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Arc-Faults, I believe are national code for residential bedroom circuits. Though by now they may have expanded the use.
Do you happen to know the code in your area?
Read about AFCIs in a book; thought they might be better suited to my problem.
What I am told when I ask is that I'm so far out in the boonies that building code isn't applied. Good thing: friendly to diy-ers. Bad thing: friendly to bad diy-ers. I'm not a fan of hyperregulation, but some regs exist for a reason.
Where do I go to find out w/o ending up with the county on my tail???
Replacing a breaker with a GFCI breaker will protect all outlets connected to it, but only if your house wiring has the 3rd (ground) wire in it attached to the outlets. Are you saying that you only have 2 wires at each outlet like older homes with outlets for 2-prong plugs? Your library should have a copy of the building code, if it is not online.
If you can get access to the wires then you could replace the 2 wire wires with "2 wire With ground" wires.
Arc fault breakers are a waste of money... It will be a few years before they get the bugs worked out. There is also the problem where you can not combine a Arc fault and a GFCI yet.
using GFI breakers or outlets would help with safety, however you still have to come up with some sort of ground for the outlets.
One thought would be to run a bare 14 guage wire along the baseboard so that each outlet has a ground wire.
FYI: I've had to run new temporary runs since the fire burned the wires in the attic and I'm still using extention cords all over the place... It's perfictly safe as long as you don't over load the circuts you have.
2 prong outlets are also ok as long as you don't try to plug a 3 prong device into it.
AFs are required in certain rooms per the National Electric Code... but it sounds as if no code enforcement in the area. The AFs have some built in GF capabilities, so they shouldn't be used on a circuit that has GFCI outlets... it will cause false trips.
Ok,first off and I know a lot of people will disagree with me but 2 wire wiring if it is in good shape is perfectly fine to keep using,albeit not up to todays code specifications it is still ok to use and that is why your building/home inspector did not say anything about it.Yes your house IS 'grounded',your wiring would not work if there was not a connection back to earth and/or the generator generating the power.What your house is not,for a sake of better terms is 'ground fault protected' What the third bare wire in Romex cable,the metal electrical conduit that you see on walls and in ceilings in Walmart,etc and the armor surrounding BX style cable do is provide an extra path for whats called 'fault current'(and I'll explain what that is in a sec)back to your service box and back to the earth and/or generating source(power company).What 'fault current' is is the electrical current thats not supposed to be where it is,so if something happens like a motor winding wire or a wire nut comes off,or a wire gets scraped inside an electrical box and starts touching the side of an electrical box,or the frame of your clothes dryer or refrigerator becomes electrically 'hot'for whatever reason, the 'fault current' is that current that can kill you or start a fire.The third bare wire gives that fault current another path back to its source so that the fuse and/or circuit breaker sense this unusual overcurrent faster and 'trip' before anything terrible happens.It WILL NOT protect you from getting fried,please do remember that!It also provides lightning protection to a degree for it helps prevent the buildup of static electricity on metal parts that do not have a solid connection to the ground such as metal roofs,plumbing fixtures,frames of light fixtures.Ground fault circuit interruptors do protect you from getting fried.What they do is this:They have a small electronic sensing circuit inside the plug that is able to detect current flowing thru the 'eqipment ground'wire(the bare wire)If the GFI circuit detects a current difference of 5 milliamperes(1/5000th of an ampere.Yea ,thats the tiny amount of current at 120 volts that can kill you!Your house cicuits normally are 15 and 20 amperes,to put that into perspective)between the white wire 'neutral' and the bare 'equipment ground' wire it trips. Now,you're asking whether your father-in-law is right.He is not.You must have an equipment ground to the GFI in order for the GFI to be able to correctly sense the fault current between the 'neutral' and 'earth' ground.This is what most electricians do and is the Code-accepted method:We shut off the 120 volt circuit that we want to protect and follow the wire to the first receptacle in the circuit.You have to replace the 2 wire cable with 2 wire 'with ground' cable to the 1st plug.Once we find it ,we replace that outlet with a GFI outlet and wire the rest of the old circuit to the 'load' side of the GFI receptacle.Do remember this :When you do replace the 1st receptacle with a GFI receptacleYOU CANNOT use 3 wire receptacles downstream from that GFI receptacle.Many make that mistake.You still have to use the old 2 wire receptacles,but those 2 wire receptacles will be'ground fault' protected from now on because the GFI will now be able to sense a current 'difference' between the neutral of the old 2 wire circuit and earth ground which is always at zero current.Arc fault protectionyea,theres been a lot of controversy about the neccesity of AFCI protection in bedrooms,they are a good idea and can protect against fires that start when a receptacle or switch starts a fire on curtains,clothes and such but again they are expensive.What they do is sense a voltage 'spike' that occurs when a poor connection is present either in the receptacle box,or junction box or in equipment connected to it and trips when a condition like that occurs.Ok,hope I've clarified a few things..
I think MC was worried about a fire... though electric shock could also be a problem.
And it appears that the father-in-law was looking for a method that would not entail touching the wires in the walls.
Well yes,you're correct John;a GFCI will prevent a fire due to ground faults also for it takes more than 5 milliamperes to start combustion.I must warn her though it WILL NOT prevent fires due to electrical overloads,i.e having too much loaded down on one circuit,that and short circuit conditions.I'm afraid that in order to have the GFI work correctly she either has to buy ground fault circuit breakers or wire in a GFCI receptacle to the 1st outlet in the circuits.Yes she can use GFCB's but they are $50- $300 (from 15A single circuit to 50 A double circuit respectively and thats run of the mill types.)A 15 A 125 volt GFCI receptacle costs $8 or so plus the cost of 100 feet of 12-2/WG (with ground) NM cable.
Good wire in good condition is fine. I know people still using knob and tube wires and as long as the connections in the outlets are good then 2 wire wireing is fine.
The only problem is when you want to plug a power strip, surge protector, computer, or anything with a 3 prong cord is where the problem begins.
I should not admit this, however I once put a 3 prong outlet in a 2 wire system and tied the ground to the neutral. This is ok only as long as all the connections stay good... in otherwords this is not up to code or safe over the long term.
The same goes for those 3 to two prong adapters. O.O
PS: Take it from someone that has had a fire... Even the best wireing does not help when something else goes wrong.
Also keep in mind that most electrical fires are due to worn out outlets, unmaintained alumium wire, and people plugging stuff into cheep extention cords and then overloading them.
