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United are due to face the Spanish giants at the last-16 stage of the UEFA Champions League stage.
The first leg of that showdown will be staged at Santiago Bernabeu on 13th February, with the countdown to what promises to be an epic encounter well and truly on.
Van Persie is among those counting down the days, with the Holland international itching to be involved in what he claims will be a 'beautiful' meeting of continental heavyweights.
He said: "The match against Madrid is the icing on the cake for every footballer.
"It will be my first game at the Bernabeu, and I'm really looking forward to it.
"It will be a very nice challenge with the group of players we have.
"Manchester United are a big club and being in the last 16 is beautiful even without the prospect of playing Real Madrid."

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Saturday, July 13, 2013
The announcement that Charleston was voted the Top City in the U.S. and Canada in the Travel + Leisure 2013 World's Best Awards survey was made during a live appearance on the TODAY Show this morning by Nilou Motamed, the magazine's features director. The complete results of the 2013 World's Best Awards survey will be featured on TravelandLeisure.com and in the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 19.
This marks the third consecutive year that Charleston has been named the top U.S. travel destination by a leading national magazine. While this is the first time Charleston has appeared in the coveted No. 1 position on the Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards list, the historic seaport city previously earned the top spot in 2011 and 2012 with Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards.
"Visiting the Charleston area is a unique experience for many reasons," says Frank Fredericks, managing director of Wild Dunes Resort and chair of the Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Board of Governors. "From the nationally recognized restaurant scene and exquisitely preserved historic district to the surrounding miles of pristine beaches and barrier island resorts, the Charleston area offers a rare combination of sophistication, living history, natural beauty and world class hospitality. We are delighted to be recognized by readers of Travel + Leisure as a favorite travel destination and want to thank everyone who took the time to vote in this year's World's Best Awards."
In addition to the No. 1 City in the U.S. and Canada ranking, the following six Charleston area hotels received 2013 World's Best Awards.
TOP 100 HOTELS (worldwide):
52. Market Pavilion Hotel
80. Wentworth Mansion
Resorts (40 rooms or more):
27. The Sanctuary Hotel at Kiawah Island Golf Resort
Large Hotels (100 rooms or more):
33. Charleston Place
Small Hotels (Fewer than 100 rooms):
1. Market Pavilion Hotel
3. Wentworth Mansion
4. French Quarter Inn
7. Planters Inn
To celebrate the Charleston's area win, the Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is launching #TakeMeToChs, a year-long sweepstakes that awards trips to the destination with accommodations provided by the six Charleston area hotels, inns, and resorts that appear on the Travel + Leisure 2013 World's Best Awards. The sweepstakes is one component of an extensive advertising campaign that will appear inTravel + Leisure magazine, on Travelandleisure.com, and across Travel + Leisure digital platforms. For contest rules, visit TakeMeToCharleston.com.
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Vydra, one of Watford's loan stars from Italian side Udinese, beat off competition from Ince and Crystal Palace forward Glenn Murray at a ceremony in London.
Vydra has scored 20 goals this season to spearhead the Hornets' bid for promotion under Gianfranco Zola.
Murray missed out on the award despite notching 29 goals so far this term, a return which put him second only to Lionel Messi in Europe's top leagues.
Ince was able to celebrate, however, after being named the Johnstone's Paint Young Player of the Year.
The 21-year-old, now managed by his father Paul, has hit 18 goals despite Blackpool's struggles this season.
Ince pipped Vydra and last year's winner, Crystal Palace's Manchester United-bound winger Wilfried Zaha.
He said: "It's been a whirlwind 18 months for me. It's been fantastic. I left Liverpool to get games in the Championship and I'm enjoying it at Blackpool.
"It's a proud moment for me and my family."
Nottingham Forest striker Simon Cox's goal against Birmingham City back in September was voted the Goal of the Year.
Cox produced a deft touch to bring Lewis McGugan's floated pass under control before producing a superb finish to lift a volley over keeper Jack Butland.
It was a double win for Forest as goalkeeper Dimitar Evtimov, who is yet to make his first-team debut, took home the Apprentice of the Year award for the Championship.
The Bulgarian saw off competition from Duane Holmes of Huddersfield Town and Watford's Bernard Mensah to claim the prize.
The prize for the Family Club of the Year went the way of a Championship club as current leaders Cardiff City were rewarded with the honour, while Charlton Athletic were named the Community Club of the Year.
Brighton & Hove Albion full-back Inigo Calderon was named the PFA Player in the Community, while Billy Neil of Millwall was the Unsung Hero award winner.
The League One award went to Matt Ritchie, who started the season with Swindon before moving to their promotion rivals Bournemouth in January, with Port Vale's 25-goal striker Tom Pope collecting the League Two gong.
Bradford boss Phil Parkinson was rewarded for his unfancied side's remarkable run to the Capital One Cup final with the Outstanding Managerial Achievement award.
He said: "I'm very honoured to receive this award. My name might be on it but it is a team award. Not just the team on the pitch but the team off it as well."
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5 Things to Know About Merritt Wever, the Emmy Winner Who Gave the Best Speech Ever
"Nurse Jackie" star Merritt Wever charmed millions of people around the world when she gave what was instantly hailed as the best Emmys acceptance speech ever.
A huge underdog, Wever stunned — and delighted — pundits by winning the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series over favorites Julie Bowen ("Modern Family"), Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family"), Jane Krakowski ("30 Rock"), and Mayim Bialik ("Big Bang Theory").
[Related: Was Merritt Wever's Emmys Acceptance Speech the Shortest in History?]
Nervous and flustered, Wever stammered, "Thank you so very much. Um, I gotta go. Bye." Then, she fled the stage, to hearty applause.
While her win was a surprise, it was a pleasant surprise. Wever is a veteran working actress with credits in both TV and film, and she gives a lovable, heartwarming performance on "Nurse Jackie."
See Wever on "Nurse Jackie":
Still, the Emmys audience can be forgiven if Wever's win made them wonder, "Who's that?" After all, "Nurse Jackie" is on Showtime, not on network TV, and averages only around 3 million viewers. So, we've got a handy little guide to this year's Emmys darling:1. She Was Raised by Her Mom
Wever — whose real first name is Siobhán — was conceived with a sperm donor!2. You've Probably Seen Her Before
While Wever isn't a household name (yet), she's been around the acting block. Recently, she's romanced Schmidt on Fox's "New Girl." And before that, she was Matthew Perry's assistant on NBC's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." She's also had small roles in Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture," "Greenberg," "Michael Clayton," and "Signs."
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Spending a good portion of your early twenties in pseudo poverty was once a rite of passage, but for those Millennials whose pockets are currently empty, it seems less like a temporary college era phenomenon and more like a new financial reality. And this lack of buying power has retailers running scared.
As William Hawk writes in the 2011 Consumer Expenditure Survey Anthology, "compared with average U.S. consumer units, those headed by persons 25 years or younger earn lower incomes, are less likely to own a home or a car, and spend less on food, gifts, health care, and retirement plans. They are also more likely to rent a home and spend more on education and alcohol." And that spending on education is a major contributor to the debt burden faced by many Millennials. According to recent survey data from a PNC Financial Services, the average member of Gen Y carries $45 000 in debt, with student debt being the most common form. Add to that an employment rate for 18 – 24 year-olds that hovers only slightly above 50% and a majority of the Millennial population (or at least the female half) claiming that they've delayed major purchases and life changes because of the recession and you have the making of one toxic target market.
