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Epispadias, which is less common than hypospadias, may also be seen in children with spina bifida or exstrophy of the bladder (a condition where the bladder may appear to be inside out and the abdominal wall is partially open leaving the bladder exposed to the exterior of the body), occurs when the urethral opening is in an abnormal location. In contrast to hypospadias, with epispadias, the urethral opening in a male is usually located on the topside (not the underside or tip) of the penis.
Hypospadias is a malformation that affects the urethral tube and the foreskin on a male's penis. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body. Hypospadias is a disorder in which the male urethral opening is not located at the tip of the penis. The urethral opening can be located anywhere along the urethra. Most commonly with hypospadias, the opening is located along the underside of the penis, near the tip.
Hypospadias is a congenital (present at birth) anomaly (abnormality), which means that the malformation occurs during fetal development. As the fetus develops, the urethra does not grow to its complete length. Also during fetal development the foreskin does not develop completely, which typically leaves extra foreskin on the topside of the penis and no foreskin on the underside of the penis.
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November Arts At A Glance In SLC
One of the main reasons I love living in Salt Lake is the plethora of arts related activities and options. We have everything from classical music to heavy metal, from Broadway theater to community productions, from break dancing to ballet. There is something for just about every interest and, perhaps more importantly, something at every price. Here are a few events you can take advantage of this month: In just a few weeks the Natural History Museum of Utah will open in its new location. They are holding a Grand Opening Community Gala on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. For more information, visit the museum's website. The new space opens to the public Nov. 18. At Hale Centre Theatre you can see My Fair Lady, the beloved Broadway musicial that scored six Tony Awards. My Fair Lady plays Monday-Saturday evenings, and Saturday afternoons, through Nov. 26. Visit Hale Theatre for more info and tickets. Read More

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granted, but the charge is so powerful, you electrocute yourself
i wish i was as fast and strong as rock lee
granted, but the charge is so powerful, you electrocute yourself
i wish i was as fast and strong as rock lee
Granted, but it puts a huge strain on your body everyday.
you didn't make a wish.
i wish school was cancelled for 10 years.
Granted, but you must go to jail until it is resumed.
I wish that I owned the world
Granted but you are snowed into your house and freeze to death
I wish I can beat up everyone that makes fun of me online
my bad
Granted but it is destroyed
I wish that I could beat up the strongest person alive
granted, but the weakest person alive beats you up right after.
I wish that all of these spammers that make those posts about porn sites would fucking marinate in their own blood tonight.
granted and i don't know how to corrupt this 1.
i wish i had the byakugan (know what that one is, uchiha?)
Granted but you don't know how to use it and die
I wish I became a the world's best rapper.
Granted, but all you can rap about is porn.
I wish Blazer was here with me.
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Granted, but he doesn't remember you and attacks
I wish my Kung Fu tournoment would win my Kung Fu tomarrow.
Granted, but then you lose the prize and your family dies
and you become a gay stripper.
I wish that I have more ideas for stories. (i'll kill the one who grants me that wish)
Granted, but your stories suck and you lose rep power.
I wish I had more music to put on my signiture
grandet,but everybody who hears that music dies.(you are so dead!)
I wish i had a female lucario as a wife
Granted, but she leaves you for your grandfather
I wish I was the riched boy on earth.
granted, but then your house burns down and all your money with it.
i wish i had a ham and cheese sandwich (yum)
Granted, but you are attacked by thousands of Munchlax that want it
I wish I had a Playstation 3
granted, but then your soul is stolen by the Reaper Death Seal.
i wish i could come up with more good poems.
granted, but your poems are evil spells and u kill everybody.
I wish that there is a virtual reality pokemon game.
wow. so do i. sorry, i didn't want to corrupt such a good wish.
i wish i had a hidden power that could destroy the world if unleashed.
grated, but the human race flyes to the moon and your standing alone on the destroyed earth.
i wish that i have a sword that is unbreakable.
granted, but it's the eternal sword and you aren' t recognized by Origin, so you can't touch it. (that was long)
i wish i was leader of a powerful syndicate.
granted, but u get killed by your owm men.
i wish i had the newest pokemon games.
granted, but they're still in japanese and you can't understand a word of it.
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One of my favorite New Orleans words is "lagniappe." Pronounced "lan-yap," it means something extra, a bonus. It can also be defined as an unexpected gift.
For me, this year's American Music Masters series honoring Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew has been nothing but lagniappe. Having moved to Cleveland from New Orleans about a year and a half ago, I'm beyond excited to celebrate the music and spirit of my former hometown, and to pay homage to one of the greatest partnerships in rock and roll history. The line-up for the tribute concert on November 13th alone is phenomenal, not to mention the week's worth of events that precede it. This is not to be missed – believe me.
The real gift to me, however, came last week when I was able to connect with a seventh-grade class at the Intercultural Charter School of New Orleans East, with an On the Road distance-learning program on Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, and New Orleans rock and roll. Working with teachers at the school and with KID smART, a local arts integration education initiative, we were able to present a special interactive video-conferencing class just to them, and just for them.
While the children of New Orleans don't need me to tell them about their music (these sounds are part of who they are), the history and legacy of New Orleans rock and roll is not a story most NOLA kids know. It was exciting to see them make connections between the sounds they hear all around them and the sounds of rock and roll, and to see them fill with pride knowing that their city can lay claim to being one of the birthplaces of the music that effectively changed the world. And it was fun to trace this lineage back to the places they pass by every day, places some of these students might even call home – Tremé, the 9th Ward, Congo Square, Rampart Street, etc. This history is all around them – it's their history.
