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Mothers - Unsung Heroes
May 11, 2013
(l. Connecticut blogger Deborah Bohling, mother of four.)
Today is Mother's Day.
A mother's love is the glue that holds the world together.
We salute mothers by posting two short articles by Deborah Bohling,
from her blog "Mothers in the Trenches." Her mother mettle
was tested when one son contracted cancer and, later, a daughter
suffered from a psychological disorder.
"What defines me as a mom are those experiences I have had because of my children. Those sacred moments where the world doesn't exist. In the quiet of the night, when it's just me and my child. What defines me is not what I do, but what I know."
What Do You Do All Day?
Posted on February 8, 2013
by Deborah Bohling
"What do you do all day?"
I used to cringe at that question. It was never asked in a kind, curious way. It was always asked with a sneer. Usually by people who lived in the world defined by the mantra "if I'm busier than you, I'm better than you" and who incorrectly assumed that my life was filled with leisurely strolls in the park, reading romance novels, and taking naps.
Unfortunately, as a young, stay-at-home mom, I had neither the quick wit, nor the confidence to respond to this question. Instead I internalized it and in doing so I gave it power.
I started to ask myself that question. What do I do all day? And if I couldn't come up with a long enough list I would add more. So I joined things. I joined the PTA, and I became a room mother. I sat on the Little League board, organized fund raisers, chaired Vacation Bible School and even became a volunteer firefighter. All of this in an effort to respond to that all important question.
I had a general insecurity about myself as a mom who didn't work outside the home. As though I had to justify my choices and even my existence. After all, in a world ruled by the almighty dollar, what value does a person have who brings in no paycheck?
Of course a great deal of lip service has been paid to the virtues of motherhood and if I add up all the services I provide in a given day, I can calculate what my yearly income would be, but none of that mattered to me.
That looming question was too big and too deep. I just could not answer it as fully as I wanted. So I kept moving. And I kept adding more to my to-do list. I hosted parties, and opened my house to all the kids. I cooked and cleaned. I was a 24-hour-taxi service. I was a frenzy of activity, and all to prove to the world that I did something all day.
But none of that defines me as a mom. Not anymore. What defines me as a mom are those experiences I have had because of my children. Those sacred moments where the world doesn't exist. In the quiet of the night, when it's just me and my child. What defines me is not what I do, but what I know.
I know what it's like to comfort a child who gets pushed into a locker or has to use his lunch money to "pay" for passage in the halls.
I know what it's like to sift through therapists to find just the right one to help a child who can't go to school because her fear of germs is so great she can't put her hand on the door handle.
I know what it's like to get a phone call alerting me to the fact that my son has been in a car accident.
And I know what it's like to hold a child's hand night after night in a hospital room, silently praying for the chemotherapy to work.
These are the unsung moments. The moments that make up a life of mothering, and the moments that only another mother would appreciate. It is in these moments that I've learned to be strong. In these moments I've learned to think clearly in an emergency and I've learned more about anxiety and cancer than any professor could ever teach in a college classroom. It is from these moments that I have learned the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
So don't ask me what I do all day. Because if you have to ask, you have no capacity to understand the answer.
The Mommy Wars
Posted on February 8, 2013
I remember the first time I read the headline "The Mommy Wars" on some magazine at the checkout stand. It was an article about stay-at-home moms vs. working moms and the animosity between the two.
I never thought there was a war between us but upon further introspection I had to admit I was at one time in my life contributing to the dissention. I can recall having a smugly superior attitude because I was home taking care of my own kids, not allowing a nanny or daycare to take the reins.
That attitude helped me deflect what I believed their attitude to be about me. That I wasn't working because I wasn't smart enough, or capable enough to juggle home and office.
I had harsh words to say about working moms who sent their sick kids to school because they couldn't take a day off to tend to them. Or who called me to cart their kids around because they couldn't get out of a meeting and they knew I was home and available.
I wanted to believe that I was doing a better job than they were. That because I was home to greet my kids when they got off the school bus, I was the better mom. But in actuality I didn't believe that. In fact, I envied my working friends although it took me years to admit that to myself.
I envied the clothes they wore, and the business trips they went on. I envied that they carried briefcases instead of diaper bags and that they had something else to talk about besides life with children. I envied their confidence and take-charge attitude. They always seemed pulled together and organized.
So I was surprised one day while chatting over a glass of wine with my friend, a working mom with 2 children, when she admitted to me that she envied me. She went on to say that she often wondered if her choice to work was the best choice for her family. She wanted to be able to provide a good life for them and the dual income helped served that purpose. But there were so many things she felt she missed out on. So much time away from her kids that could not be brought back.
And she felt guilty.
I shared with her that I envied her professional life. That there were days I had wished so hard for someplace exciting to go. That running errands and going to endless soccer games, cleaning the house and carpooling was not always stimulating. I admitted that sometimes I felt bored just raising kids, that I wanted to do more with my life than just be a mom.
And I felt guilty.
And in that moment we truly connected. And we saw each other's lives perhaps for the first time. We realized that she wasn't a "working mom" and I wasn't a "stay-at-home mom". We were just moms. Both of us doing the best we could to be the best we could be for our kids.
And I said goodbye to that flippant attitude I used to have. I softened my heart toward my working comrades and made a conscious decision to support them and help them when I could.
There should be no war between us. There is enough of a war out there. The war on drugs, the war against drunk driving, the war against bullying and the list goes on. We can't fight this war if we are divided amongst ourselves. For if there is ever going to be any change in our culture, it will come from a united group of mothers working together.
See also- "Even Cool Mothers Aren't Cool to their Kids"
First Comment from Linda:
Dear Henry...thank you for posting the article Mothers - Unsung Heroes. I too have been asked "what do you do all day" - a rather unkind and truly ignorant question, particularly when asked by another mother.
I have the college degree, worked in the corporate world and chose, or rather was led, to stay at home with my children and homeschool them. Our daughter has almost completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, our son is almost through his junior year in high school - still homeschooled by mom. I could never, ever quantify the blessings I have received by staying home with my kids - they are two of the most godly and wonderful people I know. They are bright and articulate, they have manners and are gracious to others, they are a treasure to me and their dad. I thank God every day for the privilege to be their mom and care for them. There is nothing the world can offer that could replace the calling of being a mother.
It is nice to see the positive comments to this article from men. I know my husband would wholeheartedly agree with their opinions (Adrian and Al Thompson). My husband is a wonderful and godly man - his support is so important to me. God is good...life is good.
Comments for "Mothers - Unsung Heroes "
Jim said (May 14, 2013):
I know that this is a little belated but I thought I'd write anyways.
I really admire a mom such as Deborah Bohling. She is the mother I wish I had.
Mother's day is one of the most difficult celebrations I have to deal with. You see, my mother was a horrid, crazy bitch. Every year I have to look for a greeting card for a mother who beat me, called me names and screamed "I hate you."
The distress of reading through the cards flowing with love and admiration is nearly unbearable. I usually resort to buying a humorous one or a generic one.
Even though she has apologized and is better now than she was when I was a boy, we still don't have a close relationship.
Sometimes, I wish all of the holidays would just go away. The anxiety they bring is nothing but torment.
Adrian said (May 12, 2013):
People who ask "What do you do all day?" are ignorant fools. The psychological makeup and values of the child either come from the parents or from some disinterested third party they abdicate child care too. Through this refusal of a gift from God, they lose the opportunity to grow spiritually themselves and hold God in contempt.
Looking after a child is the most fascinating and valuable activity on Earth.
Al Thompson said (May 11, 2013):
When my two boys were growing up, they had their mother with them almost all of the time. The deal was that I would go out and make the money and my wife would stay home with the children.
We even did the homse school thing as I thought the school systems were an abomination. My wife did a good job raising the children and my life was much happier knowing my wife was at home with them. I was secure at my work and I did what I had to do to make more money if it was needed.
That worked extremely well.
Mothers belong at home with the children. A career is something that a lot of women want to have a career but to what expense to the wellbeing of the children?
My wife and I used to sit and wonder how in the hell do single parents do it. Neither one of us could imagine the nightmare of being a single parent trying to provide food and shelter. Now, single parenting seems to be almost normal but I couldn't imagine doing it.
Women who want to stay at home and raise their own children are a treasure to society and to their husbands.
Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at


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Archive for Thursday, September 7, 2006
Junior varsity sports
Cross country
Anne Marie Myklested earned sixth, followed by Molly Brunton in ninth at the cross country junior varsity competition Aug. 31 at Anderson County.
In freshman competition, John Hadl took sixth, followed closely by Zac Courter.
The junior varsity soccer team lost 3-1 to Gardner Aug. 29.
