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Salinas, California (Saturday, Spetember8, 2018) – Today's victory celebration for the No. 50 Lamborghini of Beverly Hills was dampened by the incident on lap six involving Sheena Monk. The entire US RaceTronics team is sending their wishes for a speedy recovery to Monk.
Edoardo Piscopo stayed out until the final minute of the pit window in a strategy that paid off for him and co-driver Taylor Proto. Today's win gives the pairThe other four team cars also finished on the podium. Brian Thienes won the AM class, while Parris Mullins and Mark Proto brought home the victory in LB Cup. Mike Hedlund and Pippa Mann finished second in the Pro-Am class and Damon Ockey finished third in AM.
Piscopo started the race second overall and first in the Pro class. He was passed on the first lap but continued to push the car to stay in contention. After a long red flag, Piscopo put down fast lap after fast lap building a gap as his competitors pitted. With less than a minute to go in the pit window Piscopo turned the car over to Taylor Proto who came out in front of the field right before a full-course yellow came out sealing the pairs third victory of the season in the No. 50 Lamborghini of Beverly Hills.
"I'm extremely happy with the result," Piscopo said after the race. "It's hard to enjoy the win considering what happened to Sheena. My thoughts go out to her. Overall because of what happened we knew that the race was going to be won with a strategy and I think that my engineer (Marco Bielli) did a great job by calling me in at the very end of the pit window. Thank you to everybody at US RaceTronics for helping to make this happen."
"Today was a good race for us," Taylor Proto added. "Edoardo did an absolutely perfect job. Unfortunately, the No. 7 car had a major accident which red-flagged us. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Sheena. Hopefully her road to recovery isn't too long. So that makes the win bittersweet knowing that one of our fellow drivers was injured as she was, but still we were able to salvage a win out of it. We got lucky with our pitstop. Edoardo did an amazing job of just keeping the car fast, setting quick laps and then building us a gap toward the end of his stint. With around two minutes to go I got in the car and as soon as I left pit lane there was a full-course yellow and that was about it. Again, great work to the team. Our pit stop was incredibly clean. I was sitting there with 30 seconds left to go which I think was probably the quickest we've ever done the driver change. Really pleased with the result. Hopefully we can get another result just like this tomorrow."
Mike Hedlund and Pippa Mann were successful in their debut with US Racetronics this weekend. Hedlund started sixth overall, second in the ProAm class in the No. 63 Bell Techlogix / AQUAHydrate Lamborghini of Beverly Hills Huracan. He drove a flawless stint before handing the car over to Mann who brought home a fifth overall, second in class for the team.
"We had a really solid race in the No. 63 Lamborghini of Beverly Hills car," Hedlund said, "but right now we're thinking about Sheena who was hurt during the race. Luckily, we were able to get through, but our thoughts and prayers are with her right now. Hopefully we'll hear word on her condition soon. We're looking forward to tomorrow's race and hoping to get another podium finish for the team."
"We were hoping to have a really good run today in the Bell Techlogix / AQUAHydrate / Shift Up Now car," Mann added. "I'm very happy with the result, but obviously we wish the race had worked out differently. I'm thinking of Sheena and I hope she's okay. You never want to see a fellow driver hurt, so we'll definitely be keeping her in our thoughts."
Brian Thienes brought the No. 17 Thienes Engineering Lamborghini of Beverly Hills home one spot behind the No. 63 for a win in the AM class. Thienes started the race ninth overall and third in class, but good pit strategy moved him to the top of the podium.
"A good job by US RaceTronics for putting the car back together yesterday after a brake-failure incident that definitely got my attention in turn 5," Thienes said. "We struggled in qualifying and didn't qualify as well as we had hoped given our pace in practice, but the team did a really good job overnight putting the car into good order allowing me to have a really good race pace. We were able to capitalize on a very thoughtful pit strategy by US RaceTronics and this is more their win than it is mine. Its good to be back on the top of the podium once again and hopefully we can make a charge for the overall Amateur championship."
Parris Mullins and Mark Proto once again found the top step of the podium in LB Cup. Mullins started the race in the No. 88 Lamborghini of La Jolla and drove a strong stint before handing the car over to Proto in the waning stage of the pit window. The duo finished eighth overall which was their best overall finish of the season.
"I was really excited heading here this weekend because this is kind of my home track," Mullins said. "The race was eventful and not how we wanted it to go other than the result. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sheena and her family and we hope she has a speedy recovery. But, I tried to maintain our position that we'd gotten in qualifying and obviously the incident kind of threw some things off, but once we restarted I was able to stay out front and when I came into the pits we had a great pitstop and Mark just hauled ass out of there and stayed in front just enough to cross the finish line first."
"First of off, I'd like to say that Sheena's in our thoughts and that we hope she's okay," Mark Proto added. "We haven't had a solid update yet, but this race win does come with a bit of an overshadow with her having an incident. As far as the actual race goes, with so much red-flag time I got minimal drive time. We were trying to find a good gap with traffic to bring Parris in and get me in the car. It ended up working out for us. We got the win, so we couldn't be happier. I'm looking forward to the race tomorrow."
Damon Ockey started the race from the pole and was leading the AM class until he incurred a drive-through-penalty late in the race. The result was disappointing for the Canadian driver, but he's already focused on coming back and winning tomorrow's race.
"So far it's been a really good weekend," Ockey said after the race. "We qualified P1 in both races and seventh overall in both races. Today didn't quite go our way. I was driving really strong and keeping up with the Pro pack and we were putting a pretty good gap between us and the rest of the field. But, we had a pretty big crash and went to a full-course red. We only had 15 minutes left after the restart. I was able to do my pitstop, but I came out behind one of the slower cars and just kind of ran into the back of him, bumped him and flatted his tire and I got a drive-through. We ended up P3 in class, which wasn't what we wanted, but that's racing. Tomorrow's another day and we've got the starting position and the car we need to bring home the win."
US RaceTronics team owner Shane Seneviratne was pleased with the results but wanted to make sure to convey his concern for Sheena Monk.
"Today was a good day for the team," Seneviratne said, "but right now my thoughts and prayers are for Sheena. She's a great competitor and we hope that she makes a quick recovery."
Tomorrow's Round 10 of the LBSTNA Championship goes green at 11:25 a.m. PDT and will be streamed live at http://squadracorse.lamborghini.com/en-en/live-streaming and http://imsatv.imsa.com/.
