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Does anyone else get annoyed when the married moms out there complain about their husbands and have the nerve to call themselves single mothers? I feel like being a single mother is more than changing every diaper and doing every feeding. To me a single mother is being the only one to answer his cries, to rock him when he wakes up in the middle of the night, to take off work to take him to the doctor, to buy everything he needs, to pay for daycare, drop him off and pick him up from daycare, to dress him, to bathe him, to make sure there is a roof over his head and a bed to lie in. I just get so sick of these women comparing themselves to single mothers, and they really have NO CLUE!! I have this woman on my birth board that I want to strangle! Seriously! It is sooo irritating because she is complaining she can't get a quiet nap in or go out with her girlfriends ever, and I am sitting here like, WTF? I just don't get it. Tell me I am not the only one annoyed by these inconsiderate women putting themselves in our category.
Just wanted to see if I was alone with this
Loving my beautiful son, and trying not to go insane all at the same time...
I HATE it!! It drives me insane when I go on the birth board for my DD and married, SAHMs are complaing about how they don't get a break!! Cry me a river!! You get a break!! You get to stay home everyday, and don't have to worry about working a full time job, paying bills, AND raising children.
Alot of women don't realize how good they have it. I got into a debate with the SAHMs on my birth board. They were complaining about how hard it is. I gave them a day in my life. I let them know how I get up at 5 am every morning, get two children ready for school, spend 1 1/2 hours in the car to drop both children off and get to work, work 8 1/2 hours, spend another 1 1/2 hours in the car, get home, help my son with home, make dinner, feed my infant, get her things ready for the next day, bathe her, put her to bed, and clean up. this doesn't include days I have to run errands. Sometimes I wish they could walk a day in the shoes of a single mom so they could realize how good they have it!!
Imagine, for one second, doing the job of 2 people, by yourself!! Of course none of them understood, and continuing on complaining about how hard they have it!!
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Well the lady on my birth board is saying that she basically is a single mother and has a grown baby (her dh) to take care of as well. I told her to get a grip!
Loving my beautiful son, and trying not to go insane all at the same time...
LOL!!! I love when they say they are "basically" single moms!! LOL!! One mom even posted on the single mom thread on my birth board saying that she is "basically" a single mom becasue her DH never helps out and she never gets a break... Give ME a break!! Lol
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Oh yeah, I hear you loud and clear!
I listen to my sister complain that her husband doesn't do anything to help out, yet, every single Thursday night when we are bowling - where are her children??? When she's working late - where are her children?
Where is MY child when I'm working late? Here with me. Where is my child when I'm on my "night out" bowling? There with me.
Sometimes they really just don't understand how hurtful their complaints can be to someone actually living that reality. To them, it's just a 'nightmare'.
Even when Bryant was around, he wasn't any help. He didn't wake up in the middle of the night, he didn't prep the daycare bag, he didn't make dinners, he didn't mix the formula.... He was just a body living in my house. But even still... when he was gone, I really felt the harsh reality of what it means to actually be a SINGLE parent. To have to be both man & woman. To have to be masculine and feminine all at once. To be the strong one at all times.
Gage's Mom - I started a thread a while back about this same type of a thing, only involving daycare issues. I had SAHM's telling me that I was having someone else raise my child! I argued that I didn't have a choice - it was either work and provide a roof over our heads or live on the streets and they didn't have much to say other than "someone else is raising your child so you can work" and I was hot under the collar. Eventually, I learned I have to just turn a deaf ear to these people, because they really don't know what it's like to be in our shoes, and be both parents all in one. And for most of them, they never will and their judgement will always be clouded.
If life gives you lemons you should make lemonade, & try to find someone whose life has given them vodka & have a party!!
Well, I might be the only slightly different one. Coming out of a marriage to becoming a single mother, I find them both hard. Just because they have husbands does not make it automatically easier than us. They may be going through mental or physical abuse or even worst. We really don't know exactly what's going on. Each person's battle is their own. It's hard being a single mother and a lot of married women and sahm's do have it better. But a lot of times when you think you have it bad you don't realize it could be worst unless you are in those shoes. Technically though, your not a single mother until you're a single mother.
Yeah, well, it isn't that I was saying they have it easier, I just don't like the fact that they call themselves "basically" single mothers because basically they are not. And this one in particular that I am discussing isn't being abused, she is griping about not being able to go out with her friends and just sitting at home at nights watching TV with her husband and child, because she wants a night out. When I told her to get a babysitter if he wouldn't watch their child, she then complained that she can't go because he gets jealous. Well, I am assuming that she knew this about him when she married him, and married him anyways and is throwing around talking about a divorce.
Loving my beautiful son, and trying not to go insane all at the same time...
Yeah, well I guess that's another story. I guess we all made some not so smart decisions at one point. I can't say that her problem is not serious because of the jealous part. If my DH was jealous, I could still go out. He would just pout for a while or get mad and move on. I wonder why she feels she can't go out period. I'm either reading into it too hard or there's an underlying issue. If it's not more serious than it seems, she just doesn't know how worse it could be because she has not been there. It's like the break up we had in junior high where we thought it was the end of the world.
I can't defend those ladies either. Most of them are not in abusive relationships--it's just statistically unlikely that they are. If they are, then men are just generally abusive, something I can't really get behind. I take their posts as exactly what they sound like: whiney complaints.
It pisses me off, too, to hear about these so-called single moms, even the ones with husbands in the military. Most of them are SAHM's which means even though the dude ain't there, the paycheck is! I've chosen to ignore their whines. They just don't get it.
I would much rather be a SAHM that still has to do everything even if my DH didn't help out. At least I would be the one raising my child instead of the sitter and I wouldn't have to worry about a roof over our head. Instead, I have to work to keep a roof over our head and food in his belly, and pay a sitter to get to see him more than I do! Yes, a break from my child once in a while would be great if I was home with them all of the time but it is possible to get a sitter for the day to have a day to yourself. Work is my only away time and it's not like I enjoy it. When I am home I always have my child. I feel guilty when I have to leave him with someone else yet again if I have something to do. Granted I still try to make a few hours for myself about once a month but usually it is to catch up on sleep and not to go out!
Some of them have hubbies who are lazy, or are not as inclined to help (as well all know some men have tough times multi-tasking) and they spout that ridiculous rhetoric.
However I have to agree. I don't think that being a SP is harder than a SAHM. I imagine my life now and I can't help but think all of this would be more complicated w/ a man involved. To have to clean up after him (as if I'd really do that, lol) and DD, cook for an extra person, share my time w/ yet another individual. Whew, I got tired just thinking about it. lol


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Skip to comments.Challengers to Clovis-age impact theory missed key protocols, new study finds
Posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from seven U.S. institutions says a disregard of three critical protocols, including sorting samples by size, explains why a group challenging the theory of a North American meteor-impact event some 12,900 years ago failed to find iron- and silica-rich magnetic particles in the sites they investigated.