You're absolutely right Bill,sometimes in certain situations knob & tube is safer than romex wiring.First off the old connections,if the were not touched and professionally done back in the 1800's-early 1900s were soldered together,there was no such thing as a wire nut then.Usually they soldered them then used friction tape or cloth tape to insulate them.Because the 'hot' and the 'neutral' wires were normally separated by 3 or 4 inches there is less chance of a fire emanating from a ground fault.Granted there was no way for the fault current to get back to ground from a ground fault so boxes where problems occured were 'live' (must have been fun finding that out!)there was less chance of a fire because neutrals and hots normally were nowhere near each other.Yup,biggest cause of electrical fires is overloaded and loose connections.What happens is this:If there is an overloaded circuit it causes more current(in amperes)to flow thru a wire than what the wire is rated for.When that happens the wire heats up.The wire heats up the screw connections and wirenuts that the wire is attached to.When the overload is taken off,the wire then cools down.When this happens over and over and over again,the expansion and contraction that the screws and the wirenuts go thru causes them to loosen just a tiny bit.Over time as the overload keeps occuring the screws loosen more,causing a tiny gap between the wire and the screw,Flickering starts in light fixtures,AC's dont come on as fast etc..Then arcing starts to occur as the screw/wire air gap gets wider.(this is where the AFCI protection article applies,for just this circumstance)By then the connections have heated up so bad it's time for a new receptacle/plug.Hopefully an electrician will come in and replace the receptacle,tell the owner that more capacity is needed and installs such,or else this does lead to a fire eventually,hopefully when someones' there to notice it.I've seen it over and over again.
Thanks guys. I am learning a great deal. I *heart* you people. Really. Bless you. You're really, really excellent.
I am reading, and I will be back.
OK. So, long story short, the impression I get is, "Calm down. Don't try to plug in a whole bunch of crap and run it all at once and 98 chances out of 100, it'll be OK." Yes???
If I were overloading the wiring, I'd see stuff, correct??? Flickering lights, blips in the power supply other than what everyone out here has to put up with, lots of tripped breakers. I'd at least wonder if there wasn't something wrong, instead of not having a clue until I started taking things apart.
Yup you would.Biggest one is when you turn something on whatevers' plugged in with it'll dim or act erratic momentarily.If you're still abjectly worried do this: A 15 amp circuit at 120 volts handles 1800 watts max.So add up how many(using the nameplate wattage on the stuff plugged into the circuit in question)watts is on that circuit and if its close or more than 1800 plug stuff in somewhere elese thats not as loaded down as the circuit it was connected to..If you have 20 amp circuits then they can handle 2400 watts at 120 volts.Exactly,98 chances out of 100 yes you will be ok. It's that 2% you have to watch out for,lol.If you really want to get down to the nitty gritty and see just how much current's flowing in the circuit in question,then what you can do is go down to Ace,Home Depot or any hardware store and pick up a clamp-on ammeter.Does'nt have to be top of the line(they're about $25 or so I think),take the panel cover off the panelboard and clamp the meter around the wire hooked to the breaker.The reading should be 15 amps or less(or 20 amps or less on a 20 amp circuit.)If its more than that,you need to take some of the load off that circuit and put it somewhere else or split/add new circuits.
When I built my house, I wanted to use 15 amp breakers with 12 gauge wire, but was not allowed by code, 20 amp minimum here. My reasoning was that the 20 amp breakers will not trip until there is over 20 amps of trouble. I once had a transformer fire and melted wires in an elevator controller because the only fuse for the transformer was a 100 amp fuse in the main disconnect. A 10 amp fuse was all that transformer needed, I guess it was an engineering mistake. Elevator controllers have a lot of small fuses to limit damage from short circuits, especially the old relay logic controllers.
Thanks sooooo much, you guys. It is good to have knowledge and to be able to do something. Even if it's only checking. Now I know how to look and what to look for. And I won't make any snide comments about knowing I know what the fil doesn't know I know he doesn't know... OK. Only one. Because I am, under it all, a mean little person.
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Hey davisonh...
During a recent renovation, we discovered that none of the receptacles in this lovely little house are grounded. How this slipped by building inspection I don't know-- we did everything right by good, ignorant city folk standards and still got screwed.
Now I can't sleep at night, smoke alarms notwithstanding, and I can't afford to hire an electrician (well, I can, but it would blow all our savings, nix the idea of getting out of here and starting over somewhere viable, and even if this hole were rewired, it would still be a 30-year-old ill-assembled stick-frame structure sitting on rotting post-and-beam).
My father-in-law says I can correct the problem by replacing my existing breakers with ground-fault breakers. I'm not finding much about this is books-- I see how to do it, but not whether it is a viable solution to my problem. I probably have enough knowledge to perform the change-out, but not enough to assess whether it is the right thing to do. I do not trust Dad-in-law. He is competent enough, but he is also a bullshit artist and taking his word has caused me trouble before.
What do you think???
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when you cum in a girls ass then she farts it out.
i gave that old lady a fresca.
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(n).(v).(adj). A sexual act where by a female partner uses a sex toy harness (a.k.a. a strap-on) to penetrate the anus of her male partner. The word dates back to 1899, where Michael Haberlant reported on the uses of double sided sex toys by natives in Zanzibar. It was in his documentation the word was first recorded. The dichotomy between a Fresca and a Diet Fresca is due to the size of the female partner. A Fresca, or sometimes referred to as a Regular Fresca to differentiate from a Diet Fresca, is when the female partner performing the sexual act is larger than the male partner. Etymologists agree that weight is the standard for determining the "size" of the female partner.
(n) "I am about to get my Fresca on" or "Or can you bend over and hand me a Fresca"
(v) "I let that chic Fresca the F@#$ out of me last night " or "We're going to mother f@#$ing Fresca on this mother f@#$ing plane"
(adj) "She's a Fresca girl" or "That's so Fresca, it make me want a hot dog real bad"
(v) "I let that chic Fresca the F@#$ out of me last night " or "We're going to mother f@#$ing Fresca on this mother f@#$ing plane"
(adj) "She's a Fresca girl" or "That's so Fresca, it make me want a hot dog real bad"
מאת dj jsizzle
5 ביולי, 2010
A sexy girl with huge boobs and a NICE ASS DONK!
Hrmmm...her figure is such a frescas
מאת Gigantos Pantalones
7 בדצמבר, 2010
Something that is hip, awesome, or totally fucking cool.
"Yo man, did you see that chick fall in the pond? That was so fresca!"
