and winding up sploinking into the tire barrier on the last lap.  Button didn't win the race, but it was a great performance for the driver leading the Championship points, and who may have been feeling a lot of pressure because of it.

The story of the day, though, has to be Adrian Sutil.  Qualified second in the Force India, turned fast lap in the race, and just missed a podium by ending 4th.  Only a bad entry into his pit box (running down two FI mechanics in the process) while Kimi Raikkonen stalled his car during his simultaneous stop kept him from leapfrogging the Ferrari for 3rd.  It's no longer a secret that the Force India is a fast, fast car... lets just see if it's still quick on a track that requires manueverability.

Fun race, and I'd like to thank Steven for his impromptu coverage of Quals.  We'll make a F1 fan out of you yet, Steven!

One thing, though: Vitantonio Liuzzi isn't a new NKOTT, just for this season.  He drove for Toro Rosso in 2006 and 2007 (not to mention a few races in 2005 for Red Bull proper), so he can't qualify for NKOTT status.  He DID show that he's the real deal, though, and I honestly didn't think that before today.  He qual'd 7th, and was running very nicely until he ended up with a gearbox full of neutrals early in.  No question he would have been in the points, and possibly right behind his teammate, if that didn't happen.

Sorry for the unF1U!, folks... hope it was a little entertaining at least.

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September 10, 2009

F1 Weekend Reports May Not Happen This Race

Okay, here's the deal.  As you're all aware, Momzerduck has a poorly functioning liver.  What I've been trying to not mention this past week is what's been going on.

This past Saturday, she went to the ER with terribly swollen legs... so swollen that they hurt quite badly, and they also had a bad rash (we thought).  It turns out the fluid built up so much in her legs that they became infected; that was the rash-like substance.

She wound up staying in the local hospital until Tuesday afternoon, at which point the docs decided two things: A) she was going to be hospitalized at least through the weekend, and 2) she'd be better treated if she was moved to a hospital in Chicago, where her liver specialist was based... and the Transplant Board (the keepers of The List) was located.

She's doing okay there, though she's not getting anywhere near enough sleep (a common complaint of hospital patients everywhere... everytime they doze off, another doctor or nurse comes in).  They've put her on a new medication, which is already starting to show some good results in regards to her legs, but she's going to be in the hospital at least through the weekend dealing with this.

I am going into Chicago to see her after work tomorrow, and the earliest I'll be back is Saturday afternoon or evening.  I might be staying through Sunday, we dunno yet.  As a result, there's no way in the world I can do Friday Practice coverage, and likely won't do Quals, either, unless it's just a quick blurb Saturday night.

I'll be recording Sunday's race, but there's no way of knowing when I'll get a chance to watch it... it might not be until Monday or Tuesday night.

So, just wanted to warn y'all.

Picture unrelated.

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When Anime & Formula 1 Collide... Part 2

So in the previous post, Avatar mentioned a show entitled Yakitate Japan.  It seems it's an anime about competition bread-baking... and if you're not rolling your eyes or thinking "yeah, that's a good concept to base a show around, sure", you're just not telling the truth to yourself or others.

Anyway, the whole second half of the series takes place in Monaco... at the same time as the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo.  So of course, there must have been an episode showing F1 cars, right?  Well, right!  Episode 44 contains the relevant 26 minutes, and while I watched it for the F1 aspect, at least the first half of the ep was pretty decent if you like shonen-style shows.

"But what about the visuals", I hear you asking.  A good question!  Here's an example:

...yep, not only is it pretty clearly a F1 car, it's from the timeperiod appropriate to the production date of the show (2004).  Not at all bad, actually.

But Avatar mentioned that David Coulthard's Chin makes an appearance, and while I'm sorry to say that he doesn't, there is a driver that does...

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September 08, 2009

When Anime & Formula 1 Collide...

So I was watching the series Rozen Maiden tonight, and while I'm unsure how I feel about it, I did notice something that set me to laughing.

It appears that the main character, Jun, is something of a F1 fan!  For instance:

-Rozen Maiden, ep03
Please notice the poster directly above his bed.  Here's a better look at it:

While you can't see it too clearly in either shot, the poster shows the year of the race as being 1994.  So, I looked up the poster for the actual 1994 Grand Prix of Monaco:

Okay, sure, they changed the colors, probably for copyright reasons, but no question about it: that's the same poster.  And, in case you're wondering, that's Ayrton Senna's 1993 McLaren MP4-8 featured.  Unfortunately, Senna didn't drive in the 1994 Monaco GP, since he was killed in that terrible weekend in San Marino... the race before Monaco.

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F1 on SPEED!: Italy 2009!

Monza.  Flat-out, eyeball-watering, bury-the-pedal-and-hold-on speed.  Nothing more, nothing less.  And the Italian nation loves it.

