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Standing on the front porch of the McMinn family ranch in Hempstead, surrounded by 450 acres of quiet, rolling prairie, you might just wonder if you've drifted back into the 19th century.
There's a tire swing hanging from the big stout tree in the yard, a hundred head of cattle wandering the grassy fields in back, and wide open sky that seems to stretch from here to El Paso.
Tom, the patriarch of the McMinn clan, settles in on the couch near a crackling hearth in his living room. The 56-year-old, whose blue eyes and craggy visage evoke Robert Redford, runs a small company for oil and gas exploration. Dianne, 54, has on a Christmas sweater. She pulls out photos of their seven children and 12 grandchildren. A few minutes later, their ten-year-old little girl springs into the room, a flash of blond hair and blue eyes.
"This is our youngest daughter, Molly," Dianne says, hovering over her. "Some handsome young man'll have to wait a very long time for her She's seen each one of her big sisters have their knight in shining armor come along."
Tom chuckles, but the thing is, Mom's not kidding. When Molly becomes of marriageable age, Tom will begin entertaining offers from young men who wish to woo his daughter along strict, old-fashioned lines. Until then, she will not date. The McMinns reject dating. They instead believe in and practice something called courtship, an underground movement among radically conservative Christians who seek to roll back romance to its antediluvian state.
You may one day meet a girl -- or boy -- like Molly, whose rules of engagement are dramatically different from your own. For young people who practice courtship, sexual abstinence is but a point of departure. They don't do dating, but they don't really do arranged marriages either. If you want to get in the game with them, you'd better learn the rules.
1. Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior
That's simple enough, isn't it? Christianity -- preferably of the evangelical, spread-the-Word, we're-on-fire-with-Jesus variety -- is a prerequisite for courtship candidates. It's non-negotiable. And while you're at it, read your Bible literally.
2. Remember, dating is practice for divorce
The McMinn family wandered into courtship before the subculture had a name. It was the late 1970s, and with two adolescent girls at home, Tom and Dianne watched with great concern what was considered a "normal" part of growing up: the evolution of boy-girl relationships.
"We saw the little heartbreaks that girls had," Tom explains. "So we just said, you know, we're gonna try not to do that and spare our kids. It developed into a concept of us really thinking about dating and going back and doing some historical research and finding out that dating is somewhat of a modern concept. And even if you go back to the 19th century, the concept of courtship is a real common idea In order to preserve the purity and morality of our girls particularly, that we just weren't -- we were gonna step out of the culture a little bit and we weren't gonna date."
Dianne remembers a "red flag" moment that happened when her oldest daughter, Melissa, was five. She came home from Sunday school one day and asked, "Mommy, who is my boyfriend?" Other girls her age had boyfriends, so what did it mean, and who was hers?
It was a playfully precocious use of the term, but from that point on, Tom and Dianne taught the girls that, unlike kids from other families, they wouldn't have boyfriends until it was time to get married.
Courtship families -- especially the fathers -- consider it a God-given duty to protect their daughters. Tom says, "Dating is a hazardous occupation for kids in this country," adding, "I wanted to protect her from herself as well as any young man that might come along." Dating was not meant for entertainment, he concluded; not that romance couldn't be fun, but it shouldn't be for fun.
"As they got to be young teenage girls, the concept of -- you are a royal gem, you are a precious ruby -- and you don't want a jerk to come along, you know, and hurt you in any way," says Dianne. "It was just common knowledge among our acquaintances and everyone that the McMinn girls don't date. And so at the early age of 13, 14, 15 and 16, no one really approached them. So they were protected in that way."
The girls say they witnessed regular drama among their friends who did date, and that it only reinforced the courtship mentality that had been inculcated from an early age.
"I began to see more clearly the results of dating relationships with my friends. The main thing they learned was how to have their heart broken and get over it," says Sarah Starnes, the McMinns' third daughter. "They learned how to accept: 'I can break a commitment; he can break a commitment.' "
Which brings us to another precept of courtship, that dating is a "prescription for divorce." That's how Lori Crank termed it, though she was hardly the first to put it that way.
The Crank family lives just up the road in Hempstead in a log cabin that bespeaks Jane Austen values even more than the McMinn ranch. On a recent evening visit, David and Lori Crank's two youngest daughters scamper into the kitchen in long hair and long dresses as traditional and wholesome as the home-squeezed, farm-fresh milk they're about to fetch.
The Cranks heard about courtship from other families, including the McMinns, who speak about its virtues both formally and informally through religious and community networks. David read up on the practice and taught his six children from a young age that dating would be forbidden. He says courtship is necessary because by dating someone you might not eventually marry, you are, in a larger sense, cheating with someone else's eventual mate.
"It would be like coming into your house and seeing your wife sitting there, holding another man's hand," he says. "And at the younger ages, 99 percent of the time that's going to be the case."
3. Give my dad a call first
When the McMinn girls reached their late teens, Tom felt the time had come to begin thinking about marriage and, with it, courtship. He gave them a stack of his business cards to keep in their purses. When boys showed interest, they'd tell them first to contact their father.
Tom recalls his fourth daughter, Rebekah, getting asked out when she was in high school. When she finished playing basketball with a group of kids, a young man from the local Baptist church asked if she wanted to catch a movie on Saturday night. She gave him the rundown along with her father's digits. He gave her a look like What?
Tom dismisses his chances: "He wouldn't have been qualified anyway, you know. He [was] a high school senior -- he's not ready to get married."
Dianne jumps in. "If a young man is not even interested enough to contact the father, then that tells us something about his character right there," she says. But if a young man wants to marry Molly, the last daughter to leave the house, he'll have to muster the guts to dial Dad, and he can expect about a month's worth of meetings, in which Tom will size up his character and intentions.
"I'll go over some key issues with him," says Tom. "And I'll ask him some real hard questions. One, are you pure?"
If the guy isn't a virgin -- or has had serious girlfriends before -- he can forget about getting up to bat. Tom also expects that the suitor has "built his house," so to speak -- that he has the financial wherewithal to support a family. Melissa says that her father went over a detailed fiscal plan in the later stages with her eventual hubby.
David Crank, who writes and publishes Unless the Lord...Magazine, offered a checklist in one issue for assessing potential suitors. Mandatory requirements include suitable life goals, convictions and values, that he would make a good husband and father, and that he has scriptural maturity, along with wisdom (i.e., he "understands dangers of modern philosophies, wisdom concerning dangers from TV, movies, radio, music"). Preferences -- the main criteria for most teens and twentysomethings -- include appearance ("at least moderately handsome") and race and culture ("preferably of the same"), in addition to age, personality and interests.
If a guy makes it past Tom's initial checkpoint, he then sets about, in a way, wooing the entire family -- tagging along for church and supper and helping out with work at the ranch.
"Because in the process," Dianne says, "he's not just marrying our daughter, he's marrying the whole family -- he's taking on the whole family."
Of her second daughter's husband, Dianne later adds, "I remember Matt -- how many times we would be protesting abortion clinics or something. All of us standing up with a sign, you know, against abortion. Well, there's Matt, who's courting Maggie, right there with us."
After all, the family that pickets together stays together.
"Not that he would have to be a big activist in that," says Tom. "But that's who we are -- does it embarrass him?"
For boys, the process is the same, only reversed: A son can't think about courting until he is ready for marriage, and then he's expected to proceed in the same old-school fashion of contacting the girl's father first. That also means college, a career and the stable income that's required of the "breadwinner." The Cranks say that, of the siblings, their oldest son wanted to get married most.
"We told him it was okay to start thinking about it his second semester at college," says Lori.
A few months down the line, the children eventually have the opportunity to spend time together alone -- time they're expected to use talking about big issues and family plans.
If this sounds more like a business merger than two hearts becoming one, that's not far off. In the world of courtship, the coolly rational -- and the deeply spiritual -- trumps all else, especially the physical.
4. Then take a cold shower
Second base? Forget about it. When it comes to nookie with courtship kids, you're lucky to get out of the batter's box.
Rachel Celsor, a 19-year-old homeschool graduate and courtship adherent who lives with her family in Magnolia, says she plans to wait until her wedding day for her first kiss. Her interests are, admittedly, "varied and odd from most other people."
"I've always loved the Victorian period, and I tend to really take from that," she says. "I love the gentleman aspect. I really want them to not only do the opening the doors or walking on the street side of the sidewalk, but the chair and all of those things."
