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If I were to pick up a teen's iPod right now, what would I find on it? Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble"? Perhaps One Direction's latest album, "Take Me Home"? It's unlikely I'd find works such as Chopin's Piano Nocturnes or Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," but they should have a place there, too.
I've been a violinist for as long as I can remember. But I didn't truly fall in love with classical music until the day I walked into my orchestra's rehearsal room. I was 13 when I joined the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and became a classical music geek. From then on, I was hooked.
When not rehearsing, my fellow musicians and I hold geeky conversations about our love for the genre. Even outside of orchestra rehearsals, I frequently find myself searching for the quartet piece my friend has just fallen in love with or downloading another album of Beethoven's symphonies onto my iPod.
When I listen to classical music, my mood instantly shifts. If I'm grumpy, Elgar's "Salut d'Amour" can bring a smile to my face. I might be wide awake one minute, then the slow movement of the Bach Double Violin Concerto lulls me to sleep.
Don't get me wrong: I don't disapprove of today's pop music, but I've also discovered that classical music increases my homework efficiency. If my mind refuses to process the next section of my history textbook, the first five notes of a Bach partita can suddenly reopen my brain to my lessons. If I experience writer's block in the middle of an essay, one of Mozart's concertos brings a fresh onslaught of ideas. Instead of working through math at the rate of one lesson an hour, I can get through one and a half, or even two lessons an hour with the help of a Paganini caprice. Research shows that classical music can temporarily increase one's IQ, which explains why it helps me study.
Often, I wonder what really attracts me to classical music. I love its rich tapestry. Every time I listen to a piece, I discover another small ornament or color that I've never noticed before.
No matter which period -- Baroque, Classical, Romantic or contemporary -- every work contains a story, woven into layer upon layer of notes, all blending together in perfect harmony.
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Next time you're on YouTube or downloading music, check out these tunes:
1. Cello Suite No. 1 in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach
2. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. "Rosamunde Quartet" by Franz Schubert
4. "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin
5. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 by Peter Tchaikovsky


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Sony says PS4 sales surge past record 10 million markWednesday 13 August 2014 07.49
Sony said today that global sales of its PlayStation 4 console have surged past the 10 million mark in less than a year, a record for the Japanese electronics giant.
The console, released in November last year, has been a bright spot for the struggling firm which earlier this year launched a sweeping restructuring in an attempt to claw back to profitability.
The release of the PS4 in the US and other markets has helped to improve Sony's fortunes after a disappointing response to the console's predecessor, the PS3.
By comparison, Nintendo's Wii U, launched in late 2012, took more than a year to sell 5.86 million units.
The PS4 is locked in a battle for dominance of the digital home entertainment market with Microsoft's Xbox One and the Wii U at a time when consoles are under intense pressure to prove their worth in a world where many now play downloadable games on smartphones and tablets.
Last month, Sony posted a profit in the first quarter, attributing it largely to strong demand for the PS4 and a sharp decline in the value of the yen.
Sony's gaming division has emerged as a potential saviour for the company, which is struggling to reinvent itself in the digital age, having been left in the dust by rivals including South Korea's Samsung.

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KCPD pursues robbery suspects into Cass County
Suspects taken into custody in field
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Kansas City, Mo., police pursued robbery suspects into Cass County on Friday morning.
A robbery was reported in the 8300 block of Wornall Road about 10:30 a.m.
The white Nissan Altima, with four people inside, fled officers on southbound U.S. 49.
The suspects jumped out of the car near Route YY and Missouri C Highway.
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Randy McGuffee is responsible for developing community relations strategies that strengthen the organizational presence of UNT Health Science Center within the community. He also oversees Alumni Relations, Corporate and External Relations, Institutional Events, Outreach & Volunteer Services and the community advisory boards.
McGuffee is a licensed attorney who spent 12 years as corporate counsel to a number of successful businesses in his home town of Fort Worth. He's also involved in public service, as well as political and community organizations such as the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, TECH Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Rotary Club.
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Will Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. feature unused heroes?
Kevin Feige agrees that S.H.I.E.L.D. could become an "outlet" for some of Marvel's unused heroes...
Something creator Joss Whedon has been very clear about when it comes to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (still not officially confirmed as going to series though everyone and their dog talks as if it has been) is that it's to be the story of the little guy, not the superpowered hero.
The story of the little guy has been told well in the Whedonverse, reaching its apogee perhaps in Buffy's sixth season, when a life-long friendship and a yellow crayon anecdote proved mightier than slayer power when it came to taking down the bad guy.
When Marvel boss Kevin Feige was asked if the new show could function as something of a testing ground for heroes as-yet unused in Marvel's big-screen adventures then, he equivocated a little, but replied in the postitive:
"If that works the way everyone expects it to work I think that would open up another avenue, another outlet for some of those characters. Maybe they guest star, I don't know. I think they're avoiding the cameo of the week on that show, which is very smart."
That's a definite maybe from Feige. A vaguer we'll-believe-it-when-we-see-it response came from Robert Downey Jr this week, when asked if he would consider appearing on the ABC show: "You know what? There's no telling. I am open to everything." Er, just how big is Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. budget exactly?
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Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 17(a). Real Party in Interest.
Every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest. An executor, administrator, personal representative, guardian, conservator, bailee, trustee of an express trust, a party with whom or in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another, or a party authorized by statute may sue in this capacity without joining the party for whose benefit the action is brought; and when a statute of the state of Idaho so provides, an action for the use or benefit of another shall be brought in the name of the state of Idaho. No action shall be dismissed on the ground that it is not prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest until a reasonable time has been allowed after objection for ratification of commencement of the action by, or joinder or substitution of, the real party in interest; and such ratification, joinder, or substitution shall have the same effect as if the action had been commenced in the name of the real party in interest.