And retailers have taken notice. Or at least those who analyze retailers have, with Bloomberg recently quoting from a report by WSL Strategic Retail that documents how the fortunes of retailers such as Gap, Urban Outfitters and Aeropostale have been suffering in light of decreased consumer spending by twentysomethings and cautions these retailers and others in their shoes about aiming their marketing campaigns at a cohort that currently lacks spending power. The report's authors also warn that a generation of potential consumers who are unwilling or unable to spend will eventually hurt higher-end retailers – those who can't afford Gap prices today are unlikely to be able to trade up to Neiman Marcus (or even Banana Republic) anytime soon.
Indeed, according to research from Yale cited in The Atlantic, those who graduate and land their first jobs during a recession tend to earn less than their peers who graduate during better economic times – a wage gap that still persists almost two decades after college graduation. As well, with Gen Y's tendency toward brand loyalty – 70% of those surveyed by Edelman Digital claimed that they stick with brands they've become accustomed to – weaning them from entrenched lower-end options over the long-term may be an uphill battle for those offering luxury products and services.
And even if Millennials did have cash to flash, there is no guarantee it would translate to bigger bottom lines for retailers. Not only do 37% of Millennials claim to distrust big business according to survey data, but the nature of the shopping experience sought by twentysomethings – sensory, shareable and less about finding a deal than participating in a social event – favors browsing over buying and those niche retailers that are able to create unique, immersive buying environments. That's hardly the forte of the chain store. As well, 40% of Gen Y participants in the aforementioned Edelman Digital study claimed a preference for buying local, even if these goods or services were more expensive than mass-market alternatives. Add into the mix a youthful penchant for purchase history as a form of personal expression and you have an outlook that favors putting precious disposable income toward a one-of-a-kind dress from the boutique on the corner vs. khakis from the mall.
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I learned that Mother met Daddy-O on a blind double date when they were teenagers... except, my dad wasn't the guy she was set up with that night!
I learned that Sister is the person that makes her Mister laugh the hardest. How awesome is that?!?
I learned that my Daddy-O has a coin collection that is his most prized possession. I totally would have raided that for laundry money in college :-)
I learned that Honey's biggest disappointment was the baby we didn't have. It meant a whole lot to hear him say that without a moment hesitation... even so many years and one more beautiful son later.
Here is the list I used:
What was the home and the neighborhood you grew up in like?
And if you'd just like to print and cut...download them here:
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We will definitely be pulling the bowl back out in, ohhhhh say nine short days!
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I know many stories circulate on the Internet—and especially on Facebook—but a story I was shown a few days ago concerning a doctor and his views on Medicaid really did not set well with me.
The doctor tells a story of treating a woman who comes into the emergency room "adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive pair of tennis shoes, and who chatted on a new cellular telephone." Even with all of these amenities, the woman's payer status was listed as Medicaid.
Based on other stories on the Internet, and other debates you may have heard on the topic, the doctor went into an obvious tirade over having to pay for her or anyone else's medical bills with his tax money when she could and should foot that bill herself.
Even though I never take any stories like this seriously, I was really irked by the message the reader was left with. That a doctor, who is obviously a professional for such a topic as this, would be enraged at the thought that anyone should have to pay for anyone else's medical bills, solely based on one over-dressed patient.
This woman was maybe one in possibly hundreds of patients the doctor sees on a nightly basis, yet he bases his opinion of every Medicaid recipient on one experience.
According to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the total number of eligible Medicaid recipients for the 2011 fiscal year was 822,950.
I know this is an argument that has been heatedly debated all over the county, state, and country, with the same points being made as what the doctor in the story made.
However, I think it is extremely easy for those of us that have a comfortable life to assume the only people who ask for government help are those that really don't need it. I know of so many more families who are unable to find enough work, or jobs that pay well enough, for them to live on what they earn alone.
Families and individuals need help so that they don't have to choose whether to buy food or buy their heart medicine prescription. Of course there are cases like the woman in the story, but there are so many more people who actually need the help they receive.
I don't know about you, but if I have to pay for someone to receive health care, I would rather spend a small fraction of what I make so some child can have food, or some elderly person won't have to take a chance without their blood pressure medicine because they didn't want to go without heat in 30 degree weather.


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the official tattoos thread!
Post: #1
the official tattoos thread!
i'm not sure if this is allowed here exactly, but i'm sure there has to be at least a couple of people that is as passionate about tattoos as i am!
here's just a thread where we can talk about tattoos in general, show the the tattoos that we have/the ones we want to get etc!
i hope this allowed and such! :) happy posting!
i like that you're a mess, that's what makes you real
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RE: the official tattoos thread!
Of course tattoo threads are allowed :]
Personally I don't have any tattoos but not because I'm against them, just cause I would want it to be something I was sure I wanted.
How does everyone feel about placement of tattoos? Do you think it's okay to have a tattoo on certain body parts or should it be hidden and classy?
I find this kinda funny but sadly it does apply to some. Obviously not all but some. http://current.com/entertainment/comedy/...ut-you.htm
I think this is so cute. I love Dumbo
10-15-2012, 08:54 PM (This post was last modified: 10-15-2012 08:55 PM by BEE..)
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RE: the official tattoos thread!
I'm half and half with tattoos. I only like them if they're not tacky and actually mean something.
I don't know if I myself would get one. I have been wondering about it for a while though. IF I did then It would be something small to do with my starsign, Scorpio. Something like this:
I love being a scorpio, haha
There are some really cool tattoos out there though.
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RE: the official tattoos thread!
oh that's awesome! it looks really nice too.
and yeah, i've always been someone who has loved body modifications--i should clarify that i don't love ALL of them, but most of them i can understand why someone would go through with it. maybe because i understand not being completely happy with your body (and wanting to add to it, this is going to sound super hippy but i like thinking that the body is a blank canvas and is yours to play around with). tattoos have always resonated deep within me.
i have two tattoos and i'm going to get two more (hopefully) within the next few weeks!
here are the tattoos that i have:
ambivalence (n):
1. uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
Psychology . the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.
i got this tattoo for a couple of reasons, actually! the first is because i'm a very indecisive person. i'm hot and cold all of the time. my moods fluctuate greatly and i have a really hard time making huge decisions. i also got it because of it's roots with psychology, and psychology will always be something that means a whole great deal to me, and the definition of the word through psychology is something i can relate to, as well (loving or hating something at the same time, being drawn in different directions, etc etc). also, it's a literary tattoo! literature has always meant more than i could ever explain to me, and i'm so so so happy to have it inked on my skin :)
this is the tattoo that a lot of people don't get! many of my idiotic classmates thought i got it to cheat on the sats or acts, but it means a great deal to me.
here's my second:
excuse the horrible picture, i got this taken about 2 hours after i'd gotten it so my wrist was still swollen and all of that good stuff.
this tattoo makes many people think i'm addicted to drugs (i'm not, i promise!) but it has a deeper meaning. there are two "chemicals" here, serotonin and dopamine. they mean happiness to me. i've suffered from depression for almost five years now and to mark a milestone with getting farther in therapy, i decided to award myself with a tattoo :)
this one will have more meaning than i could ever put into words. the tattoo is a little messed up, but i'm going to get it touched up when i go get my newest tattoos (hopefully)
i'll put the tattoos i want in a separate post, just so this one isn't so long. sorry for all of my rambling! :x
i like that you're a mess, that's what makes you real
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RE: the official tattoos thread!
