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Teams Love and Hearn Tie for Lead in Pro-Am
Teams Love and Hearn tied for the lead in the 2012 RSM International Pro-Am on Wednesday. They had a team score of 54, sixteen under par. Love's played with Jeffrey Walters, David Shane, John Hatherly and country music star Gary Allan. Hearn's team included Bruce Lesser, Greg Bolan and Don Griscom.
Teams Pernice and de Jonge tied for third, just one stroke off the lead. Pernice's team included Kevin Devanney, Tom Peltier and David Gerson. Lyn Allgood, Wilson Allgood and Kirby Yawn played with de Jonge.
Teams Points and Singh tied for fifth, two strokes off the lead. Playing with Points were Gary Bogue, Brent Ragsdale and Mike Hazelton.Singh's team included Dan Helle, Steve Johnson, and Dana LaForge.
Teams Crane, Furyk, Gainey, Davis , Herron and Gay tied for seventh at three strokes back. Making up these teams were:
Team Crane: Gary Williams, Anthony Canitano and Butler Melnyk
Team Furyk: Matt Bradvica, Doug Opheim, and Steven Gintowt
Team Gainey: David Allen, Andrew Tuhler, and Bill Karol
Team Davis: John Stafford III, Travis Aronson, Paul Clark
Team Herron: Mark Bishof, Richard Northing, and Jim Ryan
Team Gay: Aubrey Rothrock III, Matt Echols, and Stuart Prince.
Thirty seven additional teams, each playing with a PGA TOUR Pro and three Amateurs rounded out the field making for an exciting and fun day of golf.


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"We have other life out there and I think that's what it is," Mike Duran said.
Duran says he's noticed strange lights flying overhead and he believes aliens may be to blame for mutilating one of his cows.
"Like a round circle in the air," Duran said. "I've watched them and then they just disappear."
His ranch is near the town of Weston, which is about 20 miles west of Trinidad.
Duran says his cow was found dead with her udders and reproductive organs missing. He says there were no tracks near the body.
The cow was last seen alive on Friday and found dead on Sunday.
He believes aliens abducted the cow, carved it up and dropped it back by the river.
Duran claims the same thing happened in the same field in 1995.
"It's just a shock that it's happened again," he said.
He's reported both incidents to the Las Animas County Sheriff's Office, but investigators have not been able to solve either case.
"It's one of those unsolved mysteries, I guess," he said.
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2008 Press Releases
U.S. Export and Border Security Assistance Mission Contributes Nuclear Material Detection Equipment to Albanian Customs and Border Police
October 7, 2008
U.S. Embassy Chargé Steve Cristina and U.S. Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance (EXBS) Mission Chief Matthew Jones participated today at an equipment handover ceremony with the Albanian Customs Director Përparim Dervishi, Border Police Director Pëllumb Nako and Radiation Protection Office Chief Rustem Paçi. Cristina stressed the importance of cooperation with the Albanian authorities in strengthening border control and security as a means to ensure the safety of Albanian citizens and beyond.
The EXBS-provided equipment will be used in Albanian ports of entry to prevent illegal smuggling of nuclear material or dual use technologies. The total cost of the project, including equipment and related training, amounted to 400,000 dollars.
The donation was preceded by an equipment training conducted in Shkodër and Hani i Hotit border crossing point. Twenty-two Albanian Customs and Border Police officers were trained by two U.S. Customs and Border Police instructors on equipment operation and investigative techniques to be used at ports of entry.
Since the start of its operations in Albania in 2005 the EXBS program has organized 20 trainings for over 130 Customs, Border Police, and Radiation Protection officers. EXBS works closely with the Albanian Customs and Border Police to help them achieve required security standards at its ports of entry.


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Written by: Beth Davies-Stofka
In a town called Yathrib, north of Mecca, a civil war was tearing the town apart. Muhammad had established a reputation as both a charismatic holy man and a fair arbiter. So in 621 the city leaders sent a delegation to Muhammad to invite him to move to Yathrib. In 622, Muhammad and his followers left Mecca for Yathrib, an event remembered as the Hijra, or emigration. This event became year one of the Islamic calendar. Muhammad built the first mosque in his new home, and Yathrib became known as the city of the prophet, madinat al-nabi, or simply, Medina, one of Islam's three holiest cities (Mecca and Jerusalem being the other two).
Once in Medina, Muhammad drafted an agreement on behalf of the feuding clans that guaranteed mutual respect and religious freedom, and required common defense of the city. Muhammad and his followers flourished, and added many more followers to their ranks. He was deeply disappointed, however, when leaders of the Jewish tribes of the city, close allies of Muhammad's enemies in Mecca, did not accept his claims to be a prophet, although they too signed the treaty to live together in mutual respect. Until this time, Muhammad had taught that God's revelation to the Arabs was in a common stream with Jewish and Christian revelations, not a separate religion but the culmination of them. Upon this rejection from the powerful Jewish tribal leaders of Medina, Muhammad received revelation from God to break away and found Islam as a separate religion.
The Meccans continued to harass Muslims, confiscating and selling their property. They responded by defending themselves and their property. In 624, the Meccans and Muslims fought a major battle, with the Muslims defeating a Meccan force three times its size. Many saw this as a sign of God's protection, and converted to Islam. The following year, Muhammad and his troops suffered heavy losses in a second battle with the Meccans. Ultimately, however, Muhammad and the Muslims prevailed, and in 630, Muhammad and the Muslims took control of Mecca. Muhammad destroyed the idols in the Kaaba and the other shrines in the city, and performed the rites of pilgrimage.
Muhammad had married several women after Khadija's death, and he and his wives and children settled in Medina. The following year, many of the tribes of the peninsula pledged loyalty to Muhammad and Meccans converted to Islam. Muhammad had gained control of Arabia. After a pilgrimage to Mecca in 632, Muhammad fell ill and died in the home of his youngest and favorite wife, Aisha.
The Quran and the hadith emphasize Muhammad's humanity, portraying him, warts and all, as a mortal man with desires and limitations. In the Quran, God reminds Muhammad that he will face God on Judgment Day along with everyone else. Muhammad is a beloved figure in Islam, and Muslims remember him for his many virtues, such as fairness, gentleness, and kindness to everyone, especially the most vulnerable members of the community. He is recalled as wise and humble, never living above the rest of the community, his door open to anyone, quick to share his wit and charm. Muslims will often say "Peace Be upon Him," or write "pbuh," after hearing or saying his name.
Study Questions:
1. Where does our knowledge of Muhammad come from? How is he portrayed in the Quran?
2. What was Muhammad's family life like? How did his relationships help create the future of Islam?
3. What was Muhammad's message, and why did the people of Mecca try to silence it?
4. Why was the Meccan/Muslim battle of 624 significant to the history of Islam?


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Do fry have a daddy complex?
I noticed a little while ago that my mystery platy fry seem to be schooling with the Betta. He's tolerating their presence well enough. At first I thought it was neat when I saw they were unafraid of him, but today I've been watching and they follow him around like little puppies. He even let them eat with him. Usually, he chases them off but today he was tolerant of them trying his food and playing peekaboo in his fins. I'm just curious if that was a standard thing? The cutest part was when I put the mirror up to the side of the tank to show the children, one of the fry stayed right below him the whole time as he whipped, puffed and flared. :-P
hahahaha iv had the same behaviour from guppy fry hiding with a big blue gourmai i had...i mean she was about 8 inch so she could have easily have eaten them but they went and hid and swam with her ....but no i dont think its instinct for livebearer fry to stay by "parents" or other fish in the tank :):):)
Aww!! Thats cute. I heard that fry and their parents can tolerate after the fry are a couple of weeks old. :P
Maybe the fry look like your betta when he/she was a fry. Never know about animals and their interesting stories like this. :3
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WATERFORD - Jeff Smith took the lead on lap seven from Brian Androncao Jr. and never looked back in rolling to victory in the 30-lap Late Model feature Saturday at the Waterford Speedbowl.
It was the first victory of the season for Smith, of Old Lyme, who had fifth place and third place finishes in the first two events of the year.
"The car was handling pretty good," Smith said. "We were fighting it all day. The car was loose on entry and it was still a little bit loose and a little loose off. But we finally got it where I could play with the rear brake and got it to handle and be good."
Vinnie Esposito of Seymour was second.
"Finishing second was a good job," said Esposito, who started deep in the field. "Jeff had just a little too much for us."
Jason Palmer of Berlin was third.
Norm Root Jr. passed Ernie LaRose Jr. for the lead on a restart with two laps remaining, held on to a sliding car coming to the white flag and then took the checkered to win the 33-lap Street Stock feature.
The race was extended from the normal 25 lap distance to 33 laps in memory of former Street Stock competitor Chuck "Uncle Buck" Rogers, who passed away unexpectedly on April 16. Rogers had driven a No. 33 car at Waterford.