Not separating samples of the materials into like-sized groupings made for an avoidable layer of difficulty, said co-author Edward K. Vogel, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.
The new independent analysis -- published this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -- did, in fact, isolate large quantities of the "microspherules" at the involved sites where the challengers previously reported none. Lead author Malcolm A. LeCompte, an astrophysicist at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, said the findings support the climate-altering cosmic impact, but his team stopped short of declaring this as proof of the event.
The Clovis-age cosmic-impact theory was proposed in 2007 by a 26-member team led by Richard B. Firestone. That team included University of Oregon archaeologists Douglas J. Kennett and Jon M. Erlandson. While other groups have found corroborating evidence of a potential cosmic event, other groups reported difficulties doing so. One group, led by Todd A Surovell of the University of Wyoming, did not find any microspherule evidence at five of seven sites they tested, including two previously studied locations where Firestone reported large numbers of microspherules.
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Topper site in middle of comet controversy by Peggy Binette -- Albert Goodyear, an archaeologist in USC's College of Arts and Sciences, is a co-author on the study that upholds a 2007 PNAS study by Richard Firestone, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Firestone found concentrations of spherules (micro-sized balls) of metals and nano-sized diamonds in a layer of sediment dating 12,900 years ago at 10 of 12 archaeological sites that his team examined. The mix of particles is thought to be the result of an extraterrestrial object, such as a comet or meteorite, exploding in the earth's atmosphere. Among the sites examined was USC's Topper, one of the most pristine U.S. sites for research on Clovis, one of the earliest ancient peoples.
Those bastards in the MSM will never cover this.
This scanning electron microscope image shows a magnetic impact spherule likely to have been created by an asteroid or comet impact 12,900 years ago, researchers say. CREDIT: Israde et al. (2012)
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The debate is over! :') Seriously, the debunkers have been exposed as either grossly incompetent or prevaricators -- either way, they can't be trusted as researchers.
A thought ~ where did all the Aztec gold come from?
The Spanish found plenty of silver but little gold ~ except that which had already been acquired by the Indians. Which Indians is also a good question.
As DeSoto moved North from the Gulf of Mexico he asked the Indians where to find gold. They'd point further North.
Just so happens that was the correct and only answer ~
Is it Clovis NM? That's near Roswell, isn't it?
The comet or meteor seems to have destroyed most of them ~
you want to see some really nice Clovis points visit almost any of these traveling gun shows. There are always a few dealers around who scatter Clovis points among the pistols they have for sale.
I found one guy who had no idea what they were worth but just the day before I"d been reading the collectors catalog for arrowheads and spear points and this guy had several point lying about worth well over $10,000 each. He'd been unaware they had value but he could see how they could attract thieves at these shows.
Where are the diamonds? I want diamonds.
The mammoths liked to feed in the periglacial areas. By being right up against the glaciers the were shielded from the north winds, and the face of the glacier reflected sunlight back into the ground. The area near the glacier was much warmer than the surrounding tundra. It was well watered with melt water, and the soil was rich in minerals from the glacial till, and as loose as a well tended garden. Plants that are now exclusively tropical were better adapted to cold and variable day length.
Soooo, a mammoth feeds in the richest local environment, right up next to the glacier, and suddenly there's an avalanche instantly pounding the mammoth into the dirt and packing it in ice...
Thanks for this thread.
It's cold everywhere. At least in the summer with the sun reflecting off the ice and the north wind blocked it's a bit like a natural greenhouse near the edge.
What is the concentration of large Herbivores near Glacial Mastiffs, I am going to bed.
I haven't read anything anywhere that remotely supports your points. Are you stating facts backed up by non cited sources or are you stating opinions?
I'm stating an opinion of mine, based on what I think might have happened. Please read nothing more into it than a layman's hypothesis.
Perhaps it's even true, I'd love for someone actually skilled in the art to see if it is plausible and can be tested.
It would certainly explain why one mammoth was found with a mouth full of marigolds and a broken back!
Has anyone encountered additional studies on the "black mat" that Firestone's group wrote about?
Thank you. I don't know how much you've read concerning the most recent extinction event(End Pleistocene) but there are any number of explanations for many of the anomalies relating to that period. As far as I know the only mammoth/mastodon found with buttercups or whatever in their mouths and/or stomachs were in Siberia which reportedly wasn't covered with an ice sheet during the last glaciation. Fact is, evidence seems to indicate the climate was much milder then; maybe even sub-tropical. Go figger...
I am a trained anthropologist so you can trust me on this, a hairy a$$ed mammoth would like it a lot colder than a bald a$$ed mammoth would. they are going to be as far away from the equator as they can and still be able to find food.
Soooo, marigolds in the periglacial area or no?
But wait a minute; weren't the woolly mammoths suited to living in a cold climate? They are described as woolly due to their hairy coat, but this is only hair, greaseless hair. To help protect them from the cold, all of today's Arctic mammals have glands that make their hair oily to retain warmth - the mammoths had no such gland. Although thicker, a mammoth's hair is the same as that of elephants, and they live in the tropical regions. Many animals found in equatorial jungles also have thick hair, the tiger being one such example. Anyone still unconvinced could consider this - bones of tigers, rhinoceroses and antelope were found alongside the mammoths, and these are obviously not Arctic creatures.FWIW...
Now to my chores.
Dr. Walt Brown PhD still hass the best explanation for the wooly mammoth extinctions as far as I'm concerned...
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actually i agree with you, hair will trap moisture and as it evaporates it will cool, i just like to say hairy a$$ed mammoth! but this doesn't explain the hairy highlander, i dont have a gland that makes my hair oily but my peoples prefer the colder climes!
If I hand't read the headline before seeing that picture I would have sworn I was looking a colonoscopy photo of Obama after his latest round of golf.
It isn't confined to North America.
My pleasure.
When I was of schoolin' age, most of the school faculties were human. Not too sure nowadays.
Well said.
Immanuel Velikovsky to Claude F. A. Schaeffer
[snip] One of the most amazing spectacles that I have observed is this: Those very men who observed and described the great catastrophes fall back and defend the theory of uniformity with even greater jealousy than their colleagues who never wavered and never were even tempted to question the ever harmonious run of centuries. Here is the case of Professor F. Rainey, presently with the University of Pennsylvania; him I quoted on p. I of "Earth in Upheaval" and please look up: "Wide cuts, often several miles in length" are sliced by giant machines in Alaska; "This 'muck' contains enormous numbers of frozen bones of extinct animals such as the mammoth, mastodon, super-bison and horse" (Rainey). [/snip]
12,400 years ago? Hydrologic cycle came to a screeching whoa for some reason, hmm, what could it have been? And might it have been 12, 900 years ago?Evolution in Your FaceLake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!
by Patrick Huyghe
Big Rock? Whole lot of stuff happened at the end of the Last Ice Age and no one has a clue. Then there was the Maunder Minimum no one has a clue there either.
