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10 Pts... 47% FG... 32% 3PT... 87% FT... 3 Reb... 4.5 Ast as a b/u PG for 5 mil.
George Hill isn't a pure point guard (who is), but its nice to have a legit starting defensive Point Guard who clutch, than the parade of 'could be one of the best back ups' Point Guards who have been on this team over recent years. Looking at you Jarret Jack, DC, and Earl Watson. Not a diss on those guys, but honestly, if you have aspirations to contend and don't have a top 5 player, great back up types who are starting for you, aren't going to get it done. So ya, DJ hasn't been what I'd hoped for yet, but I'm still pretty happy with George Hill even though he not my preferred offensive type starting Point Guard. He is exactly what I want on defense, leadership, toughness, and he's fearless. Glass half full, for me, for now.
He's been consistently good defensively and sucked it up for the most part offensively, but who hasn't? He's shown me enough talent that I believe he's very capable of becoming a damn good player. Better than nearly every player mentioned in his price range in this thread. Did you see him finish that pass from Paul in traffic with his off hand last night? Or the fake pass then a crab dribble to free up space for the mid range jumper 2 games ago? Yeah he's got butterfingers, but I've noticed gradual improvements there also. He's a developing young player who's already fairly skilled. Once he fine tunes everything I think we're gonna have a gem on our hands. Go ahead and quote me on that.
Also, loving the West/Ian combo. They compliment each other very well on the court together. I'd like to see lots more of it.
BUT, he's a UFA this off season.
Jarrett will command more than what he's presently making at 5.5 mil. I figure he'll get paid 6-7 mil by a team needing a starting PG.
...who will then realize he's one of the best back up Point Guards in the league.
I watched Mosgov play in the Denver game the other night. He hasn't been playing much this season with Koufos starting and McGee playing off the bench. I didn't think he was that bad for a reserve bench player. He's a Walsh player from the Knicks that came to Denver in the Melo trade.
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Let us not pretend JO wouldn't love to come back to play for the Pacers. He's a steal at $854,300!
If someone asks hey would you rather have a physical and athletic 26 yr old 7-footer as your B/U C for 4 mil a yr, or an old broken down 35 yr old 7 footer for under a million--most teams would choose the former.
JO looked DONE in Bos last yr, another yr taken away following injuries. Yes he would have loved to come back here, but nobody could have known that he'd be relatively healthy for the first time since...well forever really.
Also, he's playing in PHO where their training staff is known to work wonders (see Grant Hill) so it's not a surprise he goes there and is relatively healthy when compared to the past 5-6 yrs.
Yes I would dump him even though I really like the guy, as you can see I don't let my love for a guy to blind my look for what is better for the team, I wish some people could do the same thing, hell I wish the team could do the same, there is a reason why I admire Bill Polian the guy has the cojones many team owners don't have.
That could be said about Hill too. Neither are true PG's, but combo guards. Some on this board want to bring the 8 MILLION MAN off the bench. That's 8 mil for 40% FG% for the year. Last 2 games of 18% in the Chicago game and 37% in the Portland game. Yeah, but he's clutch, right?
Jack 47% FG... 32% 3PT... 87% FT... 3 Reb... 4.5 Ast... 10 PPG as a BACKUP PG!
The things you mention about Hill such as defense, leadership, toughness, and fearlessness is the samething Jack has and had as a Pacer. Bird could have re-signed Jack at less than 20 mil for 4 years. HALF the money Walsh re-signed Hill for. No doubt to me which player is the better bargain, and his name isn't George Hill.
Lets hope Lawson can be contained tonight by the 8 MIL MAN. If not, it's going to be a long night in BLF.
Nate Robinson is the exact same comparison I was going to make. I think both players are above average bench players that can give you a good 20 - 24 minutes a game and keep things going offensively scoring-wise. They're great at pushing the tempo and getting shots early in the offense. I'd take either of them over DJ and give them the primary scoring role off the bench. I'm also missing Jarret Jack, TJ Ford, and even Travis Best right now.
Similar players, Solo was brought here because of his ability to defend, block shots and score the jumper, sounds familiar? Ian to me looks better because of the system but at the end they are pretty close to be the same players.
Here are Bird comments after signing him, this sounds familiar:I also came across this tweet from Wells from few months ago, I didn't know they were looking at him again(before the off season so we are clear)"He's a young, athletic player who has improved each year he has been in the league," said Pacers President of Basketball Larry Bird. "He definitely can help hold down our interior defense and we believe he can be part of what we're trying to do here."
Read more: http://www.insidehoops.com/blog/?p=4649#ixzz2ENtdtvkRKeep an eye on Solomon Jones, who New Orleans didn't sign 4 rest of season, as a possible big man Pacers may look at to help at center
Funny thing with Tyler is that he is still an interior bull. His jump shot seems to have disappeared, but now it's like he has suddenly learned to play decent defense. But with his present contract and coming QO, there's probably no way he would re-sign for 2.5m or so.
No doubt he is going to have a long career....... because he has a long term contract.....
Here is a video of Solomon Jones that I posted few weeks ago for those that care.
And yes Since86 I know the video doesn't prove anything, so don't bother in commenting because I know what you are going to say, thanks.
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Partly agree. I think DC can be very successful; he's already proved that. It's just that his skill set would limit his probability for success to playing for only a very small subset of teams, each geared for a player of his type.
I think there are a lot of players like that. It's just that they chase money or get traded to teams that aren't geared to use them in their preferred ways. Then, suddenly they are viewed as sucking because their output decreases.
And I think that's why all of us, at one time or another, get infatuated with players on other teams who would NEVER work out here. We see what they accomplish elsewhere, and automatically want to believe that their performance will directly translate to our team.
I guess you could say that we all like setting ourselves up for disappointment.
I think he is good enough to be an spark plug off teams benches ala CJ Watson, Jason Terry, Varea,etc, the quickest he realize this the better is going to be for him and his career.
Ian moves and just knows where to be SO much better than Solo. I can't see how you can watch games and not notice this major gap. Solo never looked comfortable without the ball unless he was blocking a shot.
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Exactly. Comments like these are what are making me tune out Vnzla as irrational more than simply having a different opinion.
