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Patient : Ive ben having a pain in my hips. When I sit down it throbs sometimes if I dont position myself right. When standing, it doesn't hurt until I bend/arch my back forward. It doesn't hurt if I bend with my hips and keep my back straight. The injury started when I was lifting weights. I was doing barbell rows and squats. It was also further enhanced by playing soccer and falling on my butt, the opposite side of the pain. The pain is on the back of the left hip. Higher than the end of the tailbone, at the soft spot in the hips below the pelvis. (sorry if this is confusing, I cant post an image to show). It has lasted for about 2 months now without any physical activity. Using pain relieving oils and lotions makes the pain sharper. I've tried stretches from quads to piriformis to glutius medius. Stretching helped alleviate a certain extent of pain at that time but it didn't help on subsequent attempts. I'm assuming hip tightness was a problem but not the only problem. I've tried icing, it works for the moment but the pain carries on. I've seen the general practitioners at my local polyclinic, they waved it off as nothing serious and gave me pain killers. It didnt work so i went back for an X-ray, they said again that they can't find anything wrong. any idea what is wrong? Should I visit a chiropractor, physiotherapist or maybe a chinese doctor? Do you advise minor exercise(running/swimming)?
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It looks like Selena Gomez and The Weeknd have left their exes – Justin Bieber and Bella Hadid, respectively – behind in 2016.
TMZ has published photos of the young stars at the back entrance of LA restaurant Giorgio Baldi on Tuesday night, and judging from how affectionate they were towards each other, it was more than just a business meeting – Gomez laid plenty of kisses on the Starboy singer's face and mouth, and they wrapped their arms around each other before climbing into a car.
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Selena, who spent three months in rehab last year to manage physical and mental exhaustion, appears to look directly at the paparazzi in some of the shots, indicating they knew they were being photographed, and didn't seem to mind.
Selena and and The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, may have met for the first time when they shared the stage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2015 (pictured above).
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The manager, released after being held hostage for more than a day, said the company and the labour unions have reached a new agreement.PITHIVIERS – A 3M industrial conglomerate manager was released Thursday after being held for more than a day by French workers trying to force their US employer to improve their redundancy package.
Following hours of talks between representatives of labour unions, 3M-Sante and 3M France, the laboratory manager of the company's factory in Pithiviers, 85 kilometres south of Paris, left the office where he had been held since Tuesday afternoon.
There have been several cases of executives being held hostage over the past year by French workers outraged at learning that their jobs were being slashed.
"We have an agreement with 3M to provide funds to respond to our demands," said union representative Jean-Francois Caparros.
The factory, which produces pharmaceutical products, employs 235 people but 110 of these jobs are to be shed this year due to falling orders and another 40 are to be shifted to another plant.
The released boss, Luc Rousselet, said: "The talks will resume and it's a very good thing... this will allow us to emerge from the deadlock.
"I am very happy for the employees of Pithiviers," he said as he emerged amid stray boos of "Rogue boss!"
Maryse Bulte, 44, one of the employees who played an active role in the "bossnapping", said: "Initially we didn't want to hold him. We just sought talks and concrete results."
Added 36-year-old Cyril Foufelle: "It was despair and distress which made us do this."
The unions will press for a special bonus of at least EUR 5,000 for workers who are shifted to another plant and at least two to three years of annual pay for those laid off, according to their seniority.
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Last week angry tyre factory workers burst into a management meeting and pelted their bosses with eggs to protest the closure of their plant.
Worker-employer relations are not particularly good at the best of times in France, but since the economic storm struck they have deteriorated rapidly.
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Moar pics plz! Needed a good laugh.
6th page
EDIT: Is he dead? Internet has driven people to suicide before, as with that girl. No one has heard from this guy since, right?
He has a new account: Doovall
i posted in the 3rd page
You are a great user!
This was only a year ago? It feels like much longer since this fat day walker was banned
LOL, I remember this thread. These two pics made me laugh so hard.
this is why i love the vesti
your all heartless
but ya, i lol'd all the way through this
this is why i love the vesti
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I'm not heartless.
I COMPLETELY missed this...
The strange thing is, since he was permbanned, he still has Insider. This means he is still paying for the services that IGN provides, except not getting them.
i posted in this last year when it started
he made a new name, Doovall or something. I got banned on IGN one day and I was botting posts on VNBoards. The little rodent followed me there and reported me in the contact mods thread and got me permabanned
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Legendary thread is legendary
Way to bring back this LEGENDARY thread
I just read the whole thread
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insider help
all i could post about in this thread a year ago was angles? jesus i fail
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lol true
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dont be so mean to your pops
Epic pwnage
rofl what a ginger.
what a thread
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Sam Waley-Cohen has become the first amateur jockey to win a Grade One National Hunt race since 1981.
Sam Waley-Cohen became the first amateur jockey to win a Grade One National Hunt race since Jim Wilson in 1981 when he rode his father Robert's horse Long Run to victory in the King George V Chase at Kempton on Saturday.
Kauto Star, ridden by AP McCoy, had been expected to break the record with a fifth successive triumph in the race, but Waley-Cohen swept to victory as Long Run outpaced the champion over the final circuit.
Waley-Cohen said that he had no plans to turn professional despite the triumph, preferring instead to concentrate on his dentistry business.
He also confirmed that he would be challenging for the Gold Cup at Cheltenham, though he has no plans to enter either Grand National.
But he is hopeful of another triumph. "The Gold Cup is another race on another day. Hopefully lady luck is smiling on us and then we could have a good chance."
