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Marcie Jones is celebrating her 72nd birthday and an amazing 57 years in showbusiness with a new gig.
Opening the show will be Fleetwood To The Max, performing all those favourite Fleetwood Mac hits, followed by Marcie with her strong, sassy and sensitive voice, She'll entertain with a mix of blues, funk, pop and country.
"I'm very excited to be working again ... yikes!" she told the Express.
"I might as well be working, it's better than death!"
Marcie's career started out as a teenager with The Thunderbirds in the early '60s. She then went on to perform with Normie Rowe and The Playboys and had many appearances on the popular TV programme The Go-Show. In the late '60s, it was Normie (who was also her fiance by the way) who suggested she team up with the Cook sisters from Brisbane, who were already performing as 'The Cookies'.
With the attention of The Twilights manager Garry Spry, Marcie and The Cookies were signed to E.M.I and went on to record in the studio. Though, it was the demand for session work on tracks such as Something's Got a Hold on Me and Russell Morris' The Real Thing that they are most recognised for today.
With their superb vocal harmonies and their synchronised stage movements, the group went to on to receive worldwide recognition and even toured as the supporting act for The Monkees.
In 1968 Marcie and The Cookies were awarded Best Female Act of the Year by national pop magazine Go-Set and were awarded the Critics Award for the top Australian vocal act.
The Kyneton local and acclaimed singer/songwriter and author (of memoir Runs in the Blood and children's book George and Charlie) has been nominated 17 times in the Victorian Country Music Awards and won Best Female Vocal and the Trailblazers Heritage Award in 2009 with her single Daddy.
Marcie says her loyal fan base is wonderful.
"They make sure that they come to all the shows and support us because we are their teenage years when it was such a fabulous time.
"We've lost so many (fellow '60's performers) in the last few years, Ian Turpie, Peter Doyle, Yvonne Barrett, Lynne Randell, Jim Keays, Darryl Cotton just to name a few," she said.
"Every time we do a Go Show Gold, every couple of years or so, we seem to lose one each time.
"I thank everyone who supports us, they're wonderful, they spread the word, they come and support the shows, they're fantastic."
Marcie will soon be announcing the release of a new single which she has written, called No Glory In War.
"It's me having a go at all the murdering bastards out there!"
"The words are very strong and it's turning out really well. I'll let you all know as soon as it's finished."
Visit Marcie's website or Facebook page to find out where and when you can catch her new show. www.marciejones.com


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Posted on Friday, March 17th, 2017 by Ethan Anderton
Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment already have Aquaman shooting this year, taking the December release date vacated by Avatar 2. But they also hope to have another piece of the DC Expanded Universe in front of cameras before the end of the year. One of the less likely options was Green Lantern Corps, a film that doesn't have a director (just like The Flash), but there may be one waiting in the wings.
A new rumor indicates that Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice writer David S. Goyer, who is co-writing Green Lantern Corps with Justin Rhodes, might end up directing Green Lantern Corps. Read More »


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This is it. Ronda Rousey is actually going to fight Amanda Nunes. Guuuurl. We are fight here with you.
On Friday night, the UFC pulled off a surprise (that doesn't happen often) when they brought out the former UFC bantamweight champion to face off with current champion.
Besides Ronda storming off with a full-on Ronda face, it was everything you would have hoped.
"We never see each other," Nunes continued. "Now, I got more excited."
Nunes will face Rousey at UFC 207 in Las Vegas, NV on December 30. This will be the first title defense for Nunes since she won the belt from Miesha Tate. Rousey hasn't fought since her shocking loss at UFC 193.
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A wonderful historical and sociological gem recorded back in 1979 in Santa Ana, CA. I felt privileged to have had the opportunity to listen to P K Dick's philosophical musings, his ideas, insights, and comments. […]
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This soap opera has everything a viewer could want and more. If Loving You Is Wrong is a Tyler Perry creation; executive produced, written, and directed by Perry for the OWN network.
The story follows the relationships and daily lives of a group five women and their households on the middle-class block of Castillo Lane in the fictional town of Maxine. The female leads are Alex (Amanda Clayton), Kelly (Edwina Findley Dickerson), Marcie (Heather Hemmens), Esperanza (Zulay Henao), and Natalie (April Parker-Jones) who manage their very complex lives while searching for love.
These strong women pay the price to hold their families and personal relationships together. They seem like people who are easy to relate to from the outside, but underneath this surface is a battlefield. Dealing with grief, calamity, and dishonesty is a daily routine while they live out an average middle-class existence raising kids, working jobs, and seeking happiness at all costs.
Fans love it, OWN really loves it, future looks bright!
Fans are vocal about their annoyances with the show, but their comments seem to stem more from being wrapped up in the dramatic storyline and passionate characters than being truly perturbed about the talent behind the show.
Overall, people seem to really enjoy the format and want to see the rich characters develop over time. Tyler Perry has been praised for creating a daily soap opera that offers realistic scenarios and situations that truly affect middle-class working families.
It has received a fair IMDb rating of 6.2 out of 10 with over 600 votes, with mixed sentiments from in the viewer comments.
Top rated, season over season!
OWN is the top cable network for the female demographic on Tuesday nights, thanks to both of Tyler Perry's series, The Haves and the Have Nots and If Loving You is Wrong. Since the network launched in 2011 it hasn't seen such high viewership as with these two shows. If Loving You is Wrong premiered in September 2014 as OWN's highest-rated show, a title formerly held by The Haves and the Have Nots.
Tyler Perry's shows will likely continue to do very well on OWN. Although ratings for If Loving You is Wrong have been on a slow but steady incline, and The Haves and the Have Nots on a slow but steady decline, the two are meeting somewhere around the middle to balance things out nicely for OWN.
Season 3 premiered on September 13, 2016, at a 0.80 demo rating with 2.94 million households tuning in, showing a growth of one million viewers since the series premiered two years ago. This season's premiere put the series in the number two slot on the Top 50 Original Cable list. However, within the first couple weeks, the show dropped 0.22 landing at a 0.58 after the third episode.
If Loving You is Wrong should continue its previous seasons' trends and pick up as the weeks go by. With viewership progressively growing, the OWN soap opera is sure to return for a fourth season.
You can watch If Loving You is Wrong Tuesdays at 9/8c, only on OWN.
Will Joey pull through? Are you a fan of the dynamics between the leading ladies and their families? What will happen with Alex's baby?
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Frances Ann Griffith, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, passed away Monday April 29, 2013 at home. Age, 61 years. She was born on June 17, 1951 in Owosso to Edmond F. and Antoinette (Weber) Eisenhauer. She married James Griffith on September 16, 1972; he survives her. Frances was a life time girl scout and leader. She formerly worked for Citizens Bank, she was a part time bookkeeper and operated the little Professor Book Store and also worked with her husband at Griffith Bump & Paint Shop. Surviving besides her husband James are three daughters: Peggy Griffith of Ferndale, Amanda Griffith of Ferndale and Janice (Jarrett) Acklin of Mildenhall, UK. One grandson: Jarrett Acklin IV, her mother: Antoinette, six brothers and sisters and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father and brother; Edmond. Funeral services will be held on Thursday May 2, 2013 at 11:00am at Whelpley-Martin Funeral Home in New Lothrop. Friends may call at the Funeral Home on Wednesday May 1, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Memorials are suggested to Genesys Hospice. www.wmartinfuneralhome.com
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recently moved to the area... are there any decent trails around the area for an after work ride?
1 hockey puck-$2
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8 missing teeth-$23K IOU from tooth fairy
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check out mmba.org, its got a great list of trails around the area
I lubed my disc brakes because they squeaked.
