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COLUMBUS (AP) -- Reedsville Eastern was hanging on and Jenna Burdette knew she had to make a difference.
She did more than that. She took over the game.
Burdette scored 20 of her 24 points in the second half -- accounting for all but seven of her team's points over that span -- to carry top-ranked Eastern past No. 3 Zanesville Rosecrans 49-38 in the Division IV girls state title game on Saturday.
"Well, I knew my first half had started out slowly. We were all a little nervous," the senior said. "I knew I had to step up both offensively and defensively. I just knew what I had to do and was able to do it at the end."
Burdette, an Associated Press first-team All-Ohioan and co-player of the year in the division, time and again made big shots and big plays as Eastern (27-1) got redemption for a semifinal loss a year ago in the school's only previous appearance at the state tournament.
Over the first 14:59 of the second half, Burdette scored 20 of the Eagles' 22 points. She scored her team's first five points of the third quarter before teammate Jordan Parker hit a rebound follow at the 3:36 mark to cap a 7-0 run that swelled the lead to 29-16.
Burdette then scored all of her team's points until Parker hit two foul shots with 1:01 remaining to push the lead to 46-38.
None were bigger than four midway through the fourth quarter.
The Bishops (27-2) pulled within 39-37 on a 3-pointer from the top of the key by Kloie Johnson at the 4:27 mark.
Burdette then drove to the basket and was fouled, hitting both shots.
After a Rosecrans miss, Burdette went to the hoop again, trying to draw a foul. Instead, in heavy traffic, she muscled her way through the paint and banked in a shot to make it 43-37.
Rosecrans coach Gale Kirkbride said his team tried to focus on staying in front of Burdette, cutting off her driving lanes and closing fast when she had an open shot. For the most part, he was pleased with his players' effort.
"She's a great player, there's no doubt about that," he said. "I really thought we did a heck of a job on her, to be honest with you. She got on a little roll there in the second half."
Burdette hit one more foul shot and then made way for her teammates. Parker, Katie Keller and Maddie Rigsby hit five of six free throws over the final 61 seconds to hold off the Bishops.
"We tried to calm down every foul shot they would take, take a breath or whatever," Burdette said. "We knew what we had to do on offense. We knew we could penetrate and kick or keep going. I don't know, it just worked."
At the half, Eastern led 22-16 while Burdette -- averaging 15.5 points a game -- had four points on just 2 of 8 shooting from the field. She was 0 for 3 from behind the arc.
John Burdette, Eastern's head coach and Jenna's father, said he wasn't even aware that his daughter wasn't more productive.
But when the pressure was turned up in the second half, he knew it was vital that the Eagles get the ball to her.
"At the end of the game in the huddle I said we want to get the ball back in Jenna's hands and let her either get to the bucket, get a foul, or make the right passes," he said.
Burdette ended up 9 of 17 from the field, 2 of 6 on 3-pointers and 4 of 6 at the line. She also had four rebounds, an assist and three steals.
Kirkbride said Jenna Burdette seemed to turn every 50-50 play into a plus for her team.
"It seemed like all the bounces kind of went (her way), but you make your own bounces. We were in position. We hit the ball and she was able to come back up with it," he said. "(She) just broke our back a couple of times, where we went from steals to her picking it back up and getting a layup or a shot -- and making it, of course."
Molly Nash had 15 points and 15 rebounds for the Bishops, who were shooting for their fourth state championship but first since 1992.
Eastern had been to the state tournament a year ago but lost in the semifinals. That was a loss that burned in the minds of the Eagles.
"I had one of our freshmen look at me while Rosecrans was getting their medals and she said, 'Jordan, this doesn't even feel real,'" Parker said. "It really doesn't because this was a goal and you try to get to it -- and we did it! So it's really great."
D-II Championship
Millersburg West Holmes 62, Kettering Alter 45
COLUMBUS -- It's hard to beat experience -- particularly experience in the brightest of spotlights.
Millersburg West Holmes, one of the most historic girls' basketball programs in Ohio, proved that again on Saturday at Value City Arena.
Paiten Strother scored 18 points and Emily Molnar 15 to lead top-ranked West Holmes back from a poor start to a 62-45 victory over No. 2 Kettering Alter in the Division II girls' state championship game.
"This was our sixth time playing on this floor. And I think the sixth time was the charm," said Lady Knights coach Lisa Patterson, referring to her team's trips to the state each of the last three years including losses in the final the last two. "It's a matter of (our players) being so confident. They weren't going to let somebody take this away from them."
The title was the fourth for West Holmes (29-0) but first since its unapproached and unprecedented 108-game winning streak that included the three previous titles in 1984-86.
Alter (29-1) led 7-0 almost 4 minutes into the game, but behind Strother and Molnar, West Holmes scored 23 of the next 27 points and was never headed.
Libby Bazelak had 16 points for Alter, which hadn't really been tested all season -- winning by at least 12 points in every game until a 50-47 win in the semis against Toledo Rogers. Alter started two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior. West Holmes' first team Associated Press All-Ohioan and co-player of the year in the division Laina Snyder was held to just eight points -- only two through three quarters -- but did grab 11 rebounds.
The Lady Knights' depth, tenacious defense and unselfishness with the ball more than made up for Snyder's lack of scoring.
Strother scored the first five points for her team and had eight by halftime when the Lady Knights were in control.
"I was confident," she said. "I knew it was my last high school game and I just wanted to give it everything I had."
D-III Championship
Columbus Africentric 49,
Versailles 37
COLUMBUS -- Seldom is a girls team as quick as Columbus Africentric also so careful with the basketball.
