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It has been almost six years since A. I have been working hard on myself, my H has made it clear we are going to stay together. I am committed to the relationship 200%. I have been faithful since, no slip ups or inappropriate behavior at all. We have 2 already, but want 4.
What do you guys think? Is it a good idea? I am 31 and do not want to have any past 35. The window is shrinking by the day, it is now or never!!
We both have agreed to more finally. Has any of you had a child post-A? How has that worked out? Are you both able to love and care for the child properly, or does it strain the already fragile relationship?
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If you both want another child and are committed to your marriage and your family then I don't see why not. It is your decision what is right for you and your family.
does it strain the already fragile relationship?
Would you still classify your relationship as strained?
A baby certainly won't solidify a strained relationship. Sleepless nights, feedings, extra expenses, etc.
I have been faithful since, no slip ups or inappropriate behavior at all.
Must comment: An affair isn't a slip up. It is a conscious decision to cheat, lie and betray your spouse.
A slip up is stepping on someone's toe. Or eating an extra piece of cake.
Your comment makes me pause as if you are even surprised this hasn't occurred. ???
A remorseful spouse knows without a ounce of doubt they will NEVER cheat again because they own the behavior and never want to repeat the pain and despair their horrid decisions have caused.
I too want another, of course.
I'm also very conflicted. My WH cheated while I was pregnant so I'm thinking I will trigger hard during my pregnancy.
I am just 1 year out - I'm thinking of waiting another year to make sure that's safe.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, pack your shit and get out.
Fool me twice, now what?!?!
I do get what your saying pew, my H's EA was during my 2nd pregnancy, I did not think that maybe I would be the one to trigger? I felt so fat and unattractive, I think that is why I was so forgiving of his behavior. I look back now and dang I was beautiful all glowing and happy smiling with my dimples showing.
Anyways, if we are in an ok place then I guess it will be ok. I will talk to him about it when he gets back from his trip.
I ended up getting pregnant about 3 months after D-Day. We didn't know until I was about 2 months pregnant. So at the time we found out we were almost 5 months out from D-Day.
I had our baby at the end of April this year. Honestly, it was hard because that close to D-Day we weren't sure about another baby. We weren't sure how things were going to be between us.
Are you both able to love and care for the child properly
Yes, we are still able to love and care for our kids properly. We had our kids out of love. So we aren't going to let anything come in the way of how we care for our kids. Even when we are having a disagreement we still parent our kids together.
Ever since having our son though, things have been good. We have been able to parent him and our daughter the same. We talk about how to raise our kids together.
Now I wish that we would have waited to have another baby. But nonetheless, he is here and it is good. There have been days that things are not so good, my husband having bad days because of what I did. But we are working on things. Having a baby hasn't really hindered on our healing.
You just need to talk about it with your husband and figure out when the time is right.


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LEXINGTON � Mason Smith has heard all about the high school state baseball championship and two Area IV American Legion baseball titles his father�s teams won.
And he certainly wants at least one title he can claim for his own.
It could happen this weekend as Smith and the Gaston Braves begin the North Carolina Legion state tournament on Friday at Holt-Moffitt Field in Lexington.
The Braves (24-3) play two-time defending state champion Wilmington at 12:30 p.m. in one of four games on the first day of the eight-team, double-elimination tournament that ends on Tuesday.
�This is a really important tournament for us,� Smith said of the Braves� first-ever appearance in the event. �We know we have a good shot and we know we have a really good club.�
Smith has been a part of really good clubs before � as North Gaston High�s recent success would attest.
All four years Smith played for the Wildcats, they advanced to the state playoffs and last spring�s team the school�s fourth conference title in its history.
But a second-round playoff loss left a bad taste for Smith. And his first Legion season offered a chance for redemption.
A member of Charlotte showcase/travel teams the previous three summers, Smith was actually in Gastonia Post 23�s Legion district until he sought � and received � a release to play for the Braves.
�It was a pretty tough process,� Smith said. �I had to do a lot of convincing with (Gastonia) coach (and athletic officer Josh) Cobb to get a release to come over here. Thankfully, they released me.�
Once with the Braves, the 2014 Big South 2A/3A Conference high school player of the year at North Gaston has thrived.
Smith hit .351 in the regular season as Post 144-266 won the Eastern Division of Area IV with a perfect 14-0 record, then has improved that average to .357 entering Friday�s state tournament during a 9-2 playoff run.
Now, he�s got a chance to do something his father couldn�t do.
While Greg Smith�s North Gaston team won the 1987 N.C. 3A high school state title and his Stanley Post 266 teams won the 1987 and 1988 N.C. Area IV championships, they never won a state Legion title.
�He was really successful when he played and I am a little jealous,� Mason Smith said of his father, who played collegiately at Montreat and Belmont Abbey. �I heard about his state championship at North Gaston and I thought we were going to have a chance for that this year and it didn't work out.
