Tuesday, August 31, 2010

He Caifei
Chin Jin
Ellen Chan

INDONESIA

HOT   CELEBRITY   PHOTO,WORLD    OF    CELEBRITY,INDONESIAN    HOT   GIRL   PHOTO,SEXY   GIRL PHOTO,CUTE   GIRL    PHOTO,NICE   GIRL   PHOTO,BEAUTY    GIRL    PHOTO,CELEBRITY    GIRL   PHOTO,LIFE    OF     CELEBRITY     GIRL,IMAGES    OF   HOT   GIRL PHOTO,IMAGES   OF   CELEBRITY    GIRL    PHOTO, SEXY    MODEL PHOTO,MODEL    BIKINI   PHOTO,HOT   MODEL   PHOTO,INDONESIAN     HOT   ACTRESS   PHOT

EVA ARNAZ
CHRISTINE    HAKIM
NIRINA   ZUBIR
QORY    SANDIORIVA

INDIA

HOT   CELEBRITY   PHOTO,WORLD    OF    CELEBRITY,INDIAN HOT   GIRL   PHOTO,SEXY   GIRL PHOTO,CUTE   GIRL    PHOTO,NICE   GIRL   PHOTO,BEAUTY    GIRL    PHOTO,CELEBRITY    GIRL   PHOTO,LIFE    OF     CELEBRITY     GIRL,IMAGES    OF   HOT   GIRL PHOTO,IMAGES   OF   CELEBRITY    GIRL    PHOTO,TAMIL    HOT GIRL    PHOTO,   TAMIL    SEXY    GIRL    PHOTO,TAMIL    CELEBRITY    GIRL    PHOTO

AISHWARAY RAI

AMALA

AMISHA PATEL

AYESHA

PAKISTAN

HOT CELEBRITY PHOTO,WORLD OF CELEBRITY,PAKISTANI HOT GIRL PHOTO,SEXY GIRL PHOTO,CUTE GIRL PHOTO,NICE GIRL PHOTO,BEAUTY GIRL PHOTO,CELEBRITY GIRL PHOTO,LIFE OF CELEBRITY GIRL,IMAGES OF HOT GIRL PHOTO,IMAGES OF CELEBRITY GIRL PHOTO,SEXY MODEL PHOTO, HOT MODEL PHOTO

TIWAN

HOT CELEBRITY PHOTO,WORLD OF CELEBRITY,TIWAN HOT GIRL PHOTO,SEXY GIRL PHOTO,CUTE GIRL PHOTO,NICE GIRL PHOTO,BEAUTY GIRL PHOTO,CELEBRITY GIRL PHOTO,LIFE OF CELEBRITY GIRL,IMAGES OF HOT GIRL PHOTO,IMAGES OF CELEBRITY GIRL PHOTO,SEXY MODEL PHOTO,HOT MODEL PHOTO

AMERICA

AMY ACKER

AMY ADAMS

JESSICA ALBA

ELIZABETH ALLEN

Sunday, August 29, 2010

A Course Best 15K Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run

It was sun and cloud and 23 degrees.

The Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run in Millvile. The loop course on Millvile road, Old Princetown road and Warburton road.

David Brown won the race and Rebecca Pike for the top female.

I finished in 1:13:42 and came in 19th out of 59 runners. I beat my best race time 21 seconds from last year.

Official Result: 19th out of 59
15K in 1 hour, 13 minutes, 42 seconds

My Nannie came to watch me.

More Photos

Scenic Road Run 2009
Scenic Road Run 2008
Scenic Road Run 2007

Photos from the Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run (2008-2010)

Congratulations to
Steven, Jennifer, Robyn, Jackson & Jonathan
on the birth of Lucas Alexander!

6 days old

Running For Autism
Not Against It
acceptance not cure

Zombie Tanks and Hordes.

Zombie Tanks

Zombie Hordes.

Some recently finished Tank and Horde bases for my zombie game,I am using AKULA's rules AR:SE which are all on two sides of an A4 piece of paper and fun and can be found on his blog which is listed on this page.My painting is in the style of I possibly could do better but I want to get them on the table or just finished before I might go off them.

The tank figures are from Helldorado(far left and right) and the middle figure is from Four A Miniatures who do some nice figures,the horde bases are all studio miniatures which are amazing figures,now the horde bases from other people can be a lot bigger and a lot more figures(just see AKULA's blog but I could not justify the cost and time and so went with this option.Hope you like them and any questions feel free to ask.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Another PB! The Kent Building Supplies 7K

It was sunny and 18 degrees.

The Kent Building Supplies 7K in Bloomfield. The loop course on Mill River East and highway 2.

