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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2011, 23:17
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2011, 03:59
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PLUG Objectives
Subject description: This was the idea that gave rise to the PLUG sub-forum
When I was project coordinator for Puppy, first with 2.15CE and later with 4.2x series, there was a cacophony of voices clamoring to be heard on the subject of what Puppy could or should be. In the beginning it was easy to pick out the voices of reason, but in the end there was so much "sound" that it became almost impossible to "hear" what was good, and reasonable, and important above the din. It became abusive to my ears when some elected to follow the path of repetition in monotones and I grew tired of listening very quickly. There is a lesson in that for those who are willing to learn.
With the Puppy Community being now so large, especially if you include the voices of Puppy lovers in Vietnam, China, India and South America, it is nigh on impossible for project coordinators or developers to "hear" what everyone has to say. A "seat at the table" is meaningless if the table is many times larger than the largest banquet hall table ever imagined; how can anyone hear anything when everyone is talking at once? Users of Puppy who feel ignored by the hierarchy, amorphous as that is with Puppy, need to find a single voice so they can address their issues in unison and have some reasonable chance that voice will be heard. Here then is my humble suggestion for a way forward for Puppy, leaving behind the discord that comes with a cacophony of sound.
1. Start a Puppy Linux Users Group (PLUG).
The advantages are that (a) the voices of many can be united in a single, much more powerful voice, (b) those who need to hear only need listen for that single voice and (c) no permission is required from Barry Kauler, the current project coordinator or any of the developers. Let the users come to the PLUG with their issues and let the developers tap that PLUG when they need ideas in pursuit of their hobby. That will result in a nexus that both groups can accept and appreciate; the users will have a place to voice their concerns and desires and the developers will have a well to voluntarily draw upon when they are seeking direction for their creative ideas.
2. Choose a place for the PLUG
Whether it be a part of this forum (not recommended IMHO) or another place where those elected to administer the PLUG have more direct control, the PLUG will need to be clearly visible and accessible to ALL Puppy users, including those who are also Puppy developers. In this day and age it seems logical for that place to be in cyberspace, so all can have direct access, but it must be moderated to ensure that all will have an equal chance to be heard or seen. Perhaps it can be linked from or hosted by puppylinux.org, or maybe puppylinux.com if Barry is inclined to offer those. If not, find your own place.
3. Choose a small team of PLUG leaders
It doesn't matter who these people are in terms of their technical ability with Linux or Puppy. It only matters that they are prepared to listen to the user base and are capable of logically organising the cacophony of sound into a single, representative voice.
4. Establish a charter for the PLUG
Set the boundaries early on. An advisory group needs its politicians to express the group's desires in a palatable way without the risk of alienating those who need to hear them. The PLUG should be a mammoth "filter" of sorts; removing those strident yet unreasonable and discordant demands while harmonising the rest into a single stream of ideas.
5. Promote the PLUG
Everyone needs to understand where the "speakers" are located, so they can connect their input or listen to the output. It would not be unreasonable to have several sub-PLUGs located in various centres around the world and dedicated to translating the local voices into a common language for the master PLUG to represent. That is crucial to give voice to the hitherto silent majority in those countries mentioned earlier. Hacao in Vietnam, Tutu in France and a multitude of other NES Puppy derivatives and their devotees would be forever grateful, I'm sure.
Understand the PLUG
Puppy development will never change. It is conducted by hobbyists and volunteers in the true spirit of Open Source and following its creator's innovative model of Fun First! If you think that model is unusual, I suggest that you revisit your knowledge of Google and its development process for an example. The PLUG must be prepared to accept that it cannot compel volunteers; it must instead appeal to them in every sense of that word. They have to WANT to follow the wishes and desires of the PLUG. No-one develops in a vacuum. There is always a payout somewhere, although it may not be the payout that many might expect. Those who do it for kudos will WANT to satisfy the desires of the multitude represented by the PLUG; no compulsion will be necessary. Those who do it to learn more about programming and software development will look to the PLUG for new challenges. Those who do it for the simple pleasure of seeing their work used will find a hungry user base at the PLUG.
Those who have truly been craving "organisation" for Puppy will see an opportunity in the PLUG. Those who have merely been exercising their discordant voices will lose their excuse to complain, at least about that. This is something that users can DO to be heard without pleading with the volunteer developers, who now are frequently unable to focus their efforts in the face of an incoherent cacophony of demands for change. It is a positive suggestion and I hope it will be viewed in that light. It is a suggestion that I have made before, albiet not for quite the same reasons, and it hasn't been acted upon. Like all suggestions, it will be worthless if someone - anyone - isn't prepared to DO something with it. If you have the WILL then you will find the WAY.
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2011, 06:59
Post subject: Re: PLUG
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This Is The Puppy Linux Users Group Thread
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2011, 07:45
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My thoughts as I had originally presented them. The forum structure is a bit different, I guess we'll have to use threads instead of subsections. I do hope we get a few of our own moderators.
Puppy Linux Users Group
-Documention System (needs to be consolidated desperately-can and should we organize it?)
-Official Stable Release (suggestions and bug fixes, which one IS it?)
-Creative Puplets (suggestions and bug fixes, what are they and what does each do? Where are they?)
