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The first job Buffalo Bills General Manager Buddy Nix got in football was as a graduate assistant under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant at the University of Alabama.
The year was 1961. Alabama went 11-0, outscored opponents 297-25, and won the national championship. Aside from the pay -- "You don't want to hear how little I got," Nix said -- it was about as fine a start in the football profession as a man could get.
Nix spent two years as an Alabama GA, then set out on a series of high school head coaching jobs.
"After I left Alabama, I was coaching in high school and they had a charity golf tournament," Nix recalls. "I won it. Coach Bryant was the speaker. He gave out the award, and it was like a golf bag or something. When he handed it to me, he said, 'You can't coach worth a damn if you can play golf like that.' And I put the clubs up and didn't play again for five years. That's how much what he thought meant."
Nix's devotion to the game has sustained him through a career that this week enters its 49th season. Why at age 70, would he embrace the challenge of rebuilding the Bills, a franchise wandering in the NFL desert for a decade? Immersing himself in the game is the story of his life.
>The Career Path
Nix has proved over the decades that he knows a good football player when he sees one. The Bills are counting on that ability to be the catalyst for their latest rebuilding effort.
"The only way I could be more of a football guy is live longer, because that's all I've ever done," Nix said.
Nix doesn't claim to be a disciple of Bryant. He wasn't a close associate of the legendary coach. But his job at Alabama got him off to a good start in the game.
"I think the big thing is I was able to be in meetings and be around a bunch of really good coaches who went on to be head coaches in Gene Stallings and Howard Schnellenberger and [Jerry] Claiborne and on and on," Nix said, referring to three Bryant assistants who are legends in their own right. "I tried to sponge up everything I could from those guys. Coach Bryant at that time didn't just influence everyone around him, he influenced every high school and college coach in the South and beyond. If you didn't do it the way he did it, you felt like you were wrong. And if you weren't as dedicated as he was then you felt like you were cheating people."
Nix worked his way up the coaching ranks in the 1970s. In 1971 he was defensive coordinator for the Livingston (Ala.) College team that won the NAIA national championship. He moved to Southern Mississippi, Auburn and then Louisiana State, where he served as an assistant under head coach Jerry Stovall. LSU made the Sugar Bowl in 1982 and nearly pulled a big upset, losing by 21-20 to a third-ranked Nebraska team that had averaged 41 points per game.
Nix parlayed the LSU job into the head-coaching position at Division I-AA Tennessee-Chattanooga. He spent nine years there, posting five winning seasons but managing an overall record of 44-54-1. (The Mocs have had only three winning seasons since he left in '92.)
"I was kind of to a point of being burned out in coaching," Nix said of his attitude after being fired. "I hate using that term because it wasn't long before I got revived. But after nine years at a I-AA school where you never get it to a point where it stays, you're always up and down. You play pretty good for a year or two, then you have a bad year. It's hard to maintain. And it takes a lot out of you, especially when you're training coaches. You get young coaches. You can't afford the top guys, so you train 'em and then somebody hires them off of you.
"I was kinda looking for something to give me a boost, a fresh start," Nix said. "I'd had chances to get in the NFL coaching-wise before, but I never wanted to move my family around like you have to do."
Nix was an acquaintance of Dwight Adams, then director of college scouting for the Bills under General Manager John Butler. Nix and Adams had coached in the same conferences and recruited the same players for many years. Butler knew Nix a bit from scouting. On Adams' recommendation, Butler hired Nix as the Bills' Southeastern scout.
"Buddy was a thorough scout," Adams said. "He investigated guys' backgrounds well. He knows what it takes because he had coached at good schools like Auburn and LSU."
"I always had a feeling that if you hadn't played or you hadn't coached you had a hard time scouting because you hadn't done it," Adams said. "And you had never had to teach a player how to do it. Buddy knows a player when he sees one."
The Bills had an impressive string of hits on their top draft choices with Butler overseeing the scouting operation. They had nine straight drafts during one stretch in which they hit their top pick, despite drafting at the bottom of the heap. (Those included Henry Jones, John Fina, Thomas Smith, Jeff Burris, Ruben Brown, Eric Moulds, Antowain Smith, Sam Cowart and Antoine Winfield.)
"I think we had some experienced people doing it," Nix said of the Bills' scouting operation. "There was a lot of continuity. You had folks that knew how to do it and kept it going. I think that's important, whether it's in coaching or scouting. I would say that was the biggest asset."
Nix followed Butler and Bills executive A.J. Smith to San Diego. Nix ran the college scouting operation, and the draft success continued. San Diego essentially hit six top picks in six years -- LaDainian Tomlinson, Quentin Jammer, Philip Rivers, Shawne Merriman, Luis Castillo and Antonio Cromartie. (Rivers technically was a trade acquisition.)
>High average
The Chargers have had as many misses as hits in the draft overall. But their big hits -- their ability to draft players who become stars -- have been greater than most organizations'.
"I think if you do better than 50 percent you're probably gonna be right around the middle of the pack," Nix said. "You have your good years. You have your lucky years. Nobody's gonna hit 'em all. But you've got to hit enough to build your team each year. You've got to do that."
"Every now and then you're going to miss on a first rounder," Nix said. "You shouldn't but you do. If that's the case, then you've got to hit on the middle guys. Most of the time you should get the top guys right. The ones on each end are easy to do."
Nix thinks the second- through sixth-rounders make the difference for the winning organizations. "It's the middle ones that make up the bulk of your team that decide whether you're good at what you're doing or not," he said.
San Diego has scored a lot of quality starters outside the first round. The list includes: Drew Brees, Vincent Jackson, Darren Sproles, Michael Turner, Nick Hardwick, Igor Olshansky, Shaun Phillips, Nate Kaeding, Mike Scifres and Marcus McNeill.
Nix calls Rivers, the Chargers' star quarterback, the most surefire draft pick he ever was involved in taking.
"Absolutely," he said. "I don't think there was any question that he was the guy. Nobody [with the Chargers] had any doubts about him. He had 50 starts and he played in a bowl game every year and he was the Most Valuable Player in every bowl game he ever played in."
Most of the Chargers' top picks filled needs, although it's worth noting the Chargers had needs everywhere the first few years of Nix's tenure. Castillo and Sproles were not necessarily need picks.
"Here's the way I feel," Nix said. "Obviously you want to fill the need. That's obvious. If you can, you do. But you don't fill the need at the expense of making sure it's a good player. You fill a need with a guy who can play and you upgrade your football team. If you can't then you go to the one that can."
That philosophy dictated Nix's decision with the ninth pick in April's draft, when Buffalo took running back C.J. Spiller.
