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Report: Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler Heading to Reconciliation
Kristin Cavallari may reunite with her ex-fiance Jay Cutler in the future. The current contestant on "Dancing with the Stars" was left brokenhearted when the Chicago Bears quarterback called off their engagement in July, but a new report suggested that the two are "working it out."
On the possible reconciliation, a source told PEOPLE, "They're not officially back together but they're definitely talking and figuring things out." The source added that the former couple haven't physically spent time together because of their busy schedule and are "taking things slow" given that "everything happened too fast when they first got together."
Kristin and Jay got engaged during a vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in April after about seven months of dating. Around mid-July, words came out that the former star of "The Hills" has been dumped by the NFL star. "She's absolutely devastated," a source told PEOPLE at the time. "She can't believe this is happening."
It was not clear what may have caused the break-up, but a friend of Kristin blamed it on Jay's controlling behavior. "When she did go out, he called all the time and demanded to know exactly where she was going and who she was with. He made her choose between him and being friends with a lot of her girlfriends," said the so-called pal.
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ANAHEIM - Lamont Jones spent last spring break staring at his dorm room walls in Tucson, fuming over Arizona's failure to make the NCAA Tournament after 25 straight trips.
Kemba Walker had a few similarly sleepless nights in Storrs when Connecticut also missed the tournament.
"It happens to all great programs from time to time, but I just decided I wouldn't go through that again," Walker said.
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What a relief to see that smiling face. Your cover story is proof positive that Scott Hamilton is riding the Zamboni to good health. Scott, thanks for sharing your story in such frank terms. Your honesty, upbeat outlook and optimism serve as a refreshing tonic for those who have been threatened by cancer.
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As an oncology nurse I find that so often patients hear of only the horror stories of those who have cancer. Scott's story showed that cancer has the potential to be beaten with chemo, courage and determination. Scott is not only a sports hero, but a hero to all cancer survivors.
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Having gone through cancer seven years ago and recently having had to undergo radiation treatment again, I found Scott Hamilton's story both cathartic and inspiring. This issue was a pleasure in my life during a time that has been very difficult and scary. You'll never realize how deeply this touched me.
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I hope someday Scott Hamilton realizes that the reason the cancer in him "just died" is because there were millions of people praying for him, and we continue to pray for him.
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When my daughter Heidi was battling cancer at 15, Make-A-Wish granted her wish to skate with Scott. He went overboard. He called her and gave her tips on driving the nurses crazy. Then he sent her an autographed picture and a stuffed bear wearing skates. Then he brought her out with the whole cast of Stars on Ice to skate for two hours. His support and encouragement kept her hopes and fighting spirit going through a terrible ordeal. She is now a cancer survivor—cancer-free for five years. Scott's incredible spirit and truly generous nature are an inspiration in an era of complacency and adulation of rudeness. Our prayers are with you, Scottie!
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I am writing to say thank you. About five months ago you ran an article about Scott Hamilton's diagnosis of testicular cancer and the battle he would have ahead of him. After reading your article I did a self-examination. Being a very healthy 28-year-old male, I figured what could I lose? That night I found a lump, and I was diagnosed with testicular cancer after a few visits to my doctor. After having successful surgery and starting chemotherapy this week, I often think what would have happened if I had not caught it early. I credit your magazine for heightening my awareness. Though very rare, testicular cancer has a 90 percent cure rate. I have no doubt I will be in that 90 percent.
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I appreciated having the opportunity to share my battle with cancer with PEOPLE readers. But during the editing process an important name was inadvertently omitted—Bob Kain, a close friend and senior vice president of IMG. When I received the shocking news that there was a tumor in my body, Bob was the person who stepped in and arranged for all my care at the Cleveland Clinic. I don't know how you thank someone for saving your life, but I just want to say, "Thanks, Bob."
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As a lightning-strike survivor I read with interest your article "Sudden Impact." While you did mention the "annual convention of lightning survivors," I was disappointed you did not print Steve Marshburn's name or the name of his organization. It is Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors International in Jacksonville, N.C. Without this group a lot of us would have no one to turn to for support.
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It was very nice to see your review of our new book 1003 Great Things About Getting Older. Just one thing: I supplied just one-quarter of the creative juice for this little volume (which actually contains over 1,120 Great Things—we're too old to bother to count accurately, it turns out). Your item suggests I wrote it alone with a bit of help from Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx and David Owen. Au contraire, it was the reverse; their contributions make me laugh every time I open the book.
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GREENWOOD – The family of Frederick Jermaine Carter wants the federal government to take over the inquiry into his hanging death in Mississippi.
Birmingham, Ala., attorney Valerie Hicks-Powe, who represents the family, said that the family wants another investigation after a medical examiner's report drew no conclusion.
Carter, a black man from Sunflower, was found Dec. 3 hanging by a rope from a tree in a field in North Greenwood. His body was found two days after Carter walked away from a work site.
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Lance Smith ran for a career-high 201 yards and scored two first-quarter touchdowns to send West Orange to a 21-14 victory over Montclair yesterday in Montclair.
Smith, a junior, paced a strong ground attack while teammate Christian Smith (no relation) completed 10 of 19 passes for 168 yards and a touchdown. Linebacker Pascal Louis recorded five tackles and two sacks to spearhead a West Orange defense that registered seven sacks and limited Montclair to 102 yards.
Lance Smith scored on runs of 9 and 8 yards and Christian Smith hit Josh McNeil with a 70-yard TD pass to direct West Orange to a 21-7 halftime lead. Anthony Webb scored on a 1-yard run in the first quarter and added a 75-yard interception return in the third quarter for Montclair.
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Pura Vida Car Club will host the third annual La Mission Christian Car Show and Concert on Sunday.
The show runs from noon to 7 p.m. at Amarillo Civic Center.
The show will feature lowriders, hot rods, motorcycles and more. Performers include Minister Flowz, Shai, 5ive and Javier Galvan.
Admission is $5 for ages 13 and older. Proceeds benefit the March of Dimes.
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On the back of an injured right hand, an incidental headbutt and a nasty eye poke, Tim Boetsch was ultimately ineffective against Costa Philippou Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Besides an early first-round takedown, Boetch's offensive presence was nearly nonexistent. He was simply unable to utilize his suffocating clinch game and powerful wrestling due mostly to Philippou's elusiveness along the cage and solid boxing.
At this point, besides the injuries that immediately set him back against a fill-in opponent outside of the division's top 10, Boetsch really needs to regroup, re-examine his offensive techniques and come back stronger in 2013.
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Two very different events, one involving mud and the other sand, are looking to draw about 1,000 people each this weekend, and that's just half of it. The other events involve water and beds.
In other words, after a week of more normal Charleston weather, spring is here with something for everyone.
Saturday's Mega Mud Run Challenge kicks off the first of three consecutive Saturdays featuring a mud and obstacle course race. The others are the 17th annual Citadel Bulldog Challenge on April 20 at The Citadel and Project Mud 5K on April 27 on Wadmalaw Island.
But there's something different about the Mega Mud Run.
Unlike the Citadel Bulldog Challenge, a fine-tuned, military-style race, and the out-of-town franchise Project Mud, the Mega Mud Run is a bit more personal.
The run is the fruit of the labors of Glenn Herring, a local who has promoted physique, strongman and MMA fights in the past. He literally built the obstacles on a longtime family farm on Johns Island.
The Legare family has been supportive of Herring's efforts.
And all that work and cooperation is paying off. On Monday, Herring said, the Mega Mud Run has grown from the 187 people who participated in a sort of trial run last fall to close to 1,000. And participation isn't the only part that's grown.
Herring has nearly doubled the number of obstacles from 18 to 35 on the 3.5-mile course. Nine involve mud.
"I'm right where I wanted to be with this event," said Herring, adding that the fall event will be Sept. 28.
Gates open for the event at 7:30 a.m. Packet pick-up starts at 8 a.m. Teams start at 9 a.m. and individuals at 10 a.m. The race-day fees are $125 for individuals, $240 for teams of four. Spectators get in free and parking is free. Participants must be age 18 or older.
