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Below I have an interview with Fred Greene who is the creator of Golf Smarter Podcasts. Fred and I agree on a lot of things and the main theme of our agreement and this hour-long interview below is that there are many ways to lower your score in golf and we are both on a mission to help golfers find the most efficient way to get there. In other words, how do you get your scores lower with the least amount of time, energy, and money. Fred has a unique perspective on golf because he has interviewed many teaching professionals of all persuasions and schools. He is like most of us, an avid golfer with a busy life wanting to get his scores down as part of this great challenge of playing the game! I had a lot of fun interviewing him and I think you will find great value in listening to him and taking a look at golf smarter podcasts. Fred Greene Interview .mp3 Greens and fairways, Craig Read more »
How to Have More Patience In Golf…Part 1
Dr. Tom Kubistant, CSP Golf Psychologist Patience is power — Chinese Proverb One of the few things I can still clearly remember from the turbulent 1960's was a popular poster depicting two vultures sitting in a tree. As you know, vultures wait to feed on already dead carrion. In that poster, one vulture said to the other, "Patience, hell, I want to kill something!" Most of us want to "kill" something during a round of golf. We become tired of waiting. We feel we don't have any other options but to kill it. And besides, it seems like more fun just to mindlessly bust a shot. So we force things…usually with disappointing and disastrous results. Both high level and consistent golf are grounded in patience. Those who play "all-or-nothing" golf usually end up with nothing. Beyond that, impatient people rarely improve–certainly not at the rate they expect. Patience is not only a critical key for maximizing your rounds, but also in guiding your long term progress. Most of us sabotage our rounds by impatience. To fully understand this, please answer these questions: how many shots per round do you fritter away by impatience? How many shots are you not clear and committed in its decision making? How often do you not include in your planning where to miss the shot? Do you rush your preshot routine when discouraged? How often do you try to force a shot into a target? How often do you become mentally dulled during the last six holes? How often do you let your emotions (both greed and frustration) control you? How many shots, holes, and even rounds do you give up on? All of your answers to these questions can be summarized by a lack of patience. In competitive golf, most tournaments at all levels–even the pros at majors–are lost, not outright won. The player who endures makes the least number of mistakes at the critical times. Said more positively, the winners tend to be the most patient. Most players do not have the courage, self-discipline, and belief to be patient. In evaluating Jack Nicklaus' game, Tom Weiskoph said, "To play the way Jack did required and enormous amount of patience. Most players just couldn't do it–they'd get too antsy and feel as if they must force the issue. Nicklaus had more patience than anyone I ever saw. Sure, it is much easier to be impatient under the guises of being natural or fluid. However, one of the great challenges of golf–both recreational and competitive–is that it challenges golfers to be patient. The Game rewards patience. As the great Byron Nelson advised, "If you don't have patience playing golf, the game will teach it to you." Here is the encouraging thing: patience can be improved. Sure, patience is expanded with overall maturity as well as experience from various playing situations. However, it can also be improved upon by consciously working on it. Patience is an ability and, as such, it can be refined and deepened. Here is how….continued Dr. Tom Kubistant, Master of the Intrinsic, is one of the leading speakers, researches, and coaches of the mental and scoring games. He is one of the pioneers in sports psychology working with Olympic, Professional and Amateur athletes since 1973. Since 1984, he has worked exclusively with golfers ranging from tour pros to average weekend golfers. Over the last fifteen years, Tom has been THE most prolific writer on the psychology of golf with three books and over 275 articles and he maintains (and has read) the entire "Bibliography On The Psychology Of Golf;" everything ever written and recorded on the mental game. He trains other sports psychologists and mental coaches and is widely known as the leading authority on all forms of THE YIPS. You can get more of his wisdom and sign up for his free newsletter at: http://www.golfmindlinks.com/ Read more »
15 Hot Golf Tips That Don't Require Practice
We're going to lighten things up a bit here and I'll just rattle off a bunch of tips one after another for your use on the course YOUR NEXT ROUND that don't require any practicing! Break 80 Without Practice is all about this and has many more and they are very easy to do. Or, would you rather continue playing the game you've always been playing with the excuse that you aren't getting better because you have no time or energy to take another set of confusing lessons and hit a thousand balls on the range? 1. Always always warm up by hitting some balls on the range before you start. Don't go through the usually-taught routine of starting with your wedges and working your way up to the driver. That's practicing. Just do some stretches and get a swing weight or use 2 clubs together to get your muscles going. Then, hit shots on the range like you will be playing on the course. Pretend you just got to the course with no time for warmup and have to go straight to the first tee. Get rid of those first few bad holes before you get to the first tee. Start right off with the club you will use off the first tee, probably driver. Hit your next shot based on how well you hit your first shot and what the hole demands. SIMULATE ACTUAL PLAYING CONDITIONS on the range. This is what you would do if you showed up late right? And it takes a few holes before you get to scoring well right? Doing the old standard warmup routine of hitting 5 shots of each club is nothing like you will be doing on the course. But this will mentally prepare you to play! 2. Understand that you CAN hit the ball well while nervous. Those first tee jitters happen to even the best pros. Use some loosening movements, like shoulder shrugs, and then just tell yourself that you are going to accept your nervousness and still hit the ball well. Tommy Bolt said: "stomach butterflies are ok as long as they are flying in formation". 3. From here on out, you are done berating yourself for bad shots. If you were playing a best ball or scramble with partners, and they hit a bad shot, would you tell them: "that shot was sorry, boy you stink at this game"? NO you wouldn't because you know it would only hurt their confidence and their game and you need them to play well. So why in the world do we do that to ourselves when the same results come from talking bad to ourself? 4. Did you ever notice that you play better when you are on vacation? Or right after hearing some good news? This isn't a coincidence and you can put yourself back in that place at any time and get the same benefit. Just spend some moments during the round remembering some great events in your life. Force yourself to smile more often. You cannot have negative thoughts while honestly smiling. 5. Spend some time learning the rules! I guarantee you that you have left strokes out on the course because you didn't know about a rule that would have helped you. I'll be passing some good ideas for you in future emails about this. 6. Forget your score. Don't even look at the scorecard. Have a partner do all the scoring from now on unless of course you are in a tournament and you need to know for strategic reasons. But even then, you can turn that over to your caddy. All you're going to think about from now on is THIS NEXT SHOT! 7. Control anger and frustration. Turn it into FOCUSED ENERGY! Sam Snead talked of playing "Cool Mad". When something gets to you at work, you usually can't cuss and yell and so you are able to control it at work. Use that same skill you developed there on the course. Playing angry is like adding a stroke to every hole, and I know you've experienced that! 8. Whenever you are waiting to tee up, you should be chipping. It's perfectly within the rules. Chip to specific distances you have paced off. Pay attention to the lie you have and the reaction off the club for that lie. Get your 10 yard chip down COLD because you will use it this round and it WILL save you strokes. 9. Whenever nobody is behind you and you finish up a green, you should be putting a few more times to get the feel, speed and read of the greens of that round. Again, within the rules. 10. Drink more water! Yep, there is no easier way to reduce your score on any […] Read more »
Play Golf With Your Consistent Mind
In today's lesson #2, I want to tell you that to play good golf it is necessary to play it with your unconscious mind! What! Now what is this guy trying to tell me? That not using my mind is the way to go? I hear you loud and clear but hang in there with me for a minute o.k? First off, it is absolutely necessary to understand that our mind operates in 2 different main ways. We will call these ways the unconscious and the conscious mind. The unconscious mind is the stored instructions for how to do things without trying to think about them. Like breathing, the correct heartrate, healing, dreaming, growing etc. Our conscious mind is what we use to make decisions with, think with, take in information with. It's power is basically the difference between us and the animals. Most of us play golf with our conscious mind. We attack golf just like we operate at our job or vocation. At our job, we are given a task to do. We have resources to put toward that task, and then we use our conscious mind to apply the resources to accomplish this task. In playing golf, we have a task (send the ball to a target). We have resources (clubs, knowledge of how to play, etc). And we use our conscious mind to apply the resources and direct our body to perform a specific set of movements. Unfortunately, this method doesn't work consistently for golf (you ever have a problem with consistency?) because our conscious mind cannot process too many things at once. It then starts injecting tension, tightness and nervousness when it is overloaded (all big swing killers). Now, our unconscious mind, on the other hand,is VERY GOOD at doing complicated things consistently and with repeatability. Have you ever had the occasion when you got in your car to go to work or some other destination and when you get there, you don't even remember the trip? You didn't have to think about anything in order to get there? That was your unconscious doing the driving. And there is a lot to that! You see, it already had all the instructions it needed to get you there from past trips to that destination. You just told it to "go to work" and it did! You unconscious also has all the instructions it needs to hit good shots if you've done it just once before! Now for some magic for our golf game… Many people are able to tell themselves that they want to wake up at certain time in the morning…AND THEY WAKE UP right at that time without fail! (This is always a good idea when relying on hotel wake-up service as a backup!) This is the power of your unconscious mind at work! All top golfers do this without exception. When Sam Snead was asked what he thinks about when he swings he said: "Nothing." (as have many other top pros since then) So, you can do the same thing for your golf. On your next round, start telling yourself (your unconscious mind) to play this next shot the way it knows how. Tell it to hit the iron or wood you have in your hand the same way it was last successful with that club. Bring up the vision of the last time you hit that club perfectly so as to give your unconscious a clear picture of what you want just like when you had a mental picture of your work destination. If you've hit a good shot with each of your clubs, there is absolutely no reason you cannot do it again, at will! In the next lessons, I'll write about ways for you to enhance this easily learned skill and bring out your consistent, unconscious skills. Do you still really think that the only way to get better at this game is to take lessons and then practice until your hands bleed? Does that work? Sometimes for some people. At the beginner level, yes, you need to get the basics down and develop a decent swing. But what of all those millions of golfers around the world that have a decent swing…that have taken lessons…that have had plenty of great shots before. Why can't you put together 18 holes of good golf if you can put together 3 or 4?….You can! I dare you to visit my testimonial page Now, go with me here a minute…you've produced a great shot before with a given club right? So you know that the problem is not with your body unless the body has significantly changed since you had that shot right? "I HAVE LISTENED TO YOUR CDS NUMEROUS TIMES ON MY WAY TO WORKING OUT. THEY HELP TO REINFORCE MY BELIEF IN […] Read more »
Without Practice Golf Lessons!
