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Sulfur is a bright yellow, non-metallic element produced during the process of refining petroleum and natural gas. Sulfur is also naturally found in the human body where's it's a component of the B-vitamins, thiamine and biotin and is involved in a variety of metabolic reactions necessary for life. For example, it forms disulfide bonds that help to keep protein molecules stable and endow them with strength. It's also a vital component of the essential amino acid methionine. Sulfur is well-known for the "rotten egg" smell it gives off when it's burned. Sulfur is also an abundant element geologically. It's made inside stars by the fusion of helium and silicon and is present in meteors, geysers, volcanoes and near hot springs. In addition, sulfur is found in some foods. Good sources are green, leafy vegetables, broccoli, egg whites, nuts, seeds and beans.
Two forms of sulfur used medicinally are dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and methylsulfonylmethane (MSM). MSM is used in supplemental form to treat the symptoms of arthritis, although there are some questions as to its effectiveness. Some studies show it's also effective as a treatment for seasonal allergies and hay fever. DMSO is a by-product of papermaking that's used industrially and medicinally. Medical-grade MSO is used to treat a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. It also shows promise for treating the painful condition called shingles.
Warm baths containing sulfur and minerals are used to treat some health conditions such as arthritis, back pain, varicose veins and skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. The warm water and absorption of sulfur and minerals through the skin is thought by some to be therapeutic for these conditions, although research is conflicting.
Sulfur is also an ingredient in some acne treatment products including acne facial washes, ointments and acne creams. It's an effective treatment for acne that has been around for many years. Sulfur has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties and is a keratolytic that promotes shedding of the outer layer of dead skin cells. This helps to open up clogged pores and re-generate new skin tissue, thereby improving the signs and symptoms of acne.
Sulfur is also combined with sodium sulfacetamide, a compound that has anti-bacterial activity, to treat acne. The combination of the keratolytic activity of sulfur and the anti-bacterial properties of sodium sulfacetamide is a powerful combination for treating acne. In some acne products, sulfur is combined with other acne-fighting ingredients such as benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid. Sulfur also has an anti-inflammatory effect that's beneficial for treating acne. In addition, topical sulfur is effective for treating the inflammatory skin disease rosacea.
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New Evidence That Obama Belonged to Socialist Party...
Original post made by MaryAnn, Downtown, on Jun 15, 2009
Democrat's campaign denied allegations, but new evidence indicates membership
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Excerpt from New Party publication (Courtesy New Zeal blog) JERUSALEM – Evidence has emerged that Sen. Barack Obama belonged to a socialist political party that sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.
Here is the link below...
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(PS...This posting is dedicated to "Frank")
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a resident of Del Prado
on Jun 15, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Thanks for this revalation! GET A GRIP! That same web sight also has this article:
"You don't have to be an Old Testament prophet to see what's going on all around us. A belligerent lower class demanding handouts. A rapidly diminishing middle class crippled by police state bureaucracy. An aloof, ruling elite that has introduced us to an emerging totalitarianism which seeks control over every aspect of our lives.
As the meltdown progresses, one of the first things to be affected will be our nation's food supply. Expect soaring prices along with moderate to severe shortages by spring. If you don't have the ability to grow your own food next year, your life may be in danger. Supply lines for food distribution in this country are about three days, meaning a dependence on "just in time" distribution systems, which will leave store shelves empty in the event of even the smallest crisis."
a resident of Del Prado
on Jun 15, 2009 at 11:10 pm
And this:
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First, you need to have the peace of mind knowing that if things were to get scary, that you and your family could still eat. Listen: having enough non-hybrid seeds to plant an acre or two could be the difference between life and death. With our new "Survival Seed Bank," growing your own survival food becomes easy. Remember, our hand-picked seeds are not genetically modified in any way. You simply save some of your harvest seeds from year one and have more than enough to plant in year two. You'll never need to buy seeds again! You just can't do that with man-made hybrid seeds.
It's been very difficult to acquire high quality, open pollinated seeds lately. We've had a lot of our Food Storage Secrets' customers asking for a good source and we finally have seeds we feel comfortable offering folks whose lives may depend on exceptional germination rates.
Start stockpiling weapons and seeds now, before its too late, freak!
a resident of Valley Trails
on Jun 15, 2009 at 11:27 pm
And in the book store on that web site is this:
You will be shocked to learn what lies beneath the well-polished rhetoric of this slick orator. Obama speaks vaguely about "change," but as this book reveals, Obama's brand of change is a hostile attack on the Judeo-Christian values and freedoms most Americans hold dear.
This isn't "change you can believe in"—it is change designed to uproot American culture and replace it with the failed, secular, socialist policies of the past.
In "The Audacity of Deceit" you'll learn how Obama:
Blocked emergency medical aid for babies who survived abortion.
Plans to ban the use of firearms by lawabiding citizens—even for self-defense.
Was abandoned by his bigamist father and raised in a Muslim society—and
how this influences his values.
Would raise tax rates to a Hoover-like 60 percent.
Will transform the U.S. Treasury into the United Nations' ATM.
Wants fuel prices high and farmland taken out of production.
Will grant federal medical insurance to 12 million illegal aliens and increase
emergency room costs alone by $15.4 billion annually.
Would transfer child-rearing from parents to the federal government with his
secular "0 to 5" program.
You will also read exclusive polling results that reveal the 30 percent of Americans who pay no taxes, what they believe, and who they are planning to vote for.
His goal? Replace the Judeo-Christian values that gave birth to the "land of the free" with failed radical leftist beliefs.
This is the one book every American must read—before it's too late!
SO, Maryanne,
I guess he had the vast majority of the American citizens fooled, and you graciously have revealed this to the educated people of Pleasnton?
a resident of Amador Estates
on Jun 16, 2009 at 6:56 am
It's scary to think that Pleasanton, a high class, intelligent community, dispels hate and fear so readily. I can understand it if you're from Arkansas, Tennessee or Oklahoma, even Texas (poor souls). Hate is not a platform of intelligence. Making-up stories about people being from "strange places" is close to ignorance, the same type of ignorance we disdain in terrorists hate mongers. If you dislike Obama get a political group together, rally in the streets and vote your new guy in. It's a simple concept called DEMOCRACY.
a resident of Del Prado
on Jun 16, 2009 at 9:08 am
Cathy Tellis,
Wow! reading the threads above I do not see any of which you are speaking and at the same time you are accusing others of scary, hate, fear, ignorance, etc. you proceed to accuse everyone in the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas of being hateful and ignorant. You need to look in the mirror girl or at least read and reflect on what you write before you hit the submit button.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Jun 16, 2009 at 10:11 am
Well, I have a friend from Texas and she wants Texas to secede from America. She doesn't like the way things are going and gets very mad about it. You have to admit, people from the states I mentioned are a little on the "slow side" compared to people from Pleasanton. But, I don't mean that in a mean spirited way. I just feel that people should be more positive about their views. Incidentally, I do reflect a lot. I write poetry.
a resident of Del Prado
on Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 am
Cathy Tellis,
I believe people should be judged on their viewpoints, actions, and common sense and not by where they are from. I have travelled a lot and have been to all of the states and most countries and being from one place or another does not mean anything. There are plenty of stupid people in Pleasanton and this is proven by your writings.
a resident of Parkside
on Jun 16, 2009 at 11:13 am
SteveP is a registered user.
You have a friend in Texas that mentioned seceding from the union (no doubt in frustration with the direction of our country since January) and suddenly everyone in the Heartland is on the 'slow side'?
