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The South Mississippi Soccer Club is run by volunteers who give their time to the children and the sport of soccer. Our mission is to provide a fun and safe environment for our children to develop a life long love of soccer. To achieve this we need adults who volunteer their time to teach the kids the game of soccer.
SMSC is a Recreational Soccer Club. Our teams fall into the Division III – Recreational Program of the Mississippi Youth Soccer Association (MYSA). To quote from MYSA:
The Division III – Recreational Level is the MYSA entry playing level for boys and girls Under 5 through Under 19 coed and single gendered teams. It is the developmental playing division, which U.S. Youth Soccer Association requires its State Associations to provide.
Its registered teams are formed for the express purposes of teaching the necessary playing abilities and skills of The Game; maximum game and practice participation of each rostered player; physical and mental fitness; and the enjoyment of The Game. Division III teams are not formed to play competitive level soccer. All programs in the Under 5, Under 6, Under 7 and Under 8 age groups shall play either 3 on 3 or 4 on 4 play. Single year age divisions shall be used whenever possible. Boys and girls programs should be separated though under special circumstances girls may be allowed to play in the boys division. For details refer to Small Sided Games.
To paraphrase, these games should be FUN! Our job is to teach the basic skills of soccer, teamwork and a joy of playing the game. No team from SMSC will be entering the World Cup. As a Coach, you should understand that while winning is an enjoyable component of the game, it is not as important as teaching the skills needed for the game. As a coach, you should remember that as your child advances and continues to play the game, the players from the other teams will eventually be on yours. Cheering a good play by your opponent sets a great example and will pay off in the future. One goal of all Division III coaches is to have all of their players return the next season. If every child you coach this year plays next year, YOU WIN!
What is US Youth Soccer?
The Game for All Kids! At US Youth Soccer and SMSC we provide a fun, safe and healthy game for ALL KIDS…big kids, little kids, tall kids, short kids, young kids, older kids…kids who want to play for one season, kids who want to play for twenty seasons, kids who play strictly for fun, and kids who want to compete at the highest level possible. Kids are different, and because they are different their physical, social and psychological needs are different. We at US YOUTH SOCCER recognize this and our programs are aimed at meeting the different needs of ALL KIDS.
SMSC and US Youth Soccer provides a healthy activity through its recreational and small sided games programs. These programs emphasize FUN, and de-emphasize winning at all costs. Every child is guaranteed playing time and the game is taught in a fun and enjoyable atmosphere.
For the player with advanced skills and greater ambition, highly competitive leagues are offered (Division I). This player might have his or her sights set on a college soccer scholarship or playing for the U. S. Olympic or National teams. SMSC has also begun participating in the All-Star programs and our teams have been very competitive at a State-wide level.
What do you need to become a coach for SMSC?
1. Willingness to donate your time once or twice a week.
2. Willingness to learn and to take a coach education course hosted by SMSC.
3. Fill-out a Coach Registration Form
4. Fill out a Kidsafe Form. If you are a past coach with a gotsoccer account you can access the form HERE by logging in to your got soccer account with your login and password.
If you are new or have forgotten your login information please contact the SMSC registrar, Lindsay Huckabee, firstname.lastname@example.com or 228-897-SMSC (7672).
What happens if there are too many coaches for an age group?
1. The coaches with the highest license will get selected first. For example, a coach with a State D license will be selected before a coach with only a Youth Module level
2. A coach with a Youth Module license will get selected before a coach without a license.
3. If there is a tie between qualifications of coaches, the Director of Coaching will select the coach or coaches.
Why do you need a coaching license?
1. First, it is mandatory.
2. It makes your job a LOT easier as a coach. You learn what is age appropriate for the age group you are coaching. You also learn new activities that help to make your practices fun and effective.
3. For U10 and up, you cannot coach your team at the District Tournament unless you have a license. Remember, we send up to 4 teams to District in some age groups.
4. Most importantly, it is the right thing to do for the players.
More information on Coaching Courses:
If you have already completed the online portion of the coaching license and already attended the field session please contact Dr. Terry Eguaoje at firstname.lastname@example.com give him your confirmation number from the website and the date and location that you attended the field session.
IAll coaches, assistant coaches, referees, board members and any other volunteers are required to fill out a background check with the state each year. Once you are setup in the computer as a coach you will receive an email from gotsoccer.com or gotsport.com with a user name and password to login to your coaching profile. Once logged in you need to click on "Background Checks" and fill out the required information.
MSA is requiring coaching licenses for all coaches for the 2011-2012 season. If you are planning to coach you will need the license listed below.
U5, U6, U7 & U8 – U6/8 Module. This is a two part course with about 45 minutes online and a 1 1/2 hour field session. The field session will be held at the coaches meeting. This cost of this course is $16. Click Here To Register. If you have never had a coaching license from MSA you will have to click on the link that says "Or, if you are a new Mississippi Soccer coach, and have never taken a Mississippi Soccer Coaching Course, please use the link below: Take an e-Coaching Course"
U10 & U12 – U10/12 Module. This is a two part course with about 45 minutes online and a 1 1/2 hour field session. The field session will be held at the coaches meeting. This cost of this course is $35. Click Here To Register. If you have never had a coaching license from MSA you will have to click on the link that says "Or, if you are a new Mississippi Soccer coach, and have never taken a Mississippi Soccer Coaching Course, please use the link below: Take an e-Coaching Course"
If you are having difficulties taking the online portion of the coaching license below are detailed instructions on how to do it:
Website navigation to access coach certification quiz:
1) Go to the Mississippi Soccer Association website – www.mississippisoccer.org
2) Click on E-Coach Link (located to the right side of website)
3) Click on red bar to register for course near the top of the page (entitled "Click Here to Register for a Level I, II, III Course")
4) Please ignore login, go to bottom of screen and click on take an E-Coaching Course
5) Complete credit card information for your coaching license. U6/U8 fee $16.00 or U10/U12 fee for $35.00 6) Choose U6/U8 or U10/U12 Course Module. Be sure to tell your trainer at the field seminar/session which age group for the quiz you completed rather than the age you will be coaching.
U14, U16 & U19 – Level E License. This is an all weekend (Friday night, Saturday & Sunday) course. The cost of this course is $65. Click Here To Register.
If you already have a coaching license it does not expire and you do not have to take another coaching clinic this season unless you need to upgrade your license for the age group that you plan to coach this season. If you have a Level III license from the old licensing system you are already licensed to coach any age group from U5 – U12.
Please ignore background check information. You will complete a KidSafe background check at a later date. When you complete the quiz, print 2 copies so you may give 1 to the trainer (at the field session) and keep the other copy for your records.
SMSC uses volunteer coaches for all its Division I, II, and III teams. For Division III in particular, we are in need of many volunteers, and so we encourage all parents to consider volunteering to participate in this necessary and rewarding experience. Coaches will receive training prior to the start of the season, and will be required to complete an on-line coaching course specific to the age group of the team(s) being coached. There is a small fee associated with this training course.
Persons desiring to be coaches must fill out a Coach Registration Form. These forms are available here. Coaches will also be required to submit to a background check required by MSA. See the Coaches Info section of this website for more information.
In the event that there are more coaches in an age group/neighborhood than needed, the coach with the highest coaching certification will get first choice.
Click Here for a coaches registration form.
Click Here for the SMSC forfeit policy.
Click Here to complete your Kid Safe background check.
Click Here for the Coaches Handbook.


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Apprentice Member
Joined: 4/25/06
Wow, what a step back into history. The year was 1993 - fantastic fun and fabulous friends on RealmsMUD :)
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Novice Member
Joined: 11/27/11
So. It has been decided.