Here's the map:

There was once a time when the various chicanes didn't exist, when a driver only had to move the steering wheel five times a lap.  Those days are gone, sacrificed in the name of safety, and I think that's a good thing... though to be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing a F1 car go blasting around the circuit at full throttle.  Still, Monza is the fastest track on the calendar.

In fact, it's so fast that the FIA has decreed that there's going to be new, higher, curbs at Variante del Rettifilo and Variante della Roggia this race, to prevent drivers from straightlining those chicanes.  I'd also suggest landmines and deep pits with tigers at the bottom.

The Parabolica is the fastest turn in F1, nearly 180mph as you exit.  You hit 210 just before the first chicane.  Over three-quarters of a lap is done at full throttle.  Just astonishing numbers in comparison to the rest of the season.

And SPEED'll be bringing us their usual coverage , starting on Friday with LIVE video from 2nd Practice from 7am to 840am.  Saturday brings us Quals from 7am to 830am.  The race itself is Sunday, from 630am to 9am, with a replay at 330pm (all times Pond Central).

Hopefully, I'll be bringing you the usual sterling reportage you've come to expect from F1 Update! on Sunday as well.

See ya then.

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September 05, 2009

Football Day at Duck U.!

It's college football season once again, and today was the first home game for the Duck U Ducks!  Beautiful weather, sunny, blue skies, just a hint of a breeze...

...and now, a screaming sunburn for yours truly.  And I was under cover most of the day, to boot... just imagine what it would have been like without the roof over my head!

Oh, the game?  The Ducks lost to the University of Duckbuque, 60-7.  Mind you, Duckbuque was the national champion in our school size, so it's not that Duck U is bad, it's just that we were overmatched.

I hope.

(sorry the duckie is blurred... darn camera would focus on everything but him!)

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September 04, 2009

Nelson Piquet Jr's Revenge

Hell hath no fury like Nelson Piquet Jr scorned.

Today, the FIA officially charged Piquet Jr's former team, Renault, with 'fraudulent conduct' in relation to the 2008 Grand Prix of Singapore.  In that race, you may remember, HWMNBN pitted early in the race (lap 14), and almost instantly after he exited the pit lane in 15th place, Piquet Jr spun and crashed, bringing out the safety car.

Even at the time, it seemed an odd crash.
When the pit lane opened two laps later, everybody went in for fuel and tires, leaving HWMNBN in first place, a position he would never relinquish as he garnered Renault's first win of the season.

The charges levied against Renault stem directly from evidence provided by Piquet Jr, and read (in part):  "The team representatives have been called to answer charges, including a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, that the team conspired with its driver, Nelson Piquet Jr, to cause a deliberate crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix with the aim of causing the deployment of the safety car to the advantage of its other driver, (HWMNBN).”

Article 151c reads as follows: "c) Any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally."

This is the same section the FIA used to hit McLaren with the Death Penalty back in 2007, by the way.  In that case, the World Motor Sport Council essentially said that, while they could find no evidence that McLaren used any of Ferrari's designs in their car, they didn't need to have proof.  McLaren was fined $100million, and the team was excluded from the results of the 2007 season.

While that penalty seemed harsh at best, and draconian at worst, I would have to assume that the FIA is looking at a similar penalty now for Renault.  Unfortunately, they have only the word of a disgruntled ex-employee to go on... but they need nothing more, apparently.

If, in fact, Renault is excluded from the remainder of the season, don't expect to see their cars on the grid for the rest of the year.  Unlike the McLaren Penalty, where the drivers were cleared of any wrongdoing in the matter, one would have to assume that HWMNBN would be slammed, since he benefited directly (and may have even come up with the idea) from the team's orders.  Since Piquet Jr is already out of F1, the team's other car will probably be yanked by the FIA out of anger or spite.

The rest of the fallout could be even worse.  Considering the rumblings coming out of Renault as of late (and, in fact, for the past few years), there's every chance that the team would officially withdraw from F1 and shut down.

I find it... interesting... that HWMNBN is involved with both of these cases.  Unsurprising, but interesting.  There's a reason HWMNBN is called HWMNBN, after all, and it all stems from the 2007 McLaren Debacle.  He's already proven that he's not above trying to screw his teammate for an advantage, and with the backing of team principal Flavio Briatore, who knows what mischief he'd be capable of brewing.

Also interesting is the question of what will happen to Piquet Jr now?  Will he be hailed as a whistleblower who got bent over by his more powerful teammate, with his driving suffering as a result?  Or will he be forever known as a mediocre racer who ratted out the team that paid him megabucks while getting crap performances from him?

Time will tell, and we'll find out the result of the FIA's hearing on September 21st... ironically, the Monday before this year's Grand Prix of Singapore.

