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The system can be optimized for performance; design parameters can be traded; parameter uncertainties can be propagated through the math model to develop error bounds on system predictions; and the model can be updated, based on component, subsystem, or system-level data.
The Toolbox allows the definition of process parameters as explicit functions of the coupled model, further enabling the exact definition of sensitivities. It also includes a number of functions that analyze the coupled system model and provide for redesign, including: critical parameter analysis that formally identifies the design variables that have the highest influence on system performance, risk, and cost; optimization of design objective functions subject to constraints on design variables; formal system trading using an isoperformance methodology (a design concept that seeks to create the best-fit concept) that maps out the non-unique set of design parameters that meet requirements; uncertainty analysis for computing errors bound to performance predictions and identifying critical uncertainties; and model updating to renew component math models using measurement data.
The software has myriad benefits, including the ability to automatically couple the discipline models to create a system math model. This provides a complete description of the physical process in terms of all component design variables. The automatic coupling reduces manual effort, eliminates the chance for user error, and automatically checks unit compatibility between components.
The software tool provides a set of "canned" routines for defining parameter dependencies on typical structural parameters, as well as a set of techniques for identifying critical design parameters.
The unique formulation of the parameter-dependent math model enables the designer to formulate many problems as formal optimization analyses, where other analysis techniques would have allowed only the evaluation and comparison of a limited set of design points.
The product is being sold commercially by Nightsky Systems Inc., of Raleigh, North Carolina, a spinoff company that was formed by Midé specifically to market the DOCS Toolbox.
Commercial applications include use by any contractors developing large space-based optical systems, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, and Northrup Grumman Corporation, as well as companies providing technical audit services, like General Dynamics Corporation.
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Hairsalon Micuşa Stil. Hair cut, stylists, makeup
Beauty will save the world – it is not a commonplace phrase, it is a prophesy for all hairdressers, stylists, makeup artists and beauty salons. They are the people destined to change not only anyone's appearance but also their internal attitude towards the wish to change the outside world for better.
Working on it with their customers every day, every hour, instilling an optimistic and positive life philosophy in them, helping them realise their talents, inspiring them to create and not to destroy, hairdressers save the world from monotony, pessimism, aggressiveness, banality, naivety, cynicism, greediness etc.
To accomplish that mission, the hairdressers must have special qualities: good reputation, courage, responsibility, authority and high potential. They must always improve their professional skills, make themselves and their customers believe that they are the best, that they can be idols and creators and that it is for them, yes for them, to change the society for better.
Micuşa Stil, a chain of salons based on a unique pyramid system, is a leader in the beauty industry, satisfying all the classes of society. The 'pyramid' structure includes: a school for training future stylists of Micuşa Stil, a hairdressing salon, an economy class salon, a business class salon and a champions salon. This structure enables a staged selection of hairdressers – from zero level to top grade. One of the musts for each stylist is to participate in all kinds of national and international competitions and contests in hairdressing, decorative makeup and nail modelling. The salons are arranged to match the stylist's class with the salon's grade, to ensure the right value for money.
Philosophers have tried to express beauty in words for thousands of years, we simply make it.

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I am a mother of 2 boys, 3 1/2 years old and 15 months old. I gained 69 and 45 pounds. I started working out 2 weeks Postpartum and also breastfed almost a year with both. It took a good 4-5 months to really get back to my original weight, but my shape was never the same. My breasts were a full B prior and afterwards they just deflated to nothing. I am embarrased to take my bra off around my husband. I can't find a bra that fits right. An A cup bra rides up when I move my arms, my breast tissue doesn't fill out a B-cup bra, there's a big gap that you can see through my shirts. My stomack always looks bloated and no matter how hard my abs are underneath, I always have this pouch. So from the side I look flat as pancake with a belly like I'm 12 weeks pregnant. It bothers me because honestly I work so hard. I eat extremely healthy all the time, hardly ever splurge on junk, and I workout 5 days a week, alternating spinning class, running, pilates/yoga, P90X, T25, interval training with weights, you name it. So after reaching a point of flat out frustration that no matter how much I diet and exercise it's never going to change...I decided to see a doctor about a "Mommy Makeover". I read many mommy makeover reviews on here and became so excited and encouraged that I too could feel good about myself again. I set up and appointment with Dr Lazarro in Pittsburgh. He was very easy to talk to, spent a lot of time with me, and told me that my abdominal muscles were pulled apart and that's why my stomach pouched out. He also said my breast were in perfect position, just needed volume. So for a tummy tuck, muscle repair, breast aug, and inner thigh lipo...$18,000....what! Forget that. I went home crying and disappointed it wouldn't happen for me. But my husband who happens to be against this whole thing actually suggested to try again. So I went to see Dr Hurwitz. He was not a personable, but had very good reviews and has several locations, one in Beverly Hills as well as Pittsburgh. He also suggested tummy tuck, muscle repair, lipo to inner thighs, and breast aug. His total was $12,100. Definately more do-able. The first doctor wanted to put me up in a hotel suite overnight with a private nurse, etc...whereas the 2nd would just be an outpatient procedure and he was giving me a discount for doing all the procedures together. I pretty much decided I was going to do it, but I had one more appt and thought I would go just to see one more opinion. So finally I saw Dr Wooten in Pittsburgh. She was extremely personable. Talked to me for a good 15 minutes before she had me disrobe or take pictures. I told her my concerns about my belly and how I feel like I look pregnant. How I am embarrased about my breasts and how I hate that my thighs rub together. When she took a look for herself, she said, "How old is your youngest?" i said "15 months". She proceeded to tell me that my stomach looked great, that from what I told her she envisioned this disaster of hanging skin, fat, etc... she said infact that I had great skin tone and texture, and strong muscles underneath, that in her opinion I should keep exercising and working at it. She said I wouldnt be able to pick up my youngest for at least 3 months and would not be able to go to work for about 3-4 weeks at least. She checked my muscles and showed me that my abdominal muscles were NOT pulled apart. We talked for a long time and decided that I would be very happy having my breasts done, and that once my breasts popped out I probably would not be so critical of my belly and that I could continue working out and working on it. I also decided against thigh lipo due to the fact that its so painful and you can have swelling for quite a while, and inner thighs are very tricky. i think it just scared me a little to much. So for $6900 I am getting a breast augmentation. silicone cohesive gel under the muscle. 325 and 350cc. I am hoping to be a full C. I tried the sizers and felt so much better about my body when I looked in the mirror. Hardly noticed my tummy, which I always notice right away. I did my bloodwork and signed the papers, payed for the procedure, now it's just a waiting game for 2 weeks. EEEEK. I am so excited. And my hubby is actually excited now too! I can't WAIT! I told my 2 sisters and a couple co-workers, but I don't think I'm telling my parents until after, they worry too much! Wish me luck!!