מאת Tim Stahl
26 באוגוסט, 2008
Fresca is, to say the least, an incredible girl. She is an immediate soul mate, before you even have the time to realize it. She is gorgeous, but still stands out from the other pretty girls. She has a sense of humor that never dissapoints or keeps you from laughing. She has this aura about her that no one else could ever have. She carries herself with grace worthy of Grace Kelly herself. Fresca is loving, unique, and maybe even a bit quirky; but its in a cool addictive way. Once you meet a real Fresca, don't ever let go.
Fresca is the greatest girl ever!
מאת lkajsdhfalksdfjh
20 באוקטובר, 2013
Really, really good beverage. It is a grapefruit soda with 0 calories. Quite possibly the greatest refreshment ever made.
Hey! That's my last fresca, you can't have it!
מאת Riel
17 ביוני, 2004
Drink that once consumed reacts with the body and creates a old vagina because only old women drink it.
Ralph drank a fresca and now he has a vagina!
מאת tkiu
6 באוקטובר, 2005

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E came home from school and we Wiied and then we came upstairs from the basement for her dinner. I don't know what happened to her today in school -- maybe they harvested her internal organs for Playdough money? -- because she ate dinner for a solid hour. She ate two bowls of spaghetti, two bowls of cut up chicken schnitzel, and almost an entire zippy bag of sliced red and orange and yellow pepper strips. I finally cut her off because it was already past her bedtime and I was dubious that she was still hungry. Though she's never done this specifically before, I was worried that she was using food to stall against bedtime.
So we went upstairs and it was already past her customary bedtime but she changed into pajamas and we did our little routine and we climbed into bed and read two books and turned out the lights for our two minutes' snuggle and as soon as I got comfortable she declared, Mama! I need to put poops in the pot! And maybe she's the world's most tactical staller, but how do you dissuade such an expressed need?
One of E's favorite books is Knuffle Bunny Too and in it there is a line that says something like, At half-past bedtime, Trixie was all tucked in. It might be my favorite line from the entire corpus of children's literature in our collection. So this was tonight's half-past bedtime:
E was pooping by the light of only the nightlight, because I don't like to turn the bright lights back on after she's been in bed (because she's the kind of kid who will use any excuse to re-become wide awake). I was sitting on the little 12" stool she uses for reaching the sink to wash her hands. L chose that moment to wake up from her mid-afternoon nap. M retreived her and handed her to me to hold while he went downstairs to get her some Amoxicillin. E pitifully whimpered, Mama, I'm still hungry. So I yelled down to her Daddy to bring up the rest of the pepper strips along with the antibiotics.
So I'm sitting on a piddly stool cradling our sick kid who now has one pacifier and one pepper strip in each hand, encouraging our not-tired kid through an extensive pooping session, and simultaneously feeding her pepper strips directly into her mouth, because her hands have in recent seconds been wiping some non-potable things. L juggles and drops a paci or a pepper or two and I try to catch them before they hit the bathroom floor and in that second, E loses her own pepper strip and although she was the one who urged me to feed her because of the condition of her hands, her pepper hits the toilet seat and (YUCK!) before I can stop her she reaches and pops it back in her mouth.
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God Hating Atheists Apparently Believe in Devil?
Portland atheist Mark Hecate is mad that someone made him look like a devil.
A pro-atheism billboard in Portland, Oregon was defaced causing the atheist group that paid for the sign upset that they had been "demonized."
Pro-atheist billboard defaced in Portland, Oregon
The billboard featured Mr. Hecate next to the phrase, "This is what an atheist looks like." The billboard campaign was meant to convey the idea that atheists are somehow just like you and me.
But some wag with a spraypaint can thought it would be funny to paint devil horns on ol' Mark's head making him into a devil.
A spokesperson for the atheist group was none too happy over the graffiti.
"[The vandalism] reveals how non-believers are still stigmatized, even in a community like Portland, where statistics show that a quarter of the population identifies as non-religious," Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which sponsored the billboard, told Oregon Live on Wednesday, Nov. 21.
"Atheists don't have horns … it is literally demonizing us," Gaylor added.
OK, OK, I am not condoning the destruction or defacement of private property, granted. But there is something kind of funny, here.
So, atheists hate God, right? They think God is a non-existent entity, a myth, a farce.
Now, if they think God is fake, wouldn't they think that the devil is fake?
And if they think the devil is fake… why are they upset at having devil horns painted on one of their members? I mean, if the devil s a myth, why get so upset over a silly story character?
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Newsgroups: alt.skinheads,alt.politics.white-power,alt.politics.nationalism.white,soc.culture.czecho-slovak Subject: ADL: Skinhead International; Czech Republic Followup-To: alt.skinheads Archive/File: pub/orgs/american/adl/skinhead-international/skins-czech-republic Last-Modified: 1995/08/29 Czech Republic In the Czech Republic, as in other Central and Eastern European countries, the Gypsies (also known as Roma) -- targets of Nazi extermination programs during World War II -- have been facing a rising tide of racist hate. Skinheads, if not the most numerous among the racists, are often the most visible. The primative Skinhead racism in the Czech Republic is of the neo-Nazi variety. Although Czech Skins spew anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Roma are their chief targets. Others have been "guest workers" (mainly from Vietnam), Arab and African students, and foreign tourists. The Czech word _vycisteni_ (cleansing) has come into wide use by the Skins and other hatemongers. Estimates vary as to the number of Skinheads in the Czech Republic. Some observers estimate that between 800 and 2,000 are active in Prague, with several thousand more active in other cities and towns. Czech Police calculate that there are at least 400 in Prague and 3,000 to 4,000 nationally. The largest concentrations are in the industrial areas of northern Bohemia. Skinhead Violence April and May 1990, Prague and other cities. There were reports in April and May 1990 of Skinheads attacking groups of Gypsies with clubs and chains in several northern Bohemian cities. On May 1, some 200 Skins attacked Gypsies and foreign workers (mainly Vietnamese) in Prague's main square and afterwards assaulted a group of Canadian tourists. February 1991, Prague. In a highly publicized case, a Czech sculptor, Pavel Oporensky, came upon a gang of Skinheads (including some Austrian Skins) that had just assaulted a passerby who had taunted them and viciously attacked another man who had come to his rescue. Jumping in to help, Oporensky was quickly surrounded by threatening Skins. While defending himself, he fatally slashed one of the gang with his pocket knife. He was tried for manslaughter, found guilty and sentenced to four years probation. Oporensky had been a Charter 77 dissident under the Communists and later lived in New York for 10 years. The victim, 17-year-old Ales Martinu, was buried in his Skinhead clothes while Orlik, a Skinhead band, performed. October 1991, Teplice. Two Gypsies in an automobile were attacked at a railroad station and their car was demolished. Following this, a group of some 60 Skinheads attacked citizens in the center of the city, later escaping aboard a train bound for Prague. November 1991, Prague. More than a thousand Skinheads and supporters marched for several hours through Wenceslaus Square