-Help Desk (forums, IRC channel must be included in Puppy family, recommend a new one with we can have active people in charge of)
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1. We will filter both suggestions and issues and streamline them into a comprehensive presentation for the developers.
2. We will relay and explain developer concerns and issues and update the users as needed.
3. We will attempt to consolidate information and documentation into one easily accessable resource.
4. We will provide support and structure for a Puppy Linux "Help Desk".
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 21:39
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Hi all
after watching this thread from its inception I have a few questions,
with the dynamic of the overall forum, with devs/users producing their own puplets/pets based on official puppys and the developers of the official puppys then using them in a later official version how would the plug interact with this?
has any evidence or methods been produced (to back up the request for plug), on what problems need addressing and how this would be done? (which I think is needed to justify the plugs existence)
IMHO I think you have the beginnings of a sound idea but it will need a lot more work to show why and how it would work before anyone can pass judgement.
good luck and hope this helps
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 06:07
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I am thinking on this part.
Mission Statement:
Our goal is to serve as a portal for communication between Puppy Linux Users and Puppy Linux Developers.
We shall endeavor to promote positive relations and mutual respect.
We will represent Puppy Linux and its community to the best of our ability.
/quote ends here
This part being most important to me.
We shall endeavor to promote positive relations and mutual respect.
That means that the persons that represent the PLUG need to have these qualifications.
Do the chosen persons have these qualifications?
I fail to see them live up to that now.
Maybe them can do it later but the track record is not promising at all!
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 12:19
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Did you ever get prodded with a stick....repeatedly, and when you tried to reason with the one doing it, they did it all the more
Well, that's what trying to DO something within the constraints imposed in PLUG actually feels like
A different approach might be....
There's spikey and there's fluffy, which stick would you like me to prod you with?
A third possibility, if you want to stay friendly, might be...
Put the stick away!
Which would you assess to have been used
, not by, PLUG group members trying to move things along?
What has been used BY them, is sadly, mainly frustrated reaction
To understand why, go back to the top of this post....
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 12:57
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Yes if that is what is happening then I understand your frustration and I would support you and I would try to find solutions to that problem too.
I would contact John. Only him can deal with that.
But if I am right which I can not be certain of but I do my best to "assess" the situation and I see this as a battle of wills or what word to use.
I trust that all of us care about Puppy but that we have different views on how one best do this.
I repeat myself but I trust that the word slack is important here.
I am not good at giving slack myself. I easily get triggered into feeling hurt and seeing ill will in actions. But if we really have the best for Puppy as the goal then we have to give more slack to the Mods of the forum
and the alternative is to trust your view and go for the only working solution to that view and that is to contact John and have a spoken word exchange with him. Written words will not do. Them are too easy to misinterpret. Even a phone call is too distant. One have to actually meet but if one live too far then a Video can be next best and better than just talking over phone. Writing in forum seems to fail again and again for us.
I would suggest that we are much more patient with the style of moderation.
Is it okay to mention how this started. Puppyite asking for Puppy to change. Many of us explaining how one do such things and then ....
Puppyite has created his own PLUG. Should not input from those that join that venture also be considered. Some kind of "go between" maybe is needed? To be complete I mean.
I am not sure if I dare to say this. Could one maybe even start there and see if it at all is a possible way.
I could be totally wrong but my take on all this is that Puppyite fail to get how Devs do things. Most likely because he himself is no Dev and fail to get how dependent them are on to be their own Boss to get things at all going.
The way Puppyite went about it was bound to drive away each Dev and maybe my naive postings are too destructive too.
I find the current flow of exchanges mistrust and lack of trust to be very destructive to Puppy. So my motivation is to defend Puppy and ask for more tolerance and that we all give slack to each other. And us slow down and rethink the whole thing.
What is best for Puppy? To give the Devs total freedom to do things in their own pace. PLUG can still be a very good thing if we stop the demands on total control over it. John Murga should be the one in total control in his forum.
Or if PLUG wants total control then take PLUG to Puppyite and run it from his servers. That is the fair way to do things in my opinion
Edit. Thanks John for the kind words. I am total nobody and even a big loser but I do love Puppy very much so I gave this topic my best shot.
To move from one continent to another is no small thing at all so wish you the best there.
Thanks Aitch, good now you and John have found each other so the future looks brighter.
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 13:21
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I largely agree and appreciate what nooby said.
I apologize as I am currently in the process of moving house/continent, and haven't been able to keep up with recent developments.
While I have reservations about PLUG on the forum in it's current form I do believe that it is a useful concept going forward for the Puppy ecosystem as whole. And given the effort that has already been made I would suggest that ttuuxxx is the best person to moderate this area.
I believe that some reactive moderation may have been happening and I apologize for that too, please feel free to voice your concerns directly to me as currently I am unlikely to see them otherwise.
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 13:31
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Hi nooby
It is because of puppyite that people think 'total control'
He was and still is a control freak....he has no members on his forum, there is no access to his website - it's just 'Iam right, puppyite'
He simply 'stole' WhoDo's suggestion for PLUG, setup a website and blocked it!
Cutting slack is a 2 way process, or 1 way recipe for a despot
Not my preferred option, I'd even accept the fluffy stick, but the spikey one....no thanks
PLUG can still be a very good thing if we stop the demands on total control over it. John Murga should be the one in total control in his forum.