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I am a mother of 2 boys, 3 1/2 years old and 15...
9 more days! Aaah! I'm so excited!!
Dr Wooten called to finalize details. Going with the Sientra textured cohesive gel implant. 325 on left and 350 on right. I was worried I might be disappointed they weren't big enough, but I said from the beginning I just wanted to look "normal" again and not like its apparent I have implants. So she suggested I stick with the 325 and 350. She said going up another. 25-50 cc would simply widen the breast at the bottom not really add projection. I feel good about it. I'm hoping to be a full c cup, but with everyone's reviews it seems like you never know what you'll end up with !? It's going to be hard not working out for a while, so I have made up meal plans week by week and I am vowing NOT to cheat, eating clean while I'm recovering. Intold my family and my parents. Surprisingly, they were supportive. Dr Wooten told me since they are textured they will "ride high" for a while. I am getting moderate profile, but with the combo of behind the muscle and textured they will take a while to drop. She also said vs. a smooth implant they will stay put when I lay flat on my back and not fall to the side and there is less of a chance of them rolling out towards the sides and less chance of capsular contractures. Need to find a few comfy bigger bras and I'm all set!
4 days away and i have a cold:(
I called my Doctor because I started getting sick two days ago. I have a lot of congestion and my head is killing me. i was getting worried that I might not be able to have surgery if I'm sick. She told me to keep drinking plenty of fluids, Vitamin C, Tylenol, Dayquil, Saline nasal spray, etc... So I slept with a humidifier and vapor-rub. I am drinking plenty of OJ and water, and I'm hoping it's nothing viral or a sinus infection. So far I don't have a temp. I am so excited for Wednesday I can't take it! Hubby decided to schedule Lasik Eye surgery for himself this Monday so I was kind of irritated since I have a lot to do before my procedure. But hopefully all goes well with that. At least he'll be able to enjoy my results with perfect vision!! :) :)
Tomorrow's the day
I got a few new bras, my groceries are stocked, babysitter lines up, and I got the call to be at the surgery center at 8am. I am so ready!! I still feel a little sick but no fever at all so Doctor said I should be fine. Took a few more depressing before pictures. Can't wait to see the after!
I did it!
Got to surgery center at 8am. Signed my consents. Met with Dr Wooten and also the anesthesiologist. Since i have a history of nausea i took a dose of Emedd (nausea mesicine used for chemo pt's). Then they put on a scopolamine patch. And during and after surgery they gave me Zofran IV. I remember walking into the surgical room, getting in the table, the nurses telling me how exciting it all is, and then I was out. Surgery was over by 10:30. I woke up immediately in pain. I got a couple small doses if Dilauded. then they had me get up and walk to a recliner. it really hurt like hell. a little nauseated and pale so they gave me one more liter of fluids before they said i could go. I was in recovery until about 12:30. The drive home sucked, every little turn and bump was nerve wracking. I came home and made Myself a home in my bed. Surrounded by pillows, remotes, water, bard bag, crackers, and my phone. It's been about 6 hrs at home and I've slept probably 4 of them off and on. Still groggy. Still sore. Trying to do my arm exercises. Haven't got a look at my boobs, but they look kinda smaller than I thought in the bra. Hopefully when I do see them in 2 days they will be awesome. I agave to admit I'm worried I didn't go big enough but we shall see. I say all in all everything went very smoothly. Hubby is pampering me and kids are behaving for him for the most part. I am a lucky woman. He had LASIK eye surgery 2 days ago and is doing great, even took me to Pittsburgh today with no trouble driving. I just love Dr. Wooten. She made me feel so confident and comfortable with her. She is so amazingly beautiful as well. I almost didn't recognize her in her scrubs. Staff was very caring at UPMC Passavant surgery center. So far no REAL complaints. I expected to be in pain and I am only prescribed Motrin.
Oh the pain....
Well I survived the night, but it wasn't easy. It's so hard to get in and out of bed. I have to stay either sitting up straight or barely reclined back. I'm pretty swollen and my boobs feel hard as a rock. Haven't even peaked yet, just trying to deal with slight movements and my arm exercises. I did make it to the kitchen for breakfast (hubby cooked and cleaned). Luckily he is taking very good care of me. Motrin every 6 hrs feels like a joke. But I guess it's better than vomiting from pain pills. I will post a picture when I unwrap this dressing and bra. Oh and I had the worst time yesterday and all night unable to pee. I had to sit there for 5 minutes to get any bit of a dribble out. starting to pick up a little more now. Belly is beyond bloated and also very hard to touch. Makes it hard to eat anything.
48 hours post-op
Been a rough 2 days. Only taking Motrin and a pill for decreasing swelling and bruising. My abdomen and flanks are so swollen and hard as a rock, very uncomfortable to eat or drink. I guess they say that the fluids are starting drain down to belly and also anesthesia and constipation contribute as well. Hopefully it goes away soon. I look pregnant! Got to take bra and dressings off. I wouldn't let hubby look until I did first. My initial reaction: omg! What did I do!? They are huge. I don't even feel like myself. The. Hubby looked and called them "super jugs" which didn't help the way I was feeling. But I know they are swollen and very high right now, so I know they will change. It's just a weird adjustment. Incisions seem fine, no bruising. It's getting easier to do arm lifts. Just need my belly to go down and to poop! Haha.
7 days post op.
Wish I would have went 50-75cc smaller. Hoping when they drop and soften I will be happier with them. I just feel like they are huge and make me too heavy. Wanted to be a small C or full B. I am more like a full C or a small D.
10 days post op
Getting around great. Still sleeping in the recliner and can't lift the boys, but able to do almost anything else around the house. Weather has been so nice I have lightly walked for an hour last 3 days. I needed to...I was going stir crazy and needed to get my GI Tract going!! Talk about bloating and constipation! Boobs look great, have all feeling back in them. They feel
Like mine now. I love how I look in my bras and without anything, but it's hard to see myself still in sweatshirts...I feel big. Incisions look great. Think swelling is gone. I'm loving my boobs more and more everyday!
