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Announced yesterday, Pete Dolan, Director of Track & Field and Cross Country, signed the year's first prospective student-athlete for the 2006-2007 academic year. Katie Voigtlander, a senior distance runner out of Burlingame High School in Northern California, signed her National Letter of Intent earlier this week at her home.
Voigtlander, has had a great Cross Country campaign in 2005, she recently finished 2nd at the Central Coast Section Div. III Finals on the famed northern California course, Crystal Springs in Belmont. Her time of 18:19 on Saturday, over a hilly 2.89-mile course, was the 5th fastest time of the day in C.C.S. and the 7th fastest time of 2005. She was also 2nd at the 2005 Peninsula Athletic League finals in `05. During her Junior Track campaign, Voigtlander ran a quick 10:28.43 in the 3000m and an 11:15.56 3200m personal best. Her 3200m mark was the 6th fastest junior mark in the state of California.
Like many other long distance runners in the United States, Voigtlander began her running career to get in shape for soccer, but also to get in shape for downhill ski racing, a passion of hers growing up. Expressing the sentiments of probably many runners in the U.S., she stated, "I didn't really know what I was doing, but I was pretty good at it...I had an amazing coach and team...the 7 girls on the cross country team became my big sisters right away. There was just something amazing about this sport that I had never experienced in any other sport. Both boys and girls became like one giant family."
On attending UC Santa Barbara, Voigtlander, a well-balanced student-athlete that characterizes many on the Gaucho squad, commented, "my decision to attend UCSB as a student athlete was that it seemed like a place I could achieve all my goals. Academics and athletics have always been a big part of my life. UCSB offers great aspects of both. UCSB is one of the top public schools in the nation and I know it will challenge me academically. On the athletic side I fell in love with the team, it just felt like the right fit...the program also has a good history, I did my homework and UCSB has had some amazing athletes."
Before beginning her career as a UC Santa Barbara Gaucho, Voigtlander will conclude her senior Cross Country season for Burlingame H.S. at the California State Championships in Fresno, CA where she hopes to be a medal contender. She has set school records for her league course and the C.C.S. course and hopes to set another one at the State Meet course at Woodward Park. Voigtlander has also set many goals for her track season, which she comments, "I will work very hard to achieve them."
She is also looking forward to her final year working with the Associated Student Body as the Treasurer and different student and community groups she has been involved with like the Student Impact Team, which helps to bring awareness to issues such as sexual harassment and drunk driving. Voigtlander currently holds a 4.33 GPA and expects to graduate with honors.


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Small dolls which have exchangeable hair and clothes.
Each 15cm tall.
You don't need a sewing machine.
Maybe kids can do.
Making is almost the same as mini cat.
Materials are felt, polyester fiberfill, beads and threads.
Sew beads for eyes. The mouth is embroidery thread.
Its body is flat.
The back is open.
If you have interest, here are patterns.
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Other clothes.
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Simple stuffed cat which is trial work. 19 centimetres height.
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I put polyethylene wires in it. And it can stand and sit or lie.
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View our new "On this day" sections for May.
1930 Pluto is given its name – it was chosen by a vote from the members of the Lowell Observatory, where the dwarf planet was discovered, after having been suggested by an 11-year-old girl in Oxford, Venetia Burney
- 1910 Birth of J Allen Hynek, the astrophysicist and ufologist who served on three US Air Force studies of unexplained aerial phenomena
1952 The De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, makes its first flight
- 2000 Access to accurate GPS readings is opened up to civilians – previously it was restricted to the United States military
- 1802 Birth of Heinrich Gustav Magnus, notable for describing what is now known as the Magnus effect – that a spinning object moving through a fluid experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion
- 1939 Birth of Sumio Iijima, the expert in electron microscopy who popularised research into carbon nanostructures
1715 A total solar eclipse occurs – there will not be another visible from London for 900 years
- 1892 Birth of George Paget Thomson, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for discovering that the electron has wavelike properties
- 1902 Birth of Alfred Kastler, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966 "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"
- 1933 Birth of Steven Weinberg, who, with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow, unified the electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force. The three were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979
1675 The construction of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich is ordered by King Charles II
1921 Birth of Arthur Leonard Schawlow, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for their work on laser spectroscopy
1872 Birth of Willem de Sitter, known for a paper coauthored with Albert Einstein in which the existence of dark matter is first postulated, as well as for his model of a universe without matter that is exponentially expanding
- 1916 Birth of Robert H Dicke, who, independently of George Gamov, predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background, and who invented the lock-in amplifier
1952 Geoffrey WA Dummer of the Royal Radar Establishment presents the idea of the microchip to the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, DC
- 1958 Birth of Mark G Kuzyk, notable for his observation of what is now known as the Kuzyk quantum gap – a discrepancy between the theoretical maximum strength with which light interacts with matter and that actually observed in real molecules
- 1927 The first attempt is made at a non-stop transatlantic flight by Charles Nungesser and Francois Colil; their biplane the White Bird disappears
1927 Birth of biophysicist Manfred Eigen, who was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter for studies of fast chemical reactions
1960 The American nuclear submarine USS Triton becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate the globe underwater, following the same course as Ferdinand Magellan but remaining submerged
- 1788 Birth of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who made significant contributions to the theory of wave optics and who invented the Fresnel Lens used in lighthouses
1871 Birth of Frank Schlesinger, the astronomer who pioneered the use of photographic plates, rather than direct visual observation
- 1918 Birth of Richard Feynman, best known for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics, for which he received the 1965 Nobel Prize along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
- 1924 Birth of Antony Hewish, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize along with Martin Ryle for their development of aperture synthesis in radio astronomy and its use to discover pulsars
1941 The Z3, the first programmable, fully automatic computer in the world, is unveiled in Berlin by the civil engineer Konrad Zuse. It was destroyed in 1943 during aerial bombardment of the city
- 1965 The Soviet probe Luna 5 crashes on the Moon
1861 John Tebbut discovers the comet C/1861 J1, one of eight classified as "great comets" – those that become very bright – during the 19th century
- 1880 Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway in Menlo Park, New Jersey – the town has since been renamed Edison in his honour
1973 Launch of the US space station Skylab
- 1899 Birth of Pierre Victor Auger, after whom Auger Electrons are named – those occasionally emitted when another electron fills a vacancy in an inner shell of an atom