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September 03, 2009

Filling For Felipe, Fisi Flees F.I. For Ferrari

Sometimes rumors really are true, I suppose.  Giancarlo Fisichella, who's driven for the up-and-coming Force India team for the past two seasons, was today released from his contract by team owner Vijay Mallya.  He was then signed by Ferrari to fill the injured Felipe Massa's seat for the rest of the season.

Fisi celebrates Force India's crowning moment of awesome.
"We have chosen Fisichella because we can expect him to make a valuable contribution in this final part of the season," said Stefano Domenicali, team principal for Ferrari. "Giancarlo has shown, throughout his long career, that he is fast and competitive and we are therefore proud to be able to run an Italian driver in our home race."

"I’m in seventh heaven," said Fisichella in an interview with "I still can’t believe it that the dream of my life comes true and I want to thank Ferrari and Chairman Luca di Montezemolo. Over the last week some really incredible things happened to me: the pole position and then second place at Spa and now I’m called by Ferrari to race the last five races of the season for them. I’ll give my best to recompense the Scuderia for this great opportunity they gave me: I know that it won’t be easy, but I’ll give it everything to gain the best possible results."  He then wiped the drool off his chin.

I suppose I don't blame Fisi.  If I was handed my dream job on a silver platter, I'd likely quit whatever place I was working at so fast, I'd burn stripes in the carpet on my way out the door.  Still, his incredible enthusiasm about leaving Force India for Ferrari seems... I dunno, unseemly.

Vijay Mallya said, "For Force India, this sport is a team effort and removing one part, even a major one, will not significantly affect our performance. The competitiveness of the team seen in Belgium was a result of hard work in the factory and wind tunnel and we have further developments coming for the final races, so we are confident this momentum can be sustained. We are now looking forward to a strong finish to the season."

There are rumors that Force India still owes Ferrari some four million dollars from last year's engine contract.  Mallya (personal net worth: $1.4billion) denied, however, that there was any financial settlement between the teams for Fisi.  Take that for what it's worth, I suppose.

And while I've been quite hard on him over the past two races, spare a moment's thought for Luca Badoer, the man Fisichella is replacing in the cockpit.  Sure, Badoer was brutally slow during his two-race span for Ferrari, but he served the Scuderia well over the past 10 years as the team's primary test driver.  He had an almost impossible task in front of him, being dropped into the seat of a F1 car that he hadn't driven and was expected to perform well when he hadn't driven in a race since 1999.  When he, an Italian, got a chance to drive for the legendary Italian team, he peed the opportunity right down the leg of his firesuit, just in time to miss out on driving at his home track of Monza.

That's gotta hurt, and hurt bad.  I hope Ferrari keeps him on as their test driver;  he deserves that, at least.

Meanwhile, Force India has yet to name their replacement for the departed Fisichella.  It's expected that their test driver, Vitantonio Liuzzi will be tabbed.  He last drove in F1 during the 2007 season; Liuzzi was replaced at Toro Rosso by the now-fired SeaBass.

So... there you have it.

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September 01, 2009

Our Friend Zsolt

I need to set this up.  The year is 2004.  The race is the United States Grand Prix.  The broadcaster is Hungarian.  The subject is Zsolt Baumgartner, three laps behind the eventual winner (Slappy Schumacher).  11 of the 20 cars in the race have retired, leaving Zsolt in 9th place, behind only Giancarlo Fisichella... who is about to have a malfunction.

Zsolt the Bolt is about to earn his first and only point, and the only point ever earned by a Hungarian driver in F1.  Enjoy the broadcasters!

This may have been the happiest I have ever been in my years of being a F1 fan.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Fun with fire

So my roommates and I were having fun playing with powdered sugar and matches. I'm trying to upload a video of it, but I'm not sure if it's going to work.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What the... grrr... ha ha...

lol. So on Monday I took the bus to school because it was snowing. I waited at the stop in front of my house for 23 minutes before it came! It is supposed to come every 5 to 10 minutes. SO today, because I didn't want to be late for work again, I crossed the street over to the parking lot on the other side where there is a different bus that is supposed to come every 3 to 5 minutes.
Wouldn't you know it, I waited for 10 minutes and the busline that runs in front of my house picked people up way before the bus that I went to did. Sigh. It's too funny. I was a few minutes late to work, but they are always nice to me, even when I'm late. Good thing I have a nice place to work where they are so kind!

We're doing this really fun project in my Portfolio class. We're designing a line of home products. I've chosen to do a Spring Cleaning theme with fun bright colored gloves and sponges and dusters etc. I'm calling it "Domestic Diva" which I know has been done before, but this project is supposed to be for fun and to add something else to the good old portfolio.
Are not these gloves FANTASTIC! I think so. It would make me more inclined to scrub a floor if I could wear these. :D

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Break ups Suck

Break ups suck. My poor roommate just got dumped with the classic "I just feel like we should only be friends." line. It's such crap. It leaves the person wondering what they did wrong or how they could've done things differently. I thought that with the couple of hum dinger break ups I've had that perhaps they would be useful if someone I care about ever got broken up with. Nope. They were just useless pain. All I could do was sit there and tell her how sorry I was that he had done that. Freakin' useless!