"We felt like we needed to upgrade our offensive line," Nix said of the assessment after he was hired. "We started out looking for that. That was our main emphasis going into the draft. But by the time we got through doing our work, there was one or two guys we felt really strongly about coming in and helping us. And neither one of them were there."
Offensive tackles Russell Okung and Trent Williams were taken in the first six picks.
"So do we take a guy that everybody thinks we ought to take, a tackle, no matter whether he can play or not?" Nix said. "You can't let that bother you."
Nix thinks that a player's "football character" is a critical piece of the evaluation process. Two of the Bills' biggest busts the past decade -- Erik Flowers and Mike Williams -- were quality individuals, good citizens. But they lacked football character.
"I think that's what separates the so-so guy and the guys that make it," Nix said. "Everybody who comes into this league has got talent. They've got upside or they wouldn't be here. The ones that stay and play are the ones who got work habits. They want to be the best they can be. They want to do whatever they have to do to be the best they can be. The difference in this league and college is you have to do it every day. You have to come to work every day. If you don't, you don't get there."
Despite Nix's scouting track record, his promotion to general manager was met with widespread indifference, something he acknowledged in his opening news conference. "I can see a little disappointment on your face that one of the geniuses is not standing up here," he said.
In getting the GM job, Nix benefited from the fact Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. has an aversion to entrusting his operation to someone with whom he is not familiar. And he is not familiar with a lot of personnel men around the NFL.
Bills fans must hope that one of Wilson's nearest bystanders turns out to be a winning executive, as happened with the hiring of Bill Polian and Butler.
Nix isn't making any bold predictions for this season, but he clearly thinks the Bills are poised to be better than most observers think in 2010.
"I want you to know that our expectations are not that low," he said.
Asked what he feels best about heading into his first regular season in charge, Nix does not hesitate.
He believes he has found the right coach in Chan Gailey.
>Right man
"The first thing is the coach we hired," Nix said. "I knew what we were getting and I think if anything he's better than that, even. I've got no reservations about saying that."
Nix sees the hiring of Gailey as similar to the drafting of a proven college star. It wasn't a pick made on potential.
The Bills have had problems with coaches who were not fully developed as head men. Everyone told Gregg Williams he had to be tough to compensate for laid-back predecessor Wade Phillips. Williams struggled to walk a line between being tough and wanting to be liked. Mike Mularkey needed to find his true voice, rather than emulating his previous boss, Bill Cowher. Neither Williams nor Mularkey got the luxury of growing into the job.
"I think about Coach Bryant, who everybody tried to emulate," Nix said. "Even to the point of dressing like him and talking like him. I think about guys like Jim Blevins and Charlie Pell and some of those guys that tried to talk with that low drawl. You could tell. You can't do that. You've got to be what you are."
"Chan has done it before at all levels," Nix said. "If a guy is kinda wishy-washy about his plan or his offensive style or whatever, your team is probably that way. Chan believes in what he's doing. He's the same every day, and he works as hard as anybody can."
"We'll be as good as we're capable of being," Nix said confidently. "That's a comforting thing. That's what makes you able to move on."
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The Vampire Diaries
November 10, 2011
"There's nothing more important than the bond of family. I think that you're going to be the one to save [Stefan] from himself. It won't be because he loves me. It'll be because he loves you."
Klaus may have been on the run lo these last few weeks, but he hasn't been idle. "Portland is fantastic – once you get over all the whiney music and healthy looking people – it's literally a breeding ground for werewolves." Stefan doesn't mince words. "Your father's dead." Klaus's face stumbles. Well, technically he's not Klaus's actual father and he's only mostly dead. The camera pans over to show a grey and gooey Michael on the floor with a silver dagger sticking out of his chest. Flash back to an hour ago. Stefan is glahmuhed to tell the truth, so the ruse has to be real. Michael is happy to play along if it will lure Klaus into their trap. A vampire can't use the dagger without dying, and so the task falls to Elena. "You want me to actually dagger you?" Heh. They have really got to stop using dagger as a verb. It just sounds so naughty! Klaus leaves nothing to chance, and so neither can they. Rebekah does her part to bolster Stefan's claim. He's out of our lives, I'm miserable, I miss you …
"He bought it. He's coming home."
Rebekah touches up her pedicure while she waits for Daddy Dearest to wake up. When he does, she has nothing but venom and loathing for him. Her father is hurt and surprised by the fury rolling off of her. She was never the one he was after. "Nic was my family. If you were after him, you were after me." Klaus will pay for what he's done with his life, but Michael has his own crimes to answer for. "Nic was not born a killer – none of us were! You did this to us when you turned us into vampires. You destroyed our family. Not him."
Elena tries to draw Bonnie out over the end of her romance with Jeremy. "I don't need to talk about it. He fell in love with his ghost girlfriend and lied about it. What's done is done." Good, if you've moved on then so will I. And scene. Tyler and Caroline are having issues of their own. He's spending too much time with Rebekah, and he crosses a line when he sets her up with Matt. "Matt is an innocent, good person who should not be going to dances with evil blood sluts." Tyler tries to use the decorative glitter covering his hands to prove whose side he's really on. "If I'm sired to anybody, it's you."
Elena moves on from fretting about her wardrobe and her friend to fretting about the myriad things – and people – that could go wrong with their plan. Rebekah is a weak link. They can't trust her. "[She] may be mad at Klaus now, but he is her brother."
"Her lying, momma-killing, dagger-happy brother."
Stefan presents problems of his own. One wrong question from Klaus and the whole thing falls apart. At the moment though, he's just an annoyance, throwing fuel onto the fire of Elena's fear. "If I look at your track record at high school dances, it's pretty tragic. My luck, you'll go ahead and get yourself murdered by the homecoming queen."
"My freedom from Klaus rests entirely of you two executing your plan perfectly. If I look back at our history of epic plan failures, it's usually because one of us let our humanity get in the way. So if I'm taking odds on how this thing goes down, it's certainly not going to be me who screws it up."
Elena takes a break from loading vervaine grenades to check on Rebekah. She's already dressed for the Homecoming dance, nervously inspecting herself in front of a mirror. "I didn't want to leave anything to chance." It's her first high school dance. She never had time for it before. She and Klaus were always on the run – and with good reason. She warns Elena that Michael can't be trusted. "No one in my family can." Rebekah is teary and starting to get a little crispy around the edges. "I never thought that I'd be the one to help drive a stake through his heart." Elena tries to bolster her confidence by adding the one thing her outfit is missing. Her mother's necklace. They share a sweet moment as Elena gently latches it around her neck … and then drives the dagger into her back.
"I'm so sorry. I can't leave anything to chance either."
