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Monday, June 13, 2011
"Starting over?" he asks, full well knowing the answer, his question merely facetious and playful. "Let's see," he says, gaily rubbing his hands together in anticipation of all the activities born of this wiping the slate clean: the pure, unadulterated pleasure he has in going through stacks of papers for dividing into "keep", "toss" and "file away"; combing through the minute details of years' worth of bank statements and bills looking for errors; drawers and closets to be cleared out and straightened in a way that reminds me eerily and, I must say, fearfully of my own father on one of his cleaning sprees. I don't know whether to tremble or to laugh at that odd, disarming glint in his eyes! Crazy eyes? The excitement is palpable in his every word, every movement as he rushes into his office and swings open the door of the cabinet where all of the household files are kept, his only problem is deciding where to start first. He adores the satisfying snap of the elastic band on each cardboard file folder he fills; with the flourish of his marker labeling the contents and his joyous, triumphant shout of "file closed!" he signals one more step taken and I know that he is happy and occupied.
We are on the threshold of a new life, and what better way to begin than to clean up, pare down and start afresh? Take it from me: starting over is much easier when the weight of years of living, collecting and neglect are sorted, organized and lightened. We have done this more times than we are prepared to admit.
The very first time we picked up and went the burden was so much lighter. We had been married for a mere handful of years and were still as poor as church mice. The mover arrived to pack up and load the truck and as he peeked into our tiny 3-room love nest, he looked up at me and asked, "Where is all the rest?" Well, this is it… our meager belongings did not even fill up the company's smallest van. But no matter; happy we were back in those simple days of hand-to-mouth, living on love and laughter.
From France to Italy then back again and in between we had begun to amass what some would describe as worldly possessions, those objects one teaches oneself to hold dear, cling onto as if life depended on the belonging: furniture, clothing, pretty little knick knacks and gewgaws with no obvious purpose except as things of beauty or souvenirs of events long gone. And even so, we had separated out, boxed up and delivered carton upon carton of old clothing to the local church, tossed out what we thought that we could live without, yet…yet… We had started our long journey of accumulating papers, forms, sheets upon sheets of information and administrative paperwork, proof of our existence; the signs and weight of adulthood; the life of expats, parents, the employed, the responsible: stack upon stack, file upon file of paperwork. Not to mention the books! We had grown from half a moving van to one and a half in a mere seven years and thus did we pack up and move it all north.
Our next re-creation was even weightier yet lighter in that we had severed the shackles and bonds to an old, sad life and unhappy situation. We left behind job, schools, house and darkness and carried our belongings westward to a lighter, brighter place, a new, sunshine-filled home that we could make our own, new and better schools that would motivate our sons and life in the (not-so) big city. Husband spent the next year and a half hammering, scraping, painting, pushing around heavy objects. He went through cartons and files, sent plastic trash bag after plastic trash bag downstairs and out to the dump. He rubberbanded old bills, bank statements and Italian administrative forms into neat, concise, labeled piles and stored them away in shiny new file boxes. By the time he started a new job, the apartment was no longer a demolition site, nor were we living as squatters in our own home. A place for everything and everything in its place… And life went on happily. Husband had, at the same time, rearranged the entire neighborhood as well, having gleefully spent his spare time making phone calls and writing letters to city hall, neighborhood committees, local businesses getting everyone to follow the rules, eliminating the delivery trucks who would line up under our kitchen and livingroom windows every morning at 4:30 and keep their engines running until the shops opened at 7, and pushing the city to send police and clean-up crews to our area more often to take care of the local riff raff. Whew! He loves the busy work, he loves the satisfaction of putting everything into nice, neat, predictable order.
And now back to the old drawing board.
So let's go through the steps, it is as easy as 1, 2, 3:
Step 1 : As we have already discussed, the first step is simply a matter of decision followed swiftly by a stroke of the pen, a letter signed, sealed and delivered, the closing of one door and the opening of the next. Easy peasy when one has hopes and dreams, ideals and scruples, confidence and just a bit of craziness. And, all of a sudden, one finds oneself alone with spouse, dog and sons and facing the realities of the situation. And time for a little time off.
Step 2 : This is where one gets one's life in order, physically, mentally, body and soul. Yes, you must be willing to sever the ties to the past and part with certain items that you think that you simply cannot live without. You must learn to slow down, which for some might just be the hardest part!
Now listen and learn:
Relax. Kick back and enjoy your freedom, for the time will soon be upon you when serious thought and planning must commence. Take up a hobby, take long walks in the countryside, paint, draw or cook. Stroll through the city and experience the life of this place you only saw on your way to and from work; get to know the activity that bustles through the streets during normal working hours. Enjoy the sunshine and appreciate that you no longer must spend your days cooped up inside an office under artificial lights. Start a blog, start writing that book, spend afternoons at the swimming pool or outside with your camera. Research your genealogy. Do all those things that the old nine-to-five (or in our case, the old eight-to-eight) forced you to put off. Chill out while you can. One must be totally relaxed, have a mind free of worry in order to move on in all serenity to Step 3. You never know what having a clear head can do to your outlook on life!
Pare it down. File folders, rubber bands and shredder at the ready, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty! Go through your papers, official and otherwise, and toss what you absolutely are not required to hold onto by law or security. 15-year-old medical registration forms or bank cards from another country for a bank account that has long been closed? Receipts for appliances purchased so long ago that you no longer own said appliances? Twenty-year-old phone and electric bills? Baby clothes that no longer fit your babies (who are now in their twenties)? Go on, it is only painful at the beginning. It does get easier, I promise.
Lighten the load. Gather together books never read and lug them over to the closest used bookstore and sell them. Think of all the new books that cash will buy! Dig out all clothes not worn once during the last year…or two, wash them, fold them and carry them over to the Red Cross container. Ah, you will feel not only lighter but better for the anonymous donation.
Go for broke. He may have hung up his suits, cleaned and pressed, alongside the work shirts and silk ties and gone casual, sporting old jeans, ratty sneakers and a sweater but who says that you can't dress up? All those $300 shoes, beautiful jewelry and lovely skirts that were so carefully saved to be worn and shown off at company holiday parties or cocktail soirées given by the mayor? What are you waiting for and who knows what tomorrow will bring? And who says one can't get dressed to the nines just for a trip to the market or the post office? Channel your own Eva Gabor on Green Acres or Ginger on Gilligan's Island… Feel great, look great, you are great!