I think I should just tear my heart out and throw it away. It's useless. At least here in Utah. Then I wouldn't have to worry about it getting hurt. Sure, I'd miss out on the possibility of it being happy, but hey, it isn't happy now nor has it been the majority of its time, so why let it get in the way of everyday functions.

I feel like I'm in a time warp. I'm stuck in the year 2001 whilst everyone I care about has moved on to 2009. Its very strange. You're all here, but you're nearly 10 years into the future and I'm not. The more I struggle to catch up the more stuck I get and the more attention I call to myself which is the last thing I want to do.

I've been trying to feel spiritual again. Some of you remember me when I was spiritual. Right? I have lost that and I miss it. I've been wriggling around trying to find it again but keep rolling into massive pits of doubt and bitterness and that of course leads to self-loathing. I just wish I felt like my life was worth something or had some meaning.

Sorry for another negative post. It's dark outside and I have seasonal depression and a computer to type on. So hopefully next time I'll be in a more cheerful mood and have a "good report."

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Cabin Fever

Hi. I am bored. We've got ice rain falling outside and I can't go out and do anything. So I've been stuck inside since 1 p.m. Not that I couldn't be doing something useful like homework, but that sounds even MORE boring!

So I was happy to see how hopeful the people of our country are about our new president. Regardless of whether you like the guy or not, hope inspired in the people is a good thing. Also, his promoting of service to others and self reliance are also very good things. Now it's up to every individual to take that hope and make something of it. I am hopeful that this will be a good chapter in America's history books. I am going to go on Saturday to find a volunteer organization and see where I can be involved.

And lastly, a note that a friend told me was finally getting annoying... the countdown... I have made it from triple digits to double digits! YEA!!! Exciting and terrifying all at once! My roommate went to find a job today. She went to the Department of Workforce Services here in Logan and they told her they only had 4 jobs!!!!! All of the jobs required a degree! I had not realized the extent of damage our economy is facing! I hope that when I graduate I can find work! But I suppose I can't worry about that too much tonight.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

New Friend Date

Hi. I went on a fun date. This guys name is Justin. We went to a movie and ice cream. He's sweet. He opened doors for me like a gentleman and offered to pay for everything. I'm attempting to be reasonable and not really get serious with anyone. So he's just a cute friend for now.

Anyway, things are going good with school. I love what I do. I've been stressed about it feeling like I am not as good as I want to be with graphics and websites yet. But Aunt Julie says she felt that way too at graduation, so I feel better.

I'm getting along with ALL of my roommates this semester. I am loving that. I'm kinda distracted so this blog isn't really making tons of sense. I'm talking to Kaylee... so I better go and pay attention better! Love ya'll

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

2 pounds!

So after a terribly depressing and stressful week I went to Weight Watchers today expecting to have gained a few pounds (due to bad eating) and to my great surprise, I lost 2 pounds!!! Yes!

That brightened my day today along with the sunshine that was so abundant today! Happiness all around!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Let the Spring Time Come!

Hi Everyone,
I've been super super depressed the past few weeks. I am not sure what to write about it. I don't know that there is any advice anyone could give me that I haven't already heard and probably tried. I think it's partly just due to the cloudy skies and gray days. It's all that seasonal depression stuff.
I've been trying to stay active and eat right and sleep well in order to shake it off. But I feel really negative and hopeless. You can tell yourself positive things as much as you want, but some days it just isn't going to get in.

This stuff isn't very fun to read about on a blog I'm sure anyway, so I wont go on and on and on about it. I hope some day soon I feel like my old happy self. It's been a very long time. :(

Your friend,

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Back To It

Well I am back to school for my FINAL semester!
I can't tell you how happy that makes me! For a long long time I thought I was just not disciplined enough to finish college, but it just goes to show that as long as you're willing to pay money, they'll keep trying to educate you!

I went to my first class today. It's a Portfolio class. You know what they announced? They announced that because of the terrible budget cuts, they were not able to have the faculty they needed for all the classes this semester and so they're cutting my class down to one day a week. Boy am I glad I'm graduating and not just starting with all this budget crisis going on. Its getting really ugly.

I've been unexplainably depressed for the past 3 or 4 days. It was BAD. Thankfully, I feel a bit better today. I think getting back to classes really helped. That and I joined a gym and Weight Watchers today. I'm going for all out healthy.

