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I needed to make one of these, and thus i did!
So yea all you have to do is fill this form out and start RP!
Chara(s):(up to 3)
Chara Nari(s):
And thats all there is to it!
Name:Akina Asukai
D.O.B: October 27
Bio: When she was 3 she almost drowned in a pool and she has been scared of water ever since. When she got older she she wished to not be afraid of water now.
Chara(s):(up to 3) Tori
Chara Nari(s): Her Chara Nari is called "sea star"
Name: Kuro Hoshina
Age: 12
D.O.B: October 13, 1997
Bio: He can figure out codes easily and wishes to be a Detective. He has an artistic side and spends most of his time playing video games.
Appearance: Brown hair and pitch black eyes..
Chara(s): Riku: A hedgehog like Guardian Chara that spends most of his time figuring out codes, eating, and annoying people.
Ryan: A guardian chara that wants to be an artist but spends most of his time trying to play video games.
Chara Nari(s): He doesnt have any yet.
First Name:Koneko
Last Name:Yumi
D.O.B: January 25, 1995
Bio:She is kind and calm but wishes to be a little more energetic and wants to become a Athlete. She is great at math and cooking but needs more work on gym.
Appearance:long black hair with brown eyes
Chara(s): Kiru:A playful,hyper and a little annoying but can make friends easily
Jia:A athletic Chara, yet evil and short tempered
Chara Nari: Kiru and me: Shining Player
Jia and me: Shining Dancer
First name: Angel
Last Name: Senshi
D.O.B: January 18
Bio: She is strong and brave, but has a weak side. She is really kind, but at the same time, really lazy. She loves chocolate and is a major chocoholic. She also loves music and dreams of being a rockstar and making world peace. She also loves cats.
Appearance: Short black hair, violet eyes, and rock outfits. Has tannish skin.
Chara(s): Estrea: a cute, shy, and peaceful and truthful one who loves chocolate. She has short black hair, cat ears, a crown, tail,. cross necklace, and skull pin. She also has black wings and wings.
Charcter nari: Neko Rockstar
Lyf's lyk a bowl of empty Promises, only to be filled with promises worth keepin
Name: Kiira Ikeda
age: 16
gender: Female
Skills & talents: very talented in all the arts, but does poorly in school and at sports
backround: she lived in Japan until she was 7, she was a good friend of Ikuto and Utau before moving to America. At the age of 15 she made a hit single in America. On the way home from an apperance on a TV talkshow. She got in a serious car accident, and both her parents died. She moves back to Japan for a new life. One day she was singing and was spotted by an Easter talent scout. She now works alongside Utau and Ikuto.
Shugo Charas: Kaji (to be stronger)
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Mizutamari (to be calmer)
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i DID NOT draw this
Tochi (to be more popular and trusting)
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Akurai (stays in egg mostly) to let her true self shine through
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Chara naris:
Blaze Goddess (kaji) attacks: epic fire, blazing staff
Surf Goddess (Mizutamari) attacks: sacred surf, ocean staff
Earth goddess (tochi) attacks: spirit plant, earth staff
Shining Goddess(Akurai) attacks: blessed light, solar staff
4 way chara nari: Rainbow goddess attacks: true colours, rainbow staff
currently dating (if i can ): Ikuto
Name: Yuki Tamago
Age: 15
DOB: September 26 1995
Bio: At age 4 Yuki was kidnapped by the Tamago company and was force to work and do their bidding. She does go to school and hang around for a while otherwise they put her in a room to make eggs to use against ppl. Yuki's charas were born from her dream to be free and to get away the sadness and pain. She never got to see her parents again.
Appearance: Has short blue hair, blue eyes, and usually wears her long blue dress with long sleeves.
Kitty - Same hair style and eye color as Yuki. Wears a blue t-shirt with a cat face on it and blue shorts. She is very active and shows Yuki's energygetic side. Kitty is a cat chara duh.
Melody - She has long wavy brown hair and brown eyes. Wears a colorful dress with music notes on it. She is very kind and shows Yuki"s soft side. Melody is a singer chara.
Hell - She had medium black hair in a pony tail and red eyes. Wear a short black dress. She is very harsh and shows Yuki's strong side. Hell is a dont-wanna-mess-with chara.
With Kitty - Blue Stray
With Melody - Singing Soul
With Hell - Life Killer
Coming Soon:
Golden Teardrop
Sneaking, playing. pranking. Sing, sang, song. Dead, die, died.
Name:Sakura Sprints
D.O.B: July 16, 1994
Bio:Her dad died in a car accident when Sakura was 3 and her charas were born. Then mother got married to a total jerk and made them his "slaves" and then one night got drunk, found a shotgun and shot her little sister, (who was 5 and 7 years yonger than Sakura!) mother, and big brother. (16) She servived and now has no home, money, nor family except her charas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apperance:Pitch black hair, Blue eyes, wears riped jeans, and Alice and Wonderland Shirt.
Personalty: shy, expresses herself, GREAT fighter/protecter, great planer,AWESOME singer
Sin~Doesn't really express her feelings, LONER, has Pitch black hair and beady red eyes, wears a black knee dress and has BLACK wings- Dark Angel Chara
Love~ Enemys with Sin is loving and caring! Wears and angel dress up to her SHIN! Blond with Blue eyes.FALLS FOR EVERY SINGLE GUY CHARA!
Misty~Total PRANKSTER! With elbow length blue hair and awesome blue cat ears and tail!
Sin- Dark Angel
Love-Bright Angel
Misty-Looping Cat
I love honkers and karate from live life college pop star :)
Name: Alex
Age: 17
D.O.B: January 23
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Alex is childhood friends with Ikuto, Utau and Tadase. She was born in London but moved to Japan on a scholarship and lived with Ikuto, Utau and Tadase when she was little. When discovering her little brother Ciel, was dead, she left the household and spent years looking for him accross the world since the possibility of him still being able to be alive was low but possible. When he came back with a demon, she stayed with him while running the Phantomhive Company, when she left to pursue her own career, she left Ciel in charge until she returns. She occasionally gives him surprise visits and takes on the hard assignments from the queen to protect Ciel. Alex knows about Ciel's demon situation but keeps it down and just watches him from a far. At the age of 13, she took on the job of being the head of the musical department in Easter and she reunited with Ikuto then. She has been working with Ikuto and Utau ever since. At the age of 14, she formed a band with Ikuto and Utau. The band was called Lady in Black. When the band started hitting it off, she met Jonathan and gave him the position of guitarist. They've been together ever since. After a month of success, Ikuto and Utau left the band to her and pursued their own dream. Jonathan and she are the leaders of Lady In Black. Now, Alex is a high school student juggling a sibling, boyfriend, job and band.