and then through Zizcov, a largely Gypsy neighborhood, shouting "Gypsies to the gas chambers!" February 6, 1993, Pilsen. Some 15 or so Skinheads attacked a dozen Bulgarian tourists with clubs, brass knuckles and tear gas at the railway station in Pilsen. Several of the tourists were injured, including a man and a woman who were hospitalized with concussions. The Czech news agency reported the arrest of the youths, who ranged in age from 14 to 18. All were released to their parents. More recently, on the weekend of March 19 and 20, 1994, various Skinhead factions joined with other right-wing demonstrators in Prague and other cities to commemorate Hitler's division of Czechoslovakia 55 years earlier. Stalking Gypsy Children Schoolchildren have not been safe from attack. A 12-year-old Gypsy girl told of an assault by Skinheads as she and her friends walked home from school: "They shouted 'Gypsies!' and they started to beat us. One of them pulled a knife...." There have been many such reports of Skins stalking Gypsy children near schools. In December 1993, the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs released a report on racial violence in the country, blaming "extremist groups propagating extreme nationalism, fascism, and anti-Semitism," and mentioning among such groups at least 10 different factions of Skinheads including neo-Nazis. At the same time, the Ministry reported that three Gypsies had been killed by Skinheads since 1990. Another authority, however, Ladislav Goral, a Gypsy who is a senior member of the government's Council on Nationalities, disputed the estimate, stating that there were at least twice that many fatalities. An evaluation by the Institute for Criminology claims that the general populace of the Czech Republic tends to: sympathize with anyone who at least verbally, but better "in reality" stands up for their protection.... Thus, for example, members of a group of skinheads are forgiven and ultimately supported by a considerable part of the population, which mistakes their racist, fascist intolerance for the protection of society from criminality. Miroslav Martinu, whose Skinhead son Ales had been killed in the aforementioned Oporensky brawl in 1991, insisted that the gangs attacking Gypsies were only going after "criminal elements." But a policeman was quoted in the Czech newspaper _Krety_ has saying: "If nothing is done quickly about the Skins, they will soon be running around here in SS uniforms. And if there are no Gypsies around, they will find other targets." Commenting upon violence against Gypsies in the Czech Republic, the 1993 Human Rights Report of the U.S. Department of State noted: Newspaper reports often link such violence with Skinhead provocations. Such was certainly the case in incidents in Plzen [Pilsen] and Pisek in the fall, in each of which a young Roma died as a result of Skinhead violence. There are credable reports that police ignore or condone incidents of violence against the Roma, although the Government has denounced such violence. As elsewhere in Europe, Skinheads in the Czech Republic gravitate towards the far-right political parties, of which there are several. The leading such party is the Republicans, whose leader, Miroslav Sladek, is notorious for his anti-Semitic, anti-Gypsy, racist speeches. The party registered significant gains in the 1992 elections, garnering 600,000 votes and 11 seats in the 200-seat Czech National Council. It jumped from less than one percent in 1990 to over six percent in 1992, and opinion polls since then indicate public support for the party hovering around four to five percent. While in the past Sladek courted the Sknheads, he currently claims not to seek their support. Nonetheless, these gangs find his party's views appealing. Bands and Zines There is an active Skinhead music scene in the Czech Republic. The leading band, Orlik, reportedly sold 120,000 copies of its first LP and has drawn as many as 600 Skinheads to its concerts. Other active bands are Buldok, Valasska Liga, and Kon-Kwista. The Czech Skinhead movement boasts a number of popular skinzines that are blatantly Nazi in tone and ideas, and that carry advertisements and articles on neo-Nazi groups and causes around the world. The more ambitious ones are _White Warriors_ (a Czech-language publication despite its English name), _Stuermer_, and _Fenix_, which is written in English in an attempt to reach an international audience. Some zines regularly publish materials from Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance in Fallbrook, California, Gary Lauck's NSDAP-AO in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the SS Action Group in Dearborn, Michigan. (Anti-Defamation League, 26-29) Work Cited Anti-Defamation League. The Skinhead International: A Worldwide Survey of Neo-Nazi Skinheads. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1995. Anti-Defamation League, 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
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How is it regulated?
I believe it is by straws (lottery) for the SP and then the Reverse Order of the Results for the LP. Is that correct?
Probably why the TV cameras avoid the SP.
How is it regulated?
I believe it is by straws (lottery) for the SP and then the Reverse Order of the Results for the LP. Is that correct?
Probably why the TV cameras avoid the SP.
Yes to the first part and No to the second.
From the USFS Rulebook:
Rule 3322 There will be a random draw for starting order in the first segment of each
Rule 3365
B. TV Rule
1. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships only, for the
championship (senior) ladies, men's and pairs free skate, and for
championship (senior) free dance events, the final draw group shall
consist of:
Ladies and men: the last two warm-up groups will consist of not
fewer than 10 and not more than 12 competitors, the exact number
to be decided by the chief referee in consultation with the executive
director prior to the draw of the short program.
a. Starting order for the final two groups will be drawn in four
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to skate in the final group and will be drawn from the first
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first to skate in the final group, and will draw from this
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iii. The seventh-, eighth- and ninth-place (or sixth-, seventhand
eighth-place if five in group) finishers in the short
program will be the last to skate in the second-to-last group,
and will draw from this third subgroup.
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five in group) finishers in the short program will be the first
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Pairs: four couples in the final group;
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Thank you Sylvia. I guess I have some calculations to do after the SP. The Order of Skate is important to me.
My criminal mind just struck me to come up with another good reason to group the top skaters in the final flight(s). While the collisions during practice and warm-up this season were unfortunate accidents detrimental to all involved (maybe except Rippon ), in a mix of skaters of different levels, a non contending low ranked skater might just try to take out a top competitor on purpose for whatever reason!
Knee wacking happened before, just sayin'.
I used to skate with a girl who (has since quit) was quite in awe her first year at Senior Nationals being in the same warm up group as Michelle Kwan. I think she gawked more than skated.
Well, if there are going to be criminal collisions on practice or warmup, taking out a direct competitor would be a better motivation than taking out someone far above one's own level.
But the problem with that kind of plot is that the culprit would be just as likely to take herself out as well.
Still, if any psychos did barely qualify for nationals, they would still have opportunities to be on the ice with top skaters in the original practice groups or in the random SP groups. And there would always be off-ice opportunities that would be safer for the perpetrator.
