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But taste is the biggest benefit, said McNeil, a busy medical salesperson who grew up in Haywood County.
"This is so much better than what you can buy at the supermarket," McNeil said as she bought chorizo from Keela Worley at the market. "It just tastes fresher, and it's not full of chemicals."
Local meat is sizzling. The number of state farmers classified as meat and poultry handlers has increased dramatically since 2002, according to the N.C. Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Rich in farmland, Haywood County has some 700 farms and is in the top 20 percent of state beef producers, the department's statistics indicate.
In the past decade, Western North Carolina livestock producers supplying local markets have increased from a handful to 95 beef producers, 70 pork producers, 36 lamb producers, 26 goat producers and two bison producers, according to the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project, which works to connect farmers and buyers in the region. Serving them are meat processors such as Nantahala Meats and Poultry in Franklin and Wells, Jenkins & Wells in Forest City.
Buying meat from local producers "sets the stage for having a relationship with the farmer who raised it," said Maggie Cramer, ASAP's communications manager. Having that relationship, whether for the producers of pork or produce, is what draws McNeil and others shoppers to Haywood's Historic Farmers Market. That's true at farmers markets throughout North Carolina, nearly every one of which now has at least one farm selling its own meat. Haywood's Historic Farmers Market, observing winter hours 9 a.m. to noon through Dec. 14, has about a dozen, Carol James said.
So many Haywood County farmers now want to sell their beef, pork, turkey and trout at the market that administrators created a waiting list, purposely limiting the number of meat vendors so that those who currently sell can make some money, said James, the market's adviser and past president.
"Prices for meat may be higher here at the market than in the grocery store," she said. "But our customers are a very savvy bunch. They understand the benefits of buying a quality product."
Locally raised meat is "surprisingly affordable," said Jenny McPherson, manager of the Jackson County Farmers Market. The market currently has three meat vendors (beef, pork and poultry). "Sometimes we have ground beef for $5 a pound, which when you consider how much work goes into raising it and that it's grass-fed, is pretty good."
Worley Farms raises beef and pork on a farm in the Beaverdam community of Haywood County that's been in her husband's family for more than 100 years. Customers like knowing where the meat comes from and who raised it, she said.
Everything about local meat seems to be a family affair. The Worleys got into the meat business because of their son. Living on his family's 40-acre farm, he started showing pigs in 2001 as part of his 4-H project at Bethel Christian Academy (he won grand champion at the Mountain State Fair that year, his first time out). He showed pigs for years, but "when he quit, we had to figure out what we were going to do with the pigs," his mother said. "We visited the market, and they encouraged us to sell the meat."
To her own family's story she adds those from other families who come to the market every week to buy the pork chops, ribs and filets she has to sell. "They'll tell you they'll never buy meat from the supermarket anymore," Keela Worley said. "We have a lot of repeat customers."
"I had one man from Florida who had been buying from me all summer," she said. "He called me at home and said he was heading back to Florida and needed some sausage. So when I was there that Saturday, he came up and bought 15 pounds. He put them in his cooler and said he had room for five more pounds. He said, I'll see you in April. That's a good feeling when people come back and tell you how good your product is."
Heidi Dunkelberg knows how good it is. Co-owner of Carolina Coffee Cup Café in Clyde, she uses sausage from Worley Farms in her sausage biscuits. She also makes sandwiches from ground beef and beef brisket that she gets from Sunburst Beef of Bethel.
"It's a neat thing that here in our county we have meat that is just wonderful," Dunkelberg said. "I live in Canton and have raised and killed hogs and know what fresh meat tastes like. It's just better, and you don't have all these other ingredients on the label that you can't pronounce."
She keeps a chalkboard in her restaurant to let customers know about the local beef, pork, trout, produce and beer that she uses. It's a way of supporting area businesses — businesses that support her by referring diners her way — and a way of letting local residents know that there are farms growing meat in their county.
"It's pretty much a win-win situation for everyone," Dunkelberg said. "Since I'm an independently owned restaurant, I depend on local support. I try to give that to other businesses. I'm dying to do a Reuben sandwich with trout from Sunburst Trout," a trout hatchery and processor in Waynesville.
Dewey Gidcumb of White Oak Rabbitry and Farm in the White Oak community north of Waynesville sells rabbit, pork and lamb, as well as free-range eggs, spinach and other greens. He was about the only meat vendor when the market started in 2008. He attributes the increase in vendors to people being more concerned about what they eat. He noted research that indicates substantial benefits of grass-fed over grain-fed meat. Grass-fed beef, for instance, tends to be lower in fat and higher in vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids.
"It's closer to the way our ancestors ate," Gidcumb said. But it's not necessarily the way Haywood County eats. Getting local folks to buy the meat has been a challenge, he said. A lot, if not most, of his business is from people who spend summers here and the rest of the year elsewhere. Nonetheless, people who venture into the market to buy meat tend to be repeat customers, he said.
"People have been so disassociated from the way meat is produced and put in the supermarket that they want to know their growers personally," Gidcumb said. "They want to shake hands and talk about how we take care of our animals."
His family got into the meat market by raising chickens for themselves. They like rabbit and lamb too, so that led to other animals on their eight-acre farm. The farm, husbandry and business have grown from there. Now regular shoppers at Haywood's Historic Farmers Market depend on him being there. That's true for many of the meat purveyors who sell at local markets.