The junior varsity volleyball team had its ups and downs Aug. 29, but came away with two wins.
Beginning with Bonner Springs, Kendal Abel, Jessi Stewart and Natalie Gloshen each had several kills and blocks to help pull out the win.
The team lost in three games to Basehor, but finished the evening with wins against Baldwin.
The team went 2-0 Tuesday at Turner.
Eudora came out on top against Turner 25-18, 25-14.
Stewart, Catherine Klotz, Shea Lounsbury and Abel each had several kills. In addition, Abel and Abby Mott were strong in the setters' position.
The second match was against Pembroke Hill. Eudora won 25-15, 25-22.
Lounsbury and Gloshen led the team with a couple of kills apiece. Hannah Kouri and Stewart had several digs to help keep the ball on Eudora's side.
The team plays at home at 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Idina Menzel's Fairy Tale Journey: From Broadway to 'Frozen' and a 'Gorgeous' Note From John Travolta (Cover Story)
By Suzy Evans
The "Frozen" star has a top 10 hit, 'Fanzels' who follow her every move, a new Broadway smash and a name (even when mangled) that has gone household
"Hey, it's me." The whistles and screams that greet this bit of dialogue are more Madison Square Garden than Broadway. And in fact, the crowd looks younger than usual at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. This house is dotted with tweens who call themselves "Fanzels" and who have helped make "Frozen" the top-grossing original animated film of all time, with worldwide box office of more than $1 billion, and pushed the soundtrack to six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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They might prefer an uninterrupted Idina Menzel concert, but if they're disappointed at this matinee preview of the new musical "If/Then," they don't show it. When the show finishes with a sustained standing ovation, little girls dart past slower audience members out into the cold to wait for an autograph. They join an already-robust group crowding the stage door, holding CDs, pictures and posters.
Menzel, a Broadway fixture known for her turns in "Rent" and "Wicked," is having a moment more fit for a rock star than a theater actor. The soundtrack to "Frozen" - in which she voices the misunderstood ice queen Elsa - is the first album to sell more than a million in 2014, and the hit "Let It Go," which won the best song Oscar on March 2, has made Menzel the first Tony-winning actor to have a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. (Adding to all this, Disney reports it sold 3.2 million units of the "Frozen" Blu-ray and DVD on March 18, its first day of sales.)
It's a long time coming for Menzel, 42, who has been trying to establish a pop career since starring in "Rent" in 1996 - her debut on the Disney-owned Hollywood Records, "Still I Can't Be Still," came out in 1998 and has sold only 18,000 albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Four years later, a Warner Bros. album saw Menzel collaborating with Glen Ballard, producer of Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill." It sold better (80,000) but not enough to keep her from getting dropped by the label.
After chasing pop success on its terms and failing, she connected with a song from theater composers (Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez) that was written to play to her strengths as a Broadway belter. "There are so many rules in the record business, and this just breaks them," says Menzel. To be sure, her version of "Let It Go" - anchored by piano and her voice - has sold 1.8 million downloads, while the Demi Lovato power ballad included on the soundtrack has sold 738,000.
"How can you plan these things?" she asks. "For years, I've tried to pursue a recording career. I've been signed and dropped a million times. People say Broadway actors can't cross over, but it seems society is ready to accept a theater person singing a song on the radio." But radio hasn't driven the success of "Let It Go," which has charted based largely on sales and streams and is only just now starting to make progress at adult contemporary and mainstream top 40 radio. "I'm just excited to see it break some rules," she says. "People have often closed doors because they didn't think we were capable of a hit song or some kind of pop-culture moment."
There's an unintended parallel between Menzel's life and her new show. "If/Then" is about a woman in her 40s whose life is at a crossroads. Menzel finally is basking in the pop-culture glow she arguably has chased her entire career. But there might be a better way of ministering to the Fanzels than a Broadway show that features an unplanned pregnancy as a plot point and a song (about trying to have sex with three men in one night) called "What the F-."
"I'm committed to my show," says Menzel firmly. She developed "If/Then" with writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, who both won the Pulitzer for "Next to Normal." "I'm not going to abandon a show that I've been a part of creating for years." And the mainstream success she has found cuts both ways. Menzel worries that her newfound fame might be a detriment to her theater street cred. "I'm a little concerned that critics will use me as a target," she confesses. "Just because there might be a bunch of young girls waiting outside doesn't take away from this amazing piece of work."
It's 10:30 on a Monday night, the end of Menzel's one day off from the grueling eight-show-a-week Broadway grind. She's unwinding in downtown Manhattan, comfortable in black pants, a heather-gray T-shirt and an army-print cardigan, which she wraps around herself. She sips a cup of tea and speaks quietly to save her voice, seemingly Zen for someone amid one of the busiest times of her life.
On March 2, three days before the start of preview performances for "If/Then," she flew to Los Angeles to perform "Let It Go" at the Oscars. Admittedly, she was nervous - "Just let me park and bark," she said to the producers - but she focused on her 4-year-old son, Walker, whose father is actor Taye Diggs. (The couple met when they starred in "Rent" together and in December announced their separation after 10 years of marriage.) It couldn't have helped her nerves when John Travolta mispronounced her name as "Adele Dazeem" in his introduction. ("THANK YOU, JORN TROMOLTO!" read one of the many tweets in response.) "That threw me for a minute, but then I just got back on track and reminded myself of where I was," says Menzel. "He was really gracious and sent this gorgeous email, and we're buddies and it's all cool." (The actor also sent flowers.) The result of all the social media chatter and coverage of the flub is that she's now a household name - two of them, in fact. "Please. I mean, I've only benefited from it."
Notes Robert Lopez: "You can tell that [people mispronouncing her name] always kind of bugs her, but she won't say anything about it. But now the entire world was corrected in one fell swoop!"
Two days after the Oscars - and just before "If/Then" previews began - Menzel got to blow off some steam on "The Tonight Show" when she did a toy-instruments version of "Let It Go" with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots. The resulting video has more than 8 million views on YouTube (furthering the song's chart climb). "In a week of very nerve-racking moments, that was a way to let loose," says Menzel. "But it was also nice to reinforce that I'm really a live performer and I can sing that f-ing song. In a day and age where a lot of people have to be fixed with [Auto-Tune], it's refreshing for people to know that some of us are not perfect all the time. But that's the thing. It's not about being perfect."
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Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the state education department to withdraw from a national consortium creating tests around the new Common Core State Standards.
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There is such delicious paradox in education news this week.
Current Florida assessment tests measure how well students have mastered specific information and particular skills - when Columbus sailed the ocean blue and how to add and subtract, for instance.
Common Core State Standards, on the other hand, aim to judge students' ability to learn and problem-solve; in short, critical-thinking skills.
On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order that proved a significant portion of Florida's citizenry, not to mention its political class and education bureaucracy, would fare very poorly in that area.
Here's how Scott's executive order starts:
"WHEREAS, the federal government has no constitutional authority to unilaterally set academic standards for Florida, nor any authority to unilaterally direct local school board decisions on curriculum and instruction."
Great. Absolutely. No argument here. The problem is that it might as well read "WHEREAS, the sky is blue" for all it has to do with Common Core.
There follow nine other "whereas" clauses before it gets to the "therefore" bits enacting actual stuff. Scott declared that Florida should withdraw from a multistate consortium working to write a test to assess students. (As it happens, Florida serves as the group's fiscal agent, cutting the checks and keeping the books.)
In practice, this means only that Florida will go it alone developing a test to assess Common Core. The state will put out a request for proposals and then award a multimillion-dollar contract to do on its own what the voluntary consortium of states - key word: states - was already doing.
There are a couple possible scenarios - perhaps a mini-consortium of states Florida could lead or join, maybe a wild- card bidder to develop the test - but there is one that is by far most likely.
Pearson Education Inc., the corporate behemoth, is among those developing the test for the consortium of states, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC. A smart bet, the most likely outcome of Scott's executive order, is that the state will hire Pearson to develop its Common Core test. Certainly that has some advantages for tailoring the test exactly as Florida wishes. Fine. It will probably cost state taxpayers marginally less to do this alone, another plus for you and me.
That is the sum total of the meaningful elements of Scott's executive order, a contract to a big corporation.
But that's not what many people heard. It was a tea party dog whistle, and it worked to perfection. The governor's office, in the hours and days that followed the executive order, went into campaign overdrive and released a series of canned quotes that revealed this was not real policy, but the curtain riser on a dachshund and Shetland.
"I commend Gov. Scott's decision on Common Core - a decision that will ensure Florida's educational curriculum is dictated by Floridians, not the federal government," said state Rep. Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, who'd previously filed a bill to slow down Common Core implementation even though that horse has left the barn, jumped the fence and bolted for greener pastures.
