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Ellie June has arrived!
We went to our 38 week appointment on 3/21/2011 and left that evening with a c-section scheduled for the next morning...Ellie was transverse and her cord was positioned to be the first thing out if my water broke so we had to remove her before that happened.
The c-section was fine, Ellie was moving so much it made it difficult for them to find the best position to remove her from but on 3/22/2011 at 2:27 she was born weighing 6lbs 10 oz and 19 inches long.
Unfortunately, 2 hours post-op in my room I suffered from a major hemmorage. I lost over 4 pints of blood and was rushed back to the OR. I was in surgery for 5 hours while they tried to stop the bleeding.
I required a transfusion and my DH and family was told I was going to have to have a hysterectomy to stop the bleeding. My vitals were too unstable to allow them to continue any other options. One last chance effort allowed the team to put a central line into my neck, stabilize me and stop the bleeding without the hysterectomy.
I spent 2 days in the ICU away from Ellie. It was agonizing. Finally, I was able to be reunited with her as I continued to recover on L & D.
We spent a week in the hospital and are just getting used to being home...she is a perfect angel and I am so blessed to have the chance to be her mom.
It was definitely not part of my labor plan...but, I am so lucky and filled with joy to be a part of this girls every minute I would do it all over again as long as I had the same outcome...


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By Dorothea Benton Frank
(William Morrow, Hardcover, 9780060892388, 352pp.)
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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Miriam Swanson is thoroughly provoked and she doesn't mind letting you know. Twenty years ago her husband Charles, a powerful attorney with one of the last remaining white shoe law firms in New York, dumped her for a younger woman nearly half her age. Obviously it happens all the time and it's not exactly news, but what's fascinating is to watch Miriam evolve from pathetic to spectacular. Perfectly proper Miriam's great metamorphosis results from the arrival of a little red neck school teacher, Liz, from Nowhere, Alabama. Liz is Miriam's tenant along with Kevin, a 50 something gay man who is Miriam's best friend. Liz is everything that Miriam is not: young and thin. They constantly clash. Then finally, she meets a man named Harrison who changes her into a gal named Mellie.
Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured life as a Manhattan quasi socialite while she thirsts, no, starves for recognition. How did she become what she hates the most and what does she endure to realize it? And where are the answers? It takes a few spins, dips and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets her head on straight. Then in a whoosh she's off to see her mother in the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.


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When the first Europeans visited Alaska's shores during the 1740s, all the local residents they met were living a subsistence lifestyle. As the population grew through the territorial days, many new and conflicting demands were made on Alaska's natural and cultural resources. Development in various forms, such as harvesting marine and inland furbearers, commercial fisheries, mining operations, agriculture, development of military bases, along with establishment of cities and towns often impacted local resources and subsistence activities. By the time Alaska gained statehood in 1959, subsistence patterns in some of Alaska's more populated areas had been greatly affected.
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Geographic Range
Cynocephalus volans occurs on the Philippine islands of Mindanao, Basilan, Samar, Leyte, Bohol.
- Biogeographic Regions
- oriental
- oceanic islands
Philippine colugos are entirely arboreal. They live in the multilayered rain forest. They are also often found near coconut and rubber plantations.
- Terrestrial Biomes
- rainforest
Physical Description
Colugos or "flying lemurs" neither resemble lemurs nor do they fly. They are cat-sized and a little smaller than the Malaysian flying lemurs. Fur coloration is usually darker and less spotted than in the Malaysian species. They have huge eyes and faces that resemble those of Old World fruit bats. The head is broad, somewhat like a greyhound's in appearance, with rounded short ears and a blunt muzzle. The limbs are of equal length, with strong sharp claws for climbing, and the toes are connected by webs of skin. This web of skin extends into a distinct structure called a patagium, which stretches from the side of the animal's neck to the tips of the fingers and toes and continues to the very tip of the tail. No other gliding mammal has such an extensive membrane. The arrangement of the unusual and distinctive incisor teeth is similar to that of herbivorous mammals such as cattle or deer. The upper incisors are located on the sides of the jaw and are caniniform, leaving a gap at the front so they do not oppose the forwardly protruded lower incisors. The lower incisors are comb-like with as many as 20 comb tines arising from one root, which may allow scraping and straining food, and also grooming and cleaning the fur. The molars retain a three-cusped insectivore pattern and have a shearing action that includes a large transverse component. This action, and the crenulated enamel of the molars, provide for efficient mastication of plant material. The dental formula is 2/3, 1/1, 2/2, 3/3 = 34.
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- homoiothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- sexes alike
- Range mass
- 1 to 1.75 kg
- 2.20 to 3.85 lb
Gestation takes 105 days. Usually a single young is produced, but occasionally twins are born. The infant is born in an underdeveloped state (altricial). The infant is carried on the belly of the mother.