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Glen Allen Resident to Sing National Anthem at Nationwide Race
When thousands of fans stand for the national anthem tonight prior to the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway, all eyes will be on a Glen Allen resident fulfilling a lifetime dream of singing at a NASCAR race.
Twenty-two year-old Ryan Corbin of Glen Allen entered Richmond International Raceway's National Anthem contest last month and ultimately won the opportunity to perform prior to the race.
"I'm so excited," said Corbin. "Four months ago I was in the stands hoping I could sing at a race one day. And four months later I'm doing it. It's the chance of a lifetime and I've wanted to do it since I was five years old. I'm just overwhelmed with joy right now."
In August, the track hosted a month-long contest to determine who would perform the National Anthem prior to the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Nearly a hundred submissions were received via e-mail, mail and through an open audition at Short Pump Mall. The second and final rounds were showcased at the mall and Corbin bested eight other finalists for the opportunity to perform.
Corbin is a huge NASCAR fan and was introduced to motorsports by his father. Following his first race, he was instantly hooked.
"Racing at Richmond is exciting in so many ways," said Corbin. "Forty-three cars on a short track at night, running side-by-side, watching them beat and bang for every lap! Now that's exciting, and the reason Richmond racing is so special. When you walk to your seat you can feel the vibrations as the cars go around and you can see drivers up close! It's just an all around amazing place!
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The Children's Clothing Closet at Highland Springs United Methodist Church will be open Saturday, Aug. 27 and Tuesday, Aug. 30 to provide free new or nearly new children's clothing for families in need, prior to the start of the school year. The Clothing Closet will be open from 10 a.m. to noon both days. The church is located at 22 North Holly Avenue. > Read more.
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It's a great weekend to get outside! The Pocahontas Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society is offering two events this weekend. Accompany the group to find and document native plants present and blooming in Echo Lake Park on Saturday or take a "Sunday Stroll" at Dorey Park to observe the seasonal changes taking place. Other outdoor events this weekend include the final summer concert at West Broad Village and "Fridays on the Patio" at James River Cellars Winery in Glen Allen. If you're going to be outside, don't forget the insect repellent! To learn more about avoiding those pesky mosquitos, check out Henrico County's "Fight-the-Bite TODAY" event tomorrow. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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This column deals with Internet security and steps that can be taken to improve resistance to various forms of attack, surveillance, mis-routing and improper buffer sizing. A variety of technical remedies are outlined. IPv6 is also addressed as an important feature whose adoption needs to be accelerated along with dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 capability, especially in residential settings.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU -- William Louis "Billy" Chadd, 39, died Nov. 5, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Aug. 1, 1965, on Trinidad, West Indies, son of Louis Chadd of Sikeston and the late Peggy Bennett Chadd, he was a veteran of the U.S. Army and an optical technician at Doctors Value Vision.
In addition to his father, survivors include: two brothers, Donald Chadd and Richard Chadd of Sikeston; and three sisters, Lisa Chadd and Tammy Davis of Sikeston and Kelly Scott, stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Monroe, Va.
Visitation is from 10 a.m. Tuesday until time for services at noon at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston. The Rev. Gary McAnulty, a Pentecostal minister of Milan, Tenn., will officiate.


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Love It or Leave It: Kim Kardashian Is Super Hot, The End
8/7/2014 12:15 PM PDT, by Emily Trainham
Did anyone else just want to fall down and die of sadness and confusion when Kim Kardashian went on that little tirade against her body? Because these photos right here, these gorgeous, gorgeous photos, were taken just yesterday, and you know what? Kim hasn't had a chance to lose those 20 pounds she was talking about, but she's still one of the hottest ladies ever. Y'all, check out her body. Don't be creepy about it, just get a real good look.
Now let's talk about how Kim is out of her mind if she thinks her body is anything less than bangin'.
So much hotness, you guys. So much incredible, amazing hotness.
Verdict: love it. Love it to pieces. Love it always.
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The apostle Paul instructed Timothy to "preach the word! … Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching" (2 Tim. 4:2). This instruction is in keeping with the principle reflected in the book of Acts that the proclamation of God's … Learn More
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The first major study to draw upon unknown or neglected sources, as well as original interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical Mind uniquely tells the engaging story of how evangelicalism developed as an intellectual movement in the … Learn More
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Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully
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In the sixth volume to The Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love for beauty. Examining the … Learn MoreHardcover $20.00 $16.00 Add to Cart
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The San Francisco 49ers
Posted by Chase Stuart on September 21, 2007
A few months back, Doug and I discussed the 2006 San Francisco 49ers. While the team went 7-9, the 'Niners looked like fools gold. Consider this post from June, where Doug wrote:
[T]he 2006 San Francisco 49ers had the worst point differential of any 7-9 team in history....There has, in fact, only been one 6-10 team ever to post a worse point differential. And the 49ers compiled this differential against a weak schedule. San Fran was 31st out of 32 last year according to the simple rating system.
So they were either really lucky to be 7-9, or they were a clutch team that played their best football when it counted the most. You can probably guess which way I'd lean.
Here is one more interesting stat: the 49ers were outscored 113-251 in first halves of their games last year. Again, that's a stat in which people will see what they want to see. But to my eye, it looks like the 49ers will need to improve greatly in 2007 just to finish with the same record. Fortunately for them, they do appear to have gotten better in the offseason, so it looks like that might happen.
The 49ers played a very weak schedule, yet still ranked 24th in points scored, 26th in yards gained, 28th in yards allowed and 32nd in points allowed. That's terrible, of course, but hidden by the 7-9 record. The 49ers average margin of victory was 7.4; their average margin of loss was 18.4. Basically, all that information is wrapped up in their pitiful Simple Rating System Rank of -8.7, second worst in the league (but best in the Bay area!).
