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Vinson Hobbs
PEMBROKE - Mr. Vinson Hobbs passed away Oct. 28.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda J. Hobbs; daughters, Tasha Lawson, LaSandra (Willie) Miller, Vanessa and Samantha Hobb; sons, Jamie Hamilton and Vinson Hobbs, Jr.; mother, Sylvia Lee Hobbs, and other relatives.
His funeral was Nov. 3 at the Beautiful Zion MBC. Burial was in Beautiful Zion MBC Cemetery, Pembroke.
Martin Funeral Home Estill, S.C. was in charge of arrangements.
Mary Emma Clark Smith
LANIER - Mrs. Mary Emma Clark Smith, 94, died Oct. 30 at her home while surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and the wife of the late John Ivey Smith. She was a faithful member of Olive Branch Baptist Church for more than 60 years; enjoyed fishing and working with her plants and flowers.
Survivors include her daughter Diana Gail Summerford of Lanier; grandchildren Lisa Summerford of Lanier, Deedra and Andy Long of Ellabell, and Michael and Angela Summerford of Pembroke; great grandchildren Drew, Gavin and Emma Long and Will, Walker and Cooper Summerford.
Visitation was Nov. 2 at the Flanders Morrison Funeral Home. Her funeral service was Nov. 3 at the Olive Branch Baptist Church with interment following in Lower Black Creek Cemetery.
Sharen Rowland
RICHMOND HILL - Sharen Rowland, 66, died Nov. 2, 2012, at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Survivors included her son, Rick Moore; two sisters, Katheryn Tootle and Barbara Tootle; and two brothers, James Rowland and Douglas Rowland.
A memorial service will be held Nov. 8 from 4-5:30 p.m. at Silk Hope Baptist Church 4929 Pineland Dr. Savannah. Carter Funeral Home Bryan Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Herman "Earl" Olliff
ELLABELL - Herman "Earl" Olliff, 69, died on Nov. 4.
Earl was born in Troy, Ala. He was a former resident of Savannah and lived in Ellabell for the last 20 years. He retired from the Desoto-Hilton as a heating and cooling engineer after 37 years. He loved the Georgia Bulldogs.
Survivors include two brothers, Gary Dean Olliff of Savannah and Don Olliff (Linda) of Richmond Hill; a niece, Renee Olliff McCray; a nephew, Travis Olliff and other relatives.
Services will be private.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the American Red Cross, Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund, P.O. Box 9987, Savannah, Ga. 31412 or at www. Red Cross.org.
The Richmond Hill Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mary Ellen Sears
ELLABELL - Mary Ellen Sears passed away Nov. 4.
Survivors include her daughter Theresa Johnson; father-in-law and mother-in-law, James and Theresa Jernigan; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Amy and Randy Jernigan; grandchildren, Marcus Johnson and Megan Lanier; and other relatives.
Services will be private.
Sammie Gordon Rogers
PEMBROKE - Mr. Sammie Gordon Rogers, 33, passed away at home on Nov. 3.
Mr. Rogers was a life-long resident of Pembroke and a member of Beulah Baptist Church. He was a mechanic and loved to fish and hunt, enjoyed gardening and listening to music. He was predeceased by his paternal grandparents L.F. "Doc" and Nellie Howell Rogers and his maternal grandparents Vernon and Christine Jernigan.
He is survived by his parents Barry M. and Deborah Jernigan Rogers of Pembroke; three brothers and sister-in-law Jamie and Gin Rogers of Statesboro, Allen Rogers (Rachel Floyd) of Pembroke, and Jason Rogers (Casey Noll) of Statesboro; two sisters and brother-in-law Mikki Rogers and Jodi Fender and Marty Rogers-Martinez (Alex) of Hinesville and other family members.
Visitation is from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Flanders Morrison Funeral Home. Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Nov. 9 at Northside Cemetery with the Rev. Dan Bryant officiating.


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On 14th May, the finalists of Newquay Tretherras' cooking competition 'NT Chef' were treated to a master class from Chefs Phil Oakes and Mark Devonshire of Cornwall College.
The session began with Chef Mark showing students the fruits of his foraging activities in the local area, getting the students to taste things like wild sanfire and garlic, opening the students eyes to the sort of thing they can find in the wild.
Following the introduction, Chef Phil took the floor and showed students Wild Garlic Bread, Cornish Ale Bread, and some pasta making techniques, before creating two pasta dishes using all of the foraged herbs and vegetables.
Organising teacher, Dave Nicholls, commented "This really was a fantastic session for our finalists, and hopefully one which they will remember for a long time to come. To get the opportunity to work with two chefs in such a way is always a special opportunity, but when they bring new ideas to the table such as foraging and using what is around us to create food, it really inspires students to learn more and expand their own cooking ability".
The NT Chef competition has been running since February, and has seen several master classes over the course of its duration, with the grand final scheduled to take place on June 4th in the Tretherras kitchens.


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This case study looks at cash interventions in Ethiopia. It focuses on the work of Save the Children UK (SCUK) in the Ethiopian Highlands, but also considers the work of other NGOs.The cash interventions studied are those traditionally classified as 'relief', but some incorporate a developmental approach. In practice, the categorisation of assistance programmes and their target group is not clear-cut.1 The case study therefore examines the role of cash interventions both in relief and in more developmental contexts, and the interactions between them. It reviews the process through which cash interventions were designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated, summarises the impact of cash on households and the wider community, highlights key issues of concern to implementing agencies and suggests recommendations for improving cash-based programming. While the focus is on cash transfers in general, the particular situation in Ethiopia at the end of 2004 (major change in relief/food security programming) presents a unique backdrop against which cash interventions have been, and will be, implemented that merits attention.
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What started as a prayer vigil to bring together law enforcement and the black community in a show of unity during a turbulent time has grown into a movement.
Encouraged by the turnout and the positive reaction to the Peace Prayer Vigil in Hillsville on July 10, Pastor Daniel Harrison of Elk Spur Church in Fancy Gap has launched Hearts United. The group is planning a similar unity vigil on Sunday in Galax.
