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heartlandians · 5 years

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One Day in Southern Alberta: Heartland's Amber Marshall

The award-winning actress tells us about her experience on CBC's Heartland, her family ranch, and her favourite food and drink spots in Southern Alberta

When Amber Marshall moved to Alberta in 2006, she was already an established actress with multiple acclaimed acting credits to her name, but what she’s accomplished in the time since has been nothing short of remarkable.

Today, Marshall has her own clothing and jewelry fashion line, is the publisher and principle writer for her magazine, Amber Marshall Life & Style, and is now getting set to serve as the Calgary Stampede’s 2019 Parade Marshal.

Despite having a career chocked-full of success and notoriety, Amber manages to stay down to earth, thanks in large part to the time she spends on her ranch with her husband. Together, the two have raised a variety of animals on their Alberta property, including horses, cattle, rabbits, birds, cats, and dogs--all while managing to find time to volunteer at the local veterinary clinic.

In the midst of filming an incredible 13th season for the long-running hit CBC show Heartland, the multi-talented actress took some time out of her busy schedule to talk about acting, ranching, and her earnest passion for Canadian food.

13 seasons of Heartland and counting

Working on Heartland is incredible. An actor can only dream of a job that has such longevity, and it’s very rare in our industry to come across something like this project. I think it’s a unique experience because for most actors, when they’re hired on a job, it might last one season or two seasons, if you’re lucky, maybe three, but to be on 13 years and counting is unbelievable.

I think that both myself and my character have become more alike over the years because the writers take advantage of things that have happened in my own life and they create them in the story. It’s really unique because I get to wake up every morning and go out and see my horses, and then I go to work and pretend to do all the same things that I do at home.

I think that’s something that not a lot of shows are blessed with. I kind of live the same life as my character and even though it’s a fully scripted drama, I’m able to bring that realism into it and share those experiences.

Favourite Canadian food

I think for me, one thing about living in Alberta is the easy access to great Alberta beef. My husband bought a smoker this year and he prepares some of the most amazing steaks and roasts and we are so lucky that we have access to great Alberta beef. So, I think that every main dish for me usually starts with that. I’m very fortunate to be able to raise a lot of the meat that we consume, so I know exactly where it’s been and how it’s lived. Knowing where your food comes from is something I think is very rewarding.

Also, being on Ontario girl, I love corn on the cob. That’s usually my pairing of choice. So, I would say steak, potatoes, corn on the cob, and then a nice, fresh salad.

Favourite meal growing up

My mom used to make a really good Shepherd's Pie--I always enjoyed that. My dad made a really good carrot ginger soup. I always remember when I wasn’t feeling well, he would make carrot ginger soup, and I still make it to this day because I love it. So, it's between dad's carrot ginger soup and mom’s Shepherd's Pie.

Breakfast and brunch

Most recently, I absolutely have fallen in love with Westwood in Black Diamond. They only serve brunch on Sundays, so I make sure every Sunday, I always get in there for brunch because it’s just excellent. They also make great lunches and on Saturdays, they make homemade donuts, but you have to get in there before 9 a.m. because they’re usually fully sold out by then.

I also love the Chuckwagon in Turner Valley; It's kind of a staple for ranchers in the west.

Dinner

For dinner, you can’t top the Longview Steakhouse. The only problem with the Longview Steakhouse is that you can never get a seat. You can’t just drop in there. You definitely need to have reservations and they usually have to be at least three weeks in advance.

Drinks and Dessert

I don’t drink but I would actually say Westwood again because they make really good specialty coffees. I had a lavender latte there the other day that was excellent. If I’m going to get together with a girlfriend for a coffee or a little chat, I usually end up at Westwood because it’s a nice atmosphere and they have great beverages.

Of all the meals, I love dessert the most. So, any good meal for me is always finished with a really good dessert. I don’t really have a favourite place, I just always stick to ice cream as my go-to. I love any good ice cream shop--I’m in there and I’m double scooping for sure.

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#heartland #amber marshall #interview #food #eat north

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indigo474 · 3 years

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i had an absolutely fabulous 3 day weekend. Rain was a little much and on Saturday i thought maybe i should have picked up a shift at work. i cooked a lot and ate a lot and took a nap. I got to see the town parade and it was cute. I don't understand how anyone could not like a parade. It was really nice to see people outside smiling. i took mushrooms and now im obsessed. the day was wonderful- i went to the park and sat by the river for hours- floating between 2 realities- total dream state- i haven't been that relaxed or that happy in a long time. Minimal visuals- everything was bright and bold- and loud- the river waves sounded like a stampede of a thousand horses. it was really something. my body was so heavy- walking was a chore- i just wanted to lay down. i took more then i thought but still have some left- i was happy with the amount i took- next time i will just take the whole 1/8th- i woke up Monday morning with the thought of not being good enough, something wrong with me. i was reminded throughout the day that there is nothing wrong with me, i can also see how i parent Mad out of fear. im so scared of something happening to her that my first reaction when she wants to do/go somewhere is one of fear- i really need to stop doing that., it causes issues between us. i don't want her to be fearful.Went real deep on how my soul is eternal- thoughts on aging. i saw a heart shaped cloud and found heart shaped rocks and just had a really good day- i didn't want it to end. i somehow managed to find a new path in a park i have been to hundreds of times. my day ended with a huge headache. i was tired yesterday. So now im obsessed with getting more mushrooms- ill probably take the rest of what i have on sunday. they say they help with depression- i wont take meds- i tried that and feeling numb is worse than feeling sad- i have no idea if how im feeling today is hormonal or what. i realized yesterday court date is a date i already have off from work- right after my mountain getaway.

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busterkeatonfanfic · 3 years

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Chapter 27

New York City. Where he’d met Nate. Where he’d set sail for France. Where he’d come back from France, starved for money and girls and good food. Where he’d been the show-stealer on so many stages starting when he was just three and ending fifteen years later. Buster had once loved the city, its nightlife, gourmet grub, bustle, and the dual hum of opportunity and iniquity running like an electric current through it all.

Returning this time around, he was less enthralled. The smell of car exhaust seemed sharper, the crowds on the sidewalks noisier. It wasn’t the same city it was ten years ago, when he and Natalie had been young and in love, stealing passionate moments together before he shipped off to France. Of course, she wasn’t the same either. He was being kept at arm’s length as usual. They saw one another at breakfast and dinner, where Peg and Norma’s presence was always a buffer to any serious sort of conversation. While he filmed, the Talmadge women wandered off to Wanamaker’s, Lord & Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue. At dinner, they would recount what they had purchased and shipped back to California. When the conversation turned to clothes, Buster retreated into daydreams of Nelly, even though he was just as lonely for Natalie as he was for her.