Now you might wonder who cares what their simple rating system rank is, the team went 7-9. Here's my counter to that. I performed a regression analysis for each team since the merger using their SRS score as my input and their actual winning percentage as their output. It spit out a formula of:
Projected winning percentage = 0.500 + 0.28 * SRS score
So the 49ers projected winning percentage based on their SRS score was 0.256, while their actual winning percentage was 0.438. That difference of 0.182 led the league last year, and was the 27th biggest positive difference since the merger. Of the first 26 teams, 23 teams saw their winning percentage decrease the next year, one stayed the same, and two showed slight increases. Fourteen of the fifteen teams with the highest differential saw their winning percentage decrease the next season. The average change was a 0.183 reduction in winning percentage the following year.
Going the other way, of the 26 teams that "underachieved" the most -- that is, posted a strong SRS score but a relatively weak winning percentage -- 21 had a better winning percentage the following year, two stayed the same, and three saw small increases. None of the 16 most underachieving teams had a worse winning percentage the next year. The average change was a 0.213 increase in winning percentage in Year N+1.
All of that was really just a long way of saying the 49ers win-loss record looks a ton better than their peripheral statistics, and teams that fit that profile generally regress to their true rating the following year. Now the 49ers made a number of impressive moves this off-season, and that should help them improve -- but it doesn't change the base. The 49ers should improve off a terrible team that ranked 31st in the SRS rating, not improve off a team that went 7-9 last year.
Why am I writing about this now? Because the 49ers are 2-0 in 2007, but it looks more like games 17 and 18 of the 2006 season. Nothing's changed in San Francisco, where they've won both games by a combined four points against two mediocre teams. The 49ers have been out-gained by 259 yards. And they were oh so close to going 0-2, and not 2-0. If Terrence Holt knocks a loose ball out of the end zone in the final minute instead of trying to pick it up, the 49ers lose to the Cards. Only a little more "luck" was necessary to beat the Rams, as a Dante Hall muffed punt late in the game led to the winning score. Note: According to Jeff Sagarin, the Rams are the worst team in the NFL, the 49ers have played the 32nd hardest schedule in the NFL (read: easiest) and rank as the 29th best team.
Certainly it looks like the 49ers are on their way to another season of laughing in the SRS's face. So the question of the day: Do you believe in the 49ers? Do you believe in the SRS? How many more close wins and blowout losses would we need to see out of the 49ers before we can say it's not a fluke? And do they get blown out in Pittsburgh this weekend?


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This is Negative Ned reporting once again on 1UP.com. Apparently Sony has filed for a patent which will prevent its next console to play used games by using a RFID chip on the game disc that can only operate on a registered console. To me, this is the epitome of industry greed. Now this isn't necessarily the first time video game companies have tried out this used game restriction. Didn't the 3DS game, Resident Evil Revelations, prevent players to erase saved files on the game? I still need to get one, so I wouldn't know.
This war on used games can potentially bring several harmful consequences to the consumer. Firstly, say good-bye to many retailers, most notably Gamestop. Yeah, yeah, I know what you think of that company, but the principle of this practice is very monopolistic in nature by narrowing the options where a player can purchase a new title. If anyone studied economics, you may recall that a monopoly of a particular industry or niche is incredibly detrimental to the consumer through the act of price fixing. If they control an entire sector, they can sell their product for however much they want. The only beneficial alternative to counter this monopoly would be third-party online vendors like a Steam for consoles, something along those lines.
Obviously console manufacturers are pushing for a digital-only business model. Not only that, but do you technically own the game when you purchase a title online? The answer is a resounding "NO". You see, purchasing a game online only grants you a "license" or right to play the game. This can be said for physical copies currently in play as well, though. Remember the license agreement found in the instruction manual booklet? But I digress. The issue here is what is the company's policy regarding online content? Since the game is merely data, you will need to acquire a larger hard drive to hold your collection. Plus, what if your console crashed, forcing you to purchase a new one? Are you eligible to receive another copy or "license"? Now do you catch my drift by understanding this slippery slope?
This digitally-screwed model can be further substantiated by another industry rumor of the next Xbox console not having a disc drive; therefore forcing the owner to solely purchase digital content. If this is the case, there is another imminent war in the midst against retailers by castrating the middle man, leaving us consumers as collateral damage. I know I am sounding like quite the alarmist here, but this is very significant issue on the horizon regarding the future of gaming. Hopefully gamers of all creeds and genres will not support these rip-off practices and will be able to discern when they are about to get screwed in the pockets. These corporate gangsters are relentless and literally banking on your ignorance about these nickel and diming practices. In the 1980's, or 70's, ATT vowed to have every phone user in America to have at least a hundred dollar phone bill each month by the end of the century. Apparently they succeeded with the advent of cell phones, and other industries are following suit.
Take the power back, players. Crank up Rage Against the Machine. I want you boycott and subsequently eliminate this nefarious age of corporatism. The industry is not looking so well: DLC, bug-ridden releases, the dominance of franchises, etc. Do we Kickstarter.com the shit out of corporate publishers or just succumb to their greedy business playbook? The future is in your hands. Choose the right controller wisely. If all else fails, I will revel in old school gaming; rarities and all.
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We see the world in units of measurement. You're this many feet tall and this many years old, and you weigh this many pounds. But not everything can be measured in miles and pounds.
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The Red Hands came away from Newbridge with a six-point victory just three weeks ago and Harte reckons that it will go down to the wire in Croke Park.
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FLAT ROCK — The Flat Rock Playhouse is honoring veterans of the Vietnam War for their service and sacrifice by offering them and their families half-price tickets to the first week of "Miss Saigon," July 24-26.
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Arky-May Ark-May, we hardly knew ye! Also: Stinky vaginas.
One of my favorite manosphere blogs is no more. Its proprietor, worried that he might get "outed" in real life, decided to shut it down and delete everything. In deference to his desire for privacy, I will refer to him here only as Arky-May Ark-May. He will be missed.