Edwin Gillis won the race and Jennifer Pizio-Perry for the top female. I finished in 28:03 and came in 2nd out of 42 runners. I beat 7km PB time 1:40 faster than 2008.

Tomorrow I run the 15km at Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run.

Official Result: 2nd out of 42
7K in 28 minutes, 3 seconds

Kent Building Supply Run 2009
Kent Building Supply Run 2008
Kent Building Supply Run 2007

More Photos

Photos from the Kent Building Supply 7K Run (2008-2010)

Running For Autism

Not Against It
acceptance, inclusion, awareness

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Ronald C.Speirs,Easy Company,Band of Brothers.

After Winters the most amazing character and person in the company,and this scene makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.I have looked for a book on him after reading Winter's biography "Biggest Brother" but as of yet have found nothing sustansial except for little pieces here and there and this wikipedia bit on him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Speirs

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Getting into gear

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Arts/Cultural-activities/2010-08-21/article-1688176/Getting-into-gear/1

Getting into gear

Guardian photo by Mary MacKay

Members of the G.E.A.R. (Get Everyone Accessibly Riding) cycling club, founded by Dave Carragher and his family from Meadow Bank, are hosting the first Keir Carragher Memorial Red Island Ride Sept. 4-5.

Published on August 21st, 2010
Mary MacKay

P.E.I.’s Get Everyone Accessibly Riding (G.E.A.R.) cycling club is hosting a 200-km ride across the Island Sept. 4-5 to raise funds to provide people who are visually impaired with the opportunity to cycle for leisure or competition

Dave Carragher of Meadow Bank has a need for self-propelled speed.

When he’s on a bicycle, he loves the rush of the heart-racing zone, especially if he’s in full competition mode.

The fact that he is legally blind is an afterthought, thanks to a buddy riding system that involves a fully sighted volunteer and a tandem bicycle.

“OK, one, two, three,” Carragher’s cycling pilot Harvey Chandler signals and the two take off for a spin in preparation for the upcoming Keir Carragher Memorial Red Island Ride.

This two-day event on Sept 4-5, in which both blind and sighted cyclists are encouraged to participate, is to raise funds for the Get Everyone Accessibility Riding (G.E.A.R.). This cycling club was recently founded by Carragher to help other blind or visually impaired persons have the same tandem riding opportunities that have dramatically changed his life.

As a child, life was humming along pretty well for Carragher until he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 12. This progressive eye disease damages the retina, decreasing vision over time.

“It wasn’t good,” he remembers of the shocking news.

“(Now) I have a little less than 10 per cent and it’s all peripheral. So I have no central vision left.”

Still, he continued to do the things he enjoyed — hockey, soccer, baseball and football — until his declining vision forced him to stop.

“I was just a normal kid. I rode my bike as much as possible and I rode it right up till I basically couldn’t (at the age of 14). I had too many crashes and I was like, ‘OK, I need to stop doing this before I seriously hurt myself,’” he remembers.

After high school, things pretty much came to a standstill sport-wise until his longtime friend Tyler Reid, who is a triathlete, encouraged him to try the sport, which includes swimming, cycling and running.

“Basically I kept having to say no. I couldn’t train with him because I couldn’t do the bike portion because at that point I still had no idea what a tandem (bike) was,” he remembers.

Then in 2008 Carragher discovered Joe’s Team: The Blind Guys Tri-Team in Toronto, Ont., through the CNIB. This team is made up of athletes living with vision loss and 30 sighted guides who compete together.

Carragher went to a training camp that fall at the CNIB Lake Joseph Centre in Muskoka, Ont., and returned in July 2009 for his first sprint triathlon, which is a 750-metre swim, a 20-km bike ride and a five-kilometre run.

The CNIB matched Dave with volunteer pilot/guide Steve Morrison from Ontario.

“Basically the pilot, or guide in this case (of running and swimming), is with us in all three disciplines of the triathlon,” he says.

“So in the water we’re tethered together with a short bungee cord and depending on what level of vision that you have you can either use another tether (for running) or just run side by side. And for biking we’re on a tandem.”

Carragher’s goal was to finish and he did.

“I was really proud of myself to keep (my training) going throughout the whole winter and stuff like that because prior (to that) I was the biggest starter and not finisher. So I was mostly proud of myself to keep that going and being able to balance it in with the rest of my life,” he says.

“He’s always had to stop doing things since he was a child,” his mother, Cathy Carragher, explains.

“First he stopped playing baseball because he couldn’t see the ball. And then as his vision diminished, with every sport it was ‘I can’t play that anymore because I can’t see well enough to do it.’ So this was the first time he had the opportunity to finish, to actually be able to get to the finish line. So it was pretty amazing.”