The Nubians paired a lethal trapping defense with the ability to hold onto the ball for good shots to beat Versailles, 49-37, on Saturday night in the Division III state championship game.
"We practice a lot of just holding onto the basketball for two minutes," said Africentric coach Will McKinney. "A lot of teams don't realize what a weapon that can be when you have the ability to keep the ball away from the other team for two minutes. If you can do that in a game, whatever kind of lead you have you can kind of expand on it."
That's exactly what the Nubians did.
Sierra Harley had 14 points off the bench and Alexa Hart set the tone with six blocked shots in the first seven minutes as the Nubians (27-2), who lost in the title game last year after winning it in 2012, captured their fourth title. They became just the eighth school to have won at least four state championships.
Staked to an early lead, they never let go.
The imposing presence of the 6-foot-2 Hart, a first-team Associated Press All-Ohioan, helped Africentric grab an early double-digit lead. After Hart left with foul trouble, the Nubians were content to patiently work for baskets while continuing with their high-pressure defense.
Ahead by nine at the half, the Nubians pulled away by badgering the ball-handler at one end and then playing unselfish, spread-the-court at the other.
"We dug ourselves a pretty big hole and it's hard to come back on a team that can handle the pressure like they can. They really took it to us (with) their defense," said Versailles coach Jacki Stonebraker. "They were quicker than we were. We couldn't adjust to that very well."
The teams traded points in the third quarter until Africentric held Versailles scoreless for almost 6 minutes in a mini, 6-0 run. The Nubians were content to patiently work the ball around, passing and cutting while awaiting someone to slash to the basket or find an open seam.
Late in the game, up by 10, the Nubians' quick guards just played keep-away as they were chased by the trapping Tigers.
"The nice thing is that the state of Ohio doesn't have a shot clock," McKinney said. "If you have a decent team with two or three ball handlers, that's a great weapon to have."
Second-team All-Ohioan Christa Puthoff and Emily Harman both had nine points for ninth-ranked Versailles.
Versailles was seeking its second state championship, after winning the biggest trophy in 2008. This was the Tigers' sixth trip to the state final four.
Friday Semifinals
D-I: Dublin Coffman 61,
North Canton Hoover 44
COLUMBUS -- Third-team all-stater Kaylee Stroemple had 18 points and fell only two points shy of matching Dublin Coffman in the first half in leading North Canton Hoover to a 61-44 victory on Friday in a Division I girls state semifinal.
Hoover is 26-2 and is ranked No. 5 in the final Associated Press regular-season poll. It will play for its second state title against top-ranked Cincinnati Princeton and Ms. Basketball Kelsey Mitchell, who beat Toledo Notre Dame 60-52.
Second-team All-Ohioan Julie Worley had 16 points, and first-teamer Marquia Turner had 14.
Kamerine Taylor hit her first four 3-pointers and ended up 5 of 8 with 17 points for Coffman, which is 22-7.
The Lady Vikings were powered by a 24-2 edge in points in the paint. They led 32-18 at the half as Stroemple had 16.
D-I: Cincinnati Princeton 60,
Toledo Notre Dame 52
COLUMBUS -- Ms. Basketball Kelsey Mitchell scored 23 points and top-ranked Cincinnati Princeton beat Toledo Notre Dame Academy 60-52 Saturday night in a Division I girls state semifinal at Ohio State's Value City Arena.
Carlie Pogue added 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Lady Vikings (27-2), who shoot for their second big-school state title in Saturday's final.
Mitchell also had six assists, four rebounds and a steal.
Tierra Floyd, like Mitchell a first-team all-stater, had 21 points for the seventh-ranked Eagles (24-4), with Kaayla Mcintyre adding 16.
Princeton outscored Notre Dame 12-5 in the third quarter and then hung on by hitting 7 of 10 free throws in the last 1:03 -- three by Mitchell, who is headed to Ohio State along with her twin sister, Chelsea.
D-III: Versailles 67,
Proctorville Fairland 60
COLUMBUS -- Second-team Associated Press All-Ohioan Christa Puthoff had 15 points and Versailles hit seven of eight free throws in the final minute to hold off Proctorville Fairland 67-60 in a Division III girls state semifinal on Friday.
Katie Heckman added 13 of the Tigers' 27 bench points and Lauren Bruns scored 10.
Versailles (24-3), chasing its second state title, meets Columbus Africentric, a 44-22 winner over Smithville, in Saturday's championship game.
Unranked Fairland (22-4) led by 10 points early but the Tigers went on a 10-2 run to start the fourth quarter to go up by 12. The Dragons pulled as close as five before ninth-ranked Versailles put the game away at the line.
Caitlin Stone had 15 points, Taylor Perry 13 and Terra Stapleton 11 for Fairland.
D-III: Columbus Africentric 44, Smithville 22
COLUMBUS -- First-team Associated Press All-Ohioan Alexa Hart had eight points and 11 blocked shots to lead Columbus Africentric past Smithville 44-22 on Friday in a Division III state girls semifinal.
Ayrielle Stith scored 11 points for the Nubians (26-2).
Africentric, ranked eighth in the final regular-season Associated Press poll, goes for its fourth championship in the last eight years on Saturday.
Hart, who was co-player of the year in the division, is an Ohio State signee.
With the score tied at 9, the Nubians scored 15 of the next 20 points. When Smithville pulled within six points early in the final quarter, Stith hit a 3, made a steal and then had a long assist to start a 16-0 run.
Olivia Besancon led unranked Smithville (26-3) with nine points.