Let me introduce myself to you. I'm Craig Sigl. I pronounce my last name like the word "wiggle" except with an "s." I was born in 1963 and I've been playing golf since I was 11 years old. To make this short, for years I was so frustrated with this game and could not improve to save my life. I had taken lessons and practiced for years at the range for days on end with no results. At one point, I actually gave up trying to get better as I reached my mid-30's and started a family and a very demanding job. Everything changed for the better for my game when I discovered what I'm about to reveal to you in this series of emails. Am I going to tell you to stop practicing golf? NO If you have the time and energy to do it, by all means, do it! But only if you are going to do it correctly. By that I mean whatever your particular instructor or system prescribes to help with what you are learning. I would just like to offer some hope for the millions of golfers who just don't have the time. Also, for those that CAN PRACTICE, everything I write and teach about applies to you to and will only serve to speed up your improvement, you'll see. Over the next week, I'll going to give you these secrets that very few golfers know about and even less use for their game. I have helped golfers all over the world improve their scores with this information and I hope it does the same for you. After that, you'll get more great golf info once a week or better if you stay subscribed. So let's get started with Lesson #1: First I want to clear up one misconception: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MUSCLE MEMORY! I bet you're asking yourself, What is this nutball talking about? Of course, there is such a thing as muscle memory! Great golf instructors have been teaching this concept for years. Well, you're not wrong about those pros. For generations, golf instruction has always taught us that to become a better golfer, you must learn a "correct" swing and then practice it over and over until you can repeat it without thinking and minimal effort. That's all true and and it works, however, the memory of that "correct" swing that you spend countless hours perfecting does not reside in the muscles. Instead, it's in the mind. Muscles cannot "store any memory." In fact, they can only do one thing: CONTRACT. (2 if you count growing as doing something).That's it, and no more. They do this from signals given by the nervous system which includes the brain. Is the brain the mind you say? Scientists are still figuring it out. But, everything our body does, from breathing to healing itself to playing games like golf, it accomplishes from coded instructions in our mind. And those instructions (example: to hit a golf ball solid and straight) are nothing more than a specific pattern of neuron (nerve cell) electrical firings and cellular communications. So if we can find ways to send the same or similar neuron firings, we can get some of the same benefits we get when we spend hours knocking balls on the range or working on our short game at the practice green. Really! The study of our brain and mind and how we learn is called neuroscience and it has taken huge leaps in the last 50 years in understanding how we as humans operate. Scientists and psychologists have uncovered many techniques to enhance and improve learning, memory, and physical and mental performance on demand. Jim Flick, one of the greatest golf teachers of our time said: "Golf is 90% mental…and the other 10% is mental too" From Arnold Palmer – "You probably have heard that playing good golf is mostly mental, and it is." And one of the greatest physical athletes of the 20th century, Michael Jordan, he said: "The mind comes into this game so much. It comes into basketball, too, but sometimes your skills can overcome the mind a little bit. But in golf, if your mind's not in it, then you can forget it." In addition to this under-used resource for our game that you will read more about in coming emails, there are so many little things we can do that when all put together, add up to reducing strokes in our game without practicing. For instance, we all know that flexibility is a requirement for a good golf swing right? Well, how do you improve on that when you don't have the time to join a yoga class or a gym? The next time you are driving to work, if it's […] Read more »
More Golf Hypnosis
To continue with the last article, I was discussing becoming more "whole-minded"… On being analytical like most men… I hear you loud and clear. I used to be totally that way. The good news is that you can turn this around if you want, it's very easy. For starters, I would definitely find some Baroque music and listen to it. Check out this page on my site to become more convinced: http://www.break80golf.com/musiceffects.html Before I learned hypnosis, I listened to a Baroque tape every night while falling asleep and did golf visualizations with it in the background. You can do this for anything – like becoming motivated (conquering procrastination). You might try to participate in more activities that strenthen your weaker side of your brain. If you're a logical, analytical type, do something in the arts. Push yourself to do things that you normally wouldn't do like watch emotional movies. Listen, really listen to people who are creative and intuitive and get inside their mind from conversations with them, it will rub off. If you are already a very creative, emotional person, then you could do things like crossword puzzles, read a book about the fundamentals of the swing or course management. Those type of left-brain ideas will help develop your whole golf mind. To begin to be a whole-mind person, the first step is to really tell yourself that that is what you want to do. Put your full INTENTION into it. Just the thought itself will begin the process. There are many rewards throughout your life to becoming more mind-balanced, you'll see. ***************************************************************** Lately, I've been answering some questions about the difference between using a golf hypnosis tape or recording vs. going to a hypnotist in person. There's a few things that play into that and whether or not you achieve the outcome you want. First, in person can be much better because the hypnotist interviews you and finds out exactly what it is you need to achieve your goal. Second, something happens inside your mind when you make the effort to seek out a hypnotist in person. YOU Are the one that actually gives more power to having done it in person. It's our belief, maybe unconsciously, that going to an office and believing that the hypnotherapist has some magic for you that actually activates your mind for change. As a hypnotherapist, we are trained to maximize this effect with all sorts of impressions, language, appearance, image etc. It's all designed to help you help yourself. You see, really truly, the client does all the change work. A hypnotist only helps guide them. It's like climbing Mount Everest. You have to do the climbing but you may need a Sherpa guide to help you find the best way. You may find your way on your own but a guide will definitely help. All sorts of things are happening inside of us at our unconscious level that we're not aware of. This is what a hypnotist studies and tries to help activate for positive change for a client. If you just buy a tape, it was not created with YOU in mind. There may be suggestions that are totally useless, maybe even harmful to your golf game. This is why I haven't created such a generic recording as of yet. I am now testing the idea of creating personalized recordings from what golfers tell me in an email interview. Some of my members are participating in that and so far are returning very good results. For now, the best product on the market in this area, especially for golf is made bySubconscious Training Corp. This is because it has multiple modules that you can choose from depending on what you know you need for your game. I highly recommend it. It is my intention to make hypnosis a part of every golfer's learning experience as part of their lessons with a pro. I am putting together a business plan to teach golf pros how to incorporate this into their business for the average golfer. If you are a pro and are interested, let me know. As always, you can reply to any email I send you. I'd love to hear your comments on this topic. Greens and fairways, Craig Have you heard it all before? Have you taken lesson after lesson and you're still stuck at your old scoring level? Why is that? Why do some folks seem to make this game sooo easy and others struggle beyond belief. What if you could play golf with the attitude of Fred Couples? What if you could shrug off your worst nightmare rounds and play at your highest level immediately after? Have you heard the old saying that we only use 10% of our mind power? Whether it's 5% or 10% or 20%, you know it's definitely true as you […] Read more »
Intro to The Mental Game of Golf
