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Hi. Stopping by as I saw you in the Primal 2013 group. Congrats to a great new start! Keep up the good work!
Thank you ssn679doc and Ayla2010! Best of luck to both of you on your primal journey as well! I will try to check out your threads in the coming days.
There are only two options regarding commitment, Youre either in or your out. Theres no such thing as life in between. Anonymous
"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
Hi. Stopping by as I saw you in the Primal 2013 group. Congrats to a great new start! Keep up the good work!
Thank you
Thanks bamabelle! Hope you will stop by again as you peruse the threads!
There are only two options regarding commitment, Youre either in or your out. Theres no such thing as life in between. Anonymous
"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
Day Thirteen
Some realizations I have come to discover about myself since starting down the path of Grok…
1. I'm lazy. I really am. I don't mean I'm lazy like the kid who is slowly becoming part of the couch he is sprawled across with a bag of Doritos propped on his chest so he can inhale them while playing the latest video game until his brain turns to mush. I mean I have no time or desire to count calories, or points or anything else for that matter! It doesn't do it for me. I tried paleotrack.com, At first it was the greatest new toy in my toolbox. Sure I would spend much time weighing and measuring and listing and then studying the graphs and the lists and all the rest but to what end? Some of the items I found most important (vitamins and omega 3 supplements) were not listed and I have no clue how to list the nutrients in them. Some of the items I wanted to list where there but not in the format I was eating them – for example why is broccoli listed raw but not roasted, steamed, or cooked in any other way, but broccoli raab is… what the hell is broccoli raab anyway?!? This tool is a great idea, if you are a calorie counter, a person who obsesses over the numbers but part of my journey to Grokdom is to get away from overcomplicating things. So I can admit I am lazy – too damn lazy to count the numbers.
2. I have common sense: According to Merriam-Webster common sense is defined as, "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." Often times I stand in crowded public places and marvel at the number of people who lack this ability. The number of people who I am sure in Grok's day would have been picked off by any number of predators! Now, I am not saying I would survive the predators either, lets face it at nearly 300 lbs I'm not the fittest nor the fastest Grok on the planet but I like to think if I saw the lion coming I'd be one of the ones doing what I could to get out of there, even if it meant trampling the skinny faster ones in front of me. But in all seriousness by common sense I mean I'm able to look at my meals and figure out if the portions are roughly where they should be. I know the more sugar (fruits and the like) the more carbs and vs. versa. I know juice = bad but its better than pop (soda) and nothing beats a nice clear glass of H2O. I know dairy is good for me, in small quantities, but it is not good for everyone. I know the root of my diet is good old fashion meat and veggies and that variety is where it is at – chicken, pork, lamb, venison, beef and all forms of seafood, mixed with an endless variety of greens and fresh raw veggies - that is where I am at!
3. I love good food that tastes good: Let me clear this off my plate right now, I still love pizza and a good burger and I don't think that will ever change. I now understand why I love these foods so much and also why eating that crap is not going to cut it anymore. I have discovered I love flavorful, healthy and simple foods. I love the taste of a well prepared and seasoned medium rare steak – especially if it is wild game! Last year if you were to ask me my favorite food I would have said something crazy like a burger, today Medium rare deer steak cooked on the BBQ with Bacon Wrapped Bay Scallops (fresh is best) and either steamed asparagus or roasted broccoli. There is just no comparing the good nutrient dense REAL food with the processed crap they sell in the center isles of the grocery store. I have noticed as my diet changes I hardly spend any time in the center isles and instead ring the store to hit the veggies, meat and dairy sections. In and out pretty quickly these days.
4. I am vain: I mean really vain, more vain that I thought I could be. As I start to feel better I really want to look better. Suddenly my clothes are more important, my hair is more important, if I have a 5 o'clock shadow it has to look good damn it or its time to shave! My better half has noticed this too, perhaps because I am starting to encroach on her time in front of the mirror??? As I lose the weight I want to lose more, I want to look good naked. I want to be able to strut around the beach and be a spectacle and not because I'm being trailed by a bunch of animal lovers trying to throw my fat butt back into the sea despite my protests that I'm not a whale. I find I am looking forward to the moment I feel comfortable enough to take my shirt off in public and enjoy the summer sun. When that day comes I want to drop what I am doing, book a holiday to some tropical summer place and live the week in nothing but shorts; feasting on meat and veggies, hiking and swimming and relaxing. Living the "good life."
5. I'm more positive: I never really realized how negative I had become, about my own body and my world in general, until I started to feel better. The more weight I lose the better I feel and the better my outlook becomes. I get up with more energy and look forward to the day. I try to challenge myself and I seek out new things rather than avoiding them. I have started to enjoy things I have not done for ages. Next up is a return to Squash - I have not played in seven years but a colleague at work has agreed to play once every two weeks so hopefully I can keep up!
This journey is only 13 days old but it has been a great and satisfying 13 days so far. Next weigh in day is Wednesday and although I do not expect to put up another huge loss I am hopeful there is some reduction in the total weight number.
Last edited by Primal Primate; 01-14-2013 at 08:34 AM.
There are only two options regarding commitment, Youre either in or your out. Theres no such thing as life in between. Anonymous
"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
Day Fourteen,
This is the two week mark and I am needing to tweak my diet for the foreseeable future. I was diagnosed yesterday with a gallstone, which my doctor accidentally found while running other tests. Although it has not given me any issues to date it is pretty large and as my doctor explained to me it is a time bomb waiting to go off. He proceeded to explain to me that it could cause many different issues or it could never cause any trouble but do to its size he wants me to consult with a surgeon to discuss possible options to remove it.
In the mean time I was given considerable literature to read up on and a long long list of "don'ts" and a much shorter list of "do's" to follow until this consult to help ensure my risk for any issues is minimum. Top of the list is reduce fat intake which is a large part of the primal blueprint, seconded by drink more water. At first I was ready to walk away from PB and call it quits, re-up on the CW diet and chalk this up to a failed experiment. After careful consideration I believe I can still maintain a PB lifestyle and diet but reduce the fat intake as much as possible.
I talked with my brother who is both a health care professional and on the PB plan and he agreed that I should be able to focus on eating leaner cuts of meat (more seafood and chicken and less red meat) and should be able to up my veggie intake and still be both primal and healthy when it comes to this stone.