I thought I'd explained that, ....no-ones trying to undermine or remove John M's control, I agree, he NEEDS that, as site owner/Admin...just the heavy-handed moderator, in particular, as the others have not 'interfered'
and made a nuisance of themselves
Or if PLUG wants total control then take PLUG to Puppyite and run it from his servers. That is the fair way to do things in my opinion
That's your opinion, sure, to which you are entitled, but we differ on the fairness aspect of it
To me fair means what in legal circles, is called 'the level playing field....no-one having superiority or unnecessary advantage'
Question: How much power do you have to change things?
Compare to a moderator, then apply the level playing field argument in terms of power....who needs to cut whom, slack?
Edit: thanks John, you posted while I replied to nooby
Any update on the chat implementation?
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 13:52
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John a tech question that many of us want an answer too.
is the software for the Forum phpBB x.x
I trust that you have written about it somewhere. So pardon me being lazy
Edit maybe that is not something I am supposed to reveal?
Sorry I did not know. A friendly PM warned me that maybe the spammers want to know so I changed it to xx so contact ttuuxx and tell him what it means in terms of what the software allow us to do.
The reason we ask is that it has implications for what one can do as Admin and Moderator and Bruce and Flash has indicated them are not allowed by the software to do certain things and you have mention that you consider what it would mean to change to a newer version.
Does that one cost much money maybe. Going from free to paid?
And do we risk to lose the content in the migration. Such things we ask to know more about.
Aitch even started a thread about it
There is a very good post from Bert below mine.
Nooby's comment - the good intentionof PLUG can destroy what is a more complex free flow among people that has worked rather well for Puppy Linux. To try to organize what makes Puppy puppy more formally can destroy the inner motivation the Devs have. It is not as easy as some of initiators of PLUG seems to think.
Bert describe how it works in Puppy forum. He not only grasp it very well. He can express it using words that should be able to reach the initiators of PLUG.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 15:29
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What is happening here is exactly what I feared would happen.
A forum where like-minded people exchange ideas is like a natural phenomenon. Ideas are proposed and
they contain value for the participants, these ideas start developing naturally, out of the enthousiasm of the members. This great forum has always worked like that.
The problem starts when someone proposes to organize it all. At first, it looks like a good idea to add more structure to the way people collaborate, but it is now historically proven adding "organization" on top of what used to flow naturally usually ends in disharmony, fights, power games and ultimatily war.
This reminds me of a story I once read, it may have been here, it may have been from Lobster, sorry, I forgot the origins:
A man is walking in a park with the devil on a sunny afternoon. It's a beautiful summer day and they're having a good time. About 100 yards in front of them another man is walking leisurely. Suddenly this man stops and picks up something from the ground. Next he starts jumping, shouting and dancing like a fool.
The man asks the devil: "What is it that this guy picked up from the ground?"
To which the devil replies: " Oh, he found a piece of the Truth."
"That must be bad news for you" the man replied.
"Oh no" replied the devil, "I will let him organize it".
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 15:55
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Bert, like trying to organize Belgium.
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 16:16
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@Bert and nooby:
Maybe I didn't present it as clearly as I thought I had.
PLUG isn't about structuring how people collaborate or stifling creativity.
It's simply about making sense of what we already have for everyone else to find and follow along.
It's finding those good ideas and putting them somewhere so they can be heard. Many good ideas have been smothered because of noise.
It's reporting back from the devs (whatever they are doing, we don't want to change that) and making sure everyone else understands the whys and wherefors.
We have forums, we have a wiki, we have a well minded search, we have multiple hosting locations and stuff everywhere, and many attempts over the years to make it all easier to understand and find. How many threads complain the package manager is a mess, the wiki is not up to date, the pets and info are scattered to the four winds, and even searching in forums leads one on a merry chase from link to link to link to link.
Does everyone here know what all of the available puplets are? Do you all know what they all do and why one would be better for a particular user than another? Could you find them all? Could somebody offhand advise a user which ones are best for wireless, which ones are best for specific hardware? So many questions asked and a really hard time finding that information, other than whatever one is the current talk-of-the-day.
It's been stated what PLUG's goals are. I wish people would stop confusing this with the disaster puppyite created and his control issues. This is NOTHING like that.
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 17:33
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now we have acknowledgement from john murga (big thank you john) what is the first priority for plug?
heres an idea to get the ball rolling
perhaps listing and coordinating what resources are available in a separate thread (with links) to avoid the noise of discussion and to provide an upto date list of resources?
(but this will take a lot of work and dedication and will be rolling/ongoing and not static so that it will remain upto date)
edited to add: we may need to ask lobster for some input as he always seems to know what is happening.
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Some leading conservatives, perhaps most notably Newt Gingrich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, have argued for changing the law to permit states such as California to declare bankruptcy.
Then, at the conservative blog Flash Report, comes a rebuttal from a California conservative, Bill Leonard, a former member of the California State Board of Equalization. He writes:
"Bankruptcy is used by families and businesses when either their expenses exceed their incomes or more likely when their debts exceed their assets. As big as California's debt is there are a lot more assets to secure it. Regarding expenses, most all of the California budget can be adjusted downward if there is political willpower to do so. California does not qualify for bankruptcy."
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I got a great Facebook comment on some baseball or swimming somethingoranother post I made last Summer. A friend simply stated, "I used to know a sailor with the same name, do you know him?" Haha, that was funny. Funny because it's true.
