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Obama: Buck stops here on protecting U.S. diplomats
Wednesday - 10/17/2012, 7:24am EDT
President Barack Obama said it was his job to protect U.S. diplomats overseas, and investigate the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and hold those responsible accountable.
"I am ultimately responsible for what's taking place there because these are my folks, and I'm the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home," Obama said, during Tuesday's presidential debate against Republican Challenger Mitt Romney.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack, which came on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Earlier on Tuesday, CNN published an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in which she took responsibility for the safety of American diplomats abroad.
"I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts," Clinton said, in the interview. "The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision."
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
But Obama disagreed with Clinton's statement. "She works for me," he said. "I'm the president and I'm always responsible, and that's why nobody's more interested in finding out exactly what happened than I do."
The president said he would beef up security procedures at all embassies and consulates, investigate the Sept. 11 attack fully and track down those responsible.
Obama went on to criticize the Romney campaign for making the attack a political issue.
"While we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, Governor Romney put out a press release, trying to make political points, and that's not how a commander in chief operates," Obama said. "You don't turn national security into a political issue. Certainly not right when it's happening."
Romney acknowledged the correctness of the president taking responsibility "for the failure in providing those security resources." However, he questioned the administration's delay in informing the public that the attack was a terrorist action and not part of a demonstration protesting an online video offensive to Muslims.
"Whether there was some misleading, or instead whether we just didn't know what happened, you have to ask yourself, why didn't we know five days later when the ambassador to the United Nations went on TV to say that this was a demonstration?" Romney said. "How could we have not known?"
In a Sept. 12 Rose Garden speech, Obama did not explicitly call the incident a "terrorist attack." However, he did say: "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."
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Daffodil Drawing Competition 2013
I announced the Winners and Runners Up of the Daffodil Drawing Competition a couple of weeks ago, and now their fantastic drawings are now up on our website for you all to see!
In this competition I was looking for botanical illustrations – these are pictures of plants drawn in a scientific way. This means I was looking for beautiful pictures but they also needed to have clear labels to show the different parts of the Daffodil.
1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners will receive a bird watching kit with mini binoculars. Runners Up will receive flower seeds for the garden.
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Your garden looks lovely!
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LUMBERTON — The Robeson County Board of Commissioners on Monday agreed to pay half the cost of hiring a financial analyst and attorney to determine if the construction of a technology high school is feasible.
Johnny Hunt, superintendent of the Public Schools of Robeson County, told the commissioners he is confident the Board of Education will go along with paying the half of the study that he said will cost "roughly $30,000."
Loistine DeFreece, chairwoman of the school board, said that the study is "contingent" upon there being a financial analyst and attorney to administer it.
"This (technology) school is something that is desperately needed in Robeson County," she said. "… This will give many young men and women a chance to be successful."
Proponents say that a technology high school would prepare students for good-paying jobs immediately after they graduate. A proposed design for a Career and Technical Education Center, which would be built on property the school board owns at COMtech, has recently been presented by SFL+A Architects of Charlotte to both the county commissioners and the school board. The projected cost is as much as $44 million.
Commissioner Tom Taylor's was the only vote against the county paying half the cost of the study. He said there are about $300 million of repairs that currently need to be made at existing schools.
"We can't afford the repairs that need to be made now and we are being asked to construct another school," he said. "I can't vote to spend taxpayers money that way."
The commissioners on Monday also voted to allow the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs to act as a public housing agency throughout Robeson County and distribute Section 8 vouchers to residents 62 years and older.
According to Ed Brooks, attorney for the Lumbee Tribe, the commission has 500 vouchers designated for those counties in which state-recognized tribes reside. None of the vouchers have yet to be distributed in Robeson County because until Monday the county had never authorized the state Commission of Indian Affairs to operate as a public housing agency within the county.
Brooks told the commissioners that the addition of the vouchers available from the state commission would not reduce the number of Section 8 vouchers available to other housing authorities.
"These vouchers would not only be for American Indians, but for anyone in the county at least 62 years old and eligible," Brooks said.
Brooks said that the tribe has permission from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency to construct a 50-unit housing subdivision, currently being referred to as Pembroke Senior Village, for elderly residents.
