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A year ago on March 8 there was a new sheriff in town. Sheriff Charles McDonald drew a line in the sand to "let people know that we were starting from the start point and everything going forward was going to be different." He had a plan.
A year ago on March 8 there was a new sheriff in town. Sheriff Charles McDonald drew a line in the sand to "let people know that we were starting from the start point and everything going forward was going to be different." He had a plan.
McDonald called in a 34-year veteran of Scotland Yard, now a professor and consultant in America, to do an internal audit to find what problems needed fixing. His report in August showed 93 major concerns. And although there are close to 200 employees at the department today, only seven job descriptions surfaced out of the whole bunch.
"When we came in I knew that we had a tremendous amount of work to do here inside the department. Morale was at an all-time low and people were really looking for something with some kind of certainty," he said. "I think in the year that we've been here, while we've still got a lot of things we want to do, we have really made great strides in re-establishing trust from the troops here in their leadership."
Republican Party's executive committee after former Sheriff Rick Davis, who had been named by a detective in a sexual harassment case, took medical retirement while seeking treatment for bipolar disorder.
On March 8, McDonald looked back on a year of new beginnings and ahead to more progress. To fix the outside, he looked inside first.
"I always tell people, 'I don't mind you bringing a problem to me, but I really prefer that you bring a solution or two, and then all I have to do is make the choice between the best solutions,'" McDonald said with a smile.
Low morale was a problem. Lack of recognition for stellar performance was a problem. Some employees were concerned with a lack of diversity among the staff and unity among the different divisions within the department. Others voiced an interest in more training and career development.
Recruiting committees from throughout the ranks, McDonald asked his troops, "How would you fix it?"
Several committees, equal representation from telecommunications to detention and patrol, met for brainstorming sessions. A professional standards division was formed to oversee internal affairs, evidence, regular inspections, audits, professional and career development and public information.
Doors were opened to new recruits, and the bar for standards was raised.
"Once I know what your job description is, as your supervisor, then I've got several things I need to do. Have I ensured that you have the training to properly do that job? And if not, then it's my responsibility to make sure you get it as prescribed," McDonald said. "As your supervisor, once you've met the baselevel training, then it's up to me to make sure that you start getting training that will enhance your ability to be promoted or transferred when you want to."
For morale and recognition, they thought of possible rewards that would cost close to nothing — employee of the month, breakfast with the sheriff or parking by the front door.
Another committee crafted new mission, vision and values statements for the department that remind others of the importance of courage, honor and integrity. The new statements will soon be hung around the office. Employees brainstormed ways to save taxpayer dollars, like using heat-applicable skins instead of paint to customize new patrol cars.
A recruiting committee came up with brochures and a list of places like the Apple Festival and the Mountain State Fair to put "boots to recruit." They developed a recruiting video with the help of the Western North Carolina Justice Academy.
Giving the officers "more buy-in" and more ownership in their job, McDonald suspects, has helped with morale. In seven months, morale has improved and a list of projects to enhance quality of work for quality service has either been completed or put in place.
"We never cease to be amazed by the imagination of our employees and really by the commitment that they bring to the job to make things better every day," he said.
Three main goals mark their to-do lists for McDonald's next year in office.
"We'll continue putting a great emphasis on career development for our people," McDonald said.
Then, they'll join in a common cause to reduce break-ins and larcenies in the county by 12 percent in 2014 using a specialized unit and crime-mapping software to put heat on the hot spots for those crimes.
The results of the next goal will guide the goals of the year to come. McDonald said they will be distributing a quality of service survey "across all of the demographics of Henderson County." Partnering with a graduate program at Western Carolina University, students will distribute community surveys and tabulate the results.
"Then we will go out — no matter what it says — we will go public with that survey," he said. "We'll make sure that the citizens know where we got it right and where we didn't get it so right."
Ushering in a new era of transparency and accountability is important, he said. "If we're not doing anything we shouldn't be doing, we don't need to pull the shades. That's the bottom line."
"If we're healthy on the inside, we're going to be better to take care of the folks on the outside as well," said Capt. Frank Stout. "He's come with a full plan that addresses the department, the community, the quality of service to everybody … he's the sheriff of all the people … He wants to establish a fair, transparent and honest department that people can be proud of, that they're not going to have to second-guess. Are we going to take some lumps? Absolutely, but we're going to be honest while we do it."
Stout said the sheriff is building a legacy of career development and opportunities they hope will be in place for years to come. They strive to be the model of sheriff's offices, he said. And in a recent article of Carolina Public Press, the department outshined several others in Western North Carolina in an audit of evidence collection and retention.
"There are some great, great people here," Stout said. "He's given them the free rein and the ability to come up with solutions, and they have done it. They have absolutely risen to the occasion, and the folks in Henderson County can be proud of their sheriff's department and especially their sheriff for allowing this type of culture to exist."
"I'm amazed. I'm inspired a lot of times by what I see," McDonald said. "It really is about living for something bigger than themselves. It took me a lot of years, just in my life, before I ever really understood what it meant to live for something big or beyond yourself."
McDonald quit school at 16, joined the Navy at 17 and served stateside during the Vietnam War. During his time in the military, he learned to weld. When he left the Navy at 21, he studied and earned his GED before using his G.I. bill to continue instruction in welding at Blue Ridge Community College. There, he found a passion for teaching becoming an instructor, and later, a calling to law enforcement, graduating from the school's first Basic Law Enforcement Training class (also thanks to his G.I. bill).
He joined the force at 30, retired at 55 and returned last year at 57 after many prayers.
"I've never worked harder. I've never been more committed to anything, as far as a job, in my life, and as tired as I am at times, I've never been more satisfied in my life with what we're seeing happen," he said.
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Scripture: Mark 3:1 Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.
2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.
3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone."
4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.
5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. (NIV)
Observation: Some people watched Jesus because they loved Him. Some people watched Jesus because of His teachings. Some people watched Jesus because they needed healing. Others watched Jesus because they had a family member or a friend who needed help. But there were some with stubborn hearts who watched him, hoping to catch him doing something wrong. He did not always follow their rules and they wanted to criticize Him.
Application: I want to be one who closely watches Jesus at work in the world around me. I want to be quick to recognize His hand at work. I want to be watching with a heart of love. I want to be quick to rejoice and give Him praise when I see Him working in someone's life. Sometimes He may even let me have a small part! Wow!