�Now we�ve got a chance to do something special in the state tournament.�
Mason Smith says it was obvious from the start of Gaston Braves� practice the team had championship ability.
�There was a lot of talent on the team,� Mason Smith said. �That was obvious on the first day. But would we come out and perform?
�We kind of cruised through the regular season but we�ve played better in the playoffs and now we have to play even better in the state tournament.�
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Warner Bros. has had a movie version of the popular DC Comics character The Flash in some stage of pre-production for years. It's just never gone anywhere. Now though, the studio is getting its superheroes in a row and they're trying to figure this men in tights thing out. While Marvel's top characters have had successful movies, except for the top dogs like Batman, most of DC's have languished in development hell. So now that WB is out to change all of that, where does that leave Flash?
According to IGN, it leaves him starting over. They spoke with producer Charles Roven who has been attached to The Flash for some time and he told them that, in essence, Warner Bros. is throwing out his work and starting over with something else. He says Warner Bros told him, "The work that you've been doing hasn't yet resulted in something that any of us, including the filmmaking team, feel could be greenlit as a movie. We're trying to accomplish something that takes into account the entire, rich DC character world, and we'd like to pull it back. That doesn't mean that you aren't going to be a part of it. We just want to take a different kind of approach."
Frankly, this sounds like good news. Warner Bros sounds motivated to get something done and they sound like they're tired of waiting for Roven and his team to get it right. They've certainly had long enough. If they're serious about getting a movie done with The Flash then this sounds like exactly the right move. Now if only Ryan Reynolds wasn't busy playing so many other superheroes because, seriously, he's the right man for the job.
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Jesus Diaz, an editor for Gizmodo, has been banned from commenting on the site. In a post titled, "I Just Banned Jesus Diaz," Gizmodo's Editor-in-Chief, Joe Brown, explained that Diaz had crossed the line. "I hate to do this, but we have to hold ourselves to the same standards as we hold our readers; these lines have to exist for us as well," wrote Brown.
Diaz was banned for hurling insults at Gizmodo commenters who disagreed with a post about Google altering its privacy practices. When a commenter called the post "sensationalist," Diaz lost his damn mind. "It's amazing how moronic people can be and how hard they can suck on corporate cock," wrote Diaz. "The above [comment] is a good case of this pro-corporate whoring." Diaz wasn't done there. He went on to tell another commenter, "Google fandroids like you are as bad as Apple fanboys like Gruber. All of you sucking on corporate cock and lying off your tits."
Okay! Well then. Everyone please note that corporate cock, pro-corporate whoring and something called "lying off your tits" are not in Diaz's wheelhouse.
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If the PC is for when our brains are turned on, and the TV for when they're turned off, would both together be a disaster for our creativity?
When I was a kid I'd often do my homework with the TV blaring away in the background. It's maybe no surprise then that the only time I came top of the class was in woodwork, where the only distraction was half a pound of sawdust up the nose, the raw of a saw, splinters, and the imminent prospect of chopping off a finger/arm/leg.
Nowadays kids probably play Vice City while applying for their grade As, but I had Grange Hill, Rhubarb & Custard, and Top of the Pops to drop me tens of percentage points. It was easy to defend watching Tomorrow's World, Blue Peter and Newsround – even Take Hart – on the grounds of education, but the level of distraction from writing that essay on King John or learning a long list of spellings was just as damaging.
Many design studios set the creatives apart from the project-managing suits by working to the sound of the radio or, increasingly, the senior designer's iPod. Are we negatively affecting our output by bending béziers to Beyoncé, creating cut-outs to Coldplay, or rendering to REM? And could our attention be further sapped by TV desktops and laptops?
Apple's recently announced G5 iMac is a genuine contender for any design studio. It may not boast the multiprocessing grunt of the dual-G5 Power Macs or gazillion-gigahertz Windows workstations, but its performance is more than acceptable for most creative needs. This super-slim "Where's the computer?" computer looks a lot like an LCD television.
But Apple missed a trick by not including an option whereby it could easily be configured to include an internal TV tuner. There are other solutions, such as Elgato's £249 EyeTV, but the new iMac would really have opened eyes if marketed
as a computer that's also a TV – and a very nice, 20-inch LCD TV with digital video recording to its 250GB hard disk, at that.
Where Apple missed an opportunity to land another foot in the home-entertainment market, a more established player has jumped right in. Toshiba has embraced digital convergence with the launch of its new Qosmio AV notebook PCs.
Qosmio is an integrated, mobile personal entertainment and computing device that offers TV, audio, DVD recorder and PC functionality. It's pronounced "koss-mee-oh", but looks more like Quasimodo – not a great merger of brand identities for a device aimed at the design-sensitive home market (ie. mum).
Toshiba also has LCD TVs that directly record high-definition images to disks on a network. Broadcasts can be recorded in MPEG-4 format to an SD memory card for viewing on a portable device, such as a multimedia player or a mobile phone. The telly alerts viewers when email arrives on the computer and displays it on-screen. Users can browse the Web and watch TV programs side by side, simultaneously on a single screen.