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- viviparous
Philippine colugos are crepuscular and seek refuge during the day in holes in trees. Their foraging activities are highest before sunset and a few hours prior to sunrise. They glide from tree to tree by climbing to the top of a tree and then launching themselves into the air. They are in control of their glides, usually landing on the lower trunk of another tree and then climbing up to start another gliding cycle. To move up a tree, they grasp the trunk with their outspread limbs and move both front feet together, then both hind feet. The glide distances can easily reach over 100 meters.
- Key Behaviors
- motile
Communication and Perception
Food Habits
The diet of Cynocephalus volans consists mainly of leaves, buds, and flowers from a variety of tree species. Most of the time, they prefer young leaves because young leaves contain higher nutritional value than old leaves. They also might eat fruits and sap. In general,they prefer larger trees for foraging because larger trees produce more young leaves and other food sources. They use their enlarged tongue and specialized lower incisors to pick leaves in a cow-like fashion. The stomach is specialized for ingesting large quantities of leafy vegetation. The intestines are long and convoluted. Their intestine can approach 4 meters in length. The pyloric digestive region, the part near the exit to the intestines, is enlarged and divided into compartments. These chambers harbors microorganisms that help break down cellulose and other relatively indigestible carbohydrates.
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Philippine colugos are hunted for their meat.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Philippine colugos are considered by plantation owners as pests since their diet contain fruits, leaves, and flowers.
Conservation Status
Although Philippine Colugos are not endangered, they are threatened by deforestation and loss of habitat.
- IUCN Red List
Least Concern
More information
Michael Kuo (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Phil Myers (editor), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- oceanic islands
islands that are not part of continental shelf areas, they are not, and have never been, connected to a continental land mass, most typically these are volcanic islands.
- oriental
found in the oriental region of the world. In other words, India and southeast Asia.
- rainforest
rainforests, both temperate and tropical, are dominated by trees often forming a closed canopy with little light reaching the ground. Epiphytes and climbing plants are also abundant. Precipitation is typically not limiting, but may be somewhat seasonal.
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- threatened
The term is used in the 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals to refer collectively to species categorized as Endangered (E), Vulnerable (V), Rare (R), Indeterminate (I), or Insufficiently Known (K) and in the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals to refer collectively to species categorized as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), or Vulnerable (VU).
- viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
Cogger, H., J. Forshaw, E. Gould, G. McKay, R. Zweifel. 1993. Encyclopedia of Animals. 43 Victoria Street, McMahons Point, Sydney NSW 2060, Australia: The Reader's Digest Association Inc.
Macdonald, D., D. Bell, N. Bonner, T. Clutton, G. Corbert. 1984. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. 460 Park Ave South New York NY 10016: Facts on File Inc.
Vaughan, T., J. Ryan, N. Czaplewski. 2000. Mammalogy. Orlando, Florida: Emily Barrosse.
Wichusen, W., M. Richmond. November, 1998. Foraging Ecology of the Philippine Flying Lemur. Journal of Mammology, 79: 1288-1295.


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Archived press release
Date Published: 14/02/12
The Aylesbury Vale Community Safety Partnership wants to hear the views of local residents and businesses on crime and anti-social behaviour so that it can use these to help set priorities for the forthcoming year.
It would like to find out what types of crime are of most concern and has put together a short online questionnaire for residents and businesses to complete.
The Partnership, which includes Aylesbury Vale District Council, Buckinghamshire County Council and Thames Valley Police, has been set up to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the Vale.
Its annual review of crime and disorder and anti-social behaviour in the district has found that from April 2011 to December 2011, crime fell by 16 per cent, compared to the same period the previous year.
In real terms this means that 1,178 fewer crimes took place across the district. A number of Partnership projects have all contributed to this reduction. These include:
• Issuing 600 free light timer switches to help prevent house burglaries
• Launching a campaign to help reduce the number of Land Rover thefts in the Vale
• Visiting rural locations to provide residents with crime reduction advice, respond to local concerns, and ensure residents in more isolated locations are supported
The Partnership wants to continue reducing crime and to build a safer district, and is keen to hear about the crime and disorder issues that concern people in their neighbourhoods.
Feedback from the consultation will be used by the Partnership to develop a plan for the year ahead to help tackle crime and disorder across the Vale.
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Kidnapped cruising sailors Bruno Pelizzari and his partner Deborah Calitz are no nearer being freed after a news conference in Pretoria this week held by Bruno's sister Vera Pelizzari and Calitz's family - her brother and three daughters. The two have been in Somali pirates hands since October 2010.
Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz
Hopes that had been raised that a solution was near as Pelizzari announced that she had received a ransom demand for $10 million, news that had already been broadcast around the world, were dashed when they announced that no further progress had been made. Andrew Mwangura, officer of the Seafarer's Assistance Program, and frequent reporter on pirate issues, had earlier said that the pirates could be persuaded to take a smaller sum.
