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fits and starts.
six o clockish is such a nice time for a walk. the sun is doing its slanty thing and the whole campus washes over with wind and gold. right now it's quiet here, the school breathing slow till the students arrive in two weeks, and we scrambling madly to prepare.
we've been at rva eleven days now, and we're locating our groove between all the new staff meetings and tag-along drives to pick up laundry baskets and toothpaste from nairobi. yesterday morning the boys washed and hung three loads of laundry, then we walked a half mile to the snaking dirt road of kijabe town and bought vegetables and samosas.
the campus is teeming with 'ohi'a trees and lilikoi and a ton of other plant life that makes me feel right at home. with the exception of eucalyptus, it's hard for me to talk plants with anyone because they know the english or swahili names, and for the life of me i can't think of what that should be. i'm all, you know, those short trees with the hairy red flowers, and they're like, oh! you mean the bottle brush tree.
i do not understand their aversion to hawaiian names. :)
anyhow, meet our dorm:
we are the proud soon-to-be dorm parents of the twenty one freshman boys moving into bongo dorm. (when it's not being a drum, a bongo is an antelope sort of creature with stripes and spiraled horns. a lot of the dorms here are named after kenyan animals.)
our apartment is the upstairs part, and the dorm is downstairs, comprised of four-man bedrooms, a lounge, a bathroom, and a smallish kitchen. it's a lot of dark varnish and cinderblock–picture more camp and less dorm, and you'll have the right idea. i'm really hoping i'll get to paint a few walls and remake curtains before the boys arrive, just to make it all a bit sprucier and like home.
(our guys will also spend a good part of their free time in our apartment, we hope, though if our innate coolness is not enough of a draw, i'm not above bribing them with popcorn and chai.)
this week we have language courses every day, which is meant to jump-start us into swahili. when you think of us, please pray that God will loosen our tongues and wire our thinkers to have an affinity for language learning. once the school year starts we will have limited time to work on language, and we need every minute to stick.
the week after is three days of all-staff meetings, then the new students arrive, followed by the whole school. we'll be in both dorm parent and teacher meetings, since todd is also teaching two periods of senior bible and i have a class of eighth grade art. (dear eighth graders: i apologize in advance for the pottery section, though hopefully you shall gain confidence by so brightly outshining your teacher.)
i have so, so much i want to tell you guys, but mostly i was walking the school grounds with lauren last night and i thought: just this. i wish i could just take a quiet walk with you all, one by one.
we miss you, and also we're so glad for the chance to be here.
* * *
ps loved these words this morning:
we are the broken, You are the healer
Jesus, redeemer, mighty to save
You are the love song we'll sing forever
bowing before You, blessing Your name
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oh, so glad you wrote this morning. helps put my change in perspective (took the older to college two days ago.) thanks for the tour. praying for you, art-teacher.
beautiful, nic. i wish for a walk as well, but this peek around through pictures is just right. lovely dorm, and your classes sound great! praying for y'all and your students. most of all, thanks for sharing that last bit. those lyrics are fresh air. praise jesus.
hugs to you!
Missing you friend. Excited about what God is doing in your family and your grand adventure (which likely feels less grand then imagined right now). We will be praying for settling and growth and for everything there to feel like home. You have a bucket full of people here who love you! Use the dipper ANY time you need it. Praying!!!!
Missing you but thankful for modern technology. Praying for you as you learn and adjust. Thank you for your words and pictures. Tell Todd and the kiddos hello.
Nic- Beautifully said. Refreshing and moving. Thank you for sharing your heart as we journey in prayer with you all!!
Thinking of you all and praying for you. I'm in awe of the sacrifice your kids are making with you. Tell them that some random woman who lives in Georgia (who is currently in a hotel room in Michigan – yay!) is inspired by their obedience to their Heavenly Father. So cool. :)
I'll rain check you that quiet walk for a couple months from now :)
I am impressed that the boys are washing and hanging laundry. There will come a day that their wives will be blown away by their eager and sweet willingness to use the washer and dryer.
My pastor prayed for you in church, this morning, and truly I feel like I'm inhaling and exhaling prayers for you. I love how you make all of us feel as though you belong to us, and of course you do, as in Christ, we all belong to one another.
Excited about the art class and all the rest. love you
Oh Nic….the pics are beautiful! I can see you there. Yes..paint that Dorm and bring in some color. God bless you all and may you have the peace and joy of Christ in all the swirl of newness!! Love you.
I shall dream a thousand dreams of you after seeing this place. This where you are. You probably know we served as cottage parents at a children's home for five years. 8 teenage girls at a time, two little boys that our blood ran through. This is the advice I give: love them. all day. every day. do everything for them just the same as you would your own. popcorn for everyone, always. celebrate their day big. be nosy. ask lots of questions. they want you too, but they don't know how to tell you. and they watch your every move. don't get caught up on a language barrier. love speaks the loudest.
love you so much friend. I am so excited about what's to come!
This is gorgeous!
