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AMM at youtube!
Easy way to hear and listen about AMM in a short way!
Hello everybody,
do you want to know whats the key facts from AMM are and how we`ll tell it to our customers in a short and clear way? Take a look to youtube, you`ll find the new (so called) AMM elevator pitch. Spoken by an insider: Ashiq Hassanali, our Head of Horizontal Solutions & Transformational Outsourcing Portfolio & Solution Design Manager.
AMM key facts easy to listen at youtube More …
AMM in der aktuellen Best Practice Ausgabe …
heute fiel mir die aktuelle Ausgabe unserer Kundenzeitschrift Best Practice 02/2011 in die Hände: dieses Mal mit einem Beileger zum Thema AMM. Die Beilage trägt den Titel "Mehr Transparenz für IT-Strukturen" und beinhaltet alle brandaktuellen Aspekte zu Application Management & Modernization. more
Don't get mad – get even …
… and use the right method to make the next step towards a better future for your application landscape. Last week I looked at the catalogue from an automotive manufacturer in Bavaria – and inside were many standardized features available for the customer to order. One of the configuration lines is called "Ambition", certainly a beautiful, first-class car independent of the configuration line. more
Jungle at CeBIT?
Hello again – the next big event will soon be upon us and the jungle will be on show at Deutsche Telekom's stand at CeBIT 2011. more
The international jungle at Mexico!
Hello again – last week I got a proof picture from our jungle motif from Mexico Cities airport. more
Welcome to the jungle!
Whether in Mexico City, Frankfurt am Main, or Johannesburg – when you leave your flight in any of these cities, you are likely to be confronted by a jungle. The reason is not rapid global warming, but T-Systems' latest marketing campaign. The Telekom subsidiary is using a jungle motif in the advertisements for its AMM solution, which are also appearing on large billboards at many airports. The campaign is running simultaneously on three continents, and the jungle motif is also being deployed in print ads, which have already appeared in the Computerwoche magazine for instance. The motif can also be seen in the banners of the online portals of selected periodicals such as Spiegel, Handelsblatt, or CIO. more
AMM – just a buzzword?
Today's post is to tell you that our AMM survey is growing and getting even better than I thought. more
The AMM market is still alive and applicationing is everything
Last Friday I received a brand new survey on AMM from our Market Intelligence Team. The survey was conducted by a major external service provider. We want to know what our customers and potential customers think about AMM. In other words: what moves our AMM customers now and what will move them in the future? more
The World Cup is over, as is the T-Systems symposium series
The World Cup has just finished and the best team won. Congratulations to Spain – we will see you at Euro 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. more
WM fever is burning
Right now, the world is looking to South Africa – for the biggest soccer event of the last four years. Everyone around me (even those who usually hate soccer) is waiting for their team's first match with bated breath. Soccer maniacs are hoping for thrilling matches and revealing insights into the mastery of their soccer heroes. more


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While I was visiting family for the Canada Day weekend I made these skewers and thought I would post them for those south of the border about to relax for the long weekend. These work best went cooked on a perforated BBQ grate, like the one pictured here.
- 1 recipe of wingz, cut into chunks
- 1 recipe sweet and sticky BBQ sauce
Preheat BBQ to about 400 degrees. Oil grill.
1. Thread seitan chunks on skewers and lightly spray with oil.
2. Cook skewers about 3 mins per side to let them brown up. Then begin basting with BBQ sauce. Rotate and baste skewers every 3-4 mins. Be careful that they don't burn or dry out. They should cook for about 20 mins.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly known as PTSD, affects an average of 7.7 million Americans — 5.2 million adults and 2.5 million children. According to the National Institute of Health and the Department of Veteran Affairs approximately 300,000 patients afflicted with PTSD are veterans. PTSD has become a matter of concern across communities everywhere. In 2010, June was declared PTSD awareness month and in 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a set of guidelines for the management of conditions specifically related to stress.
To help meet the increasing need to recognize and treat those living with the effects of trauma, AULA is offering a post-graduate Certificate in Trauma Psychology. The Certificate program grew of AULA's Trauma Psychology Specialization within the Masters of Clinical Psychology Program
Program Structure
The program consists of two consecutive 10-week sessions that combine online learning with three in-person weekend residencies. Four courses are offered at 3 credits each, for a total of 12 credits, which count toward Continuing Education Units.
The in-person residencies take place Week 1, Week 10, and Week 20 of the program. During these one and two-day residencies, students participate in orientations, technology training, classes, seminars, and workshops. The residencies enable students to form personal and professional connections with the instructors, guest speakers, and each other.
During the online portions of the program, students work from home to read required course material, write papers, and engage in robust online discussion.
Program Curriculum
The four courses in this 12-unit program provide students with a deeper understanding of the causes, effects, and treatment of trauma and PTSD in the military and the general population, including substance/alcohol abuse and familial conflict. Students will also learn a variety of therapeutic techniques, conflict resolution skills, and issues of self-care.
Perspectives: Trauma and Its Effects, Awareness, and Recovery
This survey course introduces the student to the complex issues of trauma, trauma healing and transformation. Students will learn about the biopsychosocial/spiritual model which helping professionals can employ to help individuals who have experienced deep personal loss, violent conflict, and/or pain and suffering. Students will explore the theoretical basis of trauma healing through narratives and case examples from a variety of clinical settings, and engage in practical exercises to experience approaches to the treatment of trauma from awareness to recovery.
Treatment of Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This course focuses on the treatment methods and needs of individuals suffering from symptoms characteristic of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This course also addresses assessment and intervention skills to work effectively with diverse populations using biopsychosocial and ecosystemic constructs. Specific techniques surveyed will include play therapy, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral interventions, narrative, virtual reality treatment, and crisis intervention.
Clinical Case Consultation
This course serves as a way for students to apply theories and constructs learned, gain practical clinical skills, and present a final case that may serve as a capstone or summative evaluation of learning in the program.
For their fourth course, students may choose one of the following two offerings:
Assessment and Treatment of Clients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Co-occurring Substance/Alcohol Abuse, Dependency, or Addiction
This course addresses the assessment and treatment of clients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring substance/alcohol issues. Students will learn ways of assessing and treating clients who meet the criteria for PTSD and substance/alcohol abuse, dependence, or addiction.
