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Arizona Head Coach Lute Olson Quotes
"We played good, solid defense. We got a deep defensive effort off the bench. It's obvious why we're getting better. We're quick and we work hard."
"We did a very nice job with pretty much everything. One problem area was offensive fouls. Hopefully we can eliminate that."
"We had 15 steals. We're getting better at anticipating passes. When your front lines are getting the steals it's a good indication that we're anticipating plays better. Our quickness was too much for Eastern to handle."
"We did a nice job on (Marc) Axton. He's a shooter and we didn't want to give him a lot of looks at threes."
"Channing (Frye) did a nice job. He had a number of blocks and he challenged a lot of people. He's doing a better job of getting down and getting a seal on his opponent."
"I was concerned early with Hassan (Adams) on the perimeter. Last year he had to play on the inside a lot. But he's getting better every game handling the ball."
"Richmond is a good, solid ball club. They're athletic and they have good size. They've played against good teams this year and last year as well. This will be a good test for us. There's no better way to get ready for what's ahead of us in the league."
"The more time (the freshmen) get, the more confident they are. You can see it when they're more confident. Jawann (McClellan) felt more confident because he got a lot of playing time in the last game. Freshmen have been starters all their lives until they come here, and it's been tough for them."
"There were some very positive things I thought from all our guys."
Arizona Players' Post game quotes
Junior Guard Hassan Adams:
"It was great to come out and have an all-around game like we did tonight. It started with our defense tonight. It was also great to come back after Christmas and play well like we did. We will look at getting ready for Arizona State after Thursday's game."
"It will be great to play against Coach (Jerry) Wainright. He coached me before, and he is a great guy."
"Our defense is great right now. We got a lot of steals. As long as we play together, it pays off."
"It is great to get everyone the ball like we did tonight. If it comes down to foul trouble, then everyone is ready to play. I don't have a problem with the way Coach (Olson) is distributing minutes."
Junior Forward Isaiah Fox:
"We played a solid defensive game. No matter who is out there, we were all playing really well. Our offense was pretty good tonight. Everyone played hard, and we played together."
"No matter who we play, they are going to play hard against us. We always have to come out ready to play."
"I think we are doing a good job, but we can improve in all aspects. It is good to have every guy out there. It is easier on our starters, and it gets the bench ready to play."
"(Eastern Washington) played well. They are not as big as us, but they played hard. We have to just stick with what we do and play solid team defense."
Senior Center Channing Frye:
"I definitely think we need to work on the little things, especially turnovers and offensive fouls. We need to keep up the good passing and shooting. We just need to go out and get the job done."
"I'm too tall to go out there and try to get style points. We just go out there and have fun. When we play good defense, it creates our offense."
"We will be ready for Arizona State after we the Richmond game. We just need to come back on turnovers better and continue to stay committed to the defense."
"The bench is doing a great job. They came in and contributed immediately. I can't ask much more from them. They just need to be aggressive on the boards and hook up with their shots."


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post7904607090501767066..comments2016-05-18T11:53:46.385+01:00Comments on Modesty Brown: RBR Gracilis and Pink Blusher ComparisonModesty Brownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-78748284576702915162013-02-17T11:29:53.003+00:002013-02-17T11:29:53.003+00:00What gorgeous blushes!What gorgeous blushes!Pammy (PammyBlogsBeauty)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-47930816784507655852013-02-16T01:22:36.479+00:002013-02-16T01:22:36.479+00:00What a sweet pink for spring!What a sweet pink for spring!Cindy (Prime Beauty)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-84666497278537690192013-02-16T00:48:37.883+00:002013-02-16T00:48:37.883+00:00I promised not to buy blush and I've been &quo...I promised not to buy blush and I've been "close" to keeping that promise but your picture of Gracilis might make it dangerous to continue with the promise.MarciaF (Beauty Info Zone)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-56826097434943030762013-02-15T14:06:27.982+00:002013-02-15T14:06:27.982+00:00I'm glad to hear Gracilis is a brighter/cleare...I'm glad to hear Gracilis is a brighter/clearer pink; that's just what I'm looking for. And I totally agree: Douceur is a misery to work with in order to get much color pay off. (Perhaps not such a bad thing as I don't love it anyway ;)

Thanks for your offer of comparison swatches of Gracilis and Douceur. Happily, your description has made clear to me the differences firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-49229871663669095152013-02-14T21:43:36.849+00:002013-02-14T21:43:36.849+00:00Nor would I!! :-)Nor would I!! :-)lola seicentohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-76406828162197878702013-02-14T21:29:28.794+00:002013-02-14T21:29:28.794+00:00Thanks! I was leaning toward the suqqu because the...Thanks! I was leaning toward the suqqu because the brush inside their compacts, although small, is very soft and convenient when travelling, but now you've changed my mind:)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-91785559869734591242013-02-14T14:20:33.631+00:002013-02-14T14:20:33.631+00:00Gracilis isn't all that similar to Douceur bot...Gracilis isn't all that similar to Douceur both in terms of colour and texture. I would say that Douceur is more of a beige pink whereas Gracilis is a brighter, more clear pink. Douceur is also very 'hard baked' and I found it very hard to get any sort of colour pay off with it.

I don't have Douceur anymore to do a direct comparison but I did a comparison to my other Modesty Brownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-65862908587504545312013-02-14T14:14:14.896+00:002013-02-14T14:14:14.896+00:00I have a feeling that Pop was a limited edition co...I have a feeling that Pop was a limited edition colour, my apologies if it is no longer available. I'd quite like to get another of the Watercolour blushes, do you think I might like Charm? I'll see if I can find a swatch.

Many thanks for the well wishes. I've been dispensing a lot of Calpol and Ibuprofen over the last 24 hours! Mind you, getting them to have medicine is a Modesty Brownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-61993583878083322972013-02-14T14:11:08.908+00:002013-02-14T14:11:08.908+00:00I prefer the texture of Gracilis to Botaniro. The ...I prefer the texture of Gracilis to Botaniro. The Suqqu is more powdery, quite sheer and it a little sparkle to it which the RBR does not. The are both pretty but Gracilis would be my recommendation.Modesty Brownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-34494168695932601612013-02-14T14:07:53.454+00:002013-02-14T14:07:53.454+00:00Thank you Lola, I really wouldn't be without i...Thank you Lola, I really wouldn't be without it now :)Modesty Brownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-82377230178407429252013-02-14T13:51:48.207+00:002013-02-14T13:51:48.207+00:00Oh goody! I've been looking forward to your Gr...Oh goody! I've been looking forward to your Gracilis review ever since you mentioned it a month or so ago. I'm very tempted by Gracilis, but I'm wondering: is it similar to Nars Douceur? For some reason that one doesn't quite work for me even though in general I love similar blush colors. Thanks, as ever, for your help with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-82614398304938798742013-02-13T09:15:07.432+00:002013-02-13T09:15:07.432+00:00Gracilis is such a pretty colour. I think it would...Gracilis is such a pretty colour. I think it would be really flattering on most.