Darwin is another example, what he saw and wrote in his private journals, was left out of his The Origin of Species.
Darwin Puzzles Over the Evidence
In his book The Origin of Species Darwin wrote, "The extinction of species has been involved in the most gratuitous mystery.
No one can have marveled more than I have at the extinction of species" (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: Collier, 1962, p. 341).
Darwin was referring to his five-year cruise as amateur naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. In his notes he revealed WHY he and the paleontologists of today, "are puzzled by the record of catastrophic death found in the rocks."
"What then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera?" Darwin asked in astonishment. "The mind at first is irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals, both large and small, in Southern Patagonia, in Brazil, on the Cordillera of Peru, in North America up to Behring's [Bering's] Straits, WE MUST SHAKE THE ENTIRE FRAMEWORK OF THE GLOBE" (Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, citation under date of January 9, 1834).
What he wrote in his notes never reached the book he wrote years later. His patron Lyell, the father of Uniformitarianism, wouldn't have approved...
Think about the time it took Monte Verde in Chili to get a somewhat approval.
I don't know what section you were sending me to but chances are I've most likely read it since I have previously spent some time at the site.
"The idea that the laws that govern geologic processes have not changed during the history of the Earth were articulated by the 18th-century Scottish geologist James Hutton, who in 1785 presented his ideaslater published in two volumes as Theory of the Earth (1795)at meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In this work Hutton showed that the Earth had a long history and that this history could be interpreted in terms of processes observed at the present, of which he gave examples. He showed, for instance, how soils were formed by the weathering of rocks and how layers of sediment accumulated. He stated that there was no need of any preternatural cause to explain the geologic record. Huttons proposal challenged the concept of a biblical Earth (with a history of some 6,000 years) that was created especially to be a home for man; the effect of his ideas on the learned world can be compared only with the earlier revolution in thought brought about by Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo when they displaced the concept of a universe centred on the Earth with the concept of a solar system centred on the Sun. Both advances challenged existing thought and were fiercely resisted for many years. In the publication Principles of Geology, 3 vol. (183033), the Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell deciphered the history of the Earth employing Huttonian principles and made available a host of new geologic evidence in support of the view that physical laws were permanent and that any form of supernaturalism can be rejected. Lyells work in turn profoundly influenced Charles Darwin, who recognized Lyell as having produced a revolution in science..."
They were simply working on theories using what information was available to them at the time. Lyell followed Hutton, and Darwin needed the long spans of time to explain his theory of evolution. The catastrophists understood that the earth wasn't created six thousand years ago...what was created was the landscape, not the globe.
No one deserves to be called a liar imo. It's a matter of interpretation, and clinging to dogma. In the case of Darwin he had to close his eyes to what he saw.
The Impossible Dinosaurs - Megafauna and Attenuated Gravity
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Posted on 03/21/2008 2:01:20 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Gee Fred, then you would you prefer to believe there are no liars? I've read all I care to about Darwin and Lyell and have come to the conclusion they consistently and deliberately misrepresented and/or ignored evidence that presented itself. Not just once, but over and over; again and again. Would you prefer to label them discombobulators??? Sugar coating what to me is obvious doesn't change anything. Look at the evidence.
Fred, at least gimme a clue what you'd like me to pull from that thread. It's an oldie but a goodie I recall reading and scratching my head over at the time.
I can't call a theory a lie when that theory was arrived at through the limited evidence that was then available to the theorists.
Maybe I would understand better what you mean by lying, if you gave me an example.
Just how did Hutton, Lyell and Darwin lie? I have no argument with their achievements. They all left a body of valuable work, my argument isn't with them, it's with the geologists who haven't moved out of the 18th century.
It simply tells you that conditions were not always the same, so Uniformitarianism as per Hutton and Lyell is not a sound theory.
It also suggests that the timelines required by Darwin for the theory of evolution also has a few problems...if you are looking for answers, I don't have them. I deal in questions. Why it is so?
He can find many fans of his incredulity at the shaking of the entire globe, particularly among those who profess hatred for his work, without knowing what's really in it. :') Thanks Fred Nerks, nice excerpt!
Looks to me like you've actually answered your own question; maybe without knowing it??? See HERE.
What we have are opposing views:
Not everyone agrees on the processes at work upon our planet. The new theory of uniformitarianism currently prevails, but the ancient concept of catastrophism is still alive and kicking.
Uniformitarianism/Gradualism: A theory that says the natural processes that change the Earth in the present have operated in the past at the same gradual rate, and that geological formations and structures can be interpreted by observing present-day actions.
Catastrophism: A theory that says the geological features of the Earth were formed by a series of sudden, violent catastrophes rather than a gradual evolutionary process. Since the 1830s conventional geological theory has revolved around the concept of uniformitarianism (or gradualism) - that the processes of the Earth have always been the same as we can observe today. The originator of these ideas was Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726-1797), although it took the efforts of Charles Lyell (1797-1875) and his Principles of Geology (1830) to enable the theory to become widespread. This new gradualist viewpoint, involving time-spans of millions of years, gave rise to the modern ideas of continental drift, the ice ages and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
You can always search creationscience.com for anything specific. When I first encountered this site I simply could not stop reading and read it all straight through - and again several times now as there is more information than anyone could digest in only one reading. Also I was in a rush with my prior post - more of a ping until I had more time to return.
Here's a good summary excerpt that I'm confident is the best explanation for frozen mammoths and the global flood of Noah. [left the footnotes in 109-117 and obviously much better formatted from the original website too]
" Evidence Requiring an Explanation
Summarized below are the hard-to-explain details which any satisfactory theory for the frozen mammoths should explain.
Abundant Food. A typical wild elephant requires about 330 pounds of food per day. Therefore, vast quantities of food were needed to support the estimated 5,000,000 mammoths that lived in just a small portion of northern Siberia. Adams mammoth, discovered in 1799, was so fat ... that its belly hung below its knees.109 How was abundant food available inside the Arctic Circle, especially during winter months when the Sun rarely shines?
Warm Climate. Abundant food requires a temperate climate, much warmer than northern Siberia todayor during the Ice Age. Little of the food found in Berezovkas mouth and stomach grows near the Arctic Circle today. Furthermore, the flower fragments in its stomach show that it died during warm weather. Despite the popular misconception, the mammoth was a temperatenot an Arcticanimal.
Away From Rivers. Although most frozen remains are found along river banks where excavations naturally occur, some frozen remains are found far from rivers.
Yedomas and Loess. Frozen mammoths are frequently found in yedomas and loess. What accounts for this and the strange properties of yedomas and loess? What is the source of so much loess?
Elevated Burials. Mammoth and rhinoceros bodies are often found on the highest levels of generally flat, low plateaus.110 Examples include dense concentrations of mammoth and rhinoceros remains in yedomas and the interior of Arctic islands. Dima was discovered in a mountainous region.