Sense of humor. Once so sophisticated, stern and respectable, it's time to let one's hair down (figuratively for * ahem * some of us) and let loose. Even through the most difficult times and even when one is in doubt, always keep that silly sense of humor intact, laugh often, laugh out loud and surely laugh at yourself. Jump on the couch, run through the house in your underwear, do imitations and watch every silly, crazy, oddball movie that is for rent on the rent-a-movie channel. Just have fun! Oh, and did I mention laugh?
Early to bed, early to rise… used to be our credo. Like the old farm folk that we had become, we were up with the sun and down and out with the sun as well. Many were the evenings that son walked in at the end of his school day, looking for dinner before his friends began showing up to work and there he would find his parents yawning, dog walked, shutters closed. He would roll his eyes and, between disbelief and disgust, he would mock us for being old. "Did you have your soup? Are you off to bed now?" and sheepishly we would have to say "Yes." Now we revel in the late hours, a second glass of wine in front of a movie. We thrill in the slow, lazy mornings, those glorious grasses matinées, lying late in bed with a book, no obligations, no time card to punch or clock ticking. Only one small dog waiting to be taken out. And even so, Marty is often to be found sound asleep in the sun when we do finally decide to start our day. Ain't life grand?
Let your imagination run wild. Flip through magazines; watch travel documentaries or food programs; stare at that map tacked up on the livingroom wall. Think of all the fabulous places that are on the planet where you could unpack your suitcases and start a new life! Cultures and cuisines to explore, landscapes and peoples once unknown are yours to discover! Think big, dream far and open up to any and all possibilities. Now is the time for dreaming and you never know where it may lead you.
Get in shape! Take long walks or bike rides (even if the bike is stationary and in front of a dvd). Swim. Plan a weeklong trek or biking trip with spouse (oh, yes, more to come on that!). After years of sitting behind the wheel of a car, at a desk or in front of the TV, it is time to lose that spare tire, thunder thighs and aching back and become the best that you can! Over 50? You will soon start to feel – and look – 30 again! And you will be all the more ready for the next battle and Step 3!
Eat well, eat lighter! In our desire to get in shape and feel better, I have put aside the rich tomato sauce and the heavy layer of gooey cheese that usually adorns our homemade pizza and gone green! Gorgeous, sweet roasted cherry tomatoes, nutty grilled strips of tender zucchini, tangy feta, the salty bite of Greek olives and the delicate bitterness of fresh rocket adorn this wonderful springtime pizza. Add the luxury of marinated artichoke hearts, slices of stunning tomates noires, "black" tomatoes, and the snap of pine nuts and the meal is complete. Cool and fragrant, light yet so satisfying, these pizzas make the perfect springtime or summer meal, adorned with the best and freshest of the warm-weather season. Whether dieting, looking for something cool and garden fresh or simply in the mood for something delicious, all that is required is a bit of homemade bread or pizza dough baked thin and crispy or thick and chewy and any of these toppings you desire.
I would love to share this with Susan of Wild Yeast for her weekly Yeastspotting!
Vegetable-topped baked pizza, focaccia or fried piadina
Pizza will be larger and thinner, a crispy base for your salad and toppings.
Focaccia will be smaller and thicker, crispy on the outside but chewy on the inside like bread.
Piadina, rather than baked in the oven, are cooked like pancakes or crêpes in a skillet on the stove and will be much chewier and can be folded around the topping as filling. The piadine can be made as thin or as thick as one likes. The thinner will be easier to eat rolled up or folded while the thicker will be best eaten flat.
This dough recipe makes enough for about 8 dinner plate-sized thin pizzas or 4 family sized focaccie. I won't give quantities for your pizzas, focaccie or piadine as it all depends on how many people you are serving, what kind of base you desire (each diner may choose his or her own) or how thick or thin. And as for toppings, I have listed what I craved, what I wanted. You do the same!
1 tennis-ball-sized round of bread or pizza dough per person/ per serving (find the recipe here or here)
Olive oil for brushing
Fleur de sel and freshly ground black pepper
Roasted cherry tomatoes (instructions follow)
Oven-grilled zucchini strips (instructions follow)
Fresh rocket
Feta cheese
Fresh tomatoes
Jar marinated artichoke hearts
Handful pine nuts, lightly toasted in a skillet or in the oven
Anything that grabs your fancy
To Roast the Cherry Tomatoes:
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
Place about 2 tablespoons olive oil, ½ to 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar or a pinch of sugar in a large glass baking dish. Slice a clove or two of peeled garlic and add to the baking dish. Toss the cherry tomatoes lightly in the oil mixture then sprinkle with a pinch of fleur de sel and a grinding or two of black pepper.
Roast in the oven for 20 minutes then turn the grill on and continue to roast until the tomatoes begin to color, just a couple of minutes. Remove from the oven.
Keep the grill lit, raise the oven rack up closer to the grill and prepare the zucchini:
Rinse and pat dry 2 medium zucchinis, trim and discard the two ends of each. Cut each zucchini in half widthwise. Slice each half lengthwise in thin slices and line up on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Lightly brush each slice with olive oil then grill until tender and beginning to color.
Prepare the pizza or focaccia bases:
Turn the oven temperature (or preheat the oven) to 425°F (220°C) – lower to 400°F (200°C) if using convection or fan-assisted.
On a floured work surface, roll out a tennis ball-sized piece of bread or pizza dough to form a very thin, plate-sized disc. Carefully and loosely roll the dough around the rolling pin and lift onto a parchment paper-lined baking or pizza tray. Unroll. Brush lightly with olive oil and dust with a pinch or two of fleur de sel and freshly ground black pepper.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until puffed and evenly golden brown (carefully lift up a corner and verify that the underside of the pizza is also golden brown).
You can also make small, saucer-sized, thicker rounds of focaccia. The thicker the round of dough, the longer it will take to bake.
Slide the baked pizzas or focaccie onto wooden cutting boards or directly onto individual dinner plates.