And you people wonder why the rest of the country perceives Californian as spacey, liberal elistists.........
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Jun 16, 2009 at 11:17 am
We are spacey, liberal elitists and Darn Proud Of it!
We smooke dope, invent computers and the software to run them, then we spend the next twenty years on line complaining about how spacey and liberal we are.
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Jun 16, 2009 at 11:18 am
We are spacey, liberal elitists and Darn Proud Of it!
We smooke dope, invent computers and the software to run them, then we spend the next twenty years on line complaining about how spacey and liberal we are.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Jun 16, 2009 at 11:47 am
You cannot prove anything from my writings because I keep them private (although I am planning to self-publish my poetry on-line this fall). But, I hope you are not insinuating that I am "stupid". I am not from Texas, my friend is. I was just telling everyone what she said. Besides, I won an honorable mention three years ago in a poetry contest. Bobby, please be positive. Here's my thought for you. Go outside and see the beautiful Pleasanton sunshine. Lose your anger. Write a poem. Remember: The real issue is whether Obama is a real American or a socialist. How can you become president if you're not an American? Stay on track.
a resident of Rosewood
on Jun 16, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I was reading the post by Cathy Tillis and thought she was somewhat crazy. But then I saw this post from Tennessee. I'll let you decide
Web Link
a resident of Mohr Park
on Jun 16, 2009 at 3:39 pm
The first definition of Socialism is "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole".
Belief, or disbelief, in an economic theory does not make, or not make, someone a "real American". If you're a natural born citizen, or have adopted our country through immigration, naturalization and citizenship, you are an American. The only difference is that you can't hold the office of President or VP unless you're natural born.
I'd be real interested in hearing how you define a "real American".
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 16, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I read these items but upon further review I still believe Cathy to be crazy.
a resident of Livermore
on Jun 16, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Cathy is nuttier than a fruitcake! hahahahahahahahhaa...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 am
Note to Cathy Tillis. Sweetie please stop embarrassing yourself in public.
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Sigh. Your cite said the strip was so bad SCOTUS slapped them the next year. I did not say anything was fair.
Sigh. Your cite said the strip was so bad SCOTUS slapped them the next year. I did not say anything was fair.
A few software thoughts
who understood deeply drop dead dates?
Sane people will sign on to a sure to fail project . At least a year before you get together and write each other glowing references and leave. What went wrong?
this project was part of automating the entire DSHS? Client interface and i can point to worse disasters in trying to do that but i do not know of a success.
of course no one was in charge in the sense of knowing and being able to force decisons for the DSHS project and the cover Oregon project.
I can expect the requirements would have involved a lot of unobtainium hard AI anyway. These things always do.
on the positive side
they did not deploy the crap under the original guy. I was rather proud of him for that
First of all it turns out the gerrymanding does not make much difference anymore according to one Study i read. It is part of the problem in Ferguson and around my state but i really think it is mostly just tradition and something to fight over if you are a politician.
In my state we sometime have the legislature perfectly split by party. That is when we actually get useful stuff done. Further one of those times we need to redistrict. So the backroom kids said let's just go with the computer output. Every one was happy with the output. But what was really a relief was that they did not have to waste time fighting over this.
I expect SCOTUS has limited the amount of benefit you can get from the game. Also we are sort of Lilly white anyway. It was illegal to be black back in the day.
Dark fibre is about $400 a meter due to trenching etc. On a spool it is say $2 a meter. There is a lot more dark than lite but try buying dark!
I think the conduit is often a natural monolopy. Who should own it?
Muni and coops CAN put their own conduit in along with fibre and so on. The trick us that they cannot reasonably do a big big bang CAPEX investment. But they really do not need to do so if they are willing to DYI over say 20 years.
now ask yourself not only why you do not have single mode fibre to your apartment but when you look out the window you see power poles.
Hmm. I used to leve big gaps in stalled traffic. I can avoid stop and go and then the pole behind get to also. In principle the jam is eliminated. Also consider the case where you need to merge right couple miles out. The guy to my left can see what i am doing and hang on my back bumper screwing the assholes who try to get to the front of the line and so block smooth merges. Now tell me about why assholery is optimal behavior at a group level.
The SI pros do not approve of this Roman numeral chaining. Really. Of course they are not really happy to have km but at least that is official.
But if i am to be pedantic i should also troll: The largest official SI prefix is Y for 10**24. A YB appears in a couple important public policy issues I follow. Now this is obviously meaning we need a way to talk about kY whatever and so we need to extend the official prefixes.
Alternatively a distance of a Ym is about the size of the visible universe and kYm
Is bigger. Even the idea of distance at a cosmological scale is uncertain. It is difficult to believe Congress has a feel for that sort of magnitude.
So guys, what shall we fix?
Historically book publishers sold paper. The content was sort of a loss leader. You can *feel* the disruption in the Force from ebooks.
You might want to identify publishers who are other than paper pushers historically. Baen and Beacon come to my mind.
Duh. Nothing out there you like? Business opportunity.
People get their asses kissed for writing books filled with this sort of trollish use of logical thought experiments. This fellow actually picks practical public policy issues that are in the news and invites close reasoning. Worse sometimes he does real stuff. He needs a regular column.
It seems odd to me that someone would think a fiction writer is necessarily doing an autobiography and even if the writer says he is that this is true.
Curious. I expect men kill more women than visa versa. And I thought the reference was to evolutionary pressure. But if the woman developeress gets industry wide 86'd
I should pay for sex? I should pay so the cops do not beat me? Why are you complaining about complainers on slash. If you are a premium subscriber maybe you should talk to admin.
After you strip away all the layers of false flags here you may find a mirror. Grow up a bit.
My state of Oregon is fully in drought. California is in extreme drought. Pretty much all the west has been in drought in a more general way for over a century.
Now in California if you have 100 year water rights then you might own water you can sell privately. Since the public sources are no longer there for many uses then buying on the spot market might make sense. The spot hit $2200 acre foot recently. You can play with this and see that this might be 250 1000 gallon units untreated. So i guess this Texas town is maybe paying $200 for an acre foot and this treated. These numbers are pretty much just in my head approximations and you can recalculate as needed.
California if this this goes on will be in a humanitarian crisis in 18 months. If so, you may be affected. You might want to support what this Texas city did after making the scat jokes. Or maybe shut down high water use export industries. When we ship a pound of beef out of country, how much water is effectively being shipped with it?
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And I can name a few shows that are local in northern markets that combine pop culture.
Lupica in NYC.....Kornhieser in DC.....Those are the ones I know off the top of my head since
I'm not interested in many teams up that way, and I don't travel around anymore. Most of the
shows I listened to in CA included pop culture.
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I like both of them separately, but together, not so much. That whole "Morning Zoo" atmosphere annoys me.
Thanks Shifty!
Crowder is better on the radio than on the field
Surprised there is so much love for Rose, Personally i am not a fan.
He has a really bad habit of repeating himself over and over again, plus there is only so much Joe Rose talks about his sex life or Personal life i can take.
Hey to each there own Personally i think he was best when he was part of the morning team (DEFO,Goldie etc.) they were a great group together. Nice Dynamic.
Want-Goodell to be Impeached.
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Why is he leaving?
790 is better anyway.