The quality of your golf game is equal to the quality of your communication…with yourself! In this article, we are going to begin the process of learning how we can use our mind better for our game. You shouldn't need to be convinced of the paybacks we can get in this area for cutting your score right? Developing your mental game is definitely using the Pareto Principle as we can spend so little time and energy here and gain big efficiencies toward reducing our score. And especially getting everything we can out of ourselves and not just for our golf but for the rest of our lives as well, this info is actually applicable to just about anything we want to achieve in our lives. It's very exciting and again, the beauty of it all is that what I'm going to tell you does not take much time. We've got spare in between moments throughout our regular day and we can take advantage of them because we are just working with our brain. A club in the hand isn't even necessary! And you can work these concepts into your game anywhere, at home, at the office, even while driving! If you would have asked Sam Snead, or Byron Nelson who their mental coach or golf psychologist is when they were playing, they would have looked at you with a blank stare and said "what are you talking about?" Up until recently, there were none. The 1st time I'd heard about mental coaches for golf was when I was listening to an interview on sports radio while I was living in Portland, Oregon in 1995. PGA pro Peter Jacobsen, who is from that area, had just won at Pebble Beach and Buick Invitational after a long period where he didn't win anything. He was asked what happened, what he did to so dramatically improve his game to be at the top of the tour again after a long dry spell. He said he had spent time with a sports psychologist. In those wins and his other top finishes that year, he putted unbelievably well, even by tour standards. One of the things he said that the psychologist had him do was to practice his putting, for an hour a day.without a ball. Wow, do you have the discipline to do that? I don't know if I do either. We all know that we use only a fraction of our brainpower. What if we could use more? We can. We're going to have a lot of fun with this and it's where I give the greatest credit to my getting into the 70's and my client's scoring improvements. I mean imagine, I go 25 years or so of hacking up courses, spraying shot everywhere, shooting in the 90's. I even took lessons and that still didn't do it and then I read a couple of books that aren't even about golf that jumped me to the next level. Now, you may hear or read about some golf psychologist or teaching pro saying that they don't believe you can just read a book, not practice "correct" mechanics and then get that much better at sports performance, but I 'm here to tell you I and many others have done it, and I had no help from anyone. So I KNOW you can too because of your human potential. You are human right? That's the only pre-requisite here. So how did I start all this? In my teens, I took a course in college called "interpersonal communications" and was introduced to a couple of psychology books. This info has been around for a while folks but it's just as valid today as then. Some of it even refers to concepts learned centuries ago from some of the great philosophers. I'm reading them thinking: "where have I been that I 've never seen this before?" Well, looking back, I'd say I was stuck in the typical golfer rut of getting as much mechanical instruction as I could get and then I had to practice it regularly to get better. Except, that didn't work! Anyway, our project in that class was to try to change something in our life using what we learned. I was extremely shy about speaking in public like many people and so I attempted to use the concepts but I didn't stick with it! I gave it a quick try and proclaimed it to be a failure like many of us do when discovering a new concept. I then forgot all about it until years later when I had that "meltdown" round of 112 and started to look for something different otherwise I'd still consider myself insane by Albert Einstein's criteria right? So I picked up those books again and gave it […] Read more »
Golf training aids aren't effective if…
heir garages or closets. How many wives have threatened a "clearing out" of these contraptions? If you are feeling me.keep reading. Have you purchased golf training aids only to use them once or twice and not see improvement? Isn't this an everyday occurrence for golfers? I see and hear this all the time, and yet golfers will continue to spend hundreds of dollars by the `latest/greatest' gimmick. I don't know if they (golfers) think they will find the "one" swing aid that will change their game forever; or they are just trying to take the easy way out? Either way, the main reason most golf training aids don't help is because you are not working on what's causing your swing faults. You! Your machine (body) dictates your outcome! There's no way around it! What your body is capable of in that moment is the result you'll get. How many times have you wished you could make a bigger backswing but can't? How often do you walk off the course with a sore back? How many times did you have a good front nine only to blow up on the back nine and shoot your normal score? The above results were because of the "physical" issues within your body. Until you realize this and take a different approach to your golf improvement program, you'll be a frustrated golfer for a long time. In my opinion, there are a couple of golf swing aids that are effective when you incorporate them with your new golf training program. One is the medicus. This is a fantastic golf swing aid that gives you instant feedback. Swing it too fast or out of plane and the shaft breaks at the hinge. Another golf swing aid I like is the weighted golf club. I swing mine everyday and boy does it loosen me up and strengthen my golf swing muscles. Other than the above golf swing aids, there are dozens and dozens of ones that are a total waste of money. Save your money and work on you! The sooner you do, the sooner you'll stop buying the latest, greatest golf training aids. Core training for golfers is a must for developing maximum power and distance. As in all athletics, the core is your engine. Everything comes from the core! The modern golf swing is definitely a "core-focused" movement; unlike the older swing technique of lower body action dominant. You probably have heard the term core training for golfers, but do you know what it means and how to implement it into your golf performance routine? Your core is the middle section of your body.specifically your abdominal region. If your core is weak or restricted in rotational flexibility, you will have a minimal chance at hitting long drives. I see this all the time in the senior golfer. No core strength or flexibility, resulting in a HUGE decrease in yardage off the tee. The senior golfer will say things like, "I've lost so much yardage off the tee the past few years"; "I use to hit my drives 50 yards further"; "If I could only get 20 more yards I'd be happy". This can be a very frustrating situation; but one that can be remedied easily, quickly and in the convenience of your home with minimal equipment. Improving your core rotational strength and flexibility does not require equipment in a gym or club. You can do exercises as simple as grabbing a single handweight, getting in your golf posture, and rotating back and through holding the handweight in front of your stomach. You can also do stretches right in your office chair. Sitting upright and reaching around your chair, turning as far as you can to the right, then turning to the left. These are just some very basic core training for golfers exercises, but they would give you a "kickstart" into doing a complete program for your core. You will be amazed at how much power you acquire in your swing when you implement a core training for golfers program. Even if that's all you did for the time-being, you'd be way ahead of the game. But my guess is once you start slow and easy, you'll get the "runners high" and want to do more. This does not have to be a gut-busting routine! You can spend as little as 10 minutes a couple of times a week and see results. Don't put it off any longer! Start your core training for golfers today! By Mike Pedersen, creator of Ultimate Golf Fitness Products Read more »
Everything a lefty golfer needs to succeed in a right-handed world
Golf instruction for lefties Right-handers might think that golf instruction for lefties is the same as for them; just switch all references of the word "right" for "left" and vice versa. This is true for the most part according to Bob Charles the original legendary lefty pro golfer, however, many left hand golfers will tell you that it isn't all that simple. First off, the pictures in golf instruction are almost always righty. Something gets lost in the lefty mind's translation when looking at a right-hander swing a golf club and trying to "picture" yourself (as a lefty) in that position. Obviously if you have no other choice, then then changing the words and pictures in your mind is what you must do when looking at any instruction for lefties. What can lefties do? Start out with a visit to Anything Left-Handed Offers a huge range of left handed products, lots of information and FREE newsletters, the original left-handed shop since 1968. Based in U.K. You can follow the left-handers on the Tours and search the web for pictures of these pros and then apply them to any golf instruction you find that is written for righties. Then all you have to do is reverse left and right wording. Buy a book or video created by a left-handed professional check these: The best thing that I can do for you lefties, is to point you in the direction of a website that has taken many of their fundamental lessons and used the computer to change the pictures and the words for you! Private lessons for left-handed players Golf magazine took some of their lessons for right handers, changed the words – right to left and left to right in the instructions, and flipped the pictures over so that they now have visuals of golf instruction for lefties. More websites of golf instruction for lefties: Left-handed version of "The best in golf" tips done the same way as above. There's a link to view a printable version there too. Also, check out this UK company – golf instruction for lefties. View a free motion picture swing of a pro left hander like Phil Mickelson. . When you get to that page, scroll to the bottom and click graphic for golf swings page. There's loads of videos of pros and celebrities swinging to view for free there. Golf clubs for lefties Trade In, Trade Up to Certified Preowned Callaway Left Handed Golf Clubs! Free shipping at Austad's Lefties Shop (click "Lefties Golf" on left side of page) Over 1,000,000 golfers have lowered their scores with NGC GOLF'sscientifically designed golf equipment for Left Handers (righties too). Free shipping offer. Buy at 3balls.com Golf! Click on the Lefty links in the blue graphic at the top of the home page GigaGolf 30 Day Play Guarantee. Click "Clubs" link and then select Left The Golf Warehouse. Click on the type of club you want first and there will be a selector for Left or Right hand. Left Handed Pros Bob Charles Phil MickelsonGreg Chalmers Mike Weir Steve Flesch Join a left handed golf association World Association of LeftHanded golfers National Association of Left Handedgolfers USA National Assoc.ofLeft Handed golfers Australia Nat'l Assoc ofLeft Handed golfers Canada Nat'l Assoc of Left Handed golfers Germany Nat'lAssoc of Left Handed golfers Japan Nat'l Assoc of Left Handed golfers Sweden Read more »