Prayer: Lord, may my eyes be quick to notice Your work around me. May my ears be quick to hear You speaking. Use me to bring the attention of those around me to what you are saying and doing! Amen
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Durangos affordability and its real-town feel has boosted it onto National Geographics list of the top 10 emerging ski towns in North America.
The magazines list highlights towns that may not have the name recognition of a Vail or Whistler Blackcomb but still pack a stellar ski experience, especially for budget-minded travelers.
These are the locals favorites, the up-and-comers. Theyre real towns, often cheaper and friendlier than the big dogs at least for now, the magazine said.
The list highlighted Durangos wealth of adventure activities, lively downtown and no-hype attitude. Durango Mountain Resort was hailed as a family and intermediate skiers dream hill, while Silverton got a shout out as a perfect playground for skiers and boarders seeking a big-mountain experience.
Durango also recently was recognized in Elevation Outdoors Magazine as the best Colorado ski town in the category of big towns, and by TripAdvisor as the top-value ski destination in North America.
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Tom Marshall squinted down the iron sights of his .22 rifle at a target he could barely discern, the smell of gunpowder evoking memories of his days at Camp Rockmont in the late 1960s.
FLAT ROCK — Tom Marshall squinted down the iron sights of his .22 rifle at a target he could barely discern, the smell of gunpowder evoking memories of his days at Camp Rockmont in the late 1960s.
"I'm looking at the target and thinking, 'These aren't as close as they were when I was in camp,'" joked Marshall, who works for Stroud Insurance in Hendersonville. "The bull's-eye looks like a tiny dot."
With some coaching from firearms instructor Jeff Drake, however, Marshall managed to squeeze off five tightly clustered shots — scoring 37 out of a possible 50 points — and helped shoot his team, United Community Bank, a little closer to winning Camp Field Day's coveted canoe paddle trophy.
The fourth annual Field Day, held Thursday at Camp Ton-A-Wandah in Hendersonville, was an opportunity for local business professionals like Marshall to immerse themselves in camp life for a day, through team-building and friendly competition in activities such as kayaking, ziplining, archery and mountain biking.
"We try to involve businesses that could benefit by getting a little taste of camp," said Fair Nabers Waggoner, a president at United Community Bank who co-founded the event. Banks, insurance companies and outdoor-related businesses can network with camp directors and each other, "in a no-pressure way," she said.
The event also serves as a reminder of how important camps are to the local economy, Waggoner said. Summer camps generate roughly $120 million for Henderson County each year, according to researchers at N.C. State University, and create about 10,335 full-time jobs in Henderson, Transylvania, Buncombe and Jackson counties.
For camp directors like Ton-A-Wandah's Garrett Graham, Field Day offers a chance to forge connections with local business people, those they deal with regularly and those they might in the future.
"A lot of them will bring their clients with them, as well, so it offers us a broad-scope of community exposure," Graham said. "The folks we buy vehicles from, they're here with the people we bank with. It's like a giant customer appreciation day, but it's more laid back and fun."
The business opportunities for vendors at Field Day extend beyond the camps themselves to the families of campers, 82 percent of whom travel here by car and stay an average of four nights during camp season, according to the camp association.
Tim Bell, who co-owns Green River Adventures in Saluda with his wife, Sara, sponsored a kayak and paddleboard race on Lake Ton-A-Wandah during the event. He said the couple's new The Gorge zipline canopy adventure, which opens May 18, will appeal not just to campers, but their families as well.
"I've already talked to most of the camp directors and they're all coming to do the zipline," said Bell, who discovered the area by attending Camp Carolina as a youth. "The relationships you build here are nice, but it's also a chance to kick-start the season and get everybody excited about the summer. Because so much of our business is seasonal around here."
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Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed 2013-14 state budget would halve the number of teacher assistant positions in Henderson County Public Schools by reducing the district's allotment by $2.27 million, Superintendent David Jones said Monday.
Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed 2013-14 state budget would halve the number of teacher assistant positions in Henderson County Public Schools by reducing the district's allotment by $2.27 million, Superintendent David Jones told the school board Monday.
Under the worst-case scenario, school officials said, county schools would lose 77 of 165 teacher assistant positions currently funded by the state. The majority of those work in the county's 13 elementary schools.
At a Monday meeting at Mills River Academy with the school board and administrators, Jones made it clear the governor's budget could still be changed by legislators.
"It's premature to take action until we know exactly what the budget is going to look like," Jones said. "I think principals have been having conversations with their TAs. They know there's going to be some kind of cut. To what extent, we'll just have to wait and see."
McCrory's budget places priority on "putting more teachers in the classrooms" and gives all districts full funding for teachers assistants in kindergarten and first grade, said Press Secretary Crystal Feldman. McCrory's staff has said the budget provides enough flexibility for districts to use other funds for teacher assistants if they choose.
But local school officials questioned that claim. They said reducing the current $4.88 million allotment for teacher assistants by 46 percent would not result in more teachers for Henderson County, but would reduce instructional help for students.
"It was a two-for-one, it was always thought," said school board member Mary Louise Corn. "You could lose two TAs and hire one teacher. They can make it sound like that on TV and in their reports, but they're not giving us more teachers because they're taking TA money. It's just taking TA money."
Jones agreed, saying "we won't get any more teachers," since funding for that is based on a district's average enrollment. He added the $2.27 million cut would affect assistants across all elementary grades because "TAs are assigned on a dollar amount, not a position amount. So it's about how many TAs you can get out of the dollars you're given."
Jones outlined four scenarios the district might take to address the proposed cut, if it's enacted. The first, which Jones called "not an attractive option," would be laying off 77 assistants, with the remaining 88 TAs paid for 210 days with normal hours.
That would still cost the district about $400,000 to pay for those employees' unemployment and hospitalization benefits, Jones said. Employees who lose their jobs through "reduction in force" are allowed to keep their state health coverage for up to 12 months, if they had been employed that long.
A second option would allow the district to have 73 assistants by cutting the number of days worked by TAs to 200. A third scenario would mimic that move, but reduce the daily hours of teacher assistants to six, reducing the number of layoffs to 42 positions.
"Six hours is kind of the magic number for keeping your benefits," Jones explained. "We do believe that for many of these employees, those benefits are extremely important. In fact, many of them work for the benefits."