I so loved reading this and imagining where you are and how life is for you all! Sounds like things are falling into place! It looks beautiful there. We will be praying for your language training! Also, no matter how your pottery turns out, God is molding, shaping, and using you in marvelous ways to be in these children's lives! I am sure you will do great with the class and the children will love:) I wish I could take a walk with you there and hear and see it all! Love you guys & keeping you in our prayers!
so good to hear. the pictures and descriptions of your new home. i love the way you and your husband are already loving those students. a big hug from colorado.
Miss you all but love the photos and hearing the update. beautiful lyrics thanks for sharing your life with us.
Checking on you. Love you. Miss you.
yours faithfully
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So we're playing madden 10 and we have the strict rule that neither of us is allowed to be the Eagles while playing each other since it's not fair...Well we are picking random teams, press the LT (Xbox 360) to randomize it three times and guess who we get? Cowgirls vs Ginas. Now, my buddy was all about doing it again because how could one play with such faggotry, even in a video game? I tell him "No, it was given to us by the madden gods, we must see to it that this game ends in ten picks each and a tie."
How does BGN feel about this?
Update1: We realize we have the same color jerseys (pink)..oh well it doesn't matter if we complete passes.
Update2: Quotes: "I know I haven't bathed yet today, but I'm really going to need a shower after this." and "Hey, according to McNabb, a game can't end in a tie."
Tony Romo Pick #1, 3:23 left in the 1st.
End of 1st Quarter score: Cowgirls 7 - Ginas 7
Update3: Halftime score: Cowgirls 14 - Ginas 14 (we're both really trying).
Update4: Quotes: "If I don't sack tony romo in this game I'm going to shoot somebody" (After hitting him 6-9 times on screen plays).
Update 5: End of 3rd Quarter: Cowgirls 14 - Ginas 17.
Play of the game: I'm going to the bathroom and my buddy is picking his play on offense, there is no scoreboard or clock at the bottom and I ask "Why isn't there a timer for you?" and he goes "I don't know, I was just lookin aroud the plays."...Whistle blows and he gets a delay of game.
Update 6: Ginas were down 4 (21-17) but poised to score with 2minutes left, first down inside the 5 was called back because of a holding penalty, turnover on downs...One minute later, Barber fumbles for the cowgirls inside the 10, Ginas start their last minute drive.
Update7: Ginas quick touchdown pass (Cowgirls 21 Ginas 24)...The cowgirls are squiriming in their panties. Ensuing kickoff with 20 seconds left is run back to the Ginas 40. (Seriously what the fuck is up with that bullshit? My flipping guy bounced to his blocker instead of tackling him at the twenty, got lucky and got him at the 40.) One completion and a three rushed plays leads to a field goal and overtime!
Update8: Cowboys sustain a decent drive but it stalls at the Ginas 45. Cowgirls gets a lucky punt and puts it in the 2. (5:20 left in OT)
Update9: 3rd and 1 for the Ginas, Jacobs fumbles it..after loud yelling, screaming and general debauchery during the fight for the fumble screen, Ginas come up with the ball and a 1st down to keep the drive alive on their own 27. (4:20 left in OT)
Update10: 1:27 left in OT. This being a madden game, the Ginas, on the Cowgirls 27, decide to go for it on 4th and 4. Why you ask? BECAUSE I FUCKING CAN.
Update11: 1st down. We decide that fieldgoals aren't allowed anyway.
Update12: Sheli throws a touchdown to Boss, game.
Cowgirls blame the game on the fact that his select button didn't work and wouldn't let him call a timeout on one play.
Final Verdict: This was the WORST game of madden I've ever played, It came down to the last 30 seconds and these two teams are as bad in the game as they are in real life.
Cowgirls 24 (299yds passing, 122 Rushing) - Ginas 30 (297yds passing, 90 rushing)
Was this really that bad for a first post on BGN?

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topic 1:Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right
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|Rated 18% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion: Neutral on topic 1
Endorsed by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1
Ensure access to and funding for contraception: Favors topic 1
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Ending racial profiling is part of fight for justice: Favors topic 2
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Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Favors topic 2
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YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: Favors topic 2
YES on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges: Strongly Favors topic 2
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YES on continuing military recruitment on college campuses: Favors topic 15
YES on restricting no-bid defense contracts: Strongly Opposes topic 15
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Establish 15 days of early voting in all states: Favors topic 16
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NO on banning armed forces in Libya without Congressional approval: Opposes topic 17
NO on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date: Strongly Favors topic 17
YES on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days: Strongly Favors topic 17
YES on investigating Bush impeachment for lying about Iraq: Favors topic 17
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Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence: Favors topic 18
Establish a Carbon Storage Research Corporation: Favors topic 18
YES on tax incentives for renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18
NO on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases: Favors topic 18
NO on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling: Strongly Favors topic 18
NO on authorizing construction of new oil refineries: Strongly Favors topic 18
NO on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries: Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore: Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies: Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on investing in homegrown biofuel: Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC: Favors topic 18
YES on tax incentives for energy production and conservation: Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets: Favors topic 18
YES on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution: Favors topic 18
YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program: Favors topic 18
topic 19:Never legalize marijuana
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Brendan Rodgers told ITV's Ned Boulting that his side caused their own downfall by getting complacent in the second-halfRead the full story
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Three second-half goals from Udinese sent Liverpool spinning to defeat in tonight's Europa League Group A match at AnfieldRead the full story
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Udinese defender Giampiero Pinzi doesn't even bother to try and tackle Liverpool's Stewart Downing fairly, opting instead for a bear hugRead the full story
All a good learning curve
Brendan Rodgers won't be confident of winning this competition, but he'll know his players will have learnt more tonight that a fortnight ago in Switzerland.