1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his third law of planetary motion ("the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit" ), which he'd previously rejected
- 1859 Birth of Pierre Curie, winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize jointly with his wife Marie Curie and with Henri Becquerel for their research on radiation
- 1951 Birth of Frank Wilczek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize together with David Gross and H David Politzer for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in interactions involving the strong nuclear force
1891 The International Electro-Technical Exhibition is held in Frankfurt, Germany. Among the demonstrations was the first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electricity – the most commonly used form today – which was generated more than 100 miles away in Lauffen
- 1950 Birth of Johannes Georg Bednorz, who would share the 1987 Nobel Prize with K Alex Müller for their discovery of high-temperature superconductivity
1969 The Soviet probe Venera 6 descends into the atmosphere of Venus and sends back what data it can before being crushed by pressure
- 1983 The US Department of Energy releases documents describing the world's largest mercury-pollution event at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the successor to the institution that hosted the Manhattan Project during the second world war
1850 Birth of Oliver Heaviside, the physicist and engineer who introduced complex numbers into the study of electrical circuits
- 1910 Earth passes through the tail of Halley 's Comet
- 1958 A world airspeed record of 1404 miles per hour is set by an F104 Starfighter jet
- 1969 Apollo 10 is launched as part of the programme aimed at sending humans to the moon
- 1974 India conducts a successful nuclear weapon test, making it the world's sixth known nuclear power
- 2005 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Pluto has two more moons, Nix and Hydra, in addition to its largest satellite Charon
1918 Birth of Abraham Pais, whose ideas, along with those of Murray Gell-Mann, led to the idea of the quantum number now called "strangeness"
- 1961 Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to perform a flyby of another planet as it passes Venus; however it fails to return any data having previously lost contact with Earth
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1792 Birth of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, after whom the Coriolis Effect is named
- 1921 Birth of Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist who contributed to the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated – the 50MT Tsar Bomba – and who was later awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize after working to halt nuclear testing
- 1946 A criticality accident occurs with a plutonium weapon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US; the resulting radiation kills physicist Louis Slotin
- 2010 A spacecraft driven by a solar sail is launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; it would fly past Venus a year later in the first successful demonstration of this means of propulsion between planets
1906 Orville and Wilbur Wright are granted a US patent for their aeroplane design
- 1908 Birth of John Bardeen, a double winner of a Nobel Prize for Physics – the first being the 1956 award, jointly with William Shockley and Walter Brattain, for their invention of the transistor, and the second, in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their work on superconductivity
1844 In the US, the first communication on a telegraph line is made by Samuel Morse from Washington, D.C. to his assistant in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1686 Birth of Gabriel Fahrenheit, the inventor and thermometer-maker after whom the temperature scale is named
240 BC Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion for the first time in recorded human history
- 1865 Birth of Pieter Zeeman, who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect – the phenomenon in which spectral lines split into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field
- 1921 Birth of Jack Steinberger, who discovered the muon neutrino along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwarz, for which the trio were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1988
1970 The Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144 aircraft becomes the first commercial transport plane to travel faster than twice the speed of sound
- 1667 Birth of Abraham de Moivre, whose eponymous formula connects complex numbers with trigonometry
- 1897 Birth of John Cockcroft, who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize with Ernest Walton after the pair became the first to split the atom
585BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted, during what would become known as the Battle of the Eclipse between the Medes and the Lydians. The precise knowledge of this date, combined with the ability to calculate the dates of other eclipses, allows other historical dates to be determined accurately
- 1998 Pakistan begins a series of nuclear-weapon tests
- 2002 The Mars Odyssey spacecraft discovers ice
- 1872 Birth of Marian Smoluchowski, the pioneer of statistical physics
- 1879 Birth of Milutin Milanković, known for his theory of ice ages that suggested a relationship between long-term variations in the Earth's climate and changes in its orbit
1919 Arthur Eddington's observation of light from a distant source being bent by the Sun, during a total solar eclipse, confirms the predictions made by Einstein's general theory of relativity
- 1794 Birth of Johann Heinrich von Mädler, the astronomer who first mapped the Moon and Mars
1966 The Surveyor 1 spacecraft is launched. It will later become the first to land on an extraterrestrial body when it touches down on the Moon
- 1423 Birth of Georg von Peuerbach, one of the first Western observational astronomers
- 1908 Birth of Hannes Alfvén, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics and after whom Alfvén waves are names
- 1934 Birth of cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, in March 1965
- 1931 Birth of John Robert Schrieffer, joint winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize along with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper for the microscopic theory of superconductivity, now known as BCS theory


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Weston Wear is a unique clothing line for women designed by Julienne Weston who has spent her life in the fashion industry. She's done everything from working as a seamstress on Start Search to doing costume design for Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and most recently, she's developed her line of clothing for the "sophisticated urban woman". Crafted in San Francisco, Weston Wear features romantic silhouettes, vibrant, globally-inspired prints, and an array of pieces that will take you from 9-5 style to cocktail chic and everything in between. Weston Wear is carried by Anthropologie and is also available in hand-picked boutiques throughout the country as well as through the Weston Wear website.
Weston Wear's new Pre-Spring 2013 collection launches today and it is filled with beautifully bold patterns, flirty dresses, and versatile separates. I am loving everything! Below, you'll find a few of my current favorites.
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I asked my children what they thought I should say about this topic and they chuckled. "Introducing? Really? Is there that much to it? Here's a computer mouse. Use it. You're old enough for an iPod now. Have fun learning to use it."
Most of these 4 Moms topics started out as reader questions, and I'm sorry I don't have the full context of this one because I'm unsure exactly what the reader wanted to know about. Teaching children to use the computer? Deciding when to allow them supervised or unsupervised access to various pieces of electronics? Establishing and changing boundaries as they get older?
When it comes to how to use a computer, our children seem to be born knowing how. Maybe that's because I tend to nurse my babies in front of the computer. Don't judge me. Can you type 35 words/minute with one hand and use a mouse or touchpad completely ambidextrously? If you're a nursing mom, you probably can.