For Piadina:
Lightly brush the bottom of a dinner plate-sized skillet with olive oil and heat over medium-high flame or heat. Roll out a piece of dough (size depends on how large and how thick you want each piadina as well as the diameter of your skillet) and brush the top lightly with olive oil. Carefully lift the disc of dough up and place in the skillet, the olive oil-brushed side up. Cooked until the bottom side is cooked and begins to color. Flip and cook the other side. Serve immediately, topped with the toppings.
29 comments:
- Anh said...
Omo! I was totally making this pizza and here it is you made it! :) Love love love! I will have to try soon.
- June 13, 2011 at 2:47 AM
- WiseMóna said...
Oooh - can't wait to read 'Step 3' .........and have pizza bianca too!
it sounds like you are moving in the 'right' direction Jamie. Looking forward to hearing all about your happy travels....even the bike one!
- June 13, 2011 at 2:49 AM
Mmmmwwwwahhhh to you and your new start. Love you!
- June 13, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Hahaha, I know what poor as church mice means... I'm sure your future will bright! I can't wait to read about your next adventures.
That pizza is just fabulous in its simplicity!
- June 13, 2011 at 3:15 AM
- Mardi @eatlivetravelwrite said...
A great recipe and some valuable life lessons there. Can't wait to follow you and JP wherever you choose to go or wherever life takes you! That pizza is wonderful :)
- June 13, 2011 at 3:18 AM
Lovely post...takes courage to do what you and JP are doing...saw this quote yesterday and believe it's appropriate
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." ~Raymond Lindquist .
Enjoy the journey
- June 13, 2011 at 4:27 AM
- Jeanne @ CookSister! said...
Wise words indeed, Saucy... Hving to pack up and clear out my parents home of 40 years earlier this year when my father passed awya, I am filled with a renewed spirit of toss it out & lighten up! We keep so much crap and it does not make us happy - trying hard to fight my pack rat instincts! Pizza bianca is one of my favourites and this one looks divinely light. Yum!
- June 13, 2011 at 5:17 AM
- Ken│hungry rabbit said...
It's never easy to say goodbye when you purge, but the feeling you get is worth every micro-emotional drama. Now we get to read a lot more about your travels
- June 13, 2011 at 5:29 AM
- German said...
My pizza bianca topping: 300g black pudding, 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 2 courgettes. Toss all the ingridients in olive oil and then grill them and you have a great topping for you pizza bianca
- June 13, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
Now I just want to run through the house in my underwear! And, eat this pizza. I love the light and perfect for summer toppings.
- June 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Mary said...
Jamie, I'll be following every step of your adventure. It sounds like it will be a wonderful year. I love your pizza. It sounds delicious and I hope to try it soon.Have a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary
- June 13, 2011 at 6:43 PM
- Marnely Rodriguez said...
Jamie, I love love this entire post. I am copying this "advice" list and printing it out...seriously, your words have such a fantastic way of capturing everything and pulling the reader in. I even laughed out loud when reading the "even if the baki is stationary" part! xoxo
- June 13, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Nuts about food said...
We seem to be stuck in the 9-5 (or 7-7) rut these days, with lots of baggage. But one day...who knows? Beautiful foccaccia.
- June 14, 2011 at 1:48 AM
- mycustardpie.com said...
A wise, wise post. Have to go and start tidying my desk right now!
- June 14, 2011 at 3:40 AM
- Les rêves d'une boulangère (Brittany) said...
Oh delicious food as always! I love the idea of your pizza and the good rich Italian sauce. Also, your advice for living life is just so helpful. It's the way I'd love to live - having fun, being healthy and being in touch with what's important. Thanks.
- June 14, 2011 at 4:56 AM
- Ishay said...
Sage advice Jamie! The bike is where I may have to draw the line though hehe. Looking forward to more snapping of the elastic band as you finalise files and decide on a new direction/s. Enjoy it all!
- June 14, 2011 at 5:59 AM
- A Canadian Foodie said...
Oven roasted tomatoes are an intimate favourite of mine. Beautiful food here to accompany a wise story... but, I missed the new life change you are facing when you say you are on the "threshold" of a new life...
Oh, how I wished I had been as brave as you throughout my life, Jamie. I have been brave, but in other ways. I live to travel, and to have lived around the world - well, France and Italy... is a dream of my own that I put up so high I didn't attempt to attain it until retirement. But, I was a single mom with two gals for most of my life and wanted to offer them some sense of stability when really, I could have up-rooted the three of us and taken us on a life time of adventure. And now, they are grown. I am married to a wonderful man... and my retirement is knocking at my own door. We shall now see.
- June 14, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- girlichef said...
Beautiful! And I love oven-roasted tomatoes, one of my favorites :D
- June 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Elra's cooking and baking said...
Such a marvelous pizza! Will try to remember this next time my family ask for pizza.
- June 14, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Jenn @leftoverqueen said...
This is so exciting for you! Isn't it liberating getting rid of all that stuff?
- June 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM
- Sally said...
I look in the basement: despair. I look in the attic: despair. Years and years, I want to move and leave it all behind. It would be worth it! I wish I had a spouse who loved to throw things out (he does not!) So, I guess I will make your pizza instead, and tackle the rest one day at a time. Look forward to hearing about your new adventures, (somewhat enviously.)
- June 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Jamie said...
@Sally: When we moved 2 years ago from our old apartment to this one we called a junk dealer and he came and took absolutely everything from our overpacked basement and it felt so good you can't imagine. Although eating a pizza like this is even better.
Jenn@LeftoverQueen: Oh it is so liberating but I love it when husband does it :-)
@Valerie A Canadian Foodie: Oh, we could have been a lot braver but maybe that is only looking back at our courage. It always feels like we could do more. But now that the boys are grown we are looking into the really brave options. And there is always time, right?
@lisaiscooking: Ha ha ha I am imagining all the friends now who may be running through their homes in their underwear!
- June 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Deeba PAB said...
MAIL ME ASAP Sistah...I'm back and bursting with curiosity. Also want this comforting pizza {SO MUCH}. Need to eat light here too, begin to exercise...and look at life with new eyes. 2 teens do change the equation of life...& HOW!!
Much love & missing you! xo
- June 15, 2011 at 8:20 PM
- Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen said...