Appearance: Long Black Hair, Dark Green Eyes, Skinny, Pale White Skin, Tall
Chara(s):(up to 3) Lola
Chara Nari(s): Musical Desire
so fuckin hot
Name: Emily
Age: 15
D.O.B: October 21
Bio: kidnapped in age 4 by a serial killer >:D found alive , but had to be hospitalized. Parents died , shot, and had to live with her uncles. She is still recovering of what happened 11 years ago.
Appearance: long black hair , big brown eyes , skinny , not that pale.
Chara(s):(up to 3) Musica
Chara Nari(s): Colorfull Music ( Its really not that colorfull)
switching accounts cause this username makes me cringe plus all my buds are dead
Name:Bliss Heartnet
Age: 14
Bio: Was abandoned and lives off the food the generous offers.
Charas: Spirit~Pink! Frills! Girly!~She's Bliss' urge to be more like a girl.~Has black hair in a half up half down style. Wears a black long sleeve shirt blue caprees and pink shoes with a black star on them.
Zero~ Blue! Sports! Boy!~ He's Bliss' urge to fit in with the boys.~ Has blue hair (kind've like Zack and Cody's from the suite life on deck) Wear a white shirt with a green basket ball jersey with the number 9 on it in Blue. Wears black basket ball shorts. Wears white and black jordans.
Chara Nari(s): Spirit~ Ghostly Feminine~
Zero~ Sports Girl~
remember me.
Name:Chisuzu Kuro (Tsukiyomi)
Bio:was forced to work for Easter and had changed her last name to Kuro (black)to hide her identity from the guardians since she was spying on them because Kairi had failed
Appearance:blue eyes,shoulder length blonde hair,dark blue shirt with black bow in front (with strings),black shorts,dark blue shoes.
Charas:Shizuka-wears a blue dress with long sleeves,waistlength red hair,headband thing Dia has but only the main part is pink and it has strings,and purple eyes with blue shoes.is very good at helping others and falls easily for tricks.
Chara Nari:Shining Belief
(Chara Change:Happy,Smile,Sunny
Name: Himeka Tsukiyomi (lol I changed it XD)
Age: 13
D.O.B: februrary 14 1996
Bio: Parents died at age of 6 and was raised by her uncle, who happens to be Ikuto's real dad. But no one knows of course, she is also in high school. She is in the top of her class
Chara(s):(up to 3)
Tsubasako: Flys to anywhere
Kyou: to know everything about the present
Chara Nari(s):
Roaming Angel
Knowledge Pshyco
Name: Hana Kimura
Age: 16
D.O.B: June 17, 1994
I woke up one day when I was 7 with no memories at all. I was taken in by Easter, where there I quickly befriended Ikuto and Utau, and was forced to work for the company. I was taught how to be assertive, stubborn, and not take no for an answer. Ikuto and Utau taught me how to not let Easter see I had a weakness, for they'd certainly take advantage of that, and I had always carried an emotionless mask from there on out. I put that mask away when I was with Ikuto and Utau, and later on, the Guardians, whom I, like Ikuto and Utau, help whether or not they're the enemy. Later on, I started dating Ikuto. I hate when someone tries to help me, and I can be very rude, mean, and pushy. To this day, I don't remember anything about my family, and am trying my hardest to learn. Even though most of the time I can be mean, I can also be extremely bubbly and giggly and altogether a happy person. This is only when I'm with my friends. I have many different styles, ranging from punk to preppy, but, whatever I wear my attitude stays the same. I'm very talented. Can play multiple instruments, has a voice prettier than Utau's, and can speak fluent English, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish.
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Pretend I didn't fix this on paint, and that the bangs are not like that, and instead cover my right eye, mmkay? Kay.
Chara(s):(up to 3)
Alekzandriana (Alex or Alekz) ~ A polite, well-mannered chara who was born from my desire to be more serious and determined, but still have a hint of the bubbly person I currently am. Long dark brown hair, flashing violet eyes with golden specks in them. She wears a long-sleeved yellow dress, with a cream corset. She has a red rose in her hair, and an orange choker with white lace. She wears flat, white boots.
Chi ~ Completely the opposite of Alex, wild and vicious, representing my desire to be able to fight back against Kazuomi. Black, shoulder length hair with crimson highlights, dangerous silver eyes with flecks of red, jagged ended, sleeveless black shirt with red outlining, silver pants with black outlining. Black choker with skull & crossbones pin, and a skull & crossbones clip in hair. She wears high-heeled black boots. Even though complete opposites, her and Alex get along fairly well.
Miyuki ~ Silent and calm, but very creative. She is an amazing artist, who represents my desire to be calmer and a better artist. Brown, mid-back length hair, with bangs that cover one eye, calm, turqouise eyes with green flecks. She always has a pencil tucked behind her ear. She's always carrying a sketchbook. She wears a 3-quarter sleeved flowy white dress, with a very intricate turquoise design. She has a pure white choker around her neck. She wears turquoise flats. She gets along fine with Alex and Chi, but rarely talks
Chara Nari(s):
Alekz: Fierce Sun: Attacks: Bright Light, Binding Rose
Chi: Deadly Moon: Attacks: Skulled Rope, Death Trident Midnight Shadow
Miyuki: Silent Artist: Attacks: Scultped Statue, Painted Sea
In Your Past Lies Your Future.
Name: Amaya Fujii
Age: 15
D.O.B: December 25th 1994
Bio: A good painter/singer. Loves to design clothes and organize places. Used to work for Easter as their interior designer, but quit after a while. Adopted by the Fujii family, whose background is unknown.
Appearance: Light brown hair with blonde highlights and light purple eyes.
Resu > A good clothes designer. She can also sew and mend clothes. blonde hair and violet/magenta eyes.
Sasa > A quiet and shy chara. She can understand people's feelings and hear your heart's voice (kinda like Dia). Dark brown haired and pale yellow eyes.
Chara Nari(s):
Resu > Cute Design. Attacks: Clothes Chaos, Thread maze
Sasa > Ai no sasayaki (whispers of love). Attacks: Love Potion, Heart's Whispers
Name: Atsuko
Age: 14
D.O.B: october 21
Bio: loves to sing , loves lollipops , not so easy to fool and ish nice and smart.. had a fun life until she moved to Japan where she fell in love with Takuto. ><
Appearance: blonde long hair, blue-green eyes, normal height , cute
Chara(s):(up to 3)
Etsuko: lollipop singer. Shes always singing the same song over and over and its annoying but she helps others when in trouble. Shes also smart.
Chara Nari(s): lollipop beat. Attacks: Pop Crash. Flavor Rope.
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hosthut necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
HostHut.com is a new web hosting company that will specialize in shared website hosting.
Personal and small business customers looking for an affordable, reliable place to host their website.