This was especially true of one student in particular – Dave Bartholomew's grandson. I heard he walked a little taller once class was over.
That's what I call lagniappe.


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But for the 2014-2015 season, Dwight is hoping -- as a racer and a business owner -- that the national championship races will be held here in Boulder, at the Valmont Bike Park.
"It's a great course, it will be well organized, and the crowds will be enormous," Dwight said. "As a racer, that's what you love -- the sounds of the fans just screaming. And that's not just coming from Boulder -- people all over the country will be excited about the energy Colorado will provide."
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Ormond Beach's Barbosa has sights set on second Rolex 24 title
Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 5:55 p.m.
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Rolex 24 qualifying might not have gone exactly like Joao Barbosa would have liked, but that was hard to tell as he emerged from the Action Express Racing hauler Friday afternoon.
Barbosa had a smile on his face and a little pep in his step. The 37-year-old said that had a lot to do with the fact that he picked up and moved from Portugal to Ormond Beach just over a year ago.
"It is easier," Barbosa said. "I can sleep in my own bed, and go home and have dinner with the family. It's great."
The veteran driver said the decision to move his family -- he has a wife and two children -- to Ormond Beach followed a 2010 summer vacation there.
"We were already thinking about moving," he said. "It was a great experience. Everybody loved it. We thought it was a good time to move since I was going to be more involved in racing here in Grand-Am. I was spending too much time traveling on airplanes and in airports and not enough time with my family."
Barbosa said his family was "loving" the more relaxed week heading into Saturday's race. They will love it even more if he can pull off a win in the Rolex 24. It is a feat he accomplished in 2010, fending off Scott Pruett down the stretch to guide the Action Express No. 9 car – owned by Daytona Beach businessman Bob Johnson -- to victory.
"To be able to win Daytona is one of the greatest feelings in the world," Barbosa said. "It's one of the greatest races in the world. To be able to come back as a past winner … you know what you have to do. You know what it takes to win. It is not always easy to get to that point, but definitely we are on a good path and I think we can have another good result."
Barbosa's Daytona Prototype Corvette, which will also be driven by Burt Frisselle and Mike Rockenfeller in the twice-around-the-clock race, will start the Rolex 24 in the seventh row. That will place them one row behind the Action Express No. 5 DP Corvette driven by Christian Fittipaldi, Brian Frisselle, Felipe Nasr and Nelson Piquet Jr.
"Two cars, one team here," Fittipaldi said. "We are going to be working together. We will see what we can do together, and if it rolls the nine car's way good. If it rolls the five car's way, that is good too."
Fittipaldi said that Chevy was allowed several changes by Grand-Am Friday morning that he called "the light at the end of the tunnel," for Action Express.
"We are a little more competitive," he said. "We are in the game again. Let's see what happens tomorrow."
Barbosa thought the same -- noting that the No. 9 car, which finished fourth in Friday's final practice round with a best lap time of 1:42.658 around the 3.56-mile course -- was improving each time out on the track.
"The biggest challenge will be patience," Barbosa said. "Everybody says you don't win it in the first turn and that is true. We are going to have to be patient that first lap, try to measure our opponent, see who is faster and pacing and go from there.
"We don't have to worry about what everybody else is doing until Sunday, early morning. That is when everybody will start to show up."
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Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 7:02 p.m.
The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Roger William Vanzant Jr., 28, of 190 Pineland Ave., was charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny after breaking and entering and injury to real property, $2,000 secured bond, March 25.
• Nicole Kathleen Stone, 21, of 1119 Randolph St., Thomasville, was charged with felony possession of heroin, possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor child abuse, $20,000 secured bond, March 26, Thomasville.
• Justin Bradley Powers, 31, of 1119 Randolph St., Thomasville, was charged with felony possession of heroin, possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce, misdemeanor child abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia, $20,000 secured bond, March 26, Thomasville.
• Jennifer M. Edwards, 26, of 1116 Lacy Hepler Road, Lot 3, Thomasville, was charged with two counts of felony breaking and entering, two counts of injury to real property and felony larceny after breaking and entering, $5,000 secured bond, March 14.
• James Jay Nicholas II, 37, of 222 Richmond Drive, was charged with felony possession of a firearm by felon, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce, $25,000 secured bond, March 27.
• Bobby Allen Fitch, 41, of 787 Nottingham Drive, was charged with three counts of felony obtaining property by false pretense, $2,000 secured bond, March 7.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Wheels, cattle gate, rake, scoop, John Deere mower deck, tires, exhaust system, cooling system, floor fan and front frame clip valued at $15,650 were reported stolen from a residence in the 1200 block of Old Thomasville Road near Wallburg between Dec. 25, 2013, and 8:19 a.m. Tuesday.
• Three rings valued at $2,850 were reported stolen from a jewelry store on Winston Road between 2:45 and 4:27 p.m. Tuesday.
• Copper piping valued at $3,000 was reported stolen from a residence on Fairview Drive between 1 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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I see that they are all drilled cases. Any chance of getting some live stuff???
HC I've been thinkin' about what you were talking about having to find an outside source for the brass. So lets put our brains together. What other cartridges are based off of the 7.62x39 case head???
