Having red as your favorite color identifies you as extroverted and optimistic, courageous and confident. You are action oriented and physically active - sex is a necessity to you - you have strong survival instincts. ... As a personality color red, you are stimulating to be with and you radiate a great deal of energy.
The primary reason why the color red is used for danger signals is that red light is scattered the least by air molecules. The effect of scattering is inversely related to the fourth power of the wavelength of a color. ... So red light is able to travel the longest distance through fog, rain, and the alike.
Thinking it might be best to section this list, explore and complete individual topics, then re-combine at a later time. So, this'll probably be the most complete version for a while ...
7-11
-- The Big Gulp
Andrew Klavan
Ben Shapiro
-- accurate April 2019 Game of Thrones prediction.
Brigitte Goudz
CHESS
-- Benko Gambit, first
-- Benko Gambit, second
-- Benko Gambit, third
-- "Castling is for Sissies!" series, Entry #1
-- Englund Soller gambit
-- Latvian Gambit, (date of first LG entry, date of relevant ...?)
-- The "Windmill", illustrated and explained, 50252.
Chrysler, Walter P.
-- Life of an American Workman.
DA WAY THINGS WUZ
(Topics related to the very real struggle of truly understanding the past)
-- Glorious Failures: The Concorde.
-- Slavery vs Geography vs Eli Whitney (profit through technology) vs U.S. Politics
DAILY WIRE
-- Daily Wire YouTube channel link.
Diop, Vieux
-- Short Biography
-- Sutukun, 5:37.
Donald Trump
-- Describing himself, probably accurately, as thick-skinned.
Donald Trump -- favored guest -- on the View. (3/23/2011)
-- Remarkable Interview by Dan Rather, 1999.
Extraordinary individuals
-- Charlotte Heffelmire
-- Lauren Kornacki
Holland Canter
Hyperlink Guidelines Page
Jessie Graff
Katie Couric 50207
Mimi Bonny
Ming, Yao
-- Visa Commercial
Nuke Nixon
-- 5/22/2019 prediction for this thread, 50276
Nurse feeding ailing fruit bat a banana.
Organic Grooves
Muhamadou Salieu Suso. Sutukung.
Pam Eamranond 50207
Paradoxes in Politics (Taylor Swift controversy)
Princess and Parakeet
Vanessa Serros and her pet love bird of 11 or 12 years, Connor. 10/28/015.
Redirection page (IntraThread Navigation Links posts.)
Schoenfeld, Melody
General link to Melody's YouTube channel ...
Supergirl
-- Red Daughter, training
Tamsen Fadal 50207
Niccola "Tankerbell" Lyons bending a nail. 6/7/2013.
Traub, James
-- Our Lost Best Chance (9/24/1998).
Tucker Carlson
Canadian acronym interview
--tacitly admits media are sometimes less than honest
Unalaska
Nikki Dill. High School Basketball adventures. March 1, 2004.
Unusual Feats
Woman breaks 50 bricks in under 10 seconds.
VIDEO GAMES
8-Bit
-- How Old School graphics worked.
Marvel versus Capcom 2
-- General Thrillah versus DucVader ...
-- Josh 360 Iron Man Comeback against Justin Wong
Metal Slug 4
Metal Slug 4. Boss Battles. Fio. Level 8 Difficulty.
Metal Slug 4 Speedrun. Level 8 Difficulty. Nadia.
Samurai Showdown 7
-- Darli Dagger. IGN Punch out compilation.
-- Darli Dagger. Mizumi Wiki Page.
Willingham, Daniel T.
The Importance of Common Core Curriculum
CHESS
Benko Gambit
-- Overview article on Chess.com
-- My first game trying Benko Gambit.
-- Benko Gambit, second
-- Benko Gambit, third
-- "Castling is for Sissies!" series, Entry #1
-- Englund Soller gambit
-- Latvian Gambit, (date of first LG entry, date of relevant ...?)
-- The "Windmill", illustrated and explained, 50252.
Chess and Video Game entries temporarily removed from this list.
Debating category names for what's left. Men, Women, Politics ...?
Geographica, fitness, business, and music effectively complete most of the remainder mmm
7-11
-- The Big Gulp
Andrew Klavan
Ben Shapiro
-- accurate April 2019 Game of Thrones prediction.
Brigitte Goudz
Chrysler, Walter P.
-- Life of an American Workman.
DA WAY THINGS WUZ
(Topics related to the very real struggle of truly understanding the past)
-- Glorious Failures: The Concorde.