Winner will have designed:
1. A main page for our site
2. An inner page for our site used for detail pages, terms of service, customer areas, etc.
Our new logo is available at http://hosthut.com/hosthut_logo.png (thank you 99designs member "neptune")
We also have the "hut" character in various poses that you may choose to implement if you wish at:
The main page should contain:
1. An area for general information about our service
2. Space to highlight a few of our most popular plans.
3. Links to the following sections
-Web Hosting
-Register a Domain
-Help Desk
-Contact Us
-Terms of Service
4. An area for existing customers to log in to their account
Could also contain an area to search for an available domain name.
We want something new, unique, and fun (like our logo) and not a standard web hosting site.
We will require a PSD only, with no coding. Winner should provide all fonts used.


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Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 Review
With any new processor or technology lineup, there is a corresponding change in motherboard technology as well. With the 7 series chipsets from AMD, a whole new bevy of improvements have been implemented. Full support for Phenom processors, 1066 DDR2, and HyperTransport 3.0 are just a few of the improvements. When the 7 series was released, there was a backlash from the community due to the lackluster performance. With a few months under its belt and new BIOS revisions coming regularly, has the 790FX matured enough to be a respectable platform?
Will features such as Ultra Durable 2 construction, native support for 16 gigabytes of 1066 MHz memory system memory, Crossfire support and more make the MA790FX-DS5 a force to be reckoned with, or will it fall to the wayside like the many pretenders? Only time will tell!
Closer Look:
The Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 comes packaged in a white box with the features listed on the front and back. HT 3.0, CrossfireX, and Gigabyte's Ultra Durable 2, which consists of Lower RDS MOSFETs, ferrite core chokes and solid capacitors.
The sides of the box list the key features of what is inside.
Digging into the inner box, the 790FX board is sealed in an anti static bag between two layers of foam to protect the board during shipping


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"Is he the best in the league? I think he's certainly amongst the five best players, for sure"
And the 23-year-old has been able to replicate it at national level, scoring for Wales in their win over Austria in midweek and making it three in three after efforts against Norwich and West Brom.
The former Southampton man's good form has inevitably led to increased speculation about a move come the end of the season, with La Liga giants Real Madrid reportedly lining up a mammoth bid to try and lure him away.
"He's having a tremendous year, he's such an outstanding player all round," Villas-Boas told reporters. "We saw yesterday his performance was outstanding once again [for Wales] and I think he's really enjoying his football.
"Is he the best in the league? It's very difficult, there are lots of players in contention for an award like that. I think he's certainly amongst the five best players, for sure.
"Players who perform at this level always get the attention - it doesn't mean that the club doesn't foresee a continuous future with Gareth.
|Spurs are 10/11 to finish in the top four with William Hill
"I think it's intimately related to the objectives that we achieve for the season. He's a player we rate very highly and we aren't willing to let go.
"Can we keep him? Hopefully yes. It's difficult for us to have a player of this dimension playing so well, but in the same way it is difficult for other teams - with the economic situation as it is - to buy a player of this dimension.
"At the moment we are very fortunate to have him. I think we can reach our objectives with him at this level, and if we reach our objectives we can hopefully continue to have Gareth in our club.
"Would Champions League qualification secure his future? I think so. This is where most of the clubs want to be, and where most of the players want to play.
"It's part of our objectives so hopefully achieving it means we can attract better players and continue to hold on to our best players."


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"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Romans 5:20
Suggested Further Reading: 2 Peter 3:10-14
There has always been the salt of grace in the world to counteract the power of sin. The clouds have never been so universal as to hide the day. But the time is fast approaching when grace shall extend all over our poor world and be universal. According to the Bible testimony, we look for the great day when the dark cloud which has swathed this world in darkness shall be removed, and it shall shine once more like all its sister planets. It has been for many a long year clouded and veiled by sin and corruption; but the last fire shall consume its rags and sackcloth. After that fire, the world in righteousness shall shine. The huge molten mass now slumbering in the bowels of our common mother shall furnish the means of purity. Palaces, and crowns, and peoples, and empires, are all to be melted down; and after, like a plague-house, the present creation has been burned up entirely, God will breathe upon the heated mass, and it will cool down again. He will smile on it as he did when he first created it, and the rivers will run down the new made hills, the oceans will float in new-made channels; and the world will be again the abode of the righteous for ever and for ever. This fallen world will be restored to its orbit; that gem which was lost from the sceptre of God shall be set again, yea, he shall wear it as a signet about his arm. Christ died for the world; and what he died for, he will have. He died for the whole world, and the whole world he will have, when he has purified and cleansed it, and fitted it for himself. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound;" for grace shall be universal, whereas sin will be destroyed.
For meditation: The believer's sure and certain hope of being freed completely from the presence of sin then, is a strong motive for seeking to be as free as possible from it now (1 John 3:2,3).
Sermon no. 37
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Ariana Grande Drops 'Best Mistake' Song with Big Sean - Full Audio & Lyrics!
It's here! Ariana Grande and Big Sean team up for her track "Best Mistake" and we have your first listen!
The song appears on the 20-year-old actress/singer's highly-anticipated upcoming sophomore album My Everything, which drops August 25.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Ariana Grande
According to E! News, Ariana is dating the 26-year-old rapper. The duo first teamed up for "Right There," from her debut album Yours Truly.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Ariana Grande and Big Sean's new collab?
Ariana Grande & Big Sean – "Best Mistake"
Click inside to read the complete lyrics to "Best Mistake"…
Ariana Grande – "Best Mistake"
[Verse 1: Ariana Grande]
As soon as we forget how we felt
Dealing with emotions that never left
Playing with the hand that we were dealt in this game
Maybe I'm the sinner, and not a saint
Gotta stop pretending what we ain't
Why we pointing fingers anyway? We're all the same
[Pre-Chorus: Ariana Grande]
Break up, make up
Total waste of time
Can we please make up our minds?
And stop acting like we're blind
Cause if the water dries up
And the moon stops shining
Stars fall, and the world goes blind
Boy you know I'll be savin' my love for you, for you
[Chorus: Ariana Grande]
Cause you're the best mistake I've ever made
But we hold on, hold on
There's no pot of god at the rainbow, sweet Jesus
But we're holding on, hold on
[Verse 2: Big Sean]
I guess times wasting, tick tocking lip locking
How do we keep the feelings fresh how do we zip lock them
Wear your heart up on your sleeves so watch for pickpockets
I guess to go the distance we might need to pit stop it
Hold on, hold love, I know love can be a beach with no shore
I done count to ten lost my temper and went back to four
I know sometimes it's hard to realize I'm the man that you need
I had a dream we branched out started a family tree
And I feel like everything we do is overdue
You asked why I love your mom so much 'cuase she's an older you
I wish you were happy I guess thats the one thing I should be providing
Ain't no number twos we both ones and ones the oddest
Couple only human except you, you a goddess
Only lying to you when I lie you down, just being honest
When you start as friends it's hard to say you're never going back
If I'm not the one then I'm the best mistake you ever had
[Pre-Chorus] + [Chorus]
[Outro: Ariana Grande (Big Sean)]
You're, you're, you're
(Best mistake you ever had, best mistake you ever had)
I be savin' my love for you, for you
You're, you're, you're
(Best mistake you ever had, best mistake you ever had)
I be savin' my love for you, for you
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Speaker: Employer-sponsored health-insurance system isn't economicalBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
August 22. 2013 12:17AM
SALEM — The forum hosted by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation-New Hampshire on Wednesday drew about 40 people to the Tuscan Kitchen.
