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Joyce, lovingly known as AJ to her nieces and nephews, departed this earthly world on November 20, 2005 after a 4 year battle.
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Her battle began with breathing problems, during which blood clots were found in her lungs – leading the doctors to look for cancer.
We thought that she had won the battle, after surgery and chemo. Only later did we find that she was chemo resistant.
She left behind her mom, her sister, her two brothers, her brother and sisters by marriage, and most importantly her 6 nieces and nephews, whom she was devoted to. Her aunts and uncles and cousins also miss her presence. She also left behind her childhood and school friends, along with her friends at church, at volleyball, and other places.
She loved playing volleyball, researching her family history, and spending time with her family. She had a very strong relation with God and Jesus. She loved singing with "Timothy".
Valentines Day, 2008 would have been Joyce's 50th Birthday.
Happy Birthday, AJ !
Last updated on: 05/27/2008
Dear Joyce,
You're a great lifelong neighbor and friend. I miss you. Happy Valentine Birthday.
Debbie Doerfel – 05/27/2008
Happy Birthday AJ! So many days like this you are thought of and missed. Though you may have turned 50 today, now you have the option to decide just how old you want to be, every person's dream! Obviously the memories you've left with us have had such an impact, I only hope I get the chance to touch lives as you did. <3 always
Megan – 05/27/2008
All Our Love to "Juice" on her 50th Birthday!
We are forever in your debt for introducing us 27 years ago. If it wasn't for you we would not be celebrating our Silver Wedding Anniversary this year.
Bone & Carol
Carol Pletcher – 05/27/2008
We think of you every day, miss you on every vacation and family gathering, and wish you were here to celebrate Hanahan style. Valentine's Day will never be the same without you. Love you today and always.
Jonna & Jay Eisner – 05/27/2008
Joyce,I miss your grumbly morning face, and joke filled afternoon laughs. oh yeah and your singing at the fruit basket table too. So sorry your not here with us for your 50th. Your thought of often, And missed greatly!
Bonnie Tanner Laureno – 05/27/2008
Although you're not here with us physically, your torch continues to shine through the wonderful memories of shared times. Welcome to the fifty club!
Joyce, You're in our thoughts at every family gathering and every holiday, but most of all on Your special day –Valentine's Day. Happy Birthday. We miss you..
Jan – 05/27/2008
Almost 3 years – heart breaks during November. Miss you so much, even when you got mad at me. Listen on Sunday when we sing – in memory of you.
"Brother Let Me Take your Hand" – it's amazing how right it feels to sing it and think of you.
Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, cause theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Think of you there.
Love, Jonna
Jonna Eiser – 11/06/2008
It's been 4 years today – Madison will be joining the family in April, and I will tell her about her special aunt Juice who would have swallowed her up with her special love.
I miss you every day. Re-me
Love you!
Jonna Eiser – 11/21/2009
Happy Birthday, Joyce. It's getting easier. Ask God to let me know how to stop this disease, ok?? Love you.
Jonna Eiser – 02/18/2011
My niece Kelsey is dedicating her Relay for Life money towards Ovarian research. Her grandmom had it also. Maddie is a year old, Joyce – keep watching over her, ok?
Jonna Eiser – 04/25/2011
The forum is a brighter place thnkas to your posts. Thanks!
Keli Keli – 06/02/2011
It's been 6 years, and it hurts as much today as it did 6 years ago. Maddie is 1 1/2 and is a shining star. I will tell her all about her amazing and wonderful great-aunt Joyce who made the best sand castles ever, and about how you hated mornings. Megan (my daughter and your niece) had two fibro adenomas removed – they weren't cancerous, but it sends chills down my spine. My donations are small, but I hope help to find a cure for this horrible disease that took you away from me.
I love you every day and give thanks that you were a part of my life.
All my love,
Jonna, your loving sis by marriage
Jonna Eiser – 12/04/2011
Happy Valentine Birthday! I hope that you welcomed Uncle Ray with a big smile and a grunt and whistle to make him feel at home. Your cousin Kelly wondered if he would pass that day – it was a good day to choose.
Although it is getting easier, I still don't like Valentine's Day, because I cannot see you anymore. I hope that you can see the roses that I left at yours and dad's graves today after Unc's funeral. Megan got engaged to Eldion. They had just met before you left us. I know that your spirit will be with her and with me while we plan.
I love you, Joyce. Give everyone up there a hug for me.
Jonna Eiser – 02/17/2012
Oh well. Can't change that now, but reeembmr to use Joyce when she BCC's you again the junk mail next time because she forgot. LOL! Do it again. Do it again .
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Good conduct time, good time credit, or time off for good behavior is a sentence reduction given to prisoners who maintain good behavior while imprisoned. Good time can be forfeited if a prisoner is determined to have committed disciplinary infractions and/or crimes while incarcerated.
Under U.S. federal law, prisoners serving more than one year in prison get 54 days a year of good time for every year they serve.[1] Thus, a prisoner who is sentenced to 419 days (365 + 54 days) in prison will serve only about 365 days. Thus, prisoners who demonstrate good behavior serve only about 87.1% of their total sentences.
Some prisoners have argued that prisoners serve only about 85.2% of their sentences, because (365 − 54) ÷ 365 ≈ 85.2%, but the statute empowers the Bureau of Prisons to make the calculation, and the Bureau has determined that the 87.1% rate is to be used. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld this rate as valid.[2] Good time is calculated after sentencing by the Designation and Sentence Computation Center. Rumors constantly circulate within federal prisons that a Good Time Bill will be passed increasing the amount of good time granted to prisoners, and indeed such bills are sometimes introduced.[3]
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- ^ Tony Mauro (June 8, 2010), Justices Approve Bureau of Prisons' Calculations for 'Good Time Credit', The National Law Journal
- ^ H.R. 1475: Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009
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Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols said Barry Brown, 50, was arrested Thursday at a home on Horse Shoe Pond Road in Chesterville.
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Cowboys' roster analysis: The specialists
On the roster
Mat McBriar, David Buehler, Connor Hughes, Shaun Suisham, Felix Jones, Patrick Crayton, Kevin Ogletree, Terence Newman
The Cowboys have issues at kicker.
Nick Folk was released and replaced by Shaun Suisham, who also struggled and will probably be a free agent by the end of this week. That would leave David Buehler and Connor Hughes. Neither has made a field goal in the NFL.
The uncertainty that exists at kicker does not extend to punter. Mat McBriar is one of the league's best. He was asked last season to become more of a directional punter than one who boomed every kick, and he responded with a club-record 38 kicks inside the 20-yard line to rank third in the league. He averaged 45.1 yards a kick and a 39.9-yard net.
McBriar and Buehler, who led the league with 29 touchbacks, tilted field position in the Cowboys' favor.
The Cowboys ranked sixth in the league in punt returns, averaging 10.9 yards and Patrick Crayton returned two for touchdowns. But he returned only two of his final 19 punts for more than 20 yards and was held under 10 yards a return in seven of the team's last nine games.
The Cowboys ranked 20th in the league in kickoff returns, and only two of their 46 returns went for 40 or more yards. Felix Jones got both of those long returns in December.
What Cowboys should do
Owner Jerry Jones has said he wants to be better in the return game. Darren Sproles, a free agent, is probably too rich for the Cowboys, but the club will keep its eyes open in free agency for an upgrade.
LSU's Trindon Holliday is a return specialist who ran a 4.34 in the 40 at the NFL combine and might be worth a late-round selection. There's also a possibility he could be picked up as an undrafted rookie.
The club has brought in former kicker Chris Boniol to work with Buehler and Hughes. The hope is that Buehler will develop into the team's field goal kicker. But if he's slow to develop, the Cowboys should pursue one of the quality veterans on the market sooner rather than later.
Interesting fact
Crayton returned kicks for touchdowns in back-to-back games last season. Only one other player in Cowboys history has accomplished that feat - Bob Hayes in 1968.