Of course, the governor could just as well have whistled "Dixie" and done exactly as much to ensure Florida's education autonomy.
More evidence of what was heard from Scott and what he actually did is clear in a series of emails sent out by the state Department of Education and Leon County Public Schools.
"The trainings next week will take place as planned," according to the state's Race to the Top coordinator, in an email. "Florida is not delaying implementation of the Common Core. We are opening up the standards for public review, which might result in some changes to them, but significant changes are not expected. Although Florida is withdrawing as the fiscal agent of PARCC, we still remain a member of PARCC as we explore assessment options."
And this, from the Leon district:
"There is a rumor circulating that the Governor did away with the Common Core State Standards, but that is not the case," according to an email from an administrator to teachers. "In short, the (Common Core State Standards) are still with us, but the PARCC is not - at least for now. Of course, we know how it is in education - tomorrow could be different. Please dispel any rumors in your department about this."
Finally, Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart weighed in with an email to teachers.
"The state Board of Education adopted the current standards in 2010," Stewart wrote in one bullet point. "These standards are still in effect, so the instruction and the assessment we have all planned for and are implementing during this 2013-14 school year remain the same."
This is quite simple. Candidate Rick Scott, who happens to also be governor, issued an executive order that is a simple, cost-free sop to the U.N. Agenda 21/death-panels/birther crowd in order to reinforce his political flank 14 months ahead of next year's election.
Common Core State Standards are very much still with us. Thank goodness.


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Texas A&M dismisses once-prized recruit J-Mychal Reese from basketball team
Texas A&M will be without one of the most prized basketball recruits the Aggies have seen in some time as the men's basketball program announced Saturday that sophomore guard J-Mychal Reese has been dismissed from the team following a violation of athletics department rules and regulations.
The 6-foot-1 guard played in 39 games during his time as an Aggie, including six this season, averaging 6.3 points per contest for his A&M career.
Reese missed the first four games of the season for violating team rules before returning. On Saturday with the Aggies in Houston to take on Oklahoma, neither Reese or his father and assistant coach for A&M, John Reese, made the trip citing the need to "deal with an issue within their family."
Reese was a four-star recruit out of nearby Bryan High School and signed with the Aggies in the 2012 class. He chose A&M over Baylor, Kansas and Louisville among other schools.
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Pete Blackshaw | June 12, 2007 | Comments
Is there a single department, group, or entity charged with influencer management? Should there be?
In the golden age of branding, several guests at the party held sway: brand, PR, marketing, external relations (ER), research, and the agencies. On top of that, we had a few occasional attendees, such as consumer affairs, investor relations, and community relations.
Today, in the golden age of consumer empowerment, we have the same party guests, but their sway is being challenged in a very big way by an aggressive, sometimes rude and abrupt new guest at the party: the consumer influencer.
I'm talking about the loudmouths everyone hears and reacts to. These folks really move the needle when it comes to CGM (define) creation and spread. They write the power blogs, lead the communities, organize the forums, create the boards, upload the most viewed videos on YouTube, lead mini-revolutions on Facebook, and more.
They may have accrued influence over time or have situational influence (e.g., they were first to try and review the iPhone, hence setting off a broader chain reaction). That influence often spills from the online zone into the offline or vice versa. Indeed, today's über-influencers are largely platform agnostic, except they tend to have a more quantifiable digital trail of results online. Put another way, if you search their names, you'll find evidence of something they said.
But Who Owns Them?
Who owns the influencer? Is there a single department, group, or entity charged with influencer management? Should there be? Equally important, what are the risks of too many folks going after the same constituency?
Having been in the consumer expression business for the past six years, I see two developments: half the industry is putting up barriers around their party guest to guard others from stepping on their influencer turn; the other half is looking for ways around the barriers for their turn. Let's take a look at the guests:
In sum:
|Role Concerning Consumer Influencers
|External relations
|Make, shape, and catalyze the news.
|Create free advertising, and shape the conversation.
|Investor relations
|Tip off financial analysts with deep perspective.
|Quality group
|Send early signals, and lead market thinking.
|Ad agency
|Act as a new media and messaging frontier.
|PR firm
|Manage events and other influencers.
|Digital agency
|Build the platforms that impact influencers.
|Market research
|Lead thinking on new segments.
|Direct/database marketers
|Create higher value segment or cohort against which to target.
|Are these influential consumers also my employees?
|Become aggregators of community, not just eyeballs.
Where Will It Go?
With all the ambiguity, change is certain to come. We'll start to see an melting of the silos into more coherent, coordinated consumer-centered entities.
Here are a few predictions:
That's just the beginning. The good news is this uninvited guest is shaking up the party.
Who wants to hang out at a boring party?
Pete Blackshaw, whose professional background encompasses public policy, interactive marketing, and brand management, is executive vice president of strategic services for Nielsen Online, a combination of Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a firm Pete helped cofound, and Nielsen//NetRatings. One of Pete's key focuses is helping brands interpret, manage, and act on consumer-generated media (CGM). A former interactive marketing leader at P&G and founder of consumer feedback portal PlanetFeedback.com, Pete cofounded the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA). He authors several blogs, including ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com, and is the author of an upcoming book from Random House, "Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000: Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World."
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Travel Australia: Road Trip In Australia
Malaysia and Australia are both part of the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of countries that were formerly part of the British Empire. Being relative young nations, both our countries have tend to have good relations. Just look at the number of Malaysians who are studying and living in Australia.
Like many Malaysians, I have relatives living in Australia and they thoroughly enjoy living in their country of choice. They do come back to Malaysia occasionally, but I suspect there is no place they would rather stay.
Having spent a number of years abroad in various countries, one of my favorite activities is to go on a road trip with friends. There is nothing quite as liberating and exciting as to just take off on a trip. You get to travel and you get to discover new places.
For those in Australia, a Brisbane to Sydney road trip in Australia sounds like a lot of fun.
Travel Australia: Brisbane to Sydney Road Trip In Australia
The best part about a road trip is that you get to see more of your destination and if you do some simple planning, it can be cheaper too. You will still be going to some of the most popular destination in Australia, from Brisbane to Sidney.
Brisbane to Sydney Road Trip In Australia
A Brisbane to Sydney road trip is approximately 1,000km, not including all the stops and detours along the way. Get a car, pack enough for a few days on the road and be prepared for an adventure. There are plenty of interesting places at each stop, from Australia's theme park in Gold Coast to a day of sun and surf.
"Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland and is located in the Brisbane river between Moreton Bay and the great dividing mountain range. It is a lust city with spectacular beaches and beautiful gardens. Its vast historical and cultural landmarks attracts a number of visitors into it for sightseeing as well as for dining opportunities."
- http://www.holidayyp.com/great-australian-road-trips-from-brisbane-to-sydney.html
Travel Plan
- Brisbane to Gold Coast
- Gold Coast to Bryon Bay
- Bryon Bay to Coffs Harbour
- Coffs harbor to Port Macquarie
- Port Macquarie to Nelson Bay
- Nelson Bay to Sydney
Travel Australia: Getting To Brisbane, Australia
Malaysia Airlines fly direct to Brisbane from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), flight time of just under 9 hours. If you are flying Economy Class, you have a baggage allowance of 30 kg or 66 lbs.
For more information on Australian Road Trip Brisbane To Sydney, there is a very informative post here at http://www.holidayyp.com/great-australian-road-trips-from-brisbane-to-sydney.html.
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Clare Rojas, Dave Eggers, and Jason Jagel amongst others in group show at SF's Electric WorksJuxtapoz // Tuesday, 30 Nov 2010
San Francisco's Electric Works ends the year on a high-note with a great group show, Stella Luminosa, featuring Clare Rojas (above), Dave Eggers, Jason Jagel, Ian Huebert, Matt Furie, Gina Tuzzi, and Keegan McHargue. No surprises here, as Electric Works continually programs great shows and publications.
Stella Luminosa opens this Friday, December 3, and Electric Works connects the dots by saying, "The works are distinguished by graphic mark making that evoke at once a childlike enhancement along with adult intrigue and sophistication."
Here are a few examples of the artists work, not in the show, but for your viewing pleasure.
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Stella Luminosa
December 3—23, 2010
A Group Show featuring: Dave Eggers, Matt Furie, Ian Huebert, Jason Jägel, Keegan McHargue, Clare Rojas, and Gina Tuzzi
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Rick Santorum, bounced by Pennsylvania voters in his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, is enjoying a resurgence in his home state.