"This is a $7 million project, with $5 million coming from the Housing Finance Agency and the tribe leveraging the other $2 million" Brooks said.
Commissioner Hubert Sealey voted against the authorization, saying he has concerns about the tribe's ability to administer and monitor the program.
Danita Locklear, a member of the Lumbee Tribal Council, told the commissioners that the council has not received all of the necessary information about the program.
"You have more knowledge about this than we do," Locklear said. "Someone has put the buggy before the horse."
In other business, the commissioners on Monday:
— Accepted the resignation of Doug Murray, the county's interim attorney. Murray resigned to become a magistrate in Brunswick County. County Manager Ricky Harris said the search for a new interim county attorney will begin immediately.
— Agreed to support an economic development project being called "Project Cartoon." According to Greg Cummings, the county's industrial recruiter, the company would invest $9 million in equipment and machinery. During Phase 1 of the project — expected to last 12 months — about 10 jobs, paying an average wage of $23.62 an hour plus benefits, would be created.
— Agreed to ask the state Department of Transportation to evaluate drainage on Littlefield Acres Loop Road.
— Approved the county's Public Transportation Plan. The plan, originally developed in 2009, must be updated every four years.
— Approved continuation of a Governor's Highway Safety Grant for the Sheriff's Office.
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Men's Lacrosse Wins Third-Straight over Wingate with 14-3 Trouncing of Bulldogs
March 21, 2012
MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University registered 11 of the games final 12 goals en route to a 14-3 trouncing of visiting Wingate University in non-conference mens lacrosse action on Wednesday afternoon. The Falcons, who win third-straight over the Bulldogs, improve to 7-3 on the year while sending the Bulldogs to 4-6.
Wingates Derek Watts (Winston-Salem, NC) scored the afternoons first goal just 39 seconds in before Pfeiffer responded with the next two grabbing a 2-1 lead after a quarter. Elliot Gilbert (Corning, NY) scored his lone goal on an assist from Justin Rose (Rochester, NY) while James Shepherd (St. John, NEW BRUNSWICK) tallied his first of two from Zac Clark (Corning, NY) on the back half of the opening quarter.
In the second, Steven Tilmon (Orlando, FL) made it three-in-a-row for the Falcons while the Bulldogs responded with a Tom Padden (Cary, NC) strike three minutes later. Pfeiffer would grab momentum for the rest of the day after Robert Hope (Peterborough, ONTARIO) assisted on Tucker Hammocks (Marietta, GA) first of the day with 18 seconds left in the second.
The Falcons took more control in the third set of 15 minutes as Luke Gillespie (Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA), Hammock and Shepherd would account for the only three goals scored in the quarter. After Hope threw in his only goal of the day, Watts would put home Wingates final goal with 10:03 to play in the fourth.
Pfeiffer closed out the contest with six-straight goals as Hammock started and finished that stretch while Rose hit back-to-back 53 seconds apart. Clark and Mitch Robertson (Whitby, ONTARIO) would also registered goals over the games final 9:30.
Hammock led the Falcons on the day with four goals and three assists while Rose and Shepherd each added two. Hope led all with a game-high five assists in addition to his goal. Watts led the Bulldogs with his two goals as Pfeiffer out-shot Wingate 40-28. The Bulldogs did hold a big advantage in the faceoff circle winning 16 of 21 attempts.
Pfeiffer returns to Conference Carolinas action on Saturday hosting Queens at 2:00 p.m. Live stats will be available through http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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Doc Brown wrote:After reading what Barnes said about his time here, Mike Brown effed us over in the free agent department.
While it may be true that Brown hurt us getting Barnes I can't say it "effed" us because Matt could never stay healthy when the playoffs came. I was one of Matts biggest supporters but it didn't help he couldn't stay healthy. I am with everyone else that Mike Brown did more harm to the players with his absolute control over everything.


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Do you ever wonder why a President is sworn in the way he is? Why do we place our hand on the Bible when we are giving our oath that our testimony is true and without error? That answer is simple: We do this because we are recognizing that there is a law is king, not that the king is law. The Magna Carta called a king to a standard that is outside of him. Kings and rulers are subject to God and His law.