(10-15-2012 07:05 PM)Stephanie Wrote: Of course tattoo threads are allowed :]
I feel really dumb because I didn't see this post until now!
and yeah, I understand that feeling. personally though, i'll never regret any of the tattoos i have/will get because at one point in life they were something that i wanted and thought hard about and they'll always mean something to me! but that's just my opinion :)
and as far as tattoo placement goes, i'm one of those people that for the life of me cannot understand why tattoos are still viewed as something horrible in some parts of the world--even here, still. i think it's absolutely ridiculous to overlook someone's qualifications in life simply because they've chosen to permanently ink their skin. i don't think tattoos should be hidden because i think they're beautiful and showcase a story (okay, maybe not all tattoos, because there are just some tattoos i will never understand why someone chose to get on their body, but i don't have to understand it because it's not mine, you know?). i know my views are pretty liberal, lol, but i guess i just can't help it.
i'm about to go off in a rant, but personally, it's like everything else: it's your body, do what you want with it. if you want to get covered in tattoos i say let no one stop you, because your opinion is the only one that matters. if you don't want to get inked, then that's your derogative, you know?
the fact that tattoos are still such a controversy in 2012 will never cease to amaze me :P
sorry, i just ranted about tattoos! haha, but i kind of can't help myself. and that dumbo tattoo is adorable!
and also, as regards to the placement picture, as long as the tattoo isn't offensive--but let's be real, taking offense is relative and i've found even the most innocent tattoo is going to offend someone for the sake of that person getting offended, does that make sense? aha--i don't think it should matter where the tattoo is placed. it goes back to the whole 'not judging a person by aesthetic appearances--especially on the job spectrum. a person can be qualified and educated but will be overlooked simply because of their tattoos. that enrages me!
okay i'm done ranting now haha sorry D:
i like that you're a mess, that's what makes you real
10-17-2012, 01:21 PM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2012 01:23 PM by Stephanie.)
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RE: the official tattoos thread!
(10-17-2012 08:24 AM)benjiwyatt Wrote:(10-15-2012 07:05 PM)Stephanie Wrote: Of course tattoo threads are allowed :]
No I totally get your point. I just wanted to see what other people thought. I personally wouldn't want one like lets say on my face or some place like my stomach because your skin changes and especially after kids it's bound to look different. I always laugh at the joke that a girl gets a mermaid tattoo and by the time she's had her 3 kids it looks like Miss Piggy haha. Like you said though, it's a personal choice. If some guy has his face all inked up will I be shocked for a minute? Sure but it's that person's body and if it makes them happy and they are still a cool person on the inside then I don't think it's for me to judge. Now if that person is a jerk, they could have My Little Pony on their arm and I'd still find a reason to hate on their tattoo but that's a different story and not about the tattoo ....it would be the person lol.
I actually don't think tattoos are bad. I know a LOT of people with them and they aren't odd in any way shape or form but there is always those nasty jailbirds that will forever ruin the idea behind tattoos. I've actually considered it but I just can't think of anything I'd want and the thought of a needle scares me not to mention if you do, you can't give blood for a year...well actually you can if it's within the US you got the tattoo. Either way....not an important reason but still I'm rambling
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Apple testing a smaller 8-inch iPad according to The Wall Street Journal
Apple is testing an 8-inch iPad according to a report in the WSJ. Apparently Apple is working with component suppliers in Asia to test out a new size iPad with a smaller screen. According to the report, Apple wants to broaden its product pipeline to maintain its dominant position in the tablet market.
Officials at some of Apple's suppliers, who declined to be named, said the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has shown them screen designs for a new device with a screen size of around 8-inches, and said it is qualifying suppliers for it. Apple's latest tablet, the iPad 2, comes with a 9.7-inch screen. One person said the smaller device will have a similar resolution screen as the iPad 2. Apple is working with screen makers including Taiwan-based AU Optronics Co. and LG Display Co. of South Korea to supply the test panels, the person said.
Apple has always stated that tablet devices with smaller screens than the iPad would not deliver the same experience for its users. However the fact that Apple is now testing smaller sized iPad devices should not really come as that much of a surprise. We are sure Apple tests all sizes of screens for its devices but that does not mean any of them will actually be released. On the other hand, Apple may be looking into releasing a cheaper model iPad to enhance its appeal to those on a budget.
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Apple testing a smaller 8-inch iPad according to The Wall Street Journal
The new iPod Touch?
Nooooo! 8" is not a big enough size difference! I need a 7" iPad that will actually fit in some jacket pockets!!! 8" is way too close to the normal iPad size! :(
Yeah right. It'll propel them further. How could releasing a budget iPad end apple? They are the most profitable organization in the world.
I really don't understand the use of these in-between multiple size products. I don't see how an 8 inch iPad would have any advantages to the 9.7 inch. It wouldn't be that much more portable. They need to just stick to one size for tablet and one size for phone. If anything call the iPod touch the iPad Mini.
Steve Jobs turns over in his grave...
SHUT UP WITH THE FRICKIN 7-8 inch CRAP FOR THE LAST TIME! WHAT A WASTE OF TIME
Chill out people, it's not going to happen.
I cant see Apple making a "budget model" of anything. They focus purely on the experience a person gains from the device.
your right of Apple not making a budget model.. but thats because they purely want to take our money. Everyone thought that there were going to be 2 iphones released last year which was an iphone4s for the lower budget people and the iphone 5 for those who can afford the higher class phone. Apple played it smart to release only the 4s as they knew everyone would end up buying it. if they released both then no one would have bought the 4s..all in all Apple knows how to play with gullible consumers and whatever they put out, people will buy it no matter what.
stopped reading at 'your'
iPhone 6 : 4.3'
iPad 3 : 10'
New iPod touch : 7-8' screen
There is no smaller iPad and if you want a budget iPad, you can go buy a 1st gen iPad and the ipad2 after the iPad 3 is released. I'm so sick of these stupid smaller iPad rumors. News and blog sites should dismiss them until cold hard proof has been released.
I could see a 5-7" "ipads" coming from Apple. They'd probably name it their apple tv or iReader or something else though.
Apple said a tablet experience wouldn't be great less than 10". They didn't say anything about video or reading. Plus there's rumors of them trying out different resolutions, iTV rumors which would need a remote, etc.
Apple went pretty heavy into iBooks, it'd be silly not to have a book sized reader.
quad-core CPU, 8 inch screen, LTE data?
battery life probably between 20 to 30 minutes....
I'll stick with my 16gb Wifi iPad2 thank you very much.
I know its all rumor, nothing based on fact but quad core, come on really!
I couldn't agree more.
I honestly don't see the point of an 8in tablet. I see the appeal to a 7 in but 8 is just to close to really make a huge difference. I can't see this possibly being true.
It actually more likely to be 7.3"w x 6.5"h
because it's not based upon rumors... the details are here: http://memoryleaked.com/2012/02/13/ipadhybrid/
When I see people on the subway playing with their damn near 10 inch iPad I just think of how much of a over kill it is. To me it's not 100% portable as a phone or a kindle and quite honestly I fear theft.
