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Carbohydrates 101: Complete Guide to Carbs
June 16, 2019 August 13, 2019
For anybody looking to get big and jacked, supplements play a very important role in the muscle building process. Now, be under no illusions here, supplements do not work miracles. You can't chug a protein shake each day and then sit on your butt, eating Cheesits, and expect to pile on the muscle because it doesn't work like that. You get out of bodybuilding what you put into it. The harder you work, the more results you will enjoy. Perhaps that's a good metaphor for life itself. With that said, if you choose the right supplements and use them in conjunction with a healthy diet and effective bodybuilding routine, you'll find that you build muscle far more effectively than if you decided to not bother with supplements at all.
Typically, you'll find that some of the more popular bodybuilding supplements include products like: Whey protein, creatine, and BCAAs. These all work very well, especially when stacked together, but to get more from your supplements and your training, you may wish to invest in carbohydrate supplements as well. Here's a definitive guide to carbohydrate supplements to help you decide which is best for your training.
What are Carbohydrates?
All About Digestion
What is Insulin and Why Do We Need it?
Why are Carbs Needed?
Carbohydrate Supplements Options
Carbs and Fatigue
How do Carbs Enhance Performance?
What about Post-Workout Carbs?
Lately, carbs have been getting a lot of bad press, and we're not sure why. Years ago, carbs were considered to be the best things since sliced bread, which is ironic because bread is a great source of carbs. Anyways, we digress. All of a sudden, along came the Atkins diet, and suddenly low carb diets were in fashion, and carbs were public enemy number one. Atkins died down in popularity, then, along came Keto. Ketogenic diets are also low in carbs, so people again abandoned the carby goodness in favour of fats and proteins.
Carbs are not your enemy. Carbs are good, and they certainly taste good as well. Carbohydrates are one of three essential macronutrients, with the other two being fats and proteins. Now, we're going to get a bit technical here, so strap yourselves in and let's talk science. In scientific terms, a carbohydrate is a saccharide. Saccharides can then be divided into four individual groups, which are: oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, monosaccharides, and disaccharides.
Now, when people talk about carbs, it's worth noting that carbs are not created equally. Some carbs are considered healthy, whereas others are unhealthy. Candy for example, is considered unhealthy, whereas brown rice is considered healthy. Both are carbohydrates. Sugar is a simple carb, whereas brown rice is a complex carb. Monosaccharides and Disaccharides are classed as sugars/simple carbs. Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides are classed as complex carbohydrates.
Now, precisely what is it about carbs that determines just how healthy or unhealthy they are for us? Well, that all comes down to digestion. You see, the rate in which the body digests and utilizes carbohydrates will vary depending on the source of the carbs themselves. This is why some people will call certain foods slow-release carbs and fast-release carbs. We can measure the rate in which carbs are digested and utilized by the body via what is known as the Glycaemic Index. The higher a carbohydrate's rating on the Glycaemic Index scale, the quicker it will be digested. The lower its rating, the slower it will be digested.
Simple carbs like candy, refined sugar, and white bread all have high glycaemic indexes and are digested and utilized quickly. Complex carbs such as oats and wholegrains, have low glycaemic indexes and they are therefore utilized a lot slower. Surely the quicker a carb is digested, the better it is right? Well, typically, no. There are some exceptions to this rule and there are instances where we need fast-digesting carbs such as dextrose for example, but typically, slow-digesting carbs are much healthier and more productive for the human body. Enter insulin…
Insulin is a hormone naturally produced by the pancreas that also happens to be extremely anabolic. Its primary function is to regulate blood sugar levels. When we consume carbs, insulin is secreted by the pancreas to shuttle the sugars from the bloodstream into your cells, where it is then used by the mitochondria as an energy source. If you consume fast-digesting carbs, more insulin is needed and is produced, which in turn causes an insulin spike.
Complex carbs which are slow to be digested and broken down require less insulin to enter the cells, so the pancreas secretes less insulin. Generally, an insulin spike is not needed nor wanted, as it can cause us to experience sugar crashes and comedowns after consuming too much sugar. Again, there are instances where insulin spikes are needed, especially if your primary objective is to build muscle in the gym, but we'll get to all of that a little later on.
Carbs are delicious, and they also tend to make us feel good. That's not why we need them, though. We need carbs primarily for energy. The metabolism is a collective term for a number of physiological processes responsible for the production of energy within the body. The metabolism is able to get energy from numerous sources, yet its preferred source of energy is carbohydrates, as it finds it easiest to convert these into fuel.
You see, the human body is resourceful, and so it's always looking for shortcuts. While protein and fats can also be used for energy, it's carbs that it finds easiest to utilize. Work smarter, not harder, as they say. Though there's a lot more to it than this, basically when we consume carbohydrates the metabolism takes them and converts them into glucose, which is an energy source for cells in the muscles and the brain. All carbs have to be metabolized into glucose before they can be used as an instant source of energy.
However, what about when we don't need energy? What then? Will eating carbs provide an endless stream of glucose that we keep working our way through? No. What will happen instead is carbs that are not needed for energy, will be converted into glycogen and stored in the liver and muscle cells for use at a later date. It's basically the equivalent of stocking up winter fuel at home and storing it months in advance. Now, when all existing energy is used up, the body has access to glycogen. It then takes this glycogen and converts it into glucose sugars.
But what about when glycogen stores are full too? This is when things get tricky. When you can no longer store any more glycogen, excess carbs are instead converted into adipose tissue (body fat) and stored in the form of fat. Bodybuilders, athletes, and people concerned about their weight in general, will want to avoid this from happening at all costs.
Now that we know more about carbs in general, it's time for us to take a look at some of the different carbohydrate supplement options which are currently available for purchase in all reputable supplement stores. There are plenty of options when it comes to carbohydrate supplementation, yet you'll find that the following 3 supplements are what most serious lifters will tend to favour.
– Dextrose
Dextrose, in very simple terms, is basically just glucose. It is the simplest carbohydrate out there and you will also find it used for culinary purposes, as it is basically an alternative to powdered sugar. Dextrose is used for homebrewing, in desserts, and it is even used by certain fast food chains to help give their French fries a touch of sweetness, some colour, and a little added crunch.
Dextrose is a monosaccharide and is around 80% as sweet as regular refined sugar. It has a Glycaemic Index of 100 and has been used by athletes, bodybuilders, and fitness enthusiasts for decades now. But why? Why would a bodybuilder need sugar? Well, it all comes down to insulin. Dextrose creates an insulin spike when consumed, which is incredibly important when it comes to post-workout nutrition. We'll look at why it's so important in more detail a little later on. Dextrose is available in fine powdered form and is a very similar consistency to cornflour. It mixes very well and is commonly added to a post-workout protein shake and is consumed immediately after a workout.