Having produced the race of his life, Long Run will need to retain the superb form he displayed at Kempton if he is to repeat the feat at Cheltenham in March, where his jumping let him down in the Sun Alliance chase last year.
Saturday's victory was owed in large measure to Long Run's improvement in this area, which Waley-Cohen and trainer Nicky Henderson have been working on since his first run of the season in October at Cheltenham, in which he finished third.
It paid off as he produced a faultless display over the Kempton fences.
"He's improved enormously and was very fast and fluid. That made the difference.
"We have been working to make sure that he adapts his style of racing to the UK." Long Run was bred and initially trained in France.
Waley-Cohen timed Long Run's surge to perfection on Saturday, after Nacarat had led for much of the race. "I was comfortable sitting behind, though for a second, I thought he might gallop to the line. Once we turned into the home straight we felt we had his measure."
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City Council needs local support in several ways to save trees
The state bureaucracy grinds on without regard for local concerns. A state court bureaucrat has decreed that the courthouse's irreplaceable cypress trees must come down, and has invoked the "L-word" (liability) in order to trump any arguments against their removal. The state wants to remove them before the upcoming rainy season.
Consulting arborists have been asked, not how to save the trees, but whether they pose a potential danger of falling limbs in their current condition. Few consultants would produce a report that doesn't support what the client wants to hear, and no arborist is going to guarantee that any tree is not subject to damage in our fierce winter storms.
Recognizing the bias of the consultants' reports and the community value of those "heritage trees," our City Council took an important step on Monday night in representing local interests against the state behemoth - by voting 4-0 to instruct staff to ask the state to defer immediate removal of those trees until a plan to save some or all of them could be explored locally.
This was a bold action, since it is likely that local jurisdictions will need to step up to a) the cost of immediate and continuing restorative actions, and b) some potential liability.
Our City Council needs local support in several ways:
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Our local tree service specialists need to weigh in quickly with ideas on how to save as many trees as possible.
Our environmental groups, through their networks, need to pressure the state to take a more imaginative approach to saving the trees.
Our local judges need to use their court system channels to let the bureaucracy know that removal is not the desired outcome.
Individually, we need to contact our state representatives (Mr. Chesbro will be here later this week) to intervene on behalf of saving the trees. Letters to the San Francisco and Sacramento papers also might be useful.
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The objectives of the project: A: GENERAL
to find inside and outside each participating school a group of young people who need help(for example young people with educational or behavioural problems, pupils from poor social background, minorities, immigrants, special educational need students etc.)
both inside outside of school environment to find people or a group of people (pupils, teachers, institution, local authorities, local firms, selfemployed people, the wider educational communities etc.) who can help to young people mentioned above
to involve students with special educational needs
very important part of the project is to find the partners (institutions, local firms, other educational community, association of citizens etc.) not only for this two year project but for a longer period of time and cooperate with these partners also in the futureA FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
analysis of educational systems in participating schools
analysis of process of integration and social inclusion in participating schools
participants will make better contact between schools and other interested parties(local authorities, local firms, association of citizens etc.)
wider cooperation between parties interested in the project that can help and parties interested in the project that need a help
better information about young people who need help
better cooperation among pupils themselves
to provide better information between parents and the public about the problems with the integration of pupils with special educational needs
all the participants will receive wide experience with international project work
we will create at the least one new partnership between those two groups of people, people who need help and people who can helpA FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
1st year of the project
1st year of the project
1st year of the project
WAYS OF SUPPORT - charity concerts, international concert in Ciutadella, food bank, picture project calendar (we can make it and sell it), bazaars, sponzorship, regular care, personal assistance (for people who live alone),tutorial pupils teaching etc.A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
1st year of the project
to inform each other about school, educational system, curriculum, town, country etc.
school work and street work targeting mainly pupils finding all groups of young people that need a help
to collect all information and analyse the situation with groups that need help
taking the pictures (pupils)
recording DVD films (pupils)
school work and street work for mainly pupils to find all groups of young people that can help to groups designated during the first half of the year
to collect all information and analyse the situation with groups that can help(teachers and pupils)A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
2nd year of the project
visiting all interested parties(local authorities, local firms, wider educational institutions etc.) -to find possibilities for closer cooperation between people who need a help and people who can help(teachers and pupils)
attempt to create between schools and partners a long lasting partnership
to put this partnership into school curriculum(teachers, headmasters)A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
Four countries – four partners meetings
Expected results:
October 2008 - July 2010- a project web page (www.komenska.com)
October 2008 - Paralympic games – competitions, pictures, DVD film
February 2009- The school booklets describing all participating schools
February 2009- The school booklets describing all participating towns or places
of living
June 2009 - An analysis of the groups of people who need help
June 2009 - An analysis of the group of people who can help
01-12/2009 - A picture exhibition, a picture competition
01-12/2009 - A video competition
April 2010 - DVD film of real examples
June 2010 - Final project booklet, creation of new partnership
between two project groups, somebody who needs help x somebody who can helpA FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
project will be successful!!!!A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED


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Type of matter
Parties involved
Competition Commission's recommendation to Tribunal
Tribunal decision
Large merger
African Rainbow Capital (Pty) Ltd And Global Asset Management Limited
Approval without conditions
Approval without conditions
Large merger
EOH Mthombo (Pty) Ltd And Mars Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Approval without conditions
Approval without conditions
Large merger
Stellar Capital Partners Limited And Prescient Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Approval without conditions
Approval with conditions
Large merger
Imperial Holdings Limited And Itumele Bus Lines (Pty) Ltd
Approval with conditions
Approval with conditions
Large merger
Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings Limited And Vukile Property Fund Limited in Relation to the Louis Liepoldt Private Hospital Property
Approval without conditions
Approval without conditions
Settlement agreement
Competition Commission And Raite security Services and Consulting CC
Settlement agreement
Agreement confirmed
Settlement agreement
Competition Commission And Todays Destiny Trading and Project 81 CC
Settlement agreement
Agreement confirmed
Merger between African Rainbow Capital and Global Asset Management approved
The Tribunal has approved the merger of financial services company African Rainbow Capital and Global Asset Management, a firm active in the alternative energy business and rental of forklifts.