I know the .22 PPC and the 6mm PPC. However they are not as long as the 7.62x39. Maybe find a source of brass for the .22 PPC and the 6mm PPC and see if they offer unformed brass. If it is long enough then maybe it would easier then fire forming.


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Sophomore Drew Reynolds collected four hits and notched his 10th save of the season.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Zach Wright's bases-clearing double in the bottom of the seventh broke a three-all tie and East Carolina held on for a 6-3 victory over Marshall Sunday afternoon in Conference USA action at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. With the win, the Pirates claim their second league sweep of the season and enter their final week of C-USA action in third place.
After Marshall had scored a pair of runs to tie the game in the top of the seventh, the middle of East Carolina's lineup provided the difference in the contest. Drew Reynolds singled up the middle with one out to spark the rally. Corey Thompson followed with a double to left, which put runners at second and third for John Wooten. Marshall elected to intentionally walk Wooten, loading the bases for Wright. The senior catcher drove a 1-1 offering from Ryan Hopkins (1-3) to left for a three-run double, giving ECU a 6-3 advantage.
Jake Harris pitched a perfect eighth and Reynolds struck out the side in the ninth to preserve the 6-3 triumph. Reynolds earned his 10th save of the season, a mark which ties Tulane's D.J. Ponder atop the standings.
The Pirates (31-16-1, 13-7-1) squandered a 3-1 lead in the top of the seventh as Marshall (15-31, 3-15) plated a pair of runs to knot the score at three before Wright's heroics.
Andrew Dundon singled off Jeff Hoffman to begin the frame. Gray Stafford followed with a chopper back to Hoffman, whose throw sailed high of Chase McDonald at first, putting runners at second and third with no outs. Thor Meeks delivered a sacrifice fly that scored Dundon before John Gandolfo laced an RBI double to right, which tied the game.
Despite allowing the two seventh-inning runs, Hoffman (2-1) earned the win for East Carolina. The freshman right-hander surrendered two runs (one earned) on a pair of hits in 2 1/3 stanzas.
East Carolina took a 1-0 lead in the third. Following Tim Younger's two-out double down the right-field line, Reynolds delivered an RBI single to give the Pirates an early cushion, one they would extend in the fourth.
Wooten and Wright recorded back-to-back singles to lead off the frame and advanced to second and third, respectively, after Jack Reinheimer's sacrifice bunt. Marshall starter Mike Mason retired McDonald on a groundout before Philip Clark's RBI single up the middle, staking ECU to a 2-0 edge.
Cotton faced just one batter over the minimum through 4 2/3 innings before Marshall plated a run against him in the fifth. After Stafford's triple to center - the first hit of the game The Herd - Cotton walked Meeks and Gandolfo, loading the bases for Ballou. A 1-0 fastball grazed Ballou's jersey allowing Stafford to score from third.
Hoffman relieved Cotton and escaped further damage by retiring Sergio Leon on a groundout to Reinheimer. Cotton allowed one run (earned) on one hit in 4 2/3 innings. The St. Thomas, Virgin Islands native walked four and struck out four.
The Pirates pushed their lead to 3-1 in the sixth. Wright singled up the middle and later advanced to second on McDonald's two-out walk. Marshall lifted Mason for left-handed reliever Wayland Moore, who allowed an RBI single to Clark, who legged out a ground ball that was fielded by Dundon behind the second-base bag. Dundon's throw to first was late and Wright sped around all the way from second and beat the throw home to give ECU a 3-1 advantage.
Mason yielded three runs (all earned) and scattered nine hits in 5 2/3 frames. The southpaw walked a pair and struck out one.
Marshall right-hander Matt Margaritonda worked the final 1 2/3 innings and allowed one hit, walked one, and struck out two.
Reynolds led all Pirate hitters by matching his career-high with a four-hit performance. Thompson (2-for-5), Wright (3-for-4, 3 RBI) and Clark (2-for-4, 2 RBI) also had multi-hit games.
Fultz, Wooten and Younger each had a single, helping East Carolina's 14-hit attack.
Cotton, Hoffman, Harris and Reynolds combined to limit Marshall to just three hits. The quartet struck out eight Marshall batters on the afternoon.
East Carolina returns to action for a pair of midweek, in-state contests. The Pirates host Elon Tuesday, May 8 before welcoming North Carolina to Greenville Wednesday, May 9. First pitch for both games is scheduled for 6 p.m. (EST).


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TJ Bennett drove in five runs and hit a grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning as Utah overcame Arizona with a 7-3 victory Friday afternoon.
Arizona Baseball on Road at Utah This Weekend
Jace Fry took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, and Michael Conforto went 3-for-5 with three runs batted in to lead No. 7 Oregon State to an 11-0 series-clinching victory.
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Trent Gilbert and Kevin Newman combined for six of Arizona's 17 hits, and Cody Hamlin pitched 8.2 innings for the Wildcats, who upset No. 7 Oregon State, 11-2, on Saturday.
Wildcats Look to Snap Out of Slump on Saturday
Ben Wetzler improved to 5-0 on the season and Dylan Davis drove in five runs to lead seventh-ranked Oregon State to a 11-2 series-opening victory Friday evening.
Baseball Returns Home to Host No. 7 Oregon State
Arizona State scored 13 unanswered runs, including 10 in the sixth inning, to erase a five-run deficit and defeat visiting Arizona, 14-6, at Packard Stadium.
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The Huskies shut out the Wildcats, 8-0, to sweep the three-game series.