Myles earns D-IV all-tourney honors
COLUMBUS -- Jenna Burdette, who scored 20 of Reedsville Eastern's 22 points during one span of the second half of the championship game, is the most outstanding player on the 2014 Associated Press Division IV all-tournament team.
Burdette had 38 points in a semifinal victory over Fort Loramie, then had 24 points -- 20 in the final two quarters -- of Eastern's 49-38 victory over Zanesville Rosecrans in the title game.
Teammate Jordan Parker (18 points in two games) joined her on the all-tournament team along with Rosecrans' Molly Nash (26 points, 19 rebounds in two games); Holgate's Marissa Myles (19 points and 11 rebounds in a semifinal loss); and Fort Loramie's Darian Rose (26 points, 12 rebounds in a semifinal defeat).
Three Knights receive D-II honors
COLUMBUS -- Paiten Strother, Emily Molnar and Laina Snyder all represented champion Millersburg West Holmes on the 2014 Associated Press Division II all-tournament team.
They'll share the most-outstanding award also.
Top-ranked West Holmes (29-0) won the title Saturday with a 62-45 victory over second-ranked Kettering Alter.
Strother had 18 points in the final while Molnar had 15. Snyder was limited to eight points but had 11 rebounds -- after totaling 21 points and 11 rebounds in a semifinal win over Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary.
Others on the all-tournament team include: St. Vincent-St. Mary's Jordan Korinek (24 points, 11 rebounds in the semifinal loss); Toledo Rogers' Akienreh Johnson (8 points, 7 rebounds in a semifinal loss); and Alter's Emma Bockrath (23 points in two games) and Libby Bazelak (22 points in two games).
Hart's 17 blocks earn D-III award
COLUMBUS -- Columbus Africentric's Alexa Hart scored 17 points in two games and matched that with 17 game-changing blocked shots and is the most outstanding player on the 2014 Associated Press Division III all-tournament team.
Hart blocked 11 shots in a semifinal victory over Smithville and had six in the opening seven minutes of Saturday night's 49-37 championship-game victory over Versailles.
Joining her on the all-tournament team are teammates Sierra Harley (18 points in two games off the bench) and Alexis Parks (15 points, 3 assists); Versailles' Christa Puthoff (24 points in two games); and Proctorville Fairland's Caitlin Stone (15 points) and Terra Stapleton (11 points, 8 rebounds) in a semifinal loss.


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dang this is really good it starts off really relaxing then bam epic stuff =D
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on a compositional scale
i dont know if you just took more time on it or got lucky or just got better since your last song but this is your best song when it comes down to pure make up of the song
there were 0 flaws that i can see as long as were talking about composition
the intro starts of soft and then grabs you before 30 seconds is up and pulls you in which i think is very important
the melody is beautiful and switches up and keeps you interested while still keeping the same theme
the slow fill parts are not to long without changing which you have had a lot of problems with before so im glad to see you excel
there was a good well placed appropriate drop that was elegant and beautiful and it built back up very well
i only wish that the ending transition (which was from 4:17 to the end) was a bit more intense and had more build and had was louder
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i loved it i wish i could favorite it but i reached my max :P
this song is my new favorite dnb thx
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And yep, I had some issues with the ending.
Too bad, I coulnd't make it louder (else there will be clipping) =(
Still tried my best on the ending (It has a lot of stuff in it if you listen closely)
Thanks for the long review!
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This blog post is going to go over creating a load test plug-in and show a few different ways you can use a plug-in to modify your load test. These plug-ins are a powerful extensibility point of the load test architecture. They give you the opportunity to do things such as change the selected test, change the userload, add data to the web test context, modify the test environment before the test runs or clean up the environment when the test completes.
1) Here are the following events that you can connect to:
a. Heartbeat – This event is raised every second. If you want to monitor some vairable and then modify user load based on that variable, this would be a good event to connect to.
b. LoadTestStarting – This event is raised when the load test starts. This is a good event for things such as setting up the envoironment or maybe starting logging for a report you might want to create.
c. LoadTestFinished – This event is raised when the load test completes. This is a good event for things such as cleaning up the envoironment or maybe stopping logging for a report you might want to create.
d. LoadTestAborted – This event is raised if a load test is aborted.
e. WarmupComplete – This event is raised if you are using a warmup period and when the warmup period completes.
f. TestSelected – This event is raised when a test has been selected to be executed. You can change what test is about to be executed from this event.
g. TestStarting – This event is raised when a test iteration is about to start. You can add items to the test context from this event.
h. TestFinished – This event is raised when a test completes. You get information about the test that was just executed.
i. ThresholdExceeded – This event is raised when a threshold rule has been exceeded. You are given information about the counter that caused the rule to fire.
2) Creating a LoadTest Plug-in
a. Open the test project that contains your load test.
b. Add a new class file
c. Add a using statement for
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.LoadTesting;
d. Have the class implement the ILoadTestPlugin interface.
public class Class2 : ILoadTestPlugin
e. There is one method in the interface that you have to implement:
public void Initialize(LoadTest loadTest)
f. Here is an example plugin:
namespace TestProject3
public class PluginExample : ILoadTestPlugin
LoadTest m_loadTest;
#region ILoadTestPlugin Members
public void Initialize(LoadTest loadTest)
m_loadTest = loadTest;
g. To set the plugin on your load test, first compile the plugin. Then right click on the root node of the load test and select "Set Load Test Plug-in…". In the dialog that appears, select your plug-in.
Now let's create some examples.
The first example we will create is storing extra information along with your load test. One common question we get is I would also like to store build number or something like that with my load tests. Then the users would like to be able to use this information in a report they are creating.