From the time they're toddlers I allow them to have a few minutes every now and then on the computer. We have very few games installed since computers are mainly for work in our house, but Paintbrush and Soup Toys are favorites. Although they show up in our home every now and then, I strongly dislike quest-type games that deeply engross children and lead them to beg for just 20 more minutes. I like games that challenge the mind, require creative thinking, and can be started and stopped with minimal notice and no emotional trauma.
When it comes to other types of technology, I think my children's comments in the beginning of this post are right on. A new iPod, Kindle, cell phone or digital camera may require some boundaries, but certainly no lessons. They'll figure that out quickly enough on their own. If it takes some work, they'll learn perseverance and critical thinking in the process. If your kids give up and decide it's too hard, you can mail your electronics to us because I'm sure I have a kid or 3 that will be happy to learn to use your device.
A bigger challenge for us is helping them maintain a healthy relationship with their devices once they've become personally involved. Sometimes I feel more like a chaperone than a parent. "You've spent enough time with your iPod today. The two of you do not need to be alone right now. It's time to pay attention to the rest of us."
Now we're talking about boundaries. That's an entirely different subject, and a difficult one. I think boundaries need to be based (at least in part) on an individual child's judgment, maturity and ability to self-govern. What is appropriate for your child may not be for mine, and vice versa. For example, we have generally allowed our children to get iPods around 10-12yo, though their songs must be individually approved for the first couple of years and music collections are subject to inspection at any time without warning.
We like them to ask before using their iPods not because we want to control every moment of their day, but because we want to have an idea of just how heavily they use them. Are they listening to music every now and then during a tedious job, or are they constantly immersing themselves in it? This requirement is dropped when we see good choices and good habits consistently exercised.
We also like them use just one earbud when they are around other people, so that they aren't tuning out the world around them. This, I think, is just common courtesy.
Other electronics and forms of entertainment are similarly managed. The history-loving child was allowed to read freely as long as she was not neglecting other duties. while the children who showed a strong preference for fluff were required to get permission before reading so we could monitor just how much fluff they were stuffing between their ears. The one who uses the cell phone as an alarm in the morning or for back-up while babysitting is allowed more freedom with it than the one who uses it to text friends when she should be doing school or chores.
How would you answer the question? Do you introduce your children to technology? How do you create boundaries, and when do you relax them?
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When it comes to the active vs. passive investing debate, to me, it's a no-brainer: I'm a passive guy.
My entire portfolio consists of a couple of broad-market stock index funds and a bond fund. I don't own any individual stocks and zero funds that try to beat the market. I stay invested in good times and bad and I ignore my portfolio as much as possible, except for annual rebalancing. (In practice, this means I look at it once a week. Thanks a lot, Mint.)
I invest this way not (just) because I'm lazy, but because I believe the evidence is overwhelming that a passive approach will outperform the vast majority of active investing strategies over time. Yes, over any given period, some active funds will outperform by a little and a select few will outperform by a lot — they'll sail through a bear market smelling like honey.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to know ahead of time which will be the winning funds and you might end up selecting one of the big losers. Oh, and index funds cost less. That means more money for me and less for a money manager.
As Rick Ferri puts it in his book The Power of Passive Investing, "There's only a low probability that any fund will achieve superior returns. While it's possible, it's not probable."
Or take it from author Bill Bernstein: "The debate between active and passive management is like the debate between astrology and astronomy," he said in a recent interview.
As you can tell, I'm convinced of the superiority of index funds and passive investing to the point of smugness, so I thought it would be good for me to talk with someone who fundamentally disagrees. Jerry Webman is the chief economist at OppenheimerFunds and author of the new investing guide MoneyShift: How to Prosper from What You Can't Control. He dedicates an entire chapter of his new book to building an intelligent argument against my style of investing, and the book is witty and engaging.
Webman and I didn't have time to hash out the entire classic active/passive investing debate, so I wanted to focus on one of his favorite topics: emerging markets. These markets now account for about one-quarter of the stock market wealth outside the U.S., and we both agree that it's important for a portfolio to own stocks from emerging economies like Brazil, India, and China. We disagree about the best way to do it, though.
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MoneyShift argues that most investors, including index fund investors, are missing out on buying opportunities in emerging markets. "Emerging markets is one of the places where it's easiest to make the case for bottom-up active management," Webman told me. "You really do have many companies that are not carefully followed, maybe not well-understood, and a careful manager takes the time to figure out what the real market for the company is, and how they fit with the regulatory environment in which they have to work, which might not be fully evolved."
"It would be foolish to surrender the emerging markets portion of your portfolio to a dumb index fund," Webman argued. "I want somebody who's taking a really careful look at it," he said. "There's a lot more value to be added by someone who'll go and do the research in less-understood and less-invested markets."
To put it another way, it's hard to learn anything new about an S&P 500 company. Those are the 500 biggest U.S. companies — everyone has heard of them and thousands of analysts scrutinize them all day long.
But who's keeping an eye on, say, the Peruvian stock market? One manager who takes the time to understand Peru and how to read annual reports from its companies might be able to make a ton of money from insights that would be totally lost on a U.S. stock analyst.
This argument seems intuitively correct. However, I remembered the same argument being made about investing in small companies (aka: "small-caps") in the United States: the market was less efficient, there was less public information about the companies and the stocks traded less heavily, which meant more opportunities for active managers to make money.
But it didn't actually work out that way. As Standard & Poor's put it, "over the last decade, SPIVA has consistently shown that indexing works as well for U.S. small-caps as it does for U.S. large-caps." SPIVA is Standard & Poor's Indices vs Active Funds scorecard, which twice a year compares the performance of passive index funds with actively managed funds.
More on that in a moment…
Webman said there are important differences between U.S. small-caps and emerging market companies: In the US, "you do have financial reporting that's well-established. You have good protection for minority shareholders and you have all of the things that you might not have in an emerging market company."
I wondered whether SPIVA could help answer this question: in emerging markets, is it better to own a dumb passive index fund that buys all the companies it can, good and bad, or to turn your money over to an expert manager who carefully researches and selects the best companies from each country?
The answer
Well, it's not even close. Over the five-year period ending in December 2011, only 17% of actively managed emerging markets funds outperformed their benchmark index. Since an index fund hugs the benchmark index as closely as possible, buying the index fund would have put you near the top of the heap. This is typical: it's difficult to find any five-year period in any investment category where the index fund didn't trounce most of the competition.
