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Get on your knees, bear the thorn in your side, and wipe your mascara =)
Well, I must say that there has been a lot going on in my own crazy woman/motherhood and apparently I am not the only woman feeling that way here lately.
Its time to wipe our eyes and who cares if you see my mascara smudged across my face; I am real, life is real, and it is something that sucks us all up every day, in some ways great, in other ways not.
I thought about some of the things that have been going on in my own life recently and when I logged in to my blog this morning a sweet friend of mine's blog post is still in my feed from where I had followed their posts about their son in the Birmingham unit. He passed away about 4 months ago maybe and he was barely a year; it still brings tears to my eyes when I see their latest post about getting his room ready for him to come home-- talk about God not being fair? I do not know another couple who loves and shares how much they love the Lord as much as they do. They are humble, they are meek, they are on their knees and they are not afraid to show that to anyone..
I wish that I, that a lot of my friends, could be more like that. Granted, I say what I feel and what I believe a lot and I could care less what my next door neighbor thinks and I have a couple of friends that are like that. I admire them for that, I admire them for just saying "you know what.. I'm just not feeling it today, here's whats up with me.." But a lot of my friends that I know get caught up in the validation of other friends, society, they forget that they are "just human", that they should be able to vent, say how they feel, put it out there without being judged, for us women is it a self esteem thing? A control thing? Are we afraid to be vulnerable with other women who might be going through a similar situation? A lot of it, yes. We weave a circle of social acceptance every day and some of us don't even know how big of a web we have spun. What does that reflect on our children? Ladies we bear a lot of the weight of the world and however you get to your womanhood or motherhood is a total blessing and we should be able to lean on each other for love and support, but we should also be able to hold up our panties, down what our close friends have to say with a cup of tea, and keep on going!
I am guilty of this and I am not ashamed to admit it, hello?! God loves me just the same and I know when I need to slap myself in the face and be a better woman, wife, and mother ;O) and God will surely send someone in to my life to be that slap for me! Ha! Perfect example-- I wanted to get caught up in all this "crafty craftsmanness" going on everywhere you look, I mean I'm about to go out and by myself a sewing machine... so I can widdle up a 1st birthday outfit when???? Oh right, somewhere in between working, taking care of my family, keeping a home, and growing another baby.... oh and plastering my child's face to 30 water bottles?! Lisa wake up.... you don't have time for that right now and I'm pretty sure Meadow isn't going to have a complex if she can't wear a pillowcase dress?? She will be wanting a sequin ball gown by the time she's 2?! :) My girlfriend said all this to me over the phone one morning and I about peed my pants laughing so hard.. Don't get me wrong.. I am not knocking my friends who do all this, I think it is great and they are some sweet sweet and very talented ladies and I am so happy that they can do all this for their children and what a blessing they make the time to do it, but Lisa can't, and she doesn't need to feel bad that she can't - is the point I'm making. Cheers to you supermoms!! and cheers to you ladies who do good to go to work, come home, keep your house cleaned, your husband loved, and a yummy meal cooked for your family :O)
We ebb and flow in all our daily circumstances, some of them can lift us up and a lot of them can tear us down, and we've got to stop drowning in what and who tears us down. You do not have to be a part of that anymore and it doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you a real and honest person who is in touch with your own self values, goals, and beliefs. A lot of our attitude, hurt, encouragement, lack of will to succeed, we allow to come from the people around us-- mistake #1. You don't need validation from anyone- you have been BLESSED with accreditation of Jesus Christ!! Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you, who are going to push you down the path you were meant to go, married couples- surround yourself with other married couples who will uplift you in your own relationship.. not who are going to sit around and have husband/wife bashing sessions. You will always find someone who is more than willing to drown right there with you, but trust me, you don't want that, it may seem like a good solution for the here and now, but you need to look at the big picture, where will this take you three, five, ten years from now?? "If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you've always got"
You are responsible for your own life and your own actions so man up, or should I say, woman up! Ha! If something is not working for you, or for the best interest of your family, you need to find the courage to change it. If it involves a family member that is causing distress, turmoil, hurt and frustration for you, your child, or even for you and your husband, you may request to change that. You do not have to suffer under someone else's inability to change or to respect the life you lead and the decisions you have made for your own family. There is no power on this earth that will all of a sudden be bestowed apon you to change another human being- only God can do that (and believe me when I say I have been down this road 5, 234 times and I keep thinking I am the miracle worker, stop playin Lisa, you are a career worker.. Ha! Ha!) Let God do that changing for you!! It's easier said than done, but you've got to start somewhere! I've had to do this in my own life- I have a husband who I adore and love, I have a baby girl who I want to see grow under the umbrella of a God so great that no man will pluck her from His hand, and I have a baby on the way. And maybe God knew that I would be strong enough to handle a small child, demands of a huge family, and the energy for another baby because I love Him so much and I try to seek His will for OUR life, not everyone else's life. I have had to learn how to do some major, but gentle, toe stepping when I need to and maybe this little baby in my belly has helped to light a fire under my own feet? And don't worry about if you want to get angry with God, go ahead!!! Throw a few punches, He wants you to talk to Him, even if you have to yell at Him! I have been here too, sobbing, crying, yelling like a crazy lady, but you know what: He never leaves me and He always answers me in His time. I mean, is this like our relationships with our earthly fathers or what?? Man, they can drive us up the wall sometimes, but we still love Him, we always come back to Him, and we always continue to seek His advice- He truly is a Heavenly Father, I don't know how else to explain it in words.