Santorum is leading Mitt Romney among Republicans, 45 to 16 percent, in the latest Franklin & Marshall College Poll of Pennsylvania voters. The poll was released today.
Santorum also has closed a potential November match-up with President Barack Obama to under 10 points. The poll shows Obama with 45 percent of the vote, Santorum with 37 percent, 7 percent for other candidates, and 12 precent undecided.
One month ago, the poll showed Obama with 43 percent and Santorum with 30 percent.
The April 24 Pennsylvania primary could be interesting.
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Crowley was a good villain. I liked his wit and his take on things. I loved that he said that he was the only one that didn't underestimate the Winchester's. I hate the idea of Cass becoming the villain. Cass learned free will from Sam and Dean and as good as that was for them in the beginning it was also the reason that it is bad for them now. The brother's have a "do whatever it takes" approach when it comes to the job. They have that same outlook when it comes to family too. That is why Cass turned out the way that he did. It's sad though.
Katherine isn't gone or done. Klaus told Stefan that they were going to find her. Stefan is going to go back to being Elaina's love slave soon. He built up a tolerance to blood, Elaina's blood. The only reason he is acting like a "ripper" is to get Damon the cure and I think now to find out how to kill Klaus. In the meantime I think that Stefan will be with Katherine to please Klaus. Damon will go on the search for Stefan with Elaina and they will kindle a romance that will be kept a secret when they get Stefan back. The end result to kill Klaus... Take the dagger's out of all of the originals in that warehouse. Rick will become Elaina and Jeremy's guardian, now that Jenna and John are dead.
I like Bonnie having all that power. All the characters are supernatural in one way or another, except Rick. I wanna know what the heck happened to Jeremy! Is he seeing just dead vampires or dead people all together? Those witches weren't going to help Bonnie because of the consequences then they did because she said that she loved him.
The worst character was by far Isabel!!! The second worst was John. They had potential but are both dead, dead now. Katherine is just getting started. She isn't gone but we had to introduce the werewolves and Klaus. Now that all of that business has been introduced it's just time to stir the pot.


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$25 off all wines in the facebook shop pretty good deal. $8 per case for delivery.
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- +2 votesspuddy9595 on 13/09/2012 - 16:54 ¶
Brings the Rex Watson McKie Coonawarra Merlot down to $42 including delivery. I puchased a case of this a few weeks back and very drinkable, good quaffer for roughly $3.50 a bottle
- chuneeperformance on 13/09/2012 - 18:44 ¶
tried placing code and get this error:
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Did you go via fb.winemarket.com.au or www.winemarket.com.au? You need to go via the former.
- spuddy9595 on 13/09/2012 - 18:54 ¶
my bad forgot to mention the cart minimum of $60 mind you with the $8 postage there isnt many wines less than that price anyway. If I am getting a decent case of wine for less than $50 delivered I am happy.
claimed offer got the email - here's the codeCTB20
"To redeem voucher enter the code CTB20 into the Coupon Code box during checkout. PayPal users, please login to your Winemarket account first and ensure you enter the promo code before submitting your order. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. Not redeemable for cash. Strictly expires 12 midnight Saturday 15th Sept AEST. Standard Winemarket T&Cs apply."
- spuddy9595 on 14/09/2012 - 09:03 ¶
That doesn't sound right. The voucher should end in 25 ie face25 , sound like you have a different voucher?
I messaged winemarket on Facebook and the offer ends on Monday
- chuneeperformance on 14/09/2012 - 09:14 ¶
- +1 votespuddy9595 on 14/09/2012 - 10:03 ¶
The whole thing is wrong, the price on the small red logo is $75 including delivery but when you add to cart it comes up $88 which is the price listed on the right hand side of the picture
I would message them and ask to give you for the lower price. I have had the same tyhing happen awhile back and they gave it to me for the lower price. They obviously have changed the price but not updated the picture
- spuddy9595 on 14/09/2012 - 11:05 ¶
Not a white fan but anything made by Peter Lehman has got to be ok, def a good buy.
What sort of wine is the blonde? is that like a Chardonnay or more a semillon/sauv blend?
- -3 votesdaleyboy79 on 14/09/2012 - 15:39 ¶
So Winemarket will only give me a discount if i go through FB? They've lost a customer … i've banned myself from any shop that tries to force me onto FB!!!
- spuddy9595 on 14/09/2012 - 16:01 ¶
suck it up dude, seriously… the business is obviously trying to promote their facebook site (relatively new)
they do have a $15 winemarket voucher through their website but only $15.
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Settle mate. ;) You don't need to go via FB. Just navigate to URL http://fb.winemarket.com.au/. Simples!


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Home > Pet Tales Archive > 2005 > Pet Dental Facts
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by Barry B. Burtis D.V.M.
Pets Have Teeth Too
February is pet dental health month and therefore now becomes a good time to discuss some facts about teeth.
Puppies and kittens are not born with teeth. Their temporary (sometimes called deciduous, milk or baby) teeth start to come in when they are about 3 weeks old. By the time they are 6 weeks old their full set of temporary teeth will usually have erupted - 26 for cats and 28 for dogs. The crowns of the permanent teeth are formed by approximately 11 weeks of age but remain hidden within the jawbone. As their roots develop, the crowns begin to erupt through the gum. The nearness of the erupting crown to the temporary tooth contributes to the breakdown of the root and gradually the baby tooth is lost. The adult or permanent tooth can now come in through a clear pathway. Ideally, the temporary tooth should be gone as the permanent tooth comes through the gum. Sometimes, especially in the toy breeds of dogs, this does not happen. If the baby tooth is slow in being lost, in most cases, eventually, the temporary tooth will come out on its own. However, sometimes such a tooth is permanently retained. When this occurs, veterinarians recommend they be extracted. This will prevent possible problems resulting from two teeth being very close to one another. Dogs begin to erupt their permanent teeth at about 14 weeks of age and by the time they are 6 months old, usually have their full set of 42. Cats start and finish getting their adult teeth at approximately the same age as dogs but they have only 30 in total number.
The fact that a Chihuahua has the same number of teeth as a Great Dane, sometimes surprises people. Yes, the little dog does have smaller teeth but they still must fit the same number of teeth into a mouth that is very much smaller. It is a reason that, in general, small dogs probably have more tooth and gum problems than do the larger breeds. Also, different breeds of dogs have very different shaped heads. This will affect the positioning of the teeth, hence their relationship and their predisposition to disease. There are three major types: Borzois, Dobermans and Greyhounds have a long narrow face; Labradors, German Shepherds and most terriers, spaniels and hounds have a medium length and width muzzle; Pekingese, Pugs, Boxers, Bulldogs and Shih Tzus have wide short muzzles. Cats have a very much more uniform head shape.
The articulation of the jaws of carnivores is designed to produce maximum biting force. The teeth are precisely arranged for shearing and cutting in both dogs and cats. The biting force exerted in the dog is approximately 1200 pounds per square inch, compared with 150 pounds per square inch in humans.
Kittens and puppies, in most cases, have few problems associated with the teething process. Unlike human infants, they seldom develop a fever or experience sore, aching gums. I tell owners they are more likely to be bothered by the process than their pet. This is so because, undoubtedly, cutting new teeth causes the young animal to be more likely to chew on things. Otherwise, most often, owners would have no idea so much change is occurring in their new pet's mouth. Chewing probably helps with the loss of the temporary teeth. When the tooth comes out, often it is swallowed, sometimes it just falls to the ground. When this happens, an owner may notice a spot of blood in the mouth, around the lips or on something being chewed, but, that's usually all there is to it. There is none of this "tying a string around the tooth and attaching it to a doorknob" required to get the tooth out!
Both cats and dogs sometimes suffer from deviations in the normal bite or means by which opposing teeth meet and work with one another to cut or tear. These deviations are known as malocclusions. Some types of malocclusion are more serious than others. Ones that cause trauma to parts of the mouth or lips or ones that cause pain should be corrected. Orthodontics, tooth shortening or extractions are the most common methods used to correct these problems.
Teeth are a very important body parts for our pets. Remember that your veterinarian should be consulted for any problems that your pet may have with them. In most veterinary practices, dentistry constitutes a major part of the health care services offered. In addition, there are veterinarians who have specialized in dentistry. For certain dental problems, it may be recommended that you visit them for an examination and/or appropriate treatment.


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November 26, 2015
"It was terrifying," said Wilma Rice.
Christmas day is forever changed for Rice.
"I knew for sure he was trying to kill me," she said.
Authorities say just before two Friday afternoon, Rice's ex-boyfriend, 59 year-old Marshall Ray Brown. allegedly showed up at the grocery store she owns in Kings Mountain.