To top it off, he learned almost at once that things were very different now when it came to making pictures. He had a reputation now that preceded him. After they’d spent the first day filming a scene at Yankee Stadium and idly playing a game of ball, he and the crew decided to make the second day count by shooting a couple street scenes. Bright and early next morning, they headed over to Fifth Avenue. The script described him as just a faceless fellow trying to make a name for himself and win the heart of a girl. Everything was going according to plan with the scene until a passing trolley conductor hung his head out the window and shouted, “Buster! Hey, Buster! Buster Keaton!” The heads of all his passengers poked out of their own windows. Quick as a flash, a couple of women appeared at his elbow asking for his autograph. While he was trying to explain to them that he wasn’t carrying a pen and that he was in the middle of shooting and really couldn’t talk, two more women appeared, then some men. A trolley on Twenty-Third Street braked to a stop. Double-decker buses piled up behind it. Before he knew it, he was in the thick of a traffic jam surrounded on all sides by people, tugging on his jacket sleeves and clamoring for his attention. It made him nervous as all hell.

“Do something, Eddie!” he called to the director, who was doing his best to push back the crowd.

When he thought he was a goner and the throng would tear him limb from limb in their eagerness to possess some piece of him, a policeman appeared like an angel from heaven, whacking men and women alike aside with a billy club. In the distance, other policemen were taking command of the traffic. The crowd dispersed and Buster was delivered back into the arms of his crew, but the experience had shaken him. His knees didn’t feel like they would support him. Once Buster was safely inside one of the company cars and had a couple swigs of whiskey to steel his nerves, Sedgwick proposed going off to the Battery and trying their luck there once. Buster couldn’t resist plucking the script from Sedgwick’s big hand and pointing to a line for the scene they had just attempted to film: “No one in New York knows that this character exists.”

One thing that never failed to make him feel better was baseball, so when he spied an empty park near the Battery he dug for the mitt, bat, plates, and ball and whistled the crew over. They got through one inning before it happened again, the masses materializing to shout, leer, and reach for him. Luckily the policemen had followed the company and formed a human chain to keep the spectators back, but Buster couldn’t help but turn his back every couple minutes to take bracing swallows from his flask. So much for being faceless.

Back at their suite at the Ambassador, with a few more swigs of whiskey under his belt, Bruckman at his side, and Sedgwick in bed gulping bromides, he wasted no time in calling Thalberg. His mind was made up.

“It’s all going out the window, Irv. As soon as we start shooting today, I get spotted and there was a god damn stampede. They could have killed me. We’re gonna do some exterior shots of the city and so forth, but damn it all, that’s it. I ain’t risking my neck no more. Now authorize me to throw this cockeyed script in the ash can and shoot from the cuff here on.”

On the other line, Thalberg gasped.

“I never worked before with a script on paper, same as Chaplin and Lloyd, and I don’t have to now. Build the front for the New York City Hall out on Lot Two. We only need the lower floor. I’ll shoot backgrounds here and start for home in a few days.”

There was a long silence.

Finally, Thalberg said, “Okay, Buster. You win. God knows what’ll happen, but go ahead.”

Of course, Weingarten was not going to bend to that without a fight. When Buster, full of the whiskey’s liquid confidence, told him the score, the producer gaped, then turned red. “You can’t throw away the script. I won’t authorize it. There’s too much time and men invested in it. It’s a sure winner. It’s perfect the way it is, I tell you. I won’t have it. When Irv hears about this, he won’t have it either.”

A smile crept onto Buster’s face. “I just talked to Irv. He agrees.”

Weingarten stomped out of the room and Buster retreated to his room to mull over the day’s events. He was relieved at the thought of leaving the city. Part of it was being rid of the crowds and that bloated script, sure, but it also meant that Natalie’s shopping trips would be throttled, not that she couldn’t spend more than half his weekly salary just fine back home too. More than that, though, Nelly was never far from his mind and he found that he was rather ecstatic at the thought of returning to her. While Buster was gone, there was plenty to keep Nelly occupied and soften the ache of his absence. She had practice three times a week for Twelfth Night, to start. The Los Angeles Players Company had common language with her, Shakespeare and a zeal for the stage, and she felt much less of an imposter than she did in Hollywood where the rules were different and the competition stiff. While United Artists had plenty for her by way of scenery and prop work, she hadn’t seen a picture role since the three days in mid-March that she donned a headscarf, shawl, and old-fashioned floor-length dress to mill about on a soundstage made up like a snowy Moscow street for some of Tempest’s ending scenes. She’d only glimpsed John Barrymore at a distance then, which was a relief.

Her mother now called every third day now to tell her how Ruthie and the baby, who had been named Violet, were faring. The baby had colic and they were dosing her with Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhea Remedy, hoping it would make a difference. In other news, as May approached the Garden Club was meeting weekly at the Foster home and Nelly’s father, as always, was absent in Chicago striking his real estate deals. Halitosis Harold had written Nelly a couple times and she dropped each letter in the wastebasket without reading it.

In spite of her busy schedule, she was lonely for Buster. Though he was witty, told interesting stories, and could astound her at a moment’s notice with a physical stunt, she found what she missed most about him was his kindness and warmth, whether it was sending her to work with a decadent bag lunch packed by Caruthers the afternoon of the day before or serenading her in the evening with a new song he’d learned on the ukulele, slightly off-key but nonetheless charming for it. She almost threw away the letter she got from him, assuming was more correspondence from Harold Jenkins. She saw the New York stamp on the corner of the envelope just in time.

Sunday April 15th, 1928

Dear Nelly,

I’m not much for writing but I will try to tell you about how things are going here. In a word, they could be better. We thought it would be no trouble to make the picture in New York but it turns out the people recognize me everywhere I go. Our second day of shooting & traffic stopped in all directions just so they could get a look at me. I was afraid the crowd would tear me apart but I was saved in the nick of time by a cop. Now I don’t want to be untrue to you but I tell you I could have kissed him. I really feel he saved my life. Anyway, it happens everywhere we go & we have had to get clever so now we go out early in the morning or when all the good folks of New York City are at church or are sleeping off the Saturday night parties (like today). But that won’t work forever for we need a full day’s shooting if we’re to finish the picture before 1937.