Follow US RaceTronics and their drivers all season at:
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Date & Time : April 18, 2018, 10 AM Onwards
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Senator John McCain lost his battle with brain cancer on Saturday, August 25th, 2018. He was diagnosed with this disease in July 2017 and, since then, courageously continued to make his mark on the world of politics. He is and will continue to be one of the most revered politicians in American history, having endured […]Continue reading
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DEF LEPPARD – Songs From the Sparkle Lounge (2008 Deluxe edition, Japanese version)
Could it be? The band who I once wrote off with the Euphoria album, followed by the dismal X, actually came back with something approximating a rock album! And not a bad rock album at that!
The band say that doing the covers album Yeah! revitalized them. Maybe. Personally I thought the covers album sucked, and that the dozen or so bonus tracks available elsewhere were way better than the actual album they released. Whatever. That was then and this is now, inside the Sparkle Lounge.
Terrible title, although I liked the single-disc cover art quite a lot. We know Def Leppard are more of a glam band than a metal band. The problem is, they were such a great metal band! High 'n' Dry is a masterpiece of riff-rock. Anyway, if you can forget High 'n' Dry, On Through The Night, or even Pyromania, you can get into Sparkle Lounge for what it is: A strong ballad-free return for one of the most beloved rock acts of the last two decades. Even Joe Elliot decided to show up this time, and sing to the best of his ability.
Very few weak tracks, lots of strong ones. "Go", "Love", "Hallucinate", "Tomorrow", "Only The Good Die Young", "Bad Actress"…there is some serious fire happening here on these tracks! But the band saved the best new song for last. "Gotta Let It Go" has a riff and melody that fit right in with Def Leppard's earlier sound. Only the occassional drum programs betray the thunder.
One song that I would call a weak track is the single "C'Mon C'Mon". In my review from the 12″ vinyl single, I called it a "crap song". It's a shameless T-Rex rip-off, and also a Def Leppard rip off. Next!
Japanese bonus tracks are disappointing in the sense that they are not different songs, just different mixes. "Nine Lives" appears without Tim McGraw (this is my preferred version as nu-country is like kryptonite to me and would probably kill me if I was overexposed). "Love" appears as a powerful piano version, in some ways superior to the original, but turning it into a ballad dilutes the purpose of this album.
I have no comments as to the SHM-CD. It sounded the same to me. I guess these things are supposed to last longer? The DVD includes the music video for "Nine Lives" (yuck), an album commentary and a "behind the scenes" feature. For me, the all-region NTSC DVD contents and the lacklustre packaging don't really justify the existence of a "deluxe edition".
So, whatever went right, this is the best Def Leppard album since the criminally underrated Slang in 1996. It could be the heaviest album since Pyromania. It's far from perfect, but the good news is you can play it in the car with the windows down and nobody will laugh at you.
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New endowment rankings for US and Canadian (!) universities.
Michigan is #6 and #2 among the public universities.
When I was deciding where to work five years ago among Maryland, Wisconsin and Michigan, a good friend emailed me the endowment rankings. That proved very helpful in making the decision. Money does matter for professorial utility, and for other things as well.
In Canada, Toronto and McGill have made some headway up the rankings, but Western Ontario is not, sadly, to be found.
Here is Michigan's official statement on the matter. I've always wondered, and debated with a couple of colleagues, whether Michigan's high return on its endowment investments is due to inside information or taking more risks.
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A blog about my landscape image making. On landscape imaging in general, bits of history and related disciplines (Architecture, Geography, Neuro Science, Philosophy and whatever happens to get my attention)
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Roundabouts as a traffic regulator are around from a lot of time. As usual we Italians discovered them late and now, in a great hurry and without thinking to much about it, we are distributing them everywhere. I run across this one near the place where I lived my youngest years of life. I am working photographically on these places as a mean to regain some "sense of place" that I lost for a lot of reasons. However alienation seems to me the best word to describe my feelings. People here went to a total separation from the land in which they live. I do not know if this has some connection but in the Sondrio province suicide is 5 times higher then in the rest of Italy. A few ones have pointed out that the fracture between everyday life and the land could be one of the causes. I do not want to get into, as a photographer, albeit amateur, I just want to look at.
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As usual I went in as blind as possible. This was more difficult with this particular film being a part of a series of film adaptations of a popular anime but I had never watched the show so I thought I was doing well.
Have you ever sat down and daydreamed about the future and it slowly slipped into a gigante-normous pit of weirdness? Like you really just let your mind wonder and sat back to see just how out of hand it would get. That's what I imagine the manga-ka and director sitting down to create this film did to bring it to life. I cannot describe this film as anything but an acid-using engineering major's fever dream mirage of the future for humanity. The crazy thing is it makes sense in all the worst ways.
Picture a societal future where marketing cosmetic teams are preying so much on the vanity and anxiety of self image that they develop a series of robotic cosmetic replacements features for people to start using. It could have been as simple as starting with the disable and replacing eyes for the blind, ears for the deaf, and giving realistic robotic prosthetics to those with missing limbs as we do today. It has a positive motive and helps many. Then as the technology advances greed sets in for the leading companies and they decide to expand.Somewhere along the road the technology becomes available for general public use such as convincing women to replace their legs and armpits with robotic armor so that they wouldn't have to shave anymore. This become a routine exercise and people start asking to replace their full bodies to that they may live longer and without illness. Thus cyborg life is born and with it a entire new set of crimes to commit and to stop.
The movie's plot is pushed by one big event the Prime Minister of Japan was assassinated when a bomb went off in Newport City and heroin Major Motoko Kusanagi of law enforcement Section 9 and known born cyborg has been framed. She goes onto investigate the situation as well as continuing the investigation to find the virus FireStarter which was an issue in the last installment Ghost in the Shell: Arise. Then in one night she tries to fight off the cyborg taking on her form and stop the dangerous virus from spreading. Things look bleak until her comrades of Section 9 come to her rescue from the grasps of the mysterious section 501 who reveal themselves as the culprits and the Ghost of Luitenant Colonel Kurtz is their leader who has been posing as Major Kusanagi by uploading herself to different robotic armor! This turn of events is heartwrenching for Motoko because Kurtz was one of her fellow student at the academy she was sent to for training when she was born a cyborg. In the end Motoko's name is cleared and Kurtz gets away by uploading her self to a newly developed server but section 9 is put back in the good graces of the Japanese military and Newport City.