Pelizzari broke down during the news conference as she recalled the conversation with the pirates. The demanded ransom is an amount that neither the Calitz nor the Pelizzari family can afford, and the South African government has adopted a similar line to that adopted by Britain during the 12 month ordeal of the previous abducted sailors, Paul and Rachel Chandler. An undisclosed ransom was finally paid for the Chandlers by an similarly undisclosed source, although the Somali community of Britain is known to have been involved.
When asked what message Vera Pelizzari had for her brother, she cried, 'We love you, we love you.'
The two were taken hostage on October 26 while sailing from Dar es Salaam to South Africa with fellow yachtsman Peter Eldridge to spend Christmas with their families and to see their newborn grandchildren. Pelizzari and Calitz were forcibly removed from the yacht after it had run aground while being shadowed by a naval vessel. Eldridge, however, refused to leave Choizil, the yacht that he had built himself, and was left behind. He was later rescued.
The yacht is now reported to be being used by pirates for short haul transport.
For almost three months, nothing was heard from Calitz and Pelizzari, and even today, they have not been seen, heard or interviewed.
Calitz's brother, Dale van der Merwe, had demanded that they be allowed to speak to Deborah, but nothing has come of this request. This means they have no idea of their conditions, where they are, if they are alive or even if the person who claims to have them hostage really is with them.
Time and time again, the families have repeated the argument that made skipper Peter Eldridge believe that Somalis would not kidnap them, and that van der Merwe reiterated in the press conference: 'They are ordinary South Africans. They are not rich. They are not multimillionaires. They are just ordinary working-class people like you and me.
'They are your fellow Africans from the same continent as you, and suffer from the same problems that you do. We are begging you not to hurt them. We are begging you to send them home.'
In an emotional appeal Calitz's daughters, Samantha de Jesus and Jackie and Kerri-Ann Cross said: 'Mom … we miss and love you. We are waiting at home for you and will see you soon.'


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Community Forums › Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How can I add the "Read More" link to excerpts?
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This topic contains 8 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by braddalton 7 months, 3 weeks ago.
July 6, 2013 at 11:38 am #49544
Hello people. I am working with the sample child theme but i have a question. I am using excerpts but i want to add a "read more" link at the end of it. Is there a way to do it?
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Have you try inserting it using your WordPress editor…
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Sorry if I didnt make it clear. What i need is to add a read more link at the end of every excerpt automatically without using the 'more tag' in the posts editor.July 6, 2013 at 11:20 pm #49602
There is a tutorial at Studiograsshopper that's come in handy for me when tweaking the excerpt (I prefer to use the manual excerpts, and have on occasion needed to add a "Read More")
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Slice of SciFi | Slice of SciFi TVJuly 6, 2013 at 11:53 pm #49603
Pretty much exactly the same as what you'll find in the official StudioPress Code Snippets. http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/
July 7, 2013 at 9:28 am #49634
Worked as Summer said. Thank you very muchJuly 7, 2013 at 11:16 am #49652
Brad, the Studio Press page never included any snippets that worked with manual excerpts, and the tutorial at Studiograsshopper was one of the few resources to highlight the distinction between automatic and manual excerpts early on, and to write snippets that would work for either method.
Plus, there's no confusion about "will that only work with Genesis themes" for newcomers.
I love Studio Press resources as much as anyone else here, but sometimes there's a tunnel vision towards solutions that rivals the old Steve jobs Reality Distortion field
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Slice of SciFi | Slice of SciFi TVNovember 14, 2014 at 8:36 pm #131580
Thank you, Summer! I've been searching for a solution for hours. The other tutorials all recommend a code block that was not working on the Sample child theme. This worked perfect. And you are correct….the StudioPress code snippets do NOT do the same thing, and do not work for manual excerpts (at least not on the Sample child theme).
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- This reply was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by colleengreene.
For hand crafted excerpts added manually in the Excerpt meta box, here's another solution
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What a beautiful little Texas town, but such an enormous tragedy that happened. This weekend on my way back to Dallas from San Antonio, I stopped by the town of West, Texas to pay my respects -- and, I guess, to satisfy that curiosity bug I had about what everything looks like.
This weekend a couple of my friends and I decided to go to San Antonio. We had no idea that more than 300,000 people would also be there celebrating fiesta!
What a terrible week this has been for country music news. I was out running some errands this morning when I heard about the passing of Mr. George Jones.
What a big, exciting day here in Dallas, Texas! It's been a crazy few days here because of the George W. Bush Presidential Library dedication that took place today.
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I am a child of the '80s, so like many others, I grew up with the Duke boys, Bo and Luke. But I'm not sure other people who watched 'The Dukes of Hazzard' are as obsessed with the star of the show as I am.
As the weather starts to warm up a little, the activity outside our Taste of Country Nights studio has really increased. First we saw a couple of guys with remote control boats out by the canal -- now this?!