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Player (Pos) Team Comment Neil Rackers (K) Arizona Made 41 of 45 field goal attempts over the last two seasons. *Darren Sproles (RB/Ret) San Diego Scored four TDs in last three seasons as punt and kickoff returner. *Brad Smith (WR/Ret) NY Jets Fourth in league with 31-yard average on kickoff returns. Matt Stover (K) Indianapolis Made at least 81.8 pct of FG attempts each of the last 11 seasons. Shayne Graham (K) Cincinnati Made 85.2 pct of his FG attempts in his nine years in the league. * Restricted free agent


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1. Nick Saban knows how to be sneaky with timeouts. I picture a Daniel Moore "The Timeout" painting from this Iron Bowl. Typical Auburn. The Tigers finally make a field goal -- on the first career attempt by Morgan Hull, nonetheless, and from a decent distance (39 yards). But Saban got a timeout right before the snap. You just knew Hull would either miss the next try or have it blocked. Alabama blocked it. Auburn is now 11 of 20 on field goals this year and 3 of 7 from between 30 and 39 yards. Again, how is Auburn going to score 10 points to even tie the game?
2. If you're an Auburn fan, you can't be totally upset being only down 10-0. But here's the rough part: Auburn has been pretty bad this year in the second half. Auburn has been outscored 114-77 after halftime, compared to its 131-76 first-half advantage. Auburn's first-half offensive leaders: Kodi Burns 5 of 14 for 47 yards, Burns 7 carries for 16 yards, Mario Fannin 1 catch for 14 yards. That shouldn't give an Auburn fan much confidence for the second half. Auburn also got shut out in the 2004 Iron Bowl at halftime (6-0). But I don't see Jason Campbell, Ronnie Brown or Cadillac Williams anywhere.
3. Alabama has already surpassed its rushing average from the past six Iron Bowls. The Crimson Tide has averaged 88.2 yards a game and 2.6 yards per carry in the past six meetings with Auburn. Behind Glen Coffee (99 yards), Alabama has 107 yards and 5.6 yards per carry. Alabama is content with running the ball. John Parker Wilson is only 5 of 10 for 53 yards and has been sacked once.


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Fathers and Sons and the U.S. Open
Editor's Note: Jay wrote this piece in real time, while watching the U.S. Open last weekend. Over the course of the piece there are references to events as they happened.
Dear Dad:
Happy Father's Day. It's Saturday at the U.S. Open and, same as always, I'm excited for the tournament, but sad because you're not here. This event is always such a singular experience that I yearn to share it with you: to see your bright crystal blue eyes light up, to see that wide smile of wonder you get when something inspires you, and to see your eyebrows shoot through the ceiling when you say "Wow!" when something amazing happens. I miss you, Dad, and wish you were here.
I was chatting with Rand Jerris yesterday. You'll know him as the man who moderates the interviews with the golfers after they finish playing their rounds, then he calls on the reporters to ask questions. Rand lamented the same thing: he never gets to see his kids on Father's Day. He has three: Noah, Hope, and Ben. Noah is old enough to appreciate the tournament next year, so Rand told me he's going to try to have his dad bring Noah to Bethpage. It did make me feel better to know I'm not alone in missing my family on the holiday.
Conversely, the nice thing about the tournament ending on Father's Day is that it makes a special memory for some family; one golfer will never forget that Father's Day as long as he lives and he'll have a story for his dad or son that'll live forever in golf. That gave me the idea of asking the players to tell me some stories about their dads or their sons. I got some good stories and hey, there's a darn good tournament going on so I hope that through me, you'll hear some good stories, and get a bird's eye view of the tournament. Besides, you can print this out, and every time you read it, you can think of you and I and Father's Day, and how much I love you, so here goes.
It's been a much better tournament than I expected. Then again, the U.S. Open always is. Remember my first Open, at Pinehurst? I was so excited, just agog with nervous anticipation for covering my first big tournament ever, and it exceeded my expectations more than I ever could have imagined. They have golf in their DNA in Carolina. And better still, when you go there, you come back with 10 friends. When the waitress, gas station attendant, and plumber have better interlocking Vardon grips than you do, you know you're in Golftown, U.S.A.
Winged Foot was otherworldly, even before Phil's supernova. Nowhere else has a more devastating confluence of history and misery. It's where great champions go to die a bitter internment. I still crack up at mom calling me on my cell phone just before I was going to interview Phil after round four and shouting "TELL HIM I SAID HE'S AN IDIOT!" A lot of people felt that way, including Phil himself, but that's a bit unfair. After all, Winged Foot is ruthless, even more so than Oakmont.
Sure, Oakmont was hard, but it was also antique. I mean that in the old English sense of the world - like a precious, priceless painting or vase. Not a relic, but a well-polished classic, something we learn something new from every time we examine it. Something we cherish. If ever there was a course that materializes from the mists of history, then spellbinds us with an exotic bouquet for one magical week, then vanishes mysteriously to hibernate and await a re-emergence, it's Oakmont. By the way, it looked so much better with the trees gone: like an emerald-green ski slope, a grassy Whiteface Mountain, an iridescent gem radiating light in all its vibrancy and purity.
But Torrey has surprised me at several turns. There's better golf architecture out there than people think and the canyon and the ocean are gorgeous. It's more of a cliff-top golf course than a links, but it has some great holes, the par-3s in particular. It's holding its defenses better than most writers anticipated and without being tricked up. We were calling it Borey Pines and Snorey Pines, but with the excitement of this week, it's been Glory Pines instead.
Moreover, everyone is impressed with how fair the set-up has been. I'd still rather play Bethpage Black, though: it's only fifteen minutes away from me, it's considerably cheaper, tougher, and it's a more interesting design. Stem to stern, the Black is a stronger course. Holes at Torrey run straight or bend only slightly; there's not many diagonal angles, dog-legs or strategic requirements. At Bethpage, the holes constantly shift; there's great horizontal movement to the fairways, creating diagonal angles of attack. Bethpage has better greens as well. But, hey, Torrey's one hell of a muni and Rees's work did make her better than before, even though the green contours could be better.
You have to see the size of the operation they have here. A quarter of a million people were turned through the turn-styles this weekend. That's too many. The course bottlenecks in several crucial places, like entrances and exits, due to the deep canyon that bisects the property. Then I went into the merch tent and thought I'd never get out again. They set it up like a maze to keep you inside so you'll pay through the nose for gear, but I chose frugally. I bought a couple pins, a hat, and something for my best girl in New York. They have these U.S. Open at Torrey Pines teddy bears. I got the last one number 400 out of 400, autographed by the maker.
I can hear you now: "How much did that cost?"
Then later, when going for an iced coffee, I ran head first into a marauding horde of philistines following the 1-2-3 pairing of Woods, Phil, and Adam Scott, and almost didn't escape. I have to criticize the U.S.G.A. for that. Combine Phil's gallery with Tiger's gallery and try to have them all walk down intersecting dark alleys at the same time. One word comes to mind: Moooooooooooooooooooo! Besides, I liked the old way of British Open-U.S. Open-Masters Champion better. It was more dignified than this made-for-TV and the patrons comfort-be-damned walking menagerie.
I see why they did it. The U.S. Open is like a good soup: it needs to simmer a bit and cook for the flavors to blend. It always takes a while for the excitement of the tournament to build. The buzz every year is "Tiger-Phil," and every year it's been wrong. So this year, they manufactured Tiger-Phil at the course they both sort of call home and manufactured a day one and day two story line besides "the cut.". I say let the tournament unfold like a good book. They haven't needed any contrived pairings to get high drama the last few years, that's for sure. With the exception of Chicago in 2003, pound-for-pound, the Open has been more exciting than any other major, a few masterpieces like the 2004 Masters aside.
Thursday, as usual, was a scramble to figure out who the new guys were. Friday players began to "identify themselves" as either contenders or also-rans, and now it's late on moving day and Tiger being in the mix is making the tournament exciting. Anything can happen at anytime. We're always on pins and needles.