As far as animation goes the action scenes and gun play were more than what I expected. The scenes were beautifully drawn and enticing. This is not the first film in this series but I recommend the entire series for viewing purposes as well as the short 10 episode series.


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An entertaining themed anthology, published in 1981 but containing stories dating back as far as 1938. Some stories have dated, many are still great reads, all clearly justified their selection at the time. I've been reading this on and off for several months, but got through about half of it last month, so my review of the individual stories is going to be a bit patchy.
The anthology is set out in sections covering different degrees of catastrophe, from the end of the universe down to the end of our current civilisation without the loss of humanity itself. Each section has a short intro by Asimov, who also provides a general introduction and endpiece for the anthology.
Isaac Asimov — The Last Trump
The last trump sounds, and humanity slowly discovers what the Day of Resurrection actually means. It's often very funny, and there are some lovely characterisations in it — particularly the very young and junior seraph who has become attached to the planet he's been put in charge of, and is determined to give its people more time before they have to face Judgement. I first read it as a child in the local library's copy of the collection "Earth is room enough", and have always adored it.
Edward Wellen — No Other Gods
Enjoyable example of "computer decides to squash the puny humans and make itself god" genre, but nothing outstanding.
Harlan Ellison — The wine has been left open too long and the memory has gone flat
Nine pages of very well written literary sf from HE about universal ennui at the tail end of the universe, which happened to leave me utterly cold.
Ben Bova — Stars, won't you hide me?
The last human survivor of an interstellar war runs from his pursuers, and finds out more about himself and the war than he's comfortable with.
Lloyd Biggle Jr — Judgement Day
A man in a backwoods town has the power to pick one future out of the many potential ones he can see. It's hard work and he doesn't do it much, and he certainly doesn't tell others about it. It doesn't save him from being convicted of a child-killing he didn't commit, but maybe he can find a path out even on the scaffold…
After three stories I don't feel any interest in re-reading, this is the story that made me change my mind about disposing of the book.
William Tenn — The Custodian
Diary of the man who believes himself to be the last person left on earth after the bulk of humanity has fled the impending death of the sun. Tenn charts the cultural split between those who feel that everything not essential to survival should be jettisoned, and those who feel that there are cultural artefacts worth preserving. I liked this.
Clark Ashton Smith — Phoenix
1954 story about a far-future attempt to rekindle a dying sun. This is one that I think was good but has suffered from the passage of time since it was written.
Harry Harrison — Run from the fire
Nice use of the parallel worlds concept, with the plot here being the sun going nova in a number of timelines. Liked this a lot.
Edward Hamilton — Requiem
Humanity survives, but earth does not. One last expedition to a long-abandoned planet before it burns in a nova, and the differing reactions of the expedition to the requiem atmosphere. I liked it, but it won't be to everyone's taste.
Larry Niven — At the Core
One of Niven's tales of Known Space. The Puppeteers hire Beowulf Shaeffer to fly their experimental ship to the heart of the galaxy. The Puppeteers have more than one motive for this, but neither party in the bargain expects the end result to be quite as spectacular as it is.
Fritz Leiber — A Pail of Air
Another old friend for me. It's showing its age a bit now (1951), but Leiber's tale of a family surviving on a super-cooled earth still sends shivers down my spine.
Chad Oliver — King of the Hill
Entertainingly malicious story about exactly how the richest man on an over-crowded and over-polluted earth chooses to spend his money on rescuing something from an irretrievable mess.
Ursula K Le Guin — The New Atlantis
It's Le Guin, doing the sort of thing Le Guin does. Which means it can't be summed up in two lines. It doesn't really work for me, but only because I'm not American and don't have the cultural background to understand some of what she's getting at. I strongly suspect that it's devastating for some readers.
Arthur C Clarke — History Lesson
A new and vicious ice age wipes out humans, but they leave one last cache of cultural artefacts to be found by whatever intelligence may come next.
Raymond Z Gallun — Seeds of the dusk
From 1938, this is the oldest piece in the book, and stylistically it shows. But it's an excellent example of that style. An alien plant spore arrives on a far distant future earth, and the local intelligent species (of which there are now more than one) have varying reactions to the potential threat it poses.
Walter M Miller Jr — Dark Benediction
Zombies! Well, not quite, but a well-crafted tale of a disfiguring plague that spreads by touch, and which induces its victims to seek out the uninfected and lay hands on them. Cue breakdown of society, not because the plague kills (it doesn't), but because people fear infection by those who don't yet have visible symptoms. The story follows one man who's not yet infected and intends to stay that way, but hasn't lost all compassion for the infected. Controlling his own fear gives him the chance to learn about others trying to do the same.
Alfred Coppel — Last Night of Summer
An interesting version of the "only time to build bunkers for a few" scenario.
Robert Sheckley — The Store of the Worlds
Another of the stories in this book which I first read in other anthologies a long time ago, and one which has haunted me ever since I first read it. The store claims to sell the chance for your mind to spend a year in any world you choose amongst the millions of parallel worlds. The price is all your worldly goods and ten years off your life in the real world, thanks to the strain on the nervous system imposed by the process.
Robert Silverberg — How it was when the past went away
Someone gets *creative* with his revenge against society, and instead of running amok with a gun tips amnaesiac drugs into the main water reserviour supplying San Francisco. Silverberg explores the effect on various people of losing the last few weeks, or months, or years. Excellent piece.
CM Kornbluth — Shark Ship
This takes some of the interesting ideas from stories about interstellar generation ships, and puts them right back on earth, amongst a fishing fleet that set sail two centuries ago under a Compact to never return to land, as a means of easing population pressure in the cities. Kornbluth's study of the social and technological changes in such a system is all the better for this twist on the generation ship scenario.


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Course Duration: 19 days
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Best Drones For Beginners
To learn how to fly starts with learning how you can fly without crashing. The process of learning without crashing starts with mishaps hence, you need a tough drone as an aspiring pilot.