Apple usually shoots down ideas but end up doing exactly what they said they couldn't or something similar so I wouldn't be surprised.
Price point : between high end iPhone 4 and low end iPad 2.
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Valma Shepherd Sturgill looked forward to family reunions. They were a joy to her as she anticipated reuniting with relatives whom she had not seen for some time. On Saturday, January 18, 2013 she departed this life for her greatest family reunion
Valma was born in Surry County in 1920 to Joseph Hardin and Mary Caroline Stonestreet. She grew up on a farm in State Road, NC with her six brothers and five sisters. At home, she learned the skills necessary to live during that time; cooking, preserving, sewing and gardening to name a few. She attended Mountain Park Schools and while there, she played basketball for the school team. After school, she continued her education by reading and taking classes. She married Wilburn Shepherd in 1942 and reared four children. She and Wilburn were longtime residents of Elkin.
Her fondest memories were seeing her children for the first time, watching them grow up and seeing them enjoy their school days. She also loved summer vacations, seeing us taking part in Girl and Boy Scouts (especially Jim when he was at Raven Knob), our dates, cheerleading, participating in sports, going to proms, getting married and having children and grandchildren. She smiled through most of it, being a "burr" under our saddle when we needed it, and always encouraging us to behave properly and to "remember who we are". Her grandson, Wil, once said that his "Grandmother manners" had been a great help to him throughout his life. And so it is for us all.
In 1977 Valma lost her husband, the love of her life. She found courage and went on, fell in love and married Steve Sturgill in 1983. She and Steve merged families and created more happy memories with many family events and their travels to places they had always dreamed of going. In 1995, Valma lost her daughter, Martha Anne Shepherd Lusk, to breast cancer. She managed to get through that and she and Steve had twenty-one wonderful years together living part of the time in Elkin and part of the time in Ashe County. After Steve died, she had quite a few years of life by herself during which she lost a step-son, Steve Sturgill.
She enriched her life by being a member of The Golden Friends Women's Group, the Elkin Garden Club, Jonathan Hunt Chapter of DAR, the Elkin Women's Club and the Grassy Creek Homemakers Club. She also was a Brownie and Girl Scout leader for many years, affecting the lives of quite a few young girls.
Surviving are her daughters Lynn Shepherd-Bolls of Elkin and Jane Shepherd Eaton (Butch) of Winston-Salem; her son, Jim Shepherd (Mary) of Elkin; a step-daughter, Pat Croson of Manassas, VA; a step-son, George Sturgill of Aldie, VA. Also surviving are her nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
A visitation will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church Chapel with a memorial service following at 3:00 p.m. A private burial will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to honor Valma may be made to the charity of the donor's choice or as follows: First Baptist Church General Fund, 110 Gwyn Avenue, Elkin, NC 28621; Jonathan Hunt Chapter of DAR, c/o Ann Merlo, 773 Brookwood Drive, Elkin, NC 28621; Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont, Inc., 8818 W. Market Street, Colfax, NC 27235-9419.
The family would like to thank family members, Church family and friends who visited, provided special treats, and sent flowers and cards to Valma while she was at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Your thoughtfulness and love will not be forgotten. We would also like to thank the staff at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center for their tender care and concern. The staff of Mountain Valley Hospice provided loving care to Valma and her family during the end stage of her life. For that, we are eternally grateful.
Online condolences may be made at www.johnson-funeral.com
Johnson Funeral Home assisted the family of Mrs. Sturgill.


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Cisco To Partners: Are You Ready For The Mobile Onslaught?By 2019, there will be 5.2 billion people using mobile devices and 11.5 billion mobile connections, according to Cisco's latest forecast. And that spells opportunity for partners.
5 Takeaways From Juniper's New Partner ProgramJuniper Networks channel executive Matt Hurley breaks down Juniper's recently revamped partner program and what solution providers need to know.
Meraki Founders Say Bye-Bye To CiscoThe three founders of Meraki have called it quits at Cisco two years after their company was acquired by the networking giant.
Obama's Internet Fight Can Lead To VAR OpportunityVARs and vendors tell CRN the potential in allowing towns and cities to launch their own Internet service will open up a new market for solution providers.
Juniper Outlines New Partnering For Business Growth ProgramJuniper executives tell CRN that the company has streamlined its previous programs into one and is boosting incentives and MDF.
Aspenta Seeking Partners For Internet Of ThingsAspenta is actively searching for solution providers to implement its connected devices and machine-to-machine technologies.
Level 3 Geared Up To Deliver Super Bowl To A TV Near YouLevel 3 Communications will be under the spotlight Sunday as it will provide broadcast video services for the Super Bowl for the 26th year.
VAR Zones Taps Into IoT MarketStephen Lurie of Zones Inc., No. 31 on CRN's SP500 list, tells CRN how they are already capitalizing on the IoT market.
Cisco Exec: How Partners Can Prepare For IoTAndres Sintes, Cisco's Senior Director of Worldwide Partner Organization - Enterprise Networking and IoT/IoE Solutions, tells CRN how companies can start preparing themselves for the IoT/IoE world.
Cisco Beefs Up Meraki With New Cloud-Based Management, Now Pitching It To EnterprisesCisco showed off the work it's been doing to remake Meraki from an SMB-focused technology into one capable of managing enterprises.
Gigamon Takes Partner Program To Next LevelNetwork visibility specialist Gigamon's new program aims to help partners tap into what the company is expecting to be a $2 billion market by 2016.
Juniper Takes Security Business Charge, Posts $769.6 Million Q4 LossNew CEO Rami Rahim says Juniper is 'pivoting away' from point security products toward 'integrated solutions across switching, routing and security.'
Aeris Sets Up Recurring IoT Revenue For Channel With New Partner ProgramNeo Affiliate Program to open up sales of its services to partners such as solution providers, distributors and IoT/M2M device manufacturers.
SDN Startup Pluribus Nabs $95 Million In FundingSolution providers take note of the huge amount of money flowing into SDN startups, with one saying the Pluribus investment was due to its 'software-defined everything' approach.
Juniper Revamps Partner Program, Teases New Product LineupAt Juniper's Ideas/Connect event this week, the company talks up new products and a streamlined partner program. Partners in attendance say things are heading in the right direction.
Aerohive Offering Targets The Next Generation Of RetailNew 'Personalized Engagement Ecosystem' integrates solutions from eight vendors, giving Aerohive partners a way to help manage IT-strapped retail environments.
CenturyLink Outlines Plans For New Services, New Platform Based On SDN, NFVThe company's new Platform CenturyLink and a new programmable services backbone based on software-defined networking, network functions virtualization and other virtualization technologies will let it provide and automate ever more services going forward.
New Vology President Eyeing Acquisition Targets, GrowthJohn O'Shea tells CRN that Vology is aggressively looking at acquisition targets in Texas, California, Florida and the New York Tri-state area.
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Grey's Anatomy Spoilers: What Happens in Season 9, Episode 16: "This Is Why We Fight"?
The hospital may be facing its most dire hour yet on Grey's Anatomy Season 9, and based on the newly released episode synopsis of Season 9, Episode 16: "This Is Why We Fight" (February 21), things will get worse before they (hopefully) get better.
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Seattle Grace-Mercy West's financial troubles are still going strong, and "word spreads" this episode. As a result, Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) "encourages Jackson [Jesse Williams] to move to Boston, and the interns fear they might lose their jobs."
