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Layups: Transaction Flowcharts
Posted by Neil Paine on February 2, 2010
This is neat (hat tip to Supersub15 at APBRmetrics)... A freelance tech/writer named Wyn Douglas has put together transaction flowcharts for every NBA team's current roster, showing how the team came together over the years via trades, signings, draft picks, etc. For example, here are the Celtics... The Cavs... The Magic... And the Lakers. Very cool stuff, if you ask me.
3 Responses to "Layups: Transaction Flowcharts"
wyn Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
hi neil, thanks very much for the link! just as an fyi, the gmapuploader links will likely not last as the charts are updated. so, as time goes on, be sure to check the flowcharts.htm page for the most recent vrsions.
any suggestions are welcome!
Trev Says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Great stuff.
It's been said before, but Sam Presti is really good at his job. And the Phoenix Suns are really cheap.
Irish Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
great post


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The Cafe International is a meeting place for guests from many nations. At a table an Indian drinks coffee with a Frenchman; at the bar a Spaniard converses with an African. The task of the players is to divide the international guests as skillfully as possible among all the tables in The Cafe. At the most, two ladies and two gentlemen may sit at a table. That's how the players get points. Guests which are forced to sit at the bar cost the players points. The player who can most successfully cope with the onslaught of guests will win this entertaining game.
Product Awards
Best Family Game, 2001
Game of the Year, 1989
Product Information
Rudi Hoffman
Oliver Freudenreich
Year: 1999
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 45 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 1,050 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are language-independent. An English translation of the rules is provided.
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Average Rating: 4.4 in 8 reviews
This game has everything going for it: nice pieces, terrific board, easy rules and hours of playability. I gave this game as a gift to a friend and we finally decided to play it. Well, we played it three times in the same night! All of us were intrigued by the simplicity of the game. We learned the game in minutes and only had to look at the rules twice just to verify table placement.
The object is to seat people of various nationalities at tables, scoring points in the process. Tables with patrons of one nationality score higher than ones with mixed nationalities. On a turn you have to score points. If you can't, you have to send someone to the bar. The first five spaces on the bar are positive points; after that they're all negative. This makes the game interesting as the tables become full and you have to place someone at the bar when all the positive points are taken up. There is even a Joker tile which can represent any nationality. On your turn, you can even exchange a Joker tile already on the board with a tile of the nationality it's representing. This costs a turn, but can be advantageous. Just don't get caught with it at the end of the game (it's worth -10 in your hand; all other tiles are -5). Even though we all could see each other's tiles, we didn't feel it took away from the game. In fact, it added to the strategy. Next time, we're gonna keep the tiles facedown and see what happens. This game is excellent.
Every once and while, you're driving someplace out of town, hit the 'seek' button on the radio and you find some forties music station, and get a great tune from The Ames Bros., or the Inkspots, the Mellotones... Straight forward tune, wonderful harmonies, fun lyrics. That's what visiting Cafe International is all about. No complex, 'let me check if you can place that there' tile rules aka Java. Just a straight forward, fun game you can teach anyone in two minutes. Try teaching Java to a new player, you'll be at it for a while... and keep the rule book handy.
Basically, all you do in Cafe International is 'seat' one or two of your patrons (tiles) at a coresponding table maintaining balance between males and females, or No place to seat someone? Put 'em in the bar! The better you arrange your patrons, the more points you get. As the restuarant fills up, it gets harder and harder, and you have to start losing points. Do the best job of making the most of your patrons early, and lose the least during the endgame, you win. The graphics are clean, patron tiles heavy stock and wonderfully UN-P/C, scoring system clear.
The only challenge I had with the game is a personal gripe of mine, laying out all your tiles exposed to everyone. It allows for way too much 'kingmaker' play, slows the action with too much over-analysis, and as stated in previous reviews of this game, a little dry. With one quick fix, Cafe International transforms into a fantastic game. Go to your local charity thrift store, pick up an old Scrabble game (there's almost always one there) and use the tile holders for your patrons. It keeps your tiles hidden, opponents guessing and the game incredibly lively! Also, the english translation on scoring doesn't show bonus points for seating a matched couple, only triples and quads. Basicly, seat any couple, threesome or foursome, score 2 / 3 / 4 points respectively. If they all match nationalities, double it.
For a wonderful game to play, especially with non-gamers, get Cafe International, some tile holders and enjoy a good cuppa joe!
I award Cafe International 5 stars because it is a great game for those looking for a light game with enough strategy to satisfy in that department.
As soon as the box is opened, it becomes clear that Cafe International is a quality game (the newer Amigo version anyway--I have seen the Mattel version and it's not as high quality). The clear, colourful, clean artwork is printed on a substantial board and chips.
Once 5 people chips are distributed to each player, players take turns to place 1 or 2 people chips into the cafe, or exhange a joker from the board. The tables display which nationalities the people must be, sitting at them, and it is necessary to keep a near-equal balance to the lady/gentlemen split at each table.
Players score points for every person placed into the cafe, apart from some of them that are forced to wait at the bar. The number of points scored depends on how many tables are affected, and how many people are at the affected tables--the more people, the more points.
Each game takes around an hour to play, and is highly recommended for people of all ages looking for a game which is light yet not shallow.
I was glad to see the Games Magazine 2001 Buyers Guide mention this game. This is not a 'Gamer's Game' like Modern Art or Civilization. It can be played in under an hour, has a balance of luck and skill, and is good fun. The game has an atmosphere that a well-designed game should have. The play flows well and each tile picked gives a small rush of joy or disappointment. Make a reservation soon.
Great game for gamers or newbies.
Easy to learn and play the first time out of the box.
And it's fun. And the theme fits the game play.
This one will make new players want to try more German type games.
Not quite a filler, but a relatively short game to play when you want something more.
This is an enjoyable game to play with my kids, and I think therefore a good one to begin getting children away from Candy Land and into strategy gaming. My 6-year-old daughter understands the game and enjoys it.
PLEASE NOTE: The English rules that Americans are using have a significant error (now confirmed by Amigo and Rudy Hoffman).
