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VAL GARDENA, Italy (Dec. 14) - Travis Ganong led a back of the pack charge by the U.S. Ski Team in the Val Gardena super G, starting 58th and finishing 24th to lead five U.S. Ski Team athletes into the points. Ted Ligety was 25th to retain second in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall standings behind race winner Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway. The men race downhill on Saturday before action shifts over the mountain to Alta Badia for Sunday's giant slalom.
QUOTESTravis GanongI've had really great speed in training. Today I was just approaching it like another training day. I was just trying to go for it as hard as I can and then react to any mistakes. Starting back there is tough. You have to have a really strong, strong run to punch it in there.
This is a real true downhill. It's not too turny, it's fast, big jumps and it follows the nature contour of the mountain. We all love to go fast. I'm looking for top 10 tomorrow - that's my goal.
Ted LigetyThis is not really a hill that suits me at all. It's more absorbing the terrain than turning. I skied OK but didn't run in a super advantageous spot. I need to score a lot more points to help me with the overall. Super G is good work for your GS - it's in the same skill set. It's good to work on terrain absorption on this hill. But I have a real chance on the hills where you have to make turns.
Alta Badia is one of the coolest hills on the World Cup. it's nice to be back on a real GS hill. It's one that all of us on the GS side look forward to.
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You know, i've managed to look at some of the really lengthy stuff people have written in response to things I've said, and there really is a lot of opinion to what is said by atheists and other nontheist people. I really can't respond to the opinion part of the discussion because it's personal to the person writing. God's not imaginary to me. He's imaginary to you. I have the proof i need.
No matter what anyone says to me here or anywhere else, the experiences i've had can't be erased or removed from my being simply because someone else has an opposing opinion or experience or viewpoint or whatever. I realize now that you think you're freeing me from something. Without any sarcasm: i've been where you are and it's better here.

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Okay, on the common library I work on I have a database system, with implementations of MySQL and SQLite.
Because I like reusing code I use PreparedStatements like this.
I got the Statement enum:
And then I have the MySQL executeStatement:Code :
public enum Statement { // just an example SELECT("SELECT '?' FROM '?';"); private String statement = null; Statement(String statement) { this.statement = statement; } public String getStatement() { return statement; } }
Alright, so here's the thing, as this is a library I don't want to add new statements to the enum all the time, that just won't work.Code :
public int executeStatement(Statement statement, Object... args) { try { PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement(statement.getStatement()); statementsPrepared++; Logger.log(LogLevel.DEBUG, String.format("Prepared statement(%s): %s", statementsPrepared, statement.name())); for(int i = 1; i<args.length; i++) { ps.setObject(i, args[i]); } Logger.log(LogLevel.DEBUG, String.format("Set %s objects for statement(%s)", args.length, statementsPrepared)); Logger.log(LogLevel.DEBUG, String.format("Executing statement(%s)", statementsPrepared)); return ps.executeUpdate(); } catch(SQLException e) { Logger.log(LogLevel.ERROR, e.getMessage()); return e.getErrorCode(); } }
I've seen those posts around the web with a kind off dynamic enum, like the one there you implement the values() and valueOf() methods yourself. But they won't allow direct access like a real enum does, and that's what I want. Is there any approach for doing that?
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CHICAGO – A person familiar with the situation said the Cubs agreed on terms of a contract with former All-Star catcher Dioner Navarro.
The person spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity because the team has not announced details and terms were not immediately known. MLB.com first reported the deal.
Navarro was an All-Star with Tampa Bay in 2008 and spent most of the past season in Cincinnati's minor-league system. He hit .290 in 24 games for the Reds last year.
Cubs say Garza's elbow healing as expected
CHICAGO – The Cubs said pitcher Matt Garza can resume his normal offseason routine after a scan this week showed the right-hander's pitching elbow is healing as expected.
Garza suffered a stress reaction against St. Louis on July 21 and missed the rest of the season.


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For those who are camo nuts, including myself, I just got my order of 20 yds of A-TACS FG (for Foliage Green) camo fabric today. It is 1.7, which is what I ordered. It seems to be exactly what I needed to construct a DIY tarp and a DIY single layer WBBB clone. It is a little more narrower in width; I will measure it exactly and edit the post later. <edit> it is 58" wide. A little short, but the plans for the WBBB should work.
I was specifically looking for this pattern as a "stealth pattern" over the ACU Digital that I have been building my other hammocks from. (You can sort of see it behind the fabric that I have hung over my ridgline.) I've also been following the multi cam threads, and just happen to think that all your camo patterns should match, so you look really cool, Mall Ninja style...
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mine: http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=63992
I got it from Schott's Fabrics, for $5.00 a yard, counting the shipping. Noticing the packing slip, it came from Hampton Textile Printing, Inc, Johnson City, TN. Their phone number is 423-928-7247.
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Do you like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? Then come on in, my friend!
It was 72 minutes long. Also calling it a " romantic" interest is pretty generous considering the deepest it ever got was a few small conversations, some friendly glances, and a dance. I would have agreed with you if the conversations been more hammy or they had kissed but it just didn't feel like it was that huge of a deal. Just a friendly crush that they only briefly and lightly act on. Also like I said the popularity thing probably had something to do with her friends reputations withing there social groups, not to mention there very vocal musical number.


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3-20-07 -- David West scored 26 points, and Chris Paul added 23 points and nine assists to lead the New Orleans Hornets to a 114-103 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night.
West connected on 10-of-15 shots from the floor, leading six Hornets in double figures. Tyson Chandler had 16 points on 8-of-9 shooting, 11 rebounds and three blocks, while Rasual Butler finished with 15 points, and Desmond Mason had 14.
Pau Gasol led Memphis with 28 points and 10 rebounds and hit 11 of 14 shots. Mike Miller scored 13 points, all in the first quarter, while Rudy Gay, Dahntay Jones and Chucky Atkins scored 12 points each. Tarence Kinsey had 10.
New Orleans built their lead in the third period, by connecting on 11 of their 16 shots. The Hornets were shooting 62 percent from the field entering the final period and finished with a 59 percent night from the field.
New Orleans extended the lead to 18 in the early minutes of the fourth. The Hornets lead would eventually reach 20, and although the Memphis reserves cut it to 110-101 in the closing minutes, New Orleans held on for its third win in the last four games after starting the month 0-6.
Memphis, which was coming off a 104-103 win over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, failed again to win consecutive games and has lost nine of its last 11.
Both teams shot well in the first half and the score was knotted at 61 at the half. Memphis, led by Gasol's 20 points and Miller's 13, shot 63 percent in the half, while New Orleans connected on 59 percent. Gasol missed only one of his nine shots in the half.
New Orleans finally created some space from the Grizzlies in the third period by hitting nine of their first 11 shots after halftime. When Butler hit a 3-pointer with under a minute left in the quarter, the Hornets had the first double-digit lead of the game, and New Orleans led 92-81 heading into the final period.


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Not only did the Washington Redskins earn their sixth straight victory with a win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, kicker Kai Forbath found his way into the record books.
Forbath hit a pair of field goals in the first half against the Eagles — one from 45 yards and a second from 42 yards — to improve to a perfect 17-for-17 on the year. With the 42-yard field goal, Forbath surpassed the record held by New Orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley for consecutive made field goals to start a career.
"It's awesome," Forbath said, via Mike Jones of the Washington Post. "I couldn't have asked for a better start and being with guys like [long-snapper] Nick Sundberg and [punter/holder] Sav Rocca, and having all the trust in them that they'll get the ball down just makes my job a lot easier. I've been happy we've converted on all our attempts so far, and [I'm] going to take it one week at a time like we've been doing."
The Redskins signed Forbath in October after Billy Cundiff was released following five missed field goals in the first five games of the season.
Forbath was an undrafted free agent out of UCLA that landed with the Dallas Cowboys last season. He was placed on the non-football injury list and released last April. Forbath went to training camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but was unable to beat out incumbent Connor Barth and subsequently released before landing with the Redskins.