African Rainbow Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ubunto-Botho Investments (Pty) Ltd, is a diversified financial services investment company active in short-term insurance brokering, mortgage originator and financial services, as well as asset management.
Target firm Global Asset Management is an investment holding company, and is active though its subsidiaries, GAM Industrial, GAM New Energy and GAM Business Solutions, in the investment and management of sustainable growth of alternative energy business, which includes rubber recycling and energy efficiency projects, as well as the leasing of Linde forklift trucks.
ARC intends to acquire 23.6% of the shares of GAM through a subscription of new shares in GAM, 46% of shares in Enviroprotek, an indirect subsidiary of GAM. The majority of the voting rights in the pool relating to GAM in which certain other shareholders are participating and which shareholders together with ARC hold 50.67% of the total shares in GAM.
Merger between EOH Mthombo and Mars Holdings approved
The Tribunal has approved the merger of EOH Mthombo, wholly controlled by JSE-listed EOH Holdings, and Mars Holding, which provides traffic regulation and enforcement. Post-merger EOH Mthombo will control Mars Holdings.
EOH is an investment and management company which provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services.
It is active in the developing business and the provision of IT services which includes: network solutions, hosting services, server support services, desktop support services, telephone services and procurement services.
Mars, wholly owns Syntell (Pty) Ltd, which in turn controls seven firms. Mars provides services and solutions used in traffic regulation and enforcement. It provides an automated online interaction, revenue collection system and prepaid vending system used by municipalities and utilities.
Some aspects of the agreement are still to be finalised, but they are apparently not material to the agreement.
Stellar Capital Partners can merge with target Prescient Holdings
Specialised financial services solution company Stellar Capital will acquire 60% of issued share capital of Prescient Holdings, such that Stellar Capital will control Prescient Holdings, after the Tribunal approved the merger subject to conditions.
The remaining 40% issued share capital will be held by Prescient Ltd management.
Simultaneously, with this transaction is a BEE transaction involving Stellar and Prescient Empowerment Trust (PET), wherein PET will acquire 10.1% of the entire issued shares in Prescient Holdings. This means that depending on the outcome of the BEE transaction, Stellar may only acquire 49.9%.
The parties were seeking approval of both sole and alternatively joint control should the BEE transaction succeed.
Stellar provides financial service solutions to firms in the information, communication, telecommunication and automotive repair industry. It also offers asset management services to institutional investors and corporate advisory services.
Prescient Holdings is a financial services firm that provides investment management, fund services and administration, stockbroking and wealth management, as well as retail and institutional retirement and insurance products.
The target group controls various firms such as Prescient Investment Management, Prescient Fund Services and Prescient Life.
The merger is expected to also lead to the creation of a new Black Economic Empowerment deal involving Prescient Empowerment Trust and the acquisition of shares.
The merging parties are required to inform the Commission no later than 31 January, 2017 of implementation of this second leg of the deal.
Imperial Holdings Limited targets Itumele Bus Line (trading as Interstate)
The Tribunal has approved, with conditions, the merger between Imperial Holdings and Interstate.
Imperial Holdings is active in the provision of consumer and industrial logistics services, as well as motor vehicle retail and vehicle related financial products and services. It provides complete logistics solutions nationally including road freight and transport, managed logistics warehousing and distribution, and supply chain integration.
Imperial Holdings also operates car rental brands Tempest and Europcar in South Africa, as well as Auto Pedigree, the largest pre-owned vehicle dealer network.
Target company, Interstate, is a commuter bus operation in the Free State Province, which operates on routes between Bloemfontein, Botshabelo, Thaba Nchu and outlying areas, as well as Brandtfort and Soutpan. Interstate owns 255 buses and undertakes 32000 trips over a month.
A number of conditions have been added to the merger following negotiations at the hearing – see attachment for the deal regarding restraint of trade and restraint regarding operation in geographical areas.
Imperial said the barriers to entry in the bus sector was low and any employee could leave and start a bus company in the same province or nearby provinces.
Growthpoint Healthcare Property to acquire a hospital property from Vukile Property Fund
Growthpoint Healthcare is to acquire Louis Leipoldt Private Hospital Property from Vukile Property Fund. The merger does not include any licence or any direct investment in the hospital.
Growthpoint controls various firms such as Growth Point Building Managers, ABSEQ Properties, Growthpoint Healthcare Property Management Company.
Growthpoint owns and manages lettable retail, residential, office and hospital properties in Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal, the Eastern Cape and Western Cape. Growthpoint presently owns three hospital properties, two located in Kwa-Zulu Natal and one located in Goodwood, Cape Town.
The target Hospital Property is located in Belville, Cape Town and is owned by property company Vukile.
It was said the merger followed an international trend for hospitals to become operators and tenants, rather than owners of the property on which they were based.
Security firms Raite Security Services and Consulting CC and Today's Destiny Trading admit to cartel activity
The Tribunal confirmed the settlement agreements of Today's Destiny Security Services and Consulting CC and Raite Security Services – both active in the security sector.