-- Slavery vs Geography vs Eli Whitney (profit through technology) vs U.S. Politics
Tiimekeeping, 1860. How Observatories aided research and business investments in the railroad era.
DAILY WIRE
-- Daily Wire YouTube channel link.
Diop, Vieux
-- Short Biography
-- Sutukun, 5:37.
Donald Trump
-- Describing himself, probably accurately, as thick-skinned.
Donald Trump -- favored guest -- on the View. (3/23/2011)
-- Remarkable Interview by Dan Rather, 1999.
Extraordinary individuals
-- Charlotte Heffelmire
-- Lauren Kornacki
Holland Canter
Hyperlink Guidelines Page
Jessie Graff
Katie Couric 50207
Mimi Bonny
Ming, Yao
-- Visa Commercial
Nuke Nixon
-- 5/22/2019 prediction for this thread, 50276
Nurse feeding ailing fruit bat a banana.
Organic Grooves
Muhamadou Salieu Suso. Sutukung.
Pam Eamranond 50207
Paradoxes in Politics (Taylor Swift controversy)
Princess and Parakeet
Vanessa Serros and her pet love bird of 11 or 12 years, Connor. 10/28/015.
Redirection page (IntraThread Navigation Links posts.)
Schoenfeld, Melody
General link to Melody's YouTube channel ...
Supergirl
-- Red Daughter, training
Tamsen Fadal 50207
Niccola "Tankerbell" Lyons bending a nail. 6/7/2013.
Traub, James
-- Our Lost Best Chance (9/24/1998).
Tucker Carlson
Canadian acronym interview
--tacitly admits media are sometimes less than honest
Unalaska
Nikki Dill. High School Basketball adventures. March 1, 2004.
Unusual Feats
Woman breaks 50 bricks in under 10 seconds.
Willingham, Daniel T.
The Importance of Common Core Curriculum
Originally posted by Wonder Man
Invisible Girl dude.
If your opponent doesn't see you move...like Drax said in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I never watched that film ...
Even so, you might be talking a lot more my language than I realized.
Supergirl is a vehicle for a LOT of things people probably don't recognize, and I probably need to include myself as one still at least partially blinded.
Andrew Klavan laterally addresses the effect of programs like hers :
7-11
-- The Big Gulp
Andrew Klavan
Proof that culture counts for a LOT.
Ben Shapiro
-- accurate April 2019 Game of Thrones prediction.
Brigitte Goudz
Chrysler, Walter P.
-- Life of an American Workman.
DA WAY THINGS WUZ
(Topics related to the very real struggle of truly understanding the past)
-- Glorious Failures: The Concorde.
-- Slavery vs Geography vs Eli Whitney (profit through technology) vs U.S. Politics
Tiimekeeping, 1860. How Observatories aided research and business investments in the railroad era.
DAILY WIRE
-- Daily Wire YouTube channel link.
Diop, Vieux
-- Short Biography
-- Sutukun, 5:37.
Donald Trump
-- Describing himself, probably accurately, as thick-skinned.
-- Donald Trump as favored guest ... on the View. (3/23/2011)
-- Remarkable Interview by Dan Rather, 1999.
-- Donald Trump. Larry King Live interview, 1987. Identified as a Republican then. And Japan was the China of that day. Curious if he kept his resolve concerning farmers and homeless, though a rising tide theoretically raises all ships.
Extraordinary individuals
-- Charlotte Heffelmire
-- Lauren Kornacki
Holland Canter
Hyperlink Guidelines Page
Jessie Graff
Katie Couric 50207
Mimi Bonny
Ming, Yao
-- Visa Commercial
Nuke Nixon
-- 5/22/2019 prediction for this thread, 50276
Nurse feeding ailing fruit bat a banana.
Organic Grooves
Muhamadou Salieu Suso. Sutukung.
Pam Eamranond 50207
Paradoxes in Politics (Taylor Swift controversy)
Princess and Parakeet
Vanessa Serros and her pet love bird of 11 or 12 years, Connor. 10/28/015.
Redirection page (IntraThread Navigation Links posts.)
Schoenfeld, Melody
General link to Melody's YouTube channel ...
Supergirl
-- Alex's confession
[url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgEsjw0kTW8] -- Red Daughter, training
Tamsen Fadal 50207
Niccola "Tankerbell" Lyons bending a nail. 6/7/2013.
Traub, James
-- Our Lost Best Chance (9/24/1998).
Tucker Carlson
Canadian acronym interview
--tacitly admits media are sometimes less than honest
Unalaska
Nikki Dill. High School Basketball adventures. March 1, 2004.
Unusual Feats
Woman breaks 50 bricks in under 10 seconds.