Namely, if you initiate a new table with a same-nation pair, you get FOUR points, not two (the English rules say two). And if someone then adds another same-nation guest to that table, they score SIX points, not three (the English rules say three). And if you finish a same-nation table, you get (logically) eight points (the English rules do get this part right, saying eight).
If you look at page 5 of the colorful German-language rulebook, you'll see a chart showing the different scoring counts, same-nation tables vs. international tables. The former score double the latter. Why the English rules fail to note this quite obvious illustration is a mystery to me. (And no, I can't read German.)
Thus, anyone playing Cafe International using the English rules translation by Jeff Goldsmith isn't scoring the game right.
This is a fun game with a hint of strategy. Because other folks have explained the mechanics, I won't elaborate on that. However, I do feel that the suggestion of keeping each individual's tiles a secret makes the game more fun--and certainly adds a needed degree of strategy and suspense to it. It's a very light game--definitely not for deep thinkers. Sometimes in my family, it's more fun to play a light-hearted game. Especially if we have all had a stress-filled day. The components in the Amigo version are very nice with the English rules well presented and easy to follow. Definitely a game that is quick, easy and quite enjoyable themewise.
This game is based on the amusing concept that each player is a waiter at the Cafe International, where patrons of many different nationalities line up to be seated. By the curious rules of this cafe, every table is a four-top, but they are interlocking four-tops; so at two adjoining tables, one might be for Germans only and the next for French only, but at the seat in between, either German or French could be seated. Also ladies may not outnumber gentlemen at a table by more than one or vice versa. The patrons, represented by tiles drawn by the players, must be seated properly in the cafe, for which the waiter makes money, or, failing that, at the bar. After the first five patrons have been seated at the bar, though, a waiter must actually pay to seat a patron at the bar. When either the cafe or the bar is full, the game ends and the player with the most money wins.
Your chances of winning depend primarily on the tiles you draw. There are small strategies you can deploy -- deciding whether to play one tile or two, deciding whether to seat a patron at the bar rather than set up a good play for the next waiter -- but these are really fairly trivial. If you want deeper strategy in a tile-placing game, go for Acquire or Euprates & Tigris or something of the sort.
The charm of Cafe International, however, is its appeal for those who find something as complex as Acquire tedious. The game only lasts a half hour or so, keeping a healthy distance from anyone's boredom threshold. The colorful tiles of the different nationalities (as seen by the German caricaturist) are fun, and the whole cafe/bar idea has humor enough to keep the proceedings lighthearted. It is easy to learn, easy to play, and gives everyone at the table a chance to win.
Thus while personally my enjoyment of Cafe International is less than that of my own favorite tooth-gritting contests, the fact that I can bring it out to entertain just about any group with minimal rules explanations comes close to raising its overall rating to a 4-star.
The cafe in this award-winning classic European game (Spiel des Jahres 1989) has two tables each for 12 nationalities of people. Each table has four chairs, half of which are shared by adjacent tables. Players start with five faceup guest tiles, and earn winning points by placing one or two of them at an appropriate table on their turn. Each table must have equal or nearly equal numbers of men and women. Guests who cannot be seated at a table may be placed at the bar, but at the cost of a penalty. End your turn by refilling your hand to five tiles--less one tile for each high-scoring time you filled a table with four people of the same nationality! Caf International serves up a simple but elegant playing feast.

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I am 41 and training for my first marathon, which is in 4 weeks. I have been a runner all my life, but just started doing long distances about 18 months ago. I've run three half marathons with no significant injuries. Once I hit 14 miles in my training, I started getting moderate pain in the left hip (which eventually radiates to the glute and quad). It's been diagnosed by my chiropractor and ART as tendonitis. They are telling me not to run on it. I have decided to run through the pain and just suck it up. Has anyone trained for and completed a marathon with tendonitis in the hip? Am I being realistic? I don't care about my time in this race; I just want to finish. I am doing it as a fundraiser for my autistic son's school and don't want to back out under any circumstances.I am stretching, icing, foam-rolling, and using the electrical impulse machine.
I once worked a race alongside a chiropractor who was using ART, and I had the opportunity to observe and chat technique as we took on one athlete after another. One thing I noted about ART is its emphasis on removing adhesions between critical structures like tendons and neighboring tissue, using a trap and stretch technique that involves a lot of positioning and active movement of the athlete in order to free up damaged tissues that have adhered to one another.
While this by no means prevents ART from being used in other ways, it puts the practitioner in an ideal position to observe inflammation along tendons and their sheaths, so a diagnosis of tendonitis may be as good as money in the bank in this case. Not all medical personnel get that close a look before this often overused assessment is made. Bear in mind though, that aside from overuse, a diagnosis of tendonitis raises a number of important questions about the genesis of your condition that need to be addressed. Simple overuse and a prescription for rest may not be explanation and treatment enough.
At this point I will say that 18 months is not out of the ballpark, as a timeframe for an overuse injury like tendonitis to develop, but that is not the only result of overtraining you can expect. While electronic muscle stim technology helps with pain control, it does little to affect the actual physiology of the muscle. Ditto for ice and stretching. Rolling is helpful maintenance for muscles that have not yet reached the tipping point, but is not sufficiently specific for all damage your marathon training is likely to cause. It helps too, to do a little troubleshooting before treating areas with a scattershot approach.
Try standing on one leg, then switch sides, even if you've done this before. Differences in how well and how long you can hold this position have more to do with muscle strength than tendonitis when the position is held without friction. In a case where a tendon is actually damaged rather than inflamed (tendonosis), inflammation and pain may not enter into the picture the same way. In cases where the actual muscle is to blame, the symptoms may be similar to tendonitis. The important difference is to see whether the muscle can hold. If it can't, you need to direct your attention there.
Overused muscles tend to place more strain on tendons, bursa, and joints. While problems with the softer tissue are frequently overlooked, they are often to blame for tendonitis, bursitis, and joint pain, by placing unrelenting pressure on these structures. In the early stages though, pain from the muscles involved often manifests as a problem with the structures they affect, before major damage is done. You can thank your muscles for being whiners before they tear the rest of you apart. In the mean time though, their health and strength are critical to smooth injury-free running.