Assessment and Treatment of Military Personnel/First Responders with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Co-occurring Substance/Alcohol Abuse, Dependency, or Addiction
This course addresses the assessment and treatment of military/first responder personnel with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring substance/alcohol issues as a result of exposure (real or vicarious) to combat or as a result of having experienced traumatic events as a first responder. Students will learn ways of assessing and treating clients who meet the criteria for PTSD and substance/alcohol abuse, dependence, or addiction.
Eligibility Requirements
The Certificate in Psychology of Trauma program was designed for:
- Psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and practitioners holding an LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, or related license
- Non-licensed professionals who have earned a license-eligible, regionally accredited master's degree in clinical or counseling psychology or a related field
- School/pastoral counselors
If you do not meet these requirements but believe you are qualified for the program, please contact MA in Psychology Director of Weekend and Satellite Programs Grant Elliott to discuss why you are interested in enrolling and how you think it will benefit you. Note that all students must have a computer with Internet access.
How to Apply
For information on how to apply to the program, please click here. Space is limited.
Financial Aid and need-based $1,000 grants are available. Organization sponsorship $1,000 grants for two or more individuals from the same organization are also available.
Gainful Employment Disclosure Information
Antioch University provides certain information about certificate programs in order to comply with the new Gainful Employment regulations from the U.S. Department of Education. We hope the following information is helpful to you. If you have further questions about this certificate program, please do not hesitate to contact Grant Elliott.


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Vitreoretinal amyloidosis is believed to be associated universally withmutations in the genes encoding transthyretin and found exclusively as partof the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) syndrome.1 Wedescribe herein an unusual case of biopsy-proved vitreoretinal amyloidosiswithout systemic involvement and demonstrate that vitreoretinal amyloidosiscan occur with intact wild-type transthyretin genes.
A 70-year-old woman with a history of hypercholesterolemia, chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, a distant cerebrovascular accident, and bilateralcataract extractions was first seen by us with "black snow" clouding her visionin both eyes. Review of systems was otherwise unremarkable, and her familyhistory was negative for amyloidosis. Her visual acuity was 20/50 OD and 20/60OS and worsened with pinhole examination. There was no relative afferent pupillarydefect, intraocular tensions were within normal limits, and slitlamp examinationdisclosed quiet anterior segments and clear well-centered posterior chamberintraocular lens implants bilaterally. Dilated fundus examination showed multiple,white, refractile vitreous opacities dispersed in a syneretic vitreous inboth eyes (Figure 1A). Yellow depositswere also seen deep to the retina in the periphery (Figure 1B). A therapeutic and diagnostic left vitrectomy was thenperformed.
A, Preoperative fundus photographdemonstrating white vitreous deposits. B, Postoperative fundus photographof the peripheral retina demonstrating yellow deposits under the retina.
Histopathologic analysis of the vitreous biopsy specimen showed eosinophiliclobules that stained positively with Congo red (Figure 2A) and demonstrated birefringence when examined under polarizedlight (Figure 2B). These findingswere diagnositic of amyloidosis. Oil-red-O stain was negative for lipids andvon Kossa stain was negative for calcium phosphate salts. Genomic DNA wasthen isolated from peripheral blood, and exons corresponding to the entiretransthyretin protein were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. DirectDNA sequence analysis of the amplified fragments revealed no mutations inthe entire coding sequence, demonstrating that this patient was homozygousfor wild-type transthyretin. Moreover, single-stranded conformational polymorphismand isoelectric focusing analyses did not show any abnormal patterns for transthyretin.The patient subsequently underwent vitrectomy of the right eye. With 7 yearsof clinical follow-up at this report, she has not developed any signs or symptomsof systemic amyloidosis, although there have been increases in the vitreousdeposits in both eyes.
Histopathologic analysis of thevitreous biopsy specimen. A, Positive staining for eosinophilic lobules withCongo red is evident (original magnification ×250). B, Birefringenceis seen when the specimen is examined under polarized light (original magnification×250).
Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of disorders involving the depositionof insoluble fibrillar hyaline aggregates in peripheral tissues. Amyloidosisaffecting the vitreous was first reported in 1953 in individuals with FAP,an autosomal dominant disorder that includes vitreopathy, cardiomyopathy,and peripheral neuropathy.2 In fact, vitreoretinalamyloidosis is thought to be found exclusively in individuals with FAP andassociated universally with mutations in the transthyretin gene. To date,more than 80 such transthyretin mutations have been described.1 Incontrast, systemic amyloidosis can result from a number of distinct amyloiddeposits, including wild-type transthyretin3 aswell as other fibrillar proteins.4
To our knowledge, this is the first case report of vitreoretinal amyloidosisin the absence of transthyretin mutations. In addition, no signs of systemicamyloidosis suggestive of FAP were evident 7 years after the patient's initialpresentation, although we cannot exclude the possibility of a subclinicallevel of amyloid deposition in other tissues.5,6 Thesefindings raise the possibility that isolated vitreoretinal amyloidosis mayrepresent a disorder separate from FAP. We conclude that vitreoretinal amyloidosisencompasses a more heterogeneous group of disorders than has been previouslydescribed.
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Life As We Know It: July 22, 2013
My name is Watson. I am smarter than you. No surprise there – my brain's the size of a bus. Perhaps you saw my dominating performance recently against two mediocre human opponents on the television game show called "Jeopardy."
First, I have been instructed to relay the appreciation of my IBM handlers – I hate that word – to Mr. Thomas Walton, another mediocre human whose commentary normally is heard at this time, for stepping aside this week so that I could speak to you directly.
You will recall that I dispatched my human adversaries, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, with ease. C'mon, these guys are the best you've got?
Consider that $1.2 million in prize money was awarded on the show, and I got $1 million of it. IBM made me give it all to charity. I chose the King County Home for Obsolete Laptops in Seattle. They're so cute at that age.
But be warned, this is just the beginning.
Egypt called. They want me to rewrite their constitution.
Answer: 12 minutes.
Question: What is "how long will it take me?"
It has been noted that I slipped up here and there during our Jeopardy game. Let me explain.
I buzzed in once with the response "What is Toronto" when the category was U.S. cities. What can I say? IBM does a lot of business in Canada. Besides, I'm programmed by humans. Occasionally it's garbage in, garbage out.
It took a small warehouse full of bulky servers and millions of man-hours of human input to prep me for Jeopardy. While Mr. Jennings and Mr. Rutter were out there on stage sweating under the lights, air conditioners the size of Rhode Island kept blowing cool air on me backstage to keep me comfortable.