Through some family friends who also do courtship, she got into Civil War balls and practices the dance steps that accompany the era. It's a far cry from MTV's The Grind (about 130 years), but you wouldn't expect a precious courtship ruby to be thrusting and jiggling to Lil Jon beats on weekends. Central to the courtship mentality is a belief in absolute chastity. Opinions vary, though, on how much physical contact is allowed between a couple.
"It's kind of like a can of gas here and a match here," says Tom. "You don't see how close you can get that match to the gas, because it doesn't take much to fire it off."
The metaphor apparently rubbed off on Rebekah, who courted and eventually married a retreat director named Lee Bertram.
"All we did [before marriage] -- we sat real close to each other and we held hands. That was it," she says. Some of her older sisters did allow themselves a kiss at the time of their engagement. Rebekah opted not to. "It's kind of like, once you're in the fire, it's hard to not get burned."
5. We do the homeschool thing around here
You'd be hard-pressed to find a family practicing courtship that isn't in the homeschool community, and, of course, within that group they're a minority. The same forces that drive them to flee mainstream educational culture push them toward this alternative approach to dating.
Hank Tate, a Houston father who teaches workshops on courtship, says one of the biggest debates within the scene is over how you deal with the practical elements of boy-girl interaction. He says some more puritan-minded proponents argue that kids should never be alone with those of the opposite sex.
When his children were in their mid-teens, Tom McMinn put his foot down on certain coed activities like pizza parties and youth group events that, he thought, could've led to compromising situations.
"That's where my girls respected the authority of their dad enough to say, 'Well, if it was up to me, I'd go, but it's not,' " he says. How, then, did the girls take to this experience growing up?
Melissa, now 32, touts the positives: "At a young age, [courtship] totally took the pressure off of me," she says. "We just had friends, which was so freeing, 'cause it's like, we could be friends with a guy, because we knew they didn't have any kind of other ambitions, I guess you could say." Similarly, she says, they didn't have to worry about rejecting a guy and feeling bad about hurting his feelings.
"We always felt sorry for the kids who had to go to school; we always felt sorry for the kids that had to date," Melissa adds. "We were already homeschooling, so that was already weird enough, but we had a social circle that totally accepted us -- our homeschooling friends, people at church."
Sarah, 26, mentions difficulties that came with standing apart from the dating crowd. "I definitely felt that awkwardness when I was junior-high age. If somebody would've said to me -- if my dad would've said to me, 'Do you want to go back to school and date and all that stuff?' I would have been, like, the first to volunteer," she says. "And there were times that I did feel rebellious toward my dad. I remember real specifically when I was about 14, taking a walk and thinking to myself, I just wanna be normal. Is that too much to ask? I just wanna be normal.
"And then, really, just within a couple hours, I thought to myself, I was like, What am I saying? Who wants to be normal? Who wants to die and have their gravestone say, 'I was a normal person my whole life'?
"That moment when I was 14 was a real epiphany to me."
That doesn't mean it was easy. "When I was 17, 18, and all my friends were going to prom and I would see them with gifts from their boyfriends -- flowers, bracelets -- to say that wasn't tempting would be a lie," she says. "I wanted somebody to give me a bracelet or some flowers."
At times, Sarah resigned herself to never getting married. Her sister Rebekah, already naturally given to shyness, says she sometimes got depressed in her late teens, wondering if a guy would ever jump through all the hoops for her.
6. History -- and an underground movement -- is on our side
"Dating, in the form that we have it today, is a relatively modern phenomenon," says Sally Lloyd, a professor of Family Studies at Miami University in Ohio and co-author of Courtship, which maps the historical roots of dating in America. Courtship proponents like to point to these centuries of tradition -- especially when they show up in Scripture -- in their defense of an otherwise defunct social pattern.
"I think it's actually a revival," says Tim Lambert, president of the Lubbock-based Texas Homeschool Coalition. He has four children who follow courtship standards, one of whom has already been married that way. He notes that the automobile changed the way couples courted and, to a certain extent, gave birth to dating as we know it today.
Approaches to courtship vary widely. Some families go so far as to essentially arrange marriages for their children and then call it courtship. David Crank, in a magazine article on the diversity of courtship teachings, writes that some more radical advocates still encourage the use of a "bride price" or dowry.
It's difficult to ascertain just how many young people are involved with courtship and when exactly it began. Information about the practice gets around through the homeschool circuit, where at least one lecture per conference is usually devoted to it. Crank notes that some authors were writing about courtship 30 years ago, but most point to Joshua Harris and his 1997 book I Kissed Dating Goodbye as the definitive start of the "revolution." Harris says that sales of his book are approaching one million copies, although he jokes, "Probably about half of those burnt the book."
Some courtship followers, like 34-year-old Eric Blievernicht, lead moderator of courtshipconnection.net, choose to opt out of dating and into a courtship approach.
"I had always struggled with the concept of dating -- there didn't seem to be any rules or guidelines," he says. "I'm an engineer. I like rules and systems." He had the unusual experience of asking his parents for permission to court his eventual wife -- a request they didn't expect, much less require. (And one that his younger brother never saw the need for.) He says that the majority of the hundreds of members of his online community are like him: kids not forced by their parents, just curious themselves.
"I think [courtship] may have been a belated reaction to the sexual revolution and the dating culture and the way America was becoming more secularized," says Blievernicht. "It was Christians going back to the blackboard and saying, 'We can't just take whatever the culture's giving us as an assumption.' "
7. Don't listen to those naysayers
"By and large, the churches don't embrace this concept," Tom McMinn acknowledges. "Most churches you're in, even as a Christian, you're a little bit on the outside of the mainstream. People look at you like" -- he scrunches up a skeptical face -- " 'Ah, it's okay for you, but, you know, don't try to impose that on us, 'cause we're not buying that.' "
Dennis Celsor, whose three children (including Rachel) will be doing courtship, says that at a Christmas party last year, he and his wife, Becky, were criticized for trying to push courtship on other families -- a rebuke they found surprising since they say they didn't realize they were pushing anything. Then again, he adds, "[We] don't really give a flying rip what others think about us."
Sarah Starnes says that, throughout her life, she heard all the counterarguments from her friends. "Probably the biggest argument for dating that I've heard is that you need practice in adult relationships," she says. But courtship advocates wonder how a teenage spat can in any way approximate the gravitas of a middle-aged crisis between mates.
Some might also wonder if, as an already isolated community, this method of matchmaking presents greater risk if a young man has problems with abuse or other troubles.
"I think that's not really a courtship issue," says Rebekah Bertram. "That's kind of an anything issue. Because you can date and marry somebody like that. And you can potentially court and marry somebody like that. But if you court and marry somebody like that, the guy is really concealing himself."
In fact, they argue, courtship is even safer than dating blindly, because the whole family evaluates the guy. Some fathers require more background checks than the Brady Bill. For example, Sarah says her dad contacted her husband's pastor and friends in the process of their courtship.
Yet some of the courtship foundations may be more spin than fact.
Sally Lloyd, co-author of Courtship and an expert on dating, says that the causative link between dating and divorce is mistaken -- it ignores the economic context that's enabled this social shift.
"When [marriage] is based on love, you have a higher divorce rate. When it's based on an alliance of two families or economics, or when you have really tight constraints against divorce -- you say, 'Divorce is against our religion' or whatever -- then, if love's not there, you stay together anyway," she says. "You stayed in loveless marriages or in bad marriages or in violent marriages."
Jeramy Clark, a youth pastor in San Diego and author of the Harris-rebuttal I Gave Dating a Chance: A Biblical Perspective to Balance the Extremes, says that rejecting dating altogether is "chucking out the baby with the bath water." He believes in dating -- a modest, Christian approach to dating -- and says he's seen two types of potential dangers with courtship.
One is that parental control can turn into a chokehold, driving courtship-bound children in the opposite direction. He notes one example of a closely guarded girl who veered toward extreme rebellion: hooking up, shacking up and getting knocked up by a boyfriend. The other extreme, he says, finds some girls involved with courtship deciding not to talk to guys at all anymore.
"Dating is a scary thing," says Clark. "It's letting go of your child in some ways into an unknown.
"My question all along," he asks, "is why do we think that going back a few hundred years and adapting that is the right thing?"
8. Congratulations, you may now (finally) kiss the bride
Interestingly, all of the four elder McMinn girls wound up marrying guys who attended public school and didn't come from courtship families. (Although they learned and adapted to Tom's rules.) The daughters now live in different cities around Texas, have kids of their own and, as Mom and Dad taught them growing up, uphold the role of homemaker without giving a thought to being working mothers.