That's all she wrote, but to be fair it was a good storyline. Liverpool could have been out of sight by half-time, but quickly let the Italians back into the match in the second period, allowing them to score three quick goals. Liverpool still could have salvaged a draw, but couldn't covert their late chances.
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Yep, that's one ugly pooch alright!
This weekend as we all went about our business, the good folks in Petaluma, California, were busy crowning the winner of their annual World's Ugliest Dog contest. Yes, in a society so obsessed with beauty it's nice to see someone give the aesthetically-challenged their due. Hey, we can't all be Lassie, right? Right! This year's winner, who quite resembles the rather unattractive Star Wars character Yoda, is named, well, Yoda, and as the story goes, when discovered by her eventual owner behind an apartment building, was mistaken for a rat. Beautiful. Pardon the pun. As you can see in this video report, (click here) after winning, Yoda walked to the edge of the stage to greet the paparazzi, and promptly fell off. She was okay. Ugly, and klutzy. My kind of dog!


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Lowe's Store Closings With 1,950 Job Losses Not Worthy of AP's Business Front Page
UPDATE, 4 p.m.: NB gets results? The Lowe's story is currently #10 on the AP's Business home page (saved here).
It's a good thing I heard this on the radio at about 11:00 a.m., because I might otherwise have missed it. With yours truly's opinion along for the ride, I'll let readers judge whether the news of the Lowe's home improvement chain announcing that it will close 20 stores and cut its new store opening plans by one-half to two-thirds deserved to be in the top ten business stories at the Associated Press as of 12:52 p.m.
Here are the ten which made the cut in order of appearance on the wire service's Business home page (saved here for future reference, fair use, and discussion purposes; original link not made because of frequent changes):
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AP Top Business News At 12:52 p.m. EDT:
- UK government considers ban on squatters
- Yahoo's 3Q earnings may shed light on CEO firing
- Making up: free apps for furious Blackberry users
- Cellphone cos. to warn as plan approaches limit
- Factory output rises on truck, airplane demand
- Stocks slide as Germany cools hope for debt deal
- Citigroup earnings rise 74 percent, to $3.8 bln
- Wells Fargo 3Q profit up 21 percent, revenue slips
- BP, Anadarko settle Gulf disaster claims
- Shares of American Airlines parent AMR fall again
It seems pretty obvious that Item 1 doesn't even belong in the Business section, and that either Item 3 or 4 is less important than the Lowe's announcement. From the AP's perspective, the suspicion here is that the Lowe's news didn't make the cut because it dilutes the positive impact of Item 5.
Now here's the AP's unbylined Lowe's story, with a time stamp of 10:22 a.m. when this post was prepared (the news originally broke at about 8:30 a.m.; bolds are mine throughout this post):
Lowe's to close 20 stores
Home-improvement retailer Lowe's Cos. says it will close 20 underperforming stores in 15 states and cut 1,950 jobs in a move that it says will allow it to focus on more profitable locations.
Ten locations were closed Sunday; the other 10 will close in a month.
Before the closures Lowe's operated 1,725 stores.
Lowe's, based in Mooresville, N.C., also says it will only open 10 to 15 stores in North America annually beginning in 2012. Previously the company expected to open 30 stores per year. It will open 25 stores this year.
The front-page placement issue is important and becoming moreso, as news consumers get more of their news from computers, tablets and smartphones. If the headline doesn't show up on the electronic device (and it probably won't if it's not on the Business front page), users won't know to look for it.
Beyond that, the AP "somehow" decided not to include this pull quote which the Wall Street Journal found obviously newsworthy (the Journal also included the "severely cutting" opening slowdown in its headline):
"Today we have a clearer view of the long-term economic recovery and decided to close these 20 stores," Lowe's spokeswoman Chris Ahearn said. "The stores have underperformed and we haven't seen progress necessary for them to reach profitability."
Translation: "We're not impressed with the prospects of meaningful long-term recovery." Gosh, how did the AP miss that? (/sarc)
The betting here is that the Lowe's story would have been gotten to and stayed on AP's Business front page if it had occurred during the years 2001-2008, and that the pull quote just cited would not have ended up on the cutting-room floor.
And excuse me for doubting that most Americans following the news really, really want to know about those English squatters.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Get use to it. For the next
Submitted by buddyc on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 2:12pm.
Get use to it. For the next 13 months the media talking points will be:
1. Feel good stories of people getting jobs ( the few who can find one)
2. fabricated government employement and economic growth records
3. Glorification of liberal "rock star", Hillary, Bill, Jimma, and etc
4. OWS type protests and how wonderful the protestors are
5. the "do nothing" congress
6. our deteriorating infrastructure
7. outrageous profits of any corporation Obama doesn't like
8. growing income gap
9. the need for higher taxes
Forget anything else.