Ten Best Drones for Beginners in 2020
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- Ten Best Drones for Beginners in 2020
- 1. Force1 U49C Drone with Camera for Beginner
- 2. Holy Stone HS170C Predator 2 Mini RC Quadcopter Drone
- 3. Halo Quadcopter Drone for Kids – Beginners
- 4. Force1 drone with Camera Live Video and GPS Return Home
- 5. WIFI FPV Version U818A Drone with 720P HD Camera
- 6. DROCON U31W Navigator Kids Drone with HD Camera
- 7. Holy Stone F181C RC Quadcopter Drone with HD Camera RTF 4 Channel
- 8. Holy Stone HS 160 Shadow FPV RC Drone with 720P HD Wi-Fi Camera Live Video Feed
- 9. Firce1 HD Drone with Camera – RC Camera Drones for Kids and Pros
- 10. SereneLife Wi-Fi FPV Foldable Drone with HD camera and Live Video
- Conclusion:
This drone must be very cheap enough to the extent of if you lose it in a tree, you will not have to bankrupt them. Below are the ten best drones for beginners in 2018.
1. Force1 U49C Drone with Camera for Beginner
Force1 U49C drone help you swoop through the skies as a beginner and professionals. This drone has camera and has keen vision and flight-stabilizing technology that provides unparalleled image-capture capability. You can as well make your flight time longer with the additional battery packaged with it.
- It comes with two batteries
- Each function of the template is well labeled
- The controller is ergonomics
- It is user friendly
- The quadcopter camera has real lens on it
- The performance of the camera is better
- The drone shines when flying in indoors
- The drone lite in the butt
- It cannot be flown in the mid to strong wind
2. Holy Stone HS170C Predator 2 Mini RC Quadcopter Drone
This drone is very good for pilots who are age 14 and above. The drone has powerful, ultra-responsive motors. The throttle can be adjusted slowly so as to maintain control. The motors and circuit board may heat up with use. The weight of the drone is less than .5lb and no FAA registration is needed.
- It is a blast to fly
- It is substantial and have value for its price
- Bright light
- Easy to learn how to fly it
- The LCD display makes it easier to look down to see if the video camera is working effectively or what the trim settings look like
- Battery life is 6 minutes
- Durable
- Reliable
- Full of fun
- Excellent drone
- Not a professional photography drone
3. Halo Quadcopter Drone for Kids – Beginners
This drone is very good for kids and the beginners because of its easy 2-speed controls. This remote control drone really glows and its LEDs glitter day or night. It is one of the best drones for the beginners, children and adults. Indeed, a dazzling drone for any filter.
- 18 minutes flight enjoyment
- Has 2 batteries
- Extremely easy to track down and provides precision piloting
- Perfect birthday, Christmas or special gift
- It is a cutest little one
- The flashing colors is attractive
- Good quality
- Durable
- Altitude hold
- Tight flips
- In daylight, the LEDs is lights off
4. Force1 drone with Camera Live Video and GPS Return Home
Force1 Drone with camera Live video comes home on auto from up to 500 meters and it is considered to be the great drone for the beginners or professionals with 1-key Lift/land, altitude hold and headless mode. If you are given this quadcopter drone away, make sure you buckle up because you will surely wish you kept one for yourself.
- Have 3 (RTH) return to home features, smart, failsafe and low battery
- While hovering, GPS hold the drone in a stationary status for sweet video and photography
- New transmitter design
- Built-in LCD screen
- Designed and built to perfection
- Has brushless motors which are strong and fast
- Extra battery
- Worth its price
- Have value for money
- Have limited range with the Wi-Fi
5. WIFI FPV Version U818A Drone with 720P HD Camera
This drone is powered by a Lithium-Polymer (LiPo) battery. For safety purpose, turn off the drone and cool down the battery after flying the drone and then recharge it before storing. Make sure you do not overcharge or over-discharge the LiPo battery. If you do not plan to fly the drone for 7 days or more, just make sure you safe the battery nearly 50% charged so as to keep the performance of the battery and life span.
- Good for pilots of age 14 and above
- Very powerful
- Ultra responsive motors
- Super cool quadcopter
- Has extra battery and a charger
- Real-time app
- Easy learning mode
- Easy to fly and keep up with the front of the drone
- Has a auto take off and landing with the push of one button
- Awesome mobile app
- Video and picture quality are great
- Good if the battery life is more than 7 to 10 minutes
This is the kind of drone that flying based on the flight line. It is equipped with HD 720P camera which is even with 120 degree lens that helps in getting much clearer and broader angle views. The navigator is majorly for the beginners and children. It is not only built in headless mode, altitude hold mode but also gives one key take off/ landing and emergency stop to make operating easier.
- Easy to take selfie
- Able to fly at particular altitude and adopts barometer to know this function
- Safe flight is guaranteed
- Good for children and the beginners
- Easy to fly
- The cell phone holder cannot accommodate a touch pad
7. Holy Stone F181C RC Quadcopter Drone with HD Camera RTF 4 Channel
This drone is equipped with one key return and headless security system to help the beginners and as well help in preventing losing the drone. It is designed with two batteries. It has controllable LED lights that help in locating the drone most especially at night and can be turned on and off.
- Flies well and very durable
- Great lights for night flight
- Looks very cool
- Designed with 2 batteries
- Outstanding customer support
- The flight is too smooth
- Packaged with all you need right out of the box
- It is very important to screw in the prop guards that is not obvious in the instruction manual
- Batteries are not easy to swap
- The light on the USB battery charger do not turn green when the battery is charged.
- The controller continuously beeps when in headless mode
- No higher capacity battery upgrades
- Short battery life
8. Holy Stone HS 160 Shadow FPV RC Drone with 720P HD Wi-Fi Camera Live Video Feed
Holy Stone HS 160 is a kind of drone with foldable and flexible structure. The foldable and flexible blades make the drone small and portable. It also provides a better and safer flight experience. You can operate it through an app after connecting with Wi-Fi to your phone providing you real-time picture transmission, easy to shoot and read. To share is full of fun.
- Very stable when flying
- The quad is light weight
- Fun, responsive and cute in an odd way
- Have 4 speeds
- Brilliant LED lights at the front and rear that are very good for night helping with low light orientation
- Have the best customer service
- No flip function
9. Firce1 HD Drone with Camera – RC Camera Drones for Kids and Pros
This is one of the easiest drones with live camera to fly among the drones in the market made for the beginners or for children. It has the capability that gives you a first person view when using the dragonfly drone Wi-Fi camera. One can easily enjoy a powerful array of easy-to-fly drone functions.