Next column? I'm going to be doing mini-reviews on three MUDs/MUSHes/MUXes/you name it.. But I would like to put this to a vote. The top three MU*s that get mentioned the most will get a look at. ^^
Novice Member
Joined: 4/05/09
I played Gemstone for years and years while on the side playing and running various SMAUG and later SWR muds. So much creativity and freedom came out of those, It will be a long time before any MMO will have the means to do so much in a single game.
Unfortunatly ive been so spoiled on graphics that its hard to go back to text.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 2/28/10
Any good mud recommendations for today? I was going to try to get into Achaea but am severely turned off by any kind of pay to win model or macro based combat. I do not want to have to resort to third party programs to be worthwhile in PVP and I don't want to play a game that has a cash shop like that.
My biggest other requirements are that the game have enough of a population to make it worth playing, that the game is still being supported by the developers (ie not abandoneware) and new content created, the game world is gigantic, a smaller sub fee is fine, character progression is very complex, and combat designed in a way to require skill and tactics by the player (simplistic combat is boring to me).
Some minor sandbox elements such as good crafting, being able to build my own house and the items to go inside it and form communities with other players would also be a bonus. Last, good PVE would be nice too. Am I asking for too much here?
Simutronics Dev
Joined: 1/18/05
Great article, Cassandra. Count me among those surprised that GS and DR didn't get a mention since both games still have very active, strong communities, but we'll cross our fingers and hope we make it into your final cut for reviews in your follow-up. Even if they don't make the list, feel free to contact me and I'll get you set up with a press account and arrange to have a player Mentor available to show you around and get you acclimated to Elanthia.
Great to see all the mentions from old DR and GS players in the comments! We'd love to have any of you come back for a visit and see what all is new!
Novice Member
Joined: 1/07/12
nice article! Achaea is a really fun text game / MUD, you can tailor your own custom clothes and sell them on the market channel. lots of plants to harvest and make potions if you are one of the forestal classes (Druid, Sentinel, Sylvan).
Apprentice Member
Joined: 3/01/12
I actually still play Achaea on several characters. While the "cash shop" is not a REQUIRED thing to enjoy yourself there, it does have a number of neat things that aren't combat oriented that just enchance the game like a flower pot that makes flowers every hour, or a pack that never decays and holds twice the content as a normal pack. I won't deny that the artefacts that increase combat prowess certainly help, but I have proven on multiple characters that to be "worthwhile" at PVP, you don't have to have them.
As for Jimmac's post about having to use a third party program to be worthwhile in PVP, that's entirely false. IRE currently offers two web based clients, Nexus (Java), and a Flash client. Both allow a lot of the same functions as any third party client. Most of the advanced users utilize the third party programs simply because they wish for more features. Many of IRE's players still use Nexus and Flash to play.
Simutronics Dev
Joined: 1/18/05
In fact, anyone posting here that has been away from GemStone or DragonRealms for more than a year and wants to come back for a peek around, drop me a note and we'll get your account reactivated for a couple weeks or so on the house. :)
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Joined: 4/05/09
GS probably didnt get a mention due to the ridiculous pricing scheme. Subscription for just a single character is more/equal then most Graphic MMOs out there with millions of players, throw in an extra 25 dollars a month to have more then one character..oh dont forget about the wonderful pricing plan of 80.00+ a month for platinum. Its been a while since Ive been back to the website but im sure the above pricing hasnt changed much. Seems a bit expensive for a text based game these days.
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Joined: 1/02/12
I have a bunch of cash shop items on my Achaea character and I am pretty sucky at PvP. Have been too lazy to learn all my classes strategies. You can't just buy cash shop items and suddenly lolpwn everyone at PvP, you have to know how to use your skills. Its something I really love and really hate about Achaea, because I can't go lolpwn people with all my cash shop items but I know nobody can do the same to me.
I learned how to PvP on the early Java client and then Zmud 5.1 and I kind of miss those days but back then affliction classes owned everyone hard. I think the people who make combat systems just need to agree not to make them work so good to the point that they effectively nerf classes who rely on curses and afflictions.
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Joined: 12/13/09
I played Gemstone 3 on GEnie around 1992-2000 then went with a bunch of players off to EQ, oddly enough as a character named Aluvius hehe. A year or so ago I felt the urge to open up my account and have played a bit there off and on since.
I would kill to have a graphical version of Gemstone to play lol. Or at least have the essential gameplay elements that games of that era embodied.
Permanent choices. Permadeath (which was something you could do but had to work at it in Gemstone). Low magic worlds, so that items of any power really stood out. Sandbox mechanics mixed with live themepark events.
As for modern Gemstone IV, I'd recommend to anyone trying it now to look into a program called Lich. It automates many of the tedious tasks of a MUD, such as travel, inventory, spell ups, selling loot, etc. Its made by outside players so its not an "officially" supported but I'd guess around half of the surviving playerbase uses it now.
Here's a great resource for info on the game:
And as for pricing, the person upthread was waaay off base. Its something like $15 for a basic plan, extra character slots are only $2.50, premium pricing is $40 and platinum pricing is $50 (which gives you access to 2 extra game servers, Platinum and Shattered), Shattered is $5 more although its included free with platinum. Both premium and platinum pricing give you around 15 character slosts or so. The Platinum server is for serious roleplaying and the Shattered server is for unrestricted auto scripting play and I guess PvP free for all.
There is alot of GM interaction in the form of quests, merchants, raffles, etc so that's what you're paying for, not server rental.
Anyway, its a fun game. I've heard people also like Dragonrealms which uses a more modern engine than Gemstone. I'm not sure MUD's are for anyone under the age of 30 but if you ever wanted to try one then I'd recommend Gemstone IV. :)
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Joined: 12/13/09
Oh and for those that moan about paying $15 a month for gaming .. back in the stone age many of us Gemstone players regularly had $100-300 monthly bills from GENie.
You don't know how good you have it these days. :)
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Joined: 7/01/05
I can resist everything but temptation...
My thing with IRE games (Achaea and all) isn't that you need a third party software, to run the game. You need to know how to effectively use triggers, aliases, macros, etc in order to at least try to defend yourself from PVP minded people and ususally during PVE as well.
I haven't played Achara (I don't think I'm even spelling it correctly!) in years, but I have played Lusternia for a while. I own a ton of the non combat related cash shop items, as well as a manse (player housing). The game is fun, but I just had enough with the above and PVP for no (usually) no reason.
Hey, I'm doing another DR trial! I'll send Simu my info, I'd love my old account back for a while. ) Also, consider a price reduction!! You would be way more popular if you did so!
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Joined: 2/20/12
one thing I loved in my days of Zmud when I just would go through the page(anyone remember the website that listed all those MUDs you could connect to on Zmud) and play random ones every week. I loved the ones that had the reincarnation classes where you would start over from level 1 as a new class couple of them were angels and devils with all new skills and better stats and such.. some of them had several tiers of reincarnation and made the game a lot of fun.. i miss those.. anyone know any of those still around?
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
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Joined: 11/18/11
I started out playing muds when I was 11 or so in a little Diku-rom mud because my older brother and sister were playing and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. That mud died many years ago, but now I play Achaea and I still have a play-to-win mentality, with a pretty huge playerbase for a MUD.
I started playing WoW when I was 15 or 16 and the biggest thing I liked about it was eseing my character. I got sucked into the endgame raiding when I was 17 or so and the biggest reason for that was the community. I have never stopped playing Achaea though, I've always been playing.
Now I play TOR and Achaea at the same time. Best thing about TOR is the story and playing with friends, best thing about Achaea is consistency (it doesn't change from what I like) and the fact that it is more enjoyable if you make it more enjoyable for yourself. It's one of those things that evolves with you. :)
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Joined: 7/01/05
I can resist everything but temptation...