Will have a look at the Daniel Sandler colour now. I don't have any of his products but have been tempted by Charm another of his cheek colours.

Hope health in your house improves as the day goes on.

xxstiperstoneshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-79798020194901082592013-02-13T09:01:31.469+00:002013-02-13T09:01:31.469+00:00I'm hesitating between suqqu botaniro and RBR ...I'm hesitating between suqqu botaniro and RBR gracilis. How is the texture of the suqqu one? I have another suqqu duo, momozoe, and I find the blush side of it quite powdery. I would love to know how is the texture of botaniro. Thank email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986100572786571150.post-1664331047155943612013-02-13T01:10:01.466+00:002013-02-13T01:10:01.466+00:00Lovely post! I love the comparison. I knew that yo...Lovely post! I love the comparison. I knew that you would love Gracilis-- it is a perfect shade for you! I love mine so much! I'm just so glad that you now have it to enjoy! <3lola seicentohttp://email@example.com


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Area Sales Directors / Area Sales Managers
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Our client is one of the world's largest providers of workplace solutions, offering the widest range of business products and services that allow individuals and companies to work however, wherever, and whenever they need to. Our client is a hugely successful and well known brand showing year on year growth ensuring their solutions are absolutely in line with the changing market trends and up to the minute market requirements.
Now, with further aggressive growth plans our client is looking for high calibre Area Sales Directors / Area Sales Managers to have responsibility for all sales and commercial results within a region. This is a senior role where the successful candidates will be responsible for their own P&L.
This Company offers a fast paced and dynamic culture with excellent career opportunities both in the UK and internationally.
Key responsibilities of the Area Sales Directors / Area Sales Managers:
- Hold overall responsibility of profit and loss for the area with the clear focus of driving revenue growth in all client products and services
- Manage Area Sales Managers, General Managers and sales teams to grow sales pipelines and maximise conversion to ensure targets are achieved
- Responsible for growing the number of new business leads generated by the sales team both through direct and indirect channels
- Responsible for renewals and maintenance of existing business
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"Revenge" is getting just as (or more) soap opera-y than a soap opera lately, and we just can't stop watching it. On Sunday, March 9, ABC released a new sneak preview of episode 315, "Struggle."
In this next "Revenge" episode, Emily's blackouts continue to get more and more violent, and her only hope lies with the one she betrayed the most. Meanwhile, Victoria makes a drastic move to deal with someone from her past.
In the last episode, Patrick decided to kill his father, only to then decide not to, but then to do exactly that when Jimmy grabbed Victoria. Meanwhile, Emily's blackouts continued, and she found out that she called Conrad's first wife, Stevie, to represent her in a divorce – and told her she was in love with someone else – and she was the one responsible for Niko finding out Aiden's responsible for her father's death. However, it's not swelling in her brain that's causing these blackouts, leaving her and Nolan to worry that she could be taking after her mother. Finally, Stevie spent some time at the Stowaway with Jack, and at the very end of the episode, she told him she's his mother. Oh great, more complications in the Hamptons.
The "Struggle" promo shows Emily's new plan: "I'm going to kill them all." But it looks like Emily is going to find herself in some serious danger, and she's going to need help to get out of it. Will that help come from Aiden after Nolan tells him she's going to do something she can't come back from ever? Who is holding Emily under water?
Plus, don't forget to check out the slideshow for the promotional photos ABC has released from this episode of Victoria, Nolan, Patrick and Stevie.
"Revenge" season 3 airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on ABC. What do you think of the episode 15 "Struggle" photos and promo?
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Sun & Oracle (or Oracle & Sun): tons of opportunities!
By user13366129 on Apr 20, 2009
Now that we heard and read about the acquisition of Sun by Oracle, let's look out to what lies ahead of us:
Tons of opportunities!
Just a small sample of my braindumps:
- Combining Oracle and the Sun Cloud
- Sun Cluster will get more important then ever
- There is a bright future for Solaris
- Sparc will continue
- Lot's of appliances coming, we just started with Amber Road


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I found the following definition on Wikipedia.
Is it the most common definition? How is the definition usually notated?
A function f from X to Y is a subset of the Cartesian product X × Y subject to the following condition: every element of X is the first component of one and only one ordered pair in the subset. In other words, for every x in X there is exactly one element y such that the ordered pair (x, y) is contained in the subset defining the function f. This formal definition is a precise rendition of the idea that to each x is associated an element y of Y, namely the uniquely specified element y with the property just mentioned.


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What's going on with Mac version?
By Radko Najman on Aug 24, 2009
That's a question we have got a lot of times. It was answered here and in different forums, describing why it take some time to release Mac version so I'm not going to write the reasons again. Today I'm going to show you something behind the scene. We are running Scrum process while developing Java ME SDK. Next two pictures were taken at the end of our latest sprint.
The first pictures shows our office board with table of stories and their tasks. As you can see we finished all tasks.
The second picture is more interesting. It shows burndown chart, which is a is graphical representation of work left to do versus time. The green line represents the ideal burndown. You can see that our progress was under the ideal line. It means that we worked faster and finished our tasks sooner than we expected when planning the sprint. Especially in the beginning the progress was quite rapid so in the middle of the sprint we added a few extra stories and we achieved all of them.
That's what is happening in our team and hopefully answers the title question. Java ME SDK for Mac is in progress and it goes well ... stay tuned – coming soon to a computer near you!


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Jim Berkenstadt, the "Rock And Roll Detective" and author of "The Beatle Who Vanished," will star in a program about John Lennon on The Reelz Channel today, the first of four shows on two different series on the channel on which he will appear, he announced Tuesday.
Berkenstadt will be seen on the latest segment of "Celebrity Legacies," which will feature a profile of Lennon. It will debut tonight on Reelz at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and be repeated at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT. He will also appear on future shows in the "Legacies" series about Kurt Cobain and Elvis Presley and a segment of "Celebrity Damage Control" about Keith Richards.
"The Beatle Who Vanished" is the author's historical account of the life of Jimmie Nicol, the previously unknown drummer who substituted for Ringo Starr for 13 days on their first world tour. But according to Berkenstadt, his story includes blacklisting, betrayal, drugs, divorce, bankruptcy and an eventual disappearance and the mystery of whether he is dead or alive.
"I started my search in 2005, looking for musicians who had played with Jimmie Nicol at the start of his career in Soho coffee clubs," he told Beatles Examiner in an interview. "I wanted to know his career background to get a better understanding of why and how he was chosen to play with The Beatles."
But he said it wasn't easy. "The search for information about Nicol took years. Nicol left behind some false leads. Whenever he wanted to change his life or career direction, he would seemingly walk out his door in one country and move to another without even saying goodbye. The best way to describe my years of research is like a treasure hunt to find 1000s of pieces to a giant puzzle."