Raite and Destiny colluded with regards to a tender issued by company Geoscience. The investigation was initiated by the Commission after it received a complaint by Geoscience. Geoscience had noticed that the respondents priced in exactly the same way, with both companies pricing for three years without asking for price escalation. Their contingency documents were also the same and the companies were sharing resources such as vehicles.
Raite, the larger of the two companies is to pay a settlement of R1,593 820 and Destiny has agreed to pay R50000. Both administrative penalties amount to 2.1% of their annual turnover for the financial year ended February, 2016. The penalties relate to the bid rigging charges.
The Commission said took into consideration that this was a first offence for the companies, their cooperation and the fact that they were both small companies when applying the administrative penalty.
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Mountaintop Removal Mining: The Price of Unchecked Greed
In West Virginia, the natural heritage is being destroyed through mountaintop removal mining. The state of West Virginia is, in some respects, like my home province of New Brunswick. The loss or destruction of these natural characteristics would represent a grave loss to us.


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Families - Poem by Marilyn Lott
I think families are softly woven
Just like a piece of fine linen
Such tight and delicate threads
Many fragile stitches are hidden
Tombstones tell a story
When folks were born and died
Old, worn and weary
But the important dates don't lie
Many come from other countries
It's exciting for us to see
Each one tells a special story
Moss-covered under a tree
Genealogy books are so important
To follow families down the line
Sometimes quotes from family members
And newspaper clippings over time
It takes a lot of work and dedication
To put this information together
But it's so important to pass down
So much there is to capture
So we cherish our extended families
No way better than genealogy books
And pass them down to generations
Stories flow softly like a gentle brook!
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Which of the following best describes Earth's mantle?
a) the densest of Earth's layers
b) the home of all life on Earth
c) the thickest layer of hot rock
d) the thinnest and hottest layer
Tectonic plates make up Earth's
a) lower mantle
b) lithosphere
c) asthenosphere
d) inner core
Why did many scientists reject Wegener's continental drift hypothesis?
a) He could not explain how the continents moved.
b) The geology of continents did not support his hypothesis.
c) Fossil evidence showed that the continents were never joined.
d) The climates of the continents have remained the same.
What evidence from the sea floor shows that tectonic plates move?
a) The sea floor is much older than any of the continents.
b) The sea floor is youngest near a mid-ocean ridge and older farther away.
c) Mid-Ocean ridges circle Eqarth like seams in a baseball
d) The sea floor is thinner than continental crust.
A Mid-Ocean ridge forms where plates
a) move apart
b) push together
c) scrape past each other
d) subduct
Plate motion is caused partly by
a) magnetic reversals
b) convection currents
c) continental drift
d) volcanic hot spots
Which of the following is formed at the collision zone?
a) deep ocean trench
b) volcanic island chain
c) mountain range
d) continental rift valley
What happens when two oceanic plates meet?
a) Both plates sink into the asthenosphere.
b) The colder, denser plate sinks.
c) Both plates fold the rock between them.
d) One plate slides past the other.
Where is crust neither formed nor destroyed?
a) mid-ocean ridge
b) continental rift valley
c) transform boundary
d) subduction zoned
Earthquakes are MOST LIKELY to occur at the borders of
a) continents.
b) lithospheric plates.
c) countries
d) oceans
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Our Newest addition to the park! Kids and adults take a giant leap.Then up,down ,up,down and to the ground.Jump like a Frog. Minimum Height 36",Ages 4 and up.
A true Retro Ride all the way back from 1956. Founders pride and joy ! Completely rebuilt ! The perfect roller coaster for the first time rider or that seasoned young (or young at heart) coaster vet! HOLD ON! Do the Dip! Again and again! 42 inches and up to ride single, minimum height of passenger must be 36 inches and accompanied by an adult. $5.00 per ride
Our Newest Attraction in 2016! Professor Marvel's Ferris Wheel takes riders 30 feet into the air. Riders must be 36 inches or taller to ride solo, 32 inches or taller to ride as a passenger. $5 per ticket.
Whoa! Look out! Pass 'em in the inside and take the checkered flag to win! Everyone from 3 to 93 can enjoy this fast-paced, fun-filled race track! We even have double-seaters for the kids to ride right next to you! This is a fast track! $7.25 single ticket. Doubler seater $9.50
Designed for ages 8 and older. Race around with your family and friends at this large 220' oval track. This track features high banking and side by side racing. Take the checkered flag and win! Junior Racers: Must be 8 years or older & 52" or taller to drive $6.00 per ticket
We're off to see the wizard! Designed and built in 1992. 19 Holes of luscious landscape and action packed fun. Lots of shade, glistening streams, and waterfalls. Themed from The Wizard of Oz and Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes with props and artifacts saved and rescued from the original Mother Gooseland in Canton, Ohio dating back to the 1950's. The world's only hand carved tree depicting the Oz Characters may be viewed at hole #16. This course is stroller friendly and has plenty of shade and resting areas. $7.00 for ages 11+. Ages 6-10 $6.00, Ages 3-5 $3.75.... Add $1 after 7:00pm on Friday/Saturday Evenings
This course is a hoot! Remember the Sixties… Loops, groovy sound tracks, football hole, bowling hole, and The Red Baron Plane. Check out the Military Tree, designed & hand carved in 2012. Visit Elvis, Harry and the gang at the Hollywood Hole. You can't miss the toilet on hole #1. $7.00 for ages 11+. Ages 6-10 $6.00, Ages 3-5 $3.75 .... Add $1 after 7:00pm on Friday/Saturday Evenings
Kids and adults alike are going to love the new bumper boats! Be your own captain! RIDE 'EM double or single there's no better way to cool-off on those hot summer days! Drivers must be 6 years old & 42" tall 275 pound weight limit You will get wet on this attraction! Passenger must be at least 3 years old. $6.50 per ticket, $2.50 for extra rider ticket
Smash then dash from your friends and family at Sluggers & Putters' Dodge 'Ems , Ride 'em single or double - Drivers must be at least 6 years old and 48" or taller - Passengers must be at least 42" tall - Single rider ticket: $5.00 - Extra rider ticket: $2.50
7 Batting Cages. All outdoor and open weather permitting. - 10 pitches per token- $1 per token - $5 for 6 tokens - $10 for 13 | Cage rental available by reservation for $21/half hr or $30/hour | Batters must be 6 yrs or older, wear required helmets and closed toe shoes.