"A new adventure" - I've heard those words all of my married life from my husband. We've moved so many times I've lost track. People talk about putting down roots. For years I wondered if we would ever have any roots to put down.
You have such a lovely way of describing life Jamie. I wish you great happiness and all of the adventures life has to offer for you.
Love your pizza. It has so many choices, just like life.
- June 16, 2011 at 4:14 AM
- Shulie said...
OMGoodness would love to hav ethis pizza bianca for lunch today. & I love arugula! So happy you posted this, bookmarked!
- June 16, 2011 at 7:54 AM
- Rambling Tart said...
Thank you for this, Jamie. I needed it so much. :-) I've taken step One (moved out, left job, bought ticket to Amsterdam) and now I'm smack in the middle of Step 2 and am feeling utterly overwhelmed. :-) But I'm getting there, one stack, box, and file folder at a time. :-)
- June 16, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Heavenly Housewife said...
I so admire you. I get stressed out way too easy. You are a lot like my husband, super adaptable to life's situations. Me? First I throw a tantrum... then another... May you always see life as an adventure!
Beautiful pizza, I love pizza bianca.
*kisses* HH
- June 17, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- asiangrrl said...
Ah, Jamie. I love your can-do attitude and your upbeat determination. And, this pizza. I've been craving pizza lately, and this isn't helping!
- July 30, 2011 at 2:17 AM
- focaccia pizza said...
WOW! This sounds so perfect! It literally contains everything that I love, and I love how you played with the recipe to make it your own. The pictures are amazing. Great job!
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text: Engineering and War is now available in the Synthesis Digital Library Collection Five. This book investigates the close connections between engineering and war and the conceptual and structural barriers that face those who would seek to loosen those connections. It shows how military institutions and interests have long influenced engineering education, research, and practice and how they continue to shape the field in the present. This book will be an excellent resource in the Synthesis Collection Five!


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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Aug. 19, 2014. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the Crime tab.
Zerobel Edward Byrd, 27 driving under suspension second offense
Richard Jackson, 23 unlawful carrying of the pistol
Kurlton George Falconer Sr., 52 criminal domestic violence
Robert Aaron Hutto, 24 failure to appear and pay family court bench warrant
Cole Christopher Hall, 21 simple possession of marijuana, firearm possession with unlawful sale, transport or manufacture of liquor
Tanya Dyches Hoffman, 53 shoplifting first offense sentence
Jerry Jermaine Reed, 27 assault and battery third degree
Quincy Hestoye Horn, 28 hold for North Carolina
Nolan Hardy Mumford, 22 attempted robbery while armed with a deadly weapon
Isaiah Keiron Rouzan, 21 assault and battery second degree
Antonnya Chantreas Coleman, 18 malicious injury to animals or personal property injury value $2,000 or less
Michael Burton Fulmer, 43 trespassing after notice
Ogechi Amadi, 38 criminal domestic violence first offense
James Thomas Owens, 36 shoplifting third offense enhanced, trespassing after notice
Deangelo Antwaun Scott, 22 shoplifting $1,000 or less, trespassing after notice
Christina Ottillie Jones, 28 hold for probation
Billy Ray Cockrell, 34 driving under suspension commitment
Angela Harris, 46 failure to appear and pay as ordered two counts
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a 762x39 by cutting off the back end of the barrel and how do you think it will work if you do.
a 762x39 by cutting off the back end of the barrel and how do you think it will work if you do.
Sounds like it would be a fun conversion, but the head size of the AK round is much larger than the .762 x 25. The bolt wouldn't work without a lot of modification. The pistol rd is also blowback operated instead of gas like the AK.
If you shortened the gas system to the length of a krink's you should be able to make it gas operated. Some filler tube to make the base diameter of the bolt head smaller to fit the 7.62x25's base, and probably lighten the bolt carrier. If you cut down the AK's barrel and re-chambered it, you'd probably have to sleeve the barrel, your other option would be to get a Mosin-Nagant M44 barrel from Numrich, cut, rechamber, and turn down to 23mm to fit the trunnion, or get a .30 cal barrel blank, chamber, and turn down to the proper profile.
Anyway, that's how I planned to do it, and I'll probably use a FAL gas block/ sight on mine to adjust gas as I need it.
7.62x25 is .308
7.62x39 is .311
The shoulder angle on 7.62x25 is 16 degrees 24 minutes
The shoulder angle on 7.62x39 is 17 degrees 30 minutes
The neck length on 7.62x25 is .140
The neck length on 7.62x39 is .240
You would have a smaller bullet in a bigger bore with lots of free bore. Not only is the 7.62x39 bigger the chrome lined barrel will destroy a reamer asap.
Might want to check this thread out:
AMD Build in7.62x25
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The same guy who is producing products for the 2XTM 9mm Soumi AK built one in 7.62x25. I'd ask him or check his website: http://www.lichtenbergresearch.com/
That's a cool link; thanks for the info
Yeah, it's pretty sweet. It was enough to convince me I need to build one.
i made a barrel bushing out of an old belgian combo device to do this 3 years ago on an amd65 donor. 24mm OD is right for an AK trunion. would reinforce the reduced barrel that would be in the front of trunion when you whack the 3/4(?)" off the barrel to get enough chamber for the 762X25 reamer. weld it all together, no worries.


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The 33-year-old - without a club since leaving West Ham in the summer - had been training with Inter with a view to joining until the end of the season.
But a short statement on the Serie A side's website said Carew's fitness was not at the required level.
It read: "FC Internazionale would like to thank Norwegian striker John Carew for the willingness and professionalism he has shown.
"His present physical condition, however, would require him to undergo a rather lengthy period of specific individual fitness work which is not compatible with the needs of the club."
Inter have been looking for attacking reinforcements since Diego Milito was ruled out for the season with damaged knee ligaments earlier this month.


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As more and more K-12 students bring devices such as laptops and smartphones to school, security is becoming a bigger issue, according to Bethlehem's SunGard K-12 Education.
The firm, which supplies schools with educational products, has taken note of the trend and has partnered with a software and technology services company, Impulse Point, to help its clients address that concern.
It's been a known problem on college campuses for some time, according to Jay Reed, senior product manager.
"It has been popular in higher education where students like to take their laptops into class with them," he said. "Now, in the last year or two we're starting to see it in regular school districts on the K-12 level."