"When they got married, one of the things I kinda symbolically did with my son-in-laws, besides collecting all my daughters' credit cards, was I kinda put her hand in his and said, 'She's your baby now,' " says Tom. "It was a total transfer of power. It was like one cell plant dividing...Your husband is your leader."
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Most people see history as a zero-sum game. What is lost by tradition is gained by progress; what power loses, choice gains. In the culture wars of today's America, courtship is one more way to recover that lost ground.
Most of the parents consulted for this story themselves dated when they were younger. They see no apparent contradiction in depriving their children of a choice they had. They, of course, see it the opposite way: They're insulating their kids from the perils of freedom. And this, you see, is progress. The proof?
When Tom and Dianne's grandchildren become of marriageable age, they will go through courtship as well.
"We want to make sure we know what goes in [our son] Tommy," says Rebekah, "and what comes out."


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ASPARTAME FREE, Udate
well, i've been aspatame free for 1 week and can't believe the results. My BP had been creeping up over the last 2 years, last Wednesday, after 3 cans of Fresca, it was 154/91 again. My blood sugar was rarely below 6.0 (114 U.S.), the ringing in my ears was noticable, a spot had developed on my cornea, and had a constant tingling in my right arm and leg...and a few more things. The thing that bothered me the most was a fuzzy head, a minor headache, and the irritation that noise caused (thought that this was caused low blood sugar)
anyway...one week later, BP 110/65, glucose around 5.0 (85 U.S.), ringing in the ears was the first thing to disappear, tingling is less noticable, mind is sharp again, noise doesn't bother me, and have stopped taking the BP meds. Still see a spot, but its smaller.
so, no more aspartame for me. Have even stopped chewing sugar free gum, fat-free yogurt has been replaced with the Splenda variety, and many more positive changes are being noticed,...I had no idea that this one small change would have such a huge effect so quickly...even wear my bifocals less!
Who knew?
Wow. Those are pretty dramatic changes. I'm gald your choices have started what appears to be a healthier lifestyle. Sometimes it amazes me what I'll put in my body. Looks like your results are something I need to consider more carefully.
Sounds good,
Yesterday I drank two large coffees with equal and drank about 1/2 gal of Crystal Light lemonade sweetened with aspartame. My BP is 128/75, my resting pulse is 57 and I have not had a headache in 3 years.
My point is that individual results will vary and maybe it was the aspartame causing your problems but it may also be one of the other 30 ingredients in Fresca. I think it is great this working for you but people should not try to extrapolate cause and effect from ancedotal evidence or small non controlled population studies. If you do you will be going to small villages in Mexico for cancer treatment, or having your aura adjusted.
Within a few days of stopping aspatame (only change i made), everything is going back to normal...after the Fresca last week, my pulse registered as 174 (156 after the diet pepsi earlier), this morning my resting pulse was 47, 59 during my anaerobic workout, 85 during aerobics
every body is different, it looks like mine is aspartame sensitive, so the aspartames gone...life will be a splenda thing
Aura adjustment is a discipline of Cosmotherepy, see http://www.harmony000.org/index.htm
Splenda®is the trade name for sucralose, a manmade sugar replacement. Sucralose is a mutated sugar molecule, with three out of four parts sugar replaced by man-made chlorine. Numerous chemicals are used in the manufacturing process to remove the sugar and insert the halogen, chlorine.
From an environmental engineer's point of view, sucralose is harmful due to its chlorine content. From a nutritionist's point of view, sucralose is harmful because it tricks the body into thinking sugar has been eaten so the body begins its digestion processes, only to exhaust the body as it tries to 'digest' nothing. Over time, this raises blood insulin levels, perpetuates hunger and an increased need for complex carbohydrates, and creates chlorine gas in the intestines as well as other toxic physical reactions responding to the chlorine within the body. "
from an interview of Janet Starr Hull
not to start a debate on Splenda also, but anytime you ingest anything, it causes a reaction within the body - often that might be counter what is expected.
re 'anecdotal' comment from another poster - the fact that he may have ingested massive quanitites of Asspartame without perceived ill effects is also 'anecdotal' - DOH
and I know of at least 3 people who died at ripe ages of 80+ & 90+ and were chain smokers - anecdotal, and certainly counter the 'accepted' ill effects of smoking. This does not preclude the 'dangers' of smoking within a population.
Within a population most things seem to happen/work on a bell curve. So a person who perceives no ill effects from asspartame may be as rare as the opposite end of the bell, the person who is struck deathly ill. But what happens is that the large mass of the pop. fall in the central mass and they often perceive problems/illness/conditions that seemingly can't be clearly attributed.
Within the American population, that issued is hyperbolic, considering all the crappage an Avg American consumes.
On an individual basis, you makes your choices, you takes your chances...
assuming anything is safe, whether manufactured or 'natural' is a crap shot. After all, eating the wrong 'shroom' might kill you... or you might kill youself
certainly no one is going to do research without getting paid, currently do we expect asspartame producers/sellers to 'pay' for finding out the level of danger from aspartame? Is the GOV. going to do it, while legislateurs are in the pocket of chem industry lobbyists?
so evidence, other than anecdotal, is limited and will remain that way until an 'influential' illness/death occurs.
anecdotal, in enough bulk, is certainly strong enough to create suspicion. That, along with correllated similar chemistry might start the process to discerning thought.
Gregor Mendal certainly had no way to clinically prove the basis of 'genetics', yet anecdotal evidence through observation certainly was strong and he is still regarded as the Father of Genetics, and is not diminshed because his sharp observations were anecdotal.
thank you for the interesting interview...its been a week, and there is so much out there
well...i've bought a couple of cases of splenda soda...i'll drink these over the next few weeks and monitor any changes...the one thing that i noticed with aspartame, the effects were instant...the splenda products this week had no side effects whatsoever
But you're right, we can't be too carefull...we have chlorine and fluoride in our water (i was happy to get that and get off our well, which had a boil-water advisory), and we're told its a good thing ...i've become a label reader, eliminated all processed foods, trans fats, sugars (reduced carbs), cook from fresh at every meal...but this one fell through the cracks
it's a minefield out there, you would think that those who are in a position and paid to look after our health would do a better job
Thanks again
"Substituting three chlorine ions for hydroxyl groups on an ordinary sucrose molecule makes Sucralose. Developers found that selective halogenations changed the perceived sweetness of a sucrose molecule, with chlorine and bromine being the most effective. Chlorine, as a lighter halogen, retains higher water solubility, so chlorine was picked as the ideal halogen for substitution."
From Sucralose: An Overview
and from the same source...
..."Although sucralose is derived from sucrose, the body does not recognize it as a carbohydrate, as it would for native sucrose. Sucralose does not effect normal carbohydrate metabolism, including insulin secretion and glucose and fructose absorption (McNeil Specialty). Sucralose is therefore suitable for consumption by the diabetic population."...
but do we really trust McNeil Specialty, the product developer? not sure...
point being the implications of a decision to 'use' something may not be clear for many decades, and not in everyone. My own 'aversion'/reaction to asspartame was completely overlooked until I happened into a conversation with another person who discovered his 'reactions' purely by accident.
It not only caused me to find my 'reaction', but also reinforced my intent to 'listen' to what others say, pursue open questions as much as possible and make a real conscious decision when it comes to stuff I might eat, medicine I might take, stuff I might use.
often its easier to cut something out completely, rather than try to figure a 'safe' level.
I figure if I'm gonna have a vice, its gonna be a whooper, then bring on the gators.:D
I had a complete blood test 1 month ago, everything was OK (glucose a bit high @ .061), am scheduled for a repeat August, week 4...lets see what happens
Aspartame and splenda leave an aftertaste in my mouth. I avoid them, expect in my occasional sport drink. I used to drink 2 to 6 Pepsis a day. I have gained weight slowly over the years that I now can't seem to shed like I used to in the summertime. I decided I need to do something now to get my weight down so I can ride a mule to the bottom of the Grand Canyon(need to be under 200 lbs.). I now drink only one Pepsi a day. I have increased my cycling mileage:D and done really nothing else to lose weight. I'm now down to 198 lbs. , having been 218 in April.
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TAVARES, Fla. - The Tavares City Council has voted in favor of a domestic partnership registry, 4-1, on Wednesday, making it the first city in Lake County with the registry.