I'm not sure what my meals will look like now but they will be changing. I'm going to try to eat red meat only once a week - wild game (deer and moose) stay away from the ground beef, bacon and eggs as I read they are the number one culprit for bringing on gallbladder issues - I'm not sure this is true but why take the chance, right? I am also staying away from anything fried - there go the plantains!!! In addition I will be reducing the amount of butter and coconut oil I am using for the time being. My only worry is that I will find a drop in energy levels as a result of cutting the fats to lower levels.
The one upside to all this is I now have an excuse (as if I needed one) to grill my meats - even in the dead of winter. Here I come BBQ! I'm hoping that once I meet with the surgeon and there is a plan in place to deal with this I will be able to eventually loosen these restrictions and focus on returning to a full primal diet. In the meantime it looks like there are a number of tasty salads in my future!
I think this just proves to me that my previous lifestyle had me heading down the wrong path entirely. Given the size of the stone it must have taken some time to develop and I have to conclude that it developed in part due to my previous diet. Given the fact that I am only in my early 30's I should not be in the shape I am in - I need to lose this f'ing weight and this is just one more motivation to get it off for good.
This is day fourteen... weigh in day tomorrow...
There are only two options regarding commitment, Youre either in or your out. Theres no such thing as life in between. Anonymous
"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
Hey PP, just want to share my experience with gallstones with you. I am not suggesting you do what I did, as it may not work for you, but could be something worth looking into
I had pain for ages, in my kidney area, and never did anything until it got really bad. My Dr sent me for an ultrasound, and kidneys were fine, but turns out I had 2 quite big gall stones. Apparently for some pain can be in not the usual area (under ribs at the front, right side). She wanted me to go see a surgeon straight away.
I looked into alternate methods, and read about the olive oil/lemon juice flush. I tried it and it made me sick from both ends for 2 days, but have not had the pain since, and this was 6 weeks ago now. I did not bother to look through the loo for the stones, but I truly believe they are gone.
Another plan for you could be going to a naturopath. I read that about the fats and gall bladders, but if its not causing you pain, I don't believe you need to cut down on your fats just yet. It usually causes people with gall bladder issues more pain, since its working harder to remove the bile. Removing your gall bladder can cause you worse problems later.
Good luck with tomorrows weigh in, and good luck with whatever you decide about your stones
Thanks Alya2010!
I'm still weighing my options and trying to wrap my head around the choices so any and all advice is welcome. I meet with my specialist in February, I want to see what he recommends and then go from there. It would seem every option has it pros and cons. As the gallstone is not bothering me and has never bothered me in the past I am content for now to let it be but I do worry it will one day flair up into something horrible. I'm not a huge fan of hospitals and doctors (irrational fears are fun, right) so if I can get this dealt with in a controlled manner before it becomes major I'm happy to do so.
There are only two options regarding commitment, Youre either in or your out. Theres no such thing as life in between. Anonymous
"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
I get that. Hospitals are needed at times, but only as a last resort for me. Having my first child there, ruined it for me. Hence why I stayed home for my second
Honestly its not bothering you now, id do nothing more than anything. But also I decided the lemon/oil flush was worth doing, it wouldn't hurt if it did nothing, and I knew if it got stuck or whatever and caused me pain, I would then have gone to the hospital.
If you do a google you will find heaps of info. I can't find the exact website for the one I used, but will keep looking.
But it was 1/4 c olive oil mixed with 2 tbs of lemon juice, shaken and chugged back, every 15 mins, and it took around 2 hours or so to get the full amount down (300 ml OO). I juiced some apples, and the lemon juice together to make it easier to drink it down. It wasn't pretty but I truly believe it worked.
Day Fifteen: "Stress is a Bitch!"
Last night I crashed...hard! I woke yesterday feeling beat, like I went ten rounds with a deranged kangaroo who bounced on his tail and hit with all four appendages. Doesn't seem very fair, I know. I rallied enough to get my butt to work but I was dragging the whole day and just didn't quite feel right. I thought maybe I was coming down with something - working in a school there is always a bug going round just waiting to pounce, but I had none of the usual symptoms - stuffy nose, sore throat, used kleenex in every pocket - don't "ewww" me, I you know do it too.
I coasted to lunch not really hungry but eating anyway just in case it was a drop in energy I was feeling owing to the reduction of fats in my diet. Lunch over, feeling totally satiated I still could not seem to get out of the funk I was in. The end of the day just could not come soon enough. I found myself clock watching for the first time in ages and when that bell went it was like a high pitched banshee wail of an angel song - the most horrendously beautiful sound I had ever heard!
With the kids gone I was able to collapse into my chair - and I mean collapse. I just kind of dropped into it - which, in hindsight, wasn't the best plan as my chair has wheels on the bottom of it and I, in my ungraceful descent, managed to drop more onto the edge of the seat than the center. The result was said chair shooting at light speed out from under me and crashing against the wall in a thunderous clamor that must have sounded similar to that of a crazed rhino bursting through the brush, or perhaps the preverbal bull in the china shop after someone slaps its rump, shows it red and yells yeehaw!
Needless to say the sound echoed throughout the now empty hallways and brought my colleague running - not to see if I was alright mind you but to see what the sound was. And see they did - there was I sitting on my butt behind my desk legs straight out in front of me with a "what the hell just happened" look stamped across my face. Behind me the chair overturned against the wall one wheel spinning crazily with a monotonous zzzzzzzz sound in the otherwise silence of the moment. Laughter ensued as it should have. It was time to go home.
With the chair incident behind me I made my way to the car looking more like a zombie than a human. I was wiped. At home my better half explained to me that which I could not in my exhausted brain workout for myself - I was coming down off a stress high. I am not scared of many things but my irrational fear is that of sickness, doctors, hospitals - I hate them all. Yes I know we need them and they should be heroes and blah blah blah, but in my mind Private Practice, Untold Stories of the ER and Grey's Anatomy - those are the real horror shows - Jason, Michael Myers and the rest of the slasher bunch ain't got nothing on them! So for the last week since my doctor's office called to tell me my test results were in I have been running in overdrive due to the stress of having to hear what could be wrong and then learning about the gallstone yesterday and receiving a call from the surgeons office I think put me over the top. The result was a total shut down of systems yesterday a crash and reboot if you will.