First we will create a separate table in the load test results store to hold the new info. Part of the key for all load test tables in the LoadTestRunId. Here is a simple table definition:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LoadTestBuildInfo](
[LoadTestRunId] [int] NOT NULL,
[Build] [nvarchar](100) NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_LoadTestBuildInfo] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[LoadTestRunId] ASC
So we need three things to write to this table. The connection string, the run id and the build. We will add the build information as a Load Test Context parameter. The connection string we will make an option parameter. The run id we will get from the database.
Unfortunately, we do not give you the runid through an API, so we will just query the LoadTestRun table for the max run id. Unless you have multiple runs going at once, this will be the value you need.
First here is a hlper class that contains the sql operations:
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace ApiDemo
class SqlHelper
static string s_connectionString;
public static void SetConnectionString(string connectionString)
s_connectionString = connectionString;
public static int GetRunId()
string sql = "SELECT MAX(LoadTestRunId) FROM LoadTestRun";
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(s_connectionString))
using (SqlCommand sqlCommand = new SqlCommand(sql, connection))
using (SqlDataReader dataReader = sqlCommand.ExecuteReader())
if (dataReader.Read())
return dataReader.GetInt32(0);
throw new Exception("Unable to get the run id");
public static void StoreBuild(int id, string build)
string sql = string.Format("INSERT INTO LoadTestBuildInfo (LoadTestRunId,Build) Values ({0},'{1}')", id, build);
Second, here is the load test plugin:
static string s_connectionString = "Data Source=\".\\SQLEXPRESS\";Initial Catalog=LoadTest;Integrated Security=True";
m_loadTest = loadTest;
m_loadTest.LoadTestStarting += new System.EventHandler(m_loadTest_LoadTestStarting);
void m_loadTest_LoadTestStarting(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
//first get the connection string
if (m_loadTest.Context.ContainsKey("ConnectionString"))
//now we need to get the runid.
int loadTestRunId = SqlHelper.GetRunId();
//now store the build info
if (m_loadTest.Context.ContainsKey("Build"))
SqlHelper.StoreBuild(loadTestRunId, m_loadTest.Context["Build"].ToString());
Now that you have the build stored with the run id, you can easily add this to any custom reports.
This sample will show you how to change the test that the engine has selected. Maybe you have a situation in which your test mix has 4 tests. After a certain amount of time, you no longer want to run Test4. So any time it is selected, you want to replace it with one of the other 3. You can do this from the TestSelected event. We will also use the heartbeat event to keep track of how much time has been executed. In the heartbeat event, we will increase a counter once warm-up is complete. Then in the TestSelected event, after 120 seconds, we will always switch WebTest1 with WebTest2. You can make this more intelligent by selecting a test from the list of tests in the scenario specified in the event args.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
public class PluginExample2 : ILoadTestPlugin
int count = 0;
m_loadTest.TestSelected += new System.EventHandler<TestSelectedEventArgs>(m_loadTest_TestSelected);
m_loadTest.Heartbeat += new System.EventHandler<HeartbeatEventArgs>(m_loadTest_Heartbeat);
void m_loadTest_Heartbeat(object sender, HeartbeatEventArgs e)
void m_loadTest_TestSelected(object sender, TestSelectedEventArgs e)
if (count > 120 && e.TestName.Equals("WebTest1"))
e.TestName = "WebTest2";
This sample will show you how you can change the user load of a running load test. You can create your own custom load profiles with this extensibility point. In this example we will create a plugin which reads the load from a text file and then changes the load of the running test to that value.
The file name that stores the user load can be set from a load test context parameter. Then we will read that file at every heartbeat event, and change the load to that value. Another good demo of this would be to create a simple winforms app that writes the new user load to a file or registry location. Then have the plugin read from that location. Then you could turn a knob or enter the user load that way. With the way this sample is written, you would simply add a number to the text file and save it. You can change the value while the test is running.
using System.IO;
public class PluginSample3 : ILoadTestPlugin
string m_fileName;
//initialize the file name
if (m_loadTest.Context.ContainsKey("FileName"))
m_fileName = m_loadTest.Context["FileName"].ToString();
m_fileName = @"c:\Userload.txt";
int load = GetUserLoadFromFile();
if (load != -1)
m_loadTest.Scenarios[0].CurrentLoad = load;
private int GetUserLoadFromFile()
int newLoad = -1;
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(m_fileName))
string load = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(load))
newLoad = int.Parse(load);
catch (FormatException)
catch (IOException)
return newLoad;
Here is a picture of my userload. I start at 25, up to 52, down to 7 and back to 25.
This sample will show you how you can modify the test context that is being passed to a test. You do this from the test starting event. Maybe there is a value you are reading in from a database or some other value that you want to pass into each test. Another problem is that load test context parameters are not copied to test context of unit tests. This plug-in would copy those values:
using System.Text;
namespace Blog
public class CopyParamtersPlugin : ILoadTestPlugin
//store the load test object.