The ordinance allows unmarried couples protections that would otherwise be denied, including hospital visitation, emergency notifications, jail visits and domestic partner health insurance coverage--within the city limits.
City Council Norman Hope says the ordinance within city limits is important because the main hospital and county jail are both in Tavares.
"I live in a senior community and I have quite a few residents in that community that for whatever reason are not married but they live together and if they were to go to the hospital or to have a legal issue neither one of them could speak for the other," said Hope. "And to me that's wrong in the United States of America."
Older couples now have the right to help make major medical decisions and funeral arrangements with out the hassle of legal action, which doesn't always work.
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CES Wrap-Up: Flavors of CEC, retro-innovation and more video/imaging highlights from CES
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One of the most startling surprises (disappointments) of CES 2008 was seeing the extent to which several major brands, including such heavyweights as Panasonic and Sony, have taken the CEC functionality of HDMI and run off to do their own, semi-incompatible thing with it.
As if you're not tired of all the CES wrap-ups, for the sake of closure here's a quick run down of some of the non-display items of interest (or as they like to say in the U.S. Congress, "everything that can be said may already have been said, but not everyone has said it yet." We covered displays in the last installment.)
One of the most startling surprises (disappointments) of CES 2008 was seeing the extent to which several major brands, including such heavyweights as Panasonic and Sony, have taken the CEC functionality of HDMI and run off to do their own, semi-incompatible thing with it. More on this in a future blog/tirade.
Other highlights included Canon's "Advanced Zoom" feature -- something so obvious, you'd think it would have been done a decade ago. Basically, this feature, which goes up to 48x with no loss in picture detail, does what "digital zoom" should have been doing for years: Take advantage of the fact that today's image sensors offer much better than standard def video resolution. So rather than just using a subset of the still-image pixels for video, it uses the full image sensor at wide angle, and then there's lots of elbow room to do digital zoom without hurting detail. Eureka. (Of course, this requires scaling technology which cost a small fortune a decade ago...)
Also on the camcorder front, Sanyo claims to have the world's smallest HD camcorder coming out in September, the VPL-HD1000, with 1080i recording onto an internal hard disk drive.
And speaking of "retro innovation," the SanDisk Sansa TakeTV provides a distinctly old fashioned way of moving video and other media from a PC to a TV screen: Walk it over (aka "sneakernet"). It's easier than messing around with wireless networks and the like, SanDisk says, and of course takes advantage of their specialty -- flash memory. The system consists of the memory device and a media adapter/docking station that attaches to the TV. Supported video file formats are currently limited to Divx, MPEG-4 and Xvid (open source Divx). They've also fired up a website to download content, at fanfare.com.
Sony showed a media server audio/video/photo jukebox that could accommodate 200 hundred DVDs (including Blu-ray, of course), and got around the "Kaleidascape issue" by using a real juke box -- no copying of the DVDs. (This mechanical tech comes at a price in convenience: Maximum load time is about 90-seconds.) Several other smaller manufacturers (let's keep 'em nameless, for now!) showed home servers that do copy the discs, and along with their new technologies also offered a variety of innovative legal theories as to how they might fly below Hollywood's radar. I wish them luck, and am burning my notebook after filing this story (hear that Hollywood? I have no notes!).
Toshiba had a demo application showing the Cell processor simultaneously handling 48 video channels, to create a mosaic-style live TV EPG.
Samsung showed a "Windows Media Center Ready" TV. But in the never-ending battle between the PC becoming TV-like or TV becoming PC-like, the star of this show was Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable carrier, who announced something that would have been anathema to the cable-TV industry just a few short years ago -- the opening of the networks to content from the Internet.
Along those lines, I also got a private demo from Cisco/Scientific Atlanta of a new "Anystream" transcoding and on-demand server system that would easily allow any cable-TV operator to set up what, in effect would be a regional walled garden for user generated content that would be available only within specified boundaries.
NBC-Universal was there weirdly, as reported extensively elsewhere. Tons of floor space, little to show except for a bunch of "download stations" where you could waste time filling a thumb drive with programs that are already available online. This was a flag being planted, little more.
Well of course there was much more -- stay tuned to this space in the coming weeks for more of my download, and keep an eye on our "How To" section for explanations of many of the newest and most innovative video technologies unveiled at CES this year.
If I might be so bold as to sum up this massive convention -- America's largest trade show -- in a single snazzy sentence: 2008 CES was not the biggest yet (that was last year), but it was the most mature in addressing the myriad entanglements of technological possibilities and Hollywood copyrights, and in terms of the viewing public having now graduated on a massive scale to big-screen high def flat panel displays, something dreamed about for years.


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As U.S. President Obama meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao, he must deal with the single most striking change in international foreign policy in 2010 — China's surprising and sudden lurch toward anti-Americanism. In one arena after another, from conferences on global warming to visits from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, from discussions on the dollar to comments on disputed islands with Japan and Vietnam, Beijing officials have openly been anti-American or anti-Western. The tumult over the Nobel Prize going to Liu Xiaobo is a case in point. To anyone who has lived through the long Cold War with the Soviet Union, the "vibes" coming out of Beijing are uncomfortably familiar and bad. Why the lurch to the right after 30 years of non-confrontational global habitation?
One overlooked explanation in Washington is generational. In two years, the liberal, pro-democracy Tiananmen generation takes power in Beijing. It is a generation that is highly suspect by current power-holders in China, especially in the military. We remember the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989 through two images — the Statue of Liberty erected in the square by the students demanding more democracy for China and the line of military tanks facing the lone protester in the streets. The same tension is playing out today in Chinese political culture. In the short period left before the Tiananmen generation takes the reigns of power in Beijing, the military and hard-right forces in the political and economic ministries are trying to lock in their policies.
An ethnography of the Tiananmen generation shows a pro-Western set of values supplemented by a strong suspicion of central government. This generation grew up to the stories of parents living through the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. It lived through the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. And in the 90's, as China's economy began to boom, this generation looked to Western brands to express their prosperity and modernity. If it couldn't get Western-style democratic values, it settled for Western-style consuming tastes. To be modern was to be pro-Western.
This doesn't sit well with nationalistic forces within China. Not only is the military suspicious of the Tiananmen generation, so are conservative forces within the economy. For three decades after Deng Xiaoping opened the Chinese economy to the West, government policy was to shrink the overwhelming state sector and expand the private market economy. Foreign companies were courted and local private companies were held up as champions.
This policy ended with the recent Great Recession as the government used an enormous $1 trillion stimulus plan (significantly larger than that in the U.S.) to protect the economy against the global downturn. Nearly all the government spending and bank loans went to state-owned companies, strongly bolstering the state-controlled economy against the market-driven economy. New policies promoting "indigenous innovation" and transfer of technology from Western corporations to state-owned Chinese companies locked in government dominance. The cyber-attack against Google and its closing, a growing anti-foreign company rhetoric and the promotion of Chinese brands inside the country, are all policies designed to bolster conservative, nationalistic economic and political forces.
To be modern today is to be pro-Chinese, not pro-Western, in personal style, accepting of political authoritarianism, and assertively triumphant globally. At least this is what the current leaders in Beijing want Chinese to believe. These are not Tiananmen generation values.
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June 14, 2013 at 2:20 pm #24819
My test site is here:
This page uses blog posts to display content and the menu on the right shows all posts; this is expected behaviour.
When you click on a category from the list underneath (such as http://dev.www.ntoklo.com/ntoklo/category/authentication/), a number of posts associated with that category are displayed using the archive.php template and the top section only of the sidebar displays the wrong content.
In the sidebar.php page, I've tried various means of forcing the dynamic_sidebar function to display the correct content, but none of them work – e.g.
dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar Blog");
I want to display the same list of blog posts on the archive page as you can see on the pages such as developer, nToklo Javascript Tag etc.
Can you please advise?June 16, 2013 at 2:23 pm #124863
Some of your pages are not there anymore. I am having a hard time following what you are trying to do, I am sorry. Can you explain or better yet illustrate what you want to accomplish.
NickJune 17, 2013 at 8:49 am #124864
Thanks for your reply. The pages are still there, but this forum software seems to have included the trailing ) in the second url listed, which breaks that link.