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DENVER - Idaho men's tennis player Abid Akbar has earned his second Western Athletic Conference Player of the Month award of the fall, the conference announced Thursday.
Akbar, a senior from Islamabad, Pakistan teamed up with fellow senior Marius Cirstea to win the consolation doubles draw at the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships with wins over pairings from USC and Columbia after an opening round loss to Cal. Ben McLachlan, one of the players in Cal's doubles pairing that beat the Idaho duo in the opening round, is ranked No. 23 in the nation in doubles. 2012 marked the second consecutive year Idaho tennis was represented in the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, and the first year the Idaho player or pairing won a match. Akbar also competed in the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate, where he went 1-1 in singles play.
"This is a great accomplishment for these guys to go to the National Indoors and get the wins they achieved," Idaho coach Jeff Beaman said of the Abkar/Cirstea pairing. "It would have been amazing if two people could get this award, it was a great accomplishment for both of them, but I'm also really happy for Abid to get this award for the second time this year."
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CTS selling a business for $75M
ELKHART — CTS is selling its electronics manufacturing solutions business to Benchmark Electronics Inc. for $75 million.
Elkhart-based CTS said Thursday, Oct. 3, that the transaction allows it to concentrate on its components and sensors business and provides more capital for higher-margin businesses.
The deal includes about 1,000 workers and five manufacturing plants in Moorpark, Calif., San Jose, Calif., Londonderry, N.H., Matamoros, Mexico, and Bangkok, Thailand.
Benchmark, which is based in Angleton, Texas, anticipates the transaction adding to its 2014 earnings and generating annual revenue of more than $200 million. It is a product design and manufacturing services provider.
CTS Corp. is in the midst of a companywide strategic evaluation. CEO Kieran O'Sullivan said in a statement that CTS is continuing to look at ways to streamline the business and lower costs.
"Since I joined CTS in January, I have been working closely with the board of directors to evaluate the company's portfolio in order to ensure alignment with our core vision and business strategies," Sullivan said in the statement. "By sharpening our focus on our strengths in components and sensors business through this transaction, CTS will be better positioned," he said.
The electronics-manufacturing segment of CTS's operations lost $2.1 million in the first six months of the year, the company reported in its second-quarter filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. During the second quarter, net sales in the electronics manufacturing segment dropped by 40.4 percent, according to CTS.
In the same filing, CTS said its restructuring process will result in the elimination of roughly 350 jobs sometime next year, though locations for some of the eliminated positions are in overseas manufacturing facilities and not in Elkhart. The rest haven't yet been announced, though the company will announce those sites later this year.
"As part of our previously announced companywide strategic evaluation, we will continue to right-size our global manufacturing footprint and evaluate ways to streamline the business and reduce costs," O'Sullivan said.
Elkhart Truth reporter Justin Leighty contributed to this story.


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The tornado struck our house in Pennsylvania on a muggy afternoon in July. As I made a sandwich in the kitchen, the dogs pressed against the backs of my legs, perhaps sensing something coming before I did. Then the wind roared through with a freight-train sound, and the trees bowed down outside the window. In an instant the trees had disappeared, obscured by thick gray air flecked with black, like ominous confetti.
In the time it took to assemble lunch, the tornado was, then was not. All that was left was the afterwards. Most of the big trees closest to the house were gone, their root-balls upended into the air, as though the hand of God had wiped the landscape and ordered us to try again. The pond was filled with downed cedars and enormous willow branches. There was no power and no water, but the house was untouched except for a single cracked chimney cap.
I sent all three of the children messages. Chris was at a German heavy metal festival and didn't get his for days. Quin was in his New York apartment and wrote back immediately, concerned about whether he should come posthaste. But Maria left her summer school class early and called, sobbing.
"I'm just afraid of history repeating itself," said my daughter, who knows that my own mother died when I was still in college.
And without thinking, I responded, "Oh, honey, I'm too old to die young now."
Sometimes there are things that pop out of your mouth and amount to an epiphany, even if they sound like bad country-western songs. This was one of them. I am no longer young, and certainly not elderly. I am past the midpoint of my life. I am at a good point in my life. I am almost 60.
Am I old? Define your terms. One afternoon I went a little ballistic when I read a newspaper story that described an "elderly couple" fending off a burglar. The woman involved was 68. "How is that elderly?" I ranted. "That's not elderly! Sixty-eight is not elderly!"
After the rant, silence, and then one of my children said, "Mom, that's elderly."
"It is," said another.
"Definitely," said the third.
Nonsense, I thought, and to prove it, I went to various journalism sites and writing stylebooks to nail down the cutoff point for elderly, the precise definition of an old person, or an almost-old one. It seems that oldis a moving target. Some gerontologists divide us into the young-old, ages 55 to 74, and the old-old, 75 and over. In a survey done by the Pew Research Center, most people said old age began at 68. But most over the age of 65 thought it began at 74.
When I searched my own clippings over the course of a long career in journalism for the word elderly, I discovered to my horror that I had used the adjective with casual regularity. There were the elderly women in the beauty parlors of Flatbush, Brooklyn, the elderly men on the boardwalk in Coney Island. And then—here's the important thing—the number of uses of the word elderly in my copy began to dwindle, then disappear. As I myself aged, elderlyseemed more and more like a pejorative, and my definition of what constituted elderly shifted upward.
In other words, old is wherever you haven't gotten to yet.