Webman is skeptical of this kind of raw statistical analysis. "I worry about looking at averages," he said. "It turns out a lot of so-called active managers aren't so active. And it does look like results are better for active managers who really actively manage their portfolios." He added that just looking at the number of funds that outperformed doesn't tell you how much money outperformed. Maybe those few winning funds are actually the biggest funds, which means the average active investor is doing just fine.
Again, this argument sounds reasonable: who cares if most funds don't beat the index? As long as I can identify a fund that will, I'm golden.
Unfortunately, there's no evidence that there's any way to identify the best performers ahead of time, aside from sheer luck. SPIVA also measures performance persistence and the results are appalling. "Very few funds manage to repeat top-half or top-quartile performance consistently," says the report, which some consider an understatement. For example, in U.S. small-cap funds, less than 4% of funds stayed in the top category five years in a row. They didn't look at emerging markets funds, but there's no reason to expect a different result.
High bias
Let's stipulate that everyone involved in this conversation is biased. Jerry Webman is an executive at a Wall Street firm that sells actively managed mutual funds, S&P is in the business of selling indexes, and I have my life savings in passively managed index funds and am unlikely to go out dragging the river for convincing evidence that I'm investing like an idiot.
If you think Webman is right and I'm wrong, however, I'd like to hear about it.
And let me give Webman the last word: "I think what makes markets is, we're all going to look at several different kinds of conflicting evidence and come to different conclusions." I couldn't agree more.
Matthew Amster-Burton is a personal finance columnist at Mint.com. Find him on Twitter @Mint_Mamster.


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I gave up several times before I eventually found the answer on FamilySearch.org.
FamilySearch.org yielded birth record and death record extracts for Sydner D. Richards (d. 1883), the son of George Richards and Mary Commons Richards.
Of course it says Sydner! Amazing how easy a gravestone is to read when you already know what it says.
son of
Aug. 20, 1883
6 [Ms. &] 6 Ds.
The short epitaph, barely legible, is from Luke 18:16, Suffer little children to come to me.
I suspect a transcription error with the birth record. The death record indicates he was born in 1883, as does his gravestone. Aged 6 [Ms.]
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Union Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio


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South African Journal of Surgery
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5151
versión impresa ISSN 0038-2361
S. Afr. j. surg. vol.50 no.1 Cape Town feb. 2012
Sigmoid volvulus: Long-term clinical outcome and review of the literature
Ozdemir SuleymanI; Aslar A. KessafII; Kuzu M. AyhanIII
IM.D.; Department of Surgery, University of Ufuk, Ankara, Turkey
IIM.D.; Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara
IIIM.D., F.A.C.S.; Department of Surgery, University of Ankara
OBJECTIVE: Little has been published regarding long-term surgical outcome after the initial management of acute sigmoid colon volvulus.
METHODS: Patients undergoing primary resection and anastomosis (PRA) or Hartmann's procedure (HP) for sigmoid volvulus between September 1992 and August 2000 were reviewed. Eligible patients who had had the initial procedure at least 5 years previously were contacted and completed a questionnaire regarding recurrence, current symptoms and bowel habits.
RESULTS: Data on 42 PRA patients and 36 HP patients were analysed. Follow-up (mean 7.2 years, range 5 - 11 years) was completed for 63 patients (37 PRA, 26 HP). Restoration of bowel continuity was successfully performed in 25 of 26 HP patients. No patient had megacolon. Constipation was reported by 83% of PRA and 65% of HP patients. Of these patients, 51% regularly used laxatives. No patient complained of incontinence, and no recurrences of sigmoid volvulus were recorded during the follow-up period.
CONCLUSION: Sigmoidectomy with primary anastomosis is a good option for the definitive management of sigmoid volvulus. Despite the high constipation rate, no recurrence occurred during long-term follow-up.
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3 Everyday Events That Can Teach Your Kids About Money
Americans, especially younger generations, are struggling with financial literacy. The popular Jump$tart personal finance test showed that 63 percent of nearly 6,000 high school students failed their test on financial literacy basics. Living in a society that struggles with credit card debt, student loan debt and an overall lack of fiscal discipline should motivate us as parents to involve our children in money decisions around the home. Simple ways to teach your children about money can be found in everyday activities.
Don't Stop at No
How many times have you been at the store and turned down your children when they ask to buy something? If you're like me, it happens quite often. And it offers a teachable moment.
"Children need to understand Mom and Dad have a valid and thoughtful reason behind the 'no' to help avoid feelings of deprivation" said Shannon Ryan, a certified financial planner, author of numerous books on teaching children about money and founder of The Heavy Purse. "When those feelings of deprivation are not addressed, it can cause children to feel resentful and tell themselves that they will buy whatever they want, whenever they want when they grow up."
This is a great opportunity to point your children to your family goals. Those goals generally take money, and by helping your children see the bigger picture, it can mitigate that feeling of deprivation and excite your children about working as a family to reach these goals.
Save, Spend, Share
Many parents give their children an allowance. I received one as a child and loved it. While it may be fine to reward your children for things they do, an allowance can easily make children feel that they're entitled to receive money for nothing. Last I checked, no one gives us money for nothing.
%VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%Ryan and her husband defined sets of chores their children need to complete, without pay, as members of the home. To earn money, they can choose other tasks from a weekly job list. That money -- along with any other money they earn or receive -- is allocated according to a save, spend, share plan they've decided on together.
This approach allows children to have a purpose or a goal for their money. They can begin to learn the importance of separating emotions from making financial decisions. This allows children to decide if they truly want a given item and to see the true cost of purchasing an item, saving for a future desire/need or helping someone else. They will also learn how to make money work for them.
Involve Them in Financial Decision Making
Your children are always observing you. They hear what you say, and they see the actions you take -- which often speak louder than your words. This is especially true when it comes to finances. I'm not saying you need to discuss specific dollar amounts, but allow them to be a part of the general decision making. You children will:
- See how you make financial decisions, which is incredibly important as you begin to teach your children about money.
- See how financial decisions should be made and what's important to the family.
- Have part ownership in the overall process.