Willingham, Daniel T.
The Importance of Common Core Curriculum [/B][/QUOTE]
Dave Ramsey warning. This mindset determines success or failure:
7-11
-- The Big Gulp
Andrew Klavan
Proof that culture counts for a LOT.
Ben Shapiro
-- accurate April 2019 Game of Thrones prediction.
Brigitte Goudz
Chrysler, Walter P.
-- Life of an American Workman.
DA WAY THINGS WUZ
(Topics related to the very real struggle of truly understanding the past)
-- Glorious Failures: The Concorde.
-- Slavery vs Geography vs Eli Whitney (profit through technology) vs U.S. Politics
Tiimekeeping, 1860. How Observatories aided research and business investments in the railroad era.
DAILY WIRE
-- Daily Wire YouTube channel link.
Dave Ramsey
-- The factor that determines success or failure ...
Diop, Vieux
-- Short Biography
-- Sutukun, 5:37.
Donald Trump
-- Describing himself, probably accurately, as thick-skinned.
-- Donald Trump as favored guest ... on the View. (3/23/2011)
-- Remarkable Interview by Dan Rather, 1999.
-- Donald Trump. Larry King Live interview, 1987. Identified as a Republican then. And Japan was the China of that day. Curious if he kept his resolve concerning farmers and homeless, though a rising tide theoretically raises all ships.
Extraordinary individuals
-- Charlotte Heffelmire
-- Lauren Kornacki
Holland Canter
Hyperlink Guidelines Page
Jessie Graff
Katie Couric 50207
Mimi Bonny
Ming, Yao
-- Visa Commercial
Nuke Nixon
-- 5/22/2019 prediction for this thread, 50276
Nurse feeding ailing fruit bat a banana.
Organic Grooves
Muhamadou Salieu Suso. Sutukung.
Pam Eamranond 50207
Paradoxes in Politics (Taylor Swift controversy)
Princess and Parakeet
Vanessa Serros and her pet love bird of 11 or 12 years, Connor. 10/28/015.
Redirection page (IntraThread Navigation Links posts.)
Schoenfeld, Melody
General link to Melody's YouTube channel ...
Supergirl
-- Alex's confession
-- Red Daughter, training
Tamsen Fadal 50207
Niccola "Tankerbell" Lyons bending a nail. 6/7/2013.
Traub, James
-- Our Lost Best Chance (9/24/1998).
Tucker Carlson
Canadian acronym interview
--tacitly admits media are sometimes less than honest
Unalaska
Nikki Dill. High School Basketball adventures. March 1, 2004.
Unusual Feats
Woman breaks 50 bricks in under 10 seconds.
Willingham, Daniel T.
The Importance of Common Core Curriculum
In Alaska, Getting There Is Half the Fun (Part 1)
By Bill Pennington
March 1, 2004
It took 90 minutes at sea in a small boat, 5 hours driving in two vans and 75 minutes on a commuter jet before the boys' and girls' basketball teams from Seldovia reached Bethel, a remote town in western Alaska.
When the players stepped off the jet onto the Bethel tarmac, as flat as the tundra enveloping it, the late-afternoon temperature was 38 degrees below zero.
Seldovia's players would stay for four nights, sleeping on classroom floors at the local high school, to play three games in a round-robin tournament.
Joining them were teams from Unalakleet, a village of about 800 people on the Bering Sea, and Homer, a port town like Seldovia in the state's south-central maritime wilderness.
''I feel sorry for those kids back east who just have to drive 20 minutes to the next suburb for a game,'' Nikki Dill of Unalakleet said. ''How boring.''
And so went another typical week in Alaskan high school sports, where to play something as routine as a basketball or a volleyball game, hundreds of teams habitually crisscross a mammoth state on jets, ferries, vans and even caravans of snowmobiles.
They do it at great cost -- Bethel's high school athletic travel budget exceeds $200,000 -- and they do it with striking aplomb despite inherent dangers. An unexpected blizzard a few years ago forced a Bethel team returning from a game by snowmobile to spend the night outdoors beneath the emergency tarp of a survival kit.
They do it, Alaska's high school athletes say, because the challenges are part of the fun of playing school sports.
''I have seen so much culturally, met so many different people, and the long trips let me bond with my teammates,'' Dill said. ''Where is the hardship?''
In Alaska, Getting There Is Half the Fun (Part 2)
Alaska's interscholastic sports map is probably without rival anywhere in the athletic world.
Consider that its westernmost sports conference includes not only Bethel and Unalakleet but also villages like Unalaska on the Aleutian island chain and the Arctic Ocean port of Barrow.