The big story, (besides Tiger's knee), is the set-up. We've complained for years that the Open all but eliminates greenside recovery shots. Geoff Ogilvy astutely and concisely summed it up: you hit your 60-degree lob wedge and nothing else. Well this year, with the "graded rough" - where the rough isn't too bad if you're just off the fairway, but deeper the further you are off-line - scores have been more reasonable than 5-over for a winning score.
It's had another unintended effect though. Driving accuracy and greens in regulation are down. They usually hover around 65% and 57% for the entire field in the average U.S. Open, but that's the average of the top ten after two rounds this year. (Gone are the days of David Graham at Merion where he hit all eighteen greens on Sunday). Though we have slightly lower scores, we're not rewarding driving accuracy and GIR as much this year.
Look at these stats: we have twenty-two players averaging over 300 drives. Tiger and Dustin Johnson are essentially tied for first at 328. Scott, Garcia, Love, Casey, Andres Romero, and Cink are in the top dozen. Then you get guys like Oliver Wilson, Sweden's Robert Karlsson, and Brett Quigley.
Excuse me but since when is it okay to let Quigleys and Swedes and Olivers average 300 yards?
Nevertheless Tiger is also top of the class or so in putting. He had twenty-five putts today despite hitting only 6 of14 fairways and 9 of 18 greens. Through three days he's averaged 63% GIR, exactly 50% fairways hit, and 1.555 putts. Like he admitted to a guy at Royal Liverpool, (Hoylake to its friends), "I love flat greens."
The other trade-off with rolling back the stringent, at times inflexible requirement of hitting fairways is that recovery shots are back in the mix, as well as a few birdies more and, accordingly, more excitement for the patrons. After all, these people pay good, green money for these tickets and they deserve excitement. They'll get more this weekend. I can just feel it. The tension has been steadily building over the course of the day and
HOLY COW, WOODS JUST PITCHED IN FOR BIRDIE ON SEVENTEEN FROM THE POULADINI (Italian for "spinach patch"), AROUND THE GREEN! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Did you see that?!? I was in the Media Center typing this to you when bedlam erupted. There is a thirteen second delay between this one radio guy - one guy out of two hundred plus in the room right now - and the rest of the TVs in the center, two gigantic Jumbotron screens on either side of the four hundred desks in our work room. For a good hour and a half now, we had all been working dutifully in relative silence. Suddenly we hear this shouting:
Everyone was concentrating so hard, the room really regarded the interruption as an annoyance at first, as in "What? What is this shouting?! I'm trying to work!" Then it sunk in and, as one, we all looked at one of the two big screens and saw the slam dunk pitch-in. We all went "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Slam. Dunk. I'm impressed. Every time he does something like that, he wins. Oh there's goes the roar of the gallery from eighteen. They just changed the scoreboard.
He's gonna be in the last group, and he's tied for the lead with the birdie-able 18th ahead. If he wins once at a venue, he frequently repeats: St. Andrews, Augusta, Sawgrass (remember the '94 Amateur), Torrey, Firestone, Pebble Beach, Bethpage Black (next year, just scrape his name on the trophy twice tomorrow), Muirfield Village, Bay Hill, Medinah, stop me anytime.
I'd tell you more about the tournament, but you saw this opera before, it's a rerun. Tiger takes a victory lap in the sun. He might even wave to Phil from the first tee as Mickelson walks down eighteen. So I'll get to the real reason for this letter. I owe you everything I'm celebrating today, because if you hadn't taught me to love God, family, and golf, I wouldn't be here on the edge of the world at this gorgeous union of sea, sky, and God's green Earth watching Woods put a bow on a Father's Day present to himself and his family. So what I've decided to do is ask the player's about their favorite moments with their dads or sons and reminisce about some of mine with you.
Do you remember when I was three years old? How the access road actually cut through the municipal golf course and mom would wait by the fifteenth green in that ugly Pinto she drove, just so I could run out onto the green with a pitcher of iced tea for you, Uncle Marcie, Eddie Byrne, and Vinnie Mazzie? I was so happy just to get to stay with you and putt the past four greens and then go get a hot dog with long hot peppers.
I remember Uncle Marcie too. Who could forget?! Talk about quitting golf in spectacular fashion. He walked off the second fairway, crossed Mohawk Street, climbed over the fence that guarded the city reservoir, walked to the water's edge - ignoring everyone's questions of "Marcie? Where are you going?!" - and then threw the entire bag, the ball, and finally, with a flourish, his hat, into the reservoir and never hit another golf ball again as long as he lived! It's still the talk of the club after all these years.
Oh no, there goes that guy again
Now we have thirteen seconds to look at each other. We know what's coming. Yup there goes the roar again.
Now you should hear the stony silence in the media center. Let type this out so I have it straight on paper: 66-foot eagle putt, then slam-dunk, birdie pitch-in, then an eagle to close out the round, playing eighteen like it was nothing. The lightning crashed and the thunder rolled; the seas boiled and the skies fell. Impressive most impressive.
One of my colleagues from the magazine just walked by me: an old-school guy. I read him as a kid. Another golf writer asked us both, "You ever seen this [expletive deleted] before?" Without missing a beat, both he and I snapped back, "Yes!"
The rest of today was wonderful. I went to dinner with a gaggle of golf writers I like and respect. They've been kind enough to take me under their wing and show me the ropes. In return, I write my stories and they like them. I see what I want to grow into as a golf writer in them, just like I'm proud to have grown into the man you made me, dad. They remind me of you, dignity, grace, and class all the way.
We all went out for Italian at Villa Capri: two paesans, (Marino and I), the tallest potato you ever met, (John calls himself that) and I dunno what Mikey is, but he's funny. Between us we ate the place dry of bread and Bolognese sauce. I had Arrabiata (for you scoring at home that's "angry sauce," named for the red pepper which spices it), and nearly burned off somebody's tongue offering them a taste, but I loved it. We had hoped to go with three fine lads from Ireland, but Padraig Harrington fell off the leaderboard with a resounding thud, so they had to work till midnight. Then I went back to the hotel.
The coverage has been non-stop, every channel, you can't get away. It's so mind-boggling, I couldn't even escape it on "Channel Ocho." You know Channel Ocho - that Mexican sitcom/variety show with the two guys that dress up in bee costumes? They came on TV rubbing their butts and screaming, "Hasta la bustamente andale arriva si! Tiger Woods una patada mis nalgas!" [Holy smokes! Tiger Woods kicked my ass!]
Anyway, I fell asleep trying to write and now it's Sunday Championship Sunday, supposedly coronation day, but between that double-bogey bogey start for Woods, either Rocco or Westwood may be typing some script revisions to Act IV. That can wait, for Fathers Day, I collected these stories of the tour players and their dads, several of them were really touching.
One of my favorite stories was from big-hitting Bubba Watson. "I was 6 years old and, for the first time in my life, dad gave me a club. He gave me a broken down left-handed 9-iron and we went out to play. I had so much fun and when I looked at him, I could see had even more fun watching me. He was smiling so much, it was like I hit a hole-in-one every shot."
That's how I feel about you. Having you for a dad is like getting a hole-in-one every day.
You had to know Boo Weekley would give me great copy. He smiled warmly at me in the locker room as if to say, "pull up a chair, boy" and then grinned that big ol' smile before spinnin' me a yarn. "I member playin' wi' mah dad the day I broke par for the first tahm. I had a ten-footer for a 69. My knees were knockin' and it was scarier than a swamp snake!" he exclaimed, hands gesticulating, elbows flying and hands slapping his knee as his grin grew broader. "It twirled around the cup and fell in and he was smilin' and we made us some money!"
I dined out on that story a couple times this week.