We all went to see “Wings” a couple nights ago at the Capital. It’s a fine picture & all was well until the scene where the military cops bust in Clara Bow when she’s changing. You can see her “bubs” & I tell you Nate got so mad about that after we walked out of the theater you’d think I was the one who told Clara to take her top off. I tried telling her I was more interested in the dog fights (they colored the explosions) & the sound affects but she wouldn’t hear it. Anyway I think you would have liked it & it was a terribly exciting picture. I have been thinking about how to work an arial fight into Snap Shots but have not been able to persuade Eddie Segwick Et Al.

I hope you are keeping up on your bridge practice. We all play here at night (the fellows and me) & their company is fine but I like yours better. There is much more to tell you (I convinced Thalberg to throw out that damn phone book of a script) but the fellows are calling me now for a game. I will post this in the morning & you should look for a surprise from me soon.

Sincerely yours,

Buster

P.S. I don’t think I need to remind you but will anyway. I would love a return letter but it is not safe to write to me with present company, Etc.

Though it wasn’t signed with Xs and Os, the letter still put Nelly on cloud nine. She went right out that night to see Wings and though she was a bit shocked to see Clara Bow half in the buff, she agreed with Buster that it was a thrilling film. It made her feel close to him watching it. Rereading Buster’s letter as April dragged on, July felt as if it was as far away as 1937.

Notes: I don’t know why this chapter gave me such trouble, but you can probably see that it did. I also wrote a scene that I had to take out because I realized it occurred later in the filming of The Cameraman, which shortened the chapter and necessitated writing more. I have also been very busy and there’s other writing (always less fun than writing involving Buster) to be done in the next two weeks. I’m not sure when you’ll get Chapter 28, but I do feel like the next chapters will progress faster because I’ve thought a lot about them and partially written some of them. The image is a publicity still of Buster and Edward Sedgwick. Some of the dialogue is from Buster’s autobiography and the Blesh bio.

#Buster Keaton #fan fiction #RPF #Actor RPF #silent film #Golden Age Hollywood #The Cameraman

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ridleykemp · 5 years

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Austin, TX

As soon as I fall asleep, it will be Monday morning when I open my eyes. I rarely look forward to Monday mornings. Aside from the obvious reasons, part of it is that fact that there are people I work with who I only hear from on Sundays. That’s weird, right? I know they’re busy and all, but it’s the sort of the thing that turns Sunday into extended prologue to Monday and that’s no go.

I wrote a really fun post on Saturday, but it wasn’t really the sort of thing that goes here. That got me to thinking about doing a spring cleaning of my online presence and reorganizing what goes where. I don’t think Squarespace will be the platform for this Other Thing I’m thinking about, but I’m not sure what will be. I don’t enjoy using Blogger, I think I’m over WordPress, but there are some interesting new-ish options out there. Wix looks solid. Weebly seems functional, although it’s a little odd that it’s owned by Square (not Squarespace), isn’t it? I love the idea of Penzu, but it’s a poor fit for this other thing. Anyone have any experience with these, or any other suggestions?

There’s a freight train going by about 100 yards from our open window. On weekdays, commuter trains run on the line, but the transit authority only leases this stretch of rail. At nights and on weekends, huge freight trains rumble by, shaking our bed even though we’re four floors from ground level. I love those trains. At night, I can’t really see them but they sound (and feel) like I always imagined a stampede would.

There’s a song I recorded last year, a drone-y thing I made to showcase the ridiculous modifications that Switched On performed on my MG-1. I loved the sounds, but I grew to hate the drum track. It was an ugly snare and kick pattern that I messed with by changing it from 12/8 to 13/8 to 14/8 not because it made any sense, but because I wanted it to be disorienting. Honestly, it just sounded bad.

So…back to the laboratory! I ripped out the drums and shitcanned a high, tinkly piano thing that couldn’t have been more derivative. I replaced the drums with a tom and samples a 1960s drum machine to try to give it more of a bongo feel. The result is a much, much better track:

Ok, I am sitting here just getting angry that I can’t renamed my Chromebook. Someone stole my Google password earlier today. It did them no good as I have gazillion-factor login turned on, but I noticed something that had never occurred to me before: Google kept track of the computer names of the devices that had logged in using my password (yay), which meant it was easy to recognized a Windows computer that wasn’t one of mine. But…I also noticed that Chromebooks just show up as the make and model of the device. That’s fine if there’s only this one in the neighborhood, but we have dozens at the office. You’d think that being able to uniquely identify the machine would be a good thing, wouldn’t you? Grr…

And, if I’m talking about stuff like “not being able to rename a laptop makes me angry”, then it’s probably time for bed. G’night all, and thinks for sticking around while I try to work through a few things.

-RK

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lotsofdogs · 5 years

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First Weekend of 2019

The first weekend of 2019 is in the books and it was a cozy, family-oriented one. We stuck close to home all weekend which was our goal for the past few days since we were dying to get our house a little more organized and fully unpack after holiday travels. We checked a lot of random little household-related to-dos off our list and it felt great!

Oh and since I know many of you are likely just emerging from the holiday fog and stopping by the blog this morning for the first time in a while, here are a couple of posts from the past two weeks you may have missed:

Christmas 2018 (A recap of our family’s Christmas in Florida)

Top Recipes of 2018

Top Blog Posts of 2018 (Includes personal posts, topical posts and fitness-related content)

A Peek into Our Living Room Refresh + Our Fireplace DIY Project

Saturday

Saturday morning our crew was up bright and early! Ryder was up right around 6 a.m. and Chase woke up about an hour later so we had no trouble getting dressed and out the door in time to arrive at Discovery Place in the city when the doors opened at 9 a.m.

As usual, we spent most of our time in the children’s area where Chase ran around and had a blast and Ryder was able to play in the bucket seats at the water table for the first time.

Ryder was also lovin’ his reflection in the floor mirror and it was just too cute!

Apparently he gets as big of a kick out of his crazy hair as we all do these days! Ryder’s newborn mohawk has morphed into some kind of fluffy baby comb-over while the hair on the sides of his head are now wispy and thin so it’s quite the ‘do!

We made it back home to our place around lunchtime and lunch looked like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with carrots and apple slices for everyone… Yep, me and Ryan, too. We don’t shy away from a good pb&j and, honestly, there wasn’t much else to eat because our fridge and pantry were b-a-r-e.