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Edward C. Hirchert
Edward C. Hirchert, 93, of Platteville died on Monday, January 14, 2013 at his home.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, January 21, 2013 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Platteville. Rev. Faustino Ruiz will officiate. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, Platteville. Chapel Military Rites will be accorded by American Legion Post #42 and VFW Post #5274. Friends may call from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Sunday at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, where there will be a parish rosary at 3:45 p.m.; friends may also call from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service on Monday at the church. Memorial may be made to the Edward C. Hirchert Memorial Fund. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com The Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, is serving the family.
Ed was born on August 22, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of William and Anna (Vysa) Hirchert. He was united in marriage to Frances Marie Young on September 14, 1940 in Chicago. Ed served in the United States Army during WW II where he received the Bronze Star. He worked for many years for the Arthur A. Craft Company in Chicago where he designed and engineered diamond industrial tools. After retiring Ed and Frances moved to Dickeyville, Wisconsin, and owned and operated the Plaza Motel for five years before moving to Platteville. Ed was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Platteville, American Legion Post #42, VFW Post #5274, Platteville and the DAV (Disabled American Veterans). He enjoyed working with his hands and creating his own personal pieces of art for his family. He liked to hunt, fish and spending time at his cabin in Minong, Wisconsin. In May 2012 Ed took part in the Honor Flight Program.
He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Frances of Platteville; six children, Nancy Minser of Lombard, IL; Bill (Rose) Hirchert of Littleton, CO; Connie (Bill) Stadelmann of St. Charles, IL; Eddie Hirchert, Jr. of Lake In The Hills, IL; Mary Lou (Jim) Wydeen of Caledonia, WI; Dan (Lisa) Hirchert of Waterloo, WI; 14 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter; one sister, Mildred Hoffman of West Chicago, IL. He was preceded in death by his parents, grandson, Jeffrey, and brother, Richard.


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Team Mozilla Philippines, in cooperation with Tomasino Web and Wikimedia Philippines staged the very first Open Web Day at the oldest university in Asia: the Royal and Pontifical University of Sto. Tomas. The half-day event venue was held at the St. Albertus Magnus Auditorium (Ed-Tech Center) earlier today. Attended by a couple of UST students and some friends of TomWeb. Jojit Ballesteros of Wikimedia Philippines gave a talk on what Wikimedia (the power behind the world's biggest encyclopedia) is… Read the rest


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Menmon choking on tears. It was a job interview... your 'company'(USA) is tanking...who would you hire? There was only one crystal clear choice. Affirmative action, and minority quotas don't come into play. Sorry, Romney is the man for the job.
Romney ates Obama's lunch and he looked like he was enjoying every minute of it. I especially liked it when Romney blew Obama's tax write off for sending jobs overseas coment right out of the water.
You have to be smart Obama isn't he relies on his people who are all a bunch of losers. I liked the line where Obama said if you move a business overseas you can claim the deduction Romney looked at him and said I have been in business 25 years and I dont know what you are talking about or I need a new accountant. Obama just repeats things that are not true. Romney knows how to run this country obama doesnt its clear after 4 yrs he doesn't know what he's doing.
my favorite was when Romney basically called Obama a teenage boy trying to lie his way out of something... you can't just keep repeating the same lies over and over thinking that it will eventually be true
He said it..it must be true. Obama prooved himself last night. He overflowed with uncertainty, he was unprepared, and he convinced the world of his incompetance. He was exposed. He is exactly what the media did not want us to see and Romney exposed it. A democratic strategist suggested the President needed 24 hours to review and study the questions offered at the debate. 4 weeks of studying the subject wasn't enough? 4 years of "working" on the economy wasn't enough? What quality university offers the students questions on the test before an exam? Really? If you worked for me Mr. Obama, you would be unemployed effective immediately. OH You do work for me...Your pink slip will be delivered in November. Your services are no longer required.
He even picked on the Donald! Cant wait for his response.
Don't worry, the Bobble Heads on PMSNBC said that "JOE BLOW" will have to Bail JugEars out next week at the VP debate.:p
When will the MSM start to get off the Good Ship Obammer?
Could not wait to get home from work to see what menmon had to say. Well like everybody else still waiting
No you are going to be eating one of those recycled ducks that Bobby George will not throw away in about 30 days. Thats about how long Bobby uses them before he gets rid of them. Helps with the bird bill but sure wouldn't want to eat one.


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- Studies of a large number of people
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- High response rate (greater than 60%)
- Conducted in the last 5 years
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- Diabetes identification by oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) or fasting blood glucose test
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Brian Dozier, the Fulton product who's been starting much of the season at shortstop for the Minnesota Twins as a rookie, was optioned to Triple-A Rochester after the Twins' game on Tuesday night.
A Twins blogger provides some analysis here.
The 25-year-old Dozier, who played at IAHS and Southern Miss, was hitting .234 in 84 games with six home runs and 33 RBIs. There had been buzz this week at ESPN.com that the Twins' management was considering sending Dozier down for more work on his hitting and fielding. Dozier has 15 errors this season.
"I'd have sent me down, too," Dozier told reporters. Last year, he was the Twins' minor leaguer of the year.
Minnesota assistant GM Rob Antony told the local ESPN Radio affiliate that the demotion to Triple A was as chance for Dozier to "get his confidence back offensively and defensively." Story here.
He may have made the decision easier with a play in the field on Sunday that that led to a Twins loss, after he failed to try to throw home in tie game. It didn't go into the books as an error, but was portrayed by the Twins' local media as a mental lapse.
Jamey Carroll (.247) started Monday and Tuesday at shortstop for Minnesota.
A quick fan favorite despite his struggles, Dozier has been the subject of a couple recent stories in the Daily Journal, this one from about a month ago and this one from about two weeks ago. Always, he's been unfailingly good to deal with.
A couple of things that jump out after looking in depth at Dozier's batting stats – he was hitting only .206 in night games, .227 against right-handed pitchers and .207 with runners in scoring position. He had 16 walks against 58 strikeouts and a .271 on-base percentage.
Dozier was hitting .276 in 28 games at Rochester – with a much better .339 on-base percentage – before his callup in early May. At Triple-A, he was hitting .316 against right-handers.


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New Site was a good basketball team without Grace Elliott, but the Lady Royals are definitely a state championship contender with her in the lineup.
Elliott, who missed the season's first 12 games recovering from a summer softball injury, has averaged 12.2 points per game since her Dec. 18 return to the court.
"She missed five months," New Site coach Byron Sparks said. "She couldn't run, she couldn't lift weights. All she could so was stand and shoot.
"That set her development back, and the team's, too."
on the rise
The 6-foot sophomore scored a career-high 29 points and grabbed eight rebounds in Saturday's Class 2A North Mississippi tournament championship game win against Potts Camp.
The Lady Royals' fifth consecutive North title was also their 19th straight win this season.
New Site (30-4), the defending state champion, plays Amite County at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the semifinals of the state tournament at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson.
Senior guard Christy Clark, a Daily Journal All-Area selection in 2012, has led the team. She's averaged 13.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game.
But, it's the presence of Elliott that has bolstered the team's overall strength.
"We were counting on Grace a lot," Sparks said. "We learned to play without her, which was good for the kids. She definitely makes a difference in our team."
Elliott can play any position on the floor, Sparks noted. Against Potts Camp, she was an offensive force inside, scoring on putbacks and layups. She did connect on a 3-point shot late in the first half to give the Royals their halftime lead in their 65-55 win against Potts Camp.
"Coach Sparks told us we had to go out and work for it, that the game (against Potts Camp) was going to be physical," Elliott said.