I have a couple of girlfriends who are facing their own battles right now (including myself), and we can never truly say that we know exactly how one another feels because we have not been in that situation. I have a friend who is facing trying to get her 18 m old son back after a man who was once a part of her life took him from her, a couple other friends who are just facing different woman struggles with family, co-workers, and probably just some plain old idiots around them? Ha! But I can say this: do not give up in the Life that God has laid out for you. He created you to bear this cross no matter how big or small, He loves you just the same and He has promised you that He will never leave you, and whatever choices you make will reflect on the ones you love the most.
I have about 3,124 scriptures that I could post for this blog- If you want direct scripture on something from the blog you can post a comment and I will get that to you :O)
Keep the faith my sweet friends- He is never but a tear away <3
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Ten-man Stoke lost their unbeaten Europa League record and had to settle for second place in Group E, as Besiktas came from behind to win a game in which at least two Stoke players claimed to have objects thrown at them from the crowd.
"I was told it was going to be an interesting trip," Tony Pulis, the Stoke manager, said, "and it's certainly been that. This is all new to me. I was told I would experience different things and I have but I thought the players handled it well. We won't be complaining to anyone. We're Stoke and we don't complain. Hopefully we'll have benefited from all this."
Ricardo Fuller picked up a lighter and complained to the referee about something thrown from the stands after scoring Stoke's goal. Then early in the second half the game was held up as Jermaine Pennant refused to take a corner while he was pelted with objects thrown by the crowd. "I was getting pelted with everything – lighters, Euro coins," Pennant said. "I was thinking of picking one up and putting it in my sock."
With Stoke having already qualified for the last 32, Pulis left all 11 players who started against Tottenham Hotspur last weekend at home but saw his side take an unlikely 29th-minute lead through Fuller.
The Jamaican striker picked up the ball 25 yards out and sent a shot in off Egemen Korkmaz. He almost doubled the lead moments later in bizarre circumstances. The Beskitas keeper, Rustu Recber, hesitated in coming out and slammed his clearance against the onrushing Fuller. The ball looped back towards the open goal before bouncing off the woodwork, with the striker just failing to turn in the rebound.
Asmir Begovic had been superb in keeping Besiktas at bay but in the 59th minute Manuel Fernandes equalised from the penalty spot, after Matthew Upson was sent off for a challenge on Hugo Almeida, and goals from substitutes Mustafa Pektemek and Edu completed the win.
Pulis focused on the positives of a campaign that has taken Stoke into the knockout stage. "We've finished above Kyiv and we've given Besiktas two very good games, especially when it was 11 against 11," the manager said.


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Updated 12:03 pm, Wednesday, June 25, 2014
It was supposed to be like "A League of Their Own," but it's showing shades of "Mean Girls."
We told you recently about an effort by the 18 women running in the June 5 election for seats on the city's Democratic County Central Committee to band together to publish slate cards, hold fundraisers, walk precincts and mentor each other. It was supposed to show that women can change the often nasty tenor of politics.
But the group's most recent meeting devolved into an angry showdown featuring a wagging finger, shouting "Shut up!", accusations of sabotage, a fuming early exit by three members and at least one upturned chair. And former Supervisor Chris Daly wasn't even there!
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At issue was some progressive newcomers' inability to pony up the $1,000 they'd all agreed to contribute to publish the slate cards. Those will be going out soon to the roughly 23,000 "perfect women voters" in the city, meaning females who've voted in the past five city elections.
Apparently, Supervisor Malia Cohen told the cash-poor women they had to "pay to play," and attorney Kat Anderson accused them of sabotaging the entire effort. Then somebody accused Anderson of "living in the Marina," which is a fact, but apparently a mean one.
That's when Hene Kelly, a progressive stalwart and self-described "den mother" for the newcomers, told school board member Hydra Mendoza - who was trying to calm everybody down - to shut up and wagged her finger. Then, Kelly upturned her chair (she says that was out of sheer clumsiness) and stormed out of the room with the newcomers, Wendy Aragon and Kelly Dwyer.
"I just didn't want people to be shamed in there or to feel like second-class citizens," Kelly said. "What is this saying about women ... they can't help each other? It is breaking my heart."
Aragon said she's definitely not participating in the women's slate anymore.
"It turned into animal farm - it was even worse than watching men fight," she said. "It was mean girl bullying in that room - that's not why I'm here as a woman or here in politics."
Sounds like Kelly is out too. She said, "I am comfortable with being on a slate who wants me for who I am, not because I have ovaries."
Cohen, Anderson and women's slate founder Alix Rosenthal said they'd like all to come together again, but also point out that anybody who can't raise $1,000 doesn't have a shot at winning anyway.
"Running for office is more than a notion," Cohen said. "There's a certain level of organization that has to exist, and part of it has to do with fundraising."
Rosenthal said what happened is a sign of a larger problem in San Francisco politics.
"I think it's a symptom of this male-dominated political system we have where progressives and moderates have been conditioned to hate each other in this city," she said. "We all have to practice kindness."
That three-hour Ethics Commission hearing Monday to launch the investigation into whether suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi should be removed from office left far more questions than answers.
The chief one: Just how long will this drag on?
"Two months, 27 days, 14 hours," joked John St. Croix, director of the commission. "It's hard to say, but maybe two to three months from now, it should be resolved."
Well, not fully. That's his guess for when the Ethics Commission will turn over its findings to the Board of Supervisors, which then has 30 days to decide Mirkarimi's fate.
That means the supervisors could be voting right around Labor Day, the traditional start of full-fledged campaign season leading up to the November election in which six seats are up for grabs. It'll take nine votes of the 11-member board to remove Mirkarimi, and his closest friends and political allies are all up for re-election.
