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At three years old, the day care children really don't understand what happened to their teacher, Miss Courtney.
They just know her leg was hurt but it's getting better and they helped her by doing what they could to help set up a center raffle and auction.
The auction — which is open to the public through Monday and features coveted items like a shovel autographed by the "grave digger" former Green Bay Packer Gilbert Brown — is boosting the spirits of Miss Courtney, 22, who was one of the survivors of the Azana Salon & Spa mass shooting.
Courtney Felecia Buss, a preschool teacher at All About Learning in Oconomowoc, also worked as a receptionist at Azana.
She called the day care center on Monday, Oct. 22 to let them know she was at Froedtert Hospital, recovering from surgery. She had been shot in the leg by Radcliffe Haughton but managed to escape, rolling down a hill and being scooped up by law enforcement officers who whisked her into a squad and over to waiting ambulances.
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"We immediately started thinking, 'We have to do something to support her,'" said Neal George, director of the Oconomowoc center. "We wanted to reach out and let her know how much she means to us and do something nice for her."
A note to parents blossomed into a flurry of donations for items to auction and raffle, with parents' businesses kicking in free goods and services and many just giving money. All six All About Learning day care centers — locations in Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Hartland, West Allis and two in Menomonee Falls — are all taking auction bids at their centers. The public can bid by calling any of the six centers, visiting the center's Facebook page or stopping by in person. Bidding runs through Monday, with winners announced Tuesday.
[See the list below for auction items, including hotel stays. There also are numerous gift baskets with free lessons, massages, beauty products, other services and much more.]
The response has been overwhelming to both center staff and to Courtney, who George said was not ready to be interviewed. She has visited the center since being released from the hospital but has not said yet when or if she will be coming back.
"She is very touched by it, by all the people who have reached out," he said. "She's in good spirits. She's a really positive, upbeat person."
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HP refirbished Laptop
Autographed Gilbert Brown Shovel
Leroy Butler Signed Picture and signed book
Home Humidifier System 1
Packer Tickets Dec 23 game
Brewer Tickets and Parking
Staybridge Hotel
Country Springs Hotel and Waterpark
Olympia Hotel and Spa and breakfast
Blue Harbor Resort and Spa
Heritage Inn Hotel and Bismarks Bar and Grill certificate
10 Bird Hunt at Milford Hills
Hyatt in Madison
Madison Concourse Hotel
Hilton- Oconomowoc
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Other coaches like Morosov, Carroll and Nicks were able to adapt to COP and milk the system for their skaters' success. Mishin was only able to do so for a certain degree (the elements were COP friendly but not the program). Instead of complaining, perhaps he really should try to work on his skaters' skating (not just jumping). Tuk for example needs to be faster. With his skaters' jumping prowess, if they could also earn high PCS, they could be very competitive and wouldn't need to skate clean and still have to wait for better skaters to make mistakes. Morosov's skaters also had horrible programs but received high PCS because of their speed (Ando, Amodio). MIshin should really work along that path.
I can't think of any other questionable result where there was pretty much 100% agreement and no debate about whether the skater did/did not deserve his/her placement. Even a few cases which to my mind were perfectly clear had some debate. For example, the Italians World title in 2001 - some argued that Babs's superior skills justified it. Or Yunah Kim's SP scores in 2010, which some defended on the basis of PCS.
It's interesting, given that Mao is a skater who is highly respected and quite loved by fans worldwide. Even Mao herself appeared to know that she wuz gifted. It's not the same as Oksana versus Nancy -Oksana being technically low as Mao was. But the argument was that Nancy was wooden and lacking in artistry, which isn't something anyone would say about Akiko.
It's not like Leonova or Amodio scoring high PCS for nothing. Asada actually earned her PCS. It's just unfortunate because the math worked out that way and she was able to barely squeeze in for the win with a poor free skate.
Sending Yagudin over Plushenko is the most natural idea, isn't it?
I found another Mishin interview about the Grand Prix Final. In this interview he told the weapon of the finalists.
Mishin's favorite is obviously Akiko Suzukihttp://fsrussia.ru/news/293_aleksej-...niya-borotsya/
- Can you name the strengths of each of five finalists in the Grand Prix?
- Yulya Lipnitskaya. Her trump card is the youth and talent. Mao Asada - her strengths are maturity and authority. Akiko Suzuki now represents a balance between the technical and aesthetic side of figure skating. In my view, she is a symbol of balance, so to speak, between the first and second marks. Kiira Korpi - feminine charm and beauty of the figure. Ashley Wagner is the only skater who shows female skating among all these figure skaters,*but the success of her participation at the Grand Prix Final depends on how the technical judges will treat loyally her questionable "dokrutili" jumps.
However in general, I would say that the opponents should not be underestimated. All these ladies are strong. After all, six strongest skaters in the world participate in the Grand Prix Final.
Sending Plushenko over Yagudin was never the case as far as 1998 Olympics was in concern, he was too young at the time. And he did not have many experiences in senior competitions.
I think here people mixed two event: 1998 Olympics and 1998 Worlds
Yagudin only was placed 5th (or 4th?) in Olympics 1998. Mishin was not happy because Yagudin's lost was sort of related to his own careless about his health (something about going out without drying his hair or ate something wrong, nevertheless he got sick before the LP competition).
Yagudin himself felt that Mishin was angry at him and in favor of bringing Plushenko instead him going into World 1998 (he mentioned in his autobiography), which is what other poster mentioned above: Mishin actually insisted Yagudin should go, but Mishin brought Plushenko with him in case Kulik would withdrawn.
The rest you all know, Yagudin won his first World title in 1998, so did Plushenko for his first World medal.
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And I have to say "sorry", I made a mistake. I wrote "Rus fed wanted to send Plushenko, even if Yagudin was 2nd and Plushenko was 3rd at 98 Nats." this is not correct. Sorry it's not '98 Nationals, but '98 Europeans
I think Mishin is a man who has been easily misunderstoodhttp://www.sportsdaily.ru/articles/z...y-proekt-48570
- Yagudin was strongly jealous of Plushenko?
- I treated them very balanced. Lyosha (Yagudin) does not know or may not believe, but the head of our Federation Valentin Piseev wanted to send Plushenko to the Olympics in Japan, while Yagudin won the European Championship, and Zhenya (Plushenko) was the second. I defended the principle of sports and said immediately "Yagudin will go to the Olympics."
By the way I don't know why people started attacking Plushy here. Because of the title "Plushenko's coach"?
So what do people think about others who told Akiko was robbed? Why people don't attack their family or friend? Because others don't have a thread that is named "xxx's family Slams Skating Judges"?
I saw not a few people are talking about the judging at NHK. But nobody is flamed as it happens here.
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- Yagudin was strongly jealous of Plushenko?
- I treated them very balanced. Lyosha (Yagudin) does not know or may not believe, but the head of our Federation Valentin Piseev wanted to send Plushenko to the Olympics in Japan, while Yagudin won the European Championship, and Zhenya (Plushenko) was the second. I defended the principle of sports and said immediately "Yagudin will go to the Olympics."
This is what I read too....
Yadda yadda yadda, if he's talking about Mao winning at NHK, I agree with him, and thank him for speaking up. But we've seen this before, and we'll see it again. It's nothing new.
Just as long as we don't see it at the Olympcs (which we won't), I'm okay with it. That's the one event that has stayed pretty much legit over the years.