The truth is, I don't feel old. I certainly feel a good deal younger than the older people of my past. The year I was born, the average life expectancy was 68; today it's about 80. Our grandmothers at 60, and my friends and I at that same age: We might as well be talking about different species, in the way we dress, talk, work, exercise, plan—in the way we live. When people lived to be 65, 60 wasold. When they live to be 85, 60 is something else. We're just not sure what yet. A friend told me she thought it was summed up in the message inside a birthday card she got from her mother: "After the middle ages comes the renaissance."
So we face an entirely new stage of human existence without nomenclature, which is an interesting challenge, because what we call things matters. That's why I recoiled from elderly. The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places and things. After all, a signal semantic goal of the early women's movement was to make certain that grown women were no longer referred to as girls.
One of the reasons we're so desperate for new ways of talking about aging is that we have a new way of feeling about it. Oh, sure, when you raise the question of getting older at a restaurant table or a cocktail party, the moans begin, the sighs, the eye rolling. The back hurts, the feet ache. And let's not even talk about age spots or bifocals or buying a bathing suit.
But what I've found is that if you push most women a little harder, they eventually get past the hip replacement and the crepey neck and wind up admitting that they're more contented now than they were when they were young. They feel as if they've settled into their own skins, even if those skins have sun damage.
A Gallup poll of 340,000 men and women ages 18 and up made this manifest. The youngest respondents felt pretty good about themselves and their lives, while those who were in their thirties and forties were much more dissatisfied. But after age 50, there was a change in the weather, and from then on happiness was on an upward trajectory into the eighties.
The older the respondents, the more likely they were to report that stress, anger and worry had declined. Perhaps if we think of life as a job, most of us finally feel that after 50, we've gotten good at it.
All this reminds me of a system I once learned to help make any important decision. Take paper, draw a line down the middle, list pros and cons. The old house has a leaky roof, rattling windows, a damp basement, bad gutters: all cons. I love the place: one pro that obliterates everything else.
We can graph good sense all we want, but most of the time we feel what we feel. Getting older means being seen as yesterday's news. Perhaps because I grew up in the newspaper business, I always realized that someday I'd be yesterday's news. Perhaps because I'm the oldest of five, I've always felt older. There's a lot less to my future than there is to my past, and there are undoubted minefields along the way. But what can I tell you? I look at the list of pros and cons, and I always come to the same conclusion. I like the house.
It wasn't always so. I started out pretending, trying to adjust my throttle to some generally accepted notion of femininity. In her commencement address to the graduating class of Barnard College in 2010, Meryl Streep said the characterization of the pleasing girl she created in high school was a role she worked on harder than any ever after. Speaking for so many of us, she recalled, "I adjusted my natural temperament, which tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, a little loud, full of pronouncements and high spirits, and I willfully cultivated softness, agreeableness, a breezy natural sort of sweetness,
even shyness if you will, which was very, very, very effective on the boys." Gloria Steinem coined the term female impersonatorsto describe the uncomfortable way in which we women learned early on to play the role of pleaser, with a practiced smile that often did not extend to our eyes.
The act took its toll, as subterfuge and self-denial tend to do, and we paid with an internal dialogue of criticism. Not smart enough, not pretty enough, not a good enough mother, not a good enough professional. An entire Greek chorus chimed in, a Greek chorus made up of magazines, movies, advice books, alleged friends and family members who insisted they were telling us only for our own good, only wanted to be certain we would be happy and have no regrets. The problem was, the chorus couldn't make up its mind; its messages ranged from self-sacrifice to self-promotion, from abstinence to sexual freedom. The only constant was that somehow we all needed to be more than we already were. But more was never enough.
The best thing you can say about this nonsense is that at a certain age we learn to see right through it, and that age is now. I'm not buying the idea that we need to be more, given how much we already are. By the standards that matter—of friendship and diligence and support and loyalty—we are scoring in the top stanine. Cellulite is not a character defect. The Greek chorus is just hurdy-gurdy music.
Armed with that knowledge, many, if not most, women embrace their later years, although they don't know how to name them. Age is just a number, one mantra goes, and like most mantras, it has a pleasing sound and means exactly nothing. But what is old? Is it the first time a clerk calls you ma'am instead of miss? Yeah, you remember that moment, stock-still in your Capri pants, with your big sunglasses pushed up into your salon sun-streaked hair. Or, conversely, the moment when your dentist tells you that you have the gums of a 30-year-old, and it's the high point of your day.
Or maybe it's when you're driving along the thruway with an old, old friend, someone with whom you've shared job struggles and romantic travails and too much tequila and maybe a joint or two, and you find yourself discussing the fact that neither of you is as comfortable driving at night as you once were. "This is old-people talk," you say, and he replies, "As Bob Dylan once said, he who is not busy being born is busy dying." I wonder which one Dylan thought he was, once he'd moved past the formerly statutory retirement age of 65?
My hairdresser has this theory about what she calls resting hair rate.It's similar to your resting heart rate, except that it means no matter what you do to your hair, it will resolve itself into some general style that is its natural fallback position. I personally believe in a resting weight rate—that is, if you're exercising pretty regularly and eating like a normal person, there is some weight that your body will naturally adopt.
So maybe there's a resting age rate—that is, the age you naturally feel. Among Pew study respondents 50 and up, nearly half said they felt at least 10 years younger than their actual age. A third of those ages 65 to 74 said they felt one to two decades younger. On his 70th birthday, Ringo Starr, still drumming, told an interviewer, "As far as I'm concerned, in my head I'm 24." If you woke me from a sound sleep and shouted, "How old are you?" I suspect I'd mutter, "Forty-one."