Don't forget to tune-up your golf game at the golf practice range. Practice makes perfect - oh yeah this is golf, well it's still just fun to smack a few balls around 15 manicured acres of hills and water. Club rental is available. Age Requirements apply! Grass tees subject to availability. $5 for small bucket, $9 for Large bucket, $12 for a boomer bucket.
Fly like an Eagle. Enjoy the exhilaration of this classic ride while the wind blows through your hair! Rider Must be 42" or taller. Another Retro Ride! $5.00 per ride
The crown of the NEW RETRO RIDE ZONE, refurbished from the sixties A staple at county fairs, carnivals, and amusement parks for decades is now here at Sluggers and Putters for your whole family to enjoy! A true Classic! Must be at least 36 inches to ride with an adult. $5.00 per ride
Test your skills on the 4 person rock wall. Fastest time wins! Four Different Skill levels available with auto belay and timer. Shoes required, NO flip-flops Suggested for ages 6 and over .250 lbs. maximum $4.00 per climb
Play! Win! Have A Blast! Challenge your friends and family! Win great prizes and have a good time! Old fashion games for all ages , Redeem your winning tickets for exciting prizes. Rest rooms located here! 1 token=.25cents. $5=20 tokens, $10=50 tokens ( 10 bonus tokens)
Flip, jump, and bounce up to 20 feet in the air! Calling all monkeys… ages 5 and above can touch the sky on the Monkey Jumper! A flippin great time! $5.00 per ticket
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ALL ABOARD! Designed for ages 6 and under. The lil' ones will love this attraction. $2.00 per ride
Located at the center of the park with plenty of seating in the shade at the beautiful Garden Patio Area. Featuring Dippin Dots Ice Cream, Shakes, Sandwiches, Munchies, Pizza , Shaved Ice and much more!
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|The Secchi Project
Seafarers are being encouraged to take part in a unique global study, using a mobile phone app to record the effects of climate change. The public science project will measure the amount of phytoplankton, minute organisms at the very start of the marine food chain, currently residing in the world's oceans. Scientists fear the population of the microscopic beings is in decline due to rising sea temperatures and, if true, that could have consequences for every aspect of marine life. The project is being spearheaded by Plymouth University's Marine Institute, which hopes to build a map of the oceans that charts the seasonal and annual changes of phytoplankton from now and into the future.
Plankton biologist Dr Richard Kirby, who is leading the study, said: "As the phytoplankton live at the surface of the sea they are being affected by rising sea temperatures due to climate change. A scientific paper published last year suggested the ocean's plankton population had declined by as much as 40 per cent since 1950 as sea temperatures had warmed due to climate change. The scientists suggested that a warming of the ocean surface may have reduced vertical mixing of the water column thereby reducing the supply of nutrients from deeper waters – in effect the input of fertiliser to the surface had lessened with effects upon phytoplankton growth. Their results provoked debate among marine scientists however, some who thought they saw no change, or even an increase in phytoplankton in some places. Since the phytoplankton begin the marine food chain, we need to know more about if, how, and why they are changing in order to understand the effects on the ocean's biology."
To check the levels of phytoplankton in our oceans, marine experts have developed a free smart phone app for sailors and fishermen to use wherever they are in the world. Because the phytoplankton – each thinner than a strand of human hair – exist at the sea's surface, mariners can carry out a simple experiment using an easy to make 'Secchi Disk'.Attached to a measuring tape, the Secchi Disk is lowered over the side of a boat and the depth at which it disappears from sight estimates the amount of phytoplankton in the sea. This depth can then be uploaded to a database using the Secchi app. Dr Kirby added: "The Secchi Disks are still used by marine scientists to study phytoplankton but there are too few scientists to survey the world's oceans as well as we would wish. This app enables seafarers around the world to take part in a science project and if we can just get a small percentage of the global population of sailors involved, we can generate a database that will help us understand how life in the oceans is changing. It would help us learn much more about these important organisms at a crucial time when their habitat is altering due to climate change."
The Secchi app has been developed by Dr Nicholas Outram and Dr Nigel Barlow, from Plymouth University's School of Computing and Mathematics, and the database will be maintained by Pixalytics Ltd, a company founded by Dr Sam Lavender, an Honorary Reader at the University.
A major design consideration of the apps is that they have to be able to operate in places where the phone has no Internet connection. Participants record as many Secchi readings as they like, and these are stored as "pending readings" on the phone. Exactly how many pending readings can be stored depends on the capabilities of the phone, but the number is very large. These pending readings can be uploaded at a later date when an Internet connection is available.
In addition, the app has an easy to follow workflow to minimise errors. The participant's location is taken from the phone's GPS, eliminating transcription errors. The user interface has been designed to be clean, intuitive and uncluttered, and in particular to be a UI that works on a boat at sea. Small and fussy layouts are not used, and the "depth disk" uses a logarithmic scale to enable shallow depths to be entered quickly and accurately.