"I think I had Uncle Buck in the passenger seat," Root said. "I pitted next to Chuck for a lot of years. Great guy, I'm going to miss him a lot. I can't believe I won this race. It's more about him tonight. This car had a vibration halfway through the race, I didn't think it would finish. I think Chuck was there stepping on the gas pedal."
Chris Meyer of North Franklin was second and Ed Puleo of Branford third.
Puleo looked to have the car to beat late until a late caution cost him. On a restart with four laps left, second place Al Stone III spun Puleo going into turn three. Stone was put the rear of the field
"It was a little bit more of the same of what we saw last year," Puleo said. "Whatever, it's done an over with."
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|Jim and Russell
May 15th, 2012
~ Opening Words ~
"Dear family, friends and theater goers, welcome to the marriage of Jim and Russell. What a
wonderful sentence that is! They are here today because they have a dream that a generation ago
would have seemed outrageous. "Boy… You can't marry a boy, boy!" Here, tonight, on the
great white way, where "No you can't" has so many times before become "Oh, yes I can!" Jim
and Russell will be legally married.
It has been said that marriage is falling in love over and over again with the same person. How
Jim and Russell will continue to accomplish this, that will be up to them, for every marriage is as
unique as the people that it joins. Yet the ideals of love, and home and family are as universal as
time itself, and the desire to spend a lifetime with the one we love transcends the differences of
language and gender, to speak to the very core of what makes us truly human.
Marriage is a promise that says "You will always come first in my life." Jim and Russell, this is
an ideal that you have spent the last ten years living by. Yet there are a few insights from tonight'
s show that we hope you will keep with you on your journey. Always remember that you have
people in your life who love you and want to support you. They may not always have all the
answers, but go to them anyway, and let them help where they can. Try to always put on your
best face for one another! Yet also remember to always make it your truest face… the one you
each fell in love with. Sure the bus will break, and a gig or two will flop… But life is a wonderful
adventure, to be lived to it's fullest without hesitation or fear of what might be, instead trusting in
the inherent goodness of the dream, that through the power of love will become real."
~ Presentation of the Rings ~
"May I have the rings please?
Officiant is given the rings
Although you each wear only one of them, these rings essentially belong to you both. For they
are a symbol of the love you share and the promise that it will be a strong and lasting love.
Through out the years they will speak softly of your vow to grow along with one another, to face
the challenges life, to remain one another's first priority and keep your relationship rich and full.
They will give you strength and comfort in times of uncertainty and heighten life's joys as you
share them. Never again do you walk alone for your love will be with you always."
~ Ring Vows ~
"Russell, do you take Jim to be your husband,
Do you promise to continue to be loving, affectionate,
faithful, loyal, honest and trustworthy?
For better or worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and health,
for as long as you both shall live?"
Russell: "I do."
"Will you now place the ring on Jim's finger and repeat after me?"
Russell places the ring half way on to Jim's finger
"I Russell take you Jim to be my husband.
I will love you, and honor you,
respect and cherish you
For all the days of my life."
Russell places the ring the rest of the way on to Jim's finger
"Jim, do you take Russell to be your husband,
Do you promise to continue to be loving, affectionate,
faithful, loyal, honest and trustworthy?
For better or worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and health,
for as long as you both shall live?"
Jim: "I do."
"Will you now place the ring on your Russell's finger and repeat after me?"
Jim places the ring half way onto Russell's finger
"I Jim take you Russell to be my husband.
I will love you, and honor you,
respect and cherish you
For all the days of my life."
Jim places the ring the rest of the way onto Russell's finger
~ Pronouncement of Marriage ~
"The two of you have been flying in for your theatre get a ways for may years
and I am overjoyed that New York, Broadway, and "Priscilla Queen of the Desert"
have this opportunity to embrace you in return.
It is my honor and privilege to now pronounce you
Legally Married Partners in Life, Love, and all things.
You may seal your promises with a kiss!"
Couple kiss and greet their guests as newlyweds!
|Wahooooo! What a great year it has been so far! This page is a work in progress but I know
everyone is looking for wording so here it is! Husband, wife, spouse, lawfully wedded, these are
the words that make a marriage legal. Below are the beautiful ways my couples have chosen to
engayge them!
Jim and Russel were legally married on stage
at Broadway's The Palace Theatre with the
cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
It was a magical night for these avid theatre
goers and now newly weds.
Russ's Mom: "Tonight I have a new son."
Love Love Love
this couple and their family
|Marie and Barbara
May 10th, 2012
~ Opening Words ~
"Marie and Barbara have been together for 30 wonderful years and consider this marriage
ceremony a reaffirmation of their lifetime commitment to one another.
They feel very blessed that each one of you are here to share in this history-making event with
them, as 30 years ago this was not an option for them to consider. Yet, first with a foundation
of friendship, then trust, then great love, spiritual guidance and the support of their families, they
came together as a couple and have grown and function as one; each supporting the other when
necessary and each consoling the other when needed.
When asked of them - What they think makes for a 30 year successful relationship? They
replied: Never take one another for granted. Be thoughtful and courteous to one another.
When asked what they love most about one another, and their relationship, Marie said how
fortunate she feels to have found Barbara, someone to look to for guidance and decision
making. Barbara is her provider, protector, her rock and the anchor to Marie's universe.
Barbara is logical, patient, gentle, generous, and non-judgmental.
And Barbara feels she is extremely lucky to have Marie in her life. Marie is her foundation,
keeps Barbara grounded, organized and on track, she is a wonderful homemaker and brings
peace and serenity and offers comfort to the hectic world outside. Marie is beautiful, loving,
caring, generous and kind. She is the ultimate family nurturer.
From the earliest days of their relationship, Marie and Barbara have shared an undeniable
connection. There has never been any hesitation, as the natural progression of their love kept
them strong and steadfast in life's journey together.
Their strengths and their differences complement each other so well that it has added a sense of
balance to their lives. They know what is important to them and the well being of their
relationship. They are committed not only to one another, but also to the quality of life that
they share.
Dinners together, Sunday afternoon cocktails and playing backgammon, a loving, accepting and
supportive atmosphere in their home, communication that goes beyond words to understand not
only what is said but what is meant, all guided by loyalty, love, truth and trust.
These are all to precious to ever let fall by the wayside.
They both feel they have found their soul mate in one another, someone to rely on for all the
love, joy and sadness the world throws at them. They are the forever love to each other.
Today is a public acknowledgement of all that you are to each other. Seemingly your
relationship will be as it has always been, yet there is a power in the spoken word. May that
power bring you all the warmth and closeness, security and comfort, joy and happiness that this
world has to offer."
~ Hand Ceremony ~
"A hand blessing is a ritual that is meant to draw you closer to one another. It has been said that
the hands are a connection to the heart, and a hand blessing symbolically brings two hearts
Shakespeare said, "Now join your hands, and with your hand's your hearts." So please now
face each other. First join your right palms, and then your left palms. This forms an infinity
symbol with your hands, which symbolizes a love that will go on forever. Please look into one
another's eyes.
These are the hands of your best friend.
They are holding yours on your wedding day as you
promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever.
These are the hands that will work alongside yours
as together you continue to build your future.
These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years,
and with the slightest touch will comfort you like no other.
These are the hands that will hold you when fear
or grief engulfs your heart.
These are the hands that will give you strength
when you need it.
May these hands always reach out with love,
tenderness and respect.
May these hands continue to build a loving relationship
that lasts a lifetime.
May these hands be blessed this day.
May they always hold each other.
May they have the strength to hang on during the
storms of stress and the dark of disillusionment.
May they remain tender and gentle as they nurture
each other in their wondrous love.
May they continue to build a relationship founded in love,
and rich in caring.
May these hands be healer, protector, shelter and
guide for each other – always.
With eyes locked, and hands linked, this ritual is a beautiful symbol of the union of two hearts,
two lives, and two souls."
~ Presentation of the Rings ~
"The ring finger on the left hand, beside the side of the body that holds the heart, has long been
used for the wedding band, because for centuries people believe that there was a vein that ran
directly from that finger to the heart. And they believe that the words spoken during the placing
of the band was the symbol of perfection and completion and eternity, that those words would
resonate over and over again like the circumference of the band itself, into the heart and soul,
and would be the biggest promise that you could ever make, a promise to spend a lifetime
May I have the rings please?
Officiant is given the rings
These wedding bands are a symbol of eternity, with no beginning and no end, they are a visible
and constant reminder of the vows you make to each other today to be together for as long as
you both shall live. You give each other these rings to wear with love and joy and although you
will each wear only one ring, these rings will essentially belong to you both. They are meant to
serve as a physical reminder of the feelings that you have in your hearts at this very moment,
and the promise that yours will be a long and lasting love. As these rings have no end, neither
shall your love for one another."
