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He doesn't seem to have much trouble with Zeiss lenses.
And, I am not saying you didn't, but for example if you compare the charts of the Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 to the Canon, you'll notice that in the center at f/2.8, the Tamron is actually sharper than the Canon. The problem I see on those charts is that all lenses suffer more on the outsides. The evidence condemns many Canon lenses as well.
1) Nikon D800 is better than the 5D3 in almost all aspects, even video.2) Very overpriced Canon Cinema division got destroyed at NAB by Black Magic and Sony who stole all the buzz.3) Now Tamron fills the I.S. niche that #1 feature in the 24-70 that Canon customers were begging and pleading for, but Canon failed to deliver.
He has persistent problems with third party lenses but not Canon lenses.
Quote from: elusive1 on April 30, 2012, 04:06:37 PM......3) I'll agree with you on this one, but the 24-70 II really hasn't been tested yet. I don't think IS is very essential in that range. You'd think that no one had ever taken a good picture with a 28-70 or the current 24-70 the way some people cry about IS, people have done just fine without it....
Perhaps someone can enlighten me?
Quote from: John Thomas on May 05, 2012, 11:35:31 AMPerhaps someone can enlighten me?CR's take on the 24-70ii was that Canon had several prototypes, but the one(s) with IS were too heavy or the iq tradeoff was to large to get the weight down. And Canon simply sells stuff for as much money as they can get away with - and they should since I cannot afford it anyhow, better release the "good" stuff at a reasonable price and sell the "stellar" stuff at a premium. For a pro who's in business 1000$ is not a lot of money for better results, and nothing compared to the cost of good tele lenses. When did anyone complain about the price of the 70-200?
But in the case of newly released Tammy's 24-70 VC the things are different. I think that the price / performance ratio is in favor of Tamron by a wide margin, even compared with Canon's 24-70 II if the Canon will keep the same price.
The EF 24-105 has a nice range but the f4.0 is unacceptable. So I'll propably go for the Tamron. [...] But with the Tamron you can at least shout at 70mm with as little as 1/15s which means usable 3 stops light less than with the Canon when it's critical not to raise the ISO value.
Of course, I don't say that a 24-70 f/2.8 without IS is garbage (as we all know, the version I sells/sold pretty well) but I simply cannot image how Canon will justify the almost $1000 difference when they will not provide IS while Tammy has one along with a quite decent optics. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?
Looking at the "onion" bokeh, while it might not matter for a lot of shots, it could ruin them when overlapping and pp is difficult. Someone who sells his/her pictures might think it's worth the $1000 price difference, because this is not the difference between a good shot and a very good shot, but between nothing and very good.
And concerning "is it worth it", there's also the serious amateur to consider who reached his personal ceiling and thinks that the real thing that's been missing from his shots for all this time is this "tack sharp" 24-70ii lens. I read an economy article about the real price of ice cream the other day, and you might have guessed it: If people want ice cream, they're going to pay about anything to get one if they want it, so prices will still rise :-)
The "onion" bokeh was due to water on the lens, so it is not something anyone would expect to see unless ... they've got water on the front lens element.
Of course, I don't say that a 24-70 f/2.8 without IS is garbage (as we all know, the version I sells/sold pretty well) but I simply cannot image how Canon will justify the almost $1000 difference when they will not provide IS while Tammy has one along with a quite decent optics. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?Just my2c

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The color most commonly associated with Christmastime might be red, but retailers across the region reported being in the black following the Black Friday holiday shopping extravaganza last week.
This year, Black Friday sales began earlier than ever, with some businesses kickstarting doorbuster sales at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Eve, while others opened at a more traditional time in the early morning of Black Friday.
Regardless of the hour at which they opened, most store managers are reporting increases in sales and shopper turnout.
Peebles on the Beverly Pike in Elkins reported a sizable hike in last year's sales numbers.
"When you combine the two days (Thursday and Friday), we were up 43 percent (from 2011)," said store manager Jeremy Hunter. "Of course, we didn't have the highest numbers in the company - one store in New Jersey had a 129 percent increase in sales."
The most wanted items included an Android tablet on sale for $59.99 "that sold out in like the first five minutes" Peebles was open, Hunter said.
"Another popular thing was as-seen-on-TV kids' gifts like the Stompeez (kids' slippers) and (Pillow Pet) Dream Lites," he added. "Those went real quick. And we always sell a lot of men's gifts."
Veto Moots, store manager of Elkins Kmart, said Black Friday weekend sales were up from 2011, but did not disclose a specific figure.
"Thursday was the best day of the two," Moots observed. "Friday was steady, no major rushes, no major lines, just a steady constant flow of people." TVs and tablets topped Kmart shoppers' lists, he noted.
At least one Buckhannon store experienced what was described as a "blow-out weekend" after opening Thursday for Thanksgiving sales leading into Black Friday.
Buckhannon Goody's store manager Trena Lewis said her store was continuously busy throughout the weekend, with overall sales exceeding her expectations. She also said that opening the stores on Thanksgiving had a positive impact, not only for the Buckhannon store, but for the entire Goody's district.
"The sales that were on Thursday, they just blew through the roof what they expected us to do," Lewis said. "We beat last year's sales for the entire Thanksgiving Day weekend." Lewis was unable to provide specific numbers, however.
Some hot items included a 7-inch tablet that sold out after 30 seconds, Lewis said. As-seen-on TV kids' Stompeez slippers and Pillow Pet Dream Lites night lights also flew off the shelves.
"We did really good sales, but with being open Thanksgiving night, it kind of took the brunt out of Black Friday, but we were still extremely busy," Lewis said.
Despite a bustling store atmosphere, Lewis said she had no trouble with any customers.
"The customers that were in our stores that Thanksgiving evening were the most courteous, friendliest, patient people that I've ever seen," Lewis said. "It couldn't be the success it was without the generosity of the customers and their patience. It was just a wonderful atmosphere that night."
The success of local retailers appears to be part of a larger nationwide trend, according to data from the National Retail Federation, the world's largest retail trade association representing retailers in the United States and 45 other countries.
According to a survey conducted for the NRF, more people spent more money over the Black Friday weekend - which the NRF defined as Thursday, Friday, Saturday and projected sales for Sunday - than ever before. Eighty-nine million shoppers hit retail stores to bag bargains - 3 million more than in 2011, which saw 86 million people venture out on the biggest shopping day of the year.
And according to NRF data, the average holiday shopper shelled out $423 over the Black Friday weekend this year, as compared to $398 in 2011. NRF findings also demonstrated that more people were willing to shop on Thursday post-Thanksgiving feast. While 29 million Americans visited retail stores and websites on Thanksgiving Day in 2011, an estimated 35 million did so this Thanksgiving.
But not every register was ringing more frequently this year than in the past.
Sears in Buckhannon reported a possible small decline in Black Friday sales from last year, citing a lagging economy. The store made $33,000 on Black Friday, said Kristi Roby, a Sears sales associate.
"The consumers are not able to afford what we had," Roby said. "Everything's tight."