Nelson Glect, great Jewish archaeologist says that we he goes on a dig, he takes a topographical map of Israel, and he takes the Old Testament. If the Bible say its there, then its there. History says there is a Ur of the Chaldeans, dig and you will find it, and we did. Nineva, dig, and find it. City of Petra, dig, and you will find it. Morally, historically, and archaeologically, it all lines up.
But we still consider the Bible myth. Why? Because the "theory" of evolution challenged the Biblical creation. And its all been speculation. Philosophy, in its very nature, is speculative. And guess where we end up? Shirley McClain. The speculation about the nature of the Bible thinks that we have found the body of Jesus. Where? Speculations, but all well received. Now, who lives in delusion?
Man now takes on the part of God because of the 20th century. It is true, because you think its true to you.
Our worldview has changed. But from where I stand, speculation is just that. We remove God, and we make US, humans the end product of the theory called evolution. And it has happened in this country.
So how now shall we live? God, please tarry long so that we may understand that we have distorted your creation, and replaced God with man.


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That actually sounds too painful to watch but thank God we don't even have it aired here so I can't basically watch it :P I wonder what others thought of it.
I love the idea of Being Mary Jane, but I'm annoyed, too.
There are about 4 million viewers of the show. BET is boasting that it's the #1 show on Tuesday nights — surprise! — among my demographic: All the single black ladies. If you haven't been watching because you're not one of the 55 percent of African-American unmarried women in America, #BeingMaryJane trends globally on Twitter during every new episode.
Like a lot of scripted (and unscripted) dramas featuring single black women, while the show's creators point out that Mary Jane doesn't represent all of the single women mentioned above, there's such a dearth of single black female characters on television whose love lives are a significant part of their narratives that it's refreshing to see a show offer that.
I really miss the other one, Olivia Pope. Pope, played by Kerry Washington, is the lead in Scandal. The ABC hit show is based on a real-life problem solver inside the Beltway. Her power and stylishness is what makes Pope iconic, but her Achilles heel is the small problem of the fact that she's in love with the very married President of the United States and his dreamy compadre. (Please read: Is Olivia Pope the New Sally Hemings? for a little insight into why this seems a little far-fetched and hard to digest for black women.)
Anyway, 'Scandal' isn't back until late February. I figured I'd check out Being Mary Jane to fill in the big gaping void.
I don't think it's working.
So, both characters offer uncommon and refreshingly humane portraits of unmarried black women who are generally stereotyped as martyrs or hood rats and very rarely viewed as anything in between. Good on you, television, for trying to give us life. Enuma Okoro writes at the Atlantic, "Comparing Being Mary Jane to Scandal obscures one of the great strengths of Gabrielle Union's new series: the relatability of its protagonist. Part of the brilliance behind Brock Akil's work is that she uses a black lead character and a primarily black cast to appeal to women of all races."
It's a good effort. Better than good. I'm not optimistic about a wildly diverse audience for the show, though.
I watched the movie before the premiere earlier this month because I was intrigued by all the trailers showing Gabrielle Union submerging in a sea/bathtub littered with quotes on Post-Its, which I am fond of writing inspirational quotes on myself. The movie was good. For Gabrielle Union, who hasn't had roles with the most, um…gravitas…in the past, it's fantastic.
In the movie, we first meet Mary Jane baking at two in the morning. We rarely view black women doing domestic work for personal comfort in popular culture (looking at you, The Help), so as unlikely as it might be, it's still nice to see. Her drunk boo, Andre (the excessively fine Omari Hardwick) arrives unexpectedly and cajoles her convincingly enough that she sweeps all her single lady things under her bed, empty wine glass and all.
She discovers Andre is married when she steps on his wedding ring accidentally. She responds by assaulting him with a steady stream of garden hose water. I don't know if I squealed from pain watching this or glee? I couldn't imagine this ending well in real life, I guess, so maybe it was a mixture of both.
