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>Racing>How Many Times Do You Stop to Pee During a Marathon?
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I finally think I got the hydration right at my last marathon, but I had to stop a couple of times, which may or may not have had anything to do with missing my goal by 1:51 (took me a bit to settle back into my pace after each stop). Wondering if this is something that is commonly avoided, and if so, how.
MTA: Somehow my last choice, "6 or more," didn't make it into the poll, so if that's you, just mention it in a post. And maybe get your prostate checked. (I keed, I keed)
"God guides us on our journey, but careful with those feet." - David Lee Roth, of all people
I'm hoping that for most people "How Many Times Do You Stop to Pee During a Marathon?" is the same question as "How Many Times Do You Pee During a Marathon?"
For me, it is typically 1x (somewhere between miles 13-18).
Only took me 13 years to figure out the hydration/fueling that works for me. Water or sportsdrink every 2 miles. Alternate each every stop. No gatorade unless it's mixed 50/50 w/ water. Don't stop to pee. The times I've stopped was when I wasn't racing/running to my potential.
Get off my porch
I drink a lot and have stopped to pee on probably 90% of all my runs ever. But in my last marathon I got away with only one stop. At the start, I found some porta potties at the very back of all the corrals that were not that populated, so I kept going in and out of those as the time lead up to the race. Then I went to the porta potties on the side of my corral and went in there when everyone else was in the corrals. I was inside at the starting gun and jumped in again when my corral was starting. I came out running and caught up with the back end of my corral at the start line. At mile 10-12 I was looking for trees but then spotted a park bathroom that was maybe 150 ft off the road so I used that without having to wait in line.
In 14 marathons I've never stopped to pee. I really, really hope I didn't just jinx myself. The way I avoid it is by not over-hydrating and peeing as close to the start as possible.
Runners run.
I'm hoping that for most people "How Many Times Do You Stop to Pee During a Marathon?" is the same question as "How Many Times Do You Pee During a Marathon?"
For at least one individual I've witnessed on the course, it isn't. He wasn't a slob about it, though...took the time to pull his waistband down as he went, so the smell didn't follow him.
Of the 3 marathons I have done so far, never had to stop.
A big mistake I see some folks making is drinking alot of gatorade or water right before the race starts. That all runs through and I am sure they feel it by mile 3...
The Plan '15 → /// "Run Hard, Live Easy." ∞
For at least one individual I've witnessed on the course, it isn't. He wasn't a slob about it, though...took the time to pull his waistband down as he went, so the smell didn't follow him.
Less smelly, more creepy.
7 marathons....1 stop.....My very first marathon. And that was after I TRIED (I mean I really TRIED) to pee while running. Couldn't do it. It's the only time I've ever had to stop during a race of any distance.
Anyway....After that marathon, I figured out that I need to stop drinking about an hour and a half before the gun....then I take a few sips of water right before the gun goes off. I drink at every aid station (sometimes a sip, sometimes a lot).
Of course, I'm really slow, so it takes me awhile to get through these races.
Marathon Maniac #6740
Goals for 2015:
Run 3 marathons (modified: Run 2 marathons--Lost Dutchman 02/2015 and Whiskey Row 05/2015)
Run a 50-miler (Ran a 53.8 mile race 11/14/2015)
Run 1,500 miles (uhhh...how about 1,400?)
Stay healthy
In 20 marathons, 0 pee stops.
Mikey already said it, don't overhydrate. In big races where they trap you in a big corral 20 minutes before the start and you have no hope of getting to the porta-john I take with me a 32 oz empty gatorade bottle. Under a trash bag, this is very discrete. Little harder to be discrete without a trash bag, but you can use your imagination that it's possible with your running shorts as cover and male anatomy to also pull this off without getting arrested. A 24 oz bottle is insufficient I discovered empirically at the 2004 Boston Marathon.
Running the Marine Corps Marathon in 2007 I got caught in no-mans-land with before the start and without my trusty gatorade bottle and had to pee the entire race. Very very uncomfortable and nearly disastrous at the end hobbling around the finish area in search of a porta john. By far this was my closest call.
- Joe
We are fragile creatures on collision with our judgment day.
Very very uncomfortable and nearly disastrous at the end hobbling around the finish area in search of a porta john. By far this was my closest call.
Optimal pacing!
What about dumping?
(i.e., making cocky)
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
My last marathon I had to pee before the race and the bathroom had like 40 men standing there waiting. Instead I just went in the parking lot behind the car door. After this I was good the whole race. I saw a guy pass me early on maybe mile 2-3 and by mile 7-8 I witnessed him stop to piss twice. If he didn't stop I would have not caught up with him. Probably cost him a good 2-3 minutes.
5k = 19.48 10/1/13
10k = 45.28 4/16/13
Half Marathon = 1:38.53 Summer Sizzle 7/13/14
Operation Jack Marathon 12/26/12 4:39.11
Solo O Marathon 06/02/13 3:52:10
Operation Jack Marathon 12/26/13 3:40.34
Less smelly, more creepy.
It took a second for it to register exactly what I was seeing. Looked fun, though.
Okay, so it's beginning to sound like my experience was a bit abnormal. It may very well be that I over-hydrated pre-race, in my desire to avoid the dehydration which had plagued my last two races. It was drummed into my head, by Hansons and here, that good hydration happens in the days leading up to the race, and before the race. I think I was correct in going for clear urine in the days leading up, but I bet that 32-ounce Gatorade I had with breakfast/driving to the race was the start of the trouble. Had a good pee in one of the outlying port-a-potties on the walk to the corrals, and didn't have any fluids during that walk or in the corral...I chose Gu Chomps for my last-minute calories/carbs for that exact reason. Then, water at every other stop, and electrolyte drink from my hydration belt on the "off" stations.
Think my body utilized the pre-race fluids during the first part of the race, and the water I took at the water stops was passing through? I remember reading something about how your body absorbs fluids taken in during exercise, but can't remember the details.
And joescott...I've had that procedure described before, and I'm not judging, but I don't think I could handle (presumably) leaving that bottle behind for someone to pick up. 'Course, this is from a man who, after he finished his Gu Chomps in the corral, carried the wrapper in his hat until he went past a trash can.


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Having a baby is one of the most joyous times in many women's lives. From anticipating the day you'll bring your little one home, to picking a name and nursery colors, the excitement is palpable.
But no matter how well you plan for their arrival, you may not be fully prepared for all of the changes your body will go through now. Knowing what to expect will help you get ready for the months ahead.


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SWIMMERS will be able to use Taunton Pool, on Station Road, from April 26, six months after it closed for a £1.2million refurbishment.
And Olympic swimmer Mark Foster – who won six world titles, ten Europeans and two Commonwealths - will officially re-open the facility on June 1, with a sparkling programme of events being put together.
The pool will be handed back to owners Taunton Deane Council by contractors Kier on April 22 following its first major overhaul since it opened 40 years ago.
It will boast modern village style changing rooms, a new steam room and new boilers.
Cllr Catherine Herbert, who holds the leisure services portfolio, said: "Both the council and (operators) Tone Leisure are really excited that the pool is to re-open this month. It's been a massive project – but so well worth doing.
"We will have a fantastic pool that I know will be enjoyed and appreciated by swimmers now and in the future. I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to achieve so much."


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Topic: confused about lack of evidence of cc
my brother's Cleve Clinic doctor is consistently telling us that CC doesn't grow in a mass, there isn't a mass in my brother, and that the fact that the 2 biopsies and all the marker tests (CEA & CA19-9) are negative doesn't mean anything and that those tests very rarely help in diagnosis. Looking through the boards here, that just doesn't seem to make sense. Doctor has said that he is giving us this CC diagnosis because they've ruled out everything else. We don't really doubt him, but....
is this lack of evidence common?