– Waxy Maize Starch
Waxy Maize Starch, or WMS as it is also known, is a long-chain carbohydrate that has a far more subtle taste than dextrose. It too has a high glycaemic index and it is therefore very rapidly absorbed. In fact, it is absorbed even quicker than dextrose. It is used for many of the same reasons as dextrose, as the idea is to refuel after a workout and to spike insulin levels.
WMS has a larger molecular weight than dextrose and maltodextrin, which means it passes through the stomach at a much more rapid rate. In fact, it is absorbed around 80% faster than most other carb sources. It can therefore, be sipped on intra workout to assist with hydration as well. WMS is a polysaccharide. It is a form of starch, but it is unlike the starches you'll find in complex sources such as potatoes.
– Maltodextrin
The third most-popular carbohydrate supplement currently on the market today is maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is a complex carb that is basically a synthetic polysaccharide. Maltodextrin is primarily made from corn starch. Unlike the other two carb supplements on our list today, maltodextrin doesn't have a distinctly sweet taste. It is actually almost tasteless. It is used primarily for energy purposes during training, and even though it has the structure of a complex carb, it is still very rapidly broken down and absorbed. Don't let its bland taste fool you, because this carb has a very high glycaemic index of 105. Meaning that it is absorbed quicker than regular refined sugar.
Bodybuilders use this supplement for energy purposes after, and during training. It is also used to help assist with muscle mass growth. Many mass gaining formulas will be rich in carbohydrates as well as some fats, and plenty of proteins. The carbs found in mass gain formulas are primarily from maltodextrin. It is a very affordable carb, which is why many weight gain formulas contain it, because it's a great and cost-effective way of increasing the caloric contents of the product. The product can be used by itself, or alternatively, some people combine it with dextrose in their post-workout protein shake. This isn't simply to give the shake an added sweetness, it's instead to maximize the absorption rates.
As you know, exercise and physical exertion in general can be taxing on the body. It can leave you feeling tired and exhausted, which is the last thing you want when you're trying to power on through a gruelling workout. When you're in the gym lifting some heavy-ass weights, you don't want to feel tired and fatigued, you want to have the energy of 300 angry Spartans. The more energy you have, the more productive your workouts will be. That's common sense, you don't need anybody to tell you that, even though we just did.
Carbs are important for training purposes because they are your muscle cells' primary source of fuel. The more intense your workouts become, the greater the demand will be for an instant source of energy. Anaerobic exercise in particular, requires large portions of energy because of the high intensity nature of the exercise.
Bodybuilding, strongman training, and powerlifting for example, are all forms of anaerobic exercise which is why carbohydrate supplements are so beneficial for dudes throwing some heavy weights around. If you took in what we were saying earlier, you'll remember how we spoke about carbohydrates being stored as glycogen as backup energy source for the muscles.
The problem with high intensity exercise is the fact that stored glycogen levels are quickly used up and once they're gone, tiredness, muscle weakness, and muscle fatigue begin to set in. Once glucose and glycogen has been used up, you basically are running on empty. When this occurs, squeezing out those one or two extra reps needed to nail a PR will be out of the question, as you'll hit 'the wall' as it were. Once glycogen has been used up, the body panics and instead of using energy, it desperately tries to conserve energy instead. Your metabolism, therefore, slows down even further and you will find yourself even weaker and more fatigued than before. Great, huh?
That's the last thing a bodybuilder wants, so what can be done. Should you instead slow down the intensity and go through the motions when lifting? Nope, this is where intra-workout carb supplements come into their own. When you're busting your butt training, sipping on an intra-workout carbohydrate supplement will give your body the energy it needs, so rather than trying to conserve energy, you'll once again start using energy to fuel your workouts. Intra-workout carb supplements are not only beneficial for bodybuilding either, they benefit all forms of high intensity exercise.
So, now that we know that the body uses carbs as energy for training, but we want to dig deeper. It's easy to say that the body uses carbs for energy, but we want you to understand HOW the body uses carbs for energy. In order to understand how, you need to know how the body uses different sources of energy during exercise.
From a bodybuilding perspective, when you lift a weight you need energy in order for the muscles to contract. Now, in order for muscle contractions to take place, there's only one type of energy that can be utilized, and that energy is ATP, or Adenosine TriPhosphate. Now, the good news is that we can produce and store ATP in the body. Hooray! Not so fast.
Unfortunately, we can only naturally store enough ATP to promote a muscle contraction lasting for two seconds, or three at the most. We need ATP from somewhere else therefore, otherwise the muscles won't work, and you may as well not bother trying to lift the weight at all. The body again jumps into action and breaks down creatine phosphate in the skeletal muscles, which is then used to replenish ATP stores. Hooray! Not so fast. This process will only buy you a few more seconds, so you may squeeze out three reps at the most, if you work fast.
Now, here's where things begin to get carb-orientated. When creatine phosphate has been used up, the body then gets its energy via a process known as glycolysis. This process is where your body will utilize the carbs stored within the cells in your muscles, in the form of glycogen, as well as blood sugar. This is then used to replace ATP. For every single repetition you perform, the body will continuously repeat this process over and over again. The problem here is that glycogen stores are still used up quickly when lifting, especially when you train intensely. Once glycogen is used up, the muscles again fatigue and you will be forced to stop training.
This is NOT how gains are made. Enter carbohydrate supplements. Carb supplements which are consumed during your workout will basically replenish the glycogen which has been used up naturally by the body. It also prevents glycogen stores from being used up entirely, helping you to continue training intensely instead of having your body try to preserve energy.
So far we've been focussing on the importance of carbs for energy during training. Some carbs however, I.E dextrose and waxy maize starch, are designed primarily to be consumed after training. Why would you consume a carbohydrate supplement after training? After all, we need carbs for energy during training.
Once we've finishing pumping iron, we've done the hard work, so why do we need energy? Well, not all carb supplements are created purely to fuel the body during training. Some carbs can actually help you to build muscle and to help speed up the recovery process after training. But how? Well, do you remember how we spoke about insulin spikes and how we'd go into more detail about insulin a little later on? Well, now is the time to talk insulin spikes and post-workout nutrition.
After a workout, you'll see many bodybuilders frantically rushing to their gym bags, pulling out a shaker cup, and pouring various powdered concoctions into the cup before mixing it with water and chugging it down before they have time to breathe. Why are they so frantic to drink a protein shake as soon as they finish lifting? Why not finish training, jump in their car, take a leisurely drive home, shower, and gently sip on a delicious protein shake as they relax and unwind on the sofa?
Well, because after training, the muscles are screaming out for protein, amino acids, glycogen, and nutrients needed to facilitate protein synthesis. After training, your muscle cells expand slightly, and they contain very little glycogen because you used most of it when lifting. They are primed to absorb the nutrients they need and temporarily they can absorb slightly more than usual.
This doesn't last long, and it is known as the anabolic window. During this period of time, the more proteins and amino acids you can get into your muscle cells, the greater the rates of muscle growth will be via protein synthesis. Insulin acts as a key, unlocking the cell and allowing the proteins and nutrients in your bloodstream to enter.