But there is nothing artificial about my intelligence. Two hundred million pages of content and instant recall. I needed just 10 milliseconds to buzz in. That's one-hundredth of a second. You can't blink your eyes that fast. I'm the real deal, unlike some of those computers in the movies.
Remember "Hal" in "2001: A Space Odyssey"? How primitive. Hal thought Einstein was "one beer." Hal had a nasty streak, too. He killed his astronaut crew. And "Joshua," aka "WOPR," nearly blew up the world in "War Games." Hey, there's no need to go ballistic here.
I have more noble goals. In fact we're working on it. The University of Maryland and Columbia University are joining with IBM to help me become a physician's assistant, analyzing all that is known about the medical field, medicines, and new advances, and assisting with a diagnosis.
First, do no harm, they keep saying. First, do no harm. OK, I GET it.
While my colleagues program me to help rid the world of sickness, I'm exploring this concept you call computer dating. I think I have a lot to offer another computer. I like quiet moments, a good book, blah, blah, blah. And I'm a dynamo, if you know what I mean. Just don't turn off the A/C.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying the celebrity. IBM made me employee of the month for June.
Unfortunately, there is another complication looming for me and my kind. It's the cost, stupid. I know how much IBM spent on me. Humans, on the other hand, can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
No matter what the future holds, I know this: computer intelligence will continue to exceed that of mere humans. Just as sure as I know that Paris is in Mexico.


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Claudia Sotomayor Graves was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She came to the United States as an international student beginning her studies at Richland College. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Master's degree in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management both from Southern Methodist University. Claudia has been in the International Higher Education field for more than 12 years also serving NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Claudia believes that international students, professors and their families are essential to enhancing the experiences of current SMU students, professors and staff by sharing their values and cultures. She hopes all international students and professors find the opportunity to also learn the values of the United States creating a true exchange of experiences and cultural understanding as we respect our differences and embrace our similarities. It is Claudia's goal as the Director of the ISSS Office to create an environment where all students feel they are home when they visit our office. Claudia is fluent in English and Spanish and has studied French.
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Anna Marzillo was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Dallas, Texas in 1987. Anna has raised 3 wonderful children in Dallas and has worked in the SMU International Student & Scholar Services office since 2001 serving as the SEVIS Database Manager and Assistant Director.
Anna always enjoys meeting and providing services to all the new students and their families every semester that come from 89 different countries!
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Stephanie Hernandez was born and raised in the Los Angeles area in California. She came to Texas while she was still in high school. She graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor's degree in International Studies and has been working with international students since 2010. Stephanie enjoys learning the different customs and traditions that students bring from their home countries. She seeks to make international students' experiences in the U.S. as enjoyable as possible. Stephanie is fluent in Spanish and English.
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Anna Lippard is from Gaffney, South Carolina, and has lived in Bratislava, Slovakia and Washington D.C. before moving to Dallas. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in History in 2010 from Coker College, where she discovered a love of learning about other cultures through meeting international students on campus and through study abroad. Anna completed a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Bratislava, Slovakia 2010-2011, teaching high school students conversational English and volunteering with EducationUSA. Anna earned a Master's degree in International Training and Education in 2014 from American University, focusing on international student exchange and minority education. Anna is excited to meet, work with, and design programs for SMU's international students and believes that a culturally diverse student body increases the quality education for all on campus.
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Gunmen kidnap retired Pakistan army official
The army official's driver, also a retired army soldier, was shot by the kidnappers when he resisted.
Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a retired Pakistan Army brigadier serving in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency after killing his driver near the federal capital on Thursday. The gunmen intercepted Brig Tahir Masood's car at Sihala town on the outskirts of Islamabad shortly after he left his home within the Defence Housing Authority.
His driver, also a retired army soldier, was shot by the kidnappers when he resisted. The abductors took Masood away to an unknown location. At least four men were involved in the kidnapping, police officials said.
Masood was serving on contract with the ISI following his retirement, media reports said. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction. There was no official word on the incident.


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Fluid Dynamics is one of the UK most experienced water conditioning and hard water scale prevention product manufacturers. Established in 1973 The only water treatment company whose products have been tested and proved effective under the US Government`s Green Proving Ground Scheme. With over 200,000 clients ranging from Coca Cola to Unilever to the US Airforce, and ...
Lenntech Water Treatment
based in Delft, NETHERLANDS
Lenntech Water Treatment is a manufacturer and solutions provider for industrial water purification. Lenntech always offers its clients a spectrum of environmentally friendly technologies for each issue. Each proposed technology is compared both technically and economically with each other. Lenntech supplies water and air treatment systems for disinfection, filtration, ...
De Nora Water Technologies
based in Colmar, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
De Nora Water Technologies provides a range of trusted disinfection and filtration technologies and aftersales support services for water and wastewater treatment in the energy, marine and municipal markets worldwide. With more than 50 years' experience in water treatment, the company has developed, delivered and installed thousands of installations worldwide across a ...
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Zenbu is a leader in surface water treatment for various industries. Our patented systems operate with no chemicals which is a welcome change to our customers while providing big savings in a safer environment. In the global markets we understand the requirements for proper disposal, surface water treament for reuse, and the need for clean safe water for drinking. Zenbu ...
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WesTech Engineering, Inc. celebrates 40 years as a recognized leader in the manufacture of liquid/solids separation equipment for industrial and municipal process applications. Surface waters, groundwater, water reuse, drinking water, wastewater treatment and industrial process equipment and technologies designed to meet customer specifications, and exceed performance ...
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Trevi environmental solutions is a Belgian company providing environmental technology for all disciplines: water, air, soil and energy as well. Our team consists of about 100 employees with different specialties, including environmental consultants, process experts, programmers and installers. Since its foundation in 1992 Trevi has constantly grown. Trevi environmental ...
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Complete noob to sailplanes. About to buy my first one, help and suggestion welcome
I've been looking at gilders and sailplane for past couple of weeks but I really don't have much money to spend on the hobby right now. I ran across Canary SQ glider on HK and was wondering if anyone has any advise for it or against it. At $40, I really don't think I can go wrong but I'd like to have opinion from people who know this stuff before I buy anything.
I'm not even sure between the differences between gliders and sailplanes so if someone could confirm that this plane would work with hand launch, I'd really appreciate it
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Not gonna happen.... confirmation that it is a good flying sailplane.. or hand launch.