It's interesting how one can read the books, know what to look for and take steps to try and overcome our modern day stress, our fears and in some cases our idiosyncrasies and yet when the body decides to go into the instinctual survival mode there is little we can do to stop it. I figured I had the stress beat - meditation, deep breaths and counting to ten but still in the end I was stressed even when I thought I wasn't. Thankfully it has passed - I woke this morning after 12 hours of sleep feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day. The squash court is booked and I am looking forward to the first game in over seven years!
I think I could grow to really like this active living stuff again! Makes me wonder why I let myself get away from it in the first place. Today was weigh in day I am down another 4.2 lbs, for a total of 15.1 lbs dropped in 15 days.
Grok on!
Last edited by Primal Primate; 01-16-2013 at 08:01 AM.
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"Das Beste oder nichts" - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler


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Ok guys I'm back to raise a little hell so let me start things off right..Pittsburgh +11.5
Hey guys, time for me to fire up my plays this season. I been quite, but let me share the love. I don't have any systems or progressions, just straight bets and good ole fashion handicapping. So lets make some cash..
Here are my plays for Sunday NFLRisk $10 Bengals -3 (-115) Risk $10 Buccaneers -1 (-110)Risk $10 Redskins -3½ (-110) Risk $10 Ravens -3½ (+100)Starting Bankroll- $549.27
I haven't been on here in quite some time but I plan on helping alot of cappers here who follow this system turn a nice profit this 2012 MLB season.
My plays will start April 5th, and consist of a 10 game chase. I will only bet under dogs moneyline plays the entire season. The system involves taking two seperate chase systems and running them at the same time.
So look at it as two chase lines where each will have it's own chase. So the max will be two games daily with the system, some days will be only one pick.
Here is a example:
$500 starting Bankroll
Chase 1- $1.25 bet on Rangers +115
Chase 2- $1.25 bet on Red Sox +135
Chase 1- $1.25 bet on Rangers +115 (LOSS)
Next bet will be $1.50 in this chase, where it will cover the $1.25 loss and give us a small profit if next game wins.
Chase 2- $1.25 bet on Red Sox +135 (WIN)
Profit of $1.68 for win. Next bet in the chase will be for $1.25
So in order to get your beginning bet amount, you simply take your total bankroll which is $500 above and multiply that times 1% and take that 1% and times it by 25%.
$500 x 1% = $5
$5 x 25% = $1.25
Starting bet amount will be $1.25
Each win will make our bankroll increase, so we will need to recalculate after each win.
any suggestions? the season is almost here
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Rain hits Cheltenham again
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Lisa Thompson: Gas-saving car fuels new obsession
I have always been a back-seat driver. Usually, I question the route my husband, Jerry, has selected or, in really weak moments, even his choice of lane. He is talking about a song on the radio or the latest family news. I am worrying about the right-hand turn 2 miles ahead.
This bad habit has taken a truly dark turn with the purchase of our new car, which has a digital dashboard meter that tells you exactly what kind of mileage your driving style is earning at any given moment.
The schooling is not very complicated. It goes like this: Take your foot off the gas.
I have a long, expensive commute and now am basically obsessed with shaving dollars off each stretch. My foot behaves as though there is some kind of shock device attached to the gas pedal. I tap it to see how little pressure can actually make the car move.
I used to tramp on the gas to climb hills. Now, I use only the pressure necessary and sometimes dip, I am sure in an annoying, not-socially-acceptable fashion, far beneath the posted speed limit just to keep that monitor from plummeting.
My husband cannot see the benefits in certain new techniques I have discovered, especially when it comes to downhill driving or air conditioner use (not allowed). Is your foot on the brake? I asked him, incredulous and distressed, on a recent trip down a long and, OK, curvy grade. I try to explain, the more momentum you gain now, within the speed limit of course, the more glide time you will have at the bottom of the hill, gas-free!
He suggested I watch the road, not the monitor.
I cannot help it, though. Each new gas mileage victory fuels the drive to squeeze yet another tenth of a mile out of a gallon. I have taken to snapping pictures of the notable averages to chart my progress.
Best drive so far -- 40.1 mpg, thanks, I think, to a minivan in front of me that kept everyone at 45 mph or lower for dozens of miles.
I have no set vacation plans this year. Maybe I will just head west to see what kind of gas pump smackdown I can achieve on the prairie.
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IntroPsych News
November 11 , 2011
IntroPsych News provides periodic announcements, course updates, and additional teaching resources for introductory psychology instructors at the University of Alabama.
1. Teaching introductory psychology: Tips from ToP: A collection of over 100 articles from the journal, Teaching of Psychology. Articles cover demonstrations and activities, approaches to the course, and technology in teaching. Looks like a gold mine.
2. "Turning off one's moral compass": What was it like to be a participant in the orginal Milgram studies on obedience? Here's a 7-min summary of the studies that includes a recent interview with a participant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIzju84v24&feature=related
3. Student Opinions of Instruction (SOI): Students may complete an evaluation of your course during the interval of November 18-December 11. The link is on myBama.
4. Introduction to Psychology with discussion sections: This semester I have taught a large-enrollment PY 101 course that has two lectures per week and one recitation. The recitation sections contain 20-25 students and are highly interactive. They are being led by three doctoral students (Ernest Wayde, Lindsey Jacobs, and April Kendrick). At the end of the term, I will be collecting student reactions to the course and comparing them to students taught this semester in a traditionally structured PY 101 course.
5. Psychological science in the news: APS provides a continuous newsfeed on this page as well as other resources. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/teaching
6. For an additional newsfeed: See the bottom of this page for Psychology headlines from around the world.
7. Importing scantron test scores to eLearning: See the tutorial from the Faculty Resource Center: http://frc.ua.edu/tutorials/
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8. UA final exam policies:
- Final exams are administered according to the tentative exam schedule published at www.myBama.ua.edu . Students should consult the final exam schedule before making plans to leave the campus at the end of the semester. Students may petition to reschedule exams if the following circumstances occur:
- A student has 3 or more exams schedule on the same day.
- A student has 2 exams scheduled at the same time.