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There are two kinds of martinis: gin or vodka. They are never served with ice! (Nor should they be shaken, at least not much, lest you bruise the vermouth). They can be garnished with olive, onion or lemon peel.Your bartender should have been taken out back and drawn and quartered for what you got!Next time ask for "a gin martini, straight up, with onion". If the waiter questions that ask for a manager, its seriously *not* ok for a cocktail waitperson or a bartender to not know the basics. A martini is like a burger - sure there are some variations, and some hot sandwiches that look like burgers that aren't actually burgers, but a line cook needs to know the original!
We have a family story about martinis.Some years ago, FIL was in Germany and ordered a dry martini. He was served three vermouths.
Quote from: Thipu1 on April 02, 2013, 05:53:16 AMWe have a family story about martinis.Some years ago, FIL was in Germany and ordered a dry martini. He was served three vermouths. I don't understand... like you mean... straight up glasses of vermouth? or vermouth shots (do people even do those?)
When I was first bartending, almost 10 years ago, now, I had a guy ask for a Rusty Nail (incidentally one of Husband's favourite drinks!) and I had no idea what it was, and it wasn't on our list for some reason. So I just asked - how do I make you one of those? I've never heard of it! The guy was more than happy to explain how to make it (double of Jack Daniels Single Barrel, single of Drambuie, over ice with a glace cherry dropped in) and complimented me on asking rather than risking screwing up a customers' order and wasting valuable booze.
Ice doesn't go in a martini at all. That's why you chill the glass and its double strained.
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What part of something like Registered Return Receipt Mail with Insurance don't these people understand?
If you have Important Document A to get somewhere, you pay the $20 it takes to send it top level Registered, and it gets there.
Quoting from someone I heard from a US Post office, "If you send something Registered, and it doesn't arrive, someone loses a job."
Thread over.
Nothing in this world happens by random - or have you heard of truly random number generator? No!
I have. Random occurs at the quantum level. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ [fourmilab.ch] This site creates "hot bits"; truly random numbers. " HotBits are generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer."
Computer can not create random numbers
Stick a length of wire into your sound card's mic jack, then sample the white noise.
I think I did the random number thing about 30 years ago when playing Dungeons and Dragons with dice.
have you heard of truly random number generator? No!
Of course I have. Not a software one, of course; you can't get a true random generator from a deterministic process. But hardware ones based on quantum phenomena can be had for a few hundred dollars.
Nothing in this world happens by random - or have you heard of truly random number generator? No!
Of course I have and so has most of slashdot.
Sadly true - and it's not just recent. I remember that around 15 years ago, I sent an application pack for a PhD course at a major UK university via Royam Mail recorded delivery. This was a big pack of papers - not just an application form, but substantial portfolio of previous work. Of course, it vanished into a black hole - and I missed the applications deadline as a result. The Royal Mail was very apologetic and there was some derisory compensation offer, but I'd eat my hat if anybody lost their job.
It was all for the best anyway - I stepped back from it, realised I'd rather go into the world of work rather than further academic study and, I suspect, my life is considerably better now than it would have been if I'd spent a further 3 years studying rather than earning.
If if was that important, you should have sent it 'special delivery'. 'Recorded delivery' isn't worth much; you're just as well off getting 'Proof of posting' which is basically a receipt.
Yes, well recorded delivery does only cost £3 so that is not really surprising. Special delivery is more akin to the $20 Recorded that the USPO offers according to someone else in this thread although that is still loads cheaper at under £10 (that insures something up to £300 in value I believe). Recorded Delivery is really only designed for letters that have no value but you need a proof of reciept
I worked there for a few weeks, dreaming of that nice summer job where you're home by lunch time. My dreams were shattered. The place is run by idiots in a panic. They couldn't even provide me with hundred-year-old technology - a pushbike.
The post office do provide bikes, and they are cool. You probably didn't get one because th
I'm not asking for competence - that would require a shipment of registered snowballs to hell!
I'm more grumped out at the *particular* reason they chose, "not receiving a document".
It all came up for me years ago about a contest entry not being received, and the US Post at that particular branch (representing the national system) "we don't guarantee delivery". (!?) "What about proof of mailing?" "No." So getting rather angry by that point, I said something like "if I had to send the oly original copy of an
Even if you use registered mail, it doesn't mean much. A few years ago I paid a ticket, and they cashed the check, but still claimed the ticket was "unpaid".
I THOUGHT the UK was a sovereign state. Why do they need permission from the central EU government? If one of the U.S. states decided to rollout broadband, they would just do it. They don't need permission from the Congress to enact land improvements internal to their state borders.
Yeah, if they were serious about getting it there on time, they would have used Fedex.
Well, that's assuming it didn't arrive. On the other hand it's much more likely it's just on the bottom of a pile of mail on some desk of someone who got fired, is on vacation, or just didn't realize it was important. While british mail is rather incompetent from what I hear, politicians and bureaucrats still hold the title in losing paperwork, so I'm more inclined to believe it's on their side.
That's the entire point of that service. It creates a trail to prevent this story's nonsense, and even your good guess.
Sender points to his slip that says his Docuement entered the Black Hole (Mail Service).
Black Hole says that they delivered the Document.
Receiver has to *sign for it*.
So then it just takes a couple questions under perjury to close the gap.
"Did you bother to check the mailbox in question?"
"Did you see the Document package?"
"Why didn't you sign for it to pick it up?"
So yes, in 2012 I don't wa
Okay, I see your point. Still I have seen the problem more often than not - "secretary X signed for the document along with 600 other things she received that day. We will ask her where it might have ended up as soon as she returns from her five week vacation."
Also worth noting: sending registered mail internationally is far more complicated and expensive than the $20 originally quoted, and tax payers tend to get annoyed when governments spend money. "What do you mean they spend £X on sending a letter
Bingo, both to you and the guy talking about the ticket ahead of me.
I'm quite happy for Secretary X to sign for 600 things then leave for Bermuda. Because then *the news story changes* from "document not received" to "document received but then incompetently mishandled".
It's good to know that the US Mail takes registered post so seriously. I had call to use UK registered post quite a lot last year, and about one item in three went missing -- far worse than for standard post where I only lose about one item in twenty. The Royal Mail's response was offhand, and in most cases all I succeeded in recovering was the original postage cost. All the registered post gave me in the end was proof that I had sent the item, so I did avoid some hefty penalties I could have been hit with
Try getting compensation from a courier firm.... they are almost up to Post Office standards
About 'Registered Mail' in the USA. It's a level of service that the US Government trusts enough to send classified documents and objects through. Not the highest levels, of course, but still extremely sensitive documents. Other companies will use it for much the same purpose, in addition to shipping expensive objects such as jewels.
As such, while it's not perfect, all handlers of registered mail have to pass security investigations, which tends to ensure a certain level of reliability. It's not the fas
What the hell is wrong with the UK mail system??? Here in the US, in my entire life there has been _ONE_ instance where I have even HEARD of something getting lost in the mail! And that was sketchy shareware that I suspect may have never been sent in the first place! You lose one in _TWENTY_ in the standard post? Seriously?
If you read the small print you will notice that Royal Mail International Signed For only tracks and insures the package until it leaves the UK. After that you might get a signature on arrival, if you are lucky.
I had to take RM to Small Claims Court over this years back. I sent a part back to Hungary for repair and they lost it. The judge was a bit of a dick actually. Awarded me £10+costs because the item was faulty and thus valued at car-boot-sale price, even though the whole point of sending i
Hopefully they remembered to make a photocopy of the documents before sending them
Even 25 years ago they could have faxed the damn documents. Unfortunately these are the Luddites in charge of delivering the government's promise to have the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. I would have added "ha!" but it really isn't that funny.
I was not involved!
... the American government was incompetent!
Ah... state aid clearances...
The philosophy behind the system is sound - Government subsidies to particular companies distort the market, so in a competitive marketplace, such subsidies shouldn't happen unless there's an over-riding social benefit. And it's important that there's somebody impartial to check whether such a social benefit actually exists. Sounds fair enough to me.
In practice, if you ask any UK civil servant (or, I suspect, a civil/public servant in any EU member state) who has had to deal wit
Since when? Did someone steal it all?
Hmm, there are still places with poor broadband coverage, or they may mean "high speed" broadband (e.g. FTTC), which only a fraction of the UK has. I don't have it and I'm on what is laughably called the Cambridge Science Park Exchange. We don't even have 21CN [wikipedia.org] enabled on this exchange and only one LLU provider.
Cynically I suspect BT of deliberately not rolling out 21CN or FTTC on this exchange, because they don't want any of the small to medium sized companies on the park switching from high cost leased l
The headline says broadband is delayed which implies it doesn't exist, that it has yet to be introduced at all - not that it has poor coverage.Of course I'm aware that the UK has very poor broadband saturation, but honestly I don't find it to be so bad as to be called non-existent.
Cable broadband saturation is definitely poor - sometimes, only one side of a street has it. ADSL-based broadband is essentially ubiquitous in all towns and cities, although some remote rural areas are lacking.
However you look at it, the vast majority of the UK has access to some form of broadband.
How well they work and how fast they are, now that's a whole other story...
Ahh the cable companies mess
These all eventually were merged into what is now Virgin Media
Can I have cable broadband, no sorry your building has not been cabled, even though I live in the centre of a large UK city, two doors down from the telephone exchange!
At least you're on the science park exchange, try being on either the Bar Hill exchange or the Cottenham one.
3Mb on a good day...
Ouch. We can at least get 7-8mbps most days.
I don't know what's wrong with your connections - I'm in Cambridge and I get 100mbps, with speed tests always coming out at 98mbps or above. I guess the difference is I'm on Virgin instead of BT.
You can't get even get Virgin fibre in this bit of Cambridge (i.e. Chesterton). Well if you believe their website you can't. It may be wrong. Mind you their website doesn't think our house exists. It thinks the one next door, which is exactly the same age and design, exists, but not this one.
We had a similar story. Our local exchange (500m away) got 21cn and they (BT) refused to sells us a faster 21cn connection because we already had a 2mb leased line (from before BT's 8mb adsl max rollout) and they could not sell us a cheaper solution...
UK broadband is... inconsistent. Very good in places, appalling in others, and still not available in a small minority of places (mostly rural, but with a few surprising urban blackspots).
I'm lucky - the place I moved into in April (a South London outer suburb) is in an area covered by Virgin Media's cable service, and seems to be at the better end of what they offer. My service is advertised as "up to" 100mbit downstream and 10mbit upstream. The router is capped at 10% above those levels. In reality, durin
It's been something like 20+ years ago I've lost my last email.
Because of a failing relay.
Unless this paperwork is really worked on paper. In which case I can guess:
- the envelope has been handed to the post office, but never left it;
- they missed the proper stamp value on the envelope;
- they missed the proper destination address on the envelope;
- the envelope reached the destination but got handed to the wrong office which trashed it;
- the paperwork has been written in English and sent to a German/French/Italian only speaking office;
- the paperwork has been sent to Cowboy Neal;
- all of the above at the same time.
- they missed the proper destination address on the envelope;
What do I write on the outside of the envelope for it to reach your ass?
c/o ben dover
Makes it easy to reach any ass
Can you write?
These are good news, finally!
Improve broadband = Should have done years ago.
Shame on the UK for not voting in a compitent goverment - Oh wait what were the choices again
We need someone to start up a Techie party that promises to minisime the number of people involved in pointless administration and finally get the UK into the 21st century. Most of the goverment departments still use their own databases of people and are not linked - so they end up sending paper records to other govement departments for someone to type back into ano
There are only really two options for broadband in the UK
1)Virgin media which is cable based
2) ADSL which you can pay various different companies for but they all have to use BT open reach to get the telephone line to your house.
Customer service is poor across the board, Virgin media have always been poor, its been the one constant through their various different owners. The company you buy ADSL for is limited in what it can do because the bottom line for them is no matter how good a customer service they t
They have to use OpenReach unless they have LLU at your exchange, in which case they use their own equipment. ISPs with LLU can generally be spotted because they're cheaper and/or faster (because they're not paying BT's wholesale metered rates).
You are getting your dividions of BT mixed up, BT openreach maintain the connections to your house (and I think they also run the FTTC equipment in the cabinets but i'm not positive on that), BT wholesale run ADSL and phone equipment at the telephone exchage and sell service on it to service providers (including BT retail).
So you can escape from BT wholesale by using a LLU provider but you will still be relying on BT openreach to fix any faults with the cabling to your house.
Because I live out in the sticks, it's BT Openreach that repairs the line out to my house whenever it fails even though I'm on LLU. A significant part of the line is overhead, which isn't wonderful for ADSL, but it gets the job done at about 5Mbps and eight miles from the exchange.
I have *never* had any of the problems you've experienced, although at one point I had to persuade the engineer *not* to repair the line because the power was off anyway and I didn't think it was safe for him to work up a ladder
There are only really two options for broadband in the UK
1)Virgin media which is cable based
2) ADSL which you can pay various different companies for but they all have to use BT open reach to get the telephone line to your house.
Utter crap. There are many other options.
Firstly, in the vast majority of urban areas what is on offer is LLU ADSL2+ which is theoretically up to 24Mbps. This is often capped at 1Mbps upload but if you need to upload lots then SDSL is available in many places too. I just got a quote for my home address on the edge of London and Surrey and found I can get SDSL to the home (if I get a mortgage to pay for it, £600 per month but that is a commercial offering not really aimed at home users)
I just checked m
schadenfreude - schadenfreude/SHädnfroid/
Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
I have to admit, part of me is happy this morning upon hearing this news. Another part of me says, quit your whinging.
Fact is: Last time I compared products available for residential broadband in the UK to California, USA : You're years ahead, mate!
I enviously spied speed/price offerings of sub-$50/month for 100Mbps! From three different Carriers. Whoa.... This is not available in my country for a
I can't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6...
Ever street around me can get BT's 'infinity' broadband, with download speeds in the 30-40 meg range, but my street was forgotten about when BT upgraded the exchange and we're stuck with less than a tenth of that speed. Getting this omission dealt with is an ongoing nightmare, BT's 'infinity' division seadfastly refuse to talk to customers. Despite *being* a telephone company, they have no phone number on their website!
After bashing my head against this one for a while I found they will talk to me when I pu
The government is doling out £530m to boost UK broadband, but needs European Commission approval first.
No, they don't. The UK is a sovereign nation whose government does not need permission from Brussels to engage in the normal domestic functions of government such as rolling out basic services to their citizens. This isn't some matter of foreign or trade policy for which EU buyin would be critical. Nor is it some matter with broader continental repercussions.
The UK should just go ahead and do it, the EC will not pick a fight for no reason -- I credit them with far more sense than that.
[ And no, I'm not a ra
Did anyone tell them to check their spam filters??
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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Darr is currently the president and chief executive officer of the American Moving and Storage Association, serving in that capacity since 2007. She previously held senior positions in the American Bus Association and the American Trucking Associations. From 1998 to 2000, she served in the Clinton Administration as the deputy assistant secretary for budget and programs at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"ASLRRA undertook a nearly year-long search for its new president and we believe we have concluded that search with an outstanding selection," said ASLRRA Chairman Ed McKechnie. "Darr has significant experience in leading trade associations and has spent almost her entire career in the transportation industry. Her government service was at a very senior level in the agency that has direct budget and programmatic oversight over the Federal Railroad Administration."
Timmons is concluding his 12th year as president.
"Rich transformed our association," said McKechnie. "He made us a stronger, more effective and more member-focused organization and we are sincerely grateful for the energy and enthusiasm he gave us during his tenure. In Darr, we look to taking our association to an even higher level of effectiveness as we address the challenges of improving safety, building on our legislative successes and enhancing the shortline railroad brand."