BAMF! Even Boone is impressed. "It's very … Catherine of you." Except that Catherine would never feel bad about stabbing someone in the back – literally or otherwise. Elena cares too much, and that's the problem. "I'm the weak link." Well, there's also Michael and Stefan, neither of which can be trusted, so at least she's one of many. They need a new plan and Boone is already on it. Trust him. She has nothing to worry about.
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public event and civic duty training center school, Caroline is having a full on party planning meltdown. The gym is flooded so Tyler moves the party to his house. When she and Bonnie arrive, Caroline is both astonished and crushed. The backyard is done up in lights and chandeliers, there's a band with a better stage setup than you would find in most mid-sized clubs, and who are all these people? "How did he plan a better party than me so fast?!" Because it's not a party. It's a wake. One that Klaus has been planning for a thousand years. Now that Michael is gone, he can finally reunite the people he carts around in caskets his family. "Bygones will be bygones." He sends Stefan off to fetch his father's body and bring it to him. Michael is only too happy to comply – but first he drains Stefan and leaves his lifeless … deadless … whatever body behind. Weak links. Leave nothing to chance.
Tyler takes in the crowd and observes that his mom would freak if she saw all the people. Most of whom Tyler himself has never seen before. Klaus invited a few friends of his own – hybrids, all sired to him, who love a party and will kill anyone who makes a move against their master.
"Feel free to warn your friends."
Boone arrives and is blocked at the steps by a hybrid. Invite only. Boone RSVP's by shoving his hand into the guy's chest and ripping out his heart. That will just never get old. When Michael makes his appearance, Klaus has the humans herded around back and masses his hybrids on the front lawn. They may not be able to kill Michael, but tearing him apart will make for quite the party game. Michael points out that while they may be sired by Klaus, they're still part vampire … and they can be glahmuhed by him. A hybrid sidles up next to him with a struggling Elena in tow. They play chicken with her life while Michael taunts his son. No one loves him he should just eat worms. The words find their mark, but Klaus calls his father's bluff. Michael has been underestimating Klaus his whole life. "If you kill her you lose your leverage, so go ahead."
To both Klaus and Elena's great surprise, he does. Klaus gawps in stunned disbelief as Elena's body thuds to the ground. It's all the distraction that Boone needs. He rushes at Klaus from behind and drives the stake shaped from the wood of the Original's white oak tree into his side. As Klaus howls in pain, Boone flips him up off his feet and slams him onto his back on the marble foyer floor. Michael's enjoyment of the moment is marred when Elena – no, make that Catherine – pops up, very much undead. It still seems strange to me that vampires can't sense each other, but whatever. Buh-boom! She turns and lobs two vervaine grenades at the hybrids. Boone pulls the stake out but Stefan tackles him before he can deliver the final killing blow. He holds his brother down as Klaus reaches for the stake left lying just at hand. He launches himself at his father, aiming true as they hit the flagstones together. The stake ignites and Michael is instantly engulfed in flames. Boone is stunned and struggles to grasp what Stefan has done.
"He's earned his freedom."
They thought of everything. They planned for every contingency. "Anything that could have gone wrong, we were prepared!" Boone pours another drink and see saws between fury and despair. Elena takes his face in her hands and forces him to focus. They'll survive this. "We always survive. Trust me." And if Stefan is truly gone, then they'll let him go. "Okay? We'll have to let him go."
What they didn't plan for was Klaus being one double secret probation step ahead. If he was going to die, he was taking Boone with him. Even in death, his hybrids had their orders. Catherine didn't know that Stefan would stop Boone. She was just hoping that he would want to – for the sake of both of their lives … and Stefan's humanity. "Let's just say I like the old you better."
"I loved you. I loved Boone, too. Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness. No matter how easy it is to turn it off, it just keeps trying to fight its way back in. Sometimes I let it. Of course you don't want to [turn it on]. But if you don't let yourself feel, you won't be able to do what I need you to do next …"
"Get mad."
The day dawns bright and cheery for Klaus. It's time for a family reunion – but when he opens the back of the panel truck, it's empty.
Stefan's freedom came at too high a price. Klaus took everything from him, and now he's returning the favor. "I wonder Klaus, as someone who's been one step ahead for a thousand years, are you prepared for this?"
The Vampire Diaries airs Thursday at 7:00 p.m. on The CW.
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I call myself a crochet fashion designer. I think I can call myself that because that is what I do with the majority of my time. If I am not crocheting, sketching, swatching and surfing the web for ...
I call myself a crochet fashion designer. I think I can call myself that because that is what I do with the majority of my time. If I am not crocheting, sketching, swatching and surfing the web for inspiration, I am thinking about crochet design. While most people are up all night worrying about their finances (I admit I do that sometimes), I am losing sleep over what stitch pattern I am going to use for my next shrug design.
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Here is another Yarn Yogi Shrug Creation - The Somerset Shrug. A very easy pattern for beginner crocheters and experts alike. The model shown is the smallest size and I show you how to make it as big as you like. I used Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Wheat for the shrug in the pictures.
This shrug would be perfect for fall and looks good over long or short sleeves. Great for chilly offices and folds up nicely into a backpack or carry-on for traveling. Looks good on all body types and sizes!
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Notre Dame roared back onto the field in the opening minutes of their season opener against the Temple Owls. The Irish came up early and maintained a comfortable lead throughout their 28-6 victory.
While the Tommy Rees-DaVaris Daniels combo impressed in the air—prompting the Twitter hashtag #TouchdownReesus—it was USC transfer Amir Carlisle who shined on the ground. The 5'10", 190-pound rusher led the Irish backs with 68 yards on seven carries.
Although it was widely assumed that George Atkinson III would be the Irish's primary weapon on the ground, it was Carlisle who shined against Temple.
Next week the Fighting Irish will meet the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor for the last game of what has been a prolific rivalry. The teams' last four meetings have been decided by seven points or less, so expect the competition to be fierce in The Big House this Saturday.
With series bragging rights and both teams' AP ranking on the line, expect this to be a defining game for Notre Dame's 2013 season.
Here are three ways head coach Brian Kelly can use Carlisle in their battle with Michigan.


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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
There's a couple ways of looking at Stratford's baseball game on Monday night, being disappointed it was as close as it was or proud of the way it ended.
Simply put, it's baseball and some times things go your way and other times they don't.
The Knights made four errors and served up a grand slam ball but were able to rally from a five-run deficit to knock off Avon, Ohio 7-6 in the opening game of the Hanahan Invitational Tournament.
"They battled and fought," SHS coach John Chalus said. "At times, we get frustrated like the players get frustrated. Baseball is such a mental game. When we work on things and we're unable to stay focused long enough to do that we get upset."