Things with her family and at work are not any less messy. Mary Jane's mother calls her all the time to vent, usually when MJ is at work. This is reminiscent of Whitney Houston's character in Waiting to Exhale in almost every way, but in MJ's case, the whole family follows suit. Her older brother seems to show up in every scene asking for money. Her little brother flips signs and sells weed for cash. Her niece is pregnant. She tries to get some retail therapy by buying incredibly expensive and fugly shoes, only to run into Andre and his wife, whom she later confronts at the pet store.
Yes, that's what I wrote. Mary Jane goes to the pet store where Andre's wife is buying kitty litter for her bereft friend and corners her. Since the one unmarried black woman everyone on the planet knows is Oprah, it's not surprising that her name comes up. Andre's wife immediately recognizes MJ from TV and tells her that she's brought her so much comfort, especially after the talk show queen's show went off the air. Mary Jane responds by saying, "Did you know I'm sleeping with your husband?"
Oh. Is *that* how that works?
Fast forward to MJ having an emotional night — she was baking a cake for her niece's baby shower and had a nervous breakdown over a cute baby commercial. She has successfully delivered a story about women stealing sperm in what she calls the "rapey Africa story." Mary Jane proceeds to steal and store the sperm of David, an ex that she has been labeled "Never Answer" in her iPhone.
Look, if she can't bother to change the man's name in her phone or actually meet him for dinner right after she said she would, does she really care enough about him to keep his sperm in a baking soda box in her freezer?
At a party at her house where there are strippers (just because) when everyone is drunkenly confessing their dirt, she busts out the frozen sperm she stole instead of confessing that she's been doing it with a married man. When she texts him later in what must have been the thirstiest string of texts in modern television, he doesn't answer because after having an explicit conversation with his wife about why they're divorcing — along the lines of: "No one likes to put a dick in their mouth first thing in the morning" — these two end up having make up sex.
Anyway, it's nice that Mary Jane leans away from the Tyler Perry-model of shrill, psychotic and materialistic black women with standards that are too high and unrealistic, but she's not that far away from that archetype. When she's working, for instance, and tells David "Never Answer" she can't go out, she calls him back two hours later to see if he can come over now that she's finished working. She has a nonsensical hissy fit when she learns that he's headed out on a date with someone else and she lies to him about Andre.
It's the desperation that irritates me. That in every other area of a black woman character's life she is together and in control and measured, but when it comes to intimacy, romance and love, she loses will power and totally becomes undone. [For a better and fuller explanation of popular culture narratives about single black women and how they are damaging in real life, I recommend Ralph Richard Banks' book, Is Marriage for White People? I wrote a review of it here. You can buy it here.]
At least with Pope, we see her make an effort to date a man who is available, she just backslides (like all the way back through history) regularly. With Mary Jane, we continue to see the message that black women are content to be sloppy seconds no matter how successful we are — because our loneliness is so deep and broad that it makes us morally corrupt and reckless like nothing else.
On one hand, this resonates. On the other, I don't watch TV for a mirror or a reminder as much as for fantasy and inspiration. So to see Mary Jane as eviscerating and judgmental with everyone but herself is painful, even if it's glossy and there's lots of eye candy.
I might just wait for Scandal to come back on. Have you been watching Being Mary Jane? What do you think?


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February 23, 2011
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Pfeiffer University's Amanda Smith has been selected as the division two defensive player of the week as selected by Synapse Sports. Each week during the season, [the Synapse Sports] staff searches the game stories to come up with a Rookie-of-the-Week, an Offensive Player-of-the-Week, a Defensive Player-of-the-Week, and members of the Honor Roll. We have been able to see a number of games and read the game stories before meeting to choose these honors. Congratulations to the athletes and their programs!
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Fiber to the library is coming soon! The Library Board of Trustees, director and staff's desired outcome of providing a faster more efficient Internet connection to the library's computers is almost realized. NoaNet is nearer to their completion date. Bringing the library's existing network up-to-date required an upgrade for gigabit speeds to the library's computers, which was completed in July. The library's broadband fiber connectivity will soon be at 10 Mbps up and down, an increase from its current Cable network speed of 1.5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up. The faster bandwidth will help the library's patrons and the library's wireless customers search for jobs, do homework and research, run their home business from the library's computers, play games, use FaceBook, Twitter, watch YouTube, use the library's databases, download eBooks and eAudiobooks. The library will have the fastest free Internet connection in town.