New Site's tough schedule has also prepared it for the playoffs. The team's losses have been to Class 3A finalist Ripley, 6A schools Gulfport and Ocean Springs, and state private school champion Starkville Academy.
Joining Elliott and Clark in the lineup are Addison Lucas, Cristin Pharr, Shelby Stricklen and Marlee Taylor.
Pharr averages 13.2 points while Stricklen leads in rebounding with 6.6 per game.


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"HOW magnificently your imagination gallops when it once gets agoing! Here you are bearing away the spoils, when the siege is not even yet begun—never will be, I venture to hope, for I doubt if this would be a very honourable"—
The speaker broke off, abruptly, as the shadow of horse and rider lengthened upon the turf. And, during the silence which followed, Richard Calmady received an impression at once arresting and subtly disquieting.
A young lady, of about his own age, leaned against one of the white pillars of the colonnade. Her attitude and costume were alike slightly unconventional. She was unusually tall, and there was a lazy, almost boyish indifference and grace in the pose of her supple figure and the gallant carriage of her small head. She wore a straight, pale grey‐green jacket, into the pockets of which her hands were thrust. Her skirt, of the same colour and material, hung in straight folds to her feet, being innocent alike of trimming and the then prevailing fashion of crinoline. Further, she wore a little, round matador's hat, three black pompoms planted audaciously‐upstanding above the left ear. Her eyes, long in shape and set under straight, observant brows, appeared at first sight of the same clear, light, warm brown as her hair. Her nose was straight, rather short, and delicately square at the tip. While her face, unlined, serenely, indeed triumphantly, youthful, was quite colourless and sufficiently thin to disclose fine values of bone in the broad forehead and the cutting of jaw and cheek and chin.
In that silence, as she and Richard Calmady looked full at one another, he apprehended in her a baffling element, a something untamed and remote, a freedom of soul, that declared itself alike in the gallantries and severities of her dress, her attitude, and all the lines of her person. She bore relation to the glad mystery haunting the fair autumn evening. She also bore relation to the chill haunting the stream‐side and the deep places of the woods. And her immediate action ratified this last likeness in his mind. When he first beheld her she was bright, with a certain teasing insouciance. Then, for a minute, even more, she stood at gaze, as a hind does suddenly page: 178 startled on the edge of the covert—her head raised, her face keen with inquiry. Her expression changed, became serious, almost stern. She recoiled, as in pain, as in an approach to fear—this strong, nymphlike creature.
"Helen," she called aloud, in tones of mingled protest and warning. And thereupon, without more ado, she retired, nay, fled, into the sheltering, sun‐warmed interior of the Temple.
At this summons her companion, who until now had stood contemplating the wide view from the extreme verge of the platform, wheeled round. For an appreciable time she, too, looked at Richard Calmady, and that haughtily enough, as though he, rather than she, was the intruder. Her glance travelled unflinchingly down from his bare head and broad shoulders to that pocket‐like appendage—as of old‐fashioned pistol holsters—on either side his saddle. Swiftly her bearing changed. She uttered an exclamation of unfeigned and unalloyed satisfaction—a little, joyful outcry, such as a child will make on discovery of some lost treasure.
"Ah! it is you—you!" she said, laughing softly, while she moved forward, both hands extended. Which hand, by the same token, she proposed to bestow on Dickie remained matter for conjecture, since in the one she carried a parasol with a staff‐like gold and tortoiseshell handle to it, and in the other, between the first and second fingers, a cigarette, the blue smoke of which curled upward in transparent spirals upon the clear, still air.
As the lady of the grey‐green gown retired precipitately within the Temple, a wave of hot blood passed over Richard's body. For notwithstanding his three‐and‐twenty years, his not contemptible mastery of many matters, and that same honourable appointment of Justice of the Peace for the county of Southampton, he was but a lad yet, with all a lad's quickness of sensitive shame and burning resentment. The girl's repulsion had been obvious—that instinctive repulsion, as poor Dickie's too acute sympathies assured him, of the whole for the maimed, of the free for the bound, of the artist for some jarring colour or sound which mars an otherwise entrancing harmony. And the smart of all this was, to him, doubly salted by the fact that he, after all, was a man, his critic merely a woman. The bitter mood of the earlier hours of the day returned upon him. He cursed himself for a doting fool. Who was he, indeed, to seek revelation of glad secrets, cherish fair dreams and tempt adventures?
Consequently it fell out when that other lady—she of the cigarette—advanced thus delightfully towards him, Richard's page: 179 face was white with anger, and his lips rigid with pain—a rigidity begotten of the determination that they should not tremble in altogether too unmanly fashion. Sometimes it is very sad to be young. The flesh is still very tender, so that a scratch hurts more then than a sword‐thrust later. Only, let it be remembered, the scratch heals readily; while of the sword‐thrust we die, even though at the moment of receiving it we seem not so greatly to suffer. And unquestionably as Dickie sat there, on his handsome horse, hat in hand, looking down at the lady of the cigarette, the hurt of that lately received scratch began quite sensibly to lessen. For her eyes, their first unsparing scrutiny accomplished, rested on his with a strangely flattering and engaging insistence.
"But this is the very prettiest piece of good fortune!" she exclaimed. "Had I arranged the whole matter to suit my own fancy it could not have turned out more happily."
Her tone was that of convincing sincerity; while, as she spoke, the soft colour came and went in her cheeks, and her lips parting showed little, even teeth daintily precious as a row of pearls. The outline of her face was remarkably pure—in shape an oval, a trifle wide in proportion to its length. Her eyebrows were arched, the eyelids arched also—very thin, showing the movement of the eyeballs beneath them, drooping slightly, with a sweep of dark lashes at the outer corner. It struck Richard that she bore a certain resemblance to his mother, though smaller and slighter in build. Her mouth was less full, her hair fairer—soft, glistening hair of all the many shades of heather honey‐comb, broken wax, and sweet, heady liquor, alike. Her hands, he remarked, were very finished—the fingers pointed, the palms rosy. The set of her black, velvet coat revealed the roundness of her bust. The broad brim of her large, black hat, slightly upturned at the sides, and with sweeping ostrich plumes as trimming to it, threw the upper part of her charming face into soft shadow. Her heavy, dove‐coloured, silk skirts stood out stiffly from her waist, declaring its slenderness. The few jewels she wore were of notable value. Her appearance, in fact, spoke the last word of contemporary fashion in its most refined application. She was a great lady, who knew the world and the worth of it. And she was absolute mistress both of that knowledge, and of herself—notwithstanding those outstretched hands, and outcry of childlike pleasure,—there, perhaps, lay the exquisite flattery of this last to her hearer! She was all this, and something more than all this. Something for which Dickie, his heart still virgin, had no name as yet. It was new to his experience. A something clear, simple, and natural, as the sunlight, yet infinitely subtle. page: 180 A something ravishing, so that you wanted to draw it very close, hold it, devour it. Yet something you so feared, you needs must put it from you, so that, faint with ecstasy, standing at a distance, you might bow yourself and humbly worship. But such extravagant exercises being, in the nature of his case, physically as well as socially inadmissible, the young man was constrained to remain seated squarely in the saddle—that singularly ungainly saddle, moreover, with holster‐like appendages to it—while he watched her, wholly charmed, curious and shy, carried indeed a little out of himself, waiting for her to make further disclosures, since he felt absurdly slow and unready of speech.
