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Almost 1,000 voters dropped by Charleston Countys precinct at Leeds and Azalea avenues in North Charleston Wednesday to cast absentee votes, and election officials expect the pace will pick up until Nov. 6.
We expect the numbers to keep going up by 100 or 200 every day, Elections and Voter Registration Director Joe Debney said Wednesday.
Berkeley County also has seen an uptick in absentee voting this week, Berkeley Elections and Voter Registration Director Wanda Farley said.
And Dorchester opened its second absentee precinct this week in Summerville in addition to its original one in St. George to handle the expected surge in voting and to minimize any long waits.
South Carolina does not have early voting per se, but state law allows voters to cast their absentee ballots early if they are older than 65; are working on Election Day and will be unable to vote; plan to be out of town or in the hospital on Election Day; and for several other reasons.
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TULIA - Billie Ray Daniel, 73, died Monday, April 3, 2006.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the 6th & Gaines Church of Christ with Clark Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mr. Daniel was born Aug. 20, 1932, in Hood County. He grew up and attended schools in Paluxy, in Clovis, N.M., and in Tulia.
He served in the National Guard for nine years in Tulia and he also worked for Mid-Plains Rural Telephone Co., Triangle Butane, Young & Ellis for 16 years. Then he owned and operated Bill's Mobile Station, then Bill's Fina Station. After he retired he was a driver for the Panhandle Community Services more than 10 years and also worked for RSVP in Tulia. He was a member of the Tulia American Legion and 6th & Gaines Church of Christ.
He married Charlie Mae Johnson on Jan. 31, 1953, in Clovis, and she died Dec. 27, 1996.
Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law, Joni and Wes Daniel-Ross of Tulia; two sons and daughters-in-law, Kirk and Bonnie Daniel of Tulia and Scott and Kris Daniel of Canyon; a brother and sister-in-law, Kenneth and Maryann Daniel of Granbury; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to the Tulia Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 116, Tulia, TX 79088.
Sign the online guest book at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.
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Ken Pomeroy's Winning Bracket
More than three weeks ago, college-basketball number cruncher Ken Pomeroy calculated that Kansas was the best team in the country, and Memphis was second best. Six games later, Kansas is the national champion and Memphis is runner-up. That earns Mr. Pomeroy a victory in my March Madness contest pitting stats guys against media analysts against the consensus picks of fans. TeamRankings.com took both second and third place among the nearly three dozen brackets I compared, as both the brackets it entered — one based entirely on the site's algorithm, another incorporating teams' momentum — also had Kansas beating Memphis.
So chalk up the results of this contest, like Kansas's championship, to the margin of Derrick Rose's missed free throws and Jason Richards's missed three-pointer. Had Mr. Richards sunk his last-second heave in the Elite Eight, Davidson would have supplanted Kansas in the Final Four. And had Mr. Rose sunk both his free throws for Memphis with under 10 seconds left in the final, the Jayhawks would have lost.
Luck played a role elsewhere for Mr. Pomeroy. "If Wisconsin was in the same region as North Carolina, my system would have picked Wisconsin in the Final Four, which many people might not consider so smart," he told me. Wisconsin lost to Davidson in the Sweet Sixteen.
Another lucky break: Mr. Pomeroy wasn't particularly interested in the contest, so instead, I filled out a bracket using his power ratings the day before the tournament. Had I instead relied on his own breakdown of the bracket published two days earlier on Baseball Prospectus, the Pomeroy bracket would have missed two first-round games — and would have chosen UCLA to beat Memphis in the Final Four. Why the change, when all the relevant teams were idle in the interim? Because teams they had played earlier in the season were involved in other postseason tournaments, and those results nudged the Pomeroy ratings in the right direction on these close matchups. Thus Mr. Pomeroy was joking when he said, "I think this proves without a doubt that I'm the best basketball rater in the land."
The scoring system I chose was particularly sensitive to minor perturbations. All four Final Four teams were No. 1 seeds, meaning the last three games were particularly hard to call. Yet together those games combined to represent one-third of the total number of points available — and made the results all too dependent on a missed Rose free throw. For that reason, runner-up Thomas Federico of TeamRankings urged a separate study of the number of games picked correctly. That measure didn't change the standings much, particularly at the top. Full details are available in a Google Spreadsheet.
Mr. Federico also emphasized the importance of luck: "The ultimate goal is to be within striking distance of the top year in and year out, and sound analysis and strategy can get you there. However, actually taking home the prize and beating the six-year old who picked by team colors often takes good fortune, as well." Still, he thinks his system is the strongest one out there. "Run this contest for the next five years and I am confident we can prove it." Bear this in mind when you hear someone trumpet his successful sports prediction: Even in a data-rich scenario such as the 63-game NCAA tournament, someone can get lucky.
That appeared to be the case for ESPN's Jay Bilas, who finished first among the non-numbers-based analysts. Before the tournament, Mr. Bilas chose Kansas to beat UCLA in the final, and that's the bracket I scored. But once both teams made the Final Four field, ESPN.com showed Mr. Bilas switching his pick, choosing North Carolina to beat Memphis in the final. He's not sure why he switched: "Apparently I did write that. I have no memory of it and no excuse for it."
Mr. Bilas told me there was a data-entry error at ESPN.com, because he stuck with his initial pick on air.*
He added that his bracket would have done even better if he hadn't picked Texas over Memphis unintentionally in the Elite Eight when struggling to fill out his bracket online. "I hit the button, and didn't know how to erase it," Mr. Bilas said. "I didn't have enough time to call anybody" to fix it. (He notes that he picked the Final Four correctly back in November, when they were the top four ranked teams in the country.)
That said, Mr. Bilas isn't overstating the significance of his prognostication. "If we really knew who was going to win, we'd all go to Vegas," Mr. Bilas said. "We wouldn't be on TV."
My number crunchers got another shot when the Sweet Sixteen field was set. Yet none of them picked the correct championship matchup, and only Jeff Sagarin's predictor method, one of three he employed, predicted Kansas would win the title. Mr. Sagarin, who before the contest was reluctant to play as he hadn't filled out a bracket in decades, was gracious about the results: "It's always fun and a tip of the old chapeau to Ken Pomeroy and TeamRankings."
Meanwhile, at AccuScore, which projected Kansas would beat Memphis before the title game, "we are happy we got it right," spokesman Zach Rosenfield said. "It's very difficult to predict the champion as they're so evenly matched," said Chip Yu, of RealTimeRPI.com. Pete Tiernan of BracketScience.com lamented deviating from his site's numerical models. He said he shouldn't have "gone with my gut or tried to be a contrarian." Coke Zero's Bracket-O-Matic fell short by expecting an upset in a year when chalk ruled: "Teams like Xavier were great choices for an upset, but it just wasn't their year, or anyone who wasn't a number one seed," a spokeswoman said.
Further reading: The Wages of Wins Journal also noticed that Mr. Pomeroy's ratings were a solid basis for bracket-picking.
*Correction: Mr. Bilas initially and incorrectly said he hadn't switched his prediction for the championship game, though an ESPN.com article suggested he had. But after this item was posted, he said he had reviewed his email and he had, in fact, switched his prediction.


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SILVERTON - Anna Belle Tipton, 80, died Sunday, July 8, 2001, in Lubbock.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with Mr. Ted Kingery officiating and the Rev. Randy Mullin assisting. Burial will be in Silverton Cemetery by Myers-Long Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Tipton was born on Jan. 20, 1921, at Lexington, Okla. She worked for the A.S.C.S. for 25 years.
She was a member of First Baptist Church.
She married Chafford "C.A." Tipton on Dec. 6, 1939, at Silverton. He preceded her in death on Oct. 29, 1989. She was also preceded in death by a son, David Tipton, on Dec. 31, 1997.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Weldon Ray and Eva Tipton of Colorado City; two brothers, Robert McJimsey of Lubbock and Raymond McJimsey of Lake McKenzie; a daughter-in-law, Reba Tipton of Silverton; a granddaughter; two grandsons; eight great-grandchildren; and several cousins, nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials be to the American Cancer Society.
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In between, the Mets (53-53) stumbled through a 4-1 defeat to the Braves (60-45) in front of 33,030 fans here at Turner Field. For the first time since June 2, the team descended to .500, now 7.5 games out of first place.