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Lolo Jones is back in the Olympics, and she has been selected to be on the U.S. Olympic bobsled team. Now, her selection is being defended by those that made the choice even though her teammates and the public have brought much criticism toward them, according to CBS Sports on Jan. 24, 2014.
Lolo Jones will compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi next month as she was among five bobsledders who were thought to be serious contenders for three open spots. It was expected for months that the final decision would be very difficult to make.
When all was said and done, Lolo Jones got the nod over Katie Eberling and Emily Azevedo, both of whom have been in bobsledding longer and have great pasts in the sport.
Upon the choice being made that Jones would be on the team, huge amounts of criticism and complaints started coming like mad at the U.S. Olympic Committee. It was said that suggested that there had been pressure to pick Lolo Jones for the team.
Per Darrin Steele, U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation CEO:
"We followed the procedure and I'll stand by that decision all day long. It was a really close call. The numbers were close. There's no question about it. That always makes it more difficult. The trending was going toward Lolo and she's a great athlete and at the end of the day that's who we think is a better brakeman for the Games.
"I haven't heard anyone making the argument about Lolo not being a better athlete right now, a better brakeman for the team. I don't think I've come across that one time. I've heard a lot about history and all that's nice. But who's going to provide the best results for the U.S. team in Sochi? That's the bottom line. And I'll have that debate with anyone who wants to have it."
Steele insists that the final votes were checked and then double-checked, and that the tally was "incredibly close."
Teammates have come down hard on Lolo Jones in the past as they said she got a lot of attention and endorsements despite not winning a medal. Some say it was simply for her looks and other reasons, but not because of her talent.
Eberling, who was beat out by Lolo Jones, said:
''I feel this year there was a certain agenda,'' Eberling told the paper. ''It's no fault of my teammates. There's been a lot of inconsistencies and that makes you wonder what's going on. It's not right.''
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You're not typical parents, and you don't want to send any ordinary birth announcements. The way you welcome your little one to the world should be just as unique as they are, so say goodbye to baby blue and pastel pink cards and hello to a creative take on traditional birth announcements! You can put a modern twist on this time-honored tradition with any of these ideas:
Because the birth announcements will have a photo of your little bundle of joy, many of your friends and relatives will choose to display them on their refrigerators. Why not make this even easier for them by sending out magnet birth announcements? Include important details like the name and birth date of your new arrival. If you order the magnets from Pear Tree Greetings, you can even customize the color and design!
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You know all those plastic Easter eggs you inexplicably saved? Now you can put them to good use! Place a small photo of your little one and a piece of paper with typical birth announcement information (like your child's birth weight and length) inside. Use a permanent marker to write "Just Hatched" on the outside of each egg, then ship them to your loved ones!
Baked goods
Consider sending a tasty treat alongside traditional birth announcements. Whether you bake them yourself or hire a bakery to do so for you, custom cookies and chocolates are a great way to welcome your little one to the world. Decorate them with your new baby's name and date of birth!
Movie poster
Computer-savvy moms and dads can get really creative with the way they present their little one to their friends and family members. For example, custom movie posters filled with puns and, of course, a prominent photo of your little one are a whimsical option that everyone will love! From "Bringing Up Baby" to "About a Boy," there are tons of titles that lend themselves to this unique idea.
Photo book
If you have so many wonderful photos of your newborn that you're struggling to choose which one to include with the birth announcement, why not send a photo book? Pear Tree Greetings offers a customizable 10-page photo book that you can fill with your favorite snapshots of your little bundle of joy. This is an especially wonderful option if you want to include some photos of the entire family celebrating your new arrival!


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USF Director of Athletics Willie Sanchez received official word today that the University of Sioux Falls has been accepted for membership into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II beginning in the 2012-13 school year. The Cougars' athletics programs – which held NCAA D-II provisional status for the past year, will compete in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with the exception of men's soccer, which will compete in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC).
Sanchez was notified at 3 p.m. today via a phone call from the NCAA Membership Committee.
USF will officially become a member of the NCAA D-II on September 1, but games that will be played in August including the football season opener at St. Cloud on August 30 will also be considered NCAA contests.
"We are delighted to have received notification of our acceptance into NCAA Division II," Sanchez said. "I feel that our coaches and student-athletes have illustrated the leadership and drive to, not only meet the expectations of an NCAA Division II member school, but to far exceed them."
USF will be immediately eligible to compete in NCAA D-II championship events in 2012-13, as well as for post-season academic and athletic awards from the NCAA, NSIC and the GNAC.
The NCAA Division-II transition process for an academic institution is a three-year one in which schools pass through year one candidacy, year two candidacy and provisional membership stages prior to becoming a full member at the beginning of the fourth year.
"I am very proud of the work our staff has accomplished the last four years to lay the foundation for NCAA membership," Sanchez added. "The past four years has been extremely busy and I am so grateful for everyone at USF for their hard work and dedication."