Like they say, timing is everything - and the timing couldn't be worse for the progressive supervisors.
Count another former commission member who's irked by Mayor Ed Lee's handling (or lack thereof) of his removal. As we've reported, Police Commissioner Jamie Slaughter and Health Commissioners Jim Illig and Steven Tierney were told by Lee's secretary in phone calls that they were off their boards.
Tom Pier, husband of former Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, wasn't surprised. Appointed in 2010 by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom to serve on the Human Rights Commission, he, too, got the boot. Right after his wife spoke out in October against questionable voting practices by Lee's supporters during the mayor's race.
"The next day or the day after that, I got a call from some woman in the appointments office who said not only are you not getting reappointed, but she explicitly told me not to attend the next meeting," Pier recalled. "I think people would appreciate a little thank you note or something at least recognizing their services."
Christine Falvey, spokeswoman for Lee, said Pier's term had simply expired and any link between his dismissal and his wife's mayoral campaign "would be pure fantasy."
The recent column on rude Muni riders who won't give up their seats for pregnant women prompted a deluge of response - but no change in the courtesy level on buses.
I was riding an underground train the other day with my toddler. We were standing alongside an elderly man. The seats for disabled people and seniors were filled with hipsters who stayed seated the entire time.
"I wanna get off," my boy said. Yeah, buddy, we know the feeling.
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World Hoop Day brought hoopers together this weekend in cities and towns all over the world. Celebrated for the first time in it's new timeslot on the first Saturday in October, 10/05/13 this year, hoopers all over this big blue marble were spinning things up in support of world peace and raising funds to help put hula hoops in the hands of needy kids around the globe. On six continents this year hoopers gathered together in celebration of World Hoop Day, so let's take a closer look at some of the coolest stuff that's already rolling in from the coolest holiday event there is!
In Manila, hoopers in the Philippines gathered to celebrate World Hoop Day.
In Tokyo, Japan, the big event for World Hoop Day was held this year in Yoyogi Park, but a smaller hoop-themed dinner that included these hooped up appetizers was also organized. We're expecting a lot more of these to turn up in 2014.
In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, hoopers from the World Hoop Day Sydney Chapter gathered in Hyde Park.
In Austria, Hoop Dancers OÖ spun up the World Hoop Day Dance this year.
In Hamburg, Germany, a public hoop jam gathering celebrated the big day and caught the attention of those passing by.
In Reykavik, Iceland, hoopers gathered in Lækjartorg square to spin things up.
And in Paris, France, another large event was held that included a performance of the World Hoop Day Dance for this year.
In Boston, Massachusetts, USA, American hoopers spun up the World Hoop Day Dance and a whole lot more.
Jessica "Digitalis" Davis delivered an amazing performance at the big World Hoop Day event in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hoopers in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, spun up the fun again this year.
One of the places to be for World Hoop Day annually is Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the festivities this year included some amazing performances.
In Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, Mane Almqvist and Zuriel Santiago performed together.
In New York, New York, USA, hoopers performed with their hoops all over the city, and they were so excited they even performed on the F Train.
Carla Samson and Scott Van Sice spun up just one of many amazing performances on the World Hoop Day Michigan stage this year, acro hooping together in Wayne, Michigan, USA.
In South America, hoopers in São Paulo, Brazil, gathered for Dia Mundial do Bambolê
There's more to come so keep your eyes peeled for Part 2 later this week. Hooping.org is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of World Hoop Day and to be involved in sharing the mission of World Hoop Day annually because we truly believe that in doing so, we are making the world a better place. The more people hoop it up, the happier they are. The happier people are, the happier the world is that we live in. And even though World Hoop Day is over for another year, you can still donate to this important cause and share the gift of play and joy and exercise by visiting WorldHoopDay.org.
Philo Hagen is the Co-founder and Managing Editor of Hooping.org. He's been spinning things up online and off since April 2003. Co-Founder of the Bay Area Hoopers and LA Hoopers hoop groups, Philo has performed internationally and has won Hoopie Awards for Male Hooper of the Year and Video of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles, California, USA.


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This is one day of activity, 24 hours, midnight to midnight in UTC, on the QuakeNet IRC network summarised into a 12 minute data visualisation.
Each dot represents a new user connecting to the network, there are some 400 new connections per minute on average in this visualisation. Users are linked by joining shared channels. When a new user joins a shared channel it is joined by a line with all other users in the channel already that have had activity within the last 5 minutes. In effect, this shows real time communications between the users of QuakeNet over a single day.
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So Luis Suarez dived to win a penalty against Stoke did he? And he also bundled the ball into the net with his hand against Mansfield did he? So what! His own manager has called his behavior unacceptable and the press are up in arms about Suarez being a Uruguayan cheat. Sadly, they're all missing the point – which is that England will never be able to compete on the international field unless they learn to cheat as well as foreign players.
One thing I've drummed into my kids from the day they were born is that, in sport, as in life generally, it's not the taking part that counts – it's the winning. Football is practically the only sport that not only recognises this concept, it embraces it, and there's one reason for this – it's a working class sport played by working class people.
I'm not being elitist about this. I've tried playing other sports. I even tried playing golf once, but golfers, being mostly middle class toffs, are such sticklers for the rules they ruin the whole experience.
For example, I hit my drive into a lateral water hazard, and had to take a penalty drop from the point where it went in. Like a footballer taking a throw in I ran alongside the lake for twenty yards to get nearer to the hole before I dropped the ball and you should have heard the other golfers complaining. And when I was cleaning my ball on the green instead of replacing it exactly where it was when I picked it up (I placed it a few feet nearer to the hole, like a footballer would with a free kick) the others forced me to put it back.