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Like any married couple, Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher don't always see eye to eye. But they're not the type to have knock-down, drag-out fights that wake up the neighborhood. "I've never thrown anything," Underwood said laughing during a recent interview with Taste of Country Nights host Jeremy Robinson.
Songs that are amongst the biggest of Lee Brice and Lady Antebellum's careers make a return to the ToC Top 10 Video Countdown this week -- in a big way. 'I Drive Your Truck' was a chart-topper for Brice, while Lady A's 'Downtown' sits at the top of the charts just this week. However, neither of these videos were No. 1 on this list, as decided explicitly by country music fans.
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Short on decorating ideas? The eighth annual Home & Garden Expo is full of creative stuff for home sweet home.
Expo Ltd. and The Builder's Association-Corpus Christi Area have assembled more than 100 vendors to showcase the latest in home and garden technology, decorating and more from Sept. 7-9.
New elements to scour for information include the "Ask the Builder" booth, presented by the BACC, and an interactive gardening area. Expo visitors can solicit free information from a local homebuilder about the ins and outs of building a home or bring your home design plans to ask for suggestions.
A South Texas Gardening Area will feature kids' activities such as building bird feeders, leaf stamping and etching to make a necklace. Michael Womack of the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center and members of local flower clubs will offer gardening tips, too.
At 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Wanda Colon of HGTV's show "24-Hour Design" will present decorating tips to jazz up dull spaces with simple tricks.
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Cost: $8/adults; $4/ages 13 to 18, seniors, military; $3/ages 6 to 12. Free admission today for seniors and military with ID. Coupon discount available at Kleberg Mortgage locations inside area H-E-B stores.
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9 days late. Home Pregnancy test(-)no real symptoms of pregnancy,some nausea, am I pregnant?I hope!
I have been trying for a year and I really hope I am. Every month is so discouraging when I get my period but so far I am 9 days late so I hope I am, the only problem is that I took a home pregnancy test and it showed (-) I got really upset but yet no period, I have NEVER missed a period, could I be pregnant? Should I wait longer to do a home pregnancy test? I used first response, my husband went and bought an EPT kit saying that maybe this one will be a better one to use. I am going to wait a few days before I do the test.I have no real symptoms, all I really feel is nausea and occasional dizziness and some fatigue, no sore breasts or period like symptoms. Any advice?
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I would suggest using the Clear Blue Digital pregnancy test. I have been pregnant twice in the past 4 months (1st miscarried and now 8 weeks pregnant) and the Clear Blue Digital was the most sensitive.posted 08/29/2010 by belladonna062108
I AM 8 DAYS LATE, AND ITS FREAKING ME OUT. Y? BECAUSE WITH MY OTHER PREGNANCIES, I TESTED RIGHT AWAY, AND IT CAME BACK POSITIVE, BUT MY LAST PREGNANCY, IT CAME BACK NEG. THAN POS. I TOOK 2 PREGNANCY TEST, ONE WAS POS. THAN NEG. HCG BLOOD TEST, WAS NEG, BUT ULTRASOUND SAW TWO SMALL WAT WE BELIEVED TO BE BABIES, AND THEY WERE COUPLE DAYS LATER I MISCARRIED. NOW EVERY HPT, IS COMING UP NEGATIVE, BUT I KNOW I AM I HAVE HAD EVERY SYMPTON, AND I KNOW MY BODY.. IT IS EASY FOR ME TO GET PREGNANT. BUT FOR SOME REASON IT DOESNT END GOOD, NOW I DO BELIEVE ITS THE DCTS, THEY TAKE URINE AND BLOOD TEST, BUT IF ITS NEG.. AND U KNOW AND BELIEVE OTHER WISE, THEY DNT PURSUE, ANY FURTHER, (IN NY) BUT WHAT SHOULD I DO, IVE TAKEN, 3 URINE TEST AT DIFF DCTS, AND 5 AT HOME STILL SAY NEGATIVE, AGAIN IM ONLY 8 DAYS LATE, BUT I FEEL IT, UGH PLZ HELPposted 08/27/2010 by diamond34
Hey! Just wondering how things have turned out for everyone! I was 7 days late for AF and had a very short (2 day "period") and wondering if I could be preggo. Early tests were all BFN but haven't tested after the short "period" and wondering if I should...posted 07/16/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
the same thing is going on with me, I took a preg. test after my period was five days late and it came out negative. I am now nine days late, feeling very tired all the time, and my boobs are getting more sore everyday for the last three days. Im thinking of calling my Dr. and doing a blood test. how did it turn out for you? Good luck!!!posted 06/07/2010 by tryin4nmbr1
The hcg should be showing up in the urine by now. You could have miscalculated your period due date. I would go get a blood test done as even if you are only a week pregnant (before the egg has actually implanted in the uterus) you are able to get a postitive result. If you are not pregnant, you might have just not ovulated this month or had a late ovulation. You can discuss with your doctor to see if anything can be done to help figure out the cause.posted 05/28/2010 by najia77
You could still be pregnant even though you got a negative result. I took a test on April 20 and the result came back negative (During that week I should have gotten my period) I than took another pregnancy test on April 30 (10 days later) which came back with a positive result. According to my last period I am 5 weeks along....Strange isn't it? I ended up taking a total of 8 pregnancy test and they all came back POSITIVE. Good luck!posted 05/06/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