"When the pork vendor isn't at the market, people come up to me and ask me where they are," McPherson said.
Larry Shelton's business has grown from his involvement with the market as well. His company, Bethel Quail, Eggs & Hatchery, has been selling quail eggs and meat there for two years. He started with 15 quail and then had 200. He was expecting about 400 eggs to hatch any minute, he said on a recent weekend at the market. Six hundred quail is a lot of quail. But the meat and eggs sell well at the market, as well as to the many area restaurants he supplies, he said.
Like other purveyors of locally grown meat, Shelton spoke about the health benefits of what he was selling. Quail eggs are higher in protein, iron, potassium and vitamin B1 than chicken eggs. The meat is light, delicious and something that Haywood County has in its DNA.
"People used to hunt quail, but they don't anymore," Shelton said. "I'm providing them with a taste of what they forgot."


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Originally Posted by Killer B
looked at the title of thread.......lol didnt read
Also, there is an official thread for theories like these.
Anyways good theory!
Tobi was an adult when Kakashi and Gui were teenagers,so how could He be Obito? Obito and Kakashi were the same age when He died.
Originally Posted by SharinganisOP
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I honestly wish for this theory to not be true. However from what i can perceive it is in the realm of possibility.
Obito Theory:
Tobi has a possible chance of being obito, though i find that chance very low i believe i have came up with a theory that is possible(even though i don't choose to believe it) All i am saying is that it's possible for this theory(as many theories are to be true)
Obito clearly gets his body crushed by a rock, impossible to survive from. IMPOSSIBLE TO SURVIVE FROM.
Now on to Madara, we know that Madara survived his fight with Hashirama. He lived for an unknown amount of time and then was able to obtain the rinnegan. One of the rinnegans abilities is to bring people back from the dead. As displayed by Nagato reviving paths of pain to perfectly regenerated bodies and reviving the recently deceased people of konoha.
I believe that it is possible for Madara to have lived until(or awhile after) obitos death. After Obito's death it is possible for Madara to have revived obito noticing the potential he has(reviving him this way he was able to revive his body in perfect condition including his sharingan).
After Madara revives obito he uses his sharingan in order to manipulate his mind turning him against konoha and turns him into his pawn. Obito grows and gains the ability to use his sharing.
He trains with Madara for awhile until Madara dies, and madara tells him everything he needs to know about his plan.As an Uchiha Obito is able to use the sharingan much more efficiently than Kakashi and is able to use space time techniques with his eye on a whole other level and is actual able to teleport large objects multiple times to different dimensions, and can phase through objects. During training he wasn't able to phase his entire being on the first try and lost parts of his body to the technique. the parts lost were replaced by the stuff zetzus are made out of.
Anything previously done before obito became tobi would have been done by madara, explaining longer hair in some circumstances.
After training with madara, it explains how he was able to gain the ability to control the ninetails and how he was able to become strong enough to fight near the fourth hokages level.
This theory would also assume that tobi did not give Nagato the rinnegan since madara would have had them in order to revive obito. in this situation i would assume that Madara gave Nagato the tools to obtain the rinnegan without negate knowing and tobi takes credit as he does for many other things madara did.(if you want a theory where nagato clearly gets the rinnegan from madara/tobi then madara could have just used zetsu glue to repair obito(though i find that very unlikely because that would be unable to reform his eye))
Tobi has marks underneath his marks looks like signs of old age perhaps, however for this theory i would say its from years of battle and overuse of his sharingan.
However i think this theory is complete bullshit(not in theory, just i would hate for Madara to have lived for so long and obito to have such a large change in personality.)
Alternate theories just said really fast not involving Obito:
I prefer a theory that would say Tobi is an advanced zestu clone(Black white mix) with Madaras chakra in him, which in naruto apparently represents part of the soul as shown by narutos parents and orochimaru. So part of madders soul would be in tobi. i would think something like that would be much more possible. I would even think izuna being him would be much more possible(though his age he would have to be makes me think not.)
Also yes i know there is an "official tobi id thread" however that thread is 400 pages long and hardly anyone wants to read through 400 pages.
One more thing, text edit was doing dumb things such as turning words to tobi into obi and obito into obit and sharingan into sharing and other stupid things so please excuse some typos.
what potential? He shown no potential that any young ninja didn't have. No mention of his family, his parents, his sibling. Hell the two times kakashi and tobi met something would of been said or mentioned. The is nothing even romotely saying that obito is tobi
Originally Posted by SilverSlick
That's a guy.
^^^ HAHAHAHHA! i thought i was the only one who noticed :sy:
oh and tobi = no-one...dont you remember he said hinmself
Last edited by Sanji Vinsmoke III; 07-17-2012 at 10:36 AM.
Everyone who belives tobi is obito is a retard a dumbass with no brain .....
So if anyone belives tobi is obito please leave the Base go and look at the wall for a long time
Please Do A Search Before Creating New ONE !
Another tobi obito thread.
LOL you knew where to put it yet you decided against it what a rebel
and yeah i agree who does want to read through 400 pages
rep+ for effort on your theory though,
i think its going to be a new character or madaras little bro no problem if its obito either as long as there is a good explanation but its very unlikely its obito but dont worry im sure tobis face going to be revaled soon enough.
Originally Posted by alexu9696
Everyone who belives tobi is obito is a retard a dumbass with no brain .....