The proper Golf Grip must be mastered, by J. Victor East
Like all golf instruction, learning the "correct" way to grip the club depends on who is doing the instructing. There are three basic golf grips: The Overlapping (Vardon) Grip, The Interlocking Grip, and the 10-finger grip or Baseball grip. Great amateurs and top pros have had success with all of them. Try each of these out after getting the basics as shown in the photos below and then go with what you feel you will be more confident with. You can always change and experiment later as many very good golfers do. These photos and grip instructions are from one of the top teachers of all time: J. Victor East. interlocking golf grip instruction: 1. The club poised diagonally alongside the left hand. 2. The left hand closed. 3. The right hand alongside. 4. The right hand closed, with the thumb of the left hand snugly fitted in the groove of the right palm. Overlapping Golf Grip. Pinky is diagonal but can also rest in the groove between index and middle finger of left hand Checkpoints The following grip advice is from a different instruction pro: The proper grip has an infallible check point – the V's made between the thumb and index finger of both hands. Pro golf teacher's instruction says these V's must point over the right shoulder at about the neckline. When these point correctly, the grip is ideal since neither hand can obtain too much control. Another excellent check of a good golf grip is the hand position on the club. Properly taken, the player should only be able to sight one knuckle of each hand – the forefinger knuckle. Left hand should be slightly over to the right of the shaft, with last three fingers gripping. Read more »


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Pictured above is western film star ,Tim Holt, during a personal appearance at Avondale Youth Center on June 3rd, 1954. Mr. Holt also made an appearance at the Sky-Way Drive-in on Maysville Pike and other theatres in the area. Tim Holt was one of the most popular cowboy film stars from the 1930's to the 1950's, and was featured in a comic book series. Thanks go out to www.b-westerns.com for help in identifying this film legend. If you were there for this visit, we would love to hear your recollections!
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Geneva (LeMaster)Reed, Resident 1928-1934
Where do I start!? I am 88 and my sister, Freda, is 93. My brother, Kenneth, is gone but he was there also. We had special dresses to go to First Baptist Church every Sunday. All boys and girls rode together on a large city bus. This was a special thing for us. I didn't have to work, but you were considered one of the bigger kids if you did. I volunteered to wax the long hall that wen through the center of the building, about 50 to 60 feet, on my hands and knees because Mrs. Billingsly, the head Matron wanted it done. There was a large dining room with long tables with chairs. Boys sat at one side of the room and girls on the other side of the room. The young teenage girls washed the dishes. Each of us had 1 large table to wash & dry and sweep teh floor under it. There were about 40 kids at each table. We all took turns for 1 week. We would try to be the first one done. Usually there were 50-60 children living there at that time. During the Great Depression there were as many as 82-84. They put beds in the hall, washrooms and setting rooms. The dormatory was packed full of beds with children sleeping two to a bed.
Anonymous, 1941-1950
I remember one day a new kid came in. He was a nice kid, very friendly and all that good stuff. He walked up to my friend who we called Turkey-Egg. About everybody had a nickname back then. He says, "Glad to meet you Turkey-Egg, My goodness that's a good looking wristwatch!" Turkey Egg's Dad had just visited and gave him this nice watch. This boy went around friendly to everybody, observing to see what everybody had. I knew better and thought the kid was too friendly, so I didn't show him anything I had. The next morning all the belongings were gone. He bundled everything up that first night in a pillow case and went out the window! I don't think they ever got him. If they did, they sent him to Lancaster Boys Industrial School and we never saw him again. As a side note, Years later I saw Turkey-Egg again on the battleship Missouri when we were both in the Navy. (Transcribed from conversation by Gary King)
Gary Devoll, Resident 12/92-5/93
I just want to thank you for everything you did for me as a kid. You & the staff there saved me from going down a very bad path. I have a wonderfullife now with 2 wonderful kids & without you guys I don't think it would be what is now. You & Scott especially were always more to me than just astaffs member & theres not a day goes by I don't think of you, my time there & the values & lessons I learned to become a morally upstanding member of society & not lost to the streets of Zanesville. Not a day goes by that I don't apply lessons learned at Avondale & I thank you from the very bottomof my heart for that.
David Pitre, Resident 1990-1992
My brother and I became part of the Avondale Youth Center (AYC) "family" in November of 1990. We were there for one year and eight months and left in June of 1992 when we were placed with family in Florida. We were place in AYC because there was no one who could or would take care of us. It was in AYC were the chain of violence was broken in my family through the counseling and guidance of caring "House Parents". It was an important time in my life. My memories of AYC are filled with first time events. The first time I had a role in a video play, recieved a slip with my bad actions recorded on it, assisted in a comedy skit, ate hamberger gravy, felt important, and played ping pong all happened at Avondale. I do not want to even try to think of how my life might have been without AYC.
Jacqueline (Jackie) Jones, Resident 1956-May 1961
I became a resident of the Avondale Children's Home in December of 1956. My parents divorced a couple of years before that and my mom was forced to go to work to help make ends meet. At that time, I became a domestic engineer at the age of 12. I was cleaning the house, doing the laundry on a wringing washer and hanging the clothes on the outside clothesline, cooking meals and if that wasn't enough, I took care of my four siblings. Click for more...
Eileen Dennis, Resident 1920-1936
I was first placed at Avondale as a baby. Then I went to live with my aunt and returned again as a young girl. I remember doing chores in the kitchen at Avondale. I would sometimes swipe cookies and hide them down my pant leg. Then me and some of the other girls would sneak down by the road and sit and eat cookies, because we only got to eat at meal time. Sometimes we would also steal oranges and eat them at night. We would throw the orange peels out the window so the matron wouldn't find out. (As transcribed by Gary King)


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Feb 4th – World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day is marked on February 4th to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. It is led by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), a global consortium of more than 280 cancer-fighting organizations in over 90 countries. World Cancer Day targets the public through global communications marking, and encourages policy makers and UICC member organizations to make cancer a political priority.
The campaign emphasizes that 43% of cancers can be prevented through these healthy behaviors:
• Provide a smoke-free environment for children
• Be physically active, eat a balanced, healthy diet, and avoid obesity
• Learn about vaccines for virus-related liver and cervical cancers
• Avoid over-exposure to the sun
This pic is a candid shot of a very young girl who was smoking away happily. She is probably not even 20 years old! Considering how much awareness there is with regards to some of the obvious causes of cancer, it is dis-heartening to see people go about their lives with such utter dis-regard.
These are such common sights these days in Bangalore. What are the ways to discourage the younger people from not getting hooked to smoking? I mean, it is not like they do not know the hazards! It is probably cool to not care enough about your health and about the fact you are putting yourself and others around you to such danger. If you haven't seen cancer in the face, I guess it is still just a distant thing. But, if you have, you will want to run, and as fast as possible away from not just cancer, but from all kinds of carcinogens!
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The owner of a Maine seafood company has pleaded guilty to instructing an employee to make cash withdrawals to avoid Treasury Department reporting requirements, money used to bypass lobster coop purchasing rules.
The Portland Press Herald, reports that John Price, owner of J.P.'s Shellfish in Eliot, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to 12 counts of structuring cash transactions.