Though "not really worth talking much about," Jones mentioned a fourth option that would retain all 165 teacher assistants at six hours a day, which would result in them being with students only 128 out of 180 instructional days. That would still cost the district hundreds of thousands in hospitalization benefits.
"Regardless of what we do, the number of teacher assistants that are going to be in the classroom assisting students is going to go down, significantly," said Chairman Ervin Bazzle.
Board member Amy Lynn Holt said the issue for her was student safety.
"In the elementary schools, you've got all these kids in one classroom," she said. "One teacher cannot possibly physically watch these kids 100 percent of the time. There's just no way."
More than bulletin boards
Years ago, teacher assistants may have been tasked with designing classroom bulletin boards, making copies and leading kids out to recess. But that's no longer the case, said Edneyville Elementary Principal Chad Auten.
"We hire them to be instructional assistants," he said. "They spend the majority of their day working with students in small groups, or one-on-one, to really hone in on the skills those students are learning. They can take a lesson the teacher gives them and run with it. We really expect them to do everything the classroom teacher does."
Edneyville Elementary has 13 teacher assistants: one assigned to each kindergarten class, one shared between first- and second-grade classrooms and one each for third-, fourth- and fifth-grade classes. Two others work in the school's computer lab and part-time in the media center.
Auten said he can't imagine the school with only half of them.
"We're really using them instructionally, and it's going to hurt that part of it, with these kids getting that small-group attention," he said, adding the wide variety of abilities in each class require "differentiated instruction" to fully serve each student. "For example, we have some kindergarteners who come in able to read and others who don't know their ABCs."
Gene� Dalton, a first-grade teacher at Edneyville Elementary, was a teacher assistant for eight years before getting a classroom of her own. Twenty-five years later, she considers her half-time teacher assistant, Marsha Keehan, an invaluable partner.
"My test scores are always exceptional, but it's because I have exceptional help," Dalton said. "We plan together, we teach together. I tell my students, 'I expect you to treat her the way you treat me.' Because we're a team."
Part of that teamwork involves communicating with parents, Dalton said. Keehan, who's been an assistant for two years, is the stronger of the two in writing in Spanish. With seven bilingual students in class, that comes in handy when sending home a note about a sick child, she said.
"I love working with these kids and they don't feel like there's a language barrier," said Keehan, who estimates about 85 percent of her day is spent "co-teaching" with Dalton and the rest on paperwork or other tasks.
Keehan admits the governor's proposal worries her, but she also knows similar budget cuts have been considered before.
"It always seems to work out in the end," she said.
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DURHAM — The line started 30 feet beyond the doors of Oyster River High School. It bent down long hallways and doubled back on itself before finally entering a large room of plastic tables and forms. Harried volunteers handed out clipboards and pens, and chatted about the possibility of running out of forms.
In the midst of a hectic day of voting, Durham Town Administrator Todd Selig helped to keep the mass of voters moving.
"We have had a huge turnout for same-day registration," he said. "The queue has averaged ... 250, 300 at a time."
The number of new voters requesting ballots in Durham swelled during Tuesday's election, driven in large part by students at the University of New Hampshire, according to Selig. At approximately 2 p.m., Town Clerk Lorrie Pitt was planning an excursion away from the polls to grab hundreds more registration forms.
Durham's record for same-day voter registration was shattered Tuesday, according to unofficial results released late Tuesday evening by the town. A total of 3,024 people registered to vote after arriving at the polls; that's about 1,300 more voters than the tally from 2008.
"To put this in perspective, during the 12 hours the polls were open on Tuesday, Durham added more new voters to its rolls than most New Hampshire towns and cities (two thirds of them) already had preregistered before the election," Selig wrote in an email.
In the lead-up to the election, controversy swirled around the voting procedures that applied to UNH students registering at the polls — especially those from out of state.
A new state law that was set to take effect during this year's election would essentially have compelled all students voting in New Hampshire to become legal residents of the state. The requirement would have forced them to register their cars in New Hampshire, and obtain new state driver's licenses, should they choose to continue driving within the state.
However, the law was placed on hold by a Strafford County judge in September after it was challenged by four out-of-state college students and the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire.
Although the new voter registration law did not take effect, state election officials expressed concern that students and other voters might be left confused on Tuesday about the requirements for registering to vote.
Another area of concern for election officials was the state's new voter identification law. The law, in effect for the first time this year, requires voters to either show a valid identification with a photograph in order to cast a ballot, or alternatively, to sign a statement attesting to their identity.
New Hampshire was one of several states in which lawmakers recently passed laws requiring voters to show identification, measures that proponents say will cut down on voter fraud. Critics, including many Democrats, argue the new voter ID laws are unnecessary, and that they stand to freeze out some eligible voters.
Last week, the New Hampshire attorney general and secretary of state called a news conference to stress the message that no voter would be turned away during Tuesday's election, even if they cannot produce valid photo identification.
The new voter ID law remained in effect Tuesday, and, although critics of the new law feared the worst, early indications were that the new identification requirements caused few problems at the polls.
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Scanlan said his office has received isolated complaints from voters who claim they were told by election officials they were required to have a photo ID, but none have been confirmed.
In the run-up to the election, the groups Granite State Progress Education Fund and New Hampshire Citizens Alliance launched an outreach effort to clarify the new voter ID regulations. The website, www.NHVoterProtection.org, also contains a guide for voters on how to take action if they're challenged at the polls.
One of the group's most high-profile moves was criticizing a campaign flier circulated by Republican state Senate candidate Phyllis Woods. The flier mistakenly stated that voters are obligated to have a photo ID this year.
"The good news is that through a lot of the voter education the voter protection team did, we haven't seen as many problems as we thought would happen otherwise," GSPE Executive Director Zandra Rice Hawkins said Tuesday afternoon.
Rice Hawkins said her group has dispatched election watchers to a few areas Tuesday after receiving reports of voters encountering problems.
One report came from Pelham, where a voter said someone was standing in front of a sign regarding the new challenged voter affidavits and telling people that they needed to have a photo ID.
"We didn't witness that," Rice Hawkins said. "We did find that the selectmen down there are taking shifts, and they're greeting (voters) down at the door and letting them know that if they have a photo ID, it will expedite matters."
The group has also received more than one report regarding Nashua's Ward 9, where voters have indicated they were told they will not be allowed to vote without a photo ID. The group has also dispatched a monitor to Nashua.
