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Jim Kerr says he hadn't imagined that sailing would be the way he renewed his career in international athletics after losing his eyesight.
But the blind, 74-year-old competitor at the International Federation of Disabled Sailing world championships this week in Halifax says he didn't hesitate when offered a chance earlier this year to bid for a spot at the Rio Paralympic Games.
"The same good world is still out there and you have to experience it in a different way," said Kerr in an interview at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron site.
The former alternate member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic modern pentathlon team and Olympic fencer for the U.S. Virgin Islands, said when he lost his sight in his 60s, he thought he would remain a recreational athlete.
"I certainly never expected to again reach the level I had experienced in some other sports," he said.
"But when I was approached by the folks in Virgin Islands to see if I'd be interested in joining the sailing team it took me about a millisecond to say, 'Sure."'
Kerr says he's discovered there is an emerging role for blind sailors on the Paralympics, as they operate lines and rigging aboard the three-person Sonar vessels racing here.
"I'm happy to say to other blind people that this is a glorious thing to experience. You can experience it just as much as if you had sight," he said.
Kerr said he has been inspired by Nicolas Vimont-Vicary of France, a member of the reigning world champion team in the Sonar class.
The two met on Sunday during preparations for the event, and within minutes Vimont-Vicary offered the American the chance to try a sensor technology helmet that tells him the wind direction.
The technology allows the blind sailor to take control of his own vessel, and participate in blind-only sailing competitions as a skipper.
"I would like to show him (Kerr) so that so he can take the helm too," he said during an interview.
During the Sonar championships, both Kerr and Vimont-Vicary say their key challenge is to listen for each command, react quickly during turns, and to shift their weight quickly to improve boat speed.
"I have to concentrate," says the French sailor. "Even if I don't see what's happening, I have to hear everything going on around the boat."
Vimont-Vicary counts as he wraps the jib sheet around his hand during a turn, while Kerr tends the traveller that shifts the boom across the boat.
Each team at the championships goes through detailed assessments by medical teams of their various disabilities and must meet a common international standard before they are permitted to race one another.
The U.S. Virgin Island's team's Dave Flaherty has suffered a stroke and has some paralysis on one side, while Kerr's fellow crewmate Bob Blackwell does his work on the sheets with one arm.
Each is graded on the extent of the disability by medical experts.
John Foster, the 76-year-old coach of the Virgin Island team, has competed in five summer games in sailing and once in winter Olympics in the bobsleigh.
"This is giving back a little bit of all the joys and experiences you've had in your life, trying to help others enjoy it as much as you did," he said as his vessel was launched.
The competition begins for the Scud and Sonar classes on Tuesday.
As Kerr prepared to compete, he said his hopes were high for a top-seven finish.
"I'm mostly learning, I'm mostly listening. … But we all have a great spirit and that's another part I'm happy to be part of."

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that last 1/2 point on 18 was massive
that last 1/2 point on 18 was massive
I just saw the matchups for tomorrow. They look really good for Europe, IMO. I wouldn't be surprised if Europe takes an early lead tomorrow to the put the heat on the US of A. I think the US will respond and win a very close Ryder Cup.
"....the two players I liked watching the most were Barry Larkin and Eric Davis. I was suitably entertained by their effortless skill that I didn't need them crashing into walls like a squirrel on a coke binge." - dsmith421
12:14 PM: Mahan (USA) vs. Casey (EUR)
12:25 PM: Leonard (USA) vs. Karlsson (EUR)
12:36 PM: Mickelson (USA) vs. Rose (EUR)
12:47 PM: Perry (USA) vs. Stenson (EUR)
12:58 PM: Weekley (USA) vs. WIlson (EUR)
1:09 PM: Holmes (USA) vs. Hansen (EUR)
1:20 PM: Furyk (USA) vs. Jimenez (EUR)
1:31 PM: Cink (USA) vs. McDowell (EUR)
1:42 PM: Stricker (USA) vs. Poulter (EUR)
1:53 PM: Curtis (USA) vs. Westwood (EUR)
2:04 PM: Campbell vs. Harrington (EUR)
If Azinger thinks Stricker, Curtis, and Campbell have a chance, he is dreaming. He is praying it's over by then. Can you imagine Campbell and Harrington on 18 tied 13 1/2 to 13 1/2? Ugly!
Kim has not played that great either and I like the fact he is being sacrificed against Garcia, first out of the gate.
The question is will Phil "show-up?" Sunday is not a great day of golf for him historically.
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The last number is the total points scored by the golfer. and the 2nd to last number is the total number of matches played. Hunter Mahan has been a stud! 4 matches, 3 points! So has Poulter.
I would of benched Curtis all day today, and played the hottest putter in the world, Justin Leonard, this afternoon.
W-L-T Fourball
W-L-T Singles
W-L-T Total
W-L-T Matches Points
Phil Mickelson 0-1-1 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-1-2 4 2.0
Stewart Cink 1-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 2 1.0
Kenny Perry 1-0-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-1 3 1.5
Jim Furyk 1-0-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-1 3 1.5
Anthony Kim 0-1-1 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-1 3 1.5
Justin Leonard 1-0-1 1-0-0 0-0-0 2-0-1 3 2.5
Ben Curtis 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 2 0.5
Boo Weekley 0-0-0 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-0-1 2 1.5
Steve Stricker 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 2 0.5
Hunter Mahan 1-0-1 1-0-1 0-0-0 2-0-2 4 3.0
J.B. Holmes 0-0-0 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-0-1 2 1.5
Chad Campbell 1-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 2 1.0
W-L-T Fourball
W-L-T Singles
W-L-T Total
W-L-T Matches Points
Paul Casey 0-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 2 0.5
Sergio Garcia 0-0-1 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-2 3 1.0
Søren Hansen 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 2 0.5
Padraig Harrington 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-2-1 3 0.5
Miguel Angel Jiménez 0-0-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-1 2 0.5
Robert Karlsson 0-1-1 0-0-1 0-0-0 0-1-2 3 1.0
Graeme McDowell 0-0-1 1-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-1 3 1.5
Ian Poulter 1-1-0 2-0-0 0-0-0 3-1-0 4 3.0
Justin Rose 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 2-1-0 3 2.0
Henrik Stenson 1-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-0 1-1-1 3 1.5
Lee Westwood 0-0-1 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-2 3 1.0
Oliver Wilson 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1 1.0
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Absolutely amazing day of golf. I felt the US reallyleft a coupleof points out on the course.
Justin Leonard was phenomenal this morning. Jim Furyk was about as clutch as can be in the afternoon. I love Steve Stricker. So soft spoken and comes up with the clutchest of putt son #18. even more, I loved his reaction after he holed the putt behind Sergio's explosion. That was priceless.
Mahan was really good both days, but that missed 3 footer probably cost thema half point.
I LOVED that Boo took it to Westwood today. That also was priceless.
Collosal meltdown by Phil this morning. And it rubbed off on Kim. That was ugly.
I felt bad for Perry and Furyk. Not much more they could have done. The two best Euro players of the day were Poulter and McDowell. Paired together, I don't think anyone could have beat them.
Ian Poulter is just an arse. No other way to say it. First class jackass.
As for tomorrow, I don't have such a good feeling. I consider iteven going into tomorrow because I don't see any way that Holmes or Curtis could possibly not get beat. Curtis has been awful and Holmes hasn't been much better. I'mactually relieved to see Westwood against Curtis as it's taking their best guy and going against our worst. I love the idea of punting with Curtis.
But I think it's going to be close. I see the Euros winning 7.5to 4.5 and win by one.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
Highlights from today:
* 10 minutes after I got to the course this morning, I was walking down the right hand side of #1. As luck would have it, Justin Leonard hit his opening tee shot about 20 feet away from me. I got to see Hunter Mahan hit the ensuing approach shot from about 10 feet away, front row and from directly behind (you might have seen me on TV). But Hunter did not have an easy shot into the green and yet, he made the sweetest contact I've ever seen on a golf ball. It's just phenomenal the level of talent of these players. Everyone knows that this field is arguably the top 24 players (minus Tiger) out of the USA and Europe. But it's not so easy to know just how mind-boggingly great these guys are at the game. The difference in ability between the players is razor thin. It's something that doesn't come out while watching on TV, but it's exceedingly apparent while watching them play in person.
* The "Official Ryder Cup Radio" was the best $11 I've ever spent. It was a joy listening to the banter of the BBC radio while out on the course. It's also surreal to hear the roar of the gallery on the radio before hearing it in person.
* It is obvious that Jack designed Valhalla with tournament play in mind. Each of the holes are basically amphitheaters with high ground surrounding the entire hole. This made it pretty easy for all 40,000 patrons to have a view of the action, especially around the greens.
* As impressive as Hunter Mahan has been in this tournament, he made an awful choice to putt the ball on 18 in the morning session. There was no way he was going to put the ball with 8 feet while keeping it on the ground. As a result, he put it 10 feet from the pin and Justin missed the resulting putt - and the Americans lost out on a 1/2 point.
* I don't think I will ever again see anyone stake a six-iron from 220 out on a 600 yard par-5 again like J.B. Holmes did on 10. That was really cool and the Euros made the right decision to give him the putt.
* The gallery was colorful and I was surprised at the number of Euros that made the trip. There were lots of Brits, Irish and Swedes in attendance.
* The amount of infrastructure to support the tournament is quite the feat. There is a 38,000 square foot temporary pro shop set up, multiple PGA learning centers, dozens of giant video boards. The PGA really spared no expense at putting this thing on.
* I peed next to Roger Maltbie. Yes, even TV commentators have to use the bathroom from time to time.
* As I think of more stuff, I'll add it here....
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What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
Serious reponse: Erm...no. We were in separate port-a-pots. And your comment really wasn't appropriate.
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What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
I bolded my winners. I see this going 6 to 6, which means even though I predicted the Euros to win, they need to win 7 matches to retain, and based on these pairings and how the Americans have been playing, I don't see the Euros winning more than 6.
Honestly, and I never thought I'd say this, but Holmes and Weekley are the keys to the singles. If they play how they played yesterday, then the Americans keep the Cup stateside. If they don't, then Azinger's last 3 sacrificial lambs will have to play out of their butts, and 1 of those 3 will have to be a clinching W.
That being said, I think Cink clinches his match, and the Cup for the Americans, on the 16th green.
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As for Poulter, he just seems psychotic, not intense. He's wound so tight, it looks like he could explode at any moment. Intense competitors like the way most on both sides behave I like, Poulter just appears to be insane. Just my perception, but he acts like an idiot.
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Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
Sergio trying to pull one over, and it looks like he's been successful. that was no "normal stance" and I think Kim knows it.
edit: turns out he took an unplayable anyway so it didn't matter.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
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IRVING, Texas - Baylor soccer forward Dana Larsen earned the Big 12's Offensive Player of the Week award for her play in BU's two victories over the weekend vs. Texas and Iowa State, the league office announced Tuesday.
In Friday's 2-1 double overtime victory against the Longhorns, Larsen contributed on both of Baylor's goals.
The senior notched her team-leading ninth score of the season in the 80th-minute as she fired in a shot from 28-yards out that landed at the feet of Texas goalkeeper Abby Smith and then bounced over the freshman as she went for the save. With the goal, Larsen moved into sole possession of fourth place on the all-time Baylor scoring list with 27 goals.
In the 105th-minute, Larsen earned her team-best fifth assist on BU's game-winning goal. The goal came on the seventh corner kick of the match for Baylor. Larsen sent the set-piece offering into the middle of the six-yard box, but it was deflected back out to her and she recorded the assist by sending the ball right back to the top of the box. Alexa Wilde did the rest, rising above a group of Longhorn defenders to redirect the ball inside the near post.
The senior's work on Friday earned BU its second straight win over Texas. It is the first time Baylor has beaten the Longhorns in back-to-back games since the 1997 and 1998 seasons.
In Sunday's 1-0 win over Iowa State, Larsen had three shots on goal, in 58 minutes played.
Baylor is unbeaten in its last 14 games and Larsen leads the way with nine goals, five assists and 23 points this season. In the Big 12, she is fourth in shots and points, third in assists and sixth in goals scored.
With the victories, Baylor improved to 13-1-4 overall and 4-0-3 in Big 12 play. BU also upped its record in home matches to 8-0.
For Larsen, it is the second time she has been honored by the Big 12, after being named Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 18, 2011. That is also the last time a BU player won the league's offensive award.
The native of Mequon, Wis., joins teammates Kat Ludlow, who won the Defensive Player of the Week award on Sept. 4, and Bri Campos, who claimed the Newcomer of the Week honor on Oct. 9, as Bears to be recognized by the Big 12 this season. It is the first time ever that Baylor has won all three of the league's awards in the same season.
In the 16-year history of the Big 12, BU has won 27 individual soccer weekly honors.
The 15th-ranked Bears, who lead the Big 12 in shots, points, goals, goals allowed and assists, will be back in action on Friday at 7 p.m. when they host Big 12 newcomer TCU in the final game of the regular season for both teams.