Multi-Continental. Soft parts of large animals have been preserved over a 3,000-mile-wide zone involving three continents (Asia, Europe, and North America). It is unlikely that so many unrelated local events would produce such similar results over such a broad geographical area.
Rock Ice. Strange, granular, Type 3 ice containing clay, sand, and a large volume of air pockets is sometimes found near frozen mammoths. [See Table 10 on page 262.]
Frozen Muck. Mammoth carcasses are almost exclusively encased in frozen muck.111 Also buried in muck are huge deposits of trees and other animal and vegetable matter. The origin of muck is a mystery.
Sudden Freezing. Some frozen mammoths and rhinoceroses had food preserved in their mouths, stomachs, or intestines.112
Suffocation. At least three mammoths and two rhinoceroses suffocated. No other cause of death has been established for the remaining frozen giants.
Dirty Lungs. Dimas respiratory and digestive tract contained silt, clay, and small particles of gravel. Just before he died, Dima breathed air and/or ate food containing such matter.
Peppered Tusks. Why, over wide geographical areas, did millimeter-size particles (rich in iron and nickel) become embedded in one side of some mammoth tusks?
-150°F. Temperatures surrounding some mammoths must have plunged below -150°F.
Large Animals. Most frozen remains are from the larger, stronger animals such as mammoths and rhinoceroses.
Summer-Fall Death. Vegetation in the stomachs and intestines of preserved mammoths implies that they died in late summer or early fall,114 perhaps in August115 or even late July.116
Animal Mixes. Bones of many types of animals, friends and foes, are frequently found near the mammoths.
Upright. Several frozen mammoths, and even mammoth skeletons,117 were found upright. Despite this posture, the Berezovka mammoth had a broken pelvis and shoulder blade, and a crushed leg. Surprisingly, he was not lying on his side in a position of agony.
Vertical Compression. Berezovkas crushed leg bone and horizontally flattened penis show severe vertical compression before or soon after death. Dima was also compressed and flattened.
Eighteen pieces of the problem are now before us. Fitting this centuries-old jigsaw puzzle together will be our final task. As you will see, clever and imaginative proposals have been made, but most address only a few pieces of the puzzle."
Use 'Mammoths Table 10' on this website search engine or refer to pages 260-272 for a much more detailed explanation.
Of course in order to accept the hydroplate theory you must also be willing to examine the evidence for a 6000 year old creation...
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
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on October 13, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Rosary rally today
Immaculate Conception Church, 502 Oakwood Ave., East Aurora, will host a public rosary rally crusade today, beginning at 11:30 a.m. with prayers, followed by the rosary at noon.
Year of faith
Bishop Richard J. Malone will be principal celebrant for Mass at noon Sunday in Our Lady of Victory Basilica, South Park Avenue and Ridge Road in Lackawanna, to commemorate the opening of the "Year of Faith," as proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI.
More than 600 representatives from parishes throughout the diocese will attend the kick-off Mass to receive a special blessing and a "mission passport" on behalf of their parish.
Reformation Service
The 10th annual Reformation Service, sponsored by Lutheran Campus Ministry on the Niagara Frontier, will be held at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 in First English Lutheran Church, 185 Locust St., Lockport. The Rev. Flavia Skilbred, pastor of First English, and Upstate New York Synod Bishop Marie Jerge will participate in the service. The message will be delivered by the Lutheran Campus pastor, the Rev. Steve Biegner, and Lutheran college students from area campuses.
Woodside rededication
Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church, South Buffalo's oldest church, dating back to 1873, will rededicate its 101-year-old building at 675 Abbott Road during an 11 a.m. service on Sunday.
Vocalis opens season
Vocalis Chamber Choir opens its 2012-2013 concert season with a concert, "Poetic Projections," at 8 p.m. today in St. Louis Church, 780 Main St. A second performance will be given at 7 p.m. Sunday in SS. Peter and Paul Church, 36 Pine St., Hamburg. Tickets are $15 at the door; students with ID, $10; and children 12 and under are free. For more information, click on www.vocalischamberchoir.org.


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Wrapping up this look at 3DMark, I'd like to say that I'm impressed. I wasn't completely blown away by the graphics of the new 3DMark, but there are some truly jaw-droppingly beautiful scenes in it which picked my enthusiasm right back up.
The customization allowed is huge, and the simple testing of the Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme benchmarks make it easier than ever to quickly test out your system to see how your results fare against the rest of the world.
The cross-platform friendliness that Futuremark are going after is going to pay off, big time. Being able to have a single benchmark for tablets, smartphones, notebooks, and PCs, is going to be great. It's going to bring everyone more together in the benchmarking scene and create a much more streamlined look at performance on a wide variety of devices. We've been told to expect the other platform versions "in weeks, rather than months".
I would love to see more social network interaction within 3DMark, where on the results page a "share to Facebook" button could be added. Clicking this button would automatically share it to your wall, where you could rub your new 3DMark score in your friends' faces, creating a more competitive vibe to 3DMark.
This would really help on smart devices, as they're much more social devices and a Facebook feature or Facebook integration would be great.
Overall, I love the new 3DMark and it is going to become a cornerstone of my benchmarks for TweakTown from now on. Good work, Futuremark!


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quote: Within that 87.66% of the market that Windows holds, there are three different versions of the OS in common use including Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. For the first time ever the percentage of Windows XP users have fallen below 50% of the entire Windows market share. As of July, the share for XP was 49.94%. Windows Vista was 9.24% of the Windows market share, and Windows 7 had 27.87% of the share. Older versions of Windows were 0.61% of the market.
quote: Crazy there are still more people using Vista than all the Macs out there. Vista actually wasn't too bad if you were lucky to not have any major driver headaches and if you didn't need to run any pretty old legacy apps. I actually liked Vista over XP, but Win7 is a highly polished Vista, and is the best Windows version to date.
quote: Yes you can. It worked for my Audigy4 Pro before they made 64-bit drivers. I also have an old HP DesignJet that works off of ye olde 32-bit drivers as well.
quote: Actually, funny enough, you run into almost none of the problems people complained about with vista if you went with the 64 bit version, whereas the 32 bit version had EVERY problem :P7 is very similar, my 64 bit 7 Pro system has very few problems of any kind, but my wifes 32 bit pro system crashes regularly and has all kinds of other problems with random and odd things, like hibernation and rebooting.
quote: Not being able to find computers on networks. It is actually worse now.
quote: Long (1-3 second) delays where the computer hangs for no reason with cpu usage at 0% and no swap file activity.
quote: For the first time ever the percentage of Windows XP users have fallen below 50% of the entire Windows market share
quote: Three months ago, even the National Security Agency (NSA) began advising users to upgrade from Windows XP to either Windows Vista or Windows 7. Furthermore, the organization says that when possible, choosing a 64-bit version of Windows is recommended.