Atlanta starter Tim Hudson (12-5, 2.36 ERA) scattered six hits in six innings. Mets starter Johan Santana (8-6, 3.20 ERA) struck out a season-high 11 batters, but the offense never rallied to offset an early deficit. He allowed four runs. A seventh-inning homer by Chipper Jones provided some breathing room for the nasty arms in the Braves bullpen.
After that hiccup, Santana mostly buried the memories of his last start, a seven-run mess against St. Louis. The first inning troubled him then, too. He could not escape danger in the opening frame here, either.
Omar Infante roped a first-pitch fastball into the outfield. After a walk and a fielder's choice, outfielder Matt Diaz doubled to left to open the scoring. He and shortstop Alex Gonzalez both came around to score three batters later, when new addition Rick Ankiel punched a low changeup up the middle.
The Mets finally cobbled together a run four innings later, when Carlos Beltran roped an RBI double with one out. He never left second base. David Wright flew out to center. Ike Davis walked. Jeff Francoeur's pop-up soared and fell into second baseman Omar Infante's mitt.
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The story is familiar: Too many agencies prospect in fits and spurts. Too many agencies are terrible at marketing themselves. Too many agencies don't take the time to build an organized new business process.
Winning new business starts with building a solid pipeline of potential opportunities, which starts with developing and maintaining the three "C's" of business development: consistency of outreach, consistency of messaging and consistency of methodology.
Consistency of Outreach
Being there as much as you can, as often as you can: After all, the "game" is a bit of an aperture marketing game. Today your prospect is fine, tomorrow they have their boss breathing down their neck, or a new initiative demands a new look and fresh ideas. Being there when they are ready to make a move means always being on the radar, not just when you can make the time.
Consistency of Messaging used in Outreach
Just like an advertiser's brand, your "brand" needs to define itself in as compelling and as unique a way it can. Given at the end of the day, all agencies deliver the same "stuff", finding the reasons-to-believe your agency is able to get the prospect to a better place is central to convincing them that you can help. Show them you understand their situation, bridge their situation back to your work and then make a compelling case for why your "way" is better than the next agency on the block.
Consistency of the Methodology used in Outreach
You can have the most outgoing, smartest salesperson in the world working on your behalf and if he/she isn't organized in their approach, doesn't have the right tools to reach out with, doesn't have the right support to help develop lists and messaging and reporting, the program will eventually fall short.
Following the three "C's" is particularly important in today's economy. With fewer opportunities and more agencies knocking on the same door, selling the way you always have it isn't going to win the big contract.
In a recent survey conducted by business development consultancy Reardon Smith Whittaker (www.rswus.com/surveys), 150 agency principals highlighted the consistency of the pain many are feeling in today's market, stressing the need to be better stewards of the three "C's".
Is it just my agency? Doesn't seem to be so. According to the survey, close to 60 percent of those responding state that their business is flat to declining versus a year ago. 51% of agency principals state that winning new business is "harder" or "a lot harder" than it was three years ago, as compared to only 40% agreeing with the statement in last year's survey.
What could be the root cause? When asked, 37% of principals seem convinced that the top reason for the slowdown is the fact that there are fewer opportunities to be had (as a result of company consolidations and lower levels of spending), and that it is increasingly harder to break through to prospects (44%).
With the economy placing ever-increasing pressure on the advertiser's financial performance (see RSW's "A Client's Perspective on Economic Conditions" here), there seems to be ever-increasing pressure on a marketer's time. Company cut-backs result in less time to talk to agencies, and with less time and fewer dollars to be spent on marketing, advertisers are more hesitant to give the agency that simply wants to talk about itself any time. Reach out needs to be compelling, relevant, consistent and on-going. Fresh thinking, best practices, or anything that can add value to the prospect's world will only improve your chances of penetrating and getting on the radar screen.
Is it possible we are doing something wrong? Interestingly, agencies are still relying heavily on referrals and networking as a resource for new business. Anecdotally, we have found that the rate of network and referral opportunities is slowing down-- something that makes sense given the high rate of consolidation and reductions in spend.
What agencies aren't doing a lot of (or maybe not doing effectively) is "prospecting". Only 16% of new business came in via prospecting in 2007 and 2008. This could be a function of the fact that fewer new business managers are being brought on board (36% state they hired a new business manager in the 2008 survey as compared with 48% in the 2007 survey). This could also be a function of the fact that the new business managers being brought on board continue to underperform.
The lower success rates associated with new business managers could be driven by the fact that new business managers overwhelmingly aren't squarely focused on the job of reaching out and prospecting, but are occupied with lots of other activities. While 90% of principals state that their new business manager was/is responsible for "setting meetings" and "cold calling", 60-70% of principals state that they are also responsible for "presenting to prospects," "managing mailings," and "creating presentations."
So what are we to do? Only putting an on again/off again effort against outreach, or letting your new business manager do a lot more than they should be doing to generate opportunities isn't going to help you get your foot in the doors that are getting harder and harder to open.
The key to success lies in following the three "C's". Consistency of outreach, consistency of messaging, and consistency of methodology. Sitting back and waiting for all this economic nonsense to pass and the referrals and network opportunities to pick back up would be a bad course of action.
If you feel that bringing on more overhead and dedicating more time to the effort is simply outside of your capacity at this point in time, consider outsourcing the activity. More agencies are turning to outside resources to support their new business efforts. According to the survey, 31% of agency executives state that they have or do use an outside service to help open doors and set meetings on their behalf. This is up significantly from the 16% that stated the same in last year's survey.
More firms are turning to outsourced services because they are less costly, more focused, and experts at what they do. The good ones know how to manage the three "C's" more effectively than any agency can on its own. The right firm can help you build the consistent, compelling message, the right firm can help you build a well organized, strategic target list, and the right firm can help you maintain the consistency of utilizing a well-oiled, market-proven methodology.
At the end of the day, you didn't get into the ad or PR or design business to be an expert in lead generation. You got into the business to be expert communicators and idea people. In these tough times it may make more sense to keep overhead low, focus on your current clients, and use your new business energies to win prospects handed over to you.
This article was written by Mark Sneider, managing director of Reardon Smith Whittaker, a Cincinnati based lead generation and business development firm that specializes in the business growth of marketing and public relations agencies on a national scale. Mark regularly writes articles about building successful business pipelines geared specifically towards those in the marketing/ PR industry.


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The Chiefs (Law Enforcement) Challenge, Then and Now
By Robert T. Wall, Master Police Officer (Retired), Fairfax County, Virginia; IACP National Challenge Coordinator, 1991-2003; and Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Challenge Coordinator, 1996-Present
n 1984 an organization called Traffic Safety Now was formed for the purpose of gaining support for and passing safety belt laws across the United States. Funded by the automobile manufacturers through their trade association, TSN had great success right away. By the end of the year, several states had coalitions in place and safety belt laws were being passed.
At one point there were safety belt coalitions in all 50 states. Each had the same goal: to save lives on our nation's highways by promoting safety belt use and the passage of safety belt laws.
One state coalition, the Maryland Committee for Safety Belt Use Inc., under the direction of Barbara Beckett, teamed up with the law enforcement officials in 1988 to create the Maryland Chiefs Challenge. This friendly competition increased law enforcement support for traffic safety efforts and honored the agencies that do an outstanding job.
In 1989 the Virginia Auto Safety Alliance followed Maryland's lead and created the Virginia Chiefs Challenge. The Virginia and Maryland coalitions assisted with the organization and production of some of the nation's best law enforcement highway programs.
"To win in the Chiefs Challenge is an honor," said Beckett. "Many of these agencies work very hard to ensure they are doing all they can to make their communities safer, and they appreciate the recognition they get when they do a good job."
IACP Gets InvolvedThe IACP soon noticed the success of these two programs and began looking for a way to involve law enforcement agencies nationwide in the buckle-up message. Chuck Peltier, then an IACP program manager, and the author went to NHTSA and proposed a national competition similar to Maryland's and Virginia's. In 1991 the IACP and NHTSA created and hosted the National Chiefs Challenge. The program received 60 applications and it presented awards at IACP's annual conference that fall.
During the first Challenge competition, Clayton J. Hall, a director at NHTSA and a highway safety leader who helped develop many safety programs, including the Challenge, died. Each year, the program honors him by presenting the Clayton J. Hall Memorial Award to the law enforcement agency that submits the most comprehensive traffic safety program in the competition.