The fourth annual Run for Adela, a tribute to Adela Holmes Cook, also is edging toward 1,000 registrants for the only run held on the beach of Sullivan's Island.
Cook, a Bishop England High School student who was planning to attend the University of South Carolina, died from injuries sustained in a golf cart accident in 2009 during a trip in the Bahamas. Family and friends say she loved the outdoors and was an avid runner. They created Run for Adela and the Adela Holmes Cook Foundation to honor her memory and raise money for charity.
Race director Dicksie Johnson said this year's event will help pay for "Adela's Extreme Teen Water Weekend" for 20 youths with cancer through Camp Happy Days, as well as Charleston Waterkeeper.
The race starts and ends at Station 16 and features an array of prizes, including a weekend getaway at Wild Dunes Resort, bicycles, gift certificates and more.
New this year is a one-mile fun run for children ages 12 and under, a spirit contest for schools with the most participants (the top high school gets $1,500 and the top lower school gets $1,000) and an "official after-party" at Triangle Char & Bar in Mount Pleasant, starting at 10:30 a.m. The party includes music and food and drink specials.
Late registration and packet pickup will be 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday at On the Run, 920 Houston Northcutt in Mount Pleasant, and 6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m. Saturday at Station 16 on Atlantic Avenue on Sullivan's Island. Participants are asked to carpool and to not to bring pets.
The third annual Patriot Challenge on Saturday features two races for paddlers, including kayakers, stand-up paddleboarders and more, on the Ashley River to raise money for local wounded veteran paddling programs.
The races include a six-miler from Brittlebank Park out to the harbor and back and a three miler, 1.5 miles up the Ashley and back.
Registration is 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday with a captain's meeting at 9:30 a.m. and launch at 10 a.m.
Prizes include an Epic Kayak drawn by lottery, though only paddling participants are eligible for the drawing. Other prizes for raffles include Epic carbon paddles, beach totes, dinner at Charleston restaurants and more.
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Called the "second most fun you can have in bed," the Charleston Bed Race certainly is a hoot to watch. The fourth annual event will be 1 p.m. Sunday at Hampton Park.
The entry fee is $125 per bed, which will be judged in the categories of fastest, slowest, best decorated, most outrageously decorated and the "What Were you Thinking?" The People's Choice award is everyone's all-time favorite.
Winners are determined by the teams' race time and will be judged in heats of two beds completing a distance of about two city blocks. The fun continues until a champ is declared.
The event benefits Camp Happy Days, a camp for children with cancer and their families. Last year, 1,100-plus people attended, and the organization raised more than $16,000.


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Inside a Bastion of Old-School Power Attire
Bickel & Brewer Scorned 'Business Casual'; Now, the Firm Looks Prescient as Formality Returns
At law firm Bickel & Brewer, even the mailroom clerks wear suits and ties. Until recently, that might have been considered extreme. But now, power dressing is coming back in style, and the old-school law firm has a new relevance.
As law-firm layoffs mount, fear of unemployment appears to be speeding up the resurgence of power clothes, even among the youngest recruits. Legal interns have begun flouting business-casual dress codes and wearing suits instead, says Gretchen Neels, a Boston communications consultant who works with law firms and graduate schools. "In our economic times, you really want to have your game on. You can't be too formal," she says.
Power clothes are selling well at menswear retailer Paul Fredrick. Those white-collared, colored dress shirts that Gordon Gekko favored in the 1987 movie "Wall Street" have been big sellers in recent months, says Dean White, executive vice president of merchandise. So are yellow power ties, another 1980s dress-for-success accessory.
The return of old-school power dressing is something of a "duh" moment for Bill Brewer, co-founder and managing partner of the law firm, which has offices in Dallas and New York City. He never really got the appeal of khakis and rubber-soled Gucci loafers at the office. He prides himself on custom three-button suits with a center vent and shirts from Bruce Clark in New York. His voice tightens with disdain when he describes "those square-toed club shoes" that some young recruits wear to the office.
"I think people expect high-powered lawyers to look like high-powered lawyers," Mr. Brewer says. "Anything else is sending the wrong signal."
Even six months ago, that kind of talk might have sounded as outmoded as John Molloy, who penned "Dress For Success," the 1980s bible of corporate style. Casual clothing has long been seen as a sign of a modern attitude and has become an important job perk. In a 2007 column I wrote, a number of young lawyers defended working in Ugg boots, jeans and clingy T-shirts, arguing that they needed to be comfortable at work. They felt entitled.
But people's sense of job entitlement has evaporated as unemployment figures rise. Ms. Neels suggests that any law graduate with a job should prepare to invest in whatever the firm asks. "If they want you to dress up like Big Bird every day, for $160,000 a year, just do it!" she says, citing the going starting salary for law associates this year.
Alicia Russell, an executive recruiter for legal jobs with Boyden Global Executive Search, says Bickel & Brewer's all-inclusive power-dress code is unusual. "I can't say that I've ever been in a law firm where every single person is in formal business attire," she says. But she isn't opposed to the concept. In fact, she recommends that lawyers stick with dark, conservative suits. Men should wear ties and women should add an accessory that has "panache" -- such as a piece of jewelry or a sharp-looking purse or briefcase.
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At Bickel & Brewer, the power code is made clear when recruits are invited to "Call-Back Weekend" in Dallas, which takes place each fall. "When I greet them at 9 a.m. that Saturday, I'm in a suit and tie -- and so are they," says Michael Gardner, the firm's hiring partner.
In conversation, Mr. Brewer, 57, and Mr. Gardner, 39, manage to sound like the calendar says it's 1985. As they describe the corporate-litigation firm, which employs more than 40 lawyers, they evoke a work-hard-play-hard ethos, tossing around hard-driving football analogies to convey that work comes first. And second. "This is a star system," says Mr. Brewer.
Mr. Gardner sounds as though he'd like to hold his nose when he discusses business casual. "It's actually a little offensive to my sense of style," he says. Without a suit, he says, "I would feel like a football player who ran out on the field without his shoulder pads."
Young lawyers who arrive ignorant of the power-suit ensemble get a little tutoring from Mr. Gardner "in a mentoring way," he says. Let's just say that if Mr. Gardner invites you for a quick cup of joe at Starbucks, you might want to reconsider your footwear. Next door to the Starbucks in the lobby is a shoeshine shop. "You know," he tells those with scuffed shoes, "I'm going to get my shoes shined. Why don't you join me?"
Adam Sanderson, an associate of the "millennial" generation born after 1981, accompanied Mr. Gardner to the shoeshine shop after joining the firm in 2006. Mr. Gardner says Mr. Sanderson's shoes were too trendy. "I was thinking the next best thing would be to get his shoes shined," Mr. Gardner recalls. But he didn't stop there. "I just told him, 'We gotta get rid of those shoes.' "
Mr. Sanderson says he had been planning to get new shoes anyway -- and he bought the cap-toed Ferragamos that Mr. Gardner suggested. "Shined shoes are a point of pride here," he adds.
There was a time that even Mr. Brewer's confidence in power attire wavered. In the late 1990s, says Mr. Brewer, "we were doing work for people who were very high-profile in the new space -- high tech. Many of them were business casual, or less than casual." Mr. Brewer asked during a corporate retreat whether the firm should test business-casual for the summer.
"That's ridiculous," he says his partners countered. "That's not Bickel & Brewer."
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Sugar, Inc Buys Circle of MomsCecily Kellogg
On February 21st, Sugar, Inc announced that it was acquiring the popular site Circle of Moms. The financial details are not public.
Circle of Moms, well known in the blogging community because of its frequent "Top Blogger" voting contests, was founded in 2008 interestingly enough, NOT by any moms but by two men, Ephraim Luft and Mike Greenfield and boasts over six million members.
Sugar Inc is best known for the pop culture site Pop Sugar, which was founded by Lisa Sugar in 2005, and after becoming wildly popular the company Sugar, Inc was founded in 2006. In 2011, Sugar Inc announced that it drove over $250 Million in commerce to its partners, and is apparently now considering an IPO.