You wouldn't get footballers complaining like that. They understand that you have to win at all costs. They realise that cheating when taking a throw in or free kick, diving to try and win a penalty, pretending to be seriously injured or flourishing a make believe red card at the referee to try and get opponents sent off are skills which are as integral to the game as heading and kicking the ball.
Players, managers, TV pundits and fans all agree with this. You will never hear any of them complaining about players cheating by taking a throw in from the wrong place – cheating is accepted by all as part of the game.
The trouble is we in England are not very good at it. I put this down to the growing influence of the middle classes in our national sport. Take Norwich City for example – the club is owned by Delia Smith (not one of our own, she pretends to have working class roots but was given away by the very first thing she cooked on TV – kipper pate – not a working class dish!) Delia has brought to that unfortunate club middle class principles – they play attractive football and they don't cheat. This means they sit proudly at the top of the fair play league but in the bottom half of the premiership.
Now compare them to Stoke City, owned by Peter Coates (definitely one of our own, he is the son of a coal miner and now owns Bet365 – the online gambling site that brings joy and wealth to millions of working class punters) and managed by Tony Pulis (the son of a steelworker who once famously head-butted James Beattie, one of his own players, in a dressing room argument) Tony Pulis understands that you have to cheat to win. He even admitted that when his team scored a goal against West Ham by cheating, they had been practicing the cheating move in training. Add to this their blend of unattractive long ball football and scoring most of their goals from throw ins taken from the wrong place, in addition to their tactic of breaking the opposing players' legs with lunging two footed tackles, it has ensured Stoke sit rock bottom of the fair play league, but securely in the top half of the premiership.
This distinction between the approach to football in Norwich and Stoke is exactly the same in the politics of the two places. Norwich is a horrible, unattractive town with only one Greggs, full employment, no wind farms and a Tory MP – whereas Stoke is a proud Labour constituency and a beautiful midlands industrial town.
I bumped into Mark Fisher, Labour MP for Stoke between 1983 and 2010, in Subway a few days ago and asked him what he and the Labour party had done for Stoke during his 27 year tenure.
"When I first became MP, thanks to all the carbon belching out from the pottery factories and coal mines, Stoke was not a very green place," Mark explained, "but we soon solved that problem by closing the factories and mines down and It makes me very proud to say that not a single pottery factory or coal mine remains open in Stoke today."
Apart from being the greenest city in Britain and having a cheating premiership football club, they also have more Greggs per person (at a ratio of one Greggs per thirty five residents) than any other town in the world. They also hold the UK city centre record for fast food restaurants and charity shops. Okay, they might not have any jobs after the closure of the mines and pottery factories, but ex-arts minister, Mark Fisher, made sure the good citizens of Stoke had plenty to do, whilst the miserable wretches of Norwich were hard at work, by leaving them a legacy of twenty seven museums and twelve art galleries – all of which allow free entrance to jobseekers.
The people of Stoke were obviously impressed by this, because in the 2012 election they elected new Labour candidate Tristram Hunt (not really one of our own – he went to posh Westminster School with Nick Clegg and wrote a book comparing Oliver Cromwell to Osama Bin Laden) with a huge majority of 5,000 (nearly as huge as Mark Fisher's majority of 20,000 in 1997.) Tristram did so well he polled nearly six times as many votes as the BNP candidate!
Clearly, in the safe hands of the Labour Party, Stoke is going places.
"So what's next for Stoke?" I asked Mark as he took a bite out of his foot long Subway Sub.
"Don't quote me on this," he replied, "but Ed Milliband is going to put Stoke forward as the next European City of Culture. If I were you I'd log on to Peter Coates's Bet365 site and have a bit of a flutter."
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There's no telling just yet, but at least both sides report progress in their talks this week.
The USGA released this statement today from newly elected USGA president Jim Hyler.
"We met with representatives from Ping yesterday," Hyler said. "Our conversation with Ping regarding the status of the Ping Eye2 irons on the major professional American tours was productive, and we are hopeful that a solution can be found that respects and reflects the best interests of golfers and the game.'
Ping echoed the "so far, so good" sentiment in a statement of its own.
"We had a productive meeting with the USGA yesterday regarding the Ping Eye2 groove debate on the PGA Tour," Ping Chairman and CEO John Solheim said. "I'm encouraged by their willingness to openly discuss some of the challenges the golf industry faces relating to equipment issues. We left the meeting with an understanding we would continue to seek a solution that benefits golfers and acknowledges the importance innovation plays in the game."
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Boyle quits Donegal panel
Tony Boyle's intercounty career could be over after the 1992 All-Ireland winner pulled out of the Donegal panel because of work commitments.
Donegal manager Mickey Moran was annoyed by reports that he had dropped Boyle from the squad.
"Tony is no longer in the panel because of work commitments which means that he is not able to attend training regularly," Moran told the Mirror.
Boyle has been a great servant to Donegal football but his career in recent years has been hindered by injury.
Meanwhile, Sean Martin Lockhart joins Kieran McKeever in making himself available out for Derry hurlers as opposed to the county's footballers on Sunday.
Derry football manager Eamon Coleman has called up Bellaghy brothers Gareth and Fergal Doherty and their clubmate Gavin Diamond for Sunday's NFL tie against Fermanagh in Enniskillen.
The team shows wholesale changes from the side which defeated Cavan with Enda Muldoon, Paddy Bradley, Ronan Rocks and Johnny McBride all rested.
Jonathan Niblock comes into the half-forward line with Fergal Doherty partnering Anthony Tohill at midfield.