(The free app is called Secchi after Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, an astronomer who invented the disk device in 1865 to measure water turbidity in the Mediterranean. You can find out more about the project at www.secchidisk.org)


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In response to requests from Plumbing Manufacturers Intl. (PMI) and its members, as well as from other supporters of the U.S....
Using proper pricing techniques to ensure profitability
True or false: Making more money is not as important as making the most of the money you have. The answer is true! If you are not profitable, making more money does not mean that you will become profitable; it means you are making more work — or, to look at it another way: You are buying yourself more work.
How do you make the most out of the revenue you are already generating? The simple answer is costs and expenses. Knowing your actual costs and reviewing your expenses weekly is the place to start.
Income Statements
Most of our clients already know their basic costs and expenses, and they have learned how to use their income statements to control their costs and expenses. This gives them the ability to be proactive in pricing, allowing for profit and growth.
To review, an income statement consists of:
An income statement is a critical management tool. It shows you how much money you have made and where that money has gone. Management accounting takes the income statement one step further: It shows you how much you have made and spent in each department within your company.
In the March issue of Water Quality Products, my article, "A New Era for Financials," discussed departmentalization as a means of identifying the profit centers within your company (service, sales/installation, rentals, etc.), which then are used to classify your revenue, cost of goods sold and expenses. Departmentalizing means then affixing revenue, costs and expenses to a specific department. A departmentalized income statement allows you to take control of your costs and expenses, resulting in accountability for each department.
An income statement that is not departmentalized is like a map of the U.S. without any states or roads defined: You know it is the U.S., just like you know your company costs and expenses, but neither will tell you where you are or how to get where you want to go. Departmentalizing is your GPS.
The process starts with a comprehensive chart of accounts, which is a list of all accounts to which your money is allocated. There are different types of accounts — bank, fixed assets, liabilities, income, cost of goods sold and expenses are some examples. Verify that your accounts are assigned to the proper type — many companies lump everything into expenses instead of properly breaking them out into cost of goods sold. This practice has a direct effect on the gross profit.
The next step in the departmentalization process to is to define your departments — profit centers that are critical to the growth of your company. Service, sales/installation and rentals are examples of valid departments. Remember, products are not departments — they are commodities. This is where you find the leaders and the bleeders in your business.
Once departmentalization is complete, you will know the gross and net profits for each department. Instead of simply having an income statement, you will have a management tool — a complete map. This process is your link between knowing your actual costs and expenses, and making the most of your money.
Profit & Labor Pricing
Continuing to move through the process leading to profitability and growth, you must take control of your pricing structures for both products and labor, each of which requires its own strategy.
By referring to your departmentalized income statement, it is easy to determine your costs. Your predetermined profit margin percentage is the level of profitability you have set for your products and services. To calculate your retail price, add your costs to your predetermined profit margin percentage.
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The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
Pakistan is in three official days of mourning as Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province shot dead yesterday by one of his own bodyguards, was buried this morning in his hometown of Lahore. U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon said Taseer was "a prominent leader whose death is a loss for Pakistan." U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she "admired [his] work to promote tolerance and the education of Pakistan's future generations. His death is a great loss."
But not everyone is feeling so sad. Taseer was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws. He'd recently called for the pardon of the death sentence given to a Christian woman who supposedly insulted the prophet Muhammad during an argument with fellow farmhands in 2009. "Salman Taseer is a blasphemer and this is the punishment for a blasphemer," said the bodyguard, Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri, who confessed to the murder and smiled into news cameras upon his arrest.
Some religious leaders have expressed similar views.
"No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salman Taseer or even express any kind of regret or sympathy over the incident," read a statement released by the religious political party Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan. "As those who support blasphemy of the Prophet are themselves indulging in blasphemy," and could well suffer the same fate. Ehsanullah Ehsan, deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban said the same.
Police are investigating the question of whether or not the murderer acted alone, and Pakistani high commissioner to London, Wajid Shamshul Hassan, told the BBC that his country refused to "be held hostage by a minority of [radical] religious people."
But the editor of Newsweek Pakistan, Fasih Ahmed, writing today at the Daily Beast, says, "Taseer's death closes the door on any discussion of the laws. The mullahs and their sympathizers have probably succeeded in scaring reason and rationale into retreat."
As Asma Jahangir, a lawyer who represented a Christian Pakistani boy accused of blasphemy in the 1990s said to Al Jazeera, "The question is, 'Is Pakistan going to survive the cycle of violence that is increasing in the name of religion'?"
In a courtroom in Islamabad yesterday, Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri was showered with rose petals and hugged by a crowd of supporters.
The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
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Seth's 2017 Bracket Assist Tool
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This began as a tool I made to fill out my brackets, then a few years ago I shared it and it became a thing. Much of the data are from Kenpom, though this year I also included ThePowerRank.com's rankings, which Ed determines by expected margin of victory over an average opponent. Both he and Kenpom wound up pretty close, but it's a bit more data when you're deciding things like which should-be-a-6-seed do I choose in this 7-10 matchup? Alex Cook will have a thing later today that shows which teams got screwed the most in this year's rather whacky seeding. Spoiler: Maryland and Minnesota shouldn't be over the BTT championship participants.
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To use this you:
- Follow this link to make a copy of the spreadsheet.
- Select the two teams you want to compare.
The site will be pulled from Team 1, fyi, so if you pull a match that doesn't exist you'll still get the distance each team will have to travel to their real site.
Thanks also go to the guy who wrote a google script to pull drive times with a formula.