My newest roommate moved in on the 1st. She is just 18 and it's her first time at college. I showed her around yesterday and the day before. I showed her how to get books and I sat in on her English 1010 class. It was a lot of fun. Reminded me so much of my first day of school. I ALMOST felt sorry that I'll be graduating and leaving college. But then I remembered how much debt I have to pay off from this grand adventure! lol.

Yeah, so anyways, that roommate and another one have been hanging out with me a lot the past two days. They've almost been looking to me as some sort of example... Talk about uncomfortable! No, I'm flattered... I really am... Its just that, WHO looks to ME as an example! lol! I had to laugh at myself for feeling so uncomfortable. It's probably really good for me.

Anyway, this blog is getting verbose and its 2 a.m. and I'm supposedly getting up and working out with Kaylee at 6 with our new gym memberships! So I best be off.

Does anyone Blog anymore?

You see a lot of ads about making money using a blog, but I don't have close friends who are blogging anymore. That is why I am just g...

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The Woodlands, Texas 77381

Though Entry Lake Park is located on South Copper Sage Circle, most people are more familiar with the lake's southwestern shore, which borders Woodlands Parkway beginning at Cochran's Crossing Drive. As a catch and release pond, fishing is allowed - though due to its near-constant exposure to the sun and lack of aeration, it's doubtful many desirable fish swim about in Entry Lake.

Entry Lake Pond Park
Village: Village of Cochran's Crossing
Park Type: Amenity
Owner: The Woodlands Township
Date Acquired: 1990
Park Acreage: 3.3
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Today's Job Opportunities

Here are today's homebased job offerings. Good luck!

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For US Telecommuters

This blog is mostly for Filipinos in the Philippines who are considering working at home or looking for extra income. I have some relatives and friends in the US who are asking about homebased work.

Staffcentrix's Rat Race Rebellion is a site that is dedicated to US telecommuters, most specially spouses of US Military personnel. There are some information here that can be useful to people outside of the US as well.

I tried signing up for an account at LiveOps. I discovered during the course of the agent test that I'm not eligible because I am not in the US.

Good luck to all who seek to work at home!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Big Buck$ Avenue: Virtual Workers Social Network...

I just discovered Big Buck$ Avenue. It says that it's a virtual social network. It posts job opportunities and I think this group hires people.

Visit Big Buck$ Avenue

I was actually browsing through Craigslist when I saw a post on a homebased Customer Service Representative job so I followed instructions. I got to the site and saw that they are looking for an online English Tutor. I applied the same day and got a response in less than 24 hours. An interview was set up the next day. The interviewer, Miss Shai was so nice and pleasant that I just wanted to work for her team. It's so refreshing to encounter someone really nice.

I have encountered people who lack, no, people WHO DO NOT HAVE COMMON COURTESY, and feel that they have the right to be rude to anyone who they think are beneath them. Sheesh.

For more information go to Big Buck$ Avenue, or visit their other site.


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Snapchat has launched a feature that enables up to 16 people to take part in a live chat together, using either video or just their voices.

The app’s members can also start tagging each other by username, using the @ symbol in their posts.

The changes will roll out over the coming weeks, the firm said.

Snapchat came under fire for a recent redesign. A petition calling for the changes to be reversed attracted more than 1.2 million signatures.

At the weekend, Snapchat’s first TV advert aired in the US. Observers noted that it seemed to strike a family-friendly chord.

“Snapchat’s early growth has been largely been built on attracting a strong youth-centric audience,” commented Jack Kent from IHS Markit consultancy.

“To grow its user numbers it needs to broaden its appeal to a wider audience.

“The key challenge… is how to add older users without losing the cool factor that helped fuel its early growth.”

However, news site The Verge claimed the ad had misfired.

“Snapchat is the place where you trade dumb jokes with your friends, non-essential thoughts, or show off the trashy nights you don’t want preserved past a five-second timer,” wrote Megan Farokhmanesh.

“Its feeble attempts to win over everyone either misunderstands its own product at its core, or signals a desire to re-frame that product as a second-string replacement for platforms that already exist.”

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Snapchat and its parent company Snap have faced criticism in recent weeks.

In February 2018, $1.3bn (£1bn) was wiped off Snap’s stock market value after reality TV star Kylie Jenner tweeted that she no longer used the service.

And Snap had to apologise after an ad appeared on its platform for a third-party game that asked users if they would “rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown”.

Chris Brown was convicted of assaulting the singer in 2009.

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One in 20 care homes has closed within the past three years

Up to 3,000 elderly people will not be able to get beds in UK care homes by the end of next year, research suggests.

Research commissioned by BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme reveals a huge shortfall in the number of beds available.

Increasing demand from an ageing population could see that grow to more than 70,000 beds in nine years’ time.

The Department of Health said local authorities in England had been given an extra £2bn to help fund social care.

But in the past three years one in 20 UK care home beds has closed, and research suggests not enough are being added to fill the gap.