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Calavera Hills Middle School has created a Chain Link Club to perpetuate the mission of Rachel's Challenge, a nonprofit established in memory of Rachel Scott, a student killed in the 1999 Columbine school massacre. The organization strives to empower people to create a permanent positive culture change in their school and community by starting a chain reaction of kindness and compassion. The club has more than six dozen student members, including Erika Anderson (pictured), who collected money for UNICEF. Call 760-331-5000 or e-mail email@example.com.


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Gisele Bundchen: I've Thought About Dumping Tom Brady!
It's seems Gisele Bundchen has something in common with millions of NFL fans:
Yes, she too has found herself wishing that Tom Brady would just go away forever.
It's seems Gisele Bundchen has something in common with millions of NFL fans:
Yes, she too has found herself wishing that Tom Brady would just go away forever.
If you're a football fan, you know that Tom Brady has been playing like a man with something to prove this season.
It makes sense, as the legendary QB suffered some serious damage to his reputation as a result of last season's Deflategate scandal.
For weeks now, we've been hearing rumors that Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are headed for divorce.
Several outlets claimed that Deflategate put a strain on the Brady and Bundchen's marriage, as Tom's anger over his suspension led to biskering at home.
It's been a rough summer for Tom Brady.
Sure, he still looks like he stepped out of the pages of GQ to win four Super Bowls and marry one of the world's most famous models, but Tom Terrific has been on the receiving end of some negative press lately, and not just on Richard Sherman fansites.
Last week, the NFL upheld Tom Brady's suspension for his role in the DeflateGate scandal of 2014.
Now, as part of the ongoing appeal process, many of Brady's texts and emails have been released to the public, and after reading some choice excerpts, you may have a better understanding of why the legendary QB chose to destroy his phone.
Well, in case you missed it, the New England Patriots eeked out a victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX last night.
In years past (when the Pats lost), Gisele Bundchen's behavior at the Super Bowl has been a source of embarrassment for husband Tom Brady and the Patriots organization.
It's been a busy week for Tom Brady.
In addition to the fact that Brady's balls have been the subject of headlines across the globe, we hear he's got some sort of fairly big game coming up on Sunday.
2014 has been dubbed The Year of the Quarterback, and few field generals have turned in better performances than Tom Brady's epic gun-slinging display in Foxborough yesterday.
Brady threw for 354 yards and 5 touchdowns, leading the Patriots to a 51-23 rout of the Chicago Bears.
Gisele Bundchen is fighting back against the haters in an Under Armour ad which makes public criticism of her campaign for the company a focal point.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had to celebrate his 37th birthday away from his wife and kids Sunday as he prepares for the NFL season.
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Los Angeles, January 21 -- Playboy model and actress Tara Reid has gotten engaged! The "American Pie" star was surprised when her boyfriend Michael Axtmann proposed to her while they were dining out in Los Angeles, People reports.
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New York, January 4 --Supermodel Elin Nordegren, rebuffed several pleas of reconciliation from husband Tiger Woods, when he made several phone calls on her 30th birthday.
Los Angeles, December 22 -- Award-winning singer Carrie Underwood and her Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher are engaged to be married. The Canadian hockey player reportedly popped the big question to the country crooner Sunday in Ottawa and Underwood has happily accepted the proposal.
Los Angeles, December 18 -- Wedding bells will soon be ringing for Kevin Jonas, the oldest member of the popular teen pop-punk band Jonas Brothers. The American singer/actor Kevin is said to be tying the knot to his longtime girlfriend Danielle Deleasa this weekend.
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My Twitter feed was blowing up with scores from around junior hockey all weekend long, while at the same time, my eyes were glued to two key pieces of the Blue Jackets future.
It was a weekend of mixed results for Ryan Murray and Boone Jenner, with both players getting back into the junior hockey scheduling mode after the NHL entered a work stoppage on September 15.
When the Blue Jackets assigned them to their respective junior teams, it gave these highly-regarded prospects another chance to potentially dominate their league and take another step forward in player development.
And, lest we forget -- one more try at competing for a Memorial Cup championship.
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NOTE: This is the weekly column of BlueJackets.com writer Rob Mixer. Follow Rob on Twitter by clicking here, and check for his regular updates on the CBJ Today blog.
The old adage is that "you can never have too much depth."
The Blue Jackets and Springfield Falcons are putting it to use when training camp opens on September 28.
GM Scott Howson and his staff set out to re-make the club's defense corps over the past year or so, making a big trade in February and continuing on their path during the recent offseason. The next step was the NHL draft, when they selected a poised and mature Ryan Murray with the No. 2 overall selection in Pittsburgh.
As part of a mega-deal with the New York Rangers later in the summer, one of the coveted pieces was a 21-year-old defenseman by the name of Tim Erixon, who was originally a first-round pick of the Calgary Flames in 2009.
Add to that mix a solid group of defensemen already in place, and you can see why Blue Jackets management and coaches light up with excitement when they talk about their blueline.
It's deep, skilled and has a ton of potential. But there is a long way to go.
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We're in the reflective mood, so let's take another stroll down memory lane for this week's Trivia Tuesday question.
Remember one of the most exciting moments in Blue Jackets history? Of course you do: a rocking Nationwide Arena, sold out for the first-ever appearance by the Toronto Maple Leafs in Columbus.
It was a back-and-forth hockey game that was as breathtaking as it was nerve-wracking; a shining example of why this is the greatest game on the planet. The roof nearly had to be secured in overtime as Tyler Wright took a nifty pass along the left wing and cut in towards the Maple Leaf net.
Just like that -- BOOM. Game over. Wright finished it off just inside the post and the place was pulsating. Feels like it was yesterday.
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Before he was drafted second overall by the Blue Jackets back in June, the words "experience" and "leadership" were already prominent in Ryan Murray's lexicon.
Talk to anyone who knows the kid, and you get the same answer: he's a natural-born leader, wise beyond his 18 years of age and appears ready to be an NHL player at this very moment. I remember being on a riverboat in Pittsburgh, walking from station to station while trying to get to know the teenagers who could (in the near future) be faces of the franchise.
It's an odd experience, for the simple fact that no one really knows which player will go where -- and that little detail where you're complete strangers. But I immediately sensed that Murray was different; he talked at length about being the captain of the Everett Silvertips, and how leading his junior club taught him so much about being accountable and showing up ready to play every single night.
Then I thought to myself, "this kid is 18 years old." Throughout our conversation, I had to be reminded of it. Murray was the real deal.
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Though the timing could hardly be described as ideal, a quartet of Blue Jackets prospects are faced with an enormous opportunity.
Their mission: take the next step in their development as professional hockey players and help the Springfield Falcons compete for a Calder Cup championship. No middle ground, pretty cut and dry. Just make it happen. Get it done.
And thus the journey begins for Ryan Johansen, Cam Atkinson, John Moore and Tim Erixon. Four names that, while they will not be going at it alone, stand out because of the expectations which were shouldered upon entering the National Hockey League -- and also because of the valuable NHL experience they can pass on to their new teammates.