Todd Hamilton's always friendly. You remember him? He plays like me, punch shots and stingers and one-hops and short game. He conquered Royal Troon back in 2004, narrowly beating Ernie Els in a playoff. "I was getting ready for the Illinois H.S. State Championships and it was also my birthday" he explained. "To help me prepare, Dad set up a match where he'd give me $5 for every hole on which I beat him, but I didn't have to pay him $5 if I lost a hole." He brightened and continued. "I won $40, which to a 14-year old back then was like $2,000."
Rod Pampling had a similar one, "The first time I beat my dad, he wasn't happy, he had to buy me a new set of clubs!" he laughed.
Then there were the stories that surprised me. I didn't know Lee Westwood's dad learned the game at the same time Lee did.
"My dad and I started playing golf at the same time" said Westwood, (whose valiant performance at the Open this week left him one shot shy of the playoff). "We both made the first birdies of our lives on the same hole. How about that for a story? It was at a muni in England called Kilton Forest. He made his putt first and then I followed it right up with one of my own. We were thrilled."
Stew Cink was next. "I wasn't old enough to play my dad's home course, so he and I would sneak onto the country club on Mondays. It felt so good just having that time with him, especially since he was breaking the rules for me. I was so excited."
Cink walked into the clubhouse while telling me this story this morning and Jim Furyk walked me right back out to the practice area. He also started a little trend. He triggering a run of stories by the guys about the first time they beat their dads. "Every kid remembers the first time they beat their dad" he said confidently. "Mine was at Conestoga Country Club, where they made the famous covered wagons."
When I asked where Conestoga was, he looked at me sideways. Being a history major at a great school, he seemed to think "you oughta know that." I promised him I'd go read up on Conestoga and the Old Wagon Trail and I'm glad I did. It's always great to talk to Furyk, you get great answers and you learn stuff too.
Kevin Streeland, the journeyman pro who led after round one was next. "I beat my dad for the first time at Old Wayne GC in West Chicago Ill. I was so excited because I look up to my dad so much, it meant more than just winning a game to beat him. I was growing into him. He's class and dignity all the way - beyond anybody I've ever met. He's a role model and I'm proud to be just like him."
Zach Johnson was right behind him with wonderful, glowing praise for his dad. Isn't it fitting And inspiring that the homespun kid from Iowa is so eloquent and humble. "I don't remember the first time I beat dad, but I remember all our great golf vacations form when I was young, like Hilton Head. And every weekend on Saturday and Sunday, he and I and would play eighteen both days."
Sound familiar, dad? That';s another mantra I learned from you, "when it comes to golf, the family that plays together, stays together." Anyway, Zach continued, "My father is such a loving man. He's a family guy through and through, he also loves people, everybody. He'll shake everyone's hand and share stories with them."
Just like you dad, everyone, loves you because you treat them the same, whether they are beggar or king, mayor or dog catcher. You're humble, you don't have any airs or presumptions. You're the same man handing down decisions from the court bench as you were falling in the pond at the fourth hole of Crestwood trying to fish out Vinnie Mazzie's golf ball with that ridiculous 40-foot retriever. The same man who told the world at his retirement party, "Pleae don't make me retire. Why do I want to retire? It's half the money and twice the wife." You're humble and human, and you see the good in everybody all the time.
It's not hard to see the good in Ben Curtis. He's such an affable guy, I seek him out for interviews just for the added benefit of chatting with such a likeable person for a few minutes. He echoed Zach sentiments of dignity, grace, and class. He was so respectful, almost reverent of his pops. You know that expression, "if there's two things people hate, it's a dirty old man and a clean little boy?" Well Benji and Zach are two exceptions. They make being a role model look easy.
You do that too, dad. When it comes to being a good man, a man who stood up for what was right, no son ever had a better father, not Nicklaus or Woods, not Hogan or Jones. Here's why:
There are eight great virtues in life: courage, loyalty, wisdom, honor, fortitude, temperance, justice, and compassion. You have all eight. You fight for what's right, even if you don't benefit from it. You'll stick up for your family and friends no matter how tough their situation. You always take your time to do the right thing, the wise, the altruistic thing, the sensible, non-confrontational thing. You never give up. You stay calm in the toughest situations.
I know how hard that was for you. I remember you stuck that note calma in front of you on the bench to prove the naysayers wrong when you got elected and they all said you treated everyone well and without being rash or personal.
Justice? Ha! Youre a paragon of that. The gold standard for a judge. Of course, your noble, but imperfect heart is big enough for ten people. Your example is the glue that holds my rickety life together. If Im half the man you are, then Im twice the man the world could ever ask me to be. Having you for a father, being proud of your grace, class, dignity, and humility is better than any Green Jacket, Claret Jug, or silver encrusted trophy; my love, never fade or grow threadbare, a trophy that will never tarnish. I may never be able to pay you back, but I sure can pay your kindness forward.
Ill tell you one last story. My friend Ed Ellis had a great one. His dad, Elon Ellis, Vice President of the Western Golf Association and the overseer of the Evans Scholarship Fund won a trip to St. Andrews. He got a hole in one, and this was back in the days when Golf Digest had their annual contest where you sent in your name and they drew one person each year for a trip. We won and it was the day and trip of a lifetime The Old Course at St. Andrews, Muirfield, Troon, and Royal Lytham & St. Annes, Turnberry, and Ballybunion, and Royal Wimbledon. Id love to take one more trip with you and mom. I now cherish every round I get to play with you.
There were two times I almost lost you and never got the privilege again. We were lucky with your two heart attacks. I think God kept you down here because he needs you to fight for the rights of those children in family Court, a court of misery and tears. I always remember my favorite round with you. It was our first round together after your quadruple bypass and I was so grateful, so elated to even get one more round in with you, I could do no wrong.
Remember? I shot 78. You were doing your typical gamesmanship stuff in the beginning, things like standing two inches away form me when I was hitting, but I didnt get flustered. When I hit the fourth green and made birdie, you started rooting for me, pulling for me as though I were playing in the U.S. Open. I just rode you. Seeing you alive and well and back playing golf with the old gang at the course I grew up on lifted my up on the wings of an archangel. Youre still my hero dad, and everything I aspire to be. Im so glad you know that. Its the greatest peace of mind knowing that the greatest man I know is proud of the man I became you.
Anyway, I better wrap this up. Deadline is approaching and we may have a p#$@*&f. I cant say or even type the word, its bad luck. I won the lottery to play Torrey tomorrow, but if theres a p#$@*&f, thats off.
Its strange but I heard two people talk about this taboo subject in the tent or during the event. Thats the ultimate party foul around here. Nobody wants Monday golf, so saying the word p#$@*&f during the event is deemed to be a curse. You dont risk it because you get the Scarlet Letter for the rest of the week. Its like you dont say MacB%$# in a theatre, well you dont say p#$@*&f during Our Open.
Well on Saturday, a local entertainment reporter got on the bus and said I hope it goes into overtime! [Good lord! Overtime?!] The rest of the bus snarled at her viciously and a vigorous exchange of discourtesies ensued. If they had tomatoes, lettuce, and eggs, theyd have made a nice salad out of her.
Then one of the guys from my magazine actually said the dreaded word to me this morning. I jumped and cringed as though he suddenly broke out in a viscid chicken pox. You just dont tempt fate.
On another mote though, a p#$@*&f would allow Torrey and this Open to really reach hallowed status. It needs a historic occurrence, and a virtuoso performance by Woods qualifies.
So until I see you, happy Fathers Day. And again, dad. One more time, with feeling, a thousand times happy Fathers Day. Even tough youre not here, youre in my mind and heart. With that for inspiration, I can move the world.
Well, I gotta go. That guy is yelling again.