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The many more parts of Obamacare...
Submitted by ontheright on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 2:26pm.
...that are found to be unsustainable and/or nonworkable will still result in a budget savings even after repeal - according to the indpenedent and unbiased CBO...
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You forgot the most important
Submitted by russedav on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:54pm.
Obama is our savior (gag).
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Very familiar with Lowes HD
Submitted by sansjeux on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 2:22pm.
They would be in better shape, but when they moved their corporate offices from the cowfield (seriously) a few years ago, they did so in probably the worst way imaginable which added to corporate debt and created the situation that Lowes currently finds itself in. I'd rather shop in Home Depot since from my experience, they are a more stable company and better appreciate their customers needs.
It is a shame though that AP doesn't consider this as important as sqatters which a good water canon can usually eliminate.
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opposite here in Brewer Maine
Submitted by dmacleo on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:10pm.
walk into bangor home depot on crutch, search for someone to help get large/heavy item.
walk in lowes in brewer and usually have multiple offers to help before I get 50 feet in.
so I use lowes usually.
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Same in NJ, dmacleo
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 6:17pm.
1. Lowes does not employ "greeters". Or as I call them, things you would do anything to avoid making eye contact with.
2. Lowes has lighting
3. Lowes does not tolerate starlings running wild and establishing NatGeo-documentary-worthy mega-colonies inside the store.
4. Lowes actually labels thing on the shelves so you can locate them by yourself in two seconds without roaming around looking for a a "greeter" on break.
5. Lowes cleans the aisle floors occasionally.
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This is a list of the stores
Submitted by sugarandsass on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:26pm.
This is a list of the stores that closed.
Los Banos, CA Biddeford, ME Old Bridge, NJ
Westminster, CA Ellsworth, ME Batavia, NY
Denver, CO Ionia, MI N. Kingstown, RI
Aurora, IL Rogers, MN Emporia, VA
Oswego, IL Claremont, NH S. Tacoma, WA
Chalmette, LA Hooksett, NH Brown Deer, WI
Haverhill, MA Manchester, NH
(Sorry I can't make it any more readable.)
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I see a recurring
Submitted by gfrrman on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:45am.
theme with these particular states, at least appears to me....and NO I will not point out the obvious......
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A few months back they let
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:39pm.
A few months back they let most of their middle managers go. Now I think all they have is a store manager and an assistant. A friend of mine was a manager in the paint department. He is now running a cash register. Before all that I had to punch a button to get help. Since they got rid of the managers they come up to you and ask if you need help. Bet you didn't hear about the managers getting canned either.
Lowe's is based in Mooresville, NC. Mooresville is better known as the race capitol of NASCAR because so many teams are based around there. A friend of mine here works in the offices there.
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In New America we will have
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:23am.
In New America we will have no use for such coprorate greed pigs as Lowe's, Wa-mart or Home Depot. Free building materials will abound at any one of your local garbage dumps. Forage we much!
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Prior to our visit I checked their website and found this helpful Gluten Free guide.
Basic don't eat list:
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- Most salads without croutons or breaded chicken
- Safe salad dressing: Balsamic vinaigrette, creamy cesar, and honey mustard poppyseed
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I had a wonderful Gluten Free experience at Red Robin. I told the waiter right away that I was Gluten Free. He said no problem and that he would get the manager to bring me a menu. A couple minutes later the manager brought be the guide I saw online. I asked about the fry situation. The manager explained they have a DEDICATED FRYER FOR PEOPLE WITH FOOD ALLERGIES!! How awesome is that?! I asked him what else gets cooked in that fryer and he said just the fries!
What I ordered: Bacon Cheeseburger "Protein Style" no seasoning, fries with no seasoning cooked in the dedicated fryer. Order your burger "no pink" because you don't want burger grease running through your lettuce. The manager brought out my meal and it was even in a yellow basket (instead of red) to show it was a food allergy meal! I thought this was a nice touch.
This was a very enjoyable meal! The lettuce held up well as a bun substitute. I dipped my fries in the ketchup and was good to go. I really appreciated their attention to my specific food needs. We will go back!
Our Red Robin carries Udi's Gluten Free buns! Life changing! It has been so long since I've eaten a GOOD cheeseburger in a bun. I continue to be impressed with every visit how in tune they are with with food allergies and Celiac Disease needs. The manager always brings out my yellow basket of goodness. During our last visit the manager even saw me examining the seasoning salt on the table and stopped to inform me there are no Gluten ingredients in the mix but it is made in a facility that manufactures wheat so it wasn't safe for me! I love the attention. Any restaurant that cares that much about my Gluten Free eating needs will get lots of my business!


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'Core agreement' reached in Valleys Rugby campaign
An agreement has been reached between the Welsh Rugby Union and campaigners hoping to create a fifth rugby region.
Plans were submitted to the WRU earlier this year for 'Valleys Rugby' in the South Wales Valleys.
Under the proposals it would be part-owned by the community, with the majority of matches played at Sardis Road.
At today's meeting, held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, a series of objectives were agreed based on a pledge by Valleys Rugby to seek out funding from within the UK and Europe.