"Meanwhile, the doctors meet with a potential investor in a last-ditch effort to save the hospital." We hope it works!
In slightly less depressing news, "Alex [Justin Chambers] impresses Jo (Camilla Luddington) while caring for a patient." Hmmm ... this is the second week in a row they work closely on a medical case. Romance in the air?
Do you like the sound of this episode? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Catch the next new episode of Grey's Anatomy on Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
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Gobry claims, with dubious evidence, that the French economy is on a precipice, and that if it fails the world will fail, and so France must reform. His preferred reforms are your standard neoliberal boilerplate, which has the usual dissonant logic going-- the US economy is on a precipice, and the US has pursued the neoliberal agenda for 30 years. Remember, though, that elites have decided that neoliberalism can never fail, and so there is no reason for concern. Three decades of committed deregulation and capture of our government by rapacious plutocrats and our economy being brought to the verge of total destruction have nothing to do with each other. Let's mimic the policies that have destroyed working conditions for the American people, created spiraling inequality, gutted our regulatory infrastructure, and handed more and more power to the richest few.
But this agenda would be deeply unpopular with the French people. Gobry himself acknowledges this. So what to do? Compromise? Do the hard work of advancing a position politically? Or, heaven forbid, accept that not everyone in the world is on board with the neoliberal platform, and stop acting as if the opinion of policy elites should be enough to counteract the will of the people.
Gobry picks a different option: literal fascism. Think I exaggerate? Look and be amazed. He wants Sarkozy to pass new regulatory and tax schemes "by decree" and to use the emergency wartime powers most countries have to enforce them. Yes, he wants to be able to institute martial law in order to force the neoliberal policy platform onto an unwilling populace.
Now, I ask you: can you imagine if some leftist advocated a similar thing? Can you imagine the reaction? The backlash? This isn't somebody noodling on a Blogger blog like me. This is a guy at Business Insider, a mainstream, professional publication. He's calling for military takeover to force the people to adopt the policies he wants. If someone advocated doing this in a professional publication in order to pass a carbon tax or single payer health care, I can't even imagine the reaction. Liberal bloggers would be leaping to distance themselves from such a statement. Every conservative would crawl out of the woodwork to say that this is how all liberals secretly think. It would be pandemonium.
This should be disqualifying for taking Gobry seriously, but I imagine it won't do any damage to his reputation at all.
Think about how the blogosphere creates insiders and punishes those who don't play the game. Look at Glenn Greenwald. Everybody acknowledges his work as prominent and important. But most in the Cool Kid Club talk about Greenwald as if he's some tiring fact of life to be ignored if possible and argued with only as a last resort. I'm hardly a blogging insider but even I know how much most liberal bloggers grumble about him privately. Why? Because he keeps bringing up politically inconvenient realities; because he isn't afraid to talk about morality and character; because he doesn't pretend that politics is a game; because he calls people on their petty hypocrisies. He violates the code. That's enough to earn him a lot of derision.
Well, here we have somebody who is advocating the use of emergency military powers to suppress democracy. Will people react to that? Or does the fact that Gobry is pushing the elite line mean that they won't condemn him at all? Gobry says "We find themselves in the same position today: what is desperately needed is decisive action and a wholesale abandonment of old, discredited ideas, in this case austerity." Actually, in this case, the "discredited idea" is democracy.
This sort of talk should scare you, but it's actually not that far out of the mainstream. Gobry is taking this to an extreme, but it's an extreme derived from the logical progression of neoliberal ideas. One of the things that makes neoliberals so creepy is that they always, always talk as if their ideas are agreed to by everyone when in fact they are and always have been resisted. Consensus and democracy have nothing to do with each other. Dissent is the life blood of democracy. But everywhere, always, neoliberals of all three flavors (called progressives, libertarians, and conservatives here in this country) insist that There Is No Alternative. You can see this attitude play out in the enforcement of the neoliberal agenda in the second and third world, where countries face coercion and violent reprisals from the first world nations if they don't get in line. You can see it in the struggle of indigenous people, like with the Zapatistas, who rose up against globalization and were swiftly branded terrorists. And you can see it in the way a small, elite group of bloggers, totally disconnected from the day to day lives of average Americans, assert the privilege of their access and their affluence and refuse to countenance contrary opinion.
As I am someone who believes that words have meanings and am not afraid to use them, I will say that this post (published at Business Insider!) is Gobry coming out as a totalitarian. But in a deeper sense, he's just taking the neoliberal attitude towards dissent to its logical conclusions.
Update: I sense I'm not being very articulate in the connection I'm trying to make here, so let me be more clear. I'm not the discourse police and my point isn't at all that PEG should, I don't know, get fired from Business Insider or something. I'm just saying that I'm consistently amazed by what does and does not get people put on the blogosphere shit list.
The point about Greenwald is that he's a guy who has undertaken a project I once thought any politically minded person would endorse, protecting civil liberties, and yet gets a lot of flak constantly. Here you have someone arguing for using emergency wartime powers to pass a set of laws and policies that many citizens would resist. That's pretty extreme! Yet I doubt that there will be any fuss about it at all.
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Not to be too charitable to PEG, but if you actually RTFC, Article 16 is not about martial law and commandos storming the IRS (or whatever it is in France) - english translation here: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/english/8ab.asp
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After a strong start, Google+ could have lost its momentum, at least if we are to believe ComScore's numbers. "According to comScore, Google+ users averaged only three minutes on the site during January, a pittance compared to Facebook's average of 405 minutes per visitor."
That's a really low number, but I'm not sure it's accurate. Google+ is not a separate service like Google Finance or Google Scholar, it's the social fabric from many Google products. Below Google's navigation bar, there's always a share box and a notification button that lets you read comments and post your replies without visiting Google+. Google's search results include pages shared by your Google+ circles, YouTube's homepages shows videos shared by the people you follow in Google+ and many pages have +1 buttons. You're using Google+ even you're not visiting plus.google.com and that's because Google+ is an upgrade, not a new product.
"This is just the next version of Google. Everything is being upgraded. We already have users. We're now upgrading them to what we consider Google 2.0," says Vic Gundotra, Google VP.
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It all comes down to this.
It's very simple.
Win and they are in.
Lose and they are out.
If the Logan High School football team wins on Friday night at Scott in the regular season finale the Wildcats will be punching their ticket to the Class AAA playoffs.
If the Wildcats lose the season will most likely be over.
Logan (6-3), which lost 41-14 on the road at Hurricane last Friday night, is tied for 19th in the state with Parkersburg South in this week's rankings.
In order to make it to the Class AAA playoffs, Logan must beat the Skyhawks to have a shot at breaking into the top 16.
Class AA No. 6 Scott (7-2) enters Friday night's game off last week's 23-0 defeat at home to Robert C. Byrd.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Scott High School football field in Madison.
Logan coach Gary Mullins and the Wildcats are hoping to make it to the playoffs for the fifth time in the last nine years. He has led the Wildcats to playoff appearances in 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
The Wildcats haven't had much success over the years against Scott on the gridiron.
In fact, Logan is just 2-7 against the Skyhawks dating back to 2000.
Last season was a case in point with the Wildcats' struggles against Scott.
Heading into the home game with the Skyhawks in the regular season finale, Logan was 8-1 and was the favorite against Scott. The Skyhawks, however, torched the Wildcats 38-7.