Like mine now. I love how I look in my bras and without anything, but it's hard to see myself still in sweatshirts...I feel big. Incisions look great. Think swelling is gone. I'm loving my boobs more and more everyday!
3 weeks post op
Best decision I ever made...feeling better and looking better everyday. Have been walking and doing light Pilates. Went back to spinning class tonight and felt awesome but had to wear 2 bras and didn't do jumps or standing push-ups on bike. Feels good to be active again. Spent a lot of time out in the sun today and got real burnt but makes me so excited for summer and bikini tops!! Can finally get a running hug from my boys and I don't grimace in pain. They feel softer to me and I notice a nice drop in them.
What a difference a month makes!
I feel so great! I am back to doing T25, running, and spinning. I can lie on my sides in bed. I can move my arms around without any tightness, and I feel like my breasts are a part of "me" if that makes sense. If I wear a sports bra and a t-shirt you would never know I had implants. But I tried on one of my push up bras...oh my!....they look awesome. BEST DECISION I ever made and BEST MONEY I ever spent:)
3 months later at the beach
Still very happy. Not too big, not too small, just perfect! Don't need straps or push-ups for anything....these girls are perky and perfect:)
Dr Anna Wooten is very personable. She spent a lot of time talking honestly with me. I felt like she wasn't pushing a procedure on me. She wanted to do what was right, but also make me happy.
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The Local Voice Number 63
September 18-October 2, 2008
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Rabbi Saperstein: "Eschewing, rightly, the House leadership's preference to seek savings by shifting costs and risk to individuals, [President Obama] offered insufficient alternatives."
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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2011 -- In response to President Obama's speech about deficit reduction, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
President Obama's fiscal policy speech on Wednesday commendably rejected the 2012 budget resolution offered by Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), while correctly stressing the imperative of restoring fiscal order in a balanced and just manner. Rejecting in no uncertain terms the most problematic parts of the Ryan proposal -- block granting of Medicaid and food stamps, privatization of Medicare, and yet more tax cuts for wealthy corporations -- President Obama spoke seriously about the challenges we face. Both Congressman Ryan and the President are drawing overdue public attention to the very real problem of our national debt, but President Obama's solutions differ from Ryan's in their commitment to fairness and their willingness to raise additional revenue to climb out of the deficit crisis, while asserting the need for shared sacrifice in restoring fiscal order.
We must note, however, that while the President's rhetoric depicts a vision of America steeped in the twin goals of economic justice and fiscal soundness, his policy prescriptions would not adequately bring that vision to fruition. Eschewing, rightly, the House leadership's preference to seek savings by shifting costs and risk to individuals, he offered insufficient alternatives. Absent from President Obama's speech was a call to immediately repeal tax cuts for all individuals earning more than $200,000 and a return to the tax rates of the 1990s (including the last years of budget surplus), hoping instead for them to expire in 2012. The President's budget reduction proposal relies on three dollars in budget cuts (including interest) for every one dollar raised in additional revenue. Further, he outlined cuts to non-defense discretionary spending -- the 15 percent of the budget that houses the non-entitlement programs that serve low-income families -- that total nearly twice the cuts as those he proposes for the defense budget, even though defense accounts for 20 percent of the budget. A plan skewed so heavily in favor of non-defense discretionary spending cuts over revenue increases and defense cuts raises serious concerns over whether the plan is equal to the task of arresting record growth in poverty and inequality -- the hallmarks of this recession.
At a critical juncture in our national debate, President Obama's reassertion of the importance of social safety net programs to the moral fabric of our nation, saying "each one of us deserves some basic measure of security and dignity," was vitally needed. President Obama's words -- "no matter how responsibly we live our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness of layoff, may strike any one of us" -- reflect the Jewish tradition's model of the government's communal obligation to provide for the needy and vulnerable in our midst. Individualism and heated competition produce ingenuity and creativity, but they must be coupled with measures that assure a moral bedrock for our nation.
The challenges we face are significant. We call on the President and members in Congress to remember, above all, that a nation is judged by how it meets the needs of those most in need. Let us ensure that moving forward, we are equally committed to both our nation's fiscal and moral health.


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Just back from my vacation in Bali! Got tons of inspiration there! I was born in Indonesia and this is my first time going to Bali. And I'm definitely fall in love with everything about Bali. The Barong dance, Jaipong, Pura, Pork Ribs and the aura of traditional culture is drowning me in happiness.
Me, trying to catch the sun. (tee-hee)
We're just going for 5 days and 4 nights, we stayed at voila villa which located at Seminyak. It has 3 bedroom, a pool, kitchen and dining room. I feel like "Orang Kaya" when I stayed there. 😀
On the first day, we go to Ubud. Actually everyone ever going there except me. But they granted my request and visit there. *Big Thank You!*
The performance of Bali Traditional Act.
After the performance end. We go to Ubud Temple. The temple is prohibited to menstruation women. So… I just can go to the outer area. 😦
After enough sight-seeing we go to Naughty Nuri's and eat the most delicious food I ever have! Pork Ribs! It takes a while to have a seat in that restaurant because it's too crowded!
Super Yummy!
And then we go to Tanah Lot. The plan is to see the sunset in there, but because everyone already exhausted so we just going around, taking photos and go home.
We go to Garuda Wisnu Kencana, I don't really know what place it is. But there are so many huge unfinished statue in this place. They say the owner died 5 years ago and the statue building progress stopped. And again, I can't go into the sacred place which is prohibited for the same reason. We just play around outside.
And then we went to… Pantai Kuta! 😀
And for the last day, we go to Pantai Seminyak. 🙂
5 days were so fast! I'm planning to save some money to go back there again. Wanna join me to go together? :p


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Wish I had about 50K laying around. It sure wouldn't take long to spend it.:mrgreen:
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I like the Walther P5 :)
WOW!!!! That would be worth going just to see all the goodies!!!!
Shipwreck, I hope you are happy! I am sick to my stomach. Regards, Richard :D
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Shipwreck, just go ahead and laugh. This is my revenge: http://www.jaquas.com/gunlist/default.asp. Regards, Richard :D
How did he explain buying all those guns to his wife?:rolleyes:
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Damn that's a lot of guns!
The last page says "sold for parts only!" :smt082
Hmmmm... I just got a settlement check for $50,000...
Awfully tempting...must....resist...urge...to....spend.... impulsively...must....resist...urge...


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Roberto Mancini insists he will retain control over Manchester City signings despite the appointment of Txiki Begiristain as director of football.
The Spaniard, who formerly held the same role at Barcelona, joined City last weekend, with the club announcing his role would include supporting Mancini in player recruitment.
But the City boss expects Begiristain to fulfil the same role football administrator Brian Marwood has in previous transfer windows of completing the deals once targets have been identified.
Mancini said: "I want to decide which players we take, this is normal for every manager. I worked with Brian for three years, he was sporting director, I think Txiki will do the same job.
"I have my job and Txiki will have his job. I don't want to go to talk with other teams to buy players, this is not my job. Like every sporting director, he will talk with me before buying players."
Mancini is now working alongside two former Barcelona men in Begiristain and chief executive Ferran Soriano, but he shrugged off speculation ex-Barca manager Pep Guardiola could follow.
Mancini said of Begiristain: "I am very happy. He has a lot of experience with a top club like Barca. If we did well in the last two years, I think we can do better in the future.
"If people write that Txiki is here and maybe next year Guardiola will arrive or another manager, this is not my problem. I'm here, I want to continue to work well because I think we are ready to improve and build a stronger team."
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Linda Scott is extolling the transformative powers of sanitary towels. "In industrialised countries the introduction of sanitary pads was a huge deal for women because it meant they could leave the house, go to school, take jobs," the Oxford professor tells me. "The same is true now in the developing world. In the aid community, people tend to think it's better to build a school than give girls disposable pads because a school is permanent. But I can't even begin to list all the abandoned schools I've seen in Sub-Saharan Africa."
As part of her role as DP World chair for entrepreneurship and innovation at Saïd Business School, the 61-year-old American is researching the impact that better sanitary hygiene can have on girls, first in Ghana and now in Uganda.
Her message? Give a girl a sanitary towel supply and you can educate her for a lifetime: "Before, they'd avoid school [when they were menstruating] or worry so much that they wouldn't remember what they were taught. And these schools don't have books — learning is done by rote — so if you can't focus you might as well not be there."
Additionally, disposable pads can increase girls' self-esteem and even offer some protection from sexual violence. "In many of these societies, when a girl starts her period she's considered fair game," Scott explains. "So much so that the men often say the scent or sight of the blood is arousing to them ... If girls use a cloth and don't have the means to keep it clean, eventually it smells and they end up being more vulnerable to sexual attack because of it."
This is an intervention that has swift results too: "It will work in three or four years. Girls' education is not only the most powerful tool in economic development — it's also rapid. If you can get girls to stay in school longer, they marry later, have their first child later, they'll be a better quality of worker and will take better care of their children and make sure they stay in school. There's a domino effect that you don't get from educating boys."
Empowering women and girls is one of the major talking points at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos this week (attendees: David Cameron, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and, er, Matt Damon). Yet at this conference in the Swiss Alps, equally celebrated as a place where the world's greatest thinkers can swap ideas as it is lambasted as a schmoozathon where the 0.01 per cent ski and sip Krug, just 15 per cent of the delegates are female.
That isn't the only problem: according to Scott, most of the delegates will be asking the wrong question about gender and development. "Everyone is looking at the issue as 'how do we fit women into the formal economy?' Instead, you need to ask: 'How do they already manage resources?' We need to understand women as an economy of their own, because they are an excluded group in economic terms so they have different rules."
She has rebranded the global economy of women as the "Double X economy". Why has it been so ignored? "We take economic principles as being obvious or God-given but they are constructed in a way that excludes women," she responds. "We value things according to their monetary value, so if women are not paid for their labour, if they're not allowed to inherit wealth or to have bank accounts or credit cards, they are left out. And if you have a theory of the economy that is built on the unit of money, they're left out of that too."
Scott used to work in advertising. She originally returned to academia to research the social impact of advertising images. She wanted to challenge the common feminist view of the beauty industry as patriarchy incarnate.
Eventually, Scott decided to write a history of women's liberation, with the fashion industry as a starting point. She believed that the hiring of young women to work in textile mills — a result of the birth of the modern economy — actually helped the rise of American feminism. "It was the beginning of the end. You put cash in women's hands and it makes everything different. It's a harsh history but this is where women clawed their way up."
This led Scott to note parallels between the US in the 19th century and the developing world today. "American garment factories were staffed mostly by women. And that's true in Bangladesh today. So I wanted to see if you could lift some of the important innovations that helped women back then and put them in place in developing countries now."
For her first project she picked that great US institution, the Avon lady. The cosmetics titan, which uses individual sellers to flog its goods door-to-door, launched in 1886. "It made a huge difference to women, especially married women because this was work they were allowed to do. I wanted to see if this model would work if you dropped it down in Sub-Saharan Africa because some of the conditions are quite similar." She points to the difficulties with transportation and communication.
At this point Scott had never set foot on the African continent. Yet after she teamed up with an anthropologist, she managed to obtain a grant and the pair headed for South Africa, where Avon was growing rapidly. There she found poor women using it as a leg-up, both in economic terms and social standing. Some husbands were won over to their wife working by the amount of money it brought in, others remained unhappy, but Scott also found that being an Avon lady was very popular in households headed by women.
She believes this point-to-point selling system — which is also used by CARE in Bangladesh and Natura in South America — works far better for the poorest women than other entrepreneurial avenues.
"People think to encourage entrepreneurship, you just train the women to be entrepreneurs or give them micro loans," Scott notes. "Avon doesn't do micro credit — it just lends against inventory and doesn't charge interest — but it does provide the training, the product and the marketing materials.
"For women who are seriously impoverished or in remote areas, the materials to create your own business from scratch are just not there. It's asking too much. The conditions of scarcity override everything. Whereas Avon is just add hot water and serve."
Critics in the development community have told Scott that multinationals — with their obsession with profit — should have no part to play here. She challenges this: "Saying companies shouldn't be involved because they can't do good gives them a licence not to try to be responsible citizens."
These businesses also offer an easy way to reach those in need. "They have incredible resources and skills that are very useful when you start building projects like this. There was a time when you could afford to ignore the corporate world because it was small — churches were bigger, militaries were bigger — now they are probably the biggest sector."
Companies are already involved, anyway: "Unilever sells a lot in the developed world: you can find Sunsilk shampoo in the most remote village in Bangladesh. That helps the community too. A lack of soap prevents people maintaining basic hygiene — probably the single biggest health problem. Most of what Unilever sells is a form of soap. It's got to get out there somehow."
As our interview wraps up I note that Scott seems optimistic about the future for women. She points to a resurgent feminist movement. "Younger women no longer see feminism as a dirty word."
She recalls travelling in Bangladesh and hearing two local women — speaking in their native tongue — repeatedly referring to "women empowerment". "They were using our phrase but it shows you that word is spreading. Now, we all need to realise that we're fighting the same problems across the world, not 150 local cultural problems."
She sees this as a breakthrough moment for feminism. "People always talk about the first and second waves. Right now, I think we are living through something even bigger than those —because this time, it's global."
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My Big Date
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4/10/2010 / Humor
Men who have entered their middle years often look back upon their youth with certain wistful longings. Not me. My youth was a long, bumpy ride with a lot of uncharted detours along the way. Not that I complain. No one can write who has not first lived and my twenty-third year alone is worth two dozen columns, three short stories, and a really bad poem in which none of the words rhyme. But I digress.
Her name was Jill. She was a friend of a friend and, in my youthful fancy, the fairest of ten thousand. Be still, my heart! Okay, maybe that is laying it on a bit thick, but from the part of her golden hair to her painted toe nails, Jill was a looker with few equals! What a girl! And word had reached my eager ears that Jill was in between steady boyfriends and if I arrived at her door around seven-ish on Friday, she would accompany me to dinner and a movie! It was all set.
Friday night took its good sweet time in coming, but at the appointed hour I stood knocking at her front door, dressed in my best threads and bearing a dozen lovely long-stemmed roses. Soon I would be gazing into the face of the world's most beautiful girl. No answer. Perhaps I had better knock again. Still no answer. Had I arrived too early? No, it was seven on the nose. And then I heard the faint sound of a television followed by the psst! of an opened soda can. I knocked again; Jill was home, to be sure, but she wasn't opening the door for me!
As cell phones did not exist in those prehistoric days, I drove to a nearby pay phone, but when Jill discovered the caller was me, she ended the connection with a resounding click! There was something very sad and very final about that click. Bewildered by such shabby treatment, I drove back to her apartment, rapped lightly upon the door one last time, and left the roses on the porch. My broken heart and I drove home. The big date with Jill was over.
Some two thousand years ago, Christ Jesus appealed to an apathetic, halfhearted congregation in the Asia-Minor city of Laodicea. A church in name only, the people had grandly boasted, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing." And on the surface, the church at Laodicea must have looked pretty good. Their building program was in full swing and the congregation had just purchased a Rolex for their pastor, but Jesus, who sees beyond the obvious, took issue with their boasting and rebuked them by saying, "you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked" Our Lord had examined their hearts and pronounced them neither cold nor hot but lukewarm.
Yet, in spite of the Laodiceans' many serious shortcomings, Jesus again demonstrated His great mercy by saying, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."
When Jill refused to answer my knocking, what did she miss? Dinner. A movie. The company of an awkward, tongue-tied young man. No great loss here. But what of those who will not open the door to Jesus? They lose everything.
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Returns for his final season with the Maroon & Gold after a breakout 2011-12 campaign... Earned several preseason accolades after his first season at Iona including: Preseason Top 50 list for the John R. Wooden Award, CollegeInsider.com's Lute Olson Preseason All-America Team and the MAAC's Preseason Player of the Year. .. Also earned several postseason accolades from 2010-11: NABC All-District First Team, MBWA All-Met First Team, All-MAAC First Team, Basketball Times NCAA Newcomer of the Year, CollegeInsider.com's MAAC Player of the Year and Mid-Major All-American team, and MAAC and CollegeInsider.com Postseason All-Tournament team accolades. Extremely strong performer that also possesses great quickness in the post... Possesses good leaping ability and an excellent touch around the basket... Expanded his game in the offseason by working hard on his ball-handling and outside shooting ability… Earned the nickname "Optimus Prime" for his NYC street ball prowess during the summers... Originally attended Seton Hall University but did not meet NCAA initial eligibility requirements... Brother Anthony was a standout performer for St. John's University in the early 2000s... Averaged a team leading 18.4 points and 10.1 rebounds and was the first Iona player to average a double-double since Jeff Ruland in 1980... Was the lone Iona player to appear in and start all 37 games last season... Recorded a team-high 31 games with 10 or more points, 18 with 20 or more and four games with 30 or more including a career-best 39 vs. Canisius on Dec. 3... Led the Gaels and No. 2 in the MAAC with his scoring average... Led the MAAC and was No. 6 in the nation, shooting 61.0% from the field and No. 2 in the conference with his rebounding average... Ranked 48th in the nation in scoring, 21st in rebounding, sixth in FG%, eighth in field goals made and sixth in double-doubles... Won four MAAC Player of the Week last season.
Made his long-awaited NCAA Division I debut for the Maroon & Gold after spending 2009-10 at the College of Eastern Utah in Price, UT where he earned his associate's degree... Began his career with 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the field and 8-of-15 from the line vs. Kent State on Nov. 12... Poured in a season-high 28 points and nine rebounds vs. Cleveland State the next night... Converted 12-of-15 free throw attempts vs. the Vikings in the loss... Scored all 12 of his points in the second half vs. Bryant going 3-for-4 from the field and 6-for-8 from the line... Also recorded a season-best four blocks vs. the Bulldogs on Nov. 14... Recorded his first double-double in Maroon & Gold with 21 points and 17 rebounds in double OT win over Richmond at home on Nov. 18... Posted seven points and six rebounds in the second half after missing most of the first due to foul trouble at Albany on Nov. 23... Had his second "20&10" and second double-double of the year with 20 points and 13 rebounds at Norfolk State on Nov. 30... Was ESPN.com's Top Player with 39 points and 14 rebounds in win over Canisius on Dec. 3... Shot 15-for-23 from the field and 9-for-11 from the line in the contest... Became the sixth player to record back-to-back 30+ point efforts with 30 points vs. Niagara on Nov. 5... Added 11 rebounds and was the second player (Jeff Ruland) to post back-to-back 30+ point, 10+ rebound efforts in school history... Missed out on becoming the first player with three straight 30+ point games with 28 points at LIU on Nov. 8... Added 10 rebounds in the win... Recorded 20 points and 12 boards vs. Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 11... Had 25 points on 9-for-11 shooting and became the first player since Nakeia Miller in 2000 to record six-straight double-doubles with 16 rebounds at No. 5 Syracuse on Dec. 18... Posted 14 points and 13 rebounds before fouling out vs. Vermont on Dec. 22... Snapped a six-game stretch with 20 or more points... Had his eighth-straight double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds vs. Hofstra on Dec. 29... Shot 7-for-7 and had eight rebounds at Siena on Jan. 3... Had a game-high 23 points and seven rebounds vs. Saint Peter's on Jan. 7... Converted first 11 field goals before snapping a streak of 18 straight with a miss on his final shot attempt... Scored a team-high 25 points with 10 rebounds in win over Saint Peter's on Jan. 9... Had 24 points while matching his season-high with 17 rebounds in a 100-96 overtime win at Rider on Jan. 14... Held to a season-low six points and just five field goal attempts vs. Marist on Jan. 16... Posted back-to-back double-doubles at Niagara (Jan. 21) and Canisius (Jan. 23)... Grabbed 13 boards and did not record a free throw attempt for the first time this season vs. Rider on Jan. 27... Had 22 points in overtime loss at Loyola on Jan. 30... Had 18 points and seven rebounds at Fairfield on Feb. 4... Had 20 points and 10 boards for his 14th double-double of the year vs. Manhattan on Feb. 7... Added 22 points and six boards with four steals vs. Siena on Feb. 11... Had 15 points at Marist on Feb. 13... Posted 12 points and 11 boards at Liberty on Feb. 19... Had nine points and 11 boards at Saint Peter's on Feb. 25... Ended the regular season with 10 points and 13 boards vs. Fairfield on Feb. 27... Posted 31 points and 11 rebounds shooting 12-for-18 from the field vs. Siena in the MAAC quarterfinal round on Mar. 5... Added 12 points, eight rebounds and three assists vs. Rider in the semifinal round on Mar. 6... Posted a team-high 23 points and completed his 18th double-double of the year with 11 rebounds, shooting 9-for-12 from the field in the championship game vs. Saint Peter's on Mar. 7... Named to the All-Tournament team after averaging 22.0 points and 10.0 rebounds in the three games at the MAAC Championship... Posted 17 points and 11 rebounds and shot 8-for-10 from the field in the Gaels' win at Valparaiso in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament on Mar. 16... Held to just eight points and four rebounds in a CIT quarterfinal win over Buffalo on Mar. 22... Exploded for 33 points and 10 rebounds to lead Gaels to a CIT semifinal victory at East Tennessee State on Mar. 26... Posted his 21st double-double of the year with a game-high 22 points and 12 rebounds in the CIT Championship loss to Santa Clara.
Played the 2009-10 campaign at the College of Eastern Utah in Price, UT and led the team with a 17.3 points per game average... Finished second on the team with 6.9 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game... Led the Golden Eagles to a third place finish at the national tournament as well as a Region XVIII and District I Championship... Named NJCAA All-American, Region XVII Player of the Year and First Team honoree while also being named Regional Tournament MVP for his performance... Prior to CEU, signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Seton Hall University... Starred scholastically for Boys to Men Academy (Ill.) leading the squad to a prep school national championship in 2007... Teamed with 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year and Sacramento Kings standout Tyreke Evans at America Christian School in Aston, PA where he was selected to play for the New York City team in the Jordan Brand Classic Regional Game at Madison Square Garden.
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This is a discussion on Suggestions for Cargo/Tactical Pant for IWB Carry within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Does anyone have suggestions on a comfortable and rugged concealed carry pant that doesn't scream " I am carrying a gun" I went and tried ...
Does anyone have suggestions on a comfortable and rugged concealed carry pant that doesn't scream " I am carrying a gun" I went and tried on some 5.11 pants and didnt care for their fit. Thanks for the input.
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i wear old BDUs on fundays, i would recomend some Army issue style, there are more normal colors than camo
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Wear what you normally wear if you don't want to scream, "I am carrying a gun." No need to go all tactical unless you want to carry extra mags, flashlight, knife etc. Jeans, khakis, dress slacks and cargo pants work just fine.
I've got 6 pairs of 5.11 Covert Casual khaki dress pants. I use them at work every day and they are awesome. They have an elastic expandable waste band, so they easily accommodate my crossbreed IWB and Glock 23, and return to normal size when I'm not carrying.
I don't always carry two concealed S&W 500's.........JUST KIDDING!
Use one size to big cargo shorts, great for pocket carry or iwb
NO cargo or tacticool pants around my house. With 26 years of CC'n I wear what ever I allways have had for pants, jeans at work , maybe Columbia or dockers for going out, nothing special. More about a great holster and pistol sized for your needs. Those tacticool and cargo pants just SCREAM to look at you.
I normally wear something like Wrangler cargo pants or shorts. Works fine without spending extra for "tactical".
I just go one size up. I wear cargo shorts most of the time. One thing I will suggest is check how deep the front pockets are. If I can put my hand in the front pocket to the wrist I'm good. A short front pocket may make pocket carry [ with a holster of course] a bit difficult. I also have a few black shorts so when I carry the g30sf OWB[ its a thick pistol] I use the black OWB holster it helps a bit. I also wear a thin "tank top" t shirt under any outer shirt [black for the g30, helps hide it] for me it helps keep the holster of the skin when I IWB.
"If you make something idiot proof, someone will make a better idiot."
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Thanks for the responses, I agree that most tactical pants scream " gun" the only thing I liked is most had an elastic waist so I wouldn't have to buy one size up and just use them to carry. I will just try to find a quality cargo pant that has an elastic waist so I can still wear them when not carrying.
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TruSpec makes some nice cargo pants with an expandable waist, a small narrow pocket for a knife or small flashlight, a small pocket on each cargo pocket for a cell phone or mags, mag pockets inside the cargo pockets. That with a 5.11 Operator belt is ideal for CC, OWB or IWB. I was issued a couple of pairs of khaki when I was working armed security & a couple of pair of black 5.11s. The TruSpecs hold up much better although I wore the black 5.11s more so it's hard to really judge.
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I also wear cargo shorts of the standard variety. My P938 in a DeSantis pocket holster fits well in the cargo pocket for quick trips. No bulk in the front pocket.
Some shorts carry the cargo pocket in a height that makes the gun hit my knee and I just learn to avoid those brands.
If needed I can carry IWB with these shorts. Options.
Pants, I just usually wear jeans one waist size larger and carry IWB.
I suggest you try the 5.11 Tactical Covert Pants. They are just as good as any tactical pant, but they don't appear to be "tactical".
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This starts up tonight. It's your first reason to tune in to MTV this year.
Thanks for the thread, and the reminder. This one is a guilty pleasure of mine.The show moved production from Georgia to California for the third season, chasing tax credits. Usually such a transition is awkward, but I didn't notice a big difference in tonight's episode. It helps that they shipped all of the standing sets cross country.I also thought the abrupt offscreen exit of Colton Haynes was handled rather perfunctorily, going from Jackson's love for Lydia redeeming him to him leaving her in the rear view mirror as Jackson suddenly moves to London -- although the show got a great line out of it. That being said, Haynes's decision not to re-up sort of left the show in the lurch, and Jackson was always my least favorite character so I can't say he was particularly missed.I like the idea that the alpha pack didn't just randomly come to Beacon Hills, but rather that Scott poses some kind of threat that they're seeking to eliminate.
I enjoyed the season opener, and glad to see the show back. I wished I did not see the trailer, but at the same time, it has me looking even more forward to this season.
I was thinking "Derek is awfully nice to Scott", then we see why at the end. And very freaky to see the twins morph into one giant werewolf.
This show has really found its groove. I love the way the different characters weave in and out of each other's lives now. And poor Stiles -- the golden opportunity, snatched away by invisible demonic forces and an XXL condom.
Yeah, I felt bad for Stiles as well. Just insult to injury, after what he had to go through last season, with Lydia.
Season 3 is looking very promising, and looking to be as good as the previous seasons. Should not be long until the truth is revealed to Allison, about her mother.
Stiles (by the pool): Lydia, you okay?Lydia: I'm okay. That. Overt here. NOT okay.Stiles: Yeah, alright, I'm gonna call my dadLydia: I already called 9ll...Stiles: You called the police before you called me?Lydia: I'm supposed to call you first when I find a dead body.Stiles: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm so happy this is a summer series, because it's become one of my true summer pleasures. The way all of the characters worked together in tonight's plan was a great victory lap for this cast of characters.
Alison is quite the female archer, yet never gets mentioned in the same breath as Katinass, Merida, or even Charlie (from "Revolution"), even though she came before all of them.
And now, Beacon Hills probably has another threat, in addition to the pack of alphas, with the human sacrifices.
I love that the show has become about these four high school acquaintances who have been exposed to all of this horrific supernatural shit and come out the other side this cohesive sort of unit. There's the wolf packs, and then there's Scott's pack. And so far, Scott's pack has the best track record. I love that with Scott and Allison they don't endlessly play the will-they-won't-they bit. They've reached a point in their relationship where regardless of whether they're involved romantically or sexually, they take the time to make sure things are alright between them. Scott and Allison are each the most important person in each other's lives, regardless of how you label that. The lust and the pining are gone, and what you've got left is a sort of mature mutual understanding.I also don't miss Jackson at all. It shoots the whole love triangle jealousy thing right out the window. That didn't mean that Stiles and Lydia automatically became an item, but it did mean the show was free to tell different kinds of stories with them. I really like the angle the show's playing now with them as sort of colleagues in decrypting the world of monsters, magic and mayhem.
I did like how the last episode had Stiles being the one to stop Scott from blowing himself up, as oppose to the other characters, as it reminds us of the best friends relationship between the two.
And it looks like Chris Argent will no longer stay on the sidelines.
Just a heads up: Tonight's episode is "super-sized", so make sure your DVRs run from 10/9c to 11:30/10:30c.EDIT: Apparently that was just MTV misrepresenting the show on the schedule to promote their "Talking Dead" style after show.After all the hype about a big death, I thought Boyd was about the easiest option the show could have taken. That being said, I'm happy it wasn't the veterinarian, and I'm glad it wasn't Stiles or Lydia.
Pretty darn good execution on the unveiling of Lydia's true nature. Like all good reveals, looking back it seems obvious but I didn't see it coming.A banshee, a fairy woman who begins to wail if someone is about to die.It'll be interesting to see if the show keeps it there, or if she's ultimately revealed as the Morrígan.
Half the time, I don't really know what's going on with this show. You got Ducaliens and now a Durock, who I guess is the Druid, who is the hot teacher. I sometimes wish it was just werewolves and not lizard guys and all this stuff. But, I just go along with only a vague idea about what our heroes and villains are hoping to do, and even who are the heroes and villains.
I hope Stiles is now over Lydia and will get together with the feisty Hale sister. Seems to be heading there. If she lives.
The only thing working against that is the actress who plays Hale's sister was cast as Mary Queen of Scots in a new CW show about the young queen's years in the French court.I really like Lydia and Stiles together, but I don't think I'd ever really buy a passionate love affair between the two of them. I think I like them best when everybody else is being all action-hero-y and they sitting together poring over some tome trying to figure out what the hell is really going on.
I like how Stiles has no powers (really needs to stay that way), but he has become pretty fearless. He stood up to that guy yesterday--yeah, Scott was there, but he was righteously angry and said what he wanted to say.
I completely agree. If there's one character who should never ever get superpowers, it's Stiles. He's the everyman of the show, and the things that make him stand out have nothing to do with the supernatural. The best character on the show.So what are the odds that the Derek's dead little musician friend from the flashback episode and the homicidal English teacher are actually one and the same?
It would probably explain her mad-on. It would probably be better if that girl was really dead and it was just an incident that illuminated Derek's character, but I guess I could live with it. I'd say maybe love will end up saving her, but she's beyond redemption with all the people she's killed.
Well, that was probably the best option of all. The girlfriend remains dead, but her death set this all in motion.
I thought tonight's episode was the best of the season so far. All of the mythology boiled down to very personal stakes for all of the main characters. I love the evolution Allison's father has undergone over the course of the show, and I loved the little group therapy session between the parents in the root cellar. It's a nice reminder that this is the rare teen show where the parents are present, fairly intelligent and generally responsible. I loved Peter Hale acting as both angel and devil on Derek's shoulders as he weighed whether to save his sister or let her die for the greater good.
I loved loved LOVED the kiss between Stiles and Lydia. Both because it's an earned moment after two and a half seasons of build-up, and because the execution was pitch-perfect. So often, the nerdy guy gets the kiss from the popular girl out of pity or charity. This wasn't that kind of kiss at all; Stiles needed her to do something, and that's what she could think of. Because he's a major part of her life now, and she cares what happens to him. And then, having done it, she's quite surprised to discover that there's something there. And suddenly she's feeling a little awkward around him for the moment. Just a great little dance from the two quirkiest performers on the show.
And then that's reflected at the end when the children find themselves called upon to save the lives of their parents. The veternarian, who really hasdeveloped a bond with Scott, is the meaningful person to bring him back. Isaac, the good guy perennial also-ran whose been reluctantly moving into Scott's old territory, is Allison's meaningful person to bring her back. And Stiles? Well, that's Lydia of course.
I love that it's not a show about sex, it's a show about real emotional involvement. Even when the mythology starts to get convoluted, you always know exactly who each of these characters are, what they're feeling and why.
Loved the appearance of the baseball bat in last night's finale.
The music when they were reliving the pilot was fantastic.


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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
I'd Grown Accustomed to Your Face
ARTIST: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
TITLE: I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Lyrics and Chords
[ Cdim7 = ; Edim7 = ; E+ = ]
/ C Cmaj7 - C6 / Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 C6 / Dm7 Cdim7 C - /
/ F Edim7 Dm7 G7 / C Cmaj7 - C6 / Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 C6 /
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[TherapyDoc's adaption of the song from My Fair Lady]
I'd grown accustomed to his face
He almost made the day begin
I'd grown accustomed to his hiding, to his camouflage
and games
His spots, his fins, the predatory
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in
I was so used to his excitement when I'd approach his 5 gal tank
He loved a little halibut, some shrimp, tho it was rank
He'd eat his vegetables too,
I'm feeling kind of blue
Accustomed to his face.
He was serenely independent
And content before we met
Surely he could always have continued that
and yet
He's swimming somewhere else these days
He's in another phase
The Grouper's lost his gaze.
Yeah, you guessed it. The Grouper went belly up on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Or maybe the night before. Am I taking the blame? You bet. But a person has to learn not to get too attached. . . to a fish.
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5 comments:
- gem said...
My condolences. I have a beta who I'm fond of, too. I once wrote iambic pentameter about a fish. Maybe I'll have to put it on my blog.
- January 24, 2007 at 10:02 PM
- TherapyDoc said...
yup, you should!
- January 24, 2007 at 10:16 PM
- Margo said...
oh. Mom.
- January 25, 2007 at 1:42 AM
I'm sorry to hear it. Never had one, but it seems like fish don't last very long.
Not to be callous, but do you have any non-fish? If not, I have just the quaker parrot ("Demon Bird") to fill the void in your life.
- January 25, 2007 at 6:05 AM
- TherapyDoc said...
Thanks J, but I've got to keep the complications down. I'm thinking of replacing G with another fish, but not until I have a little more time to devote to it. Maybe in April. You're all the first to know, of course.
- January 25, 2007 at 6:52 AM


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The shoebox had sat for years in a bedroom closet, locked away in a safe behind the pressed suits and the shined shoes.
It was only after Jim Graney's father had died that his mother clicked open the safe, pulled out the old box, and handed it to him. "Your father would have wanted you to have this," she said.
Graney had always had more questions than answers about his father -- about the red scars on his back, about the set in his jaw when he refused to talk about the war. Graney knew some of the story locked away with that shoebox, but he didn't know it all.
He opened the lid and lifted out browned slips of paper, service records and letters, gone soft with age. And a cloth map of France, creased and yellow at the edges, with blue dashes along the beaches to show the German defenses.
"How many people did you kill in the war?" Graney and his brother would get up the courage to ask that sometimes when they threw a ball with their father or walked home with him through the Anaheim orange groves.
The answer was always the same. "You don't want to know that." And sometimes: "I would like to forget it."
James P. Graney was a John Wayne character, the kind of man who demanded respect just by walking into a room. He kept his shoes shined, his suits pressed and his children good Catholics -- no long hair, no cussing and no elbows on the table.
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He once told his awestruck sons that he carried a map of France in his helmet, and had orders to eat it if he were captured. And then, his voice dead serious, he added: "I would never be captured."
But he kept the details locked behind those same six words. You don't want to know that.
It wasn't until Jim Graney was an adult, an Army man himself, that his father began letting pieces of the story out. They'd share some beers and talk about the military, and eventually the conversation would turn to Normandy.
His father was a lieutenant, later a captain, who led one of the first platoons to hit the beach at 6:30 a.m. on D-Day. He was with the Eighth Regiment of the Fourth Infantry Division, which captured a piece of French coastline known as Utah Beach.
He told of stepping off the landing craft and onto a German mine. When nothing happened, the radioman next to him pointed out that it was made of wood, a harmless decoy.
He said resistance on the beach wasn't as bad as they had feared, and saved his strongest words for the hedgerow fighting and the forest battles that followed. He still didn't talk about some of the details, and his son knew by now not to press.
Once, an old friend came to visit and told of the time James Graney had run across a hedgerow, under fire all the way, to take out a German tank. Graney himself talked about taking new recruits out on patrol, and coming back with only a quarter of them.
He said he had made a promise to God on D-Day, that he would raise his children as good Catholics if he just made it through.
He fought across France and into the Hurtgen Forest in Germany. His division's history describes the fighting there as the bloodiest in its history and says the forest was reduced to a "twisted mass of shrapnel-torn stumps and broken trees." James Graney called it the worst place on Earth.
His war ended there. He was hit by shrapnel -- his son remembers three red lines carved into his back -- and his feet froze in the bitter cold. He was hospitalized several months before the Germans surrendered.
"Don't ever believe there was ever one person who wasn't petrified," he once told his son.
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It's been many years since his father died, but he still shakes his head at what he went through. "It was amazing."
His father kept the D-Day message from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inside that shoebox, the paper now brown with age: "The eyes of the world are upon you." He kept a translated flyer dropped on the Germans, demanding their surrender: "When our attack starts, your pillboxes will become a deathtrap for you."
He kept his service records, which show that he was a platoon commander with Company A when it landed on Utah Beach. They show, also, that he earned a Distinguished Unit Citation, a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
He kept that old map of France, the one he was ordered to eat if captured, with the blue dashes of German lines arcing across the coastline. And he kept a few letters that he wrote to his family, including one he must have written from a hospital bed:
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And then, ignoring the warning signs, he slipped into the water and swam out to the rusting remains of a landing craft left offshore -- trying to retrace the steps his father took 67 years ago today.
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