i'm the same way. my period is a week late and when i took the preg test both were neg, i really want a baby and my fiancee does too, we've only been trying for about 2 months. does anyone have any advise?posted 02/19/2010 by Jada17
Okay my last period was december 25, I had unprotected sex like sorta at the beginning of january and I forgot to put my ring in I was on top and my husband ejaculated in me...I put my ring in a few days later..I'm late on my period I have cramps but no period and I took a test and its negative..I don't know what else to do please help me.posted 01/29/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
Definately DON'T waste money on pregnancy tests. I tested the week I was supposed to get my period and both weeks after that like 2x and they were all negative. Then I finally got a positive at 5 weeks! It's hard t o wait but worth it!! You probably are. Every pregnancy is different with different symptoms. Good luck!!!posted 01/14/2010 by hanhunt6107
I am now 10 days late my husband and i are trying to have a baby only trying for 3 months now i have taking about one of each of the test to find All neg :-( Everyone seems to think it is stress i'm not sure i wasn't stressed or excited til my cycle did not come January 5th I'm normally regular Any ideas?posted 01/14/2010 by cmjmfe09
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We strive to provide a comprehensive athletic experience in a positive and fun environment. It is the objective of the Pacific Rim Volleyball Academy to stress preparation, fundamentals and teamwork within the concept of good sportsmanship. The primary emphasis on education, training (Academy), and competition (Club) are the key components utilized to achieve our objectives.
Pacific Rim Volleyball Academy is dedicated to providing athletes of all ages with the technical, tactical and physical training, to reach their highest potential. Pacific Rim will assist each and every athlete to achieve maximum performance through proper training and nutrition education. As the player progresses through the program, we will provide the path for athletes to test their abilities, in order to reach their highest potential. Through private lessons, and the opportunity for year-round skills classes, athletes of any age or level can learn and improve the skills needed to gain a competitive edge. For those athletes with limited playing experience, we will help develop solid fundamental skills, as well as a passion for the sport. Our advanced training, for junior levels (12th grade & below), will provide athletes the opportunity to excel at becoming elite players in preparation for high school and/or collegiate volleyball.
Formed in August of 2010, the Pleasant Hill-based club burst onto the scene by going undefeated locally and making good showings at state and national tournaments.
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To show they're not kidding around, Pacific Rim's 14 squad won another prestigious tournament after winning the NCVA tournament That victory secured another national bid, just for kicks.
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The Pacific Rim Academy is a new/old venture for Worsley, who brings a wealth of experience from his job as technical director for Stanford University men's volleyball program to the one-year-old club.
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San Diego State plays host to the tournament this weekend, and will face Long Beach State in the second game for the 49ers, as the former conference foes match up once again. The 49ers will also face UT-Arlington twice, Harvard and Texas Tech this weekend.
This weekend's tournament is an important one for The Beach, as all four schools that Long Beach State will play start the weekend with a record over .500. The Aztecs match Long Beach State exactly with a 16-7 record, while Texas Tech enters the weekend with a 18-6 overall mark.
Long Beach State ranks 15th nationally in slugging percentage, at .530, and leads the Big West in all three slash categories, hits, RBI Runs scored, and home runs on the season.
Ashley Holmes continues to lead the team offensively. The junior is hitting a Big West best .441 and slugging an unreal .797, with 7 home runs and 21 RBI through 23 games played in 2014.
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BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger and his once-loyal criminal apprentice had an angry, profanity-laced exchange in court Tuesday during Bulger's racketeering trial after the former aide called Bulger and his partner "the two biggest rats."
Tensions exploded as Kevin Weeks was questioned by Bulger's lawyer about a plea deal with prosecutors that resulted in Weeks serving five years in prison after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting Bulger in five murders.
Weeks bristled at attorney J.W. Carney Jr.'s suggestion that he had beaten the system and that he wasn't bothered by his participation in five killings.
"How does it bother you?" Carney asked.
"Because we killed people that were rats, and I had the two biggest rats right next to me," Weeks snapped.
"You suck," Bulger said from his seat at the defense table.
"F--- you, OK!" Weeks replied.
"F--- you, too," Bulger said.
"What do you want to do?" Weeks challenged Bulger.
Judge Denise Casper moved to restore order.
"Hey!" Casper said. "Mr. Bulger, let your attorneys speak for you. Mr. Weeks, here's how this works: You answer the questions, OK?"