We take this approach in my family as we want to help our children see why we make the decisions we do and excite them about our goals, such as where to go for summer vacation
While money may be a taboo topic in your home, it doesn't have to be. Children are much more aware of things than we give them credit for. By avoiding financial discussions they're not only kept in the dark as to what role they play in the family unit, but it also can hinder them as they grow older and begin to make financial decisions of their own. By using these simple steps to start teaching your kids about money you can positively impact their future and the future of their children.
John Schmoll is the founder of Frugal Rules, a finance blog that regularly discusses investing, budgeting, and frugal living. John is a father, husband, and veteran of the financial services industry who's passionate about helping people find freedom through frugality. He also writes about growing your wealth about Sprout Wealth.com.
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Don't get me wrong — I don't advocate black-hat actions pretty much ever, even simple defacement. But the government's pursuit of Aaron Swartz is one of those undeniably disproportionate responses to an internet activist for the crime of downloading too many PDFs at the same time. WITH AUTHORIZATION, no less.
What happened here, Anonymous hacking the USSC website to express their outrage at that travesty of justice — I'm fairly sympathetic to that cause. While it had already raised a public outcry, it certainly didn't get enough of an outcry for the severity of the injustice perpetrated.
The Anonymous video, with text-to-speech of the USSC hack:
The most fascinating part of this is the "warhead" they included in the hack — links to an AES256 encrypted set of files with the names of the Chief Justices of the US as the filename. The files are intended to be spliced together — and Anonymous gave the command to do it, but also included "delete everything on your hard drive" at the end of the command in case you're one of those types to blindly copy/paste commands into your command line.
The "warhead" will be "set off" by Anonymous releasing the decryption key for the encrypted file. Speculation abounds at what is in them, but Anonymous' hack says:
The contents are various and we won't ruin the speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file. Any media outlets wishing to be eligible for this program must include within their reporting a means of secure communications.
Of course they won't want to ruin speculation. That's how things like this go viral.
In case you weren't aware, Swartz's story from that earlier Rolling Stone link:
On January 6th, 2011, MIT and Cambridge police, with the help of special agent Prickett, arrested Swartz on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. As blogger Marcy Wheeler suggests, the early involvement of the Secret Service "makes it clear that this was a nationally directed effort to take down Swartz."
JSTOR chose not to pursue charges against Aaron Swartz – who not only returned all downloaded content, but also ensured it "was not and would not be used, copied, transferred or distributed." That didn't stop MIT and the feds from indicting Swartz on 13 felony charges and insisting on prison time.
Ortiz and Heymann charged Swartz under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 29-year-old law, notorious in the legal world for being broadly interpretable. They argued that Swartz accessed MIT and JSTOR computers without "authorization," despite MIT's extraordinarily open network policy and Swartz's legal access to JSTOR content.
Despite admitting that Swartz wasn't financially motivated by his act – and even after learning that the 26-year-old had battled depression – Ortiz and Heymann refused to offer a deal that didn't include at least six months of prison time and a guilty plea on all 13 charges. If Swartz chose not to label himself a felon for life, he'd risk the possibility of many years in the slammer.
Bear in mind that Swartz was one of the biggest and most key figures in encouraging big websites to protest the SOPA/PIPA power grabs.


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I have very low expectations of lowbie pugs. Still, I hold some standards: if I queue as a healer, I have caster gear on and will try to heal you. If I queue as a tank, I will have tanking gear on and will try to tank for you. Now, my standards for other tanks at least lower to "not in caster gear trying to tank" but apparently this is just too much for some people.
I was on my wee little 39 druid, trying to get her up to 40. She both heals and tanks, but my rogue has my DPS/tanky heirlooms, so I was only signing up to heal. I zone into DM, and I target the other tank. It's a druid. I wait for bear form.
They pull with roots and randomly moonfire at shit. The trash dies without too much paim, but still, I speak up: "Um?"
"lol were trying this thing"
"where we dont need other people" (so you queue'd up with other people because WHY?)


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Where to find the best surfing in New Zealand
New Zealand is a surfer's paradise, even though a wetsuit is recommended. With over 6000 kms of coastline there is plenty to explore.
Here are some of our favourite spots:
Auckland's West Coast
From the isolation of Karekare to the 60 km windswept rugged coastline of Muriwai and the famous black sands of Piha, the west coast of Auckland features some ripping swells and rolling tubes that experienced surfers love to ride. For the more inexperienced surfers, the moderate beach breaks are better though.
Great Barrier Island
Lying 90km northeast of Auckland and a short 30 minute flight across the Hauraki Gulf is the stunning Great Barrier Island. Popular with both tourists and surfers, the Barrier offers swells reaching six feet or more, enabling wave-riders some awesome tubes and long-lasting rides. Waves around the Great Barrier break in all directions, keeping surfers on their toes and consistently challenging them. Be wary of rocky reefs and at times, sharks though.
Considered one of New Zealand's top surfing areas, Taranaki is consistently good with varied surf breaks, making it the best destination for the serious surfer. New Plymouth and the north have many long beaches with the south's lava reefs and boulder bays creating heavy, solid surf. If you like a more exciting ride that has vertical drops and high-walled wave action, then Taranaki is for you! Just be careful of the reefs!
Bay of Plenty
From Matakana Island to the Motu River mouth, anyone looking for the perfect wave should be thinking about heading to this New Zealand surf spot. Mt Maunganui, or "The Mount" (19 km Boulder Beach Bay of Plenty New Zealandeast of Tauranga) is the hot spot in the region, with swells that get above six feet and barrels that seem to go on and on. You can also catch a good wave from 'The Blowhole' on the south headland that often carries you several hundred metres in to the surf club.
Mahia Peninsula
Situated between Napier and Gisborne on the sunny East Coast of the North Island, Mahia Peninsular is one of New Zealand's little hidden treasures. Known for its enormous barrels and high, heavy swells, the peninsular has an excellent reputation for delivering reliable, consistent and high-quality surf in almost any weather condition. The outer breaks are hard to master so it is recommended that for the novice surfer, catching the remnants of the larger waves is better.
Otago Peninsula
Home to some of the rarest wildlife in the world and some ripping surf, great breaks and nice tunnels, Otago Peninsular is a spot not to miss. Although also known for having frequent white shark sightings, you have 40 breaks to choose from so you should be fine :)
About two hours drive from Christchurch sits pretty little Kaikoura. Alongside whale watching, this is one of the wildest surf spots on New Zealand's north coast. Wave quality can be put down to the Hikurangi Trench which allows swells to come straight out of deep water. This produces swells up to fifteen feet with multiple breaks in all directions. Just respect the wildlife in the area as dolphins, sperm whales and fur seals are known residents!