The loss didn't knock Logan out of the Class AAA playoffs and didn't prevent the Cats from finishing in the top eight and hosting a first-round playoff game.
It still stung, however, and the Cats hope things are different this time.
Scott is also stinging as the Skyhawks are coming off a shutout loss at home to the RCB Eagles.
Cam Loftus ran 12 times for 57 yards to lead the Skyhawks. Scott was limited to six first downs and 112 net yards.
Iziah Hill caught three TD passes from Aaron Taylor to lead Robert C. Byrd. Taylor connected on 8-of-12 passes for 164 yards, with Hill catching four of those for 98 yards, including TD grabs of 6, 74 and 6 yards. Ben D'Annunzio added 154 yards rushing on 23 carries for the Eagles, which closed out the regular season with a 9-1 mark.
Scott, a Cardinal Conference team, opened the season with six straight wins — victories over Tolsia (28-6), Lincoln County (53-20), Chapmanville (40-21), Sissonville (27-18), Poca (35-6) and Westside (37-12).
Then in Week 7, Scott hosted the No. 1-ranked Wayne Pioneers and were no match for the defending Class AA state champions as the Skyhawks were soundly beaten 47-6.
Scott then bounced back with a 40-7 win at Herbert Hoover on Oct. 12 before observing an open date on Oct. 19 and losing to RCB last Friday night.
Logan's only two wins over Scott in the last 10 years were a 2010 victory by a 41-6 score and the 2005 game which ended up with the Cats coming out on top 15-12 in a memorable LHS homecoming game win.
The 2010 game was played in the rain on a muddy Madison field.
Field conditions shouldn't be a problem this time as Scott placed down a new Field Turf surface last season. Logan played on it in August of 2011 during a preseason game at Scott. This is Logan's first regular season game at Scott on the new artificial surface.
The Man Middle School football team just played on Scott's carpet last Saturday afternoon and defeated Madison Middle School 28-20 in the Black Diamond Conference championship game.
Logan played on Field Turf last week at Hurricane.
With all of the rain and snow this week due to the remnants and outer bands of Superstorm Sandy Friday night's game would have most certainly been played on poor, muddy and wet conditions had it been on grass. Up to six inches of snow fell on the Logan area late on Monday night and into Tuesday.
Conditions are expected to improve by Friday with high temperatures expected to reach 45 in the Madison area. The lows, however, will drop to an ice cold 28 degrees.
The snow, of course, will have to be swept off of Scott's Field Turf is it does not melt this week.
In last week's game at Hurricane, the Redskins returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and led Logan 20-7 after one quarter and 27-7 at the half.
The Redskins then got a break to open up the third quarter as Zach Pate intercepted Logan quarterback Chris Marcum and ran all the way to the Wildcat 3-yard line.
Four plays later, on a fourth-and-goal play, it was Zach Cooper who plunged in from 1-yard out with two minutes to go in the third quarter. The extra point kick was good and Hurricane led 34-7.
Logan came back in the fourth quarter with a 20-yard touchdown run by Brynden "Worm" Street with 11:52 to go in the game. Brian Craft's PAT was good as the Wildcats cut it to 34-14. The score was set up by a 45-yard kickoff return by Khaleel Reynolds.
Logan then went for an on-side kick but Hurricane recovered the ball and was in the end zone again as Steven Handley raced 67 yards for a touchdown with 4:30 left in the game. The extra point kick was good and the Redskins led 41-14 to finish out the scoring.
Series since 2000:
2011: Scott 38, Logan 7
2010: Logan 41, Scott 6
2009: Scott 13, Logan 6
2008: Scott 25, Logan 14
2007: Scott 40, Logan 21
2006: Scott 57, Logan 25
2005: Logan 15, Scott 12
2004: Scott 20, Logan 12
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Secrets To Performing Magic Tricks For Beginners
Posted by: Peter on Nov 27, 2011
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Many common magic tricks are easy to learn and only require common items such as matchboxes, cloths and coins to perform successfully. The most common tricks are playing card and coin tricks which are both a good way to practice technical and audience distraction skills.
Card tricks are one of the oldest forms of conjuring and perhaps the best introduction to learning magic tricks and performance for beginners. Whilst you can buy special card kits and find free magic tricks online, you should start out with a normal deck of playing cards and learn specific card magic techniques that don't rely on props.
Start small and practice, practice, practice
Some magic tricks can be complicated and take months to perfect the illusion of reality. As a beginner or novice it's important to start small with more simple tricks that require far less practice and patience. You'll get results faster, gain confidence and experience the rush and delight of being a magician for the first time.
The most basic magic tricks can still be impressive without requiring expert skills but it's important to practice as often as possible. The legendary Harry Houdini started by picking locks. He practiced so much that he could pick any lock with his hands tied or eyes blindfolded.
You can use simple household objects such as cloths, cups and bags as your props until you get the hang of each trick, then maybe you will want to buy more specialized equipment to amaze and amuse your friends and family all the more. In the meantime, it's important to gain confidence in your magic tricks and abilities before performing in front of friends, family or any audience as your ability to perform and direct a crowd is as vital to your success as your speed with a deck of cards.
The art of distraction and misdirection
The most exciting aspect of any magic trick is it's effect on a live audience. Whether you perform a magic show in front of a few friends and family or a crowd of hundreds, the buzz of hearing gasps of wonder and applause will keep you hooked for life.
Once you've mastered the basics and gained confidence in your technical abilities, you'll need to start thinking about your audience and how to use distraction and misdirection to take your magic skills to the next level. Many of the greatest magic shows and tricks use a combination of misdirection and theatrical performance to control the audience while the magician performs his secret moves.
You'll also need to develop your own style of performing magic tricks, not only to make your magic more entertaining, but as an additional prop that's just as important to your success as your box of tricks. Developing dexterity or slight of hand and practicing eye contact skills with your subjects are both essential skills of any proficient performer of magic.
Top 5 tips for learning magic tricks
Start simple - begin with tricks that don't require any props such as card tricks or coin tricks. Choose one trick and stick to it until you are proficient before learning another.
Practice - practice magic tricks until you are completely confident that you can make it work every time. Only then begin to perform it in front of others.
Confidence - Practice will give you confidence which is essential to convince your audience that not only is your magic trick magical but you are as well.
Attention and distraction - learn to hold the attention of your audience and control it with eye contact, humor and well practiced movements.
Performance and style - the best magicians are memorable not only because of their tricks, but because of the way they perform them. Give a thought to your appearance, your voice, your humor, your props and your location when performing a magic show.
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I'd honestly rather just get robbed every other year vs deal with barking, chewing and dog ****. I'm a fish person. Maybe a shark tank ... or a moat...There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice.
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I have an alarm system that never gets turned on while we're home, we keep the windows open for fresh air most of the year, and we have Shitzhus. Every bedroom that's occupied has a loaded firearm. Barking dogs and flying lead is pretty much all we rely on. Don't have the money to spend on some fancy camera system.
Should we be more concerned with security? Well, I don't feel the need for it, but I could be wrong. I trust our little midget dogs to bark at the right time, though.