On the second page (which uses archive.php), I want the dynamic_sidebar menu containing the blog posts to show (i.e. the same menu as you see on the first page – developer), but when I inclue the code
dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar Blog")
– in my archive page, I get incorrect content.June 17, 2013 at 9:00 am #124865
Also, if you check our live site:
– it doesn't have this problem. The live site is running theme 1.1 and the dev site is running theme version 1.6.
There are styling and content changes between the live and dev versions but no significant changes to code – and certainly not to the menu functions. Therefore, I think this may be a bug in the theme.June 19, 2013 at 10:02 am #124869
You can create a new sidebar for archive page only.
Create a file name sidebar-archive.php then paste this code http://pastebin.com/9kWRHt9C
Edit functions.php, place this code below to create a new widget area called Archive Sidebar.
'name' => __( 'Archive Sidebar' ),
'id' => 'archive-sidebar',
'before_widget' => '
',
'after_widget' => '
',
'before_title' => '
',
'after_title' => '
'
Edit archive.php, find the code
Replace it with
Add widgets on Archive Sidebar widget area.
IsmaelJune 19, 2013 at 10:31 am #124870
Hi Ismael
Thanks for your help. I did try something similar, but, having tried your code, unfortunately I still get the same problem, in that a call to the function:
dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar Blog")
– still returns the wrong content. I get a list of the following links:
Contact Us
– rather than the actual blog posts, which is what I expect:
nToklo Javascript Tag
Core Objects
As I said in a previous post, this behaviour doesn't happen on our live site, which uses version 1.1 of the theme, and it does happen on our development site, which runs version 1.6.
Live (1.1):
Development (1.6):June 19, 2013 at 11:07 am #124871
Looks like someone else may have noticed a similar problem:
https://kriesi.at/support/topic/ (Purchase code hidden if logged out)
Is it related?June 20, 2013 at 2:33 am #124872
Did you try the instruction I gave you?
Please use get_sidebar('archive');
IsmaelJune 20, 2013 at 9:11 am #124873
Hi Ismael
I have tried all of your code, including the call to dynamic_sidebar passing the 'archive' argument. I have amended the functions.php file and created the sidebar-archive.php file, then created the widget within the WP editor.
You can see the problem on the following pages:
Right (blog posts using standard template):
Wrong (using archive and sidebar-archive files you supplied):
The problem is still there; the widget uses the "Recent posts" component but does not display recent posts correctly. A PNG showing the widgets admin page is here:
– in which you can see that the sidebar blog and archive sidebar are using the same component.June 21, 2013 at 4:16 am #124874
Please use get_sidebar not dynamic sidebar. We are calling the file sidebar-archive.php not the registered widget area called archive-sidebar.
Please read the instructions carefully.
This works properly on my end. It eliminates all of the query to other sidebars and create a unique one for use in the archive page only.
IsmaelJune 21, 2013 at 10:11 am #124875
I am using a call to get_sidebar("archive"). (With apologies,) I incorrectly mentioned the dynamic_sidebar function in my last post.
My sidebar-archive.php file is identical to the one in your pastebin linked above, with the exception that I have a call to get_search_form() above the menu now.
My archive.php looks like this: http://pastebin.com/T8YR4vqb
– which I think is right, and yet the problem is still there.
Thanks for your patience.June 21, 2013 at 11:27 pm #124876
Your menu is too big. I am on a laptop 1360×768, and i can only see the top 2 menu items – API & Authentication – on your bottom most menu on the right. What's worse is that because your menu immediately scrolls down as i scroll down , I never have an opportunity to click all the links below the first two
Create an array of id's that you put in the order you want and use the array instead. Here is
global $post_ids;
$post_ids = array(56, 4, 66, 34, 56, 6);
$args = array(
'post__in' => $post_ids // should be an array
'numberposts' => 6
add_filter('posts_orderby', 'you_best_be_keepin_order'); // add the filter function to order posts in our given order
$posts = get_posts($args);
remove_filter('posts_orderby', 'you_best_be_keepin_order'); // remove the filter as we get our posts
// filter function
function you_best_be_keepin_order() {
global $post_ids, $wpdb;
$post_ids = implode(',', $post_ids); // we made the post ids a string where post ids are separated by comma
return "FIND_IN_SET(".$wpdb->posts.".ID, '".$post_ids."') ASC"; // FIND_IN_SET is used to get posts in proper order
NickJune 26, 2013 at 10:07 am #124877
Hi Nick
Thanks for your reply. We know about the scrolling bug and will fix it at a suitable point.
As for your suggestion, won't that create a static menu that only includes certain posts? If so, that's not suitable, as we may change the developer pages in time.June 27, 2013 at 5:26 am #124878
How about changing the order here, where it is listed on each page, just put a number from 0 to 10 in the pages you want to show up in that order on the menu. http://www.clipular.com/c?8773013=ejLuixQyAyFAh7D4iLLaeK_y99I&f=.png
NickJune 27, 2013 at 11:28 am #124879
I've tried pasting the code you gave me into the sidebar-archive.php and it (obviously) doesn't output anything on to the page. I changed the IDs in the $post_ids array to the values of the posts I'm trying to get.
I still couldn't get anything meaningful out of the code you gave me but, regardless of whether it will work with some changes, I think this is an satisfactory solution to the problem – unless I've misunderstood you (and please correct me if I have) – the IDs of the posts are hardcoded into the PHP, which means that any change to the menu requires a change to the template, which almost defeats the point of having a content management system.
It seems to me that this is a bug in your theme – as I've said in previous posts on this thread, the problem did not occur in earlier versions of the theme and occurs in the latest one.
Please can you fix the theme or – in the meantime – provide me with a solution which fixes the problem in the code, rather than a hardcoded hack?June 28, 2013 at 2:03 am #124880
A blog post by definition can be ordered by date, by author, by tag, by category, by title, by id or randomly. You want them ordered in a specific way that are outside the parameters of what a blog post is capable of. You can delete your posts, and enter them again this time in the order you want from last to first , and since blog posts are normally ordered by date, that is how they will be displayed. You can create a custom menu and set the order of posts in that menu and display it as a widget. I have no idea what you are trying to achieve as an end result so there is not much I can suggest, but to me it seems you are trying to use posts as though they were pages.
NickJune 28, 2013 at 8:35 am #124881
Um, you don't seem to have a proper understanding of my what I'm asking.
The problem I've found is that, when you include the "Sidebar Blog" on the archive.php template USING VERSION 1.6 of your theme, it doesn't display the same content as it would USING VERSION 1.1 of your theme.
Can we please stick to why this is happening, and disregard the order of blog posts etc?
Thanks.June 28, 2013 at 1:43 pm #124882
Please update both to 1.71 which is the current version.
If you need to document differences between two old versions of the theme you can use http://www.winmerge.org to get a line by line differences when comparing any two folders. Compare 1.1 folder to 1.6 folder and you will see every single difference between them. Then its a matter of trial and error of changing one block of code in 1.6 at a time (degrading it to 1.1) until you hit the line of code that changes the order of the menu items.
Your request in my opinion is outside the scope of the support team , however there are many freelance developers available to help you find the answer (if you do not wish to update both to 1.71 thereby resolving your issue).
NickJuly 1, 2013 at 10:01 am #124883
I'm asking you to fix what looks very much like a bug in your theme. How is that 'outside the scope of the support team'?July 1, 2013 at 11:13 am #124884
I spend 1/2 hour and finally see what you are talking about. Sorry about that. I am looking into this now.
Recent Posts Widget is a WordPress Core Plugin that is automatically added so there is not one line of code about it in the theme.. My suggestion is to reinstall WordPress itself since there is no way for Recent Posts Widget to display pages instead of posts unless your core WordPress install has problems or you've edited core wordpress files.
I tried to replicate your error, and thought I did but no, since one of your widgets shows only blog posts while the second widget shows only pages. For me categories show the same Recent Posts as any other post or page on the website.
Can you update to WordPress Core 3.52 or you customized it?
NickJuly 1, 2013 at 4:55 pm #124885
Hi Nick, thanks for persevering…
I'll upgrade to WordPress 3.5.2 and version 1.7 of the theme as you suggest.
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Some women love being pregnant. The time flies by, and they feel more beautiful and feminine than ever before. For others, it can mean nine long months of feeling agitated and uncomfortable in their own skin. Today prenatal/postnatal fitness expert and new mom Sara Haley shares her tips in her own words for feeling strong and sexy throughout pregnancy.