The Knights (6-5) fell behind 6-1 after Avon's grand slam highlighted a six-run fourth inning. They scored two runs in the bottom of the inning to slice their deficit in half and then took the lead with four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Asher Smith's two-run single made it 6-5 and then catcher Jordan Lacavera laced a two-out, two-run double to left center, putting the Knights on top.
Justin Walker (1-0) retired the side in order in the seventh, striking out the last batter, to preserve the victory. Walker worked the final three innings to earn the win on the mound.
"He did a good job throwing strikes and keeping us in the game until our bats could get to their second and third pitchers," Chalus said.
Chase Fowler, Eddie Hiott, Smith and Jamison Mobbs had two hits apiece for the Knights.
Fowler threw the first four innings for the Knights but was hurt by his defense.
"We didn't play behind him," Chalus said.
The HIT tournament is in its 44th year and 28 teams are vying for the title. The final is set for Friday.
Monday's Stratford game was played at Bishop England High School, one of seven sites.
Goose Creek lost its opening game 4-3 to Beaufort at Berkeley High School, while Cane Bay defeated First Baptist 5-3 at the James Island site.
All Berkeley County schools are on spring break this week.
"It's like playing baseball in the minors," Chalus said. "You wake up, practice, play baseball and then go to bed."
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- Police responded to the 600 block of East Fourth Street at 1:33 p.m. Thursday for a report of a shattered rear window of a vehicle and found an air freshner can that had overheated and exploded, propelling itself through the window.
- Officers responded to the 400 block of West Pershing Street at 6:39 p.m. Thursday for a report of a black jeep that had struck a house and then fled eastbound. Officers were unable to find the vehicle or fresh damage to the house in question.
- Police responded to the 1200 block of East Sixth Street at 9:41 p.m. Thursday for a report of a suspicious vehicle that had been sporadically sitting in a parking lot the past few nights.
- Officers responded to the 600 block of South Union Avenue at 11:44 p.m. Thursday where a resident reported someone had been walking in his yard with a flashlight. Officers were unable to find anyone in the area.
- Lisa J. Volio, 57, 764 Cherry Valley Drive, Leetonia, was arrested for possession of drugs and possession of marijuana after officers found 15 pills and suspected marijuana during a search of a vehicle they observed her sitting in with another woman in a parking lot at Franklin and South Broadway avenues.
- Ashley R. Carlariello, 20, Salem, was cited for failure to yield from a private drive following a two-vehicle crash in the 1000 block of Liberty Street at 6:58 p.m. Thursday in which she allegedly backed from a driveway and struck an eastbound vehicle driven by Karen S. Humphreys, 50, Salem. No injuries were reported.
- A Washington Stree woman called Thursday about a bank fraud.
- Police assisted while the adult parole authority served a warrant on a person at a South Main Street address at 1:19 p.m. Thursday.
- A man reported Thursday his neighbors on East Friend Street have yet to mow their back yard.
-A Heck Road man reported Thursday receiving a bogus check from a female in an attempt to defraud him. He did not cash the check, and police determined the check was issued from a fake account.
- A Lisbon Street woman reported at 7:42 p.m. Thursday a man came to her home wearing a dark blue First Energy shirt asking to see her utility bill. She refused and the man left. Police caught up with him and he was from Direct Energy, not First Energy, but he did not have a solicitation permit.
- A caller reported a tree on fire in front yard of her home on Fairfield Avenue at 9:53 p.m. Thursday.
- A caller reported someone in a black Chevrolet SUV was driving along Cimarron Lane using a flashlight to look in yards and homes at 10:08 p.m. Thursday. Police caught up with the man, who lived on Apache Lane and was looking for his lost cat.
- While on patrol an office found an open door and light at an address on Metz Road at 5:22 a.m. Friday. The property was found secure.
- A woman called asking police to check on her mother on Sherman Street at 2:35 p.m. Thursday.
-A woman reported Friday being assaulted at the Night Court the night before. When asked why she was reporting it now, she said calling immediately would have caused more problems.


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Pinellas County, Florida -- Shortly after the close brush with Hurricane Elena in 1985, Pinellas County emergency planners sought a permanent space to use when responding to threatening hurricanes and other disasters. This year, with the end of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season on Nov. 30, emergency planners will close this first-in-the-state center, ending its 28-year run.
Pinellas County, Florida -- While the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season has not been as active as predicted, Pinellas County emergency managers remind residents to pay close attention to the weather as we turn the calendar to October.
Tropical Storm Andrea brought some heavy rain and wind to Pinellas County. Other than that, 2013 has proven to be a light hurricane season for the Tampa Bay area. As we close the books on the first half of the season, it's important to remember that the second, far busier, half is yet to come.
Pinellas County, Florida -- Hurricane Andrew. Hurricane Charley. Hurricane Katrina. Three devastating storms- that made landfall in August.
August is the month when tropical activity begins to ramp up in earnest before reaching its peak in mid-September. It is critical for residents to take time and ensure all of their preparations for a potential hurricane impact.
Here are some items to consider:
Pinellas County, Florida -- A child dies from heatstroke every 10 days from being left alone in an unattended vehicle. In fact, heatstroke is the leading cause of a non-crash vehicle fatality for children 14 and younger.
On Wednesday, July 31, Pinellas County Public Safety Services is joining a national effort to raise awareness about this preventable tragedy with a Social Media Conversation Day.
On this day, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking the public to share safety messages through Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #heatstroke.
Clearwater, Florida -- The City of Clearwater is bringing stormwater and sewer improvements to the Glenwood Estates neighborhood. The two projects include:
- The Smallwood Circle Drainage Improvement project will reduce flooding potential and provide water quality benefits to the area.
- The Edgewood Sanitary Sewer Improvements project will improve the performance of the sewer system in the neighborhood by adjusting slope levels of sewer pipes between manholes.
Clearwater, Florida - The city's pro-active stance for dealing with a bad hurricane has a down side.
A section of the "Post Disaster Redevelopment Plan" under review includes aerial photographs depicting what the beach would look like if struck by a serious storm surge.
"This is what scares me," said Mayor George Cretekos at the council's workshop session.
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Why Should Women be Less Ambitious in Work Life?Madeline Holler
Granted, I have not read the book, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find the Career — and Life — That's Right for You. Judging from this Q&A with the authors, Barbara Kelley, a journalism professor, and her daughter Shannon Kelley, who works in public relations, I don't think I will.
I'm as interested in work-life balance issues as the next mom-with-ambitions-and-not-enough-childcare, but it doesn't sound like this book offers any new insight. Particularly off-putting is that it, again, it appears to attribute work-/life-balance misery to women themselves, as if, deep down, we'd all like to make cupcakes if only there were more hours in the day.