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Topic: For us single people
I just wanted to post this. It's early days yet, but for the past bunch of months I've been wondering how on earth you break this kinda news to someone when you're trying to date.
Well, I pray every night for many many many people. I also ask God to get me through the radiation and please to let it work. I also thank him for keeping me mostly healthy. A couple of weeks ago I asked him to please put someone in my life who would support me for as long as whatever it becomes lasts.
Sunday I met someone at karaoke. I told him the 1 hour version and he's still around. I don't know where it will lead, but it's been so nice to have someone just hold my hand and put his arm around me and give me a hug when we talk about the "C" word.
I don't want to jinx things, either, but for anyone else out there that's wondering, there are people that might not turn and run!
Oh, and now I thank God for putting Tom in my life. Like I said, I don't know where it will lead, but it's definitely been nice. Poor guy needs to change his phone plan, tho!!!! We've used up all his minutes in 1 week... hehehe
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
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Oh, come in guys, any help , please ? I really need to fix it...
Hi !
I have had a BackTrack 4 R1 and it worked very good until i did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade and it is now BackTrack R2 but it doesn't work anymore.
When i do "startx" it shows me this black screen:
saying that "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation."
I have serached on the internet and i have seen that some guys recommend to delete .kde and .kde3 folders and then restart.
I did this (first backed up them) by booting into an Ubuntu live cd, but the problem is still the same.
This is the second screen which apears when i press CTRL+ALT+Backspace to stop the X server.
Please, any help will be appreciathed. What should I do ?
I do not want to use a new fresh copy of the new BackTrack R2 because I havel already installed lots of tools in this one and by a new install it means a new big work to redownload and reinstall them.
Thank you in advance !
Oh, come in guys, any help , please ? I really need to fix it...
Did you check your installation? Sys messages are usefull. At google you can find some links to (try to) fix some errors. But obviously, i wont do that for you.
Look guys, i have changed this linefrom /usr/bin/startkde
to this one:LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
Like i have found here:start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
KDE: can't start kdeinit: check your installation - FedoraForum.org
Now i do not have anymore that error message but the screen remains black.
What to do ?
Any help, please ?
Thank you a lot !
Looks like you are having troubles with your xorg.conf.....
sudo = lets you do whatever you wantCode:# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
dpkg-reconfigure = reconfigures packages
phigh = priority: high
xserver-xorg = the file that stores a bunch of settings that control what the GUI looks like, among other things. Often times editing this file incorrectly makes the GUI go away, which many people would prefer didn't happen.
Hope that works for you.
and also sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and the result is as follow (even I reboot the machine or not);
when i startx it shows to me an ~ panel image whcih disapear in 2 seconds, after that it eneer the desktop but all still black and i can see anything. Also i hear the logon music but i can't see anything at all because the screen remains black.
Any help, please ?
Thank you very much !
try upgrading libxft2
If anything can go wrong, it will....
maybe this works.Code:fix-vesa
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
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I'm following this thread. Got the same problem.


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Winning a U.S. senate seat is no small feat. It takes integrating thoughtful strategy with hard work months before Election Day.
Leadership Institute graduate Sam Stone has volunteered and worked on campaigns since he was 17 years old, and he's not stopping now. Sam works as the Arizona state director for FreedomWorks, an organization that recruits, educates, trains, and mobilizes millions of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom.
"FreedomWorks for America ran a statewide grassroots campaign in support of Jeff Flake for Senate. We set goals to make over 100,000 phone calls, knock on 200,000 doors, and distribute 15,000 signs," Sam said. "It's not glamorous stuff. It just wins races. Every day, we organized teams of volunteers to go out there in the Arizona sun and grind out the win."
And "grind out the win" they did.
Republican Jeff Flake, having served in the lower chamber of Congress since 2001, will now return to Washington, D.C., but this time as a senator from Arizona.
When former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl retired, two candidates emerged to fill the vacancy: Jeff Flake and former Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who campaigned as an Independent. Flake brought home the victory in November with 49.7 percent of the vote, while Carmona carried 45.8 percent.
"Jeff Flake can save America. No, seriously," Sam shared with the Leadership Institute. "Other than perhaps Paul Ryan, there is no greater advocate for limited government, fiscal sanity, and reduced spending than Jeff Flake. He led the fight against earmarks. He's one of the few congressmen who understand the risks of our ballooning national deficit. Ten years ago, Greece was in a very similar economic position to where we are today. Jeff Flake is exactly the kind of man we need in the Senate to change that trajectory."
You are never too young to make a difference in the public policy process, and for some, to run a winning campaign and serve in an official capacity is the way to do it.
Red Alert Politics recently named Derek Merrin as one of its Top 30 Influential Conservatives Under the Age of 30, and rightly so.
At just 19 years old and still a college student at the University of Toledo, Derek Merrin was elected in 2005 as councilman for the 5,500-person City of Waterville in Ohio. Derek broke the all-time record by receiving the most votes for a council seat, he said.
While a councilman, Derek supported placing a 115 percent limit on capital spending, through which the city could not spend 115 percent more than it anticipated receiving in revenue. The five-year capital budget was readjusted and saved taxpayers more than $600,000, Derek shared.
The following year—in 2006—Derek came to the Leadership Institute to take the week-long Campaign Leadership School, now called the Campaign Management School, which prepares campaign managers and candidates for their rigorous races.
"At the Leadership Institute, I gained a better understanding of how to win elections. Specifically, I learned how to optimize limited resources by identifying voters based on their voting history," Derek said.
One year after Derek took LI's campaign training—then at age 21—he was elected in 2007 as mayor of Waterville, beating a three-term Democratic incumbent and becoming the youngest mayor in the state of Ohio.
The Leadership Institute welcomed Kate Obenshain, writer, speaker, and frequent Fox News guest, to its monthly Wednesday Wake-Up Club Breakfast. More than 90 conservatives came early Wednesday morning to hear her discuss Divider-In-Chief, her latest book, and how President Obama has deceived Americans with his hope and change rhetoric.
Kate specifically focused her speech on young Americans and how the Obama administration has affected them.
As she wrote in her book, "Barack Obama has played young people. He reached out to them with soaring speeches championing unity, and they responded to his call to transcend differences and engage in a new kind of politics. In fact, they responded with more enthusiasm, more genuine hope than any other demographic. And the president repaid their trust with betrayal—becoming not the great united, but the most divisive president in history. He has robbed them of current and future prosperity, perverted their understanding of the value of hard work, ambition, and the American dream, and poisoned their optimism—the very optimism he used to soar to victory in 2008."
Click "read the full story" to watch her full remarks by video.
North Carolina was a bright spot for conservatives in the 2012 election, and it took solid work from people like Leadership Institute graduate Ashton Godwin, a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, to get the job done.
Ashton, in his twenties, served as the campaign manager for Brian Brown, the newly elected District 9 Representative in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Brian ran against Democratic incumbent Marian McLawhorn, first elected in 1999.
"We were the new guys as far as local politics goes, but in the end our efforts illustrated what a motivated, energetic, qualified, and concerned citizen/candidate Brian Brown is," Ashton said. "We were able to effectively reach out to voters in our district and promote our message. In the days leading up to the election, the GOTV methods presented in the Leadership Institute's Campaign Management School provided me with the ability and confidence to motivate voters to get to the polls."
"My candidate, as well as myself, were new to running for office," Ashton said. "We agreed that we needed to be seen and heard by as many voters as possible. We utilized multiple methods to connect with voters. One of the most effective and inexpensive methods was door to door canvassing. Personally, I knocked on hundreds of doors in the last two weeks leading up to Election Day."
I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention. My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election.
This week's national political scene has most Americans full attention. However, as LI's President Morton Blackwell writes in his 27th Law of the Public Policy Process, "Remember it's a long ball game."
Initially, politics starts locally.
And, for 27-year-old Zachary Holder, he's running as a Republican for circuit clerk in his home county of Richland in Illinois.
Richland County is comprised of 16,233 people and has not elected a GOP circuit clerk since 1968.
"The race is turning out to be very competitive and I am using all the Leadership Institute tricks I learned," Zachary said. "A conservative win would allow a different approach to county government. A conservative would look at the office differently. I would look to see how they can make the office more efficient, save money, and integrate technology to be more productive. Currently, the circuit clerk's office does not have a website or accept any electronic form of payment."
The circuit clerk serves as the administrative arm of the judiciary.
"I have worked for the Republican National Committee, the Illinois House Republican Organization, and other races," Zachary said. "It is not too different to be the candidate running in your hometown. My days are spent making phone calls, walking door to door, attending dinners, and trying to raise money. I am taking on the last liberal strong hold in the county."
Since Kansas native David Guenthner moved to Texas in 1989 to attend college at Trinity University in San Antonio, he's stayed put.
The Lone Star state's charm has kept him in Austin since graduating 19 years ago, minus a short stint in fall 1994 when he interned at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia.
"The Leadership Institute is an invaluable resource for the conservative movement," David said. "It has been a privilege to watch it grow from a small organization teaching college students how to run meetings and make Burma Shave signs into today's Leadership Institute which is meeting the comprehensive training needs of a professional and broad-based conservative movement."
David's college education in political science and speech communications with a minor in economics began his journey. The end result: merging policy research with strategic communications to inform government with recommendations and actions.
And ever since, David has worked to influence policy for Texans through some government relations or communications capacity.
He's held many jobs, from writing and editing articles for Texas Risk Retention Association (1995 – 1996), to being the managing editor (Nov. 1996 – 2003) of the Lone Star Report, a political newsletter influential with Capitol insiders, to running his own firm meeting the communications needs for trade associations (2004), to being the government relations liaison (2004 – 2006) for the Texas Workforce Commission, a state agency with more than 3,000 employers and a budget of more than $1 billion.
In 2007, David went to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) first as its director of media and government relations and then as the senior communications director from 2011 to 2012.
Now, David is the senior director of public affairs at TPPF, an organization that promotes and defends liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with research and outreach.
"A common flaw in conservative thinking has been that we expend all our energy to get good candidates elected to office and then expect them to know what they're doing from that point on," David explained to the Leadership Institute.
"But too often, the issues legislators are called upon to decide are ones where they have little experience and may not have even given much thought," David continued. "Many think tanks have experts with deep philosophical grounding, but the Texas Public Policy Foundation has become a dominant force in Texas by combining our policy expertise with a public affairs program that gives our research legs with both policymakers and the public."
Due to Hurricane Sandy, the Leadership Institute will be closed on Monday, October 29 after 2 P.M. and all day on Tuesday, October 30.
You may leave a voicemail on LI's main line (703-247-2000) or send an email to individual LI staff. You will receive a response as soon as it is possible.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those in the storm's path.
With an international studies degree in hand from the University of North Carolina in 2002, Noel Fritsch began teaching English, and later Spanish, to high school students.
"I taught school and coached high school sports for most of my professional career to date, until I decided to make the jump to politics," Noel said.
Now, he's working as the communications director for Gary DeLong, candidate for California's newly created 47th congressional district that covers Long Beach and West Orange County.
"HTML is now my friend," Noel said. "I manage the communications effort, from managing messaging and properly positioning the candidate on issues to drafting email blasts and keeping the website updated, and managing the social media effort. It's pretty all-consuming, especially during the last few weeks before Election Day."
Gary DeLong is Long Beach's Councilman, and has been since 2006. He's also president and CEO of The RTP Group, a telecommunications consulting firm and software development company.
When he moved to Washington, D.C. in 2005, Noel learned about the Leadership Institute through the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Know what you want to say. Say it in a simple manner. Look and sound the part.
These were basic principles of the last Friday's Introduction to Television Techniques Workshop taught by Beverly Hallberg at the Leadership Institute.
The 16 students learned to effectively communicate via broadcast media: what to wear, how to present themselves, and the type of language to use. Many students came away with the same observation: it's the little things that make a difference.
Nicole Hudgens, an intern with the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation, remarked, "I've had a lot of communication classes since it's what I got my degree in, but this covered some things I had not heard before and I really enjoyed it! Beverly gave great practical advice and I'd love to go to another workshop."


