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Jouce, I ended up being total wrong with the groundhogs shadow. We haven't had any sun for two months and what happens on groundhog day but the sun shines as bright as can be, the groundhog sees his shadow and we have 6 more weeks of winter. I've decided I'm getting to old to wish winter away, need to enjoy everyday and make each year last. At least with the sun it was a nice day for a change. Hopefully all the snow will raise our water table this summer. The Great Lakes, at least Lake Huron has had such terribly low water levels that everyone wants a good spring run off to help build it back up. Have to look on the positive side of things.
Claudia, wonderful photos from your parade. I see the little green headed creature being stolen away, cute. It looks like a good time was had by all. And wonderful costumes. Out of this world and I hope they do scare winter away.
Bonnie C & C most welcome / appreciated
Bonnie, you are so right about making the most of each day but we had little sun today. Yesterday we started the day with big white snowflakes followed wth heavy rain turning to ice rain then snow. Funny you think of the Great Lakes and the water table and I wish the west could have half of our rain we seem to get so much and the west has little, maybe we wouldn't over use water here if we had a little less. Let's hope the water table does move up in the lakes for all of us to enjoy.
All C & C's always welcome
Karen, this is a big undertaking and you are doing a wonderful job. take it slow and steady and you will be proud of the result. Buildings and perspective are so hard for me well done!
Fred. You do such energetic paintings on Yopo but your drawings are amazing. I didn't know you could use graphite on that slick paper.
Nealy, good for you drawing daily. I love this zentagle design it flows so well.
Claudia, what a fun festival that looks. I wish I could join in revelry. Great pictures.
Joyce, as it is snowing again here I think we should do away with the darn Groundhog but your drawing is cute! Yes take each day as it comes it was warm and sunny last week for a few days!
Jen C & C's always welcome
Hi Everyone!
Just been catching up on all the posts so far - people are really busy.
I am hoping that we have seen the worst of the high temperatures here for this summer - we have had a number of days when it has been above 40 deg C, with the highest 44.6. Unfortunately, there have been quite a few serious fires around Australia, with a couple near us - thank goodness we have dedicated firefighters, so all are under control at present. The countryside is so very dry & a number of areas are in drought conditions - some farmers are grazing their stock along the roads to take advantage of the vegetation that is growing there. Rain is badly needed. I cannot imagine living in a snowy area, but I guess like most things one gets used to this.
Karen - I am really impressed with your cityscape - so much detail. It is coming along very well. Also liked the painting of your grandson.
Fred - good to see the bears are still very active. Love your drawings. What is YUPO? never heard of it.
Nealey - nice 'doodles'!
Judy - really love the detail in your leopard - he's beautiful.
Happy creating!
Bye till next time,
Comments & critique will always be welcome & appreciated!
I don't know if any of you are facebook friends with Fred. He posted a very interesting article that I assume was printed in the local paper. I wish he would post it here in chatter for the rest of you to read. He also said that Ruthie has taken up abstract painting. He needs to talk her into posting too. Very nice Fred.
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Just in case you missed it CURLING IS ON.
Just to let ou all know how nice a winter we are having.
Hi there Hoosier! (Geri) Nice little poem. We'll make it through the winter, just like always! I like the quiet, tho the older I get, the more I'd rather not deal with the plowing, shoveling, sliding, sniffling and sneezing.
That was a great article on Fred on FB. If you're reading this, Fred......HELLO and your latest YUPOS are great. Love the abstracts.
Comments and critiques are welcome.
Nealy funny that you brought up the quiet. A couple days ago when I was out feeding the chickens and it was about 3 below. I just stopped and stood and listened for awhile. The only thing you could here was the chickadees sassing me for interrupting their turn at the feeder. I miss not being able to get out and do a little ice fishing or just walking in the woods in the winter but I am just not steady enough on my feet to do this anymore. You all take care of your health while you can you wont regret it.
I hope I can upload this...especially for Marsha...my very first cat painting many,many years ago.
Yippee........my first upload using my new PC
The cat was a farmyard visitor who would sit and stare at me every day at the same time...so I decided to paint 'him?' I called him Butch and had him framed and sold it
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Sonia, I guess extremes of temperature at whatever end of the temperature they are just not comfortable. We will send you a bit of our cold if you will send a bit of warm back!
Yes Fred where are you? we love hearing from you .
Nice little Kitten Sarah. Such a sweet and expectant face.
Okay today we had Jason Sacran come to our studio to teach us how to paint nocturnes. What a fun and challenging day. He is such a fun and generous teacher. this is my effort. It is very wet and not quite finished but I had fun even if I did feel way out of my element.
Hello Jen,
very interesting expressive painting and definitely a very wet one...is it in water colours or what?