The days of separate TV and computer are drawing to a close. Digital convergence is becoming reality. It won't be long before all PCs and Macs come with TV tuner built-in, and the sound of Radio 1 is replaced by the theme to Neighbours or DVR-recorded episodes of Frost and The Lottery Show. Prepare for your creativity to dive as steeply as my school reports.


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The color orange is no longer filling High Street in Morgantown.
This season's Streetscape Project has come to an end.
Phase Five of the High Street project, which included paving of sidewalks, installation of new crosswalks, and light posts installations, has finished.
The Project began in 2006 and was an effort to revitalize the downtown area with a consistent look down the length of High Street.
The next step for the Streetscape Project is to improve Walnut Street next year.
The High Street Streetscape Project is continuing to make progress with the start of the WVU semester. There are a few things that still need to be done, but the end of the road work is coming.
Contractor Anthony Merante, of A. Merante Contracting, Inc, reported to stakeholders and businesses at a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 15, that the sidewalks are mostly complete on the east, or left, side of High Street. Pedestrians can now enter those businesses without using temporary crosswalks.
There are still a few detours planned and Kirk Street is closed right now.
On Monday, Aug. 19, crews will close the east side of Kirk Street, between Hastings Funeral Home & Mark IV Printing & Office Supply, for a couple of days. Crews will do this to place a red stamped brick crosswalk. It will be covered with a protective plate and reopened.
If weather permits construction, on Thursday, Aug. 22, Foundry Street will be closed to install a stamped brick crosswalk after Kirk and High Streets have been reopened. Light pole installation will begin the week after that with the installation of the poles and the wires needed to provide electricity to the streetlights.
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Hello, I am conducting graduate research about the use of social media for students with special needs. A brief description of this project is included below and a more detailed explanation, screen shots and links can be found at www.billboudreaux.org/. The private online social network is called AbilityPages and is located at http://abilitypages.ning.com/. AbilityPages network was created as a safe alternative to social networking web sites such as Myspace and Facebook. The Ability pages network will be moderated by participating educators and parents of students with special needs to ensure the safety and privacy of the members. The goals of the AbilityPages network are: (1) Members will benefit from social interactions with peers in the areas of communication skills, social skills and normalization. (2) Members will become more proficient in their use of technology as a communication tool. (3) Social media is used to enhance curriculum delivery through collaboration between students. Thus far response to the idea has been overwhelmingly positive. Therefore I am adjusting the focus of the research to include more ideas and suggestions for implementation from people familiar with social media and education technology. Please take a moment to respond to the survey at www.billboudreaux.org or simply leave a comment. Thank you for your interest. Bill Boudreaux firstname.lastname@example.com
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A court in South Africa has dropped a marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton.
The socialite appeared late Friday in a FIFA World Cup courtroom after being arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana at a quarterfinal match between Brazil and the Netherlands.
The authorities dropped the charges against Hilton, after her co-accused, Jennifer Rovero, "acknowledged to be in possession of cannabis, and pleaded guilty," said Brig. Sally De Beer, a spokeswoman for South African police. Rovero, 31, was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 rand ($130) or 30 days imprisonment, De Beer said.
When told the case had been dropped, Hilton said "thank you" and left the courtroom.
Hilton wrote on Twitter later: "Hey guys, there's a lot of crazy rumors going around. Just want you all to know the truth. Everything is completely fine. I was not charged or arrested, cause I didn't do anything."
• Andrew Garfield, whose credits include last year's Heath Ledger film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," will play Peter Parker, the average youth who transforms into a superhero, in the next "Spider-Man" movie, Sony Pictures said. The as-yet-untitled film is due in theaters July 3, 2012, and will focus on a younger Peter Parker.
• Lindsay Lohan certainly didn't wish for this on her 24th birthday. "A waitress just hit me – punched me for no reason," the actress tweeted early Friday. TMZ says it all started when the waitress at Voyeuer spotted one of her old flings — rugby player Danny Cipriani — hanging out with LiLo.
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FRISCO, Texas (Oct. 29, 2010) – The first 250 fans who bring a canned item to the Pizza Hut Park Box Office this Saturday for the North Texas Food Bank will receive one free ticket to the FC Dallas playoff game versus Real Salt Lake set to kick off at 4 p.m., presented by Cash America and airing live on Fox Soccer Channel.
Anyone who donates a canned good once the 250 free tickets are gone can purchase a discounted ticket to the game with no limit on the number purchased ($10 endline, $15 sideline east or $25 sideline west tickets). The ticket promotion is part of a joint effort between Pizza Hut and FC Dallas to help the North Texas Food Bank in advance of the holiday season.
FC Dallas faces the reigning MLS Cup Champions Real Salt Lake in the Oct. 30, 4 p.m. tilt at Pizza Hut Park. The match is the first leg of the team's home-and-away Western Conference Semifinal. Immediately following the game, Pizza Hut Park will play host to a Texas Rangers' World Series Watch Party as all eyes turn to the other hometown team vying for a championship when the Rangers face the San Francisco Giants.