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I am pleased we have made an important breakthrough in our negotiations with the WRU and have had the opportunity to explain our plans in detail and align our aims. An astonishing 8,500 people have signed up to pledge £100 each in the community funding model we have championed for Valleys Rugby and that proves the depth of enthusiasm which exists for our ideas.
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I applaud the ambition and drive behind Valleys Rugby and the WRU will always seek to support initiatives which have the potential to improve the game in Wales. Owen Smith is now well placed to unlock new monies for rugby in all of Wales and in particular Valleys Rugby. We will support Mr Smith in his endeavours to source new funding for the game.


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - 211 San Diego is partnering with the Consulate General of Mexico for this year's Binational Health Week.
211 and 211.com will provide information on how to prevent illnesses and where people who are sick can get treatment.
Organizers say the point is to promote good health within the Hispanic community.
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What Is Lean Body Mass?Lean body mass is the amount of body weight that is not fat. Learn more about body fat percentage and lean body mass.
How Do I Find Out My Lean Body Mass?Using this body fat calculator, find out what percentage of your body weight is fat. The rest of it is lean body mass. So if you weight 150 lbs, and your body fat percentage is 30%, that is 45 lbs. That means your lean body mass is 150 minus 45, which is 105 lbs.
Now What?According to the formula used by Sears, the pounds of lean body mass should be multiplied by the following, depending on activity level, to get the daily protein requirement in grams:
- Sedentary - multiply lbs of lean body mass by .5
- Light activity (e.g. walking) - multiply by .6
- Moderate (30 minutes of vigorous activity 3 days per week) - .7
- Active (1 hour per day 5 days per week) - .8
- Very Active (10 hours of vigorous activity per week - .9
- Athlete - multiply by 1.0
The second calculator on this page can do the calculations for you.
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Suppose we have a 160 lbs person who has 25% body fat. This person has 120 lbs of lean body mass. If the person is sedentary, they should consume 60 grams of protein per day. If moderately active, 84 grams, and so on. Note that a 180 lb person who has 30% body fat would also have 120 lbs of lean body mass, so the same figures would apply.
It turns out that for most people, these numbers come pretty close to the standard way of figuring out protein needs.


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Like most high school football teams in the state, the Deer Park Stags are not waiting until mid-August to get ready for the 2011 season.
The Stags are spending the current week finishing up their NFL-like organized training activities (more commonly known as summer camp) before heading to a four-day team camp later this month at Eastern Washington University.
The Stags OTA has brought out 88 football players, including 34 eighth graders who will make up the bulk of the freshman team this fall. About two dozen of the campers suited up for varsity action last season.


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After two solid months off the hill rehabilitating from a separated sternum clavicle joint, Tim Humphreys is back on the shred and just dropped this hot off the press. Shot in two days at Northstar-at-Tahoe, this edit is fire.
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Gold Rush Brownies Recipe
With six kids to keep an eye on, my mother relied on quick-and-easy recipes like this. Now my own family, who doesn't usually care for nuts, can't resist these chewy brownies.
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs (about 32 squares)
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a bowl, combine crumbs, chocolate chips and pecans. Stir in milk until blended (batter will be stiff). Spread into a greased 8-in.-square baking pan.
- Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Yield: 1 dozen.
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The Lupe was shocked to hear this. He had seen the scrapbook that had the masked figures had left for him. The earliest photos in it were from their childhood, and he had seen the faceless Draik in them. But for Jack to tell him that it had been going on even longer came as a huge surprise.
"Why didn't you tell me, Jack?" Troy asked. "I had no idea. What about Marco or Ashton? Why didn't you tell them?"
"Let me finish, Troy," Jack said. "I had a very good reason for not telling you. But I'll get to that when it's time."
"First off," the Zafara continued, "When I was younger, I did tell others. I told my parents, my brothers, my sisters, anyone who would listen to me. I told all of them that there was this strange Draik who looked like he had no face watching me. They laughed it off, saying that it was just some imaginary friend or I was seeing things. Even when that Draik was in the room with us and I was screaming and pointing him out, they didn't believe me. It wasn't until later that I found out why."
Jack shook his head. It seemed like he was reliving painful memories from the past. "It's because they can't see him. It was only later that I found this out. It's like... I'm not sure how to explain it. It's like he picks someone at random and just never leaves them alone. And only they can see him. But... he shows up in photographs. That only made things worse though."
"Worse?" Troy asked, before another look from Jack silenced him.
"Yeah, worse," Jack replied. "Once others could start seeing him in photographs, it wasn't long before they started seeing him as well. I thought that would finally prove that I was telling the truth, but... it took them. After a while, everyone who came in contact with the Draik in Black just vanished. Even those who didn't see him. Just thinking about him seems to be enough to have him enter your life. Once I realized that, I did everything I could to not pay attention to him ever again. But he wouldn't go away!"
"Did you try everything?" Troy asked, trying to help.
"Everything!" Jack exclaimed, "I tried avoiding mirrors, I tried avoiding dark places, I even tried disguising myself with morphing potions. It didn't work! He kept stalking me!"
"Did you try bribing him?" Troy asked.