~ Ring Vows ~
"No other human ties are more tender and no other vows more important
than those you are about to pledge.
Barbara, do you take Marie to be your lawfully wedded wife,
do you vow to love her and care for her,
for as long as you both shall live.
Do you accept her with all of her faults
and all of her strengths and offer yourself to her,
with all of your own faults and strengths.
Do you promise to love her faithfully through tears and laughter,
sickness and health, work and play, now and forever.
Do you promise to be a respectful and
loving companion and always put the vows
that you made this day above all else?"
Barbara: "I do."
"Will you now place the ring on your beloved's finger
and repeat after me?"
Barbara places the ring half way on to Marie's finger
"With this ring, I thee wed.
And giving it,
I give you all my life,
All that I am,
All that I have,
And all that I will become;
From this day and forevermore,
I choose you to be my lifetime companion."
Barbara places the ring fully on to Marie's finger
"Marie, do you take Barbara to be your lawfully wedded spouse,
do you vow to love her and care for her,
for as long as you both shall live.
Do you accept her with all of her faults
and all of her strengths and offer yourself to her,
with all of your own faults and strengths.
Do you promise to love her faithfully through tears and laughter,
sickness and health, work and play, now and forever.
Do you promise to be a respectful and
loving companion and always put the vows
that you made this day above all else?"
Marie: "I do."
"Will you now place the ring on your beloved's finger
and repeat after me?"
Marie places the ring half way on to Barbara's finger
"With this ring, I thee wed.
And giving it,
I give you all my life,
All that I am,
All that I have,
And all that I will become;
From this day and forevermore,
I choose you to be my lifetime companion."
Marie places the ring fully on to Barbara's finger
"As you look to your hand and your wedding band throughout the years, it will speak softly of
the great gift you have been given in one another and may it be a reminder of this moment, that
you have someone to face the challenges of life with, who loves you more than anything else in
the whole world, never again do you walk alone, for your love shall be with you always. For
you, Marie and Barbara, your rings specifically represent the resiliency of your relationship with
the brilliant stones, and the three round stones signify the three decades of faithfulness,
friendship and love that have flourished throughout your shared journey of life."
~ Pronouncement of Marriage ~
"Having witnessed your marriage vows, with all who are assembled here today and by the
authority vested in me by the State of New York, it is with great joy, that I now pronounce you
united legally married, spouses for life.
You may now kiss your spouse."
Couple kiss
~ Signing of The Marriage License ~
"Ginger and Jeanne, you have been asked to act as witnesses for Marie and Barbara. This is an
honor that they wished to bestow upon you. You have both shared with them the ups and
downs that life has brought, celebrated their joys and comforted them through their sorrows.
And yet in the signing of their marriage license a tangible piece of you shall be with them
always, to match the feelings they hold for you in their hearts. Will you please join us for the
signing of the license?"
Couple step to behind the table
where they are joined by Ginger and Jeanne
Marriage license is signed
|After three decades of
Loving Caring
Barbara and Marie
were married at the
Westbury Manor
|Frank and Jesse
September 7th, 2011
~ Opening Words ~
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the marriage of Frank and Jesse.
Marriage consists of entrusting our deepest selves into the loving care of another. It is an
emotional and spiritual act. The spiritual aspect of marriage should be embraced openly,
seriously, and completely, as marriage is a conscious act of will. The married couple must
continually renew their will to be joined and accept the challenges that living together in love
offer. They must decide that they will face the fears that are a necessary part of establishing
and nurturing an intimate relationship. Frank and Jesse commit themselves today, to each
other, in sacred trust. They promise to embrace conflict, as well as peace; to work as well as
play; to struggle as well as bask; to give as well as receive; and to be with, stay with, and move
toward one another. They view marriage as a coming together at all levels of being – mind,
body, and spirit. This includes the willingness to be open and vulnerable; and the courage to
take risks.
Frank and Jesse, you have already made the commitment to create and recreate this conscious
partnership. Yet marriage is a journey not a destination. May the promises that you make this
day lead to a lifetime of love and happiness.
~ Welcoming of the Guests ~
"Frank and Jesse would like to thank you for being here with them today, and for supporting
them through everything that it has taken to make this day a reality. They know that your
taking the time, and making the journey, took considerable effort and they want you to know
the deep appreciation and gratitude that they feel in their hearts for this. All of you are
important. All of the time and conversations that you have had with Frank and Jesse even
before they met have helped to make them who they needed to be to first find themselves and
then each other. You have shared in their best and their worst days, and you are an
irreplaceable part of their yesterdays, their today and all of their tomorrows. You are among
the greatest gifts that life has given them. You are those they can call Family."
~ Frank and Jesse ~
"Today is a celebration of love and of life. It is a day to mark the continuation of a journey
that shall take a lifetime to complete. Frank and Jesse have so much in their lives for which
they are already thankful: good health, good friends, loving families, and happy years spent
with wonderful partners. Each knows the joy of spending years with someone he loves and is
loved by, and each knows the pain of losing that loved one. Today as they affirm the love
they feel for each other they want to reaffirm their abiding love for those they have lost: Frank'
s late husband and partner Lee Vinocour and Jesse's late partner Dick Reed. They wish to
share with you the following song that beautifully expresses the abiding, even eternal nature of
love. As you listen to this song, and read the words, we hope that you will remember Lee and
Dick, as will Frank and Jesse, and honor their memory as they do.
Play "Love Never Dies" by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Frank and Jesse were indeed both at the right time and right place, in more ways than one, and
from the day they met, over a good cup of coffee, they have been inseparable. Their lives
had been very different before they met. One, Jesse, knew he wanted to find again the kind of
joining of lives he had experienced before. The other, Frank, having suffered the pain of such
a terrible loss, thought he would never be ready for another relationship. But, as I said, they
met at the right time and right place. On that warm winter day when they met for coffee they
were ready, and the bonds of love began to grow immediately.
As with most couples, they have found the song that they consider theirs.
It is called "Walk with Me".
Play "Walk With Me." by Matt Alber
"For them it has been an easy and natural progression, as if they were made for one another.
They are very much themselves with one another and as cliché as that may sound to some, it
is a very important aspect of their relationship. Think of the gift that it is to be able to be
nothing more or less than one's self, with no pretense, no airs, no masks, and most importantly
without fear. It means that your heart has found home.
Together they share a love of home and their little fur family. Nothing is better to them than
the quiet times at home, with music and endless conversations about everything and nothing at
all. Their home is a welcoming place for those they consider family and friends. This and
helping those they love is important to them, because after all when you are as blessed as they
are, it is only right to give back.
When they are together there is a feeling of completeness and appreciation. They revel in
together learning and expanding one another's horizons so as to see the world in a broader and
deeper sense. They seek not only to hear one another, but also to understand the unspoken
glances and gestures that give a deeper meaning behind their words. For no subject is ever
worth harsh or angry words that might carelessly damage the spirit of their union when their
only desire is to know in total the deepest recesses of one another's hearts.
~ Reading ~
"To further express the ideal of marriage, Frank and Jesse have chosen to share with you these
words, simply entitled;
"The Wedding Vow"
"You are not the air that I breathe,
You are the sweet scent that drifts upon it
You are not the sounds that I hear,
You are the music of my life
You are not the food that I need,
You are the nourishment of my soul
You are not my will to survive
You are my reason for living
It is with you that I experience
the wonders of the world
It is with you that I triumph
over the challenges in my path
It is your partnership that will lead me
to the fulfillment of my dreams
It is your friendship that guides me
as I learn and grow
It is your patience and wisdom
that calms my restless nature
It is through you that I know my true self
I do not take you for granted, I cherish you
I do not need you, I choose you
I choose you today in witness of all the people who love us
I choose you tomorrow in the privacy of our hearts
I choose you in strength and weakness
I choose you in health and in sickness
I choose you in joy and sorrow
I will choose you, over all others,
every day for all the days of my life"
~ Presentation of the Rings ~
"Ariana and Erika will you now hold out the rings entrusted to you by Jesse and Frank?
Ariana and Erika hold out the wedding bands in the palm of their hands.
As you pass these rings to me, let your hands beneath serve as a symbol of how Frank and
Jesse and their marriage are supported upon this earth by the love of their friends and family."
Officiant is given the rings
The ring, a circle, is one of nature's simplest forms. The arc of the rainbow, the halo of the
moon and the smallest of raindrops simulate the circle. A circle is the symbol of the sun and
the earth and the universe. It is a symbol of perfection and of peace. In these rings is the
symbol of unity, in which your lives are now joined, so that wherever you go, you will always
return to one another and to your togetherness. As the circle turns again unto itself, so does
marriage seek itself for its refreshment and renewal.