Man was that fun to work out
Watch the "Ride Anouncements" section on mmba.org, there are 25-30 miles of trails right in Ann Arbor, though you will probably need someone to show you around.
any interest in a riding potawatomi today (saturday 27th)
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Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana, a 30-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father, the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King, her life was charged with its own drama long before she married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, her romantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering she endured in that relationship, and her adventures in the freewheeling 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is the core of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos. The couple was drawn indelibly together by a search for truth and spirituality, but while yearning to be filled with God's light, they were pulled dangerously toward a manipulative cult. They eventually disengage themselves from the guru and reclaim control of their lives, putting their love for each other before the cult's increasingly strenuous demands. Space Between the Stars is a moving account of self-discovery, rendered in raw, beautiful prose, by a woman whose heart has remained pure even in times of despair. As Deborah Santana talks frankly about her lifelong fight against racial injustice and her deep-seated loyalty to her family, ultimately it is the struggle to remain a spiritual and artistic force in her own right, in the shadow of one of the world's most revered musicians, that shines through as her most indomitable pursuit.More
"Santana could've easily produced a thin tale of gossip and name-dropping in the pop music life. Instead, she has written a balanced, open memoir of a life that hasn't been without its missteps." (Publishers Weekly)
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She lived/lives with grace and intention.
Yes and I will read/listen to it again.
Deborah is present for the audience every step of the way she takes us on her journey with raw honesty. She is an artist who paints with words and there is no holding back. As she stated...She found her voice...Word-up Sister-girl!
Well Audio-books are my new addiction and I appreciate the narrators ability to engage the listener with the appropriate accents. It brings the listener to live in the moment with the authors intention of sharing her experience.
Yes, I was married for 15 years to a former member of the Santana Band. A Bass Guitar player who was actually on tour with Wayne Shorter when flight 800 went down taking off from JFK. I was supposed to be on that flight to Niece. I had a ticket for flight 800 to fly over with Ana Maria Shorter and join our husbands but I had just accepted a position as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) Supervisor in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court. It was during the first 30 days of my probationary period and I was concerned to not present as frivolous in my commitment or unprofessional. So-- I cancelled my seat/ticket on flight 800.
Deborah Santana was very kind to me the few times that I saw her back stage when my ex- husband worked with Carlos. I am Mexican-American/Chicano I was raised in San Diego, CA. I am a child of the sixties and the sound track of my life experience is most definitely Rock and Roll. The socio-political backdrop for women of color in my generation was epic and for the fact that lightening never strikes in the same place twice---you might say we can be grateful. I married a Black Man in 1984. A Musician - a Jazz/Fusion/Rock --a master. So much in Deborah's experience spoke to my own story. Carlos Santana's soulful mastery burst on to the world of Rock and he asserted his mark...como Mexicano no pidio permiso!
Ya llego. ..."Badges? we don need no stinking badges!" Hmm like "A si soy yo....Y Que?
Y QUE? And we came with him all of us primos, primas, Homies, Whenever I was near Carlos during the period that my ex-husband was part of the Santana organization...I wanted to thank him. Of course I was a bumbling idiot. I wanted to express my gratitude because we were his family. A si somos los Chicanos---and he brought us all with him.
And the truth is that Deborah it is you. You are the Guru. Not bad for a girl with skinny legs!
Carlos and Deborah knew the enormity of their destiny, Deborah knew the enormity of her destiny she and Carlos made the attempt to expand the Channel by way of the Guru. Mira que Lindo, they tried to deflect the responsibility ---sublimation? No...it's not me...I am just a disciple...I'm just a roadie--a guitar tech...it's the fancy fluffy guy over there---THE GURU. No Deborah it is you. You are the beacon I am so happy you found your voice-- Deborah. I look forward to reading more from you. You are enormous talent, a prolific writer, You are by nature a humble soul and by every definition grace in motion! Thank you.
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Characteristics of employment for the employee thing necessary and important, it can be useful in many cases - when changing jobs, with decisions on bonuses or promotion, and just sometimes nice to get information about yourself as an employee.If you do not know how to write a response to the employee, and you need to do it based on the following recommendations.
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Dems Take NY-26, Tornado Aid, Public Prefers Default to More Debt, Paul Ryan on Eric Cantor, Trivia
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ELECTION SPECIAL: DEMS PICK UP GOP SEAT IN N.Y. -- Democrats said it was about Medicare. Republicans said it was about a third-party candidate fuzzying up the electoral math. But Tuesday's outcome in New York's 26th District -- Democrat Kathy Hochul beating Republican Jane Corwin 48 percent to 42 percent with tea party candidate Jack Davis grabbing nine percent -- didn't seem to surprise anyone in Washington in the end. Alex Isenstadt of POLITICO points to the House Republican budget, which includes a controversial plan to cut and fundmentally alter Medicare, as the driver of Hochul's late surge.
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-- "Fueled by a late wave of commercials blasting Corwin over her support for the controversial House Republican budget plan, Hochul surged in a race that few initially expected her to prevail in," Alex writes. "Hochul's against-the-odds win, national Democrats argued, proved the national unpopularity of the GOP proposal, given the district's long history of supporting Republican candidates." http://politi.co/ko5VDj
HUDDLE ANALYSIS -- What should be troublesome for the GOP isn't simply that it lost a special election -- Democrats have been dominating them for a few cycles now -- but that it came in a solidly Republican district in a state where Republicans made huge gains in 2010. Is it an indicator of where things are headed in 2012? It's way too early to tell. But one thing's for certain: Democrats won't stop talking about Medicare cuts from now until November 2012, and Republicans will look to reframe their Medicare message and push the conversation to other issues.
THE MOST HONEST STATEMENT: AMERICAN CROSSROADS -- "The debate over whether Medicare mattered more than a third-party candidate who split the Republican vote is mostly a partisan Rorschach Test. What is clear is that this election is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks that 2012 will be just like 2010. It's going to be a tougher environment, Democrats will be more competitive, and we need to play at the top of our game to win big next year."
FLASHING LIGHTS AND SIRENS: PUBLIC LIKES DEFAULT OVER MORE DEBT -- Lori Montgomery and Peyton M. Craighill write up a new poll for the Washington Post: "The debate over whether to raise the legal limit on government borrowing has riveted Americans, with a large majority worried about the potential consequences regardless of whether Congress votes to allow the national debt to keep increasing. But when pressed to name their biggest concern, nearly half of respondents say they are alarmed by the prospect that the debt could grow beyond its current limit of $14.3 trillion, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll. Only 35 percent say they are more worried about the risk of default and economic destabilization if Congress does not raise the debt limit." http://wapo.st/jeSYnw
McMORRIS RODGERS ON IMF -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-Wash.) is readying a resolution to be introduced today to stop America from participating in bailing out European countries. A few factors are at play for CMR: they believe that European bailouts will cost the U.S. upwards of $100 billion and doling out money to the nations will only lead to more nations wanting money. Dominique Strauss-Kahn plays in here too -- she has been pointedly critical of how the IMF has treated the former head after he was accused of rape.