- Students desiring to reschedule final exams due to three or more exams on one day or two exams scheduled at the same time must submit to their professor(s) documentation of their schedule. Priorities for rescheduling exam times are as follows:
- Exams for lower level classes have priority. For example, a 100-level course has higher priority than a 200-level course. The student should petition the 200-level course instructor for rescheduling.
- Exams for individual courses have higher priority than departmental exams regardless of level. The student with a conflict should petition the instructor of the course with the departmental exam for rescheduling. The exam is normally rescheduled for the time assigned to the individual course in the published examination schedule.
- For 7:00 - 9:30 PM exam conflicts, the daytime course has higher priority than the 6:00 PM or later course. The student should petition the instructor of the evening course for rescheduling.
9. Teaching resources: There are several resources on the Teaching of Psychology course website and I invite you to make use of them. Should you find additional resources that might be helpful to others, please let me know and I will post them. Resources for New Instructors contains information on assisting students and on teaching. The Multimedia Library is a compilation of videos, demos, and websites. You can find these resources by going to the Teaching of Psychology course website (http://bama.ua.edu/~sprentic/
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Some thoughts...
No bad childhood here. I think stress can play a role in throwing things off, though it didn't seem to play a part for me. Round after round of antibiotics seem to have been my cue.
PMS SHOULD NOT exist, and you should have plenty of reason to expect it to go away over time. Primal will be a huge help here, especially you get the wheat & sugar out, and what remains, I encourage you to look up Drs. Dzugan and/or Reiss and see what they have to say about balancing your hormones. Many, many women see it (and the attendant cravings) go away as they move further down the primal path to health.
When I eat fruit instead of sweets, I crave more and more and more fruit, and have to beat back the cravings for sugar eventually, too. So I don't eat fruit except occasional in-season lower sugar ones, like berries. ***I know not everyone is like this***, but those who aren't should also know that not everyone is like them. Switching from sugar to fruit was a helpful first step to reducing sugar, but never ever eliminated the cravings. I never binge on whole fruit, but it leads to constant cravings for more, and I'd rather just live without the cravings, TYVM.
I've only ever met one person who binged on foods that didn't involve sweets or grains. She admits she had a very unusual situation. Binges almost universally are about getting sugar (in some form, & grains transform quickly) into the body, even when the binger is unaware of this.
After a year, I no longer have to avoid every tiny bite, but I do it anyway because sweets just don't taste good to me anymore. I do think that if I had "just one bite" say, once a week, that eventually the cravings would start up again, and it's just not worth it. I *can* do just one bite of a fruit now and then, just not sweets or grains. And ladies, really, believe me, the cravings CAN GO AWAY and the taste that you think is so fabulous CAN GO AWAY. You don't have to live like a junkie wishing for another fix, but steadfastly abstaining, for the rest of your life. There is so much more out there.


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Hi everyone, I am Yu Zhang, a MS candidate of information architecture
in IIT. Now I am doing my Master's project which has an experiment of
card sorting, so I want to invite all of you to be my participants.
Now I am going to give you an introduction about this experiment:
1. Now we are just in the initial stage of designing a website which
is for COM525 Usability Testing and Research, in order to make it as
easy to use as possible, I would like to get some input from the
people who will be using it. I am going to ask you to use an online
card sorting website to perform a very simple exercise that will give
me great insight into how I can make this website easier to use.
2. Here is the link: http://websort.net/s/0502E2/. When you open it
in your browser, there will be an auto window showing up which is the
instructions about how to use this website. Please read it carefully,
and if you want to check it again during the exercise, you can click
the "instructions" on the top navigation of the page. After
reading, click the top right "close" button and it will ask you to
give your email address, then you will enter the formal exercise.
3. It is an Open Card Sorting experiment, so when you complete a
column, please give it a name that make sense for you. Furthermore,
main columns are no more than 9, because it will be the primary links
in the website. If you think there should be some secondary links,
just name it with the name which shows in the main column and write
me a comment.
4. Although this website is great for card sorting, there is one more
thing you should notice: When you put cards inside of each column,
every card goes on top automatically and you may not change the
order. It is alright and don't be bothered by this.
5. This test will last 20- 30 minutes and I will appreciate it if you
can complete as soon as you can.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me with
yuzhang131 at gmail.com.
Sorry!!!Bugs come again!! Now I promise this link will work:
http://websort.net/s/0D2F00/. Thank you Prathibha!
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former link, but have more participants. Still, I do appreciate your
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Bait dumping offers invaders path to Great lakes
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Inadequate regulation of the bait fish trade and carelessness on the part of anglers could be allowing invasive species -- including widely feared Asian carp -- to reach the Great Lakes and inland waterways, according to a scientific paper released Thursday.
Researchers with Central Michigan University and the University of Notre Dame said they tested water samples from tanks containing small fish for sale as bait at more than 500 shops across the eight states on the lakes and found that 27 tested positive for invasive species' DNA.
Positive hits for silver carp, one of the Asian varieties threatening to reach the Great Lakes, were recorded in three water samples from shops along the Lake Erie shore in Ohio.
The team also detected genetic material from round goby, tubenose goby and Eurasian rudd, which are already in the Great Lakes.
The report was being published in the journal Conservation Biology.
Many states urge anglers to not dump unused bait into the water but not everyone obeys, Notre Dame scientist Christopher Jerde said.
A study in Canada found that more than 30 percent of anglers were releasing unwanted minnows into waterways instead of discarding them in trash cans or freezing them for future use.


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Hello SAP HANA Friends:
Can you provide any guidance on this error I received when attempting to activate an analytic view in the SAP HANA Modeler.
This analytic view validated completely successfully.
Job details
Error message when attempting to redeploy an analytic view in the SAP HANA Modeler:
Repository: Activation failed for for at least one object; At least one runtime reported an error during revalidation. Please see Check Results for details.
Internal deployment of object failed; Repository: Encountered an error in repository runtime extension; Internal Error exception 1: no9500000 (mdx/metadata/deployment/join/JoinManager.ccp:402)n An internal error occurred. Assertion failed with error message.
Any and all comments are appreciated,
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Hi Joseph,
I faced a similar issue yesterday, when few of my Analytic views built prior to SP05 upgrade could not be redeloyed. I tried to activate the Attribute views in the Analytic view, but each of them gave an error that some of the Analytic view (back from the first list) could not be redeployed. It was like circular reference issue. I anyway went and tried to redeploy each Attribute view / Analytic view and finally came to the very first view which I was interested in.