So if anyone belives tobi is obito please leave the Base go and look at the wall for a long time
Period. :mugi:
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My name is Christy I have a ds who is2.5 who I b/f for 6mos (stopped b/c of biting and recurrent plugged ducts topped off by mastitis).
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Last month we talked about a handful of devices that you can use to help you measure different aspects of your health and fitness activities. This month I want to continue the discussion and talk about some apps that can use the data collected from those devices to help you achieve your goals.
Just a quick recap of the devices we discussed: We looked at two bathroom scales, the FitBit Aria and the Withings WiFi, both of which connect via Wi-Fi to your home network to record and store body weight and body composition.
We also looked at four activity trackers: the FitBit Zip, the FitBit One, the Jawbone UP and the Nike FuelBand. These trackers are really nothing more than super-fancy pedometers that are able to track not only your workout activity, but your daily activity as well, such as how much you actually walk around the office or your home.
All these devices have companion apps and desktop/web interfaces which take the data collected and present it in a more human-readable form – think charts, graphs and tables. While these proprietary apps and interfaces are fairly robust, they really only tell you their side of the story.
If you are serious about losing weight and/or getting into shape, you know that exercise is only part of the equation; nutrition plays an important role as well. Study after study has shown that people who keep a diary of the foods they eat have a higher rate of success with respect to health, fitness and weight loss goals than those who don't track their diets.
The trouble with tracking food – OK, let's call it what it is, counting calories – is that at the end of the day, you need to calculate whether you burned more calories than you took in. I can tell you from personal experience, the average person will do this approximately one time. It's something about doing math at the end of the day. I'd rather do 12 more jumping jacks. It's not that it is hard. Well, yeah, it is because it is hard. But it is also mind numbing, and at the end of the day when you are exhausted and ready for bed and your wife has "The Bachelor" on (also mind numbing) and the kids have called for that third glass of water, and the sink is full of dirty dishes, and the cat is clawing your leg because he hasn't been fed, you could give a flying cherry flambe if you are over or under on your calories and you just won't do it.
And likewise, doing caloric math at the restaurant in the middle of a business luncheon is basically like looking at your customer with crossed-eyes and drool running down your chin as you stammer, "I have issues with self-control. Would you like to do business with me?"
Thankfully there are a number of apps in the marketplace that can help you quickly calculate your caloric needs, both intake and expenditure, but I want to focus on two in particular, especially if you are using any of the devices we've previously discussed: LoseIt and My Fitness Pal.
Both of these apps are available on both Android and iOS devices and have extended functionality through web-based interfaces. At the core of each is a food tracking system that leverages the power of the crowd to create an exhaustive database of food. In simpler terms, users add nutritional information to the system so it is always updated with new foods, including name brands and restaurant items.
In addition to supplying calorie information, both apps also provide caloric quality data as well – percentage of fats, carbohydrates and protein. LoseIt goes a bit deeper and provides the breakdown of types of fat and carbs, and includes sodium and cholesterol data as well.
Entering your meals is a cinch. Both apps feature a bar-code scanner, quick search and a previous meal selector. This feature is great if you tend to eat the same things on a regular basis, e.g., poached egg and toast for breakfast, turkey sandwich for lunch. They both also have a recipe feature that allows you to build complex meals by entering in the component parts. Then in the future, you just select the recipe as a custom food and all the nutritional info is automatically added to your log. I use this feature to enter in my smoothie recipes which can contain up to eight ingredients.
Both apps also allow you to enter exercise data (measured in calories burned), which is then subtracted from your intake, leaving you with a net calorie count for the day.
If losing weight is your game, both LoseIt and My Fitness Pal are great tools to use because in addition to tracking calories in and calories out, they give you some nice tools to set your weight loss goals and track them. Both offer a number of nutritional reports that can be downloaded. LoseIt also offers blood pressure tracking – and as someone with a heart condition, I like the ability to log and track my blood pressure over time and see the effect diet, exercise and body weight have on it.
Both LoseIt and My Fitness Pal can pull data from the FitBit activity trackers and the FitBit Aria scale, as well as the Withings WiFi scale to give you a more complete picture of your activity. LoseIt is also able to pull in data from Nike+ and apply it as well. Both apps also connect with a host of exercise-based third-party apps to pull in even more data.
This functionality saves you the extra step of having to manually enter your body weight, composition and exercise data. And this is really what you are looking for: automation. It is hard enough doing the physical work of actually working out without the added burden of having to collect all the data and analyzing it to see if you are hitting your goals.
Now that you have the hard part all figured out, it's time to grab those sweats and head out to the gym.
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Oh, the humanity
UN panel says climate change is real and we are to blame
By Kevin Uhrich 04/08/2014
As we found in our feature story this week on page 10, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has taken exception to how some things are dealt with by government agencies here in the United States — how lawmakers, judges, cops, school administrators and other social and political leaders address such things as racial inequities in education and disparities in sentencing; use of the death penalty; excessive use of force by police; and immigration, to name but a few.
It seems the committee found that there was a basic lack of humanity in how we deal with these major issues on an everyday basis.
Conversely, it appears, too much humanity (some of the other sides of our nature — waste, greed, indifference) is being blamed in another United Nations report issued last week, the subject of this one climate change and global warming.
Contrary to any conservatives who still believe otherwise, the earth is changing as temperatures continue rising, and human beings are solely responsible for what scientists foresee as rapidly approaching planetary disaster — one that many experts believe has already begun.