Reed said having students or teachers bring in laptops, touchpads or smartphones can be beneficial to a school that can't always afford to equip everyone with the latest in technology. But that benefit can also pose a danger as more and more foreign devices are logging onto a school's network.
"Especially with the kids and their gaming. It's easy for them to become infected with malware and then to pass that along," he said.
The Impulse Point software monitors the privately owned devices that are logged onto a school's network to make sure they are "bug free" and properly secured, so that they don't bring in a virus that could knock out the entire system.


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New to the forum, new to SK.
I have always been a keen writer and love reading good fiction. Stephen King is still new to me but that's great because there's a whole world of reading ahead of me now. I've heard unabridged readings of The Regulators and Desperation (while driving) and loved them. Tuck. Watched Dreamcatcher and am reading the book now on kindle. Enjoying it very much. Looking forward to much more.
Generally find films very frustrating because they seldom come anywhere near the books - so interested to finish Dreamcatcher and see how close it is. So far, it's not too far I think.
I came late to King because I spent much of my time with classics such as Ray Bradbury and John Wyndham (to name but two). Recently watched The Mist which I found more enjoyable than I'd expected so looking forward to reading that after Dreamcatcher. And Christine... and then .... and then .... well there's plenty to choose from.
I especially like the theme of a 'world within a world' - the creation of sub-realities in minds such as Jonesy's little office... brilliant.
Well, bored you enough - should any but the google robots be reading this. Enough said, save for the one single thing that was, perhaps required: Hello!


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Available at bookstores, Also 99 percent of Christians and all the Mainstream Churches sayUniversalism is NOT of the Bible, and is False Doctrine, can they all be Wrong Did anyone read Universal Salvation: The Current Debate, It lets the Reader decide for themselves.
TAFHave you ever thought about "all Israel being saved" and what that means?(Rom.11:26-36) And ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED. (Verse 27) when I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS. (Verse 32) For God hath concluded them ALL in unbelief that he might have mercy upon ALL.If all Israel is going to be saved, I am sure there were Israelites who never repented, who died in their sins. How do you explain this? It says "I SHALL take away their sins", not Israel will have to get rid of their sins, or they will burn in hell. It says "All Israel will be saved and he will take away their sins and have mercy upon ALL. How does one get any torture from this? Why would God save all Isarel including those who never repented, who died in their sins and burn others in hell? CHB
Universalism or Eternal Torment, Which is True, that's in the Eye of the BeholderOnly God Knows for Certain, Only God Knows,
The Bible says Jesus is "The Saviour of the World" but that does NOT imply, Every Single Individual will be Saved, past,present or futureOnly those that Accept him in this Life can be Saved
What about Daniel 12:2- The Two Fates of Mankind
I can't remember if I read this on Tentmaker or elsewhere... but I do like the conversion of Paul as an example of what might/might not be written in the Book of Life. Someone said something to the effect of "You can bet the name 'Saul' isn't in there, but the new man 'Paul' almost certainly is"


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R's boss Harry Redknapp is desperate to strengthen his defence in their battle against relegation from the Premier League and is understood to have made an approach for the Sweden international.
The 29-year-old, who agreed a new four-year deal at The Hawthorns in October, has a £4million buy-out clause in his contract which kicks in this summer but Rangers were keeen to get him on board now.
However, the Baggies have turned down the offer from their Premier League rivals as they regard Olsson as a key member of their squad.
Redknapp has also been linked with a move for Tottenham defender William Gallas.


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A rash of vehicle break-ins throughout the Aiken area this weekend has officers urging residents to lock up their cars and put away their goods.
Break-ins were reported to the Aiken Department of Public Safety on Foxwood Drive, Casaba Drive, Cottonwood Drive, Cottonwood Circle, Partridge Drive, Price Avenue, Banks Mill Road, Columbia Avenue and Lundee Drive. All incidents were reported on Saturday morning.
In nine of the cases, the vehicle was unlocked, according to reports. In two of the incidents, a window was shattered. In another two incidents, the reports did not indicate if the vehicles were secured.
Wallets and purses were reported missing from many of the vehicles, according to reports. A baseball bag and a pair of handcuffs with the owner's name engraved on them were missing from other vehicles.
In all the incidents, the victims reported that their glove compartments or center consoles were opened and rummaged through.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office also reported six vehicle break-ins on Saturday and Sunday on Oak Street and Turnbull Street in Gloverville, Lundee Drive in Aiken, Augusta Road in Warrenville and Jefferson Davis Highway in Graniteville.
At least three vehicles were unlocked, according to sheriff's reports. Money, tools, a stereo and audio equipment were reported missing, while other vehicles weren't missing anything.
No arrests have been made in the city break-ins, said Capt. David Turno, a spokesman for Aiken Public Safety.
Several of the break-ins happened in the area of Lundee Drive, Casaba Drive, Foxwood Drive and Partridge Drive. Police believe the same person or people are responsible for those incidents.
Two break-ins happened on Price Avenue while the victims were at an event at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center.
"Right now, we can't connect the other locations," Turno said. "We don't have anything to tie all those together at this point. It could be one group, it could be multiple groups."
Turno urged residents to take some simple precautions to avoid becoming a victim of a break-in.
"A lot of times, people do leave (cars) unlocked, and it's just an opportunity for people to go through," he said. "We always encourage people to lock their cars and don't leave items of value in plain view."
Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to call CrimeStoppers of the Midlands at 888-CRIME-SC. Callers can remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.
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Inside California's star power fusion facility
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To produce its 500-trillion-watt laser burst, NIF basically uses a bank of capacitors: it charges them for 60 seconds, and then unleashes all of the power in a few microseconds.
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Marc Guillot Puig
The sooner the merrier. I hope they will achieve ignition next year.
mori bund
Thank you! This kind of articles is one of the things I like about ET.
BTW: "Hohlraum" is actually the German term for a hollow area or hollow space.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Ya, I looked it up while writing the story. One of those loanwords that sound awesome, but are perhaps a bit pointless.