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You are inviting me to talk about a theme that I am able to talk for hours. I conducted many courses at University about my BPR cases and experience, to master classes who were specialising in BPR.
As mentioned in my CV, I gained BPR skills in all my previous experiences, even within CompanyB where I analysed all the banking processes and reengineered them to a web way, thus improving the quality, reducing the cost and achieving the result without the use of personnel.
In fact, even CompanyB has been a start up company I reengineered all the processes implemented in it.[not sure what you are saying], for example, request and delivery of cheque books.
Just one success has been the implementation introduced in the bank that was not reengineered from other existing processes. It was the introduction of an entire IT bank platform that gave to the bank the opportunity to sell bank services under different brands like Tesco, BMW, tour operators, etc.
Other BPR cases:
It provides the opportunity to calculate without the use of paper. I analysed and reengineered the entire personal loan process and I implemented the solution, adopting workstations
I found solutions for managing the entire process from customer request to contract underwriting,
Beside this complex and interesting activity, I managed the change inside the company, helping managers and staff to master the new process, showing and explaining all the positive aspects, solving all the issues raised by the Business Manager and improving the process speed and quality.
Also in this case, I managed the entire change helping people and staff to use the new system and to adopt the system in all their activities.
This system permits retailers and front-end offices to manage their own relationships without conflicts and misunderstanding. I reduced the volume of telephone calls by 75% of inbound and 90% of outbound phone calls. In this case the change management, completed with full success, was very difficult because even though apparently the solution seems an IT solution, it is a new process really! The solution improved the service and retailers' feedback has been definitely positive.
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Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. —John 4:16
"Call thy husband." Such too is the obstinacy of many, that they will never listen to Christ until they have been subdued by violence. Whenever then we perceive that the oil of Christ has no flavor, it ought to be mixed with wine, that its taste may begin to be felt.
Nay more, this is necessary for all of us; for we are not seriously affected by Christ speaking unless we have been aroused to repentance.
So then, in order that anyone may profit in the school of Christ, his hardness must be subdued by the demonstration of his misery, as the earth, in order that it may become fruitful, is prepared and softened by the plowshare. For this knowledge alone shakes off all our flatteries, so that we no longer dare to mock God.
Whenever, therefore, a neglect of the word of God steals upon us, no remedy will be more appropriate than that each of us should arouse himself to the consideration of his sins, that he may be ashamed of himself, and, trembling before the judgment seat of God, may be humbled to obey him whom he had wantonly disobeyed. —Commentaries
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.