After lunch, Ryan took care of putting Chase down for a nap while I nursed Ryder and set him on a blanket with some toys to play with as I did a little meal planning for the week ahead.

Chase spent a solid hour in his crib and while none of the 60 minutes he spent in his room involved sleeping, a least he seemed to enjoy his “quiet time” with his stuffed animals and books. When he was officially over his crib time, I brought him into Ryder’s room with me and Ryder to do some puzzles while I boxed up some of the clothes Ryder’s already outgrown to put up in the attic.

Once Chase realized Ryan was outside taking down Christmas lights, he thought that sounded like way more fun and peaced out of Ryder’s room to help Dad.

Eventually Ryder and I joined Ryan, Sadie and Chase outside and we all agreed the weather was too perfect not to enjoy a family walk around the neighborhood.

Don’t let Ryan’s shorts and short sleeves fool you — it wasn’t that warm, but apparently you can take the boy out of Florida but you can’t take the Florida out of the boy.

Once we were back home, we put the boys directly from their seats in the stroller into their car seats and headed off to the grocery store for food for the week ahead. I grabbed my grocery list and we left with lots of good stuff, including everything we needed to make burgers on the grill for dinner.

We promised Chase a family movie night earlier in the day, so our Saturday night looked like Funfetti cake on the couch (an impulse buy at the grocery store) along with The Lion King. We fast forwarded through a few parts (let’s be honest nobody wants to see the stampede scene) and also replayed a few parts that Chase loved like the Timon and Pumbaa hula scene. “Are ya achin’… yum, yum, yum… for some bacon… yum, yum, yum.” I seriously love reliving some of my childhood favorites with my kids. Such an underrated perk of mom life!

Sunday

Sunday morning began like most Sundays do around here with breakfast (baked steel cut oatmeal) followed by the early morning service at our church. I had some errands I wanted to run after church so I dropped Ryan off at home with Chase so they could play outside and took a fast-asleep Ryder along with me to do some holiday returns and exchanges.

Ryder and I arrived home to find Chase, Ryan and Sadie running around and Chase testing out his Strider bike.

He’s still trying to get the hang of his bike, but he’s definitely determined to learn how to balance on it!

Eventually we made our way inside and I started what I thought was going to be dinner prep but it ended up being our lunch because it was too good to resist!

I made the Instant Pot Chinese Chicken and Broccoli from Lexi’s Clean Kitchen and it was fantastic!!! I even doubled the amount of broccoli for more veggies (the broccoli cooks down and the recipe is rather saucy) and we loved it over brown rice. Add this one to your must-make list ASAP. You won’t regret it!

The rest of our Sunday included laundry, cleaning up the house and another family walk to round out the evening.

As for today, Chase is back at preschool and Ryder has his 6-month pediatric visit so I’m off to get things moving this morning. I hope you all have a fantastic week!

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maximus31 · 7 years

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I have been two weeks in Medellín and I love the vibe and the energy of the city. Although in a city that has so much life like Medellín, where it’s just all go go and fiestas all the time, it’s hard to find a place that is quiet where you can sit outside in the sun, away from the smog that lingers in the central areas.

But alas I found it, as did half the families in Medellín, at the Jardín Botanical. A free park, full of hundreds of differnt species of trees, a butterfly house and some rather large four legged reptiles. Sunday is totally a family picnic day. It reminded me of Victoria Park on a rare hot summers day, minus the east London hipsters. As I sit in the afternoon sun, writing last weeks post, and getting strange looks from the locals all searching for the last spot of shade to sit under, I thought I could get use to this.

Getting around Medellín is super easy and cheap, as it is the only Colombian city to have a Metro, and thankfully its is dead easy to use. Either Metro A that travels North and South, or Metro B that travels out West. There are some cable cars and trams which I am yet to try. The Metro was built about 20 years ago, at a time when the city was just ending its besiege from the Medellín Cartel.

I have to say, it has to be one of the cleanest Metros I have ever used. It’s like stepping into a different world from the one outside. Super clean, yet no bins in sight anywhere, not even a scratch on the window or spot of graffiti to be seen. One of my local guides tells me, that the Metro is highly respected by the locals, it is seen as the beacon of hope that pulled the city out of the past. Also, being Piscen (being born in the district of Antioquia) they are just simply proud to be the only city in Colombia to have one.

But oh my, if you think rush hour in London is bad, it’s nothing compared to the evening rush hours here!! You would think it was the last shuttle to civilisation the way they stampede onto the train. Look out for pick pockets during this time, it’s not someone touching you up, believe me.

The locals don’t just respect the Metro its self, but those that use it. When it comes to the older generation waiting to get on, a seat is made vacant and an automatic parting of the people is made so the little old lady/man can get to their newly vacated seat. A single journey costs 2,400cop (60p) to most places.

Spanish school is proving difficult, why didn’t I do this earlier in my life I ask myself everyday, when I look at my tutor Julio and say ¨no entiendo¨. It’s so hard, but I am slowly picking it up. Verbos irregulares can go do one , there are so many and when do know if the word it going be masculino or femenina. As I often say to Julio “español es loco “, but im glad I have made the effort and put the time into learning.

Julio always asks me at the end of my class, ¨Que haces ahora¨ – what are you doing now, and my response is always ¨Voy para el almuerzo¨ – I go for lunch, which after 3 hours of intense study I definitely need. Lunch is the best time of the day to eat because you get value for money. Anywhere in the city you can find ´menu del dia´, which is a 3 course lunch with fresh juice for 10,000cop (£2.50), bloody bargain, I hope all of South America has it!

Did I say Medellín likes to party.. well it really does, and the hot spot where everyone heads to is Poblado around Parque lleras or to any of the surrounding streets to find the liveliest of bars and clubs. Chiquita bar is definitely my favourite, its kitsch decor is amazing and its super gay friendly. Followed by a good dance in Victoria Regina, for a Cuban salsa night, a super cool restaurant come club, where you can put your salsa moves to the test.

This time I plucked up the courage to ask this hot Colombian girl to dance with me. Now I’m not saying that I’m for turning, but this girl certainly could have given it a go. Apparently I need to slow my steps and listen to the music more. After a few more Hendricks and tonics I had it down.

Off to the club with the prettiest faces in town, Salón Amador to drink and dance some more until the bewitching hour or in my case sunrise. There is so much going on here its hard to know what to do, but thanks catalyst weekly there is no chance of me missing out on any of it, thanks to a weekly email and update on FB. Having suffered a pretty epic hangover, my Saturday was a right off as too were my plans for a day trip. Bed and Netflix is all I wanted, oh and a Burger King.. so a day later than planned I made the two hour journey to Guatapé.