Now, my life was fine at 41. I had published a novel, was writing a newspaper column, finally had all three children in all-day school. I had just started to work out for the first time in my life, which turned out to be good, and I occasionally found myself squinting at my needlepoint or my book, which turned out to be not so good. I had most of the friends I have today and the same husband. Things were a bit crazy, it's true: I remember the day our son Christopher came downstairs and said, "Some man just called on your office phone, but I told him you couldn't talk because you were making dinner." That man was Jesse Jackson. Isn't working at home great?
Nearly two decades later, I still work at home, but the children no longer live here. I've published a number of novels, had another column but gave it up, added a few friends despite my insistence that I don't have room in my life for more friends. If you woke me up from a sound sleep and shouted, "How's 60 looking?" I would murmur, "Good. Really good." Better, in many ways, than 41.
Most of us don't have tornadoes in our lives. Our disasters are manageable and predictable, the losses systematic and expected. The car conks out, a young man is promoted in our stead, our incomes shrink, the heart goes haywire. Our grandparents die, then our mothers and fathers, then some of our friends. People manage to rebound from great devastation; we read about them every day—the parents who survive the death of a child (though we know we couldn't), the workers who lose lifelong jobs (a turn of affairs we're certain we wouldn't survive), the patients whose bodies are wracked by terrible disease (which we wouldn't want to live with). And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through the storm that looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it's happening to you.
The older we get, the better we get at this. The older we get, the better we get at being ourselves. We're not busy being born but busy being born again. My knee makes this noise like Rice Krispies when I do squats and lunges, and my dermatologist likes to joke that she has to clear her schedule when she checks my skin for age spots. But as my friend Robin Morgan, the writer and activist, said as she was approaching 70, "Parts of me I never even knew I had sometimes ache—but parts of me I never knew I had in my brain sing."
So much of our knee-jerk negative response to aging is a societal construct. It's yet another version of the conflict that shapes and sometimes deforms our lives, the conflict between what we really want and what we're told we ought to desire. We are supposed to think young is better. But we know deep inside, in the ways that count, that better is now. On the day my friend Lesley's first grandchild was born, she sent out a message that ended, "You're never too old to have the best day of your life."
I opened the screen door tentatively after the tornado was over, took the dogs and went outside to relearn my immediate world. There were trees and branches everywhere and a wicker rocker from the front porch flung into the back field, and beneath it two squirrels, unmarked as though they'd died as we all say we want to die, lapsed into a good night's sleep that never ends. And I thought, How in the world will we ever come back from this? How in the world will this place ever look the same? A year went by, and then two, and it didn't look the same, any more than I do. In two places on the banks of the pond I found large pointed rocks slammed several inches into the dirt, rocks the wind turned into missiles, or weapons. For a moment I considered that if the dogs and I had been walking around the pond, as we often do, one of those rocks could have hurtled toward me and done the kind of damage my daughter so feared.
But for whatever reason, that didn't happen. Life is various, millions of moving parts, dogs, stones, high winds, sandwiches, squirrels, tornadoes. There was a time when I behaved as though I were the center of that universe. It was a good time, when I was young and eager and terribly insecure and not beholden to anyone else, without responsibility for houses or children or the cleanup after a disaster. I just like this time better. I used to wonder what I was going to be when I grew up. Now I know.
Copyright © 2012 by Anna Quindlen. Excerpt adapted from her new book, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published by Random House.
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The Yoder Ruritan Club will have a fish fry fundraiser to benefit the Stuttgart RSVP from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Grand Prairie Center.
All proceeds from the fundraiser, which will be dine-in or carry-out, will benefit the Stuttgart RSVP, which is the largest senior volunteer organization in Stuttgart.
Gus Hensiek, past president of Yoder Ruritan Club, said this is the second year for the club to do this fundrasier and the club enjoys doing it for the seniors of the area.
"We enjoy doing this and we wanted to do it again this year," Hensiek said.
RSVP Director Noram Strabala said the proceeds will be used to fund the organization that provides volunteer services to Stuttgart in a wide range of projects and programs throughout the year.
"We are always very appreciative to the Yoder Ruritan Club," Strabala said.
RSVP volunteers are visible at local blood drives, reading to elementary school students, at the local museum, local mass flu clinics, registration of local schools during the fall and much more, Strabala said.
"The volunteers do a lot in and around Stuttgart," Strabala said. "Seniors are seen everywhere.
"These seniors do much more," Strabala said. "Without them, those things wouldn't occur so smoothly."
Strabala, who has been the director of the Stuttgart RSVP for the past eight years, said she enjoys the seniors who volunteer their services on behalf of the community.
Tickets are $12 each and are available in advance or at the door. For more information, contact RSVP at (870) 673-8584.
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- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- Thinly sliced green onions, optional
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- In a small bowl, combine the cream cheese, hot pepper sauce and salad dressing. Stir in chicken.
- Spread into an ungreased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-22 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with green onions if desired. Serve with chips. Yield: 5 cups.
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Chuck Carree - For Travis Wilson, enforcing the law makes sense
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
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Travis Wilson waived his final two seasons of football eligibility at Appalachian State for an unpaid internship. He worked two jobs to make ends meet.