If you've had deep tissue or trigger point massage to the gluteal and other pelvic muscles attached to these tendons, you want to bear in mind that massage as a comparatively non-invasive therapy, often has to be repeated several times before any changes to the soft tissue will hold. This does not mean you have to shell out a lot of cash for repeat treatments, but it does mean you should follow up with self-care and other TLC to get the effects to hold. For example, it would be better to work the area three times a day for 5 minutes at a time, than for 15 minutes all at once. This is inconvenient to arrange with a professional, so you need to follow up the good work with some approximation you can do on your own, using a tennis ball or knobber, etc. to keep things moving. Happier muscles will lead to great relief for the other structures involved. If it took 18 months to crank them up, you can't expect them to get released overnight. Stay with it.
Back to our test, the ability to stand easily and painlessly on one leg depends heavily on the health of your minor glutes, which bear several time your body weight with each footstrike when running. For the newbie marathoner, these can be among the first to go.
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Make certain that your hip pain is a soft tissue problem (tendonosis). Over use injury to hip can be a stress fracture. Trying to run through a stress fracture of the femoral neck is very risky. With most stress fractures the worst thing than can happen if you try to run throught it is that it hurts and it hurts so bad that you compensate and develop additional over use injuries in adjacent areas. If you try to run throught a stress fracture of the femoral neck can lead to a overt fracture, and avascular necrosis of the femoral head (dead bone).
Damien Howell PT, DPT, OCS - www.damienhowellptcom
I agree with Damien above. Don't run through this pain, especially in a Marathon. You son's school is important, but you are even more important to your son.
You both give fabulous advice. James, how long should I be able to stand on each leg? I did it for one minute each leg with no pain, just some wobbling in the calves. I stopped because I was bored and losing balance, not because it hurt. Also, the pain in my hip wakes me up in the middle of the night, around 2 or 3. It is not a stabbing pain, but feels like burning. Advil helps it.
Oh, and the chiropractor used a metal thingy on my hip to rule out stress fracture. Also, I am seeing an MD next week to ask for an MRI.
Standing for a minute is a good sign, but not conclusive. Tredelenburg's Test requires checking to see if the hips are level during this time. A difference from side to side indicates possible dysfunction in the Glute Medius of the standing side when the opposite hip dips downward. Not having a stress fracture is a very good sign. Now we're left with some question marks, but dysfunction of the gluteal and other pelvic muscles can be involved. Does your Lumbar spine have a deep curve that is difficult to straighten? Is it easy to rotate your thigh inward as well as outward? I would like to see Damien weigh in on this one some more. Sometimes, it is difficult to do these things on the internet, but there are more questions that need to be asked.
Do you have difficulty bending over to touch your toes?
Touching opposite hand to toe?
Going up stairs?
Changing position while seated?
Getting out of a chair?
Turning in bed?
Rotating from side to side?
Leaning backward?
Standing with knees locked rather than bent slightly?
My hunch is more the gluteal than other muscles, though you would be surprised at the range of muscles affecting the above symptoms. A burning rather than stabbing pain is an important clue.
I dug up a study on gluteal tendonopathy for another poster but would have to pay to post it here. the banner states:
"'Greater trochanteric pain syndrome is commonly due to gluteus minimus
or medius injury rather than trochanteric bursitis. Gluteal tendinopathy
most frequently occurs in late-middle aged females,' scientists writing
in the journal European Radiology report."
I don't know if this applies in your case, but there are geometric differences in the female pelvis that lead to excessive strain on the involved musculature, with increasing likelihood after child-bearing. I don't think that is a death sentence for running, but an indication that greater care needs to be taken to insure the actions of these muscles do not place abnormal stress on the other structures of the hip. Even when the bone is not fractured, wear to the ball joint of the hip and degrading of the labrum are not uncommon. Enough damage in the wrong places can lead to the kind of pain that will wake you at night, which for many leads to surgery, but for me points to unbalanced muscular stress. It is important to rule out common muscular causes for deep pain before going down that road, because all damage is eventually going to be traced to how those hips are moved. I'd rather this discussion were a stitch in time than an academic post-mortem exercise, so to speak.
Some good reading courtesy of Medscape can show you how involved a complete medical diagnosis for your condition can be, and shows how your docs earn their money...http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/87169-overview
Often, some of the therapeutic services that practitioners like Damien and myself provide are prescribed when your condition can be traced to musculoskeletal causes, and reversed or ameliorated by therapy. My motivation in the Med Tent community is to enable the athlete to be a proactive partner in their healthcare by addressing likely musculoskeletal causes for common sports injuries and pain, before they become a more serious pathology. Familiarity with these injuries can save a lot of time, money, and misery, but there is always more to know.
Meanwhile, I am inclined to think that many years of running often leads to lots of accumulated muscle dysfunction. Treated in time, these soft tissue injuries do not have to become major catastrophies going forward. Your job is to treat the easy injury before it becomes harder to solve, and to avoid making it worse during this process. We as runners are constantly injuring ourselves in some way, and we are by nature competitive. If we must compete with our injuries, the best course is to make sure our recovery outpaces our injuries.
I have heard of using a "tuning fork" to screen for stress fracture. I assume that is what you mean by a "metal thingy". The validity of using a "metal thingy" to rule out stress fracture is very questionable. To truely rule out a stress fracture requires a radiograph or bone scan.
Damien Howell PT, DPT, OCS - www.damienhowellpt.com
Damien, yes it was a tuning fork. Would you say it's worth my time to get an x-ray and/or MRI?
And James, I had done the test for hip alignment and neither side dips. I did have babies when I was 31 and 33.My sports chiropractor did some of the tests you mentioned and found nothing significant. The only question I can answer yes to is difficulty turning in bed. I think your hunch about the gluteals being involved is well founded. I have been doing lunges with hand weights for years and do some other strength training, but I can say that when my ART works on me, the gluteals are the ones that make me scream! He mentioned gluteus medius. So, I've been stretching and foam rolling those. What I am hearing from both of you is that running through the pain (although it is tolerable) could potentially cause irreversible damage. I did rest for over a week, and my hip felt good, but as soon as I got to about 2 miles, it hurt again. Since then, I've only done short runs (5 miles) and it starts to hurt at the same point. To make up for lost time at this point, I would have to have a pretty brutal training schedule to run the OC Marathon on May 1.