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It sounds stupid, but in my area we get killed by home burglaries where they break windows and either enter or open the door immediately following. I bought a roll of 3M security window film. They are about 12 mil and are completely see-through. This roll (about $150 on line) covered most of my windows. It also makes me very warm inside to think that maybe some asshole will punch my window and cry like the worthless ***** that he is and will one day die of hand cancer.
Other than that, I just lock my **** up and let my pups do the rest. The best piece of cop advise I have ever gotten is this..."If the asshole wants in, he's gonna get in. Just make it a little harder for him."
Motion sensor spotlights outside, state trooper across the street (official vehicle parked outside at odd hours and he parks it in front of our house when we're out of town), alarms on the doors and breaking glass alarm in most rooms. We're planning on getting a dog soon.
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I've got decent external doors secured into reinforced frames, a load of shock sensors, a bunch of really fucking spikey bushes under the ground windows, and a load of that 3m security film. The door to my bedroom locks itself whenever it closes and is secured into a metal frame.
I'm sure someone could get in, but it'd be more painful than going down the street to rob someone else.
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Have you ever considered a mating pair of Peacocks? They work WAY better than a guard dog and can't be bribed or threatened away from guarding. (also not many people understand natural indicators of threat like birds and deer. Dog work great but i would FAR rather hear a signature chattering to warn of danger/unknown rather than silence-breaking barks that cover up noises you could be listening for.)
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says not approved in Florida for hurricane, but doesn't mean I still can't get it for security, I hope.
I've also just put out a bunch of cheapo solar powered landscaping lights in the backyard and in the front flower beds. I noticed while walking through the neighborhood the other night that houses with landscaping lighting looked a lot more occupied than houses without.


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Potassium is a mineral that is needed for your body to work properly. It is a type of electrolyte.
Diet - potassium
Potassium is a very important mineral to the human body.
Your body needs potassium to:
Many foods contain potassium. All meats (red meat and chicken) and fish such as salmon, cod, flounder, and sardines are good sources of potassium. Soy products and veggie burgers are also good sources of potassium.
Vegetables including broccoli, peas, lima beans, tomatoes, potatoes (especially their skins), sweet potatoes, and winter squashes are all good sources of potassium.
Fruits that contain significant sources of potassium include citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, and apricots. Dried apricots contain more potassium than fresh apricots.
Milk and yogurt, as well as nuts, are also excellent sources of potassium.
People with kidney problems, especially those on dialysis, should not eat too many potassium-rich foods. The doctor or nurse will recommend a special diet.
Having too much or too little potassium in the body can have very serious consequences.
A low blood level of potassium is called hypokalemia. It can cause weak muscles, abnormal heart rhythms, and a slight rise in blood pressure. You may have hypokalemia if you:
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Panel on Dietary Reference Intakes for Electrolytes and Water, Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes. Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2004.
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I think this is a great article, Rene, but I think you are off the mark regarding adapters.
Apple's recent magsafe 2 adapter is just the most recent example of Apple supporting legacy accessories with an adapter. I think Apple is going to be quick to adopt this new standard, potentially even pushing it out to the entire iOS line this fall, but I don't think they're going to ditch the existing 30-pin accessory ecosystem quite so hastily.
If it's not included in the box with the new iPhone and any new 9pin iOS devices for at least the next 12 months, I'll be pretty surprised. But absolutely worst case, it'll be available for sale separately. I just don't see any technical reason that Apple couldn't ensure more or less full compatibility with the vast majority of existing 30 pin accessories via said adapter.
New accessories will adopt the new standard very quickly, so the adapter is just to cover peoples needs for a transitionary period. Presumably the new dock connector will have many benefits such as must faster data transfer speeds via USB 3 as well as potentially magsafe style connectivity as you pointed out. This will encourage rapid transition in the accessory ecosystem.
Just my $0.02 but I don't see any reason why we can't have our cake and eat it too here.


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Ottney: A legendary tryoutWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | email@example.com
I recently found myself doing something I never imagined doing: trying out for a Lingerie Football League team.
Er, sorry, Legends Football League (LFL).
The 7-on-7 full-contact women's football league, founded in 2009, underwent a rebranding last year. Besides the name change, the effort also replaced its lingerie-inspired uniforms with (still skimpy) "performance wear," and the tagline "True Fantasy Football" with "Women of the Gridiron."
I have to admit the first time I heard of the LFL was on Dec. 17, when I got a news release about its Cleveland Crush franchise relocating to Toledo. My boss, Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller, floated the idea of having someone attend tryouts — not to watch, but to actually participate. I was game.
Tryouts were delayed two weeks due to the Polar Vortex, but on Jan. 18 I arrived at Gold Medal Indoor Sports in Rossford, where I filled out an application, handed over a photo, signed a waiver and was assigned a number. The application was fairly basic: name, age, height, weight, city of residence, athletic experience — but also asked about tattoos, social media use and favorite NFL team.
The 25 women trying out ranged in age from, I'd say, late teens to early 40s. Most surprising was how far they'd traveled: Columbus, Cleveland, East Lansing, Mich., western Michigan — even Dallas.
Everyone wore regular workout clothes, but the four current LFL players who attended definitely stood out — two because of their long, perfectly curled hair and two because they were tall, blonde twins.
Keith Hac, coach of last year's LFL champions Chicago Bliss, oversaw the tryouts. He ran us through a series of drills, including the 40-yard dash, three- and four-point cone drills, a shuttle run and pushups. We did the skill tests one at a time while everyone else watched, which meant there was a lot of time to stand around and get cold. But there was also a lot of clapping and encouragement from the other women.
After the speed, strength and agility tests, we finally lined up to catch a few balls. I felt stiff and cold. Hac threw each candidate three passes. I didn't catch any.
I consider myself decently fast and athletic. I felt like I held my own overall, but apparently my times weren't up to snuff. After a short break, Hac called out the numbers of those he felt were qualified to be invited to training camp. About half made the cut. The rest of us were thanked for coming.
Afterward, I asked Hac why he didn't choose me. He said, "Your numbers weren't good and you didn't catch the ball." In other words, bad all around. It was a little embarrassing, but I appreciated his bluntness.
Looks and athleticism
I also asked Hac if a player were, say, just a smidge below the athletic standards the league expects, but super hot, would she be invited to training camp? He said no. "Looks and athleticism: You can't have one without the other," he said.
However, Hac did allow that teams in larger cities like Chicago and Los Angeles get hundreds of women at tryouts and have the luxury of choosing the best of the best. A market like Toledo, he said, might have problems with numbers and have to make certain compromises.
No one in the league denies looks are a factor. League founder Mitchell Mortaza told theScore in 2011, "Looks are definitely a part of it. We don't pull any punches there. We have to be able to market this sport. There are a lot of women's football leagues out there that you never hear about — there's a reason for that. We didn't invent sex in sports."
LFL players range from age 18-35, said Tyler DeHaven of the league's media relations office. Hac said the majority of players are 21-29, although there are a few players in their 40s. The heaviest lineman listed on the league's online rosters is 165 pounds. However, league officials deny any age or weight limits.
"Our athletes are former collegiate and professional athletes, and understand they need to be in top physical condition in order to compete in this high level sport," DeHaven wrote in an email to Toledo Free Press. "All of our athletes are in great physical and cardiovascular shape."
Beneath the pretty faces and undersized shoulder pads, the women of the LFL are undeniably athletes. In 2010, Danielle Monet, a Chicago Bliss cornerback, told CBS News: "I know the reason why people come and watch us is the lingerie, the sex appeal. But what keeps them in their seats is when they see the ability we have and they see our plays and that we're the real deal."