That first year, the Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department won the honor. Other winners of the Hall Award include the California Highway Patrol; the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Police Department; the Boca Raton, Florida, Police Department; the Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Police Department; the New York State Police; the West Point, Virginia, Police Department; the Florida Highway Patrol; and the Washington State Patrol.
Many Partners Working to Improve Traffic Safety Using the public-private partnership model, the IACP Challenge has enlisted corporate partners to help law enforcement save lives. The Ford Motor Company, Nationwide Insurance, Kustom Signals, Code3, Laser Technologies, and many others have stepped up to the Challenge and helped the IACP and many states reward outstanding agencies for their traffic safety efforts.
These corporate partners not only provided resources for the IACP National Challenge, they provided needed equipment and products to the winners of the national and state Challenge programs. Their involvement has helped make a difference in the way law enforcement agencies look at traffic safety and how they prioritize traffic safety efforts.
Today there are 11 state Challenge programs: Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and California. Their partners include state highway safety offices and state law enforcement associations. The state programs have made a huge contribution to the nation's highway safety successes and the IACP National Law Enforcement Challenge, as it is now known.
The IACP Challenge program and all but one of the state programs incorporate speed and DUI to the judging criteria. Today the IACP National Law Enforcement receives more than 300 applications annually.
"This program has brought recognition to the participating agencies and to the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police," said Dana Schrad, executive director of the VACP. "We believe that this program promotes professionalism in traffic safety enforcement and encourages agencies to share best practices and programs with each other. State programs are taking the message to the communities and everyone is a winner. The community, the state, and the nation are safer because law enforcement has accepted the Challenge of making highway safety a priority." ■
From The Police Chief, vol. 72, no. 7, July 2005. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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I think the easiest way is to deport the diskgroup(s) from the original cluster
and make those disks available to the new hosts (attach to new SAN, rezone,
etc). Once the disks are visible and available to the new hosts (cluster),
either manually re-import and/or setup in VCS. You can use the VCS "/etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main.cf"
file to copy the VCS configuration.
New versions of VM will be backward compatible with older diskgroups,
but not the other way around.
Backwards compatibility is dependent on diskgroup versions. The diskgroup
version from your 3.1 diskgroup can be upgraded with the "vxdg upgrade" command
on the new hosts. Upgrading the diskgroup version usually is required to
support new features, but will make the dg only usable with the new version
of VM and above. You typically do not have to upgrade the dg version to use
it. The VCS agent does not care what version a dg is, it uses the local import
command to online.
I would make sure the original cluster has the service groups frozen,
so it does not try to import the dg on those hosts (if SAN is visible to
the old cluster).
# vxdg list newdg
Group: newdg
dgid: 1163455483.25.jokey
import-id: 33792.16
flags: shared cds
version: 90 <<<<<<<<
>I am connected to an EMC San and will need to migrate from two
>clustered servers with VCS 1.3.0 and VxVM 3.1 to two new servers with
>VCS 4.1 and VXVM 4.1. What is the best way to do this? Will I need to
>shut the cluster down and deport/import manually then bring up within
>the new cluster? What if I need to go back - is that possible to go
>back from a system using 4.1 to 3.1?
>julielamothe's Profile: http://unixadmintalk.com/229
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The Wii U will be getting one of the most anticipated games of 2012: Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops 2. The game will have some unique Wii U features, such as local multiplayer where one player uses the GamePad and the other uses the TV. Black Ops on the Wii U will have the full online competitive multiplayer experience that the series is known for.
Activision has released some new screenshots from the multiplayer portion of the game. The screenshots are from the multiplatform version of the game, so what we get on the Wii U will most likely end up looking very close to the screenshots below.
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Well, now we have seen the first set of new programs for Virtue & Moir and Davis & White since the breakup of the Zoueva-Shpilband team. What do you thinK? Is the choreography more ornate at the cost of timing, unison, speed, and precision?
Well, now we have seen the first set of new programs for Virtue & Moir and Davis & White since the breakup of the Zoueva-Shpilband team. What do you thinK? Is the choreography more ornate at the cost of timing, unison, speed, and precision?
Ummm.... I think Die Fleidermaus debuted so freakishly strong last season, such that we tend to ignore that both teams grow their programs over the season. I think both these programs need time to grow because both teams are tackling something they haven't done before (D/W are tackling genuine romantic connection, V/M going for dark and dramatic). Just watch Eleanor Rigby or Il Postino or Funny Face in their early incarnations and you see just how much they reworked/worked those programs to get them at the level they eventually got to.
If they're still struggling in March, I'll agree with you. But for now, I'll withhold judgement.
I'm not so sure Zoueva and Shpilband are as strong seperated as they were together... he's obviously the technical eye in a lot of ways... cleanliness seems to be more his forte... I'm really not a fan of either of the programs they just don't seem to be well thought out... I dunno if they have potential to come together and really gel like they should.
So far, it seems that Zoueva & Shpilband were better together. Zoueva often has flashes of choreographic genius but it doesn't always work and I don't think she is much of a technician. She has hired Oleg Epstein but I don't think he is as good as Shpilband, and even Shpilband had limitations, technically. So both coaches need to find someone with the talent the other has.
Wonder if Shpiliband would have fixed that wonky awkward lift that cost V/M points in the short -- you know, the one where someone said Tessa was hanging like a corpse.
Seems like he's needed now to clean that one up!
No, and one need only look at music. What were Lennon and McCartney without each other--not as good. Would Steven Tyler lose his mojo if Perry's guitar riffs didn't inspire him? They were an amazing team and I liked Igor's team better at SC. I'd give em the gold. Voir's left was a mess, really horrible and you don't see that at top ice dance levels. And I think there were obvious mistakes, and very sloppy skating from Tessa in the FD. They get rep judging all the time. They are the current Torvil and Dean, can do no wrong, except I never saw Torvill and Dean skate that badly.
I preferred the Italians. Meh, the top 5 teams in the world are so good. It is like who should get an oscar. I could never be an Ice dance judge. I have three golds a silver a bronze and 2 pewters! I'd be like the holdout on a hung jury. I could never makje up my mind when all skated clean. heck, I'd flip a coin. What is better-Mahler or Die Fledermaus? It depends what floats your boat. I am for giving the shibs a world gold. I almost wish it was wait your turn like the old days of ID, LOL.
The quality of the choreography and the interpretation is still the same, the variety in the elements is good, but both V/M and D/V now need (for me) a REAL technical coach, like Shpilband was... Their StSq received low levels and they're now having more trouble with the twizzles than they had a year ago... They look less refined, less secure in performing their elements, the ones that received high scores (like the last lift from D/W FD) are the ones they kept from last season, so it's a kind of for me... We'll see, I think it's too early to give a complete judgement.
One caveat in judging either team: Tessa was not well immediately after the FD, and likely was having trouble during it; and Scott hit her by accident early on in the SD, according to interviews. I can't think that anyone should think that their performance at SC wouldn't be affected by that. Consequently, I can't make any comments about their training.
Meryl & Charlie's SD was wonderful, and I was lucky enough to see it live. It's surprising, and manages to give the YP gorgeous silliness it should have while feeling like a ballet. So difficult to pull off! The levels they received in the SD are fairly typical of what they had been getting at the beginning of a season-except that for one of the 2 segments of the YP (the second one), they hit all the key points. Usually, they would not be hitting all the key points this early in the year, so it looks like Maurizio Margaglio did a decent job with them there. The problem with the first sequence of YP may partly be that the ballet toe hopping sequence is too close to it (That toe hopping stuff has to be hard on the legs). A little rest sequence might have been in order. The toe hopping & YP are close so that the program will come to a smashing conclusion, but I think perhaps a little space would have been a good thing. It's a fact that they had a problem with the final lift so that it went overtime, and perhaps some of that was costume related or training related. It's not typical for Davis & White to have any problems with lifts, although it has happened once or twice in their career before. It's possible that Igor would have set that up better.
The FD was again one that was their second FD of the season (they ditched a Sinatra program), so they haven't had as long to train it as you'd hope for. We were rather spoiled by Die Fledermaus, where they appeared like they had had the program for a year at its debut. The Notre Dame de Paris program is pretty good seen live, but I'd perhaps do some tweaking of it, particularly the middle sections.