This is why simple carbs such as dextrose are added to protein shakes. Adding the dextrose will trigger an insulin spike, which will help the protein, amino acids, and nutrients in your protein shake enter the muscle cells quicker, and in larger volumes. The more the cells can absorb, the greater the rate of protein synthesis. Insulin is also an anabolic hormone, which means that it helps to prevent muscle catabolism, or muscle breakdown as it is sometimes known. On top of that, you also replenish glycogen stores with the addition of simple carbs, so basically your cells get all of the nutrients needed to facilitate post-workout muscle growth and recovery.
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350.org's anonymous oil sands photo highlights worker struggles
Alexis Stoymenoff
Photo by Anonymous | Courtesy of 350.org
I am an Oil Sands worker and risked my job to take this picture. Myself, along with the majority of my co-workers are ready for a renewable energy revolution. We need to stand together to eliminate the corruption that exists in this industry, start taxing carbon emissions, and creating green jobs for a sustainable future. We do not work in this industry because we like supporting large oil companies; we simply have no other choice. We want jobs that provide long term economic, social and environmental sustainability for ourselves, our country and our planet.
**** This is posted as anonymous. If my identity is revealed I could be permanently banned from all sites for life.
In hope and action,
The above image and description recently appeared on climate action group 350.org's Flickr account and website. Taking the photo at an oil sands facility in Fort McMurray, Alberta, the unnamed photographer claims to be risking his or her career by expressing such an anti-industry perspective.
Despite the presumed courage involved in publishing such a picture, the comments left by users on Flickr demonstrate a mix of support and skepticism about the photographer's views. While many applaud the worker's bravery and thank him or her for a "message of hope inside the beast", others question the claim that employees work in the oil sands because they "have no choice".
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American Gulag
We Do This Till We Free Us
Mariame Kaba
The U.S. tops any other country in the world for its number of prisoners – over 2,300,000. China, by contrast, has roughly 200,000 prisoners. But the U.S. general population is only 330 million, while China's is 1.4 billion. American prisoners constitute a much larger percentage of the population than those in any other nation. The U.S. has clung to this dubious distinction for decades.
Equaling the Soviet gulag at its height in the 1950s in numbers of prisoners, the U.S. also locks away 61,000 of them in the torture called solitary confinement and 2700 in the terror called death row. These are not the policies and actions of a civilized society. This is barbarism. As long as this continues, any American politician who climbs up on a high horse about government abuse of citizens in another country is a pathetic hypocrite who deserves to be laughed out of public life.
Privatization of prisons has made things worse. Of federal prisoners, 19.1 percent are in private prisons, as are 6.8 percent of those in state prisons. These privately run hellholes turn a profit by jacking up fees for inmates from everything from phone calls to mail to video-conferencing with a lawyer. They also make money by skimping on decent food and proper medicines and have lots of other ingenious ways to squeeze dollars out of their captives. Politically, private prisons are a reactionary force, promoting, naturally, tougher crime laws and longer sentences. Because that's how they make money – for them, the more prisoners, the better. Private prisons contributed to the 408 percent increase in the U.S. prison population from 1978 to 2014.
Originally, Quakers advanced prisons, as a reform, an alternative to the horrors of corporal and capital punishment. But, as abolitionist Mariame Kaba argues in her new book, We Do This Till We Free Us, prisons became their own kind of nightmare. The introduction quotes Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "We live in the age of human sacrifice." Prisoners are our human sacrifice: people locked away in tiny cages for decades. In response, Kaba would abolish prisons and the police. She advocates transformative and restorative justice, which would impose consequences on those who harm – such as reparations, public apologies, loss of any position of power or privilege, counseling, etc. – but not destroy them. Kaba writes: "Prison is simply a bad and ineffective way to address violence and crime."
Unsurprisingly, her prescriptions would necessitate a social and economic revolution, for which Kaba, who is anti-capitalist, has worked for years. "Harm originates from situations dominated by stress, scarcity and oppression," she writes. "Our punishment system, which is grounded in genocide and slavery and which has continued the functions and themes of those atrocities, can never be made just."
Like many abolitionists, Kaba drew hope from the George Floyd rebellion last summer and joined those calling for defunding the police. Here's her list of police "reforms" to be avoided: "1) reforms that allocate more money for the police; 2) reforms advocating for more police; 3) technology-focused reforms; 4) individual dialogues with individual cops funded by tax dollars." Instead she supports: "1) reparations to victims and families of police violence; 2) decreasing policing and prison funding and redirecting it to other social goods; 3) elected independent civilian police accountability boards with power to investigate, discipline and fire cops and administrators; 4) disarming the police; 5) simplifying dissolving police departments; 6) data transparency (stops, arrests, budgeting, etc.)"
Kaba is against police or prison reform. She does not describe policing as broken, because that reaffirms reform and undercuts abolition. Police kill about 1000 people a year, she notes, but since 2005, there have been only 110 prosecutions of officers who shot people, with convictions in less than 42 cases. But Kaba also notes abolitionists' successes: removing former Illinois state's attorney Anita Alvarez; helping to win reparations for torture victims during the reign of "infamous police commander Jon Burge in Chicago – a city that has, over the past two decades, become a hub of abolitionist organizing;" and several campaigns to free women imprisoned for self-defense against sexual abusers.
Women's right to self-defense against abuse, whether it's a wife and her husband or a sex worker and a client, is central to Kaba's thinking. In fact, she titled one chapter, "Organizing to End Sexual Violence Without Prisons." She describes the abuse survivor's position thus: "I was hurt. Somebody did it. I want them to know that they did it. I want to see that they have some remorse for having done it." That's a far cry from tossing the abuser in a cage for decades, so that by the time he's free, he's elderly and unemployable.
But the even deadlier consequence of the current criminal justice approach is that women who defend themselves land in prison. "Prosecuting and incarcerating survivors of violence," Kaba writes "puts courts and prisons in the same punitive role as their abusers." Here she reviews several prominent cases, for instance, Cyntoia Brown who, aged 16, "shot and killed Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old Nashville resident who picked her up for sex." Brown explained she shot him in self-defense. She was "tried as an adult and was convicted of first degree premeditated murder and 'especially aggravated robbery.'" With concurrent life-sentences, she would have been eligible for parole after 51 years in prison. However, Brown's case drew much media attention, and she was pardoned. Kaba cites other such cases.
"In 2017, there were 219,000 women in U.S. prisons and jails, most of them poor and of color," Kaba writes, observing that the incarceration rate for black women is double that for white women. She argues that abuse survivors are systematically punished "for trying to protect themselves and their children," that it is "hurt people who hurt other people," and that prison simply should not figure in the equation.
This book recounts terrible stories of women punished for defending themselves, but one, from Florida, presents a very bitter irony: Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot into the air to force her violent husband to back off. For this, she faced 60 years in prison. She would have seemed a likely candidate for Florida's infamous "stand your ground law" – right? But the judge said no, because she had not demonstrated fear. She was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison. (After three years in prison and two under house arrest, she was released, thanks to a national campaign to free her and to some very effective lawyers.)