According to the press release by Sugar Inc:
"Acquiring Circle of Moms enables us to extend the reach of our existing mom audience, offer more valuable content, and strengthen our social community" said Brian Sugar, Co-founder and CEO of Sugar Inc. "Circle of Moms has successfully established itself as a leading brand within this highly-coveted demographic. We're thrilled to welcome the Circle of Moms team to Sugar and partner together in the next phase of our growth."
Circle of Moms apparently plans to continue with its current management team.
"Today's announcement begins a new chapter for Circle of Moms and its thriving community," said Ephraim Luft, Co-founder and CEO of Circle of Moms. "By combining forces with Sugar, we join another new media pioneer and a leadership team that closely shares our vision for delivering smart community-sourced content and a commitment to enriching the lives of moms."
I'll probably be accused of letting my feminist bias show (yup), but one thing that's interesting is that Sugar Inc is a company that unlike Circle of Moms itself and the vast majority of Silicon Valley companies is staffed over 90% by women. Frankly, I happen to think that can only help Circle of Moms.
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Agoda.com, a leading, Asian-based, online hotel reservation service and a part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced plans to distribute properties of the Mantra Group, the second largest hotel operator in Australia and New Zealand. Mantra Group properties, which include the Peppers, Mantra, and BreakFree brands, are going to utilize Agoda's industry leading online distribution technology and will work closely with the Agoda team to manage rates and promotions, allowing quick response to the fluctuating hotel market.
The distribution agreement gives Mantra Group access to Agoda's latest version of the Yield Control System (YCS). The recent upgrade to YCS provides even greater flexibility in managing inventory and rate structure, with the ability to offer appealing promotions to Agoda customers. Mantra Group properties included in the agreement range from self-contained apartments to luxurious resorts and retreats in all major destinations throughout Australia and New Zealand. These properties now also receive exposure to over 1,000,000 worldwide members of Agoda's rewards program.
Wilfred Fan, Agoda's Vice President of Business Development said, "It is a pleasure to have one of the leading hotel operators in Australia on board with Agoda.com. Our inventory management system will give Mantra Group properties access to previously untapped markets as well as the ability to monitor industry trends and apply corresponding pricing strategy. Our YCS platform also provides the ability to offer yield opportunities in various source markets with fenced promotions. By partnering with Mantra Group, Agoda has added another premier brand to the fold and have increased our presence in the increasingly popular destination."
Luke Jamieson, General Manager of Distribution for Mantra Group said, "Mantra Group is continuously looking for channels to help distribute our inventory and promote our brand. The online market place has become an excellent avenue for us to promote our properties. We just needed to find the right partner to help us achieve our goals. Agoda.com was an easy choice to partner with. Their presence in SE Asia and continued expansion into other markets was extremely appealing when we were reviewing potential partners. Their easy to use website, knowledgeable staff and fantastic YCS technology really cemented the decision. We look forward to what we expect will be a long and prosperous relationship."
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Steven C. Nadeau '77 Named to Best Lawyers in America
Steven C. Nadeau '77, a partner in the environmental law department of Detroit-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, has been named in the tenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America 2003-2004 (Copyright 2002 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). Nadeau, a 1977 cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School, resides with his family in Grosse Pointe. Nadeau has been recognized in the last seven published editions and as a top practitioner in the area of environmental law. The attorneys featured in Best Lawyers are selected through a confidential peer-evaluation process consisting of in-depth and open-ended phone interviews and surveys with 15,000 lawyers nationwide.


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Corry distance runner Pondel commits to Penn State
Corry distance runner Austin Pondel continued to progress at a fast rate in high school.
His hard work and dedication to improving have paid off in a big way.
Pondel verbally committed to Penn State and will make it official Feb. 6 when he signs his letter of intent at a ceremony at Corry High School.
"The main thing was, I really liked the coaches," Pondel said of his reasons for choosing Penn State. "Being coached by them, I could have faith in them for getting me to where I want to be in the future."
Pondel was named to the all-state team this past fall after another impressive season. He started off by setting a season-best time of 15 minutes, 32 seconds at the Sharpsville Invitational. He then ran a 16:23 in tough conditions at the District 10 meet to win the D-10 Class AAA championship.
"I knew this season, I had to get things done and really promote myself well, show off some good times and get to a good program like Penn State," Pondel said.
Pondel placed third at the PIAA meet with a time of 15:56 before running a 15:51 at the Foot Locker Northeast regional to qualify for the national championships. He ended up running a 16 flat to place 32nd overall at the Foot Locker national championships.
Pondel, who was named the District 10 co-runner of the year, is a two-time all-district selection in cross country and a three-time all-region selection. He was named the Region 4 runner of the year this past fall.
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How to Lose Weight in One Day?
Losing weight in one day? I have recently come around an interesting intensive one day diet. Unlike the rest of the diets, this one does not force you to starve for the whole day, which is very unhealthy for the body as well as the nervous system. To lower your weight fast it takes only to go on a fruit diet, according to which you consume no more than 810 calories and do not feel the shortage of healthy nutrients.
The breakfast, for those who wish to get slim in one day, should start with a salad made with cottage cheese. You will need 200 grams of non-fat cream cheese. Add 0,11 lbs (or 50 grams) of mineral water to the cheese. Blend the mix and then add finely cut half of a banana. Sprinkle the salad with some lemon juice.
One apple makes a nice snack before lunch. As for the lunch – have some pancakes fried on one tablespoon of oil. The pancake dough is made with one tablespoon of flour, one egg, six tablespoons of mineral water and some sugar. Mix the ingredients well. Eat the pancakes with one tablespoon of apple pureé.
Afternoon Snack and Dinner
Have one apple again for the afternoon snack. Dinner is a fruit salad. To make the salad, take any of the four types of fruits, cut them, and add some orange juice and one tablespoon of honey.
Meals at the End of the Day
No need to feel guilty for eating an apple right before bedtime. By following this diet, the body will get enough food, and you will not feel hunger at all. In addition, the calorie intake is quite low while the food itself is very tasty.
If you have the time, also do some exercises. They will make your metabolism faster, which also helps to drop weight.
Hi I am wanting to lose weight off my stomach area…. But I still am a thirteen and a half girl …. what do i do ??????
You Drink 8 pints of water in one day only water but not one after each other you have got one whole day to drink 8. Don't worry your not on your own known is.
Im 11 i need to loose weight fast b4 i go on holiday im fat and round
Thks for the article! losing weight is all about time, and follow a healthy diet everyday and exercises!! Good Luck for Everyone 🙂
For all you 9-10 year olds on here saying "omg I'm 100 pounds I'm fat!" You guys are STUPID. I'm sorry, but you guys are practically still little kids, YOU GUYS STILL HAVE BABY FAT. Don't be worried about trying to lose weight, stay freaking healthy and get exercise and you'll be fine. And to all you people saying that this is unhealthy, it's a ONE DAY DIET. It isn't going to kill you. And jsyk FRUIT IS HEALTHY. And for a one day diet to lose 2-3 pounds its a great idea. Also, for all you people saying " I wanna lose weight but I don't really like healthy foods." As my dad always said "if it tastes amazing, don't eat it." If you guys are really into trying to lose weight, you'll stand giving up the delicious tasting, carb filled foods, and will grow a taste for the healthy ones.
How its possible in one day?
I really like how you've turned the idea of 'losing weight in one day' into a list of positive actions . But I think quick weight loss is not wise. Its best to loose 1-2lbs a week and its more likely to stay off. Eat well balance diet with quality physical workout is key to maintain weight.


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EVERY morning I wander down to the gate to pick up my delivered copies of Business Day and Financial Times. If the weather is good it is papers and tea at the pool, if not, it's papers and tea back in bed.
That's what gets me going in the morning, that's my entertainment, my fix of what's happening, my start to the business day. It may be yesterday's news but its today's thoughts on it — I hope it'll always be like that.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given approval for companies to announce "key pieces of information" on Twitter and Facebook.