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Smoothies and workouts (gatherer)
Smoothies are on my mind today. My throat is still so sore that I can hardly handle solid food. My body feels much better and I got a good night's sleep last night, but I feel like my throat is attempting to do a spontaneous tonsillectomy.
Before taekwondo I usually just feel like having a smoothie for breakfast. Apricots, almond butter, rice bran and rice milk (with a little veggie glycerine) make for a satisfying smoothie. My kids don't like the texture of it, but that leaves more for me. Today I didn't feel like almond butter either, with my throat, so I used 3 frozen apricots, about 5 frozen cranberries, rice milk, v.glycerine, cinnamon and a mild cottage cheese. I'd prefer ricotta, it's smoother, but I only had cottage cheese. It was tangy and good. I think I'll call it my Thanksgiving smoothie.
I often have a simple green tea smoothie, as an energy drink, though it doesn't have quite as much substance: ice cubes, powdered green tea, v.glycerine, and rice milk. Ricotta works well in it too, but cottage cheese might be too tangy for this one.
I found a new organic energy drink that is sweetened with agave nectar. I don't see much use for pre-packaged energy drinks in my life, but it's nice to see improvements in them. When my workouts are never more than and hour, I have plenty of time to make a smoothie beforehand and eat a meal afterward. I do sweat plenty in that hour, so I may consider adding a little sea salt in there somewhere, though I have developed such a taste for salt, that I probably get enough.
After taekwondo I always shower and sit in my infrared sauna, to reduce sore muscles. Hmm, maybe I should add a pinch of sea salt to the water I drink for sauna-ing.