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The research, carried out by property consultants JLL, found that since 2002 an average of 7,000 new care home beds had opened in the UK every year, but by 2026 there would be an additional 14,000 people needing residential care home places per year.

Lead researcher James Kingdom said: “We’re currently building half the number of care home beds every year that we need.”

“There are more people living longer.

“We know that over the course of the next decade there is going to be 2.5 million more over-65s, and as a result that means there is going to be demand for care home beds.

“To fix that, we need to double the rate of delivery”.

Barchester Health Care is the third largest care home provider in the UK.

It is concerned the gap in capacity means extremely vulnerable people are not getting the care they need.

Chief executive Pete Calveley told You and Yours: “Increasingly, highly dependent people are left at home.

“We feel that leaves them socially isolated and doesn’t meet their needs.

“So, one of the ways they reduce demand is by raising the criteria, which I don’t think is always appropriate.”

But the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services says there is a risk too many people are being placed in residential care.

The association’s president, Glen Garrod, said: “There is a danger of looking to residential options when we haven’t fully exhausted all those that might help people stay at home – which is where most people would prefer to be.”

In the past three years, 21,500 care beds have closed in the UK.

People in the care industry worry that as bed capacity decreases and demand increases, there will be more pressure on NHS beds as elderly people are admitted to hospital because they can’t cope at home.

The government estimates this already costs the NHS in England £900m a year.

Pete Calveley, from Barchester Health Care, said it was an increasing feature of the health and social care environment because there was not enough capacity in the community.

The Department of Health said high quality care was not just about providing care home beds.

A Department of Health official said 61% of people “are cared for in their own home, and since 2010 there has been a growth in home care agencies of more than 2,900”.

“We’ve given local authorities in England an extra £2bn boost over the next three years to maintain access for our growing ageing population and to put the social care sector on a sustainable footing for the future.”

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Offering a strange combination of black stones against the white sand and blue sea, Cavelossim Goa is a treat to the eyes of any visitor. Two significant aspects of the town of Cavelossim is the meeting of river Sal with the sea and the temple of Goddess Shri Shantadurga. This beach is a strikingly clean one which offers great opportunities for the perfect beach click. Sparkling water, green plants and white sand stand out as perfect backgrounds. Like any beach in Goa, Cavelossim too has many shacks and a market nearby where one will find fresh and tasty food at reasonable rates and souvenirs and other items of handicrafts, respectively.

Cavelossim Beach, Goa

Cavelossim Beach is also known for Goa water sports. There are options for speed boat racing, banana boat ride, swimming, diving and more as parts of water sports in Goa. One can also take the boat rides to take a better view of the sea and experience the speciality of this beach – dolphins! Special boat rides are planned and booked for watching these creatures. The temple of Shri Shantadurga is located at Kawlem and must also be visited for its historical significance. It happens to be the biggest temple in the state and it was brought from Cavelossim to Kawlem during the Portuguese invasion of Goa. For its history and natural beauty, dolphins and alluring markets, Cavelossim is among the must see and important places to visit in Goa.

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Milosevic's defence BBC News 24

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Date: 14 February 2002

a dead girl, next, a grandmother, next says Milosevic, a severed head, next, carbonised arm, next , another fragment of body, the photos fascinate, the judge is po-faced, next another face mouth dripping dead blood, going by on TV. I think they are people killed by Nato. BBC 24 goes back to the studio, it is too much for silly us, the gray haired newsreader flustered mumbles something about disturbing pictures and we are forced to listen to a British expert telling us of Milosevic's guilt. The truth is Milosevic is guilty but the trial is unfair, and we are guilty in similar ways, but we must listen and think. Milosevic " you are making me swim 100 metres with my arms tied." His face arrogant, bad.

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SHE FELT A BEAD OF SWEAT trickle down her back, while others formed ready to soak her shirt beneath her encounter suit. The overwhelming urge was to scratch at the irritation from the carbon that leached out of the suit, but she couldn’t. Couldn’t because of the large rubber gloves covering her hands. Hands that rested either side of the communications rig, waiting. Waiting for a signal. A word. Anything that would tell her what was happening in her own little sphere of the war.

She had not taken her eyes from the leader board, out front, in over ten minutes. Concentrating on the usually ever changing data. The lettered tiles were not flipping over. A fact that relayed the alarming truth. The battle was not going well. Four squadrons had flown out in the early hours of the morning to engage the enemy, through the thick fog that covered the tiny hamlet. The base lay hidden, nestled in the sheltering cover of trees. All but the runway that is. A thin ribbon of concrete that gave away their position like a lit beacon flashing, ‘look we’re here!’

We’re here. She tried not to think about it. About what had brought them to this moment in time, this moment in space—in such a short time. Diplomacy having long since failed. The Peace talks having fallen on deaf ears, the bombs had starting flying instead of the rhetoric.