Meanwhile, Big Lots in Elkins broke even. Store manager Dave Perry observed that while sale numbers were stronger Thursday, they were down a bit Friday.
A day later, small businesses seemed to shine on Small Business Saturday, as they attempted to keep pace with larger outfitters.
Sue Pifer, owner of Elkins Sewing Center, was happy with how the weekend unfolded.
"We were really pleased with the response," she said.
Pifer said consumers shopped for a variety of goods and that no single item seemed more in demand than others.
Marlea Wheeler, owner of Marlea's Clothing Store in Elkins, was ecstatic.
"Friday, Saturday and Monday were probably my best (days) ever," she said. "It was great. I couldn't have handled any more."


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Mel Kiper's latest 2011 NFL Mock Draft is nearly two weeks old at this point. If nothing else, that means it's had plenty of time to settle.
As always, those of us with a vested interest in the NFL draft (i.e. me) tend to know what Kiper is thinking and doing at all times. Nobody has been mocking the draft as long as he has, and it is oftentimes quite hard to argue with him.
Of course, this doesn't mean that it's impossible to argue with Kiper. Most of the picks he makes are pretty good, but some of his picks seem to come straight out of the blue. There are more than a couple of these in his latest mock, and I'm afraid I just can't let them lie.
Instead of complaining about it, it has dawned on me that it's a better idea to be bold. That's why I'm going to spend the day going through Kiper's 2011 NFL Mock Draft 4.0 (ESPN Insider access only) pick by pick, grading them as I go.
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"Teams are going to be looking for both styles of quarterback," Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Mike Haynes said. "The game is big enough to have both styles. ¶ "But you see it picking up in college and high school. You see more teams looking for that mobile quarterback and coaches getting educated by it. There will be a wave into this sport for sure, but not all
quarterbacks are going to be able to do that."
Flacco has a tried-and-true style similar to Tom Brady's and Aaron Rodgers'. The Ravens have gone to the playoffs in each of Flacco's five seasons.
Kaepernick is in a group with Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson and Cam Newton — shifty youngsters with big-play potential on the ground or through the air.
The Niners changed starting quarterbacks in Week 11 despite a division-leading 6-2-1 record. Kaepernick was a gadget quarterback, rushing for three touchdowns but passing for zero before incumbent Alex Smith suffered a concussion in Week 10.
But once Niners coach Jim Harbaugh made the switch, he didn't go back. Kaepernick thrived in the pistol offense, a medium-range shotgun formation the Niners use for their zone-read rushing attack.
In nine games as a starter, including the playoffs, Kaepernick threw for 13 touchdowns and four interceptions and ran for five touchdowns. He was the Niners' second-leading rusher in the regular season and has only 7 fewer yards than Frank Gore in the postseason.
"You're going to start seeing those guys have an opportunity to be more successful early on in the NFL," said ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer, the Ravens' quarterback when they won the Super Bowl 12 years ago. "It's really going to change the generation right after them.
"Five, 10 years from now, I think you'll see a split of zone-read-driven quarterbacks and their pedigree as opposed to the traditional pocket, second-reaction [quarterbacks] like Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees."
The NFL is a league of copycats, and the stunning immediate success of quarterbacks such as Kaepernick, Griffin, Newton and Wilson will force personnel executives to look for quarterbacks who resemble them.
Prospects like Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel, Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater, Oregon's Marcus Mariota and Ohio State's Braxton Miller make scouts salivate.
Dilfer claimed classic pocket passers in college already are starting to suffer. He said that if North Carolina State quarterback Mike Glennon and Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones were in the 2008 draft class, then they would be rated just as high as Matt Ryan (the second overall pick) and Flacco (the 18th pick) were.
"But now they're looked at as, 'Eh, late first-round, second-round' because they don't do all this other stuff that we all love," Dilfer said. "Drafting the Flaccos of the world, you'll see them slide a little more, and you'll see that this year.
"The standard guy, the Joe Flacco, the Peyton Manning, the Tom Brady — the isolated-to-the-pocket guy — you're going to see less of them, and you can tell by this year's draft grades coming out."
Flacco, however, has been nothing short of sensational for Baltimore. He has been inconsistent at times throughout the season, but he has been incredible in the postseason.
In three playoff games, he has thrown for 853 yards and eight touchdowns with zero interceptions, going on the road to knock off Manning and Brady along the way.
"We need to stop Joe Flacco," 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks said. "He's a good quarterback. He's tall. He's a gunslinger. He can sling the rock.
"It's imperative for us to get to him as soon as possible, cause pressure, get a hand in his face, hit him, get him rattled up [and] just get him thinking about the pass-rushers, so he just can't feel comfortable in the pocket and throw the ball wherever he wants to throw it."
Flacco has reached the NFL's pinnacle game although the Ravens made a daring switch of their own during the regular season.
A month after the 49ers swapped starting quarterbacks, the Ravens fired offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and replaced him with quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell.
Both quarterbacks began the season with cloudy futures.
While Kaepernick was a backup, Flacco was entering the final year of his contract. Ravens fans weren't too broken up about the possibility of getting a new quarterback for 2013. Now he'll almost certainly sign a lucrative contract to stay.
There clearly is room for both quarterbacks in the NFL, but their clashing styles will be a fascinating storyline tonight.
"I have no idea how these styles will play out," Haynes said, "but it'll be a lot of fun to watch how it materializes. At some point in the future, we'll know which one works best."
Tonight's winner, without a Pro Bowl honor on his resume, soon will get fitted for his Super Bowl ring.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
When the 17-year-old came to us for help, he told us he weighed 400 pounds. He was wrong. That was just the maximum weight on the scale at his doctor's office. A quick trip to a hospital told us he weighed 521. Their are sadly millions like him. The CDC tells us that 12.5 percent of adults under 20 - teenagers, are not just overweight they're obese.
The direct medical costs related to obesity are $ 147 billion per year (2008). Almost three quarters of Americans are either overweight or obese. Nearly one in five children are clinically obese, and adult-onset diabetes is one of the biggest health problems among kids. In Charleston we are statistically at the national average: 38 percent of kids throughout the Lowcountry are also not just overweight. They are obese.
We have worked with kids who have increasingly gotten bigger over the last 12 years at Louie's Kids. It's estimated that over those many years we have assisted as many as 500 kids lose over 5,000 lbs.
But clearly, there is still a big problem.
Scientists tell us that 80 percent of obese children are likely to become obese adults. Sure, our health-care system can hold these people together — controlling their diabetes, replacing their knees and hips, holding down their blood pressure – but they will also be costing taxpayers a fortune.
I have also seen young people escape that destiny. I'm working with a young man who has lost about 70 pounds and is still dropping. He scored 1,486 on his SATs and is still in college. It looks as though his future will be bright. He has proved the stereotype wrong: He's smart, capable and ready to empower himself. Kids like him deserve our attention – they are not disposable.
I am hoping our entire community will stand with me, as well as everyone in the health and wellness community, on Saturday, Nov. 9 at Joe Riley Park for the third annual Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Game.