Luckily, before the shutdown, I managed to grab one last post, a little gem titled "The Vagina, by Christopher in Oregon." Chris, a longtime friend of Arky-May, is something of an expert on this particular subject, in his own special way. As a man who is very definitely Going His Own Way, it seems clear that he's had little or no experience or contact with actual vaginas. But he seems to think about them more than perhaps anyone on earth. His thoughts are not kind thoughts.
So let's pour one out for Arky-May's lost blog, and enjoy Christopher of Oregon's ruminations:
Men spend most of their lives trying to get back into the hole they shot out of, so they need to stop for a moment and analyze it. The vagina, I mean.
Here we go.
At first glance, it's mighty ugly. Floppy lips dangling down like bat wings. The entire region pelted with ugly pubic hair. It's greasy, and the more aroused and broody she becomes, the greasier it gets.
The greasier? The greasier? You've never actually touched one, have you? Reading Christopher of Oregon on the vagina is a bit like listening to a high school student who hasn't done the reading try to bluff his way through a teacher's question on Macbeth.
Have I mentioned the smell yet? Let me tell you, it's horrifying. I have an up-scale Sushi restaurant near my home. I love Sushi, by the way. But, on the edge of the parking lot of the afore-mentioned restaurant, they dump the scraps and unsold fish into a dumpster. I walked by there the other day when it was about 85 degrees, and the smell just about knocked me over. The first thought that occurred to me was that it smelled just like every vagina I've ever known.
Chris, clearly the only vaginas you've ever known have been fish vaginas. (Do fish have vaginas? They must, right?)
Now, a skunk smells bad. A dead possum smells bad. So does a cat box. But a vagina? That goes beyond bad. And, no, it's not "musky" or "tart" as some women like to say.
It's bad. Really bad. I don't think we have single word in the English language that adequately describes the foul, rancid odor of a woman's vagina.
Also, they are full of cooties! And centipedes! And mousetraps! And LIBRARY FINES!
There is something patently WRONG with something that produces such a noxious stench that it could, as the old saying goes, knock a buzzard off a shit-wagon at fifty paces.
I'm pretty sure that even the foulest vagina in the history of the world wouldn't be able to knock a buzzard off a shit-wagon at any distance further than a couple of yards. Buzzards love shit-wagons!
I just ask you fellows to put that hairy hole in proper perspective.
Huh. I thought Harry Hole was a fictional Norwegian detective.
Ah, well. I'm off to lunch with a greatly reduced appetite.
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Posted on December 27, 2011, in creepy, disgusting women, idiocy, men who should not ever be with women ever, MGTOW, misogyny, vaginas. Bookmark the permalink. 173 Comments.
holy fuck, dkm, can you say anything in less than a million super boring words
His means of broaching this admittedly delicate subject may be disagreeable, but one can at least admit to his good intentions, both to any floozies who gave him sex, or, for that matter, to any men who, like him, have had the misfortune to encounter too many of your modern women
Thanks DKM I needed a good laugh this morning
Sweet jesus. How would DKM know the first thing about vaginas?
Apparently this man has never been on public transportation. It ain't pussy stinking the place the place up, that's for sure! Mostly it's not even women because piss is the predominant odor and we all know who it is that likes to write their names in pee. There are also subtle hints of bum, armpit, vomit and beer. Never once smelled pussy.
Hmm. Not impossible, but not a very good strategy if true. Any woman who is very proud of her vagina probably wouldn't fall for it.
Oh, it is a horrible strategy. But it would probably explain why he has never seen a non-smelly and non-greasy (i.e. normal) vagina.
Oh Meller. Chris in Oregon thinks he can smell a pussy from fifty feet. The mere knowledge of a woman in his vicinity is enough to ruin going to restaurants and he laments that he can't light a cigar to mask their fouls stench any old place he pleases.
So he isn't trying to have women make themselves more attractive to anyone. He's like you, he'd be happier in a world with no women; though he does go further than you do… he wouldn't even keep them as slaves.
DKM, using "products" in the vaginal area is more likely to cause problems than to solve them. Douches and "feminine sprays" are not necessary to be "clean and sweet", okay? I've been lucky enough not to have issues, but perhaps that's because I'm not spraying chemicals and perfumes on my vulva or up my vagina. Some women do have problems with things like yeast infections, but I hear tell those are quite uncomfortable, so I'm not sure why a woman would be such a masochist as to refuse to attend to the issue. Do you assume these hypothetical stinky women hate men so much that they will suffer with painful health problems only to foul the air and upset sensitive male tummies? Does that make any sense?
I have a fairly discerning nose, and I've never once noticed the intimate odor of another woman. Yes, some people do not smell good, but I've never narrowed the stench down to pussy. Usually, the offensive odors on my register are cheap perfumes, heavy perspiration, stale cigarettes, bad breath, cigars, hippie-store patchouli oils, or some form of bad hygiene. With the sole exception of perfume, men tend to offend more than women. Which gender, in general, spends more time and money on grooming anyway? I know I'm far on one end of the spectrum, but I easily spend over $1000 year on soaps, lotions, cosmetics, hairstyling, and (good) perfume. My husband probably spends $100. It takes me nearly an hour to shower, style my hair, put on makeup, pick out flattering clothes, and so on. It takes my husband ten minutes to go through his ritual. And, you know, even my female friends who are indifferent to looking attractive are clean. They don't smell bad. They don't cultivate untreated medical conditions of the vagina just so they can offend others.
100 bucks? That's not much. Just razors (and I have a light beard) cost me more than that. Shampoo (I like a LUSH product) isn't much, about 40 bucks a year, and conditioner another 40. I lose combs, so that's probably another 20, and about 20 for hair ties.
Call it about 200 bucks.
Not counting laundry soap.
If this site is accurate, a lot of women do douche:
I never have, and have never had a yeast infection, or any other type of vaginal infection, so, yeah, there seems to be NO GOOD REASON for the practice.