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Johnny O'Bryant III pivoted on the right block, pump faked to lift and Bethune-Cookman's Adrien Coleman off the floor, and sprung from a crouch for the inevitable bucket late in the first half Saturday.
For LSU's sophomore forward, the sequence seemed the natural part of a transition back into the Tigers' rotation after a two-week layoff rehabilitating from a high-ankle sprain.
But O'Bryant's legs provided only deadened lift. And, locking his gaze upward at the rim, he didn't see Wildcats forward Alex Smith slide over on help side defense. Rising slowly from the Peter Maravich Assembly Center hardwood, O'Bryant was stripped, with Smith getting his left paw on the ball to start a fast break capped by guard Charles Carmouche putting Alex Scotland on the line for a pair of free throws.
Lumbering at the rear of the fast break, O'Bryant mustered only a slow shake of the head.
"I was just trying to figure out what was wrong with me," O'Bryant said.
Five minutes proved the extent of LSU coach Johnny Jones' efforts to work O'Bryant. The 6-9, 240-pound preseason All-SEC pick, is coming back from a sprain that followed up an earlier left calf strain that have sapped a degree of explosiveness from a cog that represents the Tigers best interior threat on a roster bereft of experienced big men.
Trekking to Auburn for its Southeastern Conference opener, the availability of O'Bryant, and what production he can provide, remains a murky matter for LSU (9-2, 0-0) against the recently resurgent foe that is coming off a quality 78-72 victory over Florida State.
"It's difficult to tell, because he wasn't really able to give us the amount of minutes or the type of work we needed from him," Jones said of O'Bryant's two points on 1-of-2 shooting. "He'll be able to go, and based on the next two days ... leading up to the game will really determine how effective we think he could be and utilize his minutes on Wednesday."
Whatever action O'Bryant sees, his presence likely exists in a reserve role behind starting center Andrew Del Piero and junior college transfer Shavon Coleman, a 6-5, 185-pound Thibodaux product who was recruited for a slot in the backcourt but slid over to an undersized power forward spot ahead of a 73-48 victory against McNeese State.
But after Justin Hamilton's early departure for the NBA draft, O'Bryant, who was a McDonald's All-American out Cleveland, Miss., became the natural transition point for any LSU effort to provide a balanced attack inside and out.
Despite working with "a bad set of wheels," according to Jones, he's put up 12 points and 7.6 rebounds a game in only 23.1 minutes — a hint at what his contributions could offer if he stays on the floor as much as his coach envisions. In spite of his pledge to get more into the open floor, Jones' team feeds O'Bryant the ball on 28.7 percent of possessions when he's on the floor, according to KenPom.com, an advanced stats website.
"I've had those nagging injuries that just bother you," Carmouche said. "It's tough, and you've got to get use to playing them. You can only do so much. When your body shuts down, it shuts. Johnny's a hard worker and competitor. When he's a hundred percent or just 50 percent, he gives us everything he can."
On Monday, O'Bryant said straight-line running doesn't leave him limping, and he's worked in practice largely during noncontact situations such as refining footwork and post moves, spot shooting drills and free throws. Against Bethune-Cookman, the sprain didn't hinder him during warm ups. But as with any nagging injury, it began to bother him as he watched the Tigers build an early 20-point lead before being summoned of the bench with 4:39 left in the first half.
"I hadn't practiced with the team Friday, and we didn't get really get up and down," O'Bryant said. "I was in and out doing different drills, but didn't really get any cutting back in. Then to jump back into a full-speed cam and not having assessed my ankle, it was tough for me."
The limited action proved irksome.
Trying to establish position in the post, the sprain made it hard to plant his foot and set a solid base, or slide step when he put the ball on the floor backing down a defender. Then there's nimble and somewhat jabbing steps required to reach the rim after gaining leverage.
"Running doesn't bother me," O'Bryant said. "But jumping off is what really does. You saw in the game, I was trying to feel out that."
Frustrating as it might be for O'Braynt, Del Piero said there's no internal pressure on him to quickly reacclimate.
"Obviously, he's going to be a little bit rusty," Del Piero said. "But I'm not worried about what he looks like going into the game. If it takes him a little while to get going, we'll get him going. We're all really confident in Johnny and don't think that's going to be too much of a problem."
But O'Bryant's presence alone is a benefit. Drawing double teams, he can pitch the ball out to shooters Anthony Hickey and Andre Stringer, who are hitting a combined 41.6 percent of their 3-point attempts. Or he can dump the ball across the lane to Coleman. If it's not working in a distribution role, O'Bryant is still a big body able to screen and free up teammates.
"I've got to be smarter with the ball and recognize those situations," O'Bryant said. "I'm not at my full ability, but I'm going to try and give my team whatever I can: Rebounding as much as I can, boxing out, making my defensive rotations, talking on defense, setting a screen to get a man a shot."
Jones, though, wants O'Bryant to remain an emotional barometer for LSU.
"What you don't want is to allow a nagging injury to get worse by playing him some minutes where he's not being effective out there on the floor," Jones said. "But he can do what he did Saturday, and that's be a great teammate, encourage the guys and know his time will come."
The task is one O'Bryant has no problem embracing.
"Forty minutes or 15 minutes," O'Bryant said, "I'm still going to try to give my team that lift."


