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U.S. Committee for Refugees World Refugee Survey 2002 - Austria
|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
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|10 June 2002
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|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, U.S. Committee for Refugees World Refugee Survey 2002 - Austria , 10 June 2002, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3d04c13f10.html [accessed 23 November 2017]
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At the end of 2001, Austria hosted about 10,800 refugees and asylum seekers in need of protection. These included 1,113 persons granted asylum during the year and 205 individuals granted protection against deportation. Of 15,187 applicants awaiting first-instance decisions on their applications, at least 9,500 were in Austria, while an unknown number awaited the outcome of applications filed at Austrian embassies abroad.
Asylum seekers filed 30,135 applications for asylum in Austria during 2001, a nearly 65 percent increase from the 18,284 applications filed in 2000. Applications from Afghans, which tripled in number from the previous year, accounted for most of the overall increase. In addition to the 12,957 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, the largest numbers of asylum seekers came from Iraq (2,113), followed by Turkey (1,876), India (1,804), and Yugoslavia (1,649).
Of the 4,756 asylum applicants who received merits decisions on their cases in 2001, the Federal Refugee Office (hereafter "refugee office") granted 1,113 asylum, an approval rate of 23 percent, up from the 17 percent approved in 2000. Among the countries with the highest approval rates were Afghanistan (56 percent), Iraq (27 percent), and Yugoslavia (24 percent).
The refugee office denied 3,643 claims during the year, 664 as manifestly unfounded. The authorities also closed the cases of 14,436 asylum seekers who abandoned their asylum claims.
Afghan Asylum Seekers
Of the 30,135 new asylum applications lodged with the Austrian government in 2001, 12,957, or 43 percent, were from Afghans. Of these, 5,367 were filed at Austrian diplomatic missions abroad, mostly in Iran and Pakistan. At the onset of the U.S.-led airstrikes against Afghanistan in early October, the Austrian government suspended processing of Afghan asylum claims, asserting that it was impossible to assess the situation in Afghanistan reliably. However, processing was restarted again in November.
Of the 746 merits decisions rendered on Afghan asylum applications during the year, 420 were approved (56.3 percent).
The majority of the claims filed in Iran and Pakistan were turned down on the grounds that Iran and Pakistan are considered safe third countries for Afghans. No figures were available on the number of Afghans who received temporary protection in Austria in 2001.
The Asylum Procedure
Austria's asylum procedure is governed by the 1997 Asylum Act.
The procedure grants provisional residency rights to asylum applicants. However, under certain circumstances, asylum seekers with a provisional residence permit still may be detained during the procedure to ensure their deportation if denied asylum. Asylum seekers who enter Austria illegally and are channeled into the accelerated procedure do not have provisional residency rights. Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers are entitled to the assistance of a guardian, such as a representative from a youth welfare office.
The refugee office, an agency within the Interior Ministry, is responsible for making first-instance decisions on asylum applications. Asylum seekers may appeal negative decisions to the independent Federal Asylum Review Board, and further appeals with Austrian administrative courts are possible.
Recognized refugees receive long-term residence permits and the right to work, and are eligible for integration assistance. Asylum seekers denied refugee status can be granted protection against deportation for up to one year, with the possibility of extension.
The 1997 asylum law maintains that applicants who arrive from safe third countries (countries asylum seekers transited where, according to Austria, they could have requested and received protection) are not admissible to the asylum procedure. Austria considers third countries as safe for the return of asylum seekers if they are signatories to the UN Refugee Convention and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; have established asylum procedures, including an appeals procedure; grant returning asylum seekers access to that procedure; and allow asylum seekers to remain safely in the country pending the outcome of their status determinations.
The refugee office generally considers most of Austria's eastern neighbors – Slovenia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic – to be safe third countries. However, the Federal Asylum Review Board has periodically overturned refugee office decisions made on safe-third-country grounds. In February 2000, a High Administrative Court ruling determined that the Slovak Republic could not be considered a safe third country.
Applicants denied asylum in Austria's accelerated procedure have ten days to file an appeal. Applicants deemed inadmissible on safe-third-country grounds or because another European Union (EU) member state is responsible for reviewing the application under the Dublin Convention (see box, p. 190) and applicants whose cases are considered manifestly unfounded are subject to the accelerated procedure. In 2001, the Austrian government denied refugee status in 312 cases based on the Dublin Convention.
Austria's 1997 asylum law also created an accelerated airport procedure. Under the law, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has the power to refer negative decisions in airports to the normal asylum procedure, a process that the refugee agency has confirmed works as intended.
Assistance and Accommodation
Under the Federal Care Provisions Act of 1991, asylum seekers are, in principle, given accommodation, basic health care, and modest stipends if they are unable to care for themselves. However, in practice, only about one-third of asylum seekers receive federal care. Many are excluded from state assistance for various reasons, including lack of identity papers or for having committed a criminal offense. Asylum seekers ineligible for federal care often must rely on increasingly overburdened religious and charitable organizations for their basic needs. In 2001, UNHCR sharply criticized the Austrian government for failing to accommodate asylum seekers adequately, charging that between 50 and 100 asylum seekers were forced to sleep outside – sometimes in freezing temperatures – every week.
Detention and Deportation
In a decision made public in January, the High Administrative Court ruled that asylum seekers may not be deported while their applications are still pending. While welcoming the decision, refugee advocates pointed out that the ruling only protects applicants in the first-instance appeal procedure, since higher appeals against negative asylum decisions – to Austria's High Administrative Court or Constitutional Court – are not considered part of the asylum procedure.
In October, three policemen were charged with "torture leading to death" in the 1999 case of a rejected Nigerian asylum seeker who suffocated to death during his deportation. The trial for the officers, who bound and gagged the asylum seeker, then placed a tight strap over his chest before his flight from Vienna, will begin in spring 2002.
In August, Austria's Human Rights Advisory Council, which was established following the Nigerian's death and includes representatives of the Interior Ministry and nongovernmental organizations, criticized detention conditions for asylum seekers in Austria. The council found that medical and psychological assistance to detainees was not always adequate, and that a lack of interpreters compounded the problems.
Migration Control
Austria has signed readmission agreements with Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Switzerland. These agreements do not refer to asylum seekers and refugees, but to foreigners in general. Austria also has signed a bilateral protocol with Romania that applies solely to the return of nationals of both states.
In May, Austria and the Czech Republic agreed to form a joint force to combat illegal migration between the two countries. Austria also signed an agreement in July with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia to cooperate in fighting organized crime, regulating border traffic, and coordinating asylum issues.
In 2000, the Aliens Act was amended to include a provision that imposed penalties on people who assist illegal immigrants, even if the assistance is provided for humanitarian reasons. Under the amendment, a person can face criminal charges for providing aid, such as an apartment rental, to an immigrant who lacks a valid residence permit, or for soliciting the services of a trafficker to help bring a refugee into Austria from a region in conflict.
In October, a ruling by the Austrian Constitutional Court challenged the government's policy of imposing sanctions on carriers that transport third-country nationals lacking valid documentation to Austria. Declaring the provisions of the 1997 Aliens Act that impose financial penalties on carriers for undocumented passengers (about $1,296 per passenger, or 1,453 euros) to be null and void, the court ruled that the obligations to which carriers are held, outlined in the Aliens Act, are not adequately specific and thus violate Austria's Constitution. The court also noted that the provisions do not specify whether or how carriers should comply with Austria's commitments as a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention. The government reportedly began preparing new legislation that will address the court's concerns.


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November 26th, 2012, 07:00 PM #1
What are your biggest conversion questions?
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In an effort to bring some life to this part of the forum. What are your biggest conversion questions?
I'll try help you out by answering as best I can
November 26th, 2012, 07:44 PM #2
Thanks for the offer
I'm thinking of setting up a blog where I will do free tarot card readings [public on my blog not privately in email]
I'd like to know some reader/user characteristics/preferences that are general and can not be traced to a specific person.