Let's just hope no one is so inclined against any of the competitors.
^ Taking out your competitors would make more sense at Worlds. If you were the third girl from your country who could at most hope to make the LP, you could sacrifice yourself for your teammate who is going for gold!
Of course it wouldn't work for Japan -- all of their skaters are going for the gold.
So you think Laetitia Hubert's infamous crash with Midori Ito in the SP warmup at 1991 Worlds was really an intentional plot to boost Surya Bonaly's chances?
Darn that Nancy Kerrigan for sneaking in and besting both of them.
Sheesh........we are talking about ciminal mind and criminal logic, people. No one would take out a competitor because it's too high risk to oneself. But a non-contender with no chance could take out a contender for someone else (no sacrifice if paid) or for spite or whatever twisted criminal reason or motivation.
Off ice opportunities are difficult to engineer and cover up. An on-ice collision is an "accident" possibly hurting the perpetrator just as much or more. A big "oooops". The criminal intent is hard to prove.
Are there really many times when the low and high ranked skaters are on ice together? Other than in their own practice rink, that is. I can think of out-of-retirement Plushenko and S/Z in the Olympics skating in the first SP flight. Not too often does that happen though.
eta I confess I'm just not familiar with the US system. The order of skates for Canadian Nationals is up and it's pretty much in the reverse order of the skaters' previous results and current ranks. Such order is much more TV and viewer friendly so I'm guessing US TV network is probably not too interested in the US Nationals SPs.
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Yes. At Nationals, the initial practice groups are seeded -- i.e., the higher ranked skaters are spread out among the different groups, not clustered all in the same group. The short program draw is random.
At regionals and sectionals, the draws are random. If an international-level skater has to compete there, she or he will be mixed in among the middle- and low-ranked senior skaters.
There are plenty of other times when high and lower-ranked skaters might be on the ice together in an noncompetitive context, e.g., at a club show or larger fundraiser show. There wouldn't be much motivation to take anyone out in those contexts though.
Rarely if ever have the Nationals SPs been shown live on TV. Some years they weren't shown at all -- when they were, it was usually a few hours to a few days later, with enough time for the network (usually a cable network) to edit together the programs they wanted to show and leave out everyone who didn't place well, already have a strong fan following, or have a compelling human interest story. Very rare for as many as half of the singles SPs ever to be broadcast.eta I confess I'm just not familiar with the US system. The order of skates for Canadian Nationals is up and it's pretty much in the reverse order of the skaters' previous results and current ranks. Such order is much more TV and viewer friendly so I'm guessing US TV network is probably not too interested in the US Nationals SPs.
US Nationals is a blind draw for SP. I think 2 years ago Flatt skated early. One year, Abbott and Lysacek skated back to back (1&2) in the first flight and their scores held up.
SP is rarely covered live except on IN. They will have highlights later on LP coverage.
So one can tell from IN what NBC will show on TV of 2 groups of Ladies in prime time. anything else one would have to get up at the crack of dawn and watch IN. I did that one year LIVE and as difficult it was for me, I thought the poor skaters had to get up even earlier.
Anyone know if NBC will allow UniSport to show this LIVE?
The ladies free skate begins at 6:45pm on Saturday. You can begin watching the first couple of groups on IceNetwork, then switch to NBC at 9pm when they go live. Only pairs and dance are split into "early groups" for their free programs. Those groups will be on IceNetwork starting at 10:45am and then NBC will pick up coverage starting at 3pm.
This is the television schedule from IceNetwork:
January 29, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Free Skate, Free Dance (LIVE) NBC 3:00pm - 6:00pm
January 29, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Free Skate, Free Dance, Ladies Short Program (re-air) Universal Sports 6:00pm - 9:00pm
January 29, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Ladies Free Skate (re-air)
Universal Sports 11:00pm - 1:00am
January 29, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships Ladies Free Skate (LIVE)
NBC 9:00pm - 11:00pm
January 30, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships Men's Free Skate (LIVE)
NBC 4:00pm - 6:00pm
January 30, 2011 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Men's Free Skate (re-air)
Universal Sports 6:00pm - 8:00pm
February 5, 2011 Smucker's Skating Spectacular NBC 2:30pm - 4:30pm
IceNetwork has also just posted their live online schedule on their website. Unless you live on the west coast, there are no crack of dawn events. Only 5 events begin before noon time, with the earliest being the novice compulsories on Sunday at 10am.
I saw that IN listing. It was very good about the entire competition including Novice and Junior events complete, so I'll be busy watching the Nats on computer, as well as the planned Order of Skate by NBC. Hopefully the commentary is kept to a whisper as I get distracted easily.
I just have the feeling that there will be upsets in Ladies and Mens and the Select-for-Worlds Committee will take longer to make their announcements


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Written by Jen Vaughn | Filed under Shimura Takako, Richard Sala, Moto Hagio, Joost Swarte, Jaime Hernandez, Daily OCD | 27 Nov 2012 12:36 PM |
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• Interview: Robot 6 and Tim O'Shea interview Chris Wright about Blacklung. Wright answers, "the characters in Blacklung, particularly Brahm, are wrapped up in these hellish cycles, of destruction, and grief, and that quote seemed, not so much to sum up the philosophical point of view of the book, but to act dynamically with it, and become part of it's dialogue. How responsible are we really for our own fates, and how much of what we become, and what we experience is beyond our influence."
• Review: Anime News Network looks at The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio. Jason Thompson writes " . . this story isn't about same-sex attraction and social prejudice as much as it's about love itself; at heart, this is a manga about spiritual love between two souls. . . The Art Nouveau artwork and the prose-poetry that accompanies it, the dream sequences, the images of ghosts and doubles, all add to a feeling of unreality. Hagio's work often approaches surrealism. . ."
• Review: On Manga Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson reviews The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio. "It all felt strange and foreign. . . but I kept turning pages, hoping for these children to find more settled hearts. The question of how much responsibility someone else's feelings for you place on you is a universal one, never to be answered, but I enjoyed reading about these young men dealing with the problem and its consequences."
• Plug: MTV Geek puts The Heart of Thomas on its Manga Lovers List. Brigid Alverson says "one of the first boys-love manga and a masterpiece in its own right. Translated by manga scholar (and friend of Moto Hagio) Matt Thorn, this manga is complete in one single, oversized volume." Stumptown Trade Review adds "Fantagraphics is not normally known for publishing manga. So, when they do choose to publish a manga graphic novel it is worth noting. The Heart of Thomas is no exception."