Weeks was referring to the prosecution's claim that Bulger and his longtime cohort, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, were FBI informants on the rival New England Mafia while they were both committing a litany of crimes.
Weeks, 57, said he decided to cooperate with prosecutors and testify after learning that Bulger and Flemmi were informants.
The outburst came on the second day of Weeks' testimony against Bulger. Earlier Tuesday, he offered gruesome details about three murders he said he saw Bulger commit.
Bulger, 83, is accused of playing a role in 19 killings during the 1970s and '80s while he allegedly led the Winter Hill Gang.
Bulger has pleaded not guilty and insists he was never an FBI informant. During the trial, his lawyers have focused much of their energy on rebutting the informant claim.
Weeks, who started working for Bulger as an enforcer in the late 1970s, said Bulger was a mentor, friend and "like an older brother to me."
"He treated me great," he said.
Weeks said he helped Bulger even after Bulger fled Boston in 1994 when he learned he was about to be indicted.
That changed, Weeks said, when he learned that Bulger and Flemmi had been FBI informants for years. He said that went against the South Boston culture to never rat on your friends or your enemies.
Carney asked Weeks if he was concerned that he'd be seen as a rat after he made his deal with prosecutors to testify against Bulger and Flemmi.
"You can't rat on a rat," Weeks said.
Weeks described three killings he said he saw Bulger commit and several others he said Bulger admitted he had somehow engineered.
He said he was at a South Boston house with Bulger in 1985 when he heard that 26-year-old Deborah Hussey, the daughter of Flemmi's longtime girlfriend, would be coming over.
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Erie County commissioners seem to have a lot of dreams these days and apparently the cash to back them up.
I refer to recent stories about a new industrial park in Milan Township on Huron Avery Road to support businesses that will flock to Erie County if NASA begins to expand. I believe the total cost for that project was a little less than a half million dollars.
Now Erie County wants to run a sewer line down U.S. 250 at a cost of $5 million to $6 million. Commissioner Bill Monaghan states, "The idea is to extend the sewer down to the Ohio Turnpike, and then actually go east and west on Mason Road. When the airport is built -- we're thinking positive -- we would have the infrastructure to support whatever we need for industry we know is going to be coming."
There's no guarantee that business will grow with NASA expansion. There is also no guarantee that an airport to be built at NASA. What about the new industrial park on Huron-Avery Road? Who is planning to build there except for the new County Court? Why expand sewers on Mason Road at a great cost to the few residences that presently exist? Is the plan to extend sewers down Mason Road just another ploy to expand the Erie County dump?
Even with all that extra cash, Erie County refuses to work within existing commercial land areas and help existing manufacturing enterprises grow by granting financial incentives. Erie County just plans on making new commercial land areas and spending money to extend sewers to vacant land without any guarantees for commercial development.
We don't need more commercial land areas; we need more manufacturing to fill the existing areas that already have the expensive infrastructure in-place to support manufacturing.
Yes, it's nice to have dreams, but it's a whole lot better to have realistic dreams based on logic and reason.
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The NFL will not be suspending Saints starting defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley for his kick to the back of offensive lineman Alex Boone's helmet in the final minutes of San Francisco's 31-21 victory over New Orleans on Sunday, a person familiar with the situation said. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the league has not announced any punishment and a fine is still possible later in the week. The decision not to suspend Bunkley means he can play when the Saints visit Atlanta on Thursday night. Bunkley was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct and ejected with 1:05 left for kicking Boone after the Saints had blocked a field goal. It was not clear what provoked New Orleans' veteran defensive lineman. He did not speak about it after Sunday's game and was not available to speak with reporters on Monday. ''That's out of character for Brodrick Bunkley. It really is. One of the best people in this building,'' Saints defensive coordinat...
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Chicken In Tomato Rice
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|Diced salt pork
|1⁄2 Pound
|Olive oil/Salad oil
|2 Tablespoon
|Broiler fryer chicken
|3 1⁄2 Pound, cut up
|Chopped onion
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced or pressed
|Tomatoes/1 cup drained canned tomatoes
|2 Large, peeled and cut in to chunks
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Chicken broth
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (Regular Strength)
|Frozen peas/Asparagus tips
|10 Ounce (1 Package)
|To Taste
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In a wide frying pan over medium heat, cook salt pork until well browned; set pork aside and discard drippings.
Add oil to pan and heat.
Add chicken pieces and cook until well browned on all sides.
Set chicken aside; discard all but 2 tablespoons of the drippings.
Add onion and garlic and cook until onion is limp.
Stir in tomatoes, rice, 2 cups of the broth, and browned pork.