And only a douchebag would demand it of the women he knows (I really want to ask Mr. Fainting FLower up there is his MOTHER smells so bad…..but that might be mean).
Chris does realize that men have pubic hair too, right?
Well, he's a cheapskate who refuses to use conditioner, gets his hair cut sporadically, and who always looks for the lowest price on shampoo, etc. Also, those numbers are completely made up. I'm sure I spend over $1000 though. I'm nearly there with haircuts alone.
I know that I'm a mixed bag. I use the same LUSH bar for head and skin (and have used shampoo as body wash for decades), but I have a lot of hair and it's baby fine. Oops, I forgot the 60 bucks a year for shaving lotion, probably 300.
Yeah, Pecunium, probably different guys spend different amounts of money on health and beauty care, same as women. My boyfriend uses an electric trimmer to shave his beard (he's had the trimmer since he met me), gets his hair cut about 4-6 times a year (at less than $25 a pop, if I had to guess), bought a bottle of soap three years ago, a stick of deodorant in 2010, and a bottle of shampoo this year. I think I bought him a bottle of facial moisturizer four years ago. He does buy vitamin E and tea tree oil himself occasionally, however.
Anyway, yeah. I tend to date guys with pretty minimal maintenance budgets (being kind of a low-maintenance lady myownself — although, not that low, yeesh), but NAMALT, you know? (I also know guys who use scented body wash and hair product and pay for $55 shaves.) Like malcontent, I have yet to meet a woman whose lady-scent you can smell from 50 feet away.
Getting a shave is nice. I've not cut my hair since I left the Army, but when I was in, I got a haircut every three weeks.
DKM: You really, really need to stop telling women how to take care of our bodies. Because you clearly know JACK SHIT about female anatomy beyond 'my cock goes somewhere between her legs.' Seriously, STFU and go wank with your dolls. Or whatever the hell you do with them – I'm picturing Cartman's tea time thing from South Park here.
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I think my affection for trolls like DKM and NWO come from the fact that I keep funneling their views through to the wacky shit we know and love from TV. For example, everytime I read NWO's quota rants, I always picture that scene in Community where Jeff wakes Pierce up by saying "Discrimination lawsuit" and it just makes me burst out laughing
It took me entirely too long to realize that the pseudonym David used is Pig-Latin. I guess I was too distracted by the part about vaginas.
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Well, to be fair, dolls have no odor of any kind, and that's Meller's most recent basis for comparison. He is confused and disturbed by the fact that modern women do not smell like eau de porcelain, and assumes that other men must be similiarly disturbed.
(Just for the record, I'm not sure any other women are disturbed in the exact same way as Meller. Truly he is a unique and fascinating speciment, misogynist steampunkis, subphylum conservitivus.)
Men, not women. If there exists a female equivalent to Meller I have yet to encounter her.
I heard the fish smell is a sign of an infection, which a healthy vagina won't have. His words make me wonder how common those infections are. Or maybe he's just repeating what he's heard about vaginas. Men who find vaginas ugly amaze me, but so do women who are repulsed by cocks😦
Generally, when one has an infection, neither PIV nor oral sex (on the receiving end) are attractive activity. Or so has been my experience. So I doubt a little bit that there is such a problem of stinking ladies trying to jump on people (men or women)
Unless the smell he hates so much is the normal smell of a woman's vulva, in which case the problem is with him and I hope he's not straight. Or he's lying.
Men, not women. If there exists a female equivalent to Meller I have yet to encounter her.
I'm pretty sure there are women who have creepy obssessions with dolls (male ones, though), actually.
Pterygotus: I know there are women who are obsessed with male dolls — BUT I've never seen any evidence of them wanting to enslave men, and just using the dolls as a placebo until they can get their male slaveboi. That's what take's DKM to new heights of creepiness.
CassandraSays–December 28, 2011 @11:28pm
One more case where you are absolutely wrong! Dolls, unlike feminists, and unlike even regular women, have whatever scent their man chooses them to have. I go to my nearest perfumery, buy a gift for my little lady lovely, apply discreetly, and…
she has the scent that I want her to have! That was easy, wasn't it?
DKM and his doll thing just keeps getting creepier and creepier.
So basically, Meller, what you're telling us is that the dolls are a way for you to make the imaginary women in your head seem more real? Becaues it certainly seems like you're admitting, in a roundabout sort of way, that what you want doesn't actually exist, therefore the only option is to invent it.
…Most people grow out of the imaginary friend stage by puberty,
"That was easy, wasn't it?"
Yes, it was. Because she is not a person, she has no emotion, no intentions, no desire. Relationship, on the other hand, are not easy. Never have been, never will, including in whenever-is-your-prefered-date. (what is it, 50's?)
If you want easy, stick with the doll but stop blaming us for being humans with individual thoughts.
Actually, I asked a few men about it, and they said that some women they had sex with had the fishy smell and some didn't. Those who did, didn't seem to be aware of it, some thought it was normal and didn't care. I think it's bacterial vaginosis or a yeast infection…
PLEASE somebody tell me that there isn't some disease that makes one's vagina GREASY… otherwise I might not be able to sleep tonight…


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- What has the PRC been hearing from consumers about The Return Exchange and retailer exchange policies in general?
The consumers who have contacted us have expressed a concern about having their drivers license swiped. Most indicate that they were not notified at the Point of Sale (POS) that their license or other form of goverment-issued ID would be required in order to make a return or exchange.
- Which retailers use The Return Exchange?
We have only heard anecdotal reports of retailers who use The Return Exchange (TRE). Those retailers include Limited Express, Victoria's Secret, Staples, Sports Authority, and KB Toy Stores. The Return Exchange is reluctant to provide a list mostly due to concerns about competitors approaching their clients to offer a similar service and of clients being contacted by other retail-oriented businesses trying to sell new products. We would like to hear from individuals who order a copy of their activity report that note retailers listed other than the ones noted above.