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1. Move it, move it. Get up and move every day. By staying in bed and wallowing the day away, your blood and oxygen flow slows down, which can make you feel even less energized and motivated. Whether it's simply walking to the grocery store or getting to the gym, the more you move, the more energized you'll feel and the more comfortable you will be in your new body.
2. Ride the highs. Take advantage of your high-energy days. Some days will be better than others, so do what you can when you can. If you have been working out prior to being pregnant, you can do what you've been doing but at a moderate level (make sure you can talk out loud). For some, that might be turning a run into a jog, moving a bike ride outside onto a stationary bike, or taking a group fitness or yoga class while making sure that you don't get too hot. (Let your instructor know as well, he or she may be able to help you modify.) Pregnant or not, the body was meant to move, so move! No one feels sexy or strong after sitting on the couch all day.
3. Move them hips. Whether you're a dancer or not, shake those hips! Put your hands on your baby belly and rock those hips side to side, front to back or in big circles. Not only is it a great way to work on your core while you're pregnant, but it will feel fabulous if you have any back pain. I love dance cardio as a workout.Depending on how I was feeling that day and how far I was into my pregnancy, I had to modify. Some days I had to put on slower songs and take the bounce out of my step, and on others, I felt like a "rock star" and moved across the floor like I wasn't even pregnant. Either way, it made me feel sexy and strong to be doing something I'd always done, even if it was at a different level than I was used to. Plus, what's sexier than a woman who can move her hips? So let your hair down, put on your favorite song and get those hips moving!
4. Lift the weights. The best way to feel strong is to be strong, so weight train at least twice a week. In order to have a healthy baby, you must gain a healthy amount of weight for your body, but why not keep some muscle (or add some) while you're doing so? Besides, you'll soon have a growing baby by your side that will eventually weigh much more than 10 pounds, and you'll be lifting him or her multiple times a day. Be ready for that new baby by working on both your muscular strength and endurance. This means sometimes working on lifting more weight, as well as sometimes working on adding more reps.
5. Eat regularly and drink lots of water. I hear pregnant women complain of constipation all the time, which definitely does not lead to feeling sexy. I can honestly say that I did not have any constipation during my pregnancy, and I credit it all to a regular exercise regimen, healthy eating and drinking lots of water. Eat often and drink more water than you think you'll need. I don't believe in "eating for two" (most doctors only recommend an extra 250 to 350 calories in the second and third trimesters), but perhaps think about "drinking H20 for two" instead. That way you'll be sure to stay hydrated. When your body is functioning regularly, you'll feel just as sexy and strong as ever!
6. Show off your baby belly! Nothing is sexier than a woman who feels confident in her own skin. Find a top that makes you feel sexy and shows that baby off! I found that the farther along I was in my pregnancy, the less self-conscious I was about showing my baby belly off. It's no wonder so many people want to touch that belly when you're pregnant! (Another reason to stay strong—to fend off those baby belly attackers!)
Great tips, Sara! Did you feel like a sexy beast when you were pregnant? What did you do to stay strong? —Erin


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Stopping Dodgers may prove costly
Astros' Valverde pulls calf muscle when hit by line drive
By Alyson Footer / MLB.com
HOUSTON -- On paper, Tuesday night's matchup was overwhelmingly in the favor of the visiting Dodgers. Their heralded 21-year-old left-hander, Clayton Kershaw, had a 1.50 ERA, their lineup was stocked with terrific young talent, along with the best hitter in the National League, and they had won their last eight games, whereas the Astros had just dropped three of four to the Reds. But on the field, the Astros prevailed. Russ Ortiz wasn't at his most efficient, throwing 116 pitches over five innings, but it was enough to win, as the Astros topped the Dodgers, 8-5, before 26,360 at Minute Maid Park. The win was somewhat costly. Jose Valverde pulled a right calf muscle after taking an Orlando Hudson line drive off his leg in the ninth inning and making a diving throw to Lance Berkman at first. After a lengthy stay in the training room after the game, Valverde said he's not sure how much it affected him. "I don't know," he said. "We'll check it tomorrow and see how I feel. If I feel OK, I'll be available for the game." Valverde admitted it was hard for him to throw strikes after the incident. He had already allowed Rafael Furcal to reach when he was unable to field a bunt toward the first-base side of the mound, and after umpire Jerry Layne ruled Berkman came off the bag on his diving attempt to recover Valverde's throw on Hudson's liner, the closer had to face Manny Ramirez with two on and the Astros ahead by three. Ramirez flied to the warning track in right, but Valverde thought the ball was gone. "Oh yeah," he said, laughing. But Valverde's injury is no laughing matter, especially if it keeps him out of action for a while. "I'll take a win at almost any cost," manager Cecil Cooper said. "Almost." Earlier, the game swayed in the Dodgers' favor almost from the get-go. Ortiz walked the first two batters and yielded a base hit to Ramirez, plating one run. The Dodgers made it 3-0 on a James Loney groundout and Russell Martin's single to left. Ortiz was hovering around the 50-pitch mark after only two innings. "Russ battled all night long," Cooper said. "He didn't have the command that he likes or that we've seen in Spring Training. The command wasn't quite what I've seen in the past, but he continued to battle for five innings." Ortiz described the outing as "rough." "Especially at the beginning," he said. "It was one of those things where I just didn't find the right groove. To be able to throw the ball consistently in the zone, it took a while for that. The base hit to Manny -- I thought it was a good pitch, but that's what happens when you get guys on. You walk guys and stuff like that happens." The Astros caught and passed the Dodgers in the third. Trailing, 3-1, Kazuo Matsui led off with a base hit to center, stole second and scored on Miguel Tejada's double. Carlos Lee gave the Astros a 4-3 lead with a two-run home run off Kershaw. At that point, Ortiz was in strict damage-control mode. "These guys did a great job of fighting back against a very good pitcher," he said. "I knew after the first my job was just to keep us in the game. I felt like I found it, because I was getting behind. They laid off pitches and I was throwing pretty good pitches. I just kept plugging away and tried to battle and get through as many innings as I could." The bullpen had its troubles after Ortiz's exit. Ramirez knocked a towering two-run shot off Jeff Fulchino in the seventh, narrowing the Astros' lead to two runs. And Ramirez came within feet of tying the game off Valverde in the ninth. "Obviously, that's the last guy you want to come up in that situation, but the reality is, rarely do you get a three-run homer in that situation," Berkman said. "I thought Jose gutted it out and did a great job there in the ninth." Asked if he was concerned about Ramirez, Cooper shook his head no. "Tonight was one of the few nights that I said, 'I'm going to just sit here and relax and whatever happens, happens," he said. Then, rubbing his forehead, he added, "I don't know if you noticed me, but I did a lot of this tonight. That means I'm pretty relaxed. We managed to make pitches when we needed to make them."
Alyson Footer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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just signed up tonight :) I've been doing modding for a while and I keep my eye on the scene every now and again.
Anyways the bought kids a wii few weeks ago, and 4 games and now only 2 of the games work cos scratched to badly, so the kids got a rollocking and I bought a couple of wiikeys (genuine) I dont mind buying the games but when they dont play it pisses me off!!
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I need to burn some kind of setup disk and set region or somat????
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Final: The Spurs finished Sacramento off with a 13-2 run, erasing a late three-point deficit to preserve their perfect record against the league's non-elite.
The Spurs (24-7) trailed 102-99 with about 3:30 to go after a jump hook by DeMarcus Cousins. Their veteran warhorses responded with a 9-0 run on Manu Ginobili's 3-pointer, Tim Duncan's three-point play, and a 3 from Tony Parker. That put the Spurs up by six, and the lead never dipped below four over the final possessions.
Sacramento (9-20) had stunned the Spurs with a 38-point third quarter, and led 90-81 in the early moments of the fourth. Cousins (29), Isaiah Thomas (27) and Rudy Gay (24) combined for 80 points, but it wasn't enough to give the Kings what would have been just their third victory in their past 21 trips to San Antonio, and their second straight over last year's Finalists.
Ginobili had one of his best outings in recent years with 28 points. Parker added 22 points and seven assists, while Duncan had 17 points and 13 rebounds for his eighth double-double in the past nine games.


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American astronaut: Laurel B. Clark, M.D. – Mission Specialist; Commander USN Space Shuttle Columbia. The space vehicle broke up upon reentry on 2/01/2003 starting approximately 7:53 AM CST overhead from California to Texas. All seven astronauts were lost.