LoadTest mLoadTest;
mLoadTest = loadTest;
//connect to the TestStarting event.
mLoadTest.TestStarting += new EventHandler<TestStartingEventArgs>(mLoadTest_TestStarting);
void mLoadTest_TestStarting(object sender, TestStartingEventArgs e)
//When the test starts, copy the load test context parameters to
//the test context parameters
foreach (string key in mLoadTest.Context.Keys)
e.TestContextProperties.Add(key, mLoadTest.Context[key]);
I hope these example show some of the power of the load test plugins. Here are a few more helpful links on plugins:
MSDN Help : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182604.aspx
Bill Barnett's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar/pages/load-test-api-enhancements-in-vsts-2008-sp1-beta.aspx


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Space has to be infinite. We look at everything in such a way that we think it must have an ending... the only reason why is because we live on a planet that has a limited amount of resources... An end to every road... Life is a great example. This is our only way of thinking. Why? Because we've never lived forever. Nothing of our knowledge can currently last forever because we haven't proven forever to exist. Humans have only been able to reveal an end to what we know. Everything that we have created has an end to it. Our race will see its end before we answer the infinite question of "What is it made of?" I'm 17 and new to most of this, feel free to discredit anything I have to say... As I'm only trying to learn an infinite amount of knowledge in a finite amount of time.
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So it was my first weekend back home. It's not entirely what I expected or hoped it would be. My place was a complete and utter mess with six months of dust bunnies hiding everywhere. I spent most of the first two days running errands, get groce... Read more
Saturday, September 13, 2014
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I can't wait! I finally get to go home after six months gone. I'm hoping that once I'm home I can get back into my routine and hopefully it will help. I have four more days of work and then I get to go home. YAY!!... Read more
Saturday, August 09, 2014
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I think when people start trying to be healthy they try and hold onto their favorite foods as long as possible. Good knows I did. I tried to justify having my favorite foods because I went to the gym today or it was okay because it was just this... Read more
Monday, June 23, 2014
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Yesterday and today are actually my days off so I've been trying to enjoy them. Saturday after work I went to a local goodwill store in an attempt to find some books to keep me busy while I'm away for work. I'm happy to report I found some craft... Read more
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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So it's been awhile since I've blogged or even kept track of my food or fitness. Which isn't to say that I haven't been trying I just haven't been diligently keeping track. It shows... I've gotten off course and I really don't know where to beg... Read more
Thursday, April 03, 2014
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So I'm currently out of town for work. My schedule has been really hectic but I've been doing pretty good about eating right and making it to the gym. This plus the fact that I'm walking every where and I think I'm doing really great.
This... Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2014
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Today was another difficult day for me. I woke up and ran in another 5k race which makes the third race so far for me this year. I also managed to loose another pound making me the lightest I've been in a very long time.
The race was incre... Read more
Friday, February 14, 2014
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Today was a really long day. I'm sure you all know that it was Valentine's day today. Work was busy but okay. I had a good day for the most part. Right up until I started joking with my boss about leaving early tonight. She said that the others ... Read more
Sunday, January 12, 2014
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I was invited to go out for dinner last night for a congratulatory dinner party at a restaurant. The weather was kind of crappy so I just wanted to stay home. I decided to go out though and be social with friends and coworkers. I always get nerv... Read more
Thursday, January 09, 2014
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I joined the BLC #24! I really enjoyed it last time so I wanted to join it again.
My pledge:
I commit to participate fully over the next 12 weeks in the Biggest Loser Challenge-24.
I am a Fabulous Feisty Fox and w... Read more
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope however you're spending the holiday season you're having a wonderful time.
I decided to go home and see my family for the holidays. I went from 70 degree weather down to 1 degree weather, lol. I really don't... Read more
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
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It's only Tuesday and I'm super tired. I had swimming class tonight so I had fun with that. I'm actually really enjoying this class and I'm glad I signed up for it. I'm still not the greatest but I'm getting better than what I was.
I've b... Read more
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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This week has been an incredibly long week. I'm going on working ten days straight. I've also been worried about a family member who is sick back home. One good thing was that I was seeing this guy who I really was enjoying seeing. We had gone o... Read more


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Thursday, December 26, 2013
In the run-up to Christmas of 2010 I managed to break my ankle.
I'd love to be able to say I did it whilst doing something a bit adventurous or exotic like skiing in the Alps or abseiling down a cliff-face, but the mundane truth is I did it slipping up on the ice on my own front path. Ironically whilst walking out to the gate to greet my just-arrived brother and his family and to warn them to mind their step on the path as it was a bit slippery. Well if you're going to prat-fall in your own front garden who better to do it in front of than your family, especially when your brother's a nurse.
Anyway, a trip to A&E and an x-ray later there I was with a nice cosy below-knee cast on my left leg. Actually it was a very cold winter by English standards so the the cast really did feel rather cosy - I think my right leg was a little jealous.�
Even at the time I took the view that if I absolutely positively HAD to break my ankle I'd picked the right time to do it. While other poor souls were struggling into work through the kind of ice and snow that we rarely see in my part of �England, I was tucked up in the warm with a cup of tea catching up on all the books I'd been promising myself I'd read.
However, in a roundabout sort of a away the experience turned out to have an even shinier silver lining than I initially thought because it led to me putting on a fair bit of weight.
Now I appreciate that on the face of it that hardly sounds like a good thing, but bear with me.�
At the time all this happened I was forty-two, and through no virtue of my own had never been overweight. And this really was due entirely to dumb luck, essentially a combination of fortunate genetics (my family all tend towards fast metabolisms and being slender) and my mum (another nurse, and a pediatric specialist) getting me off to a good start with what she fed me as a child.�
Then for the next twenty years or so I always ended up working in places that were close to where I lived and so my commute to work consisted of a walk rather than catching the bus or driving. I had no idea at the time how much that bit of daily moderate exercise contributed to me being able to eat what I fancied without worrying about any consequences for my weight.�
As is sadly so often the case with good luck I took it entirely for granted and didn't really think about my weight at all beyond feeling that as long as my clothes fitted it wasn't worth worrying about. I didn't even own a set of scales and for most of my twenties and thirties could not have told you what I weighed.