Two hours doesn’t seem long, but when your sat in a seat designed for Colombians who average 5ft5inch, and I’m 6ft1, two hours is a long time to have your knees hitting your chin every time you hit a bump. The bus leaves the North bus station next to Caribe metro at least 4 times an hour and costs 18000cop (£4.50).

However, it was well worth it. The views at the top of Piedra del Peñol (the rock) after climbing the 750 steps was amazing. The Stunning view of the Embalse del Peñol, a large lake beautifully sculptured by green peninsulares and home to some wealthy Colombians swimming in their pools.

Pablo Escobar once owned a large estate here called ¨La Manuela¨ ranch, where you can have a tour and even shoot each other with paint. From the rock you can catch a tuk tuk to the town of Guatapé, make sure you haggle the price, as 11000cop seemed a bit steep considering it was only 3km away.

Once in Guatapé you can take a boat out on the lake and visit some of the peninsulares or zip line across the water. Or do as I did, and sit and have their local dish of grilled trout while watching the action on the lake. There is much too see in the town, it is full of the most beautifully painted buildings, little shops and cafes to meander around, but not for too long as the last bus leaves at 18:30.

Tomorrow is the start of my last week in Medellín and at Spanish school, although I have loved it, I’m looking forward to a non city stop. San Gil is my next stop, for some country air via what will be my first overnight eight hour bus journey. San Gil is in the middle of the country, north of Bogotá in the Santander region, so come back next week and find out how I get on.

While trying to post this today, Medellín had the biggest storm that I have experienced, thunder so loud it made the house and everything in it shake. Resulting in no electricity for 2 hours, and still no wifi. So I sit in the local supermarket in order to post. All part of the experience I guess.

Medellín.. Mucho Fiestas I have been two weeks in Medellín and I love the vibe and the energy of the city.

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US PRO Rugby season come to Denver v Ohio designation decider

Americas first pro rugby organization conference intention its season on Sunday. For one of the men who built it happen “its time” for reflection, remain and getting ready to go again

On Sunday afternoon in Obetz, just outside Columbus, the Ohio Aviators will play the Denver Stampede. The wins with a bonus part, in Ohios case will be the first PRO Rugby champions.

The five-team league has no championship game. Best over 12 rounds prevails. It just happens that go the final weekend of the tournaments first season, these two teams have not sorted out who that is.

Couldnt have schemed it any better, replied Steve Lewis, the freshman organisations director of rugby, over breakfast on the Upper West Side. Were it plannable, of course. Its an interesting symmetry: our first game was Ohio at Denver[ in the snow in April] and that was a close-fisted finish, the only recreation weve had that is entered into additional day, which was one of our inventions. So this is ideal: final tournament of the year, all the marbles. It mounts it up nicely.

Lewis is an ebullient Scot whose ebullience has not been entirely chafed off by nine months spraying to and fro in sole service of Americas first pro conference. Like conference owned Doug Schoninger, he works out of New York City. The five units are in the middle and west Ohio, Denver, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco.

Lewis has reason to smile, gingerly as much as wearily. Crowds ought to have acceptable if small-time; press coverage positive if slightly bemused; politics, in a rugby scenery that manages to be scattered and congested at once, manageable if predictably intense. Denver, for example, moved residence mid-season, from the Glendale Raptors rugby-built Infinity Park to Ciber Field, a college soccer stadium. Words were exchanged. The dealership lived and so did the conference.

Season one of Schoningers epic, then, is almost in the can. A inspect will follow in September, followed by planning for season two. Swelling is on the cards: Canada, perhaps. The east coast, perhaps.

You wishes to pair beings up from a antagonism view and a hurtle perspective, Lewis said. So Chicago for Columbus, Boston for New York. That in my view “wouldve been” ideology, but we may not find the venues.

Much of Lewiss work has been visible at the existing venues, on their freshly marked-out turf. Much has gone to plan.

Jamie Mackintosh takes on the San Diego defence. Picture: Joseph K Ghammashi/ PRO Rugby

Two of the tournaments marquee knacks internationals employed to be good citizens as well as good participates will encounter in the decider: the South africans back row Pedrie Wannenburg for Denver, the New Zealand prop Jamie Mackintosh for Ohio. Over scrambled eggs and strong coffee, Lewis described how Mackintosh, from Dunedin, a hotbed of All Black rugby, came to live and play in Obetz, a village outside Columbus most well known for its Zucchinifest which has nonetheless hugged rugby, building a small stadium from scratch.

Everyone wanted to go to San Francisco and San Diego, he responded. So how do I get anyone to go to Obetz and Sacramento and Denver?[ Italy back] Mirco Bergamasco wanted to go to Sacramento, because his wife had lived there before.[ Australia rugby league great] Timana Tahu had lineage bonds in Denver, so that was OK. But how do I get anyone to go to Columbus?

[ Ex-Zebre flanker] Filippo Ferrarini was the first one. I contemplated: Youre Italian, Columbus, off you go. He didnt get it, so I had to explain it to him subsequentlies. And then Mackintosh rose on track and he was really easy.

The New Zealander is a one-cap All Black loosehead, a big humanity known to home devotees as Whopper. He approached rugbys American frontier with generally Kiwi affability.

He added, I dont mind, Steve, Im really easy, wherever you want to placed me.

I supposed, What kind of region do you like?

He announced, Im a country boy, Id instead be somewhere with a little bit of chase, a bit of fishing.

So I had to call up Paul Holmes at[ Ohio-based US national improvement academy] Tiger Rugby and allege, Is there any chase and fishing near Obetz? He responded, Oh yeah, consignments. So I told Mackintosh I imagined Ohio might be the claim fit for him and he went there, espoused it and went well.

Steve Lewis speaks to Matt McCarthy of rugbywrapup.com in March.

San Franciscos star man, Mils Muliaina, has 99 more All Black caps than Mackintosh. Unfortunately, the largest full-back arrived late and has not boasted often for a unit which tottered to 3-8 ahead of its final had met with Sacramento( likewise 3-8, moving Saturdays game a playoff to shun last home ). But on the whole the experimentation has worked. The big names have visas and may be back for more.