Brad Larsen is in his first season as the Falcons' head coach, but he has a pretty solid handle on the team after serving as assistant coach last year. Like I said last week, Larsen's a no-nonsense guy that demands accountability from every player.
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How far back does your Blue Jackets memory go?
Let's see if we can give it a workout with this week's Trivia Tuesday contest. If you're like me, remembering where you parked your car in a parking lot can be tricky, so it's best for me to write the question and let you all find the answer.
As a former goaltender myself, I happen to like shutouts. I like recording them just as much as I like witnessing them. A clean sheet for a netminder is the best feeling (well, second-best to team wins). With that being said....
Here's the question: which goaltender recorded the first shutout in Blue Jackets franchise history, and who was the opponent?
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Gary Agnew once told me: "Boone Jenner is the kind of player you want on the ice in every crucial situation. He's a special player."
The former Blue Jackets assistant coach stepped in last year as head coach of the Oshawa Generals, Jenner's junior club in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). There wasn't much to be optimistic about early on, as the club had been struggling and Agnew was getting to know his new team.
But it didn't take him long to realize he had a unique player in Jenner, who unfortunately missed parts of the Generals' season due to both injury and participation in the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. Oshawa rebounded, though, and managed to scrape its way into the OHL playoffs before bowing out in the first round to Niagara.
Starting this year, there's a new attitude around General Motors Centre and it begins with a new bench boss. Agnew's contract was not renewed, opening the door for D.J. Smith to leave his post as assistant coach with the Windsor Spitfires after seven seasons -- and two Memorial Cup championships.
The 35-year-old was a rugged, no-nonsense player, and that's how he wants his teams to play. Given Jenner's workmanlike demeanor on and off the ice, the partnership between he and the new coach only seems like a natural fit.
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I spent 15 minutes on the phone with Brad Larsen back in June, and that's all it took for me to know he's going to be a really good head coach.
As a player, he was comprised of a lot of heart and a lot of soul -- a coach's dream. He was the kind of guy that teams win championships with, and can't win them without. An ideal "glue guy," he was the lunch pail player every night, and that's exactly what he wants his Springfield Falcons team to be like.
The first word he mentioned to me was accountability, and how he wants that sole principle to be the most prominent throughout his locker room. He talked about the Colorado Avalanche teams he played on, and how accountable players were the engine behind their success -- and when he played in Atlanta, that was the culture they were trying to create.
He's going to have an opportunity to shape a young and talented Falcons club as training camp gets under way in the next couple of weeks.
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How well do you know your Blue Jackets history?
We suspect you're pretty good at it, given the fact that we really can't fool anyone with our Trivia Tuesday questions. But...because it's getting close to hockey season and we want to test you out, we're reaching into the archive for a tough question this week.
As always, the rules and instructions are the same. Just complete the form below and be sure to include your answer to the question. Hit "submit" and you're good to go!
Who is the only player in Blue Jackets franchise history to score two penalty shot goals in the same season?
Remember -- you can't win if you don't enter! Good luck!
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You can add one more player to the "arrived" list today, and that's Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson.
After a summer of training at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., Johnson had originally planned to arrive on the weekend before training camp, putting him in Columbus somewhere around September 15. That was the plan as recently as last week, but he decided to switch it up.
As most of his teammates started to arrive in town over the past couple of weeks, Johnson wanted to get started as soon as possible. He made his first appearance at the informal player practices this morning at the OhioHealth Ice Haus, joining a group that's in less need of "fill-in" players as the days progress.
Once he was on the ice with the group, it was old hat for the 25-year-old blueliner. Johnson jumped right into the fray with usual defense partner James Wisniewski, and just like that, "controlled chaos" had been reborn.
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Andrew Little could join former Hearts pair Craig Beattie and Ian Black in signing for Rangers newco as manager Ally McCoist prepares to take advantage of a temporary transfer embargo reprieve.
Ibrox chief executive Charles Green revealed Little was set to sign a contract, while the club confirmed free agents Beattie and Black had both trained at Murray Park on Tuesday.
Northern Ireland striker Little was a regular goalscorer after Rangers went into administration in February as he shook off previous injury problems. The 23-year-old, whose contract with Rangers expired at the end of last season, looks set to join the newco club if it secures membership of the Scottish Football Association.
Ibrox chief executive Charles Green told RangersTV: "Andrew Little is coming back to the club. We've agreed terms with him and hopefully he will re-sign tomorrow (Wednesday). So I think people will see Rangers coming out of the mire, as it were, and there is a lot of confidence around the club."
Little earlier gave his own update to his followers on Twitter. He said: "Sorry I haven't been able to say much lately but hopefully get things sorted very soon and get back to football!!"
Green is optimistic of securing SFA membership in the next 24 hours. And, although accepting a 12-month transfer embargo handed to Rangers in April is one of the stipulations, the ban will not kick in until the start of September.
Green added: "Alastair has a list of players and he has been speaking to some of them. Obviously until we have SFA membership he can't sign any of them. He has two or three he wants to bring in this week and start training with the squad.
"We have a number of other targets lined up and it's up to Ally to decide. He picks the ones on the field and I pick the ones in the office. The difficulty we have is that we are playing in the Third Division."
Such a prospect does not appear to overly concern Beattie and Black, who both made their last appearance for Hearts in the William Hill Scottish Cup final thrashing of Hibernian, before leaving Tynecastle amid cost-cutting measures.
Green said: "I think it's testimony to the manager. Rangers is a name but it's also the manager that the players want to come and play for."


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In 2004, GAO concluded that additional governmentwide guidance could help agencies better ensure the independence of federal advisory committee members and the balance of federal advisory committees. For example, OGE guidance to federal agencies did not adequately ensure that agencies appoint individuals selected to provide advice on behalf of the government as "special government employees" subject to conflict-of-interest regulations. Further, GAO found that some agencies were inappropriately appointing most or all members as "representatives"--expected to reflect the views of the entity or group they are representing and not subject to conflict-of-interest reviews--even when the agencies call upon the members to provide advice on behalf of the government and thus should have been appointed as special government employees. In addition, GSA guidance to federal agencies and agency-specific policies and procedures needed to be improved to better ensure that agencies collect and evaluate information, such as previous or ongoing research, that could be helpful in determining the viewpoints of potential committee members regarding the subject matters being considered and in ensuring that committees are, and are perceived as being, balanced. GAO also identified several promising practices for forming and managing federal advisory committees that could better ensure that committees are independent and balanced as a whole, such as providing information on how the members of the committee are identified and screened and indicating whether the committee members are providing independent or stakeholder advice. To help improve the effectiveness of federal advisory committees so that members are, and are perceived as being, independent and committees as a whole are properly balanced, GAO made 12 recommendations to GSA and OGE to provide additional guidance to federal agencies under three broad categories: (1) the appropriate use of representative appointments; (2) information that could help ensure committees are, in fact, and in perception, balanced; and (3) practices that could better ensure independence and balanced committees and increase transparency in the federal advisory process. GSA and OGE implemented our recommendations to clarify the use of representative appointments. However, current data on appointments indicate that some agencies may continue to inappropriately use representatives rather than special government employees on some committees. Further, GSA said it agrees with GAO's other recommendations, including those relating to committee balance and measures that would promote greater transparency in the federal advisory committee process, but has not issued guidance in these areas as recommended, because of limitations in its authority to require agencies to comply with its guidance. In light of indications that some agencies may continue to use representative appointments inappropriately and GSA's support for including GAO's 2004 recommendations in FACA--including those aimed at enhancing balance and transparency--the Subcommittee may wish to incorporate the substance of GAO's recommendations into FACA as it considers amendments to the act.