The bottom line of this 44-page document is contained in its very first sentence. Simply put, this highly technical report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states "Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems." And a key finding of the dozens of scientists involved in all of this research is that "It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century," states "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability."
In its assessment of the risks involved with a changing Earth landscape, the authors use certain terms to gauge the measure of confidence made in each statement, which are then interspersed throughout the text.
The degree of certainty in each finding is described as "limited," "medium" or "robust," and the level of agreement is described as "low," medium" or "high."
Following are some abbreviated findings:
* "In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans."
* "In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources in terms of quantity and quality (medium confidence). Glaciers continue to shrink almost worldwide due to climate change (high confidence), affecting runoff and water resources downstream (medium confidence). Climate change is causing permafrost warming and thawing in high-latitude regions and in high-elevation regions (high confidence)."
* "Many terrestrial, freshwater and marine species have shifted their geographic ranges, seasonal activities, migration patterns, abundances and species interactions in response to ongoing climate change (high confidence)."
* "Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)."
* "At present, the world-wide burden of human ill-health from climate change is relatively small compared with effects of other stressors and is not well quantified. However, there has been increased heat-related mortality and decreased cold-related mortality in some regions as a result of warming (medium confidence)."
* "Differences in vulnerability and exposure arise from non-climatic factors and from multidimensional inequalities often produced by uneven development processes (very high confidence). These differences shape differential risks from climate change. … People who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise marginalized are especially vulnerable to climate change and also to some adaptation and mitigation responses (medium evidence, high agreement)."
* "Impacts from recent climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones and wildfires reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability (very high confidence)."
* "Differences in vulnerability and exposure arise from non-climatic factors and from multidimensional inequalities often produced by uneven development processes (very high confidence). … People who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally or otherwise marginalized are especially vulnerable to climate change and also to some adaptation and mitigation responses (medium evidence, high agreement).
* "Climate-related hazards exacerbate other stressors, often with negative outcomes for livelihoods, especially for people living in poverty (high confidence). Climate-related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields, or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity."
* "Violent conflict increases vulnerability to climate change (medium evidence, high agreement)."
With the report stating that "Uncertainties about future vulnerability, exposure, and responses of interlinked human and natural systems are large (high confidence)," and that "Increasing magnitudes of warming increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts," there is no question calamity is right around the corner.
But what is to be done? Can climate change really be slowed or even stopped? Can we adapt if it isn't completely stopped? The report offers a qualified "yes" to both questions.
"The overall risks of climate change impacts can be reduced by limiting the rate and magnitude of climate change," the reports states.
How likely that is to occur is out of the hands of the scientists. That remains entirely up to us, and the choices to be made by the better sides of our humanity.
To read the full report, see http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/IPCC_WG2AR5_SPM_Approved.pdf.
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Get weekend project ideas from EVERY DAY WITH RACHAEL RAY magazine, like kitchen remodeling and updating kitchen decor. Here, Rach's design buddy Evette Rios brightens a dark wall, covers a clunky fuse box and shares other expert tips.
Over here in the cooking area, we've got a couple of issues. The first is that the hood that they had wasn't working, so, they installed this auxiliary fan. We're gonna get rid of the fan, give them a brand new hood that's gonna work and patch up the area where the fan used to be using bricks that they already have. Then the wall will be painted so that the back splashes consistently, you don't have all those competing colors. And then back here, check this out. Can you guess what this is? Look at this. It's the electrical panel for the entire house and right now, it's not so well disguised with this giant chunky piece of wood. We're gonna make it more streamlined and give them a message board that's magnetic so they can put their recipes up here, while she's cooking, she could take a look, it'll work out great. And then, on the side of the refrigerator, we're gonna turn it into a magnetic spice rack and put all of her spices here so that when she's cooking, she can go straight from the spice rack to the recipe, and it's gonna work out great.


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Long time user here. One thing I would really like to see is storage of the sticky password database "in the cloud". Perhaps you could use Amazon's S3 storage service or another provider. I would HAPPILY pay an annual subscription fee to you if this worked correctly. Of course there are several security issues to consider but as the developer of a secure password manager, I'm certain you could work it out. I use SP on three different computers (work, home, laptop) and it is quite inconvenient to always have to sync the 3 of them. Of course the database should be accessible offline as well and have some sort of sync and conflict resolution mechanism for multiple changes.
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2. Country Studies – Participants will gain an understanding of problem solving, debate, leadership, and world affairs by partaking in a Model UN.
3. Arts – Participants will learn about various contemporary forms of art, including theater, creative writing, and photography.
4. Teambuilding – Participants will understand the importance teamwork and leadership. While learning these skills, the participants will become well-acquainted and form a peer network with whom they can collaborate on future community projects.
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Funds received from the Partnership Program will finance a portion of the housing for the 30 participants traveling from other regions, breakfasts and dinners for the aforementioned, and lunches, snacks, and tea breaks for all camp participants.
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ROCHESTER Richard E. Massie, 69, of Rochester Hollow, died of cancer Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.
He was born April 19, 1945, in Barre, the son of James and Mary (Johnson) Massie. He had lived with Gladys and Howard Nolan, of North Fayston, for several years, then with Ralph Currier Sr. until his death in 1995. Since then, he had lived with Arthur and Linda Gaudette and family in Rochester Hollow.
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The team announced the agreement and The Washington Post reported the terms of the contract, which includes a team option for the final season.