And I remember he mentioned couple of times before the 2002 Olympics, he made it like he helped Yagudin got the 1998 Olympic spot. But whoever knows their competing records and with a normal brain would believe that story? Not only he won the bronze medal in 97 WC, was one of the boys contributed a little something to that two spots, but also was strong all the way through the following season. The Russian Fed had two gold medal contenders and they wanted to send Plushenko?
Yagudin used to say that some dramas were created by Alexei Mishin, I sort of believe him now.
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The biggest marriage day each year at the Los Angeles County Clerk's office is Valentine's Day, and like satellite offices throughout Southern California, the Norwalk government building is brimming with brides and grooms annually.
But 12/12/12 is looking like a strong second place for most marriages performed this year at the gray cubicle of love.
A surge of scheduled weddings on 12/12/12 has the Registrar-Clerk opening regional offices Wednesday. Marriages are usually only performed on Fridays, the Registrar-Clerk's office said Monday.
Valentine's Day will remain a bigger day of nuptials simply because walk-ins are allowed, whereas appointments are required Wednesday for 12/12/12.
It's not yet known how many people ultimately are going to book to be married on 12/12/12—the last such calendar line-up this century. The clerk only knows the maximum due to space: 191.
"Couples are encouraged to apply for a marriage license online at www.lavote.net and schedule their ceremony at any of the six ... branch locations after obtaining the license," Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan announced Monday.
Already, 133 couples have made appointments to be married by the Registrar-Clerk—with 53 alone at the main office in Norwalk, said spokeswoman Elizabeth Knox. (Hours and addresses of county clerk regional offices, along with phone numbers, can be found on the attached .pdf).
By close of day Monday, Knox said, here were the wedding bookings:
- East L.A. office: 16 (maxiumum space for 24
- Beverly Hills office: 19 (room for only one more marriage)
- Florence-Firestone office: 6 (room for 19)
- Lancaster office: 0 (room for 13)
- Norwalk main office: 43 (with room for 64)
- Van Nuys office: 19 (with room for 23)
- West L.A. (near LAX): 20 (room for 28)
There's room for only 58 more couples' "I dos" Wednesday on what's thought by some to be a lucky or auspicious day.
A national retailer told Oregon Live he expects more than 7,500 couples in the U.S. to tie the knot Wednesday—a 1,400 percent spike from 12/12/11. In most parts of the country, December is a slow wedding month due to wetter, grayer weather and competition from family holidays and vacations.
The import of 12/12/12 ranges from numerology to number geeks to superstition. Many people seem to believe 12/12/12 is lucky, while others associate it to a coming apocalypse triggered by the end of the Mayan calendar.
Some countries are experiencing a surge in baby deliveries scheduled for 12/12/12, the last time this century that the dates line up identically. (Although, the South China Morning Post quoted a feng shui consultant as saying babies born on the date will be emotional and tense but high achievers).
For those who foresee good fortune in the calendar lining up numerically, but wanted the economy of marriage by the government clerk, some prior years were a strikeout, said Knox.
"What happened on 11/11/11," said Knox, "was that it was a holiday and we were closed."
And 10/10/10? It fell on a Sunday—so the office was also closed. On 9/9/09, there wasn't as much demand for such weddings—only 36 marriages were recorded by the county clerk, Knox said.
On Valentine's Day, an array of couples ranging in age from teens to octegenarians can be found at the clerk's office, in a variety of outfits, from traditional Western wedding wear to what might be called extreme casual.
Most of them bring family and friends to the ceremony, and choose the ceremony for financial reasons, often planning to spend their savings on the after-party reception.
A few wedding parties can be found down the street at the IHOP, clinking coffee mugs and raising syrup bottles to toast the wedded couple. (It is the International House of Pancakes, and they do offer "Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity.")
No word if IHOP will be the location of any receptions Wednesday.
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Usually, this is the week when all local wrestling teams completely turn their focus to the area traditional tournaments slated for early next month.
For most, nothing has changed.
Southeast Whitfield is the anomaly.
The Raiders beat Northwest Whitfield, Cass and LaFayette in Saturday's wrestlebacks to reach the top two of the Area 7-4A duals. Now, Southeast is preparing for Thursday's 16-team Class 4A state duals way down in Macon.
This is the first time the Raiders' program has reached the state finals and they will be the only local team there. Joining Southeast is region-champions Gilmer, who beat the Raiders early Saturday before their run through the wrestlebacks.
The double-elimination state finals begin with the round of 16, starting at 4:30 p.m. GHSA.net did not have brackets listed, but Southeast will compete in either the wrestlebacks or quarterfinals at 8 a.m. Friday.
Here's a recap of what else is going on in the local sports scene, which includes a lot of local basketball squads continuing region and sub-region play this week:
• The Christian Heritage girls are 2-0 in Sub-region 6A-A and travel to Mt. Zion-Carroll Tuesday at 6 p.m. The boys team is 0-2 in sub-region and looking to turn things around.
• North Murray's boys are undefeated in Region 5-3A and host Ringgold Tuesday and travel to Gordon Central Thursday. The Mountaineers will begin right after the girls' game, which starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Friday.
• And Southeast Whitfield's boys and girls teams are each 1-0 in Sub-region 7B-4A. The Raiders squads host LaFayette Tuesday and travel Friday to Heritage-Catoosa, with the girls starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Friday.
• Murray County hosts Calhoun Tuesday with the girls starting at 6 p.m. and travels to Chattooga Friday with the Lady Indians starting at 7 p.m. Coahulla Creek travels to Adairsville Tuesday with the girls starting at 5:30 p.m. and hosts Ringgold Friday with the Lady Colts beginning at 7 p.m.
• Saturday will be filled with two non-region matchups between local teams. Christian Heritage travels to Coahulla Creek, while Dalton hosts Murray County, which swept the Catamounts squads earlier this season in Chatsworth. The girls games start at 3 p.m.
• Last, but not least, the rivalry is renewed. On Friday at 7 p.m., Dalton's girls head to Tunnel Hill for a matchup with Northwest, and the boys will start right after. All four teams are 1-0 in sub-region play after winning their openers last Friday and could each be 2-0 with wins on Tuesday. So it could be an important couple of local matchups for teams looking to win the sub-region and secure a top seed for next month's region tournament.
Devin Golden is a sports writer for The Daily Citizen, and he is still in mourning after Nebraska's loss to Georgia on New Year's Day. Contact him at devingolden@daltoncitizen. com.


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HOUSTON – The fall-like weather brought on by this weekend's cold front will continue through the start of the new work week, according to KHOU 11 News Meteorologist Mario Gomez.
Overnight lows will remain in the mid-50s for the first half of the week with highs peaking in the mid-80s.
The skies will stay mostly clear for Monday and Tuesday.
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Nebraska Public Power District says it's dispatching 16 line technicians to help restore electricity in some areas left powerless by superstorm Sandy.
The utility said the workers left Wednesday morning for West Virginia. They'll be helping workers for Appalachian Power Co., which is a division of American Electric Power. More than 150,000 Appalachian Power customers were reported to be without power because of blizzard conditions and heavy snow spawned by from the superstorm.
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Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D., glaciers began expanding more broadly, according to radiocarbon dating of plants killed by the glacier growth. The period known today as the Little Ice Age was just starting to poke through.
Summers began cooling in Northern Europe after 1300 A.D., negatively impacting growing seasons, as reflected in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317. Expanding glaciers and ice cover spreading across Greenland began driving the Norse settlers out. The last, surviving, written records of the Norse Greenland settlements, which had persisted for centuries, concern a marriage in 1408 A.D. in the church of Hvalsey, today the best preserved Norse ruin.