This game is about everyone who has invested their time and energies into helping kids realize their lives do not have to be plagued by disease. This game is about helping kids realize that being a person of size does not mean living with diabetes, heart disease and the dozens of other medical issues associated with obesity.
I am asking the mayors of both Charleston and North Charleston as well as the mayor-elect of Mount Pleasant to send a message to all the health and wellness programs in their cities, their respective city employees and staffs as well as to their business community partners to support this very important day at the Joe. And we invite them all to deliver the message the day by promoting their programs and initiatives for family health and wellness in the common area of the stadium.
When else this year will we all gather in such a enormous space with the potential of reaching thousands of people to let them know there are dozens of wellness options for them and their families all over their community. Perhaps we could put up a poster up at your place of business or perhaps we could encourage city businesses to use their street sign space to support SlimDowntheSouth.com 11/9 @ The Joe.
It's time we all come together, collectively supporting the kids of the Lowcountry. I assure you the health and wellness initiatives in all of our cities will benefit with our support after this game. We will reinvest right in our communities and within programs like "Lighten Up Charleston."
I appreciate your taking the time to read this letter, pass on the link and share this information www.slimdownthesouth.com we can make a difference in the life of a child #onechildatatime
Louis H. Yuhasz is the founder and CEO of Louie's Kids. Reach him at P.O. Box 21291
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MORGANTOWN - West Virginia did show some improvement in Saturday's tough 39-38 double-overtime loss to TCU (6-3, 3-2 Big 12) at home.
But it wasn't quite enough for the Mountaineers to avert a third straight setback in their first year of Big 12 football.
Ironically, WVU was favored to win all of these games, including Texas Tech and Kansas State.
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Second-year head coach Dana Holgorsen admitted that this was a "first" in his career.
Most of the 52,300 chilled spectators were hopeful when Tavon Austin's return of a punt 76 yards for a touchdown had settled the issue. It gave WVU a 31-24 lead with 3:19 left in regulation time.
But the Horned Frogs weren't done yet. They rallied to catch up, then won in the second overtime period.
They hit a 94-yard pass to tie the score at 31-all. Then in the first OT both teams missed field goals. Each team scored in the second and TCU won by making a two-point conversion on a pass.
It had to be heart-wrenching for the Mountaineers (5-3, 2-3 Big 12). They just did not take advantage of their opportunities.
Holgorsen commented afterward, "Credit to TCU. It was a hard-fought game and TCU made more plays than we did on all three sides of the ball, coaches and players included."
TCU coach Gary Patterson said there was no doubt that he'd go for the two-point conversion. "I'm one of the people who believe that when you play on the road, go and take ball games."
And he certainly did that!
This was the first overtime game for WVU since Oct. 29, 2010. That was a 13-10 loss at Connecticut. It is the first time WVU has lost back-to-back games at home since 2001.
Those were against Temple, 17-14, and Pitt, 23-17.
Final statistics strongly suggest that West Virginia lacked consistency on both offense and defense as well as special teams.
While the Mountaineers had a 21-17 edge in first downs, they managed a mere 338 yards on 90 total offensive plays. TCU netted 405 yards from 75 plays.
Even more shocking was time of possession. The Horned Frogs had the ball 48:03 to the Mountaineers' 26:57.
It seems mysterious what happened to that high-powered offense after the team's sizzling 5-0 season's start and No. 5 national ranking.
Rushing yards were 78 on 35 attempts from the home team and 126 yards on 45 carries from the visiting team. Passing yards were 260 to 279. Geno Smith, Holgorsen said, was probably as bad as he's ever been, and the head coach took the blame. Smith completed 32 of 54 passes for 206 yards and three touchdowns.
TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin completed 12 of 29 passes for 254 yards and two TDs.
Andrew Buie was WVU's top rusher with a net 42 yards on 10 carries.
Austin caught a team-high 11 passes for 101 yards and one score. Josh Boyce was TCU's leading receiver with six catches for 180 yards and two TDs.
Shaq Petteway had 10 tackles. Karl Joseph had nine to lead WVU defenders.


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All these fighters that is in need of a career boost. They are forgetting one man.
All these fighters like Berto,Ortiz, all these guys in need of a career boost need to get Teddy Atlas asap.
I'm dead serious. When you have guys that's not well behaved(Berto)or that have a weak heart (Ortiz) You need a dill sergent to drill you.
Atlas is one of the greatest and most hard man trainer of all times and he helped weak minded Michael Moore beat Holyfield because he is a tough disciplinian.
This is what Berto and Ortiz need to do.
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Who does Teddy currently train?
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Teddy deserves more than just being a commentator on Friday Night Fights.
He deserves to train another champion. Like back in the days.
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I think Teddy should train Amir Khan too.
If Amir is willing to listen and get some tough love.
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I don't about that dude. A lot of fighters generally have negative things to say about Teddy and don't really appreciate his training methods.
Also, it could be argued that Teddy very much slowed down Povetkins (his last notable fighters) career. He would always talk about how Sasha wasn't ready to fight the Klitschko's blah blah, but Povetkin very much dipped not just in level of opposition, but also in his fighting style in general while being trained by Atlas.
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I don't rate Teddy Atlas as a trainer particularly but that is just my opinion.
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He wanted to build Sasha the Michael Moore/Holyfield way
Man Teddy is a genius man I'm telling you.
To me? He's the 2nd greatest trainer ever behind Emmanuel.
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I don't think the blame for Povetkin's sluggish performance under his reign lies soley with him. Povetkin's laziness is largely to blame, and it is never good when there is a language barrier between coach and trainer. Nevertheless, when Povetkin fought Rahman, who, admittedly, is only marginally better than a journeyman these days, there were signs of rejuvination. If you watch some Povetkin's early fights you see a lot of promise, during Teddy's years he looked ordinary, and now he seems to have that spark back. This could be because Povetkin realised he squandered an opportunity under Atlas and has strengthened his resolve under his new trainer, but there could be other reasons.
Teddy is very knowledgable about boxing, but there needs to be compatibility between the personality of the trainer and that of the boxer. You can't just chuck any talented trainer at any fighter and see results. And when it all comes down to it, what the trainer does is marginal. The fighter either has it or he doesn't.
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I don't like Atlas as a trainer, he's a disciplinarian but from what I listen to he isn't a tactician. He tends to rely on 'heart' and mental strength as a useful means of defense.
A good motivator if you are willing to listen but I think there are a multitude of more knowledgeable boxing trainers out there. Also Atlas is bat**** crazy.
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cash, money etc. the words cash, and hashish combined.
I need a job man, I'm desperate for some cashish!
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Money to burn, get it?
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Based on the words cash and hashish, the term was coined by a bearded weed-fiend and originally used to describe money set aside to buy hash but usage has widened to describe money set aside to be later invested in non-specific recreational or social activities.
Any cashish you make on the deal you can bring and buy us beverages
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Slang term for money that can be used in street transactions
Hey we need to get some beer. How much cashish do you have on you?
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Cashish is a term used to describe physical money (ie. cash) that is used for frivolous purposed. Paper money that figuratively is burned up.