Port Waikato
An iconic surfers hangout with long smooth rides and often big swells, Waikato is another must stop spot on the NZ surfing trail. Shifting banks make the beach break variable but when it's good, it's really good! Waves break both left and right at the beach and the best swell direction is from the Southwest. Be careful as rips are a hazard of surfing here.
Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise of each new day and is located on the East Coast of the North Island. Known to offer some of the best and most consistent surf breaks in New Zealand, Gisborne has something for all types of wave-riders. Breaks are all along the popular Wainui beach, with the best waves being found at the southern end at a break known as "Stock Route", where right and left-hand tube rides are the order of the day. Just 3 hours from Tauranga and Rotorua and 2.5 hours from Napier, Gisborne will be an exciting stop on your summer surfing vacation.
Hawke's Bay
From the Shipping port at Ahuriri to the famous Cape Kidnappers gannet colony and the outstanding Waimarama about 32 kms south-east of Hastings, Hawke's Bay offers something for all levels. Known for its steep beach bars, heavy hollow waves, and 6-foot swells, this is a definite place to stay!


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Having a daily/weekly/seasonal and annual rhythm helps a great deal. A familiar pattern in which children (and parents) know what to expect is comforting and helps children of all ages to thrive. (I'll post about our own rhythm and its undeniable impact on our everyday well-being later.) Even with patterns and a kind of "soft-schedule" in place though, challenges, of course, arise...
A specific demand often made in our house is that we sit and actively participate in some particular imaginative play for extended periods of time. Our roles are often spelled out for us very precisely and sometimes even our dialogue is prescribed. "Now you say..." she tells us... "Now walk over there and..."
I usually find engaging in her play fascinating. It's an expression of her inner world that I get to see come to life. Also, sometimes I just love to play. But I'm also the mother. I take care of this wonderful child and I'm likewise a cook, a house cleaner, a launderer, a grocery shopper, a gardener, a payer of bills, a craft organizer, an activity planner and a wife to a hard-working husband. I've got a few other things to do! But lately, and this is the challenge so many seem to be having, Naiya will sometimes scream and cry when I attempt to extricate myself from what it is she wishes me to do.
Suggestions given in a recent discussion included 1) investing a really present 3 to 5 minutes with a child before then returning to necessary adult tasks (it's amazing how even a few moments of being really present will fill a child in a way that they can then play for longer stretches on their own) and 2) the idea of along-side play. This means that while I, for example, wash dishes, Naiya plays at a similar task with a small bowl of soapy water and a bowl and a cup that she can wash herself. Likewise she can do her own version of dusting as I dust, folding napkins as I fold laundry and so on.
These are both effective tools, especially the latter. With it I accomplish a great deal and Naiya both embraces her "solitary" tandem play and learns the value of real work as a part of our household. Sometimes, however, it doesn't seem to work at all.
Yesterday was one of those times.
I had dishes piled on every kitchen surface, crumbs all over the floor, colored rice in every nook of the great room and Naiya just wanted me to sit next to her and wash the one cup in her bowl of soapy water over and over and over. She was on the verge of tears whenever I tried to leave her side.
This is when I introduced what has proven to be the most magical tool I have. I have slipped this one from my bag of tricks over the years time and time again yet, surprisingly, I am stunned by its effect on each occasion.
I sang.
Yup. That's my mommy superpower.
Let it be known. Let it be spread across the land.
Singing transforms our world nearly every time.
And these are not clever songs I've memorized. I don't have in my catalog a song for every occasion. I just make them up on the spot. Sometimes they're sweet and funny. Sometimes they're completely absurd. Occasionally they rhyme but mostly not. Honestly, they're usually a little dumb. And it doesn't matter.
Yesterday's went like this:
Here we go washing, washing, washing
Washing all our dishes
Here we go washing, washing, washing
Making dishes clean
Not at all magical, you say? So it would seem. But I sang it a few times while sitting next to Naiya until she joined in. We washed that one cup together while singing the song, washing slowly, inside and out, with great care, and then I returned to my own sink.
I kept singing as I finished washing every dirty dish in the house. She sang too, while she carefully and with glee washed her own cup and plate. She even made up a few new verses.
There was no more crying. We were fulfilled in our individual needs. Separately playing but tethered together by the joy of a totally stupid song.


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Goldwind has hired Vikaas Rao-Aourpallyto from Stirling Energy systems where he worked on contract negotiations and sales of large scale solar projects.
As director of sales he will be responsible for establishing an office and providing sales and service solutions for the Canadian market.
Prior to working at Stitling, Rao-Aourpallyto worked in Lehman Brother's renewable energy development arm, SkyPower, developing a pipeline of wind projects in the Western Region of the US.
Last year, Tim Rosenzweig was appointed CEO of Goldwind USA, and has been running Goldwind's North American operation for just over a year. He is hoping to replicate the success he has had there and expand Goldwind's presence in Canada.
Goldwind owns the 106.5MW Shady Oaks wind project in Illinois. With the purchase at the end of 2010 it became the first Chinese company to supply turbines to a US utility-scale project.


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by Paul Hoskins on Oct 28, 2009 from Books
Christian teaching about the death of Jesus tends to glance quickly at the Old Testament, as if the Old Testament does not provide much insight into the death of Jesus. In contrast, the New Testament authors frequently point to the Old Testament when they teach about Jesus' death. Similarly, Jesus' words at the Lord's Supper are packed with allusions to Old Testament sacrifices. This book provides examples of the rich insights that emerge from following the New Testament's pointers back to the Old Testament. It examines Old Testament types or patterns that prefigure the death of Jesus. It also encourages reflection and meaningful worship, especially at celebrations of the Lord's Supper and Easter. This work by Paul Hoskins is a careful and much needed guide to typology. He rightly defines it and perceptively illustrates it. Along the way, he offers assistance in reading the Fathers, knowing the difference between typology and allegory, avoiding the excesses of typology, and provides profoundly important insight into the meaning of significant biblical texts. A careful reading of this work will likely change your reading of Scripture, and without doubt for the better. B. Paul Wolfe, PhD Headmaster, The Cambridge School of Dallas Formerly, Associate Professor of New Testament Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Paul M. Hoskins is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He completed his doctoral work at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School under the supervision of D. A. Carson. His published works include articles on the Passover in the Gospel of John and Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John.