I can't think of any of the top of my head Aerowyn, but check www.topmudsites.com and www.mudconnect.com. I remember seeing a bunch of games with remort systems in their descriptions.
Novice Member
Joined: 11/18/11
You know, you should sweep me off my feet out yonder window and down a rope onto your valiant steed.
I love MUDs much more than the eye-candy of WoW or EQ. My current addiction is Achaea, a game from Iron Realms Entertainment. Their "elves" are called Tsol'aa. What I love most is how intricate the realm is, and how everything fits together. Your character can literally be anything he - or she! - wants, as long as it suits the overall fanstasy environment of the game. It's totally free to play, with a pay-for-perks system. The thing is, I know people who've achieved dragon-status (lvl 99+) and who own tons of artefacts (item perks) without having spent any real currency. With patience you can get the same perks just by playing the game, or you can even win them with certain monthly promotions. If you haven't ever played a MUD, or are looking for one where you can play your own real characters that make lasting impressions on the game, try it out! If Achaea isn't for you, Iron Realms has several other MUDs too!
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Joined: 2/20/12
Originally posted by Realedazed
MUDCONNECT lol thats the one wow brought back some memories.. layout is nicer than I remember heh
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Apprentice Member
Joined: 7/03/04
Sometimes, I still get nostalgic for my six years of Gemstone. I really loved the time I spent there and still think of the friends I made along the way. Hell, my current boss also played GS back in the day and we worked together back then and didn't even know it when we met at work.
Left the MUD world eight years ago for Internet Spaceships (it's serious business) and I still think about it. I tried a Gemstone reactivation trial a few years ago, but the only characters I had access to were minor characters and my main was nowhere to be found, probably purged even though all characters were on the same account and inactive for the same length of time. I was disappointed and left for good, but I always have my memories.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/01/12
I'm yet another devotee of Gemstone IV. I've been with the game in one form or another for over 10 consecutive years.
It is a different atmosphere than it was during its heydey... a natural side effect of the fragmentation of the online gaming market, but there are still things I can do in this game that I just can't in a graphical MMO.
You just can't beat the ability to truly be a part of the world's story. In most games, you have the same experiences as everyone else. In Gemstone (and many other MUDs) your experience is far more unique to the individual. We all have our own roles and perspectives an an ability to truly impact the world around us. It's interesting to look back and see that I'm actually pulling the puppet strings on a character who has really changed and grown -not just in level - but as a person in a big narrative over the past decade.


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Finding a Dog Trainer
By Kim Downing
Half the battle of dog training is finding the right training class and the right trainer to assist you along the way. Not all dog trainers or classes are created equal! There are a lot of differences among trainers, and you need to be prepared to find the best one for you and your dog.
What to Look for in a Trainer?Many people spend less time looking for a dog trainer than they do looking at a new car. The trouble is, if your dog has a bad experience in a training class or with a trainer, it might affect his future training performance or learning.
I had a very bad experience when I was child. I took my adult German Shepherd dog to a standard fare training class that was held behind a local pet store. My parents didn't know anything about the trainer, but I wanted to start training my dog.
The first couple of sessions went well as he was good at sitting and was a natural walker. The night of down became problematic as my dog simply didn't want to lie down and wasn't understanding what was being asked of him. The trainer chose to have me come to the center of the circle and asked me to hand her the leash. She proceeded to try and force him to lie down, which didn't work, and he responded by growling at her. She hit him across the face and handed him back, although his response wasn't wrong given the circumstances.
What did that teach? Well, that was the last class we attended there, and he didn't know down. In fact, it took me A LONG time to eventually teach him down since he had such a bad experience. A good trainer should never, ever hit a dog, and she clearly didn't have any understanding of learning or she would have known how to actually teach him.
It did teach me what a class and instructor shouldn't be like!
So, what should you be looking for in a dog trainer:
It is advisable to speak with several trainers before settling on just one. This gives you the ability to ask questions, find out more information about the trainer and the classes, and get a good feel for the person. Most trainers will also allow you to sit in on a class or visit the facility prior to enrolling, if desired.
How to Find a Dog Trainer?There are dog trainers to be found all over the place. The closer you are located to a larger city, the more options you will have available to you. You are likely to find a trainer affiliated with local pet stores or park and recreation departments within a city.
The best ways to see what options are around you are:
A Class, Private Training, or Board and Train?There is more than one training option available to you and your dog. What option is best really is up to you, your lifestyle, and your needs.
1. Classes: For the average puppy, a class is a great way to go because it allows you instruction, but it also gives your puppy the opportunity to be in a new environment, learn to work around distractions, and visit with new people or dogs before or after class. That being said, not all dogs should be in a group setting class.
If your dog is fearful or very timid or has aggression issues, the group classroom is likely not the best environment. The dog won't be able to work on learning, it could be very stressful, and it might set your dog back a great ways.
2. Private Training: Working one-on-one with a trainer can be a great option if you prefer to work from home at times that might be more convenient for you. This helps you ask questions and focus on what you really want to work on rather than a set curriculum. Plus, if your dog is having behavioral issues or a classroom isn't a good choice for your dog, private training can be very beneficial at working through the problems more efficiently.
3. Board and Train: This option is where you give your dog to a trainer, and the dog stays with that trainer for a period of time, typically 2-6 weeks. Many people like this option as they receive a well trained dog back. I don't prefer this option for most people as training truly is a bonding experience between dog and handler, and for the best results, it best that an owner be an active participant in the training process.
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i have played in a lot of bill's events sometimes the payouts were not great but as far as him taking money from yalls pockets i dont think so.if you figured the time he spent verses the pay dont think anyone would be @#$%&.i do agree that he shouldnt have taken from the doubles and just let saturday be for the chairity.i have never ran an event so i dont like to complain about how it was run andby bobbyd222 - SN Tournament Information
why do you people keep wanting to start crap with bill. leave him alone and let him run HIS tournement without the bs.by bobbyd222 - SN Tournament Information
bill,when you say worst shot are both players going to have to put out.and who is this moron flick.if all he is conplaining about is he didnt get a disc i have plenty i'll give him if it will just shut him up.by bobbyd222 - SN Tournament Information
bill i am sure i can come up with a bunch of disc for your rental. ill also get with joshua and bring them with us next time we comeby bobbyd222 - SN Tournament Information
bobby davidson,joshua wright and micha wright will be playing advby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
im getting tired of the same old people conplaining of the same old things. grow up.i have played the tish tourney for several years and loved each one.looking forward to playing the most beautiful disc golf park in the land.to all the complainers stay HOME.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
well said mac . some people will cheat at they're score keeping to win but conplain about someone buying a win.always have a good time at the tish.i will be there as well as josh.cant waitby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
bobby davidsonby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
jack i for one never post on here but read it daily.i realy like the changes on the course exept for #2 its fine i just cant par it.lol also as for having two courses in florence hell yea.me and my crew usally travel on weekend because got burnt out on vet park. but for the last two weeks we have played mcfarlen and all like the changes but like the old layout too.thanks jack kiss kissby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
bill will the old bunk houses be open. ice bowl was too crouded!by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
josh, could someone play adv master if they didnt play it during the year only adv, but was old enough to play masters.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
will i would like to get old bunk house #1 if not takenby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
i personaly think it great that someone is trying to bring disc golf back to florence.i look at other areas such as tupalo, huntsville and others and see the sport growing.florence on the other hand,we have one cource old whore out baskets and a club that dosnt exist expept the week before spring fling.i dont see the city councel giving any money or suport for disc golf in our city.if it takes aby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
i have to work every other weekend so its a no brainer TISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
jack i will get with the sfc guts and have it done.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
baggin ? i got your bag joeyby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
bill not that it matters but you got my score wrong.i know about the first round screw up but the second round is wrong too.just recheck my score for the second round of singles. thanksby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
bill will the old bunkhouses be open . if so i would like #1by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
mike do yuo have an accountby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
no russ i am not saying you , i mean the city of florence does not care if there is disc golf or not.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
florence is dying a slow death.the sport is growing everywhere but florence!!!!!!!!!!!!by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
jim do you have any in the 160's if so can i use paypalby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
ordered packs. they should be here next week if anyone wants them earlyby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
Florence will be hosting a discraft ace race sunday oct 7th . the event will be held from 10:00 until 4:00 . players packes $20.00 include 2 proto disc's a mini and a discraft hat .playing in groups of up to six using the disc's in the player pack , playing 36 holes (4 rounds of 9 holes)shortend to 150 to 200 feet. play any time between 10 and 4 . i will have packs the week of the event and theby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
oct 7. start at 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. posted this so i can get an idea how many packs to order.the packs are real nice.you get two proto disc a hat and a mini for $20.00by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
josh, i dont think i could get away with doing that, most of the disc i got were from they're made in the shade tourny. i am not complaning they were all good plastic.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
just a feeler to see how mant want to attendby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
dear mister head. i have been playing this sport for almost two years now. granted my score was beter than most at this event,but it should have been veterans park is my home course and i play it alot.i have traveled to a handful tournements around this area and have done fair in my divion. i have had thoughts of moving up to play advanced, not on my play but the fact advanced players moving downby bobbyd222 - General Discussion
the first tournament i play in i was told by td that you could play as a novice once then you had to move up.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion
sign up bobby davidson in am master.by bobbyd222 - General Discussion


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Family-run Publix is both the largest employee-owned company and the most profitable grocer in America. Those two facts are linked, and they might be the formula for fending off Bentonville's retail behemoth.