I'm afraid that a survey would scare people away. What about a few questions on a contact form? Do you think that would be feasible?
Prior experience at one point became a nightmare when people were emailing me too much data about themselves. I only want to be involved in an entertainment sort of way and I do not wish to be personally involved with individuals. I found that people would email me with all sorts of information that I do not want. I want some general information that I can work into a reading that is public and free and does not obligate me further.
So the question is blogs and the amount of questions on a content form or a possible survey.
How many questions on a content form or survey turn people off?
Or is there a better way to get a few general characteristics such as : what is your zodiac sign?
Part of the conversion is getting that general [not too personal] info and of course I would be using affiliate text links in the blog.
Last edited by Rhia7; November 26th, 2012 at 08:10 PM.
November 26th, 2012, 08:25 PM #3
I meant comment form not content form - sorry about that
And I wrote "reader" for the person reading the blog but I should have written "visitor" -- I'm the reader of the cards
I'd want the person to create a nickname (no real first name/last name)
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November 26th, 2012, 10:58 PM #4
Before you laugh let me tell you that one of my favorite books is
The Fortune Sellers - William Sherden - Unintended Consequences - Best Laid Plans - Expertise in Management Consulting, Market Forecasting & Market Strategy
Who can resist the cover?
One of the ideas of the book is to give away the fortunes and sell
things on the side
There are many forecasting occupations today:
The Fortune Sellers contains in-depth explorations of the seven most prevalent forecasting professions today —meteorology, economics, investments, technology assessment, demography, futurology, and organizational planning.
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November 27th, 2012, 12:59 AM #5
I waited for others to respond first and then when no one took a
bite I asked you a question. You were logged in as I wrote the 1st post
and beyond into the second. You never made a comment and you left abruptly while you had an audience without saying anything
I guess my biggest question is: why did Krisk leave?
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November 27th, 2012, 10:09 AM #6
Perhaps you haven't given him enough time to respond? There are only a handful left that "live" on this board.We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
~Lynn Hall
November 27th, 2012, 11:48 AM #7
Some of us don't have any conversion questions...Salty kisses, Sandy toes, and a Pirate's heart...
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November 27th, 2012, 11:54 AM #8
Patience, Rhia. He's out in the wild converting...
November 27th, 2012, 01:19 PM #9
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November 27th, 2012, 11:30 PM #10
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I'm back! Deadlines are a killer!
@Rhia7 The reason I left was I had to finish off a task by today, which I just completed about an hour ago
After I posted I left. I didn't expect people to reply right away. And time management is the only thing that keeps me productive. And my reward for completing my task was social time, aka forums and Facebook.
So if I understand this correctly, you want to gather generic information about your users that will help you provide a reading and you'll share it publicly? Kind of like a column in a paper?
If so, do you know the type of generic questions? EG. Star sign? Birth date? (Name is turned into numerology?)
Also there isn't a hard and fast rule for how many fields start to annoy people. It really is about relevancy. If you start to ask, how many uncles do you have. People feel they are wasting their time. However when they feel its easy and you'll need it to get what they want they'll answer.
If you can post an example publicly could you PM me an example of what you mean and I'll check it out and post a reply here?
@Kaizen whats the live board?
@convergence, I figured the ones who didn't would just not respond? lol?
@akagorilla that's correct. Everyday i'm convertin
..and today I'll hang around for 30mins incase anyone replies
November 27th, 2012, 11:34 PM #11
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@Rhia7 smart about giving up your best information upfront and then selling other services on the side. Going public with others is great too. You'll get search traffic, maybe even referral or shares.
If I was you I would get an idea of who your target customers are. Make a profile of them and as you learn keep adding to it. Then once you have it you'll know who your targeting and know them better than they do. So you can sell to them better
November 27th, 2012, 11:52 PM #12
You could have said "See ya real soon" like the Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club TV Show [Britney Spears got her start there]
I thought perhaps the phrase "Tarot Cards" made you squeamish or that you had just lost interest in my question & this forum.
The contact form? Survey? Tell them to go to The Link Here which connects to a form/survey?
I've already dealt with legal hassles due to my interest: http://www.abestweb.com/forums/midni...der-98749.html
November 28th, 2012, 12:01 AM #13
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I see and not at all! I just need to set expectations Especially if I don't browse the forum all day, no problem. Am learning!
I would include a small lead form on the page. This would give you the INTRO information.
"Get a Personalized reading by ME!"
"Its free all you need to do is answer these questions"
[Your email]
[Your star sign] (could be a drop down)
[What you're most interested in] (again could be a drop down)
[Submit button]
Then on the next page you take this information over to the next page and prefill the next form with it. It might have 2 more questions. They should fill out the remaining last 2 questions and answer. This second step is optional, I was thinking maybe you didn't have enough information with the first two questions.
So what type of questions would you need to ask?
November 28th, 2012, 12:19 AM #14
Great answer krisk That's what I was looking for.
Here's an old page of mine on my original ISP site
[this page is NOT an affiliate page, I didn't sell anything on this page]
I was explaining a spread technique [there are many] I created:
I ask for zodiac sign, age, and gender.
Those above answers do not trace back to a particular person.
I've read in person and all I asked for was the zodiac sign.
No one was so androgynous that I couldn't tell their gender
Questions could vary depending on the type of reading the person wants:
love, money, career, vacation etc... like that.
Sometimes people are thinking of a question and other times they just want
a general reading.
There are different spreads that vary in the amount of cards used [varies in time too]
and at some point I might offer some people more advanced spreads/readings.
I spend a lot of time thinking of quasi-legal disclaimers
Once a merchant on a network now defunct, Performics [bought by GAN],
wouldn't pay me and accused me of starting my own religion --
I didn't know I was that good
Another consideration is to keep the fortunetelling stuff in discrete sections.
There was once a merchant on SAS who objected to the word fortunetelling.
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November 28th, 2012, 12:38 AM #15
November 28th, 2012, 12:49 AM #16
I own 3 domains.
My ISP after many years decided I should use the space as
a "Start page"
So I'll have to see if I can still use that for pages that I create in
a site.
There's a story to my original ISP site -- I first developed it for fun
and then I discovered a personal site by a guy in Brisbane, Australia.
We started to create content to entertain each other -- he was the first
to e-mail me. This is back in 1996.
We have kept in touch and are Facebook friends to this day.
So the ISP site is full of nostalgia.
November 28th, 2012, 12:53 AM #17
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@Rhia7 Thanks! That link doesn't work
If I was you I would split it up into 2 parts. Get what you want first, including their email. (Then you can build a list)
Then on the second page sell them on why they should give you more information. EG. They get a better reading or more specific. Maybe even make it like a control panel where they get to set what they want answered.
I think that is 5 questions right? Email, Zodiac sign, age, gender, their interest. You could try with just their email and zodiac then on the 2nd page have the next 3 fields.
Hmm interesting about the affiliates being a bit weird. Not much you can do, maybe they aren't the right people to sell for
November 28th, 2012, 12:53 AM #18
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Wow lol, you've been on the net for a long time!
November 28th, 2012, 12:59 AM #19
to people on Twitter who accuse me of having
the name Rhianna so that I can pretend to be
a singer
There was an active participant [named rhianna]
in alt.tarot back in the '90s and I am she
I'm also listed way back in Wayback Machine -- people
might laugh at my site[s] back then but there was a time,
a very long time ago, that I was cutting edge.
November 28th, 2012, 01:09 AM #20
Thanks for coming back, krisk.
I'm tired and I think Sleeping Beauty should log off
November 28th, 2012, 01:20 AM #21
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You've been online longer than me!.. maybe..
PM me your site if you want me to take a look?
No worries.. thanks for letting me know cya!
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Churchill's words are applicable; "democracy is the worst kind of government, except for all the others that has been tried before".