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Here's what I'm doing:
As part of a big project, I'm trying to tie in multiple status-monitoring applications into a single "dashboard" page that will display a good representation of a summary of each monitoring tool. Currently this page has 3 tools tied in, but this will grow into a much larger number rather quickly (3 more within a week of finishing tying in these 3, for example).
Here's how I'm doing it:
Basic screen scraping - I issue an HTTP request from the server to the tool, grab the piece I want, then display it. You can see that even with only 3 tools currently this takes some time, and this will only grow longer with more tools. The obvious solution to reducing or at least hiding this delay is to scrape asynchronously - this is where my beloved AJAX comes in.
Here's my problem:
To reduce the impact of a single slow tool bogging down the entire application, I'm trying to issue an AJAX request for each tool. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to tell each object which tool it represents! After Googling for quite some time, I came across what I thought would work:
http.onreadystatechange = function(args){if(http.readyState==4){alert(args)}};
Sadly, that doesn't work - args is undefined.
So, my question is thus: is it possible to do this without writing separate onreadystatechange handlers for each request? My initial idea was to simply give each tool its own onreadystatechange handler, but that will real quickly grow out of control! Any one have any suggestions?
Hi kromey,
It's hard to say, without seeing more of your code - especially the function which contains the code you posted. But, yes, it is possible.
From your post I assume you use only one XHR object and a new request is not started until the previous one has finished - is that right? In that case, yes you can use the same onreadystatechange handler.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the response. I'll post my sad attempts at solving this problem when I'm at the computer where my code is. In the meantime, to answer your question, no - I'm using multiple XHR objects and running all the requests simultaneously. At least, that's what I want to do (should reduce load time from the user's perspective, and this is an application where fast load times are critical).
The JavaScript functions (defined in the HTML head section):
function createRequestObject() {
var ro;
var browser = navigator.appName;
if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
//IE implements the XML request object as an ActiveX object
ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
return ro;
function sndReq(action,args) {
var http = createRequestObject();
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(args){if(http.readyState==4){alert(args)}};
And then the calls (right now each is calling the same simple "Hello World"-esque test page), currently sloppily tossed into the body tag's onload event (cleaned up here for ease of reading):
Right now I get a series of 5 alert boxes that each say "undefined", whereas I'm expecting to see the numbers 1 - 5 in each one (though not necessarily in order - I'm not that naive!).The idea is to eventually use the second 'args' parameter to define where on the page the result should be displayed, e.g. via document.getElementById(args).innerHTML = XHR.responseText. However, as mentioned I can't figure out how to pass this parameter into the handler; additionally, I don't know how I'd reference an XMLHttpRequest object to retrieve the responseText without making it a global variable.
The only workable solution I've found so far is to make a bunch of global XHR objects and separate distinct code snippets to initialize and fire off each one (i.e. essentially replicate sndReq above to handle each request).
Does anyone have a solution to my problem that is cleaner than bogging down my code with a dozen different XHR objects each fired and handled separately? Essentially the core of the problem is that I have multiple requests I want to fire off simultaneously, each needs to be handled slightly differently (i.e. needs to be displayed in a different place on the screen), and I need the solution to be easily scalable in that I need to be able to easily add new targets. I do have full control over what I am requesting, so don't hesitate to offer a solution that requires that I change the way the data is sent from the server.
http.onreadystatechange = function(args)
Remove "args". That should solve the problem.
But actually, I would recommend this way:
function myFunction1(xmlHttp) {
alert ('myFunction1 - ' + xmlHttp.responseText);
function myFunction2(xmlHttp) {
alert ('myFunction2!' + xmlHttp.responseText);
function myFunction3(xmlHttp) {
alert ('myFunction3!!' + xmlHttp.responseText);
function sndReq(action, callback) {
var http = createRequestObject();
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(args){if(http.readyState==4){callback(http)}};
sndReq ('test.html', myFunction1); // Call myFunction1 and pass the xmlHttpRequest object to the function when the document is loaded.
sndReq ('test.html', myFunction2); // And so on...
sndReq ('test.html', myFunction3);
Wow! I can't believe it was something so trivial! Thank you so much!!
Why would you do it this way? I can see this easily growing out of hand as I include a dozen callback functions, and since every single one is going to be doing the exact same thing in my case I don't see the advantage to doing it this way. It is definitely something I'll keep in mind for the future if I do have to handle different requests differently, though.
Sorry I was late getting back to this thread, but 'the DtTvB' is right on :tup:, thanks for jumping in!
Note that the reason it works (removing 'args') is because 'args' now references the argument to sndReq (via closure) instead of its own argument (whose value is undefined).
You won't have to make global objects. Notice, in the code posted by 'the DtTvB', how a reference to the XHR object is passed to the callback function. The XHR object in that function "appears" to be a local variable - however, the reference to it from within the anonymous function creates a closure and so the XHR variable persists. (i hope my understanding of this is correct - if not, someone please correct me)
You can use that idea to write an onreadystatechange handler which will handle all XHR responses. For example:
function sndReq(action, id)
var http = createRequestObject();
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(){if(http.readyState==4){xhrHandler(http,id)}};
function xhrHandler(xhr, id)
var e = document.getElementById(id);
if (e) {
e.innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
Thanks for the excellent explanation, Mike! I'd never heard of the concept of closures before (for anyone else who's as confused as I was, I found this page, which is quite technical but explains closures very thoroughly), and was thinking in terms of scope, i.e. that the variables would disappear when the sndReq function finished and thus not be available to the callback function.
Thanks to both of you, I now have a fully functional script that does everything I need it to, and is easily expandable as I have to add additional tools to this dashboard.
Edited for brevity:
function createRequestObject(); //as above
function entops_sndReq(action,target,delay) {
var http = createRequestObject();
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(http.readyState==4) {
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = http.responseText;
function entops_init() {
entops_sndReq('ajax/nagios.php','nagios',60); //Nagios; refresh every 60 seconds
entops_sndReq('ajax/statseeker.php','statseeker',60); //Statseeker; refresh every 60 seconds
This brings up another question: Mike's example shows an anonymous callback function whose sole purpose is to call a separate global function; my code implements the entire thing in the anonymous callback function. What are the pros/cons of each method? Should my code follow Mike's pattern, or is it good as-is?
In this case I too would implement all of it inside the anonymous function.
Yes, that page at jibbering.com is excellent, and was also one of my first intros to closures.
Your latest code post brings up a different issue. Creating 2 XHR objects every minute means the page's memory usage will continually grow and grow. Remember we talked about how the closure causes the local vars (and parameters) of sndReq to persist. The question is... when do they eventually go out of scope and get cleaned up by the garbage collector? Or do they every get cleaned up at all? For me, this is always a difficult question when it comes to closures.
So I ask myself what causes the closure? Well, it is the references, from within the anonymous func, to the local var and parameters of sndReq. So "I think" that if we could do this: http.onreadystatechange = null; then the closure would become available to be garbage-collected. So here's an idea - notice my code after the "clean up" comment:
http.onreadystatechange = null;
function entops_sndReq(action,target,delay) {
var http = createRequestObject();
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(http.readyState==4) {
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = http.responseText;
// clean up
http.onreadystatechange = null;
http = null;
I'm not 100% sure that this does what I'm intending for it to do. I hope someone will jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong, and help us to better understand this. I guess it just needs testing. Try it without and with the "clean up" and watch the memory usage. I would change from 60 secs to perhaps 1 sec - just for the test.
After quite a bit of testing and more time than is probably healthy staring at that flickering line in Task Manager, it appears that you method works better for slowing down the memory leak; without explicitly telling the garbage collector that the http object is no longer needed, memory usage grows at an alarming speed. Memory usage still grows after setting http.onreadystatechange and http to null, however its considerably slower (most likely the growth can be attributed to garbage collection not running immediately); incidentally, my tests show that "destroying" the object prior to the call to setTimeout slows the memory leak even further, although I have no idea why.
Firefox and IE7 differ, of course, although in some (perhaps) unexpected ways:IE7 chokes on "http = null;" unless you do not first set http.onreadystatechange to null (i.e. you must delete the line or the script halts at that point).Firefox's garbage collection seems to run every 5-10 seconds, reducing memory usage at that time; IE7 doesn't seem to have a garbage collection routine at all, at least not one that is able to catch the memory leak caused by spawning so many XHR objects.On page refresh, Firefox returns to pre-XHR objects memory usage*; IE7 only drops a few hundred KB, regardless of how many megs of RAM the XHR objects have seized. (*Firefox isn't quite perfect on this one, growing by anywhere from 50-100KB from refresh to refresh.)
Since this is an application that is meant to sit open for hours or even days at a time, it looks like I have no choice but to use global XHR objects, unless someone else has a brilliant idea that can solve this memory leak (it's not atrocious, but as more tools are added (necessitating more XHR objects) the leak will increase exponentially, and this will be open long enough that memory usage could very well become a problem).
Added some basic memoization to the createRequestObject function, and it seems to have very nearly solved the memory leak problem. IE7 shows absolutely no increase in memory usage, while Firefox will creep up slowly and then drop down suddenly (presumably when garbage collection runs).
Here's the updated code:
var ros = new Array;
function createRequestObject(index) {
if (ros[index]) return ros[index];
var ro;
var browser = navigator.appName;
if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
//IE implements the XML request object as an ActiveX object
ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
return ro;
function entops_sndReq(action,target,delay) {
var http = createRequestObject(target);
http.open('get', action+'?'+Math.random(), true);
http.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(http.readyState==4) {
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = http.responseText+'
Data refreshes every '+delay+' secs';
function entops_init() {
entops_sndReq('ajax/nagios.php','nagios',60); //Nagios; refresh every 60 seconds
entops_sndReq('ajax/statseeker.php','statseeker',60); //Statseeker; refresh every 60 seconds
Thanks everyone for your help, this seems to do exactly what I needed it to!