Otherwise, Rice Hawkins said, it appears that the new voter ID law is being interpreted correctly in most polling locations.
"We do think that that is because of the large number of presentations and fliers and online ads educating voters about the process and the alternatives to a voter ID," she said.
The group is hoping the state will take on some of the financial burden of educating voters about new voting requirements in advance of the next election.
"That comes at a cost to our organizations," she said.
Town Moderator Chris Regan said local election officials were able to move voters through a waiting line more efficiently this year than during the 2008 election. Regan said most same-day registrants appeared to be UNH students, though he had seen others in line.
Anthony Blenkinsop, an official at the attorney general's office, was on hand in Durham Tuesday to ensure the line of voters waiting to cast ballots remained orderly.
"Our primary objective is to keep the line moving along," said Blenkinsop, "we haven't had any issues other than the same day registration line is pretty long."
Among local voters, the new voter ID law seemed to be engendering little controversy Tuesday. Susan Jackson, 32, a Rochester voter, said although she does not have an ID, she "did a good job" filling out the required affidavit swearing she is who she says she is.
"It was a process," said Jackson, who said she had to fill out two forms before getting in line to vote.
Rochester resident Stephen Brown, 43, agrees with the new Voter ID law. He said that in 2008, he saw several vehicles with Massachusetts plates pull up to polling places in Deerfield to vote. The new law, he said, will help cut down on voter fraud, at least when it comes to out-of-state residents voting in New Hampshire.
Dorothy Urrutia, 36, of Rochester, said whether or not an ID is required at the polls "doesn't matter to me."
"Why not? We all have one," she said.
"I'm accustomed to being asked for ID," said Rochester voter Samantha Briggs. She said the new law will help ensure residents are voting legally.
Mario St. Remy, 27, of Newmarket, said that even though voter fraud appears to be rare across the country, it's smart to require voters to show their IDs at the polls. He noted that being able to register on Election Day makes it easier on voters.
Lee Skinner, Dover's Ward 4 moderator, said there had not been any problems with voter identification procedures.
"Most people have an ID. The few that don't, we are being careful right up front in saying, 'If you don't have an ID, don't leave.' Some other places seem to have misinformation. Not here. We've done a few voter affidavits. We've had no confrontations, nothing dramatic," he said.
Foster's staff writers Jim Haddadin, Michelle Kingston and Liz Markhlevskaya, and Brian Ward, of The New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
Same-day voter registrations surge in Durham
DURHAM — The line started 30 feet beyond the doors of Oyster River High School. It bent down long hallways and doubled back on itself before finally entering a large room of plastic tables and forms. Harried volunteers handed out clipboards and pens, and chatted about the possibility of running out of forms.


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Now, like many people, I have a lot of prejudices which come from deep in my childhood. I have hated creamed tuna and peas on toast for such a long time that it is wholly traditional. It is not a viand I generally find in the Potash Deli or at Burger King, so I have not actually encountered this exotic dish in decades. I can go on hating it without much ado.
Other hatreds have developed more recently, but still do not require explanation. Hating computers that do what I tell them to do instead of what I thought I was telling them to do is entirely logical and needs no heart-searching in a blog.
But I suppose I'd better explain cloth bags, that twenty-first century answer to the question of how to get the groceries home. Plastic bags and paper bags each being offensive to parts of the grocery-hunting audience, cloth has been chosen as an answer.
Now, cloth bags exited long before the current epoch. Once upon a time, you would have seen a smaller version of Uncle Blogsy trotting merrily along an Iowa sidewalk carrying a thin gray cloth bag with books in it. Once he was old enough to be trusted to get to the library and back by himself, he frequently carried books along. He would leave these books on a massive wooden desk and set off home again, almost always with more books. Little did he reck that this gray bag—which remains a treasured symbol of his childhood trips with Books (rolls of papyrus, no doubt)—was the ancestor of a whole clan of cloth bags he would loathe with a passion previously reserved for creamed tuna and peas.
You're used to your Uncle Blogsy's ravings, so you have probably already spotted it: that seed which was sown so many decades ago. Let's take that story by its main bullet points: cloth bags, trip to library, leave the books, take home the bags.
It seems that every day now, at least one person comes to the library with a bagful of books and says, "I want my bag back." Listen carefully, anchovy cobbler: we don't want your books heaped up on the dock or behind the desk in the lobby. We want them to be IN something, so we can move them around without fetching the wheelbarrow. We may get a truckload of new chairs in right after you leave, prune croquette, and be unable to unload because you've stacked your Encyclopaedia Britannica AND forty years' worth of Reader's Digest Condensed Books on the end of the dock so you could take the nifty recyclable bags home.
I know, I know: you didn't buy those nifty cloth bags so Uncle Blogsy could get his grubby mitts on them. Here are a few suggestions to make your book donations more palatable for both of us.
Use boxes. They're easier for me to stack at those times when eleven people decide to clean out their shelves on the same day.
Use plastic bags. You must have some evil old ones sitting around; surely you want to get rid of them.
Use the cloth bags and leave them behind. BUT MENTION IT ON YOUR RECEIPT. That way you get the deduction AND you may puzzle some auditor with a deduction she's never seen before. "You gave how many cloth bags to Uncle Blogsy even though he hates them?" It'll distract her from all those books on toenail fungus you donated.


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This wiki space contains information to install and configure a virtualized UC deployment. It assumes the specific UC deployment has been designed; all hardware, software, and licenses have been procured; and you are ready to deploy the solution. See Before You Buy or Deploy - Considerations for Design and Procurement for information and considerations in designing and procuring a virtualized UC solution. See Ongoing Virtualization Operations and Maintenance.
|If not specifically addressed in this web space, assume the operation or behavior of the Unified Communications applications is the same as on a bare metal deployment (MCS server deployment).
|See Downloading and Deploying OVA Templates from Cisco.com for more information on downloading OVA templates from Cisco.com (CDC).
The Unified Communications (UC) applications from Cisco are supported when running in a virtual environment only when the virtual environment meets the specifications in this web page. Deviations from these specifications result in an unsupported deployment. Running real-time applications in a virtual environment requires more constraints than typical non-real time applications. All those constraints are listed in this web page.