Why oh why do they have to burn tyres??? Anything but burning plastic and rubber. Have you heard of dioxin, global warming climate change....
And they will vote ANC again, and they will keep on protesting.
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I suspect there is a 'Third Force' involved here. Why so many service delivery protests in the last week? Did everyone finally get over their Christmas hangover? I think this deserves to be investigated properly. It seems to happen in waves.
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I was at the gym this morning doing my weekly Zumba routine, when I noticed the shirt that my instructor was wearing. It was kind of hard not to notice, since it was florescent pink with silver letters. On it, it said "LOVE YOUR LIFE", in big bold letters. And in the middle of shakin' it to a bass beat, the thought occurred to me, how do we present the Gospel to a generation that wants to enjoy life, live it to the fullest, and not escape from it?
In generations past, Christianity has always presented the Gospel and Salvation as an escape from life. We live our lives just to get through, it is miserable, we do not really want to be here, and we are told to take as many people with us as we can, so we are not responsible for them burning in hell. Sound familiar? And, to top it all off, if we do well on earth and take lots of people with us, we get a bigger mansion in heaven.
And heaven is the lap of luxury that we have never lived in. It is riches beyond imagining, food so delicious without a pound added to our frames, and whatever else we personally think is amazing. (For me, it is a quiet reading spot under a tree with a perfect 72 degrees).
But what if we already have all these things? What if, we have never lived in poverty, never been abused, mistreated, or neglected, and have never wanted for anything? What if, life is pretty good? Would the Gospel really be appealing when there is nothing we want to escape from?
Most of the Christian world see's people like Joel Osteen and we knock him for basically being a motivational speaker, who never preaches about sin or hell. I am definitely not saying those things are not a part of the Gospel, they are, but they are not the reason for the Gospel. Over and over again the Word tells us to live Holy lives, saved and redeemed by the power of God. God did not give us life to live in the expectation of escaping from it! He gave us life to love, live, and serve others. In fact, the first two commandments tell us to do this very thing! "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is like it, Love your neighbor as yourself," Matthew 22:37-40. If life is to be lived in love for God and love for others, where is the escape in that?
How do we offer a Gospel based on loving God and loving others, with salvation from sin and hell being an added bonus, instead of the reason for Salvation?


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So we've scoured the internet to bring you the best Tesla Model 3 first ride videos. Unfortunately for all of us, Tesla wouldn't let people use real cameras, so everything we're seeing here was recorded from smartphones. Sure, phone cameras are getting really good these days, but there's still only so much a smartphone can do from the back seat of a car driving through the dark.


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Congresswoman Johnson Releases a Statement on the Passage of H.R. 2146, the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act
Washington, D.C. - (Friday, June 19th, 2015) - Today, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson released the following statement regarding the House's passage of H.R. 2146, the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act which would add to the underlying bill the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) language from the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1314 that was voted on in the House last week.
"International trade has not only had a positive impact on our national economy, it is also a strong economic driver in my district. In fact, Texas leads the nation in exports and jobs directly linked to them", said Congresswoman Johnson.
"In 2014, Texas exported $289 billion in goods and led the nation in manufacturing exports by a large margin. During 2013, the metropolitan area of Dallas-Ft. Worth-Arlington exported $27.6 billion in goods to the rest of the world.
Establishing Trade Promotion Authority will give President Obama the tools he needs to negotiate free and fair trade agreements across the globe. I strongly urge the Senate to send this legislation to the President's desk."
CONTACT: Yinka Robinson | (202)225-8885
U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson is the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the highest-ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure. She represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which includes Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, Kessler Park, Old East Dallas, Pleasant Grove, South Dallas & South Oak Cliff; all of Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, Hutchins, Lancaster & Wilmer and parts of Ferris, Glenn Heights, South Grand Prairie, Oak Lawn, Ovilla, Uptown/Victory Park and West Dallas.


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|Slytherin Head
*Faces the new batch of Slytherins with a stern look*
Welcome, to the noble house of Salazar Slytherin. I am your new Head of House, Professor Monse(Or Slytherin Head if you prefer).
I hope we can all work together to make this a fun place once again. If you need any help with your writing, need someone to beta or just to look over a story idea, please feel free to PM me or just comment here and I will be more than happy to help.
With everything else going on, I never really introduced myself. Here goes.
I am known here as Slytherin Head, I have been writing Fanfiction for a little over a year now and I have 8 stories so far.
As you can tell I love Slytherin and will go super fangirl on our dear and beloved Professor Snape. Most of my stories are Snape but with different characters and I also have some anime stories, because I love anime. I'm a college student trying to earn a degree in Secondary Education in History and Art History. But I've also been thinking about studying to become a book editor.
My music taste are rather normal for an anime fan, mostly Japanese and some music from India.
That's all I can think of to say. I want to get to know all of you better, the only one I know is Ken and that's because I'm writing a story for him (I swear I'm working on it! ^_^).
So tell us a little about yourself!
If you want homework to earn our house points let me know and I'll be more than happy to give you aPrompt/ character/ paring/ theme.
You can also earn points by reading the stories I assign and leaving ain dept review,I don't want to see "Great job I loved it" or "Please update". I want you to tell the author what you liked, what could have been improve, your favorite scene and overall feeling of the story.
Prompts-I will be giving these out once a week starting on the 3rd of January. These must be no less than 800 words but you can make them as long as you want after passing the 800 words. If you want to make a chapter story out of the prompts you are more than welcome to do so. I will read and review these.
There is also Level homework,each level is worth different points depending on which one you get.
Level one: Prompt
Level two: Prompt/ character or pairing
Level three: Prompt/character or pairing/ theme
Level four: Plot
Since level four is the most difficult to work with, that'll be worth the most points. All stories written cannot be less the 800 words, if a story has less than 800 then points will be taken off.
Daily Prompts:
Tuesday November 9th, 2010:Hot Chocolate
Wednesday November 10th 2010:Destiny
Thursday November 11th 2010:Late
Friday November 12th 2010:Out of this world
Saturday November 13th 2010:"Where's the rum?"
Sunday November 14th 2010:Across the Universe
Monday November 15th 2010:Hot head
Wednesday November 17th 2010:Tea party
Friday November 19th 2010:Reading
Saturday November 20th 2010:Field Trip
SundayNovember 22nd 2010:stargaze
Tuesday November 30th 2010:Picture Perfect
Saturday December 4th 2010:Fallen star
Tuesdays December 7th 2010:"the path of envy..."
Friday January 7th 2011:Dawn
Sunday January 9th 2011:Secrets
Monday January 10th 2011:Restless
Sunday January 16th 2011:Taking chances
Monday January 17th 2011:S'mores
Tuesday January 18th 2011:Start of term
Friday January 21st 2011:"In my dreams, I'm calling your name" (Lyrics from "You are my love" by Yuki Kajiura)
Saturday January 22nd 2011:Power Hungry
Thursday January 27th 2011:Out of touch
Monday January 31st 2011:Kingdom
Sunday February 6th 2011:Against all odds
Saturday February 12th 2011:"It was an accident"
Monday February 14th 2011:Day dreamer
Wednesday February 23rd 2011:From dawn to dusk
Friday February 25th 2011: Isolation
Saturday February 26th 2011: Anticipation (extra credit: "Nothing you say can fix this now.")
Monday February 28th 2011: Headache (Extra credit: "You will take the potion and you will like it!")
Tuesday March 1st 2011: Supernatural
Friday March 4th 2011: Dangerous games
Monday 7th March 2011: Acceptance
Thursday 17th March 2011: Luck
Saturday 19th March 2011: Fearless
Friday 25th March 2011: Superficial
Monday 28th March 2011: Confessions
Tuesday 29th March 2011: Destruction
Wednesday 30th March 2011: Invisible
Thursday 31st March 2011: Simplicity
Friday 1st April 2011: Tranquility
Sunday 3rd April 2011: "I love you, mum" (In honour of U.K.'s Mother's Day which is today.)