Colder winters began regularly freezing rivers and canals in Great Britain, the Netherlands and Northern France, with both the Thames in London and the Seine in Paris frozen solid annually. The first River Thames Frost Fair was held in 1607. In 1607-1608, early European settlers in North America reported ice persisting on Lake Superior until June. In January, 1658, a Swedish army marched across the ice to invade Copenhagen. By the end of the 17th century, famines had spread from northern France, across Norway and Sweden, to Finland and Estonia.
Reflecting its global scope, evidence of the Little Ice Age appears in the Southern Hemisphere as well. Sediment cores from Lake Malawi in southern Africa show colder weather from 1570 to 1820. A 3,000 year temperature reconstruction based on varying rates of stalagmite growth in a cave in South Africa also indicates a colder period from 1500 to 1800. A 1997 study comparing West Antarctic ice cores with the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) indicate a global Little Ice Age affecting the two ice sheets in tandem.
The Siple Dome, an ice dome roughly 100 km long and 100 km wide, about 100 km east of the Siple Coast of Antartica, also reflects effects of the Little Ice Age synchronously with the GISP2 record, as do sediment cores from the Bransfield Basin of the Antarctic Peninsula. Oxygen/isotope analysis from the Pacific Islands indicates a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature decline between 1270 and 1475 A.D.
The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s. The Mueller glacier on the east side of New Zealand's Southern Alps expanded to its maximum extent at roughly the same time.
Ice cores from the Andeas mountains in South America show a colder period from 1600 to 1800. Tree ring data from Patagonia in South America show cold periods from 1270 to 1380 and from 1520 to 1670. Spanish explorers noted the expansion of the San Rafael Glacier in Chile from 1675 to 1766, which continued into the 19th century.
The height of the Little Ice Age is generally dated as 1650 to 1850 A.D. The American Revolutionary Army under General George Washington shivered at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, and New York harbor was frozen in the winter of 1780. Historic snowstorms struck Lisbon, Portugal in 1665, 1744 and 1886. Glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana advanced until the late 18th or early 19th centuries. The last River Thames Frost Fair was held in 1814. The Little Ice Age phased out during the middle to late 19th century.
The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age. The global temperature trends since then have followed not rising CO2 trends but the ocean temperature cycles of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). Every 20 to 30 years, the much colder water near the bottom of the oceans cycles up to the top, where it has a slight cooling effect on global temperatures until the sun warms that water. That warmed water then contributes to slightly warmer global temperatures, until the next churning cycle.
Those ocean temperature cycles, and the continued recovery from the Little Ice Age, are primarily why global temperatures rose from 1915 until 1945, when CO2 emissions were much lower than in recent years. The change to a cold ocean temperature cycle, primarily the PDO, is the main reason that global temperatures declined from 1945 until the late 1970s, despite the soaring CO2 emissions during that time from the postwar industrialization spreading across the globe.
The 20 to 30 year ocean temperature cycles turned back to warm from the late 1970s until the late 1990s, which is the primary reason that global temperatures warmed during this period. But that warming ended 15 years ago, and global temperatures have stopped increasing since then, if not actually cooled, even though global CO2 emissions have soared over this period. As The Economist magazine reported in March, "The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750." Yet, still no warming during that time. That is because the CO2 greenhouse effect is weak and marginal compared to natural causes of global temperature changes.
At first the current stall out of global warming was due to the ocean cycles turning back to cold. But something much more ominous has developed over this period. Sunspots run in 11 year short term cycles, with longer cyclical trends of 90 and even 200 years. The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years. But in the current cycle, sunspot activity has collapsed. NASA's Science News report for January 8, 2013 states,
"Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 [the current short term 11 year cycle] is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion."
That is even more significant because NASA's climate science has been controlled for years by global warming hysteric James Hansen, who recently announced his retirement.
But this same concern is increasingly being echoed worldwide. The Voice of Russia reported on April 22, 2013,
"Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless."
That report quoted Yuri Nagovitsyn of the Pulkovo Observatory saying, "Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. The 11-year cycle doesn't bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years." In other words, another Little Ice Age.
you say – "Since the early 1960′s from this graph it appears that the ocean has warmed over 200 x 10*31 joules. You may be able to see the huge difference between the heating of the oceans and the hurricane heat dissipation."
There are 2 amazing claims in your short paragraph. First, you claim the oceans have absorbed 2 x 10^33 Joules since the early 1960′s.
Well, the oceans weigh about 1.37 x 10^24 grams. At a specific heat of 4 J/gm-K, apparently you agree with Paul Ehrlich's prediction that humanity disappeared in a cloud of blue steam about 20 years ago, since your estimate gives an ocean temperature rise of (using E=mc(dT)):
dT= (2×10^33)/(4*1.37×10^24) = 364,963,503 Kelvin.
Even the most ignorant CACC denier would have noticed this temperature rise!
Your second claim depends on your first claim, which is patently absurd. So, lets consider your second claim regarding global PDI or ACE of hurricanes. Although the ocean heat content is claimed to be the highest ever measured with ARGO, the ACE or PDI hurricane indices are near record low levels since reliable estimates can be made (i.e. the 1950′s).
So, even if you had estimated the ocean heat content increase correctly, the observational data on global ACE or PDI shows that natural fluctuations swamp out any anthropogenic signal.
You are correct in your calculations about the delta T. It is ridiculous.
I read the graph incorrectly. The number was quite small and I read the 2 to be a 3.
It should be 200 x 10*21 instead of 200 x 10*31. Good catch
Your second claim depends on your first claim, which is patently absurd. So, lets consider your second claim regarding global PDI or ACE of hurricanes. Although the ocean heat content is claimed to be the highest ever measured with ARGO, the ACE or PDI hurricane indices are near record low levels since reliable estimates can be made (i.e. the 1950′s).
So, even if you had estimated the ocean heat content increase correctly, the observational data on global ACE or PDI shows that natural fluctuations swamp out any anthropogenic signal.
Power dissipation index is expected to increase and has already increased.
you say "Power dissipation index is expected to increase and has already increased."
Umm, looks like a cycle. Global PDI numbers (10^6 knots^3);
early 1970′s- 1200 – 1400
early 1980′s: 1200
late 1980′s: 1000 – 1200
late 1990′s: 1600 – 1900
late 2000′s: 900 – 1200
If the late 2000′s have unprecedented heat, CO2 and temperature extremes, and the rates of increase are the highest in a milllllion years, the global PDI didn't get the memo.
Mr. Ferrara, thank you for your contribution. With all due respect, your "cutting edge stuff" is not entirely accurate. I suggest you view Dr. Waleed Abdalati's presentation on polar ice. Yes, Antarctica ice seems to be growing slightly, although insignificant to large amount of melt on the Yakobshavn Ice Berg in Greenland.
The hurricanes are strongly tied to sea surface temperature along with PDI. We have had La Nina's lately. This will change with further warming.
"There you go again…" (said like the Gipper).
Your "latest data"seems to be come from University of Illinois Urbana Arctic Climate Research Dept — via the filter of Heartland and James Taylor — and it proves no such thing. One look at UICC website and I read this: " Sea ice extent averaged over the Northern Hemisphere has decreased correspondingly over the past 50 years (shown right). The largest change has been observed in the summer months with decreases exceeding 30%. Decreases observed in winter are more modest. We maintain this updated archive of sea ice concentrations and extents at the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences."