The distance from Unalaska to Barrow, annual regional rivals, is roughly equal to the distance from Miami to Boston.
Unalaska is so far away and its weather so fickle, few teams want to go there, leading to another odd custom of school sports life in the state: Unalaska pays other high schools to come play against its students. The teams on Kodiak Island do the same.
''We give them about $3,000 to come,'' said Pat Costello, Kodiak High School's wrestling coach. ''What difference does it make? It would cost us about $3,000 in airfare to go play them.''
In the southeast part of the state, at Ketchikan High they frequently offer teams $3,000 and throw in harbor tours, halibut feeds and a promise to put up every visiting athlete in a private home.
''But it seems like we are still the ones usually traveling,'' Rick Collins, Ketchikan's wrestling coach, said.
Ketchikan has one of the state's largest high schools, yet a short, so-called road trip involves a 36-hour ferry ride to Juneau. The bunks for the voyage are sleeping bags on the ferry deck.
''Lots of card games,'' Collins said. ''Our kids have gotten really good at hearts.''
In Alaska, Getting There Is Half the Fun (Part 3)
A Far-Flung Enterprise
The challenge of Alaska's high school sports structure is not just its geographic and weather extremes, and the daunting travel logistics they impose. The state's population is roughly 640,000 spread across more than 572,000 square miles, or nearly one-sixth the land mass of the United States. More than 100 Alaskan high schools have fewer than 50 students.
In the Bethel area, the school district is geographically about the size of Ohio. At the district's 23 schools, some basketball teams have the minimum number of players needed to start a game, five. And that starting five may consist of girls and boys.
It is not uncommon for basketball games in this part of the state to end with one team fielding only three players, because two have fouled out. State championships have been won in the division of the smallest Alaska schools by teams that finished the title game with four players. They are the real-life ''Hoosiers,'' legends of the Alaskan bush, which is defined as any school in a town that cannot be reached by car, places like Seldovia and Unalakleet.
These are just additional hurdles in a frequently harsh environment, and like most other obstacles confronting Alaskans, they do not seem to overly trouble anyone.
At Lumen Christi Catholic High School south of Anchorage, 18-year-old Jonas Musgrave said he had been shoveling off his driveway since he was 6 so he could practice shooting at the family basketball hoop. He does this unless it is colder than 20 degrees below zero.
''Until then, it's not really that cold,'' Musgrave said. ''The one problem is, the ball won't bounce. The cold takes the air out of the ball. But you can still shoot.''
All over Alaska, there are stories of such perseverance in extreme or unusual conditions. In the southeast, Haines did not have flat space in mountainous terrain, so it used the municipal airport runway for high school track meets. Which was suitable until an aircraft with engine trouble made an emergency landing on the eve of the 110-meter hurdles, wiping out half the school's hurdle supply. Undaunted, Haines started running meets on the state highway in front of the school. The local police halted traffic to allow the events to continue.
In the 1980's, Costello was the wrestling coach at New Stuyahok, where the high school had 18 students.
''One year at New Stuyahok, Pat had a heavyweight wrestler, but none of the other schools in the area did,'' said Dudley Homelvig, the wrestling coach at Nome High School. ''So when New Stuyahok came to town, every coach in the region wrestled that kid instead. We didn't want to leave the kid out in the cold. Well, that's not what I mean. I mean, we improvised.''
They do the same in volleyball, where 60 state schools play a popular coed version called mixed six. In ice hockey, many of the teams play on outdoor rinks. Keeping good ice is not a problem, but getting the whole schedule played sometimes is, because Alaska has a rule that no outdoor game can start if it is colder than minus 15 degrees.
''We're not crazy about that rule,'' said Tim Delaney, athletic director at Kenai Central High, 100 miles down the Cook Inlet from Anchorage.
''Minus 15 isn't really that cold. Shoot, we practice in it all the time.''
In Alaska, Getting There Is Half the Fun (Part 4)
No School Too Small
There is one rule that Alaska state school sports officials would not consider: excluding village schools, no matter how small. The opportunity for everyone, regardless of how distant the island community or how deep into the arctic plains the school may be, is ingrained in the culture.
Everything in these small towns and villages is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Bethel, for example, has a Subway sandwich shop. The cars parked outside, while empty, usually have their engines running so the car remains warm, even after a 30-minute stop inside. It is not as if someone is going to steal a car; where would they go? There are no roads out of Bethel.