Monday 4th April 2011: The Most Dangerous Game
Wednesday 6th April 2011: Thunderstorms
Tuesday 12th April 2011: Recovery
Wednesday 13th April 2011: Bad dreams
Friday 15th April 2011: What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. (Taken from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespears)
Sunday 17th April 2011: "Because I said so, that's why!"
Monday 18th April 2011: Night Melody ( The title is based off the song by the artist Origa - http:// www. youtube.com / watch?v = TnZrWWUFl8I take out the spaces)
Wednesday 20th April 2011: Pranks
Friday 22nd 2011: Birthday Cake
Sunday 24th April 2011: Dreams
Friday 29th April 2011: Countdown
Saturday 30th April 2011: Broken dreams
Homework to read:
Cupboard- After the war Petunia comes across Harry. Hurt/Comfort-Family rated K+
Fridays With Severus- Hermione/Severus, Hurt/Comfort -Romance rated T
Unexpected Encounters- Harry and Dudley, set after the war. Drama rated K+. Contains 6 chapters
Kreacher's Epilogue - Kreacher and Harry. K - Drama
Unexpected- Severus/Harry (None slash), K+ Family/ Humor 5 chapters.
Freaks- Dudley/Luna K+ Romance
Lilo and Stitch - K - Family/Humor - Hugo W. & Lily Luna P.
A Shift In Time - K+ - Humor - Regulus B. & Harry P (Multi chapter, ongoing)
Picture Perfect - T - Romance/Humor - Hermione G. & Severus S.
Tell Me A Story - K+ - Humor/Family - Rose W.
The last stand - K+ - Spiritual/Tragedy - Albus D.
Accidentally In Love - K+ - Humor/Romance - Draco M. & Hermione G.
Don't Just Let it Be - K+ - Romance - Gregory G. & Luna L.
Joyful Tidings, Unwelcome News - T - Romance/Drama - Draco M. & Hermione G.
A Spot Of Quidditch - K+ - Humor/Romance - Cormac M. & Cho C.
Toilet Training - K - Harry P. & James P.
Lucius and the Shrink - K+ - Humor - Lucius M.
Solace - T - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Hermione G. & Severus S.
A Decade and a Half Ago - K+ - Friendship/Family - Harry P. & Dudley D
Letters - T- Family - Harry P. & Petunia D.
Arms of A Dark Angel - K+Hurt/Comfort - Harry P. & Severus S. (None slash) 47 chapters
Portrait Palaver - K+ Family - Severus S. & Albus S. P.(None slash)
Emerald Eyes - T - Angst - Harry P. & Severus S. (None Slash) 32 chapters
Tea with Hagrid - K+ - Drama/Angst - Severus S. & Rubeus H.
Albus' 150th Birthday - K - Humor - Albus D. & Severus S
Blind Date - K+ - Romance/Humor - Draco M. & Hermione G.
Frustration - K+ -Drama/Angst - Minerva M. & Severus S.
The Same as a Duck - K - Humor - Luna L. & Severus S.
A Wish Granted - K- Humor/Family - Severus S. & Harry P
A Moment in Time- T - Romance/Drama - Harry P. & Ginny W.
Harry Potter's Second Chance- K+ - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Severus S. & Harry P
Lioness and Viper - K+ - Humor - Minerva M. & Dolores U.
Away in a Manger -K+ - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Harry P. & Severus S. (25 chapters)
Cissarella - K+ - Family/Humor - Lucius M. & Narcissa M.
The Things We Do For Love - K+ - Romance/Humor - Lucius M. & Narcissa M.
Vae Victis - K - Family - Draco M. & Andromeda T.
A Birthday Surprise - K - Romance - Narcissa M. & Lucius M.
Daybreak - K+ - Romance - Andromeda T. & Ted T.
Living Legacy - T - Romance - Severus S. & Hermione G (Ten chapters)
Behind the Ticklish Pear - K+ - Humor/Romance - Hermione G. & Draco M.
A Christmas Guardian I: Watcher in the Shadows - K - Angst/Friendship - Harry P. & Ron W.
A Christmas Guardian II - K+ - Hurt/Comfort - Harry P. & Severus S.
Healing - K+ - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Severus S. & Poppy P.
Broken - K+ - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Severus S. & Poppy P.
Song for a Raggy Boy - K - Romance - Neville L. & Ginny W.
Fall of An Empire - K+ - Angst/Tragedy - Tom R. Jr. & Bellatrix L.
Angel -T - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Severus S. & Hermione G.
Adopted - K - Family/Humor - Harry P. & Severus S. (None slash)
Black Moves First - K+ - Humor - Bellatrix L. & Voldemort
Bed Crawler - K - Hugo W. & Molly W.
Brother, Sister, Let Me Serve You - T - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Harry P. & Hermione G.
How I Asked Your Mother - K+ - Romance/Humor - Severus S. & Hermione G.
Watch Your Character - K+ - Tom R. Jr.
The Sorting Hat and the Bird Flu - K - Humor/Adventure - Sorting Hat & Harry P.
Hedwig's Last Gift - K+ - Friendship - Harry P. & Hedwig
Other is Silver, Other is Gold - K+ - Friendship/Angst - Hedwig & Harry P.
Your Deepest Desire - T - Humor/Romance - Mirror of Erised & Sirius B.
Fulfilling Dreams - K+ - Angst/Family - Albus D. & Mirror of Erised
Blaising Colours - K - Family/Drama - Blaise Z. & Mrs. Zabini
Opportunities - K - Remus L. & Albus D.
Finally, His Mother - T- Family - Molly W. & Harry P.
Big News - K - Ginny W. & Harry P.
As Good As - K - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Harry P. & Molly W.
End of the Day -K+ - English - Drama - Narcissa M. & Bellatrix L.
Unforgettable - K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Hermione G. & Draco M.
Snow Angels - T - English - Romance - Harry P. & Pansy P.
Opposite Day - K+ - Romance/Humor - Hermione G. & Severus S.
Lovely Curses, Damned Lies - K+ - Romance/Drama - Regulus B. & Mrs. Zabini
A Matter of Merit - K - Romance/Humor - Godric G. & Helga H.
The Importance Of Dandelions - K - Romance - Helga H. & Salazar S.
A Black Christmas - K+ - Humor - Horace S. & Narcissa M.
Battles with Basilisks - T - Adventure/Humor - Gilderoy L. & Harry P.
Looking Glass Blues - K - Remus L.
A Letter - T - Romance - Hermione G. & Severus S
Vigil - K - Hurt/Comfort - Albus D. & Harry P.
Some Secrets Aren't Meant To Last Forever - T - Romance/Humor - Hermione G. & Draco M.
Love Lessons - K+ - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Lily Evans P. & James P.
Friendship - K+ - Drama/Friendship - Helga H. & Salazar S.
Lost Memories - K+ - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Hermione G.
Learning What Happened: The Fate of a Black - K+ - Family - Narcissa M. & Andromeda T.
Dust to Dust - K+ - Friendship - Hermione G. & Abraxas M.
The Fat Lady - K+ - Romance/Tragedy - Godric G. & The Fat Lady
Sisters - K+ - Family - Narcissa M & Andromeda T.
Let Me Break The Ice - K+ - Friendship - Albus S.P. & Scorpius M.
A Different Kind of Dursley - T - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Petunia D. & Vernon D.
Better Than Squashing the Magic Out of Him - K - Family - Petunia D. & Vernon D.
In all but Blood - K+ - Humor/Friendship - Sirius B.
By the Tips of My Fingers - K+ - Angst - Molly W.
The Couch AKA The art of knocking out a Malfoy - K+ - Romance/Humor - Draco M. & Hermione G.
Never Let Go - T - Horror/Tragedy - Frank L. & Alice L.
Platform Worries - K - Family/Friendship - Scorpius M. & Draco M.
