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Apr 3, 2016
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Apr 4, 2016
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#42
..Well .. It's a 'Living'! 0:
Apr 4, 2016
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#43
Now that 'sport's {'2016'}, 'March Madness'.. is almost over with.
Over, 9 pt. 2 quintillion; That's number of possible brackets that one could fill out for the 64-team NCAA Tournament.
According to RJ Bell of Pregame.com, that would take you 292 trillion years to fill out all possible combination {at one per bracket per second}.
The good news is that you only need one pretty good bracket to claim eternal glory and the envy of all your co-workers. {And maybe money, if only gambling were legal}.
I like the Paul Erdos one best. Keep it up!
Apr 6, 2016
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#48
.. Not responsible, if you develop any physical 'kink'.. as a result! ..lol
http://www.techinsider.io/waking-up-mornings-psychology-2016-3
Apr 7, 2016
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Talk to a 'random Swede' link. ..{discovered, by thinking to 'News-page' {Google} search, under: 'random.' 0:
Apr 7, 2016
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#50
Canada routs Switzerland at men’s world curling championship
Kevin Koe’s Calgary rink finished the round-robin in first place at 10-1, capping its run to the playoffs with a 7-2 win over Switzerland in Thursday’s final draw.
Georgios Kefalas / AP
Norway's skip Thomas Ulsrud competes in a round robin match between Switzerland and Norway at the men's curling World Championships in the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, Thursday. Ulsrud was bested by Canada’s Kevin Koe 6-4 on Thursday.
BASEL, SWITZERLAND—With an emphatic rout of the tournament host, Canada has sent notice it is the team to beat heading into the playoffs at the men’s world curling championship.
Kevin Koe’s Calgary rink finished the round-robin in first place at 10-1, capping its run to the playoffs with a 7-2 win over Switzerland in Thursday’s final draw at St. Jakobshalle arena.
After posting a few shaky wins to start the tournament, Canada rounded into form and almost ran the table. Koe’s only hiccup was a 4-3 extra-end loss to defending champion Sweden on Wednesday.
“It’s a pretty tough field, lots of good teams, and obviously we would have taken (10-1) at the start of the week,” Koe said. “So it’s been a great week, and now we’re looking forward to the playoffs.”
Canada, rounded out by third Marc Kennedy, second Brent Laing, lead Ben Hebert and alternate Scott Pfeifer, rebounded from its lone loss with a 6-4 win over Norway earlier Thursday to clinch first place, then followed up with a victory over Sven Michel’s Swiss side, which finished a disappointing ninth at 4-7.
Canada will have the hammer when it plays Denmark (8-3) in the 1-2 Page playoff game Friday.
Rasmus Stjerne and the Danes finished second with an 8-7 win over Sweden (6-5) in the last draw. After starting his title defence with four straight wins, Swedish skip Niklas Edin struggled mid-tournament and will be heading home.
“The experience helps . . . I’ve won 1-2 games, lost 1-2 games,” said Koe, a world champion in 2010 with a different team. “We won’t get too high or low about the outcome, but obviously we want to win that game and get to the final as soon as possible.”
Denmark took Canada to an extra end last Sunday, with a shaky Canadian team scoring three in the 11th for an 11-8 win.
“We played a good game against Canada, but they seem to have picked up their pace since then but I think we got to stick to our process right now and give ourselves a chance on every shot,” said Stjerne, a former world junior champ. “Keeping the task at hand is most important and don’t focus on what’s coming because they are going to come big at us and I think we’ll just try and prepare our best.”
The 3-4 Page playoff will go Saturday between third-place Yusuke Morozumi of Japan (8-3) and fourth-place John Shuster of the United States (8-3).
Norway (7-3), which started the day in a playoff position, just missed a top-four finish after Japan and the U.S. each won twice on Thursday.
Canada hasn’t won a men’s world title since Glenn Howard’s victory at St. Jakobshalle in 2012.
Apr 7, 2016
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The story quoted on Page 1 about bookstore owner Michael Powell is very interesting.
Apr 8, 2016
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An overlooked 'downside' of 'saving' 'light-illuminating' energy. {allow about 12 seconds, for-the-video to load}.
http://www.businessinsider.com/astonauts-photos-from-space-leds-light-pollution-2016-1
Apr 8, 2016
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Apr 10, 2016
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Interesting, 'shop talk'.. re. "19 Century, chess-in-'America'! ..
A notable entrant in 1891 was an English-Irish-American-Canadian player, William Pollock, a winner of the Irish Championship, and at the time a resident of Baltimore. Pollack was a colorful character known for enjoying the creation of brilliant combinations more than actually winning. Howard J. Rogers, Secretary of the New York State Chess Association, described his first meeting with him as follows:
“As an added attraction to the midsummer meeting of the Association at Skaneateles, N.Y., we hit upon a match between the New York State Champion, Eugene Delmar, and Mr. Pollock, the Champion of the South. I conducted the correspondence, which was very pleasant, and awaited with much interest my first meeting with Mr. Pollock. The match was to begin on Monday, and up to Sunday noon we were uncertain of the whereabouts of the Southern Champion.
“About five o’clock, a few of us were sitting on the broad piazza overlooking the beautiful waters of Skaneateles Lake, when a dusty figure in a brown suit, freckled face and wealth of reddish chestnut hair, approached the hotel. ‘Pollock,’ we shouted in a breath, ‘where on earth did you come from?’ ‘Well, you see,’ said he, shaking hands all round with beaming cordiality, ‘I brought up in Syracuse early in the morning; I really couldn’t spend the day loafing around there, so I thought I would take a bit of a tramp across the hills and tone myself up a little for the match.’ His ‘bit of a tramp’ was a hard walk of over 20 miles in a hot August day. Pollock lost that match, by the way, but took his defeat with the utmost good humour.”
.. the preceding, was one 'excerpt' story, from: https://kihm6.wordpress.com/category/chess/
Apr 11, 2016
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From, April 6th, 2016 -- I'm Not Catholic - But I suppose, the following Does help to illustrate - that what the world-at-large, likely considers 'insignifigant'.. to, of No consequence; I have good reason to believe, that it's Very Important, to God!
Given, the Scripture; Leviticus 26:8, and Deut. 32:30 - 'One person praying, will put 1,000 demons to flight; But, 2 {in agreement}; Will put ten thousand' .. {exponential-factor-at-work!}.
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West Michigan's Carmelite monastery is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Bishiop David Walkowiak celebrated jubilee Mass Tuesday morning.
The monastery is in Parnell, east of Cannonsburg. The Carmelite nuns who live there are cloistered, meaning they are separated from the rest of the world and have dedicated their lives to prayer.
"The confidence and consolation it gives us to know there are people who are pursuing the love of the Lord alone, and this is the focus of their lives, it gives us a model and an inspiration to do as much as we can in the same direction," said Bishop Walkowiak.
The monastery was founded in 1916 by 16 refugees from Mexico. The first bishop of Grand Rapids welcomed them to the city.
Apr 11, 2016
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#57
People who subscribe, to the 'Glass-half-full' mindset; Are Always, pleasanter to be around; Than their 'finer-point' habitual naysayers! 0:
Apr 13, 2016
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'Late-Breaking' News Link .. Re. GM "Maurice Ashley"
Apr 13, 2016
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#59
'Fwiw'; It's been said, that the 'secret'' qualifying, 'I.Q' entry; To becoming a 'US' presidential candidate - Is the answer to: "How would you define, 'monopoly'? .. From, there-on-in; Things have gotten Worse! ] ;