Did all of your fellow artists paint the same view and did you do it side by side with the tutor? I ask because I taught adults until a few years ago and am just nosey about his style of teaching.!!!!
Is Marsha still unwell, Is Sam too ill to call in and Alex has been missing for ages too. I am asking you because you appear to be in touch privately with most people on AD.
Geri, very fitting poem. Our winter has turned though and we are having some good winter weather now. The great lake Huron is frozen over (hasn't happened in a lot of years) so now we are not having lake effect snow every day. And that is good because some of our roadside snow banks have been pushed back and are reaching upwards of 10 to 12 feet high, up to the telephone wires. Now we are having lots of sun and average temp. so you can get outside and have some fun.
Sarah, your first cat painting is lovely with the pink. Her stance is right on. Very nice to see.
Jen, great adventure having an instructor for a day and learning something new. You did very well, it definitely looks wet, lots of nice glow from the lights. You've captured that it is dark as well. Must have been very enjoyable.
Yes Sarah, I've been wondering how everyone is as well. I know Sam was having medical problems again but have not heard from Alex.
Thanks Sarah and Bonnie. It was fun and something I have never done. He goes out at night and says it is easier to do in plein air at night as the light is constant and no sun glaring and moving. You just have to watch out for insects and bears! Sarah no he brought a bunch of photos for us to choose from so it was fun to see how everyone did it. He did say this was his first nocturne workshop ( by no means his first workshop though) and that in future he would have students do all the same thing so he didn't have to go around and show several different things. I liked not doing the same thing but I suppose he thought it would be easier. He did a demonstration in the morning then we all painted in the afternoon. We painted in oils mine was 12x16". Look up Jason Sacran online he does good stuff.
i have not heard from Sammy, Marsha or Alex but last I heard as Bonnie said Sammy was having more medical problems. I think she finds it hard keeping up with the posts too,
Sarah: Thank you for posting the Kitty piece... I so appreciate it. your city scape wc tells a great story. I have been making some cute travel kits, it has become my hobby lately, I have made several little kids. Now I just need somewhere to travel....
Karen, WOW your city scape is quite ambitious and so well done.
Nealy, your doodle of the jelly fish is so beautiful.
Fred: you and Yupo are getting along very well, very expressive including your drawings
Joyce I see the ground hog, but no shadow... hmmmm
Claudia you have sparked my interest in Carnivals from all over the world, including our New Orleans mardi gras.
Geri, I love the poetry, I shared it with some friends, their butts are frozen to the ground as well.
Jen: your canoe is really really nice, the colors, reflections boat and faces turned out really well. good job. Your night scene is good, you captured the evening lights and wet reflections very well, great class.
It would be nice if we messed up we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over
C & C Always Welcome
Fred...Your pencil drawings are really well done! Used to your paintings but drawing is a good thing too!
Karen...Your cityscape is really coming along nicely. I'm anxious to see the finished piece!
Joyce...Your groundhog out of his den/burrow is so sweet. I hope he makes this winter go away fast!
Claudia...I love your photos of the winter carnival. It looks like a really fun day!
Geri...Love the poem!
Sarah...The watercolor of the cat is awesome! He has such an ornery look on his face!
Jen...The night time painting is really nice! Your work in oils is really wonderful to look at!
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Amyloidosis, Transthyretin-Associated Familial, Known Mutation
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Testing of at-risk individuals when a mutation has been identified in an affected family member
Genetics Test Information Provides information that may help with selection of the correct test or proper submission of the test request
Documentation of the specific familial mutation must be provided with the specimen in order to perform this test.
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
The systemic amyloidoses are a number of disorders of varying etiology characterized by extracellular protein deposition. The most common form is an acquired amyloidosis secondary to multiple myeloma or monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) in which the amyloid is composed of immunoglobulin light chains. In addition to light chain amyloidosis, there are a number of acquired amyloidoses caused by the misfolding and precipitation of a wide variety of proteins. There are also hereditary forms of amyloidosis. Due to the clinical overlap between the acquired and hereditary forms, it is imperative to determine the specific type of amyloidosis in order to provide an accurate prognosis and consider appropriate therapeutic interventions.
The most common hereditary amyloidosis is familial transthyretin amyloidosis; an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in the transthyretin (TTR) gene. The resulting amino acid substitutions lead to a relatively unstable, amyloidogenic TTR protein. Most individuals begin to exhibit clinical symptoms between the third and seventh decades of life. Typically, TTR-associated amyloidosis is progressive over a course of 5 to 15 years and the most common cause of death is cardiomyopathy. Affected individuals may present with a variety of symptoms, including peripheral neuropathy, blindness, cardiomyopathy, nephropathy, autonomic nervous dysfunction, or bowel dysfunction.