I know this sounds crazy, but what if I rested for the next month and just went to the race and tried to run it? At least then I'd only get the damage from the race and not the training.
Thank you again for being willing to give your expertise and knowledge so generously!
Your orginial post was " I have decided to run through the pain and suck it up". Because of the location of your pain I would suggest you ask for a radiograph to rule out stress fracture of the femoral neck. A radiograph still does not solve your problem of hip pain. Take a look at Symmetry - Asymmetry: Problem Solving Repetitive Use Injury. I am not a big fan of stretching exercise as a soultion for repetitive use injury. Take a look at Should you stretch it out, Hip pain and stretching exercise, and IT Band Controversey Regarding Stretching Exercise. You may facilitate the healing process by discontinuing all the stretching exercise, massage, and ART. Also take a look at Are you a half ***? - Stretch Weakness of Gluteal Muscles Contributing to Pain.
Damien Howell PT, DPT, OCS - www.damienhowellpt.com
You make a good point about the marathon alone being less potential damage than the marathon+marathon training. I've heard of people doing this, if they don't expect a particularly good time. You would probably suffer though, with no long runs within three weeks of the event. Your feet would probably get pretty sore from loss of conditioning, and you might react with a few compensations to protect them along the way, that could cause other problems later with the hip and lower legs.
I see this means a lot to you, so you are willing to sacrifice your health, hopefully only short-term, to acheive this goal. Missing the event could bother you for quite some time, I'm sure, but you understand our position as healthcare practitioners has to reflect some professional integrity. I think we agree that the marathon is almost certain to damage your body. They damage healthy people! The only questions in your case are: how much, and can you recover? If you really do have a stress fracture, we might have to show up on race day and tie you down. If the results of more accurate tests are clean or inconclusive, you could possibly tenderfoot your way through the thing. It's your body, after all.
Imagine though, what pain starting at 2-5 miles is going to feel like after 20 more! Yes, this event certainly means a lot to you, and I admire and respect your decision either way. Just make darn sure that scan is clean!
Ethically I can't recommend you do this either way, so perhaps you can shop the idea to other segments of the Active Running community to see if there have been similar stories. You've heard our take. Maybe somebody who has been in the same position can talk you out of this, in a way that you can live with a decision to stand down. Are you thinking this might be your last marathon too, and you want to make it count? A guy died at the finish line of a marathon where I PRed in 2006. I had a great day. He left behind a wife and three kids. Neither he nor his wife, who had run 8 other marathons with him and was running that day too, expected the worst to happen. Most of the time, it doesn't, but nobody sees it coming. Who knew?
Another story: A couple years ago I was crumbling under a load of high mileage training, but was only a little over six weeks away from my target marathon. I could only get up to 13 miles without excruciating pain at this point in my training. With a 26 miler scheduled one week later, I was suffering from some horrible ITBS, a repetitive motion injury that had me limping to the car after each run over a few miles. I had a guy tape me up, and I worked on my own injury relentlessly, making liberal use of topical magnesium (Epsom salts, etc.) during my runs. Did the 26 without pain that weekend, and qualified for Boston at my event 6 weeks later. A miracle? Nah. It just works that way sometimes - if you are very lucky and know what you are dealing with.
Meanwhile, continue to treat in expectation of some kind of miracle. You do not have much time for scan results to be interpreted accurately. If you are somehow cleared to run one more super-easy long (with walk breaks) next weekend, the losses may be minimal. Just don't let your heart get too far ahead of your body!
JamesJohnson I have self diagnosed myself with hip tendonitis due to glut weakness. I am now trying to rehab it and was wondering if you had any good suggestions. I have been retrowalking on a treadmill and have actually had my gait analyzed. On my injured side I "knee dive" my guess is due to glut weakness so I also attempt to run externally rotated on a treadmill with an incline.
NJrunning.. Sounds like you have a plan, but has anyone assessed you for a leg length discrepancy? It's true that a glute Medius in spasm can draw up the hip to make a leg appear shorter, but an actual measurement would be helpful. Also, laying on a table with hips brought even, elevating the knee can determine if the thigh (femur) or lower leg (tib/fib) are longer. Even so, a collaped arch in one foot is another way to effectively shorten the leg and cause glute problems. The cause of your original dysfunction needs to be determined.
Do a browser search for "strengthening exercies for gluteus medius" and you will find volumes of examples and books on the topic. What I would add is avoid habitual stretching of gluteus medius. Stop stretching the gluteus medius. Take a look at Are you half ***? If you need additional assistance Find a Good PT.
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OK, guys, I feel like you've given me really good information and advice. My plan is to keep doing short runs, icing and stim machine until I get the bone scan. Damien, I will stop stretching the glute and pray for a miracle. My gut feeling is that there is no stress fracture. I feel the tendon pop when I lift my leg (like when putting pants on). I also just let my son's principal know that I may have to send an announcement to all the donors and let them know if I can't participate in the race due to injury, they can have their money back (which I'm sure they wouldn't ask for!). The bottom line is that I am a life-long runner and I love it too much to let this one race take it away from me forever. You guys are awesome and I will keep you posted!
p.s. Damien, I just read your article and now I understand. I will try to become a "complete ***".
Thank you for your help. I do not have a leg length discrepency but have not checked my tibia or femur specifically. I was looking into getting orthotics.....would that solve the problem as far as collapsed arches? I know I pronate with both feet. I was doing hill sprints when it started bothering me. I try to correct my gait and think about keeping my knee from pointing in but that seems to bother my gluts more. This happened to me in the fall as well and after 2 frustrating months I was able to get it better. Now it is back again.
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It's the brand's first rear-wheel drive sedan since 1996.