The mother-daughter author pair say today's moms, women who were raised to believe they could do anything and got the educations in order to do so, have no role models for how to get to the top and also have a family.
Consider this exchange in the U.S. News interview, reprinted in the Chicago Tribune:
Q: You write that it's impossible to have both a high-powered career and a family. Why? What's wrong with trying to have it all?
BK: I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to accomplish that, but if your expectations are [that] both will be perfect, I think you're going to be sorely disappointed, because you can't be in two places at the same time. It's what we call in the book "opportunity cost," which is an economics term. If you're doing A, you can't be doing B. Unless you have an awful lot of help at home, I don't see how you can be at work for 52 hours a week and be arranging play dates and taking your kids to the park and baking cupcakes. It's physically impossible. Of course, men have been doing this for years because they have their wives to do the cupcakes.
When we give younger women the message that hey, you can do everything, you can have it all, it's all going to be perfect, there's a sense of almost failure when you can't do it all.
Dirty little parenting secret that women with demanding careers know but get totally slammed if they actually admit it: playdates, the park and cupcakes are completely superfluous to child-rearing and ranking as a good mom. Nothing wrong with those things either, but they're optional, totally optional. That these kinds of things get brought up as central to the struggle of modern women who want both career and family distracts us from what's really at work (pun!) here and that is that there is no enough societal support for working families — be they one- or two-parent set ups, any combo of male or female.
What drags ambitious working mothers down is the fact that good, quality and, most of all — affordable! — childcare and, eventually, preschool, is hard to find. Once found, the hours don't always coincide with work realities. Post preschool, there's the battle of finding good schools and then all those little and big breaks throughout the year — breaks for the kids and not for the working parents, who have to (see: above) scramble for more affordable good quality childcare.
There's also the issue of things too-short maternity leaves, expensive healthcare and a national mentality that requires adults be supervising their children essentially around the clock. These things are the real impediments to women — the hurdles that are set juuuust a tad high that, without a lot of money, an open-minded workplace, and local family, luck is the only thing left to help you clear them.
Who wants to count on luck when you've got goals you want to accomplish?
Whether in this book or elsewhere, I think it's irresponsible in any discussions about the challenges of modern parenting for men or women when we don't, even in passing, mention any of this. Why are we so willing to encourage young women who are not yet mothers to ratchet down the drive?
Some advice that comes through in this work-life balance interview is that women should be willing to settle. That's the problem. When it comes to the logistics of raising children and climbing the corporate ladder, settling is the only option — be it holding back until the kids are out of school (tough luck for the moms who had kids in their 30s and 40s!) or spending a ton of money on a personal nanny, which means a woman has to settle for only a narrowly defined kind of ambition — one that brings in enough money.
Sharon Lerner wrote an excellent book called The War on Moms. I interviewed her for Strollerderby and she addresses these issues and shows evidence that it's not impossible to create a more supportive place for all moms, career-focused or not.
That's what we need to be talking more about — how society can meet the needs of working women who also want to be moms, whatever level they're at, however ambitious they are, and not the other way around. American women, whether they want to or not, by default meet society's needs. Talk of change doesn't start and stop with cupcakes. In fact, cupcakes have absolutely nothing to do with it.
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BibApp at ASEE: Journey to the Center of a CV
June 29th, 2010 | Published in Mentions, News
Librarians Anne E. Rauh and Jody Hoesly of Wendt Engineering Library at the University of Wisconsin at Madison presented on their BibApp project at the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.
Their colorful slides will introduce you to the nature and scope of Wendt's project. Their conference paper discusses why Wendt Library decided to develop and work with BibApp, how they organized and carried out citation capture, and how the BibApp has improved relationships with the departments they serve. Pay close attention to the appendices, which contain all the forms and processes Wendt is using to track CVs and citations!
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Bertrand Competition with an Asymmetric No-Discrimination Constraint
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We study the competitive and welfare consequences when only one firm must commit to uniform pricing while the competitor's pricing policy is left unconstrained. The asymmetric no-discrimination constraint prohibits both behavior-based price discrimination within the competitive segment and third-degree price discrimination across the monopolistic and competitive segments. We find that an asymmetric no-discrimination constraint only leads to higher profi ts for the unconstrained firm if the monopolistic segment is large enough. Therefore, a regulatory policy objective of encouraging entry is not served by an asymmetric no-discrimination constraint if the monopolistic segment is small. Only when the monopolistic segment is small and rivalry exists in the competitive segment does the asymmetric no-discrimination constraint enhance welfare.
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A bill to cut state contracts by 10 percent was unanimously passed by the House Appropriations Committee on Monday. State Treasurer John Kennedy pleaded with members to approve House Bill 73 by Jerome "Dee" Richard, I-Thibodaux, a year after a similar Richard bill made it to the Senate before being killed in committee.
Kennedy said Richard's 2013 legislation does not assert that any of the state's 19,000-plus contracts, not including those for higher education, are illegal. But he said there are so many that the state's doesn't have enough bureaucratic oversight to audit all of them.
"You have to have a map. You have to be Daniel Boone," Kennedy said, referring to the difficulty of navigating the state's many contracts. Many committee members also complained that they didn't have the ability to oversee the contracts.
Steven Procopio, chief of Staff for the Division of Administration, said committee members were trying to solve a budgetary problem through a contracts review process. State Rep. Jim Morris, R-Oil City, called Procopio's testimony, that there weren't significant numbers of wasteful contracts, "hogwash."
Richard's bill now heads to the House for further debate.
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Anyone who has written or read more than birthday cards has more than likely heard the terms "tight (or close) third person" and "distant third person." And yet, when it comes to nailing down exactly what they mean, when and how to use them, and why something feels off about someone's use of tight third person, it can start to get a bit complicated. At its simplest, all the two terms do is describe the zooming in and out of a book's literary camera. Tight third person means the literary camera has a tight focus on the viewpoint character (sometimes, so tight as to be just on their face) so as to emphasize the emotions and thoughts of the character. And distant third person means the camera is panned back a bit, to give us a less emotional and more literal view of things—and also to show us the character has feet.
But where it starts to get complicated is when you realize there aren't just two kinds of third person. Tight and distant third person are actually part of a continuum that stretches all the way from outer-space distant--to right up inside your character's skull. The more distant the narration, the more emphasis there is on the narrator's voice and opinions (and the more important it is to have a strong voice). And the closer the narration, the more emphasis there is on the character's experiences—to the eventual elimination of the narrator's voice.
Writers tend to be very opinionated about—well, everything! But in particular about what distances are best. But, of course, in reality, you need all the distances (or at least, more than one). Sticking to just one distance would feel bizarrely monotone, like holding a single note for five minutes in place of a melody. Instead, most novels use different pacing, narrative distances, and vocabularies for different occasions, which the author weaves together seamlessly—and naturally—like a maestro.