Jack sighed and shot another look to Troy. "Yeah, sure. Bribing him will work. I'll just give the faceless monstrosity twenty Neopoints and he'll go away. I know you're trying to help, but will you please think before saying something like that?"
"Sorry..." Troy said.
"It's okay," Jack said. "Being stalled by that thing for years will put anyone on edge. Not just me. Especially since I'm not the only one he is, or was, stalking. This is part of the reason why I didn't want you coming after me Troy. I knew that if you did, he'd come after you too."
"But... why hasn't he taken you then?" the Lupe asked, "I mean, I've read about others who saw him and were taken, and now you say that's happened to others you know as well. Why are you still here?"
"That's something I don't know," Jack said sadly. "Honestly, I really don't know why he hasn't come for me yet. The only thing I can think of is that he's just enjoying tormenting me."
"What about the masked figures?" Troy said. "What's wrong with Ashton? Why did he attack me like that?"
"Have you ever been close to him?" Jack asked.
"What do you mean?" Troy replied.
"Just what I said. Have you ever been close to the faceless Draik?" Jack said.
"I... yes. I've come across him more then once while looking for you," Troy said. "If my nightmares were real, and those pictures the masked figures have left me weren't fake, then just earlier would have been the fourth time he's been around me."
"You're lucky then," Jack said. "Ashton and Marco were only around him once before they ended up like that."
"Marco's one of them too?" Troy asked.
Jack nodded. "He's the one in the black cloak with the green mask."
Troy clenched his eyes, trying to fight back tears. Another friend of his was like that now. "So then," the Lupe asked. "Who's the one in the yellow cloak and red mask?"
Jack had a fearful look on his face. "I didn't know there was one with a yellow cloak and a red mask..."
The two of them were silent for several seconds as that realization sank in.
"I guess..." Jack said, "It's safe to assume that one is another victim of his. Those who come in contact with him tend to establish the same symptoms. A violent cough. A buzzing in your ears that sounds like a swarm of Unidentified Petpets. Then... madness. Paranoia. Drawing on walls, floors, anything. Scratching his image into things. Writing warnings and messages. It's a sign that he's gotten to you. It happened to me when I was younger too."
"I... saw what happened to your old house. There was a lot of that in there," Troy said.
"You shouldn't have gone in there," Jack said. "That house is his now. It's broken and cannot be fixed. I should have left long before I finally did. But instead I hid in the closet for almost three weeks. It actually worked for a while, because tall, dark, and faceless couldn't get in. But then it broke. After that, I had to go. I did learn something though. Marco... Ashton... they're still are who they are. If you remove their masks, they go back to normal. At least for a moment. But it's like they turn into someone else entirely with them on. The closest I can figure is that while they have those masks on, the Draik in Black is imposing his will on them."
"Well, what do we do?" Troy asked.
Jack was silent.
"I don't know," he finally said.
"You don't know?" Troy repeated.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Jack shouted.
Troy shrank back from the Zafara, not wanting to experience another outburst like that.
"I'm sorry," Jack said. "I really don't know. There are periods of my life where he shows up all the time, and then other times when it's months before I see him again. I said I don't know much about him. All I know is what I've experienced. I just know that you never look at him, or else he takes you. I don't know who he is. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's been stalking me since I was a child. I just want to live a normal life, Troy!"
Jack was starting to get hysterical.
"Is that too much to ask? Is it too much to not have to worry about some faceless Draik stalking me my whole life? Is it too much to not be able to tell anyone about this out of fear that he'll go after them too? Do you have any idea how much it hurt me to have to run like this? I did it because I didn't want him to get you too, Troy! Now... you're in almost as deep as I am..."
The Zafara sat down. He was leaning against the stones of the bridge they were standing on as he looked up at the overcast sky. A few drizzles of rain started to pour down.
"There's no escape, Troy," the Zafara said sadly. "No escape at all. We can't run. We can't hide. He always sees us. He has no eyes, yet he's always watching. He will find us, no matter what we do."
Troy looked at Jack as the Zafara started to cry.
"I thought he was gone..." Jack sobbed. "I thought I was free. I thought I could live a normal life. That's why I went on that trip. That's why I took so many photographs. I love taking pictures. I wanted to get my life back, Troy. Then, he showed up again, and took Ashton and Marco."
Jack continued to cry, his tears mixing in with the rain that was falling on the pair. Troy honestly couldn't believe what had happened. It really did seem like there was no escape. He didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say. He had started this whole thing just to find his friend again, and now that he had, they were both being pursued by some nightmarish Draik.
"We'll run together," Troy finally said.
Jack looked over to the Lupe. "What are you talking about?"
"We'll run together," Troy repeated. "I started this whole search because I was worried about you. I just wanted to find you and make sure that you're okay. But if we're both doomed to be stalked by the Draik in Black, then we might as well tough it out together. We don't have to do this alone. I know we won't be able to do anything if we just sit back and accept it. Maybe we'll find some way to get out as long as we keep going. Maybe we can even help Marco and Ashton. We have to at least try!"
Troy offered his hand to Jack. The Zafara still had some tears running down his cheeks as he looked at the Lupe's hand. After a moment, he grabbed it and pulled himself back up to his feet.