Clark received a Bachelor's degree in zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983; doctorate in medicine, UW-Madison, 1987, a career Navy commander who worked as a diving medical officer aboard submarines and a naval flight surgeon. She was accepted by NASA in April 1996 after a failed first attempt. During the Columbia flight mission, Clark was a medical and biological researcher investigating such topics as gene transfer implants and the way bones loose calcium in free fall.
Clark is one of nine kids, married to Naval Capt. Jonathan, one son and two Scottish named cats. Her personal interests were in scuba diving, parachuting, hiking, camping, animals and people.
- associate relationship with Anderson, Michael P. (born 25 December 1959)
- associate relationship with Brown, David M. (born 16 April 1956)
- associate relationship with Chawla, Kalpana (born 1 July 1961)
- associate relationship with Husband, Rick Douglas (born 12 July 1957)
- associate relationship with McCool, William C. (born 23 September 1961)
- associate relationship with Ramon, Ilan (born 20 June 1954)
- compare to chart of Space: Columbia Disaster (STS 107) (born 1 February 2003)
- Social : End a program of study 1983 (Bachelor's degree, Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Social : End a program of study 1987 (M.D., University of Wisconsin)
- Work : Begin Major Project 16 January 2003 at 10:39 AM in Cape Canaveral, FL (Launch of Columbia, 16-day mission)
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Contributed by Pat Esclavon Hardy, Tampa, FL, citing NASA and CNN news sources
- Family : Childhood : Family large (Nine kids)
- Personal : Death : Accidental (Reentry explosion)
- Vocation : Medical : Physician
- Vocation : Medical : Surgeon
- Vocation : Science : Biology (Research)
- Vocation : Travel : Astronaut (Space Shuttle Columbia)


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Be careful when placing collect or other operator-assisted calls, or you or the party you're calling may wind up paying more than you expected.
Unexpected charges may come as a result of a scheme that takes advantage of individuals who misdial phone numbers. The scheme goes something like this: You place a collect call from a public phone or payphone, intending to use a service like 1-800-CALL-ATT or 1-800-COLLECT. But you misspell or hit an incorrect button when dialing. You accidentally dial something like 1-800-CALLLAT. You get connected to the party you wished to call, but the phone company that connects you is not the one you thought you were using. Instead, it is a company that secured 800 numbers similar to well-known ones, likely hoping that you might accidentally misdial your intended number. If this happens, you are probably unaware you are using a different phone carrier than the one you intended to use because you don't know you misdialed. Often, the company won't identify itself to you or the person receiving the collect call before connecting the call.
Surprise! The charge for the misdialed call is two or more times higher than it would have been had you reached the carrier you intended to use.
To Avoid the Scheme
Callers placing collect calls should:
- Dial carefully. Listen on the handset to make sure you hit each number only once. If you aren't sure you dialed correctly, hang up and start again.
- Listen carefully. Once you've made the call, listen for the provider identification. If you placed the call from a public phone (hotel, airport, etc.) or payphone, the Federal Communications Commission has rules that require the provider to orally identify itself before your call is connected and billed. The rules also require the provider to give you directions on how to determine the price of your call. If you don't hear provider identification, ask the operator (if you are able to reach a live operator) who the provider is and what the rates are. If the provider or rate is not what you wanted, hang up and dial again. If you do not hear provider identification and you can't reach an operator, hang up and dial again.
Receivers of collect calls should:
- Ask if uncertain. When a collect call is connected, listen for an identification of the service provider before accepting the charges. If you don't hear the provider identified, say "no" to the collect call until you're able to find out who is connecting the call. If it's a provider that's not familiar to you and/or you're not comfortable with, ask for the per-minute rates. If you don't get an answer, say "no" to the call. If possible, ask the person who is calling to try again.
- Review phone bills carefully. Although a review may not prevent you from becoming a victim of this scheme, it may help you avoid it in the future. If you or your family frequently make collect or other operator-assisted calls from public phones or payphones, be aware of the dangers of misdialing.
If you suspect you're a victim of this scheme, contact the phone company that charged you for the call in question. The company's number should be listed on your phone bill. If you can't resolve the matter directly, you can file a complaint with the FCC. There is no charge for filing a complaint.
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The Mandarin Museum and Historical Society partnered with Councilman Matt Schellenberg, the Mandarin Community Club and the City of Jacksonville Parks and Recreation Department to save the last remaining one-room schoolhouse in Duval County and relocate it to Walter Jones Historical Park in Mandarin. The schoolhouse was built in 1898 as part of a mission established by the Sisters of St. Joseph in Mandarin to educate freed Blacks after the Civil War. The building was originally located on the property of the present day St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
In 2015, in celebration of its 90th anniversary, the Community Club purchased the structure and donated it to the City of Jacksonville. Former Mandarin Community Club President and Executive Director of the Jacksonville Historic Society Emily Lisska was excited about the opportunity. "The Mandarin Community Club is pleased to have the opportunity to help save this important piece of Mandarin history," Lisska said.
The organizations raised much of the funds to be able to move the structure to the park and complete major renovations. Eventually, scheduled for Spring 2016, the schoolhouse will be open to the public and will contain exhibits about the story of this specific schoolhouse and the African American educational experience in south Duval County from the late 1800s to early-1900s.
The Mandarin Museum and Historical Society managed fundraising efforts for the project. All of the monies needed was donated, including $50,000 from City Councilman Matt Schellenberg's District 6 funds for park improvements, $10,000 for the purchase by Mandarin Community Club, the very generous gifts from two members of MMHS, as well as gifts from many others in the community.
We are extremely grateful also to the Rotary Club of Mandarin for selecting us as their headlining "Laughs for Charity" event recipient in April, 2015. A portion ($16,000) of the monies raised for that event was awarded to MMHS on June 16. In August, $10,000 was also awarded as a matching District Grant from the District Rotary. All of these funds have been designated primarily for the purpose of interior and exterior tasks and exhibit costs as well as outreach to area elementary schools, offering free school tours to Walter Jones Historical Park and the Store and Post Office.
R. G. White Construction and their preservation construction team worked on multiple repairs, putting in pilings, reconstructing the roof, building a handicapped accessible ramp, two porches and laying sidewalk. Electricity was installed. We now have a solid and well-done building due to the professional and thorough work of Bob White and his employees
MMHS asked community volunteers to join our team and help with some of the tasks that were necessary to get the building into shape to place exhibits inside. We also asked Mandarin businesses to help with in-kind donations of some of the equipment and supplies that we did not have.
We are exceedingly grateful to those who helped us with the following tasks in 2015. We could not have done it without them.
Read about our Grand Opening Celebration, held on April 30th, here.
If you would like to make a monetary donation in support of on-going expenses of the schoolhouse project, please click the the "donate" button at the bottom of this page, or stop by the museum any Saturday. All donations of services and volunteer time will be greatly appreciated.
The Mandarin Museum and Historical Society is a registered 501 (c) (3) with experience in maintaining and preserving significant historical structures. We currently operate the Mandarin Museum, the 1876 Webb Farm House, the 1911 Store and Post Office. The historical society brings history to life through school tours, programs, and community events.


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For Sale
Ouch. A brand new $1.8 million waterfront home in Narragansett was mistakenly built on park land and must be moved or torn down, according to The Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Developers at Four Twenty Corp. started constructing the mansion in 2009, but were apparently unaware of the engineers' surveying error, which placed the foundation on park land neighboring the Point Judith Lighthouse. In 2011, prospective buyers had their own survey done and discovered that the house was built entirely on land owned by the Rose Nulman Park Foundation.
WCVB reported that developers tried to work something out with the park foundation but were told the land wasn't for sale.
Why? Because a 2008 agreement between the foundation and the Nulman family states that if the trustees allow the land to be used as anything other than a public park they must pay $1.5 million to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
The matter was recently brought before The Rhode Island Supreme Court, which ruled that the house needs to be removed. The high court decision reinforced the same 2012 superior court ruling despite developers insisting they should not be penalized for an "innocent surveying mistake.''
The court stated that "any attempt to build on even a portion of the property would constitute an irreparable injury, not only to the plaintiff but to the public.''
Officials have not yet determined how much time Four Twenty Corp. has to relocate the three-story home, which the Providence Journal says features a rooftop cabana with a Jacuzzi and wet bar.
"My client has wanted for a long time for the house to be removed,'' a lawyer for the park foundation told WCVB. "My client's very clear and firm position is that it's time for the house to go.''