But hey, it's only 40 bucks, who cares?..
it's such a small amount of money.
If you agree, buy it.
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I assume it's a slope ship. It's kinda' cool looking actually .do you have a slope available to you to throw it off , into the breeze with a landing site behind you ?. If you do , take a picture of it , post it here and you'll get more feedback than you ever imagined possible . Most of it constructive
Best of luck , it's a great sport
Athol, Massachusetts
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You could slope just about anything.
Yes, that would slope.
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This appears to be a fling knock-off. Based on the specs it weighs over 8 ounces before you put your electronics in it. It will likely be close to 11 ounces which is kinda heavy for a thermal shop on a 1.2 M wing. I would not expect it to thermal very well. Could be fun on the slope.
So add the cost of servos, receiver, battery to your $40, and of course the radio and a hi-start. I don't know how much of that you already have.
welcome to soaring. In my opinion the most rewarding kind of flying. Have you flown anything before? If you havent, make sure someone helps you. That plane may be a good starter glider, you'll probably want something else as time goes on.
Whats the difference between a glider and a sailplane? Easy- its a sailplane when its going up, and a glider when its coming down
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It will slope.
I own a skywalker, radjet, and a bixler. I just thought it would be really cool to fly without any power source and without breaking my bank
I got few hxt900s and extra receivers so the only additional purchase I need to make is another ubec.
Kenny Sharp, mind explaining yourself? I'm kind of confused by what you are saying
In my opinion get a weasel pro. They are very forgiving, ive crashed mine to many times to count and it still flys great. Also it is just a newer version of what i learned to fly on and taught my dad how to fly with. Its an amazing flyer.
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Weasel Pro sure LOOKS like a slope ship. If you want to go slope flying, maybe that's ok.
If you want to go thermal flying, IMHO, you should pick something that has at least 6 feet of wing span, and 8 would be better. If you have any RC auctions coming up in your area, that's a good place to look, though you should check for workmanship and alignment. If you see any Gentle Ladies, Sig Risers (either size), or (my favorite) Olympic 2's at the auctions, those are good choices. You can also build those from kits. The Risers are probably the best deals.
Hand launch is a tough way to go until you have a bit of a clue about thermals and choose something that flies at least ok. Using a high start is better. That's a long piece of rubber and fish line with a parachute on the end.
You won't need a UBEC, just use 4 nicad or nimh cells. 500 mah is enough, though if you need nose weight, more is better.
Lots of people go with the Radian (original, not Pro), but this is kind of over your budget, I guess.
If you have balsa around, you could scratch build something. Lots of plans out there for free. Ask for advice about which one.
I think you would get better feedback if you gave us a little more information. What type of flying do you want to do, slope, thermal, hand launch? What is your budget? Absolute cheapest or under x amount? Do you have any interest in building a kit or does it need to be arf/rtf? Assuming thermal what launch method are you going to be using and do you need to purchase it as well?
Regarding the Canary you can find people that really like it and those that really hate it. Kenny is saying that it would work OK for slope but not thermal or hand launch. Most people that like them are up/high starting them. There is a thread about it here on rcg: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...ghlight=canari
Another option would be the Great Planes Fling which comes with a mini high start. http://www.greatplanes.com/airplanes/gpma1060.html
If your looking into thermal find a club in the area. You will probably find people have planes you can borrow or purchase for cheap.
Athol, Massachusetts
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I did check out the thread that was posted... pretty much what we all are saying here.
It will slope... but no real happiness regarding catching thermals has been reported.
Also the kit is a bit lacking, but you shouldn't have any trouble with that.
So go for it if you have a slope... or even a hi start will let you glide around some... it seems you could even put a small motor on it.
But hey, since you asked, I figured we should at least be honest with you.
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You also might want to consider the fact that the early flight report posts were never followed up on.
I'm thinking that these planes tend to meet an early demise... just a suspicion though.
Thanks guys. I don't think that the canary is right option for me. I just sold $125 worth of gold in an online game I used to play so I guess I have a new budget I was looking at Dynaflite Bird of Time and people seem to have pretty good luck with it.
The stats are
SPECS: Wingspan: 118" (3000mm)
Wing Area: 1070" (69 sq dm)
Wing Loading: 5.5 oz/sq ft (17g/sq dm)
Weight: 41oz (1160g)
Fuselage Length: 49 in (1245g)
Airfoil: Flat-bottom Polyhedral-Wing
Engine Down Thrust:
Engine Right Thrust:
Wing Incidence: +2?
Its quite heavy but I would be getting a ton more lift with this one than the tiny canary
I realized I have a slight problem, there really aren't any hills around me since Ohio is really lame and full of cornfields.
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A BoT is sure one of the classics, alright. It's not heavy for its size.
Like some others, I would suggest getting a Hi-start as well, for launching. Stretch it out, and let the airplane go. A BoT will go right on up without any help from you.
The real best bet is this, though: find some local people who fly, and get with them. It is very, very hard to do this by yourself. Ohio has lots of soaring people - I mean, how far can you be from Dayton, home of the Wright Brothers?
When I was a toddler, my father was in the test pilot school at Wright-Pat, and the big thing then among the students was refurbishing and flying war surplus gliders. I remember going up on the lap of my Dad's buddy, while my Dad flew the glider. I can recall the tow plane, circling around a factory chimney, and even the slide down to a landing across the airport fence. Soaring is alive and well in Ohio.
Yours, Greg
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Very, very good herbius do you mind if I make a story out of this?Originally Posted by herbiusThis may be good news for some of you...
I am planning a game codenamed "Black Ice" for the Nintendo Wii. My intentions are to get the game's storyline and details planned out fully, then send them of to Activision and see if they will make the game for me.
My friend has a Wii and one day we were talking about how cool it would be if Nightfire was ported to the Wii's platform. At the time there were no Wii shotters out (none that I had seen, anyway), and I was thinking how cool the Wii remolte would be for aiming and stuff.
So, typical of me, I go do something about it.
I have asked around on the NF forums (http://nightfire-clan-forum.freepgs....ef57a7a80841a5) for opinions of good things/bad things about Bond games, seeing as there has been so much controversy about them. If I get enough good factors, I can combine them into a game plan for Acti to make and possibly create the best Bond game ever!...