THE BIDEN BUNCH: AT LEAST $1T IN CUTS -- The vice president's deficit-reduction commission is now talking about cutting at least $1 trillion in spending. Heidi Przybyla and Mike Dorning report on the talks for Bloomberg. "Biden set a goal of at least $1 trillion in budget cuts from negotiations with congressional leaders on the federal debt as talks yesterday turned to Medicare, a contentious issue that risks replicating a partisan divide on Capitol Hill. Democrats in the meeting ruled out concessions on Medicare without Republican agreement to raise tax revenue, a step the party's leaders so far have rejected, according to someone familiar with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity," they write. "Negotiators are on a pace 'to get above $1 trillion' in cuts for a 'down payment on the process,' he said. There is there is no agreement yet, a participant in the talks who wasn't authorized to speak publicly said on condition of anonymity." http://bloom.bg/jGxtlW
NEW STORMS -- "Violent storms that swept through a chunk of the central U.S. killed at least nine people in three states, toppling trees, crushing cars and tearing through a rural Arkansas fire station," Kristi Eaton writes for the Associated Press. "The high-powered storms arrived as forecast Tuesday night and early Wednesday, just days after a massive tornado tore through the southwest Missouri town of Joplin and killed 122 people. After killing two people in Kansas and five in Oklahoma, they continued their trek east into Arkansas before petering out." http://bit.ly/jenqjT
THE COMING FIGHT: PAY-FORS -- There has been a small preview this week over the coming fight over offsetting federal spending for recovery from the devastating storms that have ripped through Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma and several other states, as well as the flooding of states along the Mississippi River. First House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, responding to a question at his weekly press conference Monday, said that support for disaster aid would be accompanied by support for concomitant cuts from other parts of the budget. On Tuesday, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, who was in tornado-ravaged Joplin, made clear that he believes the disaster aid is the priority: "We need to prioritize spending, and this needs to be a priority. I'm sure Eric will help find the necessary off-sets." Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt, who hails from tornado-battered Alabama, offered a committee-level amendment to the House Homeland Security Appropriations bill yesterday that would provide $1 billion for federal disaster funds. Neither the bill nor the pay-for -- a cut to an energy-efficient vehicle account championed by Democrats -- is likely to become law anytime soon.
Blunt had kind words for Cantor in a CNN interview -- "I do believe that Eric later today said that he's working hard, as I know he would be, to find where those offsets could come" -- but also noted that "this is an area where federal taxpayers want to come in and be helpful." Cantor aides say the offsets have been found in the Aderholt amendment. POLITICO story http://politi.co/kiFn8b CNN interview http://bit.ly/jRCEXd
Hold onto this edition of Huddle: This fight will get worse, not better, in the coming weeks and months. It's not about Blunt and Cantor, who worked closely together in GOP leadership, it's about the conflict between ideology and practical needs.
WHERE'S THE PRESIDENT? -- Republicans are right to ask: Can you imagine the response if George W. Bush was playing ping-pong across the pond in the wake of a natural disaster of this magnitude, rubbing royal elbows and saying he'd get to the devastation by the weekend? Republican aides note they haven't seen a supplemntal spending request from the White House to deal with the disasters. That's not unprecedented. Any number of supplementals have been initiated by Congress without White House requests in the past, according to a CRS report Huddle reviewed in the wee hours this morning. But it would certainly jump-start the congressional process if the White House sent over a request.
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, and welcome to The Huddle, where our house was the staging ground for a bipartisan, bicameral North Carolina "American Idol" watch party last night -- Sen. Kay Hagan (Mrs. Huddle's boss) was in the house, as were aides from her office and those of Reps. Virginia Foxx, David Price and Brad Miller -- it is wondered whether Bibi Netanyahu could win the Republican presidential nomination had he been born here, Star Wars (the original) is wished a very, very happy 34th birthday and Ian Mckellen is wished a happy 72nd birthday.
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TODAY IN CONGRESS -- The House is in at 10 a.m., with legislative business beginning at noon and last votes expected between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. They'll wrap up work on a bill turning graduate medical education money into an annual appropriation and the defense authorization bill. There are scores of amendments to the defense bill, each with 10 minutes of debate, lined up for consideration. The Senate's in at 10 a.m. and moving forward on an extension of certain provisions of the anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act. There's a cloture vote scheduled for Thursday.
AROUND THE HILL -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez on immigration at 9 a.m. at the House Triangle. Rep. Walter Jones on the community pharmacist bill at 10 a.m. at the House Triangle. A eclectic group on missing and abudcted children: Reps. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), Patrick Tiberi (R-Ohio) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 11 a.m. in 234 Cannon. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) joins with Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and the Western Caucus to unveil the Government Litigation Savings act at noon in the Senate Studio.
RYAN ON CANTOR -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) seemed to nudge his friend, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) into the presidential race Monday. Jake asked Ryan what he thought of Cantor throwing him into the race, and before he could say "into the race," Ryan responded: "Throwing me under the bus, you mean?"
THE CHAMBER'S FOOT SOLDIERS -- More than 500 small business owners swarm the Hill today as part of America's Small Business Summit, the Chamber of Commerce's J.P. Fielder tells Huddle. "Much of their message will focus on the 2011 policy agenda for the Chamber's Center for Entrepreneurship. This Center is made up small business owners and start-up entrepreneurs, to help them navigate the legislative and regulatory landscape in Washington," Fielder writes. "In tomorrow's lobbying meetings, they'll make a strong push for action toward encouraging foreign entrepreneurs (supporting the "StartUp Visa Act"), simplifying and improving the R&D tax credit, improving patent quality (funding for the patent office), and supporting rules that facilitate capital formation."
DIAMONDS WEIGH ON GINGRICH -- Sheryl Gay Stolberg checks in on how the account at Tiffany is affecting Newt Gingrich. "[T]he glittering strand of diamonds that Mrs. Gingrich wore last month to the Washington premiere of the couple's latest documentary movie looks strikingly like one that Tiffany advertises for $45,000. And Time magazine's Web site on Tuesday posted a slide show of Mrs. Gingrich wearing various baubles that seemed straight out of the Tiffany catalog, including what looks like a $22,000 pair of diamond and gold starburst earrings "inspired by electrons orbiting in the nucleus of an atom," Sheryl writes on the front page of the New York Times. "Tiffany's or knockoffs? The Gingrich campaign won't say. But at this point, it no longer matters, according to political strategists of both parties. What matters, they say, is that the Tiffany story is sticking to Mr. Gingrich, helping to define — or perhaps redefine — him in the critical early days of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination." http://nyti.ms/jFcpKQ
HUDDLE FLASHBACK -- 5/18/11 -- HUDDLE ANALYSIS: LIKE THE $400 HAIRCUT, BUT WORSE -- As Gingrich tries to connect with voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, it should be pointed out -- so I'm doing it -- that a search of the "store locations" on the Tiffany Website shows none in those three early primary states. Edina, Minn., Natick, Mass., and Charlotte, N.C., have the Tiffany stores closest to those states. Anyone looking to paint Gingrich as an out-of-touch elite now has a sketch on the canvas ready to be filled in with the flourishes of a brush. John Edwards's expensive personal maintenance became a two-word shorthand for his vanity, wealth and hypocrisy: "$400 haircut." So, too, could Tiffany become a one-word way of dismissing Gingrich. The questions are sure to be asked: How can a man who spends his time shopping for big-ticket jewelry at Tiffany relate to the lives of ordinary Americans, and how, given the debt, can he be expected to bring the nation's fiscal house into order? It also reminds voters of his messy marital history, because -- after all -- he's probably not buying that much Tiffany jewelry for himself. Joe Scarborough on the whole deal on "Morning Joe" this morning: "That ain't gonna play in Iowa, either."