Prosecutors say the 58-year-old Kittery man had an office manager make bank withdrawals from 2008 to 2010 for less than $10,000 to avoid detection.
Employees then used the cash to pay a dock worker at the Spruce Head Fisherman's Coop in South Thomaston for lobsters. The dock worker's side transactions were made without Coop approval.
Price remains free on $10,000 bail pending sentencing in May. His lawyer refused comment.


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ATLANTA, February 20, 2008–This October the High Museum of Art will present The Louvre and the Masterpiece, which will explore how the definition of a "masterpiece," as well as taste and connoisseurship, have changed over time. The exhibition will feature ninety-one works of art drawn from all eight of the Musée du Louvre's collection areas, spanning 4,000 years. Paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and drawings will reflect three major themes: the changing historical and cultural definitions of a masterpiece; authenticity and connoisseurship; and the evolution of taste and scholarship. The Louvre and the Masterpiece will be on view in Atlanta from October 12, 2008, through September 6, 2009.
Lead patronage for the project has been provided by longtime High Museum Board Member Anne Cox Chambers, who is joined by Accenture as Presenting Sponsor and by UPS, Turner Broadcasting Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, and AXA Art Insurance as Lead Corporate Partners. The Foundation Partner is The Sara Giles Moore Foundation.
"Our partnership with the Louvre has brought outstanding, inspiring, and exciting works to Atlanta during the past two years. Now we have the opportunity to explore why some works of art are considered masterpieces," said Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art. "Through a magnificent group of works in the Louvre's collections, we're suggesting that the definition of masterpiece is not fixed in time or place. We are also working to develop special interactive technologies that will provide visitors with new insights, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art."
The exhibition is divided into three sections which together explore a range of thematic questions about the concept of a masterpiece.
What is a Masterpiece?
"What is a Masterpiece?" will be divided into two parts, with the first exploring the changing historical definitions of the concept of masterpiece through a selection of objects from the ancient Near East through mid-19th-century works. In the ancient world, a masterpiece was defined by an object's owner and purpose. In contrast, medieval artists' works achieved mastery within guild levels. Notable objects in this section include two such inscribed works: a Limoges ciborium (ca. 1200 A.D.), a vessel used for holding communion hosts, and a hammered bronze basin known as the "Baptistery of Saint Louis," (ca. late 13th/early 14th century A.D.). The "Baptistery of Saint Louis" was later used to baptize Louis XIII in 1610 and Napoleon III's son in 1856.
The second part of this section will introduce the idea of connoisseurship as a means of identifying works from the past as masterpieces. Displayed in pairs or groups, visitors will compare the masterwork to similar but lesser objects. The presentation will conclude with an examination of the famed "Blue Head," a forgery from the Louvre's collection. For years, the glass head was believed to be an Egyptian masterpiece (ca. 1400 B.C.). Once displayed in the ancient Egyptian galleries, it was one of the most frequently reproduced works in the Louvre's collections. After careful scientific analysis, in 2001 it was confirmed to be a forgery. The head was crafted to fit into a specific art historical niche in Egyptian art and to resonate with the taste for the art deco style popular in the 1920s.
Evolution of Taste and Knowledge
"Evolution of Taste and Knowledge" will explore masterpieces that were either 'rediscovered' or reattributed based on the changing knowledge and perceptions of Louvre curators during the past 200 years. Included will be ten paintings and sculptures by artists who are well known today but who were overlooked in previous eras. These include Jan Vermeer's masterpiece, "The Astronomer," which has never been seen in the southeastern United States. Vermeer did not have much impact on the art world during his lifetime, partly because his style did not fit the prevailing taste.
This section will also feature three rotations of focused installations. The first will include a Romanesque marble capital depicting the biblical story of Daniel in the Lion's Den and the early Greek sculpture called the "Lady of Auxerre." A suite of 14 drawings by the Renaissance artist Pisanello will follow. These drawings were collected by the Louvre in the nineteenth century, when they were thought to be rare works by Leonardo da Vinci. Research and new findings by curators determined that they were actually created by Pisanello, an extraordinarily gifted but lesser-known artist. Through this reattribution, an exceptional artist was discovered–or rediscovered–in modern times. A suite of prints from the Louvre's Rothschild collection of Old Master prints will form the third installation.
Barye in Context
Several major themes of the exhibition will be further explored through an in-depth examination of one significant object: French sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye's bronze "Lion Crushing a Serpent." These include the significance of technical mastery and the creative process, and the impact of the artist's reputation. The presentation will also include smaller models and studies of the lion figure.
Antoine-Louis Barye was well known for his realistic depiction of animals, especially those engaged in a life-and-death struggle. This piece was commissioned by King Louis-Philippe for the Tuileries Gardens, and was on display there from 1836 to 1911. Barye pushed the technical boundaries of casting bronze sculpture by creating "Lion Crushing a Serpent" with one bronze pour into a single mold. He reproduced the work hundreds of times in other sizes, which were then sold as collectible objects and used as diplomatic gifts from the French government.
Interactive Technologies for Interpretation
In addition to wall labels, murals, and audio guides, the exhibitions will be enhanced by interactive tools that have been researched and developed through a year-long series of focus groups. These tools are being developed jointly by the High and Louvre staff as part of MuseumLab, an international alliance initiated by the Louvre for which the High serves as the only U.S. partner. Working closely with Accenture, these interactives will provide more in-depth ways to explore the exhibition concepts. Accenture's Interactive Wall, a seven by ten-foot touch screen, will allow visitors to make their own masterpiece choices and compare their choices to those of other visitors and experts. An interactive computer game will also give visitors the chance to investigate a possible forgery by comparing two ancient Egyptian heads.
Louvre Atlanta
The High Museum of Art launched its unprecedented three-year partnership with the Musée du Louvre in October 2006 to critical acclaim, continuing the High's longstanding strategy of collaborating with international institutions to bring great art to Atlanta. "Louvre Atlanta" is bringing hundreds of works of art from Paris to Atlanta through a series of long-term thematic exhibitions exploring the range, depth, and historic development of the Louvre's collections.
"Louvre Atlanta" opened on October 14, 2006, with the exhibitions Kings as Collectors, The King's Drawings and Faces of History and Myth: Busts from the Musée du Louvre. Now in its second year, the exhibitions include The Louvre and the Ancient World, The Eye of Josephine, and Houdon at the Louvre: Masterworks from the Enlightenment. The High has welcomed over 500,000 visitors to these exhibitions, of which approximately 20 percent have been schoolchildren. Since "Louvre Atlanta" opened, the High's membership has grown to more than 50,000 households, which ranks in the top 10 among American art museums.
Exhibition Organization and Catalogue
Managing curators for the "Louvre Atlanta" exhibitions are Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, David Brenneman, and Curator of Sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre. The exhibitions will be accompanied by a series of scholarly catalogues with essays from the French managing curators and other contributors.
Partnership Support
The total budget for "Louvre Atlanta" is estimated at $18 million. This includes a 5.5 million € fee from the High that will go toward the restoration of the Louvre's 18th-century French decorative arts galleries. The balance of the budget offsets the development of "Louvre Atlanta." These funds will allow the High to develop special programming in Atlanta and will cover costs associated with mounting three years of programming encompassing the nine exhibitions, such as insurance, travel, marketing and publications and advertising, and security for this unprecedented project.
To date, the High Museum of Art has raised nearly $17 million in support of "Louvre Atlanta." Lead patronage for the project has been provided by longtime High Museum Board Member Anne Cox Chambers. Accenture is the Presenting Partner. UPS, Turner Broadcasting Corporation, the Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines and AXA Art Insurance are Lead Corporate Partners for "Louvre Atlanta." The Foundation Partner is The Sara Giles Moore Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Forward Arts Foundation, Frances B. Bunzl and Tull Charitable Foundation. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The Rich Foundation serves as Planning Partner for the partnership. This project is supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Musée du Louvre
The Musée du Louvre and its continual architectural transformation have dominated central Paris since the late 12th century. The history of this extraordinary structure and the museum that has occupied it since 1793 created universal appeal for more than eight million visitors in 2005. The Louvre's collection spans works of art up to 1848. With 35,000 works of art on display, eight curatorial departments—Near-Eastern, Egyptian, and Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculptures; Decorative Arts; Paintings; and Prints and Drawings—are a necessity. Celebrated works in the collections include Da Vinci's "La Joconde," best known as the "Mona Lisa"; Egyptian antiquities such as the "Seated Scribe," the "Jewels of Rameses II" and the "Code of Hammurabi"; and Greek antiquities such as the "Winged Victory of Samothrace" and the "Venus de Milo." For more information about the Musée du Louvre, please visit www.louvre.fr.