Freaking Solo going off dribble at all, or as consistantly putting up smooth outside jumpers, or in any way looking even 50% as coordinated. It's not even close. And when you look at their first few seasons you see that Ian has been making this natural progression in time and performance while Solo came out and just landed flat at whatever he was in year 1, maybe even declining a bit.
Ian is a career .543 shooter vs Solo's .470, and Solo was more of a score at the rim type than Ian. Ian is also a bit bigger than Solo.
Ian is coming out of a team-wide shooting slump. If it weren't for the Knicks game he would have trended up to 45% and held it well, with the Portland 6-6 bumping him to 48%. Over the last 6 games he's shot 54%. He's also seen a clear increase in fouls drawn (10, 8, 6 FTA games in last 6 games).
If he cuts the TOs down and maybe cuts back .5 to 1 foul a game, he's going to be a strong bench big. He's becoming a scoring option of the bench for a team that has no idea what the bench offense should look like.
This inability to physically adjust with the ball is a fundamental difference between the two players.
He's a classic long player with decent hops that if you set them up they will make the dunk or make the shot block. Solo is a good shot blocker, but that has as much to do with length and hops as anything. Let him come as the help defender and he's going to get the shot block, but Solo was never close to showing the straight up low post position defense that Ian can do.
It kills me that the video evidence you go to seems to reinforce the exact points of contention.
Ian vs Memphis in pre-season, one of the quickest vids I could find. Primarily notice the 2 early low post plays where he puts the ball on the court, contested in the post, and dribble moves his way into a quality score.
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Cards hold on to get Westbrook's 100th win
MILWAUKEE -- In his last two starts, Jake Westbrook exited with the lead while seeking his 100th career victory only to watch the Cardinals' bullpen lose the game.
Against the Brewers on Thursday night, the bullpen struggled again in relief of Westbrook, but this time the Cardinals held on, and the right-hander earned his milestone victory -- and a celebratory beer shower.
Westbrook pitched six solid innings, and the Cardinals scored all their runs in the third inning for a 6-5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park.
"It's always been a goal of mine to get to 100, and it's good to get it done," Westbrook said.
The right-hander has a 1.07 ERA after five starts, but he said he was erratic Thursday and not as sharp as his previous outings. Nevertheless, he held the Brewers to 1-for-8 batting with runners in scoring position.
"Made some mistakes and got away with some things, to be honest with you," he said. "A lot of hard-hit balls that were hit right at guys that could have made it a different ballgame. Like I said, I got away with some stuff, but that's baseball sometimes."
In contrast, all the Cardinals' runs came with two outs off Brewers right-hander Wily Peralta (2-2). Three of the runs scored when Cardinals runners beat close plays at the plate to score, and two of the RBI singles were on broken bats.
"We had bats blowing up," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "At one point it looked like we were trying to have a bonfire. But we got enough going and put them in the right places. We've had plenty of hard outs, so we're due some of those."
All 12 of the Cardinals' hits were singles, and St. Louis continued to hit well in the clutch, going 5-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
"Crazy inning," Peralta said of the decisive third. "Frustrating."
The Cardinals are batting .341 with runners in scoring position this year, but they came into the game batting .247 overall.
"A whole bunch of singles," Matheny said. "There's a lot to be said about it now. I don't think that's the team we're going to have to be all season, where it's just the timely hits. There's still more there. Everybody knows that.
"But right now, absolutely, I commend them for being able to put some runs across the board when they don't feel their best."
Westbrook (2-1) allowed one run on six hits and three walks while striking out four in six innings to improve to 100-96 in his career.
Drafted with the 21st pick in the first round of the 1996 amateur Draft, Westbrook made his Major League debut with a short stint for the Yankees in 2000. He made only five starts in 2008 and 2009 following Tommy John surgery on his right elbow but survived to begin his 12th Major League season this year.
"A hundred wins for me is a sign of longevity and kind of grinding it out year after year," Westbrook said. "It's definitely not 300, but for me it was a goal of mine. It's something I'll always have with me."
Exiting after six innings with a 6-1 lead, Westbrook had to watch the bullpen allow four runs in the final three innings.
Joe Kelly and Mitchell Boggs struggled in the seventh, but Trevor Rosenthal struck out Martin Maldonado on a 98-mph fastball with the bases loaded to end the inning and preserve a 6-3 lead.
The Brewers scored an unearned run in the eighth, but Rosenthal came to the rescue again, striking out Yuniesky Betancourt with runners on the corners to end another Milwaukee threat.
Edward Mujica allowed a run in the ninth but struck out pinch-hitter Jonathan Lucroy with the tying run on first for his seventh save.
That prompted the beer shower for Westbrook in the Cardinals' locker room, and Rosenthal said the entire bullpen was aware it was a special night for the veteran pitcher.
"That's what we were all aiming for," Rosenthal said. "Every time he's been out there to pitch I definitely had that in the back of my mind. It was special, I think, for all of us to be a part of that. He's such a good guy and has been performing forever to get that. I know he was happy."
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Fox News' host Sean Hannity is being called one of the biggest losers of 2012 and it's with good reason. The NY Daily News reports that he has lost one-half of his audience after President Obama won reelection. Yeah, that's because he was dead wrong in many of his predictions about the outcome of the election and about President Obama. Add Dick Morris to the mix and you'll see why he deserves to lose his viewers. Sean Hannity has ZERO credibility. This comes as he tried to make hay of Hillary Clinton's medical problems, saying he wanted to see the medical report about her concussion.
NY Daily News: According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O'Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience.
So what happened to Hannity?
The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
Adding insult to injury, two of Hannity's rivals on MSNBC, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow, held onto huge chunks of their audiences, while at CNN, far less politically polarizing host Anderson Cooper lost almost none of his viewers postelection.
It got even worse for Hannity in the "money demo" of viewers 25-54, who are prized by advertisers.
With this group, Hannity held onto less than half his preelection audience. O'Reilly, on the other hand, kept almost 70%.
And through the early part of December, Maddow actually beat Hannity in the coveted group — a shocking turn, because until the election, Hannity was unassailable by any of his rivals, at least in terms of ratings.