More than 90 mutations have now been identified within the TTR gene which cause TTR-associated familial amyloidosis. Most of the mutations described to date are single base pair changes that result in an amino acid substitution. Some of these mutations correlate with the clinical presentation of amyloidosis. However, several different mutations have been identified which exhibit considerable clinical overlap.
It is important to note that this assay does not detect mutations associated with non-TTR forms of familial amyloidosis. Therefore, it is important to first test an affected family member to determine if TTR is involved and to document a specific mutation in the family before testing at risk individuals.
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We strongly recommend that patients undergoing predictive testing receive genetic counseling both prior to testing and after results are available.
Predictive testing of an asymptomatic child is not recommended.
Test results should be interpreted in the context of clinical findings, family history, and other laboratory data. Any error in the diagnosis or in the pedigree provided to us, including false-paternity, could lead to erroneous interpretation of results.
A previous bone marrow transplant from an allogenic donor will interfere with testing. Call Mayo Medical Laboratories for instructions for testing patients who have received a bone marrow transplant.
Clinical Reference Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Benson MD: The hereditary amyloidoses. Best Pract Res Clin Rhematol 2003;17:909-27
2. Eneqvist T, Sauer-Eriksson AE: Structural distribution of mutations associated with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy in human transthyretin. Amyloid 2001;8:149-168
3. Connors LH, Lim A, Prokaeva VA, et al: Tabulation of human transthyretin (TTR) variants, 2003. Amyloid 2003;10:160-184


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It was a tale of two halves for the St. Marys Area Flying Dutchmen in their match against the Kane Wolves on Tuesday afternoon at the SMAHS soccer field. After being tied 2-all at the break, St. Marys scored seven goals in the second half to win 9-4.
The Kane Lady Wolves hosted the St. Marys Lady Dutch on Monday afternoon in soccer action. The visitors controlled the action for most of the game and left town with a 3-0 win.
The Lady Wolves had a scoring chance early when Tori Schleicher made a nice run down field and passed across to Galicia Fryzlewicz, but the junior's shot was wide of the net.
The young Lady Wolves volleyball team started their home tournament off with a sweep of Johnsonburg in their opening match 25-17, 25-11.Â
The Kane Wolves football team led Sheffield 32-6 early in the third quarter but the Wolverines refused to go away and tacked on a couple of late touchdowns to make the final score of Friday night's game 32-18 in favor of the Wolves.
The Kane Lady Wolves again faced adversity as they battled with the Sheffield Wolverines but came up short in a 3-0 sweep, dropping them to a 1-3 record.
Coach Dave Fitch's Sheffield Wolverines will make the short trip down Route 6 to Kane to take on the 2-0 Wolves tonight at Paul R Miller stadium. The Wolverines come into the game 0-2, having lost 48-0 to a tough Ridgway team in week one of the season and losing 68-0 to the state ranked Clarion Bobcats last Friday night.
The Kane boys' soccer team hung with the West Forest Fires on Thursday afternoon for 50 minutes but the Tionesta-based team's depth wore the undermanned Wolves down and the visitors went on to post a 5-1 victory.
After opening their season with a win over Smethport and dropping a hard-fought 8-5 loss to Ridgway, the Wolves allowed an early goal as the Fire burned the Kane defense in the opening seconds on their first possession of the game.
The Kane boys' cross country team competed and placed 11th out of the 16 A and AA teams at the Red, White and Blue Invitational at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park.
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Robert Mosier won't soon forget his first win as the head coach of the Kane High girls soccer team.
Tori Schleicher scored on the game's only breakaway Wednesday to give Kane a 1-0 win over Smethport in sudden death overtime. It was Kane's home opener.
Taking a feed from freshman Alyssa Lima-Lopez, Schleicher dribbled in all alone for about 25 yards before blasting a kick into the top right corner of the net for the lone goal. Smethport goalie Baylee Brien was helpless as the winning kick sailed over her head and her outstretched arms.
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Now if you think that high-end crime involving city ports, boats, crime circles, black markets, and Ferraris are things you only see on the big screen, think again.
The owner of a high-end rental car company based on Los Angeles noticed that his Ferrari 458 Italia was sitting still for a few days. Growing suspicious, we got the police involved and the last known location of the car, tracked via GPS.
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OnStar is ready to roll out their Family Link Tracking system. The system will be available to the masses at the end of the year, after OnStar has been talking about the system for a year or so already. Surprisingly enough, the system doesn't cost an arm and a leg, but only a measly $4 a month on top of an OnStar plan.
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TeleNav, the GPS software company, has unveiled a browser-based HTML5 app that will deliver voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS navigation on almost any mobile device—and that other sites can call up with a single line of code.