I think one of the bad effects of no Igor is that there is no one to remind Marina that there are almost no points for "connection", passion, not skating a young love program, etc. Clearly both teams have spent a lot of time working on doing stuff that is non-typical for them, perhaps too much so.
And with both teams having lift problems, I do wonder what's going on there. I thought Johnny Johns did the lifts? And he is still with Marina.
Igor was interviewed by the Russian press about the dance in Skate Canada, and I put up a thread for that. It might be pertinent here, but I thought it deserved its own thread.
Well now we have seen 2 of the 3 Canton teams. It will be interesting to see what the Shibs do. As for D/W and V/M - I will get worried if by the GP final their levels don't improve - then we can hijack Platov from New Jersey...in terms of their lifts both teams have the most difficult by far - so it doesn't surprise me that there are still glitches...but in general I think we need to remember that both teams are trying new elements and that the programs are solid...let's see what the other teams from the DSC bring....
On another note - Shpilband's teams for the moment have been cleaner but you cannot compare the difficulty of programs...
Doris - I agree that Tessa was probably not 100% for the FD but still the overall performance was good...
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Actually you can compare the difficulty of the programs. All teams plan level 4 elements. Always.
Where the difficulty between the teams varies is the transitions. In all the disciplines, I think, the grading of transitions is kind of fuzzy: that is that if you are doing a transition, there isn't a lot of emphasis on whether it was a harder or an easier transition.
In the rules, AFAIR, it's clear that hand in hand skating is considered less hard, but other than that, the grading system, again AFAIR, doesn't really rule on whether waltz hold is harder than kilian hold for example. It just says use a variety of holds, and hand in hand does not count as a variety. In the same way, progressives don't count to speak of as difficult in steps. No one says whether a closed or open choctaw is harder or a bracket or a rocker is harder.
In fact, you will see posters who are knowledgeable disagree heatedly as to what is and isn't a more difficult set of transitions, or steps, or turns, or hold A lot of the time, their comments seem driven by what school of skating they were themselves brought up in, as well as by whom their favorite team is, as much as by their knowledge IMO anyway.
heyhey, I agree the performance was good, but I think the precision of the tech suffered a bit. The discussion here was whether losing Igor for tech made the difference. I tend to think a tummyache made the difference, except possibly in how secure the lifts are. (Maybe the way to make the lifts secure is to change them, something Tessa & Scott will be doing in the SD for sure).
We also have to see what Marina has done with the Shibutani's this season. They skate in Russia and Japan. If they are having the same tech problems in their SD/FD then we can assume this is a Canton problem.
I saw pechalat and bourzat recently and boy they mean business, they are going to push v/m and d/w this year!! Look out!!!!!


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The rare air tastes so sweet. Throughout the season, St. John Neumann coach Paul Petcavage kept telling his players that as they pursued the program's first state championship since 1972. Win a state title and one gains basketball immortality.
Math, Civics and Sciences denied Neumann that dream Tuesday, erupting in the second half and rallying for a 76-53 Class A Eastern Region championship win.
Neumann might not taste that sweetest air but they sure elevated this program. And they sure put themselves up there among the best teams in school history. The Knights (30-1) won 30 straight games, captured division, conference and district championships and reached the state's Final 4 for the first time in 42 years.
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Alize Johnson of St. John Neumann shoots under pressure from Mike Watkins of Math, Civics, and Science in the PIAA Class A semifinal Tuesday night.
What the Knights did is rare indeed.
"It hasn't happened since 1972 so, like coach said, for us to do this is really big," said
Alize Johnson, a statewide Player of the Year candidate. "It's going to push the players that come back next year to want to go farther and want to get a state championship and I hope they do."
"Personally I'd like to get it all but we had a pretty good run," said Kamaal Burkholder, who scored 10 points and grabbed four rebounds off the bench. "I enjoyed myself."
The only way a playoff team ends its season with a celebration is if it wins the state championship. Neumann fell just short but that does not diminish its accomplishments. That does not mean it cannot celebrate once the pain diminishes.
It really is staggering thinking about what this team achieved. Doing just about anything 30 straight times is difficult. But the Knights went out 30 straight times, faced strong teams who wanted to take them down bad and kept winning. Neumann vanquished one strong team after another, including the state's Nos. 2-3 Class AA teams at one point, two district champions, three district runners-up and even a strong team from Maryland.
Neumann also raised the profile of District 4, becoming the first team to reach the Final 4 since Hughesville in 2009. The Knights do not have to apologize for anything. It would be wrong to think about this team for what it did not do. Focus on everything it did do and one cannot help but be impressed.
"Being 30-1 is great too," Petcavage said. "They'll hang a banner in the gym and their names will be on there and that will be great. Hopefully they'll look back and say wow, we were a part of that and we were part of a good team."
Neumann did more in one season than some programs do in decades. It also attracted a passionate following that grew huge as the wins piled up and the road trips mounted. The Knights were the last area team standing and the Greater Williamsport area seemed swept up in what it kept achieving.
Last night's game was a near sell-out. One could nearly count the MCS fans on two hands.
The rest were Neumann fans. That tells one as much about what this team did as the wins and championships do. It is not easy to captivate a community. This team did.
"They love us. Everything is about Neumann," Burkholder said. "It's all Neumann around Williamsport."
"We love everyone that came out tonight to try and help us get the win," said Johnson after recording his ninth straight playoff double-double. "This has been a great time, a great season for Williamsport."
All that is left are the memories. But what a collection those are. From beating Loyalsock for the first time since 2005 for the Heartland Conference championship, to repeating as district champions, to rallying in the fourth quarter for state tournament wins against Phil-Mont Christian and New Hope Academy, this team went on one pretty remarkable journey.
Petcavage said people still remember he and his teammates from 42 years ago. Neumann fans will remember this team just as much, no doubt about it. They will remember Johnson dazzling every night, Richard Allen's all-around brilliance, Kevin Anderson's emergence,
Njoku-Ibe Amanze's thunderous dunks and Ryan Reid's hustle. The list goes on and on just like the team's accomplishments did.
Neumann did not reach the rarest air, but it reached heights so few do. Now, as Fred Shero once said, they will walk together forever.
"We're a family," Burkholder said. "You never forget family."


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All I can do is offer some co-miseration on this issue. I have an R50p
with some flavor of on-board Intel wireless, and it is nearly worthless.
On several occasions, I had it sitting literally directly on top of
the wireless transmitter and it still broke connection every 5 minutes
or so.
Barbara wrote:
> I've owned a T42 ThinkPad since 2004, and the wireless card has never
> worked worth a hoot. It's an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG mini pci
> device. It's there, it's alive and a couple of times while parked at
> a campground or in a coffee shop I've been able to connect using it
> with XP. But I soon gave up, bought a Hawking USB HWU54D adapter
> which is outstanding.... using Windows XP. Can't use the USB adapter
> with OS/2 - eCS.
> I just thought the Intel 2200BG was a puny receiver.
> Then a couple weeks ago, I picked up a refurbished T43 ThinkPad with
> what XP detects as the identical Intel 2200BG card, and it works
> great! I don't yet have eCS or OS/2 installed on it, but from the XP
> perspective I have no trouble connecting to my municipal wireless
> network here in my house. The T42 sitting 4 feet away can't do that.
> Why such a difference? I know many of you own ThinkPads, and wonder
> if you've seen anything similar. Is the T43 built-in antenna better
> or what?
> The T42 is my travel computer, runs eCS 1.2R, and I have Genmac 2.2
> plus WLan 3.10 installed on it working (finally), but it can't pick up
> a signal through the Intel 2200BG here at home. It detects it,
> identifies it, says it's "too weak".
> Would it be worth trying to replace that Intel 2200BG mini-pci card in
> the T42? I would love not having to use Windows for WiFi while
> traveling/camping. I know, I know... travel with the T43. It's
> waiting for (sigh..) eCS 2.0 to arrive.