Sean Hannity tried to resurrect Rev. Jeremiah Wright, played up a speech by then-candidate Barack Obama at Hampton University, and try to strike a low blow in denigrating and discrediting President Obama, but it all backfired with a resounding defeat of Mitt Romney in the elections.


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My Wrestlemaina 29 booking
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This is my first blog ever and my Wrestlemaina 29 card. I'm pretty damn proud of it and how I would book it if I didn't have to answer to Vinny Mac and were charge of all creative decisions. IWC, rip it to shreds.
Match #1 WHC Match: ADR v Jack Swagger
They started the last 2 yrs with the WHC and probably will again. Love Zeb and the Tea Party angle but for my WM Swaggs will have to put ADR over in a solid opening match.
Winner: ADR (Postmatch celebration interrupted by Swaggs slaping on the patriot lock until Del Rio can't stand-up. Jack exits and Dolph's music hits.
Match #2 WHC Match: ADR v Dolph Ziggler
If I were booking, I'd want a cash in at WM. These two could be great together if they got adiquete time, but Del Rio would be gimpy so I'd only let it go 7 to 10 min. After better match then expected with ADR on one leg, Ziggy goes over.
Winner: Ziggler (Postmatch celebration interrupted by Booker T who announces that Ziggy's scheduled match will now be for the WHC)
Match #3 WHC Match: Dolph Ziggler v Chris Jericho
Let's make history, start WM with 3 world title matches. Everyone probably wants me to put Ziggler over in this spot, but I can't. Jericho has been putting guys over for years and has never got a true WM moment. The fucking guys wrestling Fandango this year! What a slap in the face of a true all-time great. it's now or never for a forty-something Lyin' Heart (his best nickname), and if it were me I'd give one of the best ever his moment in the sun.
Winner: Y2J
Match #4 Ryback v Mark Henry
One match I really don't have a problem with. I just wouldn't have booked all the Ryback-Shield nonsense. Why have them feud from Survivor Series if Ryback just forgets the 10 or 15 beatings took after 1 attack from Henry. Makes no sense, but that's the writers for wwe, our fans don't matter to us so it doesn't have to be believable. Whatever, any way this is the spot they usually use Big Show. Can Ryback shell shock him. It's kind of refreshing to see Henry in this role. Ryback picks him up, but Mark kicks out of shell shocked and just like Jericho, I'd give a guy who's paid his dues a WM moment, and a big, CLEAN win.
Winner: Henry
Match#5 Elimination Chamber match: Sheild v Orton v Sheamus v Big Show
Another match I don't hate cause as a fan I get 2 things I want: Show as a face and Orton as a heel. Do I think it's ridiculous they turn Show every six months, of course. But I think he works better as a face and I like to see the older guys get cheered on their way out. I hate Show but the guy put in his 20 years and he deserves it.
The reason I put this match in the chamber is believability. It's hard to write a scenario why Orton would help 3 guys who kayfabe separated his shoulder a month ago or whatever that angle was, so here's how I do it. Show and Reigns start. Rollins next, then Orton, Ambrose 5th in. With Orton down on the outside metal, the triple power bomb eliminates Show. Sheamus in last. The Sheild one by one get elimanated. As Sheamus gets up from pinning the last member of the Sheild, he turns into an RKO. Instead of covering Sheamus he sells the turn to the crowd, goes to the corner, and proceeds to punt the shit out of Sheamus.
Winner: Orton (To seal the heel turn, as the chamber goes up the Sheild come back for Sheamus, and Orton walks away. As they set up for the triple power bomb, Big Show comes down for the save. As he cleans house, the NEW members of the Sheild arrive through the crowd. Kassious Ohno and Michael McGilicutty make the save, and after a triple power bomb, the Sheild stand tall)
Match #6 Kane v Daniel Bryan
hopefully, everybody is as sick of this team as I am. Booking the team to argue over who's better into a WM match will be the beginning of the end of the team. Kane won last year, and after Danielson's embarrassment last year, he has to go over.
Winner: Bryan
Match #7 2 out of 3 falls; 1st for US title, 2nd for IC title triple threat: Miz v Cesaro v Barrett
Solid match to get the mid-card titles on the card and turn Cesaro face to start a solid feud with Wade. Miz wins first fall with a clean win pinning Barrett, 2nd fall Cesaro pins Wade clean. I'd book it with significant time to show off Cesaro, a top 5 in ring guy in the Co. Joining Punk, Bryan, Ziggler, and Christian
Winner 1st fall: Miz, 2nd fall: Cesaro
Match #8 Street Fight: The Undertaker v Brock Lesnar
This one writes itself. Everyone saw their confrontation in UFC, so just build off of that. Heyman could be genuis cutting promos to build a match that doesnt even need a build. 20-0 is an unbelievable accomplishment and Taker is obviously the best big man ever and a guy who gave me many great memories, but it's time. Every year it's a closer and closer call if he can even go at WM. It's tradition in the business to go out with honors, a lot of people put him over in 20 yrs and it's time to give back, leave your boots in the ring, and we will always cherish your career.
Winner: Lesnar
Match #9 WWE Title: Rock v Cena
i don't want to see these two wrestle again as much as the next guy, but there is a shot for a great moment here. A ten minute match, because the attraction isn't the wrestling it's what comes after. Here's how I'd write it
Winner: Rock (as Rock is just about to duck behind the curtain after making the long walk from the ring, he turns to give the crowd one last pose, and Cena runs from backstage and AA's the rock through a table on the side of the set. He grabs mike cuts a promo about love and adoration. The Rock gets it, but he's worked his ass off for fifteen years, granting make-a-wishes, and becoming champion 13 times For all that hard work, he receives chants of Cena sucks and u can't wrestle. Something along those lines. I'm not gonna write a promo but I really feel like it could be epic, people have been waiting for his turn for years.
HHH and CM Punk tried to have a match a few years ago at summerslam and it was an unmitigated disaster. 1st it was Punk and Nash, then they couldn't figure out who was the heel and who was the face. The build was awful.