The Columbia County Rural Library District is participating in the ARRA/BTOP Round One/Two awarded grants utilizing NoaNet fiber. Fiber has been installed at the library building. Connectivity to the fiber is still a couple months away.
The 2012 Broadband Grant in the amount of $958 was awarded to the Columbia County Rural Library District and is being supported with Library Services and Technology Act funding provided by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.


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FBI director gets another House grilling
Friday - 6/14/2013, 11:32am EDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller is leaving the law enforcement agency that he has run every day since the week before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the same way that he entered it: being grilled about how the FBI is carrying out the most high-profile criminal investigations in the country.
For Mueller, Thursday marked another routine appearance on Capitol Hill. There were questions about leak probes involving The Associated Press and Fox News; the Boston Marathon bombings; the attack at Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans; and two government surveillance programs so breathtaking in scope that they instantly became a major Washington controversy when their details spilled out into the public record last week.
It was Mueller's last appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, but it was impossible to tell from his generally placid demeanor whether he was pleased or sorry to be leaving. His last day on the job is Sept. 4. He graciously accepted the occasional gestures of thanks from committee members for his public service. He gave as good as he got when the back-and-forth got testy.
For years, the National Security Agency has been collecting millions of U.S. phone records along with digital communications stored by nine major Internet companies. In his three hours of testimony, Mueller defended the two government surveillance programs and deplored the leaks that brought them to light.
"Every time that we have a leak like this -- and if you follow it up and you look at the intelligence afterwards" -- the terrorists "are looking at the ways around it," Mueller said.
"One of my problems is that we're going to ... lose our ability to get their communications. We are going to be exceptionally vulnerable," he said.
The admitted leaker of the National Surveillance Agency's secrets, 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, Mueller testified.
In the leak probe involving the AP, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to the AP and its journalists in April and May 2012.
"I will tell you that I do believe that there was a substantial effort made to minimize the request" for the phone records, Mueller said of that episode, which had involved an AP story about a CIA operation targeting terrorists in Yemen.
In the leak probe involving Fox News, an affidavit seeking a search warrant in the investigation characterized Fox journalist James Rosen as a probable co-conspirator to the alleged leaker, a State Department contractor. Mueller said that "quite often in search warrants there are occasions where a person will be mentioned as having culpability, but there will be no discussion or anticipation of prosecution."
"I did briefly review the affidavit when the issue arose. So I am somewhat familiar with it," Mueller said. "I can tell you that the focus of our investigations are on the person within the government who has leaked the information."
The FBI director also got questions about the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings when impending court proceedings ended the interrogation of the bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
"In a very narrow sliver of cases where it is terrorism, where the threat is substantial, I would say that one could look at opportunities for giving those questioners additional time to extract information that may protect the public," Mueller told the committee.
Mueller also touched on the FBI's delay in getting agents into Benghazi last year to conduct an investigation of the attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The two-week delay "adversely impacted the ability to gather evidence in a variety of ways and adversely impacted the investigation," Mueller said.
"In Benghazi, there is no law enforcement," he explained. "There is nobody that you can deal with in terms of assuring your security." In addition, putting agents into the country was dependent on getting visas from the Libyan government and "the government then and today is still unstable," Mueller said. "It's very difficult to get any decision made."
As to where the Benghazi probe stands now, Mueller said, "We've had some success that I can't get into today" and that the investigation was ongoing.
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There will be a couple of northern suburb versus southern suburb derbies in Cape Town on Saturday. The major ones will see Bishops tackle Paarl Gym and SACS travel to Boland Landbou. Rondebosch also face Brackenfell, while Wynberg take on Bellville. The northern suburb schools have been the star performers this year, so this will be a big challenge for the boys from the south.
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Paarl Boys' enjoy a bye.