Gareth Doherty and Banagher's Paul Carton replaces McKeever and Lockhart in the full-back line.
Fermanagh full-back Paddy McGuinness is named as a substitute for the Enniskillen clash.
The Devenish defender is getting married on Monday and makes way for Teemore's Peter Quinn.
Roscommon make two changes for their visit to Donegal on Sunday.
Brendan Bourke comes in at right full back for Dave Gavin, while Nigel Dineen is preferred to Alan Nolan at right full-forward.
Tyrone, already through to the NFL semi-finals, have named a new-look team for their Division 1A clash with Offaly.
Peter Canavan is out because of a hamstring injury while players involved in the Ulster U21 decider on Saturday will not be involved on Sunday.
Cormac McGinley and Colin Holmes come into the full-back line while Joe Campbell and Ciaran McBride are included in the attack.
Ciaran Gourley misses the game through injury, but included in the squad for the first time in the current league are Seamus McCallan and Richard Thornton.
Meanwhile, Paul Close will get his first Antrim start in Sunday's clash against Westmeath at Casement Park.
Close comes in at corner-forward as the Saffrons limber up only four weeks ahead of their Championship curtain raiser against Derry.
Regulars Martin Mulholland and Tony Convery are on the bench, while Paddy Logan and Con Coleman are unavailable.
Meanwhile, Fermanagh U21 boss Dominic Corrigan has made one change for Saturday's U21 decider with Shane McCabe coming in for Sean Leonard in the half-forward line.
Meanwhile, Ollie Collins and John O'Dwyer are back in the Derry line-up for their NHL Division 1B match against Kilkenny at Ballinascreen.
Both missed last weekend's hammering by Wexford.
Sean Martin Lockhart is included in the subs while Kieran McKeever slots in at centre half-forward.
Emmet McKeever is back in the Derry side at corner-back.
Martin Quinn, Raymond Kennedy, Danny McGrellis and Dermot Doherty drop to the subs after lining out against Wexford.
Antrim hurlers will be without the holidaying Gregory O'Kane for their Divison 1A trip to Meath.
Kieran Kelly, Jim Connolly, Declan McKillop and Ciaran McCambridge have been named in the team even though they will have to undergo fitness tests before the match.
Tyrone (SF v Offaly): F McConnell, C McGinley, C Holmes, P McGurk, R McMenamin, S Teague, D McCrossan, P Campbell, Pascal Canavan, B Dooher, G Cavlan, J Campbell, D Gormley, E Gormley, C McBride. Subs: M Conway, S Lawn, C Gormley, C McRory, S McCallan, R Thornton, S O'Neill, E Mulligan, B McGuigan, K Hughes, P Feeney.
Antrim (v Westmeath): S McGreevy; K Murray, A Finnegan, G Bell; J Kelly, A Morris, G Adams; J Quinn, J Barr; E Doherty, K Brady, P McCann, C McCabe, O Doherty, P Close Subs: D Shannon, M Mulholland, T Convery, AN Other, T Stevenson, M McCarry, J McKeever, B McAleese, F Wilson.
Fermanagh (SF v Derry): D McKeogh; M Lily, P Quinn, Neil Cox; J Gilheaney, M McGrath, S Burns; P Brewster, L McBarron; K Donnelly, Rory Gallagher, S McDermott, S Quinn, S Maguire, S King.
Fermanagh (U21 v Tyrone): S Boyle; S Lyons, K Gunn, R McCluskey; C Monahan, N Keenan, N Cunningham; M McGrath, B Owens, S McCabe, R McCabe, C McIlroy, A Little, M Little, B McBrian.
Derry (SH v Kilkenny): K Stevenson; E McKeever, C Murray, R Lynch; P Kelly, C McEldowney (c), B Ward; R McCloskey, M Conway; Gregory Biggs, K McKeever, O Collins; F McEldowney, M Collins, J O'Dwyer Subs: J McEldowney, S M Lockhart, D Doherty, R Kennedy, S McCartney, D McGrelis, P McKaigue, M Quinn, J Young.
Antrim (SH v Meath): DD Quinn; E O'Hara, C McAllister, C McCambridge; C Herron, K Kelly, E Graham; A Campbell, C Cunning; R McNaughton, AN other, B McFall; J McIntosh, D McKillop, P Graham Subs: K Cunningham, M O'Neill, J Connolly, C Hamill, Conor McCambridge, K McGarry, A Watt, A Delargy.
Derry (SF v Fermanagh): O McCloskey; G Doherty, K McCloy, P Carton; P McFlynn, F Crossan, G Coleman; A Tohill, F Doherty; P Murphy, D Dougan, J Niblock; C Gilligan, D Heaney, G Diamond Subs: A Heaney, J McBride, R Rocks, P Bradley, E Muldoon, P O'Kane.
Roscommon (SF v Donegal): S Curran; B Bourke, J White, I Daly; P Noone, F Grehan, C McDonald; S O'Neill, P Mahon; C Connelly, J Hanly, E Lohan; N Dineen, S Lohan, G Lohan.
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Ya, we get it Sarcasm, or pointing out the Obvious.
Between the 2 Parties , ya the GOP is a lot more Racist, or a lot more accepting of it.
I think its because the Racist Repubs for the most part, aren't aware of their Racism.
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And you said I was off-topic in my Post Seabag.
Originally posted by neo96
And what party continually tries to keep minorities on that "government plantation".
The constitution had the 3/5 clause for slaves. All men were created equal if they white, male, and not owned by another human.
Oh now what was the party of Lincoln?
And what part continually trys to keep minorities on that "government plantation".