Reign down
Meanwhile, Mitchi Collette, co-founder and head coach of local professional women's football team Thee Toledo Reign is struggling — as she does every year — to scrape together enough players to field a team.
While the LFL sells out stadiums, Collette struggles to draw more than 80 spectators to a game. Many lifelong Toledoans don't even know the team exists. For the past few years, Toledo Reign, which won its division title in 2012 but is now going through a rebuilding phase, have played at Central Catholic High School. This year Collette is considering playing each home game at a different regional location.
Collette rarely turns a player away. Ideally, she needs 15 more by March 1. With her military background and four decades of women's football experience, including 13 years as a Toledo Troopers player, she's confident in her abilities to bring inexperienced players "from Pop Warner to pro" in a short amount of time.
Collette gets a little riled up talking about the LFL. She believes the league exploits women. She doesn't believe in 160-pound linemen or playing half-dressed. She calls its very existence "a slap in the face." She would love to organize a game: Her girls against Toledo Crush.
Collette said a lot of people don't take Toledo Reign seriously — until they come out to see a game. Hac and DeHaven say the same thing about the LFL.
Worldwide exposure
So would I have actually done it, if Hac had given me the nod? For a hot second, a part of me considered it. But I don't think it's for me. I'm not self-conscious about my body, but I also don't particularly like the idea of showing it off for an audience (or performing anything in front of anyone, regardless of what I'm wearing). Players aren't paid, but I can understand how many see it as an opportunity for worldwide exposure (pun intended).
Toledo Crush will play two home games at the Huntington Center: May 10 against Atlanta Steam and June 21 against Baltimore Charm. I plan to be there to check out the action and welcome Toledo's newest team.
I also plan to be there for Toledo Reign's April 12 home opener, to cheer on one of Toledo's oldest traditions.
Some say the LFL degrades women; others argue it empowers them. I guess I won't make that call. Either way, it's gotten people talking about women's football — and gotten media talking to Collette. And maybe, just maybe, that won't be a bad thing for Toledo Reign.
Sarah Ottney is managing editor of Toledo Free Press. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tags: Atlanta Steam, Baltimore Charm, Central Catholic High School, Chicago Bliss, Cleveland, Cleveland Crush, Columbus, East Lansing, Huntington Center, Legends Football League, LFL, Lingerie Football League, polar vortex, Rossford, Toledo Crush, Toledo Reign, Tyler DeHaven, "Women of the Gridiron"


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At the university-owned Zena Farm, Willamette students live in a farmhouse for six weeks, learn about sustainable agricultural practices and are challenged to develop a personal food ethic.
After class, students work on one of the farm's three growing areas, later using the food they grow to prepare their own meals.
At the summer institute, students take two courses, Agroecology and Perspectives in Sustainable Agriculture, taught by professors Briana Lindh and Wendy Peterson Boring.
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Wrangling chickens and working the land define Zena summer experience
A student never knows what to expect on the first day of class, but it's pretty safe to assume it will not involve gathering eggs from angry chickens — unless you are a student at Willamette University's Zena Summer Institute in Sustainable Agriculture.
At 8 a.m. on Hannah Staller's first day living at Zena Farm, she and two other students found themselves crammed into a small chicken coop with four very large hens staring them down.
"Our job was to retrieve eggs from under the hens, and none of us had ever stuck, or even thought about sticking, our hands under a chicken before," says Staller '14. "Every time we would approach them, the chickens would puff themselves up and begin making concerning noises."
That morning the students decided they were not quite ready to confront the chickens, but within a few days, they all could confidently gather eggs as part of their daily chores.
"Farming is hard work, and a helpful community that roots for each other is definitely key to success," Staller says. "Sometimes I made mistakes or was nervous about a task, but everyone — my professors included — remained patient and encouraging, which made the harder tasks so much more rewarding."
A Unique Learning Experience
Gathering eggs on the first day of class is one of the many lessons that makes the Zena Summer Institute in Sustainable Agriculture a distinctive educational experience.
"Students are put in a situation where they are both interrogating the idea of sustainability and living what they feel the answer to that question is," says Jennifer Johns, a Willamette biology professor who works with Zena Farm students. "Through the summer program, students gain experience through their own living conditions, as well as through their coursework, their fieldwork and through visits to other farms."
At the summer institute, students live in a farmhouse for six weeks. During this time, they take two courses — Agroecology and Perspectives in Sustainable Agriculture, taught by professors Briana Lindh and Wendy Peterson Boring. The courses are designed to give students a firm understanding of sustainable agriculture practices, while also challenging them to develop a personal food ethic.
"The students don't just get handed a whole bunch of information defining 'this is what sustainable agriculture is,'" Johns says. "Rather, we give them the tools to ask questions about sustainability and to really decide for themselves what is sustainable and what they feel is important in the food choices they make personally."
Victoria Binning '14 was surprised by how intellectual the farming experience was. "When I came out, initially I thought this is just going to be farm time. I'm going to learn how to drive a tractor and have a great farmer's tan and that's going to be it," Binning says.
"But through the classes, I have had the opportunity to figure out how food works on a national scale and on a global scale, and really see all the political underpinnings and scientific background of food."
Binning, who researched farm programs at other institutions before deciding on the Zena Summer Institute, says the Zena experience stands out because of its curriculum, which combines the intellectual with the actual physical work of farming.
Each day after class the students work on one of the farm's three growing areas, and then they use the food they grow and other locally grown supplies to prepare their own meals.
"They are given a 50-pound bag of flour and a 50-pound bag of oats, and we teach them how to make bread, how to make granola and how to use vegetables out of the garden," Johns says. "And so they begin to learn to cook seasonally and locally."
The Farm Family
For someone without any farming experience, thinking about gathering eggs from chickens and living on a farm for six weeks might be intimidating. However, the six students at the summer institute say they overcame the challenges they faced because of the close bonds they formed with each other.
In fact, being part of such a close-knit community was even more memorable to Staller than the tasks she performed on the farm or the questions she grappled with in class. After making and eating dinner together, the students regularly spent their evenings talking and laughing without the distractions of TV or computers.
"It really did feel like we were a makeshift family," Staller says. "We spent time together because we wanted to. I never wanted to leave the table to start my homework."
As a professor, Johns says she has the opportunity to observe her students go on this adventure together and leave as different people. "It seems almost silly to say this six-week experience can be life changing, but for many of our students it really is," she says.
The students who've lived on the farm say the Zena Summer Institute is an eye-opening experience that could benefit anyone.
"Food affects everyone, so it doesn't matter who you are or what you are majoring in, you can be here and you should be here," Binning says.
"It's like a mini think tank, with just six of us hashing out ideas about sustainability and what it means to have organic food versus nonorganic, and local versus global… You figure out the systemic problems that are affecting all of us, but you also get to know yourself a whole lot better."
Getting Involved
The Zena Summer Institute in Sustainable Agriculture is open to undergraduate students of any major and class year. There are no prerequisites for the program, and students can earn up to two interdisciplinary studies credits.
Students from any undergraduate institution are welcome to participate. The program dates for summer 2013 are May 20–June 28. Applications may be downloaded on the program website, and are due Dec. 5, 2012.
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