I dont' think I've sailed since the 3BF last year. Don't really have much of a plan to sail in the foreseeable future. What I will do is coach baseball and go to swim meets. With an occasional dalliance into geo-caching. I work too, but that's not what this blog is about.
Here's why baseball has taken over for sailing:
Check out that freakin' swing. He just turned 6. He'll be wearing #9 on the Red Sox this year for some very obvious reasons.
Maybe I'll sail again or maybe I'll just watch the balls sail over the fence. Who knows.
03 January 2012
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- my2fish said...
EVK4, I too understand how a son (or in my case 3 of them) makes sailing less of a priority. luckily most of my boys sports seasons have been spring/fall (and occasionally winter), so I usually have most of the summer to squeeze in a few sailing sessions.
your son has a pretty sweet swing - hope he develops well and finances your early retirement (and more sailing)!!
I too have a son named Noah, similar age too at 7 years old. we haven't gotten into baseball, but he's really excelling at soccer, and is a goal-scoring machine.
cheers, my2fish
- O Docker said...
If you're geo-caching, who's geo-piching?
- Michael said...
Dude, I just saw this! Exploding through the hips like a future MLBer! Nicely done.
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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons challenged one of the best teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference to play an extra match this season and they came away with not only a win, but early knowledge of an opponent they will face again.
The Lady Bisons swept Florida Gulf Coast 3-0 Sunday afternoon at Allen Arena. The match will not count in the A-Sun standings. The official conference game between the Lady Bisons and Florida Gulf Coast will be played Nov. 5 in Fort Myers, Fla.
The set scores were 25-22, 25-22 and 25-13.
Between sets two and three the Lady Bisons looked at the numbers. They had a .323 hitting percentage in set on and .421 hitting percentage in set two, but did not dominate play in either one.
"Florida Gulf Coast is a good team that is very well-coached and will be there at the end," Lady Bisons ' coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "In the first two sets we didn't play particularly well.
"We had great numbers, so we had to ask ourselves what were we not doing? We didn't pass well. We didn't give the defensive effort I thought we needed to give. We didn't move our feet. The third set was more indicative of our style of play and what we are capable of doing."
Saturday afternoon Florida Gulf Coast lost the first two sets to Belmont and came back to win the match with three straight set wins.
"We struggled and really limited our options in the first two sets," Rosenthal said. "But I thought we did a nice job in set three as far as executing.
"We noted the Belmont match. We have to understand that is a possibility against any good team. But when you have what appears to be an insurmountable lead it is a lack of focus to not beat a team. If you have a 2-0 lead you have to finish it."
The Lady Bisons have swept their last two matches, including a 3-0 win at Austin Peay Tuesday. They have won eight matches by 3-0 scores.
Outside hitter Meghan Hinemeyer led the way for the Lady Bisons with a match high 17 kills. She just missed a double-double with nine digs.
"Meghan was coming off a shoulder injury to start the season," Rosenthal said. "The first few weeks she was a little tentative and now we are seeing her start to come back.
"We told her early on to hang in there. Now she is becoming stronger and stronger."
Also in double figures in kills were middle blocker Alex Kelly with 14 and outside hitter Kaycee Green with 13.
Kelly also fell short of a double-double with nine digs, tying Hinemeyer for the team match high.
Holly Youngquist made a match-high 11 digs for Florida Gulf Coast. No Florida Gulf Coast player finished in double figures in kills.
The Lady Bisons finished with a .371 hitting percentage. Hinemeyer's hitting percentage was .533 and Green's was .500.
Setter Stefine "Jake" Pease made 44 assists for the Lady Bisons.
"Jake did a tremendous job," Rosenthal said. "When we weren't passing well she gave really good sets to our outside hitters. Our outside hitters really bailed us out making some tough plays in the first two sets.
"It's great to see that. And then all of a sudden when we do start passing well our middles start to get going and we become really dangerous."
Middle blocker Katie Rose played a larger role than she has in the last few matches as she recovers from an ankle injury. She had three kills and seven digs.
"Katie was ready to go Tuesday against Austin Peay but we decided to hold her out because we didn't think it was the right time," Rosenthal said. "Claire Peterson has done a great job there, but it is Katie's position.
"Katie is a tough kid. We have to work her back in. We have to find the explosiveness she was playing with. I think this weekend she will be a lot better than she was in this game."
The Lady Bisons are 11-5. Florida Gulf Coast is 3-11.
Friday night at 6:30 the Lady Bisons will open A-Sun play against Mercer. Saturday at 2 p.m. the Lady Bisons will play Kennesaw State.
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Not long after I started this blog, a student design portfolio started making the rounds & generating lots of buzz. Dave Werner had skillfully combined illustration, music, and photography with video (still a novel feat as this was pre-YouTube) to do some solid storytelling. The site generated all kinds of responses ("Brilliant!" "It's just Flashturbation!"), but I was very impressed.
Six and a half years passed & I never met Dave, but right before the Fourth of July he dropped me a line to say he was looking for a new gig (something more stable than perpetual startup-land). I was glad to hear of his interest, but offhand I didn't know of any good fits. Two days later–and equally out of the blue–a team at Adobe reached out & told me about a really cool project they're starting that needed design talent.