Frank and Jesse's rings are adorned with Celtic arches. They chose the pattern on their rings
not simply because each of them has Irish heritage, but also for the symbolism of the pattern.
The arches on these rings are interwoven: symbolic of the relationship between Frank and
Jesse, whose lives are interwoven. The strands of the knots arch up to the heavens and down
to the earth, gathering energy and inspiration from both. The individual strands have broad
sweeps like ocean waves, cresting before they meet, and then gathering up from above and
below to do it again. In this process there is both joy and surrender to the great mystery of life.
May these rings remind you always of the vows you take here today."
~ Ring Vows ~
"Jesse will you now tell Frank what is in your heart?"
Jesse speaks his heart.
"Will you now place the ring on Frank's finger and repeat after me?"
Jesse places the ring half way on to Frank's finger.
"I Jesse, take you Frank,
To be my lawfully wedded partner in life love and all things
I promise to walk by your side,
I vow to love you and care for you
not only on this precious day, but for all time.
I take you, with all your faults and your strengths,
as I offer myself to you with my faults and my strengths.
I will help you when you need help,
and I will turn to you when I need help.
I choose you as the person with whom
I will spend my life."
Jesse places the ring the rest of the way onto Frank's finger.
"Frank will you now tell Jesse what is in your heart?"
Frank speaks his heart.
"Will you now place the ring on Jesse's finger and repeat after me?"
Frank places the ring half way onto Jesse's finger.
"I Frank, take you Jesse,
To be my lawfully wedded partner in life love and all things
I promise to walk by your side,
I vow to love you and care for you
not only on this precious day, but for all time.
I take you, with all your faults and your strengths,
as I offer myself to you with my faults and my strengths.
I will help you when you need help,
and I will turn to you when I need help.
I choose you as the person with whom
I will spend my life."
Frank places the ring the rest of the way onto Jesse's finger.
"The vows you have just taken, pledging love,
mean far more than mere words ever can.
May their gentle spirit move in you.
May your years fulfill the beauty
of the feelings expressed today,
and may you always put these vows
above the things that make life smaller."
~ "The Day of Your Wedding" ~
Author Unknown
"Together you share the joy of a deep commitment
and the sacred trust.
You have given each other the most precious gift of love.
Treasure it, nurture it, and encourage it
with all the honesty you used in creating it.
You are sharing something rare and beautiful.
Always speak the truth, and listen attentively,
so that you may understand each other's thoughts and intentions.
Inspire each other by sharing your accomplishments.
Say 'I love you' often to retain the warmth between you.
Remember to laugh a lot; even when you're angry
After all, you're each other's best friend.
Stand together and for each other always:
be content in mind and spirit.
Make each day a blessing
and a fulfillment of your dreams."
~ Pronouncement ~
"You are now as your hearts have always known you to be,
Legally married, Husbands and Partners in Life, Love and all things!
You may now seal your commitment with a kiss!"
Couple kiss and exit to greet their guests!
|Frank & Jesse
They came all the way
from California, rented a
beach house, gathered their
family and friends and were
legally married. The out
pouring of love and support
since New York legalized
same sex marriage has been
amazingly beautiful.
|Michelle & Janice
My Hamptons ladies!!!!
They came all the way from
the mid-west to be married
here on the beautiful beaches
of Long Island
photo thanks to
|Days after New York State
issued it's first Same Sex
Marriage License, I had the
honor of being with Richard
and Robert as they
celebrated 30 years of loving
and caring for one another
by becoming legally married.
Congratulations to you both!
I can't wait to do it all over
again next year!
|Rev. Marie April Gismondi,
I want to thank you so very much for the beautiful wedding ceremony you performed for Bob
& I. This bonding meant so much to us & the choice of the right person to perform our
wedding ceremony was every bit as important as our entering into this the beginning of this
chapter of our lives. We couldn't possibly love each other more than we already did but
somehow the ceremony of marriage makes our lives and our love more complete. There will
always be those that will look down on us for our choice but we are finding there is more
acceptance & understanding than we expected. I am attaching the few photos that we took &
truly look forward to the renewing of our vows for our first anniversary next year. And we
look forward to you performing the renewal service. You made our very special day even
more special just by being the wonderful, caring person you are.
Sincerely, Richie & Bob
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|Same Sex couples and Taxes, Honey! This is all new to almost everyone and what's a
couple to do??? Best to get it from someone who knows. So I asked one of my
Accountant Brides, who wed her partner just before the New Year of the first year that
Same Sex Marriage became legal in New York to write me an article!
Same Sex Marriage and Your Finances
|Stephanie and Corrine
"As many of you know Stephanie and
Corrine have been together for four and a
half years and have known one another for
almost twice that long. From the very
beginning of their friendship there was a
feeling that was more like remembering
than meeting one another. They were and
are best friends, who share a spiritual
connection so strong that falling in love was
inevitable. They knew, without reservation,
that together was the only right and true
way for them to proceed into their future.
Their romance came in a "whirlwind" and
brought with it a feeling that everything was
falling flawlessly into place.
|Kelly and Jennifer
"As many of you know Kelly and Jennifer have been together for twelve and a half years.
They have spent their entire adult lives together, sharing so many of life's firsts. In the years
when people change the most, it was simply natural for them to make all the decisions that
would keep them growing together into the life they share. By one another's side has always
been the easiest place for them to be and the place that has always felt like home.
Theirs is an active life filled with family and friends, a love of snowboarding…. And of course
snowboarding that includes a marriage proposal is even better! In personality they have the
wonderful ability to complement and balance one another. Where Jennifer has been described
as "the straight-talk express", Kelly is more like a scenic bus tour arriving slowly and a bit more
comfortably at her destination. Kelly is the one to get Jennifer out of her comfort zone to
explore the new and adventurous and Jennifer is the one whose simple presence makes Kelly
feel stronger and more herself in any and all situations. Kelly is intellectual and conceptual, and
Jennifer is an example of how to live all the ideals Kelly reads about seemingly without effort.
They know how and when to lead and follow, and make an unbeatable team, who are better
together than either could be alone.
When asked what they loved most about one another and their relationship Kelly began by
saying that Jennifer is honest, funny, caring, hard working, trustworthy and loving, with a
wonderfully dry sense of humor. She is also one of the most compassionate and empathetic
people that Kelly has ever met. Jennifer can always see all sides of a situation and always tries
to see people and their actions in the best possible light. Grateful and Lucky, are two words
that come to mind for the feelings that the thought of finally and forever having Jennifer by her
side as her wife inspire in Kelly.
Jennifer began her turn with "Although it sounds cliché" she loves that they are truly best
friends. They are the first person that they each want to go to with anything and everything
that the day brings and there is an appreciation for the spiritual intimacy of this connection.
Jennifer loves the sense of history they share, the way they have retained their individual
interests, as well as found new things to share. Kelly's intelligence is something that Jennifer
has always found inspiring, and her example makes Jennifer want to learn and grow more as a
person. Kelly is a hands on kind of person who is always willing to go above and beyond to
make things better for herself and those she loves… Yet there is also a silly side that Jennifer
feels privileged to see, it is a private and unguarded side that is just for Jennifer to know, and
love, and cherish forever.
Marriage has always been the most intensely personal promise that two people can make. Yet
in the larger sense marriage has always been about family and community. To stand before all
those whom we love most in the world, and promise to love another person openly, trustingly,
without limit or precondition, and to do this for a lifetime… This is perhaps the bravest thing
two people will ever do. It is a promise that they have made over and over again to one
another in the privacy of their hearts, but it is also a promise to each and everyone of you
here… A promise that the person you love will be well cared for."
|"Jim and Fernando wanted to include something in their ceremony that would be a
representation of how they see their joining together. Ecclesiastes tells us "A cord of three
strands is not quickly torn apart." In marriage two people join together as individuals, accepting
that from this day forward they are joined by something larger than themselves. Some call this
God's love that joins them, others call it their shared commitment to protect the spiritual
intimacy of their relationship. Either way it is a sacred trust and an interweaving of spirit that is
promised for a lifetime. Jim and Fernando have chosen to use three strands of cord that they will
now work together to braid into a single cord transforming them into something better. Stronger
and more beautiful than any of the cords alone.
Music begins
Jim and Fernando take the cords
Jim holds the loop while Fernando braids the cords
Fernando then fastens the cords together
Music concludes
May your marriage be blessed with patience, love and understanding, with a playful and lively
spirit that shows your joy in life and your love for one another and may you continue to be best
friends, better together than either of you are apart."
|I Love this picture!