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When Are Fruits and Vegetables in Season?
If your are an avid gardener or just prefer to know when your favorite fruits are in season, these two infographics will make your tastebuds happy with the When Are Fruits in Season? and When Are Vegetables in Season? infographics created by Greek Body Codex.
Ever wondered why sometimes your veggies taste fresh and full of flavor where other times it tastes dull and old? Some vegetables are seasonal and either don't grow at all during certain months or don't do well during certain times of the year. This infographic will show you when all of your favorite vegetables are in season and when they'll taste the absolute best.
Both are good designs with a clear message. Plotting out the calendar months in doughnut chart works nicely, and the bright colors make the overall design very visually appealing.
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George Strait Working on Songs for New Album
George Strait may be retiring from the road, but that doesn't mean he's giving up his career in music. In a new interview, the 60-year-old entertainer reveals that he is already working on music for a new album.
Strait announced his decision to retire from active touring in September, but he'll perform a full schedule of dates in 2013 and 2014 before he officially says goodbye to the road. In the meantime he's got a new single out titled 'Give It All We Got Tonight,' and as he tells Nashville.com, he still intends to record a new album every year.
"I'm feeling a little antsy about getting back in the studio. I've got some great material already," he shares. "I'm working on some songs and some original stuff too. I've been doing a little bit of writing, but I need to do a little more."
Strait adds that he has set aside some time to work with Dean Dillon, one of the top songwriters in Nashville whose previous Strait cuts include 'The Chair,' 'Ocean Front Property' and 'It's a Little Too Late.' He also hopes to write some more with his son, Bubba, who has contributed to his albums in the past.


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BUENA PARK – A barbershop and a dental office were targeted in a set of burglaries Tuesday night, authorities said.
The burglaries were reported about 9:45 p.m. in the 7000 block of Orangethorpe Avenue, said Buena Park police Cpl. Andy Luong.
The windows were smashed, and a witness reported that a man wearing a beanie left the scene in a black sedan with black paper plates, Luong added.
A flat-screen television was taken from one of the businesses, Luong said.
Luong said authorities are looking into whether a set of burglaries in Orange are connected to the Buena Park incidents.
About 1:15 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a business alarm from a shopping center in the 1600 block of East Lincoln Avenue, said Orange police Sgt. Fred Lopez.
A beauty supply store, a wig shop and a dentist's office in the same shopping center all had their windows smashed, Lopez said.
The thief took off with about $1,500 worth of wigs and cash registers, added Lopez.
Lopez said about $200 was stored in the register taken from the dentist's office. There was no cash in the other register.
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Dating te the laptop age.
Online dating is quick becoming a multi-billion dollar business. It's not hard to see how profitable they are, since every third commercial shoves their services. I'm not going to single-out any particular online dating service, because they're all the same. I have no doubt that matches occur on thesis sites, but I think it is significant to inform the public spil to how thesis sites work. Keep ter mind, that I can only illustrate my findings from the "man seeking woman" side of the picture.
Here's how it goes: You fill-out a rather large, and somewhat individual questionnaire. The questions range from asking your height and eye color, to asking your aspirations and annual income. Here is where the foundation of online dating starts to wobble. There are no safeguards ter place for confirming the validity of the information ter this section. One can purposely mislead the public, regarding their age, annual income, anything and everything. Unnecessary to say, fallacious information te this venue, can lead to a lotsbestemming of wasted time and effort (not to mention emotional stress.)
Then, you pack out the precies same questionnaire for what you're looking for ter your ideal woman. I've seen a loterijlot of things, and I've gone through the gamut of emotions eight ways to Sunday, but choosing the attributes of your volmaakt woman, spil if you were putting together a combination platter te your dearest Mexican restaurant, is rather eerie and off putting. It sort of makes you feel like Dr. Frankenstein. It makes you wonder how you would fair on a woman's questionnaire.
The major online dating services purport that the ratio of fellows to women on their sites is 1 to 1. This is the sort of false keuze that would usually result ter my flying off the treat, but I will attempt to conduct myself te a professional manner. "Enlazar, desconcertar. pants on fire!"
There are at least ten fellows for every woman on thesis sites. You can take that to the canap.
You cannot judge a book by its voorkant.
Next, you upload photos of yourself (preferably latest), so that women are able to take a look at what (not who) they might potentially be dating. If you wish, you can you can upload 20-30 photos, using one spil your voorkant photo. By looking at your voorkant photo, women will determine if you're worth a deeper look. This is where the cloth of online dating unravels. Thesis individual photos can be Ten or 20 years old, photo shopped, or photos of a different woman, altogether. I spotted a voorkant photo that wasgoed a picture of Sophia Loren. No kidding. I spotted one profile, where the photos had such a variance of age, that when I flipped through them quickly, I could virtually see the woman age before my eyes.
I glanced at the spijskaart of single guys on thesis sites, and there were literally thousands of guys who, te my objective heterosexual opinion, wij're absolutely gorgeous. Thesis dudes had movie idol looks. I am an media looking man (no matter how much my mother raves that my looks waterput Brad Pitt's to shame), but I would wager that most women would choose an Guapo overheen mij.
If a woman finds you attractive enough to look at your profile, she will see an verhandeling, written by you, describing yourself and what kleuter of woman for whom you are searching (ondergrens of 200 words.) An verhandeling describing yourself and the woman for whom you are searching. Recall, you are attempting to woo women that they should date you. You cannot just list your positive attributes, without sounding pretentious. You cannot describe your ideal woman without sounding super-choosy. One quasi-successful treatment is to make joy of yourself (spil long spil you're witty, and the women don't take you gravely.) If you feel the urge to mention your flaws and/or quirks, then you will not be rewarded for your honesty. If your profile illustrates your high-caliber sense of morality, then it will still not earn you points.