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On December 16, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8979 establishing the Kenai National Moose Range. The eve of its 70th anniversary presents an ideal moment to reflect on the history of the Moose Range, later to become the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In Part I of this two-part article, we'll explore the early years leading up to and immediately following the Refuge's establishment.
At the time of Russian settlement in late 1700s, the Kenai Peninsula's rich fish and wildlife resources had long been known and revered by the region's first inhabitants. For millennia, Dena'ina people had made the Kenai Peninsula their home, as did Alutiiqs in the south and Chugaches in the east. The Dena'ina knew the Kenai as Yaghanen -- the "good land" -- and their lives were intimately intertwined with the seasonal abundance of salmon, wildlife, and berries.
One hundred years later, word had spread beyond Alaska about the natural wonders of the Kenai. Dall DeWeese visited from Colorado in 1897 to hunt big game, acquiring the guiding services of Andrew Berg, the Kenai Peninsula's first big game guide. As is the case in many wildlife conservation stories over the last century, hunters played a pivotal role here. DeWeese wrote several articles and sent letters to government officials about what he found, creating an interest in Alaskan big game. It wasn't long before the Kenai became famous for its large moose and abundance of "white sheep," nor was it long before DeWeese and others began to warn of depletion of game populations due to overharvest.
Gifford Pinchot, who would later become the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, commissioned William Langille in 1903 to investigate forest resources in Southcentral Alaska, including the Kenai Peninsula. Langille explored the Kenai in 1904 and followed up his expedition with a report entitled "The Proposed Forest Reserve on the Kenai Peninsula." He acknowledged the need for wildlife and habitat protection in the area, noting: "The forest cover in its primal state is also very essential to the prolonged existence of the living game, which represents the best types of its kind and if cared for, will be a source of revenue to the inhabitants and pleasure to the world for many years to come ... and in consideration of this and the other circumstances mentioned I have the honor to recommend the creation of the Kenai Forest Reserve." Langille's expedition helped set the stage for establishment of the Chugach National Forest by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1907 and its expansion in 1909 to include most of the current Refuge.
In the ensuing years, interest in settling the Kenai Peninsula and increasing demand for its spectacular wildlife resources created conservation concerns. The last caribou on the Kenai was killed circa 1915, and wolves were extirpated through an extensive poisoning and shooting campaign around the same time. Moose populations were reported to be in decline. In 1931, the Alaska Game Commission recommended the establishment of a moose sanctuary, by executive proclamation, on the Kenai. Many in the community helped sound the alarm -- among those was big game guide Andy Simons who advocated for more protection to conserve game populations.
Ten years later, bolstered by strong advocacy from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's first Director Ira Gabrielson, F.D.R. established the Kenai National Moose Range "... for the purpose of protecting the natural breeding and feeding range of the giant Kenai moose on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska." It is a wonder that President Roosevelt had the vision and sense of purpose to establish a conservation area in distant Alaska at a time when his attention must have been so focused on the attack on Pearl Harbor only nine days earlier and on events in Europe.
In 1948, World War II veteran and pilot Dave Spencer arrived on the Kenai to assume his duties as the Moose Range's first Refuge Manager. Within two years, he developed an extensive research program that set a very high bar, and that in many aspects continues even today. His aviation legacy was the first in a long line of Refuge pilots that have contributed significantly to wildlife and resource protection and scientific discovery over the ensuing seven decades. Early work included studying vegetation and wildlife response to a large wildfire, started by a road construction crew the year before Mr. Spencer's arrival. The 1947 burn consumed over 300,000 acres of spruce forest mostly north of Skilak Lake and the Kenai River, creating favorable habitat to which the moose population responded dramatically.
While modern wildlife management and scientific research were being introduced to the Moose Range, demand for oil exploration and development, and pressure to remove areas of the Range to allow for settlement, would result in large-scale changes. Oil discovery in the Swanson River area in 1957 created an economic boon but also brought industrial development and new roads to the relatively pristine Moose Range. Mr. Spencer and his successors, John Hakala and Will Troyer, worked to protect remaining areas, seeking innovative ways to conserve the Moose Range's wildlife and wildlands. One approach was the designation of an 806,000-acre Research Natural Area in its eastern portion, to be managed so as to allow natural ecological processes to function and to protect wildlife that depended on large and undisturbed tracts of land.
Industrial development within the Moose Range also had the indirect effect of helping to usher in an era of increased outdoor recreational access and activities. The establishment of a dedicated canoe route took advantage of this new access and helped generate great interest in new outdoor recreational opportunities on the Kenai. The now nationally-designated Swanson River and Swan Lake Canoe Trail System, one of two such national canoe trails in the U.S., became a cornerstone of wilderness-type recreation on the Kenai Peninsula and southcentral Alaska.
Part II of this article will appear next week and will explore the Refuge's more recent history.
The public is invited to help celebrate the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's 70th anniversary on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road in Soldotna. Please join us for a variety of family-oriented activities and refreshments. For more information, please call 907-262-7021.
Andy Loranger is the Refuge Manager of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. You can find more information about the refuge at http://kenai.fws.gov or http://www.facebook.com/kenainationalwildliferefuge.


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Hey guys, been a while since posting here but I had an idea I think a lot of people will enjoy and after talking to Conradical and him agreeing to get in on it I decided to go ahead and give it a shot!
The basic idea is that you show up in stream chat with your 3v3 team ready, and when we're picking a game you post your rating and setup in chat and then we'll select two teams around the same rating and cast your games with the regular tournament UI. It'll be done on US servers for the first week - maybe we'll try EU servers as well assuming we can get accounts and it's popular enough so as long as you're on US servers and willing to add us on battle tag you're eligible to play! We'll be queuing up using 5v5 wargames so that Conrad and I can join the game and then you'll simply kill us off and the game will proceed like normal as it does in all the online tournaments.
It's going to be on twitch.tv/egazael this coming Saturday at 2 PM EST so please help spread the word and show up! We'll be able to make it better and better and take viewer ideas etc for this if it goes well - also hopefully going to be able to get some relatively high level games for the end of the night - and perhaps have the most popular team of the day fight against a famous team or something like that!
Thanks and let me know what you think!
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WEAU (Cadott) - After thieves took dozens of bales of hay meant to feed rescued donkeys, our viewers step up to save the day.
As we told you last week, a Chippewa County couple who rescued 3 donkeys from a nearby farm became the target of thieves.
Someone took 45 bales of hay from the Marion farm in Cadott.
The hay was for the rescued animals and with high hay prices, the family returned their Christmas gifts to buy feed. After our story aired a Chippewa Falls family donated 45 bales of hay, a Holcombe woman donated 500 pounds of oats and cards with money came from Neillsville, Winona and even Iowa.
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Option 1 comes with a 1 TB HDD, and a lower power supply, as well as an EVGA Geforce GTX650.
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I want to say Option 1 since she can just power it up, and go, but that liquid cooling is very tempting to say it is better, since liquid cooling cools faster than air.