Glad ya liked it :)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G44HYQYELXL4I3Q4IAEL6CFKNA OneMore
Reading this article, I feel proud of being a human, a part of modern culture and civilization, regardless of all nasty and ugly things people do sometimes. This is what life exists for: one day, become capable to ignite new stars. Then, to make the whole Space a habitable place. Then, going further, or creating new universes. And hence, ensuring that the life, once emerged, will never be ended by any disaster, be it local or galaxy-scale. I wish I worked there…
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Aw, you made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
You write well, by the way… if you don't work at NIF, what _do_ you do? :)
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I read somewhere that this facility can't do many "firings" in a row because of the lasers heating up the mirrors and lenses. With that limitation, is this proving to be a good approach, or was that just a naysayer's rumor?
Gary Carlos
Didn't Doctor Otto Octavius already do this in Spiderman 2?
Gary Carlos
Didn't Doctor Otto Octavius already do this in Spiderman 2?
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what would happen if you stick your head in there? :)
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Well, as far as you're concerned, it would all be over so quickly that it would feel like nothing — as far as outside observers are concerned… it would be rather messy :P
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Sebastian I will admit, I hated your fan boy Apple articles but this a really cool and informative article! Good job and I just wanted to let you know that I don't hate you as much! ; )


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Originally posted by wrekognize
Grinding is ALWAYS an option, no matter what the game is like (questing or otherwise). You don't have to follow the quests to get to the end-game.
Hell, back in the day, there were leveling guides for WoW where grinding was the quickest, preffered leveling option for those who wanted to level quickly. It may not be the same now, but if you prefer grinding mob after mob rather than doing quests, the options is ALWAYS available to you, whether a slower option or not.
It's in no way "nearly impossible" to grind levels today. Or, it's no harder to grind through levels today than it was to be FORCED to grind through levels for years back in the day.
If you can't stop yourself from questing, then it means the questing is more fun than grinding. Period.
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Perhaps tomorrow will be better.
I used to be against instances myself but there is definitely a good place for them.You have to first realize that there is only so much content to go around per level,yet there is thousands of users per server.This means theere is no way possible to have enough content for all without ruining it for each other.
You get your friends together to go do a quest line inside instance A,but wait there is 20 other groups of friends doing the same content.Now all your named or boss or mobs are dead leaving you with an empty dungeon.Ok well you might have some VERY patient groups that are willing to wait,but hold on,the first groups like the drops,so they are staying behind to also wait and camp the spawns,so nobody will be happy.
The leveling curve is antoher tough subject to fix in a perfect way.First one has to ask is WHY are we worried about the leveling curve?Since when does a level number mean anything?It is just like real life,you don't win by getting older,you don't turn 50 then say "I WIN".it really should not matter if level 1 takes 5 months or level 50 takes 3 months.
A game should be about a constant input of game material that allows the user of a role playijng game to continue forever with content.I feel the reason that level numbers have always been used is that devs lack the effort or ability to create compelling content that keeps players coming back.However using a level number seems to be a sort of carrot on a stick that lures players into coming back to attain the max level for some false feeling of satisfaction.Objectively you cannot see any reason what so ever that a level number gives any satisfaction,after all it is just a number but it seems that soemehow it does lol.
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You might like to check out Rift. I've been playing that lately for the first time, and leveling quite slowly, because I do enjoy questing, and also rifting, which involves a lot of travel time. That's cool, I have no problem with slow leveling, especially since it's not THAT slow in absolute terms - I'm pretty sure I'll be at level cap inside my free month.
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Originally posted by Starpower
I am afraid gamers were happy with that. All that changed to attract the non-gamers. This is one of the reasons why WoW has so much success. It's done with the non-gamers in mind.
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Originally posted by Cuathon
They spent $2m of their own money buying out of their publishing contract with Microsoft because M$ didn't share their vision for the game. This left them short on cash and lost in limbo without a publisher for a while until Sony picked them up and basically fired the entire staff except for whats-his-face (effectively dismantling Sigil), who stayed on as a poster boy but had little to do with the further development of the game.
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Lord - the 'I know better than anyone' complainers strike again with the same ole refrain. Reusable talking points cause nothing makes you happy. Ad Nauseum! Geeeze - give it a rest!
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Originally posted by gordiflu
WoW was created by ex EQ players and not the ones who tried it for a month and quit because they couldn't hack it either.
If you remember back thinking gamers were happy with the way EQ did things then you have a really bad memory or selective memory. That happiness you describe came much later after all the MMO-lite games came out. Then people started longing for the things they helped destroy. As I said in my earlier post. Gamers often ask for things, they have no idea how will impact them in the long run.
Now a whole decade later, we have a gaming generation who was never a part of the MMO golden years, with absolutely no clue of what us old timers are missing from the new breed of MMOs. All they know are instanced instant gratification MMOs where your source of social interaction only comes from your own guild. If you try to explain it to them you are met with a question mark and the comment "just join a guild"
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agree with some of TS points.
Max gear should be almost impossible to get. U should have to choose which part you want and after all its not sure u still should get it. There should be like a 0.09% drop of best items else there is NONE at all epicness wielding them.
And there shouldnt be any fuking patches every 6 month making everyone starting from the same level again. So USELESS and BORING.
I also want to add a point that i want to see in new MMMOS and that is that a lvl 1 should still somehow be useful in highend guilds somehow. Like a 12 year old still could get water in real wars and fix food/water or try make some scratches to the oponents same should be in a good MMOPVPRPG.
Atm and probably for the next coming 5-10 years ill be only playing Strategy games Or play MMO only bcs of RPG because MMO overall is too far behind where i want it to be. Only DarkFall and EvE seems somewhere close.
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Originally posted by Timukas
I would say they're more interested in controling your experience more than anything else. Which, of course, destroys community and emergent game play leaving you playing a sterile, soul-less solo-player MMO.
In short, when control-freaks design MMOs... They just copy WoW, only make it worse with their 'single-player enhancements' that further destroy social involvment...
Take SWTOR... First MMO I've ever felt alone in... Once we got past the first couple of weeks and all the "oh wow" posts, almost nobody, except a few trolls I had to blacklist, would talk.... I'd play four or five hours and there might be 20 senetences... Mostly 'where is the GTM?' or 'where is my trainer' or 'where are the vendors' and the answers to them... And it was no better in guild chat. There'd be 25, 30 people on (in the early days, by the time I quit it was 4 or 5 at most) and nobody would say anything... You try to start a conversation... People were just out soloing... Not interested in community...