Passing through Publix's sliding doors to escape the blistering Lakeland, Fla. heat is a welcome relief, but it isn't just the air-conditioning that jumps out at you. As you walk the aisles, bag boys and clerks in sage-green shirts and black aprons routinely smile and ask questions: "How are you today? Can we help you with anything?"
When a middle-aged woman asks about a box of crackers, no aisle number is blurted out. Instead, an employee races off to find the item, just as he is trained to do. At checkout, shoppers move to the front quickly, thanks to a two-customer-per-line goal enforced by proprietary, predictive staffing software. Baggers, a foggy memory at most large supermarket chains, carry purchases to the parking lot. Even Publix's president, Todd Jones, who started out as a bagger 33 years ago, stoops down to pick up specks of trash on the store floor.
"We believe that there are three ways to differentiate: service, quality and price," Jones says. "You've got to be good at two of them, and the best at one. We make service our number one, then quality and then price."
If that's a dig at Wal-Mart–traditional slogan: "Always low prices"–which has recently targeted Publix's home turf, Florida, it's a subtle one. The more direct retort comes via the numbers. As best we can tell, Publix is the most profitable grocery chain in the nation: Its net margins, 5.6% in 2012, trounced Wal-Mart's (3.8%), as well as those of every public competitor, ranging from mass market Kroger (1.6%) to hoity-toity Whole Foods (3.9%).
Those numbers in a field notorious for razor-thin margins stem from another heady fact: Publix, the seventh-largest private company in the U.S. ($27.5 billion in sales) and one of the least understood thanks to decades of media reticence, is also the largest employee-owned company in America. For 83 years Publix has thrived by delivering top-rated service to its shoppers by turning thousands of its cashiers, baggers, butchers and bakers into the company's largest collective shareholders. All staffers who have put in 1,000 work hours and a year of employment receive an additional 8.5% of their total pay in the form of Publix stock. (Though private, the board sets the stock price every quarter based on an independent valuation; it's pegged at $26.90 now, up nearly 20% already this year.) How rich can employees get? According to Publix, a store manager who has worked at the company for 20 years and earns between $100,000 and $130,000 likely has $300,000 in stock and has received another $30,000 in dividends.
The route to that payday is completely transparent. Publix almost exclusively promotes from within, and every store displays advancement charts showing the path each employee can take to become a manager. Fifty-eight thousand of the company's 159,000 employees have officially registered their interest in advancement. Associates are encouraged to rotate through various divisions, from grocery to real estate to distribution, to get a broad sense of the business. A former cake decorator in a store bakery is now in charge of all strategy for its bakeries. A distribution-center manager overseeing 800 associates got his start unloading railcars. When Lakeland store manager Edd Dean started bagging groceries as a teenager, he never expected to still be working in a supermarket 30 years later. "When I graduated college I had been seven years at Publix, and I started looking for a 'real job,'" he says. "I interviewed at a lot of companies, but the manager I was working with kept hounding me to come to Publix. Eventually it just clicked." Dean is one of 34,000 employees who have more than ten years of tenure.
"I'm always amazed that more companies don't recognize the power of associate ownership," says Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw, 62, the grandson of founder George Jenkins and the fourth family member to run the company. While Crenshaw has a 1.1% stake in Publix, worth $230 million, and his entire family has 20%, worth $4.2 billion, the employees (and former employees) are the controlling shareholders, with an 80% stake, worth $16.6 billion. Not surprisingly none of them belongs to a union.
Publix has effectively developed a hammerlock in the lucrative Florida market, where its 755 stores (out of 1,073 total) more than double any rival's. "They have blanketed the state so thoroughly that it has made it difficult for anyone else to make inroads," says Mark Hamstra, editor of Supermarket News.
That's now changing. The formidable Wal-Mart is targeting Florida after saturating every other market in the South; it now has 239 locations with grocery departments in the state. Kroger, the nation's second-largest retailer, with $97 billion in sales, bought upscale grocer Harris Teeter in July, picking up its first store in Florida since pulling out in 1988. It also competes directly with Publix in the Atlanta area–and soon will be with its slew of locations in North Carolina, which Publix plans to enter next year. German discount retailer Aldi has also moved into Florida.
Yet Crenshaw remains unfazed–he has faith in his employees and his complex compensation system that, in addition to ubiquitous ownership, grants shares of a store-specific bonus pool every 13 weeks. The exact amount varies, but typically 20% of quarterly profits go into that larger pool; 20% of the pool is then paid out in cash to the store's employees. "When competition opens up across the street and our sales are impacted, they're impacted," he says. "So they're incented to make sure they're doing everything they can to serve that customer to the best of their ability."
THE TRADITION OF employee ownership dates back to Crenshaw's grandfather, whose office at Publix's old headquarters is being restored to its wood-paneled 1960s glory for historical tours. ("It's our Graceland," says one assistant store manager.) As the story goes, George Jenkins had been the manager of a successful Piggly Wiggly market in Winter Haven, Fla. but quit at the start of the Great Depression when the new corporate owner, based in Atlanta, refused to grant even five minutes of face time despite Jenkins' driving eight hours to see him. While forced to wait outside the office, Jenkins supposedly overheard his new boss talking about golf, so he resolved to quit and start a rival store in Winter Haven. From the outset he gave shares in the company to early employees in an effort to win their loyalty.
Jenkins' big gamble came a decade later. He closed his two stores, borrowed against an orange grove he owned and opened a state-of-the-art supermarket with then new amenities like air-conditioning, wide aisles, automatic doors, fluorescent lighting and a water fountain. People mocked him for pouring money into unnecessary details. But customers loved the in-store comforts, especially the relief from the sweltering Florida sun, and thanked him by spending more on average than they had previously.