Carragher returned to Muskoka in July 2009 for another sprint marathon. He finished in 1:58, shaving five minutes off his previous time.

One week later he was in New York ready to race again; only this time it was a full Olympic triathlon, which is a 1,500 metre, swim, a 40-km bike ride and a 10-km run.

“It’s completely double the distance,” he says.

“But I got the opportunity to go. I didn’t feel very ready for it at all, but I just said like the year before I’m going to finish. And I finished.”

But he and volunteer pilot/guide Joe Loria of New York, with whom he was billeted during his stay there, had their finishing work cut out for them.

“We had some interesting things to overcome in that race. We were swimming tethered together and my tether came off my guide about three-quarters of the way through the swim (in the Hudson River). We were swimming with the aid of an eight-knot current as well so he had to swim pretty hard to catch up with me because I didn’t realize so I just kept swimming as normal,” Carragher smiles.

“There was a steel ramp to get out of the water and one of the (swimmers) behind me thought (my tether) was a towrope to get out. So he was pulling on my tether and basically almost pulled me back into the water.”

To top that off their bike broke down four times.

“Basically we were ready to throw it over the bridge at the end of it. But we just kept going. Our goal was to finish and when we crossed that finish line it felt amazing,” he says.

Two weeks later, Carragher was at the starting point with volunteer Ryan Bradley for a sprint triathlon in Stanhope, P.E.I., where they faced challenges unique to swimming in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

“We were in about four- to five-foot waves. Through the whole 750 metres you just got slammed by a wave every time you went to take a breath,” says Carragher, who added this finish to his growing triathlon list.

There’s an ulterior motive in his list of competitions and their required training — the opportunity to raise awareness for G.E.A.R., which he founded with his family, in conjunction with ParaSport and Recreation P.E.I.

“The best way to promote (the organization) is to actually get out there and ride where people are able to see you,” he says.

G.E.A.R. now has five tandem bicycles for use on the weekly rides. There have also been a number of demos and volunteer pilot training sessions.

“It’s all about practice. The more you do it the better you get at it and the more comfortable you are,” says Kim MacPhail of Charlottetown, who is new to the tandem pilot scene.

The upcoming Keir Carragher Memorial Red Island Ride is to raise funds to purchase more tandem bicycles and to help support people who are visually impaired who are interested in cycling. A portion of funds will also be donated to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in memory of Carragher’s father who died suddenly last year.

Carragher’s sister Leslie, who also has retinitis pimentos, stopped cycling 10 years ago when her vision became too bad to ride.

However, she’s back at it again, after listening to her brother’s advice.

“It took him a year to convince me to get on a bike,” she laughs. “I have more fear than Dave does, but I’m hooked now. It’s just fun. It’s good exercise and you get to meet people.”

Stella Walsh of Charlottetown agrees. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at a young age, she never had the chance to ride a bicycle. But that didn’t deter her from trying for the first time last year at the age of 53.

“I was pretty nervous when I got on the first time. I held on pretty tight,” she admits, laughing.

Now there’s nothing she enjoys more than a leisurely ride on the tandem.

“It gets you out and you get to ride a bike when you’ve never done it before. It’s pretty incredible.”

For Carragher, the return to cycling and the entrance into the triathlon world has improved his confidence in sport and with the world in general.

“I really find through the sport and through the travelling, my self-confidence has gone up a lot over the past two years. I really feel that it has helped my athletic abilities and my non-athletic abilities grow as well.

“If that can be done for other people through the sport of cycling then that’s great as well. Also, it’s just another fun activity that visually impaired or blind people don’t get to do until someone provides the opportunity. Someone provided that opportunity to me in the fall of 2008 to get back on a bike. I hadn’t been on a bike for about 10 years before that, so I’m just trying to pay it forward and help other people enjoy the sport of cycling . . . .”

AT A GLANCE

• The Keir Carragher Memorial Red Island Ride begins at Mill River on Sept. 4 and ends that day in Cornwall. The ride wraps up in Souris on Sunday, Sept 5.

• This event is open to sighted and non-sighted cyclists. Riders can sign up as individuals or as relay teams. Cyclists can also sign up to be tandem guides.

• Net proceeds will be used to develop the G.E.A.R. program and to help Islanders who are blind or are visually impaired to participate in cycling, both for leisure and competition. A portion of funds will be donated to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in memory of Keir Carragher.

• The ride is a total of 200 kilometres, with rest stops every 25 km. There’s a banquet Saturday night and a barbecue at the end.