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Former Connecticut College cook Jose A. Lopez lost his job last year after two women came forward to say that he had groped them in the college dining hall, but on Tuesday he learned he will keep his freedom.
A jury of six women found Lopez, 46, of Waterford not guilty of third-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault and unlawful restraint following a trial in New London Superior Court that featured testimony from the two alleged victims, college officials, a police detective and Lopez himself.
Lopez and 11 family members and friends who had waited for the verdict since Monday hugged one another and wept after the jury foreperson said "not guilty" to each of the charges. In taking his case to trial, he turned down an offer to plead guilty in exchange for a short prison sentence followed by years of strict probation and registration as a sex offender.
Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed discharged Lopez and thanked the jury for its decision, saying that a verdict inevitably gratifies one party and displeases another.
Defense attorney Pamala Favreau accepted thanks from Lopez and his family and left the courthouse quickly.
"I appreciate the difficult task those jurors had, and we're grateful," Favreau said.
Prosecutor Sarah E. Steere declined to comment. She said Victim Advocate LeeAnn Vertefeuille was contacting the two complainants to let them know the outcome of the case.
Lopez lost the kitchen job that he had held for eight years after a college senior and a woman in her mid-20s reported last spring that he had touched them sexually in the college's Harris Dining Hall. Both women testified at the trial that they were shocked that Lopez, whom they considered a friend, had touched them inappropriately. One of the women said Lopez pinned her in a dining booth and roughly caressed her over her pants. The other testified that he reached into her pants and touched her while she stood in the dining room.
Favreau aggressively cross-examined both of the alleged victims, revealing to the jury that Lopez, who worked with the older woman's mother, had once filed a complaint that the mother appeared to be "watching him" all the time.
Lopez testified on his own behalf and denied sexually assaulting the women. He said he taught his sons to be respectful to women and treats "everyone the same."
The jury started deliberating Monday afternoon after asking for a reading of the testimony of the former student and Lopez.
Connecticut College officials could not immediately be reached to comment about the verdict. Mindful that colleges need to respond appropriately to complaints of sexual assault, the college has a Coordinated University Response Team that is chaired by the director of sexual violence prevention and advocacy, a position that was initially funded by a federal grant but is now supported by the college.
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Every college baseball head coach went a different path to becoming the head of a program.
Just this summer, several established assistant coaches have parlayed impressive stints into head coaching jobs. For instance, long-time Louisville assistant coach Chris Lemonis is the new head coach at Indiana University, while ultra-aggressive Ole Miss assistant Cliff Godwin parlayed a trip to the College World Series into a return to East Carolina, his alma mater, as head coach.
Many programs around the country will be searching for new head coaches next summer, and based on what they've accomplished in the past and present, there are several assistants to watch moving forward.
Here's my annual list of assistants most ready to take over a program.
Travis Jewett, Vanderbilt
Head coach Tim Corbin and Vanderbilt have always shown a strong commitment to their program, in both facilities and other program-related amenities, and in the hiring of new assistant coaches. So, when the Commodores went to replace former assistant coach Josh Holliday, who now is the head coach at Oklahoma State, they looked to Jewett, who had established a strong reputation at Arizona State and other stops along the way. Jewett is a hard-nosed coach who serves as the hitting coach and recruiting coordinator for the Commodores. His experience spans across the country, spending three seasons at Arizona State, five seasons at Washington State, and before that, three seasons at Washington as an assistant coach. I would fully expect Jewett to be a hot name during next summer's college coaching carousel.
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LONGMONT -- Hobby Lobby store manager Craig Bass got to do something Monday he's been able to do for all of the four years he's been with the company: give all his hourly employees raises.
"I'm going to have a conversation with a gal this afternoon -- she just started three weeks ago," Bass said. "I get to say, 'Hey, I'm going to give you a raise today!'
"And they look at you like, 'You're kidding?' It's a good position to be in."
Hobby Lobby announced on Monday, via email, both to stores and to journalists, that for the fifth year in a row, it was bumping the wages for its full- and part-time employees, keeping them well above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and Colorado's minimum wage of $7.78.
Full-time hourly employees at Hobby Lobby make $14 an hour -- having just received a $1 raise. While it was the fifth straight year full-timers got a raise, part-timers got a raise for the fourth year in a row; they're now up to $9.50 an hour.
"For those of us who are in retail and have grown up with it in other companies, it just kind of blows us away that they give that kind of an increase," Bass said. "Because in our experience we've learned that companies just don't do this."
Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Hobby Lobby is a privately held company whose first store opened in 300 square feet in 1972. Founder and CEO David Green has since grown the business to more than 500 stores in 45 states. The raises also apply to employees at its affiliate store, Hemispheres.
Bass said the year-over-year raises show Green's giving credit to his employees for the company's success. And, Bass said, the raises make his job a lot easier.
"Another nice thing about it is it really limits turnover. I mean seriously," Bass said. "I've experienced, in my career, turnover based on wage decisions employees have made. Here, we don't hear that. If somebody leaves it's not based on wage." Hobby Lobby opened its Longmont store in September 1991. Three years ago it spent about $1 million redoing its faade, which also expanded the store to 56,200 square feet. The store employs 15 full-timers and 13 part-timers, Bass said.
"There's another rarity -- more full time than part time. In retail that's unheard of."
One of those full-timers is Dee Dee Lanning, who has been there 31/2 years and is coming up on her third anniversary of full-time employment.
"I wasn't expecting it," Lanning said. "Craig came up and told me personally."
She said she's been in retail for decades and isn't aware of any other company giving such substantial annual raises like Hobby Lobby does.
"Well, absolutely (I was pleased)," Lanning said. "But I love working at Hobby Lobby because I love the company, I love the management, and I love the store. So maybe I'm not the best person to ask."
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What makes the Virginia Piedmont Special?
If you ask anyone who has been to Orange, VA what they thought about it, probably one of the first things they'll say is "It's so beautiful!" Indeed it is, which is one of the many reasons why Sharon and I moved here and bought our historic bed and breakfast inn! Let me explain to you why this is.
First, I shall amaze and enlighten you with a quick and easy geography lesson. Virginia is essentially one giant watershed–that is, the water from the mountains to the west drains through Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay, and eventually into the Atlantic. This watershed is actually quite diverse and includes several topographical zones. In the East, we have the Tidewater, so named because the rivers flowing from West to East are close enough to the coast, and low enough in elevation, to rise and fall with the Atlantic tides. The Tidewater is characterized by low wetlands and predominately sandy soil. The eastern broder of the Tidewater is the Chesapeake Bay, and the western border is a geological feature called the Fall Line. The Fall line runs north to south, roughly along the route of I-95. The Fall Line marks the farthest point inland where the rivers are no longer tidal, and where they historically were no longer navigable by large vessels. Hence, this is the reason why so many Virginia towns and cities were established along this North-South Corridor (Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria, just to name a few).
West of the Fall Line is the Virginia Piedmont. The Piedmont is the quintissential Virginia landscape, filled with babbling creeks, streams and rivers flowing gently on their perpetual journey to the Chesapeake Bay. The Piedmont is best characterized by gently rolling hills, historic pastoral landscapes, large forested areas, beautiful sprawling farms, and plenty of wildlife. Historically, travellers and commentators have called the Virginia Piedmont "Virginia Horse Country" or "Virginia Hunt Country" because of the historical predominance of these activities here. More recently, the moniker Virginia Wine Country has increased in usage due to the immense number of Virginia wineries and vineyards dotting the landscape. Naturally, large expanses of vineyards lend themsevles to scenic views and romantic ideas. It is in this iconic Piedmont zone that one can find Orange, VA, and the Holladay House Bed and Breakfast.
Continuing to the West, the Virginia Piedmont terminates at the Blue Ridge Mountain range, one of the most scenic and picturesque natural landscapes in America. The Appalachian trail meanders through these mountains, as well as the Blue Ridge Parkway, Skyline Drive, and numerous Wildlife Areas and State and National Parks.
The Blue Ridge Mountains then descend into the famed Shenandoah Valley, which is bordered on its west side by the Allegheny Mountains, which, like the Blue Ridge, are also part of the Appalachian Mountain chain.
The Peacefulness of . . . Hot air?
So, why the geography lesson? Because when one understands what makes the Piedmont region unique, one will understand why I was so excited to launch a hot-air balloon five minutes from our Bed and Breakfast Inn! If you continue to read my regular blog posts, you will begin to discover why the Virginia Piedmont is a vital component of America's history and economy. In modern times, the region still appears much like is did almost 2 centuries ago, and you cannot help but sense the essence of history when you meander across this region. From a hot-air ballon, this sense of history, place, and natural romance comes to you with stunning clarity!
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2002-03 Women's Basketball
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Bluffton strong in second half but falls to Anderson 76-48By Tim Stried
January 11, 2003
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Bluffton College put together a strong second half performance against Anderson University Saturday afternoon in Founders Hall, but the Ravens' big halftime lead was too much to overcome as the Beavers fell 76-48.
Bluffton trailed 44-19 at halftime as Anderson made all 11 of their foul shots and shot 51.9% from the floor in the first half, while holding BC to a 25% clip. In the second half, however, Bluffton held Anderson to a 38.1% shooting percentage and increased its own shooting effort to 34.6%.
For the game, Bluffton out-rebounded Anderson 35-32 and evidence of BC's strong play was the fact that the Beavers went to the free throw line a season-high 30 times, converting on a season-high 19 of those chances.
However, Anderson, which improves to 11-2 overall and 3-1 in the HCAC, was 27-for-32 from the line, which marked the most freebies allowed by BC this season. AU held Bluffton (1-12, 0-5 HCAC) to a season-low 14 made field goals and one 3-pointer.
Senior Lyndsey Robinson led Bluffton with 18 points and her eight rebounds shared team-high rebounding honors with senior Melissa James, who scored 12 points. Junior Karen Harris added eight points.
Bluffton held Anderson junior Angel Hall to 16 points, which was eight points below her league-leading average of 23.9 points per game. AU senior Kelly McMillan, who scored 37 points in their last game, scored a game-high 25 points Saturday.
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Video CES: Another Chording Keyboard Hits the Market (Video) 101
Decatxt chording keyboard may be new and exciting to him, and he says has a patent on it so apparently the USPTO found it novel and original, but it's not the first chording keyboard by many long shots. The idea has been around (at least) since 1968. And let's not forget Braille chording keyboards, as described in a 1992 IEEE paper. And if you have an iPhone and want to experiment with a virtual Braille chording keyboard, there's an app for that. Maybe we're just jaded. Or maybe we've known a lot of blind people who used one-handed Braille chording keyboards to type as fast with one hand as a sighted person using a QWERTY keyboard and two hands. So it's hard for us to get excited about a chording keyboard. Be that as it may, we wish Wayne Rasanen all the luck in the world as he brings his invention to market.