- Would a gift receipt impact the record of the purchaser or gift exchanger?
According to TRE, if a person received a gift with a gift receipt and took it back, the return or exchange would show up on the return activity report of the person who returned the gift and presented their ID to do so.
- In general, what criterions are used to make a determination that a person can no longer make a return or exchange? Dollar amount of returns? Time frame in which returns are made? Both? Other?
Due to the fact that TRE is in the business of detering fraud, they were reluctant to provide details about the criteria that are used to deny a return or exchange because that information might be useful to those who want to abuse a retailer's return policy. In generalities, criteria that might cause a retailer to rescind a customer's return privilege include anything that indicates suspicious return behavior, such as returning items one at a time rather than in one visit, returning items to numerous stores of the same retailer or in more than one state. Frequency of returns is certainly a primary issue, though dollar amount and whether a receipt was presented was not clarified as a possible criterion for revoking a customer's return privilege.
- Is volume of purchases taken into account?
No. A customer's purchase habits including volume of purchases is not taken into consideration. No information from the Point of Sale is used to determine whether a person's return privilege will be revoked or not.
- How can a person be denied a return one day, and then allowed the next?
Because several criteria are used to make the decision to deny a return, it may be that a return that is denied one day, would be accepted the next or soon after.
- Once someone has been told they cannot make a return or exchange, is that privilege ever reinstated at a later date? If so, when?
If a person's return or exchange is denied, it does not mean that their return privilege is permanently revoked. This is a key point for consumers to understand since some may be reluctant to continue shopping with a specific retailer after a return is denied because they assume their return privilege has been permanently revoked. Ask the retailer for clarification about when your privilege may be reinstated if your return or exchange is denied
- If someone purchases an item that has a deodorant stain, missing button, makeup stain from other customers who tried it on at the store, does that count against their ability to make returns in the future? What about other gray area situations?
A return or exchange that is conducted based on mitigating circumstances such as an item that is damaged in the store will be added to that individual's return activity report and may be used to deny a return or exchange with that retailer at a later date. Because the criteria used to make that determination is not always clear, returns that are made because of legitimate damage rather than from "wardrobing" will be used to make a decision about whether to allow a return or exchange in the future.
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So far, you've checked and confirmed that the upstream oxygen (O2) sensor, on your Honda Accord, is being fed with plenty of voltage (10 to 12 Volts DC).
The next step, is to check and confirm that the heater element is getting ground... since without this ground, the upstream O2 sensor's heater element won't activate.
NOTE: This ground is provided internally by your Honda Accord's Fuel Injection Computer... so be careful and don't accidentally or intentionally apply 12 Volts to this wire or you'll fry the Fuel Injection Computer.
This is what you'll need to do:
Let's take a look at your test results:
CASE 1: The multimeter registered 10 to 12 Volts DC- This test result tells you that the ground circuit is OK.
Now for the final test to determine if the upstream O2 sensor's heater element is fried (internally) on your Honda Accord. Go to TEST 3.
CASE 2: The multimeter DID NOT register 10 to 12 Volts DC- Double-check that you're testing the correct oxygen sensor wire...
... if your multimeter still does not indicate the 10 to 12 Volts DC, then the most probable cause of this missing ground is an 'open' somewhere in the wire between the O2 sensor connector and your Honda Accord's Fuel Injection Computer.
Repairing the cause of this missing ground will solve the P0135 trouble code on your Honda Accord.
OK, this is the P0135 Bank 1 Sensor 1 O2 Sensor trouble code test you signed up for! In this section, you're gonna' measure the resistance of the heater element itself (that's inside the upstream O2 sensor) with your multimeter in Ohms (Ω) mode.
The internal heater element, of your Honda Accord's upstream O2 sensor, has to have a resistance between 10 to 40 Ohms. Usually, when the heater element fails, you'll see your multimeter register an infinite resistance, which it usually translates with the letters OL (Over Limit).
OK, this is what you need to do:
Let's take a look at your test results:
CASE 1: Your multimeter confirmed the indicated resistance- This confirms that the pre-catalytic converter O2 sensor's heater element on your Honda Accord is OK.
Now, since you have a P0135 lighting up your check engine light, I suggest that you erase the trouble code and road test your Honda Accord.
If the diagnostic trouble code does come back... there are several possible scenarios:
Although it's beyond the scope of this tutorial to test for the above conditions... my suggestion to you, before replacing the Fuel Injection Computer, is to try another O2 sensor first and go from there.
CASE 2: Your multimeter showed an open circuit (OL)- This confirms that the upstream (Bank 1 Sensor 1) O2 sensor's heater element is fried. Replace the upstream O2 sensor with a new one.
Replacing the oxygen sensor with a new one will solve the P0135 diagnostic trouble code that is illuminating the check engine light on your 2.2L (2.3L) Honda Accord.
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Sam has been able to self settle since birth (fingers crossed it continues...!) He gets to sleep with little or no fuss, sometimes using his dummy and sometimes not.
Trouble is, he never naps for more than 20-30 mins as he always wakes crying after the first sleep cycle and seems unable to settle himself back off again. At night he will sleep for 2, 3 or 4 hour stretches (when he was a couple of months old he'd sleep for 6-7 hour stretches, so either it's his teeth waking him up (he has 2 teeth now) or it's because we've only just started weaning and he's waking through hunger). My point is, he can settle back off in the night between sleep cycles, but not in the day.
What can I do?! It's driving me mad! I know he's tired as if he was in his pushchair, in the car, or in my arms he'd nap for an hour or more.


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Fat Burning Zone Heart Rate
I know this question has been asked a lot, maybe in different ways, just searching for answers on the internet alone ended up popping up even more questions than answers.
I do a 6 day training program for cutting and fat loss. I do my cardio (treadmill) at the end of my weight training session for 20 minutes.