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Undefeated and highflying Grey PE will take on Queen's, who have displayed some impressive performances this year. The coaches of both teams are also brothers. Rory Duncan coaches Grey PE, while John Duncan is in charge at Queen's – which adds to the rivalry. Daniel Pienaar and Die Brandwag face off in an annual FNB Classic Clash.
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The match that has attracted the most attention is the Pretoria derby between Affies and Pretoria Boys'. They say derby matches are always closely contested, but Affies should be strong on this occasion.
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In other fixtures, Maritzburg College make the trip to KES in Johannesburg, which will be a closely-contested affair, while Grey Bloem entertain Selborne. The Eastern Cape school held Grey Bloem to a draw last season, so the boys from Bloemfontein will be looking to make their mark.
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Despite a five-try victory over the Wallabies, Heyneke Meyer says the Springboks will need to be more clinical when they play the All Blacks next week.
The Boks thrashed the Wallabies at Loftus Versfeld, recording a four-try bonus point for the first time in the 2012 Rugby Championship. This result also marked an end to South Africa's four-Test losing streak against the Wallabies.
The opportunity to win the tournament has long passed, but Saturday's result is one to celebrate for a Bok team that is still building.
While Meyer was pleased to record his first win since the Boks beat Argentina in Cape Town, he said that people shouldn't get too excited after the Wallabies thumping, and that there is much to improve before the Boks' next Test against the All Blacks.
'We have very high standards, and there were three more tries that we should have scored,' the Bok coach said. 'It's great to come home and win, and we haven't beaten the Aussies for some time, but we have to start taking those opportunities.
'We would like to score more tries next week but we are aware of the challenge of playing the world champions.'
The Boks produced their best attacking performance of the year against the Wallabies, but then they owe that success to the superior showing up front.
New flyhalf Johan Goosen certainly provided the Boks with more impetus on attack, but there was no change to the game plan, as Jean de Villiers confirmed afterwards.
'We haven't changed one thing,' said the Bok captain. 'The thing that has changed is that we are now capitalising on the pressure we put on the opposition.
'We have shown that we can create, and now we are starting to finish. It's not that we went out there with a more attacking mindset. It was more about playing the situation.
'If the opposition leave men back, then obviously there is more space to attack from close. If they bring men up, then you will kick to the back to find the space. No defence is watertight, there is always space. It's about finding out where that space is and exploiting it.
'We played fantastically today in terms of territory,' De Villiers added. 'We spent most of the game in their half. I was also very pleased with the way we pressured them at the breakdown.'
Meyer built on this statement, lauding his forwards for such a fine effort. He also singled out Francois Louw and Duane Vermeulen, not for their linking play, but for their efforts at the rucks.
'I thought our loose forwards were awesome against New Zealand,' said Meyer. 'And today – Flo, that's the type of player I want. I thought he was really outstanding, and both he and Duane have added an extra dimension with what they offer on the ground.
'I'm not happy that we didn't finish those three opportunities, but we were good at the breakdown. We also scrummed superbly and the lineout was very good.'
But again, Meyer tempered all of this praise by putting the Boks' situation into perspective. The Boks have a date with the All Blacks in Soweto on 6 October, and there's little doubt that the All Blacks will be far more difficult to breach.
'New Zealand are a very settled side. In terms of defence, they have a number of experienced players who have been in that system for ages. They're the world champions and one of the reasons for that is their defence.
'It's going to be really difficult to create and score against them. We will need to be more patient with ball in hand, more tactically astute. If we get scoring opportunities, we will need to make them count.
'We are the only team that has played three matches away in a row. The All Blacks will come here now [after being in Argentina], and we are hoping that South Africa will get behind us. It is always harder for visiting teams to win on the Highveld too,' he added.
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Not only will the senior have to continue playing fullback, he will also be asked to play a lot of linebacker for the Panthers this season.
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"This year I'm going to be playing on both sides of the ball and so I got to be in the best shape," Baker said during a recent passing league session at Southwest High School. "I want to be a big leader and have a big impact on the team."
The 5-foot-9, 215-pound Baker seems a natural fit at fullback and linebacker for the Panthers, who officially open practice Aug. 1 and kick off the regular season Aug. 23 at home against Richlands.