NASA says unequivocally that " since 2002, ice extent at the summer minimum has not returned to anything approaching the long-term average (1979-2000). Though winter ice extent has fluctuated, satellite and in situ observations have shown that there is less multiyear ice and more annual ice."
I find it so curious that this former Reaganite expects us to take the word of a Russian scientist (as reported by the German media) over our own American scientists working at NASA and the top scientfic institutions all over this country (and the reams of data and satellite observations that go with them). Can't imagine that happening during the Reagan years. Nor can i imagine that Ronald Reagan and George Schulz would have stood idily by, shouting global warming is a lie, while the Russians busily laid claim to the new Artic ocean.
No, George Schulz and Ronald Reagan agreed it was better to listen to the scientists and, for instance, negotiate an agreement over the ozone layer. "Better to take out an insurance policy" — their words, not mine — and heed the warnings. Exactly what George Schulz is saying on climate change today.
HAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, you need to get in a plane and go see for yourself.
Where are you getting your information from? What are your sources? P.S. Calling you an asshole you be to nice for you. Are you a creationist?
It's actually your information that's outdated, Peter. 1998 is no longer the hottest year on record – it's 2010, which was a mere three years ago if I recall correctly.


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I just thought i'd start a thread on ttc (because i didn't want to crash the one with more specific ttc-related issues) and wondered if you gals planning 2010 babies fancied chatting about it...
At the moment i have a Mirena in place. I'll be having it removed the first week of June (which will be the 3rd week of my cycle). We decided to have it removed mid-cycle as i need to have a PAP done and that's a good time for that, and because i really need to know when i fell PG i want to have at least one AF post-removal without the risk of falling PG.
I am very excited as i've wanted another baby for a long time, but now we're getting ready to ttc i am also terrified because my relationship fell apart after DD was born and though i don'tthink there is a remote possibility of that happening with DP, the fear is irrational and still here...
Any of you lovely ladies want to join me on this journey?
Hi Bec,
Sorry it took so long for me to see this post. I would love to join you here when I can. Sometimes I just need to chat about this TTC journey and its ups and downs. It can be such a charged issue with LOTS of irrational fears. :-) In another post, I was thinking aloud about why this issue is so charged, and I think the answer is multifaceted. I hope that this time can be rewarding for all of us, though (especially with the product of a sweet little babe in arms). And it is so exciting, especially when you've been looking forward to it for such a long time. I'm really happy for you!
This is our third cycle really trying, though we haven't been preventing since my cycle resumed about 7 months post-birth in August 08. I don't really count those months, since I was still breastfeeding a lot and really didn't want to conceive until the beginning of this year at least. My 15 month old just weaned as of April 23 (I nursed him through a mild flu he had which helped a lot), so I feel that I'm finally ready to give this thing a good try. In the fall, if we haven't conceived, I will go for some acupuncture. In the meantime, I'm just trying to be as cool as possible, stay relaxed, and try not to obsess about things (which is hard).
Will you be charting? Charting has been a good thing overall for me. I've done it for about 8 years when not pregnant. I've also been using ovulation predictors (the cheap dip stick type) to help me pinpoint ovulation more closely. My fertility signs have not been as clear cut as they used to be (<shrug> maybe its my ripe old age of 28), so this has helped. My husband has been extremely supportive, and we're having fun with this. I am glad the "trying" part only comes for a few days each month, though. The rest of the time is just pure fun.
So let's enjoy this time, laugh a lot, and chat it out.
All the best to you.
....Anyone else want to join in?
I probably won't chart initially. I used billings NFP method for a few years before DD so i'll probably rely on that for half a year or so and see how we go. If i don't fall with that then i'll move to charting.
It's funny, most of the ime i've had the Mirena i've had really clear ovulation signs every month, but the last 3 months i've actually been paying attention and all my signs are so hazy! The mittelschmerz and spotting i was having around ovulation have vanished too...oh well, i need to wait and see how things are without the Mirena i guess.
I'm stressing out badly just now as we're having major issues with our rental. Our contract is up in a month, we asked to extend and our landlord (who i trying to sell the place) is refusing to say yes or no while e waits fora survey to be done. If the person who orders the survey wants to buy he can make us leave at the end of our contract, butif WE want to leave we have to give a month's notice... I phoned about a really promising sounding place this morning but the landlady said she'd need to call the tenant to arrange a viewing as they have poor health and she doesn't want to hassle them... There isn't much on the market just now and we're not in a good position to buy...blurgh. Stressful.
And that is making me fret too - i was planning to have the Mirena taken out the week we will potentially be homeless!
Hey Bec,
Wow, that does sound stressful. That's a lot to have on your mind--the threat of having no place to live, and on top of it, your hopes of TTC in July as planned being on the line. Did you ever get to see that place that sounded so promising?
Billings is great. I've used just the mucus sign too in the past, but the temping and OPKs have helped me pinpoint ovulation a lot better for TTC purposes. That's really interesting about the Mirena. It has progesterone in it right? It doesn't prevent ovulation consistently?
My husband and I have been slaving over our garden. We're late to begin with, and on top of it, its been raining so much that its a muddy mess out there and difficult to work. Anyway, we have two beds completed and two more frames waiting for dirt. I've been digging the "hills" for our squash and melons and such (in rocky and clay soil...I was adding organic matter and soil amendments), so I've been doing strenuous work, and it feels great, but I've been so tired at night. Anyway, I'm 4 days past ovulation today and to my dismay I've had a bit of brown spotting accompanied by a bearing down, heavy, and slightly crampy feeling in my pelvis. I feel really tender. I'll see what happens in the next day or so. I do kind of wonder if it has to do with the heavy work.
So that's my current status.
We haven't seen the new place yet. It sounds so perfect on paper. We drove past it and it looks great too - we just need to view and hopefully pay the bond and i can stop worrying/wondering. Our landlord is still not saying whether we have to leave or not - the status quo is that we have to be out on June 8th. Of course if we view this place and it's not suitable then i'll have a whole new headache...
I keep having dreams i'm pregnant, usually about 20ish weeks, big and feeling movement. It's wonderful until i wake up! Last night i had a more sinister one that i wasabout 16 weeks pg with the Mirena still in place! That is really not a good idea as they don't know what the hormones might do to a foetus and taking them outcan cause miscarriage. Luckily the failure rate is low - 2 per 1000.
The level of progesterone is about 10% of that in the minipill, so no, it doesn't stop ovulation in most women. It prevents a lining building and changes cervical mucus and i think to some extent still causes the usual IUD effect of foreign-body-alert which makes the womb and unfriendly place.
We are talking about names already, but have nothing picked out as such. Do you have name ideas befor you're even PG? Or isthat just me?
Your garden sounds hard work, but it'll be worth it. I hesitated to plantthis year because of the tenuous situation (might have to move well before harvest) and i'm no glad of that as t looks lik we will be moving sooner rather than later!
I really hope this place works out for you!
I have delicious dreams that I'm pregnant too. I even dreamed recently that I gave birth very easily to a really big baby boy (we have three boys already and I'd still be happy if we had another boy...I don't know, I don't have that hankering for a girl). We're still in the waiting phase. I had that spotting which has been off and on, but nothing the last day and a half. I'm 9 dpo right now. I rubbed a little extra progesterone cream into my skin the last few days, and have not been digging in the garden, so maybe that has helped. We will see in a few days.