Avik Roy, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and editor of the health care blog The Apothecary, said there are many common misconceptions about the pending legislation.
Roy estimated that state-run insurance would expand by 33 percent within the coming decade, while individually purchased coverage will increase to 11 percent.
"The employer-sponsored system isn't economical," he said. "Basically, the tax subsidy is already as large as Medicaid."
As it stands, the employer-sponsored health care system costs the federal treasury about $400 billion a year, since co-pays are typically taken out of employee salaries and aren't subject to taxation, according to Roy.
Right now the average cost of an American health insurance policy is significantly higher than the per- capita costs in countries that have a universal health coverage system. In 2010, the American government spent an average of $4,000 per capita on health care compared to $2,857 in the United Kingdom and $2,158 in Canada.
Roy said the primary driver of high American healthcare costs isn't the insurance companies, but the medical providers.
"Hospitals have been consolidated and as they result, they're making a market concentration," he said.
Right now, Americans under age 40 comprise about two-thirds of those uninsured.
"They're healthy and go to the doctor maybe once a year," he said. "They don't want to pay $3,000 a year for services they don't need or use."
As of July 1, 2015, Obamacare will make it mandatory for companies with 50 or more full-time workers to have insurance coverage or be subject to serious financial penalties.
"One avenue many employers may opt for is limiting family coverage because they're not obligated to do so," Roy said.
Other consequences of the AFCA could be a likely reduction in companies' full-time workforce.


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iTunes regularly features FREE singles of the week, offering a wide variety of music for your iPod at no cost! Here are this week's:
Keep in mind that the price could go up on these at any time, but as of right now, they're FREE!
You'll also find complete playlists at each of the following sites:
- Urban Outfitters (through 12/31)
- FREE Comedy CD Download (with valid military ID)


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Feb 2007 16:27 UTC, submitted by luna6
"Beryl 0.2.0 will be released shortly and I spent time the last week testing out Beryl 0.2.0 RC2 on Kubuntu's Edgy Eft. The improvements found in 0.2.0 are simply amazing. Improvements in usability features, improvements in the pure 3D eye candy, and even the Beryl Settings Manager has been improved (the layout has become much more logically laid out). As you read through this preview of Beryl 0.2.0 and see some of the screenshots, I think you will get a firm grasp on how impressive Beryl can be. Basically, Beryl makes OS X and Vista look old and antiquated."


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To taper or not, that was the question. Our take was they wouldn't, and they didn't. Why would they when Bernanke has only four more months to go? What troubled me was the media machine that started traders down a different path around 24 hours prior to the announcement. I listen to these media economists, and they certainly sound like they know something they clearly don't. But it's convincing enough to lead some traders down the garden path. Such is life on Wall Street where we have Goldman Sachs joining the Dow this week.
American Cotton Oil, predecessor to Bestfoods, American Sugar Company which became Domino Sugar, United States Rubber Company, Kodak, Borden, Chrysler, GE, Anaconda Copper, Bethlehem Steel, American Can, Caterpillar, Boeing, 3M. This is a Who's Who of American business. Then you have Goldman Sachs. I'm sorry, but you'll never get me to go along with a company having such a notorious reputation being part of the Dow 30. If it wasn't enough, they made a decision last Wednesday it wasn't even two whole days where one Fed chief came out with the notion they could start tapering next month. It was enough to sink stocks right there on our seasonal change point on Friday.
I ran through all of my tests and came to the conclusion that while we were due for a high if for no other reason markets do turn with the seasons, this does not look like a market setting up for a new bear market even if this is the season when important things do happen. The best indication we have are a couple of Gann square of 9 readings, which suggest a change of direction should be at hand but the recent turn back up indicates a longer-term market more willing to go higher than it is to go lower.
The problem here is no market goes up forever unless they decide to party like its 1999. These markets are due a change of scenery even if a correction turns nasty for a spell. There is reason for it to turn nasty as we go from geopolitical negotiation back to domestic squabbles. I don't represent the GOP nor am I even a fan. Just so you know, politically I'm an independent. But I can appreciate a good poker game. Considering its debt ceiling season, the stakes have been higher. In fact, if I were sitting in the shoes of the Tea Party, I'd be doing exactly what they are doing right now. How many times has the GOP attempted to stop Obamacare? We've all lost count. But if they are ever going to have leverage, this is the time. If they are ever going to play their hand, they have to do now or forever hold their peace. This is it and they are not going to win. The very best scenario they could accomplish is to delay implementation by a year. If they do it consider a miracle. With a market that may be changing direction at the seasonal change point, if you are looking for a real justification, it's not some Fed president on some saber rattling tangent. Round 3 of the President vs. Tea Party is about to begin and short of World War III, there's nothing the market likes less than this dysfunctional debate. So if you think this is a market looking for an excuse to shake loose the weaker hands and perhaps a little more, you have it right on schedule. But my calculations don't show anything profound setting up like we had in 2007, 2008 or even last year. We do have the 162 month window to the March 2000 peak but now we have a market that has already inverted back up at 233 weeks off the 2009 Haines bottom.
Looking at a couple of other key components we had the US Dollar breaking down in the patience of a saint trade. We've been looking for it to break below 80 since July and now it has that chance. Whether it does it now or a couple of weeks from now it's still the higher probability outcome. The other key component is the Chinese SSE which broke down from its important trend/attractor line before it went on break. That Shanghai Exchange is very crafty. It seems every time the market comes to a key time inflection cycle point, they have a holiday. Before the break they attempted to bounce based on a small degree but important Fibonacci interwave calculation. But the bigger picture still has an a and 161a at the key trend line. The chances are greater it will decline here than it will break through and give us a fresh leg up.
I think there's a great chance for a turn here because we are way overdue. If markets fail to correct out of this sequence I'm going to start thinking bubble.