Nobody really knows what that means, what the boundaries and permissions and rules are. So far the only requirement seems to be that investors (investors mind you, not the general public) be made aware of the channels that the corporate communicator intends to use — the detailed story has to be filed somewhere, but who cares?
In time, there will be rules upon rules and mistakes upon mistakes.
Oh yes, and lawsuits.
Insider trading cases, class actions of "my battery was flat", or "I had no signal" from the guys on the wrong side of the trade. Court cases and precedents, you know, the American way.
I'm not sure when our very own JSE will follow, but it will. It will have to. Already rules on publishing results are moving from being required in the paper to being available in the ether, already the rules of acceptably abbreviated reporting are being written — but the leap from a full-page advertisement in the newspaper to 140 characters on Twitter is a big one.
The SEC move is irreversible. Instead of a whole bunch of compliance reporting, with a format to fit it into, CEOs will need to get to the crux of their message in 140 characters. Not everyone will get that right. Only a few have the ability to comprehend and distil essence. The real issue, however, is distance and time compression. From source to final recipient is now measured in seconds. The "cheque is in the mail" is now the EFT, the "wish you were here" post card is now the SMS.
The inevitable march of technology will come at a price. Twitter and other social media platforms propagate information in a geometric progression. You tweet your 256 followers who in turn each tweet their 256 followers who in turn each tweet their 256 followers and, after only three iterations, 16,777,216 people have got the message (and that's only if one of them isn't Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga — otherwise we have a global population information explosion).
Then the fun starts. That first message may trigger 1-million trades with 1-million counterparties, each with recommendations or warnings to their followers — before you know it you've got nanosecond algorithmic trading.
Once you press "send" the message is gone — we've all been there — you can't take it back. So, what if you (or your predictive text function) make a mistake? Fast multiple retractions commence, recalled instructions, trades are challenged, reversed, court cases, consequences. Our relationship with our cellphone is umbilical. I'm afraid that bond is going to get stronger and stronger.
Dispersed integration, is there such a concept? It is all getting up close and personal. PCs are giving way to mobiles and websites are morphing into mobi-sites. Is this power to the people or control from the centre? One of the techno-faux pas of the Arab spring was the belief by the government that if they surrounded the broadcasting centre with tanks they'd contain the communication — duh?
So, the instant world has arrived, legally. Can we cope? Will we make the same decision based on 140 characters as we used to after reading an annual report? When the Bank of Japan announces a 2% inflation target after 20 years of deflation, the yen depreciates against the dollar by 3% instantly, but should it? Should the tons of goods already on the water from Japan to the US really be re-priced? Will it all reverse on another utterance tomorrow, or a tweet?
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Skip to comments.Pro-Russians Storm Ukraine Government Buildings
Posted on 04/06/2014 9:36:37 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
(KIEV, Ukraine) Crowds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings Sunday in two major cities in eastern Ukraine, where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since Ukraine's Russia-friendly president was ousted in February.
In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof.
In Donetsk, to the southwest, a large group of people surged into the provincial government building and smashed windows. A gathering of several hundred, many of them waving Russian flags, then listened to speeches delivered from a balcony emblazoned with a banner reading "Donetsk Republic."
Eastern Ukraine was the heartland of support for Viktor Yanukovych, the president who fled to Russia in February after months of protests. About half of the region's residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine's acting authorities are Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians.
Ukraine's interim authorities deny they are infringing the rights of the ethnic Russian population and accuse Moscow of trying to sow instability. Russia has moved large contingents of troops to areas near the Ukrainian border, and speculation is strong that unrest in eastern Ukraine could be used as a pretext for a Russian incursion.
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Spetznaz Ops?
No tanks needed by Putin to annex eastern Ukraine...yet.
Can you imagine what Putin would do if these were pro Ukrainian people storming Russian buildings. Oh wait......!
Phase II has begun. Putin no doubt wants a contiguous land bridge to connect Russia to Crimea. Agitation by Russophiles in eastern Ukraine is the first step. However will Putin again deploy the Russian army and force the West to impose mutually destructive sanctions? Will the Ukraine fight to defend it sovereignty or will NATO support it and risk war? Will Ukraine and Russia negotiate a debt for land swap? Should the US be involved or even care?
No need for a "land bridge." Crimea is less than a mile from mainland Russia.
Cherkassk province prosecutors said Vasily Sergiyenko was abducted in his home city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi on Friday evening and later murdered. The nationalist Svoboda party, of which Sergiyenko was a member, said the reporter was found with stab wounds and signs of beatings to his head and knees.
Oh dear, the MSM will be upset about this.
No intimidation....
Just a "spontaneous" protest, doncha know.
Why would it need to be Spetnaz? The region voted over 90% for Yanukovich; do you think they would WANT to be part of the new EU-controlled Ukraine? How'd that work out for Spain, Greece, Italy, etc.?
Yes,Vlad,I've ordered the 101st Airborne and the 1st Marine Division to be "flexible" as well.
Have the pro-Russians thrown any firebombs at the cops like the Obama/Soros/sodomite EU mobs did in Kiev? Has the Kiev junta ordered the police and military not to touch the pro-Russians like the rump parliament in Kiev ordered the police and military not to touch the Obama/Soros/sodomite EU firebomb throwers.
There are many who do not trust Kiev.
If Kiev won't move to a federal solution, the country will break up.
Characterization is Kremlin style book approved?
Well, after all, Hitler annexed Austria because native germans weren't safe...
Check with Alex Jones. He should know.
Yanuckovich was elected promising integration with the EU so your point doesn't necessarily follow.
Polls show most folks even in eastern Ukraine don't want to be part of Russian.
If I was in Ukraine I would be pro independent from Russia and from the EU.
To steal from Dylan...."It may be the EU, or it may be Russia, but you've got to serve somebody."
Ukraine will never be fully independent in that sense.
To steal from Dylan...."It may be the EU, or it may be Russia, but you've got to serve somebody." Ukraine will never be fully independent in that sense.
That's debatable but if I had to choose between the two tyrannies I would choose the less centralized, softer more inept tyranny, the EU.
What kind of federalization? the one that Russia wants for Ukraine (each region in Ukraine to have its own domestic AND foreign policy) or the one that Russia practices at home, where every single meaningful dicision is made in Moscow.
My question: where are the masks, firebombs, tire bonfires, vandalized buildings and bodies?
In George Soros' van.
If a few thousand Mexicans got together and protested in Corpus Christi, demanding that it be given back to Mexico completely, you would support the US govetnment just rolling over?
Its typical Russian tactics, those arwas only have a sizeable Russian presence because Stalin killed off or "moved" many of the native Ukrainian inhabitants.
Russia is continuing to bombard that lart of Ukraine with propaganda, scaring people senseless, making them think evil Nazi zombies are coming to their homes to eat their children...and if that doesnt work? Then that the Jews are coming to steal their jobs.
They look like the Obama babe type crowds we would see in the this country.
Oh come on , Russian military is tattooed on their foreheads
Where did I say that?
Could it be that the Obama regime is rolling over for criminal illegal alien Mexicans in the US, and we should defeat the criminal Obama agenda here? AND, we should defeat the criminal Obama agenda in Ukraine and the Nazi criminals he has hired and supports there as well?
LOL! I think that *is* Alex Jones.
Notice no flags?
There were similar pictures from the early Maidan, in December 2013.
Pro-Russian demonstrators were very peaceful when they attacked a small group of pro-Ukrainian protesters in Donetsk and killed one man. Real Russian heroes those were
Looks like some old school communist agitProp....agitation and propaganda. Vlad Putin is reviving this
Stop reading conspiracy websites pumping Russian propaganda. My uncle was out on the Maidan, you know who was there with him? Average Ukrainians, students, blue collar workers....etc, people who were sick of the lies and the brutality and the corruption. It was a peaceful movement until the secret police were unleashed on the people...then they began to fight back.
Now Putin is doing everything he can to create unrest and have a pretext for invading other parts of Ukraine. Its not a big deal because as he admitted to President Bush, he sees Ukraine more as a Russian state than an independent country.