Rhetorical questions there we all know the answers.
And you said I was off-topic in my Post Seabag.
This about quote Proves My Point.
They Repubs, are Racist, and don't even know it.
Keyword HAD.
Ok m8, I realize Politics makes strange Bedfellows.
You can stick your head in the sand,
Im out, all this hidden Racism is not why I visit ATS.
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And you said I was off-topic in my Post Seabag.
Originally posted by neo96
And what party continually tries to keep minorities on that "government plantation".
This about quote Proves My Point.
They Repubs, are Racist, and don't even know it.
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"


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11 January 2013 08:22 PM
Hi , I am just finishing a flat I rewired before Christmas.
I have returned to connect two extract fans which have been installed by the glaziers whilst fitting new glass.
The kitchen fan I wired so you turn on manually.
The bathroom fan I wired for a fan with an overrun.
The glass company who fitted the fans have installed a standard fan with no timer.
The problem I have is that the flex from the fan has been run in behind the new tiling over to my switch with no way of getting out without damaging the new tiles.
So my question is does a bathroom fan need an overrun timer.
I have looked through ADF ( table 52 ) and it just states that an internal room with no openable windows should have a fan with a 15 min overrun.
This bathroom does have an openable window so do I need an overrun , I think not.
And secondly and more importantly should I ( we ) be doing all the flow rate tests that I am reading about in the document ?
Advice appreciated.
11 January 2013 08:47 PM
I don't think it does have to have an over run capability and I certainly wouldn't be bothering about flow-rate tests, just check the makers figures re the displacement. You say it's a flat, might be a different matter if it were commercial, eg offices etc.
12 January 2013 01:29 AM
You could fit a remote timer outside the bathroom if you can get to the cable. I've used the Greenwood ones . Click on link below.
Regards Dominic
12 January 2013 07:46 AM
You do not need an overrun if the window opens, so no problem there.
I wouldn't worry about the flow rate as long as the fan can extract at a min of 15L/sec, might be a bit more of a concern if it were a ducted system but not for a window fan.
I was watching a building inspector, private outfit acting as the NHBC, testing the flow rate of the extract fan to a site we did. The site agent warned me that this guy was an absolute stickler and was refusing to sign off jobs if the flow rate of the fans was not up to scratch. He undid his briefcase and removed his calibrated test equipment. It was a sheet of A4 paper; he held it up to the fan and said that if the fan couldn't hold the paper up he would fail the fan! Unbelievable!
Edited: 12 January 2013 at 04:23 PM by leckie
12 January 2013 08:50 AM
As you say Leckie, unbelievable although maybe a slightly stiffer test than the sheet of loo paper that I often use!
12 January 2013 09:31 AM
The bathroom fan I wired for a fan with an overrun.
The glass company who fitted the fans have installed a standard fan with no timer.
The problem I have is that the flex from the fan has been run in behind the new tiling over to my switch with no way of getting out without damaging the new tiles.
I don't quite follow you.
Are you saying that you did wire to the fan with both perm live and switched live?
Are you also saying that the glass company ALSO wired for a fan (with just a switched live)?
If there is both a sw live and perm live at the fan then I would advise you to swap the fan for one with over run, as it's poor practise to install a standard fan in a bathroom.
As for isolation switch - really not important unless it is an ensuite.
If it is wired in flex, you could consider using the cpc as a perm live (if double insulated).
Other options could be to change the sw live to perm and install a humidistat fan, or pir fan - all seem better options than just a standard fan.
12 January 2013 12:33 PM
Using cpc of flex which would be green/yellow in colour and against regs to use other wise, cores of any colour can be oversheathed green/yellow and connected to earth but not other way around its in the regs and I think one electrician got in serious trouble doing this on a tankstat cable
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12 January 2013 12:45 PM
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12 January 2013 04:29 PM
Why would an isolator only be required for an en-suite?
Why is a standard fan in a room with a window poor practice? It complies with building regs.
On no account ever use a cpc as anything other than a cpc. Potentially extremely dangerous and has cause at least one death that I know of.
12 January 2013 07:19 PM
Hi , I wired the fan with a sw live and perm live over to a 4 pole fan isolator.
The glaziers supplied the fans which were prewired with 2 core flex.
They ran the flex up to my isolator and left it in the back of the box.
In the meantime the bathroom has been tiled and the flex is now behind the tiles.
I always install fans with overrun timers in bathrooms because I thought you had to.
Now rather than having to smash out two tiles I am thinking of leaving the fan in place and Part F appears to say that I am allowed to do so.
As for installing isolators on fans I thought this was a must if there was no other means of light ie window in the room concerned.
I always do install isolators on fans with overrun timers.but is there a definitive reg.
12 January 2013 09:57 PM
Don't touch any tiles, you don't need to, leave it as it is. It complies.
What is the isolator for on this piece of equipment?
Probably just for maintenance, for cleaning for example. Therefore the isolator needs to be under the control of the person carrying out the maintenance. This would mean local to the fan or lockable if outside the room.
12 January 2013 10:20 PM
The clue here is intermittent, in a domestic situation an intermittent fan is deemed to be under occupant control, the purpose of switching on to disperse pollutants and steam and then off again, whilst it is recommended that where there is a room without or does not have an opening window the fan should be controlled by the light switch and have an overun time, if the owner wants a seperate switch and no overun thats their choice as they control it.
In testing such as air quality and air tightness intermittent fans are switched off and do not figure in the test providing they are fitted properly, ie sealed around the fan and the aperture does not compromise the envelope.
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12 January 2013 10:23 PM
yes I knew my post would rattle a few cages..