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Call me cynical, but I reckon if there's ever a bloke who's given a good tattoo a bad name, it's the Canterbury Bulldogs' wunderkid Ben "Bennie" Barba - stood down indefinitely from the club's playing roster this week.
The superbly gifted young fullback's rap sheet includes binge drinking and too much time shaking hands with the one-arm bandits. So susceptible was he to Lady Luck's charms that he was spotted playing the pokies just two hours before he was due to take the field for a game of NRL football. Barba also later allegedly told a team official that he wasn't interested in playing and wanted to leave the field at halftime.
This type of giving up, or as gnarled old Aussie sportsmen and women refer to it as "turning it up", is tantamount to treason across the Tasman. Perhaps the most telling illustration of it occurred during a cricket tour of India under Alan Border.
The tourists were really under the pump in a searingly hot dustbowl, most wracked with dysentery. In the midst of all this carnage stood Border at one end and the Victorian, Dean Jones, at the other. Jones had compiled a double century and was all but spent when he walked up to tell his captain he didn't think he could go on. Border's response was - "okay, you go off and we'll get a REAL Aussie out here".
In all the media static surrounding Barba's lay-off, I've yet to hear the obligatory contrition. Having just been named as the NRL's face of rugby league, Barba was staring at the prospect of as much money as he could imagine from his stellar rise to stardom. It's astonishing to contemplate why he would want to throw his wealth into those mechanical monsters.
His club officials have been quick to move in behind Barba to explain that he has a sickness. One gets the feeling that Barba is at the far extremity of the addiction scale. If not, why would you have the initials of your binge drinking club tattooed large across your torso?


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I was raped.
It happened when I was in the Navy. A group of three or four threw a blanket over me pinned me down and used a mop handle. I never saw my attackers, had no idea who they were, but I got to spend the rest of my time at sea wondering if every face I saw on that ship was one of them.
No, I did not report it; it was 1972, and we were in combat. Reporting it would have probably made my life a thousand times worse.
It was more than twenty years before I told anybody.
ETA: While I was seeking treatment through the VA, one psychiatrist I saw said in his report that that I was probably fabricating, or at least embellishing the story because the experience of being anally raped had not made me gay. I was shocked, but not nearly as shocked as the director of that facility when I showed her the report.
So, that is the kind of stuff you have to deal with.
Some of "These people" are such scum I see no reason to believe this horseshit. But of course, they all do and not one of them (that I saw) even questions him in the least.
People like this are attention whores that need help.May the FORCE be with you!
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'The Musical of Musicals' scores big time in New Milford
Any show directed and choreographed by the immensely talented Brad Blake is bound to delight community theater audiences. His staging of the current musical at New Milford's TheaterWorks is no exception. It's a show of professional caliber, down to every aspect of its production.
Blake has directed other vehicles for this playhouse that bear the unmistakable signs of his deft hand. Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," presented at the same playhouse several years ago, was one memorable example.
His current show, "The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)" -- although a theatrical project that makes no bones about its tongue-in-cheek take on the American musical theater -- continues the director's tradition of superlative showmanship. It features music by Eric Rockwell, lyrics by Joanne Bogart and book by Rockwell and Bogart.
Standing ovations are sometimes a spurious barometer of quality. But on opening night of the show at New Milford TheatreWorks, they were unquestionably deserved.
Audiences need not arrange an exodus to New York City -- at a considerable expense, to boot -- to see the latest installment of "Forbidden Broadway," a series of shows that satirize Broadway musicals. The Rockwell and Bogart show is in the same delightful vein, and might even be considered to be a riff on them.
The show pokes good-natured fun at popular musicals created by some pretty impressive talent: Rogers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Weber and the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb.
Based upon the simple-minded idea of a conniving landlord trying to bully a young woman in arrears for her rent, "Musical of Musicals" is the spin that those esteemed seven composers might put on this theme. The result is a hilarious outcome clothed in songs that bear resemblances to numbers in "Oklahoma!" "Carousel," "Sweeney Todd," "Hello Dolly!" "Mame." "Le Cage Aux Folles," "Evita," "Phantom of the Opera," "Sunset Boulevard" and "Cabaret."
And it's the contrast between the simple-minded theme and a fancied approach to it by those famous composers that makes this show so appealing. But the enjoyment doesn't stop there.
Blake's staging of the musical is itself a treat. He is its musical accompaniment, seated upstage center at a piano in plain sight of the audience. He assists performers in moving it and other props around the stage so they are positioned for getting the most out of a song. A stellar crew of backstage talent, including Scott Wyshynski, Glenn Couture, John Bolster, Sonnie Osborne and Tom Libonate, in turn assists him.
Four performers: Priscilla Squiers (who put in an equally accomplished portrayal as Charlotte in Blake's "A Little Night Music"), Jessica Smith, Jonathan Jacobson and Tom Denihan take on a variety of individual roles that distinguish each of them as the seasoned performers they are. They all deserve a resounding "bravo" for their accomplished roles in this impressive production. Same for Bradford Blake, who earns one with a capital "B."
If you miss this show, it's your loss.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Jered Weaver outpitched Mike Pelfrey with eight innings of two-hit ball and Albert Pujols drove in the only run, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Weaver (5-5) struck out nine and walked one in his first home start against the Twins since his no-hitter on May 2, 2012. The three-time All-Star retired 19 consecutive batters during one stretch -- just four days after teammate C.J. Wilson set down 18 in a row against Oakland.
Ernesto Frieri got three outs for his 25th save in 27 chances, less than 24 hours after giving up five runs including a grand slam by Chris Herrmann in the 10th inning of the Angels' 10-3 loss.
Pelfrey (4-8) pitched six innings and allowed five hits, including Pujols' run-scoring single in the first.


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The Institute is authorized to utilize in the performance of its functions the Working Capital Fund established by the Act of June 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 275).
The working capital of the fund shall be available for obligation and payment for any activities authorized by this chapter, and for any activities for which provision is made in the appropriations which reimburse the fund.
In the performance of authorized activities, the Working Capital Fund shall be available and may be reimbursed for expenses of hire of automobile, hire of consultants, and travel to meetings, to the extent that such expenses are authorized for the appropriations of the Department of Commerce.
The fund may be credited with advances and reimbursements, including receipts from non-Federal sources, for services performed under the authority of section 273 of this title.
As used in this chapter, the term "cost" shall be construed to include directly related expenses and appropriate charges for indirect and administrative expenses.
The amount of any earned net income resulting from the operation of the fund at the close of each fiscal year shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That such earned net income may be applied to restore any prior impairment of the fund, and to ensure the availability of working capital necessary to replace equipment and inventories.
Act of June 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 275), referred to in subsec. (a), was the Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1950. Provisions thereof relating to Working Capital Fund are not classified to the Code.
A prior section 12 of act Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, as added by act July 22, 1950, ch. 486, § 2, 64 Stat. 373, related to equipment purchased by Department of Commerce to carry out investigations, prior to repeal by act Aug. 3, 1956.
1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–418 substituted "Institute" for "National Bureau of Standards".
1985—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 99–73 struck out "first" after "may be applied", and inserted provisions relating to working capital for replacement of equipment and inventories.
1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–322 struck out ", and additional amounts as from time to time may be required for the purposes of said fund are authorized to be appropriated" after "(64 Stat. 275)".
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–73 effective Oct. 1, 1984, see section 5(c) of Pub. L. 99–73, set out as an Effective Date note under section 275c of this title.
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NEW YORK — The presidential race in Florida remains too close to call, as election officials across the state continue to verify results from election night. President Obama currently leads in the count by 50,767 votes, or 0.61 percent of the total counted.
State law mandates an automatic machine recount of all ballots if the final margin between the top two candidates is less than 0.5 percent of total votes cast. County election officials have until noon Saturday to submit the canvass of their unofficial results to the secretary of state, who would order the recount if required, unless the losing candidate asked in writing that it not be conducted.
Obama already has been declared the overall winner of the presidential election, based on results in the rest of the country. With Florida's 29 electoral votes still undecided, Obama has won 303 electoral votes to 206 for Republican Mitt Romney.
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Hutchinson rebukes Republicans on handling of women's issues
Retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, is offering some advice to her party on her way out the door: "Stop trying to act like the woman is a throw-away."
Appearing on CNN on Thursday, Hutchison joined the second-guessing after GOP losses in the presidential race and in other winnable contests, including Senate races in Missouri and Indiana.
Hutchison said Republicans have failed to approach abortion, contraception, and other social issues with a proper level of sensitivity.
"We had Republican candidates who got very high-profile and said some very stupid things," Hutchison said. "I think that really tainted the party."
The GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, Representative Todd Akin, said in a local television interview in August that he "understand[s] from doctors" that rape-induced pregnancies are "really rare."
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," he added.
In the Indiana Senate race, Tea Party-backed Richard Mourdock said that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said that he supports abortion as an option for rape victims, and he called for Akin to drop out.
But Romney maintained his endorsement of Mourdock, for whom he had appeared in a television ad, and he was linked to Akin by Democrats who noted that Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, had joined Akin in cosponsoring a 2011 bill that would have permitted federal funding for abortions only in cases of "forcible" rape.
Hutchison said her party should focus more on economic and fiscal issues, where she said she believes Republicans have an advantage over Democrats.
"People have personal beliefs, and what we need to do is fashion a party around the economics and the long-term viability of the economy of our country," Hutchison said.
Wash. voters OK law that allows gay marriage
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Voters in Washington state have approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote.
Returns released since election night show Referendum 74 maintaining its lead. Opponents conceded the race Thursday, a day after supporters declared victory.
The measure asked people to approve or reject a state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year. That law was signed by Governor Chris Gregoire but was on hold pending the election's outcome.
Washington is one of four states where voters were asked about the issue this election cycle. Maryland and Maine residents approved gay marriage Tuesday night, while Minnesota voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Six other states — New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont — and the District of Columbia already allow gay marriage. But Maryland, Maine, and Washington are the first to enact it by public vote. The other states' laws were enacted either by lawmakers or court rulings.