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Services for Dennis Virgil Peine, 93, Pageland, S.C., were Friday, June 1, 2001, at Greenlawn Memorial Park, Pageland, S.C.
Mr. Peine, a former Tonganoxie resident, died May 29, 2001, at Carrington Place, Matthews N.C. He was born April 28, 1908, in Paola, the son of Richard R. and Thenea Ann Peine.
His wife, Selma Schultze Peine, died in 1984.
Survivors include two sons, Richard P. Peine, Lawrence, and Dennis E. Peine, Monroe, N.C.; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to Pageland Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 36, Pageland, S.C., 29728.
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Will & Sonny: Days of OurLives' new supercouple
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Bo and Hope, Steve and Kayla… Tom and Alice, there's no doubt you will know at least one of these pairings… they are some of the biggest names to ever grace the screen on wonder soap Days of Our Lives, which still airs in the afternoon on the Nine Network after all these years.
This sudsy soap is one of the world's most loved. The show is now in its 48th season – it's quite the epic of efforts. So many characters have come and gone since its inception, and yes, the storylines may be farfetched or extremely over the top dramatic but nobody can do a wedding better than a soap opera – just admit it.
Days of Our Lives has temporarily moved away from the trademark 'return from the dead' storyline to show a little bit of modern day, true to life contemporariness – a gay relationship. Yeah it sounds like old news to all of us, but for the daytime soap industry it's a major step forward.
When news got out that a daytime soap opera was going to flirt with the possibility of writing two gay characters into the show, it caused quite a bit of chat, more positive than negative. But before long, we had Will and Sonny standing in the pink corner. Lusting, longing, fighting, snogging.
Will Horton, portrayed by Chandler Massey, has been paired up with Sonny Kiriakis, played by the hunky Freddie Smith, who you may recognise from his time on the new 90210. For those of you wondering where these Salem children fit in, think back… Will is the son of Sami Brady and Lucas Horton while Sonny is the son of Justin and Adrienne Kiriakis, grandson to grandpa Victor.
Some would say it was a recipe for disaster, a Greek heir 'coming out' to grandpa Vic. When the time did come for Sonny to say 'those words', Victor surprised everyone. Sonny was free to be himself but what he couldn't do was be with Will, the boy he fancied. Will on the other hand was still fighting his own inner demons. When Will finally told grandma Marlena he preferred the male kind, things started to unfold… and soon he was out and proud.
There's been quite a buzz in Salem with Will and Sonny's on and off relationship taking centre stage. Writers are putting the two characters and their gay storyline front and centre on the show, much to the joy of fans around the world. Social media has proven there's a great deal of support for the couple, the show's ratings have been good, and to the delight of the show's producers has even attracted a new audience.
In 2012, Chandler Massey received an Emmy for Most Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series, the first actor ever to receive a Daytime Emmy Award for playing a gay character. Both he and Freddie Smith have been acting their butts off, going above and beyond anyone's expectations hitting their scenes out of the ballpark. It has been groundbreaking on so many levels, who would have thought… two boys getting it on at Salem's Horton Town Square. Not even Stefano DiMera can compete with that.
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The Caribbean coast resort of Xcaret issued "million-dollar reward" certificates for anybody who survives the end of the world. "In case the world ends on Dec. 21, 2012, the beneficiary must be in Xcaret the day after the cataclysmic event with a valid photo ID in order to request payment," the certificate reads. "In case the world comes to an end, the beneficiary will be fully responsible for repopulating the world."
Sandos Hotels and Resorts, a Spanish-owned all-inclusive resort chain, is promoting a "New Era" celebration at its Sandos Caracol hotel in Playa de Carmen, near Tulum. "We invite guests to celebrate a transition to the beginning of what we, and many Mayan leaders and scholars hope will evolve into a new era of environmental sustainability and cultural consciousness," the hotel's website says.
Expectations are also running high in New Age circles.
Shantal Carrillo helps her mother, The Venerable Mother Nah-Kin, run the Kinich-Ahau spiritual center in Merida, and hopes to lead hundreds of people in an energy-renewing ceremony at the "dawn of the new era" at the Mayan ruins of Uxmal. They hope Uxmal, whose rounded-edge pyramid is unique in the Maya world, will act as an "antenna" for cosmic energy.
"We have performed ceremonies for many years to reactivate the pyramid at Uxmal as an antenna, because it had been unused for many years," said Carrillo, who expects Dec. 21 "to give the world an injection of this energy" by having hundreds of people hold hands at the foot of the pyramid.
It's unclear whether archaeological authorities will allow such ceremonies.
Jose May, of the Merida tourism office, expects all of the city's hotel rooms to be full Dec. 21.
"I'm worried that there are going to be more people than (hotel) rooms," he said. "The people who are coming are basically spiritual, and that could be a problem as well, because those people like to form circles to receive energy, and there is no way to reserve space for that kind of thing at the ruin sites."
Moises Rozanes, who runs the run-down Hostal Zocalo in an old building on Merida's main square, says he once saw a flying saucer and spoke with an extraterrestrial who identified himself as Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec equivalent of the chief Maya god, Kukulkan, the bringer of wisdom.
He "told me the world was going to change, but he didn't say when," Rozanes said, recalling the 1997 encounter. He doesn't know what's going to happen Dec. 21, but is happy his hotel is getting business. "Everything's filling up" as far as bookings for the date, he said.
In all the fervor, Mayas rely on an ancestral calm built of good humor, calmness and the fact that it's too hot to get all worked up about things.
"A lot of people are reading things, and getting scared, about the world ending. But that's not going to happen," said Mayan priest Ildefonso Cahuich May. "God is not going to turn around so fast and say, 'I'm going to kill all my children.'"
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I would say copper is more valuable than brass, mainly because it's so rare in the flashlight market. Titanium is actually probably more common than copper as a flashlight material, but it's still a distant third to aluminum and plastic.
I would say copper is more valuable than brass, mainly because it's so rare in the flashlight market. Titanium is actually probably more common than copper as a flashlight material, but it's still a distant third to aluminum and plastic.
Please add me to the list for one in brass.
(and as many as I can get in Unobtanium, I LOVE that stuff.)
It seems like the Brass will get produced. The copper might get produced. I might have to make 5-10 copper just to put up on my store so the couple people that want them will get one. If I order copper it won't get here till tomorrow. Which is when I will finish the copper E2C's off. HA-Black and HA-Natural will go to the platers tomorrow.
The copper ones will not get made unless there is a min of 5 people on the list. Sorry, material cost is very high right now for copper.
That's the one I was most looking forward to.
Hi, you can add me to this list:
COPPER PRICE: $36.00 - 45.00 (5-9pcs produced $45.00, 10+pcs produced $36.00)
Hopefully that is enough to go fwd with production.
I am down for one copper but I would like another one to help out this batch. I still want a raw aluminum also.
Looks like the copper ones will have to wait until we get a few more people on the list.
The Brass ones are ready to ship so you can send PP payment now for the Brass.
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DFiorentino - Payment received and your E2C has been shipped.
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Hi Chris. Paypal sent for brass E-C. Thanks. Glenn
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Ok. No on the copper. How many brass units do you have? Tnx
Ordered a Brass off of you site.
Thanks for the idea, chipwillis!
I just ordered a brass off your website too!
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Put me on the list for a copper e2c adapter.
scalez, I have put you on the list for the copper E2C.
With me getting 2 copper E2C's that should give us our 5 minimum...right?
Okay, Okay...
If everyone on the list for a Copper E2C can pre-order/pre-pay I will purchase the material to make these reality. I have created a page on my store to just that.
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What the??? I already bought a brass one instead
Might have to sit this run out....
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Ok. That takes care of the two out of the five. If we can just get the other three to pre-pay that would help out alot. It would also help get them done quicker.
Brass arrived today.
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Pre-pay sent. CPF username in Notes field.
Paypal sent for my brass one, sorry for the delay
Copper E2C's may ship sooner than I thought. My material will arrive tomorrow and I am going to try to run them depending on what time it arrives. They will be ready by next Friday at the latest. You can prepay now for your Copper E2C from my store!
My brass E2C arrived today. I'd post a picture, but the reader for my camera's memory card is being a pain.
What kind of brass alloy did you use? I just boiled it in salty vinegar for an hour to get an even patina started, and it doesn't show a trace of darkening anywhere.