When running UC on a virtualized platform, installation, configuration, upgrading and monitoring of the hardware and VMware software must be done manually. The "appliance model" of UC on bare metal does not apply when the UC applications are running virtualized. There are four distinct Layers to configure and manage when running UC virtualized. Each of these is addressed below:
Configuring Hardware Platforms
The first step on any virtualized UC deployment is to configure the hardware platform.
|Hardware configuration, including raid configuration, BIOS settings, firmware upgrades/configuration and monitoring of hardware health is not done by the UC applications when running virtualized, regardless of the hardware platform.
There are two types of supported hardware platforms:
- If you are deploying on a TRC, see Tested Reference Configurations (TRC) for specific information on how to configure your server.
- Otherwise, configure your hardware according to the Specification Based Hardware Support (Specs-Based) page.
For ANY virtualized UC deployment there are requirements for performance of the disk storage subsystem. Cisco TRC's that use local disk storage (DAS) for virtual machines are pre-engineered to meet these requirements. For ANY other virtualized UC deployment using DAS storage or SAN storage, click here for requirements.
Installing and configuring the ESXi Virtualization Software
After hardware configuration is complete, VMware vSphere ESXi must be installed. The term host is used to refer to a hardware platform running virtualization software. The virtualization DocWiki pages use this term.
|If you are running ESXi 4.1 or later, depending on the UC application product version (VOS/ Linux version) you must Disable LRO
- The ONLY supported virtualization software is VMware vSphere ESXi. See Unified Communications VMware Requirements for more information.
- Specific installation instructions are available in various UCS documents.
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager on Virtual Servers - for Cisco UC on UCS Tested Reference Configurations
- Home page to get to Cisco UCS B-Series and UCS C-Series technical documentation
- Home page to get to VMware vSphere ESXi technical documentation
vCenter Requirements
vCenter is used to manage and monitor ESXi servers. It collects and logs performance information for all virtual machines and ESXi hosts under its control. Cisco requires the use of vCenter to manage any specs-based deployments of virtualized UC. If you are deploying a TRC configuration, it is very highly recommended to use vCenter, because it can be extremely beneficial in debugging problems, however, it is not required.
If you want to deploy vCenter it is important to note that the free version of ESXi, the vSphere hypervisor, does not allow the host to be managed by vCenter. See Information on vCenter installation and home page to get to VMware vCenter Server technical documentation.
Supported Applications and Deploying the OVA templates
Once ESXi is running on the hardware platform, the host is is ready to host virtual machines. Virtual machines are referred to as guests, a term used throughout this wiki space.
The first step is to create the virtual machine(s) on the host. Cisco requires that Cisco-generated OVA templates be used to create the virtual machines to run the UC applications. These OVA templates contain aligned disk partitions and other specific configurations that are required.
|Cisco TAC support REQUIRES that installation uses a supported VM configuration from deploying the Cisco-provided OVA. If you do not use the Cisco-provided OVA, you will likely get unaligned storage, the application may generate alerts, and Cisco TAC may require you to correct the issue before they can provide further troubleshooting. Click here for more details.
The application links on www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized will take you to a page containing a download link for the required OVA file.
Installing UC Applications in the VM
Once the virtual machines have been created using the OVA templates, you are ready to install the UC application(s) into the virtual machine(s).
Overall, the installation process is nearly identical to installing bare-metal on an MCS server. However, the following differences should be noted:
- The installation DVD can be used remotely through the VI Client, or locally on the host, if the host has a DVD (b-series blades, for example do not have a DVD). Alternately, you can convert the DVD into an .iso file and install by uploading the .iso file to your ESXi datastore. It is beyond the scope of this documentation to support conversion of the DVD to an .iso file, however there is software and freeware available for doing this. An example of freeware is MagicDisc and their 5 simple steps for creating a bootable .iso image from a DVD.
- An external (stratum 5 or better) NTP server is required and must be accessible. Using local hardware clock is not an option.
- NIC speed/duplex settings are not available, as these are inherited from the ESXi host.
- If your installation fails, and you need to collect the install logs, collection must be done through the serial port of the virtual machine.
- The Auto Answer File (AFG) must be used through the virtual floppy drive.
- After installation, if the viClient shows VMware Tools Out of Date, you will need to upgrade VMware Tools.
Differences When Running UC in a Virtual Environment
- Licensing Model for Virtualized UC Applications
- How to Dump Install Logs to the Serial Port of the Virtual Machine
- How to Use the AFG with the Virtual Floppy Drive
- VMware Tools
- BIOS boot order: read the Release Notes for the OVA that you are deploying for instructions on how to set the BIOS boot order.
VM Deployment Density
How many and what combination of virtual machines can be run on an ESXi host? See Unified Communications Virtualization Sizing Guidelines for more information.
VMware Feature Support
Not all VMware vSphere features are supported, and some are supported only with restrictions. See Unified Communications VMware Requirements for more information on VMware vSphere feature support and virtualized UC applications.
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Lady Spartans allowed only one field goal in first half
CIMARRON – The Cimarron Lady Bluejays opened up their part of the Bluejay Invitational in grand fashion as they allowed only one Deerfield field goal in the first half on the way to a 76-19 victory
The Bluejays used their press and man defense and turned them into points on the other end of the court to build a 41-8 lead by halftime.
Cimarron head coach David Ediger wasn't pleased with his first team at the start of the game. The Lady Bluejays were fouling and not ready to play, so he sent an entire new five in and that squad helped push the margin from three points to 14-3 by the end of the stanza.
"I was pleased with our second five at the beginning," Ediger said. "Our starting five didn't come ready to play hard and get after it. Our second group did an excellent job in getting after it and giving up energy and did the things I wanted executed. They made things pretty easy when they did the things I wanted them to do."
"He expects us to play just as hard as the first team, but just to get better at it," said Eva Koopman, who scored 13 points to lead Cimarron's bench. "The speed has improved and we've played much faster. We've got some height, too; but we can break down the court and go fast to play defense."
Cimarron's first squad came back out and outscored the Lady Spartans 27-5 in the second quarter. Ediger said part of the reason why Deerfield only had one field goal in the half and five for the game was because the Lady Bluejays were fouling and putting their opponents on the line.
Four players scored in double figures for Cimarron (2-0): Ashtynn Burns 18, Morgan Ediger 15, Koopman and Katie White came off the bench to add 10.
Hailey Novack scored 13 points to lead Deerfield (0-2).