BIBI'S SHOT: NETANYAHU MAKES HARD-LINE CASE FOR TWO STATES -- "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, broadly laying out the Israeli response to President Obama's peace proposals, called on the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday to accept what Mr. Netanyahu framed as a tenet: that Palestinians will not get a right of return to Israel. In so doing, he made clear that he was giving no ground on the major stumbling blocks to a peace agreement. "I stood before my people and said that I will accept a Palestinian state; it's time for President Abbas to stand up before his people and say, 'I will accept a Jewish state,' " Mr. Netanyahu said to cheers from a hugely friendly crowd of Democratic and Republican lawmakers gathered in the House chamber of the Capitol. "Those six words will change history," Mr. Netanyahu said. "With those six words, the Israeli people will be prepared to make a far-reaching compromise. I will be prepared to make a far-reaching compromise," Ethan Bronner and Helene Cooper write for the New York Times. "Mr. Netanyahu was granted a grand platform before a joint meeting of Congress, and his speech had many of the trappings of a presidential State of the Union address. With elections coming up next year, the lawmakers appeared eager to demonstrate their support for Israel as part of an effort to secure backing from one of the country's most powerful constituencies, American Jews. Mr. Netanyahu received so many standing ovations that at times it appeared that the lawmakers were listening to his speech standing up. "He managed to rally wall-to-wall support from Congress," said Rob Malley, program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group. But, he warned, it might have been a pyrrhic victory for the Israeli prime minister. "We're not talking about a peace process anymore; we're talking about a P.R. process," he said. "None of this is going to help avert any of the dangers that the president mentioned in his Sunday speech, that Israel faces." http://nyti.ms/kCO3tG
THE ROGERS REPORT -- "Even after concessions made last month, the White House and Republicans in Congress are more than $1.1 trillion apart over how much to devote to domestic appropriations over the next 10 years, according to a POLITICO analysis of new numbers collected from the administration and the House GOP," David Rogers writes for the hometown paper. "Proposed Medicare changes have gotten more attention, dividing the Senate's Gang of Six last week and provoking a backlash felt by Republicans in a nationally watched special election for a House seat in upstate New York. But as deficit talks resumed Tuesday afternoon, appropriations remained the 800-pound gorilla in the back of the room — given the immense gap between the two sides and the more immediate impact on government services." http://politi.co/lzNZ7t
CUT MILITARY PAY? -- "The coming round of Pentagon budget cuts will force lawmakers to consider reducing military pay and benefits, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday, raising an issue that could prove politically sensitive in a time of war In what was billed as Mr. Gates's last major policy speech, the outgoing Pentagon chief said the government would have to "re-examine military compensation," consider altering the retirement system to bring down costs, and address spiraling health-care costs. Trimming Pentagon spending, Mr. Gates said, "will entail going places that have been avoided by politicians in the past," Julian E. Barnes and Nathan Hodge write in the Wall Street Journal. "Military pay has risen steadily in recent years, as lawmakers have sought to reward troops for repeated, long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Health-care costs have also ballooned, expanding to $50 billion a year from $19 billion a decade ago. Mr. Gates's previous efforts to trim compensation costs failed. The defense secretary, who has served in the administrations of both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, tried to raise health-care premiums or co-pays for military retirees, but lawmakers were loath to raise expenses for military families during wartime." http://on.wsj.com/m4bdI1
KEVIN'S MUST-READ -- Bill Simmons ( http://es.pn/j3R3sc ) and Deadspin ( http://deadsp.in/kMCu1t ) pay tribute to the Macho Man Randy Savage.
YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA -- Brian Conlan of Tammy Baldwin's office was first to correctly respond that Billy Long represents Joplin, Mo.
TODAY'S TRIVIA -- Where did Netanyahu get his undergraduate degree?
THE NATS' LINE -- Rough, 7-6 lose-from-ahead defeat last night in Milwaukee. One more game against the Brewers today.
THE WEATHER -- Warm, high up to 87 degrees, according to ABC-7.
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Friday, 2 October 2015
Blue Poinsettias..
Good morning friends, followers and visitors,
Sharing my DT card for Poppystamps blog today.. http://poppystamps.typepad.com/
I have used those Poinsettias flowers again, on a quick make card this time. again the same colours, love these colours on Christmas cards.
Close up of the flowers.
I die cut 4 "Small Posh Outline" & 2 "Small Luxe Ponsettia Background"
Inked the solids with distress ink. Tumbled Glass. glittered with "Diamond Sprinkles" by cosmic shimmers.
layered up as shown with wet glue. added a pearl in the centres. these I arranged onto "Open Studio" Circle Layers & Pinpoint Scalloped Circles.
Embossing Tattered lace "Ditsy Dots" folder.
Most item available from http://www.oysterstamps.co.uk/
open studio.
Studio Circle Layers. here
Pinpoint Scalloped Circles. here
Small Posh Outline. here
Small Luxe Poinsettia Background.
Pine Boughs.
Lorelai leaf.
Vintage Merry Christmas.
Distress ink Tumbled Glass.
Cosmic shimmer. Diamond Sprinkles.
Tattered lace. Ditsy Dots. embossing folder.
32 comments:
Stunning card. Gorgeous colours.ReplyDelete
Stunning Pam I adore the flowers, xxReplyDelete
Fabulous Pam xx JanReplyDelete
Oh pam what a stunner this is, I love the colour and the clean and crispness of it all, those flowers are so beautiful...ReplyDelete
Hi Pam,ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card, I do love your style.
Soft, elegant, and gorgeously OH-SO-PAM-ish! You amaze me, Miss Pam. This is such a pretty card, especially with the soft blue and bright red! hugs, deReplyDelete
Hi Pam this is just stunning I love everything about it. Hugs JackieReplyDelete
Pam this is stunning, I love the colours and those blooms are gorgeous, beautiful card design too, Kate xReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous Pam! I just love those flowers! I love the little touches of red too!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card and colours Pam...LozReplyDelete
WOW this is stunning Pam, I love the gorgeous poinsettias and embossed background looks wonderful.ReplyDelete
Linda xxx
Hi Pam, Gorgeous card, beautiful colours, fabulous die-cuts, a stunning card.ReplyDelete
Lots of love from Patricia xx
I adore this one Pam, beautiful!ReplyDelete
hugs Jacee
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So very pretty :)ReplyDelete
A stunning card Pam, I love the poinsettias and the delicate festive colours are so beautiful.ReplyDelete
hugs Sue xx
Hi Pam, gorgeous card. Love the red bits they really pop, love it xReplyDelete
Gorgeous card,love the colours you have chosen...fantastic!ReplyDelete
Wonderful love tha poinsettia die so much these colours look perfect only you could make them look this special love and hugs Carole xReplyDelete
Hi Pam,ReplyDelete
you're so busy with your christmas cards. This here looks quite wonderfully.
Hugs Petra
Absolutely beautiful, love the colour scheme.ReplyDelete
Diane Louise x
Love the colours on this card Pam xxxReplyDelete
Beautiful creation lovely design and super colours used..ReplyDelete
Thank You for your kind words re my dad passing...Funeral is in another state of Australia next Wednesday. We had to transport dad over 20hrs away to be with mum....
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Stunning card Pam. xReplyDelete
So beautiful. The composition is nice and I love the soft blue as well.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card today Pam. Thank you for showing it.ReplyDelete
Fabulous card Pam. Not the colours you'd immediately think of but they really work together brilliantly.ReplyDelete
Karen xxx
Your cards always make be go ahhhhhhhh .......ReplyDelete
Sandy xx
Beautiful card Pam, think I must start making my Christmas cards! KxReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Pam. Such beautiful dies and colours.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Pam and beautifully put together as alwaysReplyDelete
Such a delicate and beautiful card, love everything about it and those berries are a fab finishing touch :) Debs xReplyDelete
Stunning, Pam. Beautiful design and the colours are just gorgeous. xxReplyDelete


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Ancelotti: La Decima my responsibility
Carlo Ancelotti said finally delivering the long awaited 'decima' - tenth European Cup - was his clear objective at his presentation as Real Madrid's new coach on Wednesday afternoon.
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Ancelotti, who won the trophy as both a player and coach at AC Milan, was made aware of his responsibility when given a tour of the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu's glittering trophy room by Blancos president Florentino Perez before he met journalists in the nearby press facility.
The Italian, who it was confirmed has full charge of all footballing matters at Madrid, said that taking on such a big task was not a problem for him, but a motivation.