May as well play Skyrim. Takes a good 300+ hours to finish everything and you don't have to rent it every month...
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Well I'm a pretty damn old gamer (my first CRPG was Temple of Apshai on the Atari 800 ~ 1981) And I don't like some of the new trends but I'm also not looking at the "good ole days" with rose colored glasses. Some of the new "dumbing down" is an improvement over some bad old s--t.
Take instances. Before instances popular dungeons were a clusterf--k of selfish individuals and groups griefing each other's chance to do what they went there to do. It was similar to what you still see these days during the opening days of any MMO with people competing to tag that one named mob that is required for that quest chain...except 10 times worse.
Trading in the early days? You spent hours spamming chat channels because AHs didn't exist and the act of trading itself was risky and involved the very real possibility of being scammed... which would be followed by another hour of insults in chat channels because the only recourse to being ripped-off was to try to ruin the reputation of the scammer on that server.
Death Penalties... corpse runs to recover your equipment were time consuming PITA which resulted in further deaths since you were trying to survive the area that killed you in the first place except with less gear and death penalties now...no thanks.
Otoh I detest the end-game gear sets that everyone must have--usually one for PVE and one for PVP--that all look the same. I find this inevitable equality boring as hell. There is just no randomness to gear or loot any more for fear that those who didn't luck out with their drops will whine and complain abouy it being unfair...forced equality for the masses is just boring. Worse still, there's just no individuality.
Staged PVP battlegrounds with scoreboards and rewards. There has never been a better PVP system than what existed in DAOC in the early days. People PVP'd for fun and prestige, not because you got to have the ultimate PVP uniform. You'd think the evolution of MMO PVP would have meant more of that but perhaps with better technology resulting in less lag in battles with 300+ players. Instead they've opted for importing the limited scenarios from FPS games into MMOs and called it PVP...because, technically it is player vs. player. It's also a repetitive boring activity that bears no resemblance to real fluid PVP. It's about as much fun as reading "Goodnight Moon" 72 times because it's your fave... it works for 2-year-olds I guess.
The stagnant sameness of all "Big Budget" MMOs these days is really depressing for fans of the genre. It's just like the bad old days of movies when the big studios dictated what you could see in 99% of theaters. Sure you could find the odd good, usually foreign, independent movie, but you had to travel to some roach-infested little theater somewhere to find it....then along came Miramax. What the MMO genre needs is some ballsy guy like Harvey Winestein to come along and make our own version of Miramax. There are some good creative MMO ideas out there but they're getting burried due to lack of development and promotional cash. They're getting released way too early because they've run out of development cash and consequently attract only the most devoted of hardcore fans...imagine if they had real $$$ backing them...
Originally posted by MosesZD
You can't play flashpoint in Skyrim.
You can't run a dungeon with 4 others in a single player RPG. You can't run a 10/25 man raid solo. You can't run a battleground without other players.
On the flip side, what is this obsession with chatting in a MMO. If you want to chat, chat with your guildies or go to a chat room. MMORPG is a GAME. And certainly when i am in a raid, there are LOTS of conversation about the raid, and what we should do to beat the boss.
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All those things you slam, pretty much required you to make contact with another human being, forcing you to be social. Often with somebody you didn't know beforehand.
As "horrible" as those mechanics where, they also helped foster community. I played EQ extensively for many years since it's launch and griefing happened but it wasn't an everyday every moment occurance as you want to paint it as. The community was pretty good at policing itself. Sure those mechanics had it's problems but there's no denying it brought people together.
As much as those mechanics are archaic and punishing, taking those mechanics away has just made everybody more indiffrent towards games and their fellow players today. If that's a good or bad thing I let you decide for yourself. I know what the answer is for me
Originally posted by Starpower
Any "forcing" is a bad thing. I don't see why forcing one to social is a good thing.
This "community" thing is way overblown.
If the core game is not fun, no amount of community can save it from being a bad game. I would much rather to play a good game with my friends than trying to be friends with everyone in the game.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
Part of it is some of the complaints about the Find Dungeon cross realm. You don't know the people on your server, and there may be a higher chance people stealing(rolling need or booting player through vote to get what they want). Now granted there were kill stealers in games like EQ. They were also generally outcast, at least on my server.
Course the main problem with non instanced raids and such is the "elite" guild basically claiming "ownership" of the zone. Saw that a few times. Regardless many, perhaps even most MMO players don't care about getting to know the community and only care about getitng the shinyist piece of gear before everyone else. Since they already have their guild they've been a part of for years, they have no interest in anyone else. So in the end....meh no clue. I'm sure more standard themepark mmos will come out, and they will be called "WoW clones" and garbage. If a updated EQ like game came out it would be called an "Asian grindfest" and garbage as well. Then there will be the people who enjoy the game.
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Originally posted by Starpower
Horrible is horrible and good riddance. I guess "joint mysery fosters community" could appeal to masochists.
I never had any problem making new friends and feeling a true sense of community by having fun playing well-implemented aspects of an MMO together.
It's the emphasis on individual rewards that hurts communities, First among those is the accumulation of PVP currency by repetitive battleground runs in order to acquire the needed PVP gear with over-emphasized stats in order to be competitive at the next level of PVP BGs... ad nauseum.
When stats from gear becomes the determining factor in your ability to compete or complete content, self-gearing becomes the predominant goal and activity...which is a self-centered solitary pursuit. Even if you have to group to obtain the better gear, you're still essentially pursuing a self-centered goal and the grouping is viewed as a necessary inconvenience to be accomplished as quickly as humanly possible. That's the community killer, not the lack of crappy mechanics that existed in the early days of MMOs.
Minimize the influence of stats on gear--hell, get rid of it alltogether (except perhaps armor value) and just use it for looks. Develop proficiency through use of skills (somehwat like Skyrim) and provide meaningful group objectives and rewards for participation (for example, a better version of Relic buffs from DAOC.)
Communities are fostered by designing fun group activities--especially if the activity itself is its own reward. Corpse runs, crappy trading interfaces and kill stealing don't do anything of the sort.