• Participating cyclists are ex-pected to raise at least $50 in addition to the registration fee. They’ll receive a souvenir jersey.

• People are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Applications are available online at www.parasportpei.ca.

100 Years War Game or I still have 7 inches left.

Our club met up on Saturday for a game but numbers were limited as only 4 people were available but we had a hundred years war scenario set up based on WAB with armies of chivalry thrown in house rules.Postie is the ringmaster and myself and smithy ended up as the french and richard the guy in the picture was the english and the speaker of the title phrase when he was double moving his heavy cavalry into a better position(does not matter how old you are but it brings out the giggles among friends especially when he responded to our heckling with the phrase "well enough to please").
The game was started with 3000pts each and deploying your units on a pre drawn map before the game and when we deployed the english had 5 units of longbowmen in the front ranks and our 1 unit of shortbows and crossbowmen went bye bye and the game went downhill quickly for me and smithy but it was enjoyable and it was a game. which we do not get to do as often as we once did or would like.
But the game finished earlier than normal and we spoke about my blog and Ray's blog another member of the club (Don't throw a 1) and writing about games and showing pictures but we decided then we need a name for the club and a debate has now begun on what we should be called(there were some of the usual less than nice comments,true but not nice) and we are thinking of the"The Devil's Reject's","The Old Dogs of War" or the " The Motley Crew".I have included some pictures taken by Postie but they are not great so he will be taken off camera duties in future,hope you enjoy.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Q&A with needlework mystery writer Monica Ferris

Love to read AND stitch? Monica Ferris has the perfect page-turner to stroke those passions: "Blackwork" is the latest book from this popular fiction writer whose colorful story lines always feature needleworking super sleuths following mystery threads around stitchery shops. We have been delighted to be characters in previous books, and this one features a design using Kreinik threads—included a new Kreinik Fine #8 Braid color, Fly By Night. We sat down with Monica to hear about the latest book and her next project.

KREINIK: Where did you get the idea of the "Blackwork" story?

MONICA: This one started with the title. Blackwork is a very attractive kind of needlework. It took me a little while to think how best to use the title as a mystery theme, however. But I have two friends who practice Wicca, so I had two sources for the practices of that religion. I know there are people who think only of the "dark side" of Wicca -- that it practices cursing and other black arts, but neither of my Wiccan friends would dream of doing something so dreadful (and dangerous, they say). So there was my conflict, and the story grew out of that.

KREINIK: Your books are grounded in the needlework community and are very popular. How did you get involved with needlework? Where does your interest in needlework come from?

MONICA: Oddly enough, I was asked to write a series with needlework as a theme. My then-editor at Berkley was herself a counted cross-stitcher and saw how well a quilting series was doing, so she looked around for someone willing to write a needlework series. I had just ended my work on a medieval mystery series, so she contacted my agent who contacted me. I was so flattered at being asked -- instead of the usual process of coming up with an idea, writing the novel, and then getting my agent to try to find a publisher -- that I accepted at once. I was very much a novice at needlework, and so that's why my amateur sleuth starts out so ignorant. As I learn things, so does she. And now I find that I enjoy exploring the many, many sides of needlework.

KREINIK: Writers and needleworkers both create, putting together something out of scraps, bringing the fabric or page to life, with “threads” running through the "story". What is your favorite part about writing a book?

MONICA: That's a very difficult question. When things are working, it's all a joy: Getting the idea, setting up the plot, watching the story come to life as I write it, finishing it (whew!), editing it, getting a sample of the cover art (that's when it becomes real), holding the copy of the actual book in my hands. Every one of those steps is a pleasure! The only part that isn't fun is getting a writer's block, and I can generally work around that.

KREINIK: What is the hardest part about writing a book?

MONICA: The middle. The opening scenes are intriguing and the grand finale is exciting, but there's that long, complicated middle part, where I'm trying to get all the scenes to work together, sneak in the clues, advance the characters realistically, and move the story briskly along. It's fun, usually, but it's real work.

KREINIK: Technology has affected both the needlework industry and the book industry. With the advent of electronic readers, do you think that printed books will become obsolete? Will your books be available for Kindles or other e-book readers?

MONICA: Some of my books are already available in an electronic format. I don't think paper books will entirely disappear -- they are, unlike electronic devices, not made unreadable when the science advances to a new generation of device -- but I think publishing is riding a new and powerful wave into the future. I don't think anyone really knows what strange and new shore they will end up on.

KREINIK: Can you give us a hint for what's in store for the next book, and when it may be released?

MONICA: The next book, due out in December, is Buttons and Bones. Jill and Lars Larson buy an old log cabin up in a northern part of the state, and while renovating it, find a hidden trap door leading to a root cellar. On the dirt floor of it lies a human skeleton that appears to belong to a World War II-era German soldier. Meanwhile I am at work on Threadbare, about the murder of two homeless women.