But that insouciance came back to bite me in the backside when I hit my forties.
In my late thirties I�moved home and job, and my new workplace was seven miles away from where I lived, so far too far away to consider walking.�
This meant that my little bit of daily moderate exercise was gone, replaced with two bus journeys each way. And as I'd never thought of my walk to and from work as exercise I never thought in terms of needing to find something to replace it.
Then, at about the time I hit the big four-o, my employers decided to go "paperless" and have the contents of our paper case files scanned onto computer. It made the job a lot faster, but also meant that I was spending a far greater chunk of my day just sat in my chair, no longer needed to get up to walk to the filing racks and get a (sometimes quite hefty) case file out in response to a phone call or a colleague's query. My life was becoming even more sedentary without me realising it.�
Over the next couple of years I evidently put on a bit of weight as my clothes seemed to be getting a little tight, but as I've always bought my clothes a bit on the baggy side to begin with they weren't unwearable, just not as comfortable as I'd have liked them to be.
I still didn't seem visibly overweight, �and whenever I bought new clothes I just bought a size larger and told myself it was an inevitable consequence of middle age.�
And then I broke my ankle and spent seven weeks sat on my behind.�
In January 2011 the cast came off, and a couple of weeks later I was visiting a friend who'd been given a Wii Fit for Christmas. Naturally she was keen to show off her new toy and I was equally keen to have a play.�
As you'll know if you've ever had a go on one of these, it begins by setting up a profile for you, in the course of which you are weighed and your BMI assessed.
I was slightly disconcerted to discover that I was now "officially" overweight at just over eleven stone (154 lbs if you're outside the UK). I knew I was, well chunkier than I had been but I was still refusing to see this as actually overweight.�
However, I told myself weight gain was inevitable after seven weeks of forced inactivity and just assumed I'd shed a few pounds once I got back to a more active lifestyle. Yes, I'm afraid I genuinely did think at that point that I had a reasonably active lifestyle.�
However, another year went by, during which my slightly too close-fitting clothes became uncomfortably tight and I was seriously having to consider going up yet another clothes size when buying new ones.
Finally I realised there was a problem here that wasn't going to magically fix itself. I had to do something about it myself.
Decision made, I proceeded to put it off, make vague half-hearted efforts and generally do nothing of any practical use whatsoever for the next few weeks.
The final kick up the behind that I needed came in the form of my friend and her trusty Wii Fit.
I was round at her house one evening, and mentioned that I needed to lose weight but that I wasn't really making much of a start on it. She half-jokingly suggested I hop on the Wii and play some of the games on there to burn off a few calories.
More because I thought it would be fun than anything else I duly got on the board, and the system weighed me.�
And blithely informed me I'd put on nearly a stone and a half (about 20lbs) in the year since I'd last got on the machine.
Before that I'd seen myself as someone who'd put on a bit of weight and needed to lose it. Now I could see I was someone whose lifestyle was resulting in a constant weight gain, and if I didn't commit myself to making some serious changes I was going to put on another stone and a half, then another, then another.....
I am a dreadful procrastinator and can take an age to get around to doing things, if I don't avoid doing them altogether. But one thing I will give myself credit for is that if I absolutely positively HAVE to get something done I will throw myself into it wholeheartedly.�
And so I put the internet to good use, including finding Spark, and realised that the key for me as someone who's always had to budget fairly strictly to make ends meet financially was treating my calorie intake the same way.
I've always kept a record of my outgoings and tried to minimise what I spend on stuff that doesn't matter too much to me in order to have some spare money left over to treat myself to the things that do.�
Over the months I discovered the vast amount of really appetising food around that uses up very little of your calorie "budget" and found it wasn't nearly as much of a hardship to stick to 1500-1600 calories a day as I had anticipated and there was sometimes still enough left in the budget for a small treat.�
On the other side of the equation I also discovered, much to the surprise of someone who thought she'd been put off physical activity for life by being forced to play sport at school, that exercise does not have to involve slogging away in a gym for hours at a time at activities that you hate. Whilst it does of course require effort (or by definition it isn't exercise) short bursts of exercise indulged in daily can have just as beneficial an effect as an hour of exercise a couple of times a week, and it doesn't �have to feel like hard work to actually....well, work.�
I took to doing a cobbled-together fifteen minute session of low-impact aerobics every day - �first thing in the morning and thus before I could have a chance to talk myself out of it.�
I rediscovered my enjoyment of walking. It had always been my chief way of getting to and from work of course, but I suddenly remembered that in my twenties I would often hop on a bus or train to some of the beautiful countryside we're blessed with in my neck of the woods and spend a day striding happily about taking in the scenery. I couldn't really understand, thinking back on it, why I'd ever stopped, so that was another avenue of not only exercise but also pleasure that opened up (or re-opened I suppose) for me.�
Slowly but surely the weight came off. A pound here, two pounds there. The occasional static week, and a week or two when I put weight on, but what pleased me as much as the weight loss was the fact that I felt I was in control. That treats could still be a part of my life as long as I budgeted for them with particularly healthy and low-calorie eating the day before or after.
It gave me the confidence that once I hit my target weight I was actually going to be able to keep myself there. The exercise I was doing had become �habit I felt I would have no trouble sticking with, and as I didn't find it any hardship to eat the kinds of food I was during weight loss and would be increasing my calorie budget a little once I hit target I felt I could stick to eating in a way that would keep me on an even keel.