• Review: Experiments in Manga writes a thankful note for Shimura Takako's Wandering Son series, "I needed a story like Wandering Son growing up. I've only recently realized how crucial and important it is for young people to have characters that they can personally identify with in the media that they watch, read, and play . . Ultimately Wandering Son isn't so much about issues [of sexuality and gender identity] as it is about people."
• Review: Castle Waiting #18 by Linda Medley is reviewed on Comic Book Resources. Kelly Thompson states, issue #18 "ties up that volume beautifully and puts the characters exactly where they need to be both for closure purposes and as a set up for future stories to continue at any time. . . Medley approaches these characters and ideas with a boundless creativity that never feels forced, instead there is an effortless element to how her stories unfold, natural and without true purpose."
• Interview: The Quietus interviews Joost Swarte on his new book, Is That All There Is? collecting his life in comics so far. Aug Stone states,"these are works to behold, to marvel at their beauty and composition, all presented with a good sense of fun. The backgrounds brim with amusing and interesting details, the stories themselves bursting with mishaps, mayhem, music, and sex."
• Review: Broken Pencil Magazine released their printed review of Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte. "Taking visual cues from Tintin creator Hergé's clean line style, Swarte added a healthy dose of 70s-style countercultural mores and boasted an incredible capacity for experimentation and playfulness that went above and beyond many of his peers," to quote Matthew Daley.
• Review: Comics Worth Reading reviews Ralph Azham Book 1: "Why Would You Lie to Someone You Love" by Lewis Trondheim. "What's not typical, and what made this most interesting to me, is how no one is particularly trustworthy. There isn't a lot of obvious Good and Evil. . . Everyone's lying, in some form, and discovering those secrets makes up much of this book," writes Johanna Draper Carlson.
• Plug: In an nice history lesson and review of The Complege Pogo: Vol. 1-2 by Walt Kelly in the Washington Times, Michael Taube states, "Pogo was intellectual, thought-provoking, cynical, controversial and downright brilliant. It broke barriers and didn't fit into societal norms. You didn't even have to agree with Kelly's politics to respect his genius as an artist and a commentator."
• Review: Matthew Daley reviews Athos in America by Jason for Broken Pencil Magazine. He writes, "these stories can tread on some pretty dark, even bleak ground, and in the hands of a different artist, it could wear the reader down. However, the simple art and bright flat colours and the aforementioned deadpan characters make the bleakness a bit easier to take."
• Plug: A much looked-forward to release on Heroes Online is Tony Millionaire's Green Eggs and Maakies. Seth Peagler says, "Millionaire's highly regarded for the way he combines classic strip cartooning (and fine line work) with subversive humor."
• Review: Rob Clough of High-Low profiles Paul Hornschemeier and his book Let Us Be Perfectly Clear. "There's a certain grimness and melancholy that's dominated his major works, but I always found his humorous pieces to be every bit as involving. . . What I like most about [Let Us Be] is its intricacy and the way it yo-yos back and forth between emotional distance and the immediacy of Dennis' unbalanced mind. . . I'll be curious to see what his newer comics will look like, and if we're due for another round of unbridled innovation from Hornschemeier."
• Review: Popeye by E.C. Seger gets the twice over by Roger Ash on Westfield Comics Blog. "I've only read the first two volumes so far, and they are fantastic and eye opening. This is a very different Popeye that what I knew. He's still gruff and lovable, but spinach has nothing to do with his strength. . . He routinely survives stabbings and shootings and is a terror in the boxing ring. . ." and "Because of the size of the book, a whole week's worth of dailies fit on one page. Due to their age, the quality of the reproduction of the strips can vary, but in general they look very nice."
• Plug: Comics Alliance's Best Art This Week compiled by Andy Khouri includes a little Richard Sala and Jaime Hernandez! Way to go, team.
• Plug: Ellen Forney touches on her time as a creator for Fantagraphics in a Publishers Weekly article by Grace Bello.


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Extending Your Showroom
You've begun the work day. You're already lost in your routine, when, suddenly, you hear the voice.
"If you build it, they will come."
You turn, you look, and no one is there.
Again, you hear it: "If you build it, they will come."
Now, with apologies to W.P. Kinsella and Phil Alden Robinson, book author and screenplay writer, respectively, for the 1989 film, "Field of Dreams," the decision to plow under your corn to build a baseball diamond for dead ball players is a no-brainer – of course you do it – it's for baseball!
But, for you, the decision is all about a showroom. And you can't help but wonder, if you build it, will they come… really?
Perhaps you're thinking about, or in the process of, opening a new showroom. Or maybe you're considering changing locations to increase traffic or get a more affluent clientele. Maybe you've been in a showroom for years and want something more – more space, displays, square footage for other-room displays, or a second floor for bath displays.
Whatever the case, it's true, "if you build it, they will come" – but only if they know you're out there, and only when they're ready.
Your challenge is to let potential clients know you exist and to help them become ready to buy. It's about marketing to "extend your showroom" and generate traffic.
Showroom owners' expectations and even desires for the type and number of clients they hope to attract and sign vary widely. Some want a steady stream of potential clients pulling off the road to browse, while other showrooms are closed to all but those who make appointments.
Determining where you fit is a business decision. Staffing requirements, space needs and other variables for the first scenario are very different from the appointment-only showroom. In any case there are ways to increase your showroom traffic.
When it comes to extending your showroom beyond its physical space, your top priority should be your Web site. At this stage of the game, everyone should have some sort of Internet presence.
This is the quintessential extension of your showroom. That's because it's open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; this valuable marketing tool is the salesperson that never sleeps.
Let your site tell your whole story. It should sell your showroom and you as a professional, talk about your experience, highlight the products you carry and show as broad a portfolio of projects as possible (see related story, Page 86).
Max Isley, CMKBD, owner of Hampton Kitchens, Inc., of Raleigh, NC, was among the first dealers to develop an Internet presence. "I use my [Web] site to tell our story, and I support the information with photography. As a result, our Web site is only one of two advertising channels we [need to] use to market our firm."
Marvin W. Towler, owner of Architectural Kitchenworks, Inc. of Eatontown, NJ, recently opened a showroom. "I made sure I included the design and development of a Web site among my start-up costs," he notes. "And, although is not yet fully operational – I only have a live home page with contact information right now – I know this is the best way to communicate with my potential clients. In fact, I am going to add a feature called Dezynepad that will give me the capability to work online with my clients."
Serious consumers are now often shopping online long before they pick up a phone. According to the Web site shop.org, a March 2005 study by Kelsey Group and ConStat found that "70% of U.S. adults use the Internet as an information source when shopping locally for products and services – up from 60% in October 2003.