It was reported last week that the Wizards were close to a deal with Wittman.
"This team and this organization have made significant strides over the last 2 1/2 seasons and I'm excited to be a part of the next step in that process," Wittman said in a statement. "The players and staff all feel that this is the beginning of something special and we're dedicated to building on our positive accomplishments while striving to improve and reach the next level of success."
Wittman guided the Wizards into the playoffs this season after a five-year absence. With a 44-38 regular-season record, Washington landed the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference. The Wizards eliminated the Chicago Bulls in the opening round of the playoffs and pushed the Indiana Pacers to six games before falling.
Since Wittman replaced Flip Saunders during the 2011-12 season, the Wizards have gone 91-122.
"We are pleased with the progress the team has made on the court and with the culture we have been able to build with Randy as our head coach," Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld. "We will look to continue that momentum with him deservedly leading this group of dedicated and hard-working players."
Washington's 44 wins were the most by the franchise since 2004-05. The Wizards' 22 road victories were tied for the best in the league.
"Randy's leadership and preparation allowed him to implement and build an unselfish team mentality over the last several seasons where defense comes first and every player is held accountable," Wizards majority owner Ted Leonsis said. "The result is a Washington Wizards team that proudly represents our fans and our city both on and off the court and has us looking eagerly toward what we can accomplish moving forward."


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Home List of Titles Obsessive-compulsive behaviours in specific situations: the relative influence of appraisals of control, responsibility and threat
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- Obsessive-compulsive behaviours in specific situations: the relative influence of appraisals of control, responsibility and threat
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- Moulding, Richard; Kyrios, Michael; Doron, Guy
- Abstract
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by repeated and persistent attempts by the individual to control their thoughts and by taking action through rituals in order to prevent feared or personally distressing outcomes. While cognitive theories of OCD have generated supportive research findings and effective treatments, they have not considered broader control beliefs that may motivate aspects of OC-phenomenology. We have previously proposed that broader control beliefs, specifically desire for control and sense of control, may play a role in OC-symptoms (Moulding & Kyrios, 2006). In the present study, non-clinical participants (N = 219) were presented with four hypothetical scenarios relevant to an OCD-checking concern, and using a manipulation paradigm, the relationship between control constructs and appraisals hypothesized to be relevant to OCD (threat, responsibility) was examined. Desire for control was moderately affected to responsibility and threat appraisals, while sense of control did not relate to these constructs. The relationship between aspects of OC-phenomenology and appraisals of control, responsibility and threat were also investigated. Higher desire for control predicted both affect and action, while a lower sense of control predicted higher distress and action, over-and-above appraisals of threat and responsibility. Control appraisals were particularly relevant to use of action, and to affect in the low responsibility situations. A possible interactive model of desire for control, threat and responsibility is discussed.
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- Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 45, no. 7 (Jul 2007), pp. 1693-1702
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- 2007
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- 1701 Psychology
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- Cognition; Cognitive theory; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Psychological needs
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- Elsevier
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- Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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Lounging in front of his locker, music blaring in the background, Mikko Koivu chatted about what it meant to the team, the organization and the city to make it back to the playoffs for the first time in five years.
Yeah, but what about him? What did it mean to him?
Only then did the gravity of the moment begin to dawn on the captain of the Minnesota Wild.
"This," Koivu said, "is a big deal."
That's putting it mildly.
Devin Setoguchi broke a second-period tie and Niklas Backstrom stopped 29 shots, helping the Wild secure the last playoff spot in the Western Conference with a 3-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night.
Zach Parise scored and Pierre-Marc Bouchard added a late empty-net goal for the Wild, who earned the No. 8 seed and will face top-seeded Chicago in the first round of the postseason. Minnesota had a chance to wrap up a spot on Friday, but fell 6-1 at home to Edmonton.
That lopsided loss led to an anxious 24 hours. It also led to a team meeting, when coach Mike Yeo got to look into the eyes of his players and see if they were ready.
They were, too.
"I was very confident going into today, knowing the group we have, knowing the leadership we have, seeing how we've responded in the past," Yeo said. "If you're not on the inside and don't know the guys you have, it's a little more difficult (to understand)."
The Wild were thought to be almost a lock for the postseason after investing $196 million in free agents Ryan Suter and Parise. But they had to sweat it out to the last game of the regular season.
Just a month ago, the Wild led the Northwest Division but swayed down the stretch, going 5-8-1.
They had no wiggle room as Columbus - tied with the Wild for the final spot heading into the last game - rallied to beat Nashville, 3-1. Minnesota held the tiebreaker over the Blue Jackets, provided the team beat Colorado.
Yeo never once asked about the Columbus score. Neither did his players.
"Operated under the assumption they were going to win and we needed to win this game," Yeo explained.
Not once did the Avs broadcast the Blue Jackets' highlights on the scoreboard, either. They could have, just to make the Wild grip their sticks a little tighter.
"Very classy by them," Koivu said. "We were able to focus on our game. It helped a little bit, to focus on your game."
Making the postseason is a big step for a team that hasn't been there since the 2007-08 season.
"Let's make it clear: We're not done," Yeo said. "We're not going to sit on cloud nine and say this is a huge accomplishment. This is a step, a big step, a difficult step for us.
"Now that confidence is there."