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CBA negotiations stall after two-hour meeting Tuesdayby Dan Rosen
NEW YORK -- National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly used the term "no progress" to describe the nearly two-hour negotiating session between the NHL and the National Hockey League Players' Association on Tuesday.
"Today wasn't overly encouraging, that's for sure," Daly said after the latest meeting toward establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. "I think it goes back to us really tackling the main issues that are at issue in this negotiation and seeing if we have some traction toward some middle ground.
"We're looking for a long-term deal that's fair for the players, fair for the teams and good for the fans. That's what we want out of this negotiation and we need a negotiating partner to get there."
Daly said the business has already suffered $100 million in losses after the cancellation of all preseason games. Daly said both sides have suffered the loss and the money will not be recouped.
He added that the League is close to making a decision on the future of the early regular-season games. Opening night of the 2012-13 regular season is Oct. 11.
"It's something we obviously have to focus on in the short term and make an appropriate decision in the appropriate time," Daly said Tuesday when asked about status of the regular-season schedule. "We're still focused on doing what we can to minimize the damage."
In his remarks Tuesday, Daly said no further negotiating meetings are scheduled. NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr did not attend the Tuesday session at the League office and spoke to reporters from the NHLPA office after the negotiations finished for the day.
NHLPA Counsel Steve Fehr was the Union's lead negotiator in the session Tuesday.
"From our standpoint you ought to be continually talking, even if you are disagreeing and not making progress, because you never know when somebody is going to say something that's going to spark an idea that will allow you to make progress," Don Fehr said. "If you're not doing well on subject A and subjects B, C, D and E need to be talked about, sooner or later we ought to be talking about those things. Even if you don't reach resolution on those things, hopefully we push them along."
Don Fehr also said he is having regular conversations with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
The meeting Tuesday was a continuation of the discussion the sides had Saturday about how to reach a level of certainty on the interpretation of hockey-related revenue (HRR) definitions. Daly said the NHLPA did not want to negotiate on that issue, for the most part, until the sides reach agreement on the critical economic issues.
"Obviously, with respect to some issues, they don't want to codify the current treatment and with other issues, they're basically telling us wait until we have a deal or we negotiate a deal and we'll handle this in that context," Daly said.
Fehr said the HRR definitional issues and the critical economic issue of how to divide HRR should be separate matters.
"But, if we can solve the core economic issues I would like to believe we'd be able to resolve those [HRR definitional issues]," Fehr said.
Daly said the League has a federal mediator in Washington that would be willing to step in, but he doesn't believe the negotiations have reached that stage because the sides have been communicating regularly.
"They understand what our position is," Daly said. "To this point we certainly understand what their position is. We just wish it was different.
"Certainly we're trying to be as creative as we can be and we want to think of ways to approach the issue," Daly added. "But, unless and until we hear from them and they make some movement or show some willingness to compromise I'm not sure how we get this done."
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This is a beautifully rustic, hand twined bag–a kind of combination of a back pack/back pad. It is braided from bast fiber rope which is covered in cotton.This beauty is an acquisition from my recent trip to Japan so I am in the process of studying it. Imagine my surprise when I stuck my hand in this pouch and found a smashed box of safety matches, some dried leaves, a few pine needles and a carefully folded, hand made envelope (or sorts) made of newspaper–which is dated 1935. This heavily abraded bag measures 16″ x 15″ or 40 cm x 38 cm. It's subtle–and beautiful. And even though there was an unexpected cache of contents in the bag, I wish I knew more about the owner what this bag was used for.
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TAY Time Chat, here the laws of physics are broken, feel free to wreak havoc but if you break one of my precious vases you better pay, unlike that Green-Tunic boy!
Hello my fellow friends and enemies, why am I addressing my enemies? Ehmm I feel generous today, or maybe I'm just taunting them! (Bwahahahah!) So I was talking today about useless monuments, you know those things that make you say "why?!" well it turns out in Maracaibo we have a monument to a crashed car, sitting on a pedestal in the middle of an intersection, the reason for this thing was to remind the drivers what could happen to them if they continued their reckless behaviour, SPOILER ALERT, they did not learn, people are so reckless they destroyed the only bridge that communicates the city with the rest of the country... two years after the monument was erected...
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Miami-Dade Police say Rahquel Carr was shot in the upper body Saturday at about 6:10 p.m. She was airlifted to a hospital, where she died.
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Herbed Onion Bagels
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 15 min. + cooling
Makes9 bagels
- 1/2 cup finely chopped sweet onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup warm water (70° to 80°)
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 3-1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
- 1-1/2 teaspoons minced chives
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 3/4 teaspoon dill weed
- 3/4 teaspoon dried minced garlic
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 3 quarts water
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- In a large skillet, saute onion in butter until tender. In bread machine pan, place the water, sour cream, onion mixture, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1-1/2 teaspoons salt, herbs, garlic, flour and yeast in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed).
- When cycle is completed, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into nine balls. Push thumb through centers to form a 1-1/2-in. hole. Place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Cover and let rest for 30 minutes, then refrigerate overnight.