Punk was the best, However, cutting those shoot promos before his match with Cena at MITB, not just the infamous one, remember a couple of weeks after when he asked Johnny Ace if he fired Harry Smith to his face, or left a message on his machine. Punks the best when he says what he truly believes, that VKM is bully who lost touch with hardcore fans who've been watching since we were kids. We want Tyson Kidd and Kharma, he gives us Ryback and the Bellas. Mix that emotion with Paul Heyman's promos about Stephane, throw in a dash of Trips calling Punk skinny fat(lol), and both men get to pick a stipulation for the match
Main Event: HHH v CM Punk (If Hunter wins, Punk can never again compete for the WWE Championship, If Punk wins, he and Heyman become CEO and CFO, respectfully)
I'd hope HHH has one more classic in him but, ultimately and after numerous 2 counts and close calls , I'd have Punk win with a Pepsi Plunge. Kids think he stole the pedigree, we love that he used his Indy move to win. Either way, it looks like a slap in the face to Hunter. The show goes off the air with Punk and Heyman now in charge of WWE.
Winner Punk


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Re: Data Security and Access Policy Statement
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I've got three 'it' names for daughters, which I've had since I was 17 or so (Elspeth, Ingrid, and Margaret/Margot). Boys are a bit different: I have a top five or so, but the 'it' name changes pretty regularly between them and I'm not as attached to them. I'm more attached to three boy middles, which are Alistair, Robert/Robin, and James/Seumas/Hamish...I'd probably let the S.O. have his way on boy firsts if I got the middles, and vice versa for the girls
The first 'it' name I remember having is Norah I was in love with that name after reading Kit Pearson's Guests of War trilogy in grade 2 or 3, and realising it was related to my sister's name without sounding identical.
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London's East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.
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"A charming tale of deliveries and deliverance." (Kirkus Reviews)
"This is one I didn't want to put down!"
Call the Midwife was a truly gripping book for me. I am interested in birth and so reading about how births were conducted 60 years ago was so fascinating.
Yet, Jennifer Worth's story went far beyond that of the stories of the births she attended. It was the story of her maturing as a nurse and midwife, and of her strongly held notions about what was right and acceptable being challenged. She began her midwifery training at an Anglican convent in the dockland area of London's East End with not much more than disdain for people who were strongly motivated by love of God and called to service because of it. She grew to understand the women who mentored her, and to respect the ones whom she wrote off as just nasty or odd in the beginning. Seeing her dawning understanding of faith was lovely.
She also learned so much from the families of the poor and down trodden of an area so different from what she knew before.
Some of the stories she tells in this book are hilariously funny, and others are completely heartbreaking and painful to read. Worth certainly was a gifted storyteller, reminiscent of James Herriott. I hope the other books she wrote will be released on Audible soon.
Nicola Barber is a competent narrator, and not one who will put me off a book, so I was okay at first. But, I was very surprised; she seemed to really enjoy doing this book, and the characters came alive through her excellent narration. I was very pleased!
I don't think guys should be put of by a book about birthing babies, just as Herriott's books are more about the people than the animals. Give it a go.
Tangential, eclectic, avid listener... favorite book is the one currently in ear.
"My favorite this year... but not for all..."
Slices of life as experienced by a young midwife in postwar London slums. Similar to James Herriot books, with feel of Potato Peel Pie Literary Society. However, "real life" is shared and it isn't always pretty. It includes several step by step delivery of babies, the story of how a young girl is drawn into prostitution, ups and downs of married life and child raising, a few babies born with "unexpected" color, some heartbreaking abuse, poverty, adoption and horrors of poor house relief. The only portion which is lewd is during the "entertainment" at the brothel, you know it is coming and a 3 minute fast forward would remove it easily without messing with the plot. Language is clean and although some of the experiences are heartbreaking the whole feeling of the book is the beauty of the cycle of life - aptly named birth, joy and hard times. You will smile a lot!
"What a lovely story"
entertaining, sweet, educational
The breech birth scene was so intense and exactingly told I could not put this down. In fact the entire book went by too fast. I think people of all ages would enjoy these stories all from the 1950's East End of London
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Retired CFO, Army wife, Mom of five, Grandma of six, two sons who served in combat, love to read books that reflect my values and faith, love mysteries, historical, military stories, and books that don't waste my time . . . if it doesn't have an ending that was worth the wait, I'm not a happy camper.
"True Story of Exact Era I Was Born In"
I'm a child of the '50s, but here in the US, not in London, post WWII, a time of great uncertainty for many people. I'm usually drawn to historical fiction, but this audio book with true stories of the convent and midwives who served the poor and impoverished citizens is excellent. It's funny, touching, sad, and gives us a glimpse into a profession and lifestyle that most of us would never have the opportunity to know or understand otherwise. The faith of the catholic nuns, which Jennifer at first found to be strange and meaningless, was one of the sweetest and most profound parts of the story, as Jennifer learned first hand the power of a God that heals . . . a God that HEARS. This book is not preachy, it's very understated on the subject of religion, yet very real. Midwives riding bikes through snow and storms to deliver babies, give insulin shots, care for the elderly. Nuns who are as tough as nails, and as kind as Jesus. I purposely have not yet watched the tv series. I'm ready to see it now. I'm sure it won't hold a candle to the book.
"A delightful read!"
This is a delightful book and just wonderful to listen to. It is the memoir of a midwife in London of the 1950s. It is hard to believe that before the National Health Service came into being in the late 1940s and made free healthcare available to all, maternity care for the poor was practically non-existent in Britain. But by the mid 1950s nurse midwives were bicycling around the projects of London giving prenatal (the Brits call it antenatal) care and handling home deliveries, or even hospital deliveries for complications. Each story is more delightful or amazing than the others. My only complaint is that I never wanted it to end. The author, an experienced nurse, signs up for midwife training and thinks she is being sent to a hospital but instead it is a community of nuns who lovingly care for their patients and train other nurses to become experienced midwives. Britain was still recovering from the privations of WWII and there was an immense shortage of housing. Poor families lived in incredibly crowded and primitive conditions. Many of the old condemned buildings did not have running water for each flat but were still full of families because there was nowhere to move them. Into this comes all the drama of birth and death and family and money issues and even racial issues (Britian was just beginning to get immigrants of different racial backgrounds). It is just beautifully written, beautifully narrated (the Cockney voices will haunt me) and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
"The best book I've listened to this year"
So far this year, I've listened to about 50 books, and this has been the best of them. I don't read much non-fiction, I'm a guy, I'm an American, and I don't have any children, so a book of memoirs from a midwife in 1950's London shouldn't logically resonate with me at all. I can't explain it, but I thought this book was wonderful.