During the Bethel basketball tournament from Feb. 5 through Feb. 7, Nikki Dill, who was inside Bethel Regional High awaiting a game, acknowledged that the Alaska of her grandparents, with whom she is still close, is subtly disappearing. ''I listen to the elders and have heard the stories about them cutting the ice from the river so they could melt it and have water to live,'' she said. ''I have heard about the hunting and fishing to subsist. Nowadays, we complain about the smallest things. There is change. I don't, you know, understand too many words in our native language.''
Dill had plenty of opportunities to hear her native language during the games at Bethel, when the local crowd filled the 1,200-seat high school gym. It was a pulsating atmosphere, with a representative audience for an area that is 87 percent native. There were occasional chants in Yupik, a native Eskimo tongue.
''And sometimes I know they are cursing the referee in Yupik,'' Karl Pulliam, the Seldovia boys coach, said. ''But because the ref isn't Yupik, somehow it doesn't matter.''
The cost for the most wide-ranging, multifarious interscholastic sports enterprise in the United States is staggering, especially because in most Alaskan schools, as much as 40 percent of the money has to be raised by the athletes and the coaches.
In the halcyon days of oil production from the Alaskan north slope pipeline, the state paid for much if not all travel. These days, many school districts frequently pay no more than half or two-thirds of athletic costs, and they often have to send teachers with the teams on long trips to help the students keep up their studies.
It is not unusual for Alaskan high school teams to have to come up with anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 just to play their regular season. Qualifying for a state tournament is a mixed blessing; it may mean raising another $10,000.
'I used to tell my kids who wanted to come out for basketball that they had to play defense, play offense and fund-raise,'' said Billy Strickland, Bethel's dean of students and a former basketball coach.
Almost every Alaska high school team, from soccer to softball, runs raffles, bake and rummage sales and silent auctions. Some of the state's 24 football teams have to raise $1,500 a player. It is part of the covenant every player agrees to when he signs up to play.
''You get used to it,'' Strickland said with a shrug, the same mannerism often employed when someone here is asked to explain how people adapt to the arctic temperatures. ''The community understands that without their help, the athletic department dries up and goes away. So they help out.''
In Alaska, Getting There Is Half the Fun (Part 5 of 5)
'This Is Their Time to Shine'
For a host of reasons, the Alaskan high school athlete truly has to want to play sports. And the overwhelming majority play for the most basic reasons.
''I think it's more pure,'' Dill said. ''We are playing a game, not pursuing a career. We are trying to have fun, not trying to get a scholarship.''
Gary Matthews, the executive director of the state athletics and activities association, said, ''There is no money or college scholarships at the end of the rainbow for all but a very few of these kids.''
Every year, some Alaskan athletes get offers to play at major colleges in what Alaskans call ''the lower 48.'' The level of play in Alaska high schools is good, but it is awfully hard to get noticed outside of the big cities, and there really is only one of those, Anchorage.
Carlos Boozer of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the N.B.A. attended high school in Juneau, but he is such a rarity that his game-by-game statistics are a daily feature in The Anchorage Daily News. Center Scott Gomez of the Devils is an Anchorage native. They are exceptions in three decades of Alaskan scholastic competition.
''Our kids don't play A.A.U. basketball and they don't go to Nike camps,'' Strickland said. ''Come on, there are no travel teams, no all-star teams. You play here, in your town. And our kids, deep in their hearts, know that high school games will be the best ball they will play in their lives. This is their time to shine.''
Whether suffering from jet lag or sea legs, the Seldovia boys basketball team waited days to find its moment to shine in Bethel. Seldovia's first two tournament games were lopsided losses. In the final game, however, Seldovia upset Unalakleet, a perennial power among small schools.
''I was proud of the guys for hanging in there,'' Karl Pulliam, the coach, said. ''That was a pretty good win for us.''
The team could not get out of Bethel until the next evening, its fifth day in town. Then, after landing in Anchorage, the team considered beginning its drive. Pulliam said driving after midnight meant fewer moose crossing the roads, but there were concerns about the late hour, and the players and coaches stayed in a hotel instead.
The next morning at 6:30, they began the five-hour drive to the port of Homer. There, after boarding a waiting boat, the team just beat a nasty storm of high winds and driving rain into the Seldovia harbor.
''We had icy roads, and the firehouse flooded,'' Pulliam said, describing the scene in his village of about 300 people. ''I went down and helped bail out a couple of boats.''
Although the winds were gusting at 45 miles an hour, Pulliam was still planning basketball practice that afternoon. Seldovia had another away game that weekend.
''I don't think the storm will be a problem for that trip,'' Pulliam said. ''We're only going 45 miles across the bay to Ninilchik. We'll get there. One way or the other, we'll get there.''