When Mr. George, as he was known, stepped down in 1989 after 59 years, the company had a stellar reputation and $5.3 billion in sales from 367 stores, all in Florida.
His departure led to some soul-searching and ushered in a new, hypercompetitive Publix. By then Wal-Mart was already beginning its advance into the grocery business. Jenkins' son Howard, who took over as CEO, knew that he had to plot an ambitious course to survive. "We knew how Wal-Mart was getting special deals from manufacturers, and in order to compete we had to increase our buying power," he says. That meant bulking up and venturing outside the state for the first time ever. He vowed to quintuple sales to $25 billion. One of the first targets was the Atlanta area, which Publix infiltrated in 1991 (led by Crenshaw as vice president).
While there were doubters who felt the local Florida chain would not be able to compete with mature national players, Publix had a plan: Overwhelm new customers with a full-service experience. Publix stores at the time had an average of 250 employees, but those early Atlanta locations hired 400. An incredulous newspaper reporter at an Atlanta store opening in March 1993 joked that, from greeters at the door to helpers in the aisle and baggers pushing customer carts out to the parking lot, it seemed like all 400 were working at the same time. Today the company operates 318 stores across Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, just under 30% of its total stores.
Meanwhile, it ably defended its home turf. In 2005 Publix's longtime competitor Winn-Dixie filed Chapter 11, pressured by Publix from the higher-end and discount retailers at the bottom (it has since reorganized and still operates about 480 stores in the South). Albertsons has pulled out of all but four Florida locations.
Even as Publix's same-store sales increased only 2.7% on average over the last ten years, the company has aggressively worked to boost its industry-leading margins. In 2007 Publix launched a prescription-drug program for customers that now offers free 14-day supplies of six generic antibiotics and 30-day supplies for hypertension and diabetes medicine. The loss leader has helped the pharmacy (now in almost 90% of Publix's locations) become the company's fastest-growing department. Also that year it experimented with a Whole Foods-esque format called GreenWise Market to capture some of the booming business in natural and organic foods. The format didn't take as a stand-alone store, but the GreenWise organic brand, along with Publix's private label, is a winner, with higher margins on average and stronger sales, up a combined 6% in 2012 (more than triple overall sales growth). The company's net profit margins over the past ten years have gone from 3.9% to the gaudy 5.6% figure.
Publix's newest innovation is its Aprons Cooking School, now in eight supermarkets. Catering to 21st-century parents looking to fit scratch cooking into their lifestyles, the Aprons chefs teach classes such as Grilling Fish 101 and A Vegetarian's Journey Through India–all using ingredients found in the store, of course. While the chain still lacks the wow factor of the larger upscale produce and prepared-food sections at Whole Foods and Wegmans, Neil Stern, retail analyst at McMillan Doolittle, says Publix delivers "operational wow" instead, leaning hard on clean, well-organized and well-stocked stores run by that exceedingly helpful, motivated staff.
WHILE THIS FORMULA proved too much for Winn-Dixie and Albertsons, Wal-Mart's encroachment is a far greater challenge. Arkansas' retail giant has become the nation's largest supermarket chain, with 3,500 stores, including Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets, which extend the Wal-Mart brand of cost-cutting to grocery items. Wal-Mart's current store total in Florida is merely a beachhead.
To flex its muscles in markets currently dominated by Publix, Wal-Mart last year began airing commercials that depict local moms shaving dollars off their grocery bill by shopping at Wal-Mart. A concurrent newspaper campaign puts receipts from the two stores side-by-side, with one ad in Miami displaying a 16% savings over Publix. Wal-Mart claims the ads are driving a 1% increase in a combined metric of foot traffic and sales. "We're not surprised that the competition doesn't like it when we tell customers to compare prices and see for themselves, but we think consumers deserve every chance to find value," a Wal-Mart spokesman says of the ad campaign, which has infuriated Publix executives. "We won't apologize for offering low prices or telling customers to compare prices for themselves."
True to its history, Publix is countering with its own head-to-head marketing blitz, touting a buy one, get one free program available on at least 40 items a week that allows it to discount without eviscerating any product's core price. "People say you shouldn't poke the bear," Jones says. "I say, 'Why not? Let's poke the bear.' "
Still, Publix is realistic about the comparison. "
You can't have the lowest price and do what we do," says Crenshaw. "So we don't tell our customers that we have the lowest price. What we do is say, 'Wal-Mart doesn't always have the lowest price.' Shop with us and we'll show you value on your entire basket. Some items will be lower in price, but in addition to that you're going to get trained, knowledgeable people that care about you as a customer in a clean, safe environment."
It's a fine distinction to rest an advertising campaign on but also a unique value proposition: In an age when Amazon's fast shipping counts as great customer service, Publix wants you to pay for a personal touch in your supermarket. In return it'll do its best to keep prices competitive and funnel your spending back to the employees who do all the work.
Based on recent results–sales were up 6% in the last quarter and net earnings rose 15%–that people-first formula Publix inherited from George Jenkins is working. Not that Crenshaw is surprised. "Too many companies are subjected to the stock market and analyst calls, and it's all about what we can do to make sure this quarter we're projecting this and meeting this," he says. "We're in this business for the long haul–83 years so far."


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We can barely express our feeling (yeah, we only have one. It starts with "WTF" and ends with "were you thinking") after the craziness that was The X Factor live results show on December 6, 2012. CeCe Frey was axed right off the bat and we are still not over it. But then Ke$ha and Melanie Amaro sang to try and ease the pain.
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Schiavellio and Mayhem even commented on it during Dynamite. I'd be very surprised if all of Megareem's weight gain has been natural.
Fedor's management is a bit too busy making him "the modest hero of the simple people" to my taste, all too similar to some old Soviet working class hero models.
However, don't get me wrong - Fedor is definitely one of my favorite fighters, next only to Wanderlei Silva. I personally just begin to get a bit tired of all this "Fedor is a model human being" stuff.
I could point to dozens of moments when his image shows fractures: For example, in one training video, he's running a few miles with other Red Devil fighters, and the English commentator gets all humpdy-dumpdy about how modest and fine Fedor is about running with a priest and some friends. - All sounds very nice and sound... Until you get a close-up of the scene and realize that Fedor wears a way better running suit than the rest and has headphones in both ears. - I LOLed.
I saw a video of Overeem where he explains his diet, the guy eats a lot in a day. Will try to track it down.
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New Video: LIM College 2013 Student Fashion Show - 'Rebelution'
More than 30 student models walk the catwalk in a rock-n-roll theme at Roseland Ballroom
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Pleasurefruit is described as a "bright warm pink." It's a brightened, medium fuchsia-pink with subtle warm undertones. It had mostly opaque color coverage. Revlon Sorbet is similar. MAC Lickable is cooler-toned. MAC Impassioned is more matte, brighter. Guerlain Gigi is redder. See comparison swatches.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
For Ashley Ridge, Week 1 of the 2013 football season brings one the toughest tests the Swamp Foxes will face all year.
Ashley Ridge opens its 2013 campaign at 7:30 p.m. Friday by hosting Goose Creek. The Gators have come out on top, scoreboard wise, in 40 of their last 42 games. However, last year Goose Creek was made to forfeit 10 games by the South Carolina High School League for dressing an ineligible player.
Even if the Ashley Ridge game is one of the forfeits, it doesn't change the fact that Goose Creek has owned Ashley Ridge on the gridiron. The Gators earned a 56-3 win in the first meeting, a 65-3 win in the second meeting and came out on top 48-16 last season.
Ashley Ridge coach Kenny Walker says in order for things to be any different this year, his team has to get its offense going early.