Nor was he destined to wait in vain. The fair lady appeared agreeably ready to declare herself, and that with the finest turns of voice and manner, with the most coercive variety of appeal, pathos, caprice, and dignity.
"I know on the face of it I have not the smallest right to have taken possession in this way," she continued. "It is the frankest impertinence. But if you realised how extremely I am enjoying myself, you could not fail to forgive me. All this park of yours, all this nature," she turned sideways, sketching out the great view with a broad gesture of the cigarette and graceful hand that held it, "all this is divinely lovely. It is wiser to possess oneself of it in an illicit manner, to defy the minor social proprieties and unblushingly to steal, than not to possess oneself of it at all. If you are really hungry, you know, you learn not to be too nice as to the ways and means of acquiring sustenance."
"And you were really hungry?" Richard found himself saying, as he feared rather blunderingly. But he wanted, so anxiously, the present to remain present—wanted to continue to watch her, and to hear her. She turned his head. How then could he behave otherwise than with stupidity?
"La! la!" she replied, laughing indulgently, and thereby enchanting him still more, "what must your experience of life be if you suppose one gets a full meal of divine loveliness every day in the week? For my part, I am not troubled with any such celestial plethora, believe me. I was ravening, I tell you, positively ravening."
"And your hunger is satisfied?" he asked, still as he feared blunderingly, and with a queer inward movement of envy towards the wide view she looked upon, and the glory of the sunset which dared touch her hair.
"Satisfied?" she exclaimed. "Is one's hunger for the page: 181 divinely lovely ever satisfied? Just now I have stayed mine with the merest mouthful—as one snatches a sandwich at a railway buffet. And directly I must get into the train again, and go on with my noisy, dusty, stifling journey. Ah! you are very fortunate to live in this adorable and restful place; to see it in all its fine drama of changing colour and season, year in and year out."
She dropped the end of her cigarette into a little, sandy depression in the turf, and drawing aside her silken skirts, trod out the red heart of it neatly with her daintily shod foot. Just then the other lady, she of the grey‐green gown, came from within the shelter of the Temple, and stood between the white pillars of the colonnade. Dick's grasp tightened on the handle of the hunting‐crop lying across his thigh.
"Am I so very fortunate?" he said, almost involuntarily.
His companion looked up smiling, her eyes dwelling on his with a strange effect of intimacy, wholly flattering, wholly, indeed, distracting to common sense.
"Yes—you are fortunate," she answered, speaking slowly. "And some day, Richard, I think you will come to know that."
Sudden comprehension, sudden recognition struck the young man—very literally struck him a most unwelcome buffet.
"Oh! I see—I understand," he exclaimed, "you are my cousin—you are Madame de Vallorbes."
For a moment his sense of disappointment was so keen, he was minded to turn his horse and incontinently ride away. The misery of that episode of his boyhood set its tooth very shrewdly in him even yet. It seemed the most cruelly ironical turn of fate that this entrancing, this altogether worshipful, stranger should prove to be one and the same as the little dancer of long ago with blush‐roses in her hat.
But, though the colour deepened somewhat in the lady's cheeks, she did not lower her eyes, nor did they lose their smiling importunity. A little ardour, indeed, heightened the charm of her manner—an ardour of delicate battle, as of one whose honour has been ever so slightly touched.
"Certainly, I am your cousin, Helen de Vallorbes," she replied. "You are not sorry for that, Richard, are you? At this moment I am increasingly glad to be your cousin—though not perhaps so very particularly glad to be Helen de Vallorbes." Then she added, rapidly:—"We are here in England for a few weeks, my father and I. Troublesome, distressing things had happened, and he perceived I needed change. He brought me away. London proved a desert and a dust‐heap. There page: 182 was no solace, no distraction from unpleasant thoughts, to be found there. So we telegraphed and came down last night to the kind people at Newlands. Naturally my father wanted to see Aunt Katherine. I desired to see her also, well understood, for I have heard so much of her talent and her great beauty. But I knew they—the brother and sister—would wish to speak of the past and find their happiness in being very sad about it all. At our age—yours and mine—the sadness of any past one may possess is a good deal too present with one still to afford in the least consoling subject of conversation."—Madame de Vallorbes spoke with a certain vehemence. "Don't you think so, Richard?" she demanded.
And Richard could but answer, very much out of his heart, that he did indeed think so.
She observed him a moment, and then her tone softened. The colour deepened yet more in her cheeks. She became at once prettily embarrassed and prettily sincere.
"And then, to tell you quite the truth, I am a trifle afraid of Aunt Katherine. I have always wanted to come here and to see you, but—it is an absurd confession to make—I have been scared at the idea of meeting Aunt Katherine, and that is the real reason why I made Honoria take refuge with me in this lovely park of yours, instead of going on with my father to the house. There is a legend, a thrice accursed legend, in our family,—my mother employs it even yet when she proposes to reduce me to salutary depths of humility—that I came,—she brought me —here, once, long ago, when I was a child, and that I was fiendishly naughty, that I behaved odiously."
Madame de Vallorbes stretched out her hands, presenting the rosy palms of them in the most engaging manner.
"But it can't—it can't be true," she protested. "Why, in the name of all folly, let alone all common decency, should I behave odiously? It is not like me. I love to please, I love to have people care for me. And so I cannot but believe the legend is the malign invention of some nurse or governess, whom, poor woman, I probably plagued handsomely enough in her day, and who, in revenge, rigged up this detestable scarecrow with which to frighten me. Then, moreover, I have not the faintest recollection of the affair, and one generally has an only too vivid memory of one's own sins. Surely, mon cher cousin, surely I am innocent in your sight, as in my own? You do not remember the episode either?"
Whereupon Dickie, looking down at her,—and still enchanted notwithstanding his so sinister discovery, being first, and always a page: 183 gentleman, and secondly, though as yet unconsciously, a lover, proceeded to lie roundly. Lied, too, with a notable cheerfulness born, as cheerfulness needs must be, of every act of faith and high generosity.
"I remember it? Of course not," he said. "So let the legend be abolished henceforth and for evermore. Here, once and for all, cousin Helen, we combine to pull down and bury that scarecrow."
Madame de Vallorbes clapped her hands softly and laughed. And her laughter, having the merit of being perfectly genuine—for the young man very really pleased her fancy—was likewise very infectious. Richard found himself laughing too, he knew not why, save that he was glad of heart.
"And now that matter being satisfactorily disposed of, you will come to Brockhurst often," he said. It seemed to him that a certain joyous equality had been established between him and his divinity, both by his repudiation of all former knowledge of her, and by their moment of laughter. He began fearlessly to make her little offerings.—"Do you care about riding? I am afraid there is not much to amuse you at Brockhurst; but there are always plenty of horses."
"And I adore horses."
"Do you care about racing? We've some rather pretty things in training this year. I should like awfully to show them to you."
But here the conversation, just setting forth in so agreeable a fashion, suffered interruption. For the other lady, she of the grey‐green gown, sauntered forward from the Temple. The carriage of her head was gallant, her air nonchalant as ever; but her expression was grave, and the delicate thinness of her face appeared a trifle accentuated. She came up to Madame de Vallorbes and passed her hand through the latter's arm caressing]y.
"You know, really, Helen, we ought to go, if we are not to keep your father and the carriage waiting."—Then she looked up with a certain determined effort at Richard Calmady. "We promised to meet Mr. Ormiston at the first park gate," she added in explanation. "That is nearly a mile from here, isn't it?"