Second attempt to redeploy the view (after trying to redeploy all the attrib views) was successful.
I did not understand that why HANA was trying to activate all the associated views when I tried to activate Attrib / Analytic view. This could be a setting in the modeler which I will anyway check soon. Since it was Friday evening, I did not focus much on that.
You can try this longer workaround and let us know.


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IACP Regional Forensic Video Analysis Project Video technology is transforming law enforcement and changing case investigations. In the post-September 11 world, the proliferation of surveillance systems, in-car camera systems, and even video-enabled cell phones have resulted in an unprecedented flood of video evidence.
Despite the growing availability of video, law enforcement is frequently ill equipped and unprepared to deal with the influx of valuable visual evidence. To add to the problem, there are fewer than 650 recognized forensic video analysts in the country spread among 17,784 police agencies.
Forensic video analysis is the scientific examination, comparison, or evaluation of video in legal matters.
To help law enforcement solve the problem of too few video analysts and a backlog of available video evidence, the IACP has partnered with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to design and implement a regional approach. Between May 2006 and September 2007, the IACP will establish four regional forensic video analysis labs around the country. These labs will be linked using new technology that allows for the transfer of large video files in a matter of seconds. This will provide participating agencies with vital information regarding trends in criminal activity, enable them to share intelligence, and enhance their ability to solve crimes. These labs will be centrally located at a host agency and service the video forensic needs of all agencies within a defined geographic area. The team is in the process of identifying the host agencies that have or will commit to having trained video analysts on staff who will be willing to train additional examiners from surrounding agencies. Once these host agencies are established and trained analysts are in place, the team will work with the agency to provide the necessary forensic video equipment and then monitor the progress and caseload by using a shared database. Once these goals are met, the IACP will begin working with other existing forensic video labs to create a national network for training and for sharing critical visual evidence and other valuable information. For more information on this topic, contact Mike Fergus at (firstname.lastname@example.com) or 800-THE-IACP, extension 811, or Grady Baker at (firstname.lastname@example.com) or 800-THE-IACP, extension 839.
Scholarships Awarded by the IACP University and College Police SectionThe IACP University and College Police Section awarded Kaley A. Foster of North Andover, Massachusetts, and Jason R. Kroptavich of Scranton, Pennsylvania, scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each. The section's Scholarship Committee selected Kaley and Jason for this recognition from a broad field of applicants because of their outstanding academic efforts and commitment to community.
Kaley Foster: Kaley is an honor student in Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice and has worked for Northeaster's Public Safety Division since June of 2005. Her assignments in the detective unit included processing all warrant and criminal history information, administering all noncriminal fingerprinting, maintaining the criminal court schedule, and managing the lost and found unit. She speaks conversational Spanish and assists officers by interpreting during interviews.
Kaley participates in all aspects of student life at Northeastern and currently serves on the Criminal Justice Student Advisory Committee. She is vice president of NU TELLS, a group that teaches English-language literacy skills to Boston residents. She is a member of the Student Judicial Board, Sigma Alpha Lambda (a national scholarship and honors organization), and Alpha Phi Sigma (a national criminal justice honor society). A strong believer in giving back to the community, Kaley volunteers many hours tutoring young children, visiting the elderly, and displaying her concern for people of all ages by personally giving of her time with them.
Jason Kroptavich: Jason is a sophomore criminal justice major at the University of Scranton. Jason has worked for the public safety department since joining the student officer program in his freshmen year. He was recognized for his academic excellence by being named to the dean's list last fall.
When he's not studying, Jason works two part-time positions to pay for his education. He was recently promoted to sergeant in the student officer program. Jason's loyalty and commitment were big factors in helping to build the department image and to close the communication gaps between staff, faculty, students, and full-time officers. Jason also works in the intensive care unit at Moses Taylor Hospital. He may be assigned to one-on-one suicide and safety watch duty for patients in crisis.
Jason is active in church and community service activities. He is a regular blood donor for the American Red Cross and has participated in church-sponsored mission trips to Russia, Mexico, and Panama. Jason worked and participated in fundraising projects to finance his mission trips.
Jason is enrolled in the university's Army ROTC program and was recently welcomed back as a member of the student officer program after returning from military duty with his Army National Guard Unit in Iraq. Jason believes that his "deployment not only helped me to learn about Iraqi culture, but also to learn about myself by taking advantage of time and learning all I can."
For more information on the IACP University and College Police Section scholarships, including applications, please visit the IACP Web site at (www.theiacp), enter the area devoted to committees, sections, and divisions, and select the University and College Police Section.
Public Safety Officers' Benefits Online ApplicationThe Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Program of the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance now has an online application system. The PSOB Office knows that the loss or injury of a colleague or loved one is difficult and hopes that this new system will impose the least possible burden for providing the necessary information to complete a claim.
The online application forms collect the same information required for the original paper applications; therefore, there is no need to submit an application by both methods. The information is submitted via a secure network and is kept confidential. Social security numbers will be encrypted and will only be viewable by PSOB Office staff responsible for the handling the claim.
At any time in the process of a claim, the completed work can be saved and the claimant can come back to it later. Please note that all fields in the application are mandatory, and each must be provided in order for the application to be considered complete. After submitting the application, the claimant may return to add attachments but will not be able to change any of the information in the application.
Because no two PSOB cases are alike, PSOB Office may ask for additional information to help clarify or establish the eligibility of claims and beneficiaries according to the PSOB Act and its regulations.
New users will be asked to create an account, including a user name and password. The user name and password will be required before logging on the system and can be used for multiple claims if necessary. For more information, visit (https://www.psob.gov/).
Public Health Role in Homeland SecurityAn issue brief recently published by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), State Strategies for Fully Integrating Public Health into Homeland Security, offers recommendations for integrating public health into homeland security.
For the past 50 years, public health was often considered a less than integral part of disaster and emergency response. As emergency management and homeland security evolved, public health officials frequently found themselves at the periphery of preparedness and response efforts. According to the issue brief, these individuals were further hindered by a public health culture sometimes at odds with decision-making approaches favored by other first response agencies, and a public health infrastructure that has lagged behind other response agencies in terms of involvement.