Nobody - K - Angst - Hermione G. & Pansy P. (None slash)
The Sorting - K - Friendship - Albus S. P.
Picture Perfect - T - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Draco M. & Luna L.
Myopia - K+ - Mystery - Harry P. & Dudley D.11/8/2010 . Edited 5/1/2011 #1
Yayayayayayay new common room :) Look, it's all SHINY and new :)
*trembles at stern look from Professsor Monse*11/8/2010 #2
|Noah is Potato
*Walks lazily in, glances at professor Monse 'stern glare', shrugs, and sits in a chair*
Hello my friends. Anyone here before I have to leave for school?11/9/2010 #3
|Slytherin Head
Good day everyone. If you are interested I just posted the prompt of the day in its respective thread. But just to keep us on our feet I'm going to post a prompt for us here.
Prompt for Tuesday 9th 2010: Hot chocolate
Also, Professor Kara did mention this in another thread but I'll do the same here. The monthly challenge is still running so please don't forget that the deadline is near. If you need any help,motivation I'm here to help.11/9/2010 #4
Woo! I can finally go to sleep in a bed. Those tables in the Great Hall aren't very comfortable. And it was so very cold.11/9/2010 #5
|Slytherin Head
Yes, we asked the house-elves to put in extra comfy beds. I imagine sleeping in the Great Hall wasn't so comfy, especially when the ghost drop by.11/9/2010 #6
Hot chocolate? Hmm interesting :) Will it count as homework? *hopeful look* :) ooooh seeing as I know nobody who's posted here i guess I should introduce myself to y'all :) I'm Sophie but everybody calls me Soph.... I ship Lily Luna Potter and Teddy Lupin... I also like to think that Lily is Slytherin :)11/9/2010 #7
Same with me. I'm Kenesu you can call me Ken if you wish (no barbie jokes please). I ship Harry/any female except Ginny unless it's really well written. Oh and I prefer Dark Harry fics.11/9/2010 #8
I had sooo many barbie dolls when I was younger!! Only one ken though - and his head fell off :p
Now I just have those creepy china doll things instead xD11/9/2010 #9
I just had a mean idea. One of my friends is afraid of the ventriloquist dummys, and her significant other is afraid of clowns. I want to put a clown dummy in their room on their bed just staring at the door.11/9/2010 #10
|Slytherin Head
I hate walking in on odd conversations. ^_^;
I had a question about the prompt? Yes, it will be considered homework but we are not doing points at this time.11/9/2010 #11
Coolies, thanks. I'll finish off writing it then :) post link here yes? and in McGonagalls office?
Eurgh ventr-whatsits dummies - they creeeep me out! Almost as much as gothic bride dolls! I have one of those actually :) She's called Narcissa :p
We made double digits on the posts count :)11/9/2010 #12
Bah, don't worry. I'll walk into a conversation and say something weird then just walk away. All with a straight face on.
Hope you don't mind me not doing homework. Never did like it.11/9/2010 #13
|Slytherin Head
Kenesus- Well, there is no way I can send you a Howler or Owl your mum so as long as no trouble reaches my ears, I'm all good.
Homework at this time can be posted in the Gringotts thread till we get points sorted out.11/9/2010 #14
Gringotts thread? Okay :)
Is there anywhere on the forum I can advertise for a beta? I reeeaaaally need one!11/9/2010 #15
|Slytherin Head
We don't have a place here at HO, but I just talked to the other MODS and we are working on maybe getting one. Till then if you would like I could look at it for you.11/9/2010 #16
Ooooh yes please? :) Shall I docx it to you?
It kind of started out as the Hot Chocolate prompt response, but it deviated from the subject so completely I think I'll have to write another one for the prompt :p11/9/2010 #17
|Slytherin Head
Hahaha that's okay. I just opened up a connection so send it to me via DocX please.11/9/2010 #18
Ok, I sent it :)
The pairing is Lily Luna/Teddy Lupin - I don't think that that's quite clear from the story :p
Thanks!11/9/2010 #19
|Slytherin Head
I got your story I should have it back to you by the end of the day.11/9/2010 #20
|Slytherin Head
HeartofPaperBloodofInk- I'm done beta-ing and I'm sending it back. Great story!11/9/2010 #21
|Slytherin Head
Another day, another prompt. Destiny
Hello children, just to let you know that we have five days left till the due date for the Monthly Challenge if you're taking part in it.
We also now have a new thread called the "Hospital Wing" where you may go and ask for a beta to help you with your stories. Please feel free to use it when ever you need help.
Are any of you doing NaNo this year?11/10/2010 #22
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Hello everyone!
Slytherin Head - I'm doing NaNo for the first time this year, but I'm horrible at it D: I'm only 12,000-ish words in. I need to get to 20,000 by the end of the week or I'm toast.11/10/2010 #23
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I ship Lily Luna Potter and Teddy Lupin... I also like to think that Lily is Slytherin :)
You, my friend, are amazing. Just so you know. TeddyLily is win. And Lily's obviously a Slytherin. She's too awesome to be in any other house :D11/10/2010 #24
|Slytherin Head
tardisandafirebolt- Welcome to the Snake Pit.
I'm doing NaNo for the first time this year too and it's kicking my butt. The original idea I has in the beginning died on the first day.lol It couldn't take the pressure. I'm only at 1,054 words right now but I'm hoping to get caught up by the end of the weekend.
It's weird, I don't actually know a lot about the Next Generation. I know who the kids are but I don't really ship any of them. XD11/10/2010 #25
|nNOPE NO PE NOE P EPN OPE
NaNo's a lot harder than I though it would be. But I'm trying to keep it going, because I'd be too angry at myself if I didn't get to 50,000 words :P
I love the Next Gen! :) It's much more fun because there's not a lot known about them. It's like having your own OCs that are techincally canon. And there aren't any canon ships in the Next Gen (except for maybe TeddyVictoire, but that's just so boring ;D) so in the fandom everybody sort of creates their own version of the same characters and their own ships. It's really interesting to see what everyone comes up with :)11/10/2010 #26
She's too awesome to be in any other house :D
Agreed! I love the TeddyLily ship so much, but recenltly all my T/L fics have been getting a bit angsty :/
Slytherin Head - Thanks :) I edited it and posted.11/10/2010 #27
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I love angsty TeddyLily. That's the best kind :) I also love unrequieted TeddyLily, especially when it's Teddy pining after her. Or when they're with other people but in love with each other...I just love the drama that's possible for them :D
I've only posted one TeddyLily right now, but I'm working on another ~11/10/2010 #28
|Slytherin Head
Hahaha I think you guys are starting to get me hooked on the Next Gen. because I have a huge urge to go read some stories right now!11/10/2010 #29
|nNOPE NO PE NOE P EPN OPE
I have a huge urge to go read some stories right now!
Joiiiiin us, Slytherin Head! :D The Next Gen is extremely addicting.11/10/2010 #30
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Home › Forums › Store-specific forums › Others › Great article on Aldi: Remodeling most of it's stores, 25% more stores coming!!!
This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by SSMark1 9 months ago.
February 14, 2017 at 9:54 am #71451
Let's face it, the deals aren't as they were these last few years.
Same coupons cycle every few weeks.
Many people are switching to Aldi.
Whole Foods see it, & although I haven't visited a 365 Whole Foods, it sounded like a place I'd check out.
Aldi's competitor Lidl is opening stores on the East coast as well.
My cousin worked for the Aldi corporate office for many years in Geneva, IL.
I'd always hear of new stores, & new products added, but not much in changing of the format.
I was happy when they started taking credit cards last year, since I usually don't have a lot of cash on me.
Take a look at the pic in this article, I hope the ones in our area will look this this soon:
-MarkFebruary 15, 2017 at 11:03 am #71461
You are not kidding about couponing not being as much as it use to be. I even have a difficult time just printing them due to upgrades in security and their not recognizing my work computer. We actually have a newer styled Aldi's in Crystal Lake (they decided to move from an older store and build new) and it is a big difference indeed. Much more room for fresh produce and room to move around.