FC Dallas (12-4-14, 50 points) ended the MLS season with the fewest losses by a team in league history. The team also set league records for the longest road unbeaten streak (12 games) and longest overall unbeaten streak (19 games) in a single season. Dallas midfielder David Ferreira has turned in an MVP-worthy campaign in 2010, while head coach Schellas Hyndman is a leading Coach of the Year candidate. Despite being sidelined with a knee injury during the season's final weeks, goalkeeper Kevin Hartman set the MLS record for single-season Goals Against Average with a stingy 0.62 mark on the year.
FC Dallas split its regular season series with Real Salt Lake, winning 2-0 at Pizza Hut Park on July 17. Dallas fell 2-0 against Real in Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Oct. 16.
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The Western Conference Semifinal Series is contested as an aggregate goals series in which no weight is placed on away goals. Should FC Dallas and Real Salt Lake be tied in overall goals across the two games at the end of regulation of the second leg in Sandy, the squads will square off in a 30-minute mini-game (played in its entirety) to determine a winner. Should that end even, the teams will then decide advancement to the Western Conference Championship by kicks from the penalty spot.
2010 MLS Cup Playoffs Schedule
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#1 LA Galaxy v. #4 Seattle Sounders FC
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Eastern Conference Semifinal Series
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#2 Columbus Crew v. #3 Colorado Rapids
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I got my hands on this tea courtesy of TeaEqualsBliss – she was a sweetheart a sent me a box full of teas to try a couple months back, and I still haven't gotten around to sampling all of them.
The steeping instructions seem to indicate that this tea should be brewed gong fu style – unfortunately since I don't really have the tea or the tea ware to do it that way I just stuck with the usual 1 teaspoon per mug of tea.
The brewing tea smells distinctly bakey and it lacks the light, floral scent I remember from the last ali shan oolong I tried. The flavour of the first steep (@ 3 min) is bakey too – bakey and toasted, like a piece of toast that just on the very verge of burning. This steep also has a slightly nutty aftertaste.
The second steep (@ 3:45) is less bakey and a much smoother cup altogether with hints fo sweetness as the tea cools, though it isn't as nectar-sweet as some green oolongs can get (I'm not really sure if this qualifies as a green oolong or not). It also has faint nutty nuances throughout.


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A writing and art contest designed to capture the contributions of farmworkers over the years resulted in 18 local youth winning an award for their submitted work.
In the high school art category, the first place winner was Brenda Cervantes of Delano High School, followed by Josh Cruz of McFarland High School and Reggie Casabar of Cesar Chavez High School.
In the high school poetry section, Katrina Quiroz of Paramount Bard Academy received first place while second and third went to Paul Salgado of Delano High School and Raul Fierro of Tierra del Sol.
As part of the high school essay competition, Kristan Sigler of Highland High School took first place. Second place was Cesar Aleman of West High School and Carmela Garcia of Cesar Chavez High School was third.
Xocthil Morales of Paramount Bard Academy received the Jack Brigham Musical Scholarship Award.
In the middle school art category, Javier Soto Gonzales of South High School was honored with first place while Sonia Holguin of McFarland High School and Lizzeth Hernandez of Paramount Bard Academy placed second and third.
In the middle school poetry category, Karisia Gonzales of Nueva Vista Academy received first place while Yasmin Marcelo and Kylie Melendez, both of Fruitvale Junior High School, placed second and third, respectively.
In the middle school essay competition, the first place winner was Karen Escobar of Emerson Middle School while Natasha Bramer of Fruitvale took second and Paola Rios of Compton took third.
The idea of a competition developed last year when the United Farm Workers celebrated its 50th anniversary in Bakersfield. An ad-hoc group of local citizens joined together to create an art and writing competition for middle school and high school students in Kern County that would "focus on the legacy of the farmworker in the San Joaquin Valley," said Ray Gonzales, a former state Assemblyman, who, along with retired educator John Hefner and Kern County Superior Court Judge Robert Tafoya, coordinated the project.
"Agriculture is the lifeblood of the San Joaquin Valley," Gonzales said. "It is important that the youth of this valley recognize that and also focus on the important role played by those who have labored in the fields over the years.
"From the Dust Bowl Era to the emergence of the Farm Labor Movement, there is much history here to be proud of. We hope this competition is just a beginning in having valley youth become aware of that history."
Looks like it will.
The contest's first run proved successful as more than 60 entries from 14 different schools in the county were entered.
Gonzales said the judges of media and artistic backgrounds reviewed the work and selected the winners. (Full disclosure, I had the opportunity to judge some of the categories, and I was beyond impressed by the quality of artistic and writing talent and thinking abilities of these young contestants.)
Gonzales praised area high schools, middle schools, junior highs, and private academies for participating. Part of the project's focus is educational, added Tafoya.