"These figures put the Internet on par with newspapers as a local shopping information resource, and suggest that the Internet is on track to surpass newspapers as a consumer influencer in the very near future."
David J. Mackowski, CGR, CAPS, president of Quality Design and Construction, Inc. of Raleigh, NC, says, "We originally had an unprofessional Web site and have since hired someone who knows what they are doing. Our Web designer provided expertise in design, as well as search engine placement. In many cases, our site has been the reason we got the job over other firms."
More kitchen dealers are seeing their clients following the direct link from viewing a Web address (either through a search engine or from more traditional marketing channels, such as visiting the site, calling the dealer and making the appointment).
Michael Teipen, CMKBD, Allied Member ASID, owner of Kitchens by Teipen, Inc. in Greenwood, IN, puts his firm's Web address on everything from its sign, business cards and literature to our advertising. "Plus, we make every attempt to have reciprocal links with our vendors and associations."
Of course Web sites are only the beginning. As a kitchen and bath dealer or designer, you are an expert. So, how do you take advantage of your own expertise to make people realize how valuable your knowledge and skills are?
Consider offering educational seminars to the community. Be sure they are not sales pitches, but rather set them up to provide useful information to the potential client – and invite the press. You will soon become the community expert, increasing your notoriety and sales.
R.B. Davis, president of Signature Kitchens in Ft. Mitchell, KY, provides this advice for putting together a seminar: "Don Boico [of Classic Kitchen & Bath, in Roslyn, NY] once told me that 'your first seminar is always full,' which means plan a seminar, pick a date to give that seminar, but also pick an earlier date with no intention of giving the seminar. Advertise both dates and when the prospects call to pre-register, tell them the first date is already full, creating a greater sense of value and urgency to register immediately."
Max Isley, CMKBD, also recommends conducting seminars as a way to build your brand, increase your visibility and enhance your professional reputation.
"Seminars are an excellent way to generate leads, as well as increase word-of-mouth recognition for my firm. I advertise them in the free calendar listings offered by the local newspapers. The investment is low and the potential is great," says Isley.
But, as with any marketing venture, you may find that seminars bring in prospects, but not the "right kind." As Teipen says, "We tried seminars a few years ago, but I didn't feel they were effective for us. We put up signs at the local library and bought some space in the local newspaper. We had close to a dozen participants, but it didn't generate any sales for us."
However, just because a seminar doesn't bring in clients, that doesn't mean it isn't still paying off in other ways. Seminars tend to have a ripple effect, increasing your visibility and creating a buzz about you that can get you press coverage and referrals for months to come.
However, if the people who attend your design seminars aren't the upscale clientele you're looking to find, try adding a different type of seminar such as cooking classes or cooking seminars.
These offer a great excuse to make use of your working displays. Plus, they can create additional avenues for finding potential clients.
As Rodger A. Kaufman, owner of Kitchen & Bath Design Center, Inc. in Ashland, OH says, "We hold cooking classes in our showroom. They are only 'somewhat effective,' but I like the way they keep us
in the mind of the consumer."
Towler agrees: "I am committed to using our new showroom for seminars. We're planning to have cooking classes, as well as a series of kitchen design seminars. I want the community to consider us a resource, as well as a premier design showroom.
So, think about tailoring the events in your showroom to the type of clients you hope to get. For instance, some showrooms feature art exhibits (see related story, Page 68), charity events or silent auctions that draw a more upscale crowd.
Davis also recommends giving away a free gift at seminars to help boost attendance. The price doesn't have to be high, but the gesture will create a sense of good will that can pay off down the road. "Give away a free gallon of ice cream. It is very unlikely your prospect will spend the afternoon visiting other showrooms after leaving yours with ice cream!" he suggests.
A staple of the industry for many designers is the home show. These can be expensive, but they're an excellent way to literally take a part of your showroom to the consumer – particularly if you can creatively and memorably differentiate your business from others attending the event.
Teipen believes "home shows are an excellent source of leads for us. We rent space, pass out brochures and take the names of 'qualified' leads. We strive to have the best booth to set us apart."
Of course, sometimes, differentiating yourself could just mean paying attention. As Teipen explains: "I sold my first $100,000 kitchen to a young couple walking through the show at 2 p.m. during the middle of the week. No one else they had talked to would take them seriously. I did. It works. And, although a lot of people at the show are not in our 'target market,' many more are."
Towler agrees: "Home shows can be an excellent source of leads. We have already participated in two this year, and will likely take part in two more. The cost for the booth, the space and the collaterals, when amortized over the course of four or more home shows a year, is quite affordable. And when you consider the income, it is a great marketing venue for us."
Pat Ryan, CKD, owner of Kitchen Concepts, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH, creates a "value-add" to the typical home show booth – invitations to a showroom open house. "The home show environment is not always conducive to answering questions and certainly not 'closing the sale,' so we plan an open house at our showroom a couple weeks later and pass out invitations at our booth. This gives serious consumers an invitation to visit us after they've had time to recuperate from the home show frenzy," Ryan explains.
Your relationship with past clients and allied professionals in your area is another way to extend your showroom. Each one of these individuals is a potential salesperson for your business. But they are only effective representatives if you maintain a connection with them.
Whether you send eNewsletters, regular-mail newsletters, letters, birthday cards, coupons or magazine subscriptions – or even if you simply call from time to time – you must keep your name in front of these potential salespeople in order to reap the benefit of the good will you've built through your dealings with them.
This can work both with past clients and other allied professionals with whom you may have worked successfully in the past – or even those with whom you have not worked, but with whom you feel you could benefit from a mutual partnership.
Gretchen Cutsler, director of marketing for Kitchen Design Center, Inc. in Beaufort, SC is a strong proponent of building and developing relationships. "We regularly send out electronic newsletters called 'Ask the CKD.' These are e-mailed to architects, builders, interior designers and sales professionals. Company president Barry Cutsler, CKD, answers questions these allied professionals have asked him."
Cutsler insists that she "never hears 'no' when asking allied professionals for their business. Keep probing with questions such as, 'Are you happy with your current cabinet company?' and 'Why?' Eventually they will ask you to quote on a job."
Some dealers have established incentive programs for past clients, allied professionals and realtors to encourage relationships. You may decide it's worth a percentage of the job to establish your firm as the key referral for kitchen and bath projects.
Becoming "partners" is another marketing opportunity. For example, you may give entertainment center cabinetry to an HDTV dealer for his showroom, while in exchange you get an HDTV for yours. Each of you place signage in the other's showroom. You may also consider similar relationships with appliance, tile or flooring dealers.