When I met my husband in 1993, he introduced me to Aldi shopping. He was able to live on $25 a week shopping there eating Buddig type of lunchmeat and Oncor type frozen dinners, instant potatoes and frozen veggies. It would be more like $50 now a days. I have since supplemented my couponing purchases from Jewel and Woodmans by going to Aldi so i don't have to be convinced on perks of shopping there. I am very impressed with the selection of products over the past five years. I use to even get christmas shopping done there when the kids were little as many household and toy specials are 1/3 the price of anywhere else.
What I found interesting in the article you reference is there are still items at Walmart that are less expensive than at Aldi's. About six-months ago I went to Walmart (Crystal Lake, IL) and did a price comparison from my most recent purchases and found Walmart to be very high in pricing, even with coupons. My mom and sister shop there often and even had their most recent Walmart receipt to check again Jewel and Woodman's as we do buy different food items. Still Walmart was much higher in pricing food.
I do shop Walmart for many nonfood items but I guess people don't mind paying more for the food out of shear convenience.February 20, 2017 at 2:57 pm #71563
I ONLY cherry pick deals at our Walmarts.
To me that means FREE or next to FREE. (Coupons, rebate apps like Ibotta, Co51, etc.)
I NORMALLY do NOT shop at Chicago area Walmarts (as well as most other Walmarts in metropolitan areas).
I DO shop at Walmarts in more rural areas since they are cheaper than small town grocery stores.
Recently, I did go to a HUGE Walmart Supercenter in North Lauderdale, Florida (on McNab Rd) that I liked, but most in South Florida are HORRIBLE! Groceries in South Florida are much more money than in the Chicago area. EXAMPLES: The CVSs don't do the 99 cent ECBs milk deal, this month, it's about $2.69 a gallon! Bananas are 69 cents a pound at most grocery stores. I always use those 2 items as indicators on the general pricing of fresh items. Meat is over priced as well vs. our area.
Same thing this month in Las Vegas… VERY HIGH PRICES!
Be glad Chicago is one of the BEST areas for groceries.
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Unanswered: Access Query: Need to return a month name instead of number in the query results
Here's part of my code for my Access query:
SELECT [Enter Month 1 - 12] AS ["Month"], Sum(IIf([ProductName] Like 'FHA30*',1,0)) AS ["FHA 30"]
FROM Calculations2
WHERE (((Month([LockDate]))=[enter month 1 - 12]));
It works fine, but I'm wanting it to return the name of the month in the first column instead of the number that the user inputs. I have another table that simply has a column with the month number and a column with the month name so I thought I might be able to have a second select statment with somewhere with in the SELECT [Enter Month 1 - 12] AS ["Month"], part, but I don't know how to do that. I'm real slow when it comes to coding so any help is appreciated.
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I did something similar but it was to return the day name, this might be of some help:
v_date VARCHAR2 (15);
SELECT TO_CHAR(sysdate, 'day')
INTO v_date
FROM dual;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The Day Today Is: '|| v_date);
11-20-03, 14:48 #3Registered User
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If I understand your code, that will return the system date. In my query, the user inputs what month they want the query to run on by inputting the month number, like 1 for January. Right now, my first SELECT statement returns whatever number they input in the first column just so when it returns the query you can use that if you put the qurey results in excel or something. I just want it to convert that number into the name January. I hope I'm explaining it correctly.


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Review for South Seneca Car Care
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Eric said the business did a good job. They were nice and did the work on time. They did what he asked them to do.
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Discussion in 'GSSF' started by DannyR, Jun 11, 2012.
Congrats to all.
Congratulations to all. Some really great scores posted. Thanks GSSF for providing the opportunity for us to have fun.
50 dollar random for me. its hard out here a master! haha.
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You brought it on yourself. You made Master something like 32 seconds after your first GSSF shot. Shoulda' sandbagged!
That's funny! Yeah, DA, some of us actually had to work to make master! Didn't you win like three guns and a couple random ones in one match! Just kidding, I know you worked at it, at least a little.
Looks like I won a $50 random prize AND a random pistol!!!! Also, along with Grady Whitelaw and Adam Birkhimer, got a win for Carver Custom. I also won my first USPSA match this month in the open division. Is it possible to have a better month than that? LOL
I was thrilled when I realized I had won a gun. Thanks to the GSSF for all the prizes and for putting on yet another great match!!! Cant wait for the next one!!!
I have thought about doing this for a while but now that I won the random gun I am sure, I'm getting another Gen 4 G34. The one I have now is set up for production division USPSA, its got a .115 wide FO front sight from Dawson Precision and a Warren fixed black rear, nice setup for USPSA but for GSSF, where accuracy is king, I believe I am going to go with a .125 wide all black front and a Dawson Precision adjustable rear. My thinking is the all black sights might help me to slow down and shoot more accurately as opposed to shooting with the dot at USPSA like speeds. Opinions?
Regardless of all that with two performance wins and two random GSSF prizes I am one happy shooter right now!!!! THANKS GSSF!!!!!!!
Well, you know what opinions are like...
Personally, I have never looked at either sight combination you describe, but for me... I like the FO sights in general. Anyway, seems strange to select sights based on them being slower to acquire, thereby giving you more accuracy because it's taking you longer to acquire. I would (and I do) shoot the sight that works best for me with quick acquisition. You should work on 'you' slowing down to 'your' speed. Sounds like you are adjusting the gun to force a slowdown.
Yeah, yeah yeah, I think i might actually try and practice this month before Indy, and try a little bit of goal setting. I want to shoot a Mid 40's run in Mstock or competition. I also see that i need to shoot my g26 more. Having not shot it any since Lexington last year, definitely showed in my times at Dayton.
Congrats to all the winners, I know we had some local ppl and range staff win performance and random pistols.
Found 2 random $50 checks in the mailbox today from the Dayton match.
Random Pistol certificate from Dayton match came Saturday.
Thats EXACTLY why I was asking about this on the other thread. I'm not sure its a good idea because its a change in equipment that I am making in an attempt to change something that is more about self discipline than equipment. I have been going back and forth on this all day, I think I will start with the .125 wide FO front instead and attempt to slow my pace by controlling myself rather than by changing equipment. The more I think about it the more it sounds like that "I shoot 40's better" kick I was on last year. And anyone who saw my scores from Lexington last summer knows how that turned out.
All that aside have I mentioned how happy I am with winning the gun and cash?!?!?!? GSSF rules!!!
Whether it be red dot, fiber optic, tritium, or black front sight , shoot when you see it.
See it, shoot it.
Eta: congrats on the gun.
If you are getting speeding tickets, would you change tires to slow down? Remember, you are in control of the trigger. The sights have no control over the trigger. You shoot too fast. Slow down. No caffeine before a match.
i got to tell everyone i had a great time, all in all a fantastic experience..... Thanks to all friends I met (old and new).
Thanks to Glock, the range team, and thank you again David - I really appreciate your help.
BTW - I got $75 for being the highest ranking GBM4 brain cancer competitor - I'm digging that
That's my issue in a nutshell, I shoot to fast and no equipment is going to change it. I will work on it next time, skill wins matches not equipment. I just got my shooting glasses so half my issues are solved, now I am going to work on my control. Thanks Danny, you always give great advice my friend.
Thanks, I believe thats the first time anyone has ever told me congrats on anything on this forum LOL Thanks again, now lets hope I shoot it with some control next time instead of worrying about going to slow.
Thank You Glock...Guardian Senior for $75, random for $50 and my oldest son a random for $50 meaning a 2 year membership renewal. Really enjoyed Dayton it was our first ever outdoor GSSF 2011. See you guys next year...now ready for indy at end of month.


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Whenever someone asks me what I do, I never know what to say.