Discussing recruitment for 2017, Lewis said: I dont think we need the marquee actors as much anymore, though. If were expanding my biggest pertain is structural constraint, ie: are there enough good players to staff those stretch units? Clearly if we do[ expand] then the number of foreign actors on each team will need to go up, likely to five to seven, and I think that well skew younger.

Asked where such foreign players might come from, he enunciated: Everyones inhaling around, but my next happy hunting ground is likely to be South Africa. Biggest talent pool, constriction of geniu, exacerbated by the falling rand and the coaching arrangement. Theres going to be lots of good young South African players, shall we say competitively priced. So that would be a sweet recognise, I feel.[ New Zealand] Mitre 10 Cup people, the docket duty, Japan the docket works.

At home, the docket still needs to work for everyone. PRO Rugby flowed from mid-April to the end of July. One top fraternity challenger, the east-coast American Rugby Premiership, is set to move to September-November. The west-coast Pacific Rugby Premiership, home to Glendale and other powerful societies, may or may not follow. Politics.

PRO Rugby will continue to grapple with whether to play in the June Test window. This year, while the Eagles lost to Italy and drum Russia, it did. Politics-plus.

Nor, Lewis said, does the PRO Rugby docket work with the European season. But, thought-provokingly in an age of Premiership tournaments in New Jersey and Pro1 2 conceptions of a team on the US east coast, he included: You do have academy musicians there who have bugger everyone to do between January and May. I think thats policy options and weve had those the talks with Quins, London Irish. So I anticipate the league will probably skew younger.

The young league, Lewis said, depicts encouraging development of raise. Teams have improved in fitness and knowledge; tries have been scored at a standard of performance somewhat below Currie Cup, slightly below Mitre 10 Cup, a reasonable grade to have aimed at, a reasonable degree to have got to.

Also, along with cherry-red safe tackle wrinkles on shirts and no move, PRO Rugby empowered reviewers to evade too many scrum re-sets by awarding free-kicks. Harmonizing to fascinating analysis of the tournaments stats by Jake Frechette for Rugby Today, the policy seems to be working.

In the 2015 Six Nations, Frechette writes, 51% of scrums were completed successfully. At the World cup finals, 68%[ of scrums] were completed successfully. For PRO,[ where average number of scrums per competition is high-pitched at practically 20] the rate thus far is 77 %. Thats good bulletin for everyone who wants to see the pellet played from a scrum instead of listening a referees whistle. Thats all of us, right?

Pedrie Wannenberg in action for Denver, against San Diego. Picture: Connie Hatfield

Players have glowed. Dom Waldouck, formerly a centre for Wasps, Northampton, London Irish and England Saxons, did well at Ohio and has earned a ordeal at Newcastle. Langilangi Haupeakui, a hard-hitting Sacramento No8, came to the league from a tough upbringing and fraction two rugby with the East Palo Alto Razorbacks. Five a few months later, Lewis said, he got fit, eventually ate well and all of a sudden, boom, launched into the Eagles, got a detonator and is going for a contest with Harlequins next week when they come over.

Other achievers include Spike Davis, a defensive attack who attended camp with the Washington Redskins and Green Bay Packers before pitching up in Ohio as a 6ft 4in, 250 lbs wing. There is also Hanco Germishuys, a US junior flanker no longer a male among boys or a son among people after a season with Denver, and the San Diego openside Cecil Garber, a learn from the Seattle Saracens with a attack count off the charts.

Weve fulfilled that part of the mission, Lewis said. Three, four, five participates are now on[ USA coach] John Mitchells radar who maybe wouldnt ought to have otherwise.

Thanks to Lewis and Schoninger, a pro competition that would not otherwise have been on nature rugby radar is now there. A blip, perhaps, but thriving brighter. After Sundays finale, there will be a breather for all concerned. Then the hard work begins again.

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Big Break 2017!!

Dear Friends and Family,

Big Break 2k17 was a success!

Last Friday, the University of Minnesota filled up a charter bus with 44 students to embark on a 26 hour bus ride down to Panama City Beach.

About midway through our trip we drove through Tennessee:

As you can see, it was snowing in Nashville. I had no idea that it snowed in Tennessee!

Saturday 3.11 - 10:30 PM

After the 26 hour drive we finally arrive at the Edgewater Resort in PCB at 10:30PM on Saturday. We’re all super excited to finally get off the bus and explore. Right when we get off the bus, we head to registration. Even though we were all exhausted from the drive, everybody is excited to have finally arrived:

There are a couple things left to do before the night is over - we need to check in, receive our roommate assignments and make our campus run to Waffle House.

Inside Waffle House: https://goo.gl/photos/4GBJi5zZVQUd7nQR7

Of course, before we tuck in for the night, we need to make our to the beach first!

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Sunday 3.12

The official conference doesn’t actually start until 7PM, so we have essentially have a free day. I woke up this morning at 6:30AM to watch the sunrise and spend time in the word on the beach.

After that, we go meet up in the parking lot to go shopping for groceries for the week.

Then as a campus, because we didn’t have church that morning, we got together as a campus for “campus time” and had the chance to worship together.

One really cool thing about our Sunday morning worship was that people voluntarily stepped up to help lead and organize the worship music. (And yes, we used a plastic trashcan because we didn’t have a cajon). After that, we the rest of the day off until the conference started, so naturally I did some exploring!

One really cool thing about Big Break this year was that they had a room dedicated for prayer and quiet time with the Lord. In past years, often times there would be designated prayer spots, but never a room devoted to it. The prayer room multiple sections to it - there was an area to sit before the cross, prayer tents for individual prayer, a section for people to come in and play worship music, and a confession wall.

At 7:00PM, we rushed the ballroom. At most big Cru conferences, students from different campuses will crowd the entrance to the ballroom waiting for the doors to open. Once the doors open, a stampede of students will rush into the ballroom to claim seats for for their campusmates by waving their school flag!

Monday 3.13:

The weather is absolutely awful today. It’s low 40′s (which you’d expect for me to be used to because I’ve just been in Minnesota for the last couple months of winter) and raining. It’s not just raining, it’s POURING. Today is our first day of outreach, so going out into the city would mean that we would get drenched. Not to mention the fact that nobody would be outside because of the weather. Consequently, our original plans for outreach were canceled and replaced with plans to do “digital outreach”. For digital outreach, we stay inside and try to reach out to people we know through means of social media, text message, etc. This is a very hard thing for some people because instead of having to have conversations with people on the beach that they’d never see again, they would have to have conversations with people they’d likely see again (and in the near future as well). A large concern in the room is that bridges might be burned today because of a conversation gone wrong. Fortunately, that didn’t happen. The main means of starting the conversation today is sending out a video called “Falling Plates” and asking people their opinions on it. This hopefully will lead into a more gospel centered conversation and possibly the opportunity to share the gospel through further conversation or future appointment. Personally, I used posted something to my Instagram story and shared the link that way. Unfortunately, because of a lack of time allotted to do Digital Outreach, this time was not particularly fruitful. I was not able to talk to anybody except for my roommate :( (my roommate is a Christian and was just messing with me).