"We can't stay here," Jack said. "The Draik in Black found me again, and so did his masked followers. We'll have to leave as soon as we can."
"I only brought a few bags," Troy said. "It shouldn't take me long to repack everything. I'll get my things. We'll go back to your place and pack things up and we'll go."
Jack nodded silently. It was a good a plan as any. As they were heading back to the Neolodge branch of Neovia, Jack spoke up again.
"While you were looking for me," he said. "Did you tell anyone about this? Did you tell anyone else about the Draik in Black?"
The Lupe thought for a moment as they walked through the streets of Neovia. He did need the help of some others to get this far. Kauvara and Delina had helped him with the blacked out picture. Alabaster had helped him find Jack's home in Neovia. Did he mention the Draik in Black to any of them? No, not that he remembered.
"I did have some help, yes," Troy replied. "But I didn't tell any of them about the faceless Draik. I didn't mention him, and he didn't show up in any of the photographs that I showed them either."
"Alright..." Jack replied. "The last thing we need is to get other people wrapped up in this. The fewer people who know about the Draik in Black, the better."
The duo continued the rest of the trip to the Neolodge in silence. There was no one manning the front desk when they arrived, but Troy still had the key to his room. What was odd, however, was that there was no one in the halls or common areas as well. This created an odd atmosphere in the Neolodge that both of them picked up on.
"Something's wrong," Troy said. This place wasn't bustling earlier, but there were others around. At that moment, the lights started to flicker.
Troy and Jack both looked up at the ceiling once they noticed that.
"He's here..." Jack whispered.
They looked around as the lights continued to flicker above them. The Lupe hurried down the hallway to get to his room as Jack followed close behind. The deeper they went, the more the lights started to flicker.
"We need to hurry!" Jack shouted.
"I know!" Troy replied.
The lights in the hallway went out just as Troy reached the room he was staying at. They popped back on for a moment just as Troy put the key into the door.
"There!" Jack shouted, making Troy look at where they had just come from.
The Draik in Black was at the end of the hallway.
Troy started coughing as the sound of the swarm of Unidentified Petpets started to ring in his ears. He turned away and pushed the door to the room open.
Neither of them were prepared for what was inside...
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) -- Armed with not much more than cell phones and computers, Jeremy Brossard's friends and family, along with Rihanna's "army" are helping to make his dream of meeting Rihanna come true.
"I don't know who did the first tweet, but it just blew up," said Chad Brossard.
"It's getting so far, further than we thought," Jeremy Brossard chimed in, referring to the storm of social media that has surrounded him the last few days.
Jeremy Brossard is an 18 year old with a dream to meet pop superstar Rihanna.
"I like all her music, and who wouldn't want to meet her?" he said. "I wanna meet her because she's the most popular artist and she's very beautiful as you can see."
He's determined to meet her, but Jeremy is no stranger to determination. He had plans to see her in concert in St. Paul last March, but was diagnosed with T-Cell leukemia one week before the show. He's been battling it since.
"Chemo every week. But just recently, it's slowed down to once a month," he said.
He's currently undergoing treatment at Mayo Clinic Saint Marys but has recently become a social media movement.
Using Facebook and the Twitter hashtag #RihannaMeetJeremy, Rihanna's "navy" is showing its colors, from all over the world.
"My name is Lora I'm a Spanish Navy. We are a family and we will help you make your dream come true," Chad Brossard said, as he read one of the multiple messages left for Jeremy on their official Facebook page.
It's a dream that might seem a bit lofty, as Rihanna is the 6th most followed person on Twitter. These brothers say that doesn't matter.
"Even if she doesn't meet him, it's still a win because he gets to see all the support and love coming from everybody," Chad said.
Jeremy says his perfect day with Rihanna would be simple.
"Go out to dinner with her, wherever she wants to go, and maybe get a kiss from her," he said.
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Wal-Mart is on schedule to start building a new store in Historic Westside Village this summer and open it in the summer of 2012, a company spokesman said.
"I haven't seen anything that would delay us," said Glen Wilkins, Wal-Mart's senior manager of public affairs for the Southeast.
The opening can't come soon enough for Jane Nho. She works in the Beauty Depot next to the future Wal-Mart, to be located at 825 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, across from the original Paschal's restaurant.
"Wal-Mart will be good for business," Nho said. "Wal-Mart will attract a lot of people."
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has no immediate plans to build a store at a site along Cascade Road, Wilkins said. The developer of that site successfully sued Fulton County in 2006 to win zoning approval for a store measuring up to 185,000 square feet.
Wal-Mart does retain an option to build at the site, located near the northwest corner of I-285 and Cascade Road, Wilkins said.
"There's still an interest in the area and Wal-Mart is still considering it," Wilkins said of the Cascade Road site. "No final decisions have been made. We want to make sure we understand that market."
Jerome Russell, the developer working with Wal-Mart at the Historic Westside Village site, said the project is going "full bore."
Russell said he expects to complete a land transaction with the city by this summer to acquire the acreage needed to build an 80,000-square-foot Wal-Mart. The new store will be nearly three times larger than the store vacated by the former tenant, a Publix grocery store.