"How much cashish was that hotdog?"
"I dunno, pass the hashish"
"I dunno, pass the hashish"
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Cash, loot, money, cheddar.
I need a boatload of cashish.
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Money, usually paper bills that have been passed around by many hands and is usually filthy. like hashish.
Cashish : a 20$ bill with a dirt stain on it.
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This week, I've been running around like crazy trying to finish up my Christmas shopping before the kids are let out of school for break, desperately packaging boxes to ship out of town so they make it to their recipients before the 25th, and deciding what I'm going to feed my in-laws while they visit.
I am so thankful to only have those things to worry about.
I am thankful that I was at my fifth-grader's play last Friday night instead of waiting at a firehouse to find out if she had survived a shooting at her elementary school.
I am thankful that I got to bake cookies for my second-grader's school party this week instead of attending a memorial service for her or one of her classmates.
I feel a little guilty about this thankfulness, to be honest with you, because my heart goes out to the community of Newtown, Conn. There is no way for me to wrap my mind around what they are experiencing. The death of one of my children would devastate me. Losing them under such tragic circumstances would anger me.
Yet, I am not exactly sure how I should react.
My first reaction is to consume every bit of media remotely related to the subject. But is that honoring? Does it do any good? It might make me feel better in the short term because, unconsciously, I somehow think that if I read about or talk about the affected, then they are not forgotten and their deaths were not in vain. Except, is my obsession with information more about me and less about them?
I also want to find fault. I want there to be a reason for this senseless event. Blaming makes me feel better because there's a tiny part inside of me that thinks if I can figure out why the shootings transpired, I can keep it from happening in my world. But, logically, I know that won't work.
Another reflexive response is to hunker down with my family in an effort to keep them from harm. It's a fear-based reaction that plays directly into my control-freak nature. And it's useless.
You see, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that, just as I have no control over the length of my own life, I also have no control over the length of my children's lives.
That's really hard to admit.
Yes, I feed them healthy food and make them wear bike helmets, but when push comes to shove, I don't have power over everything that happens to them.
However, I believe in a God who does have that authority.
A couple years ago, the body of a missing 12-year-old girl was found in an irrigation ditch by my house. Violence was close to home that day and I knew at that moment that I could no longer bear the burden of my children's lives by myself.
After they fell asleep that night, I wept over them and wrote this prayer:
Father, these are not my girls, they are yours. I want to hold them and protect them and never let anything bad happen to them, but I know that's not your plan so I release them to you. I will do my best to care for them for as long as you allow (and I hope you know that I hope it's a really long time). Thank you for letting me be a part of their lives and watching them grow into the women you want them to be.
By trusting God with my children, I let go of them. I am less tired now, I feel less panic when horrendous things happen in the world, and, most importantly, I can be thankful for each moment we have together - knowing that they have been scripted by the One who created us.
Jaymi Anderson is married with two daughters. Read her Fridays on Greeley Moms.
You see, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that, just as I have no control over the length of my own life, I also have no control over the length of my children\'s lives.


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Keeping children safe from tobacco's dangers
January 30, 2013
I would personally like to draw attention to the effect of tobacco-related diseases on women. It hit home in a more "in your face" way this past May as I lost my mother-in-law to lung cancer....
This report from the World Health Organization explains why tobacco use is so dangerous and why smoking and second hand smoke (all it takes is for one person in a household to be a smoker) is so dangerous.
Tobacco may kill Half of it's Users and more than 600,000 of those exposed directly through interaction (like living in the same household) with smokers but don not smoke themselves.
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5 Stupid Habits You Develop Growing Up in a Broken Home
How do you react when you hear the phrase "dysfunctional family"? Do you smirk and say, "Oh, man, I could tell you some stories"? Maybe you roll your eyes and think, "Christ, here we go with that 'My daddy didn't love me enough' bullshit." I used to do the latter; people use a bad childhood as a "Get Out of Responsibility Free" card, and even if they were actually from dysfunctional families, who gives a shit? Get over it and move on with your goddamn life, pussy.
But research says there are some very weird, specific and often annoying personality traits a person develops coming from a bad home, and once you know how to look for it, you see them everywhere. See if you recognize any of these people. Maybe you remember them from high school. Or, hell, maybe it's you ...
#5. Lying Becomes Their New Reality
You Know Them As:
This is the guy at school or work who always has to top everything you say. You tell him that you just learned how to do an ollie on your skateboard, and he responds with "Yeah, I learned that when I was 4. I can kickflip over a bus now." Or he tells you the story of how he was almost robbed at the ATM, so he had to use his martial arts skills to disable and apprehend the three attackers. You just automatically know that his story is closer to him walking by a bank and seeing someone who sort of scared him. Then he picked up the pace and went home without issue.
God, just look at the bloodlust in their eyes.
How It Happens:
I haven't told this to many people, so it makes total sense to admit it in front of hundreds of thousands of strangers ... but I used to be a compulsive liar. Don't worry, I confronted and dealt with that issue several years ago, but from early childhood well into adulthood, I lied about absolutely everything. Stupid shit that didn't even require lying to protect myself or someone else -- lying without a purpose. Things like my shoe size or level of education. Claiming I could play certain instruments, in conversations where nobody even gave a fraction of a shit in the first place.
It wasn't until I started doing heavy research into dysfunctional families that I realized that this was a pretty common trait among people who have lived through abuse or neglect. It starts off the way you'd imagine: You learn by example from your parents or siblings. "No, I'm not drunk! We were just out of water, so I bathed in vodka. Get off my ass!" Then you start using it as a tool. "Yeah, I got all of my homework done. Can I go out and play now?"
"This is a recipe for homemade C4. What have I told you about lying to me and planning acts of terrorism?"
Eventually, it gets so ingrained that lying becomes more comfortable than telling the truth. Then, even further down the line, telling the truth starts to feel uncomfortable -- the same way lying feels uncomfortable to normal, healthy-minded people. In the minds of many people who have grown up in a dysfunctional family, lying and honesty literally switch places on their moral compass. Before they know it, they're saying shit that isn't true and not even stopping to ask themselves why. "So far this year, I've had sex with 218 women. At the same time."
They don't do it to be evil. There's no malicious intent behind it. But it's so hard to not think of them as manipulating assholes who are only out to fuck with your head. In truth, it's a defense mechanism, learned and utilized in order to avoid horrifying consequences for mundane things. "If I tell Mom that I broke my glasses, she's going to flip out and beat the piss out of me. Just tell her a bully did it. The kids call him 'Mean Breakglasses' because he does it so often." Or they're looking for the praise and respect that they never got growing up. "When I tell people I'm a 12th-degree black belt in taekwondo, they act impressed, and that feels awesome. Obviously, they're afraid that if they don't show respect, I'll spin kick their head completely off of their fucking neck."
"Let's see you come at me. No, not like that, come at me like this. Yeah, perfect. Now, EAT FOOT!"