"Our children need to develop writing skills, and we need to nurture their creativity," Tafoya said. "Without strong writing skills, our students' future prospects are limited at best. Developing critical thinking skills goes hand in hand with good writing. On a weekly basis, I estimate at least 50 percent of law violators who appear before me are high school dropouts."
Tafoya said the competition would not have been possible without the financial support of individuals and organizations, such as Wells Fargo, Rabobank, Kern County Superintendent Christine Lizardi Frazier, retired Bakersfield College professor Jack Brigham, Bakersfield Mayor Harvey Hall, Senator Jean Fuller and Kern Community College District Chancellor Sandra Serrano.
Together, they contributed $3,600 for prize money that was award to the winners: $200 for first place winners at the high school level and $150 for middle school winners, with lesser amounts given to second and third winners and runner-ups.
"The idea of this competition is for the schools to collaborate with the private sector; the private sector raises prize money and sets the ground rules and the theme; and the schools recruit students and helps them produce quality work," Tafoya explained. "Our future, as a country, is directly related to how well our children are prepared to meet life's challenges. We should not allocate the responsibility of preparing our children exclusively to the schools. It takes a village to raise a child."
Kaiser mentors
And since we are talking about youth, a nod goes to Kaiser Permanente's Hippocrates Circle Program, which works with 45 students of Sierra Middle School by giving them an inside view of what it's like to be a physician or medical provider, according to Kristin Weber, a Kaiser senior community benefit specialist.
As part of the program, the students will meet physicians and nursing students who will share their own experiences and academic preparation.
According to Weber, students will learn how to cast an arm, use the laser that treats patients after cataract surgery, read an X-ray, and "observe a laryngoscopy, which will show students what the vocal cords look like inside a person," among other activities.
Olivia Garcia is editor of Bakersfield Life and BWell magazines and a columnist of The Bakersfield Californian. These are her opinions, not necessarily those of The Bakersfield Californian. Send her tips at firstname.lastname@example.com


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A couple of days ago my son, lured (pun intended), by his coworkers went ocean fishing. Now this wasn't the first time he has gone fishing. A few weeks ago he landed a bat ray. Pretty cool looking and lucky for the ray it slipped off the hook and fell back in the water. I'm sure by that evening it was telling all its buddies (all named "Ray") at the bar about how it was "the one that got away." Anyway, this time the fish he hooked wasn't so lucky. It was a copper fish (sans whistle and badge) which he proudly brought home after his friends did all the cleaning, etc. In case I haven't mentioned this before, my wife, the vegetarian, has not had much experience cooking fish but she did an admirable job of preparing it and I must admit it was quite tasty. My son was all grins each time one of us would comment on how flavorful it was he and proudly stated several times how he caught it. The funny thing was that with each telling of the story the fish kept getting bigger. By the end of dinner the fish probably tripled in size. Man, no wonder I was so full!
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I thought the whole point of the cats was to clean up the co2.
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I thought the whole point of the cats was to clean up the co2.
It reduces carbon monoxide, but doesn't eliminate it..
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As for the Catalytic Converter.
It takes Carbon Monoxide, highly dangerous to people and converts it to Carbon Dioxide, but its not 100% efficient.
The main point is, if you can smell it, or you get random headaches after being behind the boat, or you feel dizzy after being behind the boat then you should look into getting an FAE setup.
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I added the FAE last year after two seasons without. I spend most of my time surfing and have never really had any issues with exhaust smell, headaches, etc before I added the system. The biggest difference I noticed was how quiet the FAE has made my boat. You really get a better sensation of surfing without the the exhaust noise. You can actually chat with folks in the boat while surfing and can finally appreciate all the money you have spent on that stereo upgrade.
^ this is why the FAE is always on the back of my mind. My boat is pretty loud when surfing. Just haven't been able to justify the price in my mind :cool:
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The strange thing is once it was installed and i can cruise across the lake and hear the water splashing off my boat, talk to people without yelling, man its truly upped my boating experience.
On the Mojo the cats quite down the exhaust and give it a deep grumble, a lot more pleasing then my LSV but IDK there is something soothing to me about the sound the water makes splashing off the boat while cruising. Almost like when you lay in the bow, drinking a beer, listening to the water hit the hull after a good day of boarding.
You still get a nice growl from the boat its just much lower.
Yes the stereo does sound even louder with an FAE on lol.
I have to remove my platform every time I come home so that really prevents me from thinking about it. Maybe if they developed a quick change one that unlocks and pops off with the platform?
How does this thing plug into the exhaust of the boat? I'm looking at it and I dont understand how it stays on the exhaust ports. Do you have any pictures of this install. Its a little pricey too, 450.00. Its just a couple of pipes with rubber couplings?