"We all know that La Decima is the big objective, for the club, for everyone," Ancelotti said. "I have that ambition and that responsibility, that is not a problem for me. Every year the coach has a responsibility. To win la decima is such a big motivation."
Madrid's last Champions League title came in 2002, when Zinedine Zidane volleyed in a memorable winning goal over Bayer Leverkusen. Ancelotti confirmed that the Frenchman would be one of his assistant's next season, without quite clarifying the exact role he would play.
"Zidane will be on the bench, the only pity is he cannot play," the new boss joked. "Zizou was a fantastic player, everybody knows him, now he has decided to be a coach. I am very happy to work at his side. He will be a very good assistant, along with my usual assistant Paul Clement."
Ancelotti was also careful to be nice to his former employers Paris Saint-Germain, stressing repeatedly that both he and Madrid retained a friendly relationship with the French club despite the month-long saga as PSG's Qatari owners first refused to release him, then struggled to find a suitable replacement.
"PSG is now the past," he said. "I want to thank everyone in Paris for the experience I had there, but that is over now. I want to wish luck to everyone there, including [the French club's new coach] Laurent Blanc."
Asked about whether he would play a different style of football than his own predecessor at the Bernabeu, Jose Mourinho, Ancelotti said that a club of Madrid's 'prestige' was always tasked with playing an exciting "spectacular" game.
"The most prestigious club in the world needs to win, playing spectacular football, because the history and tradition of this club is to play offensively, spectacularly, and we are going to work to play football that can give happiness to the fans," the former Chelsea boss said. "This team has lots of quality in attack, and in midfield too. I do not think it will be difficult organise an attacking style."
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If you pre-order games, the price can range from 70 to 80, even 100 dollars! With gaming becoming more expensive it's always exciting to have a game with some great replay value, where you can log over hundreds of hours and not get tired of it. I cannot even begin to imagine the time I spent on Diablo 2, re-running Baal runs to level up all my characters to 99! Here is a list of five great games you can buy once and be happy with forever it seems. Limiting one game to studio, and one game per franchise, so you won't see both Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto on this list.
Grand Theft Auto V
You want to fly a plane? Steal a bus? Rob a convenient store? Maybe just go get a hair cut and a fresh change of clothes. No matter what you want to do you can do it in Grand Theft Auto. The older games are still fun to go back to (San Andreas, I'm looking at you) and use the amazing cheat codes to get a jet pack or have infinite ammunition. Whatever your fancy, you are almost sure to be able to do it and for hours. GTA 5's online game play and ever expanding world of updates you are sure to log countless hours. I wouldn't look it up on your in-game stats though.
Diablo 2 : Lord of Destruction
Kill things, take their stuff, repeat. Simple and effective. World of Warcraft was a close second to this Blizzard title, but Diablo takes the prize. Anyone who has played these know how addictive they can be, farming for the perfect legendary. With the release of Diablo 3 many players still lean towards the second for the community and nostalgia.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
A buddy of mine and I went through 4 discs of this beautiful work of art. Firing range, Array, Jungle and the legendary Nuketown were some of the greatest maps ever made. Perks, cod points, theater and wager matches brought a new level to online first person shooters and counted for millions of hours of lost time around the world. Call of Duty: Black Ops still has a heavy flow of traffic these days so if you ever wanna tomahawk someone across the map, log in now!
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
This may come as a surprise to some younger gamers, but Skyrim isn't the greatest game ever. Morrowind opened up a vast world, full of cities, creatures and every house your little heart can rob. The visual accomplishments and open-endedness was greatly received by critics and players alike. In a time before MMORPG's became the norm, this was one of the greatest experiences you could take part in. You can find it on steam here now and relive the nostalgia.
League of Legends
League of Legends has been going strong for almost 7 years, and has no sign of slowing down with over 67 million players a month, it's easy to see why people can't quit playing. With it's own distinctive community and 124 different champions to choose from your bound to find one to fit your style. When you get tired of one, you can easily switch to another. Another player verse player game like Call of Duty, you can easily lose yourself for hours trying to take over another players team. Grab your boots and take off into battle!


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Sonoma Port Works
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Sonoma Portworks is the only winery in Sonoma County that specializes in ports and after-dinner wines, and one of only a handful in the entire state.
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Coming from France, Olivier has an innate sense of terroir. Unlike most of his peers in Rioja, he bases his cuvées not on political boundaries or the length of barrel aging but instead on terroir.
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Lardero, La Rioja 26140
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Toro Albá
Bodegas Toro Albala is located within DOP Montilla-Moriles. Framed within large Andalusian wine regions characterized by the production of fine wine.
Avda Antonio Sanchez 1
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Homestead Winery
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Produced in the fertile Red River Valley wine region of North Texas by the Parker family, Homestead Winery is noted for their rich, full-bodied flavor and award winning assortment of wines.
Ivanhoe, Texas 75447
United States
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Field Stone Fruit Wines
From orchard to bottle, farm to table, our wines grew from farmgate and winery direct sales to popular Farmers Market mainstays with every wine we have created being noted with awards.
Namaka Rd
Calgary, Alberta T1P1J6
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The acclaimed Pasanau family consists of perennial growers in Priorat. They own vineyards in the highest municipality of the region, skirting the sheer rock wall of the Sierra de Montsant that forms Priorat's viticultural boundary.
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Indie Brand Spotlight: BabbleTees
BabbleTees carefully blend the arts and sciences on the medium of the Graphic Tee. They lovingly craft their t-shirts in an old victorian mansion turned studio and art gallery on Chicago's West side.
'Maps, scientific illustrations, diagrams, vintage schematics, all things transit, foreign languages, geometric shapes and asymmetric forms inspire most of our graphic tee designs. We are constantly pushing the artistic limits of screen-print and amalgamating new forms into wearable art.'


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Society Petroleum Engineers-GCS
SPE is one of the most influential organizations in the oil and gas industry. The organization's Gulf Coast Section turned to us to help keep its members engaged and informed. We produce Connect magazine monthly, coordinating and designing all facets of the publication. Since we've been working with Connect, the magazine has grown in size, ad sales, distribution and readership, all while we helped SPE-GCS save money.
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Nerdcore Rising Trailer (2008)
03 September 2008 Factual 80 mins
Nerdcore Rising is a documentary/concert film starring MC Frontalot and other nerdcore hip hop artists such as mc chris, Wheelie Cyberman of Optimus Rhyme and MC Lars, with contributors from such as "Weird Al" Yankovic, Prince Paul and Brian Posehn. It combines interviews about nerdcore and its origins with footage of MC Frontalot's 2006 Nerdcore Rising national tour.
Watch the official Nerdcore Rising 2008 trailer in HD below or find more Nerdcore Rising videos on Vidimovie.


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Webinar Recording: Same Day ACH Debits: Prepare Now for Operational Impact
Published: February 1, 2017
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Recorded March 22, 2017
Same Day ACH Phase 2 takes effect on Sept. 15, 2017, adding Same Day ACH debit capability to the ACH Network. While originating Same Day ACH debits will be the decision of the ODFI, all RDFIs must be able to receive and process these transactions ─ just as with Same Day ACH credits. However, Same Day ACH debits will bring distinct operational implications for RDFIs, processors and solution providers, and for end-user clients and consumers to whose accounts these payments will be posted. Do you understand what the considerations and implications are for your institution or organization, and for your business partners and customers? Are you taking the proper measures to educate, test and prepare?
The ACH Operators and NACHA strongly encourage FIs, processors and solution providers to fully assess and test within their shops and with their customers. Education and preparation are important elements of your success. You don't want to miss this webinar as speakers discuss what is changing and the operational significance, what you need to be doing as September approaches, and what the ACH Operators are doing to contribute to a smooth transition.