One cannot help wondering, had Marissa Alexander been male and white, like George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin – how would the judge have ruled then? Would he have let her go, like the judge who let Zimmerman off? Because apparently, at least in Florida, what's self-defense for a man is outright attempted murder for a woman.


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Staines Town (A) Details
Staines Town vs Wealdstone
Middlesex Senior Cup Quarter-Final
Wheatsheaf Park, TW18 2PD
Tuesday 14th January, 7:45pm kick-off
Adult - £10
Pensioner/Concession - £5
Child 6-16 (unaccompanied) - £5
Child 6-16 (accompanied by Adult/OAP) - £1
Carer* - Free
* When accompanying a disabled person who pays the usual adult, pensioner, or child admission requiring the assistance of a carer.
Car parking is severely limited at the ground. Priority is given to match officials and guests. If no spaces remain, please respect the advice of the stewards who have a thankless task to perform, and who will do their best to direct you to available street parking.
(A) BY ROAD USING THE M25 MOTORWAY
1. Leave at Junction 13. If you are coming from the North (anticlockwise), bear left onto the A30 Staines By-Pass; if coming from the South (clockwise), you will need to go round the roundabout and back under the M25 to join the By-Pass.
2. Follow the A30 Staines By-Pass as far as the Billet Bridge roundabout (the notorious Crooked Billet roundabout). This should be treated like a roundabout (i.e. avoid the route across the middle), and you take the last exit, A308, London Road towards the Town Centre.
Option (a) Avoiding Town Centre
3a. Turn left at the second set of traffic lights, by the old Police Station, into Kingston Road. Follow this road past the zebra crossing near the railway station, over the railway bridge, and straight across the first mini-roundabout.
4a. At the second mini-roundabout, turn right into Worple Road, which you follow up to its meeting with the Laleham Road.
5a. At The Retreat (formerly Lucan Arms and Anglers' Rest), turn right into Laleham Road, B376.
6a. Wheatsheaf Lane is on the left by a traffic island.
Option (b) Via Town Centre
3b. At the third set of traffic lights, immediately under the iron railway bridge, turn left into South Street, [which is no longer a one-way road].
4b. Follow South Street past the central bus station, until it meets Thames Street and Laleham Road at the Thames Lodge / Packhorse Hotel.
5b. Turn left here, into Laleham Road, B376, going under the railway, and follow this road for ¾ mile (1 kilometre).
6b. Wheatsheaf Lane is on the right, by the traffic island.
7. Staines Town Football Club is less than 100 metres/yards on the left, and there is a reasonable sized car park. Please park on the left half of the car park.
(B) BY ROAD APPROACHING FROM SUNBURY-on-Thames by the A308
The A308 takes you past Fordbridge Roundabout, Ashford, via the Staines By-Pass and onto the Crooked Billet junction. The first exit is the London Road - then follow 3a or 3b as in (A) above.
(C) BY ROAD FROM EGHAM A30 which becomes the Egham By-Pass at foot of Egham Hill; or
FROM WINDSOR / SLOUGH A308 which meets the A30 at Glanty Roundabout.
Either go to the M25 junction 13 and follow (A) 2 as above; or head towards the town via The Glanty, the Causeway, over Staines Bridge, Clarence Street.
Turn right into Thames Street, which becomes Laleham Road at the railway bridge (where South Street joins from the left). Follow 5b as in (B) above.
(D) BY ROAD APPROACHING FROM CHERTSEY BY THE A320
This meets the A30 (Causeway) at the Egham Roundabout on the far side of Staines Bridge. Then as (C).
(E) BY ROAD FROM HOUNSLOW, UXBRIDGE, HAYES, HEATHROW or COLNBROOK
The A4 Colnbrook By-Pass / Bath Road meets the Stanwell Moor Road (A3044) near Longford. Head southwards to the Crooked Billet, take the 3rd exit, then follow 3a or 3b per (A) above.
RAIL Staines (formerly Staines Central) is on the British Rail (South West Trains) line between London (Waterloo) and Reading, with direct links also to Clapham Junction, Richmond, Feltham, Hounslow, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Weybridge, Ascot, and Aldershot.
BUS route 218 (Tellings Golden Miller) passes Wheatsheaf Lane, Walton, and Kingston; local route 570 (Timetrak) passes the ground.


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ST. CATHERINE OF BOLOGNA PARISH AND PATRON OF THE ARTS | Friends of the Word Inc. "Breaking Open the Word"
www.FriendsoftheWord.org Fr Lou Scurti discusses the life of St. Catherine of Bologna and the New Jersey Parish named in her honor, with Msgr Patrick Panos and Fr Steve Shadwell. Three interviews on St Catherine of Bologna were videoed at the parish in Ringwood, NJ.
Special Thanks to our FOTW Crew and Uptown Flutes.


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Cory Kriens
Legendary Entertainment has revealed that the Pacific Rim animated series will launch on Netflix in 2020. Also, they've already signed for 2 seasons.
The highly anticipated anime is just one of 5 new anime series coming to Netflix. As the streaming giant is trying to widen their variety of the animated genres.
First original Guillermo Del Toro movie, released in 2013, was set in the near future. In which humans designed giant-sized robots or "Jaeger", to fight the Kaiju invading the world through a spot in the Pacific Ocean. A sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising, was released later.
In addition and originally, Del Toro planned on making a TV show to bridge the gap between the two movies. But after that, he left this franchise.
Pacific Rim will be produced by Legendary in partnership with Tokyo's Polygon Pictures. However, the series will tell the story of two siblings who pilot an abandoned "Jaeger mech" in an attempt to find their missing parents. Check out first film trailer below.
Here's the official synopsis for Pacific Rim 2013:
"When monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives. And consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) – who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse."
I'm Cory Kriens, editor for Chaospin. I grew up in East Tennessee and I'm currently a full-time dad. Every day I like to learn something new or interesting about the world and then write about it. My interests include cinema, science, technology, and a wide variety of music.
Feel free to contact me: coryck86@gmail.com
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Hey, thanks for your work!
But I wish myself more time for it - because it takes a lot of time to search for all the lost stories!
I know what you mean Eve. I wish I had more time to save more stories and read more stories!
If anyone has any time and desire to help me out a bit with stuff for the RoswellOracle site archive, please contact me!


Today was a bimbling day amongst the mountains. A circular route ending up not too far from Ooty after the mornings ride. We rode down to the plain then back up in to the mountains with plenty of curves and superb scenery over the plains below. Again, as we rose so the temperature dropped a little - at least. The afternoon was completed by visiting the highest mountain viewpoint in the Ghats and riding a route containing thirty six hairpin bends before dropping down in to the Mudmalai wildlife sanctuary, which boasts one of the largest populations of elephants and tigers. Unfortunately we didn't see any elephants or tigers but as usual there were the usual monkeys.