I read a few other reviews that disliked the narrator, but I thought she did a great job. She subtly captures different voices without making it into a big deal. The recording mix was a little strange, though, so if you have headphones that really accentuate bass tones, you might have a little trouble with the sound.
The book is a series of stories about different people that the author interacts with during her time studying nursing at a convent in London. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, most of them incorporate interesting historical points about women's health, and all of them are amazing.
I wish I was a better reviewer so I could give a better picture of how great this book is. I'd feel a little silly just writing "this book is awesome" until I hit Audible's character limit, but that would about sum it up.
"Fantastic Book..."
The PBS series was fascinating, the book was better.
To find out one of the boys became one of Lady Di's drivers. Not only ar there wonderful stories of birth, but so much history after WW 2.
It made me smile, with so many stories it told.
Think this book is for all.
"1950's, London Dockyards, Family, Faith"
I enjoyed this book far more than I expected. This is a memoir of a nurse early in her career learning to be a Midwife in the London Dockyards in the 1950's. Her observations of convent and family living conditions are vivid, and the stories are funny, sad, and sometimes downright inspirational. I looked forward to my next chance to listen from the first chapter, with the introduction to Sister Monica Jones.
I am an avid eclectic reader.
A friend of mine from Sunderland England sent me the trilogy a number of years ago saying she grew up in the East End of London during WWII. I read the books a long time ago but decided to listen to the audiobook just to hear the accents because I could never do them.
The book is Jennifer Worth's memoirs of her time as a nurse/midwife in the East End of London in the 1950s. I remember the fifties quite well and it was easy to slip back into that time frame in the book. It is amazing how far medicine and society has come since the fifties; we now have Ultrasound, antibiotics, birth control, and an array of other medications. The fifties don't seem like all that long ago to me, guess that is what happens as one ages.
Worth paints a colorful scene as she describes her training as a midwife while living in an Anglican Nunnery. The nuns were all nurse/midwifes and ran a school to teach nurses to be midwives while they cared for the people in the East End. Worth weaves lots of interesting stories of people and also about the nuns. I found the stories about the work houses most interesting including the fact that after they closed them in the 1930s they were converted into hospitals. It is no wonder the poor people did not want to go to the hospital. The book has little of Worth's personal life but is mostly about patients and fellow midwifes. In many ways the book is a work history and anthropology of the Docklands of the East End.
I understand there was a T.V. series called "Call the Midwife" based on Worth's memoirs that was very popular in Britain. Overall I enjoyed the book and the trip down memory lane. Nicola Barber did an excellent job narrating the book.
"Fabulous beyond words...."
Back in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow called television a "vast wasteland" -- and he was right, back then. Today, television is in a magnificent resurgence, with exceptional programming like BBC's "The Street", PBS's "Sherlock", and best of all, BBC's
"Call the Midwife", which I first encountered via Netflix. Seeing that first episode, I was entranced -- and spent the next several evenings watching every episode available. Amazing, the acting, the stories, the history, the clear but soft presentation of moral issues -- no preaching -- not to mention the insights into life in London's East End in the 1950's -- not that long ago, in the scheme of things.
So it was with some trepidation that I bought the audio book -- which was the exact reverse of a situation for me. Normally I read the book, and then am reluctant to see the film because it's almost never as good. In this case, I'd seen several seasons of the astonishingly good television series, and found myself wondering if the actual book could be anywhere near as fine.
It was. And then some -- in fact, the TV series follows Jennifer Worth's written memoirs very carefully, at least in the situations and scenes presented. The TV producers added a little more love interest than was in the memoirs -- for several of the young women, not just Jenny -- but otherwise it's all there, the Sisters, with their various eccentricities, Jenny, with all her sincerity, Fred the handyman with all his schemes, and of course "Chummy" -- well, how would anyone describe Chummy? But the book character is very similar to that played by the enormously talented Miranda Hart. I find myself smiling whenever she appears -- whether in the book or in the films.
There are a few more historical details in the book than in the series, which I found fascinating. Again, 1950 wasn't all that long ago, but it continued to amaze me that so many medical advancements we take for granted now weren't available then.
The audio book is greatly enhanced by the perfect narration by Nicola Barber. Her very soft voice, perfect enunciation, is absolutely the right choice for this memoir. Well done!
All in all, highest recommendation possible for this audio book -- and for the BBC series!
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Will be interesting to see now long he's out and if we just go with Dahntay, Lance and Aj backing up Point Guard and 2 guard
Yep I don't think he is coming back anytime soon, probably until the playoffs, yep more DC and AJ
Vogel said that Lance and AJ will split time playing Hill's spot. He said he has a lot of confidence in AJ and that AJ was a big part of what we did last season.
We'll be OK.
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
He's a crucial part of this team. It would end our chances to make noise losing Hibbert. It would be nearly as bad if we lost Granger.
Against most teams in the east, DC probably comes next. But against many teams including Chicago, it's Hill.
Of course if our man Paul George starts playing like this regularly, he moves up the chain. That's really the only good news. Paul will be on the floor even more.
Not sure LB has ever panicked, ever. We cant run this short, roster wise Im sure he's on the phone as I type. Get well GH.
Id love for Larry to make a call to NJ about Morrow
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If he's on the phone as you type, then LB is panicking. It's 11:00 pm
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I admit this sucks hard, but this is the time for Lance and AJ to prove that they can perform and help our team win with them playing extended time. It will be slow at first but hopefully they get in there and mesh with the rest of the team. I hope Larry doesn't panic and try to pull the strings on a wing player that is not a good fit for the team. I think we will be ok in the long run.
Looks like we'll see more of Rush at the 2...
...oh wait. dammit.