#4. They Lose the Ability to Finish Projects
You Know Them As:
The friend who constantly shows you this awesome drawing they've been working on. "And over here, I'm gonna have a black dragon wrapping around her naked boobies and breathing a stream of flaming skulls while the boob woman casts some wizard shit. He fucking breathes skulls, man. It's gonna be so badass." Then you never see it again. When you ask him how it's coming along, he tells you he got busy or decided he didn't like it, so he scrapped the whole thing. And that's that. A week later, he's showing you the beginning of another project that is doomed to incompletion. What a lazy fuck.
"Fuck it, close enough. We can live on that left side, in the back."
How It Happens:
Obviously, there are plenty of people out there who are lazy or just have short attention spans but have never had their pets thrown at their head by their mother or been called "future corpse fucker" by their father. But their reasons for stopping a project in midstride tend to be because either they got distracted or they realized how much work was involved and just said, "Screw this."
Personally, if I had finished all the short stories and novels I've started over the last 20 years, I'd have enough money to retire, based on bulk alone. It turns out that's pretty common among kids who come from dysfunctional families because they lacked the instruction and motivation that's readily available in a normal, healthy family environment.
"Christ, look at that dumbass. Those angles have to be off by at least half a degree. What a piece of shit."
Some of you are about to realize that your home situation wasn't as normal as you thought when I tell you the following: In a normal family, when a child has a hobby or homework, the adult generally helps out, serving as a makeshift teacher. They're right there to point out why you need to add glue here before you hammer a nail into it, or why you carry the one in this math problem instead of writing "Go fuck yourself" in the blank. Even if they're not directly instructing, the child can watch the adult do their own project, while asking questions along the way. Either way, there's an education present that isn't there in the dysfunctional atmosphere.
So the child learns that starting something is pretty easy. But when the hard stuff shows up in the middle, they give up, because they don't know what to do next. They feel like they've failed before they even reach the halfway point. But just as damaging is the absence of a cheering section. For instance, in a healthy household: I'm in the middle of a clay sculpture of a fully erect penis. Detailed right down to the most subtle capillary and circumcision scar. I show it to my dad, who glances over and says, "Oh, wow, that looks great. Exactly like your grandfather's! Keep going, I can't wait to try that out on your mother!" I've been shown praise for my creativity, and I've been motivated to finish the project.
In a dysfunctional family, the best you can hope for is a quick glance away from the TV, followed by, "Can you not see I'm in the middle of this show? Fuck off and stop bothering me." This is the beginning of what will eventually morph into ...
#3. They Become Ultra Responsible (or Catastrophically Irresponsible)
You Know Them As:
This is the friend who gets super pissed off when you're four minutes late for something trivial like going out for coffee. They may or may not go as far as becoming OCD, but in general, household objects have their place, and they need to be put back in exactly that spot when you're done using them. Bills can never be late under any circumstance. Everyone in the world must be taken care of first, before they, themselves, are even considered.
On the opposite end, you have the sack of shit who just crashes on friends' couches until they kick him out. Then he finds a new couch, repeating the process while thinking that the world is out to get him. Life has made him a shit sandwich, served on a plate that's also made out of shit.
And for dessert? That's not cake.
How It Happens:
There is rarely any middle ground with people who have been through a lifetime of dysfunctional bullshit. In many cases, children end up taking on a parental role due to neglect from one or both of their actual parents. They learn from an early age to feed themselves, get to and from school on their own, do their homework without help or guidance ... and often the only help they get in any area is from older siblings who have taught themselves these skills. So you get a 9-year-old kid taking on the responsibilities of a 40-year-old adult, and it seems absolutely normal to them. "Where's my briefcase? I have a parent-teacher conference to attend so I can speak to my teachers about myself."
When they move out, the upside is that they are fully trained to take on "real life." The downside is that they often become obsessive about their responsibilities, and end up teaching this to their children, using the same method that their neglectful parents did. Because they don't view that as neglect -- often, they just see it as a teaching method.
"Shhh. We're teaching him how to make a meatloaf."
Unless something happens to provoke the revelation of "Holy crap, that was all bullshit," it still feels completely normal to them. That's hard enough to realize when you're on the responsible end of the spectrum. On the other side are the people who tried everything to please their parents, but realized that the fight was futile. So they simply gave up out of emotional exhaustion.
Unfortunately, that "Fuck it, I'm done" attitude isn't a one-time thing. Just like the rest of the traits in this article, it becomes a point of habit. Then it further becomes an ingrained behavior. Then a virtually inseparable part of the personality. You see these people refusing to get jobs or continually quitting the ones they have. They neglect chores, relationships, bills. I've been through both of these traits, and I'm telling you from experience that finding a middle ground is like parachuting into a foreign country without knowing the customs or language and trying to survive from scratch. All while being gang fucked by bears. Foreign bears.
Le growl. Le roar.


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high on jar (dope) and cant talk
de slglsjndvlsdnvsdnvsnvlnsdlvnsl 03 Octombrie 2008
an act of being a complete wanker, sometimes used as a more polite alternative for the word shit
" Dude that bitch over there looks jarred!"
"Woah man, your not kidding!"
"Woah man, your not kidding!"
de DJSARMY 07 Octombrie 2011
A male version of a small female dog.
dude, hes such a jarred.
de theonewhohatesyou 06 Iunie 2011
usually a jewish boy who is a hypebeast and his mom is a bitch. He also has a small penis.
That jarred last night was horrible in bed and his finger was broken.
de dasjafj 12 Decembrie 2010
Mean,funny,stupid,gay. Jarred's tend to be gay and get girlfriends to hide there gayness. At school they dress like gay fags. At some point he will come out of the closet and get a 30 year old boyfriend when he is only freaking 16. Jarred's act like stupid stuck up man whores or should i say bitchy slut girl.They are VERY VERY STUPID! So when speaking to a Jarred speak VERY VERY slowly or he/she Jarred transgender or whatever will understand they have the brain of a freaking toddler. But at the end of a crap day Jarred the gay whore will make your day with a stupid shit joke and sexually try to rape you so watch out!!! if you know a Jared,Jarred,Gerad,Garret,Jarret. hahahaha.
Rob: "What is 2+2?"
Person:"i think africa"
Rob:"You must be a Jarred,Get the hell out!!!"
Person:"i think africa"
Rob:"You must be a Jarred,Get the hell out!!!"
de MasterRobanLin 30 Iulie 2012
A short rotund man with pale skin that matches his hair. Jarreds usually don't know how to spell, and are retarded in most aspects. Jarreds seek out single moms who are desperate to date. Jarreds also call and text their exes for up to 4 years after the break up. Jarreds get angry in a blink of an eye, and start hitting randomly. Jarreds are the devil.
That guy is desperate, he must be a Jarred.
de Kangaruse 13 Februarie 2010
The most sexiest guy alive who likes men who are gay with small penises. he likes to watch them jerk it.
"Omg that guy is so hot"
"Yeah i've turned into a Jarred."
"Yeah i've turned into a Jarred."
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Big Brother an elephant in the room
June 15, 2013
If you simply shrug your shoulders over electronic surveillance programs run by our government, please turn to the person beside you and ask them to throw cold water in your face. Good....