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The Conference will be located at the Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area.
ICEST 2014 will be a stage where numerous substantial scoop are going to be discoursed. A few of these will be Science, Technology and Environment.
Just about 1500 attendees are anticipated to participate this Conference.
7th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology is organized biennially.
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The teaching staff is a group of highly trained, educated, and skilled preschool teachers. We maintain high standards by attending workshops, seminars, in service training classes, and conferences throughout the school term and in the summer. We are challenged and enthusiastic about working with young children. Each teacher has her own special talent which, when brought together as a whole, makes for a terrific staff!
Our teachers reflect a firm Christian faith and have taken time to learn how to share that faith with young children.
We are anticipating an exciting year with your child. It will be rewarding to watch your preschooler discover new things, experiment, create, and grow!
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Amy Rohan
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Communications Coordinator
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Kindergarten Class
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Amie Amacher
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Contemporary Service
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The heart of the Field Station is the Charles F. Deiss Lodge, the focus for meals, recreation, study, and evening work sessions. The Lodge houses the dining hall and kitchen, which employs a staff of two cooks and three or four kitchen helpers. Students are NOT responsible for any aspect of Station maintenance or food preparation. Hot meals are provided for breakfast and dinner every day, and abundant and diverse choices are available for making your own lunch.
Mail is picked up Monday through Friday in Cardwell, and distributed to a mailbox in the Lodge. During the summer, the Field Station Assistant runs a small store for items such as pens and pencils, erasers, notebooks, postage stamps, and other things. The Lodge is also the location of the two phones (one pay phone, one credit card phone) available to students. In addition, an extensive library of textbooks, theses, and reprints pertinent to Northern Rockies geology is found in the Lodge.
Another large metal building serves as an operations center for some of the environmental programs, as well as a maintenance workshop and garage.
The Judson Mead Geologic Field Station of Indiana University is in the Tobacco Root Mountains, 40 miles southeast of Butte, Montana, and 65 miles west of Bozeman.
The new classroom and geotechnology center at the Judson Mead Geologic Field Station in Montana was dedicated in August of 2012. The two story facility includes a state of the art lecture hall, a computer center with 15 dual monitor desktop work stations, and a lower level with laboratory space for field instrument storage and calibration, a suite of sample preparation equipment and analytical instruments for geologic and hydrologic samples.
The new classroom building is located near the Charles F. Deiss Lodge, the heart of the Field Station. The lecture hall has a view up the South Boulder valley at the high peaks region of the Tobacco Root Mountain range.
Students are housed in insulated dormitories while at the Field Station. Major renovation to the dorms now provides individual rooms with a pair of bunks in each, for a total capacity of 20 beds in each of two large dorms. Six eight-person dorms are located on upper campus as well as lower campus, Smaller dorms and wood-frame cabins are usually used for staff and visitors. Ample hot showers are available in three washrooms which are separate from the dormitories. New water heaters and large holding tanks were installed a few years ago. Coin laundry facilities are also available, including dryersbut clotheslines are also available for drying on a sunny day. Many of these improvements are supported by our Maintenance Fund Endowment.
Recreational facilties in the Lodge include a piano and a ping-pong table, while outside we have a volleyball court, paved basketball court, horseshoes, and plenty of room for frisbee. On especially hot days, hardy souls have been known to swim in Lake Mead, a small pond on the campus, and a jog up the Pony Road or a walk by the South Boulder River are further local options.


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Official Rules
Qualifiers, please note that since Monday, the 18th, is a holiday, the lakes do not go off limits until midnight the 18th!
16th Annual TuffMan Rules
Interpretation of these rules shall be left exclusively to the tournament director and weighmaster. Failure to comply may result in disqualification and the decison of the tournament officials shall be final in all such matters.
Patricipation & Eligibility
Participation is open to all who are 18 years of age or older on Sept. 1, 2015. Applicants under age 18 may fish with an adult. Proof of age is the responsibility of the competitor and must be furnished when requested. A properly completed and signed entry form as approved by the tournament officials must be presented prior to the tournament. No team that has not been assigned a team number the morning of the tournament shall begin to fish until such number is released by the director. The tournament director reserves the right to refund/refuse any entry fee.
Registration & Checkpoint
Each contestant must register in person at the designated site, before the start of the tournament. Start time will be at "Safe Daylight". No more than two fishermen in a boat and they must both be paid contestants. Registration is $250 after 6:00 PM on the Thursday preceeding the tournament. Pre-registration is $200. Registration includes big bass side pot.
Tournament Qualifications
Teams may fish as many qualifiers as they wish. Once they have qualified their registration fee drops to $110 for early registration or $150 for late registration. The 2014-2015 Anglers of the Year pay only $10 per tournament which goes into the big bass pot. A team qualifies for the championship by 1) being last year's champions, 2) finishing in the top 12 of a qualifier, or 3) being in the top 12 in points after the 4th qualifying tournament and all other qualifiers have been removed. This results in 61 teams being able to participate in the championship. The team with the overall highest score in the four qualifiers will become Anglers of the Year for 2015-2016. You must fish the championship with the same partner you qualified with. If one partner is unable to fish then you may fish solo.
General Rules & Information
The tournament lake is off limits Sunday at midnight the week before the tournament unless the Monday before the tournament is a Federal holiday then the off limits occurs at midnight on that Monday. Licensed black bass guides that have guided on the body of water in the previous 14 days are not allowed to fish. No trailering to the qualifying weigh-ins from offsite ramps is allowed unless deemed necessary for safety purposes by the weighmaster. If you launch at the headquarters ramp, you may check in at the checkpoint and then load your boat onto your trailer before bringing the fish to the scales. From the tournament site boat ramp to the tournament site pavilion is not considered trailering. There will be only one official headquarters. Flights will be 25 boats per flight with weigh-in starting at 3:00 PM and each flight will be in increments of 15 minutes. There will be only two flights at the championship. Teams will start based on their drawn team number. Competitors not at the official check-in point on time will be penalized one ounce per minute up to 15 minutes at which time they will be disqualified without recourse. There will also be dead fish and small fish penalties. The scales will close 15 minutes after the last flight is due in at the check point so be sure to have a member of your team in line with your fish.