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University of Mississippi athletics director Ross Bjork announced Friday that the school has agreed to a contract extension with men's head basketball coach Andy Kennedy.
The four-year deal, which will keep Kennedy at Ole Miss through 2017, is the longest allowed by the state of Mississippi and includes a base salary of $1.8 million, along with incentives for regular season and NCAA postseason success.
"We are excited to make this continued investment in men's basketball at the University of Mississippi and extend Coach Kennedy's contract," Bjork said. "The excitement and buzz created during our SEC Championship and NCAA Tournament run provides us with the momentum to continue to grow basketball here at Ole Miss. I also want to thank Rebel Nation for your support in reaching seven-straight sellouts this season. Great fan support, coupled with our state-of-the-art practice facility and the development of a new arena, means the future is bright for our program."
Kennedy, the school's all-time winningest head coach, led the Rebels to the SEC Tournament title and the school's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002 this past season.
"I can't tell you how excited I am to have the opportunity to continue leading the men's basketball program at Ole Miss," Kennedy said. "The commitment shown by Ross and (Ole Miss Chancellor) Dr. Jones exemplifies their vision for our program moving forward. I am very proud of the foundation that we have laid and I look forward to building on this SEC Championship season."
Ole Miss tied a school record with 27 wins this season under the guidance of Kennedy, who was named SEC Coach of the Year for his efforts.
Kennedy owns a 152-87 record in seven seasons as head coach at Ole Miss and is the only coach in school history to post six 20-plus win seasons and lead his team to six postseason berths.


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1Lay apron flat.
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3Squeeze one color of paint onto plate. Move it around with brush. Press child's hand into paint and press hand onto apron over top of one stem.
4Repeat for two more colors.
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Daily Links, Friday the 13th edition: Faith, science, and shady characters
You might be familiar with the website Catholic Online, but you might be less likely to visit the site after seeing this news report about the very un-Catholic business practices of its owner.
Speaking of questionable business practices, they are also the cause of the resignation of the executive director of the Nevada Catholic Conference.
Melinda Gates is still making headlines talking about contraception and her Catholic faith.
And in other news about Catholics disagreeing with their church, several catechists in Arlington, Virginia quit over a requirement that they sign a "profession of faith." Do you think these kinds of loyalty oaths are really needed?
At RNS, Mark Silk compares Penn State's handling of sex abuse to that of the Catholic Church.
The debate about religious freedom is far from over. At Huffington Post, Fordham law school grad Bridgette Dunlap finds some flaws in the bishops' argument.
And here's a good story on religious freedom: A cleric in Indonesia was given two years in jail for suggesting that Muslims should pray three times a day, not five.
Finally, a little science to end the week: BBC helps you calculate your body mass index and see how you compare to the rest of the world in terms of obesity, and Bill Nye the Science Guy shares some insight on climate change.


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The Rams completed their second consecutive seven-win season on Sunday with a 27-9 loss at Seattle. Here's a look at how the Rams performed in three key areas in their season finale against the Seahawks.
The Key: Win the Ground Battle
In the season's first meeting between the Rams and Seahawks, the Rams put on perhaps their most dominant showing on the ground on both sides of the football, outgaining Seattle 200-44. The Rams enter Sunday ranked seventh in the league in run defense, which, if maintained, would be their first appearance in the league's top 10 since 2001, when they ranked third. Sunday's matchup will feature their second challenge of the year against Seattle's Marshawn Lynch, who the Rams limited to just 23 yards on eight carries in the Rams' 14-9 loss to the Seahawks on Oct. 28.
"It just doesn't happen to this defense," Schottenheimer said. "Certainly they'll adjust. We felt good about our ability to do it, but certainly we didn't win the game. They found a way to win the game and that's the objective. It doesn't matter how many yards we have running, throwing, anything. We want to get the win, but again it'll be tough sledding this week. They're a real good group up there. They're really talented. They move a lot. They've got a lot of depth and that makes it hard."
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The contrast between the two outcomes in the ground attack against Seattle this year could not have been more significant. After piling up 200 yards rushing on October 28, the Rams were held to just 13 yards on the ground Sunday, their lowest single-game total of the season. The running game was hampered by the loss of T
The Key: Rams Receivers vs. Seahawks Secondary
Seattle begins Sunday boasting the league's top-ranked defense against the pass, led by Defensive Player of the Year candidate Richard Sherman, who paces the NFL with eight interceptions. The Seahawks have picked off 26 passes on the year, most in the league. In the first start of the season for QB
"They've got great ball skills in the back end," Clemens said at his Thursday press conference. "Obviously, (S) Earl Thomas is a phenomenal player, (S) Kam (Chancellor), (CB) Richard Sherman. (CB Brandon) Browner's out, but the kid that came in for him, (CB Byron) Maxwell, is doing a really good job and I think they get (CB) Walter Thurmond back this week. So, they've got great ball skills. Sometimes, you go against a team where there's a guy you can just throw one up because he's not going to find it. It's not the case this week."
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The Seahawks' secondary was every bit as good as advertised. Seattle collected two more interceptions Sunday, and narrowly missed a third. Of the Rams' 21 receptions, just six were recorded by a wide receiver. Tight ends
The Key: A Battle of Special Teams
One would be hard-pressed to find two teams with more success in kick coverage in 2013 than the Rams and Seahawks. No team has allowed fewer punt return yards than the 106 the Seahawks and Rams have allowed—combined. Rams P Johnny Hekker leads the NFL with a net punting average of 43.8 yards, which leaves him in reach of the NFL record of 44.0 entering the season's final game. There have been only 16 attempted returns against Seattle's Jon Ryan, for a meager average of 1.6 yards per return. The Rams' coverage team has seen its greatest success in recent weeks, as it became the first Rams team since 1960 to not allow a single punt or kickoff return yard for two consecutive games.
"I think the special teams guys, with all the youth, made a lot of improvement and that was something that we talked about before the season, is let's be better in the last eight games than the first eight games," Rams special teams coordinator John Fassel said. "I think we've probably done that. You look back on it at the end of the season and see, but it feels like it."
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Capping a spectacular second half of the season for the unit, the Rams' kickoff coverage team did not allow a single return yard for the third consecutive week. P Johnny Hekker also put the finishing touches on a Pro Bowl season, as his 44.2 net yards per punt broke Andy Lee's single-season NFL record.
Despite being without rookie
"The things that took place in our special teams room this year and on the practice field and in games was outstanding, for us to be able to set that record (net punting average in a single season)," Head Coach Jeff Fisher said. "It was really a great effort on behalf of (Special Teams Coordinator) Coach (John) Fassel and (Special Teams Assistant Coach Paul F.) Boudreau and that group. I was really impressed."