Here’s the Falling Plates video:

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Tuesday 3.14 Pi Day

Today the weather is better than yesterday. The clouds are rolling back and revealing the sun, but it’s still a little cold. We’re excited to finally go out and share today. The location that we’ll be sharing at today is about a 10 minutes drive from the Edgewater Resort, where we’re staying at, so we all get on the bus and receive our sharing partners. I get paired up with Chaz, one of the people in Cru that i’ve never really had a deep relationship with. We’ve exchanged words, but we’ve never had any conversations deeper than the level of “Hello” or “Goodbye”. He’s super nervous. Chaz is a guy that I know for a fact understands the gospel. He’s shared his faith before and has done overseas travel with Cru. Nonetheless, he is nervous. Before we go out onto the beach, I share my words of encouragement with him. I remind him that we can’t take rejection from people personally and also that we aren’t responsible for whether somebody receives Christ that day- that’s all in the hands of the Lord.

As we walk onto the beach, we can tell that nobody is really out on the beach. The classic demographic of “drunk college students on vacation” isn’t present. A couple years ago Panama City Beach banned drinking on the beach, so the beaches aren’t as packed as they used to be. There are people nonetheless on the beach, so we go. We walk for a couple minutes just to gather our wits and confidence. I look up and I see a group of college students and I say, “Let’s talk to them”.

Carissa, Madison, Haley, and Quincy are all students at Mizzou (University of Missouri, pronounced Mi-zoo). They say they are all believers, but we go through the “Spring Break Questionnaire” with them. The Spring Break Questionnaire is a list of several questions that help shepherd a conversation into a more spiritual conversation by asking questions such as “What do you believe happens after death?” or “How much would you desire to know God on a scale of 1-10?” or “How much do you think God desires to know you?”. It turns out, Carissa went down to Destin, Florida for a 9 week discipleship program. One thing we learned from this conversation is that most people in the South grow up in the Church and believe it. For many college students, however, it is a matter of whether they practice it or not. By now, it seems that these people have a pretty good understanding of the gospel, so we ask them whether we can pray for anything for them and we go our separate ways.

In our two hour period to share with people on the beach, Chaz and I have difficulty trying to engage in another conversation with people. By now, it seems that there are more Cru students on the beach than vacationers and Cru students from other sections of the beach are spilling into our section because they’ve run out of people to talk to in their sections! While continuing to walk down the beach, we search for people who are not engaged in conversation, but there is no one. I take advantage of this opportunity to ask Chaz questions to get to know him better.

As our time is running out, we being to walk back to the bus. We run into two middle schoolers standing around a Spikeball net and we begin to talk to them. They just bought Spikeball, so they were trying to learn how to play. We volunteer to teach them and play with them for a little bit. After a while, we realize we have 5 minutes to get back to the bus, so we part ways.

Tonight is the night for our creative date, where the guys in our villa (which is the housing that we are staying in at the resort) make a meal for a group girls in another villa. In a couple hours of scrambling and cleaning, we’ve finished our dishes. In an hour and thirty minutes, we’ve cooked pasta, bacon wrapped chicken, and garlic bread.

Wednesday 3.15

Today, because of scheduling conflict and being rained out on Monday, we have a free day. It’s a bummer that we don’t get to go out and share, but we’re also glad to finally be able to enjoy the nice weather. After the morning session, we take a campus pictures and then head to the beach to have our free day.

At 4PM, we have organized class dinners, so the entire junior class at the University of Minnesota is to meet on the beachfront to walk to Pineapple Willy’s, a restaurant a mile along the beach.

As we’re walking back back along the beach, we run into one of the groups that someone in our class shared with on the beach on Tuesday. After further conversation, we discovered that they were very devout lovers of Jesus! As we walk back to the resort, we witness the gorgeous sunset, so naturally everybody pulled out their cameras.

It takes almost thirty minutes to walk back, but we make it just in time for our respective Men’s and Women’s times (both are on the cold beach at night, and let me tell you, the beach is COLD at night). For Men’s time, we played a team game. In competitive spirit, feelings were hurt, and some of us were physically injured (one of my villa-mates ran his knee into one of the wooden beach chairs). However, afterwards, we debriefed as one of our fellow mates led us in a conversation about encouragement.

Thursday 3.16

It’s our last day to go sharing, but we’re all pretty excited to go out because of the lack of opportunities to share before today. Today we’ll be driving to Miramar Beach, Florida to share the gospel. The beach is an hour’s drive away and the biggest difference between this beach and Panama City Beach is that alcohol isn’t banned on this beach. We will be expecting to speak with mostly college aged students today, whether sober or drunk. As we pull up to the beach, we can tell that the scene here is already very different from that of Panama City Beach. Every square foot of the beach is littered with college students, beer cans, and red solo cups -- people are definitely here to party. As we get off the bus, I receive my sharing partner for the day. Jenna, is a freshman who went out to share her faith, but ended up speaking very little. Her goal for today was to initiate a conversation, share the KGP (Knowing God Personally booklet), and share the gospel. We’re all nervous to initiate conversations today; everybody seems to be here only for one reason: to party. As we walk onto the beach, we sit down to pray and encourage each other. I share a piece of scripture that I read earlier that morning.

Paul, in a letter to the church in Corinth:

“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel- not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ to be emptied of its power.”

- 1 Corinthians 1:17

Jenna wants to be the one to engage the conversation, so I allow her to pick who we should talk to. We walk for a bit on the beach to get rid of the jitters, but then we walk up to a family on the beach, a college aged woman and her mother. Jenna is extremely tense and rigid, and she asks them whether they’d like to do a survey. They politely decline, and we walk further down the beach. She is slightly discouraged at being turned down, but we talk about it a little more. She asks me what she should be saying when she initiates, and I tell her that she shouldn’t be thinking of ways to appease or glitter up her presentation. She instead should be asking things like, “How can I get to know this person better?” or “How can I love on this person?”. Jenna doesn’t really know who to engage a conversation with, so I point in a random direction and I say, “Let’s talk to them”. The group is a group of 7 ish college students, so we walk over and Jenna initiates the conversation. This time, however, Jenna is much more personal and relational. Most of the college students leave to do other things, but one guy sitting on a beach chair is willing to have a conversation with us, so we take the opportunity.