"Our offense hasn't been able to score touchdowns against Goose Creek," Walker said. "You can't win against good teams if you can't put the ball in the end zone."
Ashley Ridge's only offensive touchdown in the series came last year when Romelo Doctor had a 62-yard rushing score. Doctor graduated, but so did three Goose Creek defensive players with Division-1 talent.
However, coaches aren't convinced the departure of last year's senior class is going to change things drastically.
"It will still be tough," Walker said. "They lost some guys but they have other guys this year that are going to be just as good. The thing is we get down so quick against them. If we could just stalemate things a bit until we get into the game it could make a difference. The last two years against them things just started to snowball. They go up and then we make a bad snap and then they block a punt. But we are looking forward to the challenge."
Goose Creek coaches aren't taking anything for granted either.
"Ashley Ridge tries to spread you out and get you in a position where you've got to tackle in space and that's been a point of concern for us," Gators defensive coordinator Chris Candor said. "We have been inconsistent (over the summer). They did lose some of their key guys, but it looks like they have some capable replacements."
Receiver Tramel Terry, arguably the Gators best athlete last season, is also gone. But stopping the Gators will still be a tough task.
Georgia Tech commitment Caleb Kinlaw is back for Goose Creek and junior quarterback Dantez Bennamon is another shifty weapon. Also, Deondre Daniels did an admirable job at Terry's old spot during this year's Sertoma Football Classic.
"Offensively, this is the best preseason we've had since I've been here," GCHS coach Chuck Reedy said. "Defensively, we're still getting everything sorted out. I think it's a group that will get better as the season goes on."
Ashley Ridge has three seasons as a Class AAAA team under its belt and Walker says his team is getting acclimated.
"We are still a young 4-A school trying to catch up with all these other schools that have competed at that level for 30 or 40 years," Walker said. "Sometimes you feel like you are trying to catch up all in one year and you have to remember you just can't do that. We are making changes that might seem minimal, but they are big to us. We have more of an identity. The last few years we were just surviving and getting kids ready for a 4-A schedule but now it is time to start establishing what we want to do as far as the team foundation."
This summer the team reorganized its weight-lifting program to ensure its top athletes were benefiting. Other changes for this season include a new helmet logo and the creation of a players' manuel that everyone on the team received.
"We have a new focus and I'm excited about that," Walker said. "We are trying to get the selfish players out and get the team players in. A lot of things are moving in a positive direction for us. Kids know they are going to be held more accountable. We have character traits we ask them to live by not just when they are with the team but at school as well. Players are buying into it and I think it will make a difference."
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Sibelius Composer of the Year
Standard extraordinarily high
Sibelius, whose composition software is used by over 75 per cent of UK secondary schools, runs the competition for 10-18 year olds to highlight the growing importance of technology in unleashing musical creativity in young people.
The 12 winners and runners-up for this year's competition – which attracted more than 1,800 entries - are:
Film 10-16 age group
Winner – Claire Green (15) from Bristol
Runner-up – Will Haskins (14) from Bristol
Claire Green
Classical/contemporary 10-16 age group
Winner – Eunseog Lee (16) from Coventry
Runner-up – Lucy Arch (14) from Shrewsbury
Eunseog Lee
Classical/contemporary 17-18 age group
Winner – Thomas Chevis (18) from Surrey
Runner-up – Maya Kashif (17) from London
Thomas Chevis
Jazz 10-16 age group
Winner – Ralph Wyld (15) from Hampshire
Runner-up – Chris Wilson (16) from London
Ralph Wyld
Jazz 17-18 age group
Winner – Danny Smith (18) from Surrey
Runner-up – Robert Busiakiewicz (18) from Stratford-upon-Avon
Danny Smith
Arnold, who served as a judge for the Film category of this year's competition, says, 'The finalists especially showed a mature and energetic approach to their music. They obviously have become comfortable with using contemporary technology as part of their compositional process and there were several pieces that very successfully blended orchestral and synthetic elements into a single, cohesive whole.
'I'm sure that as they continue to write and experiment that we will see several of these young composers emerging as singular and exciting voices in the world of composition.'
Steven Kelly from Edinburgh, winner of the Film (17-18) category, says, 'It's amazing and really exciting to have won and to know that people like my music.
'Eventually I hope to compose for film and computer games. The prize money is great and I am really excited to meet the judges in February.'
All the winners will have their compositions performed at a special awards ceremony at the Royal Academy of Music in London on February 12 in the presence of leading musicians including David Arnold and music education ambassadors Howard Goodall and Lord Puttnam.
Winners will also receive £500 prize money and a one to one masterclass with one of the star judges, who include renowned composer Karl Jenkins and leading conductor Leonard Slatkin.
The winners' schools will each receive a multi-pack of Sibelius 5 software plus keyboards, speakers and software from M-Audio and Digidesign.


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The Gold Knight: Top 10 of 2010Written by James A. Molnar | The Gold Knight | firstname.lastname@example.com
Taking a break from covering the Oscars, I sat down and figured out my favorite movies from 2010. While some movies are among the top contenders for Oscar gold, others are simply excellent films.
10. "Secretariat"
Make fun of me all you want: This is the feel-good movie of the year. Diane Lane is exquisite and charming. (Oscar possibility: Costume Design and Sound categories)
9. "Moon"
The 2009 space-age sci-fi movie from director Duncan Jones left an impact when I saw it in April. (No Oscar possibility)
8. "Shutter Island"
This Martin Scorsese mystery stands out for its beautiful cinematography, editing and story. The haunting score is the perfect mélange of modern classical music. (Possibility: Art Direction, Cinematography, Film Editing and Sound categories)
7. "The Kids Are All Right"
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are perfect in one of the year's most sincere stories. (Possibility: Picture, Bening for Actress, Mark Ruffalo for Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay and Film Editing)
6. "Inception"
Christopher Nolan has earned the Oscar for Original Screenplay. He spent 10 years perfecting this ultimate heist movie. Breathtaking visuals. Mind-bending story. Superb acting. Haunting soundtrack. (Possibility: Nolan for Director and Original Screenplay, Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound categories and Visual Effects)
5. "127 Hours"
This is an extraordinary story of a man put in extraordinary circumstances. Director Danny Boyle perfectly captures the raw energy and emotion of desperation onscreen. (Possibility: Picture, James Franco for Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song and Sound categories)
4. "The King's Speech"
This is a sophisticated story of a man who needs to overcome the barriers he has built for himself. Tom Hooper's direction is remarkable. (Possibility: Picture, Colin Firth for Actor, Geoffrey Rush for Supp. Actor, Helena Bonham Carter for Supp. Actress, Hooper for Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography and Costume Design)
3. "Black Swan"
Watching this modern, fantastical thriller was intoxicating. This is a movie where every element worked perfectly together. I cannot remember a film that left me so euphoric. (Possibility: Picture, Natalie Portman for Actress, Barbara Hershey and Mila Kunis for Supp. Actress, Darren Aronofsky for Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography and Film Editing)
2. "Toy Story 3"
The raw emotion elicited from this film is gobsmacking. Pixar has the unique ability to create a surreal experience with characters we love. The toys could be nominated for best acting. (Possibility: Picture, Animated Feature, Adapted Screenplay, Original Song and Sound categories)
1. "The Social Network"
Its high-energy, fast-paced nature makes this film easy to watch and love. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher brilliantly deliver an atypical movie-going experience. (Possibility: Picture, Jesse Eisenberg for Actor, Fincher for Director, Sorkin for Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Original Score)
Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, Jan. 25 around 8:30 a.m.
Toledo Free Press Star Lead Designer James A. Molnar blogs about all things Oscar at TheGoldKnight.com. His column will appear online and in print periodically.