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African-American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High's Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005 the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum's size, creating a vibrant "village for the arts" at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org.
The Woodruff Arts Center
The Woodruff Arts Center is ranked among the top four arts centers in the nation. A not-for-profit center for performing and visual arts, its campus comprises the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.
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Sharna's mum here;
Today I got into a very heated discussion with a few other members on another pet website involving animal cruelty and hitting a pet. How some people can say that is ok behaviour I can not even fathom. Then to continue to say that they hit their own dog and act like that is ok....I can not even understand how they could even think that.
This topic is so dear to me because of my precious Sharna. After years of being abused, bashed, hit, punched she some angel lead her to me. I believe there was a reason behind this, to show her not all humans are cruel. It took two years to get Sharna past all of her fears. Hitting does not fix beahviour, it creates new fear and issues. The thought of someone bashing my baby girl has me in tears, it broke my heart to see her terrified the first time we tried playing with her. I picked up a stick to throw it and she cowered in fear. I could not even hug my baby because she thought we would hit her.
How dare someone tell me that it is ok to hit a dog to teach them manners.
Sharna was only fully over all her issues for the last 6 months of her life, it was a long road and we got there eventually but no dog should ever have to go through that.
Well it's been 2 years at the bridge now but mum says it feels like it's been alot longer. Mum thinks of me often, knows that I'm watching over her and thanks me for sending her a wonderful dog like Shandi. Up there at the bridge I'm playing with all my other bridge pals, i'm no longer paralysed and I can breath normally. I am in peace...
Over all of the years of pouring her heart out she's run out of things to say. She's said she's sorry, she's said how much she misses me, she's said how much she wishes I was here and how she knows I am looking after her.
All she can do now is honour the memories she has of me, as long as the memories live on and I am in her heart that will keep me alive..
Last week at work mum came into work and one dog smelt exactly the way I used to smell, mum hadnt smelt that since the day I had passed. She got a little teary but she loves having little reminders like that, keeps the memories fresh and alive.
I am a shelter dog, waiting for the day
When someone will come along and pick me
Take me home, forever I will stay
Until that day here I am in this home
She cares for me, she took me in
Now I am no longer alone
This is not bad although she says it's only for a short time
Why not forever I ask?
I think this house is rather divine.
I love rolling in the dirt and chasing the black cat
Snoozing the sunny days away, lying on my comfy mat
One week passed and sadly she said it was my time to go
I did not want to return to that place
I wanted this to be my home
She looked into my eyes and that was when she saw
The love that I was capable
And that was what made her sure
I was battered and broken
No spirit left in me
She wanted to restore that
She had faith in me
So off she went back to that place
She signed the forms with a huge smile on her face
She returned home and said to me
"You wont return, you don't have to worry
Everything will be fine you'll see.
We're in this together, you and me"
Sharna was my very first foster dog and the very first dog that I ever adopted. She was with me for two and a hlaf short but wonderous years. She will always hold a special place in my heart and I am honoured to have know such a special dog.
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Opening The Old Testament
Sharing Gratitude: Reflections on Psalm 116
Lectionary Reflections: Year A
Third Sunday of Easter
May 8, 2011
Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19
As we move further into the Easter season, we move inexorably further from the fanfares of Easter Day. Where are all those people? Why have things settled back into that old church routine? Did Easter, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, make any difference to us after all? It is as good a time as any in the church year to examine what we are now to do this side of the resurrection.
Psalm 116 may be a very good place to begin. It is a delightful and rich psalm of thanksgiving, a heartfelt call to God, thanking the Divine One for all those many things that God has done for us, God's anxious and grateful children. The psalm begins in a truly memorable way; allow me to translate the first two verses quite literally:
I love that YHWH listens
To my voice, my requests for grace.
Clearly, God has inclined the divine ear to me
When in my days I call.
There is such intimacy when the psalmist begins with that simple, "I love that YHWH listens." Is this reality not one much in contention in the modern, secularized world? How can we genuinely know that God listens to us when we call out of our distress, when we ask God for aid in our troubles, or when we thank God for favors we believe we have received from the divine hand?
It will simply not do to attempt to prove such a belief with instances from our churchy experiences, because for every occasion of certainty of divine response, we can always name any number of examples of apparent divine silence. This psalmist is not asking us to believe as he does; all the psalmist asks of us is to listen to the narrative of her experience, her personal story, and the results of that story.
The truth of the narrative is: "The snares (or cords) of death encompassed me." If one reads this line individually, it could indicate that the psalmist has suffered a dangerous illness and has recovered. However, a very similar phrase is found at Psalm 18:5 in the larger context of the fear of battle at a time of some national emergency.
The precise content of the "snares of death" is far less important than the certainty that death appeared to be imminent and inevitable; the two succeeding lines emphasize the terror suffered by the psalmist: "the pangs of Sheol (the very place of death) laid hold of me (literally 'found me'); I suffered (again the verb 'found') distress and anguish" (v. 3). The repetitious use of the verb "to find" suggests that the psalmist was convinced that death was not just awaiting him, but was actively seeking to snatch him out of the land of the living.
But the new possibility of hope and renewed life began when "I called on the name of YHWH, 'O YHWH, I pray, save my life'" (v. 4). In effect, the psalmist recognized the fact that her life was no longer manageable on her own. And YHWH, the psalmist is convinced, came through. Verses 5-9 announce the conviction that because of YHWH's "righteousness" and "mercy" (v. 5), his very "life" ("soul" in the NRSV) may now "return to its rest" (v. 7).
It is always a risk to ascribe modern psychological categories to the Bible; nothing can cloud a full appreciation of an ancient worshipper faster than the claim that the ancient worthy is in fact "manic-depressive," or the result of a "dysfunctional family" or "is just getting in touch with his inner child." I cringe when such language issues from too many pulpits in our time. Still, the fact that the psalmist tells us that he has called on his very own life to "return to its rest" after YHWH has entered that life at his express request does suggest that when God was called upon, a troubled soul could again rediscover a place of genuine rest and repose.
John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.
Holbert's column, "Opening the Old Testament," is published every Monday on the Progressive Christian portal and the Preachers Portal. Subscribe via email or RSS.


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In the past couple of months, three acquaintances of mine have come down with the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, landing all three of them in the hospital in critical condition.
I don't know if any had gotten a flu shot or if in their particular situations it would have prevented their life-threatening illnesses. But I took it as a wake-up call to learn all I could.
I was shocked to learn that even with the availability of vaccines, the dreaded flu virus is taking the U.S. by storm.
This year's strain already has left 20 children dead, according to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than that, anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 people die every year from flu-related illnesses.
For many, the flu is little more than a cough and a fever. But health officials want the public to know that in many cases it can also be deadly.
Call me paranoid, but I don't fully trust the flu shot I get every year to protect me against every strain of flu virus out there.
I still get the shot, but I also disinfect my home and business.
Surprisingly, not all commercial disinfectants claim to be effective against the more deadly viruses like H1N1.
Even those that claim to be "antiviral" and "antibacterial" may not be trusted to be effective against these new strains of viruses the world is having to deal with.
You will recall in past columns where I've told you about Nok-Out, the odor eliminator product. I've used it for years and have recommended it to you for stubborn odors that have the potential to make your life miserable or cost you a lot of money because of the harm they can do.
I love the stuff because it is nontoxic, has no odor or fumes and is completely harmless to pets and children.
And boy does it work! Like a miracle, it kills every kind of odor you can imagine. But it's more than just a powerful deodorizer.
Nok-Out is antiviral and antibacterial, too. In fact, Nok-Out is so effective against stubborn viruses like H1N1 and H1N2, Nok-Out has recently been confirmed as a hospital disinfectant.
I hope that means that soon every hospital in America — make that the world — is being doused with Nok-Out on a regular basis!
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The Peach State prospect got word that the Illini had offered after speaking with Illinois assistant coach Al Seamonson.
Despite just getting the offer, Dawson says he plans to make the trip to Champaign to see Illinois for himself before too long.
"Right now I'm planning on visiting Illinois this fall," Dawson said.