The concept behind the app is similar to that of Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader: You input the URL and then run TeleNav from within a browser, without installing a native app first. An added benefit: TeleNav can continuously update the service over time whenever it wants, without inconveniencing consumers with periodic software updates.
In an e-mail to us, Mary Beth Lowell, TeleNav's associate director of public relations, confirmed that the HTML5-based app will tap into each device's GPS chip. The combination puts it several leagues ahead of Google Maps, which provides directions without voice prompts, meaning you can also use it in a car while behind the wheel, since you don't have to look at the screen for the next step.
"For example, if I'm in a travel app and I'm looking at my hotel address, I could click on the address and get full voice-guided TBT [turn-by-turn] directions to the hotel," Lowell said. "I wouldn't need to be a TeleNav customer or even download an app."
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Apple just released iOS 4.3.3, an update aimed to fix the location tracking issue that raised a bunch of concerns over the last couple of weeks. With this update, the consolidated.db database that stores the location data will be reduced in size, and that database will no longer be backed up to iTunes. In addition, if you turn Location Services off, the cache gets deleted entirely. Plug your iPhone in and have iTunes check for the update when you get a chance--jailbreakers, you'll wanna wait until there's a compatible fix.
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TomTom has apologized for selling user data from personal navigation devices to police.
It wasn't exactly a surprise. When Netherlands-based TomTom reported weak first quarter earnings earlier this year, it said it would try to supplement earnings through certain methods like selling traffic data to governments.
But when Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad revealed that the information was obtained by Dutch police, who used it set targeted speed traps, people got upset.
But TomTom CEO Harold Goddijn said the company only had the best of intentions, because the company believes it "can help make roads safer and less congested."
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Buried in Apple's statement on how the iPhone tracks a user's location data, the company admitted it was collecting anonymous location information to create a "crowd-sourced traffic database" that will be part of a future "improved traffic service."
The thing is, there's already a traffic service on the iPhone, provided by Google. If a user launches the Maps app and selects "Show Traffic," the map overlays colors on roads that show traffic congestion. Google gets the traffic data by—surprise!—crowd-sourcing it, aggregating information from Google Maps users who have approved the app for location services on their mobile devices.
Apple's statement reveals that the company is working on its own version of such a service. Whether that service will be something that Apple will use to improve traffic in Google Maps, or if Apple will launch a competing maps app, or something else entirely isn't known. Apple didn't respond to multiple requests for comment on the topic.
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Apple finally addresses iPhone location tracking, promises to encrypt data
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Today Apple released a Q&A about the location data that's stored on the iPhone. In the statement, the company says broadly that it does not track the iPhone's location, and that the data, which is currently stored in an unprotected file, will be encrypted in the next major update of iOS.
In the statement, Apple admits that iPhones send location data to Apple to maintain a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell phone towers, as many have suspected. However, the company says the locations recorded can be up to 100 miles away from the where the phone actually is, and that the data is sent anonymously.
Apple further explains that it's creating the database to provide better location services on the phone. By using the crowd-sourced locations of cell towers and hotspots, the phone can more quickly locate the user than if it were using GPS satellite data alone. Putting the entire database on every user's phone would be untenable, though, so an iPhone requesting location services accesses a subset, or cache, of the database. It's this data, not necessarily data specifically generated by the user, that's stored in the unencrypted file, "consolidated.db."
At the same time, though, the company effectively admits that retaining such a lengthy and comprehensive location record on the phone—ever since the user upgraded to iOS 4, or about a year for most users—is unnecessary to maintain such a database. Also, backing the file up to a user's computer is clearly not needed either. Apple says it plans to do four things in the next major update of iOS:
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Microsoft says Windows Phones don't store location history
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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phones don't store location history in a manner similar to the iPhone, which records the location data in an unencrypted file. The news that some iOS devices keep location data came to light last week, although
Microsoft told us unequivocally that phones running Windows Phone 7 do not store location history. Like most other phones, the platform offers plenty of location-based apps, and those apps require user consent before they begin tracking. Windows Phones also offer the common feature of a "global switch" that lets the user disable all location services, and Microsoft says its "Find My Phone" service keeps only the phone's most recent location.
We also contacted Nokia, RIM, Google, and HP about how the companies' mobile platforms store location data, and none, save Microsoft, have responded. It's been confirmed independently that Google Android also tracks and stores location data.
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You gave Apple permission to track your whereabouts via your iPhone
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Did you know that Apple is tracking your every move with your iPhone and iPad? A blog post published today on O'Reilly Radar claims that devices running iOS 4 are gathering location and storing it in an unencrypted manner.
"What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it's on any machine you've synched with your iOS device. It can also be easily accessed on the device itself if it falls into the wrong hands. Anybody with access to this file knows where you've been over the last year, since iOS 4 was released," wrote Pete Warden, founder of the Data Science Toolkit, and Alasdair Allan, a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter.