Yes, we always discuss names when we're planning another little one. We have all J's so far, so we have more J's picked out. The last time I was pregnant, we couldn't decide on a name, and didn't until about 30 minutes after our little guy was born. We had to get a good look at him first, and then give him a name. :-) He was floating in the pool with me when we named him. That was a sweet memory.
Well take care. Keep us posted on your housing and TTC things.
I took a test the day after I posted the previous post, and guess what? It was positive!! All that spotting was implantation. :-) I'm a little past 5 weeks right now and doing great. I was a little stunned and it took a few days to really absorb the news, because I really didn't believe I would conceive this quickly, so I wasn't particularly expecting a positive.
I'll have to go and start a pregnancy announcement thread now. :-)
How is the housing situation going? I think of you often regarding this. Let us know what's happening.
Take care.
Robsgirl i am so happy for you - i know you've had heartbreak in the past an had fertility worries and it is just so wonderful to read of you falling so easily :)
Yesterday we managed to reserve a new rental. We move in 2 weeks. It's an odd situation in that it is a really lovely house on the edge of a not-so-nice area. For example i wouldn't want to enroll DD at a local nursery there, but might find one a bit further away that i like.
Anyway i am having my mirena removed on Friday, so i am quite excited about it all just now. I have a few friends who are thinking of ttc later this year too, and also a few who are newly and not-so-newly pregnant. Babies babies everywhere! :)
I decided to join the thread.
To put it clearly into the universe "we are planning a 2010 baby" WOW that is big. I am so emotional i can hardly type
Hello Ladies,
My husband and I have been TTC for almost four years(he has known low sperm count). About two years ago we were going to see a Urologist for help and answers but, he got very upset and everything was put off until this year. It took us 22 months TC our son who is now almost eight. We both would like one more(not time enough for a housefull). He'd like a daughter; I'm ok with either. We've rescheduled with the Urologist but are not using any formal conception method as of yet. Mostly, we're trying to be healthy and not stress. I'm finally almost ok with the fact that we may not get what we want. We will most likely not try any assisted conception methods; mostly for financial reasons.
I look forward to chatting with all fo you and best of luck to all.
Hi journying,
Again, welcome to the boards. I'm sorry you're having a hard time getting pregnant. I remember grappling with the issue in my mind about "what if I don't get what I want?" and I don't think I got to the point where you are of almost accepting that. I applaud you. That's half the battle right there. Sound like your focus is great--being healthy and not stressing. That's so important.
There was an awesome post on the old forums regarding all the attention we put on women preparing nutritionally for conception, but this one focused on how men can prepare nutritionally for having healthy sperm etc. I seem to remember that avoiding alcohol, tobacco, hot baths, and tight underwear were on the list of things to do at least 3 months before trying, and that selenium and zinc and I can't remember what else were also very important for proper sperm production. I wish I remembered. Maybe vitamin E. I've also heard about Arginine and Cartinine being important for men, but don't know the dosage. There are some rather pricey supplements out there that claim they help sperm count issues, for what its worth.
I understand not wanting to do fertility treatments. I was always willing to explore why I might be having trouble conceiving, but not willing to accept most of the conventional treatments. I wasn't into the whole "factory" feel of it. I always preferred being in charge of my own health, rather than depending so much on doctors and drugs that are manufactured more for moneymaking reasons.
What I did pursue was acupuncture and chinese herbs. Its a little expensive but seems to be quite effective, even for men, and is definitely much less than fertility treatments. It helps the body function more normally by applying a "thumb" as it were to the problem, rather than the sledgehammer of drugs that force the body to pump out different levels of hormones and perform certain functions.
I've gotten pregnant twice now within two months of a single acupuncture treatment (on myself, my husband had no issues). Don't know if that's coincidence? We decided to give it a try on our own for 6 months before pursuing more acupuncture and herbal treatments, and here I am 8 weeks pregnant.
I wish you all the best. See you around.
Congratulations RobsGirl! I might be able to get the vitamins and herbs into my hubby but the accupuncture is a different story. He's very needle phobic. I'm going to look into the accupunct. When we were told he had approx. 1million sperm in 1999, we knew that we did not want to do assisted reproduction methods; nor could we afford it. If there's nothing that can be done then we'll move on as time goes by. We'll see what the urologist has to say on July 7th. We're also trying to get some of his other health problems delt with this summer. I now his high stress job doesn't help either.
Well, thanks for the reply and I look forward to chatting with you more. Best of luck during your pregnancy!
Hey all!
I'm not TTC yet, but I'm going to work on DH in the coming months...I have an IUD in place right now, but I really would like another baby...I hope everyone is doing well!
I woke up yesterday morning feeling that this time I want it to be different! Without worrying and expecting more of my body, just being positive ad trusting in the process.
My husband is being SO sweet, he has that "Iwant to get you pregnant" look in his eyes. Like a twinkle. I suppose thats what they mean by "When you were but a twinkle in your father's eye"!!! Because he really has it! It is so sweet to see because he wasn't sure about this fourth child thing at all, and now even though he doesn't say much, he is well on the case
Yay! I"m happy that he's on your side!


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CARY — Two throw-ins by Green Hope midfielder MacLean Holbrook helped the Falcons gain a late two-goal lead on visiting Sanderson on Wednesday night. The Spartans rallied to equalize, but Holbrook struck again, this time by rifling in a goal with just 4:08 to play that stood as the game-winner in the third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A playoffs.
In a battle of two teams ranked in the state's top three, No. 3 Green Hope defeated No. 1 Sanderson 3-2.
It has been quite a week for Holbrook, who also had the go-ahead goal in the first overtime in Green Hope's second-round win against Enloe.
"I never doubted our character. We showed great character," said Green Hope coach Richard Huxford. "You look at players, and some players are big-game players. They're cool when they need to be and they rise to the challenge and MacLean certainly comes in that bracket. He's been fantastic all season. He's a great kid and a great player and he's come up with the goods."
Both of Holbrook's assists on the throw-ins went to teammate Zack Compton.
Compton headed in a goal in the 22nd, then did a half-bicycle kick in the 47th minute after Holbrook's throw-in took a deflection off the goalkeeper's mitts.
(MacLean's) "throws are so helpful to the team," Compton said.
A 2-0 lead, as any coach will tell you, is the most dangerous in soccer.
And that old adage rang true as Sanderson 's Dylan Haynes took a free kick from just outside the penalty box in the 59th minute that skipped by defenders and went into the side netting. The Spartans equalized in the 74th minute as Ryan Turner headed in a throw-in from teammate Sam Willard.
With so much talent on both sides of the field, four of the five combined goals came from set pieces.
"It was a really nice game, but the back four on both sides played really well. Coming in, we felt like it would be a struggle to get by them. And we kept them at bay," Sanderson coach Todd Worley said. "We didn't get a lot of shots and they didn't get a lot of shots and it was just a matter of two back fours really committing to defense."
Sanderson's defense began scrambling late in the match, trying more than a few times to clear the ball from its defensive third but the balls kept falling in front of Green Hope players. Eventually one fell to Compton, who sent a through ball to Holbrook, who had a 1-v-1 with the Sanderson keeper as other Spartans were caught out of position.
"I guess we were all trying to get our foot on it but we couldn't and it just happened to come to Zack and I was lucky to put it away and help the team," Holbrook said.
Even Huxford ran onto the field to help in the Green Hope (21-2) celebration.