Since launching his first golf writing website in 2004, http://www.jayflemma.thegolfspace.com, Jay Flemma's comparative analysis of golf designs and knowledge of golf course architecture and golf travel have garnered wide industry respect. In researching his book on America's great public golf courses (and whether they're worth the money), Jay, an associate editor of Cybergolf, has played over 220 nationally ranked public golf courses in 37 different states. Jay has played about 1,649,000 yards of golf - or roughly 938 miles. His pieces on travel and architecture appear in Golf Observer (www.golfobserver.com), Cybergolf and other print magazines. When not researching golf courses for design, value and excitement, Jay is an entertainment, copyright, Internet and trademark lawyer and an Entertainment and Internet Law professor in Manhattan. His clients have been nominated for Grammy and Emmy awards, won a Sundance Film Festival Best Director award, performed on stage and screen, and designed pop art for museums and collectors. Jay lives in Forest Hills, N.Y., and is fiercely loyal to his alma maters, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Trinity College in Connecticut.
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The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the South to 12.
Kip Godwin, the chairman of the Columbus County Commission in North Carolina, said authorities had concluded their search of the area where the eight people died - a cluster of mobile homes and an adjacent neighborhood of brick homes - and had accounted for everyone.
Twelve people were hospitalized, including four children in critical condition, hospital officials said.
The storms, which began Wednesday, unleashed tornadoes and straight-line winds that overturned mobile homes and tractor-trailers, uprooted trees and knocked down power lines across the South.
In Louisiana, a man died Wednesday when a tornado struck his home. In South Carolina, a utility worker checking power lines Thursday during the storm was electrocuted. In North Carolina, two people died in car crashes as heavy rain pounded the state, dropping as much as five inches in some areas.
Off the coast, a Coast Guard helicopter lowered a pump to a fishing boat that was taking on water in 15-foot seas about 50 miles from Charleston, S.C. One crewman was aboard the 34-foot boat, which the Coast Guard escorted back to land.
The tornado that struck Riegelwood - situated on the Cape Fear River about 20 miles west of Wilmington - hit shortly after 6:30 a.m.
"There was no warning. There was no time," said Cissy Kennedy, a radiologist's assistant who lives in the area. "It just came out from nowhere."
As many as 40 mobile homes were damaged before the tornado crossed a highway and leveled three brick homes. About 100 people were left homeless, and dozens planned to sleep at a shelter at a nearby elementary school. At least two of the dead were children, Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said.
Household debris, including carpet and a laundry basket, was scattered along a road. The storm dumped a minivan in a ditch, and an open refrigerator that still had food inside was filled with rainwater.
County Commissioner Sammie Jacobs said that four to five mobile homes were demolished, and that there were "houses on top of cars and cars on top of houses."
"We've stepped across bodies to get to debris and search for other bodies here this morning," Mr. Jacobs said.
The storm knocked out power to 45,000 customers in North Carolina, but the electricity was back on in most places by mid-afternoon.
The storm system also caused minor flooding in the Washington area, where rescuers grabbed several people stranded in their vehicles and slowed commuters along most of the East Coast.
In upstate New York, sections of Interstate 88 were closed after mudslides caused a multi-vehicle crash, seriously injuring one person. Drivers abandoned vehicles in high water, and rain washed out several roads and flooded hundreds of basements in the Binghamton area, police said.
Rain had eased or stopped in most areas by Friday evening as the system moved north and east.
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Late Auburn legend Philip Lutzenkirchen's younger sister, Abby, who plays soccer at Alabama, announced she will honor her late brother by wearing No. 43 this upcoming season.
Abby traditionally wore No. 33, but will switch to pay tribute her brother who wore 43 as a Tiger tight end. An all-time Auburn favorite, Philip died in a car accident on June 29th.
Number change alert: We've learned that Abby Lutzenkirchen will switch numbers from 33 to 43, in memory of her brother, Philip. #Lutz43 #RTR
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on 03-16-2013 11:10 PM
I'm on the fence about internl shipping. is it the same paper work for canada as is to austrailia. declaration's, extra paper work?
on 03-17-2013 01:41 AM
To sell internationally I believe you have to have a feedback score of at least 10.
on 03-17-2013 12:01 AM
"is it the same paper work for canada as is to austrailia"
Yes it is the same set of forms regardless of county. As mentioned earlier, one set of forms for $400 & under using First class or Priority international.
And a differant, slightly more to fill out form with items valued more than $400 and/or using Express Mail or Global Express International.
Good luck
on 03-17-2013 12:47 AM
Hello again
I should add, that you are pretty new to ebay...9/12 and if it was me I might ONLY ship internationally to canada to start. Then once you are "comfortable" and have some international selling/shipping experience, you might open your auctions to one or more of the "safe countries" to ship to. They are (not in any particular order) canada, japan, australia/new zealand, the UK/ireland & northern european countries.(france, spain, netherlands.belgium, germany, switzerland, denmark...you get the idea)
"Safe" meaning their postal services are as reliable as our USPS and their customs takes a "reasonable" amount of time to process packages. (thought any package can be held up if their are issues or questions)
Then once you have LOTS of experience selling overseas, if desired sell worldwide.
Good luck
on 03-16-2013 11:38 PM
Hi: I am from Canada(Ottawa Ontario) and do alot of business from the States. As for all parcels you fill out a declaration form, small and it is put on the parcel at the post office along with the appropriate postage.
It should not take very long as the form will ask for item. price, from who to whom the parcel is being sent to and a price. Also they ask if it is a gift ect. and you check the approriate box. That is it. When unsure just drop by your postal station and ask.
Please mail to Canada as you will do alot of business!!!
Thank you for this question as I often contact sellors who do not list to Canada but when asked they will do this 90% of the time.
Hope this is helpfull in your decision to mail to Canada.
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on 03-17-2013 06:38 AM
What are the requirements for selling internationally?
on 03-16-2013 11:44 PM
Hello. Yes it is the same customs forms your filled out for Australia. Under $400 and using USPS First Class International or Priority International, then it is a pretty simple/basic custom form asking for your name & address, the buyers name & address, a simple desc, qty, the value and then your signature & date. That's it...takes me an extra 3 minutes
If the value of the item(s) is greater that $400 and/or using USPS Express Mail International or Global Express than the form asks for a little bit more info. (but not much)
"I'm on the fence about internl shipping"
I would not be...international sales has increased my auction end prices, increased the number of my sales and kept the $$ flowing my way when sales were slow in the USA. At times international sales are half of my total sales. And my BEST customers are overseas...australia. You are selling lady's apparel which does not damage easily in shipment. (unlike the pottery, glass & vintage vinyl that I sell) For me the little bit of extra effort/time to fill out paper work and package a little bit better is WELL WORTH the extra sales and $$. But it is your call...Good luck.