The data is being stored to a file known as "consolidated.db," which includes latitude-longitude coordinates and a timestamp.
Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone who read the entire 45-page EULA, as it clearly states the following clause when going into detail on the type of "non-personal information" that Apple can "collect, use, transfer, and disclose … for any purpose."
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Marissa Mayer talks up Google's location dominance at SXSW
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When Google talks, people listen. That is why 3,000 people crowded into a ballroom on the first day of SXSW to hear Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of consumer services, give her keynote. Her talk focused mostly on Google Maps for Mobile, and didn't do much more than outline the new features on the service. Even so, it should give serious pause to all of the companies currently offering location-based services, from Yelp to Foursquare. And it should give dedicated GPS vendors nightmares.
Google Mobile for Maps recently hit more than 150 million users, adding more than 50 million users since last summer. "Forty percent of all Maps usage is mobile," Mayer said. In fact, there have been days this year where mobile usage was actually greater than the desktop usage for the application.
Google Maps has always had driving directions, but by adding Street View and turn-by-turn navigation, it is fast becoming the go-to source for directions. "People drive more than 35 million miles a day while being assisted by Google Maps Navigation," Mayer said.
And those directions are becoming much more dynamic. The Route Around feature, for example, presents users with three routes to a destination and then overlays current traffic patterns. Users can select the route with the least traffic; Google said recently that Android users have the option to be automatically routed around traffic jams. This kind of real-time traffic advice is something for which GPS vendors like Garmin and Magellan traditionally charge users a monthly fee—Google offers it for free.
According to Mayer, the Route Around feature saves users two years of drive time every day, or about 12 million miles per year.
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"Standing" in BJJ
OK, so I was working one of the white belts in BJJ class and at a couple points I transitioned from a controlled position to a top position by walking my feet out to the side to turn my hips over. I was never vertical, my body was still horizantal for all intents and purposes.
I heard another student commenting after class say (not 100% it was about me, but I think it was), "Yeah, but he was standing a couple times." Is walking the feet frowned upon in general in BJJ? Bull was watching and didn't seem to care, but he's quite laid back. :5help:Locu5
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if your talking about standing to get a guard pass. well i dont see that as a no no but as long as your ingaged and not like standing running around him i wouldnt see a problem.Eduardo "Why'd you stop."
Me "I was kicked in the head by the guys sparring next to me."
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Eduardo "You dont stop until i say stop, you dont get tired until i say your tired, keep going."
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My cousin gave me some tapes of him doing tkd. I learned from those tapes. When I beat up an Akido instructor, and made him take rest breaks, I used TKD. I learned Bjj from watching ufc and pride and then I copied them and wrestled my cousin for practice. I choked him out and he tapped.
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There's nothing wrong with standing up in BJJ. Standing to pass guard, standing into your opponent's open guard, whatever. The only thing that doesn't usually happen is when both people stand, but that's really more of a logistics issue (mat space can't support 6-8 pairs of people standing) than anything else.
It doesn't even sound like you were standing. If I understand your position correctly, you raised your hips to switch them? Never heard anyone complain about that. Never heard anyone complain about standing either.
I don't think there are any tournament rules that frown upon standing either.
Standing is a viable strategy in many situations. Only ***** BJJ'ers would complain about it, unless you constantly stood up out of guard and backed away. Even doing that once or twice aint that big a deal.
But I too am having some trouble understandint the position you were in and how you got to be standing.
There is one thing that BJJ'ers DON'T like...that is when you are both supposed to be starting on your knees and one asshole always jumps to his feet and runs you over. Newsflash - starting on your knees is just that, on your knees. Getting up off one knee is okay, but not two. When people do that I always spring up to my feet too and then try to throw them really really hard so they don't want to try that again. Whooooops. Tangent.
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OK, I apparently did not define the term well enough. I thought putting "standing" in quotes would imply the fact that it was not really standing, starting from a standing position or getting up to stand (or a headstand for that fucking matter:P). I was attempting to use the term in a looser sense of "got on ones feet instead of the knees and hips during the ground portion of rolling. I failed at this, I suck, I am over it. But thanks for the feedback :-)Locu5
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OT: I don't see a lot of sense in starting from your knees anyway. It's an artificial position that should't be spent too much time on. I think people should be starting either standing, or from guard/pin.
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PDS Rifles Style: Univ. Florida Kickboxing--
This is what I did to decide on what to carry, up to you if you want to follow it or not.