"The Chevrolet brand was largely built on the strength of rear-drive performance sedans, yet it's been 17 years since we've offered one," said GM's North America president Mark Reuss. "The all-new Chevrolet SS fills that void."
The Chevrolet SS uses the same rear-wheel drive underpinnings now found in the Camaro and Caprice police patrol vehicle. It is expected to deliver 415 horsepower and 415 lb-ft of torque. It can accelerate from zero to 60 mph in about five seconds.
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Jerry Sheindlin
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|Judy Judy (1977–90; divorced, remarried 1991)
Gerald "Jerry" Sheindlin (born November 19, 1933) is an American author and television personality. He was a short-lived judge on the television program The People's Court from 1999 to 2000 television season and most of the 2000–01 season before being replaced by Marilyn Milian. Before that, he served on the New York State Supreme Court. During his career on the bench, he authored 64 published opinions, including a 46 page opinion on the admission of DNA forensic evidence in a murder case.
He is the author of two books, Genetic Fingerprinting: The Law and Science of DNA Evidence and Blood Trail.
During his tenure on The People's Court, his on-bench demeanor was somewhat less gruff and volatile than that of his wife. He displayed more humor and was straightforward, often registering mock indignation whenever litigants referred to him (as they sometimes did) as "Judge Judy's husband."
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He is married to Judy Sheindlin, better known as Judge Judy (so named after her court TV series). The two married in 1977, a second marriage for both Judy and Jerry. They were later divorced in 1990 and remarried in 1991. Together, they have 3 children — Gregory, Jonathan and Nicole, as well as Judy's two children from her first marriage, Jamie and Adam — and 13 grandchildren.[1] Dr. Jonathan A. Sheindlin is a retinal surgeon[2] and Greg, Adam and Nicole are lawyers.
- ^ Sheindlin, Judith; Josh Getlin. Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining. ISBN 0-06-017321-1.
- ^ "Bio: Dr. Jonathan Sheindlin", NYU Langone Medical Center
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University of Wyoming Extension crops educator Sandra Frost says the wet conditions have set farmers back by weeks and harvest levels may be reduced.
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Frost says sugar beet producers cannot decide to switch to another crop because it is a contract crop.
In addition, it's too late for farmers to switch seed to a shorter-season crop. Seeds are ordered in December and have been produced and delivered.
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Famous arias, lieder both old and new, in a music hall of wood - ideal for chamber music.
The music hall - designed by architect Alan Havsteen-Mikkelsen is inspired by Faroese wooden churches - and decorated with the painter Svend Havsteen-Mikkelsen's sketches for stained glass in Danish and Nordic churches.
Seven classical concerts are held throughout the summer with music that can surprise, excite, challenge and provoke!
Every year several classical concerts are held at a high national and international level and one of the big names in 2014 is the duo Michala Petri and Lars Hannibal.
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Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling is a picaresque novel, as is Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders. (Moll is a lady rogue, by the way.) A more recent example of a picaresque hero? Ignatius P. Riley of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.


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Definición de parting en inglés:
sustantivo[mass noun]
1The action of leaving or being separated from someone: they exchanged a few words on parting [count noun]: the wrench of her parting from Stephen
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- In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting.
- For a couple embarking on a serious relationship, discussion of the terms to apply at parting is almost a contradiction of the shared hopes that have brought them together.
- In the film Oliver's attempt to get Fagin to pray is overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of Fagin's sense of parting from the young orphan he took in.
farewell, leave-taking, goodbye, adieu, departure, leaving, going (away);
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- For the climax of Exodus is not found in the story of the departure from Egypt, nor in the death of the firstborn, nor in the parting of the Red Sea, nor in the giving of the law on Sinai.
- It was one o'clock, and I felt as if I had been up since the parting of the heavens and the earth.
- Science can comment usefully on such issues as the age of the Shroud of Turin, the parting of the Red Sea, or genetic studies of alleged lost tribes of Israel.
division, dividing, separation, separating, splitting, breaking up/apart, severance, disjoining, detachment, partition, partitioning
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- The decade that followed also marked the start of the 'middle parting, pasted hair on both sides of the face' sported by the saucy Sharmila Tagore.
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- That parting of the ways will mean the end of Caledonian Capital, the joint venture between the Bank of Scotland and the Royal, which was intended to fund major acquisitions and mergers using the combined firepower of the two banks.
- A commercial parting of the ways between Scotland's professional and community clubs - which to all extents and purposes has already happened in footballing terms - is now inevitable.
- The Section 28 debacle, which first marked the parting of the ways between Holyrood and Scotland, was an initiative of Wendy Alexander, who was also effectively the author of the Scotland Act.
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Israel Tourism has had adverts which featured the Western Wall banned by the ASA
The Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) will appeal against a ban on a holiday advert which described the Western Wall as part of Israel — after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint that it was actually in the Occupied Territories.
An image on the advert for holidays in Israel showed a picture of the Kotel, with the gold Dome of the Rock in the background, captioned "Jerusalem"'.
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Vyacheslav Ganelin was born in Moscow in 1944. He graduated in 1968 from the State Conservatory Vilnius/Lithuania where he then taught composition; he subsequently became Music Director of the Vilnius Russian Drama Theatre. In 1971 he had founded the Ganelin Trio (with V. Chekassin and V. Tarasov) which toured most European countries durings the '70s and the '80s, and had an extraordinary success worldwide. In 1987 he left Lithuania and emmigrated to Israel. In 1999 he founded the new GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY. Vyacheslav Ganelin has written compositions for symphonic orchestra, theater, chamber music, vocal ensembles, jazz big-band, two operas, three pieces for ballet and the sound tracks for more than 30 films.


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(also gipsy)
noun (plural gypsies)
1 (usually Gypsy) A member of a traveling people traditionally living by itinerant trade and fortune telling. Gypsies speak a language (Romany) that is related to Hindi and are believed to have originated in South Asia.
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- But then, with the growing interest in gypsies, and in fortune-telling, many gypsies stopped travelling to become showmen.