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This week's 6 Quick Takes on Christian persecution around the globe include kidnappings, murders, beatings, false imprisonment and legal discrimination.
In other words, these quick takes are the usual sad story of what Christians endure for Christ just about everywhere on this planet. Two of the stories involve legal discrimination in the "Christian" West. Both of them are instances of governments applying legal penalties for Christians who seek to practice their faith in the workplace. Ironically, they are examples of "tolerance" statutes carried to their illogical and intolerant extreme.
Every one of these stories is becoming almost cliche in today's world. Violent persecution of Christians by government tolerated mobs occurs in places like Africa, the Middle East and India. Legal persecution by the government itself happens in totalitarian states like Viet Nam. Meanwhile, a move toward totalitarianism in which the state attempts to deprive its citizens of the rights to individual conscience and religious liberty that it has heretofore guaranteed occurs in both the UK and the USA.
Here, for your prayerful study, are the 6 Quick Takes on Christian Persecution for this week.
1. Three U.K. Christians' Appeals Denied by European Court on Human Rights in the Name of "Equality"
Jun 3rd 2013
In a display of growing secularism, the European Court on Human Rights recently rejected hearing cases of alleged discrimination against three Christian U.K. nationals. Shirley Chaplin, Gary McFarlane, and Lillian Ladele each claim to have suffered employment discrimination for expressing their faith—one having been demoted for refusing to remove a cross necklace at work, another was disciplined for refusing to conduct same-sex marriages, and the last having been fired for refusing to provide relational counseling to same-sex couples. Secularist groups praised the court's rejection of the cases, claiming the rejection as yet another step in stopping "a small coterie of Christian activists [from] obtain[ing] special privileges for themselves"—"special privileges" like being able to sport cross necklaces and determine one's own clients. (Read the rest here.)
2. Anti-Christian Violence in Vietnam
Anti-Christian violence is an ever-present danger for church leaders and members in Vietnam, which has been under Communist rule since 1975 and where Christians make up just 9% of the population. In just two incidents from 2012, a pastor was beaten unconscious with iron bars, suffering multiple injuries, and a woman was left with a fractured skull when a congregation was attacked as they gathered for a service; dozens of others were injured. The assaults were the work of thugs believed to have been hired by the authorities to harass and intimidate Christians.
It is striking that those injured in these incidents belonged to churches that were actually registered with the authorities. Registration is required by law and allows congregations to obtain official approval for their places of worship. But registered churches are regulated and controlled, and their legal protections are vague and uncertain. The registration process is also slow, and some applications are unsuccessful.
The position of Vietnam's unregistered churches is even more insecure, and they are particularly vulnerable to harassment, arrests and imprisonment. In 2012 the pastor of a house church was jailed for eleven years on a charge of "disrupting national unity".
Despite the authorities' supposed approval of charitable work, the past year has also seen cruel attacks in the capital, Hanoi, on both a Christian orphanage and a church-run colony for leprosy patients. The children were beaten by the attackers, and the residents of the colony were terrorised by abuse and threats. (Read the rest here.)
3. Syrian bishops kidnapped in Aleppo still missing one month on
Officials say whereabouts of Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi remain unknown despite international efforts to secure release
Bishop Boulos Yazigi, left, and archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim were abducted by gunmen on 22 April in Aleppo, Syria. Photograph: HOPD/AP
One month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, officials say they still have no idea what has happened to the missing prelates.
The clerics, the most senior church officials to be targeted since civil war engulfed the country, have not been heard of since their abduction at gunpoint in the northern city of Aleppo on 22 April.
"We are deeply worried for the lives of archbishop Mor Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church and bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church," said Katrina Lantos Swett, who chairs the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf).
"These two religious leaders put aside their own safety by travelling to one of the worst areas of fighting to help those Syrians left with few basic necessities after more than two years of war," she said in a statement released on Tuesday. (Read the rest here.)
4. Washington attorney general sues florist over refusal to provide flowers for same-sex wedding
Bob Ferguson, the State of Washington's attorney general, has announced that he is filing a consumer protection lawsuit against a florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.
"Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate against customers on the basis of sexual orientation," Ferguson stated in a press release. "If a business provides a product or service to opposite-sex couples for their weddings, then it must provide same-sex couples the same product or service."
Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene's Flowers and Gifts in Richland, Washington, explained her decision not to provide flowers for a customer's same-sex wedding.
"He said he decided to get married, and before he got through, I grabbed his hand and said, 'I am sorry. I can't do your wedding because of my relationship with Jesus Christ,'" she said. "We hugged each other, and he left, and I assumed it was the end of the story." (Read more here.)
A Christian village in Syria was savagely attacked and almost 40 of its residents, including women and children, killed by opposition fighters, as UN investigators warned of increasing radicalisation among the rebels.
One of Barnabas Aid's Syrian partners said that two of his relatives in Dweir were severely tortured by the rebels, who broke some of their bones and started to burn their bodies before shooting them in the head. The village of Dweir on the outskirts of Homs, near the border with Lebanon, was invaded on 27 May. (Read more here.)
6. Christian Pastor and His Family Beaten in India
A pastor and his family beaten; a prayer meeting broken up; Christians forced from their village by a mob; children threatened and abused; a church building attacked and a cemetery desecrated – just a few examples of the repeated incidents of harassment and intimidation suffered by Christians in India in 2012.
In many parts of the country the small minority of Christians live at peace with the Hindu majority. But in some states they are acutely vulnerable to a militant Hindu nationalist movement called Hindutva, which is striving to make India a religiously "pure" nation. Recent years have seen numerous incidents of small-scale aggression such as those listed above, and also major outbreaks of anti-Christian communal violence in Orissa and Karnataka.
It is difficult for Christians to obtain justice for offences committed against them. Local police can be slow to respond to attacks, and often no-one is prosecuted. Corruption is also rife in the courts, and Christians' unwillingness to play the system dishonestly works against them. Five years on from the Orissa violence, few people have been convicted. Christian leaders and human rights activists continue to campaign for justice, however, and in December 2012 twelve people were handed prison sentences for their part in the 2008 attacks.
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The Lee County Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit will target at least one of the following three locations for enforcement Friday, Oct. 5:
1. Ben Hill Griffin Parkway, Fort Myers / Estero
2. Estero Boulevard, Fort Myers Beach
3. Plantation Road, Fort Myers
Locations are selected based upon high incidents of crashes, traffic surveys and citizen complaints. The Sheriff's Office is committed to promoting traffic safety and enforcing the law. By focusing on violations such as red light running, speeding, DUI and others, motorists become more alert and are encouraged to obey traffic laws. The Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit and District Patrol Deputies enforce our traffic laws each day by issuing citations and warnings. Preliminary results from their cumulative activity yesterday are as follows:
Citations Issued: 65
Written Warnings Issued: 127
Citizens can help by letting us know if they observe problem areas, aggressive or impaired drivers and by their compliance with the rules of the road. To get in touch with one of our traffic deputies call (239) 477-1000. If you see a reckless or drunk driver while you are traveling in your motor vehicle in Lee County, dial 9-1-1.
This traffic enforcement advisory is available each day on the Sheriff's Office website at www.sheriffleefl.org.
Everyone is reminded to "Fasten Your Seat Belts, be courteous to drivers and pedestrians and together we can reduce traffic related fatalities, injuries and property damage.
Note: The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety has designated this week as "Drive Safely Work Week." One of the most common distractions leading to traffic crashes is the use of a cellular phone. This distraction can lead to serious injury or death in a motor vehicle. Make it a habit to pull over somewhere safe to talk or text.


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Fort Lauderdale Milestones: Then and Now
How the city came to be settled and grown into what it is today.
The geographic area where Fort Lauderdale exists today traces its
populated roots back thousands of years. Native Americans, including the
Tequesta and later the Seminole, thrived here before the first White settlers — thought to be Bahamians — encamped along the New River, notes Susan Gillis, official Centennial Historian for the city of Fort Lauderdale.
City celebrates 100-year anniversary.
|The BankAtlantic Center opens in Sunrise, welcoming the Florida Panthers NHL franchise as part of its 200-dates-a-year calendar line-up.
|The Broward Center for the Performing Arts opens, anchoring the new downtown arts and entertainment district. The Broward County Convention Center also opens near
Port Everglades.
|The City Commission instructs the police to enforce open-bottle laws, effectively ending Spring Break's run and transforming the city into a family-friendly destination.
|The NAACP stages beach "wade-ins" in an effort to desegregate Fort Lauderdale beach.
|Where the Boys Are, starring Connie Francis and George Hamilton, debuts. For the next 25 years, Fort Lauderdale is known as the "Spring Break Capital of the World."
|The New River Tunnel (later renamed the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel, after a Miami Herald editor who supported its creation) opens.
|The Elbo Room bar opens on Fort Lauderdale beach, eventually serving soldiers then spring breakers.
|Port Everglades opens, enabling area farmers to ship produce up the East Coast.
|What later becomes Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport opens as a field with a runway. The airfield later became a naval air station during WW II, then Broward County Airport, from which Mackey Air began flying to the Bahamas in the 1950s.
|Las Olas Causeway is completed, crossing the New River Sound to the beach. The original "Las Olas" (the waves) was an area hunting lodge and later a hostel.
|City incorporated.
|Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway arrives in Fort Lauderdale.
|Frank Stranahan builds a trading post on the north bank of the New River. His barge ferry carries people, wagons and goods across to the south side.
|The first army fort, named for Major William Lauderdale of the Tennessee Volunteers, is erected during the Second Seminole War.
Two more forts would follow.
Historic Images courtesy of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society Inc.