Thomas and Anthony captioned it
"Doesn't my Husband have the cutest Husband!"
|Marie and Barbara's ceremony has been very popular this year. See how Brian and Steve, who
were also married at Westbury Manor, used it as a base and then made it their own in the video
by Capture the Moment Productions below
|From Thomas & Anthony's ceremony
"This is such an exciting day and time that
we live in. Tom and Anthony consider
themselves very lucky that New York is a
place where we are able to celebrate
that love is love and a lifetime commitment
is the greatest promise that two people can
ever make. Knowing that someone will
always be there for you and that you will be
there for that person, that through the
power and strength of love both partners
will become better people… this has been
the ideal of marriage for every generation
that has ever lived."
photo thanks to "LIAffordablephoto.com"
|~ Leslie & Marie Opening Words ~
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here this evening to celebrate the marriage of Marie and
Leslie. Tonight is a celebration of love and of life, a celebration not to create a bond or a union,
but rather to rejoice in the one that already exists. This marks the continuation of a journey that
began almost 38 years ago. It also celebrates Marie and Leslie's commitment to continue
nurturing the love between them, and to maintain it as an integral part of their lives. How Marie
and Leslie will continue to accomplish this… that will be up to them, for every marriage is as
unique as the people that it joins. Yet a hallmark of Marie and Leslie's relationship has always
been the way they never forget that when they address one another, they are each addressing
the most important person in the world to them. The common courtesy of saying "please" and
"thank you" is not an effort but a natural response for them. Marriage is a promise that says
"You will always come first in my life." This is an ideal that Marie and Leslie already live by,
and marriage is simply a way of giving them full and legal recognition for the example they set
as two human beings, joined in loving partnership."
~ Welcoming of the Guests ~
"Marie and Leslie want to thank Jude for opening her home to them and all of you for coming.
Tonight's gathering was planned to be a particularly intimate one, because you are those whom
Marie and Leslie love most in the world and those whom they proudly call family. The joy and
sense of fulfillment that the title of "grandmother" has brought to their lives is immeasurable.
Family are the people with whom we share the story of our lives as it is lived in real time.
While they joked about getting married because they were bowing to peer pressure to make
honest women out of one another, there is something very special about having you all here
with them to witness a moment they never thought would happen in their lifetime. They are so
grateful for all of your love and support, for the place you have given them in your hearts and
the place you hold in theirs. And of course, as everyone will agree…. Their wedding just
wouldn't be the same without their fur child Wendy!"
~ Marie and Leslie ~
"The years that Marie and Leslie have spent in a loving, committed relationship is quite an
accomplishment in today's world. They first met in 1974. It was the heyday of the Women's
Movement, and Marie and Leslie each found herself drawn to the Gay Women's Alternative,
which met in the basement of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Central Park West in
Manhattan. G.W.A.- or, as Marie called it, "Gwaaa" - was a place where women could meet,
listen to a broad range of speakers from the arts and public affairs, including, among others,
Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem, and then talk, nosh, and connect with one another on more
than the superficial level that the clubs offered. Both they and the world have changed since
then. It has been quite a journey, but what hasn't changed is the way they love and care for
one another. Although, like all couples they do disagree on occasion, their love and respect for
one another are ever present. Through wonderful and difficult times their support for one
another has never wavered. Marie and Leslie have two different approaches to life. They
describe it as being similar to the way they speak. Marie speaks like graffiti, bold and colorful,
right out there, and Leslie speaks clearly and concisely in fully formed paragraphs. Together,
they are simply better than either could be alone.
Marie wrote a little about what this day means to them and Leslie said "ditto" so I would like to
share those words with you now.
For us, this ceremony is a way of acknowledging and celebrating our partnership of 37 plus
years. Tonight, it will be, to be precise, 37 years, 6 months, and 7 days.
It hasn't always been easy for either of us. We come from different worlds. Leslie grew up in
the heart of America, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her family tended, most of the time, to be quiet,
polite, and they didn't interrupt each other. I grew up in Queens, New York, as a member of a
large, loud and extended Italian family, in which it was normal for everyone to talk at the same
time - in two languages - and to interrupt each other as a matter of course. Often times in an
excitable and operatic manner.
Our unlikely partnership has enriched us both in many ways - literally and figuratively. But
what we most value in our years of living together is that they have enabled us, in our mixed
attempts, to become better human beings. And, we can't think of anything that matters more to
us - God or no God - than that. It's fair to say that we've helped each other grow.
And finally, for whatever time we have left, each of us wants to spend it with the other. Which
is another way of saying: "I do."
~ Vows ~
"Will Marie and Leslie and their Best Men, James and Patrick, please stand.
This is usually where I would ask for the rings. But Marie and Leslie have chosen not to take
them off in order to exchange them once again. Their rings were purchased at 'Wedding Rings
of Greenwich Village' in the late 1970's and they have been wearing them ever since. Their
initials, which were originally engraved on the inside of the bands, have worn off with time. Yet
there is still wonderful symbolism there, because for centuries people believed that words which
were worn against the skin, would sink into the very fabric of the wearer's being, and become a
part of who and what they are. May your rings remind you of how far you have come and of
how wondrous the journey ahead will be as you share it.
"Leslie, do you take Marie
to be your lawfully wedded partner,
To have and to hold from this day forward,
For better or for worse,
For richer or for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish
Until death do you part?"
Leslie: "I do."
"Please take Marie's hand and repeat after me…"
Leslie takes Marie's hand
"Marie, I will continue to love you, and honor you,
put up with you, as you put up with me,
respect and cherish you,
For all the days of my life."
"Marie, do you take Leslie
to be your lawfully wedded partner,
To have and to hold from this day forward,
For better or for worse,
For richer or for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish
Until death do you part?"
Marie: "I do."
"Please take Leslie's hand and repeat after me…"
Marie takes Leslie's hand
"Leslie, I will continue to love you, and honor you,
put up with you, as you put up with me,
respect and cherish you,
For all the days of my life."
~ Pronouncement of Marriage ~
"As longevity runs in both families with both of your paternal grandmothers living past 100,
even after almost 38 years together, I think there is still room to wish you both a long and
happy marriage. And so, by the authority vested in me by the State of New York, it is my
honor and privilege to pronounce you Legally Married! You may seal your promises with a


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Anyone have a site that has australian prices for the Specialized brand?
Anyone have a site that has australian prices for the Specialized brand?
Last edited by Mountainclimber; 09-11-05 at 01:05 AM.
I'm in Australia, some of our prices are OK, but most of the time the mark up is massive. Obviously be a bit hard getting a bike shipped overseas.... but for parts
I just got some EggBeater SL's for $68.95US + $25US shipping, so around $125AUD. To get the same pedals in Australia would have been at least $200AUD...
But I suppose I am taking business off the local bike store Suppose you don't win either way huh?
Slowly getting back into it.... but geez I'm unfit now!
Kona Caldera '04
Just looking at that freedom machine site there, which continues what I've found looking for stumpjumpers (hardtail) here in australia. They just aren't sold. I've been to a few places locally and in sydney who when I've enquired as to a stumpjumper, they've either tried to steer me to a dually, or an Avanti. Freedom machine seem to be the same. Just the low end Specialized hardtails. Anyone know what's up with that?
The mark up price is pathetic over here. Were paying $849 for the '05 HardRock Comp a few months ago.
Mountain Climber - another site...www.vicmtb.com.au
Specialized will not let their stuff be sold over the internet, so you're not likely to find too much advertised. From what I understand, they have this mentality about sales that forbids customers from making choices on their own - you have to go the the dealer and buy off the showroom, so they can explain how a seat or a pair of gloves works. As far as not being able to find their high-end bikes, maybe they're just too "Specialized" for most people? I just started some part time hours at the LBS mega store, and I can tell you that it's not worth it for the dealers to carry the expensive stuff. I can sell 6 bikes a day, in the $250-600 range, but nothing over that. We don't even get people asking about them - anything over $1000 is just wasted floor space.
Now, I won't even go into prices over here. Being a Yank, I wasn't entitled to any free cash from Centrelink when I first moved here. So while I supported myself and the family on my savings for a while, I discovered it was very profitable to import parts and sell them on ebay at a huge profit. I still do, but not as much, since I have a full time job and a part time job. When we move back to the states, I'll continue to ship stuff over here, not just for the money, but to help out fellow bikers. And I don't feel like I'm taking sales away from the local shops either. If they charge AU$300 for a rear XTR derailleur, you simply aren't going to buy one. But if I can sell you one for AU$150, maybe you'll open your wallet*.
*I'm only throwing these figures out for the sake of discussion, so the prices may not be accurate. Saccy, weren't you looking for V brakes? I paid US$7 for Avid levers, and then sold them used on ebay for AU$50. That's with a start price of 99 cents. I'm happy to go with what the market will bear, and people seem happy to buy from me. I can't imagine what shops must charge for them.