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Rick Marini '94 Wants You To Like His Company
Rick Marini '94
He started his first Internet company, personality-testing giant Tickle.com, in graduate school after he got his BS at the Whittemore School. His next venture, Superfan.com, created social games for viewers of popular television programs such as CBS' Survivor and MTV's Jersey Shore. His latest foray is BranchOut, a career-networking service on Facebook. Serial entrepreneur and social media guru, Rick Marini '94 has accomplished a lot since graduating magna cum laude from the Whittemore School. But, as UNH Today learned, he's just getting started.
UNH Today: With LinkedIn touting 100 million users, why did you start BranchOut last year?
RM: Facebook has 750 million users. Why shouldn't a social network of this size offer a professional network of corresponding power? BranchOut delivers millions of job postings, thousands of internships, and millions of prospective employees all in one place.
UNH Today: How many friends on Facebook do you have?
RM: About 1,600. I know that sounds like a lot, but, hey, it's what I do. BranchOut is a Facebook app so I'm on Facebook about 10 hours a day. The other four hours I'm in meetings.
UNH Today: You've worked at large companies and start-ups. Which do you prefer?
RM: Both have something to offer. It depends on what you want. After graduating from UNH, I worked for Fisher Scientific for three years. Companies like Fisher offer well-defined training and job titles and greater resources. Start-ups offer none of that but let you wear many hats and learn as you go—albeit very quickly. At this point in my career, I love being an entrepreneur.
UNH Today: So, embrace the chaos?
RM: Absolutely. Personally, I love the chaos. I love rollercoaster rides, too. Being an entrepreneur can be tough at times but when it works, it feels incredibly rewarding.
UNH Today: What are you best at?
RM: Building great teams to create engaging consumer products. Tickle grew to 200 million users before Monster bought us for $100 million in 2004. In the last year, BranchOut raised $24 million in venture capital. The best advice I can offer, especially to students, is to work hard, be smart, and have a good attitude. If you do that, people will mentor you.
UNH Today: Speaking of mentoring, what stands out about your Whittemore School years?
RM: I took a capstone strategy class in my senior year that I really enjoyed. I was able to pull together three-and-half years of theory and apply economics, finance, operations, and marketing all together. That was very helpful to me when I went to Harvard, which is 100 percent case study. It showed me how much I had learned at UNH. Sometimes you don't know how much you know until you're in a position to access that knowledge. That was my "Aha!" moment.
UNH Today: Do you get back East often?
RM: Not as much as I would like. I still have many close friends and family in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. I miss Red Sox games... my dog's name is Fenway.
UNH Today: What is your personal philosophy?
RM: My mantra is to learn something new every single day until the day that I die.
For more stories about UNH alumni entrepreneurs, visit http://unhmagazine.unh.edu/f11/entrepreneurs.html.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Inside Taylor Tomasi Hill's NY Apartment...
via Vogue
It's as though everything TTH touches becomes so damn cool.
I think she always looks phenomenal and I seem to wish I could have every single thing she wears, even if it isn't necessarily my style.
Now, after having this little peak into her home, I can confirm that I love her even more.
I can't really put my finger on it, but I love the vibe her house has just like I love her vibe. Makes sense? Not too sure, but I hope you enjoy these photos. xx
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She's amazing, love the house gosh I want one like that hahaReplyDelete
just look at those shoes... - sigh -ReplyDelete
I think I could put my apartment in these dining room hehe.ReplyDelete
Amazing shoemarker!
xoxo from München
La Vie Quotidienne
she has a beautiful home, and look at that closet! :pReplyDelete
Its so nice! She looks gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Amazing pictures!! So nice interior!! Waouw!!ReplyDelete
I "pins" some of the pictures!! xx
Her apartment is breathtaking. I want my apartment to be like this once I'm done with education.ReplyDelete
Chanel X
her hair color is amazing.ReplyDelete
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love, rach.
looks great <3ReplyDelete
Want to have this wardrobe!ReplyDelete
thanks for your sweet comment^^,
Keep it up!
That is an amazing apartment!ReplyDelete
כמה נורא זה שכל מה שאני רואה בהפקה הזו זה זוג כפות רגליים עצומות?ReplyDelete
Love the photos!ReplyDelete
She's amazing and the house is fantastic!ReplyDelete
Breathtaking *o*ReplyDelete
she is such an inspiration. she is awesome. amazing.ReplyDelete
I also prepare a post about her and her house! :D
btw., thanks a lot Arden for your sweet comment on my blog. if you want we can to follow each other? :*
You're amazing, dear.
Lots of kisses!
I was thinking the same, everything she touch is fantastic!!ReplyDelete
She definitely has loooots of style.
I love her.
See you.
What an extraordinary and fun blog you have! I wanted to read up on it after you reached out on IFB and I'm so very impressed. Thanks for the welcome. Am happily following and hope you'll do the same. Again, great post!ReplyDelete
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Totally dope!ReplyDelete
so colorful!!ReplyDelete
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What a sunny place.ReplyDelete
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ox from NYC!
Todo esta genialReplyDelete
amazing home!ReplyDelete
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Wow, I love her place. The little pops of color throughout are just right against the white backdrop. Oh and I'd kill for her hair too!ReplyDelete
Arden, those Vogue pictures are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I love her style and attitude, and her home reflects her personality!
Big hugs!