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but that's not a tuba. It's a sousaphone
The pressure to tour has led some musicians to give full reign to the entertainer side of their personality, as I witnessed this week at B.B. Kings in NYC when I caught a set by The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys Traditional Jass Band. To its great credit, this quintet uses the correct spelling of "jass," has a tuba player and plays a book of tunes that leans heavily on the Louis Armstrong canon. There's nothing wrong with having fun on stage and making your show fun for those who come to see it. And judging by the twentysomething crowd that trekked to Times Square on a weeknight, these Donkeys are doing a valuable service by keeping this music alive and passing it on to a younger generation.
But after a night listening to frontman James Williams endlessly growling in a pale imitation of Louis Armstrong (who could actually sing unlike Williams), it became obvious that this collection of music school grads are a bit too canny and calculating for their own good. They are making a living using all the mannerisms that made Armstrong such a star. Williams, who has obviously made a study of all of Armstrong's jokes, between song patter, trumpet solos and most of all, the growls he ended the lines of songs with, plays it to the hilt, to the point that he inserted Pops famous solo from "West End Blues" into the Swamp Donkey theme song.
The big problem with all this is that not once did anyone in the band mention Armstrong by name. And when after a couple of shots of whiskey the band launched into the "dirge" of a New Orleans funeral march, they seemed to making very light, inappropriately so purists would say, of a very old New Orleans tradition. As a fan of Armstrong and his work, these scamps (he says shaking his cane at those pesky kids), tread perilously close to being downright offensive. I give them credit for realizing that what Armstrong built a career out of still works onstage, but at least give the man a shout out! Now maybe I just happened to catch an extra riproaring show, and the attached video does seem to hint that these guys can be a tad more serious when the occasion or the venue calls for it, but it's hard to imagine them getting away with not even mentioning Armstrong when they play in their and his hometown.


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This will go down as one of the more bizarre spring training injuries.
Milwaukee Brewers reliever Francisco Rodriguez, who reported late to camp after dealing with visa issues due to Venezuela's unstable political climate, stepped barefoot on a cactus either Monday night or during the team's off-day Tuesday, reports MLB.com.
"He took a lot out, but there's some more in there," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke told reporters while Rodriguez was getting the cactus spines removed from his foot. "I don't think it's that big of a setback, but I imagine he's pretty sore today. I don't know if you guys have stepped on one, but you know how little some of the (spines) are? And they're in there for a while."
Rodriguez is scheduled to make his spring debut Thursday against the San Diego Padres, but Roenicke is not worried about the setback.
"With Frankie, he may come in today and say, 'I'm pitching.' I don't know. It'll be tough to keep him back, the way he is. Like I said, he may end up pitching (on Thursday as scheduled). It could happen. I just have to talk to him and see how he's doing."


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DUSTING for fingerprints and collecting samples from the scene of the crime – we've all seen how it's done on TV shows.
But this week, South Tyneside school pupils were given the chance to take part in their own crime investigation.
Year Five pupils from East Boldon Junior School in North Lane were invited to Boldon School in New Road for a lesson in forensic science, finding themselves in their own crime show-style investigation, CSI: Boldon.
The young investigators were told that Mrs Hayes, the headteacher, had been hit over the head.
They were then led to the scene of the crime, where a gruesome skeleton lay on the ground.
Pupils collected samples from the crime scene and conducted different experiments to try to figure out who had attacked Mrs Hayes.
Wearing white forensics suits and safety glasses, the children looked at fibre and vomit samples under the microscope, testing soil samples by holding them in a bunsen burner.
Boldon School science teacher Rachel Barnes said: "This is essentially a lesson in forensic skills and it's great for the kids, because they've seen it all on TV before and can relate to it.
"It's relevant to the kind of things they're watching, so it makes it easier for them to take it all in.
"They're getting to use equipment that they don't normally use at primary school level and they've all really enjoyed it."
East Boldon Juniors pupil Casey Metcalfe, 10, said: "It's been really fun. We've been learning how to take blood samples and figure out what happened by looking at them."
Classmate Ben Edmonds, 10, added: "I enjoyed going to the crime scene and seeing the body. It's really cool doing this kind of thing."
Their teacher, Una Goodman, said: "I think this has been a fantastic idea.
"The staff have put so much hard work into it and the kids have just loved it."
The children also analysed blood splatter evidence and used chromatography to examine ink samples found at the scene, in order to narrow down their list of suspects.
Kevin Leigh, a chemistry teacher at Boldon School, said: "The kids have been getting hands-on, practical experience they couldn't get in primary school.
"It's great linking it with a show like CSI, as it's easy for them to relate to it, so they've enjoyed it more."
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27 August 2007
Why Talk About Preaching?
"God is superabundantly generous in His grace. First, through the spoken Word, by which the forgiveness of sins is preached in all the world. This is the particular office of the Gospel. Second, through Baptism. Third, throug the holy Sacrament of the Altar. Fourth, through the Power of the Keys. Also through the mutual conversation and consolation of brethren...." SA III:III:IV
Which is to say that the preaching of the spoken Word, the embassy of forgiveness, is for us a preeminent means of grace. "Go into all the world and the preach the Gospel to the whole creation" our Lord says in Mark 16. Thus, not only is the Sacrament a "visible Word" but the Word is an "audible sacrament!" Preaching does not play second fiddle to the Eucharist, but is conjoined to it, for in both "we proclaim the Lord's death until He comes."