Ryan O'Reilly had the lone goal for Colorado, which finished in last place in the West. It remains to be seen if coach Joe Sacco is retained after the Avalanche failed to make the playoffs for a third straight season.
"I'm going to go about my business as usual. Just as I always do," Sacco said. "My job is to coach this team. ... We're certainly headed in the right direction.
"As far as those decisions that will be made, those are the decisions that are out of my hands. I'm not really worried about that right now."
Setoguchi gave the Wild the lead midway through the second period when he wound up and lined a slap shot past a screened Semyon Varlamov on a power play. Colorado pulled Varlamov with 1:38 remaining, but struggled to work it into the Wild zone. Bouchard sealed the win by hustling down the ice and tapping the puck into the net with 3.4 seconds left.
Minnesota caught a break early in the second when a goal by Chuck Kobasew was disallowed after replay officials ruled the puck went in on a kick. Kobasew's right skate knocked it past Backstrom, who was livid when officials signaled for the goal.


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Looks like the Rockets want to move Asik by Dec. 15 the date that FA's signed in the off-season can be traded. Bargs has been playing well but would you trade him for Omer Asik and say one of their PGs like Brooks, Lin or Canaan.
You're trading defense and rebounding for scoring. The trade works salary wise and both contracts end in in 2015. The Rox have said they want 2 first round picks which we don't have and Asik wants to be moved because he wants to start which he won't do here playing behind TC so it's not a perfect trade but the Rockets are looking for a stretch 4 and it's a plus that Bargs can play backup C as well so they may consider a deal.
In a NY Minute. We would be an above 500 team in the east with Asik
Don't get me wrong i think Bargnani helps Melo on offense, but our problems are purely defensive and Asik is a GREAT interior defender and also a great rebounder.
I wouldn't....I don't think the defensive difference would account for 15 pts a night
not for Bargniani but for STAT +JR and with Felton anyway i dont think Asik value is as much as 3 knicks players
Would I trade Bargnani for Asik? No, I wouldn't, becuase we don't need an unhappy Asik. And why would Asik be unhappy? Because he's not a PF and would play backup for Chandler. Also, if you get rid of Bargs our offense would get even less effective. Earl, Hardaway and Ray from Latta are too inconsistent to depend on them. STAT can get injured any day and Shump isn't that much of an offensive threat. It'd basically leave us with Melo being our only option... and nobody to space the floor to take little pressure of him... so, no thanks, I think we're better off with Bargnani.
AB is showing more promise day by day in my eyes. I just love the way he got in KG's mug last night. Give 'em JR Chuckles and Ray Ray
No way. Barg. is a much better offencive player and is not so bad on D, can block some shots, tougher than he looks
Liked how he stood up to that POS Garnett.
Asik makes the Houston Rockets a FINALS team in the West .. HC Keven Mchale may not know how to coach but having Twin-Towers with PF-Jones give them rebounds, and a lot of fouls to give in a 7 game series with Casspi, Parson, Lin, and Harden controllin the tempo of each game.
In a series I dont see any of the West best teams hanging with them .. Spurs, OKC, Blazers, Clippers.
Asik prove he's a playoff experience player, Bargani hasnt.
Asik scores off of broken plays & put-backs, plus add stops.
Barg may score 15 points, but his defense gives up 20 points (4-13)
The better player in this trade would be Asik.
Iono, I feel Asik is overrated. Its either him or Tyson. Both give you about the same thing, Asik has more NBA mileage left, Chandler not so much.
Chicago is only team in NBA that have 8-5 record vs Heat since big 3 era this is really something and that answers something too
are they really better without ROSE and N8.
some how work out a 3 team trade to get rondo, our team needs a real pg, felton cannot produce like this everynight
maybe send asik shump amare (they have inquired about him) to celtics, we get rondo, houston gets a pick from us and wallace and lee...numbers may not add up but might have to add fillers


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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by oscar_2424, Jul 18, 2006.
thanks to ..... for the approval
You did it!!!!!
I mean...who gave you his/her approval??I will kill him!!Grrrr..
but anna is good too
thanks for the posts lakoste and and volly_master, ladies the game is on
You are on..shark boy!!
What a great idea for a thread. I like it.
Maria Kirlienko (sp?)
is her brother andre kirilenko who plays for the utah jazz (NBA)?
haha this thread made me laugh so harddd
Hhehehhe..*guilty giggle*
I'm on fire with the postings..
she kinda looks like mischa barton from the oc
Hehehe..Do you realise,we have made almost half the posts in this thread??
What next??We will start post pics for them??!!:mrgreen: Axristoi!!
Hey malakas, I've got an idea... why don't you GIRLS post some pictures of other girls YOU think are hot? This could get interesting....<g>
Hmm...nice idea!
But.. you have to contribute to our thread too!!!
I will post some later.
representing latin america: Gisela Dulko
heeheehee so harddd
Are we all going to add Proud Member of the Guys only: best legs and other female issues to our sigs like Malakas?
Oh and don't be sad, I'll post pics later.
You don't dare!!!!!!!
Lol I say we do, and we need this thread to better that one in length, getting into the 10,000s isn't that unreasonable to blow that one out of the water is it? :twisted: :twisted:
You can try......
Yeah, heheheheheh, you guys are only 48 pages BEHIND!!!!!! Have fun catching up...it is fun to have a totally mindless thread though isn't it? Malakas, I believe permission was given by General Disservice heheheheh
Ooooohhh ladies, I think this is a challenge...they don't know how we LOVE a challenge do they? Heheheheh
:mrgreen: Come on guys? Where is the support! We should easily be doubling in size every day!!!!!!!
oh gaby...