I wanted something at least 9mm and at least 10 rounds. That ruled out most true pocketguns. I also want something I can sit down without being TOO uncomfortable. That ruled out everything but the subcompacts. Down to M&PSC, Glock26, XDSC, SR9C. From there I picked the thinnest one. SR9C. I carry with safety on and practice flicking it off during the draw, every time (90% of my shooting is done from draw). Carry ammo is speer gold dot +p. I honestly hardly notice the differences in recoil in both my carry and competition gun. I rock it with the safety on because I am not comfortable with the striker fired trigger pull. (much prefer heavy DA for carry)
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Style: karate, judo--
I do not have a CCW Permit.
if my local police chief approved my CCA Permit, I'd carry an "officers" sized (3" bbl) slim and compact 6+1 45ACP in a holster, that can be concealed under a t-shirt, wearing shorts, during a hot day in the summer.
Penetration's vital, for fighting (or for loving) and pistols are backups to rifles or shotguns.
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Style: BJJ--
#1) Reliability. Never had a revolver jam on me. :)
#2) Ease of use. It's worthless if you struggle to use it in a situation where you're down 50 IQ points, like just waking up.
#3) Comfort. Easy to wear/conceal.
Everybody is built different. I like a Taurus revolver in .357. My wife likes hers in .38 since it doesn't hurt to shoot. My tiny, church secretary mom can only comfortably use a semi-auto .380. I don't think there's one answer. If you have an indoor range that will let you rent out or otherwise try various pistols, shop around until your comfortable. Can't go wrong with that.
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Power isn't unimportant. To me, personally, anytihng .380ACP and above is "good enough."
So as long as you stick with a caliber .380 and above, I think you're fine using the said criteria on this page: whatever you like is what you carry.
i have to point out the logic in that statement though. Isn't the whole point of inquiries of this thread, so you can adjust what you like? If what you like is crap, then you better start disliking it.
The choice to go with a 9mm automatic was a personal one, I wouldn't scuff at anyone carrying a .38 special. It is definitely "good enough."
I'm convinced penetration is critical though. If I can't do at least .380ACP and stuck with calibers like a .32 or .25, I think i might rather go for a .22LR, hopefully with a lot of ammo capacity.


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Former Itawamba Community College defensive back Ashton Ballard (Atlanta, GA) will look to help Valdosta State win its third Division II national championship in football this weekend when they take on Winston-Salem State at Braley Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama.
"We are extremely proud for Ashton," said ICC head football coach Jon Williams. "He was a guy that came in and worked extremely hard both on and off the field to be able to get this opportunity. I know the coaches at Valdosta are extremely pleased to have a player like him as part of their program."
Winston-Salem defeated former ICC standout LeBrandon Mosley (Hattiesburg) and West Texas A&M to advance to Saturday's championship game after Valdosta knocked off previously unbeaten Minnesota State-Mankato in the semifinals.
Ballard looks to follow in the footsteps of another former Indian and fellow Georgia native Fred Ridley.
Ridley, a former nose guard from Perry, GA, was part of the Blazers' 2004 squad that won the program's first-ever national title with a 36-31 victory over the Pittsburg State Gorillas.
"We have a proud history of our student-athletes finding success of the next level and even after their athletic career is over," said Williams. "It ICC's dedication to helping our student-athletes be successful in the classroom as well as the sport they play that gives them the edge when it comes to continuing to shine in their athletic careers."
Valdosta would later win the 2007 title 25-20 over Northwest Missouri State after dropping the 2002 championship game 31-24 to Grand Valley State.
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The etiquette of the interview is as important as the verbal conversation and where you will quietly, but loudly display your polish. As a matter of fact, with all the competition in the job market as a whole, statistics show the respect you show by your dress, posture, gestures, facial expressions and your body language, is actually worth more than your well rehearsed answers.
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Who says rural life is boring? There's never a dull moment in the country.
My beloved rooster, Roy, went missing two weeks ago and I've been in a terrible funk. I thought I found him in a pen a half-mile away, and yes, I was creeping on other people's property looking for my bird.
I hollered, "Roy, is that you?" and he crowed and flapped his wings. I debated knocking on the door of the house—"You have my boy Roy!"--but people in our town already think I'm crazy, so I decided to return with Widdle later.
"Later" wasn't soon enough. The next day the pen contained just a couple of forlorn hens. No sign of Roy. I suspect he was sold on the side of the road, which is how he came to us: Witnesses say he escaped the seller and ran across the highway to our spread. (Which finally answers the question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?")
I loved Roy, but he's gone and my heart must go on.
Which brings us to the latest critter.
Widdle keeps an automatic dog feeder in the shed out back for Molly, his ancient Lab. A few nights ago he walked in looking puzzled and said, "Either Molly is now eating five pounds of kibble a day, or a varmint is raiding the feeder."
Now, I couldn't care less what goes on in that shed. It's dark and cobwebby and I stay away from it. So I said, "Mmmmmmm," and kept reading "Garden & Gun."