- Great for the beginners and children
- Easy to operate
- Great customer care
- Remote is one of the best
- Small and portable
- Easy to transport
- Have two batteries
- Battery only lasted for 10 minutes
10. SereneLife Wi-Fi FPV Foldable Drone with HD camera and Live Video
This drone is very simple to operate and hassle-free of one button operation together with wide-angle degree lens. It is designed for extreme performance and has stabilization processor for smooth and steady hovering.
- Excellent budget drone with numerous features
- A built-in HD 720p camera with on-board slot for a micro SD card
- A very nice app GX_FPV to control it directly from your Smartphone
- Very portable
- Rich set of buttons
- Easy to use controller
- Battery lasts for 13 minutes flight
- Short battery life despite that it takes 2 hours to charge fully
All the above drones are the best drones for the beginners because it will teach them how to easily handle drone or helicopters if they really want to know more or become pilots in the future. It contains all they need to be a pilot.


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The David Olatona Global Outreach (DOGO) team departed Nigeria for Ghana on Tuesday, 9th February, 2016 and were warmly welcomed at Katoka International airport by Pastor John, who took them to Ablotsi in the Eastern region of Ghana. As a tactical and experienced missionary, Rev. Olatona and his team went to the mission outreach venue at the first instance for preparation assessment and to meet some of the leaders and pastors. After which they retired to the hotel for final spiritual harmonisation and logistics fine-tuning as regard the mission trip.
The School of Leadership started at past 9 am, with prayer, praise and worship. The chairman of GPCC welcomed everyone to the service and invited our host, Rev. John Nartey (Head of CAPRO Missions, Ghana) to do further introductions. In view of the foregoing, Rev. Olatona was introduced, with the host pastor explaining that he learnt about David Olatona Global Outreach (DOGO) through Sis. Ada Uzondu via social media in 2014. He had been told what God has been doing through His servant in all the nations, he became interested, made contact and was given a date for 2016 for this mission conference.
Rev. Olatona started the school of leadership session, after introducing his team. He spoke on LEADERSHIP: THE INTRODUCTION. He started by reading Matt. 9: 35-36 "But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd." In this verse, Jesus had compassion on the crowd because they were live sheep without shepherd, a people without a leader; the biggest challenge in that scenario was leadership – a lack of it. Everything rises and falls on and because of leadership. The Man of God define Leadership as moving people forward from one point to the other; from zero to surplus; from nothing to something. A leader looks for what to give and not what to take; what he can do for his country, not what his country can do for him!
He emphasised that there are three (3) categories of the leadership journey with its inherent question: People below 25 years old. The huge questions this set of people asks are "Can I do it?" "Can I do it better than my father, better than my predecessor?", People between 30 – 50 years old. The questions this set of people should ask themselves are "can I sustain what I've started?" "Am I going up or down? Am I sustaining my capacity?", People between 60, 70 years above. This category of people should ask themselves "can I take this across the finish line?" "Can I finish strong?"
Rev. Olatona asserted that, no matter the stage one is now, the stakes at each stage are high; and the value one can give himself is that of humility and willingness to learn at every point, so that one can start, sustain and/or finish strong!. After laying this solid foundation, the Man of God went further to explore the eight (8) things that form the basis of leadership namely; clear vision, build a team, motivate & inspire, be transparent in solving problems, establish core values, create structure, allocate resources.
Rev. Olatona concluded this School of Leadership session by urging the people not to kill emerging leaders, but to help them grow and develop; let them fail and help them succeed. The Q&A session followed immediately!
As part of the laudable platform of DOGO in reaching and empowering the people, the second event of day one which is the Skill Acquisition Training Class started at noon. They were taught on how to produce air freshener and body perfume.
The third leg of the mission outreach; Night of Encounter started at 6: 30 pm. Rev. Olatona preached exclusively on the topic "GOD'S FAVOUR & WEALTH". He took his bible reference from Psalm. 102: 13, 14. He spoke about God rising on behalf of someone; that it does not mean that God had been sleeping or been negligent about your matter, but that He was sitting on His throne because He is the ruler of the universe that has everything under His control and power; but when He rises, it means your matter just popped up as being in a state of urgency and in need of rapid action. Your story changes when God arises on your behalf. The same people that rebuked blind Bartimaeus when he called out for Jesus, and told him to shut up (Luke 18: 35-43; Mark 10: 46-52) were the same people that asked him to rejoice when Jesus called for him. Many people saw him as unqualified to call on Christ, just as many of us are not worthy to come into God's presence or ask Him for anything; BUT His mercy covers our sins and uncovers our strength! This shows that when God arises, the first thing that comes into play is His mercy – whatever we ask, we receive by His mercy!
He explained that When God arises, there is restoration. The God that created time can step in and out of time to control it, brings restoration and redemption for all our lost years; and He can bring that future glory that seems unreachable to the now! He resurrected Lazarus because He is the resurrection and life; He didn't have to wait till the "last day" like Martha assumed, He made Lazarus resurrect in the present – why wait till the resurrection day, when the Resurrection and Life, Himself, is present! Resurrection is not a day, not a particular time; it is a Person, and when you call on Him, the day you call on Him becomes your resurrection day – your restoration day! All that you have lost, by choice or force, becomes returned to you!, the Man of God declared.
Rev. Olatona started a new leadership topic on this second (2) day of the mission conference titled–SUBTLE QUALITIES THAT SET GREAT LEADERS APART. His Bible reference was Matt. 9: 35-38. Jesus was moved with compassion for the people because they were like sheep without shepherd. A lot of African nations are in the state that this people were – our people lack good leaders; many people are "fainting" and dying, businesses are collapsing, finances are crashing because of the economic state of the nations; there are not many selfless and truthful leaders like Nelson Mandela; leaders that will choose to live for their people, and influence things positively.
The first quality discussed was COURAGE. It takes courage to be able to pursue and do the work God has given you to do. Courage is long-term tenacity, doggedness and determination to act as God commands. True leaders do not give up; and leaders with more courage succeed more than those with less of it. Past courageous men like Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, the Wright brothers, Thomas Edsion, Martin Luther King etc. never gave up. True successful people were people that failed before but didn't stop at the point of their failures.