- Many Romany gypsies and Irish travellers have since been unable to find suitable sites and have occupied land without planning permission.
- The history of Romany gipsies and Irish travellers in Yorkshire is a long and turbulent one - and conflict with locals and the authorities is nothing new.
2A nomadic or free-spirited person.
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- It's why I have no difficulty with Carmen: even if I was not free, I understood her because I have a gypsy, nomadic side.
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- What results is a continent of gypsyish blues, punctuated by eclectic folk influences.
Mid 16th century: originally gipcyan, short for Egyptian (because Gypsies were popularly supposed to have come from Egypt).
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The A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship program was established by AISES in 1983 in memory of A.T. Anderson (Mohawk), a chemical engineer and an AISES founder. Annual scholarships are awarded to members of AISES who are American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) college students pursuing academic degrees in the sciences, engineering, medicine, natural resources, and math. The A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship program is a cornerstone of AISES' scholarship activity. Over 28 years, AISES has awarded over $8,7M cumulatively in scholarship support to 4,924 AI/AN students. This is a competitive program. This year, 80 students were awarded scholarships from a candidate pool of over 160. This merit-based scholarship program plays an important role in helping remove financial barriers to higher education among Native undergraduates and graduates majoring in the STEM fields. This is significant in light of U.S. Department of Education 2009 data showing that only only 185,000 AI/AN students were enrolled in higher education (a mere 0.6% of overall student enrollment). This fact, coupled with high drop-off rates from STEM to other areas of study contribute to underrepresentation of AI/ANs in higher education overall and specifically in the STEM fields.
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A blind nomadic tropical ant that forages in large columns, preying chiefly on insects and spiders. Also called driver ant.
- Subfamily Dorylinae, family Formicidae.
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Although the program hasn't been as dominant since a tremendous run from 1994-2001, the Indians still are arguably the top team in the region nearly every year, winning league titles three straight seasons.
The Sikeston Bulldogs (0-3) will try to get off on the right foot in conference play tomorrow night as they open SEMO North play at Jackson at 7 p.m.
The Indians have had Sikeston's number for several years, winning eight of the last 10 matchups and three straight.
Longtime Jackson coach Carl Gross said the Indians' success against Sikeston is simply a matter of personnel.
"To be real honest, the reason we've been more successful the last couple years is because we've had more talent," said Gross. "I'm not going to lie about it."
This year's Jackson team may not have a household name like a Mario Whitney, but big, physical linemen and experience in the backfield have lifted the team to a 2-1 record against three St. Louis schools this season.
"They're big and physical and they have a power-oriented offense," said Sikeston coach Jerry Dement. "We know they're going to be very difficult to beat, particularly at their place.
"What we're excited about and put the emphasis on is it's our first conference game. We know we've got our work cut out for us, but we're going up there with the attitude that we're going to pull the upset and we're going to get after them."
Gross said Sikeston's record may be a bit misleading considering the competition the Bulldogs have played.
"I know they've kind of been struggling, but I'm telling you the people they've played, there's a lot of teams that have struggled against them," said Gross. "There's one loss among the three teams they've played. They haven't been playing chopped liver."
Injuries and turnovers have brought Sikeston's offense to a halt in the first three games as they Bulldogs have only scored 14 points on the season.
Quarterback Chase Ferrell is most likely lost for the season with a broken ankle so junior Michael Payne will take over the bulk of the duties behind center.
"He brings some excitement to the game -- he's a pretty good runner and an adequate passer," said Dement of Payne. "We're going to try to do some things to take advantage of his ability. He's the next in line and we're going to go forward with him. But on the other token, Charlie Bohannon has gotten better each week and we're going to give him some snaps too."
Also making his return this week is junior running back Byron Davis, who missed last week's game for family reasons.
Davis was clearly Sikeston's top playmaker in Week 1, but he will be worked in slowly against Jackson after having limited practice time the last couple weeks.
Dement indicated that Gavilan Bland, Davis, Jerod Scott, Tyler Dame and sophomore Vince Howard may all see playing time at running back.
"We're going to try to spread the ball around and see who has the hot hand and ride it," said Dement. "Our biggest thing is we want to eliminate turnovers.
"That's been a bug-a-boo for us as much as anything. We've been shooting ourselves in the foot with turnovers."
Jackson's Trae Smith has been the top rusher for the Indians with 206 yards on the season. Cody Randen follows up with 152 yards.
Senior quarterback Rex Meyr leads the offense with 250 yards passing.
"Our quarterback's a veteran and I feel like he took control of the team last week," said Gross. "We're not going to be able to line up and just pound people like we did a year ago with Joel Penrod. We get in the shotgun some and throw the football."
Gross said Dement's multiple offensive and defensive formations concern him.
"Coach Dement is a very good football coach," said Gross. "They show you a lot of different looks on defense. They bring them from a lot of different places and they run multiple formations.
"The thing Jerry tries to do is get the football in his playmakers' hands."


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Bravo to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) for bringing the Hagel nomination to a halt with his letter to his Senate Armed Services Committee colleagues. Hagel did himself in when he refused to disclose foreign contributions to non-profit groups he joined since leaving the Senate in 2009. Credit for the halt issued by Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) also goes to Secure America Now that has been relentless in lobbying Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) and leading Republican Minority members, including John McCain (R-AZ), James Inhofe (R-OK) and Cruz. Hagel's refusal to disclose and Chairman Levin's hold on a confirmation vote for Hagel may reflect more than just his poor presentation at his nomination hearing.
In late January, Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reported several pro-Iranian and anti-Israel progressive groups that Plowshares Fund financed; Hagel was a board member. Kredo wrote:
Hagel sits on the board of Ploughshares Fund, a progressive foundation that has granted more than $2 million to organizations that employ some of Hagel's most outspoken advocates, who favor lifting sanctions on Iran, oppose military action against its nuclear program, and hope to weaken the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Organizations that have received donations from Ploughshares include the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the Center for American Progress (CAP), J Street, the National Security Network (NSN), and the Truman National Security Project, among others.