Hope Ladies founder and president Kisha Johnson and vice president Delina Parks, who is also Johnson's mother, are parked at a table in the kitchen area of God's Storehouse and Community Kitchen, located in the basement of Rooftop of Virginia in Galax.
Clad in matching Williams-Sonoma aprons, they look like they should be hosting a mother-daughter version of "The Barefoot Contessa," one of the Food Network's most beloved anchor shows. As it turns out, though, feeding the hungry and needy is far more to their taste.
HILLSVILLE – Hillsville Pentecostal Holiness Church broke ground on its new addition on Sunday.
The church has been in its Virginia Street location since 2014. According to Pastor Jeff Pickett, on Oct. 19, 2014, the day of the first service, it was apparent that the church would need more room to accommodate the rapid growth in children's classes.
"And we knew we could not accommodate all of the church family for any meals in a timely fashion in the temporary fellowship hall," said Pickett.
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration was held Jan. 18 among many local African-American churches at the former Hillcrest Baptist Church building, now owned by MacMillian Ministries. The theme this year was "Fight On for Righteousness, Fight On for Justice, Fight on for Truth."
BAYWOOD — Canines, felines and even fowl were welcome at the Church of the Good Shepherd near Galax last Saturday during the annual Blessing of the Animals service.
Held each October in honor of St. Francis, the church off U.S. 58 in Baywood opens itself to the community's four-legged family members. According to organizers, the church formerly held ceremonies on the lawn in front of the church, but in recent years they've opted for opening the church for several hours, allowing owners to bring their furbabies by for a quick blessing at their convenience.
The annual Lord's Acre Harvest Sale features home-baked pies and cakes, home-canned goods, fresh-cooked foods, handmade crafts and bushels of fall produce for sale at Felts Park in Galax.
The event supports local churches, and is sponsored each year by the Carroll-Grayson United Workers for Christ Association.
This year's sale is on Saturday. The day begins with a worship service at 9:30 a.m., followed by the sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
HILLSVILLE – The 4th annual Christian Family Fun Day will take place this Saturday, focusing on the theme of kindness.
People from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia are expected to attend, with the total reaching into the thousands.
Richard Edwards, organizer of the event, said, "We want to create a fair atmosphere for kids and families who may not get to go anywhere else all summer, where they don't have to worry about money." This is an all ages event and everyone is invited to participate.
SOMOTILLO, Nicaragua — A local ministry recently made a trip to lend assistance to and spread messages of love and hope to families in Nicaragua.
Since 2007, Cornerstone Community Church in Galax has partnered with Because We Care Ministries, and has made 13 trips to the remote northern part of Nicaragua, with more than 100 volunteer missionaries from the Twin Counties.
HILLSVILLE — The Hillsville Pentecostal Holiness Church in Hillsville will present an Easter play, "The Last Days of Christ" this weekend at its new sanctuary on 203 Virginia Street.
WOODLAWN — Joy Ranch Christian Home for Children welcomed Brian Allen to the staff as the facility's new director on Monday.
This new addition has concluded a lengthy search for a director for the children's home and ministry in Carroll County. Allen will fill the position left by Tim Lewis, and filled temporarily by Mary Hutchins.
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In British newsrooms, front-page photo decisions were boiled down to: Arms Up or Arms Out? Mo's Face was always the same.
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Our flight from Buffalo to Washington got cancelled the other day because of the snow storm in Washington so unfortunately my family and I got stuck in this cheap little hotel across the road from the airport with not much to do. We spent our night hanging out at the mall (so American!) where I was able to do a bit of shopping, a potentially cramped evening in a small hotel room instantly became a lot more fun.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Two Days in Niagara Falls
Oh man it has been so cold, the coldest weather I have ever been in! My family and I left New York and headed up to Niagara Falls for two days to see this magnificent sight. It was unbelievable to be in the presence of such a powerful force of nature, it was even great to be there in the winter time to see the ice blocks fall over the waterfall and to watch the ice crack, move and change on the lake surface. However I think my favourite thing was being in the snow and actually getting to see the individual snowflakes in all their delicate beauty, something I thought only a microscope could see.
We stayed in a magnificent hotel with a brilliant view of the falls and the colourful night show that happened at night, it also had the best food for their breakfast buffet and at their restaurant!
I never got tired of the view and I can see myself going back one day, perhaps in the spring or summer time so I can do the maid of the mist boat ride as well as experience the journey behind the falls!
New York Shopping Spree!
Shopping in New York was so much fun and spread over many days as I found shops across the city, but I then had my main day of shopping on our final day in SoHo. It was a fun girly day spent with my mum as we shopped and had lunch together, we even saw Jessica Alba! There were lots of great sales going on in New York so nearly everything I bought was on discount. I hit most of the main department stores like Macys and Bloomigdales and I stood outside of Barney's too terrified to go in because of my lack of funds. There were so many shopping areas that I came across on my travels through New York that when I go back one day I think I will need to dedicate many days if not weeks to cover them all!
Shoes are so cheap over here that I was able to pick up my snakeskin Vans for just $35, I also bought a black and white mesh top from Bloomingdales, a grey draped top from a boutique in SoHo I forgot the name of, a leopard print skirt from a second hand store in SoHo, a floral skirt from Anthropologie, and cropped black jeans from Urban Outfitters. I also bought some watches from Macys that I've forgotten to photograph but will share with you soon!
Saturday, January 18, 2014
New York, New York!
For nine days my family and I have been walking the endless streets that make up New York, going to all the big sights and living the lifestyle! This truly is the city that never sleeps with something always happening and people everywhere. We have done all the touristy things like Times Square, the Staton Island Ferry, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Empire State Building, Rockerfeller Centre, Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station/Terminal, the Natural History Museum and the 9/11 memorial. We also ate cupcakes from Magnolias Bakery, went to M&M world, visited Carries stoop from Sex and the City and the "exterior" of Monica's apartment from Friends. It has been great spending so much time here, allowing us to not only sightsee but to relax for what feels like the first time on this trip, we have been constantly on the go and forgetting that this trip is also a holiday.
London Baby!