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French president Francois Hollande announced Friday that there were no survivors in the crash of an Air Algeria MD-83 aircraft. The jetliner carrying 116 people (including five Canadians) crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found near the border of neighbouring Burkina Faso. It was the third major international aviation disaster in a week. The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff, en route from Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou to Algiers. Speaking after a crisis meeting, Hollande also announced that one of the aircraft's two black boxes has been found in the wreckage, in the Gossi region near the border with Burkina Faso. It is being taken to the northern Mali city of Gao. A French Reaper drone based in Niger spotted the wreckage, French Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier told France-Info radio on Friday. Two helicopter teams also overflew, noting that the wreckage was in a concentrated area. A column of soldiers in some 30 vehicles were dispatched to the site, he said. A statement early Friday from the Hollande's office said the aircraft had been clearly identified ``despite its state of disintegration.'' Quick discovery of the wreckage is ``decisive'' in piecing together what happened, the transport minister said, describing the aircraft as ``disintegrated'' and debris ``in an apparently small area.'' ``We think the plane went down due to weather conditions, but no hypothesis can be excluded as long as we don't have the results of an investigation,'' French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve toldRTL radio. ``Terrorist groups are in the zone. ... We know these groups are hostile to Western interests,'' Cazeneuve said. The pilots had sent a final message to ask Niger air control to change its route because of heavy rain, Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedraogo said Thursday. French forces intervened in northern Mali in January 2013 to rout Islamist extremists controlling the region. A French soldier was killed earlier this month near the major town of Gao, where French troops remain. Separatist Touaregs also have been fighting each other. The partner of Isabelle Prevost of Sherbrooke, Que., said late Thursday that he has been told the 35-year old woman was one of the passengers on the flight. Danny Frappier said he received a call Thursday morning telling him his partner was aboard the flight, which at that point was only reported as missing. He said Prevost was on vacation in Africa and it was the family that was putting her up that first contacted him. Frappier said he tried to get information from official sources but that it came in dribs and drabs. ``The only confirmation I have is that she was on the flight,`` he told The Canadian Press. ``We`ll try to have mas good a night as possible and we`ll see who confirms what.`We're hoping there's part of her body that can be repatriated, some kind of proof that she was really there, that she's really mdead, I don't know.`` The couple has three children, aged 5, 7 and 9. Radio-Canada earlier quoted Prevost's partner as saying their children were meant to travel with her but that it was decided they should stay with him. The network also quoted Burkina Faso native Mamadou Zoungrana, who works as a technologist at the Papineau Hospital in Gatineau,Que., as saying that his wife and their two sons, aged six and 13, were on the flight. CBC reported they are not Canadian citizens. Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement saying he was saddened at news of the crash. ``Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the passengers and crew who lost their lives in this tragedy,'' he said in the statement, adding that it was confirmed Canadians are among the victims. Nearly half the 110 passengers aboard the plane were French, and France is deeply shaken by the drama. The president promised to mobilize all French military and civilian means in the region and call on partners to help.
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Upcoming Church Events - March 18
March 16, 2012
Upcoming church events announced CHARLES TOWN — Zion Baptist Church, 819 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., has announced the following events: ¯ Today, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Chicken dinners with your choice of potato salad, green beans or baked beans; ¯ March 31, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Fish dinner and bazaar. Menu includes choice of cole slaw, baked beans or rice. All proceeds will benefit the pastoral care ministry. For more information, call 304-725-3530. Men's day service being hosted CHARLES TOWN — Judea Christian Community Church, located at St. Philips Episcopal Church, 411 S. Lawrence St., will host a men's day service Sunday. Event will feature guest speaker Brother David Jackson at 11 a.m. and the Rev. Michael Carr at 3 p.m. For more information, call 304-725-7676 or 304-707-7628. Churches plan Lenten services MARTINSBURG — The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia Churches of the Brethren has announced the following 2012 Lent series schedule. Services begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted: ¯ Sunday: Mountain View Church of the Brethren, with Pastor Eddie Edmonds; ¯ March 25: Moler Avenue Church of the Brethren, with Pastor Doug Diamond. New members class announced MARTINSBURG — Beginning Sunday, and running through April 1, Otterbein United Methodist Church will hold an adult new members class during it 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. The class will be led by the Rev. Mark C. Mooney, and will explore some of the history and the theology of the United Methodist Church. New members will be received on Easter Sunday, April 8. For more information, call the church office at 304-263-0342. Conference to be held on mission HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Mountain View Baptist Church, 12107 Walnut Point Road, will hold its annual missions conference March 21 to 25. Services begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday to March 24 and at 9:30, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. March 25. Guest speaker will be Sgt. Maj. Ret. Doug Carragher. A nursery will be provided for children under 4. For more information, call 301-582-1468. Soup, sandwich event announced MARTINSBURG — Marvin Chapel United Methodist Church, 130 Gosling Marsh Road, will host a free soup and sandwich evnet from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, call 304-263-2467 or 304-268-5155. Lenten services planned at church MARTINSBURG — The In-town United Methodist Churches of Martinsburg will continue with its weekly Lenten series at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 700 New York Ave. Service will be followed by light refreshments and fellowship. The Rev. Mark C. Mooney, of Otterbein United Methodist Church, will share the evening message. All are welcome. Church thrift shop holding sale SHEPHERDSTOWN — Trinity Episcopal Church's Thrift Shop, 104 S. Church St., will host a "fill a bag sale" Thursday through March 31. Spring clothes will be available beginning April 5. Shop hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday; and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 304-876-6990. Vernon to perform at church Friday FALLING WATERS — Brent Vernon will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6788 Williamsport Pike. The show, for all ages, includes music and a ventriloquist act with his dummy, Sam. A free will offering will be received. For more information, call 304-274-2923. Craft faire being held March 24, 25 INWOOD — St. Leo Catholic Church, 2109 Sulphur Springs Road, will host its "Craft and Collectible Faire 2012" from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. March 24 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 25 in the fellowship hall. Vendor space is available for $40 for both days; or $25 for one day; and tables are $10 each to rent. For more information or an application, call Carla at 304-268-0496 or email email@example.com. 3/24 Spring craft show GERRARDSTOWN — The Gerrardstown United Methodist Church, 1781 Gerrardstown Road, will hold its fourth annual "Spring Craft Show" from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 24. Event will feature a pancake breakfast. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children 6 to 12. Children under 5 eat for free. Lunch will include a variety of soups and sandwiches. Carry out will be available. Tables are available for $10 per table. For more information or to reserve a table, call Linda at 304-229-3532 or Darlene at 304-229-5421. 3/24 Memorial concert HEDGESVILLE — The Bev Johnson Memorial Concert will be held at 7 p.m. March 24 at Michael's Chapel United Methodist Church. Event will feature Richard and Mary Fox and Higher Ground. A free will offer will be taken. 3/24 Peacemaking team member to speak SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, 100 W. Washington St., will host guest speaker Beth Pyles, a member of the Christian Peacemaking Team, at 9 a.m. March 24 in the fellowship hall. Beth practiced law in West Virginia for 22 years before responding to the call to ministry and attending Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), serving McDowell Presbyterian Church and Headwaters Chapel in Highland County, Va., in a part-time pastorate, which has allowed her time to spend two months a year in Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), a faith-based violence reduction organization with teams in Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Colombia, and part-time presences in northern Canada and on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Beth has been to Iraq with CPT six times since 2005. 3/24 Easter celebration MARTINSBURG — Calvary United Methodist Church, on the corner of Burke and Maple streets, will host its children Eastern celebration from 10 a.m. to noon March 24. Open to children 3 to 11. Activities include face painting, crafts, games, prizes, story time, egg hunt and more. 3/24 Mt. Carmel announces events WINCHESTER, Va. — The Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 1317 S. Pleasant Valley Road, has announced that its men's ministry, Friday Rap Session, will meet at 10 a.m. March 24. The men will watch the movie, "Courageous<' and enjoy a buffet lunch afterwards. In addition, the church will hold a dedication service at 3 p.m. March 31. For more information, call 540-667-6532. 