Rice and her family were loading up the car with food for their holiday dinner, when they say Brown opened fire - injuring Rice, along with her 24 year-old niece, Catherine Ping.
Brown left after the shooting, and shot and killed himself.
Rice says she had worried things might turn violent.
She says she'd broken up with Brown, and he wasn't taking it well.
"He was getting more and more dangerous," Rice said, "When people follow you with their lights off in the night-time - there's something wrong there."
She'd gone to local authorities, who she says told her there wasn't much that could be done.
"I asked 'does he have to hurt me first, before I get anything done?," Rice said, "They said it was the law."
The day of the shooting, Brown was supposed to move the rest of his things out of Rice's home.
Rice would like to see changes in the law, to prevent more tragic situations like this one.
"I'm sorry it had to end this way - I loved his children," Rice said, "And I would never want to see anything happen to him."
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Music is often best when stripped down to its core. It's most meaningful when we can pull up the veneer and see the chipped, unfinished wood beneath. The most poignant bands in history have proved this very point by making no-frills rock n' roll, leaving all narcissism and self-indulgence behind (i.e. Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, and The White Stripes). It is in this analog tradition that Jeff the Brotherhood exists in our tweaked out digital world.
Jeff the Brotherhood is a duo made up of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall. They were born and raised in Nashville with their singer/songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall (he is also a producer who has worked with artists like Reba McEntire, Lindsay Lohan, and Taylor Swift). The brothers began playing together in high school haven't stopped yet. They've meandered in and out of several side project and other bands, but one never without his brother by his side.
It's a sweet story, I'm sure.
The band has put out seven studio albums (not to mention two EP's and a live album) since their 2002 indie debut, I Like You. In 2012 they put out their most recent album Hypnotic Nights, and have pretty much been on the road since then. They've been through Louisville many times on the course of their countless trips crisscrossing America, including an incendiary Forecastle performance in 2012.
Tonight, Jeff the Brotherhood will be returning to Louisville to put on one of their signature, high energy, electric performances at Zanzabar. Road warriors like The Brotherhood don't get road weary, they bring one hundred percent of themselves, one hundred percent of the time.
Jeff The Brotherhood, tonight June 11th at Zanzabar (2100 S. Preston St.), Doors are at 7:00 PM, the show starts at 8:00 PM. Tickets range $9.25-$15. Catfish and the Bottlemen, Idiot Glee, and Alanna Fugate are also on the bill.


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This by far is one of the most messiest divorces in entertainment.
PILAR and DEION SANDERS make news again, now that court documents have been obtained that claim no real financial support is being given to PILAR and her children.
In the Texas court documents PILAR claims, "Since [Deion] filed for divorce on December 21, 2011, he has given [Pilar] $300.00 and offered her money in exchange for sexual favors. The children and I have lived in survival mode for several months, and the emotional toll on all of us is palpable."
Allegedly DEION who still rakes in about $1 million a year, has had her credit cards cancelled, and her belongings "haphazardly" thrown into the garage.
Damn, PILAR must of did something to really make DEION this upset!
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Earthbound Farm announced this week it has been acquired by WhiteWave, the maker of the Horizon Organic brand. / Provided/WhiteWave
Earthbound Farm, the San Juan Bautista-based organic grower that found itself in the middle of the deadly 2006 spinach recall, is being acquired by The WhiteWave Foods Co., the parent of beverage brands Horizon Organic and Silk.
Earlier this year, in an email exchange with The Californian, Samantha Cabaluna, a spokeswoman for Earthbound, denied the company was being shopped around. On Wednesday she explained the discrepancy.
In May, at the time of our email exchange, none of the due diligence or work for this deal with WhiteWave had begun, Cabaluna said. Later in the year we were talking to potential buyers.
The $600 million in cash proceeds from the sale will go to existing shareholders led by Kainos Capital and founders Drew and Myra Goodman.
With anticipated 2013 net sales of more than $500 million, Earthbound Farm is the largest organic produce brand in North America and also produces and markets a line of organic fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen fruits and vegetables, and dried fruits and snacks.
WhiteWave manufactures, markets, distributes and sells branded plant-based foods and beverages, coffee creamers and beverages, and dairy products throughout North America and Europe under widely-recognized, leading brands including Silk, Horizon Organic, International Delight, and Land OLakes.
Earthbound Farm is a natural extension of our business that reaffirms WhiteWaves leadership in the organic foods and beverages industry in North America, said Gregg Engles, chairman and chief executive officer of WhiteWave. Fresh foods are one of the most attractive, emerging trends in the food industry today and the market for organic products continues to grow steadily. With Horizon Organic and Earthbound Farm, WhiteWave will now provide the two most popular gateways for consumers to enter into the organic category produce and dairy.
Earthbound co-founder Drew Goodman said he and his wife, Myra, both believe that WhiteWave is a leader in improving how food is produced. That is a positive move in light of the deadly 2006 E. coli outbreak that the Food and Drug Administration linked to spinach processed at a plant owned by Earthbound Farm. More than 200 were sickened and three people died. The bagged spinach went out to consumers under the Dole brand.
The acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2014. WhiteWave plans to operate Earthbound Farm as a separate business unit, based in San Juan Bautista. No significant operational changes are anticipated at Earthbound Farm as a result of the acquisition, the companies said in a news release.
WhiteWave expects that the acquisition will add about $0.07 cents per share to its net earnings in the first fiscal year, not counting the costs of the acquisition.
WhiteWave plans to fund the acquisition from existing credit relationships with its bankers. The Denver-based company also intends to increase its credit line by $500 million in order to finance continued growth.
J.P. Morgan acted as financial adviser and Haynes and Boone, LLP acted as legal adviser to WhiteWave. Barclays and Houlihan Lokey acted as financial advisers and Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Cooley LLP acted as legal advisers to Earthbound Farm.
Dennis L. Taylor writes about business and agriculture for The Californian. Follow him on Twitter @taylor_salnews.


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|Impact of coronial investigations on manner and cause of death determinations in Australia, 2000-2007.
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|PMID: 20402607 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the changes in the understanding of the manner and cause of death occurring during the course of coronial investigations. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of deaths reported to coroners in Australia between 1 July 2000 and 31 December 2007, using the National Coroners Information System. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: (i) Manner of death (natural, external, unknown); (ii) intent classification (eg, unintentional injury, suicide, assault) among deaths with external causes; and, (iii) changes in the manner of death and intent classification between the presumption made at case notification and the coroner's final determination. RESULTS: The coronial investigation changed the presumption about manner of death or intent classification in 5.2% (6222/120 452) of cases in which a presumption was made. Among deaths with a change in attribution from natural causes to external causes, unintentional falls (442/1891) and pharmaceutical poisoning (427/1891) each accounted for 23%. Among deaths with attribution changing from external causes to natural causes, the leading medical causes of death were cardiovascular compromise (551/842; 65%) and infection (124/842; 15%). Of deaths understood correctly at notification to be due to external causes, but the wrong external cause, 34% (206/600) were ultimately judged to be unintentional injuries, and 22% (133/600) were judged to be suicides. CONCLUSIONS: Coronial investigations transform basic understanding of cause of death in only a small minority of cases. However, the benefits to families and society of accurate cause-of-death determinations in these difficult cases may be considerable.
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Graduate tax not a firm recommendation: ANCComment on this story
Johannesburg - The proposed graduate tax is not a firm recommendation, the ANC said on Friday.
"We want to clarify that this was not a firm recommendation. (It is) safe to say that the (education) commission agreed that this recommendation needs to be considered in future," party spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.
"To this extent, no consideration has been made by the sub-committee or the ANC on this recommendation."
The African National Congress resolved at its elective conference in Mangaung last year to introduce a tax on graduates.
Conference delegates participating in the education and health commission resolved that consideration "must be given to a graduate tax for all graduates from higher education institutions".
It did not provide more details.
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Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is asking Republicans how they plan to simultaneously increase U.S. military activity and reduce the deficit without raising taxes.
If you want to intervene in Syria or conduct other U.S. military actions around the world, then raise taxes, Frank said, speaking March 27 at the Center for National Policy in Washington.
Over the last decade, the U.S. government reduced taxes beyond what was prudent, given it was conducting two wars, he said.
Rather than raise taxes, Republicans would like to reduce "entitlement" or mandatory spending programs, which include Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Frank said he'd like to make medical care in the U.S. more efficient, but said he did not approve of reducing medical care, especially for poor people. Instead, Frank said he'd like to see steeper cuts to defense spending. Today's defense budget is still designed to counter an existential threat like that posed by the Soviet Union, he said, despite the fact that one no longer exists.