The 2001 anthrax attacks and the emerging threat of bioterrorism have changed this perception. With expertise not found in other disciplines-unique authorities including quarantine, isolation, and drug distribution-and surveillance systems that provide important intelligence about infectious diseases, states have come to realize that they can ill afford to leave public health out of disaster response plans. The result is a search for new ways to integrate public health into emergency response and homeland security at all levels of government.
The issue brief provides the following strategies for better integrating public health into homeland security:
"Public health plays a critical role in preparing for and responding to disasters," said John Thomasian, director of the NGA Center. "We must fully incorporate the lifesaving benefits and expertise provided by the public health community into our homeland security and emergency systems."
For more information, call John Thomasian, director of the NGA Center, National Governors Association, Hall of the States, 444 North Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20001, at 202-624-5300, send a fax to him at 202-624-5313, or visit the NGA Web site at (www.nga.org). ■
From The Police Chief, vol. 73, no. 7, July 2006. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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So much has been happening lately and I have so much to post about but haven't really had the time. Life is crazy sometimes! In January, my mom took me on a vacation (my first ever, really). We went to Cuba, I got to pick the place. We chose to go to Playa Ancon, a beach near Trinidad which is an old historical town. It's very different than Havana, much older and colonial looking. Also it was next to a huge mountain range where we could go hiking. Oh, and the beach we were on only had three resorts. It turned out to be the perfect place!
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Recruitment missions are dotted about the city, allowing Ezio to expand the Brotherhood and increase his influence in Rome. Later on in the demo, we see Ezio rescue a potential assassin from two Templar guards. After launching himself from his horse, Ezio simultaneously plunges two blades into the chest of each guard, clearly an impressive sight to the fledgling killer. With the assassin free from harm, he's persuaded into joining the Brotherhood, where a host of other options open up.
Far more than a simple means of delegation, Brotherhood allows players to manage their entourage with a level of depth more commonly associated with an RPG. Assassins can be sent on their own individual missions, and if they're successful will be rewarded with experience and skill points. As they grow in level and strength, they can be sent on harder and harder missions, and will become more useful to Ezio in combat, too. Each assassin can be tailored to the player's tastes; you can assign skills, change the colour of an assassin's robes and change their equipment. The guild is yours, and you can manage it how you see fit.
The last section of the level sees Ezio scrambling up the side of the tower while his cohorts dispatch of the enemies at its base. After reaching the top, Ezio lives up to his legendary status, killing the leader of the tower, lighting some sort of explosive device and then throwing himself out the window as a firework display of flames and rubble goes off behind him.
With the tower destroyed, the area once under its control is ripe for renovation. Shops can be opened, increasing the prosperity of the area. Everything ties into this theme of influence and power; the more towers that are defeated and the more assassins under Ezio's control, the more power he has over the city. This power and influence will grow throughout the campaign, with the ultimate intention of finally overthrowing the tyrannous Borgia, the ruler of Rome.
As mentioned at the start of this preview, Brotherhood feels much more than a stop gap on the way to Assassin's Creed 3. It has enough innovations and fresh ideas to warrant a full blown sequel, but Ubisoft has already confirmed that AC3 will feature an all new protagonist, and will more than likely take place in a different historical period, too. Don't be put off by a lack of a number in the title, the word 'Brotherhood' and all the features that it entails in game is more than enough to keep fans of the series happy.
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same thing as 'cracking on' someone.
I kept busting their chops on the xbox, just like a mad man.
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Teasing. Harsh teasing that often is embarrassing and/or annoying.
Liz kept busting on my "ugly" shoes. Meanwhile, I know she wants a pair.
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Going out behind work to go for a smoke.
Johnny and Ben were busting out back.
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The use of cocaine/ Yayo
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To give or share something.
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BERNARDS TOWNSHIP — A man was killed early Sunday morning in a three-car crash on Route 287 North, State Police said.
Luk's BMW rotated across the highway and struck the guardrail on the right side before coming to a rest in the center and right lanes, Flynn said. Luk's vehicle was reported as driving erratically prior to the crash, he said.
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Without the ability to read, students cannot perform common tasks ranging from reading that big, red street sign with the simple four-letter command to digesting an exciting adventure novel. Because this skill is so vital, reading teachers hold serious power and responsibility. If you are going to step up to the blackboard and become a reading teacher, you owe it to your students to strive to be a great one.
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If your readers stumble over every other word, they will expend all of their energy trying to sound-out the words and will miss the meaning of the piece, warns doctoral candidate Laura S. Pardo in another article for the International Reading Association. Place a word-wall in your classroom -- a display of all of the words you have learned as a class -- and review these new words regularly, helping your students bolster their word-meaning knowledge as you teach them the how-to of reading.
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Scaffolding, the process of providing continually less support to your students as they demonstrate increased abilities, is vital to effective reading instruction, state Nicholas Tonegato and Cindy Hendricks of Ohio's Bowling Green State University for the 2012 American Reading Forum Yearbook. When your students are still novice readers, they may need you to sit by their sides and help them sound out words. As they become more skilled at reading independently, you should withdraw this support; if you don't, they may fall back on you instead of striving to read independently.
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Belief alone won't make students great readers, but maintaining high expectations and communicating these expectations to students is an important part of providing effective reading instruction, say Blair, Rupley and Nichols. Maintain your positivity and belief that they are capable of acquiring the skills necessary to become good readers and communicate this faith to your students.
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- International Reading Association: The effective teacher of reading: Considering the "what" and "how" of instruction
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The plow has been a universal symbol of farming since early Biblical times.
Mankind has sought ways to loosen soils so that seeds can find growing spaces in the ground to produce an abundance of healthy crops. Plow blades have been designed to turn over and open soils for centuries, but it was the shape and curve of the earth-digging device John Deere designed in 1837 that improved soil loosening chores for horse-drawn plow rigs and later steam, internal combustion and diesel tractors.
Not one speaker at a Genesee County Soil and Water Conservation District demeaned the plow during a Soil Health Workshop held in Batavia Tuesday morning, but an unspoken plea pervaded each presentation asking farmers to beat their plowshares into no-till or zone-till field tools for planting crops.
This workshop drew about 60 farmers from Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties to learn more about how to create healthy, functional soils that will increase crop production and help to reduce field work and amounts of fertilizers and weed killers used on those soils.