All this takk about Nazis is purely ridiculous. Did the movement draw some extremists? Sure, like the hockey riots in Vancouver drew anarchists, people who love chaos.
But if you know about fascists and Nazis in Europe, they strongly favor Russia. Ukraines own fascist groups are seen as black sheep because they are virulently anti Russia.
But Russia draws the fascists, as they did to the referendum in Crimea. Russian sentiment is strongly anri Semitic, that sentiment is openly expressed in public life, in mainstream newspapers. You can say all sorts of things about Jews there that might get you in hot water in the European nations which tend to be a litgle intolerant of that sorr of thing.
In short people supporting Rusdia in this are supporting a very repressive, authoritarian, anti-semitic, anti freedom entity while still having the gall to continue posting on a website which explicity supports freedom and liberty.
Bandera-ites hate Poles more than Russians.
"Bandera-ites?" The 1940s want their rhetoric back. As someone with Polish and Ukrainian family who spends a lot of time in both countries, i honestly have no idea what you are referring to currently.
If the extremist groups such as Right Sector, they are all more anti-Russian than anything else.
In terms of Western Ukraine, there are very close ties to Poland that even Stalin couldnt destroy. It makes sense why when looking for propaganda, Russian media wenr to film the busy border crossing between Poland and Ukraine to claim that it was a video of "Ukrainians escaping into Southern Russia to avoid persecution.
1940's rhetoric, eh?
Spetznaz in unmarked uniforms again?
According to Kremlin's (they should rename it Gremlin by the way) divide and conquer tactic.
Yeah, like when the Ukrainians stormed the Ukrainian buildings in their country. Putin didn't appreciate that when they finally kicked out his puppet.
"Federal solution?" You sure speak the Putin party line as quickly as it is announced, comrade.
Another George Soros plot, for sure, comrade Putinista.
I forgot that you own Free Republic determine whom should post her.
What exactly is that picture doing to support your claim? Bandera is a controversial figure in Ukraine, he was a strong force for Ukrainian freedom and liberation, he also did a lot of unsavory things. He is seen as a symbol of Ukrainian independence, if that us your basis for claiming that Ukrainians hate Poles, then you are grasping at straws.
Then again what would I know, my family is only from both countries and my Ukrainian aunt did seem to point her fork menacingly at my Polish grandfather during dinner....perhaps you are right....
Be fair, I have the same reaction when I see a Russian today carrying a picture of Stalin, which I've seen many times.
Glad to see you admit it, Herr Homofascista.
Lol...what year was that poll taken?
A federal solution is break up.
Worked for the Czechs and Slovaks.
Of course not, but if this were the 1950s you would be one of those who saw a Potemkin village and thought that the Soviet Union was a lovely place to live.
Obama supporting the revolution in Ukraine doesnt make it bad anymore than Lutin opposing Obama makes him good.
That sort of emotionally derived logic is more befitting of the leftists.
Coincidentally, the far left, the eo Stalinists and the rest of the Jew hating, hate-America crowd are completely on the same page as you on this topic.
How about NATO membership?
What makes you think Obama supports the revolution in Ukraine....Doofus probably can't even find Ukraine on a map.
Polls taken un Crimea 6 months ago showed only 42% wanted to join Russia, in the east it is even lesz. Had Stalin not shipped out or murdered many of the native inhabitants and shipped in native Russians, the entire premise would be laughable.
Hey! What are Agitational Specialists getting paid these days?
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...Or just open the servo cutout a bit more to the side to line the pushrod up with a shorter horn. Last I checked, Samba was using plywood servo trays (not tungsten) and thus the customer can configure the servo position as desired with simple hand tools.
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I just installed servos in a Perfection on Sunday and I did not encounter any of the issues Vespa is referring to both Elevator and Rudder have no play whatsoever in them. I also have seen many Perfects launched very hard in high wind conditions (normal flying conditions for KS) and have yet to see a rudder or elevator flutter even once. So once again I do not see the issue.
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A mechanically ideal linkage ( according to Prof Drela, but it is not hard to derive it yourself) should be designed like this:
1) adjust ratio servo arm to surface control horn such that you use all servo travel to get the necessary surface deflections
2) while keeping the ratio determined in 1) constant, maximize the absolute length of the surface control horn.
1) minimizes gear train induced slop and maximizes the momentum transfer
2) reduces linkage slop and forces on hingeline and radial force on servo
The pictures suggest that neither 1 or 2 was considered, but I would not blame Samba. Everyone who
is picky about this can modify it. Unfortunately most don't care/know.
FYI I run ratios of 0.5 ( servo arm half as long as control horn) on my F3B planes. I appreciate the control authority on a F3B launch and precision in a speed run.
Does one need it for a J plane: you could get away with a servo with half the torque with an optimized linkage, should be appealing to the weight fetishists.
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Bob, your pic looks good but I'm guessing you can only use about half of the rudder servo travel.
Bob used my fuselage installation picture (the one with the yellow fuselage) and it works just fine. I can get 60mm rudder each way and more but of course this amount isn't needed so rudder travel isn't compromised by this set up. All linkages are very slop free and very direct but as I mentioned before - it is good practice to glue the ends of the snake outers to the fuselage sides. Jojo pointed it out to me I hadn't done it at the Worlds and it was this that caused my rudder flutter and nothing else. You have to bear in mind a fast direct tow into 25mph+ winds with thermals blowing through is about as tough as you can get. There were no Pike Perfection failures during the Worlds wheras other manufacturers had some problems......
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Often in windy slots I flew with full ballast (approx 640g) because the thermals were quite strong and the journey home very long
The manufacturer cannot possibly know what servo the builder will use. Most manufacturers try to make the install of gear as easy as possible so as not to hear the belly-aching of us lazy Americans....
I personally prefer a blank servo tray unistalled for this very reason. My next choice is a servo tray pre-installed with very small or no cut-outs.
Regardless, a $1 piece of G-10 plate attached to the stock tray would allow ANY size cutout you want, and also may add even more strength to the nose.
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Dear Vespa:
PLEASE stop assuminging that everybody is of lower intellegence than you are.... I know that you don't mean to sound that way, but.....While this may or may not be true, it won't make you any friends.
I know that you are trying to get Samba to modify the trays as an improvement, but its doubtful that Samba will see the tray as flawed when it really is usable as is. That is one area that even I (and I fancy myself as a bit meticulous) will just deal with. I used a G-10 plate on my Xplorer to fit thinner servos than they had intended builders to use (6125H's), and its fine.
Yes, servo installs should be proper, but if they aren't PERFECTION, that doesn't mean the plane won't fly perfectly for the intended use.
Very Respectfully,
I didn't assume to be smarter than anyone and I don't see which post would have led you to believe that. I did, however, prove to have a better knowledge of geometry than Samba in this case, but I did so with a concrete mathematical equation. There were no assumptions, no opinions, no egos, no preferences, no belly-aching, just pure math.
I'm often baffled by the blind loyalty some people have to these products. Here I explained how Samba's error contributed to Neil's flutter and Jojo's install trouble, and even they are against me for doing so, insisting instead on taking the blame themselves. I'm on your side guys. I know that very few people will get involved with the math and no one likes to hack in spacers or adapter plates, so I'm just suggesting that the manufacturer take a few minutes to update their servo tray layout. It won't cost them a dime and it will help us all.
P.S. Neil, flutter is the result of a vast number of factors ranging from the weight distribution of the rudder itself to the grommets supporting your servos. Your unsupported pushrod run was surely a huge contributor but every little thing matters and it's possible that the long servo arm was the straw that broke the camel's back. So it can't be said that the rudder arm caused your flutter but it's an absolute fact that it contributed, as every imperfection in the system does.
There's something I can agree with...why use servo grommets in a sailplane? This adds tremendous soft slop and can only make things worse.
I agree tom grommets wth. But hey Vespa told me my servos wouldnt work in my xploder and oh yea he was wrong... basicly a tool who like to stir the pot.....