The size of the planned Wal-Mart represents the wave of the future for Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart built successful franchise based on stores measuring about 200,000 square feet. But the company is downsizing some new stores in urban areas in the face of seven consecutive quarters of declining domestic sales.
"This really is about fitting into the community and understanding that each community is unique," Wilkins said. "It's also about efficiency."
Nationally, Wal-Mart's come-back strategy also calls for returning to its original mission of offering the lowest cost on all items, and of being a one-stop-shop for households earning $30,000 to $70,000 a year, according to an interview with Wal-Mart domestic chief William Simon, which appeared in the March 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
Wal-Mart's market cap is about $189.3 billion and shares have been hovering around $52, down from about $60 in mid 2008.
Sonya Moste, spokeswoman with the Atlanta Development Authority, the city's development arm, said the Wal-Mart will provide many more products than the now-shuttered Publix grocery store.
"It will have a pharmacy, and the residents in that area need a pharmacy," Moste said. "The old Publix may have lost sales to stores that offered pharmacies.
"We are thrilled Wal-Mart is coming in to eliminate one of Atlanta's far-too-many food deserts," Moste said. "We want to do all we can to eliminate them in Atlanta."
Russell has come full circle in developing Historic Westside Village.
Russell was one of the initial bidders to develop the city-backed site in the mid 1990s. Atlanta picked another development team, and the development fell apart because of bungling that federal authorities attributed to meddling by the administration of then-Mayor Bill Campbell.
Russell is picking up where that troubled project was halted.
Russell's firm built a condo communit y that's part of the overall Historic Westside Village project. Russell said the Wal-Mart should help boost sales of the condos, because of the proximity to a full-fledged grocery store and pharmacy. Prices have been reduced to below $80,000.
"We think the Wal-Mart will help," Russell said. "We're ecstatic."


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September 12, 2007Albany -- The addition of two Boards of Equalization could help move the Dougherty County property tax appeal process along more quickly.
With only one appeals board made up of citizens appointed by the grand jury, propoerty owners had long waits for their hearings.
More volunteers were appointed and trained , and three boards are now hearing appraisal appeals, but because there are so many, not everyone has received notice yet.
"There are a lot of people that have not received the first notice of any type and that is because they haven't gone to the board of tax assessors at this time," said Dougherty County Tax Director Denver Hooten.
With 3,900 appeals filed, many have not yet made it through the first step in the appeals process.
It will be the first of the year before the process is complete.
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Yes, about 60 thousand km. Not 60 million, or 160 million. 60 thousand. How?
Several years back I posted on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, which has a small camera on board called the VMC (Visual Monitoring Camera). Originally, the VMC's purpose was to image a lander probe called Beagle 2 shortly after deployment to make sure it had separated OK. All of that is now 9 years back, Mars Express arrived at Mars on December 25, 2003 and the Beagle 2 lander mission was a failure, but the Mars Express orbiter mission proper has been a resounding success.
Here is that 2009 bautforum post: http://bit.ly/IB8dWc
The VMC wasn't supposed to be used any more after having performed its assigned task of peering at the departing lander probe. But then some engineers proposed to put it back into action. The thing about Mars Express is that it's on an eccentric orbit. Here is a visualization of that orbit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPy5x9r7kfM
You can see that the orbit is polar and eccentric. Its line of apsides (the line connecting the points closest and farthest from Mars) rotates due to the effect of the planet's oblateness. The fact that the orbit is highly eccentric is significant. Most of the actual science, the high powered science, takes place around periares, the part of the orbit that is closest to Mars. At all other times, the spacecraft transmits data to Earth, receives telecommands, if so instructed, performs some maintenance chores ... or just does nothing. So the engineers said: "Well, if it's not doing much around apoares, why not use the VMC to get some additional images then? We can then post them on the internet and let the web community process them." Which is what they did.
The VMC isn't much of a camera. It has a Bayer sensor with a 640x480 resolution and a wide angle lens. It resembles a home webcam. But still, it's a webcam that's at Mars. Ever since reactivating the VMC, they have been posting images on ESA's VMC blog, which is here: http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/6
Unfortunately, last autumn, the solid state mass memory controller on Mars Express conked out. While a workaround has been found for that, they still have not returned the VMC to operations. However, the old images up to October 2011 are still online. I have downloaded a series of images from their server and Registax'ed them, then rotating the resulting image such that the view is familiar. As you may have noticed in the youtube movie, at that time the apoares was over the south pole. So here is what one could see from 60,000 km above the South pole of Mars in October 2011:
I haven't done much post-processing or enhancement other than the stacking and wavelet transform which Registax did for me. What you see in that image is the terminator, of course, and then part of the southern hemisphere. The equator is more or less near the limb of the planet, because the pictures were taken from above the South Pole.
The large impact basin on center stage is Argyre Planitia. Here it is again on Google Mars: http://bit.ly/Jv29KM
One can make out the inflow channels surrounding the basin. These channels were sculpted by water that flowed into the deep basin, back when Mars was still a warmer and wetter place with an atmosphere that was dense enough to allow liquid water on the surface.
Of course, in our day and age we are used to much better imagery from Mars. However, this image is better than what even professional astronomers had to work with only 50 years ago.


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