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Originally posted by Iselin
In which universe half of what you say is even remotely possible and in which universe the other half already isnt offered by non-mmorpg games?
In which universe gear grind is self centered and skill grind isnt?
Flame on!
Originally posted by Kendane
I would take LFD cross realm any day.
1) So i don't know people on my server. They are strangers ANYWAY and i have enough friends on my server. Is there really a need to know people on my server?
2) Yes, there is a higher chance that others can ninja loot. But the sword cut both ways. You can ninja too. The rules are symmetrical. I do not see that as a down-side. In fact, i do not have to play nice when i dont have too. It is a positive.
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I hated hipsters before hating hipsters was cool.
umm.... no. i wouldn't play a game that requires such a time investment. progressing so little isn't progress, it is (word of the day) stagnation. i have better things to do with my time than play a game that's exactly the same thing, over and over, for years. that's why i quit runescape, because i grew up and had better things to do with my time. that's (one of the reasons) why i'm excited for GW2, because i'll actually be able to hit cap without becoming a souless hobgoblin. i want my life, and i want my games. i shouldn't have to trade one for the other.
and to turn your idea around (the one that runs: why have a level cap if people just blast through to it): why have a level cap if the entire game is just a slog to get to it? sorry, but i want to play a game where i do things, not a game where i kill a million mobs to get one new spell.
finally: just because it takes a long time doesn't mean it's hard. i agree: mmos these days are easy, but not because you can hit cap in a week. that has everything to do with mechanics, and nothing to do with an unholy grind who's mere implementation should be grounds for being slapped with a live carp.
the grind is dying, thank the gods. may it never return.
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Joined: 1/17/12
Originally posted by nariusseldon
1) if you have enough friends you should feel no need to use any finder tool :)
2) the loot is just a cherry on the top, the annoying symetry is more in the area of pulling your weight, showing any interest in what is happening and general behavior. A single server is just a smaller pool where you can more easily remember the "annoying" and "not annoying" people, and maybe contact (or ignore) them directly.
Flame on!
Originally posted by Banaghran
1) I do NOT want a large group of friends so that i have enough to form a group at any time i want to play. A few friends are enough. Too many is a hassle. And even if you have 10 friends, can you guarantee a full group any time you want to play? Plus, LFD teleport me & my friends to the dungeon. There is no reason not wanting it.
2) No need for a single server. If i don't like the group, i quit. Most people are bearable. I always kicked undergear people who cannot pull their weight. If a group is wiping on trash, i am out of here. In fact, it is EASIER with random people since you don't have to worry about they remembering you rage-quiting.


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IRVINE, Calif. - Cal State Northridge, the 2009 Big West Champions on both the men's and women's side, dominated the conference's postseason awards as head coach Don Strametz, De'Shawn Waters, Rolando Felizola and Precious Watkins were all honored. The Matadors claimed five of the eight postseason awards which were handed out by the conference office on Wednesday, May 20.
Strametz added to his impressive list of accolades by being named Big West Men's and Women's Coach of the Year in 2009. He has helped lead the Matador women to four consecutive conference championships (sixth overall) while helping the men to their third Big West crown in the last five years (fourth overall).
Strametz, along with assistant coaches Avery Anderson, Bridget Pearson and Seilala Sua, were instrumental in Northridge winning 13 individual championships at the outdoor championships. In addition, the Matadors posted nine NCAA Regional qualifying marks during the meet.
The pair of coaching honors make 10 Big West Coach of the Year honors for Strametz since Northridge began competing in the conference in 2002.
Junior De'Shawn Waters earned the Men's Track Athlete of the Year and senior Rolando Felizola was named Men's Field Athlete of the Year marking the first time in Big West Conference history that one school has swept both awards.
Waters, a junior from Hercules, Calif., won Men's Track Athlete of the Year in his first season at Northridge. He easily won the 100 meters in a time of 10.53 and then won the 200 meters by the slimmest of margins. Waters ran 21.449 to edge UC Santa Barbara's Jason Newland (21.450). Waters also ran the second leg of the Matadors' 4x100 relay team that also captured a Big West title in a time of 40.55. Waters owns a pair of NCAA Regional qualifying times, 10.42 in the 100 meters and 21.42 in the 200 meters and will also represent Northridge in the 4x100 relay.
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When Sanford native Wendy Siegner Cox adopted a 13-month-old girl from Russia, the match struck many as divine intervention.
"People could not have been kinder or warmer to us; everyone was positive about us adopting this little girl ... ," said Cox, now a Minneapolis resident.
"They thought God's hand had to be on the process for a family from the United States to find their child on the other side of the world," she said.
Now 11, Cox's daughter, Meredith, leads a healthy, normal life despite being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — a connective tissue disorder that affects her joints. Reflecting on how the girl became a part of her family, a process which required two trips to Russia, Cox called it "one of the best experiences of my life."
But for other American families, welcoming a Russian child into their fold may no longer be an option. A new law signed Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which takes effect on Jan. 1, bans U.S. adoptions of Russian children.
Cox said she heard the news "with extreme sadness and hurt for all families in the process of adopting, and the children institutionalized there that are not being given a chance to have a good home."
Cox said after a difficult pregnancy with her son, she had decided to adopt her next child. That process was supposed to take place in the Ukraine, she added, but that plan did not reach fruition.
"It's a very discouraging thing; it's a long process, and so much of yourself goes into moving this process forward," she said. "For the process to shut down, it's cruel."
According to Reuters, Americans have adopted more than 45,000 Russian children since 1999, including 962 last year. The news agency also reports that more than 650,000 children are deemed orphans in Russia, and of those, 110,000 lived in state institutions in 2011, according to government figures.
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As for her own daughter, Cox said she continues to celebrate the anniversary of her adoption and to honor her Russian heritage.
Meredith is hoping to someday attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and looking forward to a bright future, according to her mother, made possible with world-class medical care from the nearby Mayo Clinic. Cox said she admires her daughter's "amazing spirit," athleticism and commitment to activities such as swimming, her church group and volunteer work.
And Cox said had Meredith remained in the orphanage, "I'm afraid of what would have happened."
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French parliamentarians have occasionally pushed for the law to be set aside, and a senator from the opposition UMP party recently asked again for the government to do just that.
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