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Issue Type: Improvement Created: 2008-05-12T08:15:25.000+0000 Last Updated: 2012-01-19T12:45:57.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.7.0 (17/Nov/08)
Reporter: Neil Garb (neilg) Assignee: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) Tags: - Zend_Form
Related issues: - ZF-6269
As discussed on fw-mvc, it would be nice to be able to set form-level errors that apply to a form submission as a whole and not to any particular element. This could be useful for, e.g., 'Invalid login credentials' or 'there was an error submitting your form'.
I have outlined a possible solution at http://codecaine.co.za/blog/posts/….
I think that the code should operate at the Zend_Form level and not at the Zend_Form_Element level.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2008-05-12T08:43:40.000+0000
Scheduling for next minor release.
Posted by bullfrogblues (gerardroche) on 2008-08-30T07:55:27.000+0000
version 1.6.0RC3
if you set the decorator "Errors" at form level
e.g.. $form->setDecorators(array( 'Description', 'Errors', 'FormElements', 'Form' ));
and then set a form level error $form->addError('Error message') it will produce a form level error
BUT, if you don't set a form level error i.e. $form->addError('Error message') an error occurs on post back:
Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in \path\zend\1.6.0RC3\library\Zend\View\Abstract.php on line 804
Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in \path\to\zend1.6.0RC3\library\Zend\View\Abstract.php on line 804
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2008-11-05T12:51:12.000+0000
Functionality released with 1.6.0
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2008-11-13T14:10:07.000+0000
Changing issues in preparation for the 1.7.0 release.
Posted by Giuliano Riccio (cosmo87rg) on 2009-04-10T17:17:18.000+0000
I still get an error adding the Errors decorator to the form.
This is the code that reproduces the issue using Zend 1.7.8:

require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
$oEmail = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email');
->addValidator('EmailAddress', true)
$oForm = new Zend_Form();
->addDecorator('Errors', array('placement' => Zend_Form_Decorator_Abstract::PREPEND))
$oForm->isValid(array('email' => 'foo'));
$oForm->addErrors(array('Sign up failed')); // Without this throws an error
echo $oForm->render(new Zend_View());
Posted by Casey (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2009-08-04T20:03:46.000+0000
I'm particularly keen to see this one resolved, too. Whole of form error messages is just too common a function to not be properly catered for in Zend.
Seems to me that this issue would be solved with a sanitisation filter on the $errors parameter of the formErrors function in the FormErrors view helper.
The function expects the parameter $errors to be either a string or an array of strings. When the "Errors" decorator is used at the form level and element level errors are created an array of arrays of strings is passed in. These sub arrays may then be passed to $this->view->escape which causes the above error or are output as empty strings in the html output (undesirable to have empty errors showing up).
Removing any non-string values from the $errors parameter would solve this. The filter could be akin to:
{quote} foreach ($errors as $key => $error) { if (!is_string($error)) { unset($errors[$key]); } } if (count($errors) == 0) { return ''; } {quote}
Posted by Casey (email@example.com) on 2009-08-04T20:14:42.000+0000
Oops. Wiki markup-fail. : (

foreach ($errors as $key => $error) {
if (!is_string($error)) {
if (count($errors) == 0) {
return '';
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-08-05T04:39:07.000+0000
Apparent errors in current functionality.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-08-06T11:09:40.000+0000
Closing again. The functionality added was the FormErrors decorator. If you wish to report form-level errors, or report all errors on a given form at once, use the FormErrors decorator. The Errors decorator is intended for individual form elements only.
Posted by Casey (email@example.com) on 2009-08-06T16:45:47.000+0000
But the FormErrors decorator doesn't support form-level errors:

<? require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
$form = new Zend_Form();
->addError('Form level error');
echo($form->render(new Zend_View())); ?>
Posted by Matteo Orefice (orefice.matteo) on 2009-11-02T09:31:32.000+0000
I cannot get it working. I watch in the FormErrors decorator , method _recurseForm() , I noticed $errors should be indexed by element name, but when you attach errors with $form->addError("...") error messages are indexed by int value 0,1,2....
Posted by Casey (email@example.com) on 2009-11-17T21:26:46.000+0000
You can't get it to work because Zend doesn't natively support form-level errors.
Here's a quick plugin that I use:

<? require_once 'Zend/Form/Decorator/Errors.php';
class Zend_Form_Decorator_FormLevelErrors extends Zend_Form_Decorator_Errors {
// Standard Zend_Form_Decorator_Errors render function (Zend v1.9)
public function render($content) {
$element = $this->getElement();
$view = $element->getView();
if (null === $view) {
return $content;
$errors = $element->getMessages();
// Remove errors deeper than one level (errors associated with an element)
foreach ($errors as $key => $error) {
if (!is_string($error)) {
if (empty($errors)) {
return $content;
$separator = $this->getSeparator();
$placement = $this->getPlacement();
$errors = $view->formErrors($errors, $this->getOptions());
switch ($placement) {
case self::APPEND:
return $content . $separator . $errors;
case self::PREPEND:
return $errors . $separator . $content;
} ?>
Usage example

<? require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
$form = new Zend_Form();
->addError('Form level error');
echo($form->render(new Zend_View())); ?>
Posted by Strict Coding (strictcoding) on 2012-01-18T12:42:13.000+0000
I know this a two year old issue, but it's still not resolved IMO. Only the code from Casey works as expected:
Whereas the behavior of Casey's code is to display: - Form-level errors at the top of the form - Element-level errors next to the elements
And I think this is what most users expect. Could it be possible to have this feature built-in ZF?
Anyone to reopen the issue, or should we create a new one as a feature request?
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2012-01-18T14:15:02.000+0000
I'm confused as to what you want, to be honest.
Do I understand correctly that what you would like to do is have a form-level decorator that displays only errors attached directly to the form? (That appears to be what Casey is suggesting.)
If so, we can re-open. However, this would be a target for 1.12 (next minor release) as opposed to the next 1.11 bugfix.
Posted by Strict Coding (strictcoding) on 2012-01-18T15:32:11.000+0000
I'll try to summarize the issue with screenshots. For all examples, unless otherwise specified, this code is applied to the form:

$form->addError('This is a form level error');
But here is what happens if you remove the call to addError():
So I'm not sure whether Zend_Form needs a new decorator, or if something just needs to be fixed. Casey highlighted a possible fix in [his comment above|#comment-33194], but that doesn't completely solve the problem: if the form is posted with only form-level errors, these are not displayed.
In my opinion, the default behavior for Zend_Form (which shouldn't break backward compatibility) should be to unconditionally display both kind of errors with default decorators, as highlighted again in this screenshot:
That won't break any code relying on the default decorators, as they'll have no form-level errors set. I don't know what is the best way to achieve this goal, but I can work on a patch on my own if you agree with this behavior.
Posted by Giuliano Riccio (cosmo87rg) on 2012-01-18T15:35:13.000+0000
You can set the onlyCustomFormErrors option to true for the FormErrors decorator so that it will return only custom errors and ignore any error returned by the form elements. The code below (line 433 in FormErrors.php) is the part that retrieves the messages.

protected function _recurseForm(Zend_Form $form, Zend_View_Interface $view)
$content = '';
$custom = $form->getCustomMessages();
if ($this->getShowCustomFormErrors() && count($custom)) {
$content .= $this->getMarkupListItemStart()
. $view->formErrors($custom, $this->getOptions())
. $this->getMarkupListItemEnd();
foreach ($form->getElementsAndSubFormsOrdered() as $subitem) {
if ($subitem instanceof Zend_Form_Element && !$this->getOnlyCustomFormErrors()) {
$messages = $subitem->getMessages();
if (count($messages)) {
$content .= $this->getMarkupListItemStart()
. $this->renderLabel($subitem, $view)
. $view->formErrors($messages, $this->getOptions())
. $this->getMarkupListItemEnd();
} else if ($subitem instanceof Zend_Form && !$this->ignoreSubForms()) {
$markup = $this->_recurseForm($subitem, $view);
if (!empty($markup)) {
$content .= $this->getMarkupListStart()
. $markup
. $this->getMarkupListEnd();
return $content;
Posted by Strict Coding (strictcoding) on 2012-01-18T15:42:23.000+0000
Actually, after reading through everything again I think that all this behavior is consistent with what you've just said in your post, Matthew. What's missing is indeed a form-level-errors-only decorator, and Casey's [FormLevelErrors|#comment-36076] fits the bill perfectly. It could even be part of the default Zend_Form decorators.
Posted by Casey (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2012-01-18T21:58:14.000+0000
Thanks for picking up the baton on this one, Strict Coding. ;)
Posted by Strict Coding (strictcoding) on 2012-01-19T12:45:57.000+0000
@Giuliano: sorry, I hadn't taken the time to look at your post closely. You're right, this solution, poorly documented, actually works perfectly, no need for modifications in Zend_Form!