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Watford striker Chris Iwelumo is on the verge of joining Oldham Athletic on loan until the end of the season, the Watford Observer understands.
Iwelumo, who is a hugely popular member of the squad, made eight appearances for the Hornets earlier this season but has found first team opportunities hard to come by in recent months.
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Cosponsor: Korea Society
Kenzo Oshima, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, United Nations
Peter Hayes, Executive Director, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development (via videoconference)
Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council
Moderator: Charles Armstrong, Associate Professor of History, and Chair of the Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
North Korea has just lit three nuclear fuses, all of them long ones. North Korea could soon light a short nuclear fuse as well.
It is seeking equipment to enrich uranium. U.S. intelligence estimates, and I quote, North Korea "is constructing a plant that could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for two or more nuclear weapons per year when fully operational, which could be as soon as mid-decade." The uranium enrichment fuse, in other words, is more than three years long.
North Korea is preparing to restart production of plutonium by refueling its reactor at Yongbyon, which had been frozen under the 1994 Agreed Framework. Once refueled -- the North told the IAEA that would take one or two months -- the reactor could generate a bomb's worth of plutonium in a year. Allowing at least another six months to reprocess and weaponize the plutonium, it could have a nuclear device in a year and a half, another device a year or so later, or five to six in five years.
Pyongyang also says it will resume construction of two reactors frozen under the 1994 accord. It will take at least two years to complete the first, longer to complete the second. Were they up and running, the three reactors could generate 30 bombs' worth of plutonium a year. Again, that fuse is quite long.
North Korea has yet to light a short fuse by removing the spent fuel now stored in casks in Yongbyon and reprocessing it. It could soon do so. If it does, within a year it could have five or six bombs' worth of plutonium fabricated into nuclear devices.
These nuclear fuses are real. By contrast, whether or not North Korea already has one or two bombs is not known for sure. A divided U.S. intelligence community estimated in November 1993, nearly a year before the Agreed Framework was signed, that "it was more likely than not" it had "one, possibly two" nuclear devices, which was later lowered to one. Why the administration is now treating that possibility as a certainty is worth asking.
By its actions Pyongyang has convinced many in Washington it is determined to arm and should be punished for brazenly breaking its commitments. Both that assessment and the policy that flows from it are wrong.
North Korea is no Iraq. It says it is ready to give up its nuclear, missile, and other weapons programs. In return it wants the United States to stop treating it like an enemy. The North's willingness to cut its nuclear fuses before they detonate a grave crisis is worth probing in direct negotiations.
That is what Pyongyang is seeking by renouncing the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Renunciation not only leaves it no longer lawfully bound not to make nuclear arms, although it says it does not intend to do so "at this stage." It also leaves the 1994 Agreed Framework in effect as the only basis for negotiating inspections directly with the United States. This is intended to underscore North Korea's basic stance that if the United States remains its foe, it feels threatened and will seek nuclear arms and missiles to counter that threat, but if the United States is no longer its foe, it says it will not.
To understand why the North is acting this way, it is essential to recall how we got here. In the early 1990s Pyongyang decided to trade in its plutonium program in return for an end to enmity. At the same time it kept its nuclear option open as leverage on Washington to live up to its end of the bargain.
That became the basis of the October 1994 Agreed Framework, whereby North Korea agreed to freeze and eventually dismantle its plutonium program in return for two new light-water reactors for generating electricity, an interim supply of heavy fuel oil, gradual relaxation of U.S. economic sanctions, and, above all, improved relations.
Washington got what it most wanted up front, but it did not live up to its end of the bargain. When Republicans won control of Congress in elections just weeks later, they denounced the deal as appeasement. The Clinton administration, unwilling to challenge Congress, back-pedaled on implementation. It did little easing of sanctions until 1999. Reactor construction did not get under way until 1999. It did not always deliver heavy fuel oil on schedule. Above all, it did live up to the pledge made in Article II to "move toward full normalization of political and economic relations" -- in other words, end enmity. When Washington was slow to fulfill the terms of the accord, Pyongyang threatened to break it in 1997. Its effort to acquire technology to enrich uranium began soon thereafter.
At the same time the North tried again to improve relations, this time using its missile program as inducement. On June 16, 1998, it publicly offered to negotiate an end to its development as well as exports of ballistic missiles in return for a declared end to enmity. It coupled that offer with a threat to resume missile tests, a threat it carried out on August 31 when it launched a three-stage rocket, the Taepodong I, over Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to put a satellite into orbit.
Pyongyang's tactics led many to conclude it was engaging in blackmail in an attempt to extort economic aid without giving up anything in return. It was not. It was playing tit for tat, cooperating whenever Washington cooperated and retaliating when Washington reneged, in an effort to end hostile relations.
Thanks to Kim Dae Jung and Bill Perry, Washington got back on the road to reconciliation in 1999. That policy paid off that September when Pyongyang agreed to suspend its test launching of missiles while negotiations proceeded. In return, Washington promised to end sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act, a pledge it carried out after the June 2000 North-South summit.
High-level talks in October 2000 yielded a pledge that "neither government would have hostile intent toward the other." In plain English, we are not enemies.
The declared end to enmity opened the way to a missile deal. In negotiations with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Pyongyang, North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il offered to end exports of all missile technology and to freeze testing, production, and deployment of all missiles with a range of 300 miles. Kim wanted President Clinton to come to Pyongyang to seal the deal, consummation of a ten-year campaign to end enmity with the United States. Without his commitment to come, negotiations stalled.
Instead of picking up the ball where Clinton had dropped it, Bush moved the goalposts. Although it was aware of North Korea's ongoing nuclear and missile activities, the administration did not resume negotiations. Instead, it tried to reinterpret the Agreed Framework unilaterally, demanding prompt inspections to get at the North's nuclear past. In response, the North expressed willingness to renegotiate the 1994 nuclear accord, trading expedited inspections for electricity, which it regards as compensation for the delay in reactor construction, but without a deal it warned it could "no longer keep its nuclear activities in a state of freeze and implement the Agreed Framework." The North accelerated efforts to acquire the means to enrich uranium. Then in 2002 President Bush repudiated the U.S. pledge of no "hostile intent" by naming North Korea to the so-called "axis of evil" and announcing a new doctrine of waging preventive war -- without allies, without U.N. sanction, in violation of international law. The North in turn began acquiring an operational capability to enrich uranium.
North Korea wants direct negotiations with the United States. It says it is willing to refreeze the plutonium program that it has unfrozen and to negotiate verifiable elimination of its uranium enrichment program. It has also offered to discuss its chemical and biological programs.
In return it says it wants a written pledge that the United States will not attack it, impede its economic development, or seek to overthrow its government -- not a reward for bad behavior but nothing more than the commitments Washington made in 1994 and did not keep. If Washington refuses, Pyongyang will proceed with nuclear arming. And until it is sure the political relationship is improved, it will keep its nuclear option open as a hedge by refusing to dismantle its plutonium facilities for now.
Negotiations with North Korea can avoid a replay of the 1994 nuclear crisis. Then, as now, Washington had four options: compel the collapse of North Korea, which was thought likely to provoke the North to nuclear arm sooner than collapse; impose sanctions, which were rightly deemed unlikely to be effective; attack its nuclear facilities, which was not certain to eliminate all the nuclear material and sites in the North but sure to risk war and raise a political storm in the South; or negotiate.
The administration's refusal to sit down and talk until North Korea dismantles its uranium enrichment program makes no sense. Do we really want the North to dismantle it without U.S. inspectors present? And how do we get inspectors into North Korea without negotiating with Pyongyang?
Pyongyang seems willing to cut its nuclear fuses while negotiations proceed. Negotiations can begin now before the North gets closer to making bombs or later after the North has some. By refusing to deal, President Bush may have to live with a nuclear-arming North Korea. Why would North Korea give up its nuclear and missile programs if the United States remains its foe?
This administration began, like its predecessors, by demonizing North Korea as a rogue state. A rogue is a criminal and the way to treat criminals is to punish them, not negotiate.
The administration's approach has put the United States in the way of reconciliation between North and South Korea, which is political dynamite in the South. The Bush administration is also alienating Japan and antagonizing China. An attempt to rein in the United States has been the catalyst for unprecedented cooperation among the other five powers in Northeast Asia. The Japan-D.P.R.K. summit meeting last September and the recent Japan-Russian summit should be seen in this light. So should the warming between South Korea and China. Hardline unilateralists are putting Washington on a collision course with its own allies, undermining political support in South Korea and Japan for the alliance and jeopardizing the U.S. troop presence in the region.
There is a better way: diplomatic give-and-take. That was the strategy pursued in tandem by South Korea and the United States in 1991 and again in 2000, the most fruitful years of dealing with North Korea.
The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe that to get our way in the world we have to push other countries around and those who think that cooperation can sometimes reduce threats to our security.
In closing, it is worth reminding ourselves, what U.S. interests are at stake with North Korea.


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Actually what is normal for people, is to live in peace. And the world does not have such a structure that could cope with wars. When Armageddon takes place [from this point on] there would be no person left alive on earth. It would be the end of the world, the world would simply perish. That is to say, that there is no reason to be so eager about Armageddon. Some people regard Armageddon as if it is a war that would erupt between Iran and Israel, or between Turkey and other countries. That is not so; the war which took place in between Iraq and America is called the Armageddon.
When we look at the hadiths, we see that they are completely compliant. Verily, an army had disappeared in the desert in a very short period of time. Iraq has been invaded by many countries. Both the location and the timing, and the disappearance of an army within an instant and the Iraqi currency being taken out of the circulation are all completely compliant with the events foretold in the hadiths. I mean, Syria being stirred up right after that is nothing else other that what is foretold in the hadiths. Armageddon has ended with that. There will be no Armageddon apart from this. In such a type of Armageddon, no one could remain on this world, let me say that much. It would be good to state this once again. But we will not let anything like that to take place, and it will not take place anyway insha'Allah.


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DETROIT - The Volunteers of America Adopt A Family program could use a helping hand of its own. The program has been serving families in need across the state of Michigan since 1993.
In 2001, over 4,000 families were served. This the need is even greater.
"We already have applications for over 10,500 families here in Michigan," said Emilie Rohrbach of the Volunteers of America. "We are working through Christmas eve to help as many families as we can. We need families here in metro Detroit to come forward and say, 'we want to help', and we'll match them with a family in need."
Rohrbach said those looking to help can also donate toys, clothes or food that the Volunters of America can then distribute. If a volunteer wants to take donations directly to a family, Rohrbach said it should be done before Christmas so "those kids just like anybody else can wake up on Christmas and have something special."
Cash donations are also accepted. Rohrbach said $20 provides a toy for a child, $30 can supply warm winter clothing for a child, $50 provides Christmas dinner for a family, and $150 is enough to provide "an entire holiday experience for a family of four."
To contact the Volunteers of America Adopt A Family program phone 248-353-4862.
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Visit this recently opened historic site located in Fairfax, Virginia to get a taste of some rich Civil War history! At the Historic Blenheim & Civil War Interpretive Center you'll find the famous Blenheim House situated on 12 acres of land and the new Civil War Interpretive Center. The Center was designed by award-winning architects Glave & Holmes Associates and is fully ADA accessible and motor coach accessible. It serves as a means of allowing visitors to gain a better understanding of the site's history and the impact of the Civil War on Fairfax County. The Center also includes an exhibition gallery and a multipurpose classroom that accommodates 65 people. The Blenheim house, a central-hall plan brick farmhouse built circa 1859, has more than 100 soldier inscriptions, art and poetry created by Union soldiers as they occupied the Fairfax Court House between 1862 to 1863. Also located at the facility is "Grandma's House", which was a home occupied by by Margaret Conn Willcoxon Farr, the daughter of Rezin Willcoxon, owner of the Willcoxon estate, which was later named "Blenheim". Its historical importance stems from its architecture and log-wall contruction.
While at The Center, you can also stop by to see their gift shop for its loads of books, original signed art prints, children's toys and games, replica items, and souvenirs related to the Civil War and Fairfax history.
Hours: Open Tuesday-Saturday Noon-4pm with daily 1pm site tour. Monthly Civil War lectures.
Admission: Free!
Location: 3610 Old Lee Hwy., Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 591-0560
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Washington DC Bed and Breakfast accommodations. We are centrally located, 10 minutes walk to DuPont Circle metro/subway, 1 mile north west of White House.