Tags: Black Swan, Inception, Moon, Secretariat, Shutter Island, The Gold Knight, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Oscars, The Social Network, Toy Story 3


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It happened so fast, but who is to blame
The sight of your small and tiny frame.
Your face still covered, I can't catch a glance
Your a mask with ribs, and daddy's hands.
You didn't ask for this- a fight for your life,
It's just not fair, it's just not right.
A 2 pound body, lost in a chaos of beeps,
Alarms drown out your frail cries and squeaks.
Entangling your body as a serpent - a snake,
In your arms, nose and mouth- your life at stake.
When fear creeps in suppression soon follows,
No time to cry, a holed heart feels hollow.
Keeping my smile for others when faced,
Yet once in the shadows- heartbreak, embrace.
For you're not a "preemie" as falsely called,
That term sounds so dirty, I'm angry, appalled.
Sitting in silence, while racing in thought,
Feeling disabled, enraged, distraught.
My hands remain shackled by circumstance,
I'm told sit at a distance and watch at a glance.
As you struggle to grow I can't help but feel,
What a burden you bare, this cannot be real.
You're not just a "preemie" a " NICU baby,"
You're my whole world, my daughter, my beautiful lady.
As days creep on you don't fight this alone,
Your daddy and I will fight until you are home.
The calendar sheets they fall to the floor,
My precious Sophia enters our door!
At last my love is where she belongs,
My only wish- may our journey be long.


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Sunday night my husband and I had knocked off for the evening at 8 p.m. to watch a rerun of episode of "The Borgias" that we had missed last week on Showtime. At 9 p.m. we took a break to get ready for bed. At 10 p.m. we sat down for this week's episode of sex and violence. ("The Borgias" has great production values, but it's really bad television.) At 10:30 the phone rang. I looked at the caller ID, saw it was my son, and was actually a little annoyed. It was kind of late, and we were watching sex and violence: Jeremy Irons plays the part of the Borgia Pope and continually hits the sack with beautiful young women, that is, when one of the other characters isn't stabbing or poisoning some villain or poor innocent or hitting the sack with someone else.
"Osama Bin Laden is dead," my son said.
It took moments for this to register.
"The president is speaking soon," he added.
(I admit that I was so stunned that I made the Obama/Osama slip of the tongue, much to my family's amusement.)
So now we had to switch to CNN. When it because clear the President wasn't speaking for a while yet, we turned back to Showtime and watched a bit more sex and violence.
A phone call. Here I am Ms. Social Media of the Baby Boomer set, and my source for this huge story is not Twitter, FB or even all the news sites I keep up on my browser or feeding into my RSS. Pretty old school, I'd say.
"There will be people going to Ground Zero and Times Square, probably Rockefeller Center, too," I told my husband.
"Why?" he asked. I mean, seriously, it was kind of too late at night to get dressed and go outside, even to share such a meaningful moment.
This morning when I got to my desk, where, by the way, I had left my iPhone overnight (another handy social media device), I looked through nearly 1000 tweets and figured out that if I had been watching my Twitter feed, I would probably have known by about 9:30 p.m. Many of the reporters and news agencies I follow on Twitter (meaning I get to see what they are tweeting) were already saying that Obama was giving a speech. The speculation ran the gamut from the capture of Qadaffi to the death of Joe Biden. But the general consensus was that the USA had taken out its most wanted mass murderer.
Did I mind that this historic event had slipped past me when I disconnected from the interwebs? Not really. But then again, I almost got out of bed to tweet something on the order of, "Why have we thought OBL was hiding in a cave?" Indeed, that did become my FB status at one point Monday. (A smart ass friend from college suggested that maybe it had something to do with Plato's metaphor.)
As for not being part of a celebrating crowd of fellow Americans—even before Obama's speech I pointed out to my husband how young the people gathering outside the White House seemed to be. Monday morning, through Twitter and FB, I found out that many Gen Yers I know who live in and around D. C. were there. In the video clips taken at Times Square I saw faces of kids' friends and friends' kids. Not my friends, though. It was 11:30 p.m. I suspect that like me they were about to go to sleep. Rob Lowe was probably the oldest person in the crowd.
Pundits have suggested that, ironically, Bin Laden's lack of tech presence may have led to his discovery. It was his couriers who were tracked, and his compound had no Internet or telephone. A CNN article from September 20, 2001 notes that Bin Laden had already dropped off the technology map and was not using satellite phones in an effort to stay off the radar (literally). (See http://bit.ly/kB2e7R, "Bin Laden Exploits Technology to Suit His Needs") There are going to be a lot of questions needing answers that we may never get: how could a mansion in an area outside an important city in Pakistan, a suburb that's home to the military college and many retired Pakistani army people, one that didn't even sport a TV antenna let alone satellite dish, go unnoticed? These days, it's lack of technology that stands out.
News sources tell us that Sunday night, "Twitter exploded." (For typical hyperbole, see the Huffington Post "Osama Bin Laden's Death Leaked Via Twitter," http://huff.to/ixDfyk.) Egypt and Tunisia had their "Twitter Revolutions." Now we have had our Twitter . . . our Twitter . . . ? Yes, my Twitter feed had gone nuts, my Facebook page was afire. Me, I was in my nightgown, waiting for our President to speak. And then I went to bed.
Look for me on Twitter: @wordwhacker. Or find me on FB. Linda Bernstein. I have a "profile" and a "page." You can like the page.
Which brings me to: I have such a clever "handle" for someone who has made her living as a writer and editor. But @wordwhacker doesn't really fit into my Baby Boomer branding. Should I change it? To something like @GenB2? Let me know in your comments.


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Apple is an iPhone stock and growth in China is just beginning
As much as it pains Apple shareholders to watch the stock drop to $500 from a high of over $700, we all need to learn to stomach the volatility and focus on the business performance.
Right now, Apple's stock is driven by the market's perception of iPhone supply and demand. It's an iPhone stock more than anything else. This won't always be the case, but it is for now.
China is an enormous growth market for Apple. This year China will make up about 15% of Apple's total revenue. Back in April when Apple reported its Q2 results, Tim Cook revealed that sales in China had tripled year over year. He said "There's a lot of headroom here in our view".
That was 8 months ago. And we're starting to see what Cook means. Apple just sold over 2 million iPhone 5 devices in a single weekend, inspiring the first-ever China-specific press release.
Apple hasn't even cut a deal with China Mobile yet. For those unfamiliar with the telecom competitive landscape in the gigantic Asian country, China Mobile is the largest operator by a long shot. They've got over 700 million cellular subscribers, and pretty much all of the growth is coming from 3G (TD-SCDMA). Eventually this growth will shift to 3G (TD-LTE).
If Apple can strike a deal with the world's largest carrier and capture 5% of its subscribers (presumably the wealthier among the total) then it amounts to 35 million iPhone sales. Let's round the average selling price of the iPhone 5 down to $600 - we're talking about $21 billion in new revenue. If these users are on a 2 year replacement cycle, we're looking at $10 billion per year in new sales from one carrier deal.
Right now, Android is king in China. Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market is less than 10%. But in a country with over a billion mobile users, smartphones still represent the minority. In fact, only about one fifth of all cellular subscribers are even on the countries 3G networks as of now. Smartphone volume will continue to rise. As this happens, if Apple can recapture some share, as it seems to be doing with the iPhone 5 launch (and if they can get into China Mobile), the volume growth will continue to be impressive.
And then the halo effect kicks in. People who can afford iPhones in China can certainly afford iPads, and mostly likely Macs too.