Hey Expatriate, what kind of stuff have you been shipping over?
Gah! I would have paid you $10 for those levers!Originally Posted by Expatriate
Yeah still looking. I thought I broke my wrist last weekend in an adventure race flying downhills trying to brake while jumping drainage banks. Anything to stop me having to squeeze so hard. Either that or I'll come buy a stumpie off ya.
I parted out one of my XC bikes - I think I had $300 in it, all up, less the wheelset. It sold in parts for about $800 on ebay. I had no idea people would pay that much for my used stuff. I've got a small box of road bike stuff on the way, but no plans for any MTB stuff anytime soon. I'll keep an eye out for some V brakes though, just in case. I thought you had sorted that out already?
Ebay + bikes = suckers. I don't even look anymore. I think the place is full of reformed pokie addicts who need to get their money burning rush from somewhere else.
Nah, I just make do with what I have. It kind of works, kinda...
badsac - if you can make the trip, look for Northside Cyclery in Chatswood NSW - they stock the high-end specialized and move 'em quick too. only thing i havent seen in there are spec hardtails and the demo.
i dont recommend them though, they're smarmy, smug and mostly sell to rich people with no idea about what they want. only problem is they're the only spec dealer in metro sydney, so buy from there only if you know what you want.
That's a lie.
There is no rhyme or reason as to selling prices on ebay. I've practically given away new parts, and made a packet on used stuff. I like to think that since it's ebay, they're setting their own price.Originally Posted by badsac
Yeah, had a mate that bought a rockhopper form there and I had a talk to them. They said they don't sell stumpjumpers because it's not worth the money spending that much for a hardtail. Meh.Originally Posted by Funkychicken
Expat, those new things you couldn't sell must have been pink handlebar streamers. Cause I've never seen anything worthwhile that's even remotely good value.
If I had pink handlebar streamers, the Princess would take them for her bikes. But I've had LX sell for more than XT. I've gotten less for new items than when I sold the identical item used. I got nearly $400 for a wheelset that I abused for at least 2 years. Likewise, the wheelset that I bought for my wife's bike last year, I paid $125. Sold them this year for $122.50. I'm sure the guy I bought them from is still selling them on ebay for the same price I paid. Maybe people like paying extra for MY used gear, but not new stuff?
Guess that's like Christie Turlingtons undies. I'd certainly pay more for those used than new.


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850,000 Android devices are activated a day
Android devices around the world total 300 million
MOBILE SOFTWARE FIRM Google has boasted that 850,000 Android smartphones that are activated every day.
That is a lot of phones, and the firm says that there are 300 million handsets running its operating systems out there.
"Each and every day, we are humbled by the trajectory of Android and our partners. With a year-on-year growth rate of more than 250 per cent, 850,000 new Android devices are activated each day, jetting the total number of Android devices around the world past 300 million," said Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Digital Content at Google.
"These numbers are a testament to the break-neck speed of innovation that defines the Android ecosystem."
In its latest financial report Apple said that it sold 37.04 million Iphones last quarter, and we have asked the cappuccino company if it has a number for total Iphone sales to date.
Rubin suggested that an increase in available apps for the operating system aided the increase, saying that in the last year the number of apps has tripled to 450,000.
"Last year at Mobile World Congress (MWC), we announced that there were more than 150,000 apps in Android Market. That number tripled to more than 450,000 apps today, with over one billion app downloads happening every month," he added.
"Think about the astonishing number of songs Shazam'ed, places Qype'ed and foursquare mayorships!" µ
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Advisor: Mark Pagani
This project involves the assessment of a widely applied paleotemperature proxy known as TEX86. While the application of TEX86 is growing annually, few studies have been aimed at understanding the organisms that produce the compounds used in the proxy, or the conditions that govern their lipid expression. This study seeks to use existing satellite data to ascertain how other variables besides temperature may influence the calibration dataset for TEX86. Satellite data will be collected through the use of ENVI and ArcGIS in the Yale Center for Earth Observation, and multivariate statistical analyses will be used to correlate observed environmental conditions with the lipid relative abundances that constitute the TEX86 measurementsPreliminary statistical analysis on the calibration data set of 427 globally distributed modern samples and ~950 published ancient GDGT samples suggests that more work is needed before TEX86 can be applied to the geologic past with confidence. The distribution of ancient samples can coincide with the modern sample distribution line quite cleanly, but often entire sites will form a secondary distribution, evincing the presence of additional driving factors involved in the production and preservation of GDGTs.


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What can I do to help my baby sleep through the night again?
My 8-month-old's sleeping patterns have changed. I was so happy when he was 2 months old because he slept the whole night. Lately he wakes up like a newborn. I just started working again and this is making it so hard on me. What can I do to help him sleep through the night again?
Posted: 10/24/2001 by a BabyCenter Member
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Just about every baby does this, so know that is normal. How you handle it will depend on you and your baby. With my son there was no way a was trying the ferber method, not because I worried it will scar him (because I don't think it would) but because I couldn't stand to listen to him scream. I know my son and I know that he unfortunantly inherented my ability to pitch a fit. This little guy is one over dramatic dude. When my baby started waking up in the night again he was 4 months old and we had just moved him into his room. We choose to move him back to our room and he went back to sleeping through the night. We tired again after about a month and he habdled it much better. He was ready. He still wakes up about 4ish and is ready to play and eat breakfast. Some of you will die when you hear this but since my husband and I aren't getting up till 6 we just put him in our bed and he curls up with us. Sometimes he goes to sleep sometimes he just cuddles. He is year old now.posted 07/12/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I have a 10 month old boy who will not sleep on his won. It started about a month ago and I have tried everything. From holding him til he's asleep to letting him cry it out. I have even tried laying him back down and patting him on the bottom. Its frustrating and my back hurts. Nothing has worked! I am desprit for some good sleep. He still wakes up once or twice a night to eat and then goes back to sleep. I don't know if it has anything to do with his weight in the fact that he is over 20 lbs or not.posted 06/29/2010 by michelle252
my baby was a great sleeper since she was born all of the sudden at about 8 months she stopped sleeping, a combination of teething and learning new skills. over 2 months later i still havent gotten her back to sleeping through the night. any ideas on how i could get her to sleep through the night again without letting her cry. another problem that developed because i am weaning her from the breast is that she wont fall asleep unless shes in my arms. how can i change this also without letting her cry. HELP, this lack of sleep is getting to me.posted 06/28/2010 by Luneygal51
my baby is 10 months 2 weeks old nd she started to not sleep through the night a couple nights ago so my mom said to try manzanita tea in the bottle i did and its been a life saver she falls asleep all night i give it to her when its bed time she drinks when i look shes asleep already...you can try that.posted 06/10/2010 by Emiliy
When my son started waking up from teething, I would nurse him to soothe and put him back to sleep. My doctor warned me however that he does not actually NEED to eat during the night, and that once the habit is formed he will wake even when he is not teething. It took two months to break the habit (for both of us). Now when he wakes night after night teething I just rock with him until he falls back asleep. It takes a good 15-20 minutes and some nights he's up 3 or more times. But now when he has a break from teething, we both get a break from being up at night.posted 05/22/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I'm going through this right now as well. Although my daughter has been night weened and sleeping through the night since she was 4 months old, we've waited a little too long to make her sleep in her own bed. Now she wakes up screaming when she realizes she been moved to her own bed and the simple solution is to just put her back in the bed with us. When we first stopped giving her feedings at night we used a pacifer and a song to get her back to sleep. At 9 months I just took the pacifier away, so it's a little more difficult to get her calmed down and back to sleep. What seems to be working for the majority of the night is giving her a teddy bear to sleep next to. She's a cuddler so she hugs the bear and thinks it's me. She always goes right back to sleep anyway but the waking up disrupts my sleep. I'm trying to stop her from taking her nap so late in the afternoon, but she wears herself out. Also make sure she's had her bottle before bedtime (9:30) so she'll have a full tummy.posted 05/17/2010 by chloeoguynn
My oh My- funny how you pat yourself on the back for getting your 2 month old to sleep through the night and then at 6 months the rug gets pulled out from underneath you. I've been trying to fight this battle and now my son is 10 months old and still wakes during the night. Weather it's teething or being hungry or just wanting the comfort of his mothers arm. Not sure! They say it's temporary and eventually they do sleep through the night.posted 04/27/2009 by mrs. mommy jo
My daughter started sleeping through the night at 2 months old. She was a premie and was in NICU for 3 1/2 wks. At 8 months old she stopped this and I kept trying to figure out what was going on. She had started cutting her first tooth and I know that had some to due with it. I ended up increasing her food intake in the evening meal and now she is back to sleeping all night long again. I read other posts and everyone seems to try different things. I know every child is differnt, but at this age they are moving around a lot more, they are burning some energy and need to eat more. Anyway, thats just my suggestions and thoughts. Hopefully this will help someone out there!posted 04/02/2009 by StephanieK72
I need help. My almost 8 month old won't sleep through the night. She never really has. When she was an infant, I contracted an infection that made her scream for hours because my milk was sour. Then she was allergic to the formulas we tried. She was getting to the point where she would sleep 6 hours at night and then all of the sudden she is waking up every 2-3 hours. She is teething and one tooth just broke through but we need help!!! My husband and I are at our wits end from the lack of sleep. We have an older son so letting her scream doesn't really fly because it keeps him up. HELP!!!!!!!posted 08/24/2008 by cathyjgallo
My 6 month old has started getting up at night as well, will not go back until she gets a bottle! I have tried letting her cry, no deal. I remember that with my son, the doctor said don't give mild, just water so they don't enjoy it. They will learn not to bother. I am going to try that tonight. It is amazing how quick they can get into a bad/good routine. My son also stopped getting up when I would only give him the water.posted 11/05/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
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The Pittsburgh Steelers advanced to their third Super Bowl in six years thanks to a big-play defense that returned a fumble for a touchdown and staged a late goal-line stand in a 24-19 victory over the New York Jets.