Gain Awareness & Stay Ahead
- Educate your consumer and business clients so they understand how same-day debits will affect them.
- Test your entire process prior to Sept. 15, 2017 to ensure an easy implementation.
- Involve your Third-Party Senders / Service Provider in testing.
- Train your front-end personnel so they can effectively respond to Same Day ACH questions.
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VP, Operations, The Clearing House
Ellsworth Jeffries
Operations Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Amy Morris
Senior Director, ACH Network Rules, NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association
COST: AAP: $225 | DFI: $200 | Member: $250 | Nonmember: $350


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I have a small bedroom, what bed is best for me?
Finding the best possible bed for your small bedroom might feel like it's impossible, particularly if you need a double or full size bed. It's not. There are some tricks that can help you find the best one that will also allow plenty of room to walk through the room and never leave you feeling claustrophobic and crowded.
Checking the floor plan
One simple trick is to check all types of floor plans and ways to place the bed so there's maximum space. While you might be used to it with the headboard on one wall, that doesn't mean that having the headboard at an angle in the corner is impossible. Just rearranging the room mentally, ensuring you also use measurements if you don't already have the bed, can create a more wide open appeal.
Bed space saving options
Many college students solve the bedroom space problems with lofts. These involve putting the bed up higher and leaving the space underneath for a desk or storage. There are also beds that sit atop storage, with some being quite high as part of a bed cube, which has a built in wardrobe and dressers.
The same concept holds true for siblings that bunk together, bringing us to beds which are appropriately called bunk beds. Stacking the bed on top, is a room saving idea that is perfect for a small area.
Sofa bed options
A sofa with a hidden bed folded away, futon or hidden bed that folds away into a cabinet, are also space saving ideas that are particularly good for those who have a one room flat or studio apartment. These pieces of furniture allow the room to look less crowded or make it visitor friendly while you still have a traditional bed to sleep in at night. Even though they're often used for single room apartments, you can use the same concept for a smaller bedroom.
There are some amazing pieces of furniture that provide wardrobe, drawer space and sometimes a desk area for a smaller room, with a pull out bed at the bottom. The bed, when closed, looks like a drawer, but with one easy pull is ready for sleep. In the morning, just make up your bed if you have time and close the drawer. If you haven't made your bed and company comes, it's easy to make the room look nice quickly with one easy push.
Under bed storage
You don't have to hide the bed or make it disappear when you eliminate extra dressers and storage areas. Beds with under the bed storage drawers can eliminate a few of the extra pieces of furniture in your room and leave plenty of space you didn't realise you had. In many cases, these beds provide all the extra storage you need, leaving the rest of the room open for the bed or other types of furniture, such as a desk.
To make your room look larger and less cluttered, get a bed with a smaller headboard or one with shelving that allows the light to flow through. Heavy wooden headboards may look elegant, but they also eliminate some of the opportunities for changing the direction of the bed. See through shelving can allow light to pass through and give a more spacious look, just as a smaller headboard does.


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Priyanka Chopra: I wanna be Bond, not Bond girl
Priyanka Chopra returns to Mumbai today after a long spell of shooting in Canada and the US for TV show 'Quantico' and Hollywood flick, 'Baywatch'.
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Just before her return, PeeCee has been giving interviews in the US. When asked by a leading American daily if she would like to be the next Bond girl, Priyanka stated, "I get that all the time. But f**k that — I wanna be Bond." She added, "I don't know where I will win, but I know I want to keep moving, keep going. When I achieve something then I'm like, all right, what's next?"
There was buzz that the actress and her contemporary, Deepika Padukone were in the race to be the next Bond girl and auditioned to be part of the next 007 film. Is this PC's way of sending across a subtle message to Deepika, the other Bollywood export to Hollywood, about who the bigger actress is? Hmmm.


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CLOS DE VOUGEOT,a single vineyard but wines of different quality!
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Located in COTES DE NUITS,founded by the Cistercian monks of Abbey of Citeaux in 1098, protected by a wall of stones already built in the 14th century,CLOS DE VOUGEOT, a single vineyard of 50,95 hectares(125 acres) of Pinot Noir vines, is the largest single vineyard of GRAND CRU in Burgundy and an AOC (Appellation d'origine contrôlée) for the red wine from this vineyard.
It was the property of only one owner till the 19th century.
According to the location of the vines,the soils are different and the wines have a significant difference in quality:the vines towards the top of the slopes on light chalky and gravelly soils with a good drainage produce much finer wines than those in the middle or the lower part of the vineyard,especially those close to the National road which have a poor drainage.
The geological heterogeneity and the variability of the talent of each wine producer contribute to produce wines under the single Clos de Vougeot Aoc designation variable in quality!The best Clos de Vougeot are typically dense and robust,full-bodied ,tasty but may develop after 10 to 30 years in cellar a very intense colour and a suave bouquet of roses and violets and rich red-fruited ,mint,chocolate,liquorice .
Some reliable producers of Clos de Vougeot wine who have vines on the upper slopes and a real talent are Anne Gros,Domaine Henri Rebourseau,Château de la Tour...


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separated 11/03, filing married, but separately since. Now divorced. Could I have been filing single since the time I moved out? If so, can I refile? Thanks!
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Yes, you could've filed your federal taxes as a single individual from the time you had concluded a formal separation agreement with your spouse recognized under Virginia law, but not before.
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I never asked for details on why he thought my third weak little embryo could mess up my two good ones. I took it as it could make the good ones not implant or something. Once he said that and I looked at them for myself I knew the third guy wasn't going to make it anyways and I didn't want to take the chance of my "perfect" embryo suffering. I saw the pictures myself of all three of them and that third one was just not doing well at all although it made it to day 5.
He did give me the option of transferring one good Embryo and the bad one and freezing the second good one but after looking at the picture of it, I knew what I had to do.
Your gut will tell you what to do when the time comes! Trust it.
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Cycles 1-6 = BFN
Cycle 7 SA results abnormal morphology 2%, 50 mg clomid = BFN
Cycle 8 sonogram normal 50 mg clomid + trigger = BFN
Cycle 9 SA results abnormal morphology and motility. Count 200 mill, 100mg clomid + trigger = BFN
Cycle 10 natural = BFN
Cycle 11 hsg tubes clear, natural + trigger+IUI = BFN
Cycle 12 repronex + trigger + 2 IUI = BFN
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Cycle 25 BCP, SA result 7% morphology
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Dallas Cowboy's quarter back Tony Romo fumbled the snap on the would be winning field goal in Saturday's NFC wild-card game. The Cowboys lost to the Seattle Seahawks 21-20 as a result of Romo's blunder. This disaster takes Romo from the saviour of the team to needing to be crusified. Now that I think of it, this sounds exactly like the story about Jesus. No, not that Jesus; Jesus Sanchez, the Mexican who works at the Taco Express by my house. That bastard is always dropping my burritos. Plus I hear he also did Carrie Underwood.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Uh-oh Romo
Posted by Alllegionoflegit at 1/08/2007
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- Pamer said...
I hate that guy and the Cowboys...so I'll just give a Nelson-esque "Haw Haw".
He did carrie Underwood? Nicccce!
- January 09, 2007
- Screaming Viking said...
Yeah, rumour has it they are dating. But you can bet with her career soaring and him being a goat, she will dump his ass for MAtthew McConahay and write a song about it.
- January 09, 2007
- Pamer said...
The Fall of the Romo Empire, part II.
"Et tu Matthew?"