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That said I think the flutter was down to 3 main reasons: 1) Not gluing the snakes at their endings 2) Using grommets not a hard servo mount 3) Direct towing in winds and thermals so strong it was silly.
It is worth pointing out again that the Perfection was one of the only planes not to suffer a structural failure during the Worlds. I think the servo tray is fine just take care of points 1) and 2) and there will be no problem.
You are ASSUMING that SAMBA designed their servo tray layout with what they thought was the best geometry; I doubt that they did that.
I'll bet they picked what they thought was easiest for the majority to install, easiest to produce, least expensive; not what was the best for the ultimate geometry performance....
That's MY assumption, but I would bet that is correct.
Yes, your installation may be optimum, but others will work just fine.
Some, at the far extreme, can benefit from a "tune up", but most people won't fly a plane hard enough to find out.
This worked for me
Happy to see my setup was the similar to Neil's. I trimmed the tube a bit and switched the servo position so the elevator would be shortest. Adding a small piece of bass wood to support the tube to the fuse was a must for both rudder and elevator. No flutter problems at the WC with either my LS or ST80...
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Joe Carnahan doesn't apologize for his unpolished debut, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, so much as explain it. "This movie was designed to get me a gig directing a Hanson video. It was, Why do I want to go in there with a short film when I can use the exact same amount of money and show them I can do an entire narrative film?" Carnahan, a burly 29-year-old Sacramento native with no prior industry connections, not only directed Blood, Guts (for $7300) but also wrote it, edited it, and starred in it as a sleazy, fast-talking used-car salesman. "I didn't want to look around and have someone else to blame."
Carnahan's charming spin on the shady-deals-gone-bad genre, which was released last week, has gotten mixed reviews, but he has taken the poundings like Entertainment Weekly's F-rated critique with admirable grace. "I would much prefer an F to a C, which is so milquetoast." Having started the movie in 1996, he feels somewhat removed from the film's fate. "It's the end of the ride. I'm standing at the dock, the boat is pulling away, I'm waving. And I'm on to the next bit of business."
Blood, Guts has certainly functioned well as a calling card. A year after selling the film to Lions Gate, Carnahan has a two-picture writing deal with Warner Bros.; a pilot with NBC; and a script, Narc, he's more than ready to start shooting. "It's a very brutal, not funny Detroit cop flick. It has nothing to do with Blood, Guts. I don't want to be pigeonholed as the guy who does Tarantino-esque things." A devotee of Serpico, The French Connection, and Prince of the City, Carnahan has high hopes and a casting wish-list that starts with Don Cheadle and Nick Nolte. "If this comes out the way I want it to, every cop film after will be judged against it. It may sound stupid or conceited, but why would you want anything less? If good things miraculous things can happen from a bunch of guys just wanting to do a movie, why not go for it?"
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Alejandro Andres, Jr., 76, of Maui, HI, died July 21, 2012, in Laoag City, Philippines.
Wake visitation will be 5:30pm, August 9, 2012 at Nakamura Mortuary Chapel, with services at 6:30pm. Funeral visitation will be 9:30am Friday, August 10, 2012 at Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina, with services at 10:30am. Burial will follow, 12:30pm, at Maui Memorial Park.
Nakamura Mortuary is assisting with arrangements.
Mr. Andres was born in Laoag City, Philippines on November 6, 1935. He was a retiree from Kapalua Bay Hotel, where he worked as Kitchen Utility.
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Increase the value of the mark for originality and creativity of choreography, particularly in ice dance.
Increase the value of the mark for originality and creativity of choreography, particularly in ice dance.
A combination of a triple Loop and a double Loop, a double Loop and a triple Loop, or two triple Loops
A double or triple Loop out of steps
A triple or quadruple Loop
A layback spin in attitude position (unpointed foot or lack of turned-out leg gets automatic -3 GOE and a 1 point deduction)
A Biellmann spin
A flying spin with required donut position
A spiral sequence, fan spiral mandatory
A footwork sequence
That way, the Axel requirement is removed! Just as Melon wanted.
I actually thought removing Axel requirement would be a good idea......
Wouldn't that remove all that fight about should X skater be the only skater allowed to do 3A instead of 2A thing??
X skater can do 3A 3-3 and solo 3, while others can do 3-3, 3, 3 or something.... Technically, the one with 3A should win the TES anyways ( when only jumps are counted).
plus this would greatly increase competitiveness especially for the ladies since they can do up to 4 triples in SP. It would be their choice to do a double axle.
If the Axel is removed as a required jump in the SP (unlikely but in the case that it is), then I think all 4 jumps in the SP should be required to be different, or there should be a requirement of at least one edge jump and at least one toe jump.
Interpretation refers specifically to interpretation of the music.Purpose (idea, concept, vision)
Proportion (equal weight of parts)
Unity (purposeful threading)
Utilization of personal and public space
Pattern and ice coverage
Phrasing and form (movements and parts structured to match the
phrasing of the music)
Originality of purpose, movement and design
Shared responsibility of achieving purpose (Pair Skating and Ice Dancing)
Maybe rename Choreography as Program Construction? Maybe move the Phrasing and Form criterion to Interpretation instead, and rename that Musical Interpretation?
Yes, but they also apply to the whole program, not only to the elements. Are you suggesting not to score any aspect of presentation unrelated to the technical elements? To not score skating skills separately at all because the only place they should count is in the step sequence?P/E are already evaluated in GOE. Skating Skills are presented in step sequences.
I think that all the criteria in the five program components should be evaluated for the whole program -- the skating between elements including transition moves as well as the elements themselves.
IMO some of the criteria are more important than others. Even some components may be more important than others. But if we here at Golden Skate, or experts on the ISU technical committees, were to try as a group to come up with a better grouping and better weighting of the criteria, I'm sure there would be disagreements as to what's most important.
As for combining all the criteria into only two component scores instead of five, that would be possible, with different factors than currently used, but I foresee more disadvantages than benefits to doing so.
3A definitely is the most difficult jump, and skaters who land it are highly rewarded for that. They can also take an advantage of Axel rule by adding another 3-3 in their program to boost their points. Aside from the base value of 3A, having a 3A in a SP (for ladies) is actually a huge advantage. Given what 3A can do in ladies program, I just thought it would be "fair" (not the exact word I'm looking for ,but close to it) that other ladies get a chance to do 4 triples in their SP. And I agree that if this were to happen (which I doubt) make a 3Lo or 3S a mandatory jump if a skater were to omit 2A in their SP.Oh, you were serious. That could be an actual discussion - right now the ISU requires the Axel for both SP and FS, probably because its forward edge takeoff is so unique among jumps. The 2A/3A option does give a huge advantage to a skater with a 3A vs a skater with a 2A, but the 3A among women is already an unusual case. Is there any other jump that was still so rare even 25 years after being first ratified in competition?
If the Axel is removed as a required jump in the SP (unlikely but in the case that it is), then I think all 4 jumps in the SP should be required to be different, or there should be a requirement of at least one edge jump and at least one toe jump.
Twizzles get more point please.
Lengthy step sequences should be shorten please.
Stop the anonymous scoring please.
Falls get more deduction please.
I think that is enough for the moment.
Make 3T-3T more worthless. Make solo 3T or 3T-anything only worth 3.7. Make it worth 4.1 when it is done as 2_-3T or 3_-3T. So now 3T-3T is worth 3.7 + 4.1 = 7.8 points.
Make 3Lo combinations worth more. Make solo 3Lo only worth 4.9. Make it worth 5.8 when it is done as 2_-3Lo or 3_-3Lo. So 3Lz-3Lo, 3T is worth 6.0 + 5.8 + 3.7 = 15.5 points while 3Lz-3T, 3Lo is worth 6.0 + 4.1 + 4.9 = 15 points.
Provide similar incentives for 3S and 3F. Make solo or initial 3S worth 4.0, compared to 4.4 on the back end of a combination. Make solo 3F worth 5.1 and backend 3F worth 6.0.