You see, I lived my life for 20 something years knowing who I am and what I wanted to do.
That is, at least I thought I did.
For as long as I can remember, I've been a performer. I grew up in the world of ballet and dressing up in pretty costumes and pink ballet shoes was the most magical thing for a 8 year old. When I started middle school, my pink tutus turned in to petticoats and character heels. Something just felt so right about musicals; combining my love of music, dance, and acting became the perfect trifecta. Ask anyone who knew me growing up, they'll say I was always performing. It was a part of my DNA, the essence of my being.
It came to no surprise that I continued this passion throughout high school. I'll never forget the day I got cast as the leading role in my freshman musical. I had braces, awkward eyebrows, and couldn't quite master the art of social contact. But none of that mattered.
Everything just felt so…right.
I thought I was going to shit my pants on opening night. Sure, rehearsals were fine, but when you're thrown out in front of a live audience, the adrenaline is so consuming. There's nothing quite like it.
By the time college rolled around, there was no second option. I had to pursue theatre. I just had to. I mean, what else was there to do? I ended up traveling to the middle of nowhere in Illinois to be a part of a BFA Acting program. At this point in my life, I felt like things were heading in the right direction.
Boy, was I wrong
The start of my sophomore year there, something didn't feel right. I couldn't quite pin point the reason, but I knew I had to get out of there. I packed my bags and left without looking back.
There I was, back in my old room. Pictures from high school and the glory days filled my wall. Memories of being a big fish in a small pond felt like light years ago and the awkward, skinny girl in those photos were barely recognizable to me.
I spent the next ten months of my life feeling empty and without purpose. I worked at a restaurant, tore my ACL, became depressed, took a lot of medication, and tried as much as I could to feel…something. Anything at this point.
By October, I thought I'd give theatre another try and flew two thousand miles across the country to New York City. Surely if I wanted to make it, this was the place. I attended a conservatory and for the next year and a half, I did nothing but eat, sleep, and breathe musical theatre. It wasn't easy, and I nearly quit several times, but seventeen months later, I was out in the real world. Within weeks of finishing the conservatory, I landed the job of a lifetime. Little did I know that job would change my life forever.
I was hired to work at a Broadway show and attend to audience members' every need. I didn't care, I was on Broadway.
Well, sort of.
This was it. This was where I needed to be.
I watched rehearsals, heard all the gossip, partied alongside A-list celebrities. The entire run was a blur, and I drank a lot. Within that short time, I met some of the most incredibly talented performers, had my heart broken what felt like a hundred times, and learned about the business I had intended to pursue.
I grew close to one of the actors in the show and got to see first hand how difficult the business was. He inspired me and showed me that there was more to life than performing.
There was a real world out there and I needed to explore.
He inspired me to see the world. Within a year, I traveled to three different countries, volunteering my time and exploring new cultures. I saw beyond the stage lights and experienced thrills I'd never felt. The adrenaline kicked in, and I savored every sweet moment.
Riding Elephants in Thailand,
climbing Lion's Head in South Africa,
walking on glaciers in Iceland.
I felt like a new person, like I had been awakened for the first time.
Not only was I inspired to see the world, but I aspired to better myself academically. I enrolled back in college, determined to finish what I started and get my degree.
So I did.
I put my memories of pink tights and tap shoes away in a box, and replaced theatre posters with maps of the world and trinkets from my adventures. It just didn't feel right to keep pursuing theatre. I'd lost that passion and joy. Looking at those photos from high school, I didn't recognize that awkward girl, but I admired her for following her passion.
I didn't know where my journey will lead, but here I stand, ready to graduate.
It's a strange feeling, you know, not knowing what lies ahead. All my life I've been determined to do one thing, and now I'm about to be thrown in to the big wide world with limitless possibilities and no idea what I'll achieve.
But that's what is so great about life, you can start over at any minute.
I have no regrets about walking away from my first love, it allowed me to become the woman I am today: strong, independent, and fierce on the dance floor.
So go ahead, take me world.
Take me on this crazy journey, and let's see where I end up. I'm starting my life over and I couldn't be more excited.


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Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism.
The burrito chain has long pushed sustainable food in its 1,400 restaurants. Now Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is broadening its message by selling organic cotton hoodies, hosting festivals selling locavore fare and backing a dark comedy video series centered on an evil PR guy hired to defend industrial farming.
The chain managed meteoric growth for years by largely letting its menu speak for itself. Now rivals such as Yum! Brands' Taco Bell chain are encroaching. Chipotle's revenue growth was projected to slow to 20 percent in 2012 and 15 percent this year, compared with 24 percent in 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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So Chipotle is creating a lifestyle brand to appeal to consumers who believe in sustainability - an unusual move for a restaurant chain.
"It's new territory for a restaurant brand," said Bill Chidley, senior vice president at consultant Interbrand Design Forum in Dayton, Ohio. "It's ambitious, but I don't think it's implausible that they could become a lifestyle brand."
The new push comes at a time of growing skepticism about Chipotle's future. Of the 30 analysts who follow Chipotle, 73 percent rate the company hold or sell, up from about 52 percent in March, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Numbers bad news
Chipotle lost 12 percent last year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 Restaurants Index slumped 2.6 percent.
Chipotle, which was spun off from McDonald's Corp. in 2006, also is trading at a lower premium relative to its peers. During the past three years, the company traded at an average 60 percent premium to Starbucks Corp. on a price-to-earnings basis. Now the premium has slid to 19 percent.
The company's expansion rate also is decelerating.
While other restaurants, including McDonald's and DineEquity's Applebee's, are offering serving healthier menu items and responsibly sourced ingredients, Chipotle is trying to create a brand that consumers want to be identified with.
The idea for the organic line of clothing started more than three years ago when Chief Marketing Officer Mark Crumpacker realized that employees' uniforms needed a revamp.
Tim Wildin, Chipotle's concept development director, put him in touch with fashion designers at Loomstate, a New York clothing maker that uses organic cotton and shared the chain's vision for sustainably sourced materials.
The new uniforms were introduced to stores in 2011, and last year a consumer line with U.S.-made hoodies, T-shirts and canvas totes began selling on Chipotle's website, including a black, zip-up hoodie, made with pesticide and chemical-free cotton, for $65.
Accessories possible
What's next for Loomstate and Chipotle? Kitchen accessories - reclaimed-wood cutting boards, spoons and bowls - are a possibility, Hahn said. And there's the potential to sell Chipotle T-shirts and hoodies in retail stores such as Target, Crumpacker said.
Another Chipotle endeavor: its Cultivate festivals, where the restaurant brings in bands, craft-beer brewers and celebrity chefs. The one-day events, where Chipotle food and other organic snacks are for sale, give customers the chance to learn about local and sustainable farming. Last year in Chicago, Chipotle featured G. Love & Special Sauce and chef Paul Kahan, while also showing short films about food sustainability.
Meanwhile, Chipotle's comedy series, "Farmed and Dangerous," which comes out later this year, stars Ray Wise, the "Twin Peaks" and "RoboCop" actor. The show is about a group of people whose job it is to put a positive spin on the most negative aspects of industrial farming.