$this->addDecorator('FormErrors', array('onlyCustomFormErrors' => true))
->addDecorator('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'dl', 'class' => 'zend_form'))
It could be helpful to document carefully this feature on the website. Or wouldn't it be interesting, once again, to make this decorator part of the default decorators?
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CAIRO — "We're going to ancient Egypt," I overheard my son, Luca, 7, tell a friend days before our trip to Cairo and Sharm el Sheikh. We had been reading books about pyramids and mummies, the sun god Ra, and the Great Sphinx of Giza, but it was only then that I realized that I had forgotten to tell him about modern day Egypt. In a sense, though, he was right: Most tourists go to Egypt to take in its ancient wonders.
While the country has seen its share of political turbulence since the Arab Spring rocked the very foundations of Cairo, the capital, just over two years ago, tourism is once again on the rise.
In a bid to bring tourists back to the city, the Pyramid of Chefren and six other ancient tombs on the Giza plateau have reopened. In the shadow of the pyramids, work is underway to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by 2015. When it opens, this state-of-the-art complex will house the largest archeological museum in the world.
New hotels include Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Hilton Hotels & Resorts.
We decided to test the choppy waters last fall after consulting the US State Department's website and ensuring that Egypt was not on the Travel Warning list — as it had been in the aftermath of the uprising. As our guide, Hithem Samir from Memphis Tours, said, "Egypt does not need propaganda to have tourists. The history and artifacts speak for themselves."
After visiting the awe-inspiring Pyramids of Giza, the mythical Sphinx, and riding on camels under the beating desert sun, we decided to escape the heat in the newly reopened burial chambers of the Pyramid of Khafre. Crouching down the claustrophobic stairs (only our daughter, Mia, 4, did not have to duck), we explored the spooky halls, hidden passageways, and subterranean chambers deep in the bowels of the world's second largest pyramid.
The Egyptian Museum, close to Tahrir Square (the focal point of the 2011 revolution that still ignites from time to time, and has itself become a tourist attraction), is filled with all things pharoanic. The children's favorite sections were the "Daily Life in Egypt" display; the Tutankhamen exhibit, with its treasure trove of King Tut's artifacts and the famed golden mask unearthed in 1922; and the animal mummy room, where they tried to guess what the animal was before reading the explanation and got a sense of how animals were thought of as gods.
A one-hour flight from Cairo and yet a world away from the bustle and grit of the capital, Sharm el Sheikh was our next stop. Dominated by swish, full-service hotels dotting the coast of this desert-like peninsula, Sharm is for Europeans and Russians what the Caribbean is to people in the United States: the perfect beach escape.
"I found Nemo," shouted Luca through his snorkel, swallowing some of the warm, salty Red Sea in his excitement over the rainbow of marine life in the reef at the Ras Mohammed National Park, considered one of the best diving spots in the world. Accessible to us from various jetties along the nearly 500-yard-long beach at our hotel, the Grand Rotana Resort & Spa, the calm azure waters belied the frenzy lurking just below the surface. From cute clown fish and fluorescent yellow butterfly fish to schools of brightly striped angelfish, it was like having a tropical aquarium at our disposal.
Every morning we set out for a snorkeling adventure, and with over 1,000 species of fish to spot, the ever-changing scene never failed to captivate us. Mia was too small to snorkel but she loved playing on the beach and wading in the shallow water.
Tourism in Sharm el Sheikh also took a big hit after the Arab Spring. Asmi Sami, the resident manager of the Grand Rotana, said tourism there was down by up to 70 percent in the aftermath of the uprising. He is, however, looking to 2013 as a comeback year.
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At this point Paul joined us. Paul has developed Unix applications for ages. He's now looking longingly at the market Linux offers.
Paul: I heard what you told the youngster. Look at me: I've got an enormous amount of Motif code and experience. Why should I switch?
Boudewijn: I honestly don't know. Should you switch? Do you still believe Motif has a future? When a commercial organization opens up a bit of legacy code, as the Open Group just did with Motif, or Borland with their database, I figure it's often the beginning of the end. ... It's better than keeping legacy stuff in a safe, but it's not promising.
Paul, look me in the eyes and tell me truthfully: Are you still having fun developing with Motif? Maybe you owe it to yourself to have some fun. Just try Python and Qt for a small personal project. I know I never had as much fun programming as I have now with PyQt ...
Paul: What interests me is Unicode. Using Unicode with Motif is a real problem -- it has been solved, more than once, but never really satisfactorily. I'm bit jealous of Thomas here, who has excellent Unicode support in Windows.
Thomas: I wish! It really only works for NT. Unicode for Windows 95 is ridiculous. I don't worry about it, though. Why should I use it at all? English was good enough for Saint Paul, so seven-bit ASCII should be good enough for you, Paul.
Boudewijn: Qt offers advantages for both of you. With Qt you've got full Unicode support both on Unix/X11 and on Windows 95/NT/2000. And don't think you don't need it. Even people who don't know an aigu from an umlaut now expect their applications to keep em-dash and en-dash straight, not to mention hyphens. If you do mathematics, you want all those mathematical symbols, don't you? Anyway, more and more of the world is computerizing. Do you think the Indians want to give up their devanagari script as they come online? Unicode is our best chance for a universal character set that everyone can use to exchange data. Grab that chance! I've got a nice little example of a Unicode-aware character selection window on my Web site, for example.
Cameron: I'll say it again: This is an example of how Qt is more native than native toolkits. MFC might be the default choice for Windows, but it doesn't give you the consistency of features between W95 and NT that Qt does.
Paul: I've got a technical question. Qt is a C++ library, right? I don't want to develop in C or C++ anymore -- it takes far too much time. So Python suits me fine. But how does PyQt handle C++'s pesky overloaded methods?
Boudewijn: Just fine. Phil has written an intelligent wrapper library that handles overloaded method selection based on the types of the actual parameter values present in the function call. Within Python, you can't create overloaded methods yourself, but there's no problem using the C++ overloaded methods. Look at this bit of code, where we first create a listviewitem without a parent, and then one with a parent:
Cameron: Phil told me, "I always think of myself as the author of SIP." SIP is his general-purpose system for binding together C++ and Python objects. The point is, he's done a lot to make it work properly. If you're anything like us, you'll find it easier accessing Qt through Python than with C++.
Paul: I've heard Qt is European. Is that right? Is it more popular in Europe than in the United States?
Cameron: Qt is the product of Trolltech, which is a Norwegian company.
Boudewijn: Likewise, a large amount of the KDE effort comes from Europe. The first Qt book was in German, and it has been translated into Japanese. I'm a European myself; I don't really know how popular Qt is in America, but it's pretty popular in these parts.
Cameron: North Americans are relatively fonder of GTK. It's a major religious issue for some people. There are plenty of Qt users hereabouts, though. There's a little suspicion around the world that U.S. software tends to be buggier and/or pricier. What's most certain is that Qt is a good Unicode citizen, and that's a big win in many places. With Python 1.6 supporting Unicode well, it makes PyQt a very attractive combination for internationalized application development.
Paul and Thomas: Well, we'll give it a try. What's the current release?
Boudewijn: The latest release of PyQt/PyKDE is 0.12. The license is no longer GPL (General Public License), but similar to the X11 license. A few bugs were fixed, a few functions added. But the most important new feature is the addition of the themes.py script. Yes! Full theme-able applications written in pure Python! Who doesn't want his app to look like it's crafted from expensive teakwood ...
Cameron: Before you go, I want to strongly recommend you read Trolltech's Qt documentation. It's one of the best features of the toolkit, and equally applicable if you're a PyQt developer. I think you'll like what you find.
Cameron Laird is the vice president of Phaseit, Inc. and frequently writes for the O'Reilly Network and other publications.
Boudewijn Rempt is a senior developer with Tryllian, a mobile agent company. He has worked with PyQt since its inception.
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Ligue 1: Eric Abidal says he may still have had a future with Barcelona if Pep Guardiola remained in charge
Eric Abidal thinks he may still have had a future with Barcelona if Pep Guardiola had remained in charge.
Last Updated: 06/09/13 1:00pm
The 34-year-old Abidal left the Catalan club at the end of last season after it was decided not to offer him a new contract, and he instead signed for Ligue 1 newcomers Monaco soon after.
Abidal spent a year on the sidelines during his time with the Primera Division champions as he recovered from a liver transplant conducted last April, having previously had surgery to remove a tumour in March 2011.
And although the player accepts Barca's decision not to extend his stay, he admits he still feels bitter about the way things ended.
"The problem was that I was out of contract," Abidal told French newspaper L'Equipe.
"In these cases, your contract is either renewed or it ends. I was prepared for both scenarios.
"It was tough to accept but you don't have a choice.
"What was difficult to understand was what Barcelona said during my final press conference. By suggesting it was a career choice, that made other clubs doubt (the situation).
"It was not even about money. The proof being that every month I was ill the club didn't pay me."
Abidal also thinks the departure of Guardiola at the end of the 2011-12 campaign did little to help his chances of staying with Barca.
"Certainly (things would have been different had Guardiola stayed)," he said.
"He is a person who likes me a lot and with whom I am still in contact.
"He is a great coach and it was he who gave me my chance. If he had still been there, I may have been able to stay on."
However, Abidal is now aiming to repay the faith shown in him by his new employers, saying: "My adventure with Barcelona is over but I'm very happy to have started another one with Monaco.
"I want to give back to Monaco what Monaco have given to me."