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Highlights: Pure Do
Death From Above: Purdue Part 2
|Michigan at Purdue
Mackey Arena
West Lafayette, Indiana
|7:00 PM Eastern
|Michigan –6
"I want to be a nacho man
nacho nacho man
I want to be a nacho man
who makes engineering"
-"I Tap Plains For Mana," Purdue fight song
Michigan hasn't seen Purdue since January 24th but the Boilers remain about the same team they were back then: a bunch of bricklayers who can get to the bucket surrounding mercurial man-mountain AJ Hammons. Hammons turned in his worst game of the season (two points, two rebounds, two turnovers in 24 indifferent minutes) and Michigan ran away late with a comfortable 68-53 win. Two games later he'd thunder in 30 points against Indiana, albeit in a 37-point loss.
Hammons maintained a high level of production the next few games but has gone cold of late, scoring six points in three of his last four. He did have a good game against Iowa with 12 points and 9 rebounds despite being limited to 18 minutes with foul trouble.
Overall, Hammons is only a decent shooter; he is a high usage, extremely-high block guy who rebounds okay for a seven-footer. Jordan Morgan and company will probably encounter a much more motivated version of him this time out. If he's shooting over a defender, okay.
The guys surrounding Hammons are mostly guys named Johnson. Terone, the junior, is the only one who can shoot it from the outside. He's at a 35% clip. Ronnie and Anthony are at 15 and 21, respectively. All of them shoot about 41% from two—ugh—and the more-heavily-used Terone and Ronnie are under 60% from the line. Those are ugly numbers from your highest-usage players, especially when they're coupled with a high TO rate from Ronnie.
The non-Johnson starter is DJ Byrd, a remorseless chucker who somehow manages a TO rate above 20 despite launching 77% of his shots from behind the arc. Sometimes well behind the arc, as Nik Stauskas found out in the last meeting. That meeting was the foundation for a short-lived Tim Hardaway Lockdown Defender meme after Byrd went from 11 points in the first half to 0 in the second half, but six of those points came on threes that were either banked or shot from 35 feet.
He's a less extreme Marshall Henderson, but he's knocking down 37% of his somewhat inadvisable threes. Since no one save backup wing Raphael Davis gets an appreciable number of twos in at a 50%+ clip, that is Purdue's best shot by some distance.
Purdue will run out large men like Sandi Marcus, Travis Carroll and Donnie Hale when Hammons is on the bench or they're looking for a little more size. Carroll is invisible offensively and has Egwu-level rebounding rates (ie, decent offense, terrible defense); Hale puts up an array of midrange jumpers that fall at the usual 42% rate. Marcus is a clubbing OREB guy who mysteriously only gets 16% of Purdue's minutes despite having good numbers. Must be bad positionally.
The only perimeter backup of any note is the aforementioned Raphael Davis, a freshman who shoots okay in limited opportunities but turns the ball over a great deal.
Purdue's coming off by far their best performance of the year, a 69-56 win at the Trohl Center. That's God's work, Boilermakers. DJ Byrd was 6 of 9 from behind the line, Terone Johnson managed to shoot 50% from the floor on 14 attempts, and Purdue was +6 in OREBs largely because Wisconsin couldn't grab an offensive board to save its life.
This brought them to 7-9 in the Big Ten, king among the conference dwarves. Their other conference wins have mostly come against teams with no shot at the tourney, with exceptions at home against Iowa (in OT) and Illinois (by seven in the opener). But hey Michigan lost to Penn State so everybody's nervous.
Four factors, now conference-only (small sample, yes, but numbers are equally skewed by various cupcakes on the non-conference schedule):
|Turnover %
|Off. Reb. %
|44.6 (9)
|19.4 (11)
|35.4 (3)
|32.7 (6)
|46.1 (4)
|15.3 (12)
|32.6 (8)
|29.5 (5)
Purdue shoots poorly and doesn't quite make up for a large TO deficit with good rebounding. Fast break points should favor the Wolverines, as Purdue is 11th in the league at giving up steals and 12th at acquiring them. They're also 11th in free throw shooting, 10th in 2 point shooting, and last in threes attempted, because obviously.
All of this would be much more assuring if not for Penn State, of course.
Keep them away from the bucket without sagging off of Byrd. Surprise, right? Michigan picked up their pick and roll defense in their most recent game after the mother of all wakeup calls and should be on point here, but the defensive suck is a much larger trend than one good game against the Spartans. In any case, help off guys and force short pullups, prevent layups, and keep DJ Byrd from doing what he did against Wisconsin and Purdue won't touch a PPP.
Sag off pretty much anyone else. Maybe not Terone Johnson, but he's the nominal PG so that's more a matter of being alert to a jack coming your way.
Pick and roll Hammons. Hammons is a force inside, but he's a bit sluggish on the perimeter and can be foul prone when he's trying to move and defend at the same time. Meanwhile Hammons's backups are nowhere near the defender he is. Or rebounder. Or shooter. Hammons is a lot better than other big guy options.
No easy buckets. If Michigan has a choice between giving up a layup and putting a dude on the line, put the dude on the line. Only Byrd is a quality FT shooter on this team. You'll save yourself some points by making them earn transition opportunities at the line.
Shoot a three pointer. And preferably some additional three pointer after the first one. Hammons makes life difficult inside. Winning games without making threes is hard.
Don't suck on the road no mo'. srs
Michigan by 6.
Hammer and Rails also predicts the same thing Kenpom does. UMHoops preview.
Guess the Score, Win Stuff: Boils and Whose Yer's (NNTIUPUI)
So one way to get the shirts we put up in GTGWS is to correctly guess the score. You have about a 1/500 chance of winning. Another is to go and buy them from our store, where you have about a 1/1 chance of winning. If you're planning to do that, do that now since the store's offering free shipping for all of March. As for the other route…
We didn't listen! A few weeks ago when Michigan was looking at a road trip to Wisconsin before the big game in East Lansing I said hell let's not make people guess a 40-possession Bo Ryan game. A guy in the comments said don't do that. I didn't listen.
Last week Michigan was looking at a trip to lowly Penn State on Wednesday with MSU coming to town on Sunday afternoon. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson, but no, I went ahead and asked folks to ignore Penn State and guess the Sparty game. I didn't listen!
And this week? This week Michigan has yet another mid-week visit to a downrated team that ran into a brutal Big Ten schedule before a season-defining matchup over the weekend. I don't want to ruin the fun of Indiana, but I'm not falling for that overlook-the-road-opponent thing again neither. So both. Guess both. Like this:
Boils 78-68 Go Blue!
Whose yers: 71-70 MEEESHIGAN!
If there's a winner for two games I'll give out two shirts. If nobody gets the score this time, no shirts. This way perhaps the gods will let us have our fun without all the nasty smiting.
Also: Indiana liveblog: we're thinking of doing it again. If somebody wants to sponsor that send 'em my way: seth at mgoblog dot com.
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- I put up a winnable prize that consists of a desirable good.
- You guess the final scores of the designated game, and put it in the comments, preferably in the format of [M's Score]-[Opponent's Score]. First person to post a particular score has it.
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- The desirable good arrives at the address you give us.
- Non-winners can acquire the same desirable good by trading currency for it.
- Seriously, you don't have to actually guess a basketball score to get this shirt. You can buy it.
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Rooting for both the biggest local college and the local pro team puts Michiganders in the interesting position of singing the best fight song in the world on Saturdays and the worst on Sundays. Also: MMB vs a fat middle aged guy in a hard hat: reason 5857 that college is better than pro.
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@Purdue tonight (at 7) and vs. Indiana at home on Sunday. Guess 'em both. To make it easy on me please use the [M's score]-[hyphen]-[Opponent's score] format and specify on that line which game that score's for.