I am seeing results, but my fear is either Im not doing my cardio effectively. Either I am doing cardio too hard and losing the calories that are needed for muscle gain from my weight training, or not doing it hard enough and not losing the proper about of body fat.
Using the Karvonen Formula Heart Rate Calculator, 75% of my max heart rate should fall at around 140-144 for a 37 year old, which according to what Ive seen online and charts at my gym, should be my fat burning zone in terms of heart rate.
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I achieve this heart rate extremely easily with a fast paced walk at about 4 to 4.5 mph, sustained for the entire 20 minute period (able to talk). I do work up a sweat after time, but I do not feel like my body is expending any effort. When I am actually making an effort, lets say alternating jogging at 7 mph for 7 to 8 minutes (able to talk, but with effort), and walking at 3.5 mph, my heart rate at its maximum is at around 181, and I obviously do feel like Im making an effort.
I am supposed to feel like nothing is happening for FAT LOSS when hitting my target fat burning zone, or am I just wasting my time and should do high intensity cardio? Will I lose the muscle that Im working on by doing the high intensity cardio?
I appreciate all the feedback you can give me.
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In my experience you only start to lose muscle after more than 30 minutes of cardio and if you do weight training, which is a reason for your body to hold onto muscle and get your daily protein requirements you're less likely to lose muscle. I would say if you're going to use the treadmill for your cardio hit it as hard as you can in those 20 minutes, but try to change it up as well because running isn't the best way to lose fat, especially if you're doing it after every session. Do some research and find some HIIT that suits you.
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I never focus on heart rate when I am cutting. I just go hard with HIIT and see the results I want. I think people over think it.
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You may want to check out Rusty Moore's Visual Impact Cardio for a fairly extensive treatment of the subject. The short version is this: you aren't going to lose muscle if you are training with weights and doing a reasonable calorie restriction.
Keep in mind fat loss is not always linear. In other words, you may find that you plateau for a week or two then suddenly drop a pound. It has to do with the way fat cells shrink, etc.
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John Mackey blames Jean-Paul Sartre. As a philosophy student at the University of Texas in the 1970s, the co-founder of Whole Foods Market was obliged to read the French sage's existentialist work Being and Nothingness: "It's this massive tome, this great work and it is boring, boring, boring ... One night I just threw the book down and said I'm never going to read another book in my life I don't want to read."
He decided he would not take another class he did not want to take (he signed up for 120 hours of elective courses instead, finishing with no degree) and ultimately concluded: "I'm not going to ever do anything in my life again ... that isn't speaking to my own sense of purpose."
In his Patagonia-brand fleece, purple shirt and trainers, you might easily guess that 59-year-old Mr Mackey had devoted his hippy-era sense of purpose to three and a half decades running just the natural foods store he and his girlfriend set up in Austin, Texas, after college. But he went far further. That small store was the precursor to what is now a global network, still expanding, of nearly 350 shops – cornucopian temples, stuffed with a variety of carefully sourced and lovingly displayed produce – in the US, Canada and the UK, that employ 80,000 staff. An increasing amount of his energy is also feeding into "conscious capitalism", a non-profit "movement", in Mr Mackey's words, to persuade businesses to adopt "a higher purpose" and create value for suppliers, staff and local communities, not just shareholders.
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Critics, who include some devotees of the shops, find it hard to stomach the contradiction between a voraciously acquisitive and highly profitable Nasdaq-listed retailer with annual sales of $12bn and an idealistic philosophy that insists profit should be only one of several goals of business. But Mr Mackey insists "conscious" businesses grow faster, are more efficient and outperform their less self-aware peers because they foster greater loyalty among employees, suppliers and customers. In any case, he has long made clear that contradictions are part of his, and human, nature; and in person he comes across as both a visionary and a pragmatist.
On a visit to Whole Foods' largest store, in London's Kensington, he talks about "trying to do something that helps and contributes, so that humanity and this planet can continue to evolve in a constructive way". But, in the same level Texan accent, he also grumbles, like any shopkeeper, about high rent and local business rates. He is a vegan whose shops sell meat; a strong advocate of staff welfare who opposes unionisation; and a vendor of expensive organic food whose latest venture is an outlet in recession-battered midtown Detroit. (It has lower prices, says Mr Mackey, and will fulfil Whole Foods' intention "to help heal America".) As for profits, he and co-author Raj Sisodia explain in their book Conscious Capitalism that they provide "the capital our world needs to innovate and progress – no profits, no progress".
For Mr Mackey, size is a real asset in his quest. He reacts strongly to the suggestion companies such as Whole Foods risk losing their values as they get larger: "It's not true: it's the exact opposite. People that want to believe that do so because they think big corporations are evil . . . If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted. But the fact is, it's exactly the opposite: we are more conscious as an organisation, we have a much more positive impact in the world today than we did 10 years ago."
● Born: 1953, Houston, Texas
● Education: Studied philosophy and religion at University of Texas, Austin, and Trinity University
● Career: 1978 Launches Safer Way, a natural foods market, with his then girlfriend in Austin
1980 First Whole Foods Market opens
1981 Community efforts save store from bankruptcy after devastating floods 1992 Takes Whole Foods public on Nasdaq
2006 Cuts own salary to $1 annually
2009 Co-founds Conscious Capitalism Institute, later Conscious Capitalism Inc, with Raj Sisodia
2009 Resigns as chairman of Whole Foods, continuing as CEO, then co-CEO
2013 Conscious Capitalism, by Mackey and Sisodia, is published
● Personal: Married to Deborah Morin since 1991
● Interests: "ultralight" hiking, reading, cooking, movies, basketball
At the same time, he hopes competitors seeking to mimic Whole Foods will evolve to adopt the same principles: "It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency."