The Patriot Act ***** elephant penis. Another (and often overlooked) failure of the Bush Administration. Whether or not this behavior is allowed by the Patriot Act, it's undeniable that its implementation was a catalyst in bringing us down this "Big Brother" road.
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Yet Obama and progressives loved the Patriot Act so well AFTER they took control......they increased it three-fold! PLUS...allowed NSA, IRS to spy on american citizens.
Under President Bush administration....lying deceitful dispicable progressives/democrats whined and screamed about the ILLEGALITY of the Patriot Act. Different story since they got control of congress/WH eh??
See how the left lies? Hypocrites. They screamed about high gas prices too when it was only $1.82 per gallon then Obama got in office and it's been over $3.00 a gallon; total silence.
Democrats/Progressive LIE and deceive. They do NOTHING for the country or the people but tax, spy, deceive and steal!!!
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on February 23, 2013 - 11:08 PM
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature has passed a set of resolutions urging the state to allow direct payment of welfare recipients' housing allowances to landlords if the clients don't use the money for rent.
Legislator Owen T. Steed, a Democrat who represents Niagara Falls, cast the only votes against the resolutions at last week's meeting.
"The slumlords are going to get this money now, and do what with it?" Steed asked.
He and Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, who voted for the resolutions, said it would be better for the state to require advance inspection of housing to be rented to welfare clients, as the federal government does for subsidized housing.
The measures, originally introduced by Virtuoso at the request of a group of landlords, were tabled in the Republican-controlled Community Services Committee last week.
Legislator Cheree J. Copelin, R-Niagara Falls, said she checked with State Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-Newfane, to make sure it would be all right to pass the measures.
"Maziarz has assured me that legislation will be pursued in the Senate," Copelin said.
But she also said current law already has a process that gives landlords a chance to obtain direct payments.
Copelin said if a welfare client fails for two months to spend his housing allowance on rent, the landlord is allowed to make a written request to Social Services for direct payment.
Legislator Paul B. Wojtaszek, R-North Tonawanda, suggested that landlord groups should compile "a list of habitual offenders."
In other matters last week, the Legislature approved the selection of Dawn M. Timm, county environmental science coordinator, as interim head of the Refuse Disposal District.
Timm is to be paid a stipend of $8,500 this year and next, in monthly installments, to govern the district's day-to-day operations. That's on top of her regular salary of $68,028.
Timm succeeds Richard P. Pope, who resigned Jan. 2 after being suspended with pay for two months because of alleged violations of the county's policies on employee residency and private use of county vehicles.
Pope also had a policy clash with County Manager Jeffrey M. Glatz, who has recommended shutting down the district's only active landfill.
The Legislature also voted to create an additional $47,070-a-year conflict defender post to add more manpower to the mandate to supply attorneys to represent poor defendants. Steed and Virtuoso voted no. Legislator Jason A. Zona, D-Niagara Falls, was absent.
The Legislature approved the allocation of 150 kilowatts of discount electricity through the county's Empower Niagara program to Marketing Imprints of North Tonawanda.
The company plans to purchase the former Gardei Printing plant at 525 Wheatfield St., North Tonawanda, and expand into it by April 2014, adding five new jobs to the 15 people it already employs.
Marketing Imprints will invest $945,000 into the acquisition, equipping and renovating the vacant building. The sale of the electricity will bring the county $46,580.
The lawmakers also approved a new email policy, under which all of the county's incoming and outgoing emails will be electronically stored for six years.
The Legislature also accepted a $400,000 state grant to cover some costs of shifting North Tonawanda police dispatching to the county Sheriff's Office, and a $300,000 state grant to help pay for lobbying efforts to protect the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station from closure.
Also, J. Les Myers of Lockport was appointed deputy fire coordinator for the Technical Rescue Team.
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A hot chick with a fine body. people cant resist the booty on a negar. negar also falls under the category for a fun friend. she calls herself a princes?? or most beautiful girl.. at the most part is true :P
I have a negar as a friend
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Other spelling for the term "nigger". Useful for swearing online without the word being blocked. This spelling emerged from the word "vinegar" were the "negar" is pronounced "nigger".
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Blue skies. Sunshine. Warm weather. And some great food.
All ingredients for a picture perfect day at the Berkeley Country Club on Thursday April 24 and the Third Annual Berkeley High School Athletics Hall of Fame golf tournament.
It was a great day and a great time for everyone to get together for a good cause, said Hall of Fame Committee Chairman Lane Wofford.
Twenty-one teams competed in the shotgun start tournament vying for top prizes that included low gross score, low net score, longest drive and closest to the pin.
New this year is the honoring of one of Berkeleys many outstanding teams, the 1960 football squad.
There are teams that deserve to be honored, Wofford said, Teams that were dominant during their time like the 1960 Stags ... that are deserving of their place in history.
The honoring of specific teams is a new wrinkle to the hall of fame, which enters its third year.
The Class of 2014 includes Kathy Brittle Jones, Jimmy Villeoponteaux, David Barnett, Don Brown Jr., Mal Lawyer, Clark Simpkins, Pete Myers, and the 1960 football team.
The 2014 Class of the Hall of Fame will be inducted during the annual Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, Sept. 11 and introduced during halftime of the Friday, Sept. 12 football game against Cane Bay.
We had a lot of calls from people who didnt know about the hall of fame induction and would have liked to attend so we moved the induction back a couple weeks from previous years to give out of town alumni time to make plans, Wofford said.
The Hall of Fame Nominating Committee is comprised of Berkeley Stags fans, BHS alumni and local commmunity business and civic leaders.
Committee members are Dave Copeland, current Hall of Famers Ben Fleming Sr. and Butch Watson, Amy Jones, Craig Mims and Bill McCall Sr.
In May the Berkeley Athletics Hall of Fame will award its first BHAHOF student athlete scholarship, a senior boy and girl student athlete.
We hope this scholarship award will be the beginning of a longstanding tradition at Berkeley High School in honoring the outstanding student athletes that wear the Stags blue and gold, and to give them some assistance as they continue their education on the collegiate level, Wofford said.
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In a private garden overlooking the mountains in Malibu, Calif., The Voice finalist Chris Mann, 31, tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, actress Laura Perloe, also 31, on Friday night.
The bride walked down the aisle in a Lazaro-designed buttercup tulle gown, and the groom wore a District Homme tuxedo. "It's big and romantic and really sets the tone for the whole wedding," Perloe tells PEOPLE.
The couple exchanged bands (his a simple platinum yellow gold and hers a diamond petal band) from the Diamond Center in Los Angeles.
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The theme was based on the Mexican restaurant, El Centro, in New York where the pair met seven years ago. (They were engaged last summer.)
"It is our favorite place on earth and all of our friends over the last seven years with us know this is our spot. So it was only appropriate to recreate this El Centro love that we have in our California way," Mann tells PEOPLE.
The couple chose David Gray's "Be Mine" for their first dance.
"We have been each other's rocks this whole time," says Mann. "Honestly no one next to me feels as good as she does, so that's really the main reason why I'd like to keep her around."