3/25 Gospel quartet to perform HEDGESVILLE — The public is invited to a gospel concert by The New Cross Roads Gospel Quartet at 4 p.m. March 25 at Tomahawk Presbyterian Church. Refreshments will be served and a free will offering will be received for the quartet mission. For more information, call 304-754-8869 or visit www.tpcusa.org. 3/25 Bridgewater Chorus to perform MARTINSBURG — The 32-voice Bridgewater College Concert Choir will perform at 10:45 a.m. March 25 at Moler Avenue Church of the Brethren. The concert is open to the public and admission is free. 3/27 Souls Won revival CUMBERLAND, Md. - Souls Won Outreach Ministries, 130 Virginia Ave., will host a three-day revival April 27-29. Special guests include: ¯ 7 p.m. April 27: Evangelist Cordette Cortrell, along with Hyndman Ministry Praise Team and the praise dancers from Souls Won Outreach Ministries; ¯ 7 p.m. April 28: Praise dancer, Eve Green; keynote speaker, Dr. Merdean Gales; and special guests, renowned concert pianist Dana Kristina-Joi Morgan; worship leader and soloist, Josh Clark; and gospel recording artist, Pastor Darin Allen; ¯ 11 a.m. April 29: Elder Barbara Blackston and musical selection from The Clark Family. For more information, call 301-876-1503 or visit www.soulswon.org. 3/28 Noon service MARTINSBURG - Immanuel New Life Bible Church, 701 W. Burke St., will host The In Life "Hour of Refreshing" at noon March 28. The Hour of Refreshing is held the last Wednesday of each month and includes a meal with the message. For more information, call 30-262-3355 or visit www.inlbc.org. 3/30 Art of Marriage SHEPHERDSTOWN — Covenant Church will host Family Life's "Art of Marriage" event from 7 to 10 p.m. March 30 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 31. Cost is $50 per couple, which includes lunch on March 31. Childcare will be provided. For more information or tickets, call 304-876-2212 or visit www.covenantexpericne.com. 3/31 Easter party HEDGESVILLE — The community is invited to a free children's Easter party from 3 to 4 p.m. March 31 at Hedgesville Presbyterian Church, 202 E. Martin St. There will be an egg hunt, an enactment that tells the true reason for Easter, games, crafts, food and a visit by the Easter Bunny. For more information, call 304-754-3039. 3/31 Youth sponsored auction MARTINSBURG — The youth fellowship of Calvary United Methodist Church will sponsor an auction and ham/turkey supper at 4 p.m. March 31. Cost for the meal is $10 per adult and $4 for children 10 and under. Proceeds will benefit the 2012 mission trip to Oak Hill. For more information or tickets, call 304-267-4542. 3/31 Easter events scheduled at Middleway MIDDLEWAY — Middleway United Methodist Church, 7435 Queen St., has announced the following Easter activities: ¯ March 31: Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m.; ¯ April 1: Easter Cantata service at 10:30 a.m.; ¯ April 5: Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m.; ¯ April 8: Sunrise service at 6 a.m., followed by breakfast; worship services at 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Sunday school at 9:15 a.m. For more information, call 304-728-4770. 3/31 'He's Alive' concert MARTINSBURG — Martinsburg Christian Center, 300 East Stephen St., will host a "He's Alive" concert featuring 7 Day Creation from 7 to 9 p.m. March 31. Special guests will also include guest speaker Apostle RC Coyle, the music of the Rev. Ed and Margrit Dance and 4 Nails. Event is free and open to the public. 3/31 Easter egg hunt HEDGESVILLE — Tomahawk Presbyterian Church will hold an Easter egg hunt at 11:30 a.m. March 31. For additional Easter activities and services, visit www.tpcusa.org. For more information, call 304-754-8869. 4/1 Sight and Sound trip planned FALLING WATERS — Falling Waters Church has scheduled a bus trip to see "Jonah" at 1 p.m. June 19 at the Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, Pa. Cost is $84 per adult; $67 per teen; and $57 per child. Cost includes show, bus trip and driver gratuity. Checks may be made out to Fawn Fleagle and mailed to the Falling Waters Presbyterian Church, 2928 Hammonds Mill Road, Hedgesville, WV 25427. Deadline for payment is May 23. Seating is limited. Reservations taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, call 304-754-8211. 4/5 Trinity announces Holy Week activities SHEPHERDSTOWN- Trinity Episcopal Church at the corner of New and German Streets will have the following Holy Week activities and services. ¯ On Maundy Thursday, April 5, a seder dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Cost for dinner is $10 per person. Call the church office at 304-876-6990 to make reservations. ¯ Following the seder dinner, there will be a service of Holy Eucharist and the stripping of the altar at 8 p.m. The Maundy Thursday through Good Friday vigil will start at the end of the service Thursday evening and continue until noon on Good Friday with the prayer book liturgy at noon on Good Friday. The church will be open all day on Good Friday for prayer. ¯ Easter Eve service will be held at 5 p.m. April 7. The service will include Holy Baptism and the lighting of the pascal candle which celebrates the "new light" of Easter. ¯ Easter Day services are at 8 and 10 a.m. with Holy Eucharist, sermon and the flowering of the cross at each service. There will be an Easter egg hunt following the 10 a.m. service. All are welcome at any of the services and activities of Holy Week. Come and celebrate your faith with the community at Trinity Episcopal Church. 4/5 Easter service HEDGESVILLE — Tomahawk Presbyterian Church will host a special Easter service at 6:30 p.m. on April 5, Maundy Thursday. Event will include a meal. Easter sunrise service will be held at 7 a.m. April 8, which includes breakfast, followed by the Easter Sunday service at 9 a.m. An Easter egg hunt will be held at 11:30 a.m. March 31 at the church. Rain date will be April 1. For more information, call 304-754-8869 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. 4/14 Church of Christ activities announced MARTINSBURG – Central Church of Christ of Martinsburg, 90 Waverly Court, will host its 16th annual "Ladies Day" on April 14. Registration will begin at 8 a.m., including a continental breakfast. Guest speaker will be Suzanne Brockenborough, who will present "Bind Us Together." In addition, the church will host a "Spring Gospel Meeting" with guest speaker, Jody Apple from Knoxville, Tenn, at 9:45, 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. April 19; and at 10 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. April 16-19. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com. 4/27 Crabb in concert KEARNEYSVILLE — Grammy award winner Jason Crabb will perform at 7 p.m. April 27 at the New Destiny Ministry Center, 437 Border Road. Tickets are $20 per person. For more information or tickets, call Debra McCarthy at 304-725-6185 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. 5/20 Anniversary celebration CHARLES TOWN — Anniversary celebration services will be held at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 20 at Zion Baptist Church, 819 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The celebration is in honor of 13 years of service by Bishop Charles F. Cummings Sr. Guest speakers include Pastor Michael Norris and Bishop Vincent Charity. All are welcome. For more information, call 304-725-3530.


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Naina Lal Kidwai, Immediate Past President, FICCI, delivers 7th IILM Founder's Day Lecture
February 1, 2014 - New Delhi, Delhi, India
IILM has been offering management programmes for over two decades and has successfully helped build careers of over 7000 students. Established in 1993, IILM Institute for Higher Education has now three campuses in NCR Delhi. IILM campuses are located at Lodhi Road New Delhi, Golf Course Road Gurgaon, and Knowledge Park Greater Noida.
The programme commenced with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by Mrs. Malvika Rai, Chairperson IILM & President FICCI Ladies Organization & Mrs. Naina Lal Kidwai.
Ms Sapna Popli, Director IILM shared the journey of IILM since its inception with highlight of its landmark achievement which has been made. Ms Popli shared last year highlight of IILM being signatory to Principle in Responsible Management Education a United Nations initiative.
The event was graced by the auspicious hands of our Chief Guest, Mrs. Naina Lal Kidwai, The first Indian woman to have graduated from Harvard Business School, She is also a member of the prestigious Prime Minister's Trade and Industry Council as well as of the National Manufacturing Council.
Mrs. Naina lal Kidwai
Over the two decades IILM has been ranked consistently as one of the top MBA colleges in Delhi. IILM has been accredited by The South Asia Quality Improvement System (SAQS) and has been inducted into the United Nation's PRME initiative as the global champion for the Principles of Responsive Management Education (PRME).
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A Day Without a Mexican
It's really sad how many people on this Earth simply do not understand what makes a mockumentary really funny. One of those people is director Sergio Arau.
Let me explain some of the things that make mockumentaries not funny: when the director of the film doesn't take the subject seriously, when the actors don't take their acting seriously and appear to be in on the joke, when there's no coherent through line (storyline) that the audience can easily follow, when the plot is fictionalized in such a way that the actors appear to be actors instead of real people. I could probably think of a dozen other things.
The movie has an interesting concept: What would happen in California if all the Mexicans disappeared? I actually think this could be funny because so many people in California (and America in general) rely on immigrant workers and minimum wage Mexican-Americans yet simultaneously express a hatred for them and support political efforts to deport them and generally make their lives hard.
One wonders what would happen if these racists actually got their way. The answer is that there would complete chaos.