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European online retailer Play.com recently let a cat out of the bag by posting a game page for Monster Hunter Portable 3 for the PlayStation Vita.
A report on Eurogamer posits that the leaked game could be part of the PlayStation Vita Game Heaven event that Sony is hosting this Friday at 20:00 JST, at which new Vita title reveals are promised.
Monster Hunter 3 is already available on Wii, and a 3DS version has also been announced. It's likely this game, if real, would be a Vita-enhanced port of Monster Hunter 3--not to be confused with Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, which is already available and compatible with the Vita.


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Aileen Fundora Attends Graduate School of Banking
Aileen Fundora, VP and Director of Human Resources, recently attended her first year of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. She is among 513 bankers taking part in the 63rd annual two-week session. Bankers traveled from twenty states and Mexico to participate.
Sponsored by 15 southern state bankers associations in cooperation with the Division of Continuing Education at LSU, the banking school requires attendance on campus for three years with extensive bank study assignments between sessions. Courses cover all aspects of banking, economics and related subjects. Faculty consists of bankers, business and professional leaders and educators from all over the U.S. During their three years at the Graduate School of Banking, students receive 180 hours of classroom instruction, thirty hours of reviews, planned evening study and written final examinations at the end of each session.
Mrs. Fundora is a graduate of Miami Springs Senior High and received her Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management from Florida International University. She later received her Master's Degree in Human Resource Management from Troy State University and in 2010 she earned her Professional in Human Resources (PHR) Certification from the HR Certification Institute. Eager to develop her banking knowledge, Mrs. Fundora described her first year as "an amazing and unique opportunity to meet and build new relationships with other banking individuals throughout the nation. It's a fast paced learning environment, with great professors and a large amount of new information, but an extremely rewarding experience. I am grateful to know that Community Bank values the importance of my career growth and is willing to invest the time and money towards my education."


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Wood County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Report
04/16/14 through 04/22/14
April 16
Deputy Tony Ingram was dispatched to ProForm Metal Works located on SH 37 north of Quitman. Ingram was advised by an employee at the business that multiple items were missing from inside the business and a 2000 Volvo truck tractor was also missing from the location. Sgt. Carolyn Tanner was notified and responded to the scene as well. The Volvo was later discovered abandoned behind Muddy Creek Baptist Church off FM 69. The investigation continues.
Deputy Aaron Warren took a report of burglary of a vehicle on Hwy 80. The vehicle, a 2007 Peterbilt, had been left parked at the location for the past 5 days and when the complainant returned this day, he discovered items missing from inside the truck including a Connex CB radio, Wilson antenna, Bluetooth headset and GPS. The man also reported that he had found the driver's door unlocked in contrast to how it had been left. It is unknown how the lock was bypassed. This case has been forwarded and remains under investigation.
Deputy Steven Fields took a report of theft from Dollar General in Yantis. According to the complainant, a woman had shopped in the store for two hours before finally checking out at 10PM. The woman presented a "starter" check as payment for her purchases which totaled over $900. The cashier accepted the check and the woman left with the merchandise. Two days later the store learned the check was no good. A loss prevention employee with Dollar General began calling other Dollar General stores only the learn the woman had unsuccessfully attempted the same ruse at multiple stores and had even returned some of her purchases for cash at other stores. Voluntary statements were taken from store employees and a copy of the surveillance tape was turned over to investigators who are now handling the case.
Deputy Brad Cates arrested Charles Gregory Stone, 47, of Quitman for driving while license invalid following a traffic stop after he failed to signal a turn onto CR 2140. Stone was also issued a citation for possession of an open container of alcohol.
April 17
Sgt. Chris Turner, Deputy Tony Ingram and Deputy Aaron Warren were dispatched to a residence on CR 2950 in reference to a suicidal person. Warren learned that a male subject called 911 and stated he wanted to kill himself. Upon arrival the deputies learned that the man had already cut his left arm with a box cutter but only superficial wounds were noted. The man's girlfriend informed deputies she had confronted the man after finding evidence he had been attempting to persuade another female to go out with him. The woman also stated this was not the first time the man had attempted this behavior. EMS arrived on scene and wrapped the man's arm. Deputy Warren transported the man to ETMC Quitman for evaluation.
Deputy Steven Fields was dispatched to an address on CR 1530 for a burglary of a habitation. The complainant stated that he left his residence for a period of about seven hours and returned to find drawers open in his office and a safe missing from underneath his bed. Multiple other items were found to be missing as well including $50,000 in cash, jewelry, a Nikon camera, TV, crossbow and a Samurai sword. There were no signs of forced entry into the home. Numerous items of value inside the home were not disturbed. This case has been forwarded and remains under investigation.
April 18
Deputy Terri Altman was dispatched to an address on PR 5561 for a civil disagreement. According to the female complainant, her estranged husband came to the residence and began to load up a riding lawn mower. The woman further stated she and the man struggled over the mower, one pushing forward and one pushing backward until the man was finally able to load it. The woman's leg was bruised in the incident. Altman explained to the woman that due to the fact that there is no final divorce decree outlining who has the right to the lawnmower, no criminal act had taken place. An incident report was completed for documentation purposes.
April 19
Deputies Donivan South and James Hildebrand were dispatched to CR 2275 for a theft report. According to the complainant, sometime in the past week unknown person(s) came onto his property and took a late 1990's green Kawasaki Bayou 220 4-wheeler. The man also stated the last time he knew the 4-wheeler was on the property was 5 days earlier. He went on to say he purchased the Kawasaki used and he did not have a title for it. The 4-wheeler is described as mostly stock in appearance with wider black fender flares. The man also stated the keys were left in it as he had never had any problems before this. The case has been forwarded to an investigator.
Sgt. William Burge and Deputies Donivan South and James Hildebrand were dispatched to CR 1681 in response to a 911 call reporting a disturbance with weapons. According to the reporting party, she heard several gunshots and could hear a man shouting out in the street. Looking outside she observed a male subject, who was known to her, place a gun in the waist of his jeans. When the deputies arrived, they observed the man walking behind a mobile home. Once he spotted the patrol units he ran in to a small wooded area. The deputies could hear him yelling as they exited their vehicles. The man was ordered to the ground and he readily complied. The man continued to rant loudly that someone was poisoning his dogs. When asked if he had a weapon the man stated he did not. A quick pat down of the man showed him to have a magazine for a .380 automatic pistol in his pants pocket. Believing the man had ditched the weapon when he retreated into the woods, deputies searched the area and located a loaded black Kel-Tec .380 pistol. Tony Dale Williams, 57, of Alba was arrested for unlawfully carrying a weapon and was transported to jail without further incident.
Sgt. Sam Threadgill arrested Tommy Glen Sharp, 45, of Mineola, following a traffic stop initiated after Sharp was clocked traveling 10 mph over the posted speed limit. A routine check of Sharp revealed he was operating a vehicle without insurance. He was also found to be in possession of a syringe and spoon located inside his sock. Sharp advised he used the syringe for injecting methamphetamine. A light bulb, which had been modified into a glass pipe for smoking methamphetamine, was located inside the pickup. Sharp's vehicle was released to a wrecker service and he was transported to jail where he was charge with failure to maintain financial responsibility and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Deputy Dustin Moffett took a report of theft of property from a complainant who owns a travel trailer located on CR 2745. According to the owner, he had been allowing a woman to live in the trailer for the past three years but she had begun the process of moving out. Because she was no longer staying at the trailer, the owner was keeping it locked unless she was there removing her property. He notified the woman he would be gone all day and upon his return this evening found a window on the trailer door had been broken out. Missing from inside the trailer were two loveseats and a bed with a collective value of $1,500. Information was recorded about the suspect and the case was turned over for additional investigation.
April 20
Deputy Dustin Moffett was dispatched to a disturbance in progress on CR 2232. According to the reporting party, his grandson became angry with him and his wife causing a verbal argument. The man further stated he heard his grandson outside yelling profanity and went to the door where he observed a book which had been burned and several ceramic statues that had been destroyed. A witnessing neighbor stated he observed the young man destroying property by stomping on it. The suspect had already left the residence before Moffett's arrival. Shortly after clearing from the call, Moffett was advised the young man was back at the residence causing problems. Moffett returned to the scene and made contact with the suspect who admitted destroying property because he was mad. Justin Ray Wolfe, 20, of Mineola was placed under arrest for criminal mischief and was transported to jail without further incident.
April 21
Deputy Aaron Warren took a report of medication theft from a complainant on CR 3480. The woman stated the father of her infant daughter came over to visit the child and while he was there she became suspicious that he was under the influence of methamphetamine and made him leave the residence. After he left, she discovered medication missing from her purse and suspects the man took it one of the times she left the room. This case has been forwarded for additional investigation.
Deputy Austin Cryer took a report of identity theft from a woman who resides on PR 6316 who stated she had received a letter from the IRS stating that her tax return was under review. The woman found this odd since she had not yet filed her return and contacted the IRS only to find out that a return had been filed using her name and social security number. She was advised by the IRS to contact the Federal Trade Commission and local law enforcement. An incident report was completed for documentation purposes.
April 22
Deputy Steven Fields took a report of theft of service from an employee of Wood County Electric who stated a serviceman had notified him of finding jumpers in a meter base at a residence on PR 5387. Contacting the realty company whose sign was posted in the yard, it was learned the owner of the property had been allowing his son to live in the house. Information about the son was recorded and will be forwarded to CID. The estimated amount of electricity stolen is almost $3,000.
Sgt. Chris Turner took a report of debit/credit card abuse from a complainant on CR 3419. According to the complainant, an employee had been let go on March 25 after working for her company for only two days. The man requested to drive the company truck home to Jacksonville after being notified his son was in a vehicle crash. The man's request was denied but he took the truck anyway and the woman was later forced to retrieve it from his residence in Jacksonville. The ex-employee told the woman the company's fuel card was in the truck when she took it back but she later noticed unauthorized fuel charges totaling almost $10,000 on the card. The woman had contacted several of the businesses where the card was used and learned that one of the locations had video of the person using the card. The information was forwarded to CID for additional investigation.
CID Summary
Sgt. Carolyn Tanner is continuing to investigate the theft of more than $20,000 worth of property from Pro Form. A truck tractor, also taken from the business, was recovered locally.
Sgt. Tanner also obtained one warrant for terroristic threat, family violence and warrant for assault. The subject of the warrants has been arrested.
Current Jail Population 141
Males 114 Females 27
Book-Ins 42
Releases 36