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Sammy Say-So: Jayson Werth says he has not circled his calendar for his first game against the Phillies. "I haven't looked that far ahead," Werth said during his introductory news conference with the Washington Nationals.
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Monday, February 14, 2005
The East Texas Project EXPORT Center is looking for people with diabetes who want to share their experiences and challenges about this serious disease. The EXPORT Center is searching for better ways to fight diabetes and related diseases.
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EXPORT stands for Centers of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities, and Training. The EXPORT Center is a joint effort between The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and Texas College. A $1.1 million, three-year grant from the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, funds the EXPORT Center.
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On Monday, the Huffington Post reported that a nationwide FBI initiative saved 168 children from human trafficking last week. The bureau also arrested nearly 300 pimps and charged them with state and federal crimes. So far, the FBI reports that "Operation Cross Country" has saved nearly 3,600 children in more than 100 cities this year.
FBI Director James Comey says they hate this particular work, but he stresses the importance of rescuing sexually abused children. The FBI reports that pimps prostitute children on street corners, truck stops and the Internet. The pimps also arrange the sexual meetings. In 2006, U.S. attorneys handled a major increase in child pornography cases since 1984 (82.8% increase).
John Ryan, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), said that no one had reported many of these children as missing. Ryan also said that many children would remain missing without child trafficking stings. According to Ryan, only two states require agencies to report children missing from care.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website says the organization began in 1984, as a result of a murdered child named Adam Walsh. In 1981, a stranger in a shopping mall kidnapped and murdered 6-year-old Adam Walsh. Parents John and Reve Walsh soon learned there was not a coordinated process for reporting or finding missing children. The Walsh family established the Adam Walsh Outreach Center for Missing Children, which became a resource for families with missing children.
The action from the Walsh family tragedy resulted in former president Ronald Reagan signing off on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The group has helped law enforcement find nearly 200,000 children since 1984. According to their website, the agency has received more than 3,000,000 phone calls, and the agency's success rate for finding a missing child is 97 percent.
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Carnival of souls: special San Diego Comic-Con post-mortem edition
* Comic-Con criticism I can get behind: Topless Robot's Rob Bricken calls out some of this year's most prominent press pitfalls, including bad wireless access, press passes that really don't do much for those who hold them, and line-control policies that prevent adequate Hall H access for press and public alike.
Last year there was a lot of kvetching from the nerd press about access, a lot of which I thought was a simple failure to take into account the size and scope of the 21st-century Comic-Con experience. And honestly, I was pretty surprised that Rob's corporate overlords expected him to cover the thing all by himself--that's exactly the lack of realistic expectations I was talking about. (They could at least have sprung for a guestblogger to keep the home fires burning with links while Rob was out and about at the show.)
But I also pointed out last year that the show's press pass is pretty much useless as anything but a regular pass that sometimes can get you into the building, though not the exhibit hall or panels, a little early. When you're handing out 3,000 press passes out of a total attendance of 125,000, why bother? So I agree with Rob and Tom Spurgeon and (I think) Heidi MacDonald and probably plenty of other people that the Con needs to be way more stringent about press credentials, scale back the number of press passes they issue accordingly, but then scale up the rights and privileges afforded to the press they do let in. I appreciate the show's egalitarianism w/r/t the pass policy currently, but I think the costs outweigh the benefits at this point.
Meanwhile, the way I was able to get done all the coverage I needed to get done last year was by sitting on the floor and posting stories using the convention center's free wireless whenever I could. When you're on deadline in the midst of an event the sheer physical size of Comic-Con, being able to post wherever, whenever as opposed to schlepping to the press room or god forbid your hotel can be the difference between success and failure. This year, not only was the wireless completely unreliable, but I've also heard that security would prevent people from simply sitting down in the hallways from time to time. Either one of these scenarios would have been a complete dealbreaker for my ability to get my work done last year, and it's imperative that the show solve these problems next year.
Finally, between the Iron Man 2 debacle Rob describes, in which the room wasn't cleared beforehand and therefore thousands of people who spent hours waiting in line in the sun to get in couldn't get in, and Tom Spurgeon's anecdote about how halfway through cartoonist Richard Thompson's panel security started letting in people for the next, very different, panel, it seems that the increased number of security personnel/traffic wranglers didn't translate into an increased quality of security or traffic flow. Now, moving that amount of people around quickly enough to start things on time is a very difficult challenge; and suppose you really want to see two things in a row, you're not just in the first thing to save yourself a seat for the second thing, but you're forced to choose because they clear the rooms each time? So maybe they need to make exceptions with obvious crowd magnets like Iron Man 2, I dunno. But it's a problem, and in that particular case it seems like it was an anticipatable problem. If they can shuffle around panels on the fly to avoid a Twilight/Avatar collision, surely they can put a little thought along similar lines into everything else going on in Hall H at the least.
* Comic-Con criticism I can't get behind: Avoiding the usual variations on "Twilight is icky," Chris Butcher deploys a novel line of attack against that franchise's presence at the show: 6,000 Twilight fans at Comic-Con only for Twilight take 6,000 tickets for potential comics buyers out of circulation. Which I suppose is true, strictly speaking, but only if you buy the many, many assumptions that go into that statement, which I don't.
First, how do you know that the majority of fans at the Twilight panels didn't buy comics--or any of the many, many other products on sale at the Con?
Second, how do you know that if they were all magically vaporized, their thousands of tickets would be snapped up by comics fans, as opposed to people who are just there to see James Cameron or Peter Jackson or the Venture Brothers guys or any of the countless other non-comics fandoms at the show?