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Candidates for Albuquerque Mayor hold forumUPDATED 10:41 PM MDT Aug 21, 2013
Two candidates attempting to unseat current mayor, Richard Berry.Video Transcript
MOMENTS - TONIGHT'S MAYORAL FORUM INCLUDING ALL THREE CANDIDATES FOR THE CITY'S TOP JOB - GOT A LITTLE TENSE. NEW AT TEN--- ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER MELISSA COLORADO HAS THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM TONIGHT'S POLITICAL FACE-OFF. TAKING CENTER STAGE - TWO MEN VYING TO UNSEAT ALBUQUERQUE MAYOR RICHARD BERRY AT WEDNESDAY'S MAYORAL FORUM. FORMER PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR AND DEMOCRAT PETER DANELLI. peter Danelli: are we better off today than we were 4 years ago and the answer is no, we are not! RETIRED APD OFFICER PAUL HEH. paul Heh: "this city is awash with heroin and oxycotin! THE INCUMBENT RICHARD BERRY STUCK TO THE STATS. mayor Berry: the violent crime in ABQ went down. Says who? Says the FBI! TONIGHT'S AUDIENCE - THE TOP FEMALE BUSINESS LEADERS IN THE DUKE CITY. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS HANDPICKED THE TOPICS. AMONG THEM - THE MINIMUM WAGE HIKE. paul Dinelli; the minium wage should be paid by those owners. the fact is, the likelihood, its going to be passed on to the consumer HEH SAID IF HE WAS ELECTED MAYOR, HE WOULD SIDE WITH RESTAURANT OWNERS. Heh: i don't believe the city of Albuquerque has any business supporting that employee that is suing that employer ONE MAJOR QUESTION - WHAT WILL EACH CANDIDATE DO TO BRING MORE JOBS? DANELLI'S PLAN TO RENERGIZE ALBUQUERQUE IS TO STREAMLINE THE CITY'S FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERS. danelli: getting rid of red tape and trying to assist small businesses because those are the true job creators MAYOR BERRY EMPHASIZED THE NEED FOR IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE. mayor Berry: paseo and i25, convention center upgrades to make sure that tourism takes a bigger foothold in our city HEH'S PROPOSAL...... CAPITALIZE ON THE CITY'S HISTORY. HIS IDEA - LINE ROUTE 66 WITH VINTAGE CARS. paul Heh: why not a huge classic car show? invite the world! melissa Colorado: 3 candidates. 6 questions. But where their answers enough to sway the voters in this room? SOT wendy Foxworth: it didn't really address women directly in terms of leading business THREE VISIONS FOR THE CITY. ON OCTOBER 8TH, VOTERS WILL DECIDE WHOSE ITS GOING TO BE. IN ABQ. MC K7 ALL THREE CANDIDATES WILL TAKE PART IN ANOTHER FORUM MONDAY. THE DONA ANA COUNTY CLERK TAKES
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2012 NBA Summer League Schedule Announced
NEW YORK, June 14, 2012 The 2012 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas will feature a record 24 teams competing in a 60-game schedule July 13-22 at the Thomas & Mack Center and the COX Pavilion on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
The 2012 NBA Summer League will showcase 13 of the top 14 picks in this years NBA Draft. The action tips off at 1 p.m. PT, Friday, July 13, with the Atlanta Hawks playing the Washington Wizards in the first of four scheduled games that day at COX Pavilion. Other teams participating in opening day action include the Charlotte Bobcats, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors. Gatorade will support the 2012 NBA Summer League and serve as an Associate Partner.
NBA TV will televise all 60 games, including 39 live from both the Thomas & Mack Center and COX Pavilion. Games will also be available on digital platforms. Complete broadcast information will be released at a later date.
The New Orleans Hornets, who have the top selection in this years draft, will tip off their Summer League competition on Sunday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. PT, when they face the Portland Trail Blazers, owners of the sixth and 11th overall picks in the 2012 NBA Draft. An additional four teams with top-five selections in the 2012 NBA Draft, including the Bobcats, selecting second overall; the Wizards, who own the third overall selection; the Cleveland Cavaliers, who pick fourth; and the Sacramento Kings with the fifth pick.
NBA Summer League provides fans from around the league the unique opportunity to see some of the NBAs brightest young stars competing in one location in a family-friendly environment, said Gail Hunter, NBA Senior Vice President of Events and Attractions.
Exciting games featuring the NBAs newest talent have always been a staple at NBA Summer League. Six of the last seven NBA Rookie of the Year Award winners have joined their teams in Las Vegas including: Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets, 2005-06), Brandon Roy (Portland Trail Blazers, 2006-07), Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City, 2007-08), Tyreke Evans (Sacramento, 2009-10), Blake Griffin (L.A. Clippers, 2010-11) and Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers 2011-12).
Additional teams participating in the event include the Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, Toronto Raptors and NBA D-League Select team. The Boston Celtics and Bobcats, who have not participated in the event since 2007 and 2008, respectively, will make their returns to Las Vegas this year.
Tickets for the 2012 NBA Summer League are on sale and can be purchased by calling 702-739-FANS, through UNLVtickets.com or by visiting the Thomas & Mack Center Box Office and UNLV Ticket Outlets. All general admission tickets are $25 for the day; seniors and children (3-12) are $15 for the day; and children two years and under are admitted free of charge.
|2012 NBA Summer League Game Schedule
All times Pacific
Friday July 13
COX Pavilion
1 PM Atlanta vs. Washington
3 PM Houston vs. Toronto
5 PM Golden State vs. LA Lakers
7 PM Sacramento vs. Charlotte
Saturday July 14
COX Pavilion
1 PM Memphis vs. New York
3 PM Golden State vs. Denver
5 PM LA Lakers vs. Sacramento
7 PM Houston vs. Washington
Sunday July 15
COX Pavilion
1 PM New York vs. Phoenix
3 PM Denver vs. Dallas
5 PM San Antonio vs. Atlanta
7 PM Washington vs. NBA D-League
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM Toronto vs. Miami
5:30 PM Cleveland vs. Charlotte
7:30 PM New Orleans vs. Portland
Monday July 16
COX Pavilion
1 PM Atlanta vs. Boston
3 PM Dallas vs. Toronto
5 PM Cleveland vs. NBA D-League
7 PM LA Clippers vs. Minnesota
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM Houston vs. Sacramento
5:30 PM LA Lakers vs. Miami
7:30 PM Milwaukee vs. New Orleans
Tuesday July 17
COX Pavilion
1 PM Denver vs. New York
3 PM Washington vs. Memphis
5 PM Portland vs. Houston
7 PM Chicago vs. Boston
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM San Antonio vs. LA Lakers
5:30 PM Cleveland vs. Phoenix
7:30 PM Minnesota vs. Charlotte
Wednesday July 18
COX Pavilion
1 PM Milwaukee vs. Washington
3 PM Chicago vs. Houston
5 PM Atlanta vs. Dallas
7 PM San Antonio vs. LA Clippers
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM Sacramento vs. Toronto
5:30 PM New Orleans vs. Phoenix
7:30 PM Golden State vs. Miami
Thursday July 19
COX Pavilion
1 PM New York vs. Toronto
3 PM Portland vs. Atlanta
5 PM Cleveland vs. Minnesota
7 PM NBA D-League vs. Milwaukee
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM Boston vs. Sacramento
5:30 PM LA Clippers vs. LA Lakers
7:30 PM Charlotte vs. Denver
Friday July 20
COX Pavilion
1 PM New York vs. Cleveland
3 PM Denver vs. Portland
5 PM Miami vs. San Antonio
7 PM NBA D-League vs. Phoenix
Thomas & Mack
3:30 PM Memphis vs. Charlotte
5:30 PM Chicago vs. Golden State
7:30 PM Dallas vs. New Orleans
Saturday July 21
COX Pavilion
1 PM Portland vs. Miami
3 PM Dallas vs. San Antonio
5 PM NBA D-League vs. Minnesota
7 PM Memphis vs. Phoenix
Thomas & Mack 3:30 PM Golden State vs. New Orleans
5:30 PM Chicago vs. LA Clippers
7:30 PM Milwaukee vs. Boston
Sunday July 22
COX Pavilion
1 PM Chicago vs. Milwaukee
3 PM Boston vs. LA Clippers
5 PM Memphis vs. Minnesota
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Resolve to eat better in 2012
Our family spent New Year's Eve in Costa Rica, where the sun shined, the people smiled, and the days were filled with swimming, surfing, fishing and jungle adventures.
A fair amount of food was needed to fuel the bodies of nine adults and eight children, ages 7 to 12. So there was always plenty of food to prepare. But we were also in Costa Rica, where meat is relatively expensive and not always the largest item on your plate.