All contestants are expected to follow high standards of sportsmanship, coutesy, safety and conservation. Cell phones are not to be used to assist in the location of fish during the event. Violation of this rule can be reason for disqualification. No aloholic beverages or non-prescribed drugs are allowed in the boat. Each contestant must keep the waters and grounds clean and free of litter. Violation of any state, local or federal laws can result in immediate disqualification without recourse. This is a 5 fish per team black bass tournament with 14" being the minimum length to bring to the scales.
Each contestant agrees to submit to a polygraph examination and to abide by its conclusion. Failure to pass the exam will result in disqualificaiton. Polygraphs will be used at CTMA, Inc.'s sole discretion and the determination of the meaning of the results will be made solely by CTMA, Inc.
Safe boating will be observed at all times. Each competitor must wear a servicable U.S.C.G. approved life perserver (PFD) any time the combustion engine is in operation and until the combustion engine is shut-off. The boat operator must have a safety-stop switch lanyard (kill switch) engaged and attached to their person when the combustion engine is running. Boats may not have engines larger than the boats horsepower rating.
Protests must be submitted to the weighmaster within 15 minutes of the closing of the scales.
Closing of the Scales
Scales will be closed 15 minutes after the last flight is due in. It is the angler's responsibilty to verify the official scale closing time and to be in the weigh-in line by such time.
For a complete list of the rules and regulations pick up one of the TuffMan flyers at the headquarters tent before the start of the tournament. Participants are solely responsible for understanding and obeying the rules. By participating in this tournament trail you are declaring that you have read the complete set of rules and will abide by them accordingly accepting any decisions by the weighmaster as final.
The Championship will be a two day tournament with the winners determined by the team that has the highest total culmination weight of legal fish (small and largemouth bass) after the two day event. The first day will be fished from safe daylight to 3:00 PM with the weigh-in to be held in the dome at the Bell County Exposition Center in Belton starting at 3:30 PM. The second day the teams will fish starting at safe daylight until 2:00 PM with the weigh-in to be held in the dome at the Bell County Exposition Center in Belton starting at 2:30 PM. Teams will pre-register for their starting number Friday evening before the championship at the Bell County Exposition Center starting at 5:00 PM with a captain's meeting to follow at 7:00 PM. Teams may participate in a side pot payable at $100 per team with payout of the side pot starting with the highest finishing 6th place team. The highest finishing first 5 places will be paid by the tournament. There is no cost to the qualifying participants to fish the championship unless they wish to participate in the side pot.
Points of Contact
Gary Wendeborn--254.223-0764 ** Rick Smith--254.534-5399
Tuff Man Tournament Trail
Phone:254-773-9931 or 254-534-5399 — Fax: 254-773-4111
103 Sun Valley
Gatesville, TX 76528
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Exploring St Kilda
Once Melbourne's infamous suburban red light district, the picturesque bayside suburb of St. Kilda is now one of the city's coolest entertainment destinations, offering sandy beaches, restaurants, music venues, and a café lifestyle. Edwardian architecture dating from the suburb's early days as a refuge for the wealthy, one of Melbourne's dedicated Food Precincts, glorious views over the bay, the historic Luna Park fun fair, the Palais Theatre, and the roses in the St Kilda Botanic Gardens are all reasons to head for this premier tourist destination.Access to St Kilda from Melbourne's downtown district is via the cultural melting pot of Fitzroy Street and St Kilda Road, and the best times to be here weekends. Sundays see the fabulous art and craft street market, crammed with paintings, sculptures, glass, leatherworks, and more, all created by local artists and craft workers. A wander to the end of the pier gives great views of Melbourne's cityscape, Port Philip Bay, and the local penguin colony, and line fishing off the pier is a favourite occupation.
Sights nearby
St Kilda is a great base for exploring nearby sights and having fun in its lively cafés, bars, and entertainment venues, and there's a good choice of accommodation here to suit all pockets, starting with the Adina Apartment Hotel and extending to bed and breakfasts and budget hotels, such as the Base Backpackers Hostel.
- Fitzroy and Ackland streetsLinked by the Edwardian Esplanade and St Kilda Beach, these two streets are the foodie and shopaholic paradises of the village. First-class restaurants, funky bars, and unique stores selling everything from haute couture and New Age fashions to delicious deli delights are the focus here, and the area is home to the famous Sunday art and craft market.
- People-watchingMelbourne is one of Australia's most extravagant cultural melting pots, with St. Kilda Beach's position as the closest stretch of sand and sea to the city and therefore attracting all styles of Melbournians at weekends and holidays. Combined with the village's eclectic mix of inhabitants, the resulting mix gives people-watching on a grand scale.
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Foodies visiting St Kilda are literally spoiled for choice, as there are over 100 indoor and outdoor eateries set along Fitzroy and Ackland streets. On Fitzroy, you'll find a contrast between upscale formal restaurants and totally informal fish and chip takeaways, as well as a selection of internationally-themed eateries.Those with a sweet tooth should head for Ackland Street with its choice of mouthwatering pastries, desserts, and cakes. All-day breakfasts are served in the cafés, while weekend parties concentrate on the beachside bars. Shopping is most fun in the markets and quirky fashion stores, whether you're looking for souvenirs or the latest gear.
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HE IS DOING IT RIGHT NOW! These are refugees from the Nuba Mountains – now in a refugee camp in South Sudan. I took this picture when I was in Sudan and South Sudan with Reverend Franklin Graham and Samaritans Purse in April. These people fled the Nuba Mountains because President Bashir was bombing them and burning their villages. He is still bombing his own people. Check out this press release:
The Office of the Official Spokesperson
October 21st, 2012
Khartoum Air Force Bombarded the villages in the Nuba Mountains
For more than a month now, the Khartoum regime Air Forces have conducted a number of concerted indiscriminate aerial raids against a number of innocents civilians villages in the Nuba Mountains / South Kordofan State that have resulted in the death and injury of many in addition to the destruction of farms and death of livestock. Between October 18th and 21st of this month, the villages of El-Labu, Tablu, Elhibeel, El-Atmour and Umserdiba in the locality of Umdurain and the town of El-Buram, were under extensive aerial bombardments where more than 20 bombs hit primarily the civilians' farms and livestock. In Tablu village the aerial raid on the 18th of this month resulted in the injury of three kids from one family and their names and age as follows; 1- Yasir Khamis Tayar, 7 years 2- Maysoun Khamis Tayar 3 years 3- Mayzoul khamis Tayar 3 years.
The SPLM-N-A of the SRF reiterates its determination and commitment to defend the civilians of the area and itself and will use all possible offensive scenarios against the NCP forces and militias wherever they are. The Struggle Continues.
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Looking for a self-guided tour through Graz? We have it! Follow Archduke John and Lady Mur on a 85 minutes tour through the city, make a stop wherever it pleases you or listen to their stories while sipping on a cup of coffee in one of the numerous coffeehouses and outdoor cafes.
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