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- Sprinkle two ungreased baking sheets with cornmeal; place bagels 2 in. apart on prepared pans. Bake at 425° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
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I thought the flavor of these bagels was very good. I don't have a bread machine, so I mixed and kneaded by hand and they turned out just fine, though next time I would let the dough rise longer first before shaping the bagels. I made mini bagels instead of the regular-sized bagels (tripled the recipe and ended up with about 50), and let them stand the next morning about 1 hour, part of the time in a slightly warmed oven, instead of the 30 minutes indicated in the recipe, and they softened up after being refrigerated. Boiling them made a nice chewy crust, and I used an aluminum pan because I don't have anything else, and didn't have any problems. I'm not sure why the recipe called for non-aluminum. I rated a 3 because I would have liked to see directions for hand mixing/kneading, and some more specifics on time. I guessed on the time, and it probably should have been more so that the dough was a little more elastic. I will make these again.


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Preseason Game 5: @LAC
Another untelevised game, so I amused myself by keeping count of the–as Shums put it in the last SLC Dunk game thread–"stab out my eardrums with a sewing needle" "play for pay" references during the radiocast. The final tally was 12 through the first half, with 4 in the first quarter and a whopping 8 in the second. (No "straight as a string" in this game though.)
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–Same old story. Jazz on the road, bad D, too many TOs, opponent–no matter how bad a team–shoots an unreasonably high FG%, opponent wins.
–KK2's layup = eMay's floater, i.e. neither has a shot of going in. KK2 was blocked three times in his first three minutes on the court and didn't attempt another shot, while Maynor went 1-6 with his only FG coming from the top of the key. On the plus side, he had 7 assists and got to the line 11 times in 26 minutes.
–After grabbing 7 boards in the first quarter of the last game, Deron totalled 0 for his next 35 on-court minutes over 3 on-court quarters.
–The Jazz fell apart in the 3rd quarter with odious sequences like this:
–During one timeout, I found myself suddenly paying attention to a commercial for something called (I think) Donovan's Chop House. A few seconds later, I figured out why I was sitting up and paying attention–it was Hot Rod. I MISS HOT ROD. (It's unfair to compare Locke to Hot Rod, but the comparisons will be made whether you mean to make them or not. In all honesty Locke has been better than I thought he would be–endless "play for pay" references aside).


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The Dylan Dog movie, otherwise known as Dead Of Night, has been hounded by negative press for years. But this latest trailer makes the supernatural thriller look kind of cute, mostly thanks to Being Human's Sam Huntington. Watch it now.
Brandon Routh is Dylan Dog supernatural detective and peacekeeper in the live action adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi's graphic novel. The premise is simple, set in New Orleans Dylan solves supernatural crimes. His biggest problem is the vampire street gang, led by Taye Diggs. But, the most interesting part of this movie, to us, is the zombie world. In Dylan Dog, zombies have stores where they shop for new skin, hold jobs — and according to this trailer, host undead support groups. Dylan's sidekick, played by Huntington, is a newly made zombie and possibly this film's saving grace. His shtick in the scenes above is actually quite endearing.
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ATLANTA, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Vaccination reduced the risk of pregnant women getting the flu by half from 2010 to 2012, federal health officials said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the flu shot as a priority for pregnant women because studies and history have shown they are at a higher risk for flu-related hospitalizations and death compared with non-pregnant women.
The H1N1 virus emerged in 2009 to cause a pandemic and was particularly hard on pregnant women, who were four times more likely to be hospitalized from flu than non-pregnant women. The H1N1 flu strain is the strain circulating currently among those with influenza.
The study, published in the in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, showed influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates among pregnant women were similar to those found in other studies, which ranged from 44 percent to 51 percent for the 2010-2012 period.
The CDC received reports this season of pregnant women with complications, officials said.
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A baby gorilla from Texas has made its debut at the Cincinnati Zoo with some of the people who have served as its surrogate mothers.
The 3-month-old lowland gorilla is named Gladys Stones. She made her media debut Tuesday in a yard where she'll spend time over the next month with her human surrogates, climbing trees and getting familiar with being outdoors.
Gladys was born Jan. 29 at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. Her mother rejected her, and she was moved to Cincinnati in February to be paired with a gorilla surrogate mother.
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These terms and conditions set out the rights and obligations of all users (either as individuals or as a group) and those of Skoosh in relation to the services offered by Skoosh by way of this website. Before you click on the "confirm" button at the end of the booking process, please carefully read these terms and conditions. By clicking on the "confirm" button you are consenting to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions, do not click on the "confirm" button. If you have any questions about our terms and conditions, please e-mail us at email@example.com
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Use of Site
You may only use the website to make legitimate enquiries or bookings and hereby undertakes not to make any speculative, false or fraudulent booking or any booking in anticipation of demand. You also undertake to provide correct and accurate e-mail, postal and/or other contact details to Skoosh and acknowledge that Skoosh may use these details to contact you in the event that this should prove necessary.
Making a Booking - prepaid reservations
Any booking made or order placed by you shall be deemed to be an offer by you to purchase the relevant hotel accommodation subject to these booking conditions. No contract between you and Skoosh shall come into existence until Skoosh (a) issues a booking reference number; (b) issues a booking confirmation by email or fax; and (c) receives payment in full.
Amendments and cancellations by you
There are no universal amendment, cancellation and no show policies. They will vary from hotel to hotel and will depend on many factors including but not restricted to travel dates, hotels and events. As a result Skoosh will display each specific amendment, cancellation and no show policy, after a search has been performed, on the booking review and payment page for each individual hotel. It will also be confirmed in your confirmation email.