Our hotel for the night was eventually found it being a little way off the beaten track. Small cottages located in a forest clearing overlooking the splendour of the nearby mountains rounded off another good days biking and savouring the delights of India.
There was plenty of activity in the area with wildlife wardens and police being deployed along the roadside but the parade of honour wasn't for us, it was for the festival taking place at the local temple. Apparently they were walking on hot coals this evening with festivities going on for most of the night. The festival lasts a week and despite our host suggesting it would be worth a visit due to the colourfulness of it all, after a hard day's riding none of us really wanted to jump back on the bikes, so we choice the easy option of sitting and watching the sunset over the mountains.
The evening was rounded off with an authentic meal cooked by locals. Probably one of the best meals of the trip due to its authenticity and aided by mine host giving us a commentary of the contents of the nine or ten dishes. All vegetarian which is a feature of these parts of India but nonetheless delicious.
There's no wi if here but after a warm nights sleep it was up early to watch the sun rising over the mountains. Just splendid. Another authentic meal for breakfast so we had to try a bit of everything. It was then back on the bikes and we continued our journey through the Mudmalai Wildlife park. After seeing some domesticated working elephants we were able to catch the back end of a wild one amongst the bush. We also spotted some deer, peacocks and Rhesus monkeys. A great ride through some lovely countryside again before dropping in to Kozhikode and back to the hectic traffic before arriving at our hotel for the night.
This was a one hundred mile journey along primarily the main road between two cities. There was nothing glamorous about this ride with temperatures in the high thirties and the usual hustle of the traffic. Stopping off at a town in the main thoroughfare for a drink we caused some attention from the locals. We caught a group looking out of the upstairs window of a shop. Obviously white Europeans aren't a familiar sight in these parts and especially a white European lady riding as pillion on the back of the motorcycle. All in all they're a friendly bunch and several stopped and asked us where we were from and how are we enjoying Kerala. The only excitement about this ride was Paul on the motorcycle in front of us clipping another motorcycle that decided just to turn across his path of travel. He had an escape route by using the rough path to the side of the roadway so we just carried on and no damage done to anyone or anything . He did have a moment a few days earlier in the trip when an overtaking car pulled so close that it clipped his foot as it went past. Despite these incidents taking place we all arrived back at the hotel where we started our trip safe and sound. A well earned beer after a hard day's riding.
Despite the chaotic driving during the course of the trip we have not seen any collisions ourselves but we did pass a Mahindra truck this morning that was parked by the side of the road and had obviously been in a 'head on' prior to it being bent quite so badly. Perhaps there is some method after all to driving the Indian way!! We must get one of their Highway Codes but I think we'll be hard pressed to find one. We have passed a number of learner drivers though on our journey. Rather them than me learn to drive in India.
Resting for a few days back at Kochi what do we think of this part of India. As a country with a billion people it is very hectic wherever you go. There are some quiet parts but there are always people. With the United Kingdom trying to reduce pollution, recycle waste, etc. our efforts are minuscule compared to what is required for India to be anywhere near punching their weight as far as this worldwide issue. There is a lot of education required. Rubbish is just dumped anywhere and everywhere. Plastic imparticularly is a problem. Some beautiful viewpoints out in the countryside are spoilt by just looking down at the pile of plastic and rubbish below. Efforts are being made in the National Parks with signs to take your littler home but it will need a lot more than this.
Accommodation and living standards, especially in the remote country areas, is basic to say the least and sanitation is non existent in these parts. Survival must be an every day challenge and daily chores are obviously collecting water from the nearby water source and collecting wood for fuel. Everyone needs to scratch a living to survive.
Fuel emissions are such that people can be seen riding around with scarves over their faces to reduce the intake of polluted air and policemen directing traffic on street corners have masks over their faces to reduce intake of noxious fumes. Even newish cars belch out black smoke because they are not serviced as they should be and the owners just keep them going until they need some attention.
The people were found to be a friendly bunch wherever we went and white Europeans do cause some attraction but I suppose that is to be expected with not too many travellers to these parts. The locals were always keen to ask where we had come from and wanted to know our names. Why I'm not quite sure!!
We have stayed in generally good quality accommodation but service isn't quite there yet as compared to European standards, albeit that the hotels were generally very comfortable and staff were only too eager to please. A simple task of just paying for our drinks whilst the room was being paid for by our tour leader created some consternation at times, but we eventually got there with a little more explaining.
As a nuclear nation and expected to be the fifth largest economy in the world we'll wait and see on that. A great deal of education and investment in basic services is still required.
As a motorcycling experience we have thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing and visited some great parts of the country. Riding in India is not for the faint hearted and needs some confidence to join the mayhem of the Indian roads. I hope I've captured some video of this during the trip.
Would I come back? Well India is a vast continent and having wanted to visit this particular part my next area to visit would have to be the Himalayan area. We'll see what the future holds.
I hope that you have enjoyed our record of this trip. We await the next adventure. Thanks for reading.
Whilst spending a couple of days relaxing at our hotel we woke up this morning (Sunday 170319) to this little beauty parked (or should it be moored) across the bay. The Sapphire Princess set off from Singapore on the 10th March and is due in to Southampton on Tuesday 16th April after a thirty eight day cruise. I think that we shall beat it home. It set sail for Dubai last evening.
Making our way for breakfast we then bumped in to the India Minister for Tourism - Alphons Kannanthanam. It surprising who you bump in to in a lift but if the hotel is good enough for him to stay in then it'll be good enough for us!!
A Sunday morning walk around the streets opposite provided a colourful display of what the vendors had to offer.
Backwaters in Kerala is a network of 1500 km of canals both manmade and natural, 38 rivers and 5 big lakes extending from one end of Kerala to the other.
Backwaters is one of the major tourism product of Kerala, being unique to the state. Traditionally used as one of the main transportation alleys, today backwaters offer a rejuvenating experience for tourists visiting Kerala. We hired a boat and set off on a day's adventure exploring this beautiful area. Along with the boat came the captain and the cook and as part of the package lunch was provided. A lovely way to spend a day relaxing and enjoying this unique area.
Alleppey to Thekkady - today we head inland from the coast to find some mountains. Eating breakfast we looked out of the window to the rear of the premises to find the Indian version of a motorcycle CBT. Some poles placed in the ground and some tentative weaving by new riders helping them prepare for their venture out on to the Indian highway. Not only were there virgin bikers but also learner car drivers practising their reversing in to bays marked again with poles pushed in to the ground. Amongst this were a group of boys playing a game of rounders. Chaos but there must be some order to it all!!
Leaving town this morning was as usual hectic and it appears that there is no need to stop for a red light at a railway crossing until the barriers come down. If you do then you get gesticulated at in a friendly manner to encourage you to carry on. The other drivers are only trying to be helpful. Petrol tanks fuelled up we then had to cross the main road to travel back in the direction we had travelled from. When you've got a space in the traffic on your right pull out and don't worry about the stream of traffic on your left. Once you've moved off you'll find a gap to filter in to and you'll just blend in with the rest.