Third, now that I mention it, why single out Twilight in the first place of all of said countless other non-comics fandoms? I don't think Chris is at all on the "ewwww Goths/girls/tweens" tip that lots of other Twilight critics are on, but at the same time, how many members of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion do you see at the Fantagraphics booth?
Now, you could easily answer the above questions like so: "First, I don't care about the non-comics stuff on sale at the show, only comics matter; second, and third, we should try to reduce the presence of all those other fandoms too." This is what Chris appears to be advocating with his call for an ideological litmus test to be applied to potential Con exhibitors--an Office Space-style mantra of "Is This Good For The Comics?" This is more coherent point of view than simply singling out the Frowned-Upon Fandom of the Year, but it's not a terribly valid or useful one.
Comic-Con has always been a cross-media extravaganza--it's just gotten much better at being one in recent years. It never was and will never be Angouleme, or Heroes Con for that matter. You could look at the Hollywood/videogame/assorted-nerdery component as the tail that wags the dog if you want, but at this point the dog is a chihuahua and the tail is like one of those 200-yard-long Batman capes drawn by Todd McFarlane. It doesn't make sense on a business level, or on an overall customer happiness level, to start asking Robert Pattinson if he read Asterios Polyp before you allow him to attend the show. And it doesn't make sense to hold Comic-Con to a "for comics, by comics" standard which has little basis in the fact of the show as it's existed for years, and which would make it an entirely different and less successful show.
That said, there are a lot of things that can be done to preserve and enhance the comics component of Comic-Con within the Con's current identity and framework. Most of them involve not penalizing the movie fans and gamers and Klingons and whatnot, but boosting cooperation between the Con and the comics industry, or just within the comics industry itself, to make sure that the art form's anchor presences at the show are respected and perpetuated. Here's another idea: Nine Inch Nails is releasing tickets to its final concert tour in three waves--first through a NIN.com members-only presale on the NIN.com website, second through a password-protected presale on the Ticketmaster website, and third through the usual Ticketmaster/box-office procedure, all staggered by a week or two. Plus, most venues hold back a handful of tickets that they release only on the night of the performance. Couldn't Comic-Con do the same in order to accommodate different demographics with different levels of advance awareness and interest in the event, thus (ideally) giving casual fans who are more likely to swing by and browse for books rather than camp out overnight for the Lost panel a foot in the door?
The point is, pointing the finger at specific fandoms isn't the answer any more than pointing the finger at all fandoms is. Comic-Con is what it is; it's easy to go there and have a tremendous show as a comics reader; it's harder but still eminently doable to make the comics component of the show stronger and more accessible. Twilight has nothing to do with it.
* Part 3 of Matt Maxwell's cyclopean Comic-Con report is up. The meat of this one centers on two very different "breaking into comics" panels.
* Experience Comic-Con through the eyes of Ben Morse. I think that was a Faye Dunaway movie, no?
* Alien director Ridley Scott will be directing an Alien prequel. Hm. (Via Jason Adams.)
* For some reason, Entertainment Weekly talks to Neil Gaiman about the vampire craze. Is anyone else surprised that we haven't seen more people dipping into the 'Salem's Lot "Dracula meets George Romero" well recently? (Via Jason Adams again.)
* The Vault of Horror's B-Sol runs down the horror movies he's excited to see in the back half of this year.
* As you probably discovered yesterday, which was when I meant to post this, the trailer for the Coen Brothers' upcoming movie A Serious Man is pretty terrific.
* If you click here you'll see a stunning image by Renee French.
* If you click here you'll see a stunning image by Frank Santoro.
* Hey, The Comics Journal #299 features my interview with Skyscrapers of the Midwest author Josh Cotter!
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1) Loose ital tag somewhere.
2) Dude. "Cylopean.". Awesome.
3) Surprised to hear the same complaints about lack of Press resources that I heard last year. Maybe a concerted effort by a group of big press outlets might be required. Something to watch.
As I recall, most of the press complaints last year seemed to be of the "I'm a comics presser that can no longer swing by the movie panels whenever I want" variety. These seem more substantial, and focused on the TV/Film room clusterfuck by those reporters expected to cover that stuff.
I have almost no interest in that part of the convention, but I can't imagine that some people haven't figured out ways around that and there isn't an insider/newbie split in access. Is Whitney Matheson (whom I like, she just pops to mind) really waiting outside at 3 AM? Maybe she is, I don't know.
I don't know how many press there are -- a couple years ago I was told 3500, which I don't think is reflected in the amount of coverage they get. I figure they could cull a lot of that, restrict access and give the press walk-in abilities with panels and exhibition floor access like exhibitors and no one would know differently. Of course, I'm not sure where I'd end up in a major culling!
Here's a question - Comicon is still run by the non-profit Comicon organization, right? Is it possible that one of these years they might just step back, say enough is enough, and put an end to the show? It seems as if it has run its course.
You have an interesting definition of "run its course" as well as an intriguing amount of faith in the likelihood of people throwing themselves out of work.
You're not from Alaska, are you?
"I have almost no interest in that part of the convention, but I can't imagine that some people haven't figured out ways around that and there isn't an insider/newbie split in access. Is Whitney Matheson (whom I like, she just pops to mind) really waiting outside at 3 AM? Maybe she is, I don't know."
Well, Wired couldn't get into the Iron Man 2 panel, and from what I read on Ryan Penagos's Twitter, it was touch and go for Joe Quesada for a while. So the insiders had some trouble too.
When you reach your peak it's time to die.
I'd love to watch your beer commercials, Tim.
For what it's worth, I was following Whitney's Twitter stream and at one point she was tweeting about not having a ticket to the Lost panel, and later, standing in line a couple of hours ahead. Of course then she was in the press room with Josh Holloway, so it all ended up okay. But it wasn't an automatic, even for Whitney.
That's actually good to know, thanks, Heidi. I wondered.
I think if they gave me money to make a beer commercial it would probably consist of a man inserting a power drill into his forehead while drinking a PBR. Maybe with the Carpenters' "Superstar" playing.