Fueled by lessons learned in Rose Hill from mother Lisa, father Tarvis and high school coach Jack Holley, Wilson had motives for discontinuing as a walk-on running back.
"My goal is to be somebody,'' said Wilson, who transferred to ASU after one year as strictly a student at Elizabeth City State.
Coupled with three years at ASU, he will graduate May 12 with an undergraduate degree in criminal justice. He receives the diploma six days after finishing a 40-hour-a-week internship that began in January in Watauga County district attorney Jerry Wilson's office.
To get by, Travis works 30 hours a week at nights for Wal-Mart and 25 hours on weekends as a vendor for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Boone.
"Working basically three jobs, I learned a lot from football and basically from what coach Holley taught me,'' Wilson said.
I met Wilson at Holley's home in Teachey several years ago after he saw spot duty for the Mountaineers. He played for Holley at Harrells Christian Academy, where, as a senior, Wilson scored 60 touchdowns and amassed 2,075 all-purpose yards.
As a freshman, however, Wilson considered Holley intimidating, yet noticed a level of respect from players toward the coach.
Over time he was no longer terrified of Holley and heeded his advice of applying the same enthusiasm in the classroom as on the football field.
"That's where I learned to balance things in life with football,'' he said. "He taught me how to be a man.''
"I now apply everything I learned on the field, as far as being disciplined,'' Wilson continued. "I also apply preparing for a job in the workplace just like getting ready for a game.''
Wilson seems to have a winning personality. Take Jerry Wilson, for example. According to Travis, he has volunteered to recommend him for jobs with the State Bureau of Investigation and State Highway Patrol.
Travis' long-range aim is to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In his internship, Travis assists with DWI cases and helps judges with courtroom decorum as well as fields phone questions.
The educational training program allows him to meet district and superior court judges as well as Sherry Perry, an investigator in the district attorneys' office.
Donald Ray, an advisory board representative, helped Wilson with a résumé.
"A judge also says I will be a valuable asset to the state,'' Travis said. "That means a lot and that is a compliment I will never forget.''
The internship is the only schooling the 23-year-old Wilson has left, but to complete the training he must write a 20-page paper detailing the experience.
"Elders tell me this is the best thing I can do and I am just trying to get my name out there,'' he said.
Upon graduation, his immediate goal is to join the SBI; if it falls through, attend highway patrol school, which he already started prepping for in October.
Because of his upbringing, Travis has demonstrated exemplary behavior – no drug experimentation, nor misdemeanor or felony arrests. His worst offense was sneaking out of the house to visit his girlfriend.
"I just want to give back to the community,'' Wilson explained. "I want to stop crime. I have practiced that my whole life.''
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The league office announced its 2014 Pac-12 Women's Golf First-Team, Second-Team and Honorable Mention All-Conference honorees.
Arizona has earned its 22nd NCAA Regional selection since 1993 and has advanced to the NCAA Championships 18 times.
No. 11 Arizona women's golf earned a runner-up finish behind No. 9 Stanford at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships on Sunday.
Round three begins at 9:50 a.m. MST/PT on Sunday for the Wildcats. No. 11 Arizona is paired with No. 2 UCLA.
The Wildcats sit just two strokes off the team lead while sophomore Lindsey Weaver is one stroke off the individual lead.
Arizona earned the No. 6 seed and is paired with No. 9 seed Colorado and No. 11 seed Washington State for the opening round on Friday.
No. 17 sophomore Lindsey Weaver finished the individual race with a combined score of 208 (-8) for a runner-up finish.
No. 17 sophomore Lindsey Weaver leads the individual race with a combined score of 136 (-8).
Juniors Kendall Prince and Andrea Vilarasau, sophomore Lindsey Weaver and freshmen Jessica Vasilic and Wanasa Zhou will be competing for the Wildcats on Monday and Tuesday.
Arizona women's golf will compete next at the Silverado Showdown, April 14-15, in Napa, Calif.
No. 36 freshman Wanasa Zhou continues to pace Arizona women's golf with a top-10 placing.
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CLEVELAND (October 8, 2009) - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is pleased to welcome independent record label pioneer Joe Bihari for the FREE monthly program From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits on Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.m. in the Foster Theater on the 4th level of the Museum.
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Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Joe Bihari is considered one of the pioneers of the music industry. Bihari has discovered and produced great musical icons such as B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, John Lee Hooker, Etta James and many other classic artists. Though blues and R&B were Bihari's main musical genres, he also recorded a variety of others including rock and roll, swing and Zydeco. Bihari's most well-known record labels have included Modern, RPM, Flair and Crown. In 2006, Bihari was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He currently runs Modern Music Publishing Company and resides in Los Angeles, California.
Acclaimed author John Broven has published books such as Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans and South to Louisiana: the Music of the Cajun Bayous and has contributed to publications including Blues Unlimited, Melody Maker and Juke Blues Magazine. In 2003, he compiled and produced Ace Records' 50th anniversary tribute double-CD. Broven left Ace Records to finish Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers. Broven is also an inducted member of the Louisiana Hall of Fame and an honorary member of the Louisiana Music Commission.
This event is part of the series From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits, a groundbreaking Rock Hall program that shines the spotlight on the people whose contributions to the rock and roll art form are often as powerful as those of the artists themselves.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has FREE educational offerings year round. Additional adult education programs include Teachers Rock, which shows educators how to bring rock and roll music into their classrooms and Rock and Roll Night School, which gives interested adults the opportunity to expand their rock and roll-related knowledge.