Of course, that isn't to say you should use all the distances all the time—and mixed up with each other willy-nilly. As engaging as the excellent use of distances can be, unexpected shifts in distance are discordant, and one of the surest ways to disengage your reader. So, to help tackle the issue, I've adapted the five "psychic distances" outlined by John Gardner in his genius guide to writing: The Art of Fiction, and gone over briefly some of the details of each distance and how to move elegantly between them.
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Thank you very much for this article. I still can't believe how one can learn his whole life! Now my reading will be much more fun :)
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I just wanted to let you know how much I LOVE your blog! I just stumbled apon it a few moments ago and within a matter of minutes I now consider it my favorite blog. You have AMAZING tips and I just can't thank you enough for how much this is helping me! Thank you so much! (new follower!)
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Also, why isn't there a "tweet" this link? Would love to share these useful posts with my followers, but no twitter link makes it a pain.
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Very useful stuff. For me, it's hard to make a decision to write in first-person precisely because third-person is so much more flexible.
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by Michael Korda
Queenie Kelley is a beautiful little Calcutta girl whose mother is half Indian; her father, an Irish ne'er-do-well, has disappeared. Queenie persuades her doting uncle to steal a diamond bracelet to finance her escape to London with him. Then from a job as a stripper in a sleazy club, Queenie uses her beauty to become Dawn Avalon, an international movie star. The career of this fictional heroine closely resembles that of actress Merle Oberon, the author's aunt for six years, when she was married to moviemaker Alexander Korda. And it is Oberon whom the reader will envision throughout every descriptive passage: "Everybody stared at her, even the other stars. She was not only the most beautiful woman in the room—she was also the richest and now the most powerful." The best parts of this big novel are the early scenes in India—Korda supplies a lot of imaginative details about a sulky little girl who grows up to discover that she has an extraordinary power over men. The Hollywood stuff is too familiar. So is the plot about a star getting mixed up with gangsters, marrying often, getting face-lifts and enjoying the heck out of sex. Korda himself has written about this before in Charmed Lives, his nonfiction account of his noted relatives. The top editor at Simon & Schuster, in charge of so many best-sellers that he is a legend, Korda keeps everything moving, and he does have a sense of humor. Otherwise why would the book jacket quote Father Andrew Greeley's classically overblown comment on Queenie: "It has the feel of Greek tragedy and the overtones of a scriptural parable"? (Linden Press, $17.95)
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Richard Walsh, PhD, joined Duke Regional Hospital as chief human resources officer in April 2005.
Prior to joining Duke Regional Hospital, he served as director of organizational effectiveness and people development with University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, an integrated health system with 150 locations and more than 20,000 employees and physicians. He previously was director for human resources with Johnson & Johnson and manager of organization development with Honeywell International.
With more than 30 years of experience in human resources management, he has built a reputation as a strong, thoughtful leader. He has expertise in change leadership, management development, team building, enhancing employee satisfaction, and building successful diversity programs.
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by Alan Epstein
Fulfilling a longtime fantasy, writer Alan Epstein moved to Rome with his wife and two school-age sons five years ago, and this charming, Peter Mayle-like insider's view is the result: an unabashed love letter celebrating the allure, frustrations, quirks and joys of life in the Eternal City. Lively vignettes explicate Roman attitudes toward sex (quite liberal, especially when it comes to adultery), food (all good, all the time), technology (not to be trusted; better to have 10 people doing the job of one computer) and style (impeccable, even when picking up the dry cleaning). Epstein's hungry eye and gift for storytelling more than make up for a bit of repetition and self-indulgence, and in the end we're left with a rich picture of living "at the apex of what is most profound about life," as the author calls Rome. "What it offers in the way of beauty, of sensuality, of creativity," says Epstein, 51, "no other city can match." (Morrow, $20)
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Robert "Nelson" Canode Jr., 54, of Amarillo died Friday, May 19, 2006, in Spring.
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Sunday in Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Jeff Conway and the Rev. Marty Loberg officiating.
Nelson was born on Dec. 8, 1951, in Amarillo to Robert Nelson Canode Sr. and Shirley Stern. He graduated from Tascosa High School in 1970 and spent most of his life in Amarillo before settling in Spring with his wife, Debbie. He had a prolific career in sales, which included his own flooring company he opened in 2002. The company prospered not only locally, but all along the southeastern United States as well. Nelson lived a vibrant life, filled with stories. From beginning to end, he took everything he did to the limit and then went a little further. It was all or nothing with "Ol' Nelly," as he liked to refer to himself. He was bigger than life, impacting everyone and everything he came into contact with. To know Nelson five minutes was to remember him forever. He was fun and funny, always laughing and playing practical jokes, always the life of the party, even if there wasn't one. He had a great passion for golf, which he shared most often with his sister and a passion for filling his life with stories that he shared most often with his brother and friends. His love for bowling was shared with his sons, whom he consistently beat, coining the phrase "Touchdown, Nelly!" He loved to go out to eat and try new restaurants, taking his family along as much as possible to make the experience all the better. Above all else, his greatest passion was loving his family. There was no limit to how much he loved. As a grandfather, father, husband, brother, uncle and friend he was greatly loved and appreciated and will be greatly missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Survivors include his wife Debbie; his stepfather, Tibor Stern of Amarillo; two sons, Bob Canode and wife Adelinda and Ryan Canode and wife Elise; and their mother, K'lynn Kiihn, all of Amarillo; a sister, Susan Summer and husband Paul of Amarillo; a brother, Howard Canode and wife Ru of Denver; two stepdaughters, Brittany Rodriguez and husband Valde of Canyon and Kimberly Brooke of Amarillo; two nephews, James Canode and wife Yukiko of Fairlawn, Ohio, and Andrew Summer of Amarillo; a niece, Alyssa Thomas and husband John of Centennial, Colo.; and eight grandchildren, Andrew, Christian, Isaac, Kylee, Bennie, Noah, Christina and Vanessa.
The family suggests memorials be to Westminster Presbyterian Church Youth Ministries Program, 2525 Wimberly Road, Amarillo, TX 79109.
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Instead of our early Sunday morning exercise walk, my walking partner and I decided we'd hit the driving range and hit golf balls. We've never gone to the driving range before because we've never golfed. I did take a golf lesson once many many many 20 some many years ago. But when you have a cute golf instructor, who pays attention to instructions? So I remember nothing.
Except that he was cute.
Anyway, before I share our golfing experience let me just say that even though my walking partner and I have known each other since high school, we are very very different:
Walking Partner Angie (Thelma): Spunky bouncy happy cheerleader that doesn't sweat.