While this workshop focused mainly on commercial farmers striving to more efficiently produce cash crops, much of the discussion was useful to hunter/landowners interested in planting and maintaining food plots for deer, turkeys, upland game birds and wildlife in general.
Heath Eisele, a district conservationist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service, began stressing farm-crop soils basic needs of water, physical stability, drainage, organic matter, fertility and field care.
"Think below the ground as well as on top," Eisele said. Along with selecting seed varieties with shorter growing seasons, he urged planters to curb erosion by planting cover crops on fields where matured crops have been harvested.
For food-plot planters, that could mean anything from annual rye to assorted beans, beats and radishes.
Eisele explained that these cover crops help to control soil temperatures and reduce weed growth with a continuous green cover on soil surfaces.
In the spring, a standard practice is to kill off the cover, wait a week or so and then plow and plant a new crop. Eisele suggests planting a no-till crop into the field without applying Roundup or other weed-killers that need a week or more to allow the field to brown down.
Dr. Bianca Moebius-Clune, a Cornell University extension associate, outlined the need for soil health through a watchful shifting from plowing to no-till planting of corn, grain and bean crops.
Compaction from years of plowing at the same depths and disking at depths above a plow pan creates two hard layers in the soil's vertical composition. "Good soil drains through a porous structure that provides water and air for crop seeds to germinate and grow," Moebius-Clune said of healthy soil structure.
But to attain this soil health, she suggests that planters gradually change tillage methods. "You can't just quit plowing; farmers must slowly switch to no-till (methods)," she advises.
Working soils too wet in the spring can increase compaction rather than loosen soils for good crop starts. She offered a practical suggestion for gauging when the soil dried enough to work for anyone from the largest commercial farmer to the backyard gardener growing a few tomato and bean plants.
Moebius-Clune recommends squeezing a ball of soil to see if it breaks apart. That is a standard suggestion, but some soils have differing compositions and a soil ball breaks differently with loam, sand or clay bases. She then asks planters to squeeze the ball of soil with just two fingers.
If it breaks apart, the soil is loose enough for planting. If it squishes and holds together, hold off on plowing, tilling or planting," she said.
Molly Stetz, a student intern for Genesee County Soil and Water Conservation did an infiltration demonstration with soils from area farms. Stetz pointed out that this kind of soil test shows how compacted or loose and friable a field's earth actually functions to apply water and drain around crops properly.
Eric Nixon, a certified crop advisor with Western New York Crop Management in Warsaw, does consultant work for the Northeast states and focuses mainly on farmlands in Erie, Wyoming and Genesee Counties.
Nixon began saying, "Worms are a good gauge of soil health," and adding "Stay off wet fields."
Various species of earthworms thrive better in soil that is not plowed or tilled. For this reason, Nixon highly recommends no till or modern versions of "Zone Till" that requires specialized equipment that plows only a narrow planting lane. The blade, most call it a "sub-soiler," can be fixed with a tube to inject liquid fertilizer below the seed planted just below the soil.
Modern versions of these no-till planting devices can be set up for wide rows of commercial plantings or the smallest of quads and field tractors that can be fitted with these planting devices.
As for a soil moisture gauge, Nixon offered a basic suggestion: "If a two-wheel drive pickup can't be driven across the field, don't work the soil."
Nixon offers consulting services for land owners interested in food-plot planting as well as commercial farmers working cash crops. For information about his field services, call (585) 786-5831, email: firstname.lastname@example.com or go to wnycma.com.
The workshop ended with comments and suggestions from Donn Branton of Stafford, one of the most versatile and successful planter/farmers in Western New York. Branton strongly recommends cover crops and incorporating manure into the soil in the fall.
Branton uses weed killers to clear cover crops before spring planting, but he relies on commercial-application experts to make sure his crops, not weeds, flourish on his fields.
He rotates corn and soybean plantings each season and suggests that planters "Leave a test area to measure your successes and failures." As a control, keep a small, empty area or some grass or alfalfa next to a crop to see how good or poorly it grows.
His son, Chad Branton, an avid hunter, said, "Deer will eat just about anything out there, but if you want to keep deer around, plant radishes," a reference to the forage radish.
For more details on planting, environmental quality and soil health, look for programs at the website nrcs.usda.gov.
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GREEN TOWNSHIP - The Raiders toppled the Potters.
The South Range volleyball team earned a 25-12, 25-6, 25-9, victory Wednesday night over visiting East Liverpool.
With the win, the Raiders improve to 11-5 on the season. The loss drops the Potters to 11-6.
"It was not a good night," East Liverpool head coach Bob Shansky said. "South Range played outstanding."
For the Potters, Morgan Campbell tallied eight kills, and Jordyn Adkins delivered nine assists.
South Range won the JV match, 25-22, 25-13.
For the Potters (3-12), Kylie Kreefer finished with four points, Sierra Voorhees recorded nine assists and Sierra Nichols collected four kills.
East Liverpool is scheduled to return to the court at 4:30 p.m. today at Edison. The freshman, JV and varsity teams will all be in action.
"We were not ready tonight," Shansky said. "We are going to get right back at it against an OVAC opponent in Edison. They are having a good season. We really have to turn things around quickly."
Wellsville d. Heartland Christian, 25-13, 27-25, 25-14
WELLSVILLE - The Tigers tamed the Lions.
The Wellsville volleyball team recorded a 25-13, 7-25, 25-14, victory Wednesday night over visiting Heartland Christian.
With the win, the Tigers are now 15-3 on the season. The loss drops the Lions to 12-.
Individually for Wellsville, Shanya Hamilton tallied 23 assists, Maleya Fultz finished with four aces and five kills and Sarah Skinner recorded five kills and five blocks.
Also, McKenna Pierson produced five kills and three assists, Jayla Martin netted 10 kills and two assists and Brittany Clendenning tallied two kills and two blocks.
Finally, Angelica Scarabino ended up with nine points and 11 assists.
"I thought we played very well in the first game," Wellsville head coach Dan McKinstry said. "In the second game, they stepped up. We didn't. Some of that was that they put more pressure on us. We started the third game out well. It is nice to get a couple of wins together."
Wellsville won the JV match, 25-12, 25-9.
For the Tigers (13-4), Mystic Beatty tallied 13 assists, and Ashley Bennett and Rachel Drysdale each recorded five aces and five kills.