No offense, but your friend in med school hasn't seen the x-rays, doesn't know how severe the injury is, and is well...still in med school. Just a pet peeve of mine, I want to hear it from a doctor and more specifically from a doctor who has actually seen the X-Ray and done the MRI I'm sure is to come. (And which we should be more concerned about, if the MRI reveals any tendon/ligament damage it will be a 2 monther for sure.)
If it's simple chip of a bone, and the bone is still stable, I would be shocked if it takes him out for 8 weeks. That being said, everything is still very much up in the air. I'm not gonna panic, but it certainly will limit us a bit. We need to continue to see the defense from Lance that we saw tonight.
I will say, when Hill was interviewed in the locker room after the game, it was very hard to get a read on him, but I would definitely say he didn't seem optimistic.
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Also, damn you OJ Mayo trade....Damn you straight to hell.
Also, I want touch on a play that nearly turned to disaster to us, I don't know if anyone else noticed this play but it was some point in the 4th quarter, and DC was trying to get around a screen at the top of the 3 point line, he slipped and got pumped by the screen while his left leg was extended supporting all his weight and it started to buckle underneath him, it was nearly identical to how I hurt my knee playing soccer (in terms of how the leg was placed and how the knee started to bend), my heart stopped watching that, but DC was able to get the leg unplanted in time, but you could tell it spooked the hell out of him as he kind of gave the leg a shake to make sure it was ok.
It is my opinion, that we were about a split second away from Hill not only being out, but from Darren hurting his knee pretty badly. We got very lucky on that play and it bothered me enough that I tweeted Hicks about it. I don't know if anyone else noticed it though.
The only good news in all this is that George Hill has young bones
There was a 30 second segment of game time where there were TWO nasty slips on the court. First the one by DC you mentioned, then another really scary one by Tyler.
It looked like a damn hockey game out there.
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I wouldn't look to trade anyone yet, not until you see how long Hill will be out.
If we see more of tonight's Lance and AJ plays like he did his rookie season (or improves on that) we'll be fine, especially if this is just for a few weeks.
Dang, if DC was a woman, that's an ACL tear. I've seen that play too many times..
I'm pretty stupid when it comes to injuries.....this doesn't sound like something that a Player can come back from over the next couple of days....sounds like something that will keep a Player out for a couple of months?
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That said, get well George!
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
ok this sucks but it is the opportunity Lance needed... it is his time to shine and we all know his passing abilities he just needs to work on his shooting.... saying that he has really improved his defense and i was amazed on how good he played on DWill last night.... lets hope he can keep it up
Yeah, Lance is going to get time. If he wants more playing time, now is the time to start earning it. More performances like last night and he'll be on his way. Looked damn good, sick passes and even his D has improved quite a bit.
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5 year, open-label study to evaluate safety of SCULPTRA on the signs of lipoatrophy of the face in at least 100 evaluable subjects with human immunodeficiency virus.
|Facial Lipoatrophy
|Device: SCULPTRA (poly-L-lactic acid injection)
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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
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|An Open-Label Registry Study of the Facial Lipoatrophy Correction Experience With SCULPTRA® in Subjects With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (FACES Study)
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- To evaluate, by Fitzpatrick skin type and by gender, long-term safety of Poly-L-Lactic acid injection(s) in human immunodeficiency virus subjects with facial lipoatrophy. [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Evaluate the incidence of hypertrophic scars or keloids in subjects by Fitzpatrick skin types IV-VI, assessed approximately 6 months after completion of treatment; [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Evaluate the severity, relationship, time to onset, duration, and resolution of adverse events (AEs) by Fitzpatrick skin type and gender; and [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Evaluate the Quality of Life (QOL) and body image benefit associated with the treatment of facial lipoatrophy. [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
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- In the investigator's judgment, a high probability of 5 year survival and compliance with the study visit schedule;
- Initiating SCULPTRA treatments;
- Ability to comprehend and sign an informed consent document prior to study enrollment.
- No waiver, prospective or retrospective, to deviate in any way from the inclusion/exclusion criteria for clinical study subjects, defined in the study protocol, can be granted to clinical investigators.
- Any active skin inflammation or infection in or near the treatment area;
- Any hypersensitivity to the components of SCULPTRA
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- Pregnancy or breastfeeding or anticipating becoming pregnant during the study period; and
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American Dynasties
Tycoons have come and gone, but few are the titans that form dynasties. In America, much weighs against the family that seeks to preserve a financial power base for generations.
Foremost are taxes. So many of the great fortunes were built in the nineteenth century, before personal taxes were levied. They were introduced in 1913, and then followed, in 1916, by inheritance taxes, sounding the death knell of the Gilded Age. But clever accountants found ways to skirt increasingly onerous levies, especially inheritance taxes. Trust funds were formed. Charitable foundations endowed with nonvoting stock. Annuities set up. Trusts were rushed through with such a frenzy to avoid a 1935 tax that they were dubbed "the 1934 trusts."
Even with a viable tax strategy, a tycoon must have able heirs to form a dynasty.
The passion that drives men to create great wealth from nothing typically flags in subsequent generations, which have never been challenged by need. Interests change from amassing cash to spending it. Descendants try to prove their good taste or assuage the guilt of being so rich. Gold diggers are attracted and bad marriages ensue. As the family grows, wealth is further diluted. The best offspring stay the course and add wealth to family coffers. The worst throw cash at whimsical and disastrous investments.
What follows are the families who have, for the most part, solved the happy problem of creating a legacy of power.
Pierre-Samuel Du Pont de Nemours had as many as seven different plans for making his family's fortune in America after he fled the Reign of Terror in 1800. None of them had anything to do with manufacturing gunpowder. But then, on a hunting trip, his son, Elèuthere Irénée (E.I.), discovered that what passed for gunpowder in the New World was grossly inferior to the powder used in Europe. Convincing his father to let him start a mill on the Brandywine Creek in Delaware, he founded what would become one of the country's oldest family business dynasties.
It didn't hurt, of course, that Pierre was fast friends with Thomas Jefferson, whom he helped in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase. Government contracts followed, boosted by the War of 1812. E.I. borrowed steadily and plowed the profits back into the business, expanding the firm. Meanwhile, older brother Victor became a state representative, initiating the familial tradition of holding political office (the Duponts boast Delaware senators and governors).
