Freshman Jason McGeeney passes the disk upline past his defender from Northern Illinois University on Feb. 6 inside the T. Fleming Fieldhouse.
John Williams/Photo Editor
Knox College’s Ultimate Frisbee Team hosted the annual Natalie Veneziano Memorial Winter Whiteout Tournament Feb. 6-7 in the T. Fleming Fieldhouse. Ultimate teams from schools across the state were in attendance, as well as club teams hailing from Chicago and Peoria. In total there were 10 teams and over 200 players, fans and friends in attendance.
Knox, led by junior co-captains Peter Walker, David Kurian and Liz Thomas, put up a good showing, riding their defense to wins against Western Illinois University and Bradley University. The team was close in every game it played, falling to the Knox Alumni in a tight game and then nearly beating Illinois State, who went 4-0 on the first day of the tournament. Knox’s team finished 2-3 overall and was ousted in the quarterfinals by eventual runner-up Eastern Illinois University.
“The team put up a great fight,” Walker said. “We wanted to come out and play our game, and I think we did that for the most part. We’re a young team, so we’re only going to get better from here on out.”
Northern Illinois University took home the title for the second year in a row, surviving an early surge by Eastern Illinois University in the championship game.
“We managed to win it again, but the competition gets tougher every year,” NIU captain Nick Nenni said. “This is one of the most fun tournaments around, and coming out here is always a blast.”
The Knox team also debuted its new moniker, “Baberham.” Paying tribute to Knox’s history with Abraham Lincoln, it was a welcome change from the four-year tenure of the team’s previous name, “Xonk.”
“We thought we’d change it up a bit. This is a young team and a new generation of Knox Ultimate. Plus, the name’s pretty sweet,” junior Eric Ballard said.
Baberham looks to take the momentum gained at the tournament into spring term, when both the men’s and women’s teams will vie for the Central Plains Sectional Championship and a spot in the Great Lakes Regional Tournament. The resurgent women’s team, led by Thomas, is gearing up for its first appearance at the tournament in two years.
“I’m excited about the women’s team we’re building,” junior Grace Fourman said. “We’re hoping to get a strong team together and have some fun at Sectionals.”
The Natalie Veneziano Memorial Winter Whiteout Tournament has been held at Knox since 1995 and is named in honor of a former Knox Ultimate player who lost a lifelong battle with leukemia in 2004.
Not much on the blog, but loyal followers if the worn bumper sticker with GPAA, which stands for Gold Prospectors Association of America, was any indication.
The Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association was founded by George, Wilma, Perry and Tom Massie in 1976 to provide places where men, women and their families could meet, prospect and mine for gold. Beginning with one historic gold property, Italian Bar in California’s Mother Lode, the LDMA now has an ever growing number of private properties and claims in several western states and also in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Lost Dutchman’s private camps and claims boast some of the finest gold reserves and prospecting in this country.
One of the most important considerations when new properties are being evaluated for the LDMA is their gold-producing potential. Exhaustive tests are made in the area to ensure that Lost Dutchman’s members will have continued access to proven gold reserves. Members in past years have reported finding anything from a few flakes of gold to some very large nuggets on our properties.
LDMA members can prospect and/or camp on deeded, patented properties such as Stanton, Arizona, a gold rush town north of Phoenix that is being restored by volunteer members. Or, there’s our Scott River property, deep in the lush forests of northern California, where fog often drifts through the trees. The Klamath River itself provides gold-rich gravels in an unbelievably beautiful setting. An LDMA membership is something that you and your family will enjoy for many years to come.
LDMA members also have access to a multitude of valuable mining claims in some of the West’s richest mining areas. All of the gold that members find is theirs to keep!
The Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association represents more than just prospecting. Join us on holiday outings at historic gold mining camps. Enjoy prospecting and mining seminars, demonstrations, field trips, camaraderie and more!
Check out the amazing pictures at The Big Picture from The Boston Globe. Collected there are a handful of recent photographs of people searching for, mining, rediscovering, celebrating, buying and selling gold. (37 photos total)
Sought after since the beginning of recorded history, gold remains a highly valued metal, reaching record highs recently, climbing over 135% in value in the past year alone. The recent rise in the price of gold comes just as annual worldwide mine production has decreased – down by nearly 8% since 2001. In human history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined – more than half of that extracted in just the past 50 years.
I was reading this articlePeru’s new gold rush damages environment on the Seattle Times site a reprint from the Washington Post, also carried on the BBC News. Look at the picture of the plate used for panning and you can see exactly where a TheGoldCone would be useful, much more useful than traditional methods.
The article reviews that the price of gold has increased 50 percent in the past two years and tripled in the past five, as global investors look to hedge against a falling dollar. Gold hit historic highs this month. That surge has spurred a new Amazon gold rush, with illegal miners pouring into the region and setting up camp along riverbanks, highways and footpaths reaching deep into the rain forest of the Peruvian Amazon.
TheFunTheory.com – This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.
This is a concept we at TheGoldCone love.
We want to encourage our fans to enter the contest using a Gold Cone. Think about solving the world’s problems just a little at a time. Remember TheGoldCone is a green product!
I forgot to post this to the blog, and to mail it on to the Marketing Guy for TheGoldCone. He received actual real mail from Google. Hopefully he can figure this out and put it to good use as we get close to the holiday shopping season.
I was able to get in touch with the original Alaskan prospector who designed the GoldCone as a preliminary to possibly filming him coning as well as providing video history of his experiences. While we don’t have the videos yet, what we do have is the original mold to produce GoldCones. This mold along with the actual original artwork for the packages which used to be all over Alaska are now stored in the current GoldCone HQ. Come on back and see the instructional videos as well as other information a little farther along into Fall.
We have contacted a number of our customers trying to get those who are using The GoldCone to send us pix, instructions, tips, etc.. to compile into a HOWTO for using the Gold Cone. This led one of our customers to take his lovely daughters out to teach them howto use a GoldCone to find their fortune in an unpublishable location. The girls are seen here stopping for coffee with Dad at The Bean Tree Coffeehouse prior to going coning.
Coning Team at the Bean Tree Coffeehouse
Dad has clearly not explained how much fun this is about to be or they would be jumping up and down. Still, he must have explained something as the girls quickly came up with ways to amuse themselves by having the gold cone stick to their elbow as seen here.
The Elbow Trick
The story is that after that he explained to the girls that they were going to learn how simple it is to use the gold cone and do a video explaining it to others. Well that sparked some giggles and they decided to do a HOWTO video on the Elbow Trick. You can watch the video.
Of course, now we are all ready to see the finished videos of the Girls doing Gold Coning, but they haven’t arrived as of yet. Perhaps as the Fall settles in we will receive them.
We at the Gold Cone have been swamped with almost double digit requests for HOWTO videos demonstrating the Gold Cone in use. We have also realized that we don’t have a video with the inventor and original gold miner Bill Klein. So our crack marketing staff has begun working on the videos by ordering video equipment and working with existing customers to obtain videos and images of The GoldCone in use.
Of course the cracked marketing staff immediately began shooting images despite the noticeable lack of water in the area immediately outside our offices. Instead, borrowing a page from the local book Rubber to the Road, http://www.rubbertotheroad.com/, specifically the ride some of us completed called the Find the Gnome Ride (on which we saw ZERO gnomes), they took the following pix. Enjoy the GoldCone Gnome Team in action.