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BEFORE THE LAW emerges from a Legal Studies tradition which brought law back into the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. Law and Society, a related academic movement, brings social science approaches to law and consequently incorporates social considerations, like racialized practices in administering the death penalty. For Law and Society work, the methods and pretensions of social science partially distinguish its approach from that of the professionals. Legal Studies relies on the undergraduate environment and a reaction against teaching legal doctrine to distinguish itself from professional legal education. BEFORE THE LAW tries to treat law as it might have been treated before it was professionalized and snatched from the liberal arts. This appears easier than it turns out to be. BEFORE THE LAW allows us to see why it is so hard to separate law from the profession. In this capacity, it is a fine text/reader. Now in the fifth edition, this text had its genesis in the late 1960s. The first edition was published in 1974. I have great respect for work that goes into multiple editions. This collection is packed and it has benefited from continuous revision. It contains more than enough material for a semester "legal studies" course. I would probably use it myself but for my training in the institutional dimensions of process which has resulted in a predisposition to teach things like the hierarchies of courts in the federal system and the difference between criminal and civil law. The institutional basics are not a focus of this book. Luckily I have never faced this adoption issue because I share a campus with its authors who teach large and successful classes using the text. The distinctive framework of BEFORE THE LAW is of the greatest interest to me because it allows me to raise a few questions about ways Americans see law. The authors, like so many in power today, have moved from the 60s into middle age. Yet, unlike others (the President, the Speaker of the House) they have not quite become respectable. The authors have constructed the book as outsiders. The book teaches that law is mysterious, complicated and difficult to penetrate, in short, that it is run by others. I think their view is a remarkably common one in law schools, especially very good law schools, where methods from outside the law, from interpretation to economics, have been incorporated. The authors consider this obfuscation problematic and from its signature parable to the critical voice throughout, the point is brought home. I think that the message in BEFORE THE LAW, as well as in professional practice, may be making the critical framework more acceptable than it once was. The new edition looks a lot like its predecessor. In muted tones, the cover carries a portrait from the COURTHOUSES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the handsome collection of photo essays on the Page 48 follows: Massachusetts courts by Keller and Peet. BEFORE THE LAW is divided into six key parts (Theory and Practice, Police, Legal Profession and Legal System, Juries and Community Participation, Conflict Resolution, and Legal Theory) with 3-8 chapters in each part. Each chapter contains 3-5 readings. There is minimal writing by the authors. Mostly, this writing is confined to short introductory paragraphs, more extensive notes, questions and comments at the end. This material is of very high quality and here Legal Studies draws from its big brother in the law schools to employ illuminating cases and wrap them in provocative questions. For instance, following the Foreword begins, "Before the law stands a doorkeeper on guard. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country...." The notes discuss the parable as "an old and odd form of education" (xix) traceable to the old testaments of most religions. (Here in the notes, the refinements that this book has received over the years is evident.) This reviewer is drawn to speculate on the relationship between the title of the book, which comes from this passage in Franz Kafka's THE TRIAL and the handsome architecture of the 19th century courtroom on the cover because the relationship between the two defines the framework of the book. Kafka presented the law as something difficult to know because authorities wanted it to be that way. Kafka's man from the country has little luck gaining admittance to the law even though he thinks that the Law "...should be accessible to every man and at all times" (xviii). The reader is positioned outside like "the man from the country". Yet, as the cover suggests, the vernacular American courtroom is something we visit quite often, at least culturally if not in person. The contradiction is important. This image of citizen or student outsider is not my image of the law. When I first learned of this "continental" view in the 1960s it reflected the alienation of my generation. Although I didn't know enough to understand its implications, I accepted it at the time. Foreignness as an expression of alienation had more appeal then. Now, I think this perspective is off the mark and that the more accurate picture in America is of access and vernacular legal penetration that gives law its power. Although getting to the trial is still pretty foreign, most of us are participants in the law and now know many of its mysteries. With Christine Harrington I have argued that in its ordinariness and in its penetration into the fabric of our lives, the law exercises greater control than the continental law of Kafka's oppressive doorways. I feel free to indulge my concern about the frame because the text provides the material for this kind of analysis. We see the law in this book not in its formal, black letter manifestations, but in the fascination with its ambiguity. With these materials we can investigate its power. At one level, the book is full of material that attests to our capacity to know the law. We are invited to learn how lawyers reason and how judges think. We are introduced to law in much the same way that lawyers are introduced to it. This is a Legal Realist text in the modern manifestation that movement has taken. I believe the point of the book, though it is not explicitly stated, is a grudging respect for law's institutions and practices which is manifested in the readiness to enter the fray, to ask lots of questions. This stuff reflects the diverse Page 49 follows: authors' and in this respect the book benefits greatly from the many scholars who came together in its creation. The book contains many of the classic readings in the legal studies tradition (Llewellyn from THE BRAMBLE BUSH, Orwell on Shooting an Elephant, de Tocqueville on the legal profession, Jerome Frank on fights and truth, Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Birmingham jail, and Robert Cover on Violence) and some cases that have been widely used to elaborate this tradition (FURMAN, EEOC V. SEARS ROEBUCK, NOW V. OPERATION RESCUE). But the book is more than simply a collection of the classics. There are a number of selections here not adequately covered in conventional legal studies readers, including excellent material on legislation and administrative lawmaking, tax and other commercial questions as well as useful selections by Duncan Kennedy, Patricia Williams, Marc Galanter and V.I. Lenin. In the language of the recent past, the book has a voice. It is a progressive collection. The writers help us see that law is not equally accessible to everyone; that law serves entrenched power quite effectively; and that people as jurors are an important democratic element of the system. There are sections on feminism and conflict resolution. There is extensive treatment of the jury and special sections on the relationship between "law, status, wealth and power." The success of the book supports the proposition that this voice rings true to many scholars in the field. The readings, the organization and the editorial material all establish the value of this veteran text. To me its greatest strength is that it is provocative. The authors say that they want it to be but, frankly, when they say this it does not ring true. It's when you begin to work with the materials that their richness emerges. Here is where legal meaning and legal ambiguity come through and here in the names (Faludi, Felstiner, Crenshaw, Turow, Noonan) and the issues (race, sex, abortion, search and seizure, jury nullification, conflict resolution) one feels the vitality of legal studies. Reference: EEOC V. SEARS ROEBUCK 628 F. Sup. 1264 (1986) FURMAN V. GEORGIA 408 U.S. 238 (1972) Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937) Karl N. Llewellyn, THE BRAMBLE BUSH (New York: Oceana, 1951) NOW V. OPERATION RESCUE 726 F. Sup. 1483 (1989) George Peet and Gabrielle Keller, COURTHOUSES OF THE COMMONWEALTH (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).


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From there her life began to disintegrate. Divorced by age 20 from a man she never loved, barred from the Mormon temple and threatened with excommunication, she found her depression deepening. Still trying to live up to the church's expectations, she married again, unaware that the resulting mental illness would propel her into a hospital ward of unabashed psychotics. It was there, among the truly unconventional, that she somehow recognized a modern world beckoning to her from beyond the closed patriarchal society that had always sheltered her yet kept her from true maturity.
©1994 Deborah Laake; (P)2009 Phoenix
"A candid, often startling memoir of the author's life as a Mormon wife....an affectingly personal look into the well-guarded citadel of Mormondom." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Short and Entertaining"
The first part of the book covers the authors life dealing with her Mormon beliefs. That part was interesting and insightful into the Mormon beliefs and religion. As the book continues I realized that the author, although likeable, is really troubled beyond her religion. It was an entertaining listen in a soap opera way, but not the sort of book that I would generally read.
"Well-written; not what I expected"
The story of the author is interesting. I felt like the title was a bit misleading. There was not as much about the religion as I expected. This was more of a biography. Performance was very good, I just started to lose interest in the story about halfway through.
"Nonacceptance of dogma"
Beautiful, authentic experience of a woman questioning her circumstances. Inspiration for everyone questioning an authority in their lives.
I wish the narrator had made an effort to pronounce words correctly. Additionally, it appears the author wishes to blame the LDS Church for her own family disfunction. Seriously a father buying condoms and giving washing instructions? I would guess the church was not the contributing factor to her emotional struggles.
"Not what I expected."
this is more a sad life story than the story of the "secret Ceremonies".
"Unique exit story"
Very well written bio from someone escaping an oppressive society/religion. Because this woman's experience happened largely before the LDS (Mormon) church updated many of its more extreme viewpoints and doctrines, it's gives a unique perspective and explanation of the more sexist and patriarchal generation that the current generation of liberal leaning Mormons and non Mormons are battling today.
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