"About three‐quarters—hardly that," he answered. Her eyes were not brown, he perceived, but a clear, dim green, as the soft gloom in the under‐spaces of a grove of ilexes. They affected him as fearlessly observant—eyes that could judge both men and things and could also keep their own counsel.page: 184
"Will you give your mother Honoria St. Quentin's love, please?" she went on. "I stayed here with her for a couple of days the year before last, while you were at Oxford. She was very good to me. Now, Helen, come"—
"I shall see you again," Richard cried to the lady of the cigarette. But his horse, which for some minutes had been increasingly fidgety, backed away down the hillside, and he could not catch the purport of her answer. To the lady of the grey‐green gown and eyes he said nothing at all.


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Thread: Best way to swap filters?
02-14-2013, 03:47 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Best way to swap filters?
The filter in my 20 gal is starting to act up and I need to change it before it quits. I have the new filter but whats the best way to switch to the new one without completely destroying my cycled tank?
02-14-2013, 04:04 PM #2Senior Member Red tailed catfish
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Yeah. Quite a lot of cases of acting up can be fixed by giving the impeller a good clean. Try to transfer as much media as possible.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
+1 one to the above posts
As a alternative, you can run both filters on the tank for about 6 weeks allowing the new filter to become seeded with bacteria and then remove the old one. I have done this twice now on moderately stocked tanks without even a mini spike in the water parameters after I took the old filter off.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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02-14-2013, 04:55 PM #5Junior Member Guppy
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I'm assuming it's the motor, it's not been pumping right for the last few days. I decided to replace it since it needed updating anyway. It's at least a year or two old. I got the setup used from a lady that was just going to dump it and flush her poor platy so I took him and the tank.
I've had the tank up and running for around 10 months now, no problems at all with it until this filter issue.
A year or two old and you 'expect' it to act up? That filter is either junk or just needs cleaning - I've bought cheap filters and never has one failed under four years. As one posted, the implier might need cleaning.Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
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02-14-2013, 11:19 PM #7Junior Member Guppy
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I think I'll go with Cliff's suggestion and run them both for 6 weeks, as long as the old one will hang on that long, if not I'll transfer as much as possible.
Thank you all for the help. :)
A year or two old and you 'expect' it to act up? That filter is either junk or just needs cleaning - I've bought cheap filters and never has one failed under four years. As one posted, the implier might need cleaning.
I've already tried cleaning the impeller.
If you want just take the old filter cartridge and put it into the new filter. In the new filter if there is enough room, put both the new and old cartridge in there, then in a few weeks time take the old cartridge out.


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Books by three faculty members honored
Posted February 17, 2004; 05:22 p.m.
Books by three Princeton faculty members have won top honors in their categories from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
The awards are given annually to acknowledge excellence in book, journal and electronic publishing in all the disciplines represented by professional, scholarly and reference publishing. Awards were presented in 30 categories this year.
The books by Princeton faculty members were published by Princeton University Press. They are: in economics, "Interest and Prices" by Michael Woodford , the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking; in government and political science, "Identity in Democracy" by Provost Amy Gutmann , the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; and in philosophy, "Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century, Volumes I and II" by Scott Soames , professor of philosophy.
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Event promotes health benefits of walking
Friday, April 25, 2008, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. · Frist Campus Center south lawn
Posted April 18, 2008; 09:52 a.m.
The kickoff of the Princeton Start! Walking Program, an initiative to promote the health benefits of walking, is set for 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, April 25, on the Frist Campus Center south lawn.
Highlighted by a one-mile fun walk around campus beginning at 12:15 p.m., the event also will feature health screenings, information about the benefits of walking, and merchandise and discounts from area businesses.
The Princeton Start! Walking Program is sponsored by Healthier Princeton. Organizers hope to offer regularly scheduled, informal walking groups for campus community members.
The kickoff event is free and open to all faculty, staff and students, with no registration required. Questions may be directed to Gina Abrams or Susan Crane.


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...since we just had "Black history month"...we should have a White history month", and if not a month, mebbe just a day eh?
Since there is no place in the USA that could be whiter than these two states, here's some 'history'...no doubt written by their favorite 'sons'.
Feel free to offer some of your own 'history'...but keep it short. We only get a day or so, let's not go overboard.
Minnesota became the 32nd state on May 11, 1858 and was originally settled by a lost tribe of Norwegians seeking refuge from the searing heat of Wisconsin's winters. Minnesota gets its name from the Sioux Indian word "mah-nee-soo-tah", meaning, "No, really...they eat fish soaked in lye". The state song of Minnesota is "Someday the Vikings will... Aw, never mind". The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota covers 9.5 million square feet and has enough space to hold 185,000 idiot teenagers yapping away on cell phones. Madison, Minnesota is known as "the lutefisk capital of the world". Avoid this city at all costs. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was set in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was Mary's first real acting job since leaving the "Dick van Dyke Show.
Downtown Minneapolis has an enclosed skyway system covering 52 blocks, allowing people to live, work, eat, and sleep without ever going outside. Cartoonist Charles M. Shultz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in St. Paul. He was the only artist to accurately depict the perfectly circular heads of Minnesota natives. The Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota produces 6 million cans of Spam a year, even though no one actually eats it. Spam is a prized food in Japan and Hawaii--Spam sushi!! Minnesota license plates are blue and whitecontaining the phrase "Blizzards on the 4th of July - you get used to it."
Frank C. Mars, founder of the Mars Candy Co. was born in Newport, Minnesota. His Three Musketeers candy bar originally contained three bars in one wrapper; each filled with a different flavor of nougat - chocolate, Spam and lutefisk. Tonka trucks continue to be manufactured in Minnetonka, Minnesota, despite the thousands of GI Joe dolls killed by them annually in rollover accidents. No airbags, no seat belts.
Author Laura Ingalls Wilder was raised at Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and was famous for writing the "Little House" series of books, as well as inventing the "Spam diet" which consists of looking at a plate of Spam until you lose your appetite--much like the "lutefisk diet". The snowmobile was invented in Roseau, Minnesota so as to allow families a means of attending 4th of July picnics. Minnesotans are almost indistinguishable from Wisconsinites. The only way to tell them apart is to ask if they voted for Mondale in '84.
Proud to be from Wisconsin! The United States is the land of my birth, and is the strongest and wealthiest country on earth. But the states aren't all equal, I'm sorry to say, is Wisconsin's the pick of the 50 today. I like Virginia, Montana and Maine, but in my mind, it's in Wisconsin I proudly remain, with walleyes and fish fries and hot apple pie and the Badger-land motto: "Eat Cheese or Die!" We've got forests and prairies, breweries and dairies, skiing on water and skiing on snow from Big Bend to Bayfield, Potosi to Plainfield--the lucky ones live in Wisconsin.
Arizona's too dry, Colorado's too high, in Alaska you'll freeze and in Georgia you'll fry. Hawaii's so distant, it's barely existent, California is crumbling; let's all wave good-bye. Nevada's too empty, the deserts don't tempt me; in Kansas a forest is just one lonesome tree. New York is an anthill, a flesh-and-blood landfill, and too many lawyers run loose in DC. We've got silos and steeples, and down-to-earth people; Holsteins a plenty and Guernseys galore. From Lone Rock to Lena, New Glarus to Neenah, The lucky ones live in Wisconsin.


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The Tour Méditerranéen that begins Wednesday in Limoux, France, shapes up to be different than past editions, said BMC Racing Team's Amaël Moinard, who will be competing in the race for the sixth time.