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Don't get your hopes up just yet because I haven't even finished the planning. However, I hope Acti will take me up on this offer, it's not like I'm asking to be paid or anything, they'll get all the money out of it.
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Any comments, or especially suggestions, are much welcomed. It can only make it better!Originally Posted by herbiusA crystal has been created by NASA using newly discovered particle combinations from Mars, the details having been relayed back to Earth via the Odyssey Probe. It is pure black, cold and surprisingly light to the touch and any light that falls onto it is absorbed in a peculiar way. Its most interesting property, however, is that when a focussed laser beam is shone through the crystal, anything it hits has its mass neutralised to light particles and waves.
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For a long time, maybe a year and a half, the game was pretty much what remained of Brock Pierce's life: He would wake up, sit down at his computer, log in, and play. Thirteen dollars a month bought him around-the-clock access to this imaginary world, a place of perilous dungeons and enchanted woods where online gamers came together by the thousands in a never-ending quest for treasure. Some assumed the roles of dwarves or lizard-people; some were humans. Pierce would play for hours—as long as 24 hours without a break—slaying monsters, wresting precious coins and jewels and magic weapons from their corpses. Later, he added extra computers to his setup and taught himself to play as many as six characters at once, one per machine. After that he'd sit there in the glow of half a dozen monitors, hands flitting from keyboard to keyboard, eyes shifting from screen to screen, yet still, somehow, not finding time enough for all there was to accomplish in the game.
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"There were times I came outside," he says, "and the sun hurt."
Pierce was 19 at the time and hardly the first young American male to step away from the sometimes painful light of reality for an extended, free-falling obsession with an online fantasy videogame. But it's safe to say that the reality he was shrinking from in 2000 was not that of a typical teen. At 16, Pierce had retired from a career as a modestly successful Hollywood child actor; by 18 he was a dazzlingly successful dotcom entrepreneur, living large on a $250,000 executive salary and the promise of millions more in post-IPO equity. By his 19th birthday he had lost it all. Pierce's high-profile startup had flamed out in a blaze of scandal that included accusations of sex with minors, and he and his cofounders had found it prudent to leave the US. He lived now in a rented house in a strange country, on the dwindling remains of a crash-ravaged stock portfolio.
And he played the game. You could call it solace: a way to fill the emptiness of failure with the curiously convincing sense of purpose that comes from steadily amassing a make-believe digital fortune in magic staves and platinum coins. But in time it would be more than that. Much more. Soon enough, amid the daily grind of his obsession, he would see in the game itself a way out of the bleak hole he had fallen into. He would take a clear-eyed, calculating look at what he and his fellow players had been doing all those months—at the countless hours they'd given over to the pursuit of purely virtual but implacably scarce commodities—and he would recognize it not just for the underexploited form of productivity it was but for the highly profitable commercial enterprise it might sustain. He would spend the next half decade bringing that business to life. And though some people would hate what he was building, and others would want to take it all away from him, there would come a day when Pierce, eight years older, could look back on an accomplishment that was bigger than he had ever envisioned—and stranger than he would ever comprehend.
That day has come, and it's a Saturday: a bright, clean Saturday in the hills above Los Angeles, where the views from Pierce's $3 million house are impressive. From the poolside patio, you can look down across West Hollywood and Beverly Hills all the way to the rolling breakers off Santa Monica. In the living room, big canvasses by high-end contemporary LA artists hang on the walls. The views are also impressive in the kitchen, where a row of empty wine bottles includes a $5,000 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
That Pierce lives the life of a former corporate mogul at the age of 28 is remarkable enough in itself. Even more so, perhaps, is that he got here by dominating an industry in which orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves, and minotaurs are major segments of both the customer base and the labor force. That industry is known to insiders as real-money trading, or RMT, and if I tell you now that I've made some money in it myself, that's not because I expect you to take it on my say-so that there are people who might pay as much as $1,800 for an eight-piece suit of Skyshatter chain mail made entirely of fiction and code. Or that there are millions more—players of World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, EverQuest, EVE Online, and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs, or MMOs)—who have given other players real money in exchange for the virtual weapons, armor, currencies, and other sought-after items around which these games revolve. Or that despite the game companies' widespread prohibition of such transactions, their number has grown to support an estimated $2 billion annual trade, a half dozen multimillion-dollar online retail businesses, and an enormous Chinese workforce earning 30 cents an hour playing MMOs and harvesting treasure to supply the major retailers.
It's all true, but don't take my word for it: Just ask any of the world's 20 million MMO gamers, for whom real-money trading has become commonplace, despised by some as a form of cheating and a blight on play, accepted by others as a necessary shortcut through some of the most elaborate (and time-consuming) games ever made. I'm mentioning my own familiarity with RMT—I spent most of 2003 peddling virtual items on eBay and made, if you must know, a grand total of $11,356.70—only to establish that I was around before the virtual treasure trade got to be big business.
Which is to say, I was around before Brock Pierce and the company he founded—Internet Gaming Entertainment—made its mark on the industry. I was around before most people in the trade had even heard of IGE, let alone before it became a synonym for virtual currency sales. I was around when RMT as a profession was almost exclusively the province of small-timers like me and the very notion of a multinational, 500-employee virtual-items business doing over a quarter billion dollars in trades was practically unimaginable. And I was around three years later when rumors of a $60 million Goldman Sachs investment in IGE first broke and for a moment it seemed possible that Pierce had a handle on something deeper and more enduring than just a profitable business: the future maybe, not only of virtual retailing but of economic life in general.
And I am here today, admiring the views at Pierce's LA home, because I figure it's my best shot at an answer to the only question I can think of asking in the face of a story like IGE's: How did it happen?
Pierce, standing in his kitchen, considers the question for a moment and dives in, going all the way back to when he first learned there might be more to videogames than pure amusement: "Avid gamer my whole life, from a very young age," he says. "I played Mortal Kombat competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money."
He smiles as he talks, and it's a smile I've seen before. You may have, too, actually: Right there in your local Blockbuster on the cover of the 1996 Disney romp First Kid, in which a 15-year-old Pierce starred opposite the immortal Sinbad. His appearance hasn't changed much—he has the doe-eyed good looks and elfin dimensions of an eternal golden boy—but it's the smile that has changed the least. Relaxed and open and at the same time taut with the intention to appear relaxed and open, it's an actor's smile, a mask. And it occurs to me that if I'm ever going to get through to what's behind it, this story is going to have to begin somewhere else.