Me (Louise): Not spunky bouncy happy cheerleader that sweats. I played volleyball. And softball. We didn't smile and spunky bounce. We'd sweat.
So of course, for our golf outing, the spunky tiny bouncy happy cheerleader that doesn't sweat, shows up in a cute little spunky bouncy skirt.
Yippie GOLFINGGGGGGGG
She was excited and ready to have fun while I was all serious thinking … I think you're suppose to bend your knees, one arm is suppose to be straight, don't take your eyes off the ball, don't hit it like a softball, why did I have to have a cute golf instructor, why didn't I youtube how to golf before I left. &*&^
I'm serious when it comes to sports. And competitive. &*&^
And the spunky bouncy happy cheerleader bounced around not caring whether she hit the ball or not …
And then she'd turned to me and say in her spunky bouncy cheerleading voice …
Beat it, Louise!
Whack it, Louise! Whack it! Whack it! Whackitwhackitwhackit!
And I'd look up at her thinking … Are you spunky bouncy kidding me? And now I'm about to beat the hell out of my ball.
And I beat the hell out of my ball.
Then Thelma would hit hers all dainty and giggle …
And then she'd turn to me jumping up and down yelling …
Whackit Louise! WHACK IT!!! Whackitwhackitwhackit …
And I'm thinking to myself … because I would never say this out loud … okay … I would … but I was seriously trying to concentrate and my very own personal cheerleader was really cheering me on … so I was trying to be nice. But secretly I was saying to myself …
WHACK IT! WHACKITWHACKITWHACKIT ~ OH MY SPANKY PANTS STOP IT!!! No wonder volleyball players never hung around cheerleaders in high school! I'm seriously about to whack it all right. And how is she not sweating? I'm sweating my @$$ off. WHACK IT LOUISE!!! Yea that's right Thelma … I'm about to whack it alright. I'm about to beat the hell out of this ball.
And then I'd beat the hell out of my ball.
And it would go about as far as a yard. Or I'd hit the plastic thingy holding my balls. And thank goodness no one was anywhere near us.
And thank goodness Thelma didn't get a black eye.
From a loose ball.
Or …
Umm …
A tackle.
911 What's your emergency? There's a golf chick out here on the golf course that just tackled another golf chick.
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HAMILTON — More than 50 residents, including several members of a local Baptist church, came to a school board meeting Tuesday to talk about the lack of permanent principals at three elementary schools and to meet the new superintendent, James Parla, who will begin work in mid-April.
Two weeks after the board dismissed interim superintendent James Sheerin, many residents continued to express criticism of the move. Sheerin's firing led longtime board member Elric Cicchetti to resign the following day.
Cicchetti cited the board's decision to fire Sheerin and its "micromanagement" of school affairs as reasons for leaving the board. His resignation was accepted unanimously by the remaining board members a week ago.
Sheerin said last month that he and members of the board were at odds over the board's decision in January to postpone the appointments of principals at Lalor, McGalliard and Yardville elementary schools.
School board president Patricia DelGiudice said Tuesday that she and board members Joseph Malagrino and Jeff Hewitson have visited two of the three schools — McGalliard and Lalor.
"We wanted to hear their concerns and let them understand ours as well," DelGiudice said.
Regarding the principal searches, William Burns, an attorney for Hamilton schools, said simply: "A decision was made by the board." The board decided in January to postpone the appointments at Lalor, McGalliard and Yardville elementary schools until Parla had a chance to weigh in.
Some residents expressed concern about pending retirements of principals at other schools — Peggy Gens at Langtree Elementary and Lorraine Persiani at Greenwood Elementary — both set to retire on July 1. The residents believe the process of finding permanent replacements for those schools will be prolonged.
Board members listened Tuesday, but they spoke little during the public portion of the meeting.
"This evening I come before you sounding the clarion call for true leadership to rise up, stand up, and take control of this hiring chaos (surrounding the selection of building principals) that is taking place in Hamilton public schools," Janice Williams, a former school board member, said.
"The urgency is great in light of the fact that three schools are in need of educational leaders. Students, parents, staff and community members in schools that remain absent of administrative leadership have been suffering and functioning without direction for nearly a year," she said.
"On a side note, the district must also recognize its changing demographics and put individuals who reflect that in place in its schools," Williams, who is black, added.
A number of congregants from St. Phillips Baptist Church, a predominantly black church, were in the audience.
The Rev. Joseph E. Woods, the senior pastor, said the board did not address any questions, but only made general statements. "This greatly impacts our community," Woods said of the number of church members at the meeting. "Education and youth are our top priority."
In other business Tuesday, six board members voted against revising the board's nepotism policy, which member Richard Kanka said would have been weakened by the vote. "We're weakening it at this time. We worked hard on the current nepotism policy," Kanka said.
The failed policy would have allowed the assistant superintendent, business administrator, board attorney and school district administrator to recommend family members for employment or for promotion. After the vote, some residents spoke, praising the board's decision.
In other business, the board voted unanimously to introduce the proposed $182.3 million general fund 2012-2013 school budget with a tax levy of $100.5 million.
The levy includes $3.7 million that goes toward paying the debt service, according to the district.
A "meet and greet" with Parla, the incoming superintendent, followed the board meeting. Woods and a local representative of the NAACP were among those who briefly introduced themselves to Parla.
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• More heat in Hamilton following interim superintendent's firing
• Lone dissenter in Hamilton school board vote to fire interim superintendent Sheerin steps down
• Hamilton school official fired
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As a celebrity blogger, I sometimes get the feeling that I'm writing the same stories over and over again. This week, I finally figured out why:
It's because I am.
While scrolling through entertainment articles a few days ago, it hit me that I was reading some headlines that could have been printed 10 years ago. For some proof, I've pulled a few examples. Stop me if you've heard this one before. Actually, don't.
On the Google News home page:
"Jury Seated on Simpson Trial"
On thecelebritycafe.com:
"Catfight on the set of 90210"
In the LA Times:
"Britney Spears Delivers Ratings Gold to MTV"
Sure, maybe the crime has changed, or the cats doing the fighting have gone a little gray, or the award show victories now come after years of mental instability, but, overall, we can pretty much depend on celebrity gossip delivering more of the same -- whether we're talking about Madonna shocking audiences with her new look (ew, by the way) or Hugh Grant allegedly dating someone young enough to be his daughter ... again.
One can only wonder what O.J. Simpson will think of next.
- Kaelin O'Connell


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I have used this product since 2001 and have saved thousands in waxing costs. The slider function is totally useless, so I just don't use it. I heat up the wax, pour the wax onto an applicator stick, apply the wax via the stick and use a muslin strip to remove the wax. This is literally the cleanest way to wax (I have tried everything). I love it so much that I am buying another one for back up!!!