Seth's Bracket Assist Widget
You will probably have to create your own copy but then you can type in any two teams and make a comparison. Thank you to Kenpom for the data and helpful Google Sheets script writers for helping me calculate distances. Drive times are calculated as 1.3 minutes per mile.
To get a copy:
Follow this link and play around with it on google sheets.
Follow this link to the spreadsheet.
Go to "File" and "download as". Choose a format and the rest is up to you.
To use it just put the two teams you're trying to compare and the round (it will return wonky stuff if those two teams aren't able to meet there). It'll show you things like Off and Def rank on Kenpom and a win confidence based on a factor of the average 1 seed will be 100% to beat an average 16 seed. It'll also bring up the site of the game and, new this year, the distance for each team in driving hours. Last it'll show any injuries I knew about when I made it last night.
Jimmystats: Bracketology Week
Howdy bracketeers! Annual bracket building post is annual, though my predictions last year wound up pretty bad. First the tools and how to use them.
Kenpom. The all-knowing. This year's best team not invited was #45 Florida. The worst team in is #250 Hampton. I had to know, so I looked up the worst team in the history of Kenpom (since 2002) to be invited to the Dance. It's Mississippi Valley State, the 298th team in 2008.
In fact there's a pretty enormous drop-off from most of the 16 seeds and the MEAC and SWAC entrants, who had an average Pyth of 0.296 (i.e. they'd win less than 30% of their games vs. an average opponent). For reference, the worst Big Ten teams in that span (2003-2005 Penn State) were .361, .334, and .341 respectively. In fact I only found six power conference teams—2013 TCU, 2008 Oregon State, 2012 Utah, 2013 Mississippi State, 2012 BC and 2011 Wake Forest—who've ever been worse than the average MEAC or SWAC champion. I get the part about giving the top seeds basically a bye, but the tournament can find more deserving small schools than whoever won a conference tournament whose competition level is below that of many high school leagues.
For what it's worth, Kentucky this year is the best team in the history of Kenpom. The only two in sniffing distance were 2008 Kansas and 2013 Louisville.
Seth's Annual Matchup Maker. This lets you set a chaos factor and match any two opponents, immediately seeing where the game will be played and any relevant injuries. You just input the teams and the round. Front page looks thus:
FiveThirtyEight. Lots of tools on there, as well as important articles about how, for example, pre-season rankings matter despite plucky things that occurred after.
The Power Rank. Listeners to Brian's weekly roundtable on WTKA know Ed Feng. Ed creates this:
(right is zoomed)
…interactive chart using his win probabilities so you can see how stupid your picks are relative to each other. Run around the circle to make sure you haven't picked a dead in the water first round upset, but I think he's best at end game. This year you can see Kentucky is in a league of its own, then Zona, Duke, Nova, Wisconsin, Gonzaga and Virginia are a clear second tier.
Bracket Science Bracketmaster. Peter Tiernan is getting better at monetizing his comprehensive bracket database, which is unfortunate because I really liked to use the Bracketmaster for patterns, like what kind of team does Wisconsin usually lose to in the tourney, has this coach been to the Dance before, and things that super hardcore NCAA basketball fans know and I don't know offhand because I was off the wagon for a time. If you don't mind paying (there are far worse people you can give money to than Tiernan) you can get all the goodies, but the free stuff is great for narratives, for example if you want to track how Big Ten teams have fared since 2005 vs other Power Confs:
WSJ's Blind Comparison. The Wall Street Journal's blindfold bracket is your bias check, though this year they didn't do, opting instead for a slider-based bracket generator using things like "defense wins championships!"
Disclaimer: You will be wrong.
Hoops Opponent Watch: Dance Card Edition
Non-Conference Opponents
Iowa State - #3 Seed, East
Other than the Raiders of the Lost Ark-style rolling boulder of death that is Michigan State, it's a pretty favorable draw for Iowa State. They get North Carolina Central, North Carolina Classic, and Villanova (which is probably in North Carolina, but I don't feel like checking). They have the horses to run with anyone (Melvin Ejim was the Big 12 player of the year over Andrew Wiggins). I've got them in the Final Four, despite none of these games being played at Hilton.
Dook - #3 Seed, Midwest
If both survive, Michigan will meet Duke in the Sweet 16. This one will be in Indianapolis, which is a long way from Cameron. That should help. But Jabari Parker will be there. So that won't help.
Arizona - #1 Seed, West
The tournament's second overall seed, they might kind of have a cakewalk through their region. Wisconsin hasn't been past the Sweet 16 in a decade. Neither San Diego State nor Oklahoma is particularly scary. Creighton has the potential to be an aerial death-bringer, but if Doug McDermott doesn't have four good nights in a row it's hard to see Creighton in the Final Four, and four good nights in a row is asking a lot.
I wouldn't worry too much about late season losses to Oregon and to UCLA in the PAC 12 tournament; this is a team that seems to have found some balance and returned to form.
Stanford - #10 Seed, South
Stanford returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time in six seasons, ensuring in the process that Michigan DID beat a tournament team in the non-conference schedule. Their opening round matchup with New Mexico features two of the biggest teams in the country. If they survive that matchup, they get also-tall (though Embiid-less) Kansas. Tough to see them making it to the Sweet 16, but they probably accomplished their goal for the season, so it's house money from here on in.
Florida State #1-seed, NIT
Womp womp.
In Which We Look At Brackets
To clarify, this is NOT A RANKING, and should not be deemed an attempt to supplant the wisdom of Angry Michigan KenPom Defiance Hating God. It is simply a rundown of tournament teams, and the natural way to list such teams is by seed order.
Again, for the avoidance of doubt: not a ranking. Just a list. Organized by seed.