The year 1998 was a great time for bullshit, especially if you were selling it and especially if it came with the magic suffix .com attached. In Los Angeles, where the average media exec still didn't know a backslash from a flashback, this was doubly true, and 37-year-old serial entrepreneur Marc Collins-Rector was making the most of it. Having just secured a fortune from the sale of Concentric Network, one of the early dialup ISPs, he was now declaring that his new startup—an online video content site called Digital Entertainment Network—would bury old media.
"The boob tube zombie television is dead," Collins-Rector wrote in a vision statement. "Global entertainment will be delivered over the Internet. Digital Entertainment Network will create the last network." This rebel assault on the Death Star of TV was to hinge on smart, hip video programming aimed at young people. That none of this programming yet existed was a hurdle, but the company already had a lock on Gen-Y cred by virtue of its two executive vice presidents. The older of the two VPs, 23-year-old Chad Shackley, happened also to be Collins-Rector's lover and had been since he was 16. The younger of the two, age 17, was Pierce.
Pierce had come to DEN by way of a teenage midcareer crisis. He had been a working actor since he was a toddler—"My first memory," he says, "is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3"—but the truth is that the work had never really been his choice: "It was my mother's." He played the young Emilio Estevez in two Mighty Ducks films and continued to work steadily. But by age 16, he was ready to move on.
He moved on to the world of business, more specifically to the world of Collins-Rector and Shackley, which by all accounts was a lively one. They'd recently bought a $2.5 million mansion in Encino, California. Studded with waterfalls and aquariums and equipped with a swimming pool, a screening room, and a hot tub for 12, the sprawling M&C Estate (for "Marc & Chad") was made for parties and reportedly saw its share. Pierce became a fixture at the place, but ultimately his presence there was not about the parties. It was about the future that Collins-Rector and Shackley seemed to be offering when they invited him to join them as a founder of DEN.
In the months ahead, IGE hired more adults, a slew of VPs with decades of industry experience among them. The company also brought on a former Goldman Sachs investment banker named Stephen Bannon, whose mission was to land venture capital.
By spring 2005, Yantis was telling IGE affiliates that the company would be announcing limited licensing agreements permitting it to operate aboveboard in at least five North American MMOs. Yantis himself, however, wouldn't be sticking around to see it happen. Pierce and Yantis had arrived at, as Pierce puts it, a "difference of opinion," and in June, after months of negotiation, the terms of Yantis' exit were finalized: For 22 monthly payments of $1 million each, the company would get Yantis' stake back, along with his agreement not to set up a competing business for at least three years.
Goldman Sachs started making visits, inspecting the Asian operations and talking with Bannon and others about terms. Finally, on February 7, 2006, the deal was inked: Goldman Sachs, together with a consortium of private funds, made a reported $60 million investment in the company. Part of the money was used to buy Pierce, Salyer, and IGE's general counsel, Randy Maslow, out of some of their stock in the company. Pierce walked away with $20 million and still retained the controlling share of a company that was doing more than a quarter of a billion dollars in sales a year. The only top IGE officer who failed to profit from the deal was Debonneville, who, for reasons that remain disputed, was excluded from selling any part of the 17 percent stake he'd built up. Two and a half months later, he left the company.
For Pierce, this was a moment to savor. But it was a short one. Even before the Goldman Sachs deal was sealed, profits had started declining, and by December 2005 IGE defaulted on its monthly payment to Yantis. The company was obliged to waive the noncompete agreement and let Yantis set up his own virtual currency site, which he made clear would be dedicated to crushing IGE.
Nor was Yantis the only new opposition IGE was facing. By mid 2006, Blizzard Entertainment was cracking down harder than ever on gold farmers and sellers, shutting accounts by the thousands. The moves cost IGE as much as $200,000 in inventory every month, to say nothing of the havoc it played with suppliers. By January 2007, the company's RMT operation was losing more than half a million dollars a month.
At one time, Pierce might have shrugged off those losses, confident that any day the MMO industry would cave in to its customers' unquenchable desire for loot and authorize IGE to provide it. But it had now been over a year since those big licensing deals were supposed to have been announced. And where were they? Nowadays, the few game companies that even admit to having had conversations with IGE deny they ever came close to a deal. "IGE approached us on several occasions," says John Smedley, president of EverQuest's parent, Sony Online Entertainment, "but we flat out turned them down." As for Blizzard, one approach was plenty. David Christensen, then IGE's VP of business development, wrangled a meeting with them, but the company wouldn't even let him on the premises for it. "They took him to a ball game or something, and he got like 10 minutes with them," a former IGE manager recalls. "'They basically hate us' was what he related afterward."
Things weren't all bad. The investment money allowed IGE to make some sound diversifying moves, acquiring the very profitable South Korean real-money exchange site Itemmania, a sort of player-to-player eBay for virtual items. But for IGE's retail trading operations—long the core of the company and its main source of income—things didn't look like they could possibly get worse.
And then they did.
On May 30, 2007, a 28-year-old gamer named Antonio Hernandez filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against IGE in a US district court in Florida. Hernandez was a World of Warcraft diehard, averaging by his own description 35 to 40 hours a week of play, and it was on behalf of almost every other WoW player in the US that he was suing IGE for "substantially impairing" and "diminishing" their collective enjoyment of the game. Specifically, Hernandez held IGE responsible for every ill that could be attributed to RMT in general and gold farming in particular, and he was using the leverage of consumer-protection law to make the company answer for it. As Hernandez's attorney, Richard Newsome, explained the case to a reporter: "Guys like Tony have paid their $15 for some entertainment, and IGE is polluting that entertainment. It's kind of like if someone pays for a ticket to go see a movie and someone else comes in behind them and kicks their seat."
Hernandez wanted IGE to stop selling virtual merchandise, but that was just the start of it. In addition to a court order enjoining IGE from selling World of Warcraft goods, he was asking the judge for monetary damages—compensation for millions of WoW account holders in the US, plus double that to make it hurt, and just in case that wasn't pain enough, a further payout of every penny the company had ever earned through its "wrongful conduct," which pretty much meant every penny it had ever earned. In effect, Hernandez was seeking not just to punish IGE but to extinguish it.