Offensively, the 16-year-old can pound his way for tough yards and get short-yardage first downs. These are things he provided the Panthers last year en route to rushing for 622 yards and five touchdowns while averaging 4.6 yards per carry.
He was named to the second team of The Daily News all-area team as a running back after helping East Duplin to a 9-3 overall record, a second place in the East Central 2-A Conference at 6-1 and a trip to the NCHSAA 2-AA playoffs.
"He's just a hard runner," East Duplin coach Battle Holley said. "He's not real fast and he's not going to break away from you, but he's going to get those tough yards. He's a tough runner and a steady worker."
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However, this season he will be relied on to give East Duplin solid play as a starting linebacker in addition to fulfilling his fullback responsibilities.
Baker has been contributing at fullback since his sophomore year when he was moved up to varsity after several key players suffered injuries.
"He's going to have to play on both sides of the ball this year. Last year we didn't have anybody going both ways," Holley said. "This year we are going to have a few going both ways, but he can do it."
Baker knows he can, too. Yet he also knows it will require a little bit more from him than previous seasons. Baker said his goal this summer is to get in better shape so that he can play both positions without getting tired.
"I played a little bit of linebacker last year. I'm used to it, but I'm not used to playing linebacker for a full game and for a full schedule," Baker said. "Now I've got to be focused on offense and on defense."
And while that may seem like a daunting task for someone not fully experienced in playing on both sides, Baker doesn't seem too worried. He feels like being a fullback will help him be a good linebacker.
"You've got to be able to read the defense and the offense, the holes," he said. "Me being a linebacker, I know what's going to happen."
At fullback, Baker expects his number to be called more times this season than last year. While he wants to lead the team in tackles, he also wants to rush for 1,000 yards, the milestone every running back shoots for at the start of the season.
Holley wouldn't mind seeing that, too.
"Oh, yeah, most definitely," he said. "I hope he's a 1,000-yard guy. He had (622 yards) last year and that was with him only getting it about eight times a game."
Still, Holley said that Baker's leadership this season will be just as important to the Panthers as his production on the field under the Friday night lights.
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And Baker believes he can do just that.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Miami's doubles team of Alix Thurman and Nimisha Mohan posted a pair of victories Thursday to advance to the main draw of the ITA Ohio Valley Regional. The duo joins two other RedHawk teams who were automatically entered into Friday's opening round.
Thurman and Mohan started the day with an 8-3 win over IUPUI's Abbey Neff and Vanessa Whyte, then upset the qualifiers' No. 3 seed Katie Polk and Kelsey Coots of Tennessee-Chattanooga 8-6 to earn their spot.
Miami's two singles entrants weren't as successful in qualifying. Freshman Ana Rajkovic won her opening tilt 7-6 (7-2), 5-7, 7-5 over Vanderilt's Mega Gornet, but fell short against Melissa Gerritsen of Eastern Kentucky in the deciding match, 6-2, 6-4. Ramona Costea, who entered play 7-1 in fall competition, lost in the first round 6-2, 6-1 to Kayla Jones of UTC.
Friday's action for Miami gets underway at 8 a.m. with Christiana Raymond and Christine Guerrazzi facing Butler's Stephanie McLoughlin and Brittany Farmer. Mohan and Thurman squaring off against Skylar Kuykendall and Liza Tymechenko of Memphis at 9:30, while Costea and Rajkovic team up against Middle Tennessee's Irina Constantinide and Yuiri Nomoto at 10:15.
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By Rebecca Teti
Wednesdays: Natural Family Planning
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I recommend reading John and Sheila Kipley's books. We read together books on Natural Family Planning. We practiced the Sympto-Thermo Method. Try it. You will find out that you are Only Fertile, Three Days before Ovulation, the Day of Ovulation, and Three Days after Ovulation. You are Fertile Seven Days out of One Month. Sperm can live Three Days, in the right conditions. The stretchy mucus allows for it to swim towards an egg. So, refraining from sex, during this time, for serious reasons, is okay, with the Catholic Church; provided both spouses consent. Working together in your married life is, of course, God's Holy Will. May God be praised!