Concentrate on your job, she chided herself. To do otherwise was to invite the ‘what ifs’ and she knew where that path lead. She ignored the physical irritations of thirst, sweat, hunger and the onslaught of fatigue. She ignored the reality of the stats board a while longer. Regardless, a small needle of fear stabbed deep inside her. It reminded her this wasn’t just some drill, wasn’t just another exercise. This time it was for real.

From within her tiny oasis of calm, alone in the semi-lit claustrophobic room on the ground floor. Which, in truth, was no more than a furnished ten by six, with two doors and a desk that ran the length of the glass panel. She looked out onto Eng. Ops and to the three officers who, likewise clothed in dark green encounter suits, sat waiting for the inevitable.

The end.

Their faces obscured by black rubber gas masks, eyes lost to view, she wondered what they were thinking. Had fear begun to creep into their thoughts, their conversation? She envied them their company in her solitude.

A light glowed on the console, which squeaked. She flicked a switch to respond.

“Intel.” The word came out muffled, inaudible even to her ears. She tried again, louder.

“Status report.” The disembodied voice asked without any hint of emotion.

“Nothing, as of this time.” There was a moment’s silence.

The voice spoke again. “Nothing?”

“Nothing, Sir,” she added.

Four squadrons, twenty planes to a squadron. Eighty planes in all. Not one, in over three hours, had reported in. If they were talking to anyone at all, they weren’t talking to her.

“Nothing, Sir, nothing at all.” She repeated her statement of fact. No one had made a mission report. She’d already surmised no one was ever going to make a report, of any kind.

When she’d dialled through the bandwidth earlier, she’d heard nothing but background static. For the last hour she had not heard any kind of chatter. Nothing. She knew the enemy could be blocking all communications. And so, breaking protocol, she’d tried all the other major frequencies. Even the emergency channels. Nothing.

The world had gone silent. Her world had gone silent. It had made her feel quite sick. If it wasn’t for Petrie coming in from the corridor on his way through to Intelligence, she might have lost it then and there. Even thrown up. As it was, the mounting tension was eating away at her guts.

“Thank you for your service.” The disembodied voice said as if, in a moment of divine revelation, it knew the truth. The line went dead.

She adjusted the headset sat atop her head. It didn’t quite fit while wearing a gas mask. Nothing fit. Her clothes, the situation, anything. Her personal jigsaw puzzle was missing pieces it would never have. As an analyst it was her job to sift through data, to piece together information, and report its content. Nice, neat, concise.

She did so now, to herself. Taking what she knew and filling in the holes with intel taken from subtext—she read between the lines, divining. The conclusions were unmistakable. No one was coming home. Whoever the enemy was, and she still didn’t know for sure, they had vanquished everything they had sent out to meet them.

Germany and, maybe, the whole of Europe, was falling. Had fallen. The world too?

She scanned both sections of the leader board. Engineering had ceased updating maybe twenty minutes earlier. The flutter of tiny flashing lights, on the Ops board above it though had continued up until a few minutes ago. It was no coincidence that the updates had stopped the moment Group Captain Howard had asked her for an update.

All Intel, both upstairs and down, had stopped flowing. They were, in all probability, no longer in contact with HQ at Rheindahlan let alone the now missing squadrons. And next door, in Intelligence?

She wondered what news they had from their own sources. It would have been a simple matter to get up, walk to the door open it and find out. But she didn’t, instead, in frustration; she flung the now useless headset down on the tabletop. It skidded to a stop against the plate of congealed, stone-cold eggs that had been breakfast. Served almost to the minute the intercom system had sounded an alert and everyone had donned gas masks.

Nine seconds. It was all they had. Get it on in less than nine bloody seconds. It was the drill. Only, this time, it hadn’t been a drill.

That had been several hours ago. Several painfully long hours ago. Time stretched, seconds became as minutes, minutes as hours. Now, she felt as if she had just run out of time. If she had been religious in any way she might have begun to pray. As it was she felt a strange emotion well up from deep inside her, one of desolation, one of loss.

Peeling off first one, then the other glove, she tugged at the straps of her mask, loosening the pull-ties. She lay the mask down in front of her. Hands still clutching the vulcanized rubber. She knew with a certainty that she couldn’t explain to herself, let alone anyone else, she was never going to need it.

That she was never going to see the light of day dawning over the conifer forest at shift’s end. Or feel the soft caress of a gentle breeze upon her face. To breath in the scent of her mother’s cologne or her treasured roses. And never again smell that sweet smell of her father’s pipe tobacco of an evening out on the balcony back home.

In a heartbeat she would lose it all. In a heartbeat she would pass from being, to ghost. Pass from living, to dead. And, with a conviction that only the dead know about, she picked up a red-wax pencil and wrote on the Plexiglas desk top.