The close-knit family's prolific breeding (even in-breeding) helped replenish an employment base often racked by frequent explosions and fires at the mill. When female cousins weren't marrying cousins, they married men who were welcomed into the business. The arrangement kept the company family-owned for decades.
Furthermore, Du Pont offspring--whether they be scientists or businessmen--seemed always to benefit the company in some capacity when needed. Lammot Du Pont developed a formula for black powder that freed the family from using expensive Indian saltpeter. Henry Du Pont created a trade association. The Du Ponts sent a general and an admiral to the Civil War on the side of the Union. Lammot did his part by bluffing Great Britain into supplying the company with saltpeter.
When not supplying war munitions, the Du Ponts sold explosives for construction. By the end of the century, the company had cornered its market, but almost lost it when a family feud resulted in a near sellout. Three cousins stepped forward and bought the business; of these, Pierre Du Pont wrested control, turning the family empire into a chemical giant. Not only did the company begin to manufacture diverse materials, such as plastics, rayon, polyester and Teflon, but it also gained a controlling interest in General Motors. Pierre himself ran GM until he turned it over to Alfred Sloan. The courts forced Du Pont to divest that interest in 1959.
In the twentieth century, family members began pursuing high-profile interests such as sports and art collecting. They have also maintained a large power base within Delaware, holding public offices and owning newspapers. It wasn't until 1971 that someone other than a Du Pont would chair the company's board.--JB
On his death bed in 1848, John Jacob Astor, the man who monopolized the fur industry, was asked if he had any regrets. The richest person in America reportedly answered that he lamented not having purchased all of Manhattan.
The German immigrant, who had redefined the concept of wealth in America, still had the bold acquisitiveness that would make the Astor name synonymous with riches even now.
In the 1790s, the young instrument maker who had come to America with $20 in his pocket started a fur store and became one of America's leading fur traders, despite having never set a trap. Shrewd dealings with Indian tribes and friendships forged with British officials allowed him to branch out into what was then the frontiers of Canada and the Great Lakes. He owned a network of ships that allowed him to move product faster than the competition and to trade with China. Close to Thomas Jefferson, he was among the first to see the benefits of the Louisiana Purchase. By 1827, Astor had created the country's first trust. In 1834, he left the fur trade to focus on New York City real estate, constructing hundreds of buildings. His will provided $400,000 to found the Astor Library, later consolidated as part of the New York Public Library.
Astor's son, William Backhouse, continued to buy real estate in New York, more than doubling the family's worth. One of his sons, John Jacob, gave generously to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Trinity Church and the Astor Library. Another son married Caroline Schermerhorn, co-creator of The 400, the number of society's elite that supposedly could be entertained comfortably in her mansion. Located where the Empire State Building now stands, the house was converted into the Astoria Hotel, then connected to adjacent property to become the first Waldorf-Astoria.
William Waldorf Astor, the son of the second John Jacob, served as a New York legislator and U.S. minister to Italy before moving to London, buying a viscount title and funding conservative causes.
William Waldorf's elder son, John Jacob, served in Parliament and owned The Times of London. His younger son, Waldorf, served in the House of Commons, succeeded his father as viscount and ran the London Observer. Waldorf's wife, Nancy, became the first woman in Parliament. The couple favored appeasement of Hitler.
John Jacob IV, son of Caroline, was an inventor and sci-fi novelist, who died on the Titanic. His son, Vincent Astor, helped convert family-owned slums into city housing projects and published Newsweek. James Van Alen, Caroline's great-grandson, founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame and introduced the tiebreaker.--BG
In the 1890s, George Washington Vanderbilt, a grandson of railroad baron Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, was considering building a modest Southern-style mansion on his 125,000-acre North Carolina spread. Architect Richard Morris Hunt, a family favorite, had other ideas. Millions of dollars and 250 rooms later, the Biltmore Estate was the largest private house in America.
An epitaph of the Vanderbilt legacy might read, "By their homes shall they be known." For it was in their spectacular mansions that the heirs of Cornelius Vanderbilt poured his fortune.
In 1810, at 16, Commodore Vanderbilt bought a sailing sloop to ferry freight and passengers from his native Staten Island to Manhattan. He soon graduated to steamboats, and within four decades more than 100 of his ships dominated the New York steamship trade. Vanderbilt was worth millions. To extend his reach, he invested in railroads during the Civil War. Through shrewd management and shady stock dealings, Vanderbilt acquired a vast railroad empire, including the New York Central. When he died, in 1877, he was worth more than $100 million.
Wanting his empire to survive, he left the bulk of his fortune to only one of his 13 children, his eldest son, William Henry Vanderbilt. It was a wise choice. Under William's hand, the fortune more than doubled. But William also brought the "robber baron" label upon the clan with his unfortunate response to a reporter's question regarding the public good: "The public be damned!" After William's death in 1885, his son Cornelius II further increased the fortune, which reached more than half a billion dollars by the 1920s.
Loud and coarse, the Commodore had cared little for New York's high society, and it returned the compliment. His grandchildren, on the other hand, cared very much. From the 1890s to the 1930s they threw excessively lavish parties for hundreds of society's elite at their homes in New York and Newport, Rhode Island. Other Vanderbilts made waves as well. Harold Sterling Vanderbilt was a three-time America's Cup winner during the 1930s and the creator of modern contract bridge. More recently, Gloria Vanderbilt, the object of a bitter custody battle as a child, became a leading fashion designer.
A few Vanderbilts did engage in philanthropy, donating funds to Vanderbilt and Columbia universities, New York's Vanderbilt Clinic, and the Whitney museum, among others. But it was the Vanderbilt passion for homes that brought the clan to a level all its own. In New York City, the grandchildren filled an eight-block stretch of Fifth Avenue with their mansions. In 1892, William K. shelled out $11 million to create Marble House in Newport, while nearby his brother Cornelius II's The Breakers, a 70-room summer "cottage," became the wealthy playground's most opulent mansion.--TF
Thomas Mellon was a rising young lawyer in Pittsburgh who did things with cool calculation. Before he took a wife in 1843, he drew up a list of attributes suitable to a "helpmate," conducted "interviews," and then proposed. Mellon later reflected that had the lucky girl refused he would have left "neither sad nor depressed nor greatly disappointed, only annoyed at the loss of time."