Frank, who announced in November that he is not running for re-election, serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. He said the country could reduce defense spending by 25 percent and still maintain its position as the strongest military power in the world.
"Terrorists are not the functional equivalent of the threat posed by fascism or the Soviet Union," he said, because they cannot defeat the U.S. militarily. "You can't beat terrorists with nuclear submarines, although I wish you could, because we have them."
Frank said the United States no longer needs to maintain three different ways of delivering nuclear weapons, what is known as the nuclear triad. The U.S. has bomber aircraft, intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic missile submarines.
The Obama administration's 2013 budget request protects all three legs of the nuclear triad but delays the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine replacement by two years.
"During the Cold War, we had three ways of dropping nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union; we still have three ways to drop nuclear weapons, even though there is no longer a Soviet Union," Frank said. "I'd like to tell the Pentagon: pick two."
Frank was also critical of NATO, saying it currently serves as a vehicle to subsidize European defense. He would also remove U.S. forces from Okinawa and end operations in Afghanistan.
Frank said with these reductions, the United States could still maintain a strong military presence. He said he wanted the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet to remain in the Middle East and for the U.S. to be able to protect Taiwan.
Despite his call for further reductions to defense spending, Frank said the automatic spending cuts that would take place under sequestration are not the right method for shrinking the Defense Department's budget.
Currently, the Pentagon plans to cut an estimated $487 billion over the next decade to meet discretionary spending caps imposed by the Budget Control Act. If Congress fails to enact an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, sequestration, which imposes automatic spending cuts across the government, would start in January 2013, including an additional $500 billion cut automatically from DoD.
While Frank said the amount of defense spending to be cut under sequestration was not excessive, he opposed the method.
The Pentagon should have the ability to pick and choose what should and shouldn't be cut, rather than sustaining the across-the-board cuts that would come with sequestration, he said.
Congress is headed for two train crashes: sequestration and the expiration of the tax cuts that were first signed into law by President George W. Bush, Frank said. The tax cuts are set to expire Jan. 1, the same day that sequestration goes into effect.
Frank predicted it would be the most powerful lame duck session in history, with the results of the November elections shaping everything.


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Evelyn Lozada is pretty sure that her ex-husband Chad Johnson is keeping tabs on her via Twitter.
Evelyn wouldn't be surprised if Chad was among the many people that have seen her new hair color.
While Chad was ordered not to contact Evelyn in any way after their domestic incident back in August, the "Basketball Wives" star feels certain that he's regularly checking her timeline.
When comedian Lil' Duval asked Chad what he thought of Evelyn's new look, Evelyn tweeted, "I know he saw it #TweetStalkin."
Whether Chad likes Evelyn's new hair, we may never know. But he does seem to have a thing for women with lighter locks. He has spent much of his time on Twitter today running through a list of his favorite blondes of the last 30 years, including Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Diane Lane.
—Sonya Eskridge
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Sunday February 23, 2003Swim & Dive Finish Second At SEC Championships
Gainesville, FL
Freshman Ryan Lochte won the SEC Male High Points Award.
Gainesville, FL
Freshman Ryan Lochte won the SEC Male High Points Award.
The University of Florida mens and womens swim and dive teams finished in second place in the team standings Saturday night at the 2003 SEC Championships held at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center in Auburn, Ala. The womens team concluded with 685 points, while the men finished with 680. Auburn won both team titles.
"I was very pleased with the womens performance," head coach Gregg Troy said. "Sara McLarty, Vipa Bernhardt, Jamie Reid and our relays were outstanding. We have qualified pretty much everyone for the NCAAs. That was a heck of a conference meet with the three best teams probably in the nation."
"Ryan Lochte and Carlos Jayme were outstanding," Troy said. "We could be a little bit stronger in a few spots. Auburn is deeper than we are at the moment."
The womens team broke six school records, won two titles and set one SEC record that was later broken.
The mens team saw two individuals crowned champion and one, freshman Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), win the SEC Swimmer and Freshman of the Year Awards.
The mens team began the final night of competition with a bang, as Lochte opened with his second individual title in as many nights with a championship in the 1,650-yard freestyle (14:55.03). Lochtes sub 15-minute time was only the third such time in SEC Championship history. The win marked the third conference title for Lochte (200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard individual medley and 1,650 free) at this seasons championships, making it the second straight year that a true freshman has won three titles in the same conference meet. Last season, Adam Sioui (Ontario, Canada) won three titles on his way to winning the NCAA Championship in the 200-yard freestyle a month later. Lochtes efforts also earned him the SEC Male High Points Award with 57 points. Lochte also made it three years in a row that a UF swimmer won the SEC Freshman of the Year honor (Carlos Jayme 2001 and Sioui 2002).
The high points award marked the second time this season that Lochte won such an award. He also won the Male High Points Award at the U.S. Open this past December with five top-10 finishes at the meet.
After beginning the day 107.5 points below Auburn, the womens team came within 67.5 points after getting off to a quick start as four swimmers placed within the top-10 of the 1,650-yard freestyle. Junior Sara McLarty (Deland, Fla.) led Florida as she won her second consecutive SEC title in the event with a James E. Martin Aquatics Center record of 16:07.45. McLarty finished tied for second in the Female High Points Award standings with 57 points. Sophomore Meredith Green (Chapel Hill, N.C.) placed third for the second straight year with a time of 16:20.18. Freshman Jamie Tannhauser (Seattle, Wash.) and senior Anna Chapman (St. Simons Island, Ga.) finished seventh and ninth with times of 16:39.80 and 16:47.06, respectively.
"Im proud that the Gators got one-three in the race," McLarty said. "This was a good start for us tonight, but I must say that Ryan Lochte really got it rolling for us. He is my training partner and his dad is my coach from back home. Im really proud of him as well."
Freshman Vipa Bernhardt (Bad Hersfeld, Germany) broke her own school record in the 200-yard breaststroke for the second time today with a runner-up time of 2:09.17. Fellow freshmen Danielle Duncan (Overland Park, Kan.) and Mandy Huff (Gold Hill, N.C.) finished fifth and eighth in the event with times of 2:14.80 and 2:18.06, respectively.
"It was a great swim," Bernhardt said. "Its fantastic for Germans to finish one-two-three in a race like this. I set a new school record tonight and got to swim with two of my teammates."
After breaking the SEC, pool and school record this morning in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:54.86, freshman Jamie Reid (Orlando, Fla.) finished third with a time of 1:55.01. Reids prelim time ranks third in SEC history after Auburns Margaret Hoelzer (1:52.83) and Kirsty Coventry (1:53.87) took one and two in the finals.
Defending SEC champion Rebecca Harper (Richmond, Va.) finished third in the 200-yard butterfly in a time of 1:57.57. Georgias Mary DeScenza broke Harpers SEC record of 1:55.97 from last year with a time of 1:54.80. Junior Casey Seland (Longwood, Fla.) placed eighth in 2:00.83.
Junior Chantal Gibney (Dublin, Ireland) took sixth place in the 100-yard freestyle in a provisional time of 50.31.
Junior Carlos Jayme (Goias, Brazil) won the first individual SEC title of his career in the 100-yard freestyle with a SEC meet record time of 42.89. Jaymes title marked the 325th SEC swimming title in UF mens history (the most of any SEC school). Sophomore Gabriel Mangabeira (Piratininga, Brazil) finished 12th in a time of 44.39, while junior Scott Schultz (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) finished 14th (44.96) in the consolation finals. Jayme also finished fourth in the standings for the Male High Points Award with 52 points.
"It feels great to finally get my first SEC title," Jayme said. "It was a tough race. The guys that I raced against are very good. I owe this one to my teammates. They helped me pull through."
In addition to Lochte in the 1,650 free, sophomore Jan Wolfgarten (Frankfurt, Germany), sophomore Scott Kaufmann (Sparks, Nev.) and freshman Brian Hartley (Indianapolis, Ind.) finished fifth, sixth and eighth respectively in the event.
Junior Chris Kellam (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) finished second in his bid to defend his SEC title in the 200-yard backstroke. Kellam finished in a time of 1:42.57. Sophomore Kris Wiebeck (Tampa, Fla.) finished fourth in the event (1:44.61), while sophomore Claudio Ulrich (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) finished seventh (1:46.91).
Senior Philip Norris (Longwood, Fla.) concluded his career in the SEC Championships with an eighth place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:59.81. Fellow senior Ian Chadsey (Reston, Va.) won the consolation finals of the event with a ninth place time of 1:59.28. Sophomore Corey Welch (Larksville, Pa.) finished 12th.