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Dec 5, 2012
Simply Does Not Work At All!
As a big tester of various hair removal techniques/products I was delighted to find something small and compact for travel. This product simply does not work at all. I thought maybe I didn't follow the instructions correctly or that my facial hair was too fine but after 5 attempts, I gave up. Stick to the pot wax.
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Oct 2, 2012
Didn't Work
I bought this thinking it would be easy to use and in fact my stylist at the salon had one (I thought). Couldn't get it to work and after talking to professionals it seems the wax does not get hot enough. My stylist had a different heating mechanism.
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Jun 14, 2011
It Truely Is Easy!
I wasn't real sure if this was going to be a worthwhile item, but i was wrong. It works great especially on eyebrows!
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Jan 28, 2010
I used this a couple times and it was not hot enough but worked ok. Just went to use it again and the wax leaked all over everything in the box, yuk! Wondering if anyone knows where to get the instruction pamphlet.
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Mar 10, 2009
Not Hot Enough
I bought this item because I love Clean and Easy. we have a big clean and easy waxing set at the salon I work at. it was great when I found this with only the facial wax. my downfall: the wax did not heat up enough, it was already too hard to roll out before I covered the area! I also tried different outlets and another system and had no luck!
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Lisa Hinojosa
Mission, Texas
Dec 27, 2008
Great Facial Waxer
I have tried many over the counter waxes and this is the best I have ever tried. It is very easy to use and very clean. I love how you just plug it in and its ready in a few minutes. I use it on my upper lip and on my daughters unibrow. I LOVE IT! I would highly recommend it
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Jan 28, 2008
Average Product
I purchased this product to get rid of the facial hair, mainly eye brow. The wax is good but the slider doesnt help. Due to the slider entire process becomes messey. This is an average product.
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It is no surprise by now if you've been paying any attention to the Benghazi scandal that the Obama administration totally ignored reports from the ground in Libya on September 11, 2012 when it came to developing talking points for the American public. From the beginning, President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary of Clinton, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney all told the American people the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were a result of a protest over a YouTube video raging out of control. As we've known for months and revisited Wednesday through testimony from whistleblower Greg Hicks, there was no protest. The video claim is completely fabricated. What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack and was reported as such to Hillary Clinton at 2 a.m. Reports of a protest outside of the consulate were never issued from Libya to Washington because there wasn't one.
Regardless, the White House, not the intelligence community, came up with falsified talking points. According to ABC News, they were changed 12 times.
ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department. The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.
That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November.
"Those talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC's best assessments of what they thought had happened," Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing on November 28, 2012. "The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility' because 'consulate' was inaccurate."
And about that whole al Qaeda thing? State Department Spokesman Victoria Nuland really didn't like that, so she had it scrubbed. A final meeting at the White House before the talking points were used publicly eliminated any reference to al Qaeda and the warning signs about an attack and terrorism in Benghazi.
The CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points:
"The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa'ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador's convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks."
In an email to officials at the White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland took issue with including that information because it "could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned …"
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The CIA and the intelligence community were thrown under the bus by the Obama administration on Benghazi from day one, yet, the CIA was the only agency willing to actually tell the truth about what happened. The CIA gave the White House and the State Department accurate and factual information about al Qaeda and terrorist threats in Benghazi. They were ignored before the attack and then stripped after the threats came to fruition.


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A fellow from Artistic Marble & Granite in Hawthorne was over today to create the templates that will be used to cut our counter tops.
It was actually a fascinating thing to watch. He took these long flimsy strips of wood maybe an eighth-inch thick and about three inches wide and he lays then around the edge of the cabinet tops to replicate the shape that the counters will be. Where there is an angle, he takes a utility knife and trims off the excess. Where there is a curve, he bent one of the strips and traced the arc of the curve on the wood. Then he glues each series of strips together to make this kind of framework they will use back at the shop.
This afternoon, I drove up to Hawtrhorne to do that layout; that's when you take the forms and put them on the actual slabs of granite to decide which slabs they will use to make your counters. This is a pressure-packed situation. Not only is this granite expensive and you get one shot at it, but my wife was out of town and if I screwed this up i was in real trouble. But this dude Tom from Artisitic helped me out and I think we're going to be good.
Tom and I then laid out the other three counter pieces. The image on the right is just a little closer of the second slab so you can see some of the color detail there.
That slab on the right is going to be the countertop for this contraption that Gene Gene the Kitchen Machine built this morning ...
We're going to put a countertop on top of this and slide some stools under. There at the end off to the left will be a tall cabinet ... you'll see later.
Tom told me we are scheduled for granite installation next Thursday.


text: South Korean handset maker Pantech looks to be cooking up and Android phone with AT&T compatibility. According to documents pieced together by Phone Scoop, a bar-style handset featuring support GSM/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA 850/1900 has been confirmed by the FCC as well as the Bluetooth SIG. Very little is known about the P8000 beyond these little tidbits. Our gut tells us this will be a low-end-of-the-totem pole type of phone, but that's quite alright. LG has been doing just fine with their Optimus line of phones, and we don't hear anyone complaining about choice. Look for more details as we can gather them.


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Recently I upgrade my WordPress software from 2.2 to 2.7.1. Here's my experience:
1. It was painless to download the package from WordPress, unzip it, and then ftp the unzipped files into the web host. Simply following the direction in the WordPress site did the trick.
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3. After I had finished the processed describe in the WordPress site, I went to the site. Everything looked normal except that the tags were gone. I had been using Jerome's Keywords plugin to set my tags, and KeyCloud Widgets plugin to display the tag cloud. A little research told me that I needed to use the Tools/Import function to import tags set with Jerome's Keywords into WordPress's own tag database (back in the 2.2 days, WordPress did not have native support of tags. That feature was introduced in 2.3).
4. The import was successful and I also edited my theme so the function calls for showing the tags and the tag clouds were updated. However, the tags still did not appear. After more poking around, which included querying the database tables to make sure all the relationships were correct between each tag and each post, I found the solution: I needed to deactivate Jerome's Keywords. Once I deactivated that plugin, the tags and the tag clouds appeared normally.
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This edition has 4 major sections: general principles in pediatric practice, acute/urgent care, a review of disorders by organ system, and a formulary.
The first section is a succinctly stated review of the principles of "well" care for neonates, children, and adolescents. Not only are the obvious features of such care noted (such as pertinent physical findings, immunizations needed, and anticipatory guidance by age), but also the most common management issues by age. I found this section helpful in its discussion of such issues as documentation, medical orders, advocacy, managed care, and referrals and consultations. The section on the dying patient is excellent.
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