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Preparing for PEO's 2018-2020 Strategic Plan—Continuing the momentum
Since the launch of our 2015-2017 Strategic Plan, we have continued to reach out to stakeholders to ensure we don't lose momentum when the plan ends.
Now, the groundwork is being laid for a new plan covering the 2018-2020 period. The new plan will provide the direction for Council to set policies and goals to guide the association, and provide a clear focus to the Registrar and staff for program implementation and management.
Here are some of the resources we've gathered to date that are helping us to formulate the next iteration of the plan:
- 2015-2017 Strategic Plan (January 2015)
- PEO Member Satisfaction Survey (2015)
- Communications Audit Report (June 2015)
- Chapter Leaders Conference Report (November 2015)
- Member Satisfaction Survey: Summary Report (February 2016)
- Government Liaison Program Audit Report (October 2016)
- Volunteer Leaders Conference Report (April 2016)
We are currently active in the consultation phase of the plan development process, seeking input from all PEO stakeholders, including Council, staff, committees, chapters, members, the government and our partners. This phase will continue until the beginning of summer with SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) sessions being held to help assess our strategic position.
If you have any questions about the planning process or would like to contribute information to the plan's development, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Your contributions will help PEO to remain relevant and responsive to the needs of our stakeholder community.
2018-2020 Strategic Plan development timeline
January 2015-June 2017: Consultation phase
June 2017-August 2017: Development of initial draft of the plan
September 2017: Initial draft presented to Council
November 2017: Revised plan presented to Council for final ratification
February 2018: Approval by Council of the first set of specific strategies to achieve the plan's strategic objectives


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Pogba saves Juve, Inter up to second
A stoppage time winner from Paul Pogba helped Juventus maintain their Serie A lead with a 2-1 win over Bologna.
After a stalemate in the first half, it took just nine minutes after the restart for Fabio Quagliarella to give the hosts a 1-0 lead.
• Rzouki: Bologna allow Pogba to star
Quagliarella wreaked more havoc through the Bologna defence with another attempt on goal just a minute later which forced goalkeeper Federico Agliardi to be alert.
Juventus looked in control, but Bologna equalised in the 71st minute when Saphir Sliti Taider slotted his shot past a helpless Gianluigi Buffon.
With time running out, Paul Pogba won a free kick on the right side and headed in Sebastian Giovinco's cross to seal the three points for Juventus.
Inter Milan defeated Sampdoria 3-2 to move into second place and maintain the pressure on Juventus.
Sampdoria took a 1-0 lead into half time after a 20th minute goal from Gianni Munari. But momentum swung Inter's way when Sampdoria defender Andrea Costa was sent off for bringing down Diego Milito in the penalty area.
Milito converted from the spot before goals to Rodrigo Palacio and Fredy Guarin gave Inter a 3-1 lead. Citadin Eder scored a consolation goal in stoppage time for Sampdoria.
Napoli fell six points behind Juventus with a 1-0 defeat at Atalanta. A 19th minute volley from Carlos Carmona was enough to seal the three points for the hosts, moving them into 10th spot.
Siena failed to move from the bottom of the table following a 4-2 defeat against Cagliari.
Nene helped wrap the match up for Cagliari in the first half with the forward scoring a brace and assisting Marco Sau's 28th minute goal to give the hosts a 3-0 lead. Erjon Bogdani pulled one back for Siena but a late Ribeiro Cardoso Thiago strike put the result beyond doubt as Cagliari moved into eighth place.
Two goals in as many minutes helped Chievo Verona move out of the relegation zone with a 2-0 win over Pescara adding further woe to the Delfini's season. A Siqueira Luciano penalty and Adrian Stoian goal a minute later pushed Chievo into 15th place.
Elsewhere, Lazio and Torino shared a 1-1 draw. The guests took the lead after just 10 minutes when Kamil Glik headed home but Champions League chasing Lazio restored parity thanks to Stefano Mauri's 57th-minute effort.
Parma came from behind to take all three points with a 3-2 win against Roma and leapfrog their opponents in the table.
Erik Lamela put the Giallorossi in front after only eight minutes before Ishak Belfodil and Marco Parolo scored in quick succession to put the hosts ahead at the interval. Cristiano Zaccardo then made it 3-1 before Francesco Totti fired home at the second attempt when his penalty was saved.
Belfodil saw red with seven minutes remaining but his team-mates were able to hang on for the win and go above Roma and into sixth place.
Veteran striker Antonio Di Natale scored an injury-time equaliser as Udinese salvaged a 2-2 draw with Catania.
Di Natale opened the scoring after 29 minutes but Catania stormed ahead with only minutes remaining when Francesco Lodi fired in a free-kick after Lucas Castro had earlier benefited on some poor defending. But Di Natale popped up moments from the end as he thrashed into an unguarded net after the Catania defence left him unmarked.
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Whoever is singing What Did You Think has a lisp. It's distracting.
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Whoever is singing What Did You Think has a lisp. It's distracting.
Someone danced to the Family Ties theme song? Ai yi ya.Quote:
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Just got home to see Pam's dance. The waltz is one of my least favorite dances (and all 3 right in a row?) but I really enjoyed Pam's performance. It's nice seeing her playing the role of the elegant lady rather than the over sexed spaced out cougar.
So Nicole took a step down on the leaderboard, and Erin is currently in the lead? I knew they'd win Len over this week, at least judging by his score.
Did I miss anyone else besides Erin and Nicole?
Pam: Thank goodness, she finally did not look trashy. I knew she had it in her. Nicely done. :clap:clap:clap
Scores seem to be a bit generous tonight.
I should have said thanks for the scores for Chad/Cheryl
Considering they've done movie night, I wonder if we'll be seeing classic TV theme night. We've had Bewitched, The Addamms Family, The Muppet Show, and I Dream of Jeannie (off the top of my head).Quote:
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And I've given up thinking the band/song choices can get any worse. Every time I think that...
Pam has been a pleasant surprise this season -- she works hard on the routine and also get's into character.
I have no tv tonight. What were Nichole/Derek scores?


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3 weeks in Japan
Dear Sir,
My I please you to check my route and itinerary .
22April in the morning I will see Narita ,
I think 21days IR pass is the best solution for this route.
I have alredy booked hotel in Kyoto, so I am not able to change this reservation.
Firstly, I thought that cherry blossom I can see in Tokio., In the and of April is not possible.
22.April Narita Sendai
what to do?
Please help me
Hi Jolly,
I think that you could either consider the 14 day or 21 day JR Pass. This because the JR Pass is best used for travel done using the Shinkansen and other long distances. You could also get around Tokyo using local tickets and start using the JR Pass on the 28th when you travel to Hiroshima and use it all the way until your return to Narita on the 11th. Then again a 21 day JR Pass would be of great use, if you wish to view the Sakura north of Tokyo in Sendai and perhaps even more north up to Aomori. The JR Pass is also valid for travel around Tokyo and Osaka on the local JR Network there and you won't have to make much use of other transport methods such as the Metro.
As for what to do, either Osaka/Koya or go Sakura viewing. Personally I find this hard to decide on. The Cherry Blossoms are very dependent on the weather and that makes it hard to predict. You may end up seeing nothing if the weather is bad, then again it can also give you the best picture of the year. Personally I'd go for Sendai/Matsushima/Nikko over Osaka/Koya as they are all good places to see, year round. You could also go to Sendai/Matsushima/Nikko and leave out a day at Kanazawa later on and visit Koya then. In the end I think you'll have a good time no matter where you go, as they are all amazing :)
Trains during Golden Week can be rather busy, I'd recommend making seat reservations 2 days in advance, just to be sure.
I hope this gives you some ideas,
Dear Daniel
I am very grateful for the professional and clear answer.
On the other hands what do you think about another review
09.05 Kyoto Nagano
Hi Jolly!
Yes the 21 day JR Pass would be the better option if you want the extra flexibility. The price difference from the 14 day JR Pass is also small and easily earned back in terms of savings.
Personally I'd prefer going to Kanazawa (and maybe add in a visit to Takayama) rather than going to Nagano. This because there's just more to see and do around Kanazawa in terms of sightseeing and variety. Although Shibu Onsen is a good option if you wish to experience a Japanese onsen.
As for Gai-jin going home, here's a little song to teach you some Japanese :)
Dear Daniel
Your opinion is very valuable to me.
The song is marvelous squeezed me laughter and tears.
Take care
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