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OSWEGO, NY (January 25, 2013) – Carol D. Haynes – Oswego, NY – Car owner Steve Miller began his supermodified career in 1971. Over the years he has fielded many cars with many drivers aboard his car, nicknamed the Sweet Sixteen, which has been a familiar site at Oswego, all over the northeast and in Canada. But there was one place the team hadn't visited over the five decades and that was victory lane.
Last July at Oswego Speedway as a part of ISMA's King of Wings IV, that all changed. When Miller's driver, Texan Paul White, couldn't make the trip, Steve called Dave Gruel, whose non-winged number 50 was not running with a wing, and asked him to drive the uniquely designed blue 16. The rest is history. Gruel jumped aboard, drove the car to a heat win and picked the second starting spot for the 50-lapper. Gruel said later that he had one plan. To get out front and go hard. Fifty laps later, Steve Miller had his first career win as a car owner and Gruel, his first ISMA feature win. He definitely deserved the King of Wings title this night. Standing in victory lane with his King of Wings apparel, Gruel was more than elated.
"Unbelievable. I just can't believe this. It's awesome.. For Steve Miller and the whole team who have been racing all this time, to get their first win with them in the first time in the car. And to win with an awesome Kevin Enders motor in it – that combination made the car just unbelievable. I think I led the whole thing. I said I'm just going to stick it out there and do whatever I can to get out front on the first lap. Then I figured I'd push it on every single lap as hard as I could. I didn't have any idea how far out I was. I had a scary deal up there when I think McKnight was trying to get his lap back. Luckily we had tires at the end of the race. Today was my first time in the car. Steve's driver wasn't able to make it. I'm sure he won't be too happy. I just want to say thanks to everyone who helped make this happen." Moving into second through some heavy traffic and some attrition up front was Johnny Benson Jr. in the PATCO 74. He might have liked to move up one more spot, but considering the circumstances, he was happy in second. "It's pretty cool. I thought we might be able to win but we picked tenth and it was tough. The PATCO team did a good job. I love these supers. I even built one of my own and wrecked it so I'm back driving for Brad. I thought the race went pretty well. We started tenth, and got bottled up a little bit there. But the caution flew when it needed to and it put me up there where I wanted to be. I just didn't have enough. The 16 was just really, really fast. It was a good win for him. I hear it's their first win and that's great. It's really cool to be here to see that. You never want to finish second but it this case it's pretty cool." Charlie Schultz, the 2009 King of Wings winner, was pleased with a podium finish as his luck had dropped off at Oswego after that win.
"It would have been nice to get a repeat. Dave and I talked this week about the last six times we've been coming up here and we pretty much stunk. It's been bad from drop of the green We made some wholesale changes on the car for this race. We unloaded and it was pretty fast. I got third fast. To come out with a top three and be back on the podium is great. Thanks to whole team and Dave and Lori May for standing by me. And, thanks to the fans for coming out." As was his goal, Gruel powered to the lead at the drop of the green, pulling quickly away from Lilje and the pack. By lap 16 the Sweet Sixteen was nipping at the back of the field as Lilje, Randy Ritskes, Lou Cicconi, Jeff Locke, Charlie Schultz, Timmy Jedrzejek and more were racing for position behind. By the midway mark, with no yellows flying, it was evident that Benson was the man on the move, now up to fifth behind Jeff Locke who held fourth with Gruel, Lilje, and Ritskes still the top three. Mayhem broke out just into lap 29 when four cars jammed up in the second turn taking out Lilje, Joe Gosek in the May 77, Jeff Holbrook and Dave McKnight. Lilje, the second place runner at the time described the incident.
"We went into the corner and there were a few lappers and the leader dicing it up pretty good. I don't know what happened to start it but two or three cars got sideways and I didn't have anywhere to go. I caught a wheel and got her into the fence."
The order on the restart changed to Gruel out front with two lap cars separating him from Locke, Benson, Schultz and Lou Cicconi in the top five. A quick yellow ensued which found Jason Spaulding into the pits and returning at the tail. When the green stuck, nothing was going to mar Gruel's plan to stay out font as his car owner Miller paced a groove of his own in the pit asphalt watching. With less than ten laps to go, both driver and car owner had to suffer through one more yellow, which took second place runner Jeff Locke out of the picture. Locke said later he just got in too deep in two with his 37 pushed to the pits for a 13th place instead of a possible second. Back underway for the last time, Gruel just walked away from Johnny Benson and Charlie Schultz as Lou Cicconi and Timmy Jedrzejek moved up into top five spots. The cheer from the crowd was thunderous as Gruel crossed under the checkers all alone, with Benson, Schultz, Cicconi and Timmy J a distance behind. Mark Sammut, Ben Seitz, and Bobby Bond were the last cars in the lead lap in sixth through eight. Sprint car driver Sondi Eden finished ninth in her first ever super ride at Oswego and Bob Dawson was tenth.
Oswego Speedway's 'Best of 2012' will continue each week leading up to opening day on Saturday, May 4 with the return of the mighty ISMA Supermodifieds. QUICK RESULTS:
King of Wings ISMA Summary. July 7, 2012 Heat 1: Moe Lilje (08), 2. Bond Bond (25), 3. Jeff Locke (37), 4. Charlie Schultz (7), 5. Joe Gosek (77), 6. Michael Barnes (99), 7. Craig Rayvals (94), 8. Jason Spaulding (23), 9. BJ McDonald (66). Heat 2; 1. Bob Magner (40), 2. Timmy Jedrzejek (32) 3. Mark Sammut (78), 4. Lou Cicconi Jr. (75), 5. Ben Seitz (17), 6. Mike Lichty (84), 7. Dave McKnight (70), 8. Mike Ordway Sr. (61), 9. Sondi Eden (5), 10. Kelly Miller (81) Heat 3: 1. Dave Gruel (16), 2. Randy Ritskes (88). 3. Johnny Benson (74), 4. Jeff Holbrook (28), 5. Rob Summers (11), 6. Jamie Timmons (27), 7. AJ Russell (10), 8. Tim Ice (65), 9. Bob Dawson (28D), 10. Lou LeVea Sr. (96) Dns: Bob Haynes (48) OFN in practice: Kody Graham, Ray Graham, Dan Bowes, Rich Reid Top 12 redraw for feature 1. Lilje, 2. Gruel, 3. Ritskes, 4. Cicconi, 5.. Locke, 6. Schultz, 7. Jedrzejek, 8. Magner, 9, Bond, 10. Benson, 11. Sammut, 12.. Holbrook Consi: 1. Dave McKnight (70), 2. Craig Rayvals (94), 3. Jason Spaulding (23), 4. Sondi Eden (5), Tim Ice (65), 6. Bob Dawson (28D), 7. AJ Russell (10), 8. Lou LeVea (96), 9. Mike Ordway Sr (61), 10. BJ McDonald (66b), 11. Kelly Miller (81). Bob Haynes dns King of Wings 50: 1. David Gruel (16), 2. Johnny Benson Jr. (74), 3. Charlie Schultz(7), 4. Lou Cicconi Jr. (75), 5. Tim Jedrzejek (32), 6. Mark Sammut (78), 7. Ben Seitz (17), 8. Bobby Bond (25), 9. Sondi Eden (5), 10. Bobby Dawson (28D), 11. Jamie Timmons (27), 12. Craig Rayvals (94), 13. Jeff Locke (37), 14. Jason Spaulding (23), 15. Bobby Magner (40), 16. Moe Lilje (08), 17. Dave McKnight (70), 18. Joe Gosek (77), 19. Jeff Holbrook (28), 20. Mike Lichty (84), 21. Tim Ice (08), 22. Randy Ritskes (88), 23. Rob Summers (11), 24. Michael Barnes (99), 25. AJ Russell (10)
About Oswego Speedway: Oswego Speedway, a sports entertainment company, is a 5/8 mile semi-banked pavement