I had totally forgotten to upload these pictures from London last week, my bad! But I have been spending my days relaxing and walking around New York City with my family. We had a lovely time in London, and I especially loved all the royal palaces and gardens that we visited, they were so beautiful with lovely historic architecture and royal details. My family and I visited Tower Hill, London Tower Bridge, Buckingham and Kensignton Palaces, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, the Natural History Museum, Hyde Park and so many other places! We covered so much in the few days that we were there, that if I do go back one day I will be able to relax and shop more without needing to be on the go the whole time.
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LOS ANGELES, California - They said at the latest Democratic debate that the candidates were friendly; what they forgot to mention was how friendly. Someone close to the Clinton campaign, who has asked to remain anonymous tells us what happened once the candidates got back stage.
"Well, as long as we're being honest, I think everyone could see that the candidates were flirting during the debate. A casual touch of the hand, a coy smile, a little footsy under the table; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. What really got everyone's attention was after the debate they removed their microphones and leaned in close and whispered sweet nothings in each other's ear."
How close were they you ask? UnNews was intrusive enough to ask.
"They were pretty close. Clinton confided in me that they almost started making out with each other on stage. It is common knowledge that the Clintons have a strong case of Jungle Fever. They walked off the stage whispering, and I swear I saw them go into Mrs. Clinton's dressing room. I didn't see them for the next half hour at least, and when I did they both appeared in higher spirits."
What does Bill think about all this? Apparently, he's completely fine with it. "She stuck by me, and I cheated a fair few times myself. Hell, I still do. I have to give her credit though; that Obama is a good looking man. Not that I'm gay or anything. Not that there is anything wrong with it - Ah **** - I guess what I'm trying to say is that he's better looking than Monica Lewinsky, Okay? Leave me the **** alone!"
When asked what she thought, Michelle Obama responded, "Oh no she DID-INNNT" and then ran from the room in a feral rage, presumably to find and kill Mrs. Clinton. She is still missing as of the time this article was written.
Both Obama and Mrs. Clinton refused to comment on the issue, though Mrs. Clinton did give us a sly wink while doing so.
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If you had to name the hot-button issues in admissions these days, they would almost certainly include affirmative action, standardized tests and rankings. Research released Tuesday in the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association combines those three issues in a way that challenges many assumptions.
The research argues that colleges with competitive admissions, motivated by the desire to improve their rankings, have put steadily increasing emphasis on SAT scores in admissions decisions. While this shift in emphasis was taking place, the colleges were also increasing their reliance on affirmative action in admissions, especially with regard to black students who, on average, do not do as well as other groups on the SAT. Further, the research argues, if elite colleges abandoned the SAT, they could achieve levels of diversity similar to what they have now -- without using affirmative action in admissions decisions. Not only that, the research goes on to say, but doing so would not result in a diminution of student quality.
The study is appearing in the August issue of American Sociological Review and is based on a series of longitudinal databases that provide statistics on the qualifications and admissions records of applicants and enrolled students.
"I think that this at least needs to call our attention to questions about the importance of SAT scores and to ask whether it is justified," said Sigal Alon, the lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University, in an interview. "The use of SAT is inflated and is not justified." Alon's co-author is Marta Tienda, a professor of demographic studies and sociology at Princeton University.
The findings are being praised as potentially significant by proponents of reform for college admissions. "This is very promising in that it brings together several issues," said Lloyd Thacker, founder of the Education Conservancy. Thacker said that this backed his point about what he calls "ranksteering" in which colleges base decisions on the potential to improve their rankings. In this case, he said, "the worship of the SAT well beyond any educational value" was leading colleges to make decisions about admissions priorities that "are not serving educational values or purposes."
A spokeswoman for the College Board said that officials there only learned of the study Tuesday afternoon and that no one was available to review or comment on it.
The authors of the new study use the phrase "shifting meritocracy" to describe the patterns they see in American higher education. Using two Education Department databases, they started by tracking the factors that were most important in getting in to colleges of different types. They based their analysis on statistical comparisons of students with otherwise similar qualifications except for in one area (changing that area for different comparisons). They wanted to find which factors could best predict whether a given student would be admitted to college based on actual decisions, not on what colleges say about how they make decisions.
Looking at the impact of class rank and SAT scores, they found that in a comparison for 1982 and 1992, they were of relatively equal value in predicting a given student's admission to non-selective and moderately selective colleges. As selectivity increased, however, the SAT became more important both years, with the increase in the SAT's importance being much more pronounced in 1992 -- a shift that the sociologists attribute to the influence of rankings.
Then the authors did a similar analysis for the admission of black, Latino and Asian students -- again asking the question of whether otherwise similar candidates were more or less likely to be admitted based on individual factors (in this case, race and ethnicity). Again, they found relatively similar impact of race on getting in to less selective institutions. But as selectivity increased, they found a key change. In 1982, Asian applicants were much more likely to get in. But by 1992, as the colleges had placed more emphasis on the SAT, the impact of being black was a key factor in getting in to selective colleges.
The view of Alon and Tienda is that colleges wanted to place more emphasis on the SAT to look good in U.S. News & World Report, but these same colleges didn't want to lose black enrollment so they increased the attention they paid to race in admissions during this period. Alon said that all available evidence suggests that all of these trends have only increased in the decade since 1992 -- except in places where affirmative action has been banned, which in some cases has led to admissions shifts that have decreased the importance of the SAT.
The key finding, Alon said, is that if one accepts the need to place considerable emphasis on the SAT, "there is a tension between merit and diversity." But the paper goes on to argue that this is a false choice. The two sociologists ran "counterfactual simulations" in which they use their findings to imagine an admissions world without the SAT or affirmative action. Running the numbers from the actual admissions years -- and removing the additional emphasis that they found colleges gave for high SAT scores and for being a member of certain groups -- they found that the two were balancing each other out, and that colleges need affirmative action to preserve current levels of diversity only if they stress the SAT.
Proponents of the SAT have historically argued that it is a necessary tool to help colleges evaluate students' readiness for college -- given that high school quality is so variable in the United States. So the authors also try to explore whether the type of shift they imagine, doing away with the SAT and affirmative action, would lead to a decline in academic quality. The authors acknowledge that there are limits to their ability to use their approach to predict what would have happened with a different set of admissions priorities. But they cite data from the longitudinal surveys to show that during the period highly selective colleges were apparently paying more attention to the SAT, their graduation rates fell slightly.