Jehanne D’Arc.

Not an epitaph but a statement of fact. Her name. A name that she felt she’d had to live up to her entire life. Now, aged 19, she was going to be burnt alive. The acrid smoke that had begun to creep beneath the door to her right was beginning to fill the room. An intense heat penetrated the buckling metal, which squealed in pain and on the point of giving way.

Life, she thought, had only one certainty—Death.

The fiery flames of Hell had come looking for her. What else could she do? Standing tall, she met them head on. After all, she had survived one fire, so long ago; maybe she could this time as well.

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Being a child today is tough. Whether its in academics, sports, or social circles, the pressures and competition put on our young ones are difficult to deny. Children as young as 1st grade are being asked what they want to be when the grow up, middle schoolers compete for academies, and the pressures to get into the “best” colleges (but don’t stress about it) abound.  Likewise, parents are overwhelmed making sure they do everything “right” for their children.  In this presentation, Dr. Abigail Levrini will teach families how to foster grit and avoid drowning in the myriad of obstacles found in today’s society. How to identify and deal with anxiety, learning from mistakes, and how to achieve happiness, will be among the questions she will answer.  We hope that you can join us in strengthening our Valley Ridge families.

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If you had to leave town early and were unable to collect your payout. Contact Gotta Go Gotta Throw 877-347-2465.

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Posted on August 9, 2008

Check in at the host hotel (Holiday Inn West), is near the pool area. We had about 250 people check in on Friday and expect a good portion to check in today.

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Saturday - 10 am-8 pm

Sunday - 10 am-4 pm

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Registration Closes Soon

Posted on July 29, 2008

Registration will close at 8 pm on Friday 8/1. If you want to be a participant in this historic event you must sign up by Friday at 8. We currently have more than 800 players signed up. The Advanced Men division is full, there is a wait list. Advanced Grand Masters is close to being full so register soon. We look forward to seeing you in Kalamazoo.

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Timber Ridge is Open

Posted on July 14, 2008

Timber Ridge is one of the premier courses for this year’s World Championships. We are happy to announce that it is open for play. Baskets have been installed, tee pads have been staked down, trees have been cut, and this massive course that world champions will be crowned on is waiting with open arms. Make sure to bring sunscreen and plenty of water. Bell’s is served and there are limited snacks.

Details: Course is open Wednesday-Sunday 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Last Tee at 6:30

Cost is $5/per day

Starting August 1 the course will be open every day.

Registration Update

Posted on June 27, 2008

In the latest registration update we have 608 players signed up. Currently the most players are coming from Michigan with 83, and then California with 54, followed by Texas with 48, and 42 players are coming from outside the US.

45 Days until round one tee off.

Free Baseball Night: Discraft Presents Kalamazoo Kings Game

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Baseball, hot dogs, fireworks, and a chance to win a free trip!

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Posted on June 3, 2008

As of June 1, 2008 registration opened to all current PDGA members. After the latest update we have about 500 entrants. There is still time to get in.

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Chains Style Putting Contest

Posted on May 30, 2008

The Putting Contest and the other side games will be held at Timber Ridge Ski Area on Sunday, August 10.

This year’s putting champion will be decided by a one-on-one single elimination Chains (horse shoe) tournament.

The court will consist of 1 basket and a line 10 meters away where each player will throw from.  Each player gets 2 putts per turn.  First player to throw is decided by disc flip.  After that the order stays the same or best score from previous turn goes first.  Two (2) points are awarded for making a basket.  One (1) point for hitting any part of the basket.  Five (5) points for making both putts in the basket in a single turn.  All players must clear their discs after their turn. The winner is the first one to make twenty one (21) points or more after each player has taken the same amount of turns and is ahead of the other player by two (2) points.

PDGA Site Visit

Posted on May 20, 2008

Dave Gentry from the PDGA graced us with his presence for the last few days. I believe this was the last ‘official’ visit from the PDGA before the event. Everything seems to be falling in place. We are headed to check out Ft. Custer (our newest course) this morning. This course will be replacing the anticipated Romona Park course which was voted down by the Portage City Council. There will be 10 courses used for the world championships: Begg Park, Cold Brook Park, Ft. Custer,  Kimball Pines, Meyer Broadway (2), Oshtemo Township Park, Robert Morris Park, Timber Ridge, Victory Park.  Volunteer opportunities are available, check out the new volunteer page.

DGA Sparkle Rouges Released

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DGA is excited to announce the return of our highly successful fundraiser disc and 18 Mach III Pole Hole giveaway program. A total of 1500 Sparkle Rogues will be produced. Each disc purchased will come with one raffle ticket, which will be entered into a drawing for 18 Mach III Deluxe Disc Pole Holes that are powder coated in a limited edition Sunburst Orange. Sold online exclusively through