I hit my initial target in November 2011, and as it took another couple of months of tinkering with my calorie intake to work out what it ought to be to maintain weight rather than keep losing I did go down another six or seven pounds before I levelled out. As that was still a healthy BMI I decided there was no point putting weight on for the sake of it, and so I've been at nine stone (126lbs), give or take two or three pounds, since mid-January of 2012.�
The maintenance pleases me more that the initial loss, and I think once I realised that I really could lose weight, maintenance was the aspect that had me the most worried.�
I did not want to end up on the treadmill of losing weight than regaining it, then trying to lose it again. �In fact when I finally knuckled down and started working on my weight loss I promised myself I was only going to do it once and if I put the weight back on it was going to have to stay there and I would just learn to be happy with my weight rather than make myself miserable with repeated unsuccessful attempts to lose it.�
My first few months of maintenance I was checking my weight daily and constantly anxious that I was going to mess this up. The Spark boards and teams (chiefly�At Goal & Maintaining + Transition to Maintenance) were invaluable in reassuring me that my anxiety was not unusual and that I just needed to stick with it and let my confidence grow. The maintenance challenges on At Goal were especially useful in both keeping me on the straight and narrow and reassuring me that I had control over my weight.�
Thanks in no small part to their support I've grown more confident as time has gone on and the weight has stayed within range.�
In fact I grew confident enough with my food choices and the amount of activity worked into my daily routine that I felt able to stop logging either about a year back. For a while now I've only stepped on the scales once a week.�
Don't get me wrong though, I'll be back to logging in a heartbeat if I stray more than a few pounds (I wouldn't be surprised if I need to after Christmas as I've definitely been more naughty than nice this year) and will stick with it until I feel I have every thing back under control. Over-confidence is as potentially damaging as a lack of confidence.�
But the whole process of trying to lose weight has given me so much more than just shedding the pounds.�
I'd always lived near or in city centres before moving to my current home in the suburbs, and I think without me realising it I'd become a bit more insular after moving here. Because of the tricky commute home every day (a bus from work to the city centre then a second from the centre to my home) I just wanted to get home every evening and not stir out again.
Now that I have my walking legs back I realise that the journey from the city to home is only a forty-minute stroll, or a 35-minute brisk walk if it's raining, and that I really don't NEED to catch a bus to town at all. Happily the two best cinemas and a lot of the restaurants are all situated at the end of town nearest where I live, so the walk back from them is barely half an hour.�
That makes life a lot easier when planning how to get home from a night out and consequently makes me more inclined to go out in the first place. Happily it's a pretty safe neighbourhood so I feel perfectly comfortable walking there at night.�
And now I see the fact that I break my journey in town as an advantage. I often arrange to meet friends there on a weekday, or go to the cinema or late-night shopping . Luckily my employers have a smart-casual dress policy rather than making us wear formal office gear, so I don't even need to worry about bringing other clothes to change into.�
Weekends that might previously have been spent slobbing around the house putting off doing the housework are now more likely to be spent going for a long walk, or jumping on a bus or train to take me somewhere new to explore (I do still tend to put off the housework though).
In a lot of ways my middle-age is a lot more lively and fulfilling than my thirties and I find myself in the odd position of almost being glad I put the weight on. Having to lose it made me realise that there were some major problems with the way I was living my life, and I have no doubt I would have carried right on with those behaviours and unknowingly getting a lot less out of life quite aside from the weight gain if my body hadn't forced me to face up to the facts.�
I suppose pinning all this on a broken ankle seems a bit odd, but I just feel that those seven weeks in plaster are what pushed me �into the overweight category that I was slowly but surely heading for anyway, and thus started me that bit sooner on my weight loss and maintenance adventure, even if it did take another year and my friend's Wii Fit to really get started on it.�
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What a great story. And weren't you lucky not to go through the decades of feeling fat and unattractive. I think that greatly complicates things. Being able to be rather rational helps! You do have some other lucky elements, but you are taking advantage of them! Congrats on that. I know it's been awhile, so you may not see this, but I hope you felt a twinge of delight when I send this, even if you don't know why.
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Great blog! Thank you for sharing!
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and with that attitude you will remain successful in this journey!
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This was a great read. I love your sense of humor. Thank you for sharing your story. You learned some great lessons there!
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Awesome blog. Thanks for sharing your journey and congrats on losing the weight and keeping it off! Way to go! Keep up the great work!
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GREAT blog and thank you for sharing!
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1. Wii Fit is really blunt, isn't it? LOL
2. I love your sense of humour.
3. I consider 40 min to be a very decent exercise session and am probably far lazier than you! I relate very much to getting home and wanting to stay there, especially in the winter when the temps are well below freezing most days and it is dark when getting up and returning home from work. I really need to work on my winter workouts!
Congratulations on finding balance in your life. I am going to work on it this year!
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Great blog! Congrats on all your accomplishments.
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Good Blog! Keep up the good work! Woo Hoo to you!
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You have had an exceptional journey. Good for you. Congratulations on your blog. Best wishes as you continue on your journey of maintenance. Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed it.
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Thanks for all you kind comments everyone, it's been really inspiring to read them
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Enjoyed reading about your journey to a healthier lifestyle. That was quite the wake up call!
Keep up the fabulous work!
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Nothing like a wake up call! I'm glad you turned your broken ankle into a healthy lifestyle1 I loved the part of your re-discovering hiking. I've been to England, just once a few years ago and we trekked all over Cornwall. So beautiful! You have much to stay in shape for (-:
Great blog, great life!
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Such an inspiring blog! The changes you've made are practical and do-able. I love your positive can-do attitude. Thank you for sharing your story.