Since our last post there have been a couple of major tragedies. First we had the Navy shipyard shooter and Saturday a team of Islamic Jihad terrorists opened fire at the biggest mall in Nairobi, Kenya. I'm no longer going to sit silent while these things happen. Another mass murder on American soil and its being blamed on the gun laws. I suppose lives were saved since this guy couldn't get his hands on a major assault weapon. I've done careful study of this issue for several years and have come to the conclusion that changing the gun laws will do little if hearts are not changed. Morals in this country have been going down the drain for a long time. Look who they are putting in the Dow. Need I say more? It's not a gun problem, it's a character problem and ultimately it's a spirituality problem. There's a direct link between character and spirituality. As long as people think it's okay to do things they can get away with because they think nobody is looking, the character problem won't get solved. Until the culture once again embraces some degree of spirituality we are going to have more massacres, more debate, more table banging and ultimately handwringing. Nothing is going to change. Change a person's heart and you change the world.
Socionomics is the study of crowd behavior based by movement of the stock market which ultimately has broad economic, political and geopolitical implications.
The latest stunt by Islamic Jihad is the equivalent of walking into the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and opening fire, what a disaster! This is a mall that has been targeted for several years and also happens to be owned by Israelis. Let me clear there are a lot of moderate Muslims who do not condone this act but people need to wake up to the fact the greatest threat to our way of life is radicalized Islam. They've developed a more profoundly dangerous strategy. I've been watching a show called Stakelbeck on Terror and he discusses captured documents from back in 2004 that proves the Muslim Brotherhood has an organized plan to take over the United States internally. Don't laugh. They are doing it by immigration and putting key leaders in high places politically and the marketplace. They already have Aljazeera America rolling. Here's the dangerous part, they are in no rush. They have all the time in the world. If it takes them 20 or 50 years, that's what they intend to do. But the average American doesn't understand or thinks this kind of thing is impossible. Look to the U.K. where they already institute Sharia law outside the British government. Still not convinced? There was a guy named Hitler, you may have heard of him. In the early 20's he wrote a book called Mein Kampf. It was his radicalized strategy and view of the world. Nobody paid attention until it was too late. From my socionomics corner, I'm starting to see history repeat itself.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market had its best day this year, nearly erasing the steep losses from early this week.
The gains came after encouraging news on the U.S. job market and Disney and other companies reported solid earnings.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 188 points, or 1.2 percent, to close at 15,628 Thursday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 21 points, also 1.2 percent, to 1,773. It was the best gain for both indexes since Dec. 18. Both are still down about half a percent for the week following a steep drop on Monday.
The Nasdaq composite gained 45 points, or 1.2 percent, to 4,057.
Disney jumped 5 percent after the media company reported earnings that beat analysts' estimates, thanks partly to its box-office hit "Frozen."


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The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens gave one of the featured speeches at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend this past November in the immediate aftermath of the election. He took Gaza as a case study of error, his own and Israel's, while contemplating the hostilities that erupted in Operation Pillar of Defense. Stephens covers a lot of ground in his remarks and they remain timely.
Notes: At around 25 minutes in to the video of his remarks, Stephens deliberates on the possible recurrence of the year 1947, with the sudden collapse of British power mutated into the sudden collapse of American power. Bonus reading recommendation: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Quotable quote: "The question that has always confronted the West and that confronts us today is whether we will surrender before our enemies commit suicide." At the conclusion of his remarks, Stephens notes his January 2011 column "Egypt's prison of hate." And Stephens plugs the study of political philosophy, citing Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the Founding Fathers. Whether we know it or not, they are contending for our worldly souls.
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Kidney Pain?
After a night of drinking, i woke up with pain in my left side just under my ribs. i haven`t drank for a couple months before this and I don`t drink more than once or twice every two weeks. however when I do drink, I tend to over do it and usually will have well over 4 beers. I was wondering if kidney pain is common in this situation and if so, is it easily resolved?
Thank you for your question. Over drinking presents a large amount of fluid (volume) to your kidneys and also involves the blocking of a hormone that usually lets your kidneys concentrate urine. In this way over drinking can put a lot of strain on your kidneys, ureters and bladder. That is probably why you have what we call "flank pain" after a bout of over drinking. This is just one more reason that if a person is going to drink, they should stay well within the published "sensible drinking guidelines" from NIAAA.
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Anjali and The Incredible Kid first introduced Portland dance floors to the sounds of Bollywood and Bhangra in 2000, but it was not until July of 2002 that they founded a party dedicated exclusively to featuring the sounds of the desi diaspora. ANDAZ was an instant success and many thought the success was a fad. The party started as the Truth Hurts song "Addictive," featuring a prominent sample of the Bollywood song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai," was making its way up the charts to a peak of #9. This was one year before a Jay-Z remix of Panjabi MC's Bhangra track "Mundian To Bach Ke" reached the US Top 40.
This was five years before MIA covered the Bollywood song "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja," and made use of South Indian soundtrack percussion players to create the dense rhythms of several of the tracks on her Kala album. This was seven years before Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Academy Awards and grossed $140 million dollars at the North American box office, with a soundtrack by the Bollywood composer A.R Rahman that one two Oscars, reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums twice, once knocking Lady Gaga out of the top spot after a twelve-week run. This was eight years before Bollywood movies were released in mainstream theaters throughout the Portland metro area, including such unlikely places as the Century Clackamas Town Center.


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In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir's Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does Strange Things As further grist to the mill for American publicity hacks, the film starred Ingrid Bergman, who had recently returned to Hollywood after her career was nearly ruined by a marital scandal. Actually there was nothing overtly erotic about Paris Does Strange Things. The film was a sweet romantic comedy wherein Bergman plays a poverty-stricken Polish princess, who is wooed by eligible admirers Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais. Will she marry for love, or merely to restore her wealth? The suspense is bearable. Inexpertly cut to 86 minutes for its American showings, Paris Does Strange Things was restored to its full 98 minutes in 1986 and its title reverted to Elena et les Hommes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth have joined an effort that includes 300 faith-based organizations across the U.S. in lobbying the federal government to provide protection for Central American children fleeing "escalating violence, conflict and exploitation."
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth have joined an effort that includes 300 faith-based organizations across the U.S. in lobbying the federal government to provide protection for Central American children fleeing "escalating violence, conflict and exploitation."
Last week, the SCL aligned with 40 national faith organizations and 269 regional and local groups from 42 states represented in a letter to President Barack Obama and U.S. Congressional members.
The letter advocates for protections for thousands of children fleeing dangers in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The letter, according to a news release, "urges" the president and Congress to "protect unaccompanied children," and comes at a time when Congress is considering "rolling back critical legal protections" for the refugees.
"We strongly object to proposals to detain families with children and any move to roll back the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act in order to effect expeditious deportations," according to the letter.
"Forcibly and hurriedly returning people in need of international protection back to the dangerous situations they fled without adequate due process would undermine our obligations under international law and our position as a global humanitarian leader and would be a moral disgrace."