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- Susan said...
My pastor is fond of reminding us all about something he learned at Fort Wayne symposium a couple of Januarys ago. Apparently the Greek in that 1 Corinthians verse can be translated as "Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are to proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." He tells us that this is the translation that is cited in the Confessions, and it shows that preaching is not an option or an add-on when it comes to the celebration of the Supper.
- Paul T. McCain said...
And given the preeminence that the preached Word is given, both in Scripture, and in our Lutheran Confessions, I think we have much to ponder when we observe the decreasing amount of time devoted to preaching in many Divine Services. From one hour, to 45 minutes, to 30, to 20, to 15, now 10 seems the "norm" for many. Just last night I noticed a sermon of only 7.5 minutes in length.
Now, granted, it may well be true that 7.5 minutes of a sermon are more powerful, effective, meaningful than a 30 minute sermon that rambles and has little point.
But...I suspect that the response is not quite that facile in reality.
Something is happening, and has gone wrong, in my view, in how we understand the place of the Word preached and taught from the pulpit.
And, I'm concerned.
- L P Cruz said...
Pr. Will,
During my RC days as a young bloke, I recall that in some Masses I attended, there would not even be preaching, say when I attend a day mass. There will always be Eucharist of course.
Technically when not checked by the Confession, the Lutheran church can slump into no preaching in the divine services too. I mean one can see the whole ministry as Sacrament only and no Word, the reverse of modern evangelicalism.
- Christopher said...
The argument could be made that the entire Divine Service should be one longer, interactive sermon that teaches the people of God. Add to that the everyday life of the parish and its people acting as the people of God and you have a wonderful expression of the story I have heard told of both St Anthony the Great and Francis of Assisi concerning preaching to a town by walking through it with his disciple. When questioned as to why they hadn't preached, the saint said they had: only "if necessary, use words".
Of course, that isn't an argument that Chrysostom and the Great Church bought since their sermons lasted hours with dozens of speakers while the entire, huge congregation communed one by one. While that was true of him and his church in a culture where rhetoric and public speaking were 'must see TV', I wonder what the average country, small town or monastic church's sermon was like. Perhaps the 'lack' of sermons in Orthodoxy and RCism comes more from this stream of the primitive church, rather than the heirs to the rhetoriticians.
A different Christopher
- wm cwirla said...
Romans 10:14-17 would argue against the notion that one can make "too much of preaching" in the same way one can make too much of icons, vestments, and incense.
- Fr John W Fenton said...
It is apparent (at least to me) that the Book of Concord nearly equates preaching with Absolution. It suggests to me that for Lutherans, preaching is an extended, catechetical absolution, and absolution is a pithy sermon.
If I am correct about this, then it raises (and frankly has always raised) an historical question in my mind. In the history of the Church (East & West), not every priest was granted to right to be a confessor or even to grant absolution. The same was true--even more so--of preaching. Not all, but only a select group, were granted the right to preach: all bishops, and select priests/presbyters and deacons, and even a few laymen. Why was this? Because it was not assumed that the charism of being a confessor or of preaching (being apt to teach) was automatically tied to presbyteral ordination. (Notice: "apt to teach" goes with "episkope.")
In the Saxon Visitation Articles, the Preface to the Smalcard Articles and Chemnitz' Enchiridion, this history seems to be either challenged, ignored or unknown. (Perhaps the latter.) One key assumption documents in these documents is that every Lutheran pastor, by virtue of ordination, is in fact a confessor (i.e., has received that charism); and therefore should be "brought up to speed." Luther's preface to his sermons (Kirchen Postil) seems to assume the same; for he states that the sermons are provided for the same reason--to "bring up to speed" those who, by virtue of ordination, have received the charism of preaching.
Now is that truly what ordination bestows? Or are their diversities of "charisms" (i.e., charismata) among those ordained to the presbytery/priesthood?
- William Weedon said...
Father John,
Are you assuming that the NT episkope referred to bishops as distinct from presbyters?
Also, we note that in the rise of bishops as distinct from presbyters, there is a long history of items once reserved to the bishops becoming ordinarily the competence of the presbyters. One thinks not only of preaching, but of baptism, of chrismation (at least in the East), and so the pronouncing of absolution would only be one in a long series - one might even point to the Lutheran practice of presbyters ordaining and note that it could be construed as being of a piece with that history.
- Fr John W Fenton said...
Regrettably, it appears I muddled my comment so that it seemed that I was explicitly or implicitly arguing for a certain understanding of the word "episkope." In fact, all I wanted to do was raise this question:
* Does ordination automatically bestow the gift (charism) of preaching or being a confessor? Or can one be ordained and yet not permitted (for whatever reason) to preach or hear confessions? If the latter is granted, does this somehow weaken or limit the ordination?