Sanderson (23-2-2) completed its second straight season with more than 21 wins only defensive miscue
"In the end, we got a little excited and got disorganized in the back and they took care of it. It was a good game. I thought both teams really played well," Worley said. "You make one mistake a game, that's not bad."
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I buy MLB the Show every single year. I always think that I won't and then I do. I buy it, play it a lot, then completely forget about it. In fact, here is an easy to use monthly breakdown of my MLB the Show usage:
- March - Buy the game, play it often.
- April - Continue to play the game, less often, tell myself "I'll just play this one for the next two years and buy the newer version every other year."
- May-February - Completely forget about MLB the Show, place disk under a couch, in a cereal bowl or on a shelf.
- Late February - See a commercial or read a review for the next MLB the Show, tell myself "Eh, I don't really need to buy this."
- Early March - See some extremely minor change in the new game that makes me want to buy it.
- March - Buy the game, play it often.
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Using this information, you can logically conclude that I am in the "play it often" stage of my MLB the Show development cycle. In fact, I did buy the game. I stopped on my way home from work Wednesday and I bought it. I played it for a little bit that night, then really got into it on Friday, when I didn't have to work.
It's fun. It always is. The minor change that convinced me to buy the game this year is about as minor as it gets. They finally decided to give players numerical ratings instead of vague bar graph ratings! Yeah! This is nice because it is now much easier to see which players are better than others. This is important to me for some reason. I'm 30.
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to see what Sony thinks of the Twins. In looking at the player ratings, there are some questionable ratings, along with some downright comical ratings. All of the ratings are out of 99.
Joe Mauer leads the way with an overall 93. He also has a clutch rating of 99, so take that, haterz1! Mauer also leads the way with a 90 contact rating, an 82 arm strength rating, a 90 fielding rating, and a 99 handsome rating. In short:
Sony ♥ Joe Mauer
The Twins best pitcher, according to Sony, is Glen Perkins, with an overall rating of 90. He has the best control on the team, at 90, and the highest K/9 rating with an 81. He also has a fielding rating of 6. Interestingly, whenever a ball is hit to Perkins in the game, he falls down and splits his pants. Nobody's perfect.
The Twins best starter is Vance Worley, with his 84 rating. Their top Canadian player is Justin Morneau at an 86. The best bad player on the team is Esmerling Vasquez at a baffling 74 overall rating, the same overall rating as Trevor Plouffe, Brian Duensing and Kevin Correia.
Are you still with me? Let's look some of the Twins' best ratings:
- Stamina - Scott Diamond - 90
- Velocity - Mike Pelfrey - 82
- Break - Casey Fien - 90
- BB/9 - Scott Diamond - 87
- Power - Josh Willingham - 78 ?
- Durability - 88-year-old Jamey Carroll - 84
- Speed - Darin Mastroianni - 77
- Horseplay - Anthony Swarzak - 99 (see below)
This opens itself to a debate. Is Anthony Swarzak good or bad at horseplay? He did crack ribs as a result of horseplay, but what is the true goal of horseplay? Perhaps we can come back to this, at another time.
A few other things I learned from the game:
- Pedro Florimon and Brian Dozier are equally good fielders - 59
- Kevin Correia is a better strikeout pitcher than Mike Pelfrey - 46 to 43
- Jamey Carroll has "A" potential, and stands to get better as he gets older
Now, not all Twins players are in the game. If a player wasn't in the MLB last season, they do not appear. So, Aaron Hicks, Joe Benson, Rich Harden, Kyle Gibson, and so forth, are all MIA. But, you can make players, which is a tedious chore. I made Aaron Hicks, based on his current Spring Training performance. Here is the result:
Not sure I captured his eyes perfectly, but everything else seems about right.
If Sony has anything to say about it, here is the Opening Day lineup:
Looks to be fairly accurate actually. I might flip a few around, but those five seem pretty likely. Of course, if you take the five best starters by rating, it would look like this:
Worley - 84
Pelfrey - 78
Diamond - 77
De Vries - 76
Correia - 74
Prior to a roster update, De Vries was an embarrassing 81 overall, and was the Twins' best starter. They addressed that issue within the first 24 hours of the game launch. His rating is still much too high. Apparently Sony loves players from Minnesota as much as we all do.
You like former Twins? Here are some of the more notable ratings I found when looking around:
- Danny Valencia - Clutch - 71 - lol
- Tsuyoshi Nishioka - Fielding - 81 !!!! Yep, Nishi's in the game; get excited!
- Delmon Young - Speed - 36 - HA!
- Delmon Young - Clutch - 92 - Come on
- Delmon Young - Fielding - 58 - *spit-take, fall-over-in-chair, choke-on-gum, pants-fall-down, head explodes*
- Denard Span - Fielding - 53, worse than Delmon, but wait
- Carlos Gomez - Fielding - 46, so yeah
- Luke Hughes - Spring Training - 99 (see below)
I want that hat. The worst former Twin I could find is Eric Komatsu, at an emasculating 55 overall. Most of the computer generated minor leaguers are better than Eric Komatsu. Jeff Gray is nowhere to be found, but I am sure we can all agree that he would be a -84.
But, my favorite part of this whole exercise was finding Nick Blackburn, pitching as the Ace of the New Britain Rock Cats. In fact, Sony didn't even put his picture in the game, opting to computer generate him.
Not terrible, but Blackburn's real face isn't that fat. His K/9 is worst on the team, but you already knew that.
If you prefer real baseball news to tomfoolery, I analyzed the Kyle Lohse signing that hasn't happened yet. You can read it here: Kyle Lohse signs with [MLB Team].


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The unmistakable aroma of a mimeographed geography test.
The military-like order to line up single file. Arm's length apart.
The farm kids scrambling to get their homework and coats together to catch the bus 15 minutes before we city kids were dismissed.
The ecstasy of a third-place finish in the weekly spelling bee.
The agony of having to stay after school and beat the erasers for talking during English.
The big barrel of red sawdust the janitor always brought out to sprinkle on the floor after some kid got sick.
Those are the things I think about at back-to-school time. When I was in the middle of it, I never thought I'd miss anything about school. I just couldn't wait for that bell to ring every day, and the mad scramble for freedom that ensued. I miss that, too.
My first clue that my carefree summer was coming to an end was unfamiliar clothes showing up in my closet. No more tennis shoes, T-shirts or jeans to school. We had to wear "school pants," "school shirts" and "school shoes."
With five brothers going through the grades before me, there were always lots of school clothes waiting for me to grow into. In August, Mom pulled out the box of clothes she had been saving since my brother was in third grade and started patching knees, hemming cuffs and moving over buttons.
Trouble was, my next closest brother was seven grades ahead of me, so it would be October before the aroma of mothballs was completely out of the hand-me-downs. Come to think of it, I could use some new clothes right now. I should call my brother. ...
My sister and I always got a head start on school. Weeks before, we headed up to St. Paul to help last year's teacherset up her classroom. Carry stuff in. Unpack boxes. Clean. Mom wondered why we didn't do those things at home.
It was also a chance to meet our new teachers and give them a hand. Never hurt to have a little insurance ... just in case the dog eats my homework later in the year.
That dreaded first day of school actually turned out to be pretty cool. Sure, it was a shock to learn that Mike Cheney had moved to Washington, Mo., and that someone decided Allan was so smart he needed to skip a grade.
But I got over it quickly when I found out new guy Paul could hit a softball even farther than Mike. And that, with Allan out of the picture, I had a real shot at third place in the spelling bee.