The next day Widdle checked the feeder about 7 p.m. "The raider struck again. The top was knocked off, so I tied it down with cord," he announced.
Twelve hours later he came roaring in the back door like someone slapped his mama. "It's untied! And half the food is gone!" Widdle does not like to be bested by man or beast, so he was furious.
He rooted around in the spare bedroom closet for a few minutes, and emerged triumphantly waving a length of electrical fence string. (I feel about the spare bedroom closet the same way I feel about the shed. But that's another column.)
Widdle went back outside and tied that lid shut with every Boy Scout knot he could remember.
The next morning the string was untied and neatly coiled beside the feeder, which was empty. "What the heck could it be?" Widdle fumed.
"Maybe it's Sasquatch," I said, giggling at my own wit… until I saw his face. Then I quickly began baking his favorite cookies.
That day he borrowed a friend's trail camera, which takes photos when motion is detected. He hung it above the feeder, whose lid was now strapped down with approximately a quarter-mile of duct tape.
The next morning Widdle went out and downloaded the photos to a memory card. He forwarded the file to me, without comment. There they were: sharp, color images of a huge raccoon patiently trying to unpeel the duct tape. This coon was gigantic. And hungry.
Later Widdle texted me: "Did u c the big she-coon? I'll get a live trap & relocate her this wknd."
I texted back: "U can't do that. In 1 pic, u can c she's a nursing mother." He didn't reply, and now I'm writing this column.
I don't often defy my husband, but he's not going to relocate Mama and leave her babies to starve. Maybe we'll use the trail cam for that spat, and u can c it 4 yourself.
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I guess it's testimony time.
October 18, 2011, 09:40:32 PM »
I almost lost my faith last month, but I got it back. So what happened exactly? I'll explain.
I'll begin with stating something obvious. I'm a human being, therefore I have a finite mind. I cannot properly understand infinite things, and I struggle to understand absolutes (absolute power, holiness, love etc.) I don't want to make a big martyr of myself, but the fact remains I have suffered quite a bit, and my mind has become somewhat cynical in the process. Likewise, my heart has grown a bit cold. So in short, Aleax = a being with a finite cynical mind and a bit of a cold heart. On to the next paragraph.
For me, the problem with Arminian theology (I'm not even going to touch Calvinism) was that whereas on one hand it didn't really make any sense, on the other hand it kind of did. Let's see: there's an omniscient, omnipotent, all-loving God who "desires" to save all His creation. Then there's a few billion creatures, which countless amounts of church hymns and Bible verses describe with adjectives like "poor, wretched, carnal, broken" etc. Okay, all creation need to be saved. We've got to have someone who's going to be held responsible for the work. Who would be the more logical pick, this omnipotent God or the "poor, wretched and broken" creatures? I think God would be a better pick. I think pretty much everyone agrees with me. Yet, according to Arminianism, in the end of it, it's up to the creatures who, according to Bible, aren't able to amount to pretty much anything on their own. This never really made sense to me.
But like I said, on the other hand I could sort of accept Arminianism. Not the harshest versions of it with sinners burning forever in a literal fire, but some other versions, well, yes, kind of. I remember reading one of those "I went to Hell" accounts. A woman and an escorting angel went to The Bad Place. It was a cavern-like place with very dim lighting. People were sitting around in tables looking sad, and many of them were drinking beer. The woman was surprised at what she saw. She told the escorting angel she had expected Hell to be much worse. The angel told her this was only the first level of Hell, prepared for good and decent people who had behaved well, but died as unbelievers. There were more severe punishments for murderers, warmongers etc. But in the first Hell, people's fate was "only" to spend years in darkness and sadness, in a place completely devoid of God's light and love, having got nothing to do except for feel continuous misery and regret for not making it. Days would feel like weeks, weeks would feel like months, months would feel like years, and years like a lifetime... Every soul entering this Hell was indeed given some money, which could be used to buy beer to alleviate the sadness caused by the regret. Also, in this Hell (and in every other Hell as well) souls were gradually "wearing out", in other words, people were slowly but surely getting annihilated. I didn't take this NDE account in as absolute truth, but after finished reading it, I found myself thinking maybe something like this was justice. After all, none of us really deserved Heaven, but none of us deserved to be punished eternally, either. Perhaps some years of misery followed by annihilation was what the average unbelieving Joes and Janes deserved. After all, the world we know was full of tragedies, so maybe an unhappy ending for 95% people somehow fit in the picture.