The sociologists also focus on the impact of the "10 percent plan" in Texas, which was adopted following a court ruling barring affirmative action. Under the plan, students in the top 10 percent of their high school classes could be admitted to any public university -- in effect making the SAT irrelevant. Students who enrolled this way at the University of Texas at Austin, the most competitive institution covered, not only performed as well academically, but in many cases were more likely to graduate, the study found. "Ignoring SAT scores does not have deleterious consequences for timely graduation likelihood," the authors write.
In the interview Tuesday, Alon stressed that the conclusions of the research do not necessarily mean that the SAT or affirmative action should be abolished. She said her main belief was that the SAT has too much power in the admissions process. "If you are relying more on the SAT scores, then this immediately will help you climb in the rankings," she said. "But not only will the obsession with SAT scores not promote diversity, but it will have the opposite effect."
She also said that she was struck by the sequence in which colleges increased emphasis on some forms of affirmative action at the same time they increased emphasis on the SAT. For all the criticisms from opponents of affirmative action that the practice is related to identity politics or liberal academics, Alon said that the real motivating force may be something else altogether. "What we're saying is that affirmative action is the inevitable result of relying on test scores," she said.
Alon said that she does not favor eliminating affirmative action.
"I would be happy if we didn't need affirmative action, but I don't think we have reached a situation where we can live without it. Equality of opportunity is still not here," she said.
Bob Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a leading critic of the SAT, said he was not surprised by the sociologists' findings. He said that colleges that abandon the SAT as a requirement "report a broader pool of applicants, reflecting more increased diversity of all sorts, including ethnicity, geography, social class and academic interests." At the same time, he said, the colleges that have students admitted without the SAT "perform just as well as those who submitted test scores."
Alon said that many wonder about why someone teaching at an Israel university would focus on the SAT and the demographics of American higher education. She is a scholar of social inequality and is an American citizen who was a postdoc at Princeton, so she has seen close up the admissions frenzy of American higher education. But she said that in terms of considering a hypothesis that might surprise others (like the idea that colleges might not need affirmative action if they ignored the SAT), Alon said that being away from that admissions frenzy might encourage different ideas.
"Maybe a little distance helps," she said.
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I just swallowed 40 grams of whey protein, along with six grams of creatine and five grams each of glutamine, HMB and BCAAs, all in a smoothie made of papaya juice, bananas, mangoes and yogurt. I'm in the middle of the devil's desert. Talking statues, marauding pirates and groups of blue men torment me, and I'm being approached by what appears to be a tank with eyes. I struggle to make sense of it all.
The tank, I realize, is Jay Cutler. But what is Cutler the Tank doing in this desert gym rife with giant female impersonators, magicians and inveterate slot jockeys? Why is he sucking oxygen from an air-conditioning duct like a drowning man on a lifeline? And can Cutler really be training his back twice in the same day?
BACK BUFFET I'm 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, at the Gold's Gym on Craig Road. A bank of treadmills, stationary bikes and hanging TVs block the squat racks from the squeamish. In a glass enclosure, a gaggle of seated octogenarians aerobicize their arms, and all the gym's tanned and youthful can peer into this "After" exhibit and ponder their furrowed futures. In keeping with the family-fitness vibe, Cutler is joined by his lovely wife, Kerry, who appears fitter than the fittest fitness babe. Kerry jokes that she gets her squat workout spotting her husband on chins.
Like a boxer inserting his mouthpiece, Jay Cutler prepares for battle by cinching up the belt and wrist straps he uses for every set of lat work. Faster than dice tumbling across a felt-covered table, he has finished two sets of underhand front pulldowns.
He calls these "feel sets" (lighter sets to warm up and judge his current strength). He then sets the pin at the bottom of a 300-pound stack and pounds out 10-rep sets, leaning back slightly during the downward portion of each rep. "I always start with reverse-grip pulldowns," Cutler says. "You can really pop the lats on them and get good extension to the upper back."
Cutler often does barbell rows next, but today the Hammer Strength machine is his weapon of choice. "These mostly focus on middle thickness. Back density is a real target for me," Jay explains. Starting with three plates per side, he's soon up to five per side (450 pounds). "All the way back," Kerry encourages. "One more on your own." Cutler keeps up a brutal pace and barely has time to catch his breath while stretching between sets. He is perpetually grabbing hold of nearby vertical bars and tugging, and I'm in constant fear that he'll tear out a ceiling joist. "Stretching is going to open the tissue for better blood flow," he explains. "It's really important to do, especially with back. It's such a large muscle that you really need to stretch it out as much as you can to get the maximum width and density."
Cutler begins one-arm dumbbell rows with 120 pounds but is soon hefting a 150-pounder. He keeps his torso parallel to the floor throughout and pulls the dumbbell straight up, unlike some who stand more upright and let the dumbbell travel out in front at the bottom. Sweat rains from his soaked shirt. Between sets, Cutler hugs an air-conditioning duct, gasping for cold oxygen. Later he tells me, "I feel dumbbell rows are the cornerstone to all the improvements I've made in my back over the past couple of years. They stretch the lats and allow for a strong contraction, giving me both width and thickness, especially in the lower lat area."
Skinny teens in tank tops and at least one man masquerading as a woman watch bewildered and bewitched as Cutler pumps out reps with the gym's biggest dumbbell and then struggles to remain conscious during his 45 seconds of rest. He is no longer able to talk. "Back is the bodypart that takes the most out of him," Kerry tells me. "It's not that he doesn't train 100% when he does everything else, but back has been the one area he's really focused on. As you can see, his training gets really intense."
HOMESTRETCH Cutler grinds out front pulldowns on the Hammer Strength machine. For the final set, Kerry strips off weights for a brutal drop set. "Jay, let's go," Kerry encourages. "Let's go."
I glance over to the room where the oldies are barely sweating to the oldies. Above us, the TVs give off a deadening buzz of Headline News. A ventriloquist bench presses to the beat of the stock market report, and I swear I see his dummy on a StairMaster. Is it just my imagination or are the drag queens multiplying? I wonder what else was in that protein smoothie I drank. Never trust a Vegas juice bar.