I would attempt to find a way to reward 3Lz-3T, 3T vs 3T-3T, 3Lz but I don't want to think about individual bonuses or percent bonuses right now.
Analogous value bonuses for double jumps. Maybe 2T 1.2 vs 1.4, 2S 1.3 vs 1.5, 2Lo 1.6 vs 1.9, 2F 1.7 vs 2.0
Make 3Lz worth 6.2. Make 2A worth 3.0. Make 3A worth 9.0.
Bring back spiral sequence in the SP for ladies. Bring back 2nd footwork sequence in the SP for men.
And for the sake of the OP, twizzles. Make ice dance all twizzles. In singles, they will be worth 5 points and they will be the 9th element in the SP (if they do not include the twizzle sequence they must do a figures sequence, either paragraph loop or paragraph bracket). They must be done in all directions on all edges on each foot. Skaters with 3 feet must do them on the 3rd foot as well. In the LP they are optional but they will be the only kind of 14th/13th element that gets a score. That or figures. This is figure skating, so if skaters choose to disobey the twizzle rules, the figures will be used to punish them.
I want to see three-footed skaters!
*sigh* This is my first time looking at the GoE bullets:
1) unexpected / creative / difficult entry
2) clear recognizable steps/free skating movements immediately preceding element
What are some examples of the differences between these two??
Also, I officially have no idea what purpose the "T/L/F/M" component serves, AT ALL:
^ Quality of steps, turns, etc (ie, footwork) is already addressed in SS. Quality as far as timing w/the music is a matter of P/E. Difficulty is supposed to be determined by the technical panel. And Variety and Intricacy may be a matter of Choreography, or then again, maybe it's the duty of the technical panel?? Lakernik quoted in an article:Transitions/Linking Footwork & Movement
Definition: The varied and/or intricate footwork, positions, movements, and holds that link all elements. In
singles, pairs, and synchronize skating this also includes the entrances and exits of technical elements.
Quality (including unison in Pair Skating and Ice Dancing)
Continuing on:
3) varied position in the air / delay in rotation
has to do with the technical element and nothing else. Could be separated into two, since not everyone has both.
4) good height and distance
This should be separated into two bullets - not everyone can do both (if I remember correctly, Sasha used to get decent distance on the 2A, but virtually no height) Other than that b/c it has to do with the technical element and nothing else = TES
5) good extension on landing / creative exit
Extension yes. They should elaborate a little more (posture, too?) and can someone give me an example of creative exit? is it something to do with the blade, or just a decorative flourish of the arms/upper body??
Another question has to do with how the element/jump is isolated from the rest of the choreography -- I was watching a yt video of Shen & Zhao attempting a quad throw and she almost had it but she lost the edge and fell. In the comments, someone was asking if it should have counted, and someone else came back and replied that there's a 2 second rule or something like that. Like if you fall within 2 seconds of landing, it counts as a fall, but if you fall after the 2 second mark, there is no deduction on the jump, and it's addrssed in the pcs instead.
If that's true, then I think the same needs to apply to "creative exits" -- they should only count as part of the jump if they are done w/in the time frame that isolates the jump from the rest of the choreo - otherwise, it's just a matter of choreography. It would be the tech panel's job to identify jumps that have "creative exit" and communicate that to the judges.
6) good flow from entry to exit including jump combinations / sequences
7) effortless throughout
8) element matched to the musical structure
No If the element matches the musical structure, it's because it was purposely placed there (a matter of Composition). As-worded, this should really be scored in the Choreography/Composition component of pcs, not in GoE. Even if what they're talking about is the skater's ability to execute the choreographed jump in perfect timing with the music, this is a matter of Performance/Execution, not the degree of technical perfection of the jump/element.
I would change the bullets to look something more like this:
- good extension on the landing
- good distance
- good height
- varied position in the air
- delayed rotation
- good flow from entry to exit
- effortless
and depending on how you define this, you could include:
creative/difficult/unexpected entries and exits
and I'd probably drop this one, if there's no real difference compared to the previous one:
clear recognizable steps/free skating movements immediately preceding element
Same number of bullets, no redundancy.
To answer your first question the differences between :
1) unexpected / creative / difficult entry
2) clear recognizable steps/free skating movements immediately preceding element
1) addresses flow in and level of attack going into and 2) is the flow out and how smooth or quickly the skater returns to the program. I'm not sure it is fair to lump them into one bullet point as you have.
I'll drive you crazy with Yulia talk, for that I'm sorry but she is my passion here and I know her programs best. She can get both of these on her wonky little 2a. Compared to the rest of the field she attacks the 2a quite fearlessly. Probably the quickest set up among all the girls...zero hesitation. In the SP she lands it and and immediately executes elements/transitions that can be perceived as flow and added difficulty. It's her biggest redeeming value on her weakest jump which I suspect has been molded to facilitate her 3t which often follows. No denying that she launches higher on the 3t than the 2a which is rare/special.
I asked about it in the stupid questions thread and here is gkelly's response.
And the responsePlease help...stupid question here!! In Yulia's SP her second jump is a 2a. Please ignore the height or wonkiness of the 2a and please explain to me the two positions she does out of it. I think one is a butterfly but am not sure if I'm right. The other stupid question is does her two transitions out of the 2a count as flow out and constitute being directly into choreography which applies to the jumps GOE. I've included a video of what I believe to be the best representation of her SP and the time in question is from 1:10-1:18 leading into a flying spin.
I guess the point I am trying to make is while many obsess over height alone there needs to be other factors when judging jumps. I don't want this sport to become a pole vaulting contest.gkelly
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From the landing edge of the axel she does a back three turn into a choreographed body position, mohawk to a brief catch-foot spiral, some toe-assisted turns, and then the butterfly entrance into the flying spin.
Yes, she has good flow on the landing edge of the axel. The moves afterward would be considered transitions -- adds some intricacy, judges would consider the quality and difficulty, and whether those moves add more variety to the other transition moves in the program. It would be up to each judge whether they think that turn and body position are connected enough to the axel itself to add to its GOE.
Ditto with the toe turns, which are not themselves very difficult. The butterfly into the spin is part of the actual element, the fly to the flying spin, and would be considered by the tech panel as a feature.
You mentioned holding the landings a bit longer. It might look pretty to hold your leg out to some and it might be more interesting to others to see a more difficult transition immediately prior to or following a jump. I can't think of a fair way to balance out and award points based on either preference. I mean both have redeeming values in my eyes and maybe one less than the other to some. I guess that's why there will always be subjectivity involved. I for one can see a case for both and hope the judges would award scores based on execution and not nationality. ]
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Tonight at 19:25 UTC the 50 meter asteroid 2012 DA14 will scrape past the Earth at less than 28,000 km distance. This morning, a smaller object entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, where it exploded at an altitude of some tens of km. The shock wave of its sonic boom and explosion caused damage and injuries, and it is likely that some debris also reached the surface. The fact that both events occur on the same day has led to speculation that they must be related, i.e., that the Chelyabinsk object might have been associated with 2012 DA14 in some way. There are different ways to disprove this notion. I choose the simplest way.
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The first thing to do is to check 2012 DA14's approach direction. I get its trajectory data from the JPL Horizons web interface. Then I straightforwardly compute the latitudes and local times at which atmospheric entry (assuming it takes place at 100 km altitude) occurs for an object that travels in the same direction as 2012 DA14 but is displaced in any direction by some thousands of km. The result is plotted below, for different entry flight path angles:
The object that entered above Chelyabinsk did so at around 9:30 local time. Now, let's see. I read off in the diagram that atmospheric entry at that time, even at a shallow entry angle of -15 degrees, would take place at around 5 degrees northern latitude, travelling almost exactly due North. For steeper entry angles, it would have entered even further south.
However, Chelyabinsk is at situated at 55 degrees North. No way a 2012 DA14-related object could have appeared there, even allowing for even shallower entry and considerable atmospheric travel between entry and break-up. Independently of other plausible arguments that also disprove any relationship between the Chelyabinsk bolide and 2012 DA14, this already constitutes sufficient evidence.