According to Teipen, "I think partnering is one of the best things a kitchen and bath professional can do. We are all very small firms, and the more we can team with another business or two, the bigger we look to the public. We also gain credibility. If a client sees us on the showroom floor of a well-known firm [in a complementary area], the 'approval by association' really works. We just sold a job that was right at $100,000. The client lives 35 miles away and came to the appliance store near me. The appliance salesperson recommended me and the rest is history."
These four ideas are just the beginning. As with any business, in any industry (with the possible exception of baseball), "if you build it, they will not come" – not until they are told why they should. Extending your showroom means marketing it, and giving them myriad reasons to come.
One of the most common responses to the question "Do you market your showroom?" is "No, I don't need to. All my business comes from referrals."
However, even referrals need to be reminded that you're out there waiting patiently for them to come to you.
If your business is successful simply by sitting back and letting the referrals come to you, imagine how much more successful it could be if you spent time actively marketing – even if it's just to those past clients who are doling out referrals for you.
"We are in a small mom-and-pop industry," believes Teipen. "However, people need to
invest funds in marketing. It's something most of us have no experience doing. I would advise every business owner to interview someone who can help them establish a marketing program that will [specifically] work for them."
Towler advises: "Do some brand development for your firm. Design your showroom to meet your target market. Don't try to be everything to everybody – create a niche for yourself and tie your marketing into branding that niche."
Regardless of your firm's budget or its location, or even the size of your showroom, marketing should be an integral part of your firm's overall business plan. And, remember, a good marketing plan is an integral key to your firm's success.


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Jun 20, 2010 1:20 PM
2010 FIFA WorldCup Calendar
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Share a great calendar from Marca.com
- http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html
Also see a .CSV form calendar in attachment, which you could insert to your Outlook calendar.
How many WorldCup games you watched so far? Anything wanna share from the event?
I am an italian man. I am an engineer in Italy and I deal me of planning and structural calculation and of housebuilding. My site internet is: http://www.calcolostrutture.net . I like very much the soccer. Soccer in Italy is very hard and the quality of soccer is high. According to me in Italy there are currently some teams that have greater probabilities to win the championship. The teams are Rome, Juventus, Milan, International, Lazio and Naples. I am fan of the Juventus and I hope that at the end of the season the juventus wins the championship. The Juventus in this championship doesn't have to dispute the European cups, for which I hope both favorite for the conquest of the Italian badge. In the last years the level of the Italian soccer to European and world level has been some reorganized and it has decreased its quality, because there are now very strong European teams as the Barcellona, the Manchester United and the Real Madrid. I hope that in the future the Italian soccer returns to be protagonist to European and world level, even with the Juventus as protagonist!
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wanna get the hubby one!
I've had one of these for 3 years. Still works great.
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Just a two hour drive from New York City, the group of villages and hamlets that make up East Hampton and Southampton, known as the Hamptons, has been one of the iconic weekend or summer retreats for busy New Yorkers. With connecting ferries straight from New York City and the outer Burroughs, the Hamptons region offers breath taking ocean views and beautiful luxury homes.
Those that seek to find splendor within a timeless setting are wise to seek Hamptons real estate for their second, summer, or retiring homes. If golf is your game, look no further. The Hamptons boast several award winning golf courses. If sailing is your pleasure, the Hamptons have several yacht clubs open to new members. With so many points in its favor, it is not surprising that affluent families from all over the world are seeking to make the Hamptons their summer relaxation destination. Hamptons homes are some of the most opulent in the country. The easy access to recreation and the pure enjoyment of every moment spent there have clearly made an impact in the Hamptons real estate market.
Meander down old New England boardwalk and taste the local fare and feel the simple pleasures and tranquility that miraculously exists so close to the speed and chaos of the world's most bustling city. Spend the days browsing the local galleries and shops, or visit one of the Hamptons many museums. But above all, take advantage of the many memorable experiences owning a summer home in the Hamptons. Contact an agent affiliated with Sotheby's International Realty today to help you find that perfect summer home.


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Gees, Toddy! I end up going through several guys to get to work with one like you! I guess your sponsor must be getting the cherry-picks and that's why I'm just getting the leftovers!
I don't sponsor guys for the recognition of how great & successful they become, or how active in sharing that they do -- I do it because it keeps me sober! And, my hopes are that they stay sober, too! Heck, if I end up drunk someday -- I hope to have one that I've sponsored to be there to sponsor me!
Some guys really do have a difficult time sharing in meetings. I like being around those types more than I like being around one's that can really flap their lips and sound like a parrot.
I, too, had a difficult time sharing when I was new. And, my sponsor was most often embarrased when I did share! Sometimes, when I'd share, his head would fall towards the table and his hands would cover his head as if he was praying "Oh God! What did I do that was so wrong to deserve this one!" For real. Not making that up. I guess I just sounded like an idiot when I'd share! And, when I look back on some of my sharing -- I understand! I was kind of nutty to the extreme!
One thing that helped me more than anything to get comfortable was: to get a commitment for a job at the meetings I attended. If I couldn't get them to appoint me to doing something -- I'd appoint myself. I'd get to the meetings early and ask the coffee person to let me help them make the coffee so that I could learn to make the coffee -- just in case I stayed sober long enough to become a coffee person! After we had the coffee brewing I'd see if I could help put out the literature, if they had any. Then, I'd stand at the door, and appoint myself to greet people as they came to the meeting. It gave myself the opportunity to introduce myself to them, to shake their hands, and to get to know the names of the one's that kept coming back. It also helped me -- so that I knew which one's to point the other newcomer's to -- to ask for help! Then, at the end of the meeting, I'd designate myself to be the trash man -- empty the trash, pick up litter. Wipe off the tables. Straighten up the chairs and sweep the floor. Then, I could walk the last person in the meeting, usually the guy or girl w/ the key -- to their car and wish them a good night. It helped me to know they safely got to their car without being bothered. And, once in a while -- it was them, that needed to talk to someone, so we'd head out to a coffee shop and I'd sit there for hours w/ them, listening to them share, or listen to them talk about the problems they were having.
I believe that it was those activities that helped me a lot more than sharing my words of non-wisdom that wasn't going to help anyone and especially wouldn't have helped me to be listening to myself!


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On April 30, 2006, Madonna made her festival debut at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California.
Madonna performed six songs in front of one of the largest crowds ever to witness an artist at the event. The set featured her latest hit single "Hung Up," "Get Together," "I Love New York," "Ray of Light," "Let It Will Be" and the vintage "Everybody." The show served as a warm-up for the May 21 kick-off of her Confessions Tour in Los Angeles.