The letter lays out policy recommendations for Congress and the president's administration, and calls for strengthening the humanitarian response in the U.S.; legal counsel for all unaccompanied children; cost-effective, community-based alternatives to detention; adequate services for children, refugees and all groups under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement; and no roll backs to the provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 relating to unaccompanied children.
The faith groups are also urging the U.S. government to address "root causes" of the situations children face in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The letter is roughly three pages and is signed by the hundreds of faith-based advocates. It follows a petition that's been signed by more than 4,400 "people of faith" that was hand delivered to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnston.
"We respectfully ask that you consider the steps … to address the needs of Central Americans fleeing harm in a just, effective, compassionate and comprehensive manner," according to the letter.
"The U.S. must embrace its moral and legal obligations to asylum-seekers, many of which are women and children, who have arrived at our borders seeking protection. A policy of 'sealing' borders and housing vulnerable people in jail-like conditions will not dissuade people who are fleeing for their lives and seeking safety. These policies instead risk driving desperate people into even more dangerous circumstances and inflicting more pain upon those already suffering."


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White Bean and Sausage Ragout {with Tomatoes, Kale and Zucchini}
Listen. I get it. I really do. It's hard to inspire love, joy and excitement over a recipe titled White Bean and Sausage Ragout {with Tomatoes, Kale and Zucchini}. Can't even compare with the buzz around recipes like this.
But even so, trust me when I say that I don't post anything unless it is 100% unrighteously delicious.
And this White Bean and Sausage Ragout {with Tomatoes, Kale and Zucchini} is just that. The bonus is that it is shockingly healthy and full of crazy-good-for-you nutrients.
Not to mention that I've developed a love affair with chicken apple sausages (tried them??) and this is only one of two recipes I'm posting with the delicious morsels this week.
This ragout – simply a thick stew-like concoction – has layers of flavor, starting with the sauteed onion, sausage and garlic, and enhanced by the hearty vegetables: kale, zucchini, tomatoes.
Although it probably goes against the rules of ragout, I served this over a scoop of steaming rice, so as not to completely shock my children's systems and attitudes with the plethora of healthiness going on. The real shock was that they ate it right up. A blessing, on one hand, but a curse, on the other, since it left less for me to enjoy later. Seriously good stuff.
And it doesn't hurt that it comes together in less than 30 minutes.
White Bean and Sausage Ragout {with Tomatoes, Kale and Zucchini}
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 12 ounces chicken apple sausages, cut into (1/2-inch) slices
- 1 zucchini, quartered and cut into (1/2-inch) slices (about 2 cups)
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 (16-ounce) cans white beans, like Great Northern, rinsed and drained
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 cups chopped trimmed kale (about 1/2 pound)
- In a large 12-inch nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium heat until it is hot and ripping.
- Add the onion and sausage and sauté for about 4 minutes until the sausage is brown and the onion is translucent.
- Add the zucchini and garlic and cook for 2 more minutes, stirring often. Add the water, beans, tomatoes, salt and pepper. Stir. Add the kale and without stirring it in – because at this point the skillet will be very full – cover the skillet.
- Simmer the ragout for 10 minutes, covered, until the mixture is heated and the kale is completely wilted. Remove the lid, stir the kale into the ragout. Serve immediately.
If you are unfamiliar with kale, it needs to be rinsed well and then the tough stems need to be cut away before using. Also, I found the chicken apple sausages in my average, every day grocery store near the hot dogs and kielbasa (Johnsonville brand) but I hear Trader Joe's carries an excellent sausage as well.
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A couple of weeks ago a co-worker, who knows how much my wife loves to bake, brought a cookbook in to loan me. It's actually a collection of recipes that her Swedish aunt had put together years ago. It consists of dittoed pages (remember the smell of freshly dittoed paper?) and handmade covers held together with those two-pronged brads. I would never trust anyone with such a family heirloom, but I was honored that she would lend it to me. The recipes are old, and a number of them call for hartshorn. This is an old leavening agent used before baking powder was commonly available. Chemically speaking, it's ammonium carbonate, and it supposedly fills your kitchen with the odor of ammonia when you bake with it. Yum. It can only be used with light batters as you don't want any of that lovely ammonia flavor trapped in your finished goods!
This recipe is a quick and easy one from that book. It requires no hartshorn and makes very tasty cookies. They're especially good within a few hours of baking when they'll have a thin, slightly crisp exterior and a soft inside.
Orange Drop Cookies (from Aunt Annie)
4 T. butter
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
2 T grated orange rind
4 T orange juice
2 C sifted flour
4 T baking powder
1/2 t salt
Cream butter and sugar together in mixing bowl. Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Add orange rind and orange juice and mix well. Combine dry ingredients and work them into the butter mixture until combined. drop tablespoon-sized balls of the dough onto a lightly greased cookie sheet (we got great results with a Silpat liner) and bake at 375° for about ten minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned.


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Yes, Mae Young gave birth to a baby Hornswoggle. But Champions Choice Night was a WWE Raw idea that passed the test.
WWE Raw delivers with Champions Choice Night
WWE Monday Night Raw dished out Champions Choice Night.
I thought for sure it would be a stolen-idea version of TNA Wrestling's monthly champions concept, but it wasn't.
The show was made to be fun and funny, and was fun and funny, as the last Raw of 2012 -- even if it wasn't live.
Let's review:
MizTV with John Cena, Damien Sandow and Cody Rhodes. REACT: It's amazing how over Robert Griffin III is right now. He wasn't even there, but the Washington Redskins quarterback got one of the loudest pops ("RGIII") of the night after a Cena mention. Great segment to set up a superb opener.
The Miz/John Cena beat Damien Sandow/Cody Rhodes. REACT: Nice to see big names kick off the show with a match. Strong finish. Cena's pops were strong.
WWE wrestlers and Divas party backstage. REACT: I'm assuming those that were drinking didn't wrestle. At least I don't think they did.
Antonio Cesaro beats Sgt. Slaughter. REACT: Nice cobra clutch tease in what was an OK match.
Kane/Daniel Bryan want The Shield, but end up catching 3MB rehearsing. REACT: Decent setup. Funny, too.
Big Show and Ricardo Rodriguez segment. REACT: Another funny, short segment.
Mae Young to face Eve? REACT: I had no clue where this was going.
Kane/Daniel Bryan beat 3MB. REACT: Nice pace, even outside the ring. Solid splash finisher.
CM Punk's knee pictures. REACT: Surprising, yet effective, swerve by Punk's doctor saying Punk "can't compete."
Vince McMahon joins CM Punk and Paul Heyman. REACT: Heyman's Punk is a "hero" comment was solid. McMahon's Heyman-Ryback match idea was effectively right to the point. Wow!