This gym, like many modern workout emporiums, doesn't have a traditional T-bar rowing station, so Cutler approximates T-bar rows with a plate-loaded machine in which he lies on a pad set at a 30-degree angle to the floor. "I just want to really squeeze these," he says. He places much of the emphasis on the contraction of each lift, raising the weight as far as possible during two working sets with four plates (180 pounds). Whether rowing or stretching out between sets, he leaves behind a pool of sweat wherever he goes.
Cutler finishes off his morning session at the pulldown station where it all began, doing a set first to the front with an overhand grip. He complains about not being able to properly feel the weight. "Because of the way the machine's set up, I can't get under it," he says. He goes much lighter and switches to behind-the-neck style. "I have no flexibility with all this pump," he complains. "I don't think pulldowns are the key to back size, anyway. I think rows are more important for maximizing blood volume in the back." After three sets of behind-the-neck pulldowns, he pronounces his back thoroughly exhausted.
Kerry hands Jay five BCAA tablets and he gulps them down with a swill of bottled water. The ancient aerobicizers are still waving their minidumbbells like pompoms, seated all the while, and the drag queens and ventriloquist and the rest of the Sin City menagerie are running in place like so many human hamsters when Jay, Kerry and I step into the scorching sunshine and feel our flesh beginning to fry. Six hours later in another Gold's Gym, Cutler will attack his back a second time, and I'll be there again for every sweaty rep, confident things won't get any weirder but fearful just the same.
DÉJÁ VU At 6 pm, Cutler's Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic-won Hummer pulls into the parking lot of the Gold's Gym on Sahara Boulevard, only a couple of miles from the Strip. We enter the workout den Cutler affectionately calls the "Dump." This Gold's will never be mistaken for a family-fitness center, for there are no dumbbell-waving seniors, no Pilates balls, just heavy-metal music and heavy metal.
"This is the most important day of the week for me," Cutler states as he cinches up his belt and wrist straps. "This is the Olympia right here. If I can improve my back 10%, I'll never be beaten again. I'm just trying to add details. That's what I tend to lack. I have the width. I just need the thickness. My main focus now is middle back and lower back. That's why I do the second workout. I've been splitting back into two workouts since before the 2001 Olympia."
Using a long pulldown handle, Cutler reps out his feel set of seated pulley rows. "The longer handle lets me pull a little farther back than a shorter handle and get more of the mid-back," he explains. "I'm really trying to focus these on the lower lat area where the lats tie into the spinal erectors." He pumps out three working sets with 250 pounds, leaning back slightly during each rep.
As Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" wails from speakers, we load up a barbell on squat-rack support bars. Cutler hefts the bar away and begins his deadlifts from the top position. For each rep, he lowers the bar only to a point slightly below his knees, feeling that the bottom of the lift works mostly hips, glutes and thighs, not back. He deadlifts 405 for 10 reps, unconcerned that Ronnie Coleman has been known to use nearly twice that amount for a double. He pauses momentarily near the top of each rep and then he rolls his shoulders back to lock out the weight. Cutler the Tank virtually throws the barbell back onto the support bars at the end of each set. Plates clatter.
"A lot of people are misled by my training because they think I don't train as heavy as I could, but what I always stress is using my brain while I push my muscles to their fullest, and I've never had an injury. The weight is secondary. I just want to fully tax my muscles with concentrated focus, high volume and brief rest."
Next come four sets of hyperextensions while holding a 35-pound plate. He bends all the way down until there is no longer resistance, and he goes all the way up, arching slightly at the top. Cutler finishes off his back with Icarian machine rows, squeezing hard at the conclusion of each rep. He often does pullovers as part of his second workout, but today he wants to end with rows to make certain his inner and lower lats are toasted. After performing 31 working sets and another 12 feel sets, Jay Cutler's one-day back assault is finally over. In addition, two or three times per week, he'll do another four or five sets of chins on the chin-up machine in his garage to stretch out his lats and engorge them with blood. "I believe in high volume," he says. "I'm not saying it works for everyone, but I know it works for me."
Later, returning to California, I'm nearly convinced I hallucinated the whole day, what with the protein smoothie and the drag-show girls and the 43 total sets of back work and a 5'9" 290-pound tank with eyes. My notes and taped interviews prove it really happened. Cutler trains his back twice in the same day, although he's surely one of the few humans who could or should do such a thing. I really was there in that surreal suburban Gold's and later in the "Dump." I'm glad to be free of the all-you-can-eat buffets and incessant clang of quarters into trays, but such is the lure of Las Vegas that I already miss the madness.


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iphoto storybook
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 10:37 PM
these are so cute they are on iphoto...cute for coctail hour on the tables you could make a book of you both when you wher kids or when you are older together..or theme it...thought i was cute....
Married oct 10th 2008 ~ proud parents to Miss Sophia Emma feb 2, 2010
Posted 14 July 2007 - 10:51 AM
Super cute idea! Im planning on making books like that to give as Xmas gifts!
Posted 15 July 2007 - 01:46 PM
those are really nice!
Posted 16 July 2007 - 06:45 PM
Great ideas on teh christmas gifts....i am going to have to remember that
Posted 24 July 2010 - 12:45 AM
I saw at at wedding that they used a photo book for the guest to sign. I lived the idea!
Posted 24 July 2010 - 12:29 PM
| Originally Posted by msjulie5475
I saw at at wedding that they used a photo book for the guest to sign. I lived the idea!
Posted 26 July 2010 - 07:09 PM
I am taking our engagment shot and making a book for our guests to sign. They look great when they are all done! Really easy to make too!
Posted 26 July 2010 - 07:15 PM
So cute! I love this idea
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February 15, 2008 17:15 IST
Akhil Bharatiya Chatriya Mahasabha staged protests against the Ashutosh Gowariker's magnum opus Jodhaa Akbar in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, today.
Chanting anti-Jodhaa Akbar slogans, the mob demonstrated outside a theatre called Novelty.