Something For Everyone
Moinard said the addition of a 24 kilometer individual time trial that finishes on Mont Saint Claire isn't the only change. "The first stage could be windy to Gruissan and then it will be tricky and hilly for the next few days until the (Stage 4) finish on the Mont Faron, which I think will decide the final winner," Moinard said. BMC Racing Team Assistant Director Yvon Ledanois said with a roster that includes sprinters, climbers, a time trialist and breakaway specialists, there are a number of opportunities to make some results. "Because this race includes some of the same roads, it will also help prepare the riders who will be doing Tour du Haut Var and then focusing on Paris-Nice," he said.
Download the official BMC Racing Team race sheet (PDF with roster, bios, statistics, etc.):
BMC Racing Team Tour Méditerranéen Roster (Feb. 6-10):
Marcus Burghardt (GER), Thor Hushovd (NOR), Klaas Lodewyck (BEL), Amaël Moinard (FRA), Steve Morabito (SUI), Daniel Oss (ITA), Marco Pinotti (ITA), Danilo Wyss (SUI).
Sport Director:
Yvon Ledanois (FRA)
Scott Major (USA)
Performance Director:
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Bus Drivers: Steven Christiaens (BEL), Danny Debuck (BEL). Chef: Walter Grözinger (GER). Mechanics: Peter De Bleecker (BEL), Kevin Grove (USA), Christian Moore (AUS), Glen Vandevyvere (BEL). Nutritionist: Judith Haudum (AUT). Soigneurs: Chris De Vos (BEL), Anthony Lafourte (BEL), Anthony Pauwels (BEL).


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Diversity Rules but Consistency is King
A few days ago, Tom over at The Runner's Lounge posted about Consistency. It really struck a cord with me.
I often joke that I have "fitness ADD". I like to do a lot of different things and sometimes it can be hard to manage them all. I'm passionate about running, curious and determined about cycling, in love with yoga, committed to weight-training, and to top it all off, I play softball at a very competitive level each spring and summer.
That's a lot.
The risk here, of course, is that I spread myself so thin across all these different activities, that I never really see my full potential at any one of them individually. For years I have struggled with the idea of the "niche" – in business they say "Niche = Rich". In other words, pick one thing, become really, really good at it, and you'll be successful.
Unfortunately, that model doesn't work for me. Not in my professional life, and not in my athletic life. I need diversity. I demand diversity. It's just how I tick. I have totally come to terms with that.
Which is why I like the word consistency.
Consistency and diversity can very easily walk hand in hand. Consistency is getting up every day and doing something. Diversity is constantly changing up what that something is.
I have always shied away from the idea of cycling competitively because I look around me and all the cyclists that I know are people who ride their bikes every single day. I mean, Sal gets up and talks about bikes, and then goes and rides bikes, and then buys things related to bikes, and then reads things related to bikes online, and then goes home and talks more about bikes… and then goes to sleep and dreams about bikes. When he designs our holiday cards, there are bikes on them.
You get the point.
I'm not like that. So, this year, I wondered… would it be possible to be competitive on a bike and not have to ride a bike 6 days a week? To get my answer, I went to experts. I talked to a lot of people. I asked for help. I don't know anything about cycling, so I needed guidance as to whether my perception about competitive cycling as an all-or-nothing engagement was correct.
Of course, it wasn't.
And now I've got a plan for how I can reach some of my cycling goals, while still enjoying a healthy serving of workout diversity each week. Sure, I'm riding my bike consistently more than I ever have in the past (and purposefully, I should add) but I'm also still doing the other things that make me who I am, and make me happy.
I'd say the biggest factor for success here is planning. I say this over and over again so much that you are probably covering your eyes screaming, "Not this planning shit again!!!!"
But here it is.
To successfully put together a consistent yet diverse training schedule, planning becomes absolutely essential. Because if you don't plan, it's way, way, way too easy to just get completely scattershot with five major activities to balance. So I am getting really kick-ass about planning this year.
And, just as important, I'm getting really kick-ass about follow through. If it's in the plan, it happens.
I'm excited to feel like I have come to a point where I have a handle on my engagement with all these different passions. I'm excited to have figured out how to take what I love and put them together in a way that is effective, pointed toward specific goals, and still extremely enjoyable.
Eat it up, Frank Sinatra. I'm doing it my way too.
Related Posts and other fun stuff:
- Change it Up: Variety is the Spice of your Sporty Life
- 27 Nutrition Tips from the Master: Part One
- Favorite Things: 2007 Version
- Ten Rules for Good Nutrition from Berardi
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Okay, I'm sitting down tonight with my notebook and planning out my fitness year. Last year the plan was all about the Leadville 100 MTB. This year, so far, no goals, no plan. No wonder I'm going nowhere.
I'm gettin' me a plan. A diverse and consistent plan.
Preach on sister.
I've reached the point of diminishing returns on the "just ride your bike" model of training. My training plan doesn't have me on the bike every day, and this time of year it doesn't have me on the bike (outside) at all! Fortunately everything fits in with "the plan": more running and yoga in the fall and winter, more weight training in the winter and spring, more cycling in the summer and fall. I totally agree, planning is the key. Don't know how you fit softball in there though!
Although my long distance cycling requires lots of time on the bike, I also like to mix it up. During the winter I like snowshoeing and backcountry skiing. Summer I like to hike and backpack. I only run when something big and scary is chasing me and I like to keep those situations to a minimum.
I think the key is learning when some other activity is too close to a big event. Close to events I think you need to be focused on the primary sport but other times cross training is beneficial both physically and mentally.
I've gotten pretty overwhelmed in the past with other "bikers" and "skiers". The absolute singlemindedness with which some people can pursue a single sport just astounds me. So it's nice to hear that someone else is as ADD about sports as I am.
Timely post, cuz. We're thinking along the same lines. I'm looking forward to geeking out on the planning and reaping the rewards of it this summer!
What do you think about rest and recovery? Are those on the bike every day going to keep gaining over time or suffer fatigue and burnout? Nobody seems to give the couch the credit it deserves as a valuable training partner. Most people seem to think recovery is something you drink or a supplement you use to keep banging out reps. If you have a nice schedule do you stick to that or listen to your body? Trust me, I'm so a.d.d. I've been typing and retyping this for an hour. I like to hike, run (hard on my knees,) bike, and inline skate, and now having seen some really cool alternatives to boring gym routines on youtube I would like to start doing anaerobic exercise. Not to mention I gotta fit the dog in too!


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The Second Edition continues its no-nonsense approach to the topic that has made it one of the best selling books on the subject. It is an authoritative, straightforward volume that readers--from the graduate student, to the professional mathematician, to the physicist or engineer using analytical methods--will find useful both as a reference and as a guide to real problem solving.
About the authors: Elliott Lieb is Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Princeton University and is a member of the US, Austrian, and Danish Academies of Science. He is also the recipient of several prizes including the 1988 AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize. Michael Loss is Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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President Obama shakes hands with audience members at the conclusion of a town hall meeting held Aug. 23 in the Mandela Room at Binghamton University.
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College affordability is an issue that President Obama admitted is "personal" to him.
"A lot of you know that I wasn't born into a lot of wealth or fame," he said. "There wasn't a long Obama dynasty. The only reason Michelle and I have been able to accomplish what we've accomplished is because we got a great education."
Obama came to Binghamton University on Aug. 23 to tout "A Better Bargain for the Middle Class: Making College More Affordable" – a three-part plan aimed at curbing college costs and improving the affordability of higher education.