Return chicken to pan; cover and cook over low heat for about 45 minutes or until thigh meat is no longer pink when slashed and rice is tender to bite. (Add more broth if needed to prevent sticking.) Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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There are manifold relations of power that permeate, characterize and constitute the social body, and these relations of power cannot themselves be established, consolidated nor implimented without... a discourse. Michel Foucault
THE PROJECT OF RESTORING the road to the middle class is not just a question of ideas, but of assembling and using political power to implement ideas. The goals of this project are substantial. We want to smash the war on religion. We want to break the back of the welfare state monopolies in family-substitution and in education. And we want to curb the imperial judiciarys war on middle-class culture and mores. That is what we need in order to clear the road to the middle class of all the barriers and blockages that have piled up over the twentieth century. But we also want to recognize the needs of the non-middle class: the creatives and the communitarians who want to transcend the simple rules and purpose of the road to the middle class. We want them to get what they want. We just draw the line at replacing the road to the middle class with the mass- transit system of the welfare state that demotes ordinary people from the role of driver into passive passenger.
The war on religion, the creaking monopolies of the welfare state, and the war on conventional middle-class morality did not just happen. We were, as Eeyore complained to Winnie-the-Pooh, Pushed. The war on religion comes from a world-view that sees organized religion as a superstition wedded to the past. The welfare state monopolies are the consequence of elite belief that the root cause of poverty is a lack of material resources needed for a decent life. The attack on conventional morality comes from those who believe that people should create their own authentic life- style rather than blindly follow someone elses rules.
This war on the middle class is all part of a grand, if often inchoate, vision. Necessarily, this grand vision has a program of education to guide people into its ways, and for those that are not amenable to sweet reason there are the instruments of shame and the sinews of power. Those that do not conform to its policy on race are shamed as racists, those that do not support its program of gender equality are shamed as sexists, those that do not support its class war are shamed as classists, and those that do not support its attack on marriage are shamed as homophobes. In addition, of course, the vast monopolies of the welfare state in education, in health care, and in superannuation all support the program with the blunt encouragement of taxation and political power.
The great obstacle to removing the obstructions from the road to the middle class is the narcissism and pride of the worlds creative classes. They experience their culture of creativity and universal compassion as a new world vision that must inevitably replace the primitive regime of power and corruption that has obtained up to now. But the All Quadrant/All Level matrix shows this world-view to be defective. It shows that though the creative classes have developed important ideas and visions of the future they have also built a culture of narcissistic self-congratulation, a Whig history that experiences themselves as the culmination of history. Their worldview rests upon the assertion that the blue purposive consciousness of the bourgeoisie is illegitimate and inauthentic, and a threat to the development of a new culture based on soulfulness and creativity. To say that this attitude is widespread among the creative classes is almost to miss the point. It goes beyond attitude to the level of reality, an unconscious reality that is accepted without question or the need for justification. It is natural for such a believer, even a moral duty, to work to marginalize the middle-class culture of purpose and respectability in the building of the new era of creativity and universal community.
But the AQAL matrix challenges this whole worldview. Against the bigoted marginalization of middle class culture, it naturally calls for a culture of tolerance in the enlightened and the highly evolved, a culture that can respect and tolerate the struggles of those who have not yet reached the high estate of full enlightenment. It specifically warns the creative classes of their error. They must stop persecuting the middle class with their attack on its religion and its respect for the rules. The AQAL matrix demands their tolerance and forbearance, and it is the destiny of the conservative movement to teach our creative elites about tolerance for the ordinary middle class. The conservative destiny is not, perhaps, as grand as the destiny of the liberal elite that, in the middle of the twentieth century, taught white Americans to curb their discrimination against the American Negro. But it is an honorable and worthy task that needs to be done.
But can a strategy of recommending tolerance succeed? Probably not. That is why it is necessary to augment the high road of education with a low road of shame, appealing not just to the better angels of the enlightened, but shaming them into understanding the monstrous acts of exploitation and repression they have committed in the name of compassion and diversity.
We must make it shameful to marginalize religion. Right now, any writer for The New York Times feels free to load up the old coon gun left behind by the Southern racists and fire off both barrels at any traditional religious target her coon dog has treed (except a Moslem). And her shameful feature floats up through the layers of 43rd Street editing to eventual publication without a discouraging word from the famously tolerant cultural elite. We want bigots like her cowering in the same hole as the redneck racists.
We must make it shameful to marginalize people who go to work, follow the rules, pay their taxes and obey the law.
The question is: how? How do we end this monstrous bigotry? The answer is: one bigot at a time. In the 1980s and 1990s the left managed to mount a successful campaign of political correctness that effectively banned, particularly in the university, the expression of opinion with which they disagreed. They made it shameful to express opinions about race, class, gender, and homosexuality with which they disagreed. Their campaign came out of nowhere, rose to power, and now seems to be fading away as conservatives have begun to fight back. We wish to do the same, only we have a very limited agenda and our cause is just. We only wish to make it shameful to marginalize religion. And we already have the means to achieve it. Our conservative blogosphere is already spoiling the acoustics in the liberal echo chamber.