Sheamus beats Dolph Ziggler by DQ. REACT: Big E. Langston sure is stoic. Great second rope toss by Sheamus. Superb aftermath tease of Langston-Sheamus and a great beatdown of Sheamus by The Shield. But why doesn't help ever come out?
Paul Heyman verbally blasts rogue referee Brad Maddox. REACT: Funny stuff.
Mae Young, at age 89, is pregnant again. REACT: Huh? I cringed thinking where WWE might go with this.
Eve and Kaitlyn brawl. REACT: For brawls, this one was good. For Divas brawls, it was superb.
Alberto Del Rio tells Ricardo Rodriguez to "do it with style" as he passes him his car keys. REACT: Del Rio is back to Mr. Nice Guy, which means he's a face now.
Big Show beats Ricardo Rodriguez. REACT: Awesome offense by Rodriguez. Really came out of nowhere, but WWE can do this more with him. I have no issues with the DQ win.
Wade Barrett beats Kofi Kingston to become Intercontinental Champion. REACT: Kingston's leaps and dropkicks are things of beauty. Stalemate of a competitive match. Kingston's missed leap was something else.
Mae Young in labor. REACT: Fastest delivery ever. The "no" and "yes" additions from Kane and Daniel Bryan were comical. A baby Hornswoggle being born from Mae is hilarious. Meant to be funny, and not offensive at all. WWE gets points here.
The Shield beat down Ryback. REACT: Finally, some help for those being beat down by The Shield. The help here from Sheamus and Randy Orton was a good angle. The Shield have a long list of enemies, and it's stupid for WWE to not have wrestlers go at them more often. I have a strong feeling, though, that Orton is about to turn heel to lead The Shield -- which would become a group of four.
Dolph Ziggler's promo on John Cena. REACT: Excellently broken down with Cena's loss to The Rock, his being F5'd by Brock Lesnar, his loss to John Laurinaitis, his loss when cashing in the Money in the Bank and his loss to Dolph Ziggler courtesy of the AJ Lee heel turn.
Cena responds to Ziggler. REACT: Funny wedding wardrobe comments, a picture of the Ziggler-AJ Lee baby and pictures of possible other AJ Lee babies. Comical stuff here. Cena's mention of Ziggler having been in WWE for seven years went straight to the point. I liked that. While it's no shocker Cena is in the Royal Rumble, I like how Cena announced that. The waste shower onto Ziggler and AJ Lee was supposed to be funny. It was.
ANALYSIS: WWE wasn't afraid to take chances on this fun show, like giving Barrett a title. That made this show more meaningful. The comedy and backstage segments were above-average this week. Much of that has to do with having more to work with, with everyone backstage for the New Year's Eve party. I would have liked to see more decisive winners in the matches, though. The matches weren't bad. GRADE: B-.
Michelle McCool bashes Beth Phoenix. REACT: Finally, a McCool story about Divas that isn't all mushy.


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EBRI May 2007 Policy Forum #60
The Impact of PPA, FASB, and GASB on Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Policy Forum Agenda
Policy Forum Presentations:
- Today's Pension Investing Playbook: Key Strategies for a New Era -- Defined Benefit Survey Results - Peter Chiappinelli, Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investment Company
- Mercer/EBRI Survey: Retirement Program Changes After PPA and New Accounting Rules - Barbara Marder, Principal, Mercer Human Resource Consulting; Jack VanDerhei, Temple University, EBRI Fellow; Craig Copeland, Senior Research Associate, Employee Benefit Research Institute
- Impact of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 on Multiemployer Plan Funding - Andre Latia, FSA, MAAA, EA, The Segal Company
- Impact of PPA on Defined Benefit Plans - Jerry Mingione, Towers Perrin
- Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans: Statement 158...and Forward - Chris Bone, FSA, Aon Consulting
- The New Pension Paradigm: The Death of DB Plans or a Phoenix Fire Event - William McHugh, Head, Strategic Investment Advisory Group, JPMorgan Asset Management
- The Investment Impact of PPA and FASB on Corporate Defined Benefit Plans - Don Ezra, Director, Investment Strategy, Russell Investment Group
Press Releases:
"Experts Anticipate More U.S. Pension System Changes" [July 17, 2007]
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Joined: 11 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:56 pm
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So, I'm reading the beacon, and it says that Boys tennis is suspended for this spring. Oja told me a month or so ago that football numbers are way down. Wrestling is pretty much non existant from what I read. What the crap is going on? What is happening to our high school sports programs? Do kids not care anymore? Mikey, you have an idea?
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I have heard that numbers are down in many sports, just like they are in Scouting. The traveling teams seem to be doing well yet.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:11 am
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1. Rural schools across MN have declining enrollment. We have had a large Latino influx that has delayed the process by a number of years. Most area of the state wouldn't have Sauk, Melrose and Albany all have schools. There would only be one. The suburbs are the same way. Sauk and Melrose have already started the combination of sports: swimming, hockey, and track will be soon combined. The area cannot support three schools. Look at the hospitals already. Ever been to the Albany one? It's like going back to civil war surgery.
2. Inclusiveness. Traveling teams have numbers because athletes don't realize the pecking order yet. You don't strive to win really. It's a nice bonus, but winning isn't that important. That, and the threat of being cut isn't apparent yet. (It never happens, but the thought of it is real.) Plus, everyone plays, so everyone wants to participate.
3. The people. We are not the Blake and Brecks of the world. Our students aren't very active on the whole. There are a bunch of 2 and 3 sports athletes, but specializing is rare and let's face it, those kids who stay in Melrose aren't exactly those who were involved in 2 sports, a musical, 4H or scouts. They then have kids who aren't active. The brain drain of the the excellent are moving to the urban areas for the opportunities. There simply aren't enough science, technology, engineering and mathematics jobs in rural areas, i.e. careers that require forward, creative thinking, so people move.
4. As for other activities, they suffer from a lack of interest, expertise and wealth. 4H, Boy Scouts, and FFA don't market their product enough to drum up interest. Without extra funding to get the word out, the programs slowly lose numbers. A lack of experts/professionals in the music program make it less competitive. These non-athletic activities don't have the visibility in the local Beacon, St. Cloud Times, local TV news or everyday interactions with people.
5. Terrible parents are ruining it. The high school football team has been pulled apart by low-level players wishing to play. They feel entitled to play because they have: A-1 gear, summer camps, etc, even though they're terrible. Parents talk to coaches, the stands get ugly and the team aspect is lost. A quarterback controversy was very alive this year from what I've been told. This puts pressure on better than average players because of how awkward/not fun it is, so they quit.