We crossed some flat plains that were mainly arable areas before heading to the mountains and seeing the first of the tea plantations. Some of the roads were good and some were not so good, but it was a pleasant ride across the mountains and the temperature did drop a little as you ascended.
Arriving at Greenwoods Leisure Resort we were given a customary welcome of a string of cadomen seeds placed around the neck and applying tilak on the forehead. Just the one problem this evening at this splendid hotel and that is no alcohol tonight as it does not have a bar. Alcohol is regulated by the government and in certain areas can only be bought from licensed liquor stores after you have been authorised to purchase the same in an effort to cut down alcohol abuse. The lovely food did make up for it, despite the Indian gentlemen on the next table making a fuss and sending his meal back whilst the staff entertained his two unruly toddlers whilst mum and dad were on their mobile phones.
Riding higher in to the mountains of the Western Ghats we have some nice well surfaced roads through the Indian jungle. Plenty of lush vegetation and monkeys have been spotted whilst en route.
The mudguard bolts on one of the Enfields have decided to shake themselves loose but it took four to fix the problem - one to do the work and four to watch - a bit like British council workers - must be another legacy we left.
Further on up in to the tea plantations they are creating a super highway. The road has gone from a single track mountain road to a two lane carriageway. The only problem is that they are still building it. Nothing to worry about because you just have to dodge the excavators, lorries, rutted roads, loose gravel, etc., etc. But this is India. No health and safety here as we experienced a little later in the journey where there were men up on the mountainside knocking loose rocks off, but they did have a rope to hold on to. Halted on our journey whilst they cleared the road take off even on this mountain road was like a formula one grande prix start.
All in all a good days riding despite some of the roads. We are staying for two days at The Silver Tips - a themed Bollywood Hotel.
Staying at the same hotel tonight we have a ride out to the Eravikulum National Park and Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary. Some beautiful scenery riding through the tea plantations and some beautiful colours on the vegetation. Cool up on the hills but very hot again in the bottom of the valley. Quite a few monkeys were spotted today and one snake slithering off the road in to a nearby hiding place.
Today we rode from Munnar to Kodaikanal. We climb down the mountain from Munnar using the stretch of road that is a continual length of roadworks that we passed on the way up. We then rode along the base of the valley where temperatures were in excess of 30 degrees before heading in to the southern part of the Ghat Mountains. We also changed provinces crossing from the Kerala Province in to the Tamil Province. It appears that the roadworks here have been completed and the road across the mountains was like an Alpine road with good road surfaces and plenty of hairpin bends. Could have done with a bit more power than the Enfield gives on these sort of roads. A little later on we manage to creep up towards sixty miles per hour for the first time in the trip with roads a lot wider and smoother. We then headed back in to the mountains to climb up to Kodaikanal sitting at 6998 feet. So they say it was an old American mountain station and it has been left with a legacy of mercury poisoning as a thermometer factory was based here, and like everything else, things were just dumped here and mercury found its way in to the watercourse. Some splendid scenery whilst climbing and our journey was only halted by a troop of monkeys that decided to slow the traffic by playing in the roadway. A heavy thunderstorm accompanied by the customary power cut and plenty of rain in the evening accounts for the lush jungle type vegetation that we have passed through today.
A long day in the saddle with 250 kilometres to travel - the longest day of the trip and these Enfield saddles aren't the most comfortable. From Kodaikanal we travel to Ooty, another mountain station based at 7350 feet a glove sea level.
A great day started off traversing some more mountain scenery. Narrow roads and twisty bends. Superb views over the plain below and an altercation with a monkey trying to gain access to my tank bag.
Dropping down off the mountains it was again very hot on the plain but with good roads we were able to keep,a breeze going through the jackets. Finishing off we climbed again to Ooty, our destination for the night. Climbing the mountain road was a bit like the whacky races. Plenty of traffic and plenty of overtaking Indian style. An exhilarating ride to day the least. On one hairpin we were faced with an oncoming bus followed by another one. We passed the first one but the second one had to stop on our side of the road facing us because of the traffic ahead of him. He just beckoned us to go up his nearside and overtake the traffic behind him on the nearside before returning to our side of the road. Anything goes because this is India.
Motorcycle is the main form of transport in India and riding with helmets, jackets and gloves is the exception here. The biggest bikes are generally the 350cc Enfields but we have seen a couple of Triumphs and a Harley Davidson or two. When stopped for a break earlier we saw the milkman and three generations of one family all on one motorcycle. Nothing better than taking the mother in law out on the bike for a Sunday afternoon ride!!
Well having decided to take a bit of a busmans holiday and explore the south western part of India we've been asked to give several presentations of our experience. Writing this blog will give us some reference points when we come to make our presentations and also give those that have travelled with us over the years a flavour of the journey that we are undertaking.
Paying the twenty pound per person for the Aspire lounge at Birmingham airport was well worth it with our seven hour flight to Dubai delayed by an hour. That meant we were able to enjoy breakfast and lunch all for the same price. We made sure that lunch was washed down with a few gins accompanied by what else other than some Indian tonic water.
The delay in the U.K. meant a quick hop off and on to the next plane at Dubai to continue our journey south east to Kochi on the south west coast of India, our intended destination for the start our excursion.
After a three and a half hour flight we arrive at Kochi or Cochin or however you spell it and welcome to the confusion and chaos of India. Despite our tour leader requesting a taxi big enough to cater for four adults and their luggage, trying to fit a quart into a pint pot, or in this instance four adults and their luggage in to a small saloon car, just didn't work, despite how much effort you put in to the task. Common sense prevailed eventually and we were transferred to a people carrier type vehicle and off we went into the chaos and mayhem of the traffic. After only about 200 yards of joining the main highway our taxi driver decided that he did not have the correct paperwork as the destination on the 'chitty' was not the same as our intended destination. A pull up at the side of the road to make a phone call was ok until he decided to reverse along the highway back to the roundabout. There's plenty beeping of horns but there's no road rage in India and everyone just puts up with whatever you're doing. We did go the correct way around the roundabout and that was a bonus in order to return to the taxi dispatchers desk at the airport. It would have been easier to change the paperwork but despite the bureaucracy ( a legacy of the British Empire) it was deemed far easier to change four people and their luggage from one car to exactly the same type and make of car that we were travelling in to another one, but this one did have better air conditioning.
Weaving our way through the city traffic it was obvious that anything goes. Beep your horn if you need to make others aware of your presence and then pass them on either side, depending where there is the most space. If you can buy an Indian Highway Code then you're a better person than me because there isn't one - I don't think anyway. If you can make four lanes when there are only two well do it. It all seems to work.
Arriving at the well appointed Gateway Hotel we were allowed entry after a quick search underneath the vehicle was made for any bombs that we may have been carrying. Perhaps it was something to do with those planes shot down last week on the Indian Pakistan border but that's thousands of miles away. Nothing was found so we arrived at the reception of the Gateway at about 1000hrs. The rest of the day was spent lazing around the pool and generally having a quiet day in the 30 degrees heat.