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great blog and great attitude!
Have a terrific day
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Fabulous blog - I'm so glad I found it!! Congratulations of finding the silver lining in your weight gain - and for being so successful in maintenance! I actually reached my goal weight in November 2011 too, but unlike you I'm not blessed with a healthy metabolism so my maintenance has been blessed with some weight GAIN before I got things stabilized. That is NOT a complaint since my adult life (I'll be 66 later this month) has been a series of yoyoing of weight. That this time I'm positive that will NOT be my story now is because of Sparkpeople and my sparkteams. What a blessing it is to those of us with weight issues.
Congratulations on your weight loss - and especially in USING it to make your life BETTER!! That seriously ROCKS!!
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Ouch! That broken ankle still makes me shiver since my ankles are pretty unreliable.
I love the way you pinpointed the few changes that make the big difference. Congratulations!
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Love your upbeat attitude about life and especially about the weight gain. I never would have considered my weight gain a good thing, but you made me realize it did force me to change, and I am generally very resistant to change. Keep up the great work!
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That was a great story and a wonderful accomplishment. I am middle aged also and have found the joy of walking. You have done really well learning a new skill of losing and maintaining your weight.
Congratulations on your new healthy life.
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Just loved this blog for its precise and accurate description of the weight loss journey -- and the relatively "small" life event that can be the catalyst to get started. There is a "price" (eating more carefully) but you've found the price is worth it: me too.
Well done!! And Congratulations!!
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Great blog! Thanks for sharing...I know someone especially close to me that I plan to share this with!
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This was a nice overview of that part of your life, and a good example of realizing the problem, finding the solution and applying it. Congratulations on your continued maintenance!
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Great wrap up on how one gains a bit of weight, the process of deciding to loose it, then loosing it, then that maintenance game.
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Crystal & Suede Support Bracelet
size: varies
- Bead Landing: Toffee Latigo Lace, Bits and Baubles Rose Bead, Ribbon Clamps, Toggle Closure
- Bead Gallery Iridescent Faceted Glass Beads, two
- Realeather Crafts Pink Jewel Spots, 3/8", two
- Flat-backed crystals: 3mm, 30; 4mm, two
- Jump rings, two
Basic Supplies
tape measure, scissors, toothpick
- Flat-nose pliers
- Gorilla Glue Super Glue
- 1. Use tape measure to determine size of wrist and then subtract 1" from measurement.
- 2. Cut three Toffee lace pieces to pre-determined length from Step 1.
- 3. Place all three lace pieces, side-by-side, on work surface. Pick up end of laces (all three at once); add small drop of glue to each end. While still holding laces in hand, slip ends into ribbon closure; use flat-nose pliers to close ribbon closure on laces, securing three laces together.
- 4. Thread iridescent bead, rose bead, and iridescent bead on center lace piece. Center beads along lace piece. Adhere 3mm flat-backed crystal on outside of each iridescent bead. Attach pink jewel spot next to each flat-backed crystal. Let dry.
- 5. Cross center lace piece over top lace piece and use glue to adhere lace pieces at intersection. (Note: Place laces on wrist to check position of intersection before adhering laces together.) Let dry.
- 6. Adhere center lace piece to bottom lace piece on center of laces. Let dry. Adhere two 4mm flat-backed crystals over area where two adhered pieces meet.
- 7. Adhere remaining 3mm flat-backed crystals, evenly spaced, along lengths of laces. Let dry.
- 8. Repeat Step 3 to attach ribbon closure to open lace ends. Use jump rings to attach toggle closure to ends.
- Tip
- 1. Use toothpick to apply glue to flat-backed crystals.
by Carol Heppner


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Klingberg Family Centers' Board of Trustees
Rick Althen, Treasurer
Windsor, CT
TD Banknorth Wealth Management
Tanya Barrett
West Hartford, CT
Vice President, United Way of Connecticut
2-1-1 Health and Human Services
Ashika Brinkley
Bristol, CT
Executive Director, CT Association of Directors of Health
Robert Brown
Bloomfield, CT
Retired, University of Connecticut
Waldemar Burzynski
Portland, CT
Retired, American Nuclear Insurers
Donald DeVivo
Kensington, CT
President, DATTCO Transportation
Carol Dosdall
Fairfield, CT
Retired, ConnectiCare
Steven A. Girelli, Ph.D.
Glastonbury, CT
President/CEO, Klingberg Family Centers
Mary E. Godin
Enfield, CT
Sr. HR Consultant, Eversource Energy
Frances Henry
Cummington, MA
Founder, Stop It Now!
Marijke Kehrhahn
Cobalt, CT
Associate Dean, NEAG School of Education, University of Connecticut
Robert A. MacAlpine
Cromwell, CT
Retired, Northeast Utilities
Mary Murphy
New Britain, CT
Retired, Liberty Bank
Margaret Pratt
Middletown, CT
Front Desk Receptionist, Middlesex Eye Physicians
John Quattrocchi
Rocky Hill, CT
Retired, American Nuclear Insurers
David Rosado, Vice Chair
Glastonbury, CT
Major, Connecticut State Police
Paula Laing Simchock
Burlington, CT
Account Manager, ConnectiCare
Natalie Lynne Smith, Chair
West Hartford, CT
Teacher, Glastonbury High School
Kathleen Sullivan, Secretary
Bloomfield, CT
Retired, TD Bank
Klingberg Family Centers' Administrators
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Joseph Milke
Vice President
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Vice President
David Tompkins
Vice President
Patricia Wilcox
Vice President