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With such mixed reviews, many have questioned Capcom's scattered approach to Resident Evil 6. Not effective as a horror game, and not competent as an action game, Resident Evil 6 disappointed quite a number of fans.
It's clear that the game's shortcomings come from misguided direction. Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi admitted that the game wasn't necessarily to create a horror game. Instead, "we wanted to create what we're calling 'horror entertainment.' We realize there's a segment of the population out there that likes entertainment, but not necessarily horror. They're put off by horror."
The desire to appeal to the "mass market" likely resulted in the addition of Chris' military-style campaign. Not only do players fight against zombies with guns, but players will take cover and fight alongside other soldiers with online co-op. For many, this was a direct contradiction to what Resident Evil was all about. "I know that when I explain it like that, it seems like those ideas are contradictory, and that it would be hard to achieve something like that," Hirabayashi told 1UP. "I don't necessarily disagree."
Director Eiichiro Sasaki also talked about the game's attempt to appeal to an international audience. "It can't be just about the Japanese market or the North American market or the European market. It's the whole world now. Trying to find that commonality that bridges all these cultures and creates an entertaining game, that's where the challenge lies."
"Everyone has a different design sensibility," he added. "Trying to come up with that universality is difficult." Ironically, given Capcom's attempt at creating a game that appeals to all audiences, it appears they've created the most divisive title in the history of the franchise thus far.


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John Lineker recently had his upcoming UFC 163 opponent changed at short notice, but the Brazilian isn't going to start complaining about it.
Veteran Phil Harris was initially who he was set to fight this weekend, but due to injury, the 30-year-old was replaced by the upcoming Jose Maria.
The late change will obviously have altered Lineker's preparations as he is now facing the prospect of a different type of fighter.
Yet the 23-year-old is full of confidence and raring to go this Saturday, regardless of who he has to beat.
He has been quoted by UFC.com as saying: "I train to fight the greatest fighters. So I am okay with the opponent change. I am prepared for every situation in this fight."
This incredible attitude will certainly stand the Hands of Stone in good stead in the future if he continues to be able to mentally and physically prepare for any possible opponent, even on short notice.
The flyweight turned pro when he was just 18, and enjoyed a brilliant 13-match unbeaten streak throughout 2010 and 2011.
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Sex addiction may not exactly be an existential threat to the United States, but as this book makes clear, the cultural trend which created this farcical "illness" has much graver consequences. The medicalizing of what was hitherto seen as a moral issue and the promotion of a ridiculously broad notion of addiction aren't just silly: In last year's Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, the term "sex addict" was tossed around as though it explained something—homely maid walks into hotel room, and boom! Sex addict is ready to go.
David Ley gets at the philosophical heart of the matter: the dualism inherent in the idea that "sex addiction" overrides a person's good impulses and makes them do bad things that aren't really in their nature. "We are what we do," Ley responds. He is squarely in the cognitive psychology camp, urging, "if you want to change how you feel, change what you do." Ley points out that the argument that pornography causes rape, and particularly that the use of Internet porn leads to sexual violence, gets things backwards. Sexual violence has dropped by half since 1993, when web browsing became widely available, and even teen sex, teen pregnancy, and venereal disease rates have fallen. As should be intuitively obvious, people who spend most of their time panting over porn on their computers are less likely to be out in the real world getting in trouble.
Ley's chapter on pornography makes all sorts of reasonable arguments for porn's harmlessness in the context of most mens' lives. But it doesn't address any of the aesthetic issues with porn, most notably the way it has led an entire generation of men to a remarkably uniform and clichéd idea of a "sexy" woman and a "hot" sexual encounter. The problem isn't that porn leads to rape; it's that it leads to banality. And amid the common sense, there is also an annoying strain of valorization of male promiscuity in Ley's work. He proclaims that "infidelity and promiscuity is a fact of human existence and a long-standing component of masculine eroticism":
"Rates of last-year male infidelity in Mexico City are around 15 percent, Haitian men at 25 percent, and Mozambique males as high as 29 percent. The African countries of the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Togo report rates of last-year male infidelity as high as 36 and 37 percent. ... In Russia, there is an almost universal social acceptance of infidelity. ... In countries where male infidelity is expected, even celebrated culturally, the concept of sex addiction has not taken hold, and male sexual exploits are not seen as a sign of weakness but as a strength."
But Ley somehow never notices that these are spectacularly unsuccessful societies.
With greater persuasiveness, he argues that "sex addiction" is a label placed by (some) women and a feminized culture on more or less normal male desires. He is right to say—though perhaps he says so at excessive length—that "the limits on 'healthy' sexual desire and frequency that are set by sex addictionologists are most similar to the female norms and ignore these gender differences." But he goes overboard in arguing how much men and women supposedly differ in their views on sex: "50 percent of males think about sex more than once a day, compared to only 19 percent of females" is one of the more implausible claims.
For anyone who has cringed once too often at the term "sex addiction"—or questioned the blanket use of "addiction" as an explanation for behavior that is really a matter of moral choice—Ley's demolition of the bad science and worse reasoning behind the sex addiction industry will be refreshing. For a while. This workmanlike, plodding book is no more than serviceably written and, alas, has fewer spicy bits than the reader might have hoped; it is all rather clinical. It also suffers from an inherent defect of books about addiction: rendering one thoroughly tired of the subject matter. Ley, like the addiction advocates, has quite a lot of sex. If a Martian were to read this book, he would have the idea that most Americans spend more time having sex than they do working, shopping, and watching television, and that sex is how most of us define ourselves.
This probably comes with the territory of being a sex expert. But it's a relief to close Ley's brief volume and reemerge into the fresh air of a wider world, where sex is neither a feverish, tawdry addiction nor the central concern of life. There is, in fact, nothing like a book on sex addiction to reduce sex to the status of a tiresome obsession. It makes one nostalgic for the bygone days when sin, rather than addiction, was the framework for looking at illicit sex, when moral failings had the gravitas of Don Giovanni being dragged down to hell versus today's mewling on Oprah.