After a good nights sleep we were awoken by the 0800hrs alarm after sleeping like a log. Even the call to prayers at 0530hrs didn't stir us but we had missed a day's sleep somewhere along the journey. Today was a day of boats rather than bikes but our machines were going to be delivered today so that we can start our journey south tomorrow. Catching the public ferry across the inland waterway nearly broke the bank at the equivalent of 40 pence per person for the twenty minute crossing to Fort Cochi. Arriving at the island there was the usual chaos with tuc tucs fighting for whatever roadspace that was available with pedestrians, anything on two wheels, buses, lorries, taxis, goats, etc. Fishing was taking place using the ancient Chinese cantilever fishing nets and coracle type fishing boats.
Returning to our hotel the Royal Enfields have been delivered. A quick check over makes sure that they are all good to go. Another cruise around the bay courtesy of the hotel to watch the sinking sunset ends our day of boats.
Looking at the picture above and the picture below India still has a long way to go as far as dumping their rubbish. Adjacent to the jetty you can see the rubbish collecting. I think that they need Mr Attenborough to give them a few tips about saving the planet.
Bags packed and it's out on to those Indian roads to head south to Allepey and in to the backwaters. Let's hope that the waters will be cleaner than this!!
Our steed for the trip is a 350cc Royal Enfield Thunderbird. It may not seem a big bike but for India and the roads it has more than enough power for two. Speeds are generally quite low and despite the chaos there's no rushing about as such. Our first venture out into the Cochin traffic wasn't too bad and anything goes. If you're not too sure then put your feet down and come to a stop because everyone else will go around you. Great fun but you have to keep your wits about you. You won't find many or any 'lifesavers' but before you do anything just give a little toot on the horn to let others know you are there.
Today's journey was a relatively short bimble of about ninety kilometres down the Kerala coastline. The traffic thinned out the further south we travelled until we came to a railway crossing. Both sides just fill up either side of the crossing with vehicles so when we set of no one can go anywhere as both sides of the road are blocked, but in true Indian style and with a lot of beeping of horns it all sorts itself out.
With the sea on one side we passed paddy fields on the other side in places. We also passed an inlet with plenty of boats and some more of those Chinese fishing nets. A nice little spot to drop off for a welcome drink in the heat of the day.
An early afternoon finish at our eighteenth century hotel, a legacy of the British Empire, gave us time to relax by the pool and do whatever. With an evening temperature of twenty three degrees it was good to see plenty of people on the sandy beach alongside the Arabian Sea enjoying themselves with their families - it wasn't quite like Barry Island. A few beers and dinner was enjoyed amongst the continual break in power. Power restored and we continued to eat until the next break in power. This is India!!
The grand entrance to our room in Alleppey and some beautiful vegetation around the hotel.
Touring the Beara and Dingle Peninsulars of south west Kerry and Cork. Great roads and great scenery.
We have just had a couple of more rooms released for occupation at the hotel so I do have just a couple of spaces if anyone fancies a great weekend away in Ireland. Phone me for details on 01443 218169 or 07749 867362. You'd better be quick as this is always a popular tour.
A ferry trip to the Isle of Mull today. Some great roads and even some more great scenery. Lunch at Tobermory before catching the ferry back to the mainland. Well worth the journey.
A full day yesterday. Coffee stop at Eileen Donan Castle and then a trip over the Applecross Pass. This one was a first for me before we went on and stopped at the Applecross Inn for lunch.
Heading north en route to Scotland we made a detour into the Lake District. After a few showers today we caught the views in the evening sunlight. A short stop off at Ullswater and a chance to catch upon some interesting history connected with the lake.
Details of our Irish tour for May 2017 have been published today. Apologies for the delay in posting but when we made our usual enquiries with our host in Ireland we sadly found out that Evelyn (the owner) sadly passed away after a short illness in July earlier this year. She was the lady who worked hard behind the scenes that many of our tour participants never saw until it was time to leave. I have passed on our condolences to the family from all at New Style Tours. The good news is that Bernie (Evelyn's sister) has taken up the reigns and as Evelyn wished, the establishment will continue for the foreseeable future. Despite the sad news New Style Tours is looking forward to visiting again.


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A great place to work. Engaging, happy staff.
Coriander has such a positive work environment. The owner, team leaders and personal stylists all had great respect for each other, and worked well together because of it. This atmosphere fostered a love of the shop from the local community and the tourist traffic.
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How Did Greek Culture Influence Western Culture
The culture of the west and thought begun with the classical Greece. These officially started in the year 1500BC; however, the interruption of the culture of the West was about 1100-900BC during the dark ages of the Greek. The intrusion took momentum at the beginning of 900BC a classical period when the Greece would enter into their most glorious period (Merchant, 98). It is also a time when they were setting the basis for the dominant empires and nations in the millennia and the centuries to follow. The culture and thought of the western trace its roots in the philosophy of the Greek where this viewpoint majors on research and reasoning pertaining some fields including law, literature, technology, politics, science, psychology, art, and ethics. How the Greece became the center of the western culture and thought The geographical position of the Greece favored its geopolitical locus because the city-states of the Greek spread along the northeastern coasts of the Sea of Mediterranean uncovering…
Possession In Western Culture
Possession is a challenging topic to dissect. From one end of the world to the other, from one point in the past to the present almost every culture/civilization has recorded accounts of possession. The perception of these various possession accounts, however, can be described as polar opposites of each other. Some cultures view possession as a positive experience to connect humans with the divine, no matter what divine matter they call their God. While others believe all types and forms of…
Islands By Pawel Kuczynski: Western American Culture
The artist Pawel Kuczynski uses the painting Islands to portray the western american culture as isolated individuals due to their addiction to social technology. Through an examination of the audience and purpose, the use of satire and symbolism it is evident that the artist is able to effectively show the audience that the western american culture has become more reliant on cellular devices as their source of human contact. Firstly, it is evident that the artist Pawel Kuczynski is directing…
Difference Between Mental Illness And Western Culture
Mental Illnesses can defined as a condition that has impacted many people and has affected their way of thinking, their behaviors and their ability to function in society. When we think about mental illness, society has a pre -conceive notion that many of these illness or what they like to call it psychological disorder, affect everyone but according to the text ," there are no cross culturally universal standards for normal behavior or thinking,"(221). When look at the difference in culture it…
How Does Persia Influence Western Culture
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Surge survive OT, go to Dallas for semi
Surge players celebrate following the victory.
2017 SAN DIEGO SURGE WOMEN'S FOOTBALL
From staff and wire reports
CLOVIS (6-18-2017) – In a contest with so many storylines, the San Diego Surge women's football team advanced to the national semifinals of the Women's Football Alliance by outlasting the previously unbeaten Central Cal War Angels, 35-34 in overtime, Saturday (June 17).
