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10. Video of the Day (below). Obama Built That? Obama jumps right over ridiculous and lands square on delusional as he actually tries to take personal credit for the shale revolution that made America the world’s No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in recent years!! OMG! While in office, Obama called fossil fuels the “energies of the past” and burdened them with excessive regulations as he actively promoted renewable energies like solar and wind with subsidies. I’ll give Obama Four Pinocchios for his false, delusional claim that he was in any way responsible for America’s remarkable oil and gas energy success story.

No, I mean when the student first begins to realize that despite all their skill, mental prowess and cow savvy, even the lowliest animal can reduce you to bumbling klutz.

 Gilmour’s last Test for Australia was the Centenary Test in Melbourne in 1977. He finished with a Test batting average of 23 and 54 wickets at 26.03.

It was just one of the batting highlights of an elegant cricket genius who started his first-class career for NSW at 18 with the then unprecedented feat of a century in each innings.

The celebrations came at the end of a tumultuous year for rugby league, with the game split by Super League. 

The Adelphi choral ensembles return for a holiday celebration bringing the joy, hope and wonder of the season to life under the baton of Karen Faust Bauer. The Adelphi Chorale and the Adelphi Vocal Ensemble will perform on Saturday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. on the Westermann Stage, Concert Hall in the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (PAC), 1 South Ave, Garden City, New York. Join the Adelphi Chorale and Adelphi Vocal Ensemble for an evening of music featuring music by Handel and King’s Singers and celebrating the centennial of Leonard Bernstein. At the close of the program, faculty, alumni and friends are invited to join the ensembles on stage for the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. Enjoying a diverse career in solo performance, conducting, accompanying and pedagogy, pianist Karen Faust Baer maintains a vital musical presence. Presently, she is the new conductor of the Adelphi choral ensembles and teaches in Adelphi’s Department of Music Education. Baer has been heard in recital at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, BAM, Israeli Cultural Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Institute, Princeton, college campuses and WQXR and WNYC radio stations. In recent years, Baer … (read more)

Many plants need to avoid flowering in the autumn – even if conditions are favourable – otherwise they would perish in winter.

Brendan Taylor isn’t interested in normalcy. At 8, things like a gifted Porsche 944 model car, his dad’s Citroen DS he’d pretend to drive, and a couple of Peugeots of his mom’s all contributed to his deviating from things like S14s with SR swaps or Civic hatchbacks on Mugen rims. Instead, Brendan found solace in machines like Nissan’s President Sovereign—a boat of a luxury sedan you know nothing about—as well as a life-size 944 to complement that toy and, more recently, an RB26DETT-motivated Stagea 260RS, also a product of Nissan obscurity.

The current men’s world champ, John John Florence, was not at the Surf Ranch Pro. He has been out with a knee injury. Florence, who grew up at Pipeline, in Hawaii, is not a particularly imposing competition surfer—he’s too easygoing—but when the waves are good he is frequently untouchable. He’s twenty-six, and if he never enters another contest he will probably reign as the consensus “world’s best surfer” for years to come, so long as he continues to drop the occasional video showing that he is still surfing beyond the realm of what was considered possible. He and Slater surfed a heat together in Tahiti, in 2014, that is considered by many, including me, to be the best heat in the history of surfing. They were trading enormous, terrifying, sheet-glass lefts over an extremely shallow reef, each surfing at a level of technique and artistry that defied the judges to pick a winner. Competition seemed irrelevant.

Afterward, some of us gathered in his living room for a nightcap. A few friends, his four kids, him and me. It was comfortable. The new graduate opened his gifts and spoke of his plans with the conviction and anxiety of youth. Nobody asked the man about his plans, but you could hear the page turning in his life.

“At the time when the Dawn Group became a minority shareholder they were on the acquisition trail. They were a major client of ours and still are today. But their strategy has subsequently been to exit many of the manufacturing facilities that they had become involved in and return to being a major distributor of sanitaryware, plumbing, kitchen, engineering and civil products. Our brief period together was beneficial to both parties and came at a time when Heunis Steel saw tremendous growth,” explained Anton Heunis.

“Because the operator is out of the work area and behind a light curtain, the machine does not need to perform its safety stops either, like a pause before the clamping beam pinches the material,” Prokop said. “This speeds the cycle time tremendously.”