6. Not enough high-level players. In less disadvantaged areas, read Minneapolis North, South Chicago, students must find a way out. In the 50s it was poor jewish kids wishing to play baseball. In the 80s, it was poor black kids from Florida wanting to play football. In the 90s, it was immigrant latino populations wishing to play baseball. Melrose has rural, largely not terribly ambitious white kids who are comfortable with their slower pace of life. Jobs aren't abundant, but they can find low paying full-time jobs. There isn't enough competition. If kids had to prove themselves or fail, football would have 900 kids in it. It's the most visible and the highest chance of landing a collegiate scholarship (education free or not, depends), and then a career from networking, exposure or becoming a professional. This transcends sports. If getting an Eagle scholarship is the only key, we'd have more Eagle Scouts, period.
7. Professionalism. Do we have a strong connection to the St. Johns boys choir and then to Ms. Osterberg? No. Do we have any band members on the St. Paul Chamber? No. Any professional athletes right now? No. Better yet, any division 1 athletes? Not anymore. Or highly successful Eagle Scouts? Well, not yet. A community must be built from the 5 year olds starting an activity or sport and continue through ongoing professionals and into a greater alumni network. This feeling of tradition, obligation and achievement simply isn't there. For many Melrose students, playing high school football is the highlight of their lives. They'll talk about that 4th quarter in the section finals forever and connect to others who've done the same. That feeling in musicals and 4H/Boy Scouts isn't that terribly strong. The problem is, the most successful people who have this professional grade are leaving. See #3.
There's more, but I should get back to work.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:37 pm
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Mike -
1) - I hope you didnt' think I was sergio, because that's just rude. jk.
2) - I think you make some excellent points. I would have this to offer :
a) Money - I know you've alluded to this, but since we are all smaller schools, then we are more affected by budget cuts, etc. I know this would suck, because I feel like Albany and Sauk are our rivals, but we really need to merge all the school sports together, and label the schools as Central Minnesota High School, Middle School, etc, and use each existing school as a "hub" if you will for academic needs. But if we combine things like Sports, Arts, etc, it would give us stronger programs. Yes, it would probably move us up in the Rankings for competition, but this might be a good thing. You could run all the sports at Melrose too because it's right in the center of all the action.
b) Laziness - I know, again Mike, you've alluded to this, but kids are so lazy these days. What gets me the most is they are like "I don't have enough time for extra-curriculars." That's ridiculous. There is tons of time in High School to participate. We were all in extra-curriculars, plus scouting, plus jobs. In fact, I'm pretty sure we were all very active in scouting until we turned 16-17 years old, which, I'm sure Steve would agree with, that a lot of scouts aren't as heavily active. If memory serves correctly, I think that Tom Hanson, the Spoodens, Jay, etc, were all like that. I think kids would rather play sports on the Wii, than in real life. I remember I was on a story at a school once, and I asked some kids what they like to do. One kid was like "I love playing tennis and golf." I said really, where do you play at? He said on the Wii. Amazing. And for those who argue that the Wii gets you a good "aerobic workout," - I highly disagree. Go to track practice with Mike, or do a training session with me on how I lost all that weight, and I thinkt hey will differ.
c) lack of competition - kids have no sense of competition anymore. They are always taught, "it's alright, you tried your best." This works in some scenarios, but it shouldn't in all. By not teaching our kids to go out and win at competition, we make them feel like it's alright to lose at everything, which it's not.
Just some thoughts from my end of the spectrum.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:32 pm
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Rico, why'd you think Mike thought you were me?
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i coulda sworn that he wrote "power serge" instead of "well" to start off his post. guess i wasn't all there when I wrote it.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:27 pm
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He started it with Power Serge, he must have gone back and changed it. I also saw the Power Serge.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:55 pm
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One more thing to add a lot of the coachs put way to much pressure on the students. The reason baseball numbers are way down is becouse Mr. Rushmere is constanly yelling and people don't want to put up with that everyday. Same with football and a lot of the other coachs. The whole aspect of winning has taken all the fun out of the sports which is fine in college but high school should be more about having fun and learning the game.
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:14 pm
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One more thing to add a lot of the coachs put way to much pressure on the students.
I think this summarizes the entire question Enrico. End of argument.
Rural kids never succeed in sports or much in the business world because they aren't pushed enough. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies aren't rural kids nor are NBA players.
The reason the gymnastics team is consistently strong is because they're pushed so much. Girls quit because it's "too hard." It's not too difficult, it's just most rural athletes are weak, period. Either they go to state or quit.
Little guy football and middle school is when sports are "fun" when playing/winning/getting better doesn't matter. And you know what? It isn't fun for those who are exceptional. I remember having to sit on the bench in basketball when some random 6'4" kid couldn't score a point.
I watch Dutchman games and meets and I'm rather ashamed because of the acceptance of defeat and lack of motivation.
And you know how I know I'm so sure?
every one
of my teammates weren't rural.
That and EVERY coach I've talked to in Melrose has agreed with me.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:51 am
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Just to add to the gymnastics team doing well every year. It is also the swimming teams that to pretty well. As one of my sisters is in both swimming and gymnastics. I know that they practice at least an additional hour more than the other sports do every day. Most sports were done practicing by a little after 5 whereas swimming and gymnastics they usually practice until a little after 6. My other sister was in volleyball and in basketball golf and tennis all of these sports only practiced until 5 and I know none of these practices were taken very seriously unlike the swimming and gymnastics practices.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:50 am
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I would argue similar, but no.
Swimming sends people to state, they don't win as a team.
Very different beasts.
I do agree that more practice = more competitive.
Hockey in the suburbs have practices at 6:00 or 7:00 AM and PM. (edit)
While we do have to get kids "home for chores," it's a dedication issue. I remember being the last person at track practice every day.
I was in Lil Abner, and those who were there until late usually looked and acted better on stage.
Look at it this way, how many vigil members do we have from Order of the Arrow?
It's not just athletics. It's just easier to take the slow path, the "fishin hole" and taking 2 days off for deer hunting each year.
Looking back, I find it laughable.
I had friends quit Boy Scouts because other members and leaders would "push them" to advance. To what? Star? Really? Is that so hard?
They're just soft, period.
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Sorry to say something off topic, but I enjoyed Mike in Lil Abner. That was a good time.
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System: Location of Unified IC Files
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System: Location of Unified IC Files
|Problem Summary
|Some sections of the Unified IC user documentation incorrectly identify the location of the Unified IC files as %CUIS_HOME%\Cisco|CUIS\CuisWeb, %CUIS_HOME%\Cisco|CUIS\bin, etc.
|Error Message
|Not applicable.
|Possible Cause
|Not applicable.
|Recommended Action
|The correct syntax for the path is %CUIS_HOME%\CuisWeb, %CUIS_HOME%\bin, etc.
|Release 7.5(x)
|Associated CDETS #