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Cancer and chemotherapy seem to go hand-in-hand in this country: You've got cancer? You need chemo. According to the Associated Press a new gene test challenges this preconception:
Claudia Lowry had a scary decision: Could she safely skip chemotherapy after surgeons removed her breast cancer?
Tens of thousands of women undergo chemo for breast cancer every year when they don't really need it, but doctors don't have an easy way to tell who can gamble on skipping the harsh drugs.
A simple gene test now promises to help women like Lowry make that nerve-wracking choice -- and a major government study is enrolling more than 10,000 patients around the country to see just how well it does the job.
Some doctors already feel many patients can do well without chemotherapy:
"Most of the patients are advised to have chemotherapy. Most of the patients are going to do very well without it," says Dr. Sheila Taube of the National Cancer Institute. "So how can we spare the patients that don't need it?"
Breast cancer is only the opening salvo. Researchers are furiously developing whom-to-treat gene tests for colorectal cancer -- particularly for early Stage 2 disease that doctors fear is being under-treated -- and other malignancies, too.
Today's guidelines for cancer treatment seem to be terribly inefficient:
More than 100,000 U.S. women a year are found to have early breast cancer that has a remarkably good prognosis: The tumors are small, haven't spread, and are hormone-sensitive. The vast majority would survive with surgery, radiation and hormone treatment. Yet guidelines today recommend chemotherapy as well for most of those women to catch the few who need more aggressive help.
In other words, 100 women get chemo, and the risk of harsh, sometimes life-threatening, side effects, to prevent two or three of them from relapsing.
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I need a way to connect 2 virtual machines on my Windows 7 laptop.
I would like to use a virtual ethernet switch, is there such a thing for Windows 7?
I need a way to connect 2 virtual machines on my Windows 7 laptop.
I would like to use a virtual ethernet switch, is there such a thing for Windows 7?
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If you are running Workstation, you have three options for the network connectivity of your VMs (not counting custom setups):
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-Host Only: This creates a private network that the virtual network adapter shares with the host
It sounds like you want to communicate between VMs and possibly with the outside world. That would be Bridge Mode. To change the network adapter settings, click on the VM, select "Settings". On the Hardware tab, click on the adapter you need to modify.
Well, as Windows 7 has no virtualization technology it obviously has no virtual ether et swich.
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The Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists presented Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni, dean emeritus, with its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dugoni accepted the honor during the organization's annual meeting on Oct. 14 in Monterey, Calif.
The PCSO Board of Directors presents the Lifetime Achievement Award based on exceptional personal effort to advance the art and science of the orthodontic specialty. The organization selected Dugoni for his accomplishments in orthodontic education and tireless dedication to the field of professional dentistry. Dugoni is only the second person to receive the honor in PCSO's history.
One of the most respected figures in the dental profession, Dugoni is currently president of the American Dental Association Foundation and has served as president of the ADA, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American Board of Orthodontics and the California Dental Association. Although Dugoni concluded his deanship at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2006, he continues to be involved with the school and the university as dean emeritus, professor of orthodontics and senior executive for development.
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I'm aware this is a little late in the news world, but here's a critical list of the top 25 independent films from this past decade. Apart from looking at feature films, the need to address independent documentaries and independent foreign films are just as important to address. With that being said, it is unfortunate to "cut" potential feature films from the list in order to make room for the specialty films.
Now, what is defined as an "independent film" at this point in time is a little ambiguous. Typically an independent film is a small movie produced by a studio not affiliated with a major studio. Over time the popularity of independent films has grown significantly and in many cases major film studios step-in to help market such projects and/or to the point of them buying the small studio. Therefore, there is a fine line between a film produced by small studio owned by a major studio and a true independent film. To make matters more complicated, these "independent films" from a big studio are on a low-budget and have a limited release just like an independent feature.
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1. Requiem For a Dream (2000)
2. Memento (2000)
3. A Serious Man (2009)
4. Donnie Darko (2000)
5. The Return (Vozvrashchenie) (2003)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
7. Best in Show (2000)
8. Saved! (2004)
9. Lost in Translation (2003)
10. An Education (2009)
11. Gosford Park (2001)
12. Thirteen (2003)
13. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
14. Hard Candy (2005)
15. Oldboy (2003)
16. He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
17. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
18. Irréversible (2002)
19. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
20. Once (2006)
21. Shattered Glass (2003)
22. Jesus Camp (2006)
23. Primer (2004)
24. Tarnation (2003)
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Hello SparkBuddies!
It's been so long. Inspiration doesn't seem to hit as often as it used to but I'm doing well! Lots of changes, though!
Some of you may remember that I wrote a blog entry a while back about some poor experiences I was having at the gym. And then that I decided to go back to P90X, this time with the sequel. That went well for a while but I found myself getting bored. Don't get me wrong. P90X2 is a challenge. And it taught me that I'm able to do so much more than I thought I could. Plyo pushups and clapping pushups and ridiculous balance moves. But boredom is the killer of fitness.
I'd been missing running and we officially quit our gym. So I joined Planet Fitness (a gym I have always been kind of opposed to) because it's cheap and I can use the cardio equipment. I pinned SparkPeople's 10k Your Way program and have begun that. I love it so far. I'm definitely settling in to running more than ever.
If you guys are on Pinterest, totally come follow me. And let me know you have or I won't notice. My username is BazookaBobcat.
AwesomeHusband and I also bought a power rack and some mats for the basement and set up an olympic bar and plates for powerlifting. AH recently asked me to join him while dead lifting. SparkFriends, I have hurt myself dead lifting a lot of times. It is always debilitating for several days. My father has chronic lower back problems having to do with the shape of his lower back/hips that I think I inherited. So I gave up dead lifting for a long time. But when AH asked me to join him, I did. And I was terrified. And it went really really well.
So last night I meant to go running. But AH asked me to deadlift with him again. We warmed up with 115. I did 10 reps and felt great.
Then 135lbs x 10. Still felt awesome.
Jumped to 155lbs. Did probably five reps. Two sets there. Still feeling good.
Jumped to 185lbs. Did one rep. Felt good. Felt so strong.
AH loaded the bar to 205lbs. You guys may remember when I reached that goal. Maybe not. It was over a year ago. I haven't come anywhere close since. But I lifted it. And felt so strong.
So I told AH that I felt like I could keep going. So he loaded it to 225lbs. He did a set of probably six and then I got behind the bar.
I squatted down to stretch out my hips and get my mind right.
AH made a joke from Hot Rod that cracked me up so I stayed stretching for a little while.
And then this happened.
That's a PR for me, guys. That is a PR by FAR. That is 20lbs more than a weight I haven't touched in a very long time.
I needed this, you guys. I am more comfortable in my body than I have been in a long time. But I still feel it. I still have those terrible self-doubting moments. I look at the scale and I remember the time when I was a weight 15lbs lower than that number. And I think to myself, "You've gotten fat."
"You're out of shape."
"You've given up."
But then, when I have an amazing run.
Or do five clapping pushups right in AH's face because he acted incredulous when I said I could do them.
Or dead lift 225lbs after taking nearly a year's break from that lift.