Cimarron will play the winner of Tuesday's Sublette/Wichita County showdown in a semifinal game Friday night, while Deerfield will face the loser of the game in a consolation game at the Cimarron Old Gymnasium.
DEERFIELD (19) – Hailey Novack 13, Mollie Calderon 3, Mireya Martinez 2, Molly Morgan 1. Totals 5 7-18 19.
CIMARRON (76) – Ashtynn Burns 18, MacKenzy Meis 1, Kari Blattner 3, Hailee Hoskinson 4, Ellen Waters 6, Morgan Ediger 15, Korina Bailon 6, Eva Koopman 13, Katie White 10. Totals 32 8-11 76.
Deerfield3565 – 19
Cimarron14272114 – 76
Three-point baskets – Deerfield 2 (Novack 1, Calderon 1), Cimarron 4 (Burns 2, Blattner 1, Ediger 1). Records -- Deerfield 0-2, Cimarron 2-0.
Meade 52, South Gray 22
The Lady Buffaloes allowed only one South Gray point in the second half after the Lady Rebels cut a 16-point lead down in the second quarter.
Meade (2-0) scored 23 points in the opening quarter, then outscored South Gray 22-1 in the second half to record the rout.
Hannah Miller led Meade in scoring with 16 points and Bailey Olvera added 12 in the victory. Dusty Watkins led South Gray (1-1) with seven points.
Meade will play the winner of Tuesday's Bucklin/Satanta game in a Friday afternoon semifinal game, while South Gray will play the loser of that matchup in a consolation contest at Cimarron Old Gym.
SOUTH GRAY (22) – Katelyn Unruh 3, Megan Unruh 5, Myranda Axtell 5, Katy Hibbert 2, Dusty Watkins 7.
MEADE (52) – Bailey Olvera 12, Holly Harshberger 2, Beth Lewis 2, Alyssa Rudzik 7, Hannah Miller 16. Natalie Thompson 5, Tarah Wiens 4, Kinzie Friesen 4.
South Gray71401 – 22
Meade237139 – 52
Three-point baskets – Meade 6 (Miller 5, Rudzik 1). Records – South Gray 1-1, Meade 2-0.


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Commissioners received County Manager Steve Wyatt's recommended 2013-14 budget Wednesday and scheduled a work session for 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 28 to hear from county department heads.
Commissioners received County Manager Steve Wyatt's recommended 2013-14 budget Wednesday and scheduled a work session for 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 28 to hear from county department heads.
Wyatt's proposed $109.8 million "base budget" requires no property tax hike, but does call for pulling $4.99 million from the county's reserves. It creates no new county positions, but funds a 2.5 percent cost-of-living raise for county employees.
About 28 percent of the budget goes to public schools, 26 percent to human services (though $17 million of that comes from state and federal sources) and 21 percent is earmarked for public safety, such as fire, EMS and the sheriff's office.
The preliminary budget also includes an option, requested by Commissioner Grady Hawkins, to lower the county's ad valorem tax rate from 51.36 cents per $100 valuation to 50 cents. Doing so without cutting the base budget would require taking $1.64 million more from reserves.
Wyatt's base budget — designed to meet "current obligations" and fully fund $14.4 million in debt service — excludes about $4.92 million in budget requests. Commissioners set a $110 million target "cap" for Wyatt's budget, which he met. They will weigh the unfunded requests over the next month.
Those unfunded requests include:
•An $870,846 requested increase from Henderson County Public Schools, which county staff received Tuesday. "So these numbers are basically reflective of level funding there," Wyatt said, at $21.2 million plus another $9.1 million in debt service for school buildings.
• About $547,000 in capital funds for Blue Ridge Community College. The college is proposed to receive $2.82 million, same as this fiscal year, but school officials asked for $1.2 million for capital expenses.
• Roughly $1 million requested by the sheriff's office for four new deputies, two new school resource officers, one new crime analyst, two replacement vehicles, and capital repairs/maintenance and equipment, including a tactical robot and polygraph machine.
• About $200,000 requested by the Department of Social Services for an income maintenance worker, two social workers, staff development, departmental supplies, maintenance/repair, medical services and travel expenses.
Chairman Charlie Messer said the work session on May 28 could last all day.
"What we'll probably do is come in at 11 and start," he said. "We'll hear from as many department heads as we can that want to come before us. And we'll just be here that Tuesday evening until we get through."
By state law, the county must adopt a final budget by July 1. Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing on the budget for 5:30 p.m., Monday, June 3 in the Historic Courthouse.
In other business, commissioners unanimously approved $585,504 in incentives, over seven years, for a potential $24 million expansion at BorgWarner, a Fletcher manufacturer of engine cooling systems. The expansion would create 80 jobs, paying an average wage of $27.91 per hour with benefits.
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Let�s praise a struggling conservative reform movement seeking to disentangle the right�s cause from extremism and to make its ideas more compelling to a younger and broader swath of Americans.
It�s a movement of diverse strands and competing motives. Some conservatives are looking for a much larger dose of reform than others.
The change-as-little-as-possible wing would keep the same old creed but adorn it in new, more attractive clothes. But the Serious Rethinking crowd is trying to engage problems that conservatives usually ignore -- notably, rising inequality and declining social mobility. And the 14 Republican senators who helped give the immigration bill a big majority in their chamber last week sent a signal that many on the right understand the need to appeal to an increasingly diverse electorate.
For the GOP�s political consultants, the effort�s real purpose is to win future elections. But other innovators on the right worry about governing. They have grown impatient with a thin doctrine that sees lower taxes, smaller government and deregulation as the solution to every problem we confront.
Whenever conservatives are in this sort of pensive mood, they repair to the thought of the philosopher whom Jesse Norman, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, labels �The First Conservative,� the subtitle of his new book on Edmund Burke.
Norman�s Burke biography ought to be one of the hot books for the right over the next year. Like Burke (1729-1797), Norman is a philosopher as well as a politician. He offers a brisk and engaging introduction to the iconic thinker�s life and thought.
Burke�s conservatism was based on a proper understanding of that word. He believed in preserving the social order and respecting old habits. He persistently warned against the destructive character of radical change. He was wary of ideology and grand ideas, rejecting, as Norman puts it, �universal claims divorced from an actual social context.� Burke saw the well-ordered society as a �partnership of the dead, the living and the yet to be born,� a nice formula for a forward-looking traditionalism -- and not a bad slogan for environmentalists.