Amendments, cancellations and curtailment by the hotel
In the very unlikely event that the hotelier cannot provide the booked accommodation, you understand that the hotelier's responsibility is to find an alternative of at least a similar standard, and provide transportation as appropriate to this alternative hotel. Skoosh takes every precaution to ensure hotels are professionally managed so that any such occurrence is extremely rare. Skoosh shall have no liability in respect of any other costs, losses or damages existing out of or in connection with relocation of accommodation since such relocation is outside Skoosh's control.
Accuracy of Information
By Skoosh:
Skoosh and its suppliers have taken reasonable care to ensure that the content of the website including all hotel information, city information and listings are accurate. The hotel information and listings are compiled from information provided by the hotels that are listed. Skoosh publishes such information in good faith. You acknowledge and accept that Skoosh cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in such information, nor can liability be accepted for changes to facilities which are not notified to Skoosh by the hotel in question. You also acknowledge that while Skoosh endeavours to keep accurate and up-to-date all information contained on this website, Skoosh cannot be responsible for errors, omissions or misleading information contained in the hotel listings or information.
By the guest:
Skoosh, its partners and the hotels are required to be advised of the correct names of all the guests for each reservation. Should TBA, N/A or any other abbreviation be used in place of a guests names, the hotel has the right to either request for the full names and/or reject the booking until these names are provided.
Errors on Our Site
Prices and availability are subject to change without notice. Errors will be corrected where discovered, and Skoosh reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been submitted and whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Skoosh will issue a credit to your credit card account in the amount of the charge. Individual bank policies will dictate when this amount is credited to your account.
Star Ratings and quality of Accommodation
You acknowledge that star ratings may vary in quality from country to country and cannot be relied on to identify the quality of the accommodation. You acknowledge that the star rating is merely a general outline and may not apply in each case. Similarly, you acknowledge that the type of rooms provided by a hotel (i.e. single, double, twin, triple) may also vary from country to country. It is your responsibility to check the type of the accommodation and services provided by each hotel. Details of each hotel which may be booked via this website are outlined in this website.
Discounted rates
Hotels sometimes impose supplements which means that the price advertised on Skoosh may be higher than the hotel's published rate. This can happen at any period when rooms are very scarce. Skoosh will only sell a room at higher than the published rate if it feels that its customer's interest is better served by having this room rather than finding nothing available at all. In such busy periods, and only at the customer's request, Skoosh sometimes finds rooms in hotels which have been reliably recommended by third parties. Such hotels are offered to clients in good faith.
Members hotels
All of our members only hotel rates are for use by skoosh members only and as such cannot be used in conjunction with any Best Rate Guarantee Claims. Any breach of these terms will result in a membership being suspended with immediate effect and all bookings cancelled with no refund being due to any guest.
Any complaint regarding the Hotel should be notified to the Hotel Reception desk or to the relevant Hotel Representative during your stay at the hotel and the hotel management must be given adequate opportunity to rectify the situation from the outset. Where any such complaint is not rectified by the hotel in question to your satisfaction, you should contact Skoosh immediately and Skoosh will endeavour to assist. Should you remain unsatisfied a further complaint should be made in writing to Skoosh not later than seven days after termination of the hotel stay. Where possible, the written complaint to Skoosh should be supported by photographs or other written/visible proof of the complaint.
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Skoosh cannot be held liable for any loss incurred in the event of your failure to hold the necessary passports, visas and documentation for their journey. You are advised to check with the relevant visa departments of the Countries they wish to visit.
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Skoosh reserves the right to revise all published prices at any time and for any reason, however no change in price will be made once a booking has been confirmed.
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You acknowledge that while Skoosh and/or it's partners will take care of hotel taxes where applicable, the authorities in some countries may impose certain additional taxes (e.g. tourist tax, city tax, local tax etc), which have to be paid locally, as these are for local service. You are exclusively responsible for paying such additional taxes.
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Hotels may charge a resort fee, which is payable only by the guest at the hotel, that cannot be included in our prices. This is increasingly common in the USA. Where known beforehand Skoosh will endeavour to display them on an individual hotel basis, however, please note that as they are subject to change without prior notice Skoosh cannot be held responsible for any changes in price or implementation.
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(i) Twin/Double rooms: Hotels often have much fewer double rooms than twins and the provision of a double room by the hotel (even if requested as a preference) is not guaranteed, unless its importance is specifically mentioned to Skoosh at the time of reservation and Skoosh then confirms with the mention 'double' room.
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When you receive your voucher, Skoosh accepts responsibility for paying your accommodation costs and therefore cannot accept any responsibility for clients who pay directly to the hotel.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Skoosh from and against any liability, damage or loss including legal fees and expenses that Skoosh incurs or suffers as a result of any action, inaction or omission by you.
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Under no conditions and in no event shall Skoosh or its suppliers be liable for any consequential or special damages or losses, however arising, (including, but not limited to negligence or breach of these terms and conditions or otherwise) or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, howsoever caused even if that loss or damage was foreseeable by, or the possibility of it was brought to the attention of Skoosh.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, Skoosh's liability to you and/or any third parties are in any and all circumstances limited to the lesser of either:-
You may not assign, convey, sub-contract or delegate any rights, duties or obligations hereunder except with the written consent of Skoosh.