I remember that this body is good. It is so strong. And it does not deserve my negative self talk.
It feels GOOD to be proud and take photos. And maybe it's also a little narcissistic but who cares. I certainly don't.
Speaking of which, come follow me on Instagram, too. The_Haack_Attack. Let me know, though, so I don't cancel your request. hahaha.
And SparkFriends, keep posting your blog entries full of goals and PRs and successes. You've no idea how much it helps me and encourages me.
So many good and worthwhile bodies out there. Feels good to remind each other of it.
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you must teach me the ways of the deadlift! i am impressed lady :_)
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That is B-A of you!!! I feel like I need to sing "this girl is on fiiiiiiiiiire!!!!!" to you. Haha! Keep up the great work!!
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Wow, I am sooooo impressed!!! I wish you never doubted yourself because you are awesome!
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WOW!!!!!!!! This is amazing! You're STRONG, how empowering and awesome that must feel! And you look totally bada$$ in that picture. ROCK IT!
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Well done !!!
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I'm right there with you. I hurt my back deadlifting several times and I am wondering if mine is an inherited trait too. the PT at my CrossFit says I probably slipped a disc (my mom and grandma slip discs ALL the time... and do not even deadlift). BUT he said, if I strengthen my core (he recommended planks mostly) and concentrate REALLY HARD on tightening my core and stabilizing my spine EVERY time I deadlift, I should be fine AND build lower back strength which will keep my discs in place.
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That is SO awesome! I was super-excited when I did 145... more than my bodyweight! I haven't done much lifting recently. I probably should :)
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March 10, 2013
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Northern Illinois gymnastics team earned its highest scores of the season on uneven parallel bars and vault, but suffered some uncharacteristic falls on balance beam in its final event of the meet and dropped a 194.825-193.675 decision to Western Michigan Sunday at University Arena in Kalamazoo.
The loss drops the Huskies' record to 4-5 overall and NIU completes the MAC regular season 2-4 versus league foes. WMU goes to 6-5, 3-2 MAC with the victory.
Northern Illinois opened the meet in spectacular fashion on uneven parallel bars. Freshman Lauren Africano (Bourbonnais, Ill./Bradley-Bourbonnais Community HS) got NIU started with a career-high 9.800 and every Huskie after her hit their routines. Junior Megan Melendez (Stafford, Va./North Stafford HS) capped off the event with a 9.825 to tie for second place. Northern Illinois' team score of 48.925 on bars tied the fifth-highest team bars score in school history and four Huskies recorded career highs on bars in the meet.
"Everybody swung really well," said NIU Head Coach Sam Morreale. "We hit well and we landed well with three or four sticks. The 48.925 is huge for us. [Lauren] got us going with the 9.8 and it got us moving in the right direction."
The momentum continued on vault as Kelly Nortz (Bay Village, Ohio/Magnificat HS) started with a season-best 9.700 and two more Huskies hit their career or season highs, leading to a season-best 48.750 vault score for NIU. That total tied as the seventh-highest score on vault ever for Northern Illinois. Melendez recorded a career-best 9.775 on vault to tie for fifth place, while freshmen Jaelyn Olsen (Bethany, Okla./Putnam City West HS) led the way for NIU with a 9.800 to earn fourth.
Balance beam, normally one of NIU's strongest events, would derail the Huskies' push for the victory and the 195 score as only Kim Gotlund (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township HS) and Melendez managed to hit their routines. Melendez won the event with a 9.825 and Gotlund took third with a 9.700, but the season-low 47.200 team score left the Huskies thinking about what could have been.
"It was a bad day on beam for us, which is frustrating because we had a great meet going," Morreale said. "Prior to beam, we were hitting and everything was going well, then the wheels fell off and we couldn't right the ship. It was not a normal beam day for us, it's definitely an aberration. We still put up a respectable score [overall] but we definitely missed an opportunity."
Despite the miscues on the final event, the Huskies' performance on bars and vault served to confirm that NIU is poised to break the 195 mark in one of its final two meets of the season.
"We're not going to change what we're doing and who we are," Morreale said. "I think we saw that if we just hit the four events we're good to go. With our skills and the way we're performing the routines, if we do them [right], we're going to score well. We just have to hit and we will."
Northern Illinois will take on UIC, Illinois State and Illinois next Saturday in Chicago at the annual State of Illinois Classic. The meet will begin at 5 p.m. at UIC's Physical Education Building.
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Amherst, Mass. - The UMass women's rowing team won both the varsity eight and quad races at The Head Of The Fish Regatta in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Saturday. UMass also had four of the top 12 finishers in the women's open singles event.
The varsity eight consisted of senior Faith Harkins (Marion, Mass.),junior Stephanie Hopf (Hadley, Mass.), senior Lea Jakobsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), sophomore Ellen Maskrey (Pittsburgh, Penn.),junior Katie Berger (Amherst, N.H), junior Catherine Gariepy (Lorraine, Quebec), sophomore Hannah Brewster (Plymouth, Mass.),sophomore Tara Guinan (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), and sophomore coxswain Kristina Ferraro (Columbus, Ohio). The varsity eight won with a time of 12:23:31. Colgate was second at 12:32:23.
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The early days were very hard for me. I had to find stores and health stores that could supply me with the foods I now needed to buy. Now it's a snap. I know exactly where to go to get what I need and more stores including Wal-Mart are selling organic produce and organic frozen fruits and vegetables at reasonable prices.
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Modesto's 24th Annual Earth Day in the Park Festival is just around corner and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there to help us 'Celebrate Green!' This FREE community event will be held at the Graceada Park, located in downtown Modesto on the corner of Needham & Sycamore from 10a.m. to 4p.m. A FREE StaRT shuttle bus to and from Graceada Park every 20 minutes at the CrossPoint Church Parking lot on Needham has been added for the convenience of the attendees.
This unique event offers many opportunities to learn about the environment in a family-friendly atmosphere. There will be over 90 exhibitors showcasing their products and detailing what they are doing to help make our community a vibrant place to live, work and play. It's an entire day of "green education", free local entertainment, delicious food, kid's arts and crafts, a toter art contest by local Junior High Schools, prizes and much more!
Be sure to attend the free Boyett B Green Recycling Event held on Stoddard Avenue between Park and Sycamore Avenues. This is a convenient drive thru event where all recyclables donated are matched dollar for dollar by Boyett Petroleum. 100% of the funds are applied to the City of Modesto "Adopt a Park" Program to complete funding of the endowment for the new dog park at Elk Park and additional park planned improvements. Items accepted for recycling include:
· On site document shredding (limit of 5 file boxes or grocery bags per person)
· CRV Bottles, Cans, Plastic & Scrap Metal
· E-Waste (TV's, computers, laptops, video games, electronics, etc.)
· Ink Jet, toners, cartridges
In addition, Covanta Energy will also be collecting small batteries and cell phones and Modesto Sunset Lions Club will be collecting eyeglasses. Look for their booths!
This year's entertainment includes music from local artist and 2012 MAMA award winner The-High-Voltage-Band, returning Country favorite Southern Bend, The Pendeltons and a demonstration from the Modesto Police Departments K9 Unit.
A special thanks to all of our Earth Day sponsors. Without their commitment to our community this event would not be possible. Please stop by their booths and thank them for their participation and all the effort they put into making our environment "green".
Global Protectors
American Event Rentals
Bertolotti Disposal
Boyett Petroleum
Covanta Energy, Inc.
Modesto Junk
Modesto Nuts
Kat country 103
Earth Crusaders
The Modesto Bee
Modesto Irrigation District
The Medics Plus
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Friends of the Earth
E & J Gallo Winery
FM Golf
A & A Portables
Royal Robbins
MIP Advertising
Macaroni Kid Modesto
Sutter Gould
My Little Balloon Co.