I'm not passing judgment on women ter universal, but I did notice one thing on thesis sites, that irked mij. I've always considered women spil the more sensitive, emotional gender. That's bot my opinion forever. However, te my practice, it seems like most of the women on thesis sites, lose their sense of etiquette and consideration (unless they've never possessed them from the embark.) For example, from time to time I am intrigued by a youthful lady, so I message them with a cordial introduction and reason(s) why I have reached out to them. Nine out ten women do not have the time to simply react. It is spil if you don't exist. I wouldn't be objective, if I ruled out the possibility that this type of callous behavior, is directed specifically at mij (and others like mij), but it has never happened ter my life, outside of thesis dating sites. I would rather get a "Druppel dead", than no response. Honestly, I would rather they say, "Specifically you, Daniel, are repugnant, inwards and out", than get no response at all. I simply don't understand why this happens on thesis sites, and I never will.
I welcome any comments from whoever reads this article. I hold women ter high regard. I believe that they are the more evolved gender, because most have the capacity to look past one's appearance, and fall ter love with what they have inwards. Colérico, women! However, on thesis sites (ter my practice), that attribute is thrown out the window. I may not be fine looking, but I've dated women who could be supermodels, because they've gotten to know mij. However, on thesis sites (ter my practice), if you can't rival looks-wise, then you are basically dead ter the water. You could be the smartest, wittiest, funniest, most sensitive man on the planet, but if women don't like your voorkant photo, then they will never know that you are a catch. I can't stress enough, that I am only suggesting one man's opinion from what he has experienced.
I'm approaching the end of my six month contract. This particular company offers a assure. If you are not successful te finding a match, then you can remain on their webpagina for free. However, however it's a fair suggest, I will by hand eliminate my zogeheten from their search result saco. Through my research, all of my questions were answered, but all of the answers were unsettling.
There is one critical thing that rekentuig dating will never prepare you for. The fact that you have no idea what kleuter of person you will be meeting. They could be thieves, compulsive liars, insane, and/or have no recatado or ethical compass. I've had many vensterluik dates te my lifetime, none of which panned out. However, I would trade my online practice for ten more vensterluik dates. All of my vensterluik dates were set up by people whom I knew, and who were looking after my best interests. Ter online dating, you know zero about the other person.
"What about successful couples who met each other by sheer happenstance?" That depends on your definition of "happenstance." If you met someone at church, or at a veterinary hospital, or at a nightclub, then I don't consider that happenstance, because both of you possessed and voiced similar intentions that day or night. An example of what I consider to be happenstance, is two people who find themselves at places where they had no intention of going, they meet, fall te love. end of toneel. "But, isn't online dating sort of like a ample nightclub?" Well, I'm not going to dignify that question with an response. If you meet someone, while having guideline overheen one of your five senses, you would know them a hundred times better than meeting them online. Online, you can never be sure spil to someone's intentions. Some people might be on there, with no intention of meeting anyone. Maybe they're just doing a research proef.
And, if everything shows up to be going swimmingly (you meet a seemingly attractive person, inwards and out), then that's when things can get truly messy. The longer you date this imaginario stranger (believe mij. even if you exchanged a thousand texts before your very first meeting, they are still imaginario strangers), the possibility of falling for them increases, and you become a sitting duck for major, even crippling frustration.
No one can argue that businesses like thesis, ter no uncertain terms, waterput more weight on looks than personality. That might be acceptable by the caudillo public, but I can't think of anything positive developing from that concept. Te my opinion, online dating has sent the practice of forming relationships, back to the Ice Age.
Furthermore, due to my practice with online dating, my view of the opposite gender is now jaded, and my hope of having a healthy relationship has bot cut to ribbons. If you think that you have nothing to lose, by using online dating, then you are sorely mistaken. Please, be careful.


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The 26 year old's two at the par five 16th hole came courtesy of a four iron approach from 227 yards, which rolled into the hole and contributed to a six under par back nine as he enters the final day at Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf and Spa on 15 under.Paisley had reached the turn in just one under par and was six shots off the lead at the tenth hole, before his round caught fire with back to back birdies at the 13th and 14th.
Then came his crowning moment, after driving to the semi-rough on the right hand side, as his four iron pitched short of the green to the right and rolled into the cup."Golf is such a bizarre game," said the Newcastle man. "I really didn't feel like I was playing well on the front nine. I didn't have a bogey but I had a few up and downs to save par and I struggled around the turn, not playing badly but just not playing as well as I had been.
"I made a nice birdie on the 13th and then an up and down for birdie at 14, so I was starting to play a bit better and all of a sudden I hit a nice shot at 16 and it just went in. To be fair I was aiming at a different spot but I pushed it a fraction and it bounced a couple of times and dropped in."It was amazing. It was resting against the flag so I didn't know it was in until I got to within 20 yards and then I just let it drop down.
"I was on the next tee and it was just a big adrenaline rush. All of sudden I looked at the leaderboard and I was in the lead and I just thought, 'where did that come from?'"I had to gather myself and settle myself down and then I played 17 well and birdied 18, after pushing it again!"
"I'm going to have a good chance going into tomorrow so I just have to go and do some work on the range and I'll give it a good shot tomorrow," he said."I need to keep that momentum going. I've shot seven under without playing particularly well. You do need a bit of luck to win tournaments and I got my bit today but there's a long way to go and it's going to be tight so I have to go and play another really good round tomorrow. I can't wait."
Manley's round couldn't have finished any more differently to that of his prospective playing partner for the final round as he double-bogeyed the final hole, but there were plenty of positives for the 33 year old as he carded six birdies and an eagle on the way to a two under par round of 70 to move to 13 under."I started great," he said. "I was aggressive and went for my shots and tried to put a bit of pressure on Robert (Dinwiddie, joint overnight leader). The eagle at the fifth really got me going.
"I had a couple of blips on the back nine with sloppy bogeys at 13 and 14 and bounced back with a couple of birdies and it's a shame about the last. There was no sand in the bunker where I was on the side slope and I knifed it over the green. I don't think I really deserved that but that's golf."I still feel confident. It's nice to be in the final group and if I can go and put some pressure on Chris and get birdies early on, you never know."
Two more Englishman still harboured hopes of a home win as James Busby and Francis McGuirk both carded five under par rounds of 67 to share third place going into the final day, three shots off Paisley's lead.Last week's winner on the Challenge Tour, Espen Kofstad, was a shot further back in tied fifth alongside American Brooks Koepka after they also both carded five under par rounds of 67.
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