When we had breakfast after surfing, the beach-side restaurant served a Tico (local slang for Costa Rican) breakfast, which featured black beans and rice with eggs, two pieces of sausage and coffee ($1, includes refill). The largest serving on the plate was the black beans. They were delicious, full of protein and low in fat.
With so many hungry mouths to feed, we relied on local ingredients, such as fish (dorado, corvina reina, cochino and tuna) and chicken and lots of side dishes, such as black beans and rice, guacamole, salsa, grilled pineapple, watermelon, and flour and corn tortillas. Limes provided most of the acid in our dressings (not to mention in the drinks). Garlic and jalapeno gave most of the flavoring.
One night's meal was grilled chicken and fish, served with rice, beans, tortillas, salsa, guacamole and cucumber salad. The next day's lunch was leftover chicken, with a local cheese on tortillas, rice and fresh fruit.
This region of Costa Rica had a significant Asian influence, seen in both the restaurants and the grocery stores. So our fish dish one night was marinated in ginger, soy, lime and garlic and oven roasted (pan fry to get a crust on the outside -- about 1 to 2 minutes per side -- and then finish in the oven for about nine minutes at 350 degrees). It was served with a thin spaghetti salad with red peppers, onions and cucumbers and tossed with the same ingredients as the marinade, but finished with 2 tablespoons of sesame oil and several tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds.
The fish serving was small, maybe 2 ounces, and the rest of the meal was rounded out with grilled pineapple and a sliced avocado salad.
Local hot sauces were on the table at all meals (including breakfast).
The idea in Costa Rica is the same as in Erie. Stick with local ingredients. Have a plan. And cook enough for the next day's lunch, whether packed or eaten at the house.
Here's to a healthy, happy and hearty 2012!


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Skip to comments.2011 NFL WEEK TWO LIVE THREAD
Posted on 09/18/2011 8:51:24 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
Sunday, September 18th, 1:00PM ET
Oakland at Buffalo
Green Bay at Carolina
Kansas City at Detroit
Cleveland at Indinapolis
Tampa Bay at Minnesota
Chicago at New Orleans
Jacksonville at NY Jets
Seattle at Pittsburgh
Baltimore at Tennessee
Arizona at Washington
Dallas at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Denver
Houston at Miami
San Diego at New England
Philadelphia at Atlanta
Monday, September 19th, 8:30PM ET
St. Louis at NY Giants
The drop-dead lock of the day: the Steelers will pound the snot out of poor Seattle today.
Eggs Benedict and GO BEARS GO!!!
Go Bolts!!! Beat the Patsies!
"Go Bolts!!! Beat the Patsies!"
How dare you?!
Hey GRRRRR...how you been FRiend?
long summer, Cubs....need I say more?
NOT liking this Cry Baby Jay Cutler
What a beautiful day for a football game!
Way to go Steelers!!!
Manning-less Indy can go 0-2 (Cle up 27-12 2 min to go)
Detroit to start 2-0 (leads KD 48-3 nr end of game)
(now a final?)
Raiders TD to take lead back OAK 35 BUF 31, just over 2 min left ball on Oak 42 or so (1:53 now left)
48-3 Final Detroit vs. KC...this FINALLY could be the year for Detroit.
CBS just cut away from the Raiders-Bills game with 27 seconds to go in order to show the beginning of the San Diego game!!
"We now leave this game due to contractual obligations"...
going to Game Channel
4th an 1
Buf on Oak 6
18 sec left
Bang. Touchdown Bills 14 sec to go
37-35 14 sec left
Fitzpatrick to Nelson for 6 yr TD says Game Channel
extra pt good
38-35 Buff 14 sec to go
Oh sure, but I got to see Rivers throw some incomplete passes.
1st and 10 raiders at the Oak 44
6 sec left
Colts REALLY missing Manning right now.
I thought the Pats looked pretty good tonight, playing against one of the better teams in the NFL...
Gadzooks, big! I am at 11-3 for the day, now just kicking back... after a busy weekend, wounded in action at the gun show.
So, all you Romo Haters, How's 'bout... them Cowboys!
Wounded in action??? What... happened, Bend?
I spilled blood, my blood, Marvin. Cutting my hand... twisting off a cap on my 32nd beer!
Whoa, Bendy? Doesn't that much beer effect your aim... at the gun show?
Not the way... I shoot, big!
Go, Falcons... GO!!!!!!! Put Vick back in the doghouse--
"How dare you?!"
Yep, that one didn't work out too well for me. ;-/
Tom Brady looks sharp as ever, darn it. At any rate, perhaps we'll have another shot in the playoffs. =:-D
What a game!
Went to the Bills game with my daughter. It was her first NFL game. The weather, the game, the family - it was just perfect. I will never forget this day for the rest of my life. Go Bills! (PS, Maybe something good CAN come out of Harvard)
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That Time I Forgot I Was MarriedChaunie Brusie
A few months ago, a supervisor at the hospital where I work occasionally as a labor and delivery nurse called me back into her office.
"Chaunie, I need you to sign some papers," she said seriously to me over the phone.
Fearing the worst, I gulped nervously and headed down the hallway.
When I walked in, she gestured to some paperwork sitting on the table in front of her.
"Take a look at that," she said, smiling slightly. "Is that from you? I need to make sure…"
Confused, I peered over her shoulder and gazed at the paperwork, where I saw my usual hastily scribbled signature.
Except there was just one problem with it.
I had signed my maiden name. Even though I have been married for over five years.
I can honestly say that I never really seriously entertained the thought of not taking my husband's last name when we got married. Sure, I admit that I had to occasionally give my husband flak for the tradition that basically originated from a time when women were considered property of men (how romantic, huh?), but when it came right down to it, I didn't have a problem changing my name.
In peering down at the last name I hadn't seen in so many years, I had to wonder though—was my subconscious trying to tell me something? Did I, in fact, harbor some deep-seeded resentment at being forced to abandon what was, essentially, a piece of who I was?
When you really think about it, asking a woman to change her last name when she gets married is really asking a lot.
That's a name that we've spent our whole lives perfecting.
Living up to.
Building up.
Writing in cursive on our elementary papers, making out our first checks, leaning in to before leaning in was cool.
And then, suddenly, just like that—it vanishes.
Some women, like Mandy Walker of Your Tango, openly regret taking their husband's name at marriage. And some of us, like me, really don't consider the alternative.
Until you happen to accidentally scribble your maiden name on some work paperwork and have to wonder—
Whatever happened to that girl?
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Eat a high sugar (low fat) diet. Problem solved.
Hello all!
I joined this forum a couple years ago and have been rather inactive beyond reading and pondering on information provided by others. Recently I have come across a question that I would love some insight on...
Sugar addiction- It's been quite clear to me for some time that this is getting in the way of any success I wish to have. Even fruits tend to open up the gateways to much more destructive sugary substances. So it's time to ditch these treats, as even moderation is not an option for me! I have tried (probably on a weekly basis) for what feels like years to rid my diet of sugary substances but to no avail. Usually by a week or so on a low carb regiment (meats, vegetables, healthy fats) I feel extremely fatigued, depressed, and my muscles depleted (and this is without strenuous exercise). Even with the occasional sweet potato added in the outcome remains the same. More than anything I wish to reverse my dependence on sugar. If anyone has any tips or advice I would greatly appreciate it!
Eat a high sugar (low fat) diet. Problem solved.
Sounds like you're not making it out of the carb flu before you start having more carbs. I would say, go 100% VLC for a month, and see if it passes finally. Otherwise, I would assume you have other issues, possibly endocrine in nature.
Peak weight on Standard American Diet: 316.8 lbs
Initial Weight When Starting Primal: 275 lbs
Current weight: 210.8 lbs
Goal weight: 220 lbs (or less): MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
The way "ChooseMyPlate.gov" should have looked:
Where are the sugar treats coming from? Maybe restrict your food purchases to once a week and bring a list.
If VLC backfires for you then include more nourishing carbohydrate, e.g. a roasted kabocha is tasty but nobody goes into a frenzy after eating it.
My peculiar nutrition glossary and shopping list
When people feel depressed in carb flu, I generally don't think low carb is a good idea, but that is up to the individual. I would say try some starchy carbs, like potatoes and rice, so you aren't low carb, but take it easy on the fruit for now.