Pittsburgh, which led 24-0 in the first half and held on, faces the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl in Dallas in two weeks. The Packers beat Chicago 21-14 earlier Sunday.
William Gay went 22 yards after fellow defensive back Ike Taylor sacked Mark Sanchez and the ball came loose. Pittsburgh then stopped New York four times inside the 2 in hanging on.
The Steelers (14-4) have won a record six Super Bowls in seven appearances.
Read the story in Monday's Vindicator and vindy.com.
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The SWAT4LS Hackathon is an informal event associated with the SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Workshops Series.
Scope of the event is to bring together experts and enthusiasts in the application of semantic technologies in healthcare and life science for open discussion and jam coding sessions. The Hackathon will be organized on the 28th of November 2012 at La Cantine, Paris (map).
street: 151 rue Montmartre, Passage des Panoramas room: 12 Galerie Montmartre 75002 Paris
(For more information, please refer to the workshop website). The hackathon is open to workshop participants. Registration is required and space is limited!.
- 1 Logistics
- 2 Open PHACTS community
- 3 WikiPathways community
- 4 Database Center for Life Sciences Community / BioHackathon
- 5 W3C HCLS Community
- 6 BioPAX Community
Projects and institutes attending include:
- OpenPhacts (http://www.openphacts.org)
- WikiPathways (http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways)
- The Database Center for Life Sciences/BioHackathon (http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en/ http://www.biohackathon.org/)
- The W3C Consortium, Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS)
- BioPAX (http://biopax.org)
While the agenda will be open, we are coordinating ideas that can be developd at the network in advance, to maximize the utility of the day. Co-organizers for each community will help gathering ideas and finding point of contacts.
Information and registrations
For information, info _at_ swat4ls.org
Registrations are handled via Eventbrite
- Andrea Splendiani
- Andra Waagmeester
- Eric Prud'hommeaux
- Toshiaki Katayama
- Ismael Navas delgado
Open PHACTS community
Contact Point
- Andra Waagmeester
- Egon Willighagen
Proposed action points
- Consume Open PHACTS content in Pathway tools
- Using http://identifiers.org
- Create an example set of valuable queries
- Visualizing output
- work on further linked data integration, with possible:
- DrugMatrix
- TG-GATEs
- CTD (already available as RDF, by Bio2RDF)
- shared Java client code
- for R, Bioclipse, KNIME
Confirmed Participants
- Kees Burger
- Maria Carmen Carra
- Ian Dunlop
- Chris Evelo
- Paul Groth
- Tim Harder
- Carina Haupt
- Nick Juty
- Camille Laibe
- Antonis Loizou
- Oriol Lopez
- Guillermo C. Martínez
- Nuria Queralt
- Rishi Ramgolam
- Mark Thompson
- Egon Willighagen
- Pekka Kohonen
WikiPathways community
Contact Point
Andra Waagmeester
WikiPathways is a online resource for pathways. Content is provided by the audience at large. I currently contains more then 2200 pathways from 21 species source. Pathways are captured in a XML-based format GPML. Recently WikiPathways was exposed as linked open data where GPML content was exported as RDF. This data is available through a SPARQL endpoint http://sparql.wikipathways.org.
Proposed action points
- Exploring WikiPathways RDF content, making example queries
- Writing federated queries to integrate pathway content with other biological data.
- Using Pathvisio RPC.
Confirmed Participants
- Chris Evelo
- Martina Kutmon
- Alex Pico
Database Center for Life Sciences Community / BioHackathon
Contact Point
Toshiaki Katayama
Proposed action points
W3C HCLS Community
Contact Point
Eric Prud'hommeaux
Proposed action points
BioPAX Community
Contact Point
Ismael Navas Delgado
Proposed action points
Confirmed Participants
- Ismael Navas Delgado
- Andrea Splendiani
- PathwayCommons SPARQL endpoint. Endpoint over all BioPAX representations in PathwayCommons
- Cytoscape plugin to visualize and interact with RDF knwoledge bases (new!)
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Freelancing takes courage. No guaranteed pay cheque, no back-up team, no boss to give you guidance, no boss to take the fall. No excuses – the buck stops with you. It took courage to take that first step into the freelance world, whether it was a bold and brazen stride with an armful of clients ready to commit, or a stomach-knotted plunge born of necessity.
**But as Mark Twain said:**
>"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." And at times that fear will come to the fore.
## Fear is good
**It's the antidote to complacency, a reminder of fragility and the need to fight and compete.**
Most freelancers will have allowed complacency to set in at some point. Regular clients pushing us regular work means we almost forget that we're not actually receiving the dependable bank deposit our employed friends enjoy. Chances are that most freelancers, during this recession at least, suffered a stutter or two from clients. A drop in their income means a drop in yours.
At first you might shrug it off as a blip. Perhaps a couple of one-off jobs cover the shortfall. Perhaps you had money in reserve. But if the trend continues… oh dear God.
Those regular gigs weren't a luxury, they were a trap. They massaged your ego, while smoothing out, no, blunting your edge. And now the only edge in sight seems to be at the end of the slope you're beginning to slip down.
### Good news
The fear is back. And it's your greatest weapon, your firmest friend. You just need to embrace it, rather than let it grip you.
Fear is a sneaky little sod though. On the one hand it's pushing you to pick up the phone, to make that first faltering cold call. But on the other hand it's whispering 'You've not done this in ages. What will you say? Why should they listen? If you were truly different, truly special, the phone would ring and you'd not be making this call…' Sneaky and cruel.
So sidestep it. If you didn't make one before, and God knows many of us didn't, it's time for a battle plan:
* You need a timetable of attack.
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* So plan that phone call.
* Don't be afraid to experiment.
* Ask for advice from friends, ex-colleagues, and [online](/forum).
### Plan your targets
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* Explore the avenues you never fully investigated:
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* the painfully early breakfast networking meetings
* even the customers whose enquiries never went the distance
* Revisit your marketing material.
And suddenly it's not fear gripping your heart and choking your confidence, it's raw excitement coursing through your veins; it's possibility and potential vying with uncertainty for control of your every waking breath.
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Scientists Planning to Cryo-Freeze Coral Samples to Preserve Endangered Species
Posted By Timon Singh On November 28, 2011 @ 4:55 pm In Architecture,Design,Disaster-proof design,Environment,global development,global warming | No Comments
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1], located on Norwegian island of Spitsbergen [2], is a vast underground cavern that holds almost every type of seed in the world. The idea behind it is that if there is ever a regional or global disaster, the Vault will be able to replicate the destroyed plant life. It is essentially a Noah's Ark for the world's plant population, and an insurance policy against an ecological nightmare. A similar idea is now being considered for the world's coral species [3]. Due to rising ocean temperatures, scientists from the United States and Australia are attempting to freeze coral eggs and sperm so that the endangered species can be preserved.
The problem is particularly prevalent on The Great Barrier Reef where pollution and other man-made influences are threatening to destroy one of the world's largest natural wonders.
It is hoped that by freezing coral samples in cryogenic suspension, they can later be grown in a lab and implanted in reefs. For certain endangered species at The Great Barrier Reef, this could be the only way to ensure their survival.
"If we were to use it right now, we have the ability to take the sperm, thaw it out, re-animate it and fertilize eggs and create sexually produced coral," said Mary Hagedom, a scientist from the Smithsonian Institute.
The eggs and sperm are frozen separately, but there a number of factors facing the team – namely which one to freeze first.