Are we posting non tennis females?
i dont think so
nice legs!!
Oh yeah. I was pretty happy when I found that one....
Maria knows how to TOE the line:
only if you guys post some pictures of other guys you think are hot.. this could get more interesting!
Tatiana Golovin
BArbara Shett
Daniella again
Where's the support guys? Where are the pictures? Where are the beautiful women?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's my bannana?????????????????????
Where's your new sig?????
oh no they banned c_zimma??(malakas sig)
wait is it cause of the whole chatroom thing w/ hyperhorse?
Take that malakas!
Wow...Guys only VS Ladies only thread...I think the guys only thread will win as there should be more guys on the forum but who knows, if the girls are more crazy about guys, than us guys being crazy about girls then it might be challenging Malakas et al are even checking our threads?...hehehe...interesting.
We'll win, no doubt about that
Yeah, we've just got to keep the troop's moral up general and we should be fine.
norcal, wasn't this what got you into enternal damnation in the first place??? Ha ha, great contribution though!
Sorry, man, but she looks a bit like a tranny in this pic ...
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City Room: The Cornerstone of community buildingDecember 14,2012Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Staff Photo
Rebeca Beall, of Barre, takes an order from a table at the Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen in Barre on Thursday. The popular new downtown eatery started serving lunch this week and will now be open at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
Barres renaissance is truly benefiting from the Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen.
For sure, reviewers speak to the eating experience, touting its menu and ambiance; other restaurants are seeing a bump as some patrons unable to get in are looking for other Barre options.
But the buzz about the Cornerstone lately, at a very local level, has been far more personal.
Keith Paxman and Rich McSheffrey, owners and longtime friends, grew up here. They have family and friends here. They know people many of whom are coming through their doors for meals, but also with conversations. In very short order, Paxman and McSheffrey and chef Jesse LeClair, a Barre native, have provided the place in the Granite City where people meet.
Recently that translated into a remarkable some might say miraculous form of community building.
Within hours after a fast-moving fire destroyed a two-story log cabin on Phelps Road on Nov. 28, Paxman, McSheffrey and LeClair turned their buzz into an asset.
They mobilized using social media, word of mouth, the traditional media all of the marketing tools that had been implemented to promote the restaurant to saturate the broad market of patrons, customers and vendors they had come to know.
Overnight, the young family of six left homeless heading into the holidays was on the radar of anyone who had contact with the Cornerstone.
McSheffrey called The Times Argus and other media outlets to explain the plan, breaking down how he and his team were mustering food, supplies, gift cards, clothing and more. The Cornerstone would be the drop-off point.
The response from within Barre and beyond exceeded expectations. Cornerstones efforts gave Damian Barnett, Kaysie Breer and their four children the essentials. For all that had been lost, they had been given a community they might not have known existed.
Trucks were filled; accounts were set up. Barres returning sons had taken up the role of provider, and done it out of sheer concern for the need created by the devastating fire.
Each night, after meals at the Cornerstone are served, the three come out and mingle with the customers. They talk, laugh, make new friends; they humbly accept praise.
One Friday, two nights after the fire, Paxman and McSheffrey were mingling, describing the outpouring of support. They did so with tears in their eyes.
They spoke about how moved they both were that the community they chose to reinvest in could be selfless in its charity.
As Barre continues to redefine itself in this renaissance, it is good to know the community can rally for its residents with such grace and compassion.
And it is good to know that some local guys at the heart of much of this community pride can demonstrate the resourcefulness and modesty to be one of the cornerstones of our community building. And our future.
Steven Pappas is editor of The Times Argus.MORE IN Central VermontStudents harming teachers is a little-explored issue at the state level. Full StoryThe state will get support in defending its end-of-life choice law, which several religious... Full StoryVermonts largest and smallest summer theater companies are the first to announce their 2017... Full Story
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For the purposes of applicable law relating to the payment to any employee subject to the House Employees Schedule or the House Wage Schedule of compensation from more than one civilian office or position, the rate of basic compensation of each employee subject to any such schedule shall be held and considered to be that rate which, when increased by additional compensation then currently authorized by law for House employees generally, equals or most nearly equals the per annum rate of compensation of such employee under such schedule.
(Pub. L. 88–652, § 14, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1084.)
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by Anton Shilov
The recent decisions of Hynix Semiconductor, Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. to reduce manufacturing of NAND flash memory could not leave the market unaffected. However, the decision to reduce supplies of microSD by Samsung Electronics has reportedly caused the prices on appropriate memory cards to dramatically increase.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest supplier of NAND flash memory, has substantially reduced supply of its microSD cards, which skyrocketed market prices on such cards by 50% in just one day, according to a news-story by DigiTimes web-site.
Many NAND makers are cutting supplies to reduce the prices on their production due to the fact that often production costs are below retail prices of memory products. The 50% increase of microSD flash memory cards prices are a result of rather irresponsible behaviour of flash NAND manufacturers who are fighting hard against each other to gain market share and introduce new products at a very rapid pace.


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Fantasy Guru Daily: 6/21/11
With the owners and team representatives meeting in Chicago for updates on the labor negotiations, we inch closer to training camp and news starts to pick up. Without OTAs and mini-camps, some of the good nuggets we are used to getting just aren't there, so when coaches or players speak on workouts or plans for the season, we're listening with great interest.