What I'm really interested to know is if Apple has a strategy to compete with the mid tier smartphone makers in China. In the rest of the world, Apple keeps previous generation devices, currently the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, on the market at lower price points. That's because there is a limit to how many people can afford a $600+ phone. We don't want to see Apple competing the the guys making $100 Android phones, but there has to be a happy middle ground where Apple can grow its ecosystem while still enabling the wealthier customers to sport a more expensive and luxurious iPhone.
Apple is an iPhone stock, and China represents a pretty big opportunity that has yet to be fully tapped.
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Reader comments
Apple is an iPhone stock and growth in China is just beginning
A cheaper phone that's say $399, with no contract - why not? That'd be a great move.
Re: "we all need to learn to stomach the volatility and focus on the business performance."
Over the next 10 or 20 years. The post-PC era has barely begun, and Apple will own it.
Re: "Right now, Android is king in China."
The king of fragmentation. I read that there are 70 competing Android app stores just in Beijing. For all the "market share" that Android has in China, Google gains nearly zero advantage. But, of course, we all know how poorly Google has always done in China.
Source: http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/08/419-androids-china-problem-schmidt-str...
+1 every Androcrap manufacturer in China as well as in India... has its own forked version, which has not much in common with andrOS and from which Googy will never see a single bug in return... they just love to proclaim to be the " Kings of the World" and chuck with big numbers around... in fact Googlevil it self was forced out from China by Baidu... long time ago


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Gallery: Day of Fishing and Fun for Huntington City Mission
Jul. 13, 2013 @ 04:52 PM
A "Day of Fishing and Fun" is held for the Huntington City Mission and Project Hope on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at the home of Dave Duffield in Huntington. The event was sponsored by local law firm, Duffield, Lovejoy, Stemple & Boggs.


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Federal money tough to pin downJuly 23,2013By PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau
MONTPELIER — Economists for the state can forecast with surprising accuracy the tax revenues expected to flow into the treasury over the next fiscal year.
But predicting one of the largest sources of funds to Vermont's $5.2 billion budget — federal revenues — has proven a more difficult task. And despite a recent analysis done by experts for the Legislature, pinning down the federal funds on which the state so heavily relies is still something of a guessing game.
"There are just so many unknowns at this point," said Steve Klein, chief fiscal officer at the Legislature's Joint Fiscal Office.
"And there are a lot of political choices that are going to get made that are totally outside our control."
Official state revenue forecasts, the most recent of which arrived Tuesday, are historically reliable, deviating by only about 2 percent on average over actual revenues. That record of success gives lawmakers a high degree of confidence in the $1.56 billion in general fund revenues forecast to flow into Montpelier over the next 12 months.
Getting similarly reliable estimates for money flowing from the federal government is more difficult. But Klein said one thing is clear: risk for Vermont is to the downside.
In a report titled "Federal Funds — Reductions Today and Tomorrow," Klein surveyed the federal landscape in an attempt to divine how decisions in Washington, D.C., will affect Vermont. From health care and transportation to grants that support human services, Klein said Tuesday that federal funds coming into Vermont will likely shrink in the coming years.
"And one area where that could be extremely noticeable is in transportation," Klein said.
The reauthorization of the five-year federal transportation bill will likely overhaul a state-by-state allocation formula that has until now been favorable for the state. Vermont gets $2.85 cents from the feds for every $1 in gas tax it sends to the federal treasury, a ratio Klein said he expects will narrow in the next five-year bill.
Projected declines in federal discretionary spending, according to Klein, also imperil some of the federal dollars coming into
Vermont. Non-defense discretionary spending supports everything from assistance for low-income populations and energy investments to public safety grants and environmental protection.
As a share of gross domestic product, according to Klein's report, non-defense discretionary spending is expected to drop by a third over the next 10 years, from 8.3 percent to 5.5 percent.
The reductions will come at a time when Vermont is more reliant on federal funding than at anytime in recent memory; federal funds now account for 46 percent of Vermont's non-education budget.
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Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
Year of publication
- 1994 (4) (remove)
Document Type
- Article (2)
- Part of a Book (2)
- English (4) (remove)
- 04, 131
- Sacrifice and business : a comparative study of ritual and commercial cattle slaughtering in Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso (1994)
- All over the world meat plays an important role in the nutrition of people. Mostly it is considered to be a special source of strength and health. In many peoples' minds the consumption of animal products, such as muscle, fat, blood, inner organs and bones, is much more associated with vital strength than a vegetarian meal. A reason for this may be the inherent physical similarity between human being and animal, especially mammals. There are other ways of producing meat, such as hunting and fishing, but today the most common method is butchering. The people in Tenkodogo consider beef to be an excellent meat. We will focus our comparative studies on special occasions, specialised butchers, locations, times, technical methods, distribution and ideas connected with the production and consumption of beef. Two fundamental reasons for the butchering of cattle can be identified: firstly, bulls are killed during the rituals of the year and secondly, cattle is slaughtered for daily commercial purposes on the market. In both cases almost the entire carcass of the butchered animal is consumed by people. In Tenkodogo we can actually compare those two different reasons, which have at least one common impact.
- 04, 111
- Kingship and cosmological order : the royal court of Tenkodogo (1994)
- Tenkodogo, a township situated in the south-eastern part of Burkina Faso on the road leading from the capital Ouagadougou to the Togo border, has approximately 29,000 inhabitants. It is Burkina's seventh largest town and is the location of the regional government of the Boulgou-Province. This regional government is represented by a high-commissioner and a "préfet" as it is the residence of a traditional ruler, otherwise known as Tenkodogo-naaba. His sphere of influence covers many villages and hamlets in the region: in total he is the sovereign of nearly 120,000 people. The power of the traditional rulers was curtailed first by the arrival and following overrule of the French colonialists and then after independence by Sankara and his revolutionary government. The kings ceased to be the ultimate judges who were able to determine life and death of their subjects. Henceforth they were no longer allowed to recruit subjects for certain work on their fields, and they no longer could claim control over the allocation of resources. Their position was strengthened anew by Sankara's successor in office, Blaise Campaore, who quickly recognized that collaborating with the traditional rulers could only be of advantage: in fact they later proved to be his best supporters in the election campaign.
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- The monologue of the dove : reflections on life and death in an oral tradition of the Kwami People in northern Nigeria (1994)
- The tale portrays the unhappy life of a dove. Constantly surrounded by enemies, hunted by human beings and animals, disappointed by friends and separated from her family, the dove despairs of her life. She ponders over her unjust fate in this world and in a monologue she begins to consider, whether it would not be better to end her own life. This tragic theme forms the climax of several episodes, in which the tension between life and death is described. The elaborate development of dramatic acts demonstrates the intertwining of guilt and innocence in human existence.
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- An incident at Kilang: a further note on the death of lieutenant G.F. Phillips (1994)
- In a recent article dealing with the Tangale Peak or Kilang, as it is called in the local Tangale language, Herrmann JUNGRAITHMAYR presents an account narrated by a Tangale elder about the attempted ascent of that characteristic mountain by a British colonial officer and his subsequent death.1 Kilang mountain is a basaltic cone approximately 1300 m high, about 8 km southwest of Kaltungo, one of the principal settlements of the Tangale people, in southern Bauchi State, northeastern Nigeria. During a research stay at the National Archives in Kaduna in November 1993 I was able to consult a file containing various documents relating to this incident in detail.2 In the following note I present an outline of the events based on the evidence in the colonial records. By doing this I not only intend to shed more light on a tragic event from the very early years of the colonial era. The picture of the circumstances emerging from the investigations of the colonial authorities may serve as a background to the narrative by the Tangale elder presented in JUNGRAITHMAYR's publication.