I miss all my grade school teachers: Sister Salvador, Mrs. Brasel, Sister Peter Marie, (Oh, no, I forgot the name of the rookie teacher I had in fourth grade but I remember what she looked like -- all the boys had a big crush on her.), Mrs. Mason, Mr. Harrigan, Mrs. Rudd and Sister Etienne. They should all be declared saints for putting up with all 50 of us (give or take, depending on the year).
I miss all my classmates. I wonder how they all turned out. Whenever I run into one, it's like we're still in third grade.
I miss eighth grade, because we finally got to be patrol boys and girls. That meant getting to wear the white patrol belt that wound around the waist and over the shoulder. We learned the super-secret way to wind it up so it looked like a little ball.
When you put on your patrol belt, you were "somebody." You stood a little straighter. Walked a little taller. You stopped traffic to help kids and teachers across the street. You controlled the playgrounds. All the little kids looked up to you and actually minded you when you declared some kid needed a time out.
Where else could you take aim at the convent windows in right field? In all my eight years, we broke only two. And got away with it.
And where else could you see perhaps the greatest dodgeball player in the world -- Sister Peter Marie? She magically pinned her floor-length habit up just enough to jump, slide, spin and otherwise dodge anything we kids could throw at her. She was deadly when it came to nailing us with the big red ball.
Never thought I'd say this, but I wish it was back-to-school time for me. Want to play dodgeball?


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The Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame is honoring six athletes who attended the old Congers High School in a ceremony set for 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Peter Scheibner, chairman of the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame, said the Hall of Fame members will be honored at Congers Elementary School on Lake Road in Congers, the site of the former high school.
Scheibner said the idea for a special commemoration came when renovations at Clarkstown North High School in New City put focus on plaques that reconized Rockland County Sprots Hall of Fame members. He said discussions about the plaques led to the idea of creating a separate area at Congers Elementary School to honor the one-time student athletes who were standouts at the old Congers High School.
The honorees were stars in many different sports, some even going on to play professional sports — on teams including the New York Yankees and the New York Knicks.
The Hall of Fame athletes from Congers who are to be recognized are:
- Warren Austin:
Elected in 1983 ... ran track and played soccer for Congers High School in the late 1930s ... in the annual Dexter Press Field Day track and field competition in 1939, Congers entered two athletes, Austin and a teammate. Austin won the 100- and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump, finished second in the 440, and placed third in the pole vault, shot put and discus to lead Congersto the team title ... Austin later became very involved with helping Rockland youth ... in 1958 he founded the Nyack Bantam League, a bowling program for boys ages 8 to 12 ... in 1961 he established the Nyack Junior Classic Bowling League (ages 13-18), and in 1974 added the Warren Austin Recreation Bowling League for Rockland boys and girls ... a past president of Rockland County Men's Bowling Association ... as president of the Nyack Monday Morning Quarterback Club, a booster group for Nyack High sports, Austin spearheaded a campaign that raised $48,000 in 1980 to fund the Nyack High School fall sports programs under an austerity budget.
- Bob Bacheller
Elected in 1979 ... Congers H.S. Class of 1929 ... earned 16 letters in baseball, basketball, track and tennis at Congers, and captained the baseball and basketball teams for three years ... his name is synonymous with tennis in Rockland County ... after excelling at Colgate University, including winning the Eastern Division Doubles Tournament with partner Ted Kaiser, he went on to a superb tennis career ... among his many titles are the 1931 Rockland-Bergen Men's Doubles Championship with Orville Lewis of Haverstraw, the Steingester singles title in 1933 and '34, the Hudson Valley singles title in 1936, the 1939 Rockland County Men's Singles crown, the 1952 Rockland mixed doubles title with his wife, Elaine, and the Rockland-Bergen doubles championship with McDonald Deming in 1961 ... Bacheller was one of the premier players in the country in the 65-and-older age group ... he was ranked in the top 10 in the East in all of the senior age groups he played in ... Bacheller was a tireless ambassador for tennis who helped form the Nyack Field Club (the site of many major tournaments) and lobbied successfully for the construction of tennis courts in Clarkstown, where he sat on the school board.
- Charles Dittmer
Charles attended Congers High School, Class of 1948, and lettered in 4 sports. He was a two year varsity letter winner on the track team, and a three year varsity letterman on the basketball team. Charles was a four year starter on the county championship Congers High soccer team. During that time, Congers only lost one game and were the county champs all four years. But it was baseball where Charles really excelled. He was the stating catcher on the baseball team for four years. Charles was the starting catcher in the very first baseball game played in the county under the lights at Nyack. During the summers while still in high school Charles played baseball for the Congers Liberties, an outstanding baseball team that won the county championships in 1947 and 1948. Aside from being a very well schooled catcher, Charles was an outstanding left handed hitter who could hit with power.
In 1949, Charles joined the U.S. Navy and continued to play baseball. He was on the Atlantic Fleet Division Team. They were champions in 1952 and Charles led the Newport Rhode Island League in homeruns that year. While playing in that league, Charles was spotted by the great Branch Rickey and, after being discharged from the Navy, Charles was signed to a professional contract by Mr. Rickey to play for the Dublin Irish which was owned by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Georgia State League.
He played one season and came home the following year to marry his wife, Eleanor. Like all good athletes Charles was not content to sit idle, so he took up golf, and became very good at that sport, too. Charles became the Rockland Lake Course Champion in the C flight in 1985 and the Rockland Lake Course Champion in the A flight in 1986. In 1994 Charles was the Governors Cup Champion.
- Bill Drescher
Enshrined in 1975 ... Congers H.S. Class of 1939 ... Major League Baseball player with the New York Yankees ... was a superior athlete at Congers, competing in baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball and track ... He was awarded a baseball scholarship to Villanova University, but turned it down ... he played semipro ball with the Congers Liberties, then signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940 ... his career in professional baseball spanned 1941 to 1952... he played with the Yankees as a catcher, appearing in 57 games in 1944, 1945 and 1946 ... his lifetime major league average was .266 ... was a good enough basketball player to play with the New York Knicks in 1940 ... he died in 1968 at age 46.
- Joe Klopchin
A 1995 inductee ... Congers H.S. Class of 1948 ... record-breaking soccer player but even better known for his baseball prowess ... received tryouts as a third baseman with the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds ... well-known figure on the baseball diamonds of Rockland, he played in amateur and semipro leagues from 1947 to 1979, often with players less than half his age ... at Congers, where he played varsity baseball for four years, Klopchin pitched the first night game in Rockland scholastic history, April 18, 1945, versus Nyack ... played third base, second base and pitched ... batted over .300 ... in soccer he was practically unstoppable ... in 1945, he scored 19 goals and 7 assists for 26 points ... the goals and point totals stood as Rockland County records for 20 and 22 years, respectively ... he led Congers to the county PSAL championship all four years he played (the Congers soccer dynasty won all but one county title from 1931 to '47) ... Klopchin also established county records for goals in a game (five), which stood for 21 years, and career goals (40), assists (24) and points (64) ... voted best athlete in his class at Congers ... competed in track for four years ... one varsity season of basketball ... in organized baseball, he played on four championship teams: Congers Liberties (1949-50), County Welders (1954), Spring Valley Bengals (1962) and Tenafly, N.J., Mets (1967) ... also played on All-Star teams in 1949 and 1958 ... other teams played for included the Mastromarino Lumbermen, Clarkstown IBEWs and Englewood, N.J. ...was team captain at Manhattan College.