I have never wired the with the intention of using the green/yellow as a live (but I have swapped equipment like for like that does utilise the green yellow as a live conductor - such as a pir, or fan).
- That is a different kettle of fish altogether.
Until recently I thought it very poor, but in hindsight it really is no big deal especially if it's double insulated - sometimes you have to use your own judgement. In addition, I would not use brown tape, but brown sleeving, and I would also mark up with permanent marker pen. It remains imperfect practise.
Isolators for ensuites only? Well as a rule I don't wire for isolators be it for fans or showers - there isn't much point... except for an ensuite where cust can switch isolator to 'off ' if they deem the fan too noisy at night time.
Just because it complies with building regs doesn't make it good practise. Why on earth settle for the minimum standard.
I note all departures from the wiring regs on the EIC.
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both options including back draft shutter, and triangular cowel with silent shutter.
12 January 2013 10:35 PM
So you are prepared to connect perm live on a pir switch using a g/y cpc? You must be potty. What about when the class 2 fitting is replaced with a class1 and someone is electrocuted?
12 January 2013 10:43 PM
the earthing arrangement of the light fitting wouldn't be affected by the scenario I am talking about.
Again, the gr/yell wire would have clear coloured identification...
and just because some spark can't be ar**d getting their testers out, isn't my problem.
I'm talking about a short run of flex (1 metre max) surface clipped with junction box all in clear view.
12 January 2013 10:46 PM
Sorry but that is rough. If its only 1m swap it.
12 January 2013 10:55 PM
I hate to hijack the original post, so this is my last comment on this.
If you think im driving to the wholesalers to replace a 30cm bit of flex - think again buddy boy!
Just want to re-iterate I install 4 core flex on a new installs.
12 January 2013 11:06 PM
Well the op was about a fan installed in a room with a window. The fan was pre-wired by others in flex with a sw line and neutral. This was buried under tiles.
The guy didn't want to chop out tiles and make a mess.
He has been advised, quite correctly that he did not need to.
You advised him to swap the fan, even though he doesn't need to, and if necessary use the cpc of a flex for a perm line. Even though you haven't seen the install, so you don't know how long the flex is that has been installed by others. It might be 6m for all you know.
You then said that you wouldn't bother with an isolator, even though there would be a perm live if he took your advice, to the fan.
The mind boggles.
12 January 2013 11:27 PM
I don't settle for bog-standard nor do my customers.
I actually gave the OP different options - some compromised wiring standards to a degree but all provided better solutions for the customer - the OP can decide which if any best suits.
With modern building practices, condensation is the biggest problem facing householders. The fan installed is not suitable, and the building regulation that says it is, is not worth the paper it's written on.
If you want to install bog-standard pendants, bog-standard fans, bog-standard flood lights, bog-standard doorbells, and bog-standard consumer units, go right ahead, afterall the regs may say they're okay. I won't.
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"There will be a referendum in March," said Morgan Tsvangirai, hailing the new constitution as a major step toward democratic reform.
"The date agreed to by the principals is the 16th," Mugabe spokesman George Charamba said. "It's a firm date now and we are working towards that."
However rights groups have warned that Zimbabwe is behind on reforms and preparations that would allow credible elections. Fears of violence and intimidation tactics remain.
Zimbabweans will be asked to vote for a law that would set presidential term limits and abolish the head of state's immunity for the first time.
The law would also set the stage for them to face off in a presidential election, which Tsvangirai revealed would be held in July in tandem with a legislative vote, although he gave no precise date.
A victory for the 88-year-old Mugabe would extend his 32 years in power, a reign that in the last decade has been marked by economic meltdown and allegations of rights violations.
In the wake of the vote, and after heavy international pressure, Mugabe reluctantly agreed to form a power-sharing government with Tsvangirai and to sign up to a democratic roadmap.
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Uygur street children across China need more support, say activists
Poverty and domestic violence drive youngsters from home in Xinjiang into hands of traffickers who exploit them as thieves and prostitutes
The prevalence of Uygur street children from Xinjiang in cities across the mainland is fuelling tensions between Uygyurs and Han Chinese, according to researchers, who say more social and economic support is needed to help tackle the problem.
China has an estimated 1.5 million street children who have left home to escape poverty or domestic violence, according to the United Nations Development Programme. Of these, an estimated 100,000 are from Xinjiang.
The vast majority are Uygurs, a community of nine million Turkic-speaking Muslims who are by far the largest of the 12 ethnic minorities in the far western region.
Many of the under-age Uygurs living rough on the streets fall prey to human traffickers and end up as pickpockets or prostitutes, one reason why they are reviled by the Han and rejected by conservative Muslim communities at home.
This may help to explain why up to 70 per cent of Uygur street children returned to the cities even after they were rounded up and sent home in a massive but largely unsuccessful repatriation campaign over the past decade, according to Alimjan Yusan, a 23-year-old Uygur social science student at Shanghai University who, with the help of several sociologists, recently completed a report on the plight of Uygur street children.
"The nationwide rescue campaigns focused only on alleviating the symptoms - removing children from the streets - but failed to provide appropriate help for these child victims," Alimjan said.
The sense of exclusion Uygur children feel in both communities pushes them into lives of delinquency and discrimination, he said.
"Once Uygur juveniles are labelled thieves, they face rejection by their families back home because stealing is a sin for Muslims. And no local schools will admit such an 'evil child'."
Almost all Uygur street children come from poverty-stricken prefectures in southern Xinjiang, where some parents hand their children to traffickers to seek a better living in other cities.
Grinding poverty in their home regions is another of the reasons street children filter back to the cities.