That power of cold-blooded assessment was something he would pass on to his sons. He also earned enough money as a judge and a real estate investor to buy them a bank so that they might amass their own fortune. Andrew W. and Richard B. were the progeny who made the most of daddy's largess. Loaning money to the city's burgeoning steel trade, they bought chunks of the foremost industries of the age, installing themselves as members on the boards of directors. They did business with the likes of Henry Frick and the Du Ponts, and made their influence felt in mining, manufacturing, railroads, electronics and just about every other industry.
In 1889, a young engineer came to Andrew Mellon with a patent that would slash the cost of aluminum. The family backed the company that became Alcoa and virtually cornered the market.
At the turn of the century, the Mellons bought the vast Spindletop oils fields of Texas from a broke Yugoslavian prospector and his investors. As Gulf Oil, it made the Mellons billionaires.
But even as the family piled up riches, it remained relatively anonymous. When Andrew became secretary of the treasury under Warren Harding in 1921, the Mellon name was almost unknown to the general public, despite holdings that touched everyones lives.
Andrew's policies, not surprisingly, favored a flat tax for the wealthy, perhaps predicting supply-side economics with his statement that "the prosperity of the lower and middle classes depends upon the good fortune and light taxes of the rich." He made great strides to lower the enormous national debt from the First World War, but met headlong with the stock market crash and resulting bank failures, which dimmed his rising political star. Herbert Hoover eventually shunted him off to a post as ambassador to Great Britain.
While Andrew devoted himself to the nation's finances, his brother, Richard, ran the business. Richard's son, Richard K., took over, devoting himself to cleaning up smog-choked Pittsburgh. Andrew's son, Paul, collected art. As well as leaving an almost inexhaustible storehouse of wealth for their heirs, the Mellons funded charities (Andrew Mellon Foundation) and educational institutions, (Carnegie-Mellon University) that keep the family's name in front of the public despite its ongoing preference for a low profile.--JB
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For the first time in the history of the nation's wars, American women will be allowed to pick up a weapon and fight on the front lines.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to remove the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs.
Panetta will announce the changes todaybut they will not happen overnight. Individual branches will develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions and some jobs may open as soon as this year.
Allowing women, who comprise 14 percent of the 1.4 million active military personnel, to serve on the front lines was seen by many to be one of the last major barriers of the long-held belief that they shouldn't be in combat.
"I've seen a number of women over the years become commanders, fly planes, do many roles that were allowed only for men over the years, so now this is sort of the last frontier for women being able to serve in combat ... this is actually going to change the policy in the Department of Defense, so I'm very excited," said Ruth Wong, acting director of the Los Angeles County Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
State Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, said Panetta's announcement will especially help women get promoted in the military.
"One thing (the military) will look at is the roles they have had and often times people will not get promoted" for not being in combat, said Lieu, who served in the Air Force from 1995 to 1999.
"It opens up to the best qualified person to be in the position to serve our national security. I think it's about time."
Panetta's decision gives the military until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believe any positions must remain closed to women.
Olga Ambriz-Schiller, a former Woodland Hills resident who retired from the Army in 2010 after 21 years, said she agrees there are some women who will be up to the challenge, but they will face numerous obstacles.
"She's going to have to be pretty damned strong and they might give her a hard time and she might have to be better than the average Joe because she's going to have to prove herself," Ambriz-Schiller said.
"Somebody is going to give her a hard time along the way."
But some veterans disagree with Panetta's plan. Among them is Billy Allen, a 72-year-old Army veteran.
While nursing a beer at American Legion Post 710 in San Bernardino, Allen, who says as a black man he experienced racism at times in the military, said allowing women on the front lines would create conflicts for men on the battlefield.
Allen said men will be more prone to protect a woman at the expense of the group.
"No, I don't think it's a good idea," he said. "The entire point of it would be different. I'm going to protect her, the individual, not the `them."'
Men and women are different, and each have their place in the military, Allen said. And that's not together on the front lines.
"Everyone says they want to be equal," Allen said. "Everybody is not equal anyway. I don't go into the women's restroom. They don't go into the men's."
An existing issue that some say needs to be addressed is that women and men have different fitness requirements for entering the military.
"Women already have different standards to follow in support units," said Michael Navarro, a San Bernardino resident and former infantryman.
Current Army fitness standards for men and women are significantly different in some areas.
In order for someone from 17 to 26 years old to get maximum score in the two-mile run, a woman must complete it in 15 minutes and 36 seconds, while a man's standard is 13 minutes. For those from 22 to 26 years old, men must complete 75 pushups for maximum credit, while a woman's standard is 46.
"They have to do less then men for Army standards when it comes to physical training, but if they want this role and can pass the same physical training a man goes through, then they should be allowed to serve this country in a combat role honorably," Navarro said.
Former National Guard Lt. Chris Fisher, a combat veteran and member of the Montclair Police Department, said he feels the double standards for fitness in place throughout the military's physical training should be replaced in order for women to take these expanded roles.
"As long as women have the same physical fitness test standards that men have, I'm all for it," Fisher said.
"They've been there quite a while anyways in support roles directly attached to the combat roles, so if they can hack it then more power to them."
In law enforcement, there aren't the same double standards as in the military when it comes to physical fitness and performance, Fisher said.
"A male cop or a female cop," he said. "A cop is a cop, no double standard there."
Panetta's move expands the Pentagon's action nearly a year ago to open about 14,500 combat positions to women, nearly all of them in the Army.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommendation overturns a 1994 rule banning women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units.
The decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women.
Ambriz-Schiller enlisted in the Army in 1988 and faced numerous obstacles, such as sexual harassment from her male and female peers.
"I pushed myself a lot and I had to push myself to keep up with the guys," she said.
"But I guess times change and it's something we're going to have to go through and we'll see what happens."
Staff writers Beatriz Valuenzuela, Sandra Emerson, Josh Dulaney and The Associated Press contributed to this report.