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NIAC, an advocacy group long suspected of concealing its illicit ties to the Iranian regime, has emerged as perhaps the most vocal defender of Hagel's nomination as it pertains to Iran.
The group has received more than $600,000 in grants from Ploughshares since 2007.
"Hagel's prospective nomination should never have been controversial in the first place," NIAC President Trita Parsi recently wrote in the Huffington Post. "Hagel is a highly respected military mind who served both in the military and in the Senate with dignity and courage."
This halt in Hagel's nomination process reflects the arrogance of the Obama West Wing who just might be frustrated a second time in seeking a Senate vote on confirmation of Hagel to run The Pentagon. Let us not forget what happened to US UN Ambassador Susan Rice who unwisely spun the early Administration line about the anti-Islam film triggering the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi on Sunday Morning news programs in October 2012. She and her West Wing minders had no alternative but to have her graciously withdraw her name from nomination. Next up tomorrow is John Brennan who is now caught up revelations about drone wars against American Jihadi terrorists.
Note the role the Cruz letter played in halting Hagel's nomination in this Fox News Report:
A letter to Hagel from 23 Republican senators, obtained by Fox News, expresses concern about fees Hagel may have collected for speaking engagements from various groups. The senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Cornyn, argue Hagel did not disclose to the panel which "entities" he has dealt with.
"Your refusal to respond to this reasonable request suggests either a lack of respect for the Senate's responsibility to advise and consent or that you are for some reason unwilling to allow this financial disclosure to come to light," the letter reads.
The Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said in a written statement Wednesday that he had hoped to hold a vote when the committee met on Thursday for a separate hearing on the deadly attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
But Levin said the committee's review of President Obama's nomination has not been completed. He said he would schedule a vote as soon as possible.
May we suggest that Hagel's nomination vote may never be scheduled? Further, among those embarrassed by that possibility would be New York Senator Charles Schumer who gave Hagel his support after the latter allegedly answered his questions satisfactorily. He took his cue from the positions of major American Jewish groups. Mort Klein, President of the National ZoA ,and Irwin Hochberg, Vice Chairman, in a recent Jerusalem Post op ed commented:
Yet, following Hagel's nomination, virtually all Jewish groups except the Zionist Organization of America refused to oppose Hagel. Even the Orthodox Jewish groups, like the Orthodox Union, were silent.
Powerful Jewish lobby? It looks more like neutered cats, unwilling to face up to pressure from the Obama White House. A White House bound and determined to hollow out our military imperiling our national security and that of our only democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel.
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It seems to me that the Jewish people are hiding and assimilating too much. They don't want to offend murderers??? Why would they want to be included in these groups of immoral morons?


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A quick search on the internet revealed a good dozen of spa packages being offered by various hotels and resorts. We found one offered by Oxford Hotel and thought it would be a nice weekend away for us from home. The Spa Package included a 3 course dinner, Vitamin Glow Facial, Aromatherapy massage and 2 night stay. This was perfect for my other half and I.
The room was small and cosy, with an attached bathroom with shower and bath tub. The basic amenities – shampoo, shower gel and body lotion were provided in the bathroom. I needed a disposable shaver and room services quickly provided me with one when requested. There was a hair dryer and trouser press provided too. There is no fridge in the room so if you want chilled drinks, you have to go to their bar at the reception to get it. Unlike some hotels around UK, the temperature can be adjusted to your own liking. The room was really cold when we first entered and the thermostat did well to warm up the room.
I felt that the 3 course dinner met expectations. There was a good variety of choices available. Of particular note was the chicken Roulade and the Guinea Fowl which was really good. The preparation was very complicated and the presentation impressed us. Initially we read many online reviews warning us about the portions, which we prepared ourselves for. However at the end of the dinner, my other half and I agreed that we were fully stuffed contrary to what was described. My guess is that the menu was updated as of January 2014, which probably had bigger portions. One of the comments I have on the dinner is that the menu showed an extensive selection but a few of the options required an add on. For example, the steak required an addition of £6.95 which basically meant that we had to pay extra on top of the dinner which was already included in the package. This was a little annoying as that meant we had to fork out more money. Another comment I have is that they could be a little understaffed as I felt that not enough attention was paid and at times we could not find any waiter for additional requests like water or anything else. When one of the waiters was serving us, his phone rang and it turned out that he was the duty room service personnel. That meant that he was juggling as both a waiter and a room service personnel. Breakfast is served in the same restaurant in the morning. There is a decent variety of continental food – cheese, bread, ham, mushrooms, scrambled and fried eggs, sausages, black pudding, oats, cereal and fruit. One of the things which ran out really quickly was the ham which we left us a little disappointed because the kitchen runs out of it and as a result the ham platter is not topped up.
We had full access to the facilities, however some of them required booking in advanced. The gym and the pool were available but the pool was a little small. Had there been a good 5-6 persons it would have already looked crowded. The squash courts also need to be booked in advanced as many non-hotel guests had already booked it for their own use. The facilities are not exclusive to just hotel guests.
This hotel is not to be mistaken with the Royal Oxford Hotel which is in the city centre. The Oxford Hotel is at Godstow road which is about 10min away by taxi from the Oxford train station, or about 15-20min away from the city centre by bus. Bus number 6 takes you to the city centre at the cost of £2 per person single trip, or £3.20 return trip. The bus comes at 15min intervals on weekdays and 30min intervals on Sundays.
One of the improvements we thought could have been made is the spa treatments. Although we had booked the hotel package 2 months in advanced, there were already limited timeslots for the spa treatment for the period we were going to be there for. The only timeslots given were in fact not within the period we were staying there for. After emailing the manager, we could settle for the only evening time slot which was available once we arrived there. The booking of spa treatments should be reserved for guests who have booked spa packages as part of the hotel stay. Imagine paying for a spa package only to be turned away by the reservation hotline that the spa timeslots are all full. I'm not sure how the rest of the guests who paid spa packages after I had would have made spa treatment reservations. When we arrived at the hotel, we were told that there was a mistake for our reservation for the spa. We had both the vitamin glow facial and aromatherapy message booked, but apparently what was booked in their system was my other half doing the aromatherapy and myself the facial, which was not what I had booked. In the package offer, both the massage and facial was part of the package and not for us to choose between the 2. As we only had one hour booked, we both did the massage and had to find another timeslot for the facial. In the end, the only timeslot left was after we had to check out, which spoilt the experience a little as we expected to be able to do everything within the time frame we were at the hotel.