The point that you raise, Pr Weedon, is quite legitimate; namely, that perhaps preaching and hearing confessions runs with the charism of baptizing, chrismating or celebrating Mass (which also was not originally done by priests/presbyters). This would suggest that the answer to my last question might be "Yes." But if so, does it have to be?
My reading of Luther and the Lutherans suggests that, early on, they did not grant preaching or hearing confession as a given or "automatic" in ordination. But I'm most likely mistaken on this conclusion.


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It wouldn't be Hanukah if I didn't refresh my favorite, dead-simple potato pancake recipe. But it wouldn't make for a very interesting story if I told the same one every year; in fact, I think they get better with each try because I continue to tweak them ever so much.
This year, after finally making peace with my cast frying pan (coincidentally, over an "apple latke") I cooked them in there, and will use no other pan for them as long as I live. It is a browning genius, and even small amounts of oil resulted in no sticking whatsoever. I also realized that I found them a bit on the salty side — something I noted last year and entirely forgot in the 12 months since — I hope to remember that next year.
In an ongoing, obsessive effort to create latkes that look precisely like the flying spaghetti monster/tiny piles of rope mops, I again attempted to create the longest strands of potato possible by placing them sideways in the feed tube of the food processor — the food processor not only saves a ton of time, it creates coarser, more visible strands.
Next, I at last retired the sieve-pressing for a cheesecloth-squeezing. My goodness, I don't know why it took me so long to realize that cheesecloth does a much better job (seriously, just twist tighter and tighter until the excess liquid is gone) and is ten thousand times easier to hand-wash, uh, because you don't have to. The smallest square does the trick.
Finally, if you think that latkes are just for Hanukkah, with all due respect, you're totally missing out. I have yet to see a better "bed" to rest your poached or fried egg upon; home fries, latkes distant, black sheep of a cousin, just weep with jealousy in their presence. And the fact that latkes are so easy to make in advance and reheat/recrisp in the oven means that they can be an especially schedule-forgiving brunch dish.
Or an appetizer. I can imagine these being great topped with anything from a garlicky aioli to an apple chutney, but as you can see, we chose to keep them in the "peasant food" mood with creme fraiche and caviar.
And with that, I'm off to reheat some leftovers. That I didn't tell our families about when they were over last night. Because I'm nice, but apparently not that nice.
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Potato Pancakes [Latkes]
My formula is roughly this: a one-pound russet or baking potato to one small onion, a large egg, quarter-cup of flour, teaspoon of salt and a hefty pinch of black pepper. How many you yield has to do with how big you make them; I aim for small ones (approximately three inches across) and get about a dozen per batch.
But, if you're not a formula person, here is a more official-like recipe:
1 large baking potato (1 pound), peeled
1 small onion (4 ounces), peeled
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Peanut oil, for frying
In a food processor or on a box grater, coarsely shred the potato and onion. For longer strands, lay the potato sideways in the chute of your food processor. Transfer to a colander or wrap in a cheesecloth sling, and squeeze as dry as possible. Let stand for 2 minutes, then squeeze dry again.
In a large bowl, whisk the flour, egg, salt and pepper together. Stir in the potato onion mixture until all pieces are evenly coated.
In a medium skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil until shimmering. Drop packed tablespoons of the potato mixture into the skillet and flatten them with the back of a spoon. Cook the latkes over moderately high heat until the edges are golden, about 1 1/2 minutes; flip and cook until golden on the bottom, about 1 minute. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining potato mixture, adding more oil to the skillet as needed.
Do ahead: Latkes are a do-ahead-er's dream. You can also keep latkes warm in the oven for an hour or more, if you're waiting for stragglers to arrive. Cooked, they keep well in the fridge for a day or two, or in the freezer, well wrapped, for up to two weeks. Reheat them in a single layer on a cookie sheet in a 400 degree oven until they're crisp again. Bonus: If you undercooked them a bit or didn't get the browning on them you'd hoped for, you can compensate for this in the oven.


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Property Location
Located in Saint-Gratien, ibis Saint Gratien is in a rural location and within the vicinity of Stade de France and Grande Arche. This hotel is within the vicinity of Parc Monceau and Palais des Congres de Paris.
Make yourself at home in one of the 50 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones and desks, and you can also request irons/ironing boards.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. This hotel has 2 meeting rooms available for events.
The Ibis highlights above are subject to change without notice.


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Drone footage has captured the devastation after a rockfall crashed through and destroyed a barn in northern Italy.
An estimated four thousand cubic metres of rock came loose from a cliff face above the site, before destroying most of a 300-year-old barn.
One boulder came to rest just short of the building.
Huge scars were left in the hillside where the jagged rocks had rolled, with a vineyard left badly damaged.
No one was injured in the incident.
The scene, at Tramin in South Tyrol, was filmed using a radio-controlled drone on 21 January (newsflare.com).