Fast forward many years. One day I became 100% convinced Bible teaches UR. At first it made my faith a lot stronger. Finally Christianity made complete sense. Both my mind and heart could immediately accept the teaching. But in the long run, the cynical part of my mind and the cold part of my heart began to take control. Can you imagine 10+ billions of people living forever in an eternal state of bliss and perfect harmony? Maybe you can't. Doesn't it sound a bit utopian? Too good to be true? Greatness beyond human recognition? Life had taught me that if something seemed too good to be true, it usually was. So the cynical part of my mind started coming up with alternate scenarios. What if the Universe was just an experience being run on a super computer? Kind of a cosmic ant farm. Someone just fed people different kind of "God-experiences" and observed their reactions. Muslims would get visions of Mohammed, Christians would get visions of Jesus etc. Gary Amirault would get UR affirming prophecies and Bill Wiese would get very hellish experiences. At some point the Experiment Conductor would decide he's collected enough data and pull the plug on us, and we would just cease to exist. No return of Jesus, no Millennial Kingdom, no GWTJ and most importantly, no eternal life.
At first these seeds of unbelief didn't bear fruits of unbelief, but towards the end of this summer (2011) they started to do so. There was a six week period that was almost devoid of spiritual life. I didn't go to church. I didn't read any Bible. On odd days I tried to pray but wandered off after a few sentences, on even days I didn't even make an attempt. Deep down I believed my prayers to be of zero effect anyway. My thought patterns started to resemble these:
a] ET can't be true 'cos it's not in the Bible -->
b] ED can't be true 'cos it's not in the Bible -->
c] UR can't be true 'cos it's just too good to be true -->
d] Bible is said to be inerrant word of God -->
e] Bible seems to be teach things that aren't true -->
f] Bible probably cannot be trusted -->
g] If the Bible cannot be trusted, it's quite possibly a book of fiction -->
h] If the Bible is a book of fiction, it's quite possible that NO GOD EXISTS.
One Saturday evening I realized I had very few mustard seeds left. Then I made a decision. I would go to church the next day. In case "The Dude" would indeed show up, I would continue seeking. But in case of a no-show, I'd throw in the towel for good.
I didn't feel too good taking a seat on the pew the next day. After all, I thought I was something like 1½ hours short of becoming an atheist. Our pastor greeted the congregation and told us a guesting pastor would give us a speech today. The guesting pastor introduced himself and promised great things would probably happen in the church today, for God, Jesus and the HS were among us. First he gave a sermon. There was some good stuff and some bad stuff in it; I paid attention to the good stuff and just ignored the bad stuff (eternal torchery). But the most important thing happened after the sermon. The pastor announced Jesus had arrived to the church to heal people. He said he could see Him walking among people and laying His hands over them. The pastor gave "a live commentary" of what he claimed he was seeing with his spiritual eyes. "Right now He's laying His hands over this sister with a blue shirt... she's got problems with her heart... In Christ's name, your healing process starts now!" "Now I can see Him touching that brother with a beard, he's got a fractured ankle... In Jesus' name, your healing process starts now!" I witnessed the people spoken of getting heavily touched by something, indeed. Some of them were so moved they started to cry. I was a bit overwhelmed by this and started to hope if Jesus really was in the building He would not touch me, 'cos for some reason I thought I possibly couldn't "withstand" the touch or something. Only a few seconds after this the pastor announced he could sense a spirit of fear in someone who was present, and then he went on stating how perfect love casts out all fear. However, my wish was fulfilled and I wasn't touched.
At the end of the service the guesting pastor and his assistant asked if someone would like to receive intercessory prayer. A lot of people went forward to the altar. Me too; after all, I had suffered from a personality disorder (which produces depression and anxiety -like symptoms) pretty much all my life, so I started having second thoughts about this opportunity to be healed. Eventually my turn came. The pastor (whom I had never seen before and who could know absolutely nothing about me) laid his hands on me and, to my astonishment, described my problems very accurately. Then he announced that my healing process would start. I didn't feel anything immediately. However, later on that day I noticed I smelled of a pleasant scent unknown to me, as if I had been anointed with physical oil. Also I didn't feel any depression or anxiety symptoms. I felt really great and tranquil the rest of the day.
The next morning I woke up feeling rather blue. Immediately the cynical part of me started developing thoughts like "healing process... yeah right." But gradually something started happening in me. Over the past few weeks many people have told me I look surprisingly much better than before. Some have even stated I'm like a completely different person now, in a positive way. I've started caring about my own well-being instead of just accepting being kind of depressed. I picked up gym, which has further aided my healing. On the whole I'm feeling such levels of energy and calmness of mood I haven't felt in years. To conclude my testimony: I believe "The Dude" (as I put it) indeed did show up. And I do retain my faith.
I hope this testimony will be of some help to someone.
(I'd also like to apologize for the numerous grammatical errors I probably made.)
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That's great Aleax, may you continue to be blessed. :)
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Aleax thank you for sharing that with us.
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1 Corinthians 4:11;
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
The above Scripture should come as no surprise to any of of God!
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