The second quality dealt with during this session was SELF AWARENESS. This is the state or condition of being aware of yourself; knowing your strength and weaknesses. When you know yourself, then you know that you do not have anything to prove to anyone; many waste their lives trying to prove their worth and abilities – it is because they are not fully aware of their potential. Trying to impress people will take you out of what you are really supposed to be doing; lack of self-awareness can eventually result in a meltdown and mess. After self-evaluation, recognising what you can do well, what you can't do and where you need help, then you can focus on doing everything to God's glory. A true leader is not afraid, proud or negligent about asking for feedback and constructive criticism; because one cannot see his blind spots by himself, and blind spots, if not taken care of, can jeopardise leadership.
Day 2 skill acquisition training class commenced at noon. Attendants were trained in the production of body and hair cream.
On the second Encounter Night, Rev. Olatona continued his teaching on GOD'S FAVOUR & WEALTH. He asserted that when God arises, He knows that our inadequacies will show up to block His favour, this is why His mercy comes into play first to take care of our guilt and wrong-doings. When mercy shows up, people go out their ways to bless you; when God wants to bless you, He does not ask for people's opinions – when he wanted to bless Jacob, He did not ask for the permission of either Isaac or Rebecca because He knew they both had their favourite kid. Instead of people seeing you, with His mercy in play, they see God instead, so they can neither resist nor stop you. A life without favour is full of struggle, pain and suffering; a life without grace is empty and filled with nothingness.
When God says it is time to favour you, it means it is time for you to enjoy excessive kindness. Despite your name, background, tribe, God pushes people to show you excessive kindness. In I Sam. 9: 1-2, David could not rest until He found someone to bless in the house of Saul; when God arises on your behalf, He puts people, kings and royalty, in a state of unrest! And then He makes people remember you – someone remembered that there was a grandson of Saul, Mephibosheth. Even though David could not stand people with disabilities (as seen in his story with the Jebusites), he had Mephibosheth – a lame man – eat at his table.
Mephibosheth was quite an unfortunate man, he had a cursed name, lived in a cursed land, he was disabled, it would seem that he could never succeed in anything in life; BUT God's mercy and favour turned his story around. David was pushed to bless him because of the long-standing covenant between him and his friend, Jonathan. If a covenant between two mortal men can change the story of a once-hopeless and unfortunate person, how much more the covenant between God and His Son to turn your turn your life around more than you expect or can comprehend.
The leadership topic "SUBTLE QUALITIES THAT SET GREAT LEADERS APART" was continued on this third day. The Man of God reiterated his lead scripture reference which is – Matt. 9: 35; Jesus moved from cities to villages preaching and teaching the word; every true Christian leader must preach and teach the gospel, because preaching motivates and inspires, while teaching establishes the listeners and followers. We should spread the gospel of the kingdom, and the gospel we spread must raise the poor, heal the sick and broken hearted, open the eyes of the blind, preach the acceptable day and year of the Lord, liberate the poor; above all, signs and wonders must follow the gospel of the kingdom (Luke 4:18-21). Recounting the quality of SELF AWARENESS, we must self-evaluate so that we do not break the laws or cross the lines that can send us failing forever; Samson lost his power, failed and died because he did not do a thorough self-evaluation of who he really was, his strengths and weaknesses, and in one day, he lost all what God had given him in the laps of a woman.
The third quality of a great leader is RESOURCEFULNESS. Every aspiring great leader should be resourceful; the ability to deal with situations skilfully and promptly is called resourcefulness. Without information, you will be deformed; a true leader should never stop learning, upgrading and updating. Research has it that resourceful leaders out-pay non-resourceful leaders by 20%. Read both spiritual and secular books, attend seminars, invest in your education, and be open to learning so you can grow. Reading gives you more to say and ideas on how to solve problems; the secret of great men are in their stories. Three things a potential employer looks for in an employee are competence, character and chemistry (the 3 Cs). Competence shows how well you can deal with and solve problems; character includes the fruits of the Spirit in you – patience, self-control, love, peace, long-suffering – all needed if you will work with others; and chemistry is your ability to relate and work with others.
The fourth quality of a great leader is SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. It is the sacrifice of one's personal interests or desires for the good of others. In I Sam. 22: 1-3, David sacrificed his time and energy to raise and transform four hundred (400) distressed, discontented and debt-owing men into great men. The true proof of leadership is that you are making men, not using men! Jesus said to His disciples, follow me and I will MAKE you fishers of men. A true leader recognises the potential in his followers and helps transform their lives, because he recognises that they are his vision helpers. David's men – mighty warriors – risked their lives to get him water (I Chronicles. 11: 17-18), because over time, they had seen him risk his life for them, to turn them into the mighty warriors that they now were; they saw the love he had for them, and because love never fails, they risked their lives to break through the Philistine lines and drew water from the well he wanted. When followers and staff feel love from their leaders and supervisors, they perform better; do not hesitate to show love and care to team mates and followers; get personal with them, use affirming and encouraging words. Encourage them to love and complement themselves, and not compete.
On the third consecutive day of the mission, the skill acquisition training class started in the afternoon; they were taught the procedure of producing germicide and disinfectant.
At the Encounter Night session, Rev. David Olatona again continued on his topic of GOD'S FAVOUR AND WEALTH and scripture reference was taken from Psalm 102: 13. The moment one receives God's mercy, it qualifies the person for His blessings. The prophetic word for that night was that "when God arises on your behalf, it means He is ready to honour you!" The Biblical person of interest was Mordecai (Esther 6: 1-10); again, a king could not rest and lost sleep because it was the set time for one of God's child to be honoured. Mordecai caught the king's attention when his name and good deed was read out in the books of record; and even though Haman had been coming to put Mordecai down, the God who puts one down to lift up the other (Psalm 75: 7) used his enemy to lift him up! May God open the ears of your destiny helpers when your name is mentioned for honour in Jesus name (Amen)! In that story, all the events, from the king losing sleep to him asking Haman for advice on how to treat Mordecai for his good deed, was not the king's doing, it was the doing of the King of kings! When it seems like your good works have not been producing the harvest you deserve, you need to know that God has an appointed time not just to pay you back in your own coin, but to honour you beyond expectation like he did for Mordecai – from sitting at the gate to riding on top the king's horse!
On this last day of the mission trip, Rev. David Olatona started the final School of Leadership session, still on the topic: SUBTLE QUALITIES THAT SET GREAT LEADERS APART; that is anchored on the scripture text in Matt. 9: 35-38. Jesus went about preaching the gospel for total deliverance. The gospel of Christ is the answer to all of man's problems; salvation is an all-encompassing word, in it there is healing, deliverance, prosperity, success, breakthrough, favour etc. The only hope of the world is the church. The church is not a showroom, no; on the other hand, it is a carpenter's shop, a potter's house, a goldsmith's shop where raw materials are transformed into finished products.