And the Prize:
People who just see the parts of Indiana on the skyway or I-94 don't realize that the state shaped like a spilled sack of beans actually has a lot more going for it. Like there are several bars in Indianapolis. And there's corn fields. And there's gas stations. And the gas is cheaper than in Michigan or Illinois. (You know we should have just made a shirt that says "America's gas station.") Somehow this state surrounded by football enthusiasts ended up being cookoo for basketball. Maybe that's because you can't smell Gary indoors.
Fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (make it easy on me and write your score in digits with a hyphen between them. Deadline for entries is sometime within 24 hours before the start of the game—whenever I can get online in that time and lock the thread. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning because you can change scores. We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm spent 10 years as the Indiana of basketball, if that makes sense. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm's name has to be spelled wrong. The algorithm is not just a shooter. This is not the algorithm. This is close.
Photo Gallery: Michigan 68, Purdue 53
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wit1/24/2013 – Michigan 68, Purdue 53 – 17-1, 5-1 Big Ten
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Probably not many more of these for games not against Penn State, but I don't have any narrative for this one so let's just talk about stuff that happened.
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It catches up in the end. The story of the first half was the normally deficient Boiler three-point shooting checking in at 54%, which was good enough to stake them to a one-point lead. In the second half they went 0-9 to finish almost exactly on their season average of 31.6%, and honestly it should have been worse what with DJ Byrd hitting one from 35 feet and banking in another. (As always, Death To Backboards.)
By the end of the game everything had averaged out to… averages and Michigan just about hit the Vegas line and Kenpom's prediction of a 17-point margin. If Ronnie Johnson hitting a three is the difference I'll live with it.
MY MAN RONNIE. That one make on three attempts pushed him to 14% on the year.
Purdue is kind of fun to watch. So you've got Ronnie Johnson's three-point futility plus his tendency to crash full-bore into opponents for charges that are so obvious the refs don't even get excited about them. Then you've got DJ Byrd hucking it up from anywhere, making a few and hilariously missing more. All other Purdue perimeter players are more or less versions of those two guys. The Johnsonbot named Terone adds a dash of circus shot to the stew.
The end result is balls flying all over the place. More than once last night I thought GO HOME PURDUE, YOU ARE DRUNK. This makes them significantly more entertaining than, say, Penn State or Nebraska. Nebraska does have Andre Almedia, I guess.
Does Michigan need to foul more? I think they might. There was a possession relatively late on which Burke extended pressure and harassed one of the many Boiler Johnsons into a near-turnover twice, and then Mitch McGary overplayed a passing lane to finally turn Purdue over. I'd like that to be a more frequent occurrence even if it comes at the cost of some additional fouls.
I can immediately think of some good counter-arguments:
- Michigan plays its starters a ton and there is a serious dropoff to the bench so foul trouble is to be avoided at all costs.
- Playing defense like that tires you out, bench thing again.
- Michigan likes games of HORSE.
|Ohio State
|Michigan State
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But but but boy do I want this team to get out in transition and getting aggressive on defense seems to have some potentially large payoffs. Their transition numbers are nuts, in the 96th percentile nationally as of a few games ago according to Synergy and UMHoops. Anything they can do to push the pace is going to benefit them.
They only forced 12 turnovers in this one, limiting those opportunities. Their man to man seems a lot more passive than many teams'. This game in particular seemed to invite aggression: the Boilers have a very good eFG% defense and can't shoot free throws.
Specifically, I hope Caris LeVert can beast up over the next couple months. He's not going to foul out and if he gives up a couple of over-aggressive fouls on the perimeter it's not likely to end up hurting Michigan since they so rarely find themselves giving up the bonus. Stauskas, too—that man is still in the top ten nationally at avoiding fouls.
THEORY. It may be that Michigan's second-half surge is partially built on a lack of fouls in the first half? If they go into the locker room with everyone clean maybe they sit down and are like "okay guys now time to get aggressive"? I'll check the numbers on this to see if there's anything to it.
If I had to guess I'd say no. It feels more like Michigan's offense takes off right after halftime. But I'll check.
Throw out the rebounding record books when you play the Purdue Boilermakers. For the record, Michigan still won the battle on the boards against a team that looks damn good at that bit right now—22nd OREB, 64th DREB. They grabbed 12 of 30 opportunities; Purdue got 11 of 34.
And it was hard to be mad about many of Purdue's offensive boards anyway. Their misses were often so wild that attempting to get position was a futile project often ending with a ball heading directly at your head with hockey-puck speed. I hope no one on the team was in 'Nam. If anyone was they're having a seriously bad day today.
I definitely shouldn't mention this. Tim Hardaway was 3/5 from deep today, bringing his three point shooting in league play to a Stauskas-like 15/29.
Trey Burke yawn yawn. Save for an uncharacteristically poor night from three (0 of 4), Trey was himself: 6/10 inside the arc with 4 FTAs, 8 assists, one turnover. Oddity: he blocked two shots.
Burke has surged into the KPOY lead now, passing Russ Smith and Mason Plumlee. Smith may have a case—he's putting up 36% of Louisville shots and has a huge steal percentage—but is hurt by inefficient shooting; Plumlee's presence is largely due to a huge DREB rate that seems to exist because no one else on the Blue Devils even tries.
There's a team adjustment in the kPOY that probably explains much of the movement. Louisville and Duke have had a rough past couple weeks; as their teams fall back to the pack their numbers go down.
it was a fumbly kind of game for big guys (Upchurch)
Blank-headed center regains third head. With Morgan and McGary having some struggles early, Jon Horford saw eight minutes for his first extended playing time in a while. His impact was not enormous—three rebounds, 1/2 from the floor—but it's nice to have him available.
This Week in This Week In Stop Asking For Post Touches: the beginning of the first half for Michigan, in which Jordan Morgan ended up taking on AJ Hammons directly and went 0-3. Morgan and McGary did have one nice one-on-one bucket apiece against Hammons; overall their efficiency was significantly lower than the rest of the offense.
Another oddity: Michigan's three posts saw a total of 43 minutes and picked up no fouls. This was because…
Holy pants was AJ Hammons awful. I've been talking him up based on watching some Purdue and seeing some nice things in the box score; in this game he was total non-entity. In 24 minutes he had 2 points, 2 rebounds, and 2 turnovers. While I wasn't enamored with Michigan's center play in this one, they have to get some credit for that.
That over and back call. A couple folks pushed back on twitter when I broke out the traditional "lol big ten refs" for the over-and-back on Stauskas, but I am sure I'm right on this. For over-and-back to be in play the entire ball and the entirety of the player's body have to cross the halfcourt line. By the time Stauskas caught up to the ball Byrd had poked out it had already started crossing the halfcourt stripe. This was obvious on TV but not to the ref, since said ref was well behind the play.
In any case, he clearly did not regain control of the ball until he'd entered the backcourt, in which case the tip indicated by the ref closest to the play was still the determining factor. That call was mystifying.
Yes, I can find things to complain about even when Michigan is the #2 FTA/FGA team in the nation. It's a skill, what can I say?
Second-half adjustment watch. This one was even coming out of the locker room, with both teams picking up five points in the first five minutes. Then Michigan went away with a 14-2 run in the next five. You can add that to the bin or not; your discretion.
On deck: huge swing game. I dislike this Illinois game coming up. Michigan should win, but this is an Illinois team that beat OSU's head in at Assembly (Not That Assembly) and could at any moment heat up on their many, many three-pointers. They'll be desperate for another marquee win that can cover up blemishes like "losers to Purdue and Northwestern" when tourney time comes around; I can see things going very well or very badly.
There's a cap on how well Illinois can do when they can't grab a rebound to save their lives; I am still wary of a team at the bottom of three-point percentage rankings on both offense and defense. That could turn around and bite you. Ask Gonzaga, on the wrong end of an 11/26 night from the Illini.
Kenpom has Michigan by eight and with a 77% chance of winning—feels a little more random than that to me.


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