Also, check out the 21 Day Sugar Detox.
Depression Lies
Stop buying the sugar. If you're eating it, it's got to come from somewhere.
F 28/5'4/100 lbs
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath; do your research."
+1 for the 21 Day Sugar Detox
I'm starting it on Monday!
Needing some accountability, so here's my stats:
34yrs old, 5'5"
CW: 163lbs (07/2014)
GW: 135lbs or less
Eating mainly paleo, but including a bit of white rice (don't call the Paleo Police!)
Very great ideas and thoughts everyone so thank you. I think I'll just have to keep working with some trial and error and see what happens. The worst part of going low carb for me is extreme insomnia. Not sure if anyone else gets this as well but it makes sticking to the plan very difficult! Thanks again I appreciate all the thoughts and opinions and am looking forward to trying again and again until I get it right!


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Thursday, June 13, 2013
After some rainouts, the two Summerville American Legion Baseball Junior teams went head-to-head Tuesday.
Summerville Green, the older of the two teams, handed Summerville Gold a 14-6 loss. Summerville Green only had one more hit than its opponent, but committed fewer errors and walked fewer batters.
Chad Mathis picked up the pitching win after throwing two innings and allowing only two hits and only one walk. He also had a triple that led to a Green run.
Hundley McCurry drove in four runs for Summerville Green and Andrew Kenny drove in two. Trevious Tucker and Kyle Smith both scored two runs, had an RBI and reached base three times.
Summerville Gold leadoff hitter Ben Turner was 2 for 3 at the plate with two runs scored. Johnny Watts was 2 for 2 with an RBI and a run scored. Trent Brewster drove in three runs for the Gold team.
Summerville Green got off to a fast start, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. Smith singled to plate Tucker and open the scoring. McCurry singled to drive in Steven Dibble and Smith and then Andrew Kenny drove in courtesy runner Reilly Hagan.
Summerville Gold cut the lead in half in the bottom of the frame. Brendon Case drove in leadoff hitter Ben Turner with a sacrifice fly and Olin McCurry plated Bennett Reeves.
But Summerville Green added a pair of runs the next inning and scored seven in the third to take a 13-2 lead.
Kenny and Tucker had an RBI single in the third and McCurry plated two runs when he reached on an error.
Summerville Gold scored three runs in the bottom of the frame off an error, a double by Watts and a bases-loaded walk. The scoring slowed considerably after that inning and the game was called in the top of the fifth due to a lighting storm.
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One Million Moms Protests 'The Fosters' For Trying to 'Desensitize America and Our Children by Promoting Inappropriate Behavior'
The American Family Association's One Million Moms is asking members to contact advertisers on "The Fosters," a show about a lesbian couple raising adopted, biological and foster children, and demand that they drop the program for "attacking my faith, morals and values."
"Not only is this program insulting to conservative viewers and traditional families," the sample email to advertisers reads, "but it also focuses on a controversial subject that your company would probably not desire to be associated with."
The group claims that the show's emphasis on helping foster children is offset by the attempt to "redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together" and "desensitize America and our children by promoting inappropriate behavior, especially on a family channel."
ABC Family Channel has several anti-family programs and has now added to that growing list. ABC Family's new show "The Fosters" is about a lesbian couple and their diverse family. Adding this program to a lineup that already includes "Pretty Little Liars," "Twisted," "Daddy Baby" and "The Lying Game" many demonstrates to families that ABC Family Channel is anything but family-friendly. But, because "family" is part of the network's name, we thought a warning should be sent out to anyone who continues to watch the channel.
New episodes will air on Monday evenings at 9:00pm ET/8:00pm CT. In addition, frequent promos are airing for this new series. Families should avoid the network completely; otherwise, you run the risk of viewing a commercial for this new, offensive program.
ABC Family's show "The Fosters" is about two women raising a multi-ethnic mix of foster and biological kids. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together. Unacceptable content in the first episode included one foster child as an inmate in a juvenile detention center, sneaking and selling prescription drugs to earn money, a lesbian couple kissing on the mouth and snuggling in bed together, mentioning they are gay multiple times and purchasing condoms for their eldest son. …
Please send an email letter to the sponsors of this week's program "The Fosters." This week's national sponsors were: Olive Garden, Pier 1 Imports, Popeye's, Wendy's and Royal Caribbean.
Urge advertisers to place it on their "do not advertise" list in protest of the attempt to desensitize America and our children by promoting inappropriate behavior on a family channel.
As a parent and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, I strongly encourage your company to drop all plans of financially supporting the inappropriate ABC Family Channel program "The Fosters." This show is degrading to families and damaging to our culture.
I am appalled that your company is supporting a show that features homosexuality in a positive light on a family channel. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together. The content of this program also includes violence involving children, children selling drugs and parents purchasing condoms for their children so they can practice casual sex before marriage. Obviously, none of this material is acceptable to air on a family show.
While your company is a household name, I do not agree with your financial backing of this program. As a Christian, I feel you are attacking my faith, morals and values. Not only is this program insulting to conservative viewers and traditional families, but it also focuses on a controversial subject that your company would probably not desire to be associated with.
As a consumer, I am asking you to please pull your ad immediately and to support traditional family values and family-friendly programming instead. My decision to support your company depends on it.
I urge your company to place "The Fosters" on your "do not advertise" list in protest of attempting to desensitize America and our children by promoting inappropriate behavior, especially on a family channel.
My family and I look forward to your response.
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Friday, 4 January 2013
More On The Deeply Unpleasant Muslim Mehanna Family of Western Sydney, And Their Attempts to Claim Victimhood After Attacking Police Who Sought To Prevent Them Disturbing The Peace
Sydney's Daily Telegraph has much, much more than the ABC chose to tell its readers about the nature of this little affaire, previously remarked upon by me, and the aftermath. If you click on the link you will see be-hijabbed mama.
'Dad, triplets granted bail after brawl in Bankstown'
'A father and his four children involved in a brawl with police which allegedly included a mother throwing punches, malfunctioning tasers and "hammer blows to the face" have been granted bail.
'Five members of the Mehanna family faced court yesterday charged with a fight with at least 13 police on the driveway of their Bankstown home after midnight on Wednesday.
'Three police were hospitalised and four others injured in the wild brawl on Ogmore Court.
'Police were initially called to the home to investigate a "domestic dispute" the court heard.
'A sixth family member, the m other, Rafah, 41, was arrested following the fight but was taken to Bankstown Hospital before being ordered to front court on January 13.
'The father, Mohamed, 46, and his three 18 year old triplets - sons Ali and Hussain, and daughter Zainab - were granted bail in Parramatta Local Court yesterday.
'They are all charged with affray, assaulting police, hindering police and resisting arrest.
'Ali was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
'The four were released after police prosecutors did not oppose them being granted strict conditional bail.
'Another child, Adel, 21, was granted $5000 bail after police opposed him being released.
'All were ordered to face Bankstown Local Court on January 24.
'Police prosecutor Karlo Haralovic told the court that Adel was already on bail for separate charges including drug possession, assaulting and resisting police and had two good behaviour bonds "hanging over him" at the time of the incident.
Bear those details in mind, when we get to the stories in which we hear the Mehanna family whining and crying 'victim' and trying to pretend to be sweet little innocent lambs. - CM
'Adel's barrister Greg Heathcote told the court there were "two sides to the story" and said there was "excessive force by police".
There were more and worse injuries among the police than among the arrestees. That settles it for me; the police did what they had to do, having been set upon by a bunch of Mohammedans running amok. - CM
'Magistrate John McIntosh granted bail but said police had "an obligation" to go to the house once a domestic dispute complaint was made. "If they don't carry out their duties, they will be criticised. If they do carry out their duties, they will be criticised", Mr McIntosh said.
'According to police documents tendered to the court, three of the children yelled at police who arrived at the house: "f*** off you dogs. ('Dogs', eh? Infidel dogs? This is one of the standard Muslim insults hurled at any non-Muslim qua non-Muslim. - CM). "We don't need youse. Get the f*** off our property".
'Police entered the house where they saw the mother and the teenage daughter "yelling at each other", the fact sheet said.