Michigan - #2 Seed, Midwest
Opening Round: vs. #15 Wofford. The Terriers were 20-12 in the Southern Conference. They have one KenPom top-200 win this year… against #200 Elon. Ace has you covered with a preview, but sufficed to say that this one is not scary, which should scare you, because it is March.
The Draw: Gets the winner of Texas/
Kansas Arizona State [ED: Must avenge bowl game...] in the second round, probably #3 Duke in the Sweet 16, and probably the winner of #1 Wichita State and #4 Louisville in the Elite 8.
Thing: It's a rough draw to after the opening weekend, that's for damn sure. My theory is that the Committee basically said that if they HAD to give Wichita State a 1-seed, they would. And they threw them in a region with their second highest 2 seed (a team that was in the running for a 1-seed like an hour before the brackets came out), and their highest-rated 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9 seeds. Subtle, that.
Thing They Are Like: A team with some unfinished business.
[AFTER THE JUMP: More teams playing in various tournaments. Also Indiana]
Hoops Opponent Watch: Outright Edition
Non-Conference Opponents
RPI Effect Only Teams
If you care, Michigan played the following teams: UMass-Lowell (10-18), Houston Baptist (6-23), South Carolina State (9-19), Coppin State (10-19), Long Beach State (13-15), and Charlotte (15-13). But while I don't want to say these games didn't MATTER, they didn't, you know, matter. Except the Charlotte game, because blerg. Michigan's fate will be determines by larger narratives. Not many people are going to hammer too hard on RPI when you're talking the difference between a 2 seed and a 3 seed. So, let us move along.
Big Sorts of Teams
Iowa State (22-7, 10-7 Big 12)
This week: Lost @ Kansas State (80-73); Lost @ Baylor (74-61)
Michigan probably moved ahead of Iowa State for good by virtue of Iowa State's rough week. Bracketmatrix has them as the last 3 seed, it's unlikely a home win over bubble team Oklahoma State (side note: how did THAT happen?) would get them past Michigan.
Florida State (18-11, 9-8 ACC)
This week: Beat Georgia Tech (81-71); Won @ Boston College (74-70)
Florida State met two necessary conditions for an NCAA bid this week. Losing to either of those teams would've probably been the end of things for the Seminoles. The good news is that Syracuse also seems very beatable, so it's possible for Florida State to close strong. The problem is that now a win over Syracuse wouldn't bring the cache it would have two or three weeks ago, so they might still need to do some work in the conference tourney.
From a Michigan standpoint, though, FSU doesn't really matter all that much anymore. No one cares about your 6th best win, and pretty much Michigan's entire seeding case rests in its conference schedule. So if you'd really like to see some more #Nebrasketball, you might be hoping they drop their last couple of games to clear some room at the bubble.
#4 Dook (23-7, 12-5 ACC)
This week: Lost @ Wake Forest (YTWF) (82-72)
This was a gift on a number of fronts. Duke's loss potentially leaves some wiggle room for Michigan to move up to a 2-seed. Also, Duke's loss was a loss for Duke, which is a win for Not Duke. We are Not Duke. So, let's compare the two teams right now:
|Losses (KP ranks)
|Best wins (KP)
|Is Duke?
|1, 8, 11, 12, 28, 69, 182
|11, 12, 13, 17, 17
|1, 6, 14, 23, 51, 92, 113
|2, 10, 14, 15, 25
I dunno, that's close.
#3 Arizona (28-2, 15-2 PAC 12)
This week: Beat Stanford (79-66), Beat Arizona State (74-69)
It's hard to blame Arizona for a less-than-dominant performance against ASU. They'd clinched pretty much everything there was to clinch (PAC 12 title, #1 seed in the PAC 12 tourney, likely #1 seed, helped RichRod kill the 10 second rule), and sometimes it's hard to get up for games that don't much matter.
One potential cause for concern is depth. Arizona is really only rolling about 6 guys deep, which is working fine for them now, but if they run up against a team that draws a lot of fouls, it could be an issue. But no, Michigan isn't one of those teams.
Stanford (18-11, 9-8 PAC 12)
This week: Lost to Arizona (79-66); Lost to Colorado (59-56)
According to Bill Walton (who called the Stanford/Colorado game), Stanford's loss is a lot like the Punic War if it was fought by Muppets; you're not sure where they got the weapons, but you can't expect them to be back in time for lunch.
I'm not sure exactly what he meant by that, but Stanford's bid is in real trouble. Bracketmatrix had them as a 10-seed before the loss to the Buffs, so they still have some work to do. And not that it matters, but it would be nice for Michigan to have at least ONE win over a tournament team from its non-conference schedule.
[AFTER THE JUMP: Michigan, and all the teams that finished behind Michigan because Michigan finished ahead of everyone who isn't Michigan]


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Oh sweetie, I understand! My DH & I have one daughter, almost 3, and I, too, am a SAHM. We're doing alright on one income, as well as gracious help from family at times too. But add another mouth to feed and we feel we'd be strapped too. We would prefer to live a little more comfortably and be able to give our daughter whatever we can, take her on vacations, maybe private school, etc. With two, we just couldn't do that.
Also, I hear you on the zombie thing from the baby days. That whole first year was HARD. My DH & I still clearly remember it all. I had PPD as well. We don't really want to relive it.
Every once in awhile, we talk about some baby name we like or we've had our moments of, "Should we just rip the bandaid off and go for it?!" But that lasts for a day or two. Truthfully, we are done with one. We are content. Maybe we're too cautious or practical or heck, even a wee bit scared, but honestly, we know what we can handle. And we know that we don't want to struggle, be it financially or emotionally.
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