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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION - For children with special needs, Bonnie Zampino created a place for them to go, and now she is raising money to provide those children a way.
A Special Space opened in Charles Town on Aug. 22, and is a before-and after-school center for children all along the special needs spectrum. Zampino, the president and founder of the center, said that she has heard from many parents who are interested in her program, but are unable to attend due to financial constraints.
"I have been approached by moms who are homeschooling their special needs child, and they would love for their kids to be able to come to A Special Space for socialization, but cannot afford it," Zampino said, adding that many parents with special needs children only have one working parent, which can add more financial stress.
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5K participants run to raise money for scholarships to provide funding for special needs children to be able to attend Charles Town's A Special Space.
From that feedback, Zampino and her staff decided to organize a 5K run in order to raise money for scholarship funds for families interested in attending her center. She chose to hold it in October, finding this month a perfect fit as it is "National Disabilities Awareness Month."
Zampino held the race yesterday morning at Sam Michael's Park in Shenandoah Junction. Approximately 50 individuals came out for the run, and at $25 registration fee per person, plus donations received on site, Zampino said she expected the final total raised to be around $1,000.
"We are going to try and use this to pay for some portion of the time so that kids who want to come can come, and so that we can pay our staff without the students necessarily having to pay tuition," Zampino said.
From the post-run snacks to the water to the DJ, everything was donated in order to help A Special Space. Sponsors for the event included Grafton Integrated Health Network, Silver Lining, Nomad Event Systems. Larger companies such as Weis and Sam's Club provided food.
A Special Space is located at Zion Episcopal Church on East Washington Street in Charles Town. The center is designed for children ages 5-12, in addition to preschool students.
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New Yorkers seem to have a reputation: they move fast and have little patience for inconvenience. And lugging umbrellas, especially when they're simply a precaution, can feel like just that.
But there might be another way, say the creators of 'brellaBox, a sharing system in which commuters can rent umbrellas from strategically located boxes.
The idea is to have 500 boxes throughout the city that will offer users the ability to rent umbrellas, $2.50 for 12 hours, or to purchase an umbrella for $15. But the difference between these umbrellas and those you buy at the corner store will be the quality, its founders say. And the umbrellas can be picked up and dropped off at any of the boxes, just like Citi Bike (or the DO School's "Good To Go" to-go cup sharing system, profiled by WSJ last week.)
"Umbrellas that are purchased for sale are disposable, they're thrown away," John O'Connor, co-founder of 'brellaBox, said. "'brellaBox essentially provides a solution by giving people an umbrella when needed and not putting it in the garbage when it's not."
A yearly membership would also be a possibility.
"If they anticipate they have an umbrella that's stashed all over the city for whenever they want to use it, they don't have to go through the process of purchasing or renting an umbrella," Mr. O'Connor said.
The logistics are still being worked out, and the pilot program for 'brellaBox is likely to be at the end of May or beginning of June. Users will be given free rentals for 16 hours at one location, WeWork Charging Bull, a hot spot for working entrepreneurs in the Financial District, and only charged if the umbrellas are not returned. Mr. O'Connor said he anticipates the pilot program to last about three weeks and expects a full rollout by Spring 2015 depending on the pace of fundraising efforts.
It seems clear that some New Yorkers use umbrellas in a disposable manner. That's what husband and wife architects Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter and their team found when they made their performance architecture piece "Harvest Dome 2.0" that is now floating on the Gowanus Canal.
The group used 450 thrown out and defective umbrellas, some picked right off the streets of New York City, and 128 soda bottles, for their project, which was meant to show the connection between people and their nearby waterways.
"When you throw something out on the ground, that's going to affect the watershed and overflow the sewer system," Ms. Schacter said.
Ms. Schachter thinks 'brellaBox could be useful if it expands across the city, but the quality of the umbrella will be important. She said the $5 umbrellas that were used in her project aren't meant for all types of rain.
"They do get discarded very easily, you see that after a windy rain," Ms. Schachter said. "There are two kinds of rain – the kind where those umbrellas work is where it's raining straight down, and the kind with wind where those umbrellas break."
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Not really related but I love the Eurosport guys. May they live (and announce skating) forever.
Not really related but I love the Eurosport guys. May they live (and announce skating) forever.
129.84 (SB), total 196.80 (SB) and her third GPF gold!
Congratulations. Nice to see a good FS on the podium...
Wagner got 62+ in PCS for that skate, the highest until Asada showed up? Well, no need for me to explain the bonus mark question asked from the SP thread then.
It's the ice. The ice looks bad today!
1. Mao Asada (JPN) - 196.80 Free Skate
2. Ashley WAGNER (USA) - 181.93 Free Skate
3. Akiko SUZUKI (JPN) - 180.77 Free Skate
4. Kiira KORPI (FIN) - 174.94 Free Skate
5. Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS) - 173.75
6. Christina GAO (USA) - 154.54 Free Skate
Absolutely thrilled for Mao - Great win
I almost cried after Mao's performance!I was the 1st who bashed her at NHK. This time everything was deserved))Not at her best but still a class of the field=)
I don't like Ashley. She seemed arrogant to me but I was like after she fell..Feel pity for her((((Still a very strong skater.She showed her strong will when she continued skating after that HARD fall
Oh Ashley I feared she was going to lose momentum if she skated badly at the final. Surprised at the fall on the salchow, but then again it's her least favourite jump. But the axel, I wasn't surprised she fell, she had so little speed going into it that it was doomed to be underrotated. But wow I literally screamed when it looked like she wasn't going to get up. MAJOR PROPS for landing that flip; I was wondering the whole time during the steps whether she was still going to attempt it or not and she did it so very well. I believe a little extra pcs were given for her courage, because her performance during the steps was otherwise very hesitant.
I really really hope the fall won't result in a serious injury for her! Happy she's still got silver, that in itself is a huge accomplishment.
Asada; happy to see her skate well, but... It's becoming a bit of a tradition to cry 'overscored' for every Lady's win this season, but I feel I need to say it; nearly 130 for that? Undoubtedly the deserved winner of the night. Huge score to warn Yuna?
I'm surprised Ashley was able to continue jumping after that nasty fall! She's a fighter.
I was overcome with emotion at the half way point where Mao slows down. Her countenance and poise had sadness. I was not expecting this and I cried.
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If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. Researchers have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays. By adding specific types of small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, they were able to direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two, and even three dimensions with no chemical modification of either the nanoparticles or the block copolymers. Read Full Highlight
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When Tyrone Area High School senior lineman Justin Reader sits down to Thanksgiving dinner with his family in less than two weeks, he knows he'll have plenty for which to be grateful.
Regardless of whether the Golden Eagles are playing for the District 6-AA football championship this year, or not.
On June 2, 2010, while target-shooting with a .17-caliber rifle in the woods near his grandparents' Grazierville home, Reader suffered a life-threatening injury.
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Reader took a pause from his hobby of shooting at tin cans that day, and leaned his gun against a tree while standing at the top of a cliff. While going to retrieve the rifle, he lost his footing.