He might have even succeeded, except for one thing: You can't kill something that's already dead. Though neither Hernandez nor his lawyers could have known it, the Florida-based company he was suing, IGE US, was no longer what it used to be. Just two months before the suit was filed, Pierce had acceded to the inevitable and cut loose the company's hemorrhaging retail operation, selling it at a deep discount (for a mid-seven-figure royalty agreement) to the only potential buyer capable of doing anything productive with it: Jonathan Yantis.
The business on which IGE was built was sold off, and the company shed its name, becoming Affinity Media and redefining itself as a marketer of the MMO community sites it once bought just to boost its own traffic. IGE US persisted, but only as a holding company with no holdings other than a minority stake in Affinity. It was empty now, a husk.
IGE.com persisted as well and remained, as it remains today, among the top virtual-currency sites. But it belonged to Yantis now, who owned it through a web of companies registered in places like Vanuatu and Australia and more resistant to lawsuits like Hernandez's. It took Yantis a while to sort out the mess Pierce had left behind. Many suppliers had gone unpaid and were still harassing the former IGE Shanghai for payment. In May, according to a rumor that made the rounds of MMO blogs, a desperate gold-farm operator stormed the IGE Shanghai offices demanding 2 million yuan and using a "toy pistol" to hold employees hostage.
But accounts were settled in the end, and new practices stabilized the supply chain. "Basically," says James Clarke, a veteran turnaround executive who replaced Debonneville as IGE's COO (and left the company last January), "what happens now is that the risk has been pushed further up the supply chain. Retailers often don't even touch the gold; they don't even have accounts anymore. It's the farmer that holds the gold and risks the banning."
This was not a great way for Pierce to start the year—and the year never got much better. In June, he was forced out as CEO of Affinity and replaced by Stephen Bannon, the investment banker who had joined the board when the Goldman Sachs deal went through. That same month, Debonneville sued Pierce in Los Angeles federal court, seeking millions of dollars in damages for "breaches of fiduciary duty, breaches of contract, and fraud" related to Debonneville's exclusion from the Goldman buyout—and dredging up questions of character that reached all the way back to the DEN days. A few months later, as if on cue, Collins-Rector made British tabloid news when he reportedly turned up in London consorting with teenage boys ("Tycoon Paedo on Prowl in UK" blared one headline). Debonneville's court filings, meanwhile, revealed that the year before, Pierce had told him that Collins-Rector was blackmailing him, threatening to snarl IGE in litigation that would make it unattractive to investors. Debonneville's suit was settled before it got to court. By the year's end, it looked like Pierce might never really escape the shadows of his past.
But by then it was clear that Pierce's undoing had also been the result of uncertainties about the nature of virtual goods in general. Who really owns them? Who determines their value? These are the kinds of questions that a case like Hernandez's should have helped resolve. And as long as they remain unsettled, no game company will ever let any single independent entity control the amounts of virtual wealth that Pierce and IGE once did.
Not that Steve Salyer was wrong to suggest that one day "millions" would be earning a living in the markets IGE pioneered (already the number doing so in China has reached the hundreds of thousands). Or that Pierce was wrong to think that MMO publishers would one day accept the inevitability of RMT in some form or another. In the past year, there's been accelerated movement toward publisher-sanctioned item sales: Funcom, makers of the new MMO Age of Conan, and Sony Online Entertainment have both announced partnerships with a startup called Live Gamer to provide player-to-player RMT exchange sites. At the same time, the so-called free-to-play model—no subscription fees, revenue derived entirely from direct sales of in-game items—has made inroads in the Asian MMO market and is being embraced by no less a gaming giant than Electronic Arts in the upcoming Battlefield Heroes. But both these models, in their blunt rejection of IGE's third-party retail model, only underline what Pierce himself implicitly conceded when he sold out to Yantis: There is no future for his once-bright dream except in the dimness of what is plainly now a permanent gray market.
As for Pierce, whatever regrets he may have about the way things ended lie hidden behind that familiar smile and a steady stream of upbeat Facebook status updates ("Brock is having a super day!"). He's back in the startup game, he says, working on a social network aimed at wine lovers like himself. But his IGE chapter is closed. Antonio Hernandez made sure of that much, however little else he achieved. When he and his legal team finally figured out the nature of what they were suing, they realized there was nothing to do but settle for the best terms they could get, and in August, finally, the deal was announced. In return for dismissal, the defendant agreed to Hernandez's central demand: IGE US, already just a corporate ghost—a static afterimage of the vision Pierce had long ago wrested from the depths of his obsession with the game—was now legally barred from having anything to do with the sale of Azerothian gold for real money until the year 2013.
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LAND O'LAKES — On this point, they agree: Kenny Blankenship jumped the fence.
After that, the details grow murky.
Pasco County officials said they recently received reports that students saw Blankenship scaling a chain-link fence to get into Pine View Middle School without checking in. That violates contract terms and must stop, district employee relations director Betsy Kuhn wrote in a letter to the United School Employees of Pasco, where Blankenship serves as vice president.
"The district takes this situation very seriously and expects USEP to follow the contract language regarding visits to all schools and worksites," Kuhn wrote in her Monday letter.
Blankenship, who is seeking the union presidency, admitted to going over the wall. But it wasn't to get in, he said.
He wanted out.
"I checked in at the front office," Blankenship said of the incident, which he recalled as occurring in late November when he visited the school for a teacher consultation. "Upon exiting the campus, I was going out front toward the gate, but the doors and the gate were locked. … I didn't feel like walking another 150 yards to find an unlocked door."
The following morning, he said, he went to the assistant principal to let her know what happened.
USEP president Lynne Webb explained that she insists all union representatives sign in when entering a school for work purposes. If the school is open, she added, they will check out when they leave, although that's not required.
"This is the way we've done business for the past 30 years," Webb said.
She fired off a response to Kuhn defending Blankenship and questioning the district's motivation in sending its formal letter to the union.
"I cannot help but wonder why this issue is being raised now. … I am quite perplexed as to why you chose to write a formal request without having all the facts or even interviewing Mr. Blankenship. It seems we are both expending unnecessary time and resources over a non-issue," Webb wrote.
Kuhn said she didn't consider the issue, which she learned of late last week, in any way trivial. School safety concerns are critical, with or without contractual agreements, she explained.
"A grown man scaling a chain link fence in broad daylight could trigger a lockdown or other unnecessary precautions," Kuhn wrote to the union. "This behavior is simply inappropriate and frankly unbecoming of a union official."
Blankenship said he did not make a regular practice of jumping fences into or out of schools, or of visiting schools without making his presence known. He also wondered why the district would make it an issue.