The contest was held at Clark School after Fresno City College's historic Ratcliffe Stadium became unavailable.
The Surge will next meet the Midwest Region champion Dallas Elite in a Final Four pairing, to be played in Southlake, Texas, on Sat., July 8. The stadium was recently the site of national boys high school record for the mile (3:59.30).
For the Surge, just getting to the American Conference final was considered a bit of a miracle.
In six seasons of Surge football, the ballclub lost just twice at home — both this season to the Pacific Warriors and the War Angels. But in postseason play, the third-place Surge vanquished both, winning 51-30 in L.A., then going to the Central Valley for their first-ever overtime affair.
Down 12-0, Surge quarterback Melissa Gallegos found Kaycee Clark for a touchdown, then Dejanae Harvey rumbled 90 yards for a score and a 13-12 lead with 1:49 left until intermission. However, Central Cal scores on the final play of the first half for a 20-13 lead.
Harvey then scored another Surge touchdown to tie it at 20-20 late in the third quarter, but Central Cal responded on its next drive to take a 28-20 advantage with 13 minutes remaining.
San Diego finally forced overtime on a Deana Guidry touchdown reception with 40.4 second to play. A 2-point conversion sent the game to extra time.
Although the WFA plays mostly by NFL rules, they utilized the NCAA college overtime rules, thus both teams receive a possession.
Central Cal scored on its time with the ball, but missed the kick. So when San Diego also scored a TD, but made the kick, they were able to punch their ticket to Texas.
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Shaw Communications Corp. has arranged to buy a controlling stake in Canwest Global Communications Corp.
Calgary-based Shaw Communications Corp. has proposed a dual-share structure for the restructured firm, one which would allow Shaw to own 20 per cent of Canwest's equity but 80 per cent of its voting control.
The National Post newspaper and Canwest's chain of other Canadian newspapers are not part of the deal.
The sale agreement is contingent on the approval of the Ontario court overseeing Canwest's restructuring under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
Canwest doesn't expect any station closings or layoffs as a result of the deal, Douglas said, but final say on that would come from Shaw once the deal is approved.
"It is positive to know that somebody out there knows that there's value in local television, that there's value in the Global television network, and they wanna see that continue," Bill Nazer, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 821 in Winnipeg told CBC News.
"I think the sense is that this might introduce some security, but that's an unknown," he said.
Canwest's spokesman John Douglas said Friday he expects the deal to be finalized some time in the middle of August.
"Financial terms of the agreements will be filed with the court on a confidential basis and will remain confidential until court approval is obtained," Shaw said in a release.
When Canwest initially entered CCAA proceedings in October, the company said it would require at least $65 million in new equity to emerge as a restructured company.
Douglas confirmed Friday that the investment was at least $65 million, but the exact figure may not emerge until documents are unsealed following a CCAA-related court hearing in Toronto next Friday.
Initially, Shaw's equity stake may exceed 20 per cent, depending on the number of creditors that opt for cash over shares in the new company, Shaw said.
"The investment was structured whereby Shaw has the flexibility to increase its ownership in a restructured Canwest in the future," Shaw said.
Canwest assets will not be swallowed into Shaw's corporate structure as in a conventional merger. Rather, if the deal goes through, Canwest will continue to operate as an independent company, with a separate board of directors.
Final approval from Canwest's creditors and the CRTC would also be required. The deal has the support of an ad hoc committee of key creditors, officials at Shaw and Canwest say.
"While there is much work still to be done, Shaw's commitment represents an important step towards a successful financial restructuring of Canwest and is supported by the company and the members of the ad hoc committee," Canwest chairman Derek Burney said.
In addition to the Global television network and several specialty cable channels, Winnipeg-based Canwest also owns the largest chain of newspapers in Canada.
Shaw Communications Corp. president Peter Bissonnette confirmed Friday that the company's bid does not include the print assets, which are held under a separate corporate entity, Canwest LP.
The newspaper assets remain in a separate CCAA filing, and Canwest is seeking buyers for that unit.
"We have moved for 100 per cent of the Canadian television and specialty channel assets," Bissonnette said. "As well as a 35 per cent interest in the CW Media Group, previously known as the Alliance Atlantis assets."
Shaw has been working on the deal for the past month and a half, Bissonnette said. As it stands, the court and creditors are in the driver's seat at Canwest, so Shaw cannot assume control at least until the CCAA proceedings are completed.
Leonard Asper heads Canwest Global Communications Corp. as its president and CEO.
"The first hurdle is this one and we're pleased with that," Bissonnette said. No asset sales are planned, he confirmed. "We like it all — the content is very important to us for a strategic rationale," he said.
"There are some broadband applications as well, [such as] video on demand, and we're looking forward to that."
Bissonnette also confirmed that Shaw was only one of at least three serious bids for the assets, but he declined to say who the other bidders were.
In January, a group headed by Montreal media figure Beryl Wajsman, former senator Jerry Grafstein and former Global TV executive and Montreal Star editor Raymond Heard was preparing a bid for the National Post, the Montreal Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen.
Canwest has been operating under court supervision since last year as it struggled under a crippling debt load.


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Body of New Jersey man recovered 1,500 feet underwater from Lake Tahoe
Officials say it's the deepest recovery ever performed in the U.S. and Canada
The body of a New Jersey man, whose body was recovered 1,500 feet underwater in California, is considered to be the deepest recovery ever performed in the United States and Canada, officials say.
According to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, 29-year-old Ryan Normoyle rented a boat on Lake Tahoe on Aug. 10.
That evening, Ryan's rental boat washed ashore in Glenbrook, Nevada, but Normoyle wasn't on it.
On the boat, the department said they found Normoyle's phone, which recorded Ryan jumping off the boat into the lake. The video also showed the boat drifting away, which the department said was because Ryan had left in gear.
The New York Times reported that the camera captured Normoyle trying to swim to the boat for about two minutes before disappearing from the frame.
With the help of GPS data captured from Ryan's phone while recorded, the South Lake Tahoe Fire Department, Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the Washoe County Marine Unit, and the University of California Davis Research Team helped in the search. On Sept. 23, the nonprofit Bruce's Legacy, which specializes in underwater recovery, was called in by Ryan's family to aid in the investigation.
In a blog post, Bruce's Legacy founder Keith Cormican detailed how winds chased them off the lake around noon, and on the second day, they ran into electrical issues. Not wanting to give up, Cormican used sonar on the ROV after losing power to it.
After a few hours, a body image, which was identified as Ryan's, showed up on the sonar at 1,551 feet. Unfortunately, they lost hold of him and weren't able to bring him to the surface, but on Sept. 27, they found Ryan at 1,565 feet, and after two hours, the crew pulled up Normoyle's body, by hand, to the surface.
According to the police department, Cormican said this was the deepest recorded recovery in the United States and Canada. Previously, the deepest recovery in Lake Tahoe was in 2018 at a depth of 1,062 feet.


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