His critics (Tom Paine was among the fiercest) saw Burke as an apologist for the privileged and an enemy of free individuals. Norman vigorously defends Burke against these charges, emphasizing his fundamental moderation and support for reform as an alternative to revolution. Burke believed not so much in small government but in what Norman labels �slow government,� rooted in modesty and humility about what politics can achieve.
But it�s to Norman�s credit that he recognizes how �Burke also clips the wings of many contemporary conservatives.� While he �helped establish modern conceptions of nationhood and national allegiance� he �rejected military adventures.� He �celebrated religious observance, but despised moral absolutism.�
Norman also sees Burke as implicitly offering �a profound critique of the market fundamentalism now prevalent in Western society.� He thinks that Burke would �note the extraordinary greed and self-dealing seen over the past decade by the modern nabobs of banking and finance in a series of cartels disguised as markets.� And a Burkean conservatism would be wary of any ideology that �causes people to lose sight of the real social sources of human well-being and to become more selfish and individualistic, by priming them with ideas of financial success and celebrity.�
As you can see, it�s no accident that American liberals tend to welcome Burke revivals on the right whenever they come along. In a 1955 essay written during an earlier burst of enthusiasm for Burke, the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. praised Burke�s approach as �inspired by a belief in the organic character of society, where power implies responsibility and where all classes should be united in harmonious union by a sense of common trust and mutual obligation.�
The problem for conservatives now is remarkably similar to one Schlesinger identified nearly 60 years ago. Burke, after all, was defending an old landed aristocracy that grew out of �centuries of feudalism.� The United States had no feudalism, Schlesinger wrote, so �our upper classes base their position not on land or tradition or a sense of social responsibility but on the folding stuff.�
Ah, yes, money. Conservative reformers should contemplate Burke to remind themselves that their intellectual heritage is about so much more than cuts in taxes and a special concern for �job creators� with large amounts of capital. Burke expressed an affection for the �little platoon� in society. Conservatism will flounder unless it remembers the imperative of addressing the interests of the many, not the few.
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Three-year-old Princess Malapitan walked up beside her mom, Dina, and took her hand. Her mother returned the gentle touch from her daughter, cupping the child's scarred hands.
Three-year-old Princess Malapitan walked up beside her mom, Dina, and took her hand. Her mother returned the gentle touch from her daughter, cupping the child's scarred hands.
Princess, who lives in the Philippines, is visiting Hendersonville through the Gift of Life program, which operates in conjunction with the Hendersonville Rotary Club. The little girl suffered third-degree burns in a fire nearly two years ago, and will finally receive the surgical help she needs when she undergoes two procedures performed by Dr. William Overstreet at Pardee Hospital.
The surgeries will repair her scars with skin grafts and give her full functionality in her hands and fingers. Currently, Princess has limited use of one hand. The other can only be used to stabilize things; she can't grasp or reach out.
On Oct. 7, 2011, Princess slept in her mother's bed while a storm raged outside. Her father, Randy, was in Manilla. The storm had knocked out the power at their home in Lemery, Batangas Province. Windows in the house were open and candles provided light.
The wind blew curtains onto the candles in the room where Princess was sleeping. The room was set ablaze quickly, and the sound of her shrieking daughter brought Dina Malapitan running.
"I didn't know that there was a fire," her mother said. "I heard Princess crying."
Her mother burst into the room, got her daughter out of the house. She then rented a motorcycle and drove to the nearest hospital an hour away while she held her crying daughter in her lap.
"She screamed and I cried," she said.
Princess was left with third-degree burns over nearly half of her body. With the visible scars, life is hard for the Malapitans in the Philippines. The culture is superficial when it comes to looks, Dina Malapitan said. Her daughter is ridiculed because of her scars.
That made the chance to come to the United States a no-brainer. The Hendersonville Rotary Club monitors websites that post children in need, co-director Harry Lewis said. Lewis and Florence Allbaugh head up the program.
"We hook up with Rotaries in the child's home country," he said.
The plan is for Princess to be in Hendersonville until August. She will receive the two surgeries, physical therapy, eye care from Flat Rock Vision, checkups from Hendersonville Pediatrics, P.A., and dental work from Pete Richards, DDS. Mercy Air Lift of West Virginia donated her round-trip domestic flight from Los Angeles.
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"The transformation is worth it for the sacrifice we make," Rose Dwyer said.
For Dina Malapitan, it's an opportunity to give her child the best care possible. The journey was exciting and she is thankful, she said.
Lewis said the chance to help a suffering child was "very satisfying."
"I consider it a blessing to be able to help this child," he said. "If she didn't get this medical care now, she would never get it. It will help her to become a productive member of her society."
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Bridal etiquette
(1) Smile, woman. We didn't drive all the way through the maddening traffic to see you look doped-out and weepy. If you're that glum you probably shouldn't be geting married. Go home.
(2) Brown is beautiful. Really. If we wanted to see pancake, we'd go to dosa camp.
(3) If you liked the black saree you saw at the shop, wear it at your wedding. Anyone who says black is taboo has been irreversibly brainwashed by Queen Victoria who's dead anyway.
(4) If you plan to be in bridal makeup 4 hours into the reception that you invited us to attend, either give us the address of your beauty parlour so we can drop by and murder you, or for God's sake allow us to eat and go home.
Groom etiquette
(1) Face it, you can't help looking silly in semi-drag with an umbrella over your head. Just go with the flow.
(2) You can smile reassuringly at the bride, and maybe at your friends. Not at all the pretty young things around.
(3) Do not give your friends a "thumbs up" before, after, or while tying the knot. We shudder to imagine what you're implying by it.
(4) If you're a Greencard/H1 groom, try not to talk much. A Banshankari II Stage accent with a West Virginia overlay cannot be taken seriously when you have kohl in your eyes and a fat black dot on your cheek.
(5) You're going to be half naked at the wedding. Please work out. We wholeheartedly agree that your flab is nobody's business but yours. Seriously fool, hit that treadmill and pump that iron. Your wife will love it, and we will too. Unless you plan on saving on lunch expenses by putting your guests off their food for the next month.
(6) We really don't care if you don't understand what the priest is asking you to say. Google everything later. Do not irritate us by asking the priest to explain every line. Lunch is waiting.