The president found a partner in Binghamton University, a school that has already expanded high-impact research, increased access through a commitment to need-based financial aid, reduced its student-to-faculty ratio from 22-to-1 to 19-to-1, and has maintained affordability by committing to a five-year rational tuition policy established by the New York legislature.
"I'm excited about the great work that SUNY campuses like Binghamton are doing to keep costs down for hard-working students," Obama told a crowd of 300 students, faculty members and administrators in the Mandela Room of the University Union, while hundreds of others watched a live stream of the talk in the Watters Theater. Dignitaries at the event included former U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, current Congressmen Richard Hanna and Paul Tonko, Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan and state Sen. Thomas Libous.
"Mr. President, you have a friend, a partner and an advocate in Binghamton," University President Harvey Stenger said in his introductory remarks. "Please let us know what we can do to assist you. The stakes are high and the task is daunting, but we are committed to helping you in any way possible."
SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher pointed to programs such as Open SUNY, SUNY Works and SUNY Smart Tracks as ways that have "positioned SUNY to remain one of the most affordable and quality higher education options in the United States."
"President Obama once again chose The State University of New York to highlight what's working in higher education and outline his vision for the future," she said. "His three-part plan to make college more affordable for all Americans is a cornerstone of the foundation that we are building in New York."
Obama briefly outlined his affordability plan before beginning a town-hall meeting, .
The first reform aimed at "shaking the system up," he said, is a rating system that by 2015 would be based on well colleges provide students with value and opportunities. Taxpayer dollars would be steered toward high-performance, high-value schools.
"We want to look at factors such as: How much debt do students leave with? Do they actually graduate in four years? Do they find a job?" Obama said.
More accountability would also be demanded of students, who would need to finish courses before seeking more loans and grants.
The second part of the plan calls for colleges and states to be innovative and consider ways to reduce costs. Some examples include online classes and "flipped" courses in which students may watch lectures out of class and solve problems in class.
"There are schools now that are experimenting with giving credits based on your competency as opposed to how much time you are spending in the classroom," he said.
The final part of the plan helps students manage their debt and financial obligations. The president wants to better advertise a program that now caps monthly debt payments to 10 percent of current income.
"It's manageable and you are not going to have to make career decisions based simply on 'how much money can I make to pay off my student loan?'" he said. "We have this program in place, but it's not as widely known as it needs to be and not as many young people are eligible for it as we want to."
The nation's current path toward college affordability is unsustainable, Obama said, and a broad-based conversation is needed on the topic.
"The bottom line is that we need to stop taking the same business-as-usual approach," he said.
The college-affordability proposal served as the foundation for a 55-minute town hall meeting that featured questions from students and faculty members. For the sake of fairness, Obama called for "a girl-boy-girl-boy" format.
Nicole Rouhana, director of graduate nursing programs in the Decker School of Nursing, asked Obama if there were any provisions within the affordability plan that would support nurse practitioners and healthcare workers to create a sustainable workforce as the Affordable Care Act moves forward.
Obama said there are parts of the Affordable Care Act that assist doctors and nurses who make a commitment to work in underserved communities. Nevertheless, nursing shortages persist in some areas.
"Part of the problem is that too many nursing instructors get paid less than actual nurses," he said. "So we end up not having enough (nursing) slots in some schools. We have to upgrade many schools of nursing to make sure that we have enough instructors."
Obama expressed his support for early-childhood education after Ivanna Smith, a graduate student in the College of Community and Public Affairs, asked about cuts to the Head Start Program.
"I want to expand early-childhood education," he said. "It is just common sense. Studies have shown that the biggest bang for the buck you can get in education is to invest early. If we have 3- and 4-year-olds well prepared when they start school, that momentum continues. If they start behind, too often they stay behind."
It is "pennywise and pound-foolish," he added, not to back important issues such as college affordability, early-childhood education, research and technology, and national infrastructure because of a non-existent "deficit crisis."
"If we don't do these things, in 20 or 30 years we will fall further behind," Obama said.
Anne Bailey, associate professor of Africana studies and history, said she is planning to attend the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and asked the president about today's connections between education and civil rights and making sure that under-represented groups have educational opportunities.
"Fifty years after the March on Washington and the 'I Have a Dream' speech, we've obviously made enormous strides," Obama told Bailey. "I'm a testament to it and you're a testament to it. The diversity of this room and the students who are here is a testimony to it."
But it is in the best interest of all Americans to make sure policies are in place to give underfunded communities a lift, he said, "and to create ladders so that young people in those communities can succeed."
"I think the biggest challenge we have is not that we don't know what policies work, it's getting our politics right," Obama said. "Because part of what's happened over the last several decades is, because times have been tough, because wages and incomes for everybody have not been going up, everybody is pretty anxious about what's happening in their lives and what might happen for their kids, and so they get worried that, well, if we're helping people in poverty, that must be hurting me somehow, it's taking something away from me.
"And part of what I think we have to understand is that America has always been most successful, we've always grown fastest, and everybody's incomes have gone up fastest when our economic growth is broad-based, not just when a few people are doing well at the top, but when everybody is doing well."
Lauren Villalva, an integrated neuroscience major, drew Obama's attention with her field of study.
"That sounds impressive!" he said. "Explain that to me. It has something to do with the brain and nerves?"
"It's a mix between psychology and biology," Villalva replied.
Villalva asked if future financial-aid formulas could include the living costs of the region that applicants reside in.
"It is a challenging problem because if you start getting into calibrating cost of living just in a state like New York − a big state that has such diversity in terms of cost of living − then it might get so complicated that it would be difficult to administer," Obama said.
The president called it "an important question" and said he would consult with Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the issue. Obama even told Villalva that she would get a personal e-mail answer from the education secretary on the matter.
Obama, who left the town hall meeting shaking the hands of students and other guests as "Land of Hope and Dreams" by Bruce Springsteen played in the background, told the audience members that they can expect to hear more about the college-affordability debate over the next year.
"We will be talking to your university president," he said. "We'll be talking to the chancellor of the entire system. We'll be talking to faculty. We'll be talking to students. If you have ideas or questions that were not somehow addressed, then we'd like to hear from you."


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I don't always know how to describe my style. Obviously, I have a love affair going on with vintage pieces. But since vintage basically means old, I can't really say that is a style.
I tend to be drawn to beachy, rustic, industrial, glam, cottage, and traditional with the slightest dash of modern. A bit of a smorgasbord.
But as soon as I saw this banker's chair at a yard sale last summer, I knew it wanted to be a simple cottage chair.
(Okay, so confession. I had no idea this was called a banker's chair until I googled it. I usually call office chairs on wheels "rolly chairs". But I realized that makes me sound like a 5 year old and thought I should sound a bit more professional on my blog. But then I felt a burning desire to confess the truth.)
This guy started out nice enough – he just had a huge case of the blahs. Not to mention the wood finish had weird black flecks all over it. Not a fan of that.
So I ended up turning this guy from a manly man chair to a pretty lady.
I painted this chair with three coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in pure white. (Yes, it took three coats. The pure white doesn't seem to cover quite as well as some of the more saturated colors). Then I distressed it with my trusty sanding block. I absolutely love the way chalk paint distresses – it just looks so natural. After recovering the seat with linen, the transformation was complete.
And here she is – a real beauty. I can see her being right at home in a sweet home office. This piece is currently for sale at Olde Salem Mercantile.