The campaign of shame against the anti-religious bigots will have the three components articulated in this book. Each of the themes is a plea for tolerance. First of all there is the practical advice of Plato, advising his enlightened one to go easy on the prisoners when he returns to the cave. All the talk of walls and fires and sunlight mean nothing to a man chained to the ground, and whose entire reality amounts to the dancing shadows on a wall. If you disturb him too much, he will kill you. This is the argument of prudence. Go easy on the man who doesnt understand your brilliant evolution into enlightenment. If he cant understand your brilliant aperçus he will think you mad. Perhaps he will kill you. Then there is the argument from history. When the bourgeoisie burst onto the world stage in full glory in the nineteenth century, the progressives demanded that the bourgeoisie treat the struggling working class with compassion and understanding. They demanded that the bourgeoisie restrain its power over the working class and tax itself to help them, in education and in social insurance. Whether from a practical instinct for self-preservation or from actual compassion, the bourgeoisie did so. It made allowances for the struggling working class. Today, we make the same demand, only we make the demand of the creative class that they tolerate and subsidize the lower-middle class that is struggling to make it into the middle class. Then there is the argument of Eric Voegelin. He demolishes the traditional opposition of my truth versus your superstition by constructing a worldview that represents old ways as compact knowledge and belief and that understands new ways as differentiated knowledge and belief. Tolerance of other peoples ideas becomes, in Voegelins world, not just patronizing indulgence, but practical common sense. It helps, no doubt, to be a Kantian, and to accept that the world is experienced as appearance only, and that things-in-themselves can never be experienced directly. Finally, there is the argument developed by Clare Graves and his adepts Don Beck and Ken Wilber. They experience human consciousness is a layered or spiral entity. When you develop a higher level of consciousness, you do not replace the lower level; you merely develop the ability to repress the lower level in certain circumstances. They amplify the warning of Freud. If you try to crush out a lower level, they warn, you will not merely suffer from Freudian neurosis; you will regress to the level immediately below the level you have repressed.
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[The Axial Age] highlights the conception of a responsible self... [that] promise[s] man for the first time that he can understand the fundamental structure of reality and through salvation participate actively in it.
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[To make] of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier. — Gen. Hans von Seeckt
MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray, ed., The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050
Civil Societya complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churchesbuilds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists, she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
[T]he Liberal, and still more the subspecies Radical... more than any other in these latter days seems under the impression that so long as he has a good end in view he is warranted in exercising over men all the coercion he is able[.]
Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, Letter to Lord Lytton
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Ripon Unified just added 12 new hires for this school year.
Last month, the City of Ripon saved 8.7 percent in total water consumption based a numbers from a year ago.
There is no homeless population living in Ripon thanks to the Ripon Police Department and the courtesies they extend when locating adult transients entering the community, according to Lt. Steve Merchant.
The City of Ripon could be taking a harder stance on water conservation.
There are several things a freshman should know at Ripon High during the first few days of school.
Eleanor Waters doesn't mind following in the footsteps of her sisters.
After two terms, Ripon Unified school board President Donna Parks will call it a wrap.
The Ripon Animal Shelter is devoted to the caring of lost pets from throughout the community and is seen as a special place when it comes to dropping off unwanted canines where many of them are accepted by traveling rescue operations.
Look for the Ripon Unified school board to approve the Ag Incentive Grant.
It pays to have an older sibling.
Weston School is being torn down this week to make way for new permanent classrooms.
National Night Out is usually about neighborhood watch groups coming together.
The construction of nine new handicap ramps at the intersections along Robert and Vera avenues are expected to get the OK at today's Ripon City Council meeting.
Manteca resident William "Bill" Draa has been at the helm of Ripon public schools for the past year and is eager to keep building an even better education experience.
What's the dress code "dos and don'ts" at Ripon High?
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Five teens - 18 and 19 years old - who robbed Ripona Market at gunpoint last August have been sentenced to multi-year state prison terms.
Graduation at Ripon High is Friday, May 29, at Stouffer Field.
The City of Ripon must reduce its water usage by 36 percent.
The Color the Skies event is being taken over by the Ripon Chamber of Commerce.
Ripon's city-wide cleanup of is half way complete as crews finished with residences on the west side of Highway 99. Next week the city will collect the remaining articles placed in front of homes.
The Ripon Unified teachers will be getting raises next year.
Ripon Unified teachers will soon be getting an 8 percent on-going salary increase.
Jack Tone Golf Course could soon see some improvements.
Road closures are being coordinated by the Ripon Police Department on Saturday for safety purposes during the 5K and the first 1.5 miles of the Half Marathon course of Rina's Run from 7 to 7:50 a.m.
It's been an interesting year for eighth-grade students at Weston Elementary School.
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49 CFR 383.121 - Requirements for hazardous materials endorsement.
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