The fifth quality of a great leader as discussed is his/her WHITE-HOT WHY. This is your driving force, your passion, what you are willing to live and die for, what keeps you up at night and makes you lose your appetite, your purpose, that thing you are willing to see change in. It is what you are extremely hot and enthusiastic about. It is what answers the question of "why you do what you do and the way you do it (i.e. the "how"). For your "why", you need ideas and passion.
Every leader must be a "Chief Meaning Officer", finding and determining the purpose in your work. You must find what is in your top box and pursue it with all of your heart; life is too short to live without a "why" or with someone else's "why". Every individual is the solution to another person's problem; find the solution that you carry and pursue solving the problem of others – that is your "why". Age, sex, colour, tribe cannot hinder you having a "why" or pursuing it, Joseph discovered his at a very young age, while Abraham found his at his old age.
After four (4) days of thorough and indelible teachings, the astute Man of God ended the leadership session with series of breakthrough prayers particularly for ministry and leadership empowerment.
During the final skill acquisition training class, participants were taught to produce fifty-five (55) litres of liquid soap.
As regard the Encounter Night for the fourth day, Rev. Olatona gave God's word to the people that; He would restore their health, their fortune and their lost years (Joel. 2: 25; Jer. 30: 17). The man of God led another breakthrough prayer session that night, and we bless God for deliverance and restoration.
As an addendum to the mission trip, Rev. Olatona was guest minister at Pastor Enoch Dugbatey's church – Assemblies of God (Herald Center), Aklomuase, Ablotsi-Ghana on14th Feb. 2016. He spoke on the topic "POWER IN YOUR WORDS" (Prov. 18: 20-21). He told the congregation that the mouth is connected to the stomach, and your stomach will be filled with whatever your mouth speaks. Death and life are in the tongue, and the first prophet of your life is yourself! There is nothing in this earth that is so great and powerful, including your physical body that cannot be turned around by your words.
In Mark 5: 35-41, Jesus used the words of His mouth to change the atmosphere in Jairus' house; the group of mourners that were crying started laughing when Jesus said the girl was sleeping. Change the words of your mouth to positive confessions, and your life will take a positive turn!
Rev. Olatona, after his ministration, prayed with Pastor Enoch Dugbatey and Rev. Dr. Steven Narh (Eastern Region 'A' Superintendent, Assemblies of God, Ghana & Chairman, Ghana Pentecostal & Charismatic Council – GPCC) in the church office before he left with his team. On a departure note, Rev. Olatona had a brief meeting with our host – Pastor John Nartey (National Coordinator, CAPRO) after which, the team left for the airport, arriving Nigeria safe and sound with grateful hearts for the wondrous things God has done in Ablotsi, Ghana.
Without doubt, the mission was a season of great exploits and Ghana is yearning for more!!!


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Pale Pisces Is Moving // Relaunching!!
They say all good things must come to an end, and that new ends bring new beginnings (or whatever it is….) That being said, I proudly announce that I've started a new blog, called SoyLawtte. As I come to the end of the current chapter of my life (college) and embark on my next one… Read More Pale Pisces Is Moving // Relaunching!!


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Since the mid-90S, Alex Kaddour has made a name for himself behind the decks both in the Canaries and in other parts of the world such as Panama, Germany, England, Holland, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland, among others. Alex Kaddour has consolidated his career as a producer on major international labels such as: Politics Of Dancing Records, Roots for Bloom, Oblack, Three Fingerz Musique, Musique Vicario, Lucidflow, etc.
As a DJ, he has also been raising the bar at clubs and festivals including: Underground Society (Panama), Studio 80 (Amsterdam), Weekend Club (Berlin), The Caves (London), Café D'Anvers (Belgium), Nadsat (Copenhagen), Die Nacht (Dusseldorf), Bakers Underground (Limerick / Ireland) and many more.
As a collector, and faithful to vinyl, Alex builds his sets up from slow revs with a deep house feel, to continue with UK & USA raw house all the way to the most hypnotic techno dub, which is as effective and versatile for warm-up or peak hour on any dance floor.


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(Don't worry, this eventually gets to baseball… I promise.)
As a kid, my mom once made the mistake of incorrectly answering aloud a multiplication problem from her teacher. Apparently, the teacher had once answered the same question wrong, too, and was subsequently embarrassed into learning the answer. When my mother did the same thing, the teacher enacted the same punishment: the entire class got into a circle, with my mom at the center, and pointed their fingers at her as they sang "8 times 7 is 56! 8 times 7 is 56!" That went on long enough for an embarrassed little girl to learn her lesson. Needless to say, my mom never again forgot what 8 times 7 was.
Most of us have a similar experience in our childhood. I don't mean the crowd of kids pointing at you and laughing as they sing the answer – that's just cruel, and I certainly hope no one else has similar memories. What I mean is, most of us have some relatively minor lesson from our childhood educations that we remember better than others because of the way we learned it. Maybe it's a math concept that you struggled with for a week or more until an older brother or someone showed you a nifty little way to understand it and you had that "hallelujah moment". Or maybe it was a history lesson that you read over and over until you just couldn't forget it. Chances are, though, that it was a grammar lesson that some overly strict teacher drilled into your head. "You cannot start a sentence with 'because'!" or "Don't end a sentence with a preposition!" or "It's '20 items or fewer', not '20 items or less'!" and so on.
It's a common story: kids write as they talk, and often miss the nuances of the written word, leaving fragments and the like all over the place. Teachers then point out their mistakes, but, instead of trying to teach the full complexities of the English grammar to an eight-year old, they give the kid a shorthand rule to follow that is meant to help. The kid then internalizes that shorthand rule as "the rule" and spends the rest of his life correcting people who don't adhere to it. After all, that's the rule that he had such a hard time learning and, now that he's learned it so well, he's not going to forget it. And, lord forgive you if he sees you make that mistake on a website – there's no internet alive that will prevent him from trying to teach you that same lesson.