Now, if this film had truly committed to the idea and asked everyone in the film to really believe it had happened, it could have been funny. As it is, the humor is entirely too tongue-in-cheek, which makes everything not funny. The more seriously the people in the film take the plot, the funnier it is. Instead, it appears as though director Sergio Arau told everyone to pretend they were in an "SNL" skit.
One hopes all these filmmakers take some more lessons in how to make films, particularly comedies, because they don't appear to understand the essential elements in creating humor. The film is poorly directed, and shot like the cinematographer, Alan Caudillo, was more concerned with his fantasy football draft than with shooting the picture.
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FRESH-FACED, EBULLIENT AND unpretentious, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, 20—the oldest of King Carl XVI Gustaf's three children—has always been adored by her countrymen. So when the royal baby fat melted away last summer, leaving the once-plump princess sylphlike, the Swedish press rejoiced. The weekly women's magazine Svensk Dam Tidning (which noted last year that the princess looked as if she had "eaten too many hamburgers") touted "Victoria's Scrumptious New Style" and featured her on the cover nine times between June and November—once wearing a bikini. Outside her homeland the trimmed-down brunette sparked rumors of romance when she and Monaco's Prince Albert (who is just a friend) kept company at the wedding of Spain's Princess Cristina in October.
But like the once-bulimic Princess Diana, to whom she has been likened, Victoria harbored a grim secret beneath her svelte look. On Nov. 29, a week after the 5'6" heir to the throne appeared at a Stockholm gala in a gown that re-SS vealed how skeletal—not just slim—she had become, her family confirmed the press's suspicions. "The crown princess is suffering from an eating disorder," said Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg, director of the Information and Press Department of the royal court. "She is receiving therapeutic help."
To some, the news came as a shock. But to others, Victoria Ingrid Alice Desiree, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of VästergÖtland, seemed the type susceptible to eating disorders. (Sweden's incidence of anorexia among girls 14 to 24 is about 1 percent, similar to the incidence in the U.S.) "Victoria is very ambitious," says Monica Wadsted, an editor at Dam Tidning. "She puts her heart into everything she does, which fits the profile for anorexia." Adds Lillimor Johansson, a nurse and therapist at Stockholm's Huddinge Hospital's Eating Disorders Center, where some speculate Victoria may be undergoing outpatient treatment: "If you're in the public eye, it is more likely you can develop a problem. Women in the public eye feel they have to be suecessful, the best, in everything."
Raised with her brother Carl Philip, 18, and sister Madeleine, 15, at Drott-ningholm, a baroque-style 17th-century palace outside Stockholm, the out-doorsy and fun-loving Victoria has long excelled at both school and sports. Though she has had few romances ("Boys are intimidated," says a source close to the family), she has a large circle of chums and is particularly close to her father, Carl Gustaf. "They go boating and skiing," says a family friend. "He likes parties, so does she. And they were both brought up as rulers, so they have that understanding."
Determined to give their children "a normal Swedish upbringing," says the friend, Carl Gustaf, 51, and Queen Silvia, 54, have limited the young royals' appearances. But at 18, Victoria—who begins political science studies at Uppsala University, near Stockholm, this month—became deputy head of state, a ceremonial position with a palace office and an onslaught of invitations. (Sweden's monarch has no political role.) "Her duties are what she chooses them to be," says Palace spokeswoman Cecilia Wilmhardt. She has chosen plenty: After studying French at a French university in 1996, she boned up on Sweden's parliament with her country's prime minister, attended UN sessions and greeted dignitaries, including Boris Yeltsin, at state dinners.
Sources say it was while in France that she first began to diet—spurred by her popular mother, a perfectionist who long ago mandated low-fat cuisine at the palace and who, says one acquaintance, "is hysterical about keeping slim." The Queen, says a friend, "wished her daughter to diet. Not to be mean, but for her own good." Adds the friend: "The Queen is very worried. This has always been the perfect family, and the perfect facade has cracked."
How soon the crack can be mended is unclear. The weekend of the disclosure—which the princess had decided on as a way to end speculation—Victoria dined with friends in Paris. "She sat and thought so long about what she should eat," an onlooker told the Swedish magazine Hänt Extra, "but when the food came, she ate almost nothing." On Dec. 10 she looked tense and gaunt at Stockholm's Nobel Prize dinner. "One of the hardest things for a person with an eating disturbance is to eat with other people," says therapist Johansson. "And she was with 1,400 others. It must have been terrible."
Yet Victoria, insiders say, elected to stick to a schedule spokeswoman Tar-ras-Wahlberg calls "daunting." Journalist and royal watcher P.O. Eriksson says "her interests are centered on becoming Queen. She wants the right education and to learn how the society works." Ultimately, her sense of duty may pull her through. "She has great work ahead of her," says Johansson. "She must get on with it by first getting well."
LEE WOHLFERT in Stockholm
Slip of a Girl
updated 01/12/1998 AT 01:00 AM EST
•originally published 01/12/1998 AT 01:00 AM EST


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A number of constituencies—government nutrition and health agencies, food manufacturers, public health advocates, and food marketing firms—depend on reliable data to track changes in the food habits, attitudes, and choices of U.S. consumers. ERS has partnered with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to gather such data. The first set of findings from this collaborative effort is already providing insights into shifting consumer behaviors.
Since 2007, ERS has fielded a consumer behavior module called the Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey (FCBS) as part of the NCHS's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). NHANES collects a variety of health data on the U.S. population through interviews and medical exams conducted at mobile examination centers. NHANES also gathers information on what people eat using 24-hour dietary recalls, making it possible to link eating habits to health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. And, because the survey sample is representative of the U.S. population, the survey results indicate national trends.
The FCBS module consists of a household interview and a followup telephone interview administered after respondents complete their NHANES dietary recall. While the household interview questions do not change over time, the telephone interview is flexible, consisting of questions that will be fielded for 2 to 4 years and then replaced with new topical questions.
The first round of the FCBS module was administered in 2007-08, with a second round included as part of the 2009-10 NHANES. The two cycles of the FCBS module collect information on areas such as participation in food and nutrition assistance programs, family food expenditures at home and away, nutrition knowledge, use of food labels and nutrition information, and the importance to consumers of factors such as price, convenience, and taste while grocery shopping and dining out.
The 2005-06 NHANES contained a subset of questions from the FCBS, and the data are available for public use at the NCHS website (www.cdc.gov/nchs). ERS analysis of these data indicates that consumer use of nutrition labels declined from 1995-96 to 2005-06, particularly among younger adults who came of age after the labels became mandatory.
To gain a better understanding of how frequently people eat out and the consequences of those choices, the FCBS contains a question about the number of away-from-home meals eaten. Seven percent of adults reported eating no meals prepared away from home in 2005-06, while 12 percent ate more than seven away-from-home meals per week.
Dietary intake data reveal that foods prepared away from home tend to be more calorie-dense and of lower nutritional quality, on average, than foods prepared at home. The 2005-06 data show that people who dined out more frequently seem to be aware of the fact. Only 21 percent of those who ate more than seven away-from-home meals per week rated their overall diet quality as excellent or very good, compared with 43 percent who ate out less than once per week.
There appears to be a link between frequency of eating meals out and being overweight or obese. Almost 70 percent of respondents who ate three or more away-from-home meals per week were overweight, compared with 61 percent who ate less than one away-from-home meal per week. Additionally, those who were overweight or obese had a lower self-rated diet quality than Americans of healthy weight.
Diet Quality & Nutrition, by Biing-Hwan Lin, Jean Buzby, Lisa Mancino, and Jessica Todd, USDA, Economic Research Service, October 2015
The Decline in Consumer Use of Food Nutrition Labels, 1995-2006, by Jessica Todd and Jayachandran Variyam, USDA, Economic Research Service, August 2008
Americans Are More Realistic About the Quality of Their Diets, by Jayachandran Variyam and Travis Smith, USDA, Economic Research Service, March 2010
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