However, the agitation did not affect the exhibition of the film, which opened across 1,500 screens in 26 countries today and attempts to look at Mughal King Akbar's romance with his wife Jodhaa, a subject briefly touched upon in history books.
Seeing the situation getting out of control, police arrested quite a few agitators.
Jodhaa Akbar had been in the throes of a controversy with a Rajput outfit called Karni Sena calling for a ban on the historical film for its distortion of history. The film has not released in Rajasthan.
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Victoria, an Olympic world-record holder, is taking part in the Big Red Ride, a brand-new London to Eastbourne cycle ride on Sunday 26 July.Covering 75 miles, riders will start from Blackheath Common in south-east London, head south through the east Sussex countryside before finishing up at Eastbourne's magnificent seafront.
Victoria, who won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said: ''Join me on the British Red Cross Big Red Ride and experience cycling through beautiful English countryside and along stunning coastline. Raising money to support people in crisis in the UK and overseas – get on your bike and make a difference."
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EPWORTH Town Council is demanding high-levels as it bids to end a long-running saga over potential upgrades to a road in the town.
Members have decided to seek a face-to-face meeting with North Lincolnshire Council representatives to thrash out the issue surrounding Turbary Road.
The Turbary Road Working Group is now to meet to work out the approach to North Lincolnshire after Coun Bob Fish urged a meeting to resolve the problem, which has been causing concern since the 1970s.
He said: "We must find a resolution to this problem. It appears there is no will to do so from North Lincolnshire Council.
"We should say we are still searching for the will to reach an agreed settlement," he added.
The road is in a poor state of repair, and Epworth Town Council had set aside funds to pay for it to be surfaced. However North Lincolnshire Council said that could not be done because the road did not belong to the town council.
The town council has sought the advice of a barrister, Coun Peter Davies reminded members.
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Coun Fish said Epworth Council should have the opportunity to improve the road, and still had the funds available with which to do it.
He said: "Andrew Percy (the area's MP) said in 2008 that the road was a basic service, and people expected a return on their council tax. It seems to me that the objection is that tarmac will increase traffic speed, and that would be dangerous to pedestrians."
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The Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (CLASP ), in partnership with Lumina Foundation and more than 40 other organizations, is cosponsoring a national dialogue on how to transform our nation's highly diverse and fragmented education and workforce credentialing system into one that is student-centered and learning-based. In such a system all learners would be able to combine high-quality credentials—from badges and certifications to apprenticeships and certificate programs, and all the way through associate and bachelor level degrees and beyond—to fit their needs. Credentials and their value would be easily understandable to inform learners' education and career planning, including job transitions. Employers would trust credentials as they seek the skilled employees they need to compete globally because credentials would be up-to-date and validated to stay relevant to employer needs and would accurately represent the competencies possessed by credential holders.
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text: Michael Jackson, the 'king of pop' was today finally laid to rest, 10 weeks after his death. Michael Jackson was easily the biggest global entertainer ever. Through the 80s and 90s he enjoyed unfathomable levels of popularity across the globe and India was no exception. Thinking of MJ got me thinking of impact of western culture & entertainment on Indians, and it suddenly dawned on me that MJ was perhaps the last English superstar in India. Continue reading "Was MJ The Last English Star In India? Has India Gone Back To Its Roots?"


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'He's hot,' felt Cameron Diaz on first meeting with hubby
Washington D.C., April 6 (ANI): The first thing that popped up in Cameron Diaz's mind when she met her husband Benji Madden was, "He's hot."
After a whirlwind courtship and wedding with Benji, the 43-year-old actress in a recent invert view spoke about how she met 'Benj' and their relationship turned to marriage, reports E! Online.
"It was one of those things where everyone tells you, 'You just know when you know.' I was like, 'What does that mean?' Oh, I get it. 'You just know when you know.' Like you're my husband," she explained.
Although she knew Benji's sister-in-law, Nicole Richie, and his brother, Joel Madden, for a couple of years, 'The Other Woman' actress and her hubby didn't really cross paths.
The couple didn't formally meet until she hosted a dinner party at her house with Nicole and Joel.
When Cameron saw Benji again, she felt, "he's still hot," and that's how they started dating and rest is history. (ANI)


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My Genealogy Home Page:Index of Individuals
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(Johana)(Johana), Anna(d. date unknown)
(Watkins)(Watkins), Brenda Jean Robertson
(Watkins), Donna Michelle
BlivenBliven, Brandon
Bliven, Matthew
Bliven, Mike
BunneyBunney, Bonita Bell
Bunney, Cheryl A.
Bunney, Claire Louise(b. August 23, 1974, d. August 23, 1974)
Bunney, Debra Christine
Bunney, Harold E.(Pat)
Bunney, Hayden Thomas(d. date unknown)
Bunney, James D.
Bunney, Jason D.
Bunney, John Edward(b. January 10, 1914, d. August 04, 1999)
Bunney, John H.
Bunney, Keith L.(b. June 19, 1952, d. October 29, 1988)
Bunney, Marcille J.(b. September 21, 1955, d. October 11, 1981)
Bunney, Mark Runner Jr.
Bunney, Matthew D.
Bunney, Melissa Runner
Bunney, Patti A.
Bunney, Paul A.
Bunney, Stephanie D.
Bunney, Timothy M.
Bunney, Tonya C.
EllingtonEllington, Leota J.
ElyEly, Lennie Mae
HillHill, Debbie
JonesJones, Dee
LoyLoy, John
Loy, John (Jacob)
Loy, Kristina J.
LydonLydon, Louise M.(b. October 30, 1899, d. January 30, 1987)
MarriedMarried, Never
MillerMiller, Johnetta M.
MorrisonMorrison, Darlene ( Witkop)
RobertsonRobertson, Mark S.
Robertson, Micheal Craig
Robertson, Nathaniel Scott
RunnerRunner, Mark
ScollonScollon, Sharon
StifflerStiffler, Connie R.
TrotterTrotter, Claire Louise(b. May 25, 1924, d. April 16, 1972)
Trotter, James E.(b. January 18, 1895, d. April 10, 1977)
WatkinsWatkins, Barbara
Watkins, Gary
Watkins, Gene
Watkins, Gerald
Watkins, Jack R.