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You acknowledge that all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in and relating to this website are solely owned by or licensed to Skoosh. The content or data found on the website may not be reproduced, sold, transferred or modified without the prior written consent of Skoosh. Neither may you modify, duplicate, display, copy, reproduce, licence, publish, transfer or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the website without the prior written consent of Skoosh. You further acknowledge that you must not use any of these intellectual property rights, except to the extent necessary to make a booking in the manner anticipated by these terms and conditions.
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By posting or distributing Content to or through the Site, unless we indicate otherwise, you (a) grant Skoosh and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Content throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; (b) grant Skoosh and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such Content, if they choose; and (c) represent and warrant that (i) you own and control all of the rights to the Content that you post or otherwise distribute, or you otherwise have the lawful right to post and distribute such Content to or through the Site; (ii) such Content is accurate and not misleading; and (iii) use and posting or other transmission of such Content does not violate these Site Terms and will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. You further grant Skoosh the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or Skoosh 's rights in the Content by a breach of these Site Terms.
Content submitted by users will be considered non-confidential and Skoosh is under no obligation to treat such Content as proprietary information. Without limiting the foregoing, Skoosh reserves the right to use the Content as it deems appropriate, including, without limitation, deleting, editing, modifying, rejecting, or refusing to post it. Skoosh is under no obligation to offer you any payment for Content that you submit or the opportunity to edit, delete or otherwise modify Content once the it has been submitted to Skoosh . Skoosh shall have no duty to attribute authorship of Content to you, and shall not be obligated to enforce any form of attribution by third parties.
If it is determined that you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in the Content, you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the Content, or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the Content by Skoosh or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author in any of the Content; and (d) you forever release Skoosh , and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against Skoosh by virtue of any such moral rights.
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The usage of any device, routine or software which inhibits or interferes with the running of the Skoosh website or any booking concluded upon it is prohibited. Any action which creates a load on the Skoosh website or infrastructure which may be considered unreasonable or disproportionate is prohibited.
No Guarantee of Continuous Access to Skoosh Website
Skoosh does not guarantee continuous access without interruption to its website, nor does Skoosh guarantee secure access to its services. The performance of the Skoosh website may be interfered with by many factors outside its control.
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Skoosh reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. Updates will be effective 5 days after they are posted on the Skoosh website. This Agreement cannot otherwise be altered without prior consultation with Skoosh.
These terms shall be deemed severable. In the event that any provision is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and such determination shall not effect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.
The headings used in these Terms and Conditions are included for convenience only and shall not define, extend, limit or otherwise affect these Terms and Conditions.
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If as a consequence of Force Majeure, Skoosh is obliged to curtail, alter or cancel a booking, you shall not be entitled to claim compensation for any loss arising as a consequence of the said curtailment, alteration or cancellation. The term "Force Majeure" includes but is not limited to acts of God, natural disaster, fire and any other destruction of any accommodation booked, riots, acts of war or civil commotion, exercise of legislative, municipal, military or other authority, strikes, industrial action or any other reason beyond the control of Skoosh.
Entire Agreement
These terms contain the entire agreement between Skoosh and you and supersedes any prior understandings or agreements regarding the subject matter and may not be amended or modified unless expressly agreed by Skoosh in writing.
Governing Law
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'Till death do us part?' Not in Greenwich
Marriage vows include a promise to love one another as long as both shall live. But in Greenwich, more than one in three grooms who walked down the aisle in 2012 were doing so for the second, third or fourth time.
A Hearst Connecticut Media Group analysis of 4,399 marriages performed in 2012 across eight Southwestern Connecticut cities and towns -- Stamford, Greenwich, Norwalk, Darien, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Bethel and Danbury -- found that Greenwich had the highest percentage of second, third or fourth marriages in the area.
With 65 percent of grooms marrying for the first time in 2012, along with 67 percent of brides, Greenwich had fewer first-time brides and grooms than any of the other towns. Of the 355 marriage licenses on file at the Town Clerk's office, only 189 -- or 53 percent -- were first weddings for both the bride and groom, compared with 64 percent in Stamford.
In total, 30 percent of grooms married in Greenwich in 2012 were marrying for the second time, while 5 percent were marrying for the third time and 0.6 percent (that's two grooms -- a 59 year-old and a 66-year-old) were married for the fourth time. At the same time, 27 percent of brides married in Greenwich were saying "I do" for the second time, and another 5 percent were doing so for the third time.
Those rates are significantly higher than the national trend, according to a 2011 report released by the U.S. Census Bureau, which shows that 18.9 percent of women and 19.7 percent of men married during a single calendar year were entering into second marriages.
Each of the eight municipalities analyzed had more second and third marriages than the national average. The census report shows that 76 percent of brides married within one calendar year were celebrating their first marriages, along with 73.8 percent of grooms. In Southwestern Connecticut, the numbers shook out to 72 percent of brides and 70 percent of grooms.
Greenwich was followed by Bethel for the highest share of second and third weddings. In Bethel, 29 percent of grooms were married for the second time and 4 percent for the third time; 19 percent of brides were married for the second time, while 8 percent for the third time. There were no fourth marriages recorded in 2012 for either brides or grooms in Bethel.
So, no matter how you cut it, Greenwich takes the (wedding) cake).
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