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AnandTech Exclusive: Sun's sub-$1000 SunFire X2100 Serverby Kristopher Kubicki on 9/12/2005 1:29 AM EST
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allanw - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkThe two hard drives can be set up for RAID 0, 1 or 0+1 via the BIOS.
I don't get it. How do you do raid 0+1 with only two drives? Reply
Deinonych - Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - linkYou can't. RAID 0+1 requires a minimum of 4 drives. Reply
stephenbrooks - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkDarn. I could get two of these things for less than my current desktop PC cost. (Though without graphics card etc. of course!) Reply
Jmonk - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkI was stoked to read the article on the X2100 because I'm currently in the market for an entry-level small business server. Doing my homework I found that other name-brand, entry-level servers were obviously too expensive for their spec's. The Small X2100 base-model ($745, no HDD, 512MB DDR, no DVD) is priced right where I'm looking at, but the spec's are relatively weak considering that I can build an equivalent 1U server (slightly faster, Athlon 64) for $475, purchased from online retailers. If I were to move up a notch to the Medium X2100, I find myself completely out of my price range.
So is the name-brand and the 3-year warranty worth $270 extra for a somewhat weaker machine? The often heard "save money, build it yourself" suggestion is a known misconception when it comes to desktop PC's, but I was surprised to see that it's completely feasible and worthwhile in regards to servers. Reply
Furen - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkIf you know how to do build it, know how to configure it and dont mind having to deal with any incompatibilities and issues yourself then go for it and build it yourself, you will save quite a bit. Personally, I think this server is pretty well priced since it's pretested, pre-assembled, in a thermally-balanced case (not that thermals are too much of a problem with K8s right now) and a decent warranty. All possible incompatibilities have already been dealt with, it also has two nice hotswapable SATA bays, a half-height 8x PCI-E slot for possible expansion and comes preconfigured with Solaris 10 (which I like, though you may not). Reply
Jmonk - Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - linkActually, the Small X2100 doesn't come with a Solaris option without additional cost.
But you're right that there is certainly an amount of confidence with the Sun servers that neither the admin nor the owner of the company may expect with a self-built machine.
My main point is that desktop PC's are much more affordable than self-built - pre-testing, -assembling, -OS-loading and warranties just sweeten the deal. But why aren't servers to that point?
Gholam - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkThe board used is Tyan Tomcat K8E, with some components like PCI slots just not soldered in. Doesn't mean it's bad - I have a server running here on that one board and an A64 4400+, and it's an excellent machine - but c'mon, give credit where it's due :) Reply
Ahkorishaan - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkI would really like to see a price point comparison between a Sun AMD, a Dell Pentium, any IBM, and any HP. I bet it would look rather interesting. Sun is indeed coming to the fore again. Reply
MCSim - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - linkCheck out the Sun's NC05Q3 webcast. They are making some comparisons there. Reply
Deinonych - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkIt would have been nice to see how this server stacks up against comparable offerings from IBM, HP and Dell (even though Dell doesn't offer an AMD server). Comparing it to other Sun products is nice if you only buy Sun. Reply
dilidolo - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkIf you want to conpare hardware, then run same OS.
If you want to benchmark OS/App, then use same hardware.
With Anand's testing method, you can't really tell if it's OS or hardware that makes the difference. Reply
Furen - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkConsidering that the 175 is supposed to be cheaper than the 152, Sun's margins on the Dual-core system are huge. Then again, these systems cannibalize their 2-way single-core systems, so of course they have to be priced accordingly. Reply
MCSim - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkhttps://www.sun.com/nc/05q3/">Sun NC05Q3 event Reply
MCSim - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkhttps://www.sun.com/nc/05q3/">Fixed link Reply
gibhunter - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkEveryone retains their badge number in our company too. I think it makes it easier from an accounting standpoint.
When I left in 99 and came back in 03 I still had the same badge number even though new employees' numbers have gone up by about a hundred. Reply
splat1 - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkThe board is a rebranded tyan K8E.
surprized the guys from anandtech didnt see that.
Looks like they pulled the pci slots and some other stuff but Im pretty sure the board layout was tyan's design.
Furen - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkI would call it a similar design, it's not easy to "pull" stuff out of a motherboard. Reply
splat1 - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkCan anyone find a better pic of the sun motherboard. From what I can tell the board layout is identical. Even the smdc card looks to be the same one that tyan uses. I guess I could try to flash the k8e with the sun bios and see what happens. Reply
MCSim - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkSun is doing really well with the Opterons. Reply
Questar - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkYeah, look at those profits they're making! Reply
erikpurne - Monday, September 12, 2005 - link"...seem too phased by this either;..." Reply
Brian23 - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkTime to buy SUNW stock! Reply
TwistyKat - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkI'd wait to see what happens after the Niagra launch. If that gains traction, the sky is the limit with SUNW. Reply
cHodAXUK - Monday, September 12, 2005 - linkYep, Sun are starting to looking very interesting these days. Reply


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This article was published 13/2/2013 (1652 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg police issued a warning today about a phone scam.
Fraudulent telephone calls have been made with the caller identifying himself as a Manitoba Hydro associate offering to sell a "power saving device" and asking for a credit card number to expedite the order.
Police said in a press release that Manitoba Hydro offers no such product and does no telephone soliciting.
Police said anyone who's received such a call is asked to contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501.If anyone has given their credit card number to the scammers, they're asked to contact the centre as well as police.
Anyone receiving this type of call should hang up immediately, police said.


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YPSILANTI, Mich. - A victim in a road rage incident that happened New Year's Eve in Detroit was murdered Tuesday night in Ypsilanti.
Brandon Wesley Charles, 28, of Ypsilanti, was shot to death in a car that was parked in a driveway in the 600 block of Calder Avenue. Charles was at the home, visiting his best friend when he was shot and killed around 10 p.m.
A witness said Charles had recently been talking about having some sort of problem with someone stemming from an incident that happened on New Year's Eve.
--The scene Tuesday night where Wesley Charles was found shot to death in Ypsilanti
--30-year-old Willie Lee Wimberly (left) and 33-year-old Steve Deshaun Smith-Rush (right)
Local 4 has learned Charles was scheduled to testify in a preliminary exam Wednesday morning in the case of 30-year-old Willie Lee Wimberly of Trenton and 33-year-old Steve Deshaun Smith-Rush of Inkster.
They face charges in connection with the road rage shooting that occurred on New Year's Day as the victims were leaving the MGM Casino. Police believe a third person may have been involved.
About the road rage incident
The shooting took place on westbound I94 near Junction in the City of Detroit at approximately 3:10 a.m. Jan. 31.
Police interviews revealed that Charles and his female passenger had left the MGM Casino in Detroit when they became involved in a traffic incident with another vehicle.
Charles and his passenger kept driving when they said they saw the suspect's vehicle following them on the Lodge freeway and then onto I-94. On I-94, near Junction, the suspect opened fire on the vehicle striking both Charles and the passenger several times. Charles was hurt; his passenger was shot nine times but did survive.
--Michigan State Police investigate I-94 shooting
Read more: Freeway shooting closes I-94 for hours
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Mohali, Sep 24 (IANS) Titans kept alive their hopes of a semi-final berth as they successfully defended a small total to beat Brisbane Heats by four runs in a Group B match of the Champions League Twenty20 at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here Tuesday.
It was some poor batting that let down the Titans of South Africa after they were put in by the Heats.
Henry Davids (39), Heino Kuhn (31) and AB de Villiers (28) were the only players to get to double digits as the Titans were all out for 123 runs with seven balls to spare.
For Heats, pacer Matthew Gale got four for 10 while Dan Christian took two for 16.
Titans atoned for their poor batting with some exceptional bowling to pack up Brisbane Heats for 119 runs in 20 overs.
Pacer Marchant de Lang was the pick of the bowlers with three for 13 while left-arm pacer Rowan Richards got two for 20.
Heats' skipper James Hopes was the top scorer with 37 while Christian made 21.
There was, however, some excitement at the end as Heats needed 10 runs off the final over. But they lost three wickets instead, including two run outs, and the match ended with de Lange bowling Alister McDermott.
Brief scores: Titans 123 all out in 18.5 overs (Henry Davids 39, Heino Kunn 31; Matthew Gale 4-10, Dan Christian 2-16). Brisbane Heat 119 all out in 20 overs (James Hopes 37, Christian 21; Marchant de Lange 3-13, Rowan Richards 2-20). Titans won by four runs.