Watkins, Mike Randall
Watkins, Orval(d. March 19, 1987)
Watkins, Pamela Jean
Watkins, Timothy Scott
Watkins, Walter Allen
Watkins, Wilmetta
WitkopWitkop, Craig Allen(b. May 07, 1957, d. January 19, 2002)
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Kristian Spangsege wrote: >According to http://www.w3.org/Library/ the latest version of Libwww >is 5.4.1, however the version on my FedorCore 6 is 5.4.1. This leads >me to suspect that Libwww is maintained elsewhere these days. Is that >correct? > > Yes, the library will show 5.4.1 if you check out and build as per, http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html This will include the updates and authors as listed in the change log[1]. The packaging and build is particularly well done by Andreas Bierfert for fedora 6 extras [2]. >The reason I'm asking is that I found a bug, and wanted to see if it >was fixed in the latest release (or maybe in CVS.) > >Please advise as to where I can inspect the latest version and >potentially report a bug. > > Okay, I will try to check it both places, (just grabbed a copy of the SRPMS for FC6). >The result is that the redirection handler only works for status TEMP_REDIRECT, which obviously is not the intended behaviour: > > What is the simplest test case that exhibits the unintended behavior ? more, l8r, v -- "The future is here. 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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Marques Tuiasosopo is looking to get Washington back to a level it hasn't reached since he was the star quarterback more than a decade ago.
Tuiasosopo leads the Huskies into the Fight Hunger Bowl against BYU on Friday night as interim coach after a whirlwind month that started with coach Steve Sarkisian leaving for Southern California and Chris Petersen being hired away from Boise State.
Tuiasosopo moved up from quarterbacks coach to interim coach to lead the Huskies (8-4) in their bowl preparation against BYU (8-4). Washington is trying to win nine games in a season for the first time since going 11-1 — capped by a Rose Bowl win over Purdue in January 2001 with Tuiasosopo at quarterback.
"It's been an awesome opportunity," he said. "It's been a great experience. It's something new every day. I have a big notebook of notes. It's a tremendous honor to be at my alma mater in this role. It's priceless."
It's been a rough stretch at Washington since Tuiasosopo left for the NFL, bottoming out with a winless season in 2008. Sarkisian came in and started a rebuilding process that has led to four straight bowl trips. But the Huskies had not won more than seven games in a season under Sarkisian until this season.
Now they are hoping to use a bowl win to provide momentum for a new era that will begin after this game when Petersen officially takes over the program.
"It would mean a lot," star running back Bishop Sankey said. "The past few years we had winning seasons but struggled to get over that seven-win hump. Now that we are over it, I think the nine wins would do justice for this program and get us some more attention."


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the college was established it had three programs
educating health care practitioners for the commonwealth.
Since that time, we have emerged as a college that
trains the future faculty of other colleges. This
new name adequately describes the mission of our college
with increased graduate-level education and research."
C. Robinson, Ph.D.,
dean of the college
30, 2002 (Lexington, Ky.) --
The University of Kentucky College of Allied Health
Professions is doing more than changing locations
this year. It's also changing names. The UK Board
of Trustees approved a name change from allied health
to the College of Health Sciences today.
"When the
college was established it had three programs educating
health care practitioners for the commonwealth," said
Thomas C. Robinson, Ph.D., dean of the college. "Since
that time, we have emerged as a college that trains
the future faculty of other colleges. This new name
adequately describes the mission of our college with
increased graduate-level education and research."
This winter
the college is slated to move into a new building
being constructed at the corner of Rose and South
Limestone streets.
The college,
established in 1966, emerged from a small school of
three programs to a large college of eight disciplines
- Athletic Training, Clinical Laboratory Sciences,
Clinical Nutrition, Communication Disorders, Health
Services Management, Physician Assistant Studies,
Physical Therapy, and Radiation Sciences. It was the
first college of its kind in Kentucky and one of the
first 12 in the nation.
The college
provides undergraduate degrees in clinical laboratory
sciences, communication disorders, health services
management, and physical therapy. It has master's
degrees in clinical nutrition, physician assistant
studies, communication disorders, physical therapy,
and radiation sciences. Its master's degree in health
services management is through a partnership with
the UK Martin School of Public Policy, and its athletic
training master's degree is through a partnership
with the UK College of Education Department of Kinesiology
and Health Promotion.
The clinical
nutrition division provides a doctoral degree in partnership
with the UK Center for Nutritional Sciences. UK College
of Health Sciences is one of the first colleges in
the United States to provide a doctoral program in
rehabilitation sciences.
The college
teamed up with Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky
and Murray State universities in fall 2000 to start
the program to produce academic leaders for the professions
of communication disorders, occupational therapy,
and physical therapy.
The college
also has new master's and doctorate degrees in clinical
laboratory science. Clinical laboratory scientists,
cytotechnologists, histotechnologists, histocompability
technologists and individuals who have a bachelor's
degree in biology can obtain a master's or doctoral
degree in clinical laboratory science with an emphasis
in hematology/transplantation science or reproductive
laboratory science.
The college
is dedicated to educating students living in rural
areas by taking the education to them.
An extension
of the physician assistant program is at Morehead
State University and the college's clinical laboratory
science and physical therapy programs are located
at UK Center for Rural Health in Hazard.


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Detroit choir's 'Happy' video creates happiness
03/19/2014 5:00amA video of Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences students performing a rendition of Pharrell Williams' "Happy" is creating some online happiness of its own.
Review: The Muppets reteam with mixed results
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New 'Star Wars' set 30 years after 'Jedi'
03/19/2014 7:10amThe new "Star Wars" has an official timeline and one confirmed returning character: robot R2-D2.
'Kill Fee' is compelling tale of amorality, greed
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Lansbury wows critics in London stage return
03/19/2014 9:10amAngela Lansbury has British critics spellbound with her performance as a dotty mystic in "Blithe Spirit" on the London stage.
Skrillex ramps up ambition as he releases first LP
03/19/2014 9:20amSkrillex is taking his inspiration from Kanye West these days.