Older guest etiquette
(1) Don't swarm the stage during the mangal sutra ceremony. This is the only part of the ceremony anybody has even the slightest amount of interest in. We do not want to fling our rice at your ample posterior. If you're that keen on establishing your importance in the ceremony, hang a sign around your neck.
(2) If you're too feeble to climb up to the stage, cut the drama and sit tight in your seat. Spare us the agony of watching you painfully hobble up the steps to bless the couple, holding up the rest of the ceremony for interminable periods of time. Just let the bride and groom know that you wish to bless them and if they think you're important enough, they will come down to you.
(3) When your beady eye spies a young guest who seems 'perfect for your third cousin's second daughter', shut the hell up. Do not point, glare, whisper or pounce. These are people, not camels at the Pushkar bazaar.
(4) When you see two young people talking and feel the urge to make an entendre-filled remark, slap yourself and go wash your face. You're proving irrefutably that the only thing that's on your mind, always, is sex.
(5) Before coming to the wedding, sit down and think of things to talk about, that do not involve coupling or reproduction. We realize how hard that can be, considering this is all you have ever thought about during your adult life. Make the effort, it is time you evolved. You'll be pleasantly surprised at the number of young friends you'll make, who won't get up and leave the moment they see you coming.
Younger/single guest etiquette
(1) Listen, if you'd rather stay home and not go to the wedding, we understand. We know you have a life and can do with a little less of the marriage pressure, you poor thing. There, there.
(2) It is acceptable to walk away when old biddies with only sex on their minds ask you your age, height or salary. In fact it is increasingly becoming acceptable etiquette to reach out and slap their faces before walking away.
(3) Flirt, flirt, flirt as much as you can. A wedding is the only place you are officially allowed to. Remember to mentally undress the flirtee though. Think kerosene colour pant shirt, faded green salwar kameez, yellow overgrown nails, bajji-pakoda induced thunder thighs and radish breath on a Thursday evening. See if the flirtee is still worth it. And if an oversexed old biddy swoops in and tries to hook the two of you up while you're still deciding, show them your armpit.
(4) If you can't handle all the irritating people, the smoke and the noise, either skid off with your gang to the kitchen, or hole up at a nearby ice cream shop. Nobody cares, besides if someone wants to reach you, you can always ignore them when they call you on your cell.
(5) If you're NRI or ABCD, wipe that perpetually surprised, open-mouthed leer off your face. We don't get it. Try frowning when you're uncomfortable, or grinning from ear to ear when you're happy, like normal people do. That way, we'll atleast know what's up with you.
Parent etiquette
(1) You're allowed to look good. But remember, you are at your most endearing when you look hassled and disheveled. The guests will take pity on you and leave you alone. If you're all primped relaxed, they will assume you haven't done enough for them.
(2) Delegate, delegate, delegate. Or die.
(3) Honestly, all the wild goose chases the priests send you on, are rubbish. You are allowed to tell them to go fish if you can't do something with minimum effort.
(4) Do not usher people secretly into the dressing room and palm them off with a recycled blouse piece. If you don't have anything nice to give them, just grab their hands and say "ate aa?"
(5) Do not get the audience's hopes up by waggling your finger at the nadaswaram players and getting them to play the getti melam every 43 seconds. One pee-pee-dum-dum during the thali ceremony is enough. Nobody cares about the rest.
(6) Tell the cameraman not to moon the audience everytime he wants to get a closeup of the groom picking his nose, or the bride counting her toes for the 600th time. He's going to scrap all the footage and encase their mugshots in purple circling hearts anyway.
Eating etiquette
(1) Try and get to the dining room as early as possible, to avoid the feeding frenzy. It doesnt matter if the cooks sigh and grumble that you're early. It will save you and the hosts needless trauma if the diners are spread out through the day.
(2) If you're the host, please get a grip on the number of guests you'e expecting. Make extra food, and make prior arrangements for the left over food to be transported someplace where it will be appreciated.
(3) We like it when you fuss over your guests. Makes us feel less guilty about stuffing our faces while the world outside starves, because you're the ones forcing us to.
(4) Don't be pathetic and hover over your fellow guests to make them finish fast. Go home and eat if you're that desperate.
(5) If there's something you don't like about the food, shut up. This is a one-off thing and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Remember the starving millions outside your door.
(6) Remember to eat everything on your leaf. It is good manners to ask for only as much food as you need, instead of dramatically folding over a leaf full of uneaten food at the end of the meal. Oh and did anyone tell you that folding a used leaf over after a meal is, in fact, bad manners? Well then.
Dress etiquette - women
(1) If you're under 45, wear anything you want. Really, everything from a 9 yards saree to a strappy number looks great on you.
(2) If you're over 50, do not wear anything you want. Really, sarees look awesome on you.
(3) Try not to wear those rather bizarre duppattas around your waists and over your forearms, that tie your arms back all evening. They're pretty but we feel sorry for you and do not want you to be deformed for life on their account.
(4) Do not wear stilettos. Most people in South Indian weddings run around barefoot. Amputees are significantly lower in the marriage market.
(5) It is now acceptable etiquette to wear fluorescent blue hawaii chappals with elaborate kanjeevaram sarees. You'll need to take your footwear off everywhere anyway, so you may as well wear something that won't be stolen. Besides, if it's men you are aiming to attract by dressing up, you can rest assured they won't be noticing your footwear.
Dress etiquette - men
(1) Dude, dress down. Please. Those jigajiga brocadey kurtas only serve to accentuate your thair sadham features and make you look dorkier than you already are.
(2) Leave those filmy man-dupattas that you wear around your neck, at home. They are 5 minutes ago. I will personally come and blow my nose and wipe my sweaty face with them if you don't.
(3) Give those curly jooties to the poor. Even they will probably hit you with them if you do. Wear sensible stuff like chappals or floaters that you can take off and leave at the door without worrying about them.
(4) If you're in Chennai, do not gel your hair. Even if you are an NRI. The gel will trickle down your face and make you look like The Melting Man. If you're in Bangalore, you may gel your hair in the months of December and January. For the rest of the year you will look like Juggy Dee. Nobody will marry you.
(5) The bare chested look is over. Even if you're 68. Especially if you're from my family. We know exactly where all the puliyogare and and panchamritam goes. Spare us.
Alright, go now. And behave.


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