Another improvement, although minor is the newspapers that were offered at the reception during check in. During check in we were asked if we wanted newspapers. We were given a selection to choose from and we chose what we wanted. On the day of check out, we received an invoice from under the door charging us for the newspapers! I approached the reception and only then did I know that the newspapers were chargeable. If I had known this, I wouldn't even have requested for the papers. I feel that all costs should be made clear to the customer instead of receiving a rude shock for a bill that we are not aware of. The cost for 2 newspapers is not high, so I paid for it when we left. If it was something that was more expensive, then I would certainly have been shocked on being charged for something I didn't ask for.
An overall good stay but its policy needs some fine tuning to improve certain services and standards of what other similar hotels are providing. Other than that we had a good stay.
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March 1999
NBER Working Paper No. w7017
We use the limited participation model of money as a laboratory for studying the operating characteristics of Taylor rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad outcomes such as the burst of inflation observed in the 1970s. Based on our analysis, we argue for a rule which: (i) raises the nominal interest rate more than one-for-one with a rise in inflation; and (ii) does not change the interest rate in response to a change in output relative to trend.
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Provides a brief account of the relationship of Whitman to "ardent feminist socialist" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, exploring the question of why this "arch feminist" celebrated Whitman's poetry with such enthusiasm and "what connection there could have been between her philosophy and Whitman's."
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TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) - Tiger Woods has missed the cut in a major for only the second time in his professional career.
Woods made two double bogeys on the way to a 4-over 74 Friday and won't be playing the weekend at the British Open, missing the cut by one stroke.
That's happened only one other time since he turned pro - at the 2006 U.S. Open shortly after the death of his beloved father, Earl.
Woods tried to rally, making birdies on two of the last three holes, but a chip from the back of the green at no. 18 came up short and he settled for par.
The top 70, plus ties, make it to the final two rounds. Woods was at 5-over 145, one over the cut line.
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text: A Glaring Absence acumen October 3, 2008 Acumen Families with relatives in the armed forces face difficulties in all areas of their lives By Cassie Dugan <email@example.com> Many times, the war in Iraq seems so distant from Carmel that it is often written off as just another issue for the media to scrutinize. However, for senior Curtis Pittman, the war is a constant reminder of who he doesn't have at home, his older brother and his uncle, who are in the armed forces. Curtis has been a part of a family with military participants most of his life. "My brother has always been into the military kind of thing, and my uncle started when I was littler," Curtis said. Curtis's uncle, Chad Pittman, is currently serving in his second deployment to Iraq since becoming a member of the Indiana National Guard, while Tyler Pittman, Curtis's older brother, is serving in his first. This situation has become tough on the Pittman family because Mr. Pittman's wife, Cristi Pittman, is acting as a single mother to their three children and is currently pregnant with their fourth, expected this fall. "Chad left the military before we met because he felt like there wasn't a future in it since they were downsizing," Mrs. Pittman said, "Then 9/11 happened, and he felt like it was his duty to do something." After Mr. and Mrs. Pittman had their second child, the couple had trouble getting pregnant again. "We adopted Jack, our third child, from Russia and actually received him Thanksgiving day. Chad left for training in December," Mrs. Pittman said, "But then (Chad) got leave – and I got pregnant. While ways of communication such as video chat and e-mail are available for the military to keep in touch with their loved ones, access to these luxuries can at most times be restricted. "Every once in a while (the kids) will be down or something and you'll ask them why and they'll say 'I miss my dad' and start crying," Curtis said. Mrs. Pittman said that there was one point in her husband's first deployment where they didn't talk for a full six weeks. She added that he has made a huge effort during the second deployment to stay in contact. However, she said she finds the fact that the kids are at a younger age to be better in the given situation. As far as security, it's safe to say any family would be concerned about a relative overseas, and the Pittman family is no different. Both Curtis and Mrs. Pittman said that they try not to dwell on it too much, even though Mr. Pittman's position puts him in the field. "Right now they're doing convoy security so he's out in a humvee. Basically they are searching for snipers and ambushes and that kind of thing so there have been some close calls." The two Pittman families are close both emotionally and physically; Mr. and Mrs. Chad Pittman live in Noblesville. However, Curtis said that this has not taken a toll on him academically. According to Curtis's counselor Rebecca "Becky" Stuelpe, this seems fairly normal considering he is the speaker of the House. "I think that the fact Curtis is speaker of the House shows that he has confidence and leadership skills. I think those qualities probably help him cope with a more positive outlook." But Curtis cited another approach. "I cope by my trust in God and everything is in God's plan – but I don't think it has anything to do with my position in school," he said. The families use their Christian faith in order to provide comfort about their relatives overseas. "With prayer I think it makes it a lot easier to deal with (Chad's) deployment," Mrs. Pittman said. She also added the fact that they are a religious family with a firm faith allows them to cope more easily. Around Thanksgiving is when both Mr. Pittman and Tyler are expected to arrive back home. Incidentally, Nov. 25 is when Mrs. Pittman is due to give birth. The timing will be very close, and she said she hopes he is home in time for the delivery of their fourth child together. Looking into the future, Mr. Pittman's chances of being redeployed are minimal. He may get called back to duty if the situation is dire, but other than that, his family is expecting him home for good. "I think that he'll fit in pretty seamlessly when he comes home," Mrs. Pittman said, "The kids are really excited for him to come home, and I'm assuming they'll just start up where they left off. But Jack doesn't really have a relationship with (Chad) because we had him for two weeks and then Chad left. That will be the relationship we have to build up – basically starting from scratch." Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Disclaimer: Comments are moderated for content. We do not allow profanity or personal attacks. Please direct all inquiries to email@example.com. Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website CAPTCHA Code*


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