- Jim Schnaars
Inducted in 1978...nationally ranked amateur and pro lawn tennis player..., tennis, who attended attended Congers for one year, 1936, before transferring to a prep school in Connecticut.
Commemorative plaques of the six athletes are being relocated from Clarkstown North High School to the elementary school. Congers High School closed in the mid-1950s and was succeeded by Clarkstown High School. The Clarkstown High School building became Clarkstown North when the district split into North and South high schools in 1971.
The plaque unveiling ceremony is set for 9 a.m. in the auditorium of the elementary school, 9 Lake Road West. There is on-street parking on Lake Road and South Grand Avenue.


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Jaffa drizzle loaf
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking timePrep: 20 mins Cook: 55 mins
Skill levelModerately easy
ServingsCuts into 8-10 slices
If you like Jaffa Cakes, you'll love the moist, fruity cake. It will keep for a week, but it's unlikely to last that long
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per slice
- kcalories
- 410
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 57g
- fat
- 19g
- saturates
- 11g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 37g
- salt
- 0.88g
- 140g butter, softened
- 200g self-raising flour
- 11⁄2 tsp baking powder
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 6 tbsp milk
- finely grated zest 1 large orange
To finish
- 3 tbsp orange juice
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 50g dark chocolate
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- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 1.2-litre loaf tin. Put all the cake ingredients into a bowl and beat with a hand whisk or wooden spoon for 3-5 mins, until light and fluffy. Spoon the mix into the tin and level the top.
- Bake for 40-50 mins, until golden brown and firm to the touch. Meanwhile, heat the orange juice and sugar gently in a small pan, stirring until dissolved. When the cake is cooked, remove it from the oven and spoon over the orange mix. Leave to cool in the tin, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Break up the chocolate and melt over a pan of simmering water or in the microwave on Medium for 1-2 mins. Drizzle over the cake and leave to set.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2006
Comments, questions and tips
I've tried this recipe as a loaf, a round cake and this weekend tries cupcakes - I have to say the latter were my favourite! The ingredients provided enough for 12 cupcakes and as with previous attempts I zested 2 oranges instead of one. I filled each cupcake to 2/3 then added half a teaspoon of orange marmalade before covering with more cake mixture. They took around 45 mins to bake (as above) and once cooled I melted 100g dark chocolate and topped each cake - hey presto they were home-made Jaffa cakes! The marmalade fell out of the bottom of a few but they were absolutely delicious and have kept very moist. Will definitely make these again!


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By Scott Rothbort
McDonald's /quotes/zigman/233369/delayed/quotes/nls/mcd MCD -0.12% has had a rough year so far, declining 15% since the ball dropped in Times Square.
Same-store sales for the global, quick-casual, restaurant chain have been under pressure. Third-quarter earnings missed analysts' consensus estimates by four cents. For the entire company, the October sales decline of 1.8% marked the first decline in sales for McDonald's in nine years. Total sales in the U.S. declined for the month of October by 1.4% and same-store sales slipped by 2.2%.
This lackluster performance may have been the reason that the head of U.S. operations, Jan Fields was replaced with another longtime McDonald's executive, Jeff Stratton, a few days ago.
Part of the disappointing earnings I believe can be traced to the strength in the dollar versus currencies in its areas of operation. I would also state that McDonald's was facing some very strong same-store sales from 2011, thus presenting a high bar to jump in 2012.
Coming into 2012, I realized that McDonald's would be facing a challenging operating environment beyond the same-store sales issue, such as: a slowdown in its fast growing Chinese market; a certain European recession; and, a lack of new menu changes on the horizon.
As a result, I sold about 20% of my holdings in the company's stock at just over $100 in January of this year. This was the second time I have taken a bit of the stock off the table. I have held the stock personally and for clients since the selloff on Christmas Eve day 2003, the day of the "mad cow" scare, and continue to do so.
So now that I have discussed what McDonald's has endured in 2012, I want to focus on what McDonald's can do to get back on track. Consider this an open letter to Donald Thompson and his management team. Here are my four suggestions.
We already know that McDonald's has extensive operations throughout the world with a large presence in China, Japan, Australia, Europe and Latin America. The Latin American operations are all under the control of a regional franchisee, Arcos Dorados /quotes/zigman/4725620/delayed/quotes/nls/arco ARCO +0.30% .
So I am not saying that McDonald's needs to expand internationally. Rather it needs to satisfy the yearning for international tastes at home here in the United States.
The company made a strategic decision in 2006 to divest itself of its majority holding in Chipotle Mexican Grill /quotes/zigman/395806/delayed/quotes/nls/cmg CMG -0.52% . In retrospect, I think that McDonald's should have kept that operation.
Redesigned menus met the demand for healthier quick service meals in the last decade by introducing salads, more chicken dishes, wraps and other items.
Now I believe McDonald's needs to spice up its menu by developing new offerings or differentiating its existing menu items to incorporate Tex-Mex/Latin; Oriental; Indian and Russian flavors in a more aggressive and permanent manner.
As I mentioned before, I thought that the company should have held its investment in Chipotle. Similarly, I believe that McDonald's didn't give Boston Market enough attention and patience.
McDonald's also provided the seed money for Coinstar's Redbox movie and game rental kiosks. As you can see, the company wasn't afraid of investing in new or interesting concepts in the past. I think that it is time that McDonald's uses its strong balance sheet and cash flow to do so again.
Specifically, I think that McDonald's should expand into small concepts with an eye on invading the strategic territory of Starbucks /quotes/zigman/20720/delayed/quotes/nls/sbux SBUX -1.29% and Panera Bread /quotes/zigman/65095/delayed/quotes/nls/pnra PNRA +0.61% . Here are some suggestions for acquisition: Au Bon Pain, Atlanta Bread Company; Einstein Noah's Bagels /quotes/zigman/106575/delayed/quotes/nls/bagl BAGL -3.44% ; and, Caribou Coffee .


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December 9, 2012
Dorothy A. Sabett
Dorothy A. (Pokrzyk) Sabett, 88, of Niagara Falls, NY, passed away on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at North Gate Manor North Tonawanda, NY. Born on September 20, 1924 in Niagara Falls, NY, she was the daughter of the late Valentine and Antoinette Pokrzyk and attended local schools.
She was a member of St. John de LaSalle Church and was employed as a machine operator at Moore Business Forms. She enjoyed watching soap operas, gardening, reading, cooking and especially spending time with her family.
She is survived by her daughters, Cheryl Holthouser of Niagara Falls, and Gloria (Jim) Wiltse of Sanborn; her step-son, Vito (Barbara) Sabett of Hamburg; nine grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her husbands, Frank Quaglia and Joseph Sabett; six brothers and five sisters.
Friends may call on Tuesday, December 11th from 5-8 PM at ZAJAC FUNERAL HOME, INC., 319-24th. St., cor. Welch Ave., Niagara Falls, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 11:00 AM on Wednesday in St. John de LaSalle Church, 8477 Buffalo Ave., with Rev. Slawomir Siok officiating. Entombment following in St. Josephs Cemetery, Niagara Falls, NY. EVERYONE PLEASE ASSEMBLE AT CHURCH. Donations in her memory may be made to Niagara Hospice, 4675 Sunset Dr., Lockport, NY 14094.
Visit zajacfuneralhomeinc.com for online condolences.