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Your gift to help a hardworking entrepreneur will double in impact thanks to a generous World Vision partner.
Berlin is from Philippines. She has 3 children. She needs a loan of $250 to purchase feed and fertilizer.
Berlin is from Philippines. She has 3 children. She needs a loan of $250 to purchase feed and fertilizer.
Berlin Bayawa is a 36 year old mother of three children, ages are: 1, 11 and 16. She lives with her family in Mabinay, Negros Oriental, where she works very hard at farming and raising hogs, to help provide for her family.
With a loan from World Vision, Berlin will be able to purchase more hog feed and fertilizer. She will also be able to sustain/grow her farm and increase her income. With the additional income, Berlin will be able to provide for all of her family's daily needs and pay for her childrens education.
The Agriculture business sector covers all farming and livestock activities. Some entrepreneurs request loans to help in securing supplies and equipment. Others want to buy more animals to breed or purchase feed and medicines. The majority of our loan clients live in rural communities where agriculture is already understood as a business model. It is for this reason that approximately 50% of our loans are in the agricultural sector.
The community of Mountain View is located in a boot-shaped province on Negros Island in the Philippines. Home to Mt. Kanlaon, an active volcano, the area is rich with natural resources. With convenient access to a variety of markets, the community is emerging as a promising frontier for investors.
Economic activities revolve around agriculture, fishery, and forestry. Environmental degradation is a pressing concern. The region has been identified as one of the lowest income-earning areas in the country. Families struggle to acquire proper nutrients, and some do not have access to clean water. Malnutrition and disease are constant concerns. Families are hindered by poor road conditions, and many children drop out of school.
In Mountain View, World Vision has provided community members with key employment skills, including training in food processing and assistance in livestock rearing. We have also provided medical and housing assistance, supplemental food for malnourished children, fees and materials for children to attend school, and educational support for child laborers.
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Thank you for supporting the small loan for Berlin Bayawa to improve her farming and livestock business. She invested her loan of $250 to purchase feed and fertilizer.
Berlin has now repaid her loan in full. In addition to repaying her loan, Berlin has used her additional income to pay school fees and expand the current business.
Berlin's 3 children continue to study in school.
The loan Berlin received helped her business expand, and the profits she is earning create lasting improvements in her life. In the future, Berlin hopes to continue to send her children to school, repair or expand their home and expand the current business.
Berlin has repaid her loan in full, 100%. These loan funds are now available to help another worthy entrepreneur in her community. Thank you for supporting Berlin and World Vision Micro!


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Wouldn't it be better if we used an infobox for jutsu, like one we're already using for the characters? I did some lookign around, and I saw there actually already is one, but it hasn't been used in any articles yet. --ShounenSuki 09:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
- It's not finished. The infobox jutsu can't be used until Wikia installs Semantic Forms... Been poking them but it's going slow. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) current discussion Nov 10, 2008 @ 18:09 (UTC)
- I see... Okay then ^^ --ShounenSuki 18:41, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
um, all other infoboxes look like 'something', not just plain white. wouldn't it be better if it had a colour?--Narutodude (talk) 22:30, October 29, 2009 (UTC)Narutodude
Directly Derived Jutsu Section
Hi! I was just wondering if all the game and movie jutsus should be included in the directly derived jutsu section...take a look at Rasengan for example. There are many variations, most of them coming from games and movies. Shouldn't it be sort of like a character infobox, in which we do not include the game and movie techniques?--NejiByakugan360 15:11, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By NICK VAIDYA
The other day I was talking with someone about a start-up idea. He is a successful salesperson and wanted my view on the concept. As we moved on with the discussion I realized there were some strategic holes in his plan that I wanted to point out. What I had not realized, however, is that he had bought into the idea lock, stock and barrel, and only wanted to hear me echo his feelings.
That same day, my daughter was unsuccessfully trying to explain to her friend that unlike what she thought, their common friend's behavior was not an affront. A few days earlier, I was telling my wife to give up the idea of trying to go to India in November when the chances of getting certain things done on time was practically impossible, but it was a completely futile exercise.
You know what I am driving at – situations where you try hard to make someone see reason but feel as if you are banging your head against a wall. Intensely frustrating as they can be, they are very common. I'm sure many of you can recall having been through a similar situation or two in the recent past. I mentioned a few incidents where I was the one banging my head against a wall, but I am sure people who know me can point out situations where I have played the wall instead.
These "not uncommon" interactions are not limited to friends and family members, they are an integral part of how the human mind works. Maybe it has something to do with our natural instinct for self-preservation. Or maybe our egos, fears and greed get the better part of our intellect. I am not sure about that. What I do know is that we all get caught up in our own ideas so deeply that we do not see – or want to see – what is obvious to others. The numbers-driven corporate world has also had to bear the brunt of executives forging ahead bullheadedly with their convictions to the detriment of their organizational goals, ignoring the logic of well-prepared advisers.
Obviously, when decision makers and stakeholders have precarious viewpoints, they need to be made aware of the risks. But bluntly stating your position not only makes it likely that you will fail to get your point across, it also might land you into trouble. How one handles such situations makes the difference between success and failure of projects, goals, and relationships.
So what are we to do?
There is more than one way to skin this cat, so to speak. Nobody has a definite set of answers. But here is one strategy that works well for me. I call it the PAQ (Pause-Answer-Question) method. The central idea behind this approach is to lead the listeners to see the consequences of their current approach or thinking. Let them arrive at your conclusions on their own.
* PAUSE: When you realize that you have to say something which goes against the grain for the listener, pause to understand how the listener sees the situation and plan your communication beginning from his or her point of view and leading to yours before you state your position. Develop this attitude of restrained communication. It takes time but you will become more effective with continued practice.
* ANSWER: While you frame your thoughts based upon the position of the listener, make a conscious assessment of his or her emotional stance. People don't see reason when they are emotionally attached to certain ideas. So emotion is where you have to do the real work. Answer the question: What is the degree of awareness and willingness of the listener? Plan the effect you wish to seek from the interaction based on what is possible in the given situation. Clearly define what you seek from the interaction. Remember, you can't give them the solution until they see the real problem and are ready to listen to you. You would be wasting your breath otherwise. Remember, the real problem is that they have not thought through the idea in question completely as they are bonded emotionally to their position.
* QUESTION: Frame your desired effect as a set of questions the answers to which should lead to the point you want to make. Lead your listeners to discovering the consequences of their line of thinking on their own. For example avoid saying directly why business A will not succeed like Business B because A and B are fundamentally different, which is unlike what the person believed so far. Instead you could ask one or more of the following questions:
a. How important is it to succeed?
b. What do you think are the consequences of failure?
c. Is the opportunity cost high enough to demand careful thinking before moving ahead?
d. What do you think can be done to minimize the risk of failure?
e. Are there any holes in the analogy being banked upon?
f. How is this business different from the one managed before?
g. How can we prepare for the differences between the two business models?
As you talk about the issue remove the words "but," "should" and "like" from your conversation. Substitute them with "and." Essentially you are not going to tell them what they should be doing or how they are wrong, you are only going to provide them with various other options or perspectives, thus helping them really think through the idea.
When you take this approach you will notice a remarkable difference in your communication. Try, experiment, and internalize this process, practice it in imaginary conversations until it becomes your second nature. As you use this method regularly you will have a lot more buy-in for your idea and the change you expect will be practically guaranteed in most situations, unless of course if you were wrong to begin with. This process of communication takes longer but it gets the job done and also saves you from putting your foot in your mouth.
Nick is the Managing Partner of The 8020Strategy Group, the President of the Global Alliance of CEO's, and the Managing Editor of The CEO Entrepreneur Magazine (www.8020ceo.com). For keynote addresses, workshops or consulting engagements, he can be reached at email@example.com or 512 257 7868.


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Gilmer Buckeyes and Daingerfield Tigers Go For State Titles Today
The practices began in the middle of August when it was one hundred degrees preparing for games with one goal in mind - the state championship title game! A couple of East Texas teams have reached that goal and are one win away from gaining that title. The Daingerfield Tigers and Gilmer Buckeyes are playing in their final games today at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.


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Topic: Life goes on
It's funny how cancer changes your life, yet you are still the same person you were before you had cancer.
I feel like I should spend more time with my girls watching TV with them, but I still can't stand Hannah Montana.
I'm single, and would like to date sometime, but I'm still anxious about my appearance and my weight, and figure no man would be interested in a woman with cancer.
So I'm still lonely as far as members of the opposite sex are concerned, but am happy to have my family around.
I'm thinking of going on match.com, but sheesh, what do you put in your profile - "I have cancer and it's probably going to kill me"? Yeah, that's a real date downer!
Sorry for the rambling, but I just found this new part of the forum and figured its my turn to vent.
Love to all!