With his thumb inadvertantly resting on the trigger.
The gun discharged, and a bullet rung through Reader's ribcage and into his right lung. Calamity ensued.
"I was really scared when it first happened,'' said the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Reader, who starts on both sides of the line of scrimmage for Tyrone, which hosts Cambria Heights in a District 6-AA quarterfinal-round playoff game Saturday night at 7 p.m. "My ears were ringing, and I couldn't hear anything. I couldn't breathe at all. When I was trying to breathe, blood was spraying out of my chest. I told myself that I needed to get out of the woods as quick as I could, or I was going to die.''
Reader was only 15 at the time and had just finished his sophomore year at Tyrone.
"I just tried to walk out of the woods,'' Reader said. "I collapsed in the woods when a neighbor found me. The ambulance rushed me to the hospital.''
The neighbor who lived right down the road from Reader's grandparents was a middle-aged man named Russ Coady, who reacted quickly to the crisis.
"He knew exactly what to do,'' Reader said. "He applied pressure to my chest and kept me conscious. If it wouldn't have been for him, I knew I wouldn't be here today. He saved my life.''
Coady, 65, tried his best to assure Reader that he would survive.
"My wife, Debra, and I had heard him screaming for help,'' Coady said. "He was coming down out of the woods, he was laying on the ground, and I made sure that he kept still, because when he moved, blood would gush out of the wound. My wife gave me a clean towel to apply to his wound, and I applied pressure to the wound and kept him from moving. He kept asking me if he was going to die. I kept reassuring him that everything would be OK, once he got to the doctors.''
Coady said that his wife called 911, and no more than 10 minutes later, an ambulance was at the site. Reader's father, Rich, was working his shift at the Tyrone paper mill when the call about his son came through.
"I heard the ambulance sirens blaring in the background,'' Rich Reader said. "When I found out what was happening, it's a parent's worst nightmare. We almost lost him.''
Justin Reader was rushed to the Altoona Regional Health System's Altoona Hospital campus, where he spent the next two weeks, including the first eight days in the intensive care unit.
"He had a collapsed lung,'' Rich Reader said. "[Doctors] couldn't risk going in there to remove the bullet. They put a tube in his lung, to drain everything out. The bullet remained in there, like pieces of pencil lead. They kept the lung drained, and they had to re-inflate it. They kept a close eye on him.''
It took a long while for things to get back anywhere close to normal for Justin Reader, who is also a starting heavyweight on Tyrone's wrestling team.
"It was really hard,'' he said of the recovery process. "I lost a lot of weight while I was in the hospital and a lot of strength. Just getting up and walking was hard. When I got up, I'd be out of breath.''
A 50-yard walk down the hospital hall was a major accomplishment.
"I started out walking about 50 yards, then the next night 60 yards and the next night 70 yards,'' Reader said. "It was a long, hard process.''
Reader eventually worked up to doing three-mile runs once he left the hospital. His desire to return to the football field never waned. When he returned for his junior year, he played about a half-dozen games before problems resurfaced in the middle of last season.
"By the fifth game last year, I was coughing up blood,'' said Reader, who was breathing with the help of inhalers. "I told myself that I had to get it checked out.''
Reader was on the sidelines for the rest of last season, including Tyrone's magical run into the state championship game - a December loss to Lancaster Catholic at HersheyPark Stadium.
"Every day, I wanted to get better so badly,'' he said. "I had a lot of friends on the team, and every week was more exciting as we won the district championship and went on to the state championship game. I would have given anything just to be on the field.''
Thanks to his hard work and his return to full health, Reader has returned with a vengeance this season. He leads the Tyrone team in quarterback sacks, and he also provides stability for an offensive line that has been one of the team's biggest strengths.
"His motor just keeps on going,'' first-year Tyrone head coach Steve Guthoff said of Reader. "To come back this year after not playing last year, and to win a starting job on both offense and defense, is amazing. He doesn't take a play off on the field.''
Or a moment off away from it. Reader puts in all the necessary extra hours weight-lifting, running and conditioning to keep himself in top physical shape.
"He got it into his head that he wasn't going to let the injury stop him,'' Rich Reader said. "He's always been a great kid.''
And the fact that he cheated death helps Justin Reader put something like a high school football game into the proper perspective.
"I really worked hard to get to where I am now and to be able to play this year,'' said Reader, who recently celebrated his 18th birthday and has plans to continue to compete in sports in college. "I'm thankful for that. But the biggest part is that I'm thankful to be alive.''


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LEWISTON – In a Niagara University commencement speech, Nik Wallenda said his 27-minute tightrope walk across Niagara Falls and its wind and blinding mist followed a life of conquered obstacles – from self-doubt to reluctant governments – that he hoped might inspire.
"Seek out what makes you unique. ... From what vantage point do you hope to one day view your life?" said Wallenda, who talked of his plan to walk across the Grand Canyon this summer. "Pursue your dreams and never give up."
Wallenda, who drew thousands to the Falls last June to watch him carry on a family tightrope-walking tradition, said Saturday that he nearly pursued a safer career managing a restaurant.
"I knew I could have easily settled for what seemed practical," he said, speaking to a crowd of 2,300, including 300 hospitality and business graduates in the NU gym. Instead, he said, there was a deeper satisfaction in the riskier path, a choice that included his daring walk last summer – a feat nearly nixed by Canadian officials. "With each step on that wire, I was fulfilling a dream."
Wallenda also told the story of his grandfather, who once sneaked out of a hospital to perform on the high-wire:
"That 'never-give-up' mantra was becoming ingrained in my character," said the grandson.
On Thursday, Kenneth Taylor, former Canadian ambassador to Iran, spoke to 375 NU students earning master's degrees – from education to business and criminal justice. Taylor, who was portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie "Argo," credited his success in helping to rescue Americans during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis to good relations between the U.S. and Canada.
On Saturday afternoon, retiring NU President Rev. Joseph L. Levesque asked nearly 500 graduates in education and arts and sciences to demonstrate hope and peace in memory of those who died in school shootings and the Boston bombing.
Two others area colleges held commencement ceremonies Saturday.
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At Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, 1,140 students earning degrees and certificates in fields ranging from health and large animal care to culinary arts laughed at the humor and wisdom of Stephanie Miller, a Lockport native with a nationally syndicated radio show.
She joked about missteps, such as her early stop at local station WHLD: She was proud of a 20-minute monologue until the manager called to ask why there was radio silence. She hadn't turned on the microphone.
"So that did not turn out as I'd hoped," said Miller after the ceremony. "Sometimes your dreams don't look exactly like you think they're going to."
Hilbert College
Developer Howard Zemsky delivered the keynote address to Hilbert College's 267 graduates in Wesleyan Church, Hamburg.
This year's graduation featured the school's first 19 students to earn master's degrees in criminal justice and public administration. The specialities fit with the college's undergraduate programs in forensic science, legal studies, accounting and digital media.
Zemsky, managing partner of the Larkin Development Group, urged curiosity and humility.
"If you take yourself too seriously," he said, "you will talk too much and listen too little."
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