For more information about these and other Rock Hall educational programs, visit http://www.rockhall.com.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $18 for adult residents of Greater Cleveland, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), children under 8 and Museum Members are always free, for information or to join the membership program call 216. 515.8425. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.


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This year, legendary guitarist Freddie King aka the Texas Cannonball was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His searing, assertive solos and gift for showmanship made him among the most revered and subsequently emulated blues guitarists. He was a formidable figure on the nation's two most prominent blues scenes, earning his explosive nom de plume performing in the state where he was born and emerging as a powerful presence on the Chicago circuit. "If you're a guitar player, you better be a Freddie King fan, or you're probably not very good," noted guitarist Derek Trucks.
At the 2012 Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 14, 2012, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top inducted King into the Hall of Fame. They also helped lead a jam that included guitarists Joe Bonamassa and Trucks, as they collectively delivered blistering covers of King classics "Hideaway" and "Goin' Down."
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MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho men's basketball team will face a Big Sky Conference opponent for the third consecutive game when it takes on Idaho State on Dec. 20 in Boise's CenturyLink Arena at 6 p.m. (PT).
The Vandals enter the game with a 5-6 overall record on the season after a 76-75 win at Portland State in their last outing. The Bengals are 3-4 entering the game, with two of those wins over non-Division I opponents (Evergreen State, Carroll College) and three losses against Pac-12 competition (Arizona State, Utah, Washington). Idaho owns a 60-41 advantage in the all-time series against its former and future Big Sky rival. The Vandals will rejoin the league beginning with the 2014-15 season.
Idaho junior Connor Hill is coming off a stellar week, as he earned Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors for the first time in his career after averaging 22.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 4.5 made 3-pointers per game against Montana and Portland State last week. Hill now has 163 career 3-pointers, and is closing in on Idaho's career record of 168 held by Orlando Lightfoot since 1994. Idaho senior Stephen Madison leads the team with 15.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, while senior Glen Dean adds 12.7 points and 2.0 assists per game for the Vandals.
Idaho State is led by 15.9 points and 4.8 assists per game from Tomas Sanchez, while Chris Hansen adds 15.0 points and 3.6 boards per game. The Bengals shoot 41.0 percent from 3-point range, the 23rd best clip in NCAA Division I, while knocking down 5.9 3s per game.
Idaho was victorious the last time the two teams met, as the Vandals took a 75-69 win in Pocatello on Feb. 23, 2013 in a BracketBuster matchup. The Vandals erased a 29-28 halftime deficit in the win, and got 22 points from Hill and a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double from then-senior Kyle Barone.
Friday's game will be streamed live online on VandalXTRA, and Chris King will bring the live play-by-play action on the Vandal Radio Network.
The Vandals wrap up their stretch of nine out of 10 games away from Moscow when they visit CSU Northridge on Dec. 22. Idaho returns home to host Montana on Dec. 28 in the Cowan Spectrum in their last contest before WAC play begins.


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Full SubmissionInput to Zero Draft for Rio+20: towards the Outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 1st November 2011 Any proposal taken forward at Rio+20 must address the basis of human survival: biodiversity, ecosystem resilience and the importance of trying to address climate change, by sharply and immediately reducing emissions. This means rapidly phasing out fossil fuel burning as well as protecting and, where possible and appropriate, restoring and trying to regenerate ecosystems. In fact it means changing our models of economic development from energy intensive to low energy models, with major implications particularly for industrialized economies. As the Global Biodiversity Outlook, 2010, says: The action taken over the next two decades will determine whether the relatively stable environmental conditions on which human civilisation has depended for the last 10,000 years will continue beyond this century. 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Armando Martinez still has a 200-mile round-trip commute and Bunnell still has a city manager.
Martinez was a finalist for the city manager job in the Brevard County community of Satellite Beach, but was passed over Thursday
"I'm glad," said Bunnell Vice Mayor Jenny Crain-Brady. "I want Armando for as long as he'll stay."
Crain-Brady said she understands Martinez's desire to work closer to his family in Brevard County.
"I don't fault him for trying to find employment closer to his family," she said. "My husband works an hour away and that is a strain on our family so I get that."
For his part, Martinez said while he is disappointed he did not get the Satellite Beach post, he has no complaints about his job in Bunnell.
"I'm in a unique position that whatever happens, at the end of the day, I'm a happy camper," he said. "I have a great job, great bosses, great employees and I love where I'm working. It's a win-win."
Barker is a 1991 graduate of Satellite High School. According to her resume, she worked as a planning intern in the New Smyrna Beach planning department from June to August 1999.
Before the Satellite Beach decision was announced Thursday night, Martinez said he has "made no secret" of his desire to find a job closer to his Palm Bay home.
"Whenever a position comes up in that immediate area I'm going to look at it," he said.
In 2011 Martinez was a finalist for the police chief's job in Melbourne.
Reflecting on the outcome Friday morning, Martinez said he was honored to have been a finalist for the Satellite Beach job.
"The truth is I'm not unhappy," he said. "I'm actually pleased to have been able to participate and honored to be considered and humbled to have scored so high. I'm glad I went through the process."
Martinez was one of four finalists for the Satellite Beach post, out of 126 applicants.
The city's selection of Barker brings her back to her hometown.
In an interview with Florida Today, Barker said the Satellite Beach post was "definitely my dream job" and "a perfect fit."
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