Hmmm. What if the arrival of the police averted an 'honor' murder? What if the neighbour/s - non-Muslim neighbours? - who called the police, were afraid that something of that kind might have been going to happen? In one of the photos I saw, the mother was wearing the Slave Hood but the daughters were not. - CM
'When more police arrived, Ali allegedly punched one in the eye "unprovoked" before he jumped on another officer and drove his head into the ground, knocking him out briefly, the fact sheet said.
'When more family members joined in, a lengthy brawl broke out (that is, the entire family shelved their original violent internecine dispute and turned their rage outward upon the Infidels to hand - CM) where police tasers malfunctioned at least three times, the fact sheet said.
'At least 13 officers rushed to the scene and some used "torch strikes" and OC spray in an attempt to control the situation, the fact sheet said.
'Another officer "issued two hammer strikes" to the mother's face after being "overpowered and repeatedly assaulted" by the 41 year old, the fact sheet said.
'The family have accused police of being heavy handed in the brawl.
Rubbish. Given the outcome - three members of this charming bunch of Mohammedthugs very lightly injured, seven police injured of whom three needed to be seen to in hospital - I think the police should probably be commended for exercising extraordinary restraint, all things considered. And it is quite, quite plain that the Muslims attacked first in what amounted to an ambush. - CM
'The five spent the night in holding cells at Penrith Police Station before being released yesterday. Outside court the family's lawyer Gus Dib (Who wants to bet that that innocuous sounding 'Gus' was adopted in place of a resoundingly Mohammedan forename? - CM) said that the mother sustained a 'black eye' during the brawl.
Your hellcat attacked police, mate. If she had not attacked police, she would be fine. - CM
"It's been a long 48 hours for them, and they're quite drained and looking forward to coming home", Mr Dib said.
Cue the world's smallest violin...Me, I have no sympathy for them whatsoever; the only people I feel sorry for are the policemen who got bitten, jumped on and king-hit. And I am also sorry for any non-Muslim neighbours that these Mohammedans may have.
The AAP report, in The Australian, has a bit more, which makes it quite, quite plain that the Muslims started it. Click on the link to see mama in her hijab.
'Family Accused of Police Assault'
Sic: 'Muslim Family Accused of Assaulting Police', would make more sense. - CM
'Mohammed Mehanna and his 18 year old triplets Ali and Zainab Mehanna and Hussain Mehanna are charged with affray, assaulting police and resisting police.
'Police allege the four and another two family members assaulted officers after they responded to a domestic incident at a Bankstown home, in the city's southwest, about 12.30 am yesterday.
'As police were in the driveway preparing to leave, a family member allegedly punched a probationary constable, giving him a black eye, police said.
'The remaining family members allegedly joined the assault on the officer before other officers came to his aid.
'Appearing via audio visual link from Penrith jail in Parramatta bail court yesterday, the father and triplets were granted strict conditional bail. The four are required to report to police twice a week, and must reside in their Bankstown address...".
And now for what one Rashida Yusufzai, writing for the reliably Islamophile Sydney Morning Herald, chose to report. - CM
'Police used 'excessive force': NSW family'.
'A Western Sydney family accused of assaulting police say "excessive force" was used against them by officers responding to a domestic dispute.
'Five members of the Mehanna family appeared in court on Thursday charged in relation to a brawl with police who were responding to reports of a domestic dispute.
'Police allege one family member punched a probationary constable in the face before others joined in at the family's home in Bankstown...
'A further six officers called to the scene were also injured. Two, along with the constable, were later taken to hospital.
'On Thursday, 46 year old father Mohamad Mehanna and his 18 year old triplets Ali and Zainab Mehanna and Hussain Mehanni were granted bail...
'Another sibling, 21 year old Adel Mehanna, who is charged with affray and resisting police, was granted bail in a separate hearing.
'Appearing for Adel Mehanna, defence lawyer Greg Heathcote told the court there were "two sides to the story" and police had reacted "excessively" in dealing with the matter.
"The case of the defence in all matters is excessive force by police", he told the court.
The impression that I have got is exactly the reverse. I, of course, knowing what I do about the all-pervasiveness of deceit in Muslim culture and ideology, am far more inclined to trust the word of the police than of the Mohammedans involved. - CM
'He said Mehanna had pushed an officer after seeing police "assaulting" his family, but did not cause any injuries.
'Prosecutors opposed bail, arguing Mehanna had prior police assault charges, and five for breach of bail conditions.
"He is no stranger to the criminal justice system. Police were simply doing their job", police prosecutor Carlos Haralovic told the court.
'Appearing agitated, Mehanna interjected as the prosecution put forward its case.
"You are going to make things worse. It was a family argument between two girls
Actually, according to the police, it was the mother and one of the daughters. And it was loud and violent enough that it frightened the neighbour/s into calling the police. - CM
"and police pepper-sprayed my f***ing family. That's my whole f***ing family."
Observe that he mentions only the argument and the pepper-spray, trying to give the impression that the police simply charged in and sprayed everyone; when they were, in fact, about to leave when unexpectedly attacked...by the Muslims. The pepper-spray, according to the police account, was deployed only toward the end, when police were being attacked by everybody at once. - CM
'Relatives of the family were visibly upset, with some crying as magistrate John McIntosh asked Mehanna to stop interrupting proceedings.
Muslim theatre of victimhood. - CM
"Police have to attend the scene of disputes. They are simply doing their duty to prevent crimes from happening", Mr McIntosh told the court.
'Outside the court solicitor Gus Dib, acting for the Mehanna family, said the family felt hard done by police.
Cry me a river. - CM
"It's a very sad day for them. A domestic disturbance attended by police has turned into a very sad day for both parties."..
But for the full-length Muslim whine from the unpleasant Mehannas, see this item from Robert Ovadia of 7 News, Sydney.
'Brawl Family Say 'Police Started It'.
Of course they would. But I don't believe them. I believe our Aussie Infidel police. - CM
'A Sydney father and his four children (that is, a Muslim man from Sydney and his four children - CM) have been freed on bail, during a court appearance, over Tuesday's Bankstown brawl.
'Along with his wife, they are all charged with bashing police, but they've told Seven News the officers started it.
'As son, Hussein Mehanna, walked free on bail he said police hit his mother and took her scarf off.
That all happened after she had jumped all over a police officer, overpowering him; go up to the top of this posting and re-read the reports I've already reproduced and you'll see it there. - CM
'"This is racism, discrimination, everything," Mehanna said.
No it isn't, you snivelling thug. Your dear mama attacked a police officer and had in fact overpowered him; she appears to have been continuing to try to hurt him. She was not hit until after she did that. If any other woman of any ethnicity or religion attacked a police officer like that, she would get what your mother got; she would be subjected to as much force as was necessary to get her off her victim and prevent her from doing any more damage. If her Slave Hood came off in the process, who cares? Not me. - CM
"Too much aggressive force. They shouldn't be doing this. They bashed me and my family for no f***ing reason. No reason at all."
Tell that to thecop who got hit in the face, out of the blue, as he and his colleagues were preparing to leave. And then got jumped on by the rest of your violent family. It was that cop who got bashed for no reason, no reason except that he was an Infidel and, to boot, represented the law enforcement arm of a non-Muslim polity. - CM
'Hussein's father says the family is being victimized.
"We don't do nothing wrong, okay? That's what. Thank you very much. Please", Mohammed Mehanna said.
'Nothing'? To recap, from one of the other reports above, "Police prosecutor Karlo Haralovic told the court that Adel [Mohammed Mehanna's son] was alredy on bail for separate charges including drug possession, assaulting and resisting police, and had two good behaviour bonds "hanging over him" at the time of the incident". Adel also had, according to another of the reports, 'prior police assault charges, and five [charges] for breach of bail conditions'. - CM
'All of them claim a brawl at their home on Tuesday night, in which seven police officers were injured, was started by police.
'Officers allege the fight erupted only when an officer was king-hit.
'They had been called to an argument so volatile that neighbours were scared someone would get hurt...".
I would like to know whether the neighbours who called the police were Muslim or non-Muslim. My money is on their being non-Muslim.
There may, of course, be another possibility: that the whole thing was a setup and the police were ambushed.
Whether the 000 call was made by a neighbour genuinely frightened by a genuine (non-staged) argument, or whether it was made by someone helping draw police into a trap, I would not be at all surprised if this case is parlayed into a massive Muslim lawfare suit against NSW police, with a view to intimidating police into a total 'hands-off' policy toward Muslims. Watch this space. - CM
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