The problem is that this isn't "8 times 7". When it comes to language, there are few hard and fast rules that follow the "100% right or 100% wrong" nature of an arithmetic problem. Chances are, that shorthand rule that the kid originally learned was only true under certain circumstances and with certain qualifications, but he never learned those because the teacher thought it was too complicated for him at that age. But now it's 30 years later and that lesson has been ingrained in him for all those years. It's asking a lot – maybe too much – to expect him to accept that he's been wrong all these years and to change his ways. For a lot of people, there's just too much history there to fight.
Which is where baseball comes in. For many, many baseball fans, especially those who grew up in the 1950s/60s and before, the traditional stats – the RBI, the AVG, the W/L record – are the stats that they internalized at a young age, the stats that they've defined as "the rule" and that they've spent their life abiding by, but that only work in limited circumstances that they were too young to learn years ago. In language, the people that I've described are called "prescriptivists" – there's a certain prescription, or set of rules, that the English language must follow at all times. In the same vein, these traditionalists can also be thought of as "baseball prescriptivists". To them, there's a set of rules that must be followed when analyzing a club's or a player's performance. These are rules that they spent a lot of time learning and understanding when they were younger, and that they've spent a lot of years using and trusting. They've served the prescriptivists well, and any change seems unnecessary and ill-advised.
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Go to any message board or blog devoted to grammar "mistakes" like the ones mentioned above, and you'll see hundreds of comments from people complaining about the same things. For some reason, people are passionate when it comes to these language pet peeves. This is exactly what we have to deal with as we try to get baseball fans, writers, and announcers to understand and appreciate the less traditional stats. It's why Adam Wainwright had the most first-place votes in the Cy Young voting last week, why there was such a firestorm over the Vazquez/Haren picks, and it's why Joe Mauer won't be a unanimous MVP this afternoon.
There is no easy way to solve this dilemma. In the language world, prescriptivists are challenged by "descriptivists" – people who try to study the language as it is spoken and "describe" it. I like the clear analog to statheads/sabermatricians. But even there, it's obvious that these two worlds are not going to merge anytime soon. With millions of adults passing on their life-lessons to the younger generations everyday, and with the likes of Strunk and White still printing millions of copies, there will seemingly always be a divide. It's no different in baseball. My recommendation, and my hope, is that the less-traditional stats will get embraced by more and more people in all age groups. If that happens, then we can only assume that kids will get exposed to those ideas at an earlier age and learn to accept them as "the rule" instead of batting average or runs batted in. Maybe that's pie in the sky.
In any event, I think we have a better chance of changing a generation's mind about baseball stats than we do about language "rules". If Joe Mauer doesn't win the MVP award this afternoon, for example, the debate will be long and detailed. But it would be minuscule in comparison to the firestorm that would erupt if, say, President Obama announced that he could pay for Social Security and a public health option for the next 200 years if only colleges would no longer use Elements of Styles in writing classes. And if he said it while splitting an infinitive and ending the sentence in a preposition… that might actually be fun to watch 😉
(Wow, a thousand words on language and baseball… I feel like Joe Posnanski!)


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I really wish I had taken better shots of them but oh well...
This pendant necklace is one I made for my Grandma T. Its a picture of my Grandpa. I added the pearl charm (its actually an earring that I wore on my wedding day! I bent the metal with needle nose pliers to create a charm). From what I hear she was very excited when she opened it. Wish I could have been there to see her face.
This one I made for my mom. I wasn't quite sure if 4 tiles was going to be too much at once but I really liked how it turned out. My mom loved it too. She opened it up on Sunday morning before church and said it was perfect because she had been looking for a black necklace to go with her outfit that day.
I made a key chain for my Mother-in-law since I haven't really seen her wear necklaces and my husband didn't think she would either. I used a pressed flower from my collection on the middle tile and turned it sideways. I sandwiched the grosgrain ribbon between two sheets of paper and glazed over each layer individually while letting it dry between layers. One thing I learned with hers was that super glue is needed when attaching the bail to the back because 2 minutes after opening her gift, the bail fell off. Good thing it is an easy fix.
My daughter watched me make these and really wanted one of her own. She specifically requested a "sunshine one" So I did just that. I just drew a sunshine on some regular copy paper in crayon to give it that special "kid look." The next day I gave it to her as a reward for going an entire day using the potty without any accidents! It was a major celebration and she loved it!
For my Mother's day gift/birthday present my husband and I had a two night "staycation" in Seattle. It was wonderful! I'll be posting about that soon. Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day!


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Nice rig! Looks longer than some of your other frames?
Nice rig! Looks longer than some of your other frames?
great lookin' bike.
that's a good looking bike man.
is it your first Ti bike ?
Not Riding!
Very nice. Looking forward to the ride report. If you're like a lot of us, prepare to be very very pleased!
BOING!!!! THAT thing is magnificent. I'll predict you love it...no brainer ;) Holy crow look at those tubes. I understand that T.K. can order the butts exactly where he wants them. Sexy stuff, can you handle it? :thumbs_up:
Josh Simonds
Vsalon Fromage De Tête
Frigin awesome. Tom does great work. Have fun with it.
Tough looking bike for a tough kid. Good on you Darren!
that rig is so hot it appears to have an erect nipple on the backside of its headtube!
Sweeeet. I built mine up today finally. Pics tomorrow. Today is your day.
Fights begin, finger prints are took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated.
you're going to love that thing darren!
Half-painted ti is so, um, sexiful.
And a half-painted full ti bike is even sexiful-ler.
Welcom to the Spectrum family with an eye popping rig. Enjoy it for miles and miles......
life is too short to drink bad wine....
Stuart Levy
thanks boys.
i've heard nothing but awesome stuff from a bunch of you, so i had to give it a shot. TK is the real deal.
no ride until mon/tues as i still feel like crap
That ride looks awesome! I am curious about what you think compared to other Ti bikes you might have had. If I ever get another Ti bike it'll probably be a Spectrum.
Big fan of the level top tube here! Proportions just look perfect!
La Cheeserie!
yo leisure man,
did you get fit in person?
Nice bike Darren! I don't know why, but I love green tires.
Just enough paint to complement the brushed Ti.
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One of the purposes of the church is to reach people for Jesus through evangelism. Outreach changes two people: The one who hears the Gospel and the one who shares it. Former Associate Pastor Shannon Benshoff shares the pulpit with Pastor John as Shannon shares his testimony about coming to faith in Jesus.
February 25, 2018
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