Sioui and senior Greg King (Miami, Fla.) finished ninth and 10th place respectively in the consolation finals of the 200-yard butterfly. Sioui finished in a time of 1:47.58, while King finished with a time of 1:48.07.
Zach Wilcox (Yarrow Point, Wash.) concluded his brilliant performance at the SEC Championships with a third place finish of 496.85 in the platform diving. The Gators 400-yard freestyle relay team of Schultz, Jayme, Mangabeira and Sioui closed out the night with a second place finish in a time of 2:55.29.
Overall, UF won seven mens titles. That brings the total number of SEC mens individual titles to 23 in Troys four years as head coach. The four years before Troys arrival as head mens coach, UF had won only 12 individual conference titles.
Both swimming and diving teams will be back in action Wednesday night, Feb. 25, as the Gators host the Last Chance Meet at the Stephen C. OConnell Center at 7 p.m.
1. Auburn 918.5
2. Florida 680
3. Georgia 492.5
4. Tennessee 455
5. Alabama 376
6. Kentucky 270.5
8. South Carolina 188.5
1. Ryan Lotche, UF 14:55.03
5. Jan Wolfgarten, UF 15:16.64
6. Scott Kaufmann, UF 15:17.69
8. Brian Hartley, UF 15:22.34
12. Mac Warren, UF 15:34.78
exh. Steve Friedlander, UF 15:48.42
3. Meredith Green, UF 16:20.18
7. Jamie Tannhauser, UF 16:39.80
9. Anna Chapman, UF 16:47.06
exh. Jessica Schrock, UF 16:50.61
exh. Blair Beard, UF 17:03.49
1. Kylee Wells, UT 452.95
13. Nicole Bolt, UF 312.25
14. Jessica Ranieri, UF 281.65
1. Bryce Hunt, AU 1:41.73
2. Chris Kellam, UF 1:42.57
4. Kris Wiebeck, UF 1:44.61
7. Claudio Ulrich, UF 1:46.91
1. Margaret Hoelzer, AU 1:52.83
3. Jamie Reid, UF 1:55.01
4. Maureen Farrell, UF 1:55.24
Championship Finals
1. Carlos Jayme, UF 42.89*
Consolation Finals
12. Gabriel Mangabeira, UF 44.39
14. Scott Schultz, UF 44.96
Championship Finals
1. Maritza Correia, UG 47.49
6. Chantal Gibney, UF 50.31
Consolation Finals
13. Diane Tennison, UF 50.67
15. Mary Uhle, UF 50.95
Championship Finals
1. Kyle Salyards, UG 1:55.67
8. Philip Norris, UF 1:59.81
Consolation Finals
9. Ian Chadsey, UF 1:59.28
12. Corey Welch, UF 2:00.97
1. Anne Poleska, Alab. 2:09.03
2. Vipa Bernhardt, UF 2:09.17
5. Danielle Duncan, UF 2:14.80
8. Mandy Huff, UF 2:18.06
Championship Finals
1. Stefan Gherghel, UA 1:43.09
Consolation Finals
9. Adam Sioui, UF 1:47.58
10. Greg King, UF 1:48.07
Championship Finals
1. Mary DeScenza, UG 1:54.80
3. Rebecca Harper, UF 1:57.57
8. Casey Seland, UF 2:00.83
Consolation Finals
9. Renate duPlessis, UF 1:59.79
12. Cara Teague, UF 2:00.79
14. Diane Tennison, UF 2:01.69
3. Zach Wilcox, UF 496.85
1. Auburn 2:51.96
2. Florida 2:55.29
(Schultz, Jayme, Mangabeira, Sioui)
1. Auburn 3:16.75
3. Florida 3:20.69
(Farrell, Uhle, Gibney, Tennison)
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A scene at the opening of the Big Four Bridge in Waterfront Park on February 7, 2013 in Louisville.
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Louisville waterfront officials on Wednesday accepted a prestigious award for "urban excellence" for the development of Waterfront Park.
The Waterfront Development Corp. was presented the Rudy Bruner Silver Medal Award by representatives of the Bruner Foundation of Cambridge, Mass.
The awards are given to projects that contribute to the economic, social and physical fabric of American cities. The award includes a grant of $10,000 that will go to the Waterfront Park maintenance fund. ...


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Radley Metzger�s last hardcore effort under his Henry Paris nom-de-film is finally available on DVD from Video-X-Pix. Well, they saved the worst for last � and by that, I don�t mean from a content standpoint! While Maraschino Cherry is generally regarded as the weakest of that group of films, even Metzger�s weakest efforts far outstrip those of most of his porn peers and successors, IM (and many others�) HO. No, in this case, �worst� applies to the incredibly poor job Video-X-�Pukes� has done in producing this DVD! You think some of the earlier Caballero stuff sucks? Well, step right down to a new low! They ought to take the VXP folks down to Maraschino�s dungeon and do to them what she and Annette Haven do to C.J. Laing in the film�s finale!
First, some general comments. The print they used to make the transfer must have come off of years and years of being kicked around in various decrepit projection booths and basements! It�s in terrible shape! The color has shifted significantly and now has a heavy magenta tone (the old Eastmancolor fading/shifting problem � which tells you just how old this piece-of-crap print is!) The entire print (not just before and after reel changes) is full of splices (looks like quite a few people snipped out frames to mount as slides). Many of these splices result in the loss of a few seconds of screen time during important parts of the scenes, and, in one case, eliminate one of the cum shots! As if that�s not enough, the print is extremely scratched and dirty for its entire length, making watching it a real chore. These films may often be called �dirty pictures,� but on a new DVD we at least ought to have a clean print!
The framing is almost as bad as the print � it is, literally, the worst of all possible worlds! It appears that this film (like many of Metzger�s others of the era) was shot in Super 16. This process uses the space on the 16mm camera negative that otherwise would be occupied by the soundtrack for additional picture area. This results in an aspect ratio of about 1.66 or something like that. So you get a "widescreen" image, which is then blown up to 35mm (matted) or slightly reduced to 16mm (matted) release prints in an aspect ratio of between 1.66 and 1.85. Most DVD transfers of these films are full-frame blow-ups, with the video frame centered on the original widescreen image, so that part of each side of the original frame is cut off on video. (You can�t really call these �pan-and-scan� versions, since the video frame is locked in the center position � it neither pans nor scans.)
Well, folks -- VXP has found a new and nauseating way to screw even that up! The print they use is a widescreen, matted one, probably with a 1.85 aspect ratio. Did they do a widescreen, letterboxed transfer to show us the entire frame as originally intended by the director and as seen in the theater? No. Did they do a full-frame blow-up, with the video frame centered on the original widescreen image? NO! What these �vidiots� have done is a partially-letterboxed, somewhat blown-up transfer that is locked into the far-left portion of the frame! The result is an image that has very narrow black bars at the top and bottom of the picture (just enough to be obtrusive), and which is consistently (and annoyingly!) mis-framed left-of-center! In certain scenes, originally intended to be two-shots, you can hardly even see the nose of the person who should be on the right!
Finally, to add insult to already considerable injury, VXP has seen fit to periodically slap its logo on the lower right corner of the frame throughout the film, apparently (at minimum, perhaps more often � I lost count) at the start of each �chapter� of the DVD, even further obscuring the image and distracting the viewer from watching the film! At least when some other DVD producers do this, it�s meant to signal a �Multiple Angles� part of the disc, so the logo at least has some reason for being there. Not so, in this case � it�s just VXP reminding us who�s responsible for this piece of D-igital V-ideo D-reck!
Now, let�s discuss the actual (surviving) content of the film. Given all of the above-mentioned idiocy, you didn�t actually expect the entire film to be there, did you? Once again, VXP has lived down to our lowest expectations! The DVD runs 73 minutes, 10 seconds, actual clock time. The older VHS release (late �70s or early �80s) to which I compared it side-by-side, shot-by-shot, runs 84 minutes, 29 seconds. So, we are missing 11 minutes, 19 seconds. But here�s the kicker -- it is quite curious to note that they have not deleted the one scene which, I�d venture to say, most people probably expected them to delete. The final �dungeon� scene, with a decidedly S&M feel, involving Gloria Leonard, Annette Haven, C.J. Laing, a hotplate, two glasses of scotch and a couple of dildos inserted anally, is still there! Or at least mostly there. Remember all those splices I mentioned? The DVD version of this scene is fully 16 seconds shorter because of them! Oh, well � at least the scene is (mostly) still there. If this were a VCA DVD, I�m sure it would have been cut, so in this case, we actually benefit from VXP�s heads-down job.