Fox says Bronco QB competition will be wide-open … between Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow, and yes, even Brady Quinn. Fox, who was hired by the Broncos back in January just two weeks after completing his tenure in Carolina, has said all along that the starting job would be decided in a competition, which he believes is a healthy part of the game. Fox said the team has "multiple plans in place, just waiting for the race to start" in relation to roster moves and practice schedules. What Fox didn't and couldn't address, were the trade rumors surrounding Orton, who is apparently favored by Fox and executive VP John Elway, although that doesn't mean the team is against trading him at the right price. [...]


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Highland hearings scheduled
October 19, 2011 —
The Town of Highland recently completed a draft rewrite of its comprehensive plan following a lengthy process that included 16 working sessions open to the public, as well as four community-wide visioning sessions. Members of the Comprehensive Plan Task Force, which was established in April 2007, presented the draft to town supervisor Andrew Boyar at the town meeting on October 11.
Task force chair Carol Roig provided an overview of the process, which involved updating the 2001 Comprehensive Plan. Such plans are traditionally updated every 10 years in conjunction with new U.S. Census data. The task force was assisted by Jill Weyer, assistant commissioner of planning for Sullivan County.
"The comprehensive plan is not a law, but rather principals, goals, policies and strategies relating to growth and development that form the basis for our regulations," said Roig, who encouraged everyone to review the document and share their ideas with the task force. "We'll take in those comments, there will be some revisions to the plan and another public hearing will probably be scheduled before adoption of the final plan."
The plan is available for public review on the town website at townofhighland ny.com, at the town clerk's office or Sunshine Library in Eldred, or at the government center in Monticello.
"I've seen other comprehensive plans and this is really a quality plan," said Boyar. "It's accurate, complete and thoughtful. By using the expertise of town residents, we saved the town approximately $15,000. We feel that people who worked on the plan know the town better than any outside consultant."
The board has scheduled a public hearing for the draft Comprehensive Plan on October 25, immediately following a public hearing for the 2012 town budget at 7 p.m. The board also rescheduled its regular board meeting to November 1 at 7 p.m., due to a conflict with Election Day on November 8. The board will adopt its final budget at that meeting.
The board also passed a resolution establishing a Halloween weekend curfew beginning October 28 and ending November 1, with daily restrictions for youth under the age of 18 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.


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President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to Israel and its security during his trip to the Holy Land. The three day visit to the region comes amid concerns about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Sally Kidd reports from Washington.
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Fire destroys Kearneysville home
KEARNEYSVILLE – A mobile home was declared a total loss Wednesday morning after it caught fire, according to Lt. Zac Morgan of the Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Department.
The home, located at 281 Old Creamery Place, was about 50 percent involved when firefighters arrived on the scene, Morgan said. Five companies responded to the call.
One occupant was injured, though the severity of her injuries was not known by workers at the scene.
Firefighters initially had difficulty putting out flames due to the amount of clutter in and around the home. The amount of material inside the home increased the fire load, as well as made the fire hotter, Morgan said.
"We would call this a hoarding situation," Morgan said. "It definitely hinders the operation and also increases the amount of fire."
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The Illinois Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten
were created collaboratively between the Illinois State
Board of Education and kindergarten teachers throughout
the state. This will be the first opportunity for kindergarten
teachers and administrators to access the new standards
specifically designed for kindergarten.
The new Kindergarten Standards align with the Illinois
Learning Standards and the Illinois Early Learning
Standards and help to put kindergarten on the map in
curriculum alignment and school improvement planning.
The Illinois Learning Standards are statements which
define a core of essential knowledge and skills that
all Illinois students enrolled in public schools are
expected to know and be able to do.
"These standards being unveiled today have been
well-researched and are well-supported by front-line
early childhood educators," said State Superintendent
Randy Dunn. "This is another major step forward
as we continue to emphasize our long-term investment
in early childhood education."
In 2004-2005, there were 145,797 Illinois children
attending kindergarten – 80,303 attended full
day, while 65,494 went half-a-day. Kindergarten is
optional is Illinois.
"Chicago teachers have long had a concern that
kindergarten was the only grade level that did not
have standards," said Joyce Davidson, coordinator
for Kindergarten programs for Chicago Public Schools. "With
the new Illinois Learning Standards for Kindergarten,
we now have continuity of instruction, so that any
teacher in any school across the state has the same
learning goals. And the standards are targets to achieve
those goals."
The new standards are a result of countless hours
of research and testing, culminating in more than four
years of work. Over 500 teachers and administrators
statewide participated in field testing of these standards.
"The Early Learning Standards were developed
with all children in mind. Development happens along
a continuum
and all children fall within a range of having certain
strengths and needs," said Lisa Cipriano, a special
education teacher with Valley View Unit District 365. "With
the help of support personnel in the school environment,
you are able to meet the needs of all children using
the kindergarten standards."
In addition to releasing the standards on Kindergarten
Day, training sessions on the standards are being provided
at various locations throughout the state in collaboration
with ISBE Education and Regional Offices of Education.
A complete training schedule can be found at: http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/pdf/training_schedule.pdf
Kindergarten quick facts:
For more information about the new Early Learning
Standards for Kindergarten, visit the ISBE Kindergarten
Corner at: http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/html/kindergarten_corner.htm.
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