The fact that the children were falling prey to human traffickers, who were pressing them into petty crime and prostitution, prompted the Xinjiang government and authorities in some cities to launch the repatriation campaign over the past decade to tackle the homelessness and abduction of children. In February, authorities said 1,600 vagrant Uygur children had returned home in Xinjiang over the past two years.
However, Turgunjan Tursun, an associate researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences of Xinjiang, said he estimated that 60 per cent to 70 per cent of them returned to the eastern cities.
"The reasons for the high prevalence of Xinjiang children, and the problems they endure, are so complicated and different from other street children in the mainland and overseas," he said.
"The official rescue campaigns have failed to come up with comprehensive and scientific solutions to the problem, such as economic help and counselling for the children and their families."
Turgunjan said that many Uygur child pickpockets had distorted values after being brainwashed by human traffickers, who are also Uygurs.
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Bertuzzi's extended absence is a devastating blow to the Wings' third forward line, which already enters this compressed season without speedy center Darren Helm, who is on injured reserve with a bad back.
Coach Mike Babcock has decided to press Jan Mursak into service on the third line over Patrick Eaves, who, just this week, was cleared to return by the team's medical staff after missing 14 months with concussion-like symptoms.
"One guy hasn't played hockey in a year," Babcock said, Saturday afternoon. "I'm going to be like you, I'm going to watch (Mursak) play tonight and if you play good, you play more. I don't know how much 'more' is at this time of the year when you haven't had any training camp, but is more 18-minutes? I hope to God when I look at the sheet after the game that no one's at 22 (minutes) as far as a forward goes. I hope that I've used everybody and everybody was important. That's sure my plan."
Colloquially refer to as the 'kissing disease', mononucleosis is a viral infection that causes fever, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. Red Wings defenseman Brendan Smith and goalie Jimmy Howard have had the infection in the past, which wasn't fun.
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Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there. He was 96.
In his oral histories, which he called guerrilla journalism, Mr. Terkel relied on his enthusiastic but gentle interviewing style to elicit, in rich detail, the experiences and thoughts of his fellow citizens. Over the decades, he developed a continuous narrative of great historic moments sounded by an American chorus in the native vernacular.
Mr. Terkel succeeded as an interviewer in part because he believed most people had something to say worth hearing. 'The average American has an indigenous intelligence, a native wit,' he said. 'It's only a question of piquing that intelligence.'


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Author Notes: Pork chops with beer-mustard sauce and gherkins - a Belgian-style take on a Parisian classic from The Gold Cook Book, (c) 1948. —ArchaeoCook
Serves 4
- 4 inch-thick bone-in pork chops
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 12-oz. bottle medium-bodied wheat beer
- 1.5 teaspoons flour
- 6-8 gherkins, sliced thin
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard (either smooth or whole grain)
- 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Place an oven-proof dish in the oven and preheat to 425 degrees.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Add half the onion and saute for a minute, until golden but not brown. Brown the pork chops in the pan for a minute or so on each side, seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Remove the oven-proof dish from the oven and place the pork chops in it. Use about 1/4 cup of the beer to deglaze the pan; pour the juices over the pork chops and place them in the oven.
- Roast the chops for 15-20 minutes, until they reach about 140 degrees internal temperature. Baste them halfway through with pan juices.
- While the chops are roasting, make the beer sauce: Heat the butter and a little olive oil in a small saucepan over a medium flame. Cook the onion in the pan until translucent, then add the flour. Toast the flour-fat-onion mixture until it reaches a golden color and loses its raw, floury scent. Add the rest of the bottle of beer and bring to a boil. Season with salt and pepper, lower the flame, and cook until the liquid thickens and reduces to about half its original volume.
- When the chops are cooked, remove them from the oven. Add the mustard and gherkins to the beer sauce and immediately pour it over the meat. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve.
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Manila, 12 October 2011—Amid threats that antibiotics and other essential medicines may lose their power to cure disease, countries in the Western Pacific Region today pledged to support the World Health Organization (WHO) in its efforts to fight drug resistance.WHO has warned that the world may already be returning to an era when there were no effective drug treatments for many infections. This is the result of the misuse and irrational use of drugs—a major driver of drug resistance.
At this year's annual meeting of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, the Organization's governing body in the Region, meeting in Manila, Member States vowed to take immediate action to improve their response to the increasing problem of drug resistance in areas where action has been inadequate.
A six-point policy package adopted by the Committee includes:
WHO said that while the development of antimicrobial resistance to drugs is inevitable, the misuse and poor management of drugs accelerates resistance. Overprescription is a major problem. It is estimated that in many settings 50%–70% of the antibiotics prescribed by health workers are unnecessary.
"The misuse and irrational use of drugs are weakening the fight against diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, that should have been contained decades ago," said Dr Shin Young-soo, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific. "At the same time, other age-old diseases are on the rise, with the possibility of no cure."
The six-point package seeks to engage all WHO's 194 Member States and the global health community to promote action for change. While there have been efforts to deal with the critical issue of drug resistance in the past, implementation and commitment has lagged. Action to combat antimicrobial resistance has been fragmented in many settings, often focusing on only one aspect of the problem instead of following a comprehensive national plan. There is also need for a more comprehensive antimicrobial surveillance systems to encompass most, if not all, major disease-causing bacteria.
Antimicrobial resistance is both a medical and financial catastrophe as second-line treatments are much more expensive. The difference in cost between first- and second-line drugs is a 175-fold increase for tuberculosis drugs, a two fold to 60-fold increase for antibiotics, and a three fold to 500-fold increase for antimalarial drugs.
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