"It depends on a lot of factors, including whether a species lends itself to freezing. Some species survive the freezing process better than others," said Madeline van Oppen, a scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science [4] speaking to Public Radio International. [3]
Other methods are also being discussed to save the world's coral population, including attempts to produce a form of super-coral that could be used to repair damaged parts of reefs.
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Dare to Be Scared : Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill
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Thirteen short stories about ghosts, monsters, spirits, and other scary creatures will give the reader thrills and chills.
Baker & Taylor
This story collection for middle readers offers thirteen diverse scary stories, including fantasy, science fiction, and ghost tales, from the author of
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Witch Baby.
Perseus Publishing
In this creepy collection, award winning writer Robert San Souci draws on myths, legends, and folk tales to create thirteen completely new stories, all featuring boys and girls from 8 to 12 as leading characters. "Ants" features Kyle, who tricks his mother into allowing him to go see a scary movie with his friend, but regrets it when the movie lingers a bit too long after the end credit. In "The Caller," Lindsay, a self-absorbed preadolescent, is visited by a deceased aunt who intends to reclaim a coveted ring, and perhaps Lindsay with it! Other stories include a boy whose frightening dream becomes a waking nightmare, a girl whose tricks on her little sister make her a Halloween treat for a real witch, and four middle-school bullies whose cruel ways bring the wrath of a mountain devil. Dare to Be Scared weaves suspense, drama, and psychological power into eerie, evocative stories, including ghost tales, fantasy, and science fiction, that will spur young imaginations.
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This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, ?jump? stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage of legends, folklore, and cultural traditions as they extend into children?s lives today. With suspense, action, and manageable ?scare level,? these stories will be popular around the campfire and during summertime sleepovers.


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The Daily Docket: Investors Appeal Tribune Plan
Investors that wound up at the bottom of the payment pileup in Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy raced to appeal a Monday order confirming the media company's Chapter 11 plan. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.
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Distressed investors bought and sold $2.34 billion worth of bankruptcy claims last month, nearly all of which is tied to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and MF Global Inc. Read the DBR article via The Wall Street Journal.
The city of San Bernardino, Calif., will suspend debt payments and freeze hiring, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Also according to the L.A. Times, Compton's city manager says the struggling city won't file for bankruptcy.
Stockton's City Council voted to loan more than $1.6 million to a company that will restore 20 apartments, the Record reports.
Peregrine Financial Group Inc. founder Russell Wasendorf Sr. might not be coming completely clean about where the money he stole from customers went, Reuters reports.
AMR Corp. Chief Executive Tim Horton is feeling better about American Airlines, WSJ reports.
According to the Irish Independent, former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean FitzPatrick is still living a luxury lifestyle even while in bankruptcy.
Former Boston Red Sox player Curt Schilling's 38 Studios LLC spent more than $133 million before making its way into bankruptcy, including $118 million in operating expenses, WPRI reports.
Stephen Lubben discusses in DealBook the differences between U.S. and British bankruptcy laws through a soccer bankruptcy case.
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What if 800 Christian Activists Descended on Capitol Hill and No One Noticed?
Sponsored by a broad coalition of Christian organizations, nearly 800 people of faith gathered for the 10th annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days this weekend to reflect upon and lobby for "a national budget that break the yokes of injustice, poverty, hunger and unemployment throughout the world."
The conference's powerful and timely theme, entitled "Is this the Fast I seek?", brought preachers, religious leaders and policy experts together to educate participants on everything from the dangers of wealth and income inequality to how to engage with local media on federal budget issues.
The dynamic conference culminated yesterday with participants spreading out across Capitol Hill to educate and lobby lawmakers on the need for a federal budget that protects the safety and dignity of all people and prioritizes programs that protect children and families over tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
While Religious Right groups like Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition attract a disproportionately large amount of media attention despite poor attendance at their Washington conferences, progressive Christians working for more just budget priorities get almost no attention.
Though news outlets ignored the gathering this weekend, advocacy and media trainings like those at EAD will equip progressive people of faith to continually rebut the Religious Right's distorted budget priorities and more effectively inform both lawmakers and the media that Religious Right pundits don't represent the priorities of all people of faith.
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When orphan Sophie is snatched from her bed by a Giant, she fears that he's going to eat her. But although he carries her far away to Giant Country, the Giant has no intention of harming her. As he explains, in his unique way of talking, "I is the only nice and jumbly Giant in Giant Country! I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG." The BFG tells Sophie how he mixes up dreams to blow through a trumpet into the rooms of sleeping children. But soon, all the BFG's powers are put to the test as he and Sophie battle to stop the other Giants from tucking into the children of the world. The RAF and even the Queen become involved in the mission. [from roalddahl.com]
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Monopoly Capital and the New Globalization. (Review of the Month)
Foster, John Bellamy, Monthly Review
We live at a time when capitalism has become more extreme, and is more than ever presenting itself as a force of nature, which demands such extremes. Globalization--the spread of the self-regulating market to every niche and cranny of the globe--is portrayed by its mainly establishment proponents as a process that is unfolding from everywhere at once with no center and no discernible power structure. As the New York Times claimed in its July 7, 2001 issue, repeating now fashionable notions, today's global reality is one of "a fluid, infinitely expanding and highly organized system that encompasses the world's entire population," but which lacks any privileged positions or "place of power." (*)
Even the revolutionary figure of Karl Marx has been enlisted in support of this view of inexorable global destiny, which seemingly determines everything, but which has no manifest agent of change. Thus the World Bank quoted from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels on the opening page of its 1996 World Development Report, arguing that the transition from planned to market economies and the entire thrust of neoliberal globalization was an inescapable, elemental process, lacking any visible hand behind it:
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation...All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices, and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air...
Gone-spirited away by ellipses in the World Bank quotation from the Manifesto-were Marx and Engels' allusions in the same passage to "the bourgeois epoch" and their subsequent reference to how "the need for a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe."
It is no doubt largely in response to this atmosphere of inevitability, in which globalization is divorced from all agency, that the movement against the neoliberal global project has chosen to exaggerate the role of the visible instruments of globalization at the expense of any serious consideration of historical capitalism. Radical dissenters frequently single out the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank and multinational corporations-and even specific corporations like McDonalds-for criticism, while deemphasizing the system, and its seemingly inexorable forces.
These two distorted viewpoints, one generally in support of globalization, the other generally opposed, are mutually reinforcing in their unreality. Those who wish to intervene in these processes are thus left with no real material basis on which to ground their actions. Both perspectives have in common an emphasis on the decline of nation state sovereignty. Adam Smith described capitalism in the late eighteenth century as a system that eliminated all need for a sovereign power in the economic realm, replacing the visible hand of the absolutist or mercantilist state with the invisible hand of the market. "The Sovereign," he wrote, "is completely discharged from a duty" with respect to the market (Book 4, section 9). Now we are told that this invisible hand has been globalized to such an extent that the sovereign power of nation states over their territorial domains themselves has been vastly diminished. For New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, globa lization is a new technological-economic system based in the microchip and ruled by an "electronic herd" of financial investors and multinational corporations, free from any nation state or power structure, and beholden to none.
Those seeking to dispel such views might reply that capitalism with all of its contradictions remains. But most current conceptions of capitalism are too lacking in historical specificity and concreteness, and too wrapped up in the notion of unfettered competition, to be useful in countering this dominant ideology. …


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I had the privilege of attending the RISING STARS dinner this past week, an event that honors the "under-40 stars in marketing," all courtesy of the former DMEF — or Direct Marketing Educational Foundation.
Our firm has been collaborating with the organization for several months as they worked toward launching a new name, new brand, and entering into a new chapter in their 47 year history. With the new name, Marketing EDGE, the group announced its new brand and celebrated its honorees this week. Over 400 people attended and the energy in the room was palpable. It was apparent how committed the organization is to fulfilling on its mission, which is Educate, Develop, Grow, and Employ college students in the field of marketing.
Our team worked with the branding committee and President Terri Bartlett to develop messaging, social media tools, a brand wall and supporting event collateral around the launch. It was an inspiration to see the hard work and dedication of the organization and to witness the event. I met many of the supporters of Marketing EDGE and listened firsthand to them speak about their passion to give back to a community of young professionals out of gratitude for their own success. Marketing EDGE has many program areas that develop students and assists with their employment.
Direct marketing has undergone a revolution and has been on the leading edge of change in marketing in recent years. It can be a confusing, sometimes daunting, albeit exciting career that is now ripe with new opportunities. Students are no longer attempting to learn or understand demographics, but developing a better comprehension of far more complex ideas — from data and analytics to seamless, end-to-end, 24/7 experiences for the customer.
We're excited to announce that we plan to continue our work on behalf of this organization and to help define these emerging issues as they become a new reality for young professionals.
Tags: branding and design, direct marketing, dmef, environmental design, marketing EDGE, rebrand
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