Jagger bandmates offer support after Scott's death
03/19/2014 9:41amMembers of the Rolling Stones are offering support to Mick Jagger following the death of his girlfriend L'Wren Scott.
Coldplay's Chris Martin to help on 'The Voice'
03/19/2014 10:11amColdplay singer Chris Martin is bringing his expertise to NBC's music competition show "The Voice."
Autism-friendly NYC show offered for younger kids
03/19/2014 10:31amFamilies of young autistic children have a new place to engage their sons and daughters — a live Disney show.
2-CDs of rarities mark Sheldon Harnick's birthday
03/19/2014 10:50amSheldon Harnick has done some extensive spring cleaning and come up with a two-CD box set of very rare tunes.
Suzanne Vega's new disc: Don't let title scare you
03/19/2014 11:10amThe title of Suzanne Vega's new disc, "Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles," sounds like an unreleased Yes album from around 1977.
Spielberg's Shoah Foundation expands, turns 20
03/19/2014 11:40amSteven Spielberg isn't planning on making any more Holocaust movies. The Oscar-winning director is leaving that to the Shoah Foundation.
Fonda and Tomlin to reteam for a Netflix sitcom
03/19/2014 12:11pmNetflix says it's reuniting Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for a new comedy series.
Review: 'Divergent' doesn't diverge quite enough
03/19/2014 1:50pmespecially a girl, preteen or thereabouts — then you know the young-adult entertainment message of choice these days:
National Geographic series to chronicle the 1990s
03/19/2014 2:32pmNostalgia gets closer and closer to real time. The National Geographic Network says it will air a miniseries this summer on the 1990s.
FX network orders comedy starring Billy Crystal
03/19/2014 2:41pmBilly Crystal has agreed to star in a new television series in which he's paired with Josh Gad in a story about two comics in a generational clash.
Acclaimed singer Emmylou Harris to write memoir
03/19/2014 2:51pmEmmylou Harris is adding writer to her list of accomplishments.
Disputed Wall Street tweeter gets new book deal
03/19/2014 3:31pmThe no-longer-anonymous author of a popular Wall Street Twitter account has found a new publisher two weeks after a Simon & Schuster imprint dropped his book amid allegations that he had misrepresented himself.
'Divergent' crew mixed on 'HG' comparisons
03/19/2014 3:50pmThe producers of the young-adult, sci-fi adaptation "Divergent" are fine with comparisons to "The Hunger Games." Just don't hold them to a $150 million opening.
Hugh Jackman stalker freed from New York jail
03/19/2014 5:00pmA California woman who admitted stalking Hugh Jackman has been released after a guilty plea and nearly a year in jail in New York City.
Police: Gunshot in 'Thunder' case narrowly missed
03/19/2014 6:30pmA man who tried to make off with a suitcase full of costumes and props used by the all-male revue Thunder From Down Under fired a shot at the head of one cast member before being subdued and left with a black eye, police said Wednesday.
Autographed Hulk Hogan shoe stolen from shop
03/19/2014 7:21pmFlorida authorities are investigating the theft of an autographed wrestling shoe once worn by Hulk Hogan.
'Last of Us' wins big at Game Developers Awards
03/19/2014 10:41pm"The Last of Us" won the top honor at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
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Given he spent countless hours carefully tendering to the Manuka Oval turf, it was only fitting Nathan Lyon hit the winning runs to secure the first Sheffield Shield final in Canberra in the competition's 121-year history.
Lyon wouldn't have even minded the hit to his hip pocket as he scampered through for a single to deliver NSW a gripping three-wicket win against a dogged Western Australia at Manuka Oval on Friday.
As fate would have it, the two teams will meet again at the same venue next Friday after Victoria answered WA's prayers and prevented Queensland from grabbing an outright victory.
NSW is expected to be boosted with the addition of Michael Clarke, while Lyon and dumped Test batsman Shaun Marsh are both free to play.
The pair were fined 20 per cent of their match fees for breaching Cricket Australia's code of conduct for dissent for a controversial umpiring incident on day three.
Marsh stood his ground after he was given out leg before wicket to the former Manuka Oval grounds keeper when he was on 100.
Umpire Paul Wilson then overturned his original decision, leading Lyon to kick the stumps in frustration.
NSW captain Steve Smith – who anchored the successful run chase with 89 – believed Wilson had made the right call and defended Lyon for his reaction.
"I don't think [Lyon] touched the stump too hard,'' Smith said.
"He just tapped the stump and it came out, probably looked a little bit worse than what it was.
"It was the right [umpiring] decision in the end and it takes a lot of courage from Paul to change his decision.''
WA skipper Adam Voges said he had previously had a decision overturned by Wilson, and all that mattered was that the correct call had been made.
Marsh went on to make 113 to give WA a second innings total of 316, setting NSW a competitive target of 213.
Resuming on Friday at 2-104, what appeared to be a straightforward chase got complicated when the Blues were reduced to 6-159.
Smith continued to play his shots, but fell on his sword in the final over before lunch when he holed out in the deep to Ashton Agar.
Lyon came to the crease to partner Stephen O'Keefe, surviving a few nervous moments before they got the Blues over the line.
"It's always a little bit of an advantage to have a home final,'' Smith said.
"This wicket will suit us next week, hopefully it's a little bit flatter and not quite the same start as this game.
"Stephen O'Keefe batted beautifully and he [Lyon] played some nice sweep shots, so it's amazing to get over the line.''
WA can take heart from the fact it forced the match into a thrilling finish after slumping to 5-15 in the opening session on Tuesday.
After being bowled out for 82 in its first innings, the Warriors pushed the Blues to the brink and will need to do that again if they are to win their first Shield title since 1998-99.
"I think we gave them a bit of a scare today,'' Voges said.
''We fought really hard and that's been a characteristic of our team all season.
''I was really proud of how the boys went about things the last few days, but you can't avoid the fact we got bowled out for 82 and we were chasing the game from then on.''
Along with the final, Canberra will also host the state cricket awards on Wednesday featuring the best male and female players from around the country.
Queensland missed the chance to leapfrog WA into second spot on the table when its match with Victoria finished in a draw.
Victoria batted superbly to finish at 2-314 in its second innings at the MCG.
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