I have a question about the Marquette post-partum method, which I am using, or trying to! I've been testing every other day, and every day when my fertility monitor reads two bars or higher. Anyway, it's been at two bars for almost a week. I haven't gotten my cycles back yet, and I was wondering if that's a sign of returning fertility or should I just regard it the way I would if it were only reading the lowest level? My husband seems to think it's the "new normal" and eventually the monitor will figure my body out and go back to the lowest level. I hope that's not too unclear, I guess what I'm asking is, is that normal, and does it mean that I have to abstain on days that it reads like that?
MaryC- I am also using the Marquette method postpartum. This was my sixth pregnancy, and he is now 8 months old but breast feeds almost exclusively so I have not had cycles resume yet. However this is the first time I have used this method so I am learning. I am using the breast feeding protocol which says to test every other day unless unless you get a high reading(2 bars) and then u test every day until you get a peak and cycles resume. To avoid a pregnancy you have to abstain when monitor is high or peak. In November I experienced a period where I was always getting high readings for almost 2 months. When I would reset the monitor after 20 days I would get a few days of low and then high again until I reset monitor. I read previously on this forum that once u get a high reading the monitor will always read high until u get a peak reading or cycles resume. While I know it is not foolproof, we would then pay attention to cervical mucous as we have been trained in Creighton method as well. As long as I was not noticing cervical mucous, we continued relations during this time. But technically to avoid pregnancy u need to abstain when monitor reads high or peak.
Just thought I'd share this nice post on "7 Things Charting Taught Me." http://20somethingcatholic.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/7-things-charting-taught-me/
Mary C, I think unknown is right, based on how I understand the protocol. I'd post your question on the forum, just to make sure, though. It would probably to be good to do that, if only to verify for your husband that you need to abstain on high days.
Thanks for sharing the charting post link, Rebecca. I plan on teaching my girls to chart. They won't need to know all the rules concerning conception, but it's such a wealth of information about their bodies and their health. We are wonderfully made!
Hi Ladies, Hope everyone is well today:) I just wanted to ask if anyone has ever found they have PCOS after having babies, and if/ you experienced secondary infertility. Also, if you've had low progesterone resume to "normal" after your baby is no longer nursing. Just really interested to see what other's stories are and how you've made it through! God Bless, MNS~
I don't have PCOS, but I had low progesterone prior to and during my most recent pregnancy. I was on supplementation for that during my first trimester, but my levels evened out after that. However, once my cycles resumed, I started noticing the symptoms again--so I would say my experience is the reverse of yours. I'm on 200 mg of progesterone for the last 10 days of my cycle now. I haven't had a blood test to confirm the deficiency yet (and probably won't until my check up in April), but I had the typical symptoms of spotting before and after menstruation, a shorter luteal phase, and moodiness/anxiety. The supplement I'm on now seems to be taking care of the moodiness and luteal phase, so I feel pretty confident that I was experiencing low progesterone. Having said all of that, my doctor has mentioned that any hormonal experience (pregnancy, miscarriage, and breastfeeding would all qualify) can affect progesterone positively or negatively, so it's possible that your progesterone level could have leveled out on its own.
@MaryC. I am post-partum for the 7th time but first time using Marquette. I have had numerous periods of "high" or 2 bar readings that seem to go on forever but they do spontaneously change back to low intermittently. I believe that these are "at risk" days for pregnancy so it depends on how badly you want to avoid . . . I suspect if you treat them as lows that there is a very good possibility that you will get pregnant. I say this as someone who has gotten pregnant at least 6 times without having my period after the prior pregnancy (hmm, sounds bad but I should note we didn't care/weren't trying to avoid, LOL). Therefore, while I know I am very fertile, it is still a time when MOST can get pregnant. (My husband was reading over my shoulder and groaned b/c he too is not real excited about the terminal highs!)
Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it!
NFP is great. No health risks whatsoever however doesn't the Church also teach temperance and self control? We are supposed to be above the other animals in creation in that we are able to use restraint in our coital activities. I heartily admire families that have two children and are also practicing NFP. They realize that we are approaching the state where human population is outstripping the resources on our planet. More than that however, they realize marriage isn't just about conjugal relations.
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