So, what did get cut? A bunch of little and not-so-little things here and there, none of which seem to have deserved being deleted! (It figures!) I�ll list the actual excisions, where they occur on the DVD, what�s missing and how much time is involved. Remember, also, about the considerable number of splices throughout the print, and the appreciable amount of lost running time they represent!
The first major edit occurs at 13:06 into the DVD, during the scene in which Maraschino Cherry, played by Gloria Leonard (L), is talking with her younger sister, Penny, played by Jenny Baxter (B). B is explaining what�s been happening with her and her parents back in �Poplar Springs.� We are in an over-the-shoulder (OTS) shot of B, and she says to L, �They just knew that you worked in a cathouse.� At this point, the DVD EDITS to a 2-shot of them on a couch, and B says, �So, we thought it would be a natural for a middle-income whorehouse.�
What�s Missing: Cut to a close-up (CU) of L, who says, �In a high-class cathouse!� Cut back to the OTS of B, as she says, �You really made it big � you have the world by the tail!� B rises from her chair and crosses to sit next to L on the couch as L says, �I own a high-class cathouse!� B replies, �Well, that�s why they sent me here. Well, they thought they would just forget about buying another farm, and go into another line of work � something different.� L asks, �Really? How different?� B replies, �Well, as you know, Poplar Springs is right in the middle of a strongly religious and God-fearing area of the country.� L asks, �So?� (BACK TO DVD) B replies, �So, we thought it would be a natural for a middle-income whorehouse.� 33 seconds have been cut. Tell me why.
The next edit occurs at 19:51 into the DVD, at the end of the Suzanne McBain/Michael Gaunt �toilet seat� sex scene. The scene ends with a CU of his hands caressing her lower back after they�ve come. At this point, the DVD EDITS to a shot of a model sailboat going by on a small lake.
What�s Missing: Cut to a shot of L in her office, instructing B on the finer points of running a �house.� She says, �Probably the most important thing is the introduction. Like the bidding in a bridge game, or the first offer in a business deal? For example, I had a good customer who liked his introductions both unexpected and original!� Cut to a wide shot of Central Park Lake, with model sailboats on it. (BACK TO DVD) Cut to a shot of one sailboat going by. 17 seconds have been cut. Also, at this point, the audio becomes very �fluttery� for quite some time � obviously because a bad film splice had screwed up the projector�s threading at the sound pickup! Where were the techs during the transfer? Probably couldn�t hear a thing with their heads so far up their asses!
And while we�re talking about splices, at 27:39 into the DVD, a big splice loses about 5 seconds from the end of the scene in which Constance Money (M) gives a hand job to the �sailor� guy as they watch 8mm porn loops.
The next edit is at 40:11 into the DVD, during the extended �Matador� scene in the bar. Money (M) places two big jugs of wine on the back of the bar. Cut to a shot of the Matador (MT) and his woman (W) looking at M. DVD EDITS to an overhead shot of M lying face up on the bar as MT pulls out his cock and M begins to blow him.
What�s Missing: Cut back to M as she takes more bottles off the bar, intercut with shots of MT and W watching her. M then comes around in front of the bar with a bottle in each hand, moving her hips seductively. A series of shots of M and W, who gets up from where she has been sitting and begins moving her hips seductively. M comes over to W and they sway suggestively, facing each other, as the men watch. The two women kiss, then M pushes W gently back onto the table. M bends over and begins giving W head as the men watch. After a bit, M rises, dances away, and sits on top of the bar, looking at W and the men. She slowly removes her (toreador, of course) pants, opens her legs, and beings stroking her pussy, still looking at W and the men. MT gets up and comes over to her. The scene cuts back to a brief shot of MT and L in her office, as earlier in the film. MT asks, �For me?� L replies, �Of course, you!� Cut back to the bar, as MT says to M, �They say you like to be where the action is.� M says, �Up front.� MT continues, �You like to see the whole show.� She replies, �I love it! I get there early and I stay late.� MT says, �You like to be there for the kill.� M replies, �I am the kill.� MT laughs, then says, �A good matador never lets the bull prepare himself.� He snaps his fingers and gestures for W to come over to the bar, stepping back as she does. After a moment, M lies back on the bar and W goes down on her, as the men watch. Intercut numerous shots of W giving head, M enjoying it, the men watching, and MT beginning to undress. Then MT comes back over to the bar. (BACK TO DVD) Cut to the overhead shot as MT pulls out his cock and M begins to blow him. A total of 7 minutes, 51 seconds of excellent eroticism has been cut. Again, why? Also, at the end of the scene � 42:37 into the DVD � 5 seconds are missing from the shot of M and MT, their faces close together, after they have come.
The next installment of �Death by a Thousand Splices� occurs between 52:30 and 53:00 into the DVD, toward the end of the scene in the whorehouse between B and the two men. A series of splices chops around 9 or 10 seconds out of the �climax� of the scene, including the actual cumshot of the man getting the blowjob!
But wait! Don�t go away � there�s less! At the end of the scene with B and the two men, DVD EDITS to a CU of L in a piano bar, and we hear her voice-over, saying, �She gets all dressed up and goes out by herself.�
What�s Missing: At the end of the scene with B and the two men, cut to an interior pan of a wall in the whorehouse, as L is heard continuing B�s training, saying, �You�ll find that your most important item is housewives.� B says, �Really?� L replies, �Really! Without them, you�ll starve! Couples business is big, too, but if you want to make it with couples, sucking cock is not enough � you�ve got to eat good pussy! And being gay is no guarantee.� B asks, �It isn�t?� to which L replies, �Do all capitalists pray?� B asks, �Do stockbrokers eat good pussy?� By this time, we have panned over to a 2-shot of L & B. L replies, �Strictly Bloomingdales! Here�s a good case in point � and this�ll be of particular interest to you. There�s this housewife � rather well off. When her husband is away, and her child is off at school�� (BACK TO DVD) Cut to the piano bar as L is heard, saying, ��she gets all dressed up and goes out by herself.� 36 seconds are gone, along with the setup to the scene about to start.
Another short edit occurs at 63:18, at the end of the Annette Haven piano bar scene. L gets up, puts a note in Haven�s hand, and walks out. DVD EDITS to L, in the whorehouse, in mid-sentence, as she says, ��ing for a little while.�
What�s Missing: The man lies on top of Haven, spent, caressing her. After a moment, a woman walks into the bar and sits down next to a man at a table in back. L is heard in voice-over, saying, �I asked her in the note, very sweetly, if she would like to drop by one even� (BACK TO DVD) �ing for a little while.� 22 seconds have been cut.
As mentioned before, there are numerous splices in the final, anal dildo scene in the dungeon with L, Haven and Laing. Also, at the end of the scene, for some strange reason, the DVD repeats the earlier soundtrack of Laing gasping, etc., instead of the original, sync-sound audio of the three kissing and Laing sighing.
The last edit occurs at 71:32 into the DVD. At the end of the dungeon scene, the picture cuts to a daytime skyline shot. After a moment, DVD EDITS to another skyline shot, and L is heard in voice-over, saying, �Well, little sister, this is goodbye.�
What�s Missing: During the first skyline shot, a phone is heard ringing. Cut to inside the whorehouse as Lesllie Bovee walks into the shot, picks up the phone, and says, �Maraschino Cherry, where you care to suck the very best.� Cut to a wide shot of a guy giving head to Suzanne McBain, and she groans with pleasure three times. Another guy walks by in front of them, stops, looks at his watch, taps it, frowns, shakes his head, and walks out of the shot. (BACK TO DVD) Cut to the skyline shot, with L heard saying, �Well, little sister, this is goodbye.� 19 seconds, as well as the finale to a running gag throughout the film, have been chopped.
Also, the very end of the movie, as L�s cab drives away, is chopped up by numerous splices, rendering the voice-over dialog between L and the cab driver all but incomprehensible.
Just a word or two in closing. Even a horrible film deserves better treatment in becoming a DVD than what Video-X-�Pukes� has done to this (OK, minor, but still highly worthwhile) classic from one of the genre�s absolute top filmmakers. Any self-respecting DVD company, with even the slightest pretense of wanting to produce a quality product, would have taken one look at this print (or video master), projectile vomited, and then thrown it in the trash instead of spending dollar one to make a digital transfer. To have foisted this piece of dreck on the DVD-buying public shows that this company has absolutely zero respect for the consumer, and is only in it for whatever sales income they can steal until the word gets out about this incredibly shoddy product.
One can only hope, quite probably in vain, that some other company (one who thinks better of its customers than to pull stuff like this out of its ass and put a premium price on it!) may, one day, find a better print or video master of this title, and produce a DVD that is worth something! Meanwhile, each time anyone purchases or rents the current version (no matter how little they may pay) is getting ripped off by Video-X-Pix.