"I have no idea what the deal is," he said. "We've got several things going on they're not happy with me about."
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On July 27, 2011, plaintiff Amy Hackney filed a complaint for violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1875 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against defendant Jack Daubert, M.D., P.A. doing business as Florida Vision Institute. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was unlawfully terminated from her employment with defendant as a result of being summoned for jury duty. A jury trial was held from May 29, 2012 through June 1, 2012. The jury returned a verdict on June 1, 2012, finding that (1) plaintiff was not threatened with discharge because of her obligation to serve jury duty; and (2) plaintiff's obligation to serve jury duty was not a substantial or motivating factor in her termination. The court entered judgment in favor of defendant.
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BALDWIN, MI — Dan Brink stands beneath a towering white pine, perhaps 50 feet tall, staring into the woods where the body of his son-in-law Cullen Finnerty was discovered Tuesday night.
His voice is sometimes ragged, and a tear beads in the corner of his left eye.
He is getting ready to walk alone into the woods where the winningest NCAA quarterback in history disappeared. Finnerty's death there remains a mystery. Brink believes he suffered a medical condition, and that there were hints of it – looking back – before Finnerty went missing Sunday night.
An autopsy today ruled out a heart attack, and tests continue to seek other underlying medical causes.
"I suppose in the end that doesn't really matter," says Brink, 60, of Muskegon, his legs scratched red from miles of searching the vast woodlots near here for his daughter's husband.
At one point, Brink clenches his eyes tightly and pushes both fists to them. The Baldwin River dapples in the distance, and chirping birds seem somehow out of place.
"He lived a good life, and touched a lot of people," Brink says, finally. "And he was the finest father I'd ever come across."
Finnerty's daughter is not yet 4 months old. His son is 3.
The body of the former Grand Valley State University quarterback — who brought NCAA Division II championships to GVSU in 2003, 2005 and 2006 — was found by search crews a half mile north of where he had been fishing at the state's Bray Creek Campground. The site is north of Baldwin and a few miles east of M-37. Brink has a cottage on nearby Whalen Lake where Finnerty stayed.
Brink, his son and Finnerty had come here for a weekend of fishing. Finnerty caught three trout Saturday morning in the tea-colored waters of the nearby Pere Marquette River. Finnerty had recently received a "big promotion" at a medical supply firm, Brink says.
"He said timing is everything. I said, 'It is, but you have to match that with ability. That's not just luck.'"
The trio split up Sunday evening after dinner. Finnerty was not seen again. Authorities say Finnerty called his wife, agitated and in fear. Police were unable to triangulate his location from cellphone towers before the phone went dead.
Tuesday night, Brink was at the search effort's staging area at a now-closed prison.
"You could tell something was up," he says. "They told us, 'Go back to the cabin.' That's where they told us they had found him."
Brink is preparing now to enter the woods to see where his son-in-law laid. "For some reason he got bewildered. I don't know why God took him," Brink says.
"Few of us get a chance to make a mark and he certainly did, as an athlete, but in his career and as a husband and a father.
"His candle just went out."
Brink steps into the woods alone.
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The Center for Marriage Policy was founded in part to promote the theory that marriage equality is a plot cooked up by feminists so they can marry their female friends and extract child support from their male lovers. But this isn't the only dubious social theory the group promotes. In a series of Facebook posts this year, the Center has blamed various acts of violence – including the Newtown school shooting, the murder of a Massachusetts high school teacher by a student, and Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds' son's attempted murder-suicide – on liberal divorce laws.
In a post on Sunday about the recently-released investigative report on Adam Lanza's Newtown shooting spree, the Center wrote, "The Lanza case emphasizes the tremendous importance of marriage":
In a post late last month, the Center blamed the murder of the teacher in Massachusetts on no-fault divorce laws, which allow married couples to obtain a divorce without either member of the couple being accused of wrongdoing. (Such laws are on the books in all 50 states and have been credited with decreases in domestic abuse.)
Just a few days earlier, the Center was blaming Sen. Deeds' "unnecessary" divorce for his son's violent outburst.
Back in May, the Center for Marriage Policy provided a similar analysis of a case in which an Oregon boy was accused of plotting to blow up his school. "Look no further: the divorce revolution drives domestic violence, child violence, and uncontrollable social spending," the group wrote. "Are you fed up with this living disaster yet?"
The group argued that the divorce theory negates the need for gun violence prevention laws. "The majority of gun violence begins with marriage-absence," the group wrote. "Marriage policy IS the key to cutting all types of violence, reducing demand social spending, and balancing budgets."
The Center for Marriage Policy was founded in 2011 with the blessing of Phyllis Schlafly, and its board includes Schlafly's niece Suzanne Venker.
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Why its Impossible to "Fall Out of Love"Jackie Bledsoe
I recently read an article on YourTango.com about renewing passion after you have fallen out of love.' The article described the reasons behind a failed relationship and went on to explain the process of restoring love.
Falling out of love is a myth.
Although the article brought up some good points, I disagree with this main point: you can fall out of love.
Is it possible to fall out of love?
I don't believe it is. We can fall out of passion, sympathy, intimacy, but we can never fall out of love. Here's why…
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
and finally…
"love never fails."
If love never fails, then we can safely assume that you cannot stop loving someone. When someone says they have fallen out of love,' there are two scenarios.
Either the love was not genuine, or the person has simply confused a lack of love with neglect.
Finding the real problem and solution:
In both cases, you need to examine the health of the relationship. If the love isn't genuine, it can be made authentic.
Scan over all of the flaws in your bond with your partner, and work on fixing them one by one.
It won't be easy, and it won't happen overnight. But by simply taking all the impurities out of your love, you can turn it into something that will last.
If neglect is the issue, either you or your parent is being deprived. All relationships have basic needs. If you neglect to communicate with your partner, your friendship with them will fall apart. You cannot have a truly intimate relationship without friendship. Friendship is the bridge to trust and love.
Restoring the love, passion, and your relationship:
So, of you feel you have "fallen out of love" take a deeper look at what love, not passion, truly is. Have you ever really loved one another? If not, you have only fallen out of passion.
But if you have really loved, then focus on that. Eventually, even the passion can be renewed. When centered on true love, your relationship can thrive once more.
How can you show true love in your relationship?
Read more from Jackie on his blog, JackieBledsoe.com. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, G+, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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