Wellsville's next match is today at Sebring.
"We can clinch at least a tie for the lower tier title tomorrow," McKinstry said. "Hopefully, we take care of business."
Wellsville is 9-0 in league play. Columbiana is 8-2.
Edison d. Harrison Central
25-12, 25-18, 25-21
CADIZ - The Wildcats caged the Huskies.
The Edison volleyball team earned a 25-12, 25-18, 25-21, victory Wednesday night at Harrison Central.
With the win, the Wildcats are now 12-6 on the season.
Individually for Edison, Katelyn Pollock collected two aces, five points, 10 kills, two blocks and five digs, Caitlin Brenstuhl tallied five aces, eight points, five kills and 22 assists and Katie Davidson delivered one ace, five kills, eight assists and two blocks.
Also, Cassady Jarvis recorded three aces, four points, three kills and three blocks, Kylie Smith contributed seven points, three aces and three digs and Hannah Johns scored five points to go with five kills.
Finally, Victoria Freeland finished with one dig, and Alexis Gill added two kills.
The Wildcats claimed the Buckeye 8 championship last week when Edison defeated Martins Ferry.
Edison is scheduled to be in action today at home against East Liverpool. The freshman match is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. The JV and varsity matches will follow.
Beavers sweep Red Riders
WEIRTON - The Beaver Local 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams earned a sweep Wednesday at Weir.
The Beavers won the 7th grade match, 25-10, 25-4.
Carmen Kano contributed five points and 13 assists to lead the way for Beaver Local.
Beaver Local won the 8th grade match, 25-12, 25-10.
Grace Beck collected six points to lead the way for the Beavers.
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Beezie Madden of Casanovia, New York has moved up to third position in the FEI/Gandini World Riders Ranking behind 2003 World Cup Winner Marcus Ehning, and Ludger Beerbaum, both of Germany. Swiss rider Markus Fuchs is fourth. This is the first time in recent years that an American rider has been in the top five.
Madden riding Authentic was the highest placed rider at last month's Olympic Show Jumping Selection Trials in California earning her the #1 position on the Short List for the Olympic Team.
Peter Wylde, who has been living and competing in Europe, has moved up to the 9th position in the FEI/Gandini Rankings. Wylde finished second in the Olympic Selection Trials on Fein Cera and was named the #2 rider on the short list for that stellar effort.
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Debbie McDonald of Hailey, Idaho, who was recently named as a discretionary selection to the Short List for the Olympic Dressage Team, is currently in second position in the FEI/BCM World Dressage Rankings behind Germany's Ulla Salzgeber and in front of Anky van Grunsven of the Netherlands. American Lisa Wilcox, who is based in Germany and will be vying for a spot on the Olympic Team, is ranked 6th. The Olympic Dressage Selection Trials are being held over the next two weekends at Oaks Blenheim in San Juan Capistrano, California. Because McDonald and her mount Brentina have already been named to the short list as a discretionary selection she does not have to compete in the trials.


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So, if you find yourself still scratching your head for an idea to capture the spirit of the holiday, the Journal staff suggests that a film or a poem, or possibly a book, might do the trick.
Below is a list of Top Five candidates in each category. However, since we were way underwhelmed by the lists of "Most Romantic Films of All Time" that we came across ("Annie Hall", really?), we picked five of our own.
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• Casablanca (1942)
• Wall-E (2008)
• Australia (2008)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Juno (2007)
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• Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare,
• Love One Another, by Khalil Gibran
• Meeting at Night, by Robert Browning
• My River runs to thee, by Emily Dickinson
• Love's Philosophy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Hanahan Police investigators released the names of the three people arrested Wednesday accused of making meth.
David Hall, 30, William Gilliam, 51, and Shawn Gilliam, 26, were all charged with manufacturing meth, improper disposal of methamphetamine by-products and cruelty to animals.
Hall was also charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Hanahan police officers found methamphetamine and some of the materials used to make the drug after they responded to a house Wednesday morning.
Lt. Mike Fowler of the Hanahan Police Department said officers were called for a report of a disturbance around 5:45 a.m. at 1242 Dickson Ave.
When the officers showed up, Fowler said, they recognized materials in the home that are commonly used to manufacture meth.
The home was evacuated, and narcotics detectives and other experts were summoned to the scene. The investigators later found a small amount of meth, the lieutenant said.
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David Beckham scored his first goal Wednesday as an L.A. Galaxy player.
Wearing his No. 23 shirt, the midfielder – starting in his first game for the Galaxy – scored on a free kick in the 27th minute. Galaxy went on to defeat D.C. United, 2-0, with Beckham assisting U.S. international Landon Donovan, Galaxy's usual captain, with the second goal.
"The free kick was the first I've taken for eight weeks, so it was quite pleasing," Beckham, 32, told the Associated Press afterward. "I felt I was going to score as soon as I had the ball in my hands."
Later the soccer star wrote a message on his personal blog, saying: "It was incredible to finally start the game against D.C. United, but to actually score a goal in my first proper home match was more than I could have hoped for, and an intensely amazing moment for me."
Beckham played until the 63rd minute, and received a standing ovation as he exited the field. A Galaxy trainer immediately attended to Beckham's left ankle, which has long plagued the star's American debut.
"I didn't expect to last an hour but it felt great after 10 minutes into the game," Beckham said. "My confidence got up with my ankle and I was happy to be out there for 60 minutes. Overall, the ankle was a lot better than I thought it was going to be and I felt confident going into tackles."
Beckham's first goal was on the Galaxy's Southern California turf: the Home Depot Center, where a crowd of some 17,220 – including his wife Victoria Beckham – watched.
"The fans were superb all night and I thought we deserved to go through, even though D.C. gave us a few problems and are a very strong team," Beckham also wrote on his blog. "I'm now looking forward to our next game against Red Bull New York and hope to play a part in that. Hopefully, we can build on last night's fantastic result."
Last week, while on D.C. United home turf, Beckham also squeezed in some high-end sightseeing. The new American resident received a very secretive – and very private – tour of the White House last Thursday, reports The Washington Post's "Reliable Source" column. It is not known whether the Brit Beefcake met President Bush.
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David Beckham Scores His First Galaxy Goal
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•originally published 08/16/2007 AT 07:00 AM EDT