The Secret Weapon

From CBS-The Feed, this video shows the ingenuity that people have as they look for fun and excitement on a weekend. Click on as they say below this video, "Do not try this at home."



Do not try this at home

Blind Cross Country Runner

From prettytough.com comes the story of Ohio cross country runner Sami Stoner who has yet to cross the finish line in first place, but she has won over fans across the nation while trying. Click Here to read more about this incredible runner.

Paradise

From CNN iReport

Automatic Weapon

A three pointer make by nineteen different players from the same team in one game. Incredible but true, as Grinnell college set that record as they defeated Faith Baptist last year 137-104. Here is the video of all nineteen players knocking down a three. I found it on the Grinnell Men's Basketball web page. It is also available on YouTube. Click under the picture to watch.

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Run and Gun Basketball Clinic

Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School

(Reinbeck, Iowa)

November 11-12 2011

Clinic Schedule

(Speakers subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances)

All sessions will be held in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck competition gym with players.

Friday, November 11, 2011

5:00-6:00 Registration and Pizza

6:00-6:15 Overview of the clinic

6:15-7:30 (Bruce Bailey) G-R Girls’ Practice

(G-R has Grinnell philosophy running L-MU Break with dribble drive as offense)

7:30-7:45 Break

7:45-8:45 (Bob Belf) ONU On and Off Press, Scramble

(Bob will talk about full and half-Court Trapping)

9:00-10:00 (TBA) System Specials

(Jump Ball, Inbounds, 5-4-1 Break down, Free-throw break)

10:30-11:30 Round Table at Johnny Ray’s

Located right next to the AmericInn Motel in Grundy Center, Iowa (8 miles from Reinbeck)

Saturday, November 12, 2011

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-9:00 David Arseneault (Grinnell Overview)

9:00-10:00 Dave Arseneault (Grinnell Shooting Drills)

10:30-1:00 Scrimmages between system and traditional teams


Clinic Pricing:

(Checks to System Basketball)

1329 River Road blvd

Independence, Iowa 50644

$25 -Pre-register Price (NO PO’s or Credit Cards)

$30-At The Door

AmericInn Motel Contact Info

Property Details:

Toll Free Reservations: 800-634-3444

Front Desk: 319-824-5272

http://www.americinn.com/hotels/IA/GrundyCenter



What's Difficult

I spent most of the weekend with Tom Waits and Guy Clark at the Chili Parlor. The question was asked of Waits "What is difficult for you?" He was in rare form with his reply;

"Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.”

The man is a treasure.

Uncle Bill

My great great uncle Bill Benson fought at the The Battle of Killdeer. Click on that and read more. Below is his grave stone, located at State Line Cemetery between Cresco, Iowa and Harmony, Minnesota. Uncle Bill road in the Second Minnesota Cavalry.

Marriage

“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.”

Marie Corelli

John Wooden

“Be prepared and be honest.“

John Wooden

Galileo Galilei

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

Galileo Galilei

The House I Was Raised In

On Saturday a number of cousins and I made a trip to northern Iowa to the start of our ancestry in Iowa. While I was there I shot this shot of the house I was raised in. I will share more about that ancestry in a post to come later.

My Friends

"The Bohemian is not a follower of the virtues espoused by bourgeois society: routine, temperance, convention, mediocrity, materialism, and respectability. Bohemians despise authority, the status quo and, because they are often broke, capitalism and consumerism."

Laren Stover from the Bohemian Manifesto

Recover

"There are five things that you cannot recover in life:




(1) The Stone..........after it's thrown

(2) The Word............after it's said,

(3) The Occasion......after it's missed, and

(4) The Time..............after it's gone.

(5) A person.............after they die "

Anonymous

Fifty-Three Marathons

There is an 83 year old women in the twin cities who ran her 53rd marathon last sunday. Fifty-Three marathons, incredible. Governor Branstead has asked our state to start walking more for our health beginning friday at noon. If this lady can run 26 miles at the age of 83, I can walk an extra mile on friday. Join me before school at 7:30 as I walk a mile on the track. Also, click on Grandma runner and learn more about this incredible woman.

Nonconformist

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist".

Emerson: