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We've discussed at length, but heck, she carries too, and we've been married 32 years, so its old stuff...just like us.
I'd discuss as soon as the time is "right".
Good luck in the dating deal.
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I have recently found myself back in the dating game after a moderate absence. The lovely young lady I am spending time with knows I carry and has no problems with it.
My question is this. How many of you have discussed what to do (seek cover, call 911, etc.) with your signif. others or spouse/responsible children, in the event of a defensive firearm situation? How soon is too soon to broach the situation?
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We've discussed at length, but heck, she carries too, and we've been married 32 years, so its old stuff...just like us.
I'd discuss as soon as the time is "right".
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I have, but that's usually a discussion best saved for a certain stage of a relationship unless the person you're dating is particularly prone to an interest in self defense for personal or professional reasons. I would discuss it at a point where the relationship was "serious" or at least "semi serious" (that point at which by either overt or tacit agreement neither party is seeing anyone else).
My wife is a Navy corpsman (HM2). That discussion was easy enough.
If she is open to the discussion, the sooner the better. At least some kind of basic plan in the event something does happen. It will be much better if she knows what to do so that so can concentrate on the threat at hand.
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Or save it for the right time in the progressing relationship UNLESS you find yourself in a questionable environment. For example, you go to the opera, and after congratulating the performers you enter the parking building only to discover it deserted and spooky. You might say, "If there's trouble, your job is to run like mad to safety and call 911 while I distract the bad guy." Details ARE important if you're training properly (Lima/JD, for example), but early in the relationship the basic goals are probably sufficient.
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If dating someone I would not revel that I was carrying for a few reasons.
But in your case she does know & the door is open for you to talk about it.
One concern would be to put too much if someone starts shooting possibilities out there.
I have family members that know I carry and feel better Im armed when potential BGs are near.
They do much better with some ignorance leaving me to yell for them to do in a code red.
You could add stress to your relationship associated with being with you.
Find the best balance that fits, she may like a full game plan so to speak
Everyone is different play it by ear. Start slowly and don't overload her with information. My wife carries too. But if I spend too much time doing this, her eyes start to glaze over the way mine do when she starts showing me upholstery swatches or paint chips. I have found that I can comment on the actions of sheeple on TV shows and in the movies. "Criminal Minds" is a gold mine.


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The middle of all that is north OC (fullerton, brea) according to google maps. How about some food @ BJ's or shootin some pool @ Q's? Or Stubricks in Fullerton? There are half decent theatres in both areas.
Or for those who want to spend a bit more, there's the Bridge theaters in Culver City. We can occupy the entire Screening room (lazy boy leathers and full bar during movie)
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Stephen Arnold Douglas was a distinguished lawyer, orator and political leader who represented the people of Illinois from 1836 to about 1861, after having been nominated for the Presidency of the United States in 1860.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short of stature but was considered by many a "giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation.
As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the Senate in the 1850s. He was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues. However, in 1854 he reopened the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which had been prohibited by earlier compromises). The protest movement against this became the Republican Party.
Douglas supported the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857, and denied that it was part of a Southern plot to introduce slavery in the Northern states; but also argued it could not be effective when the people of a territory declined to pass laws supporting it.[1] When President James Buchanan and his Southern allies attempted to pass a Federal slave code, to support slavery even against the wishes of the people of Kansas, he battled and defeated this movement as undemocratic. This caused the split in the Democratic Party in 1860, as Douglas won the nomination but a breakaway southern faction nominated their own candidate, Vice President John C. Breckinridge. Douglas deeply believed in democracy, arguing the will of the people should always be decisive.[2] When civil war came in April 1861, he rallied his supporters to the Union with all his energies, but he died a few weeks later.
Earlier career
Born Stephen Arnold Douglass in Brandon, Vermont[3] to Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk, Douglas dropped the second "s" from his name some years later.[4] He came to Illinois in 1833, was an itinerant teacher, studied law, and settled in Jacksonville. By the end of the year, he told his Vermont relatives, "I have become a Western man, have imbibed Western feelings principles and interests and have selected Illinois as the favorite place of my adoption." He served as Morgan County State's Attorney from 1834-36. Within a decade, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and was appointed registrar of the Springfield Land Office, Illinois Secretary of State, and an associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court in 1841, at age 27.[5] A leader of the majority Democratic Party, he was elected twice to Congress (1842 and 1844), where he championed expansion and supported the Mexican War. Elected by the legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1846, he was reelected in 1852 and 1858. He was challenged for his Senate position in 1858 by Abraham Lincoln, who had served with Douglas in the legislature, in a series of nationally famous debates which significantly boosted Lincoln's reputation despite his loss to Douglas.
Douglas chiefly designed the Compromise of 1850, however Henry Clay's support was needed and therefore receives much of the credit. The omnibus bill containing it did not pass Congress. Each point separately had majority support, but Northerners and Southerners combined to vote the bill down for their own reasons. Douglas passed the Compromise by dividing it into separate bills, and arranged a different majority for each.[6] He moved to Chicago, gaining wealth by marriage to a Mississippi woman who inherited a slave plantation. An avid promoter of westward expansion, and devised the land grant system that enabled the funding of the Illinois Central railroad.
Douglas always had a deep and abiding faith in democracy. "Let the people rule!" was his cry, and he insisted that the people locally could and should make the decisions about slavery, rather than the national government. He was passed over for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1852 and 1856.[7]
A deeply religious man, but one also dedicated to the enterprise of higher education, Stephen Douglas founded a Baptist Seminary in Chicago, which was called the University of Chicago in 1857. However, the University was largely destroyed by fire in 1886, leading to its closing. The Old University of Chicago was replaced in 1890 by a newly chartered university, funded largely by the Rockefeller family. The current University of Chicago later added the alumni from the previous incarnation to its graduation rolls, thereby linking the two institutions. Currently, the old Stephen Douglas founded seminary's sole remnant is a brick which is located between Weiboldt Hall and the Classics Building on the Hyde Park campus of the University.
Personal Life and Family
In person Douglas was conspicuously short (at 5 foot 4 inches and 90 pounds), but his large head and massive chest and shoulders gave him the popular sobriquet "The Little Giant". Though his voice was strong and carried far, he had little grace of delivery, and his gestures were often violent.
Douglas moved to a farm near Clifton Springs, New York and studied at Canandaigua Academy in 1832-33 (where he was honored posthumously in 1996 as a "Graduate of Distinction".) He then moved to Illinois as an itinerant teacher and soon rose in Democratic Party politics. Douglas briefly courted Mary Todd (who married Abraham Lincoln instead). Douglas became a member of the Masonic fraternity in Springfield Lodge No. 4 in Springfield, Illinois in 1839. He was a member of several Masonic organizations in Springfield. In March 1847 he married Martha Martin, the daughter of wealthy Colonel Robert Martin of North Carolina. She brought to Douglas the new responsibility of a large cotton plantation in Lawrence County, Mississippi worked by slaves. To Douglas, an Illinois senator with presidential aspirations, the management of a Southern plantation with slave labor presented a difficult situation. However, Douglas sought to escape slaveholding charges by employing a manager for his Mississippi holdings, while using the economic benefits derived from the property to advance his political career. His sole lengthy visit to Mississippi came in 1848, with only brief emergency trips thereafter.[8] The newlyweds moved their Illinois home to fast-growing Chicago in the summer of 1847. Martha Douglas died on January 19, 1853, leaving the Senator with two small sons (one of whom was Robert M. Douglas). On November 20, 1856, he married 20 year-old Adele Cutts, the daughter of James Madison Cutts and a great-niece of former U.S. First Lady Dolley Madison.[9]
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Douglas set off a tremendous political upheaval by proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. New laws were needed to allow for the settlement of the Nebraska territory. Illinois was Douglas's home state, so naturally he had invested in Chicago land, which would be made more valuable by railroads from Chicago that would serve the region, as it had been by the Illinois Central. The Missouri Compromise had guaranteed slavery would not exist there (because it was north of the 36°30' compromise line), and the Compromise of 1850 had reaffirmed this.
Leading Southern senators had met with Douglas, and had insisted on popular sovereignty as a condition for their support of the bill. Douglas's first bill had only enacted it to a limited extent, by providing that Nebraska and Kansas could enter the Union free or slave as the residents might decide; but the Southerners insisted, and Douglas discovered a "clerical error", and revised the bill.[10]
Douglas argued that the people of the territory should decide the slavery question by themselves, and that soil and climate made the territory unsuitable for plantations; which last reassured his northern supporters it would remain free. Douglas defended his doctrine of popular sovereignty[11] as a means of promoting democracy and removing the slavery issue from national politics, lest it threaten to rip the nation apart, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
Douglas and Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement on this topic in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854.[3] Although Mr. Lincoln's three hour "Peoria Speech"[4], presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery,[5] it did not stop the Act from passing.
The act was passed by Southern votes, Democratic and Whig alike, and Douglas had little to do with the final text. This was the first appearance of the Solid South, and the opponents of the Act saw it as the triumph of the hated Slave Power and formed the Republican Party to stop it.[12]
Presidential Aspirant
In 1852, and again in 1856, Douglas was a candidate for the Presidential nomination in the national Democratic convention, and though on both occasions he was unsuccessful, he received strong support. When the Know Nothing movement grew strong he crusaded against it, but hoped it would split the opposition. In 1858 he won significant support in many former Know-Nothing strongholds.[13] In 1857, he broke with President James Buchanan and the "administration" Democrats, and lost much of his support in the Southern United States, but partially restored himself to favor in the North – especially in Illinois – by his vigorous opposition to the method of voting on the Lecompton constitution, which he saw as fraudulent, and (in 1858) to the admission of Kansas into the Union under this constitution.[14]
In 1858, the United States Supreme Court – after the vote of Kansas against the Lecompton constitution – had decided that Kansas was a "slave" territory, thus quashing Douglas' theory of "popular sovereignty", he engaged in Illinois in a close and very exciting contest for the Senate seat with Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, whom he met in a series of seven famous debates which became known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. In the second of the debates, Douglas was led to declare that any territory, by "unfriendly legislation", could exclude slavery, no matter what the action of the Supreme Court. Having already lost the support of a large element of his party in the South, his association with this famous Freeport Doctrine made it anathema to many southerners, including Jefferson Davis, who would have otherwise supported it.
Before and during the debates, Douglas repeatedly invoked racist rhetoric, claiming Lincoln was for black equality and saying at Galesburg that the authors of the Declaration of Independence did not intend to include blacks. "This Government was made by our fathers on the white basis . . . made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever," he said.[15] Lincoln pointedly denied Douglas' assertion that the Declaration of Independence did not include minorities.[16]
Much of the debate was about the redefinition of republicanism. Lincoln advocated equality of opportunity, arguing that individuals and society advanced together. Douglas, on the other hand, embraced a democratic doctrine that emphasized equality of all citizens (only whites were citizens), in which individual merit and social mobility was not a main goal.[17] Douglas won the senatorship by a vote in the legislature of 54 to 46, but the debates helped boost Lincoln into the presidency.
Douglas waged a furious battle with President Buchanan for control of the Democratic party. Although Douglas was not reappointed chairman of the Senate committee on territories, he bested Buchanan throughout the North and headed into 1860 as the front runner for president.[18]
In the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, the failure to adopt a slave code to the territories in the platform brought about the withdrawal from the convention of delegations from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Texas and Arkansas. The convention adjourned to Baltimore, Maryland, where the Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland delegations left it, and where Douglas was nominated for the presidency by the Northern Democrats. He campaigned vigorously but hopelessly, boldly attacking disunion, and in the election of 1860, though he received a popular vote of 1,376,957 (2nd at 29%) he received an electoral vote of only 12 (4th and last at 4%) - Lincoln receiving 180. His support in the North came from the Irish Catholics and the poorer farmers; in the South the Irish Catholics were his main supporters.[19]
Douglas urged the South to acquiesce to Lincoln's election, and made efforts to arrange a compromise which would persuade the South to remain in the Union. As late as Christmas 1860, he wrote Alexander H. Stephens, offering to annex Mexico as a slave state as a sweetener; Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829.[20] At the outbreak of the Civil War, he denounced secession as criminal, and was one of the strongest advocates of maintaining the integrity of the Union at all hazards. At Lincoln's request, he undertook a mission to the Border States and to the Midwest to rouse the spirit of Unionism; he spoke in West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois.
Historical Disputes
Position on Slavery
For a century and a half, historians have debated whether or not Douglas opposed slavery,[21] and whether or not he was a trimmer[clarification needed] and compromiser or a devotee of principles.[22]
Douglas married into a slaveholding family (as did Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant), but the issue is whether he supported slavery as a matter of public policy. In his "Freeport Doctrine" of 1858 he repeatedly insisted that he did not care whether slavery was voted up or down, but only that the people had the right to vote it up or down. He denounced as sacrilegious and undemocratic the petitions signed by thousands of clergymen in 1854 who said the Nebraska Act offended God's will.[23] He rejected the Republican notions that slavery was condemned by a "higher law" (Seward's position) or that the nation could not long survive half slave and half free (Lincoln's position). He disagreed with the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that Congress had to protect slavery in the territories, regardless of what the people there thought. When Buchanan supported the Lecompton Constitution and thus adopted the pro-slavery position on Kansas, Douglas fought him relentlessly in a long battle that gave Douglas the 1860 Democratic nomination but ripped his party apart.
Historian Allan Nevins was harsh on Douglas, "When it [slavery] paid it was good," wrote Nevins, "and when it did not pay it was bad." Nevins consequently judged that Douglas did not "regard a slaveholding society as one whit inferior to a free society." All in all, Nevins rather brutally assessed what he called Douglas's "dim moral perceptions."[24] Graham Peck finds that several scholars have given brief opinions to the effect that Douglas was personally opposed to slavery, none of them with "extensive arguments to justify the conclusion". He cites some more recent scholarship as (equally briefly) finding Douglas "insensitive to the moral repugnance of slavery" or even "proslavery". He himself finds, however, that Douglas was the "ideological [and] practical head of the northern opposition to the antislavery movement" and questions whether Douglas "opposed black slavery for any reason, including economics". Harry Jaffa thought Douglas was tricking the South with popular sovereignty—telling Southerners it would protect slavery but believing the people would actually vote against it. Johannsen found Douglas "did not regard slavery as a moral question; at least, he never condemned the institution in moral terms either publicly or privately." However he "privately deplored slavery and was opposed to its expansion (and, indeed, in 1860 was widely regarded in both North and South as an antislavery candidate), he felt that its discussion as a moral question would place it on a dangerous level of abstraction." [25]
1861 Lincoln Inauguration
Starting with Josiah Gilbert Holland's 1866 Life of Abraham Lincoln, a number of sources recount an anecdote in which Douglas holds Lincoln's hat during Lincoln's first inaugural address. If true, this short story speaks volumes about both the power of the moment and the character of Stephen A. Douglas. After all, Douglas and Lincoln were well-known rivals for both the senate and, just a few months earlier, for the presidency. In fact, the bitterly contested election of 1860 which had culminated in seven states seceding from the union set the stage for the event. For decades, many scholars viewed the story with skepticism mainly due to its all-too-perfect romantic appeal. In 1959, writing for American Heritage Magazine, the same Allan Nevins who was so critical of Douglas's position on slavery, reported the discovery of two independent contemporary sources that corroborated the story.[26]
Death and legacy
Douglas died in Chicago from typhoid fever on June 3, 1861. He was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan. The site was afterwards bought by the state, and an imposing monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave. His birthplace in Brandon, Vermont has been turned into a Museum and Visitor Center.
Today, there are Douglas Counties in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin. There is Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, and the city of Douglas, Georgia is also named for him, but it is not located in his namesake county; the city of Douglas is found in Coffee County. The county seat of Georgia's Douglas County is, fittingly, Douglasville.
In Wyoming, the County Seat of Converse County is named in honor of him. The town of Douglas is located in east/central Wyoming on the banks of the North Platte River.
Historiographical disputes
For a century and a half, historians have debated whether or not Douglas opposed slavery,[27] and whether or not he was a trimmer and compromiser or a devotee of principles.[28]
Dean (1995) argues he was totally devoted to grass roots democracy, "The much maligned senator for Illinois deserves to be remembered for the fervor of his convictions as well as his devotion to the Union: I will stand on the great principle of popular sovereignty, which declares the right of all people to be left perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way. I will follow that principle wherever its logical consequences may take me and I will endeavor to defend it against assault from any and all quarters."[29]
Douglas married into a slaveholding family (as did Lincoln, Fremont and Grant), but the issue is whether he supported slavery as a matter of public policy. In his "Freeport Doctrine" of 1858 he repeatedly insisted that he did not care whether slavery was voted up or down, but only that the people had the right to vote it up or down. He denounced as sacrilegious and undemocratic the petitions signed by thousands of clergymen in 1854 who said the Nebraska Act offended God's will.[30] He rejected the Republican notions that slavery was condemned by a "higher law" (Seward's position) or that the nation could not long survive half slave and half free (Lincoln's position). He disagreed with the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that Congress had to protect slavery in the territories, regardless of what the people there thought. When Buchanan supported the Lecompton Constitution and thus adopted the pro-slavery position on Kansas, Douglas fought him relentlessly in a long battle that gave Douglas the 1860 Democratic nomination but ripped his party apart.
Historian Allan Nevins was negative on Douglas, "When it [slavery] paid it was good," wrote Nevins, "and when it did not pay it was bad." Nevins consequently judged that Douglas did not "regard a slaveholding society as one whit inferior to a free society." All in all, Nevins rather brutally assessed what he called Douglas's "dim moral perceptions."[31] Graham Peck finds that several scholars have given brief opinions to the effect that Douglas was personally opposed to slavery, none of them with "extensive arguments to justify the conclusion". He cites some more recent scholarship as (equally briefly) finding Douglas "insensitive to the moral repugnance of slavery" or even "proslavery". He himself finds, however, that Douglas was the "ideological [and] practical head of the northern opposition to the antislavery movement" and questions whether Douglas "opposed black slavery for any reason., including economics". Harry Jaffa thought Douglas was tricking the South with popular sovereignty�telling Southerners it would protect slavery but believing the people would actually vote against it. Johannsen found Douglas "did not regard slavery as a moral question; at least, he never condemned the institution in moral terms either publicly or privately." However he "privately deplored slavery and was opposed to its expansion (and, indeed, in 1860 was widely regarded in both North and South as an antislavery candidate), he felt that its discussion as a moral question would place it on a dangerous level of abstraction." [32]
- From Stephen Douglas Ass'n:
Stephen A Douglas was 20 yrs old in 1833 when he left his native VT for frontier state of IL, where he arrived penniless & w/o friends. W/in yr Douglas began practicing law in Morgan Co. Young lawyer was zealous admirer of Andrew Jackson, & his defense of Jackson earned him nickname "Little Giant." From obscure beginning in IL politics, Douglas eventually became 1of nation's most powerful politicians & 1 of finest legislators in IL history. He was mbr Gen'l Assembly 1836-1837. In 1837 he made Registrar of Land Office in Springfield. Douglas served as Sec of State 1840 until appointment to IL Supreme Crt in 1841. He was elected to Congress in 1843 & Senate in 1847. As senator, Douglas was influential in guiding nation through turbulent era bef Civil War. As "western" senator, Douglas wanted legislation that would benefit both his section & IL. He was early advocate of transcontinental railroad w/Chicago as terminus. Douglas fought for northern route even though southern route seemed most logical. It was to this end that he introduced KS-NE bill in 1854. To obtain southern support for his plan, Douglas allowed repeal of MO Compromise, which prohibited extension of slavery north of MO. Northern opposition to repeal of MO Compromise was unexpected blow for Douglas. Senator believed slavery issue would be settled either by climatic conditions or popular sovereignty. Douglas was influential in developing Compromise of 1850, which provided popular sovereignty in territories. Under this plan each territory was to decide by mandate of its voters if slavery would be acceptable. Although sovereignty seeemd democratic, it ultimately failed; neighboring slave states & free states sent voters into territory on election day to stuff ballot boxes. Border warfare also resulted from 2 sides trying to gain upper hand. KS was such battleground. Term "Bloody KS" has been used ever since to depict struggle that ensued. Douglas ran for re-election to US Senate in 1858. His opponent was little-known IL politician named Abraham Lincoln. Two conducted their now-famous series of debates during campaign. Lincoln Douglas debates offered each candidate opportunity to further express his opinion abt slavery question. Lincoln was not abolitionist, but he did want to stop slavery from spreading into new areas. Douglas, who had seen secesion movement in 1850, believed to prohibit spread of slavery by legislation was to invite civil war. Douglas won re-election in 1858. Debates, however, brought Lincoln into nat'l prominence. Two men from IL faced each other again in 1860 presidential election. Douglas had waited long time to be Democratic presidential candidate, but was defeated because of badly divided party. Aft Lincoln's victory, Douglas went south to make personal appearances for sectional reconciliation. Times proved to be too volatile, & Douglas failed to slow secessionist movement.
Information about Stephen Douglas' children supplied by Glenda Douglas who researched the details at University of Illinois Stephen Douglas Papers
Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator's Timeline
April 23, 1813
Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, United States
January 1849
Age 35
November 1850
Age 37
January 1853
Age 39
Age 45
June 3, 1861
Age 48
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay volleyball team begins its quest for a 2011 Horizon League Championship on Friday night, when the sixth-seeded Phoenix (11-17, 7-9 HL) takes on third-seeded Butler (15-13, 11-5 HL) at 7 p.m. in Milwaukee.
Butler swept a pair of matches against the Phoenix in 2011, winning 3-0 in Indianapolis on Oct. 9 and claiming a 3-2 decision at the Kress Center on Nov. 3. In the most recent match against the Bulldogs, senior Abbey Gitter (Hortonville, Wis.) had 13 kills and helped the Phoenix rally from a 2-0 deficit, but Butler won the fifth set 15-10.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by armygirl, Oct 5, 2010.
They would have to make a "no crowbar" rule within the city limits first...
Hottest team in the L comes with a price! C'mon stroke ..... Sweet! Are the Ice Capades included in this estimation? I think Nemo should be banned until he can learn how to upload pictures. The curiosity drives me crazy.
Ernie, that is Nancy Kerrigan.
It looks like he figured it out this time. Good job, Nemo!!
Thank you..... I'm getting the X still.......
Sounds like a personal problem.
Can people see this?
yep i see the picture of Tatar after the Iowa game....
You mean Dath Tatar?
That was such a ridiculous moment in history. It was appalling that happened to Kerrigan.
Can you see this one?? YouTube - Nancy Kerrigan Ferret Slide
I can't view YouTube at work................
Don't allow them to control you like that......
Talks falling apart? Former Pistons bidders brought back in? - Scoop Du Jour - NBA - Yahoo! Sports Ernie, maybe this means your man, 5-button polo Gores, is back in the picture.
Re: Talks falling apart? I liked this follow-up comment:
Re: Talks falling apart? Yeah he is. Never count out a man who can wear a t-shirt with a torn collar along with a blazer.
Re: Talks falling apart? Mrs D: Tom, I'm sorry but we've been talking to the Illitch's and it's looking like we're moving toward a deal with them. Tom Gores: (says nothing, tilts head to the right at a precise 37 degree angle) Mrs D: ...umm, ...awe heck Tom, you're absolutely still in the running. Let's see your latest proposal.
That's what I'm talking about! Winners never quit baby!!! Karen Davidson has reopened Pistons sale | detnews.com | The Detroit News
With possible strife amongst the players, and a rough start to the season, Illitch most likely lowered his offer once he had the exclusive rights to bargain for that month. My biggest concern as a prospective buyer would be the lip service that Joe is providing about the status of the team. I'm guessing that concerned Illitch also and as a result, he backed away from his original offer. This is not good for the team as this could drag on until well after the holidays...if it gets done this season at all. Just think of what happens to the price of the team if a strike rears its ugly head...
My guess is that Gores want a team so bad, he may in fact pay the price to get his team. If Illitch is bluffing, he is playing with fire and may just back fire on him. Then again, he may have read the same articles that we have been reading regarding the disarray and dysfunction of the team.
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As he gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do that, Vincent also transforms those around him: Maslow, who fears that heroism has become a desk job; Bonnie Kalen, the foundation's fund-raiser, a divorced single mother and a devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice; and Bonnie's teenage son, Danny, whose take on the world around him is at once openhearted, sharp-eyed, and as fundamentally decent as his mother's.
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I certainly began with him. I was on the subway in New York once, and I saw these two very young skinheads all dressed up, with jackboots and shaved heads and I noticed that they looked terrified, like they'd been dropped from Mars. It was very clear to me that they were out of their element; this was not their home territory at all. That made me curious about who they were and what kind of people they were. Then I began to do research.
It's strange how life imitates art. Later I was in an elevator in Manhattan, and there was a middle-aged guy with his hair growing over tattoos on his head it looked as if a swastika had been there, and the laser removal hadn't done a good job. I thought this is my character, 10 years later.
Were there other topics you were keeping in mind as you wrote?
My aim was to write about this character, but I wasn't necessarily writing about neo-Nazis. I was writing about what it means to be a good person, what it means to change and how our culture hypes this change, this growing. As I was writing, I was dealing with the nature of American culture and the way in which anything can be turned into a publicity scam. Everyone in the novel is scamming to a degree. And more so than hatred, there's the idea of class resistance.
There's an element of suspense as to whether (and how much) Vincent will change did you know what he would do, or did that emerge as you wrote?
You hear writers say that their characters have a life of their own, and I had this experience with this book more than any other. Once I set these characters up and put them into motion, I really had no idea what would happen. The challenge was figuring out what Vincent's inner life is, his moral life how he distinguishes between good and evil, and what conscience is.
The American obsession with celebrity and redemption is put under the microscope here Bonnie's son, Danny, even becomes an object of this toward the end. How difficult do you think this obsession makes it for people to truly examine their beliefs?
It makes it much more difficult. If the mirror you're looking at yourself in is a TV talk show where by the end of the hour [the guest's] soul is revealed and people resolve to live new lives, and the reality of your own life is quite different, it's got to be discouraging.
I noticed that there are very few scenes in fiction where people are watching TV, there's the moment late in the book where Bonnie and her kids are watching themselves on TV, and I thought this was something I definitely wanted to do.
Did you intend to push readers' buttons?
I knew I had a risky topic, but I hope that the minute readers meet these characters, they'll feel about them the way I do. I have compassion for them, I never think of myself as having a moral. But certainly what seems so important to me now is what it seems we're losing in our culture: the very basic ability to empathize, to feel that others are human beings just as we are, though they may look different and have a different set of beliefs. Everything, to me, comes from that: civility, democracy, civic responsibility, and peace.
Ending the book where you did, with the suggestion of a future between Vincent and Bonnie, what do you think might have happened with them?
Who knows stranger marriages have taken place! I was very sorry to finish the book. But as a writer I like endings like Chekhov's story "Lady with a Dog," ending with a beginning it's perfect.


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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
(slight edits, btw not posted at 9:30 pm it's 5:43 in the morining here - uk BST)
a) catching up on pending zine trades, I should get them in the post this week.
Got zines dug out of the box ready (had hassle putting everything back again), found charity/activist flyers etc (& a lost pack of stickers & badges). Need to get /trade for some zine/distro/more radical type activism ones etc. flyers & need some American/non-British ones.
Managed to get flyers photocopied down the library (I'll be fucked if they close, now my printer/scanners part borked, unless I can get a decent cheap all-in-one replacement - theirs is the only hands on photocopier in town now.) + some photocopy fuckery experimenting w/ settings and how some layouts'll look copied.
need to shrink one to fit the page margins - forgot to do that arrgh).
Did some photoshop fuckery (well PSP) earlier, experimenting with splitting channels for b/w conversion + photocopy filter & resizing photos to print larger. Got a good fake grain effect out of one that was pixellised,
and a perfect picture of Joe looking like a right seedy hack (or a gangster - if there's any difference '-) )
Did the "Vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie" line really come from The News Of The World?
c) cut up zine flyers with my rotary cutting thing - it actually works for a change.
taken more photos, can't upload them yet as it involve sd card swappery and editing.
b) Decided I'm going to have to completely redo several pages of finished layout - used too many different fonts.
c) confused about riots
wondering if I should ditch/heavily rework some existing articles/artwork or at least add foot/endnotes/massive disclaimers or updates.
Def gonna change the name but not sure if I'll do it for next issue or for the first one with freshly written content.
(eta: need to make it really clear where I stand, going after the wrong targets /& harming your own is not on)
d) Been messing around with Lego & Doctor Who mini-figures, (currently head swapping a punk, Dalek and Cyberman). Considering doing a photocomic type thing with speech bubbles of the "repression...gonna be a dalek" bits of Complete Control & Daleks' 'answering' "...I am a robot...I obey". (There's a good free - iirc - version of the old spikey Dalek comic font out there somewhere - if I can find it again.
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I was a horrible due date club member as I mostly lurked but wanted to announce the arrival of our sweet girl (team green) Reese Joy. She came almost two weeks ago on 2/27 at 2:27 am :), can't believe she's that old already! She was 8lbs 11oz and 20 1/2 inches long. Having three kids is crazy...that's for sure but I've never recovered so fast from a birth and never had a better nurser! Here is my story as posted to my friends and family on FB...
I started to write down Reese's birth story as a letter to her in my journal and realized to include every detail I want to share with her when she's grown it was going to be very long! Since that is taking a while and I have been asked by many people for her birth story I'm putting the short (haha, it's not really short) version here.
Saturday I was 42 weeks and had contractions all day. We spent the day as a family, I really enjoyed being out with our kids and with Nick. Even though my contractions were inconsistent and not yet painful I had a feeling we shouldn't keep the kids with us overnight. I thought if I didn't have to worry about caring for them my body would feel the freedom from responsibility and I would go into labor. That evening we dropped the kids off at my parents, went to Panera and enjoyed dinner just the two of us and walked around best buy. I was right in my thinking: as soon as the kids were with my parents my contractions became more regular. We got a movie at best buy and went home to watch it. While the contractions were more regular and hurt a little they were not consistent enough to call labor and certainly weren't painful. If I needed to I could easily walk and talk through them. At 10:30 we went to bed. I was afraid of waking up in the morning once again disappointed because I wasn't in labor. I was wrong!
Two hours later at 12:30 I woke up with my first PAINFUL contraction. Our condo was cold and I was shaking horribly which made it hard to use my relaxation. Right away I was afraid that I wasn't handling things well and that I was being a big wuss. I had two natural births in my past and didn't understand why it was hurting so bad already. I got warmed up which helped me but I rushed Nick to finish packing our bags and kept telling him we would need to leave for the hospital soon. He was a wonderful coach and part of his job was to keep me at home as long as possible. This was my desire...I hate being in the hospital and all the things they tie you down with. I wanted the freedom to labor naturally in my own space and Nick tried his best to remind me of that. Despite his best efforts of telling me it wasn't time, my contractions weren't long enough, we hadn't been having them long enough to see if they would go away I argued it was time to go. He called cousin Barb who had always been our trusty doula and she agreed we were very far away from going to the hospital. During all this with each contraction I would relax, take deep breaths, I liked standing and just swaying my hips, I called it my dance. We packed, I tried to distract myself with the computer, we timed contractions and I argued more that we had to go to the hospital. Looking back it feels like it was 15 minutes. Everything was so rushed and fast. From the time I woke up the contractions were 1 1/2 to 2 minutes apart but never got longer then 45 seconds..most were around 30 seconds. Not long enough to really do anything...right?
About an hour after the first contraction I followed my intuition and insisted we go to the hospital. I think Nick was disappointed but didn't try and talk me out of it anymore. We got in the truck and took off. In between contractions I called my mom, spoke to the doctor, and called Barb. Contractions were still close together but still very short. They were intense though, I vocalized a lot through them...and around Shell Beach the vocalizing turned into grunting and the grunting into pushing. Nick who had been coaching me the whole time we drove told me not to fight the contractions, to breath deep and relax. I said "I'm not fighting them, I'm pushing" His response was "Well don't push!!" With each contraction the urge to push was greater and I couldn't control it. At one point I told him to pull over because the baby was coming out (it's hard to tell how fast you are progressing sitting in a truck!) and he said no and started driving a lot faster. I pushed just enough to work with what my body was doing and control the pain. I could feel her moving down and as each contraction ended I could feel her head retract just a bit. By the time we got off the freeway I could feel her descending and knew we were a push or two from crowning. We pulled up in front of the ER and ran inside, they brought me a wheelchair. I told them I couldn't sit in it, the baby was crowing. I braced myself on the arms of the wheelchair, squatted down right inside the ER door and pushed...I could feel her crowing and yelled about it burning. The ER nurse told me I had to get on the gurney, I explained I couldn't do that with a head between my legs and she (almost) yelled at me to do it anyway. I got up and they wheeled me as fast as they could down the hall. Nick stood there for a second not sure what to do about the car...I yelled back at him "Don't leave me, our baby is coming out" A nurse took his keys to move the truck for him and he joined me in the race down the hall. They got me into a delivery room, I pointed out somebody should get my pants off. Nick did so and with one more push her head was out. The nurse told me to keep pushing and I couldn't...had to wait for the next contraction. It came and I yelled with all my might, pushed with all my might and there she was! Everyone just looked at her for a second and I asked to hold my baby. They put her on my chest and I fell in love. Nick checked to see what we had and announced "It's a girl!" I was overjoyed! She was delivered by two nurses on the gurney just inside the door of the delivery room. She was born two hours after the start of labor.
It was an amazing experience. Coaching myself through pushing and being the only one knowing how much progress was being made was incredible. I experienced birth in a way I never had before, with no one telling me what was going on or instructing me (except Nick's comforting words) I just listened to my body and gave into what it told me to do. I have felt amazing ever since. While it was a little scary to push on the freeway I wouldn't change her story a bit. Birth was meant to be experienced, I loved not being monitored, or plugged into an IV. I loved pushing when my body said push, not when someone told me to. I loved bringing her into the world with freedom to do so in whatever way I wanted!
Bonding with her started as soon as I was pregnant. It continued at the end of my first trimester when I was bleeding and we were afraid of losing her, it got stronger as I felt her first kicks and as I shared those kicks with my loved ones. I bonded to her as I begged her to finally come out so I could meet her. But the bonding of her birth was much more powerful then all of that. Every pain that my body felt was getting closer to bringing her into our world and the feeling of her leaving my body and entering my arms is a feeling I will never forget and I am so grateful that I was able to experience it!
We had a photographer at the birth (well she made it as her body came out) here is a link to the pictures she blogged...
Congrats! Great birth story!
just beautiful mama! congrats!!!
I really enjoyed reading your birth story!
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Great story! I love the pics too, your friend did a good job. Congratulations!
Alicia, wife to an loving and faithful DH, and mama to three fantastic though nutty children (cs, then a fast HBAC, then a fast VBAC!!). Planning a third VBAC, again at home, in February 2016.
CONGRATS!!! Your pics are gorgeous. I can totally relate to your birth story. We didn't make it to the hospital and I loved not being hooked up to a bunch of stuff. Looking back (Mariana was born the day before Reese), I love that no one was there telling what to do. I just did it :)
Congrats again!!!!
Corrie, "trad" Catholic, wife to DH and Mom to DD (4/07), DS (2/09), DD (2/11), DD (4/13), two angel babies.
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I refer to you as a child because your reasoning and debating skills are childish. Sorry if you're offened.
The WMD and intel on terrorists have not just been found, as you may have been led to believe. The fact that the administration doesn't feel obliged to share everything with you must come as a surprise, and I'm sure it is.
No, you don't have permission to be an asshole, but I see that fact hasn't stopped you from doing so.
Using National Guard units to augment Regular military troops is not a "backdoor" draft, it one of the main purposes of the organization.
"Sending kids somewhere to die" is a rather simplistic way of looking at strategic deployment of our forces, but I've come to the conclusion that you know very little about what is going on, and care even less about opposing points of view.
It's obvious that you've been impressed by someone at your school who has a similarly small view of things. It's a shame, because you probably aren't so bad in person. However, you should attempt to become a more well-rounded person in terms of your political views....all things in moderation,as they say.
Don't for a minute think that things are as they appear.....life,and politics, are certainly not what you hear in your classes or see on TV. But I guess you have that all figured out, huh?
Keep your powder dry....you're going to need it.
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Earlier this year, Katherine Heigl and husband Josh Kelley adopted their second daughter - Adelaide - and on Thursday night, the actress explained it came as a happy surprise.
"This was fascinating because we started the adoption process again and we thought we were gonna adopt internationally. It's a pretty long process. It can take years," Katherine said on Thursday's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" of their initial plans to find a sibling for Naleigh, now 4.
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"And then we started exploring because we had heard that Korea had gotten very hard to adopt from, and China had a very, very long waiting list and I was like (taps wrist), any day now," she continued. "And so we started exploring the idea of domestic adoption - just exploring - and then my lawyer called and said, 'There's a birth mother and she's due in four weeks and she's all yours if you want her.'"
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Shares in Ophir — of which Mittal Investments owns 14% — rocketed 16%, valuing the tycoon's stake at £235 million.
Ophir is exploring the region in partnership with BG the former exploration arm of British Gas. It is the fourth gas find for the partnership and the biggest in Ophir's history.
The discovery at the Jodari-1 well has an estimated 3.4 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas — more than 150% of the 2.2 trillion originally estimated.
Nick Cooper, chief executive of Ophir, said: "These results are important for the future development of Tanzanian offshore industry and for the Ophir-BG partnership." He described it as a "very strong start" for the five-well drilling campaign in the area.
BG shares also rose on the news, gaining 15.5p — 1% — to 1507p.
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I'm 159cm and 62kgs somewhat advanced beginner (i think). I can comfortably link turns. Currently just trying to make my turns tighter and more dynamic.
I mostly ride in Aus but have gone to NZ and Japan as well. I normally stay clear of parks but enjoys everything else.
Thanks for the advice Neni, I've never thought about the highbacks. Currently the Escapade seems to fit my nike boots perfectly in terms of width so I'll be interested on how the mens version differs! I'll see if there are any demo stands when I go.
I assume you're pretty tall, noob to snowboarding and riding NZ? You'd need to give more info about your stats, experience, riding style... then someone knowing the Genesis can chime in to estimate, if the binding could match your purpose. I haven't ridden the Genesis thus only general comments.
Equivalent is a wide term Size (lenght) wise, yes. Expect the men's M to be a bit wider than the women's M. I'm all in to ride men's gear, IMO "women specific desing" is partly marketing blabla... However, a problem women could face with men's boots n bindings is that women - in general - have ower calf muscles thus women's boots have a different boot leg cut and women's bindings a lower highback in order to avoid pinching of the calf. I've tried some men's boots but the higher boot leg did pinch my calves; I've also tried several men's bindings and some work very well (the ones with rather low highback). Best would be to demo the binding with your boot to check, if the highback works for you.
thanks for the reply ! I have heard that a little bit of overhang is actually good but paranoid me felt like it was a little too much.
I will be heading up to the mountain this weekend so I will be testing the setup then
also i was just wondering if anyone know if a M in Burton Men's binding is equivalent to a L in Burton Women's binding? Reason I ask is that there seems to be better colorways and deals with the mens binding and i was tossing between the Genesis and Escapade which looks like the same exact binding.
Looks fine, tho the pics are bit dark.
Actually a bit of overhang is an advantage as you get the point where you put most pressure (which are your foot balls and not toes) closer to the board edge = more leverage. As long as only the toes do overhang and your foot ball is still located on the gas pedal of the binding, it's fine.
Toe - and heel - overhang is only a problem when you tilt the board extremely in relation to the slope: if you carve hard or traversing steeps.
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binding size help
hi guys, i know this topic has been done to death but i just need a little help with my setup please
What I have:
size 8.5 Mens Nike Boots
size L Burton Escapade Reflex Bindings (im female)
152 NS Proto
I seem to be getting a lot of toe overhang with my setup. Pics attached.
The toe of the boot seems to stick out quite a bit in comparison to the bindings footbed. I have extended the footbed as far as i could >< Do I have anything to be concerned about?
Should I be using men's binding to help with the overhang?
any help is greatly appreciated!
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After first being elected president of Russia, Vladimir Putin pushed through new laws which empowered governors to appoint senators who served in the Federation Council of Senators. Naturally, Putin appointed the governors who appointed the senators. This was simply what is known as "Putin Democracy." After all, how could one have a functioning democracy if senators opposed the views of the president? Just look at the situation in the American Congress.
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Beet Chips
Skin the high-fat snacks at your next party. Instead make these healthy homemade chips.
- Servings: 4
Source: Everyday Food, January/February 2010
- 2 medium beets
- 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Peel beets and slice 1/16 inch thick with a mandoline. In a large bowl, toss beets with extra-virgin olive oil.
On two rimmed baking sheets (or use one sheet and bake in two batches), arrange beets in a single layer. Stack another rimmed baking sheet on top of each. Bake until edges of beets begin to dry out, about 20 minutes. Uncover and rotate sheets. Bake 10 to 20 minutes, removing chips as they become lightened in color. Transfer to a wire rack; chips will crisp up as they cool.