Whole Foods has, however, become more complicated to run as it has grown. It is one reason it appointed veteran Walter Robb – "an amazingly talented retailer" – as co-CEO in 2010. But Mr Mackey continues to have faith in the group's decentralised structure: self-managed teams – a dozen in a big store such as Kensington – that "elect" new members by a two-thirds vote, share productivity gains and regulate behaviour within the team. The chances "something bad" will happen may have increased as the network has expanded, he says, but "it's not contagious, it doesn't infect the whole organisation. It's not like a virus gets in there and the whole company can get sick".
The devolved approach does not mean senior managers can abdicate responsibility. When a recent dispute over the rules applied to Spanish-speaking employees at the Albuquerque store in New Mexico – dealt with at local level initially – escalated, Mr Robb stepped in to announce a top-down revision of the company's language guidelines.
One of the greatest obstacles in business, Mr Mackey says, is "a lack of consciousness in the leadership group" of global problems that business could help solve. As Whole Foods has grown, so has his self-awareness: "I'm more awake today than I was seven or eight years ago."
He is also more sensitive to the risk of damaging the company by making what he calls "foolish statements". His attack on President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, published in the Wall Street Journal in 2009, angered customers who supported the policy and prompted a rash of interviews with him that he judged unsympathetic. The experience made him wary of both adulation and abuse. "When the stock price is up," he says, "people do tend to think that I have a certain visionary flair ...but when the stock goes down I degenerate to [being seen as] the village idiot."
For now, he is "having a blast". But the lesson of the Sartre incident is that he may at some point "follow his heart". His apparent weariness about occasionally rough treatment in the media and his enthusiasm for conscious capitalism suggest this time it will lead him away from the company and towards the movement.
It would be a wrench. Mr Mackey often describes himself as the father of Whole Foods. In his case, the metaphor may be more than a founder's cliché. He admits that not having had children of his own is his only regret in life. Also, after Mr Mackey turned 40 in 1993, the Texan obliged his own father – his business mentor – to resign from Whole Foods' board. "He was very hurt. He felt rejected," he says now. "It was kind of the last thing my father was doing in the world that was really making a valuable contribution."
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Could Mr Mackey's "child" also ultimately reject its parent? "It could happen," he says. "It's more likely I would make that decision than the board would, because the company's doing so well financially and I don't take any compensation [since 2006, he has been paid a symbolic $1 annual salary]. You don't want to have an angry founder ... But it's not unlikely [that] sometime in the next decade I will feel that it's time for me to move on."
Speaking about his father, Mr Mackey says: "One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer." His clear desire to use the success of Whole Foods as a platform to change capitalism suggests he is fiercely determined never to succumb to the same fate.
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- Richie Hogan sums up his delight as Kilkenny reach another league final.
- Galway midfielder Joe Cooney felt his side never drove on from a positive start against Kilkenny in the semi-final.
- Brian Carthy on Kilkenny's comfortable victory.
- The Kilkenny selector praised the team's second half performance against Galway despite playing against the wind.
Holders Kilkenny are through to a third successive Allianz National Hurling League Division 1 final.
The League and All-Ireland champions saw off Galway 1-24 to 1-17 in Sunday's second semi-final at Semple Stadium.
14,210 spectators watched the Cats set up a final showdown with Tipperary on 5 May, despite manager Brian Cody's absence from the touchline following heart surgery.
Eoin Larkin hit 0-10 for the winners, including nine points from placed balls.
Joe Canning was Galway's leading scorer with 0-08 but the Portumna star failed to score from play.
At half-time, Kilkenny led by 0-15 to 1-6, having fought back from a sluggish start.
Cyril Donnellan's fourth minute goal handed the Tribesmen a 1-1 to 0-0 lead in a repeat of last year's All-Ireland final but the Noresiders proved too hot to handle.
And they killed the game stone dead in the 46th minute when Colin Fennelly pounced from close range for Kilkenny's goal.
The game was overshadowed, however, by a serious injury sustained by Galway captain Fergal Moore.
The Turloughmore defender was involved in a sickening tenth-minute collision with Kilkenny's Walter Walsh – and stretchered off the pitch.
A semi-conscious Moore was reportedly transferred to hospital in Clonmel, where he is understood to be suffering from concussion.
Walsh was also forced off with a blood injury following the clash but later returned, before being substituted in the second half.
Kilkenny's win, meanwhile, sets up a repeat of the 2009 League decider against Tipperary.
That fixture was played at Semple Stadium but this latest collision between two of hurling's heavyweights has been confirmed for Nowlan Park in a fortnight's time.
Kilkenny produced their best form of the campaign just when they needed it most to overturn their early-season defeat at the hands of Anthony Cunningham's Galway.
And they had stars all over the pitch – as Richie Hogan chipped in with five points from play.
Lester Ryan, one of the real finds of this League campaign, bagged three points from midfield and his partnership with Michael Rice at centre field was the platform for this comfortable win.
Galway were disappointing but Donnellan, Aidan Harte and goalkeeper Colm Callanan deserve honourable mentions for their endeavours.
Callanan pulled off two brilliant saves to deny Richie Power – one in each half.
KILKENNY: E Murphy; P Murphy, JJ Delaney, JJ Tyrrell; T Walsh, V Hogan, K Joyce, L Ryan (0-03), M Rice (0-02); W Walsh, R Power (0-01), E Larkin (0-10, 0-06f, 0-03 65s); C Fennelly (1-00), R Hogan (0-05), A Fogarty (0-02).
Subs: M Ruth for W Walsh (55), C Buckley (0-01) for Fennelly (62).
GALWAY: C Callanan; F Moore, K Hynes, N Donoghue; J Coen, D Collins, A Harte (0-02); I Tannian, J Cooney (0-01); C Donnellan (1-03), C Cooney, D Burke (0-01f); D Glennon, J Canning (0-08, 0-06f, 0-02 65s), D Hayes (0-01).
Subs: A Smith (0-01) for Moore (inj, 15), P Killeen for Donoghue (26), J Glynn for C Cooney (46), J Regan for Hayes (57).
Referee: D Kirwan (Cork).
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