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Central Arkansas libraries hold kids' day
This article was published January 30, 2014 at 10:32 a.m.
The Central Arkansas Library System is offering crafts, movie showings and book readings for families in its participation of a nationwide event called Take Your Child to the Library Day.
"Special crafts" — including scavenger hunts, puppet shows and coloring contests — will be held Saturday at Central Arkansas Library System branches, the system said in a statement. Programing will vary at the system's 14 locations, but the first 50 families to arrive at each branch will receive a reusable bag.
The event is free and public.
This is the second time Central Arkansas Library System branches are observing Take Your Child to the Library Day, said Lisa Donovan, Arkansas' state representative and the library system's youth coordinator. The celebration is in its third year, and the idea for it was conceived in a Connecticut library.
About 17 states are participating in the event, according to the event's website.
Also Saturday, a new type of library card geared toward families will be available at the branches for the first time, library officials said. The family card is a group account that will cover up to 10 family members living in the same home. It allows parents to access information about items their children check out using the card.
The main account holder for the family card must be at least 18 years old and will be responsible for any fines or fees.
Central Arkansas Library card holders in "good standing with full borrowing privileges" may change their current card to a family card, library officials said.
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Sustainable nutrition services offered at Wisc. hospital
June 14—Hudson (Wisc.) Hospital & Clinics' Nutrition Services is paving the way for a new initiative called: Sustainable Nutrition Services. The goal is to collaborate, educate and implement sustainable nutrition practices at the hospital to improve the health of staff, visitors and patients. It's a work in progress which began about four years ago. In 2010 the hospital board of directors signed the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge.
Sustainable Nutrition Services goals are:
• Educate staff, patients and community about the importance of good daily nutrition and portion control.
• Minimize food waste.
• Reduce disposable packaging.
• Increase local farm purchases.
• Compost on-site.


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St. Anthony Captures South Central Conference Title
Published on March 25 2013 12:07 pm
Last Updated on March 25 2013 12:07 pm
Written by Millie Lange
The St. Anthony Junior High Scholastic Bowl team won the first annual South Central Conference tournament held in Robinson Saturday.
Nuttall Middle School hosted the round robin event. In Round 1, St. Anthony defeated Effingham, 220-135. Round 2 was a "bye" for the St. Anthony squad. In Round 3, St. Anthony defeated the host school, 270-160. St. Anthony outscored Teutopolis in the fourth round, 225-85, and defeated Charleston in Round 5 by a score of 180-160.
Members of the Bullpups team includes Alex Beesley, Abby Buenker, Jacob Guy, Donovan Hammer, John Hartke, Cole Hoene, Ben Rudolphi, Andy Saba, Maryann Saba, Jacob Schmidt, Parker Seachrist, Mason Thomas, and Luke Thompson.
The St. Anthony team is coached by Mrs. Jan Cunningham and Mrs. Roberta Meyer.


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Network quiet amid petitions calling for boycott over 'Duck Dynasty' move
By Breeanna Hare, CNN
(CNN) -- While boycott petitions against "Duck Dynasty" home A&E take off, the network itself is staying quiet.
Since its Wednesday decision to "indefinitely" suspend Phil Robertson, one of the stars of its highly rated reality series, A&E has yet to publicly clarify what the future of the show might be, what they'll do with their block of reruns, or even what it really means to be "indefinitely" suspended.
The network's lack of communication has done nothing to stem the tide of detractors who strongly disagree with its decision to put Robertson on the bench over remarks quoted in GQ magazine, in which he called homosexuality a sin, citing the Bible. A Change.org petition demanding that Robertson be reinstated and the network issue an apology was steadily climbing toward 100,000 signatures Friday.
A separate petition at a website called IStandWithPhil.com makes a similar appeal. Hosted by the online community Faith Driven Consumers, the website helps its members spend their money with companies that fall in line with their spiritual beliefs. The petition on IStandWithPhil.com had surpassed 130,000 signatures by Friday evening.
Those who've signed the IStandWithPhil.com petition are asking for their "views (to) be treated with equality and respect in America's rich rainbow of diversity," and for the "network to immediately reinstate Mr. Robertson to 'Duck Dynasty,' and to formally apologize to him, his family, and the millions of viewers who tune in every week, stand by him, and share his worldview."
"While the LGBT community may be offended by his opposing viewpoint," that webstite continues, "your rash, discriminatory, and unfair treatment toward Mr. Robertson -- a recognized symbol of the faith community -- is a slap in the face to Faith Driven Consumers and everyday Americans alike."
Both websites are urging people not to watch A&E programming in the meantime.
So far, the number of petitioners doesn't compare with the millions that "Duck Dynasty" has drawn to A&E -- its fourth-season premiere in August set a record with 11.8 million watching, and the season finale in October brought in 8.4 million -- but those signatures would give any network exec flop sweat. Especially when the rest of the Robertson family has stoked the fire with a statement that suggests the future of the show might be in jeopardy.
"We have had a successful working relationship with A&E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm," the family said in a statement. "We are in discussions with A&E to see what that means for the future of 'Duck Dynasty.'"
According to CNN Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter, conventional wisdom in the industry holds that this current disagreement between A&E and the family will resolve itself in time, in part because the two sides benefit so much from being in business with the other. A person with close ties to A&E noted that the Robertson family is under contract, thereby reducing the chances that the family will show up on another channel anytime soon.
An A&E executive who spoke to Stelter on condition of anonymity, because the channel was avoiding any new public comments about the controversy, said that conversations with the Robertson family would likely resume after the Christmas holiday.
"Everybody just needs to take a breath," the executive said.
The A&E executive insisted that there has been no second-guessing at the channel about the decision to suspend Phil Robertson.
All of which gives rise to the question: What would happen to A&E were "Duck Dynasty" to go away? This is, after all, the show that helped the network to raise its total viewership 10% this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Stelter can't see the Robertsons or A&E wanting to end the televised hunting-business fun so soon, but if it were to happen, it would undoubtedly be a blow to the network, he said.
"There's just nothing else on the channel that's nearly as popular as new episodes of 'Duck Dynasty,'" Stelter said. "It would be like AMC losing new episodes of 'The Walking Dead' or like Fox losing 'American Idol.' That's why it is very, very unlikely. The show is hugely important for the channel and for the family. Not just Phil, but the whole family," which, Stelter notes, isn't affected by the suspension.
Given that Robertson is "a main character" on the fifth season, which is scheduled to premiere January 15, Stelter believes the increased attention thanks to the uproar might even give "Duck Dynasty" a ratings boost in 2014.
But if something were to happen to the show in the long run, then yes, A&E would certainly need to regroup.
On the other hand, it's not like the network hasn't bounced back before -- and it's never been a one-show network. Over the past 10 years alone, it's transitioned from being the prime place to find a rerun of "Biography" to the home of the Emmy-winning "Intervention," to the site of reality shows like
"Storage Wars" as well as original programming like "Bates Motel."
In October, A&E unveiled a new branding strategy centered around the tagline "Be Original." The campaign, The Hollywood Reporter noted at the time, was scheduled to debut during -- what else? -- a "Duck Dynasty" special on December 11.
And yet, as industry trade Variety emphasizes, it is not unusual for a network to make a bold move in severing ties with a controversial figure, no matter how popular. MSNBC bid adieu to Alec Baldwinafter the actor fired off another unprintable outburst at a photographer, and the Food Network declined to renew its contract with one of its most well-known personalities, Paula Deen, after she admitted to using the "N" word in the past.
A&E itself previously put another fan-favorite reality star, Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman, on hiatus after he used a racial slur.
With its response to the "Duck Dynasty" situation, the network "has been able to establish its progressive corporate values, maintain its relationship with advertisers, and not collapse an entire reality show in the process," Variety TV reporter AJ Marechal observes. "The bullet wasn't entirely dodged, but it at least didn't hit a main artery."
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Oven-Barbecued Spareribs Recipe
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- 6 pounds pork spareribs
- 3 cups ketchup
- 1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 4 to 5 teaspoons Liquid Smoke, optional
- Cut ribs into serving-size pieces; place on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients. Simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drain ribs; pour sauce over all.
- Cover and bake for 30-40 minutes or until tender. Uncover; bake 30 minutes longer, basting several times with sauce. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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"The cooking time for these ribs was just perfect."
"Since the winter has been so cold I was looking for an alternative to ribs cooked on the barbecue so I tried the oven barbecued ribs and they were delicious!Great barbecue flavor. They orginal recipe made more than I needed but it was very easy to halve the ingredients to make the serving size I needed. Will definately make again when i am crarving barbecue on a non suitable barbecuing day!"
"I used the called for 5tsp of liquid smoke but the sauce was too sweet and not enough BBQ flavor for my family. It was tasty and thick but I'll try something else next time."
"I usually use the grill when I make ribs, so I was a little hesitant about making these, but it was a rainy weekend, so I went ahead and tried this recipe. I am so glad I did! These were the best ribs I have ever eaten...My husband just couldn't stop raving about them. This is the only way I will be making ribs from now on."


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Men's CW-X® Endurance Generator Shorts :: The most technically advanced CW-X Support Web™ short combines the best features or Stabilyx and Pro into one ultra endurance support short. Maximum shock absorption, stability, and muscle efficiency makes Endurance Generator the top choice for runners who demand the best.
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