Dawson, holds offers from the likes of Virginia, Syracuse, Louisville, Iowa State, Indiana, and Cincinnati among others.
If things go well it may not be his only visit to Champaign when all is said and done.
"It will be an unofficial visit," he said. "I think I will take my officials after the season."
With his high school season coming up quickly, Dawson doesn't have much time before he straps on the pads again and gets back on the field.
"August 15th is our scrimmage," he said, "and August 23rd is our first full game."


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Everyone knows the saying about how a picture is worth 1,000 words…
But look in your own family photo collection and you'll find plenty of photographs with little to say. Stiff, uncomfortable looking ancestors whose names have been lost to time. We archivists have a term for these mystery pictures: Orphans.
I teach a variety of workshops, and almost all of them are about archiving. No surprise, I'm sure. But my favorite class isn't one of the archiving ones. It's the class where I teach folks how to record the stories behind their photographs — before they disappear.
Here's an example…
The photo below is of me and my friends. Is it really worth 1,000 words to you? I sincerely doubt it.
Yet I could write tens of thousands of words about this photo and why we're having such a great time:
1. We're enjoying the deliciously funky groovy sound of VO5.
2. We scored a table in this very crowded tavern, even though we didn't have dinner here.
3. We still got to pig out (see #2). Witness the plate scraped clean. For a short time, it held guacamole, chips, salsa, and hot pickled vegetables.
The woman on my left is the reason why I'm laughing so hard in this photograph. We don't get to see each other often, so we usually
end up exchanging our most dramatic stories of the past year. Debbie is a great story teller who keeps building and building until I practically have to beg her to stop. See her finger on the table toward the bottom right corner? Looking at this photo now, I can practically hear the dull thud as she pounds the table to emphasize each point.
And that's just for starters, folks. I only have space here to barely begin to write about the woman on my right. We've known each other for almost twenty years. We've lived together, traveled together, gone to school together. Lori attended the births of both my kids and acted as my doula each time. There's simply not enough space to go into all of what Lori means to me on this blog. But I plan to write those kinds of details down, because I want my kids to know their Auntie Lori at least partially through my eyes. Fortunately, I have the perfect opportunity coming up in January to do just that.
The simple writing technique for capturing memories before they diappear was created by Denis LeDoux. His Photo Scribe book is available from Amazon.com, which has a description plus (rave) reviews.
If you have plans to spend time with loved ones in the next few weeks, why not invite them to share some of the stories behind their photographs? And in the good cause of preventing future orphans, be sure to jot down names if the photos aren't already labeled. Your great-great granddaughter will be glad you did.
Photo Credit: The Ever Fabulous Olive.


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Thursday, December 5th, 2013
On-Campus Interviews with Hirotec America
8:00 AM until 7:00 PM
Organization: Center for Career Development
Description: Hirotec America will be conducting on-campus interviews for engineers Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Interviews will take place in the Center for Career Development in the lower level of the Kenneth J. Shouldice Library.
Location: Center for Career Development, Shouldice Library, lower level
Contact: Theresa Weaver firstname.lastname@example.com
Student Government presents Laker Straightedge
11:00 AM until 1:00 PM
Description: Do you want to finish this semester strong? If so, why not finish the semester strong as a Laker Straightedge? A "Laker Straightedge" can be defined as an LSSU student who commits himself or herself to studious efforts and furthers this commitment by refraining from the use of illegal drugs and the consumption of alcohol. If you are interested in signing a pledge to become a Laker Straightedge, then visit the Student Government table outside the Quarterdeck during lunch hours on Thursday, Dec. 5, and Friday, Dec. 6.
Location: Walker Cisler Center, outside Quarterdeck
Contact: LSSU Student Government firstname.lastname@example.com
Holiday Week: Door-Decorating Contest
12:00 PM until 2:00 PM
Organization: Alumni
Description: Show your holiday spirit and express your creativity by decorating your door in your residence hall of office. Break out the garland, lights, tinsel, wrapping paper, and anything else that puts you in the holiday spirit. Judging begins at noon, so write firstname.lastname@example.com to notify us of your entry by 9 a.m. today. Prizes sponsored by SAILS and the LSSU Alumni Association.
Location: Throughout campus
Contact: Student Alumni Involved for Lake State firstname.lastname@example.com
Lake State After Hours
5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Organization: Alumni
Description: We gather on the first Thursday of every month for this informal event. Free snacks and door prizes sponsored each month by your LSSU Alumni Association. This month we are headed across the border, so don't forget your passport!
Location: Docks Riverfront Grill, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Contact: Esther Proulx firstname.lastname@example.com
Student Government Passport Fair
5:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Description: Planning on vacationing in the coming year? Do you need a passport? Here's your chance to get one, courtesy of Student Government's Passport Fair. Student Government is offering to pay $25 toward part of the cost of a US Passport for the first 30 students, and the first 25 students will also get their passport photo covered. You will need to bring a form of picture identification and birth certificate (no photocopies) as well as your student ID. Read more in the announcements on MyLSSU and at http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
Location: Walker Cisler Center Peacock Cove
Contact: LSSU Student Government email@example.com
Crave Brazilian!
5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Organization: Food Service
Description: Join us in the Quarterdeck for Crave Brazilian! The experience offers a bold mix of sweet, spice, greens and rice with its eclectic menu of curry, chimichurri, grilled fruits, mustard greens, grilled meats and more. Take a little exotic meal-time getaway with five full courses of bold Brazilian flavors.
Location: Walker Cisler Center Quarterdeck
Contact: LSSU Food Service firstname.lastname@example.com
Laker Basketball vs Findlay
5:30 PM until 9:30 PM
Organization: Athletics
Description: Laker men's and women's basketball host GLIAC opponent Findlay. The women play at 5:30 and the men take the court at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Bud Cooper Gym
Contact: Dianna Allen firstname.lastname@example.com
Laker Cinema presents *The Family*
9:00 PM until 11:00 PM
Organization: Campus Life
Description: The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard. Come check this Laker Cinema presentation before your finals. You'll have three opportunities to check it out: on Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. and on Dec. 6-7 at around 9:30 p.m. or shortly after the Laker hockey game.
Location: Walker Cisler Center Peacock Cove
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One of the UK's leading aesthetic physicians and an expert in non-invasive cosmetic treatments.
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The procedure can be done with local anaesthesia and microcannulas for minimal postoperative pain, a rapid recovery and return to normal activities. There is also virtually no scaring.
Dr. Gupta is currently the only doctor in Europe to practice Microcannular Tumescent liposuction, or 'Microlipo'.
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Apart from his training and education, he is a member of the British Association of Cosmetic Dermatologists and the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine. He is the Joint Medical Director at The Private Clinic, which was established in 1983 in Harley Street. The clinic has pioneered a wide-range of non-invasive cosmetic, surgical and medical treatments including Tummy Tuck procedures. It has branches in Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester.
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Other non-surgical cosmetic procedures that Dr. Puneet Gupta offer includes Botox, IPL, Dermal Fillers and Lasers in pigmented lesions and skin photo-rejuvenation. He is also an expert in treating various skin problems, such as acne scarring, rosacea, keloid scars, warts, moles, and facial and leg veins. On top of these, Dr. Gupta is the most experienced doctor in the UK in the use of laser skin resurfacing devices in the treatment of darker and Asian skin types.
This is caused by a disorder of the adipose tissue, resulting in a disproportionate enlargement of the lower half of the body. Fatty tissue accumulates around the legs, thighs and buttocks resulting in a physical deformity that can have emotional and psychological consequences.
Dr. Gupta specialises in Microcannular Liposuction for Lipoedema sufferers.
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Christian Louboutin Reopens London Store With Modish Redesign
Luxury French designer's store renovation speaks to the brand's style
Christian Louboutins have been deemed the Most Prestigious Women's Shoe by The Luxury Institute for three years in a row, an honor that many would agree is well deserved. Since its founding in 1991, the brand has become increasingly popular, being worn by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicki Minaj, and even Madonna. The clientele has helped the company move from its headquarters in Paris France to New York, Rome, London, and everywhere in between. Fortunately, the success has only made broadened the goals of the fashion brand, and now Christian Louboutin is ready to take their locations to the next level, starting with their first London store.