Mike is a junior at The Ohio State University studying Aerospace Engineering. Immediately, I see that there’s an opportunity to relate to him as a fellow junior AND engineering student. Our conversation kicks off, but quickly Mike reveals that he’s drunk. Unhindered, we continue the conversation. He claims that he’s a Christian but repeatedly says that he can’t reconcile the fact that he can be saved by Jesus because of the fact that so many innocent people have died in wars and such. We continue to converse with him, and eventually Jenna asks him whether he’d like to share the Knowing God Personally booklet with him, and he cheerfully accepts.

Funny enough, throughout the conversation, Mike’s attention would drift in and out of the conversation and he would ask us whether we were Mormon’s trying to convert him. Also, Mike forgot who we were in the middle of the conversation. Towards the end of the conversation, Mike didn’t accept Christ into his life, but we left him with the KGP and a bracelet with “everystudent.com” embedded on it. We have no way of knowing how engaged Mike really was in that conversation, but we hoped that even if he forgot that he talked with us that we would find the KGP or the bracelet. It’s all the Lord’s hands now!

It was incredible to see how Jenna’s mindset changed between the first initiation to the second. She was able to learn so much about sharing her faith by trusting that the Lord was in control of that conversation. One of the coolest things of the trip was seeing her grow in this way.

We only get to share for an hour because of how far the beach is from our resort, but that’s fine. We’re really hoping that God works in Mike’s life. We head back to the resort for our second creative date with the girls from the other villa. This time, they’re cooking the men a meal!

They cooked us chicken cheese spaghetti, salad, and sliced apples!

Friday 3.17

Friday is a free day, so I spend most of the catching up with people I don’t get to see very often. At night, our entire campus heads out to dinner together.

I woke up this morning at 6:30 to watch the sunrise. I want to say it was worth it, but I honestly was so tired after that, so I went back to bed after I got to look at the sunrise.

After campus dinner, we all ran back to the beach to take more campus photos:

Congratulations if you made it this far! People frequently ask me what my favorite part of my spring break was, and it’s pretty hard to say. The entire week was a week full of really good moments with God and a lot of really cool people. I came into this trip wanting to be very intentional with building relationships with people, encouraging underclassmen, and sharing my faith with people on the beach, but I think God changed my plans for this week. By taking away certain opportunities, he invited me into a lot of other opportunities that taught me so much about my relationship with the Lord and also about His character. He taught me about the power of prayer and leaning on Him to do things that I think are impossible. He taught me that He is so much stronger and mightier than anything I could ever think of, and that He invites me into using his strength as my crutch.

Thank you so much for being my support team for this week! The main reason why this letter is so long is that I wanted to “take you with me” on this trip. For obvious reasons, that’s not very feasible, so I hope these pictures and these words may help you experience what I experienced God doing down in PCB. If you would like to continue this conversation with me, you know where to reach me! Thanks again so much for being on this journey with me.

In Christ,

Everett

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14 Humans Newspaper Marketing Hints From America's Busiest Ad Copywriter!

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14 Humans Newspaper Marketing Hints From America's Busiest Ad Copywriter!

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Tip #14:

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US PRO Rugby season come to Denver v Ohio designation decider

Americas first pro rugby organization conference intention its season on Sunday. For one of the men who built it happen “its time” for reflection, remain and getting ready to go again

On Sunday afternoon in Obetz, just outside Columbus, the Ohio Aviators will play the Denver Stampede. The wins with a bonus part, in Ohios case will be the first PRO Rugby champions.

Much of Lewiss work has been visible at the existing venues, on their freshly marked-out turf. Much has gone to plan.

Jamie Mackintosh takes on the San Diego defence. Picture: Joseph K Ghammashi/ PRO Rugby

The New Zealander is a one-cap All Black loosehead, a big humanity known to home devotees as Whopper. He approached rugbys American frontier with generally Kiwi affability.

He added, I dont mind, Steve, Im really easy, wherever you want to placed me.

I supposed, What kind of region do you like?

He announced, Im a country boy, Id instead be somewhere with a little bit of chase, a bit of fishing.

Steve Lewis speaks to Matt McCarthy of rugbywrapup.com in March.

PRO Rugby will continue to grapple with whether to play in the June Test window. This year, while the Eagles lost to Italy and drum Russia, it did. Politics-plus.

Pedrie Wannenberg in action for Denver, against San Diego. Picture: Connie Hatfield

Weve fulfilled that part of the mission, Lewis said. Three, four, five participates are now on[ USA coach] John Mitchells radar who maybe wouldnt ought to have otherwise.

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apsbicepstraining · 7 years

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US PRO Rugby season come to Denver v Ohio designation decider

Americas first pro rugby organization conference intention its season on Sunday. For one of the men who built it happen “its time” for reflection, remain and getting ready to go again

On Sunday afternoon in Obetz, just outside Columbus, the Ohio Aviators will play the Denver Stampede. The wins with a bonus part, in Ohios case will be the first PRO Rugby champions.

Much of Lewiss work has been visible at the existing venues, on their freshly marked-out turf. Much has gone to plan.

Jamie Mackintosh takes on the San Diego defence. Picture: Joseph K Ghammashi/ PRO Rugby

The New Zealander is a one-cap All Black loosehead, a big humanity known to home devotees as Whopper. He approached rugbys American frontier with generally Kiwi affability.

He added, I dont mind, Steve, Im really easy, wherever you want to placed me.

I supposed, What kind of region do you like?

He announced, Im a country boy, Id instead be somewhere with a little bit of chase, a bit of fishing.

Steve Lewis speaks to Matt McCarthy of rugbywrapup.com in March.

PRO Rugby will continue to grapple with whether to play in the June Test window. This year, while the Eagles lost to Italy and drum Russia, it did. Politics-plus.

Pedrie Wannenberg in action for Denver, against San Diego. Picture: Connie Hatfield

Weve fulfilled that part of the mission, Lewis said. Three, four, five participates are now on[ USA coach] John Mitchells radar who maybe wouldnt ought to have otherwise.

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