The Chelyabinsk object is unrelated to 2012 DA14. End of the matter.


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Reviewer: Michael Scott Shappe
Those of you who read my review of the Fujitsu 420D laptop know that one of my few complaints with it was that they chose to use the NeoMagic video chip—a chip which XFree86 cannot support because NeoMagic has chosen to keep their programming specifications proprietary. As a result, I have been trapped in sixteen-color VGA limbo for quite some time. This has not been a major hardship, since my primary application is word processing (see my review of WordPerfect 7 for Linux next month), but it's annoying, nonetheless.
The only X server available for Linux at the moment that does support the NeoMagic chipset (among many other chipsets) is Xi Graphics' Accelerated X Laptop Server. The Accelerated X servers are traditionally excellent products on the desktop—I've been using them on desktop BSD/OS and Linux boxes for a long time—providing both adequate stability and excellent speed relative to the freeware efforts. (None of which means that Xfree86 is a slouch either in speed or stability; as free products go, XF86 is excellent. It's just that Accelerated-X is usually somewhat better.)
The laptop edition of the latest version, 4.1, appears to be no exception to this track record. Unfortunately, it appears to carry over a few of the warts of past versions as well and introduces one new one which I find extremely annoying.
The good news is that Accelerated X delivers what it advertises: a faster X server, loaded with the most recent extension standards, with a very wide range of supported hardware. Its modular architecture means that the server software will not become obsolete with innovations in display technology—all it'll need is a new module. New and updated display card modules will be available for free from Xi Graphics' web server. Several other features, including the X server extensions (such as PEX) and the font-rendering engines, are also modularized, meaning that these can also be updated or extended without having to upgrade the server.
Particularly pleasing to me, of course, is that the server supports the NeoMagic 2093, providing 24-bit color at 640x480 resolution, 16-bit color at 800x600 and 256 color at 1024x768 on an external monitor. According to the documentation, it also supports a hot key to switch in real time between the LCD panel and an external monitor. Chips with more video memory are supported with more colors and higher resolutions with the maximum resolution theoretically possible being 1900x1440, although no currently available video chipset for a laptop has that much memory.
Presumably, it would provide 1024x768 on a larger LCD panel, if available; as it is, 800x600 is the maximum resolution supported on my laptop's panel.
Installation is a straightforward affair—become a superuser, mount the CD, change directories to the mount point, and type ./Install. If you have an older version of Accelerated X installed, the installer will move it out of the way before proceeding. You get a choice of which packages you wish to install, and then the installer just does its work.
The Xsetup program has two modes. The text-based version should be familiar to anyone who has ever installed any version of Accelerated X, and there is now a fully graphical version that, if possible, starts up a minimally-configured X server at 640x480 and allows point-and-click configuration. The first time I ran Xsetup, I got the text version by default; after that, I always got the graphical version unless I asked for the text version. The graphical version has a few more options than the text version, leading me to believe Xi Graphics feels that the text version is to be used to get the basics set up and after that you should be far enough along to use the graphical version.
The improvement in speed over XFree86's VGA16 server was immediately noticeable, even with the greater color-depth (16-bit instead of 4-bit). Window manager menu performance was snappier, as was the minimizing and maximizing of windows. WordPerfect, which previously had shown some lag when typing (a lag which I had already suspected to be a combination of both a non-optimized server and a slower font-server) behaved much better, and scaled fonts seemed sharper.
Before I start on the bad news, I want to make a point. There's probably going to be more complaining here than there was complimenting above. Don't confuse quantity and quality. This product does deliver on its main promise: a better, faster, stronger X server that isn't free but won't bankrupt you.
For all of that, there are a number of problems, ranging from mere warts to outright bugs, that I, for one, do not expect in a product as mature as this one. Many of these complaints seem to boil down to Xi Graphics not completely thinking through the "user experience" on a laptop.
Installation is, as I said, fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell from the documentation, if you have any brand of X Server installed other than an older version of Accelerated X, it will install over it, rather than moving it out of the way. This isn't entirely a bad thing, particularly if you've installed lots of other packages, but it could lead to complications. Newer versions of Xfree86 ship shared libraries with version 6.3 to match the X release (X11R6.3). Accelerated X, while implementing X11R6.3, leaves the shared library revision at 6.1. With both in place, the higher numbers will be used by the dynamic loader, and the mismatch between libraries and server could lead to strange results. This problem is documented, as is the workaround.
The other installation and set-up problem is that the graphical Xsetup frequently crashes after you've asked it to test out a configuration, leaving you to start the whole thing over again. Worse, it won't let you save after certain changes without testing it first. Since there are other ways to configure things, and since it doesn't happen every time, this is not a show-stopper, but it's hard to excuse.
Documentation, generally, is a problem. The Accelerated X Laptop Server is billed as a separate product, sold separately from the Desktop Server with an entirely separate license. Yet, at least my review copy shipped with a generic manual that answers few laptop-specific questions. In particular, neither the manual nor the Xsetup program makes any effort to point out that it doesn't much matter which monitor you select unless your laptop has an external monitor feed and you're planning to use it. There is no separate menu item for "LCD Panel", nor any mention of even the possibility.
On a related note, Xi Graphics does not seem to have taken into account the keyboard provided with most laptops. The standard hot keys for selecting among several possible resolutions (ctrl-alt-+ [+ on the numeric pad] and ctrl-alt-- [- on the numeric pad]) are almost impossible on most laptops, and there's no way to remap those functions to other keys.
Then there is the price disparity. The Laptop Server is, as far as I can tell, the exact same program as the desktop server, shipped with different video drivers. That's fine—as a programmer, I'm all for code reuse and modular architecture. But the laptop server is nearly twice the price of the desktop edition and comes with not just different but fewer drivers.
Finally, there is a major wart in the released version, which may not be a bug in the X Server but should at least be documented, that requires more than common knowledge to work around. On some laptops (mine included), if you start up in any "text" screen mode (such as the default 80x25) and then start an X Server in a resolution higher than 640x480, the resulting display area is offset by an inch, leaving a blank space to the left of the display and leaving the rightmost inch of the display unavailable (this is true of XFree86 as well). There is now a patch that solves part of the problem, but I don't think the product should have been released with this very visible problem.
The workaround for this problem requires quite a bit of tweaking of configuration files usually left untouched. The details are arguably beyond the scope of a review, but may prove useful to people who have bumped into the problem (both with this product and with XFree86) and became frustrated. They appear in the sidebar (Some Hints) and also on my "Linux on Lifebook" web page at http://www.publiccom.com/web/mikey/lifebooklinux.html.
That said, I discovered an updated NeoMagic driver on the Xi Graphics FTP site (ftp://ftp.xig.com/) which, when applied, solves part, but not all of the problem. With the patch applied, I can now start up in text mode and then start the X server and everything works perfectly. However, virtual consoles still don't work right—switching results in a blank screen—and the text mode is not restored after the X server terminates.
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Under current rules contained in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 350, entities are required to conduct a test annually to determine if the fair value of a given indefinite-lived intangible asset is greater or less than the carrying value, or the value currently carried on the books. If the carrying value is greater than the fair value, then the entity must measure the loss and write down the value of the asset.
As FASB worked last year to develop a simplified method for testing goodwill for impairment, the board heard from preparers than the testing for indefinite-lived intangible assets was equally burdensome and could benefit from the same approach, says FASB member Daryl Buck in a podcast to explain the proposal. "The new amendments address stakeholder concerns and will provide them with more qualitative options, simply their assessments, and improve the consistency of testing, all at a lower cost," he says.
Under the proposed standard, an entity can elect to assess the likelihood that a given indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired based on qualitative factors, such as events or circumstances during the most recent period that might have affected its value. If, based on the qualitative assessment, the entity can assert that the value is not impaired, then a qualitative test will not be required.
The qualitative assessment is not required, however, so an entity can elect to proceed straight to the quantitative testing if it chooses to do so. FASB says the proposed amendments will not change the way an entity would measure an impairment loss, so it is not expected to affect the information reported to users of financial statements.
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