The Motcombe Street Christian Louboutin store, located in the Knightsbridge section of London has undergone a huge renovation. Designed by Pentagram, the remodeled space features a red carpet reminiscent of the luxury designer's signature red bottoms, and is home to women's shoes, purses and other leather items. To compliment the carpet, the interior is decked out with plush cream colored ottomans, complete with red piping. Brass wall-stands show off select purses and shoes, while others sit inside the glass counter part of a brass structure that also serves as the cash register. In addition, the back wall and ceiling features an embossed scalloped leaf design. Art-deco furnishings and a custom-made light sculpture finish off the 42-sq-meter locale.
Christian Louboutin is a brand that is synonymous with elegance, style, luxury, and innovation, and thanks to this redesign- their Motcomb Street store is a perfect reflection of the saleable items it showcases.
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Kudos to the Sherriff's department for releasing the video and I always have the utmost respect for law enforcement, but what we see on the video looks more like a power trip from an officer of the law than a thug football player that as I had assumed, has no respect for authority.
Before I go on I want to pause and make it clear my stand on "Johnny law". I absolutely have the utmost respect for police officers, military personnel, firemen, and all of those public service people that put their lives in harm's way to protect people like me from those that want to harm people like me.
I would never want and could not perform the duties they do and go through the stress they must endure in their job. I really can't say that enough.
That said, I think they do make mistakes, and in my opinion this was clearly a mistake on their part. However, I choose not to write the name of the officer even though it is public. I know nothing about the man here and one incident does not define a man, especially when that incident takes place doing a job that comes with the mountains of stress mentioned above.
If you don't know the story of this incident by now, the short version goes something like this. Morrison and some friends were walking outside in Southwest Gainesville when they walked in the vicinity of a K-9 police unit.
The officer from the vehicle was dealing with another group of people and was out of the car at the time. Morrison and friends walked close enough to the vehicle for the dog inside to bark at the group. Morrison made the mistake of barking back, which he admitted freely when the officers on the spot talked to him.
The dog evidently became agitated and so did the officer in charge. The officer left the group he was dealing with and went directly to Morrison started talking to him and immediately grabbed his arm when he was close enough.
Morrison looked shocked in the video, really in disbelief that the officer was grabbing him. So he paused and maybe re-treated a half step and it seemed he was just trying to analyze the situation. A couple of more officers came in and applied some force in a situation that to me looked a little overdone, but again I have never done what they do and don't want to do what they do.
That was really the only angst supplied by Morrison in the whole situation. In fact outside his constant looks of disbelief while the arrest was going on, he was just trying to plead his case with the officers and doing so in a very respectful manner.
The Sun also talked to Sherriff Sadie Darnell who is in charge of the Sherriff's office in Alachua County and she agreed that this was a situation that probably went a little too far as far as the officers were concerned.
"While acknowledging that the arrest may have been heavy handed, Darnell was careful to point out that the incident occurred next door to All Star Sports Bar on Southwest 13th Street," reported The Gainesville Sun. "The bar and grill can stay open until 4 a.m. as long as it stops serving alcohol at 2 a.m. and has been the subject of more than 200 police calls and investigations for numerous violent crimes."
"Darnell told the Sun that she believed the deputy was technically correct that Morrison could be charged under the statute which prohibits taunting police animals, but she stated that, given the obscure nature of the law and the fact that Morrison was probably unaware of it, a warning would have been the more appropriate action."
After he entered the back of the car you can hear Morrison's tone and it was anything but malicious. It was respectful and upset from being in the situation at all. Here is most of the transcript of the video.
Morrison: "This is crazy man."
Officer: "It is, it's crazy. Why are you acting this way?
Morrison: "Officer, please let me go."
Officer: "After your behavior right now, you are telling me not to let you go."
Morrison: "I am cooperating."
Officer: "You are not cooperating and you didn't want to come stand by my car."
Morrison: "Yes I did."
Officer: "No you didn't. What did you just say? Why did we put force on you?"
Morrison: "You put force on me, (but) I walked back to you. Officer, listen to me. I'm not looking for any trouble. I just want to go home.
Officer: The beginning should have been not barking at my dog.
Morrison: "You know I am not trying to cause any trouble. I am a good kid, man. I am not from down here. I never go out. I just said 'woof-woof' at the dog. This is crazy man,. Officer, I am not looking for any trouble I just said 'woof-woof'."
To add to the wackiness of this incident, the officer admits that maybe this was just a bad night for him. Another officer approaches that he thanks for helping 'subdue" Morrison and then he tells that officer that he has had better nights.
"I appreciate you being here," the officer said on the video. "Yeah my patience is pretty thin."
With his thin patience, the officer decides he needs to explain one more time just why Morrison was being detained and booked into jail.
"Let me simply explain something to you. I've been listening to you for a few minutes, and here's the problem I got with this, all right? My dog is watching my back and their back."
Morrison: "I understand that. I understand that. (respectfully)"
Officer: "Stop talking… When you walk up to the window and say something to him, you distract him if I need him. So if I open my door remotely with this push button, he's coming out to you and not to me when I need him. That's the end of the story. That's interfering, harassment and teasing a police dog while he's engaged in his duty. That's what you're being arrested for. All right?"
Darnell shared more about what these officers go through.
"Our deputies are caught in a lot of threatening situations and are having to make rational, very well thought out decisions in the context of chaos, and sometimes they don't think them all the way through," Darnell said. "On Sunday morning deputies were responding to a report of an aggravated assault at the scene."
Morrison responds but the response cannot be understood. The officer isn't buying what Morrison said and then becomes a psychologist determining Morrison's true feelings on the matter at hand.
"I'm being very direct and to the point with you. You're not getting it. You're not getting it at all. You can continue to sit here with your crocodile tears and ask me for favors and do whatever. I'm telling you, you're going to jail for interfering with my dog. That's it."
I do have a little problem with the tears comment. In every bit of the video we see that Morrison has been cooperative and in every part we are able to hear he was very respectful to the officer, where does this guy get off doubting that Morrison is really upset over the situation?
And the bottom line is the county prosecutor is also not quite sure what to believe of the situation. More from The Sun.
"'Based on the initial report, I have to question the sufficiency of the evidence to constitute a crime,' State Attorney Bill Cervone told the Gainesville Sun. 'Simply barking at a dog may not be enough. I'll have to look at the statute," he said, noting that the law calls for malicious intent.'"
And now back to my admission. I was as guilty as this officer was. I didn't have the advantage of being at the scene, but I assumed that Morrison made a mistake in barking at the dog and didn't realize that was against the law. (I didn't either) I assumed that Morrison then mouthed off to the officers and resisted far more than the video would indicate.
I assumed this because he had a prior event that landed him in jail just five weeks ago. But, my assumptions were all wrong.
He made a mistake. He should have been told by the officers that he made a mistake and probably done so in a manner that he wouldn't forget.
But it really appears that because someone's "patience was thin" the incident turned into much more than that.
Morrison wasn't targeted as a football player. That was made clear on the video because the arresting officer had no idea who he was even after he learned the name. It just seems he did a stupid and silly thing at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Morrison was suspended for at least two games right away for the incident. A suspension that I imagine will be lessened a great deal after this video has gone public and after the folks at the football team can wrap their fingers around it.
I condemned the man to a certain degree and for that I apologize.
As for the officer, he's in a line of duty that requires his nerves to be settled and his head to be clear. A little time off might be good for him instead.
Here is the YouTube video provided by The Gainesville Sun...


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Ethics of Reading Seminars and Lectures
Peter Brooks, Director
Note: The series will return in fall 2017 (no series planned for 2016-17).
This series explores what the interpretive humanities—specifically a certain tradition of attentive or close reading—may offer to those engaged in the cultures and discourses of professionalism and professional education in the fields of law, religion, architecture and urbanism, among others.
The program takes its inspiration from the conviction that the study of poetry, broadly defined— and the study of what we are doing and learning when we attend closely to textual language—is a form of knowledge crucially important in the world now. Learning to read and interpret rigorously, with a sense of textual constraint as well as imaginative potential, should be —and, rightly conducted, usually is—an ethical project.
The program consists of seminars and lectures designed to bring faculty and graduate students from different fields together to read a small corpus of assigned texts, and to discuss and analyze more broadly the role of reading and interpretation in their respective fields. The overarching question informing the program's offerings is how the practice of reading closely, critically, creatively and, ultimately, responsibly intersects with the rhetoric and cultures of professionalism.
For more information, readings, and dates of seminars, please visit: http://www.princeton.edu/~ereading/
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