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WANT MORE MONICA FERRIS? She shares a blog with five other "crafty" mystery authors -- http://killerhobbies.blogspot.com/. Her day to write an entry is every Wednesday. Check out Monica's web site at http://monica-ferris.com/ for info on all of her books plus her schedule of book signings.

WANT TO STITCH THE DESIGN FROM THE BOOK? Visit http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=17134&cat=0&page=1

Two first-time winners in 37th annual Harvest Festival 25K Road Race

http://www.journalpioneer.com/Sports/2010-08-22/article-1690535/Two-first-time-winners-in-37th-annual-Harvest-Festival-25K-Road-Race/1

Two first-time winners

in 37th annual Harvest Festival 25K Road Race

Jason Simmonds/Journal Pioneer

Steven Baglole won his first Harvest Festival 25K Road Race in Kensington on Saturday morning. His time was one hour 36 minutes 21 seconds (1:36:21).

Published on August 22nd, 2010

Jason Simmonds

KENSINGTON - Steven Baglole and Jennifer Pizio-Perry can now add victories in one of P.E.I.'s most challenging runs to their resumés.

Baglole was the overall winner and Pizio-Perry was the top-placing female in the 37th annual Harvest Festival 25K Road Race on Saturday morning. Baglole's time was one hour 36 minutes 21 seconds (1:36:21) while Pizio-Perry, who was tied for 10th overall, stopped the clock in (1:54:08). The top 50-and-over runner was Francis Fagan of Charlottetown, who had a time of 1:52:26. Fagan, 60, was eighth overall.

"I was really pleased with the race," said Pizio-Perry, who resides in Greenmount. "It was a great turnout, there were all kinds of spectators all along the course, which makes it a lot of fun.

"I'm hoping to come back next year."

Nicknamed the "Killer Course" for its challenging hills, the race started at the Old Church of Scotland in Stanchel on Route 225, and finished in front of Community Gardens.

"It's a tough course," added Baglole, who's originally from Summerside and now resides in Charlottetown. "There are lots of hills and you have to be ready for them, or they'll eat up your legs."

Third attempt

It was Baglole's third time running the Harvest Festival race.

"Last year was not good," he said. "It was very hot and I think I was sixth or seventh.

"The first year I did it my time was a lot better than last year, but I think I was fifth or sixth."

Baglole and second-place finisher Scott Clark, who had a time of 1:37:39, battled for the lead early.

"It's a tough course. There are lots of hills and you have to be ready for them, or they'll eat up your legs." - Overall race winner Steven Baglole

"Then I pulled ahead a little bit, and tried to build a little bit of a gap," said Baglole, 34. "It was a nice day for running. It wasn't too hot, and there was a nice breeze."

Baglole's strategy was simple.

"Just to run by feel, and try to stick with the leaders if I could for as long as I could," he explained. "Then if I felt all right, I'd try to get ahead of them at some point."

First time

For Pizio-Perry, it was her first time running the race.

"I'm pleased with it," said the 33-year-old. "I knew there were a lot of hills.

"I just wanted to take one hill at a time and go from there."

Pizio-Perry said she survived the challenging early stages of the race well.

"Probably with about 7K remaining my legs started tightening up a little bit," she said. "But when you think 7K after what you have finished, it's not too bad."

And by that time Pizio-Perry had opened up some breathing room. The second-place female, last year's winner Rebecca Pike, was almost three minutes off the pace at 1:57:01.

"There were a few ladies with me for the first little while at the beginning of the race," said Pizio-Perry. "I'm not quite sure when I pulled away from then.

"It was during the big-hill section."

jpsports@journalpioneer.com

Rendez-Vous Rustico Duathlon Results

From the Northern Star, the results from the July 24th, 2010 Rendez-vous Rustico Duathlon:

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SWEDEN

JAPAN

ITALY

CHINA

INDONESIA

INDIA

PAKISTAN

TIWAN

AMERICA

Sunday, August 29, 2010

A Course Best 15K Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run

Zombie Tanks and Hordes.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Another PB! The Kent Building Supplies 7K

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Ronald C.Speirs,Easy Company,Band of Brothers.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Getting into gear

Getting into gear

100 Years War Game or I still have 7 inches left.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Q&A with needlework mystery writer Monica Ferris

Two first-time winners in 37th annual Harvest Festival 25K Road Race

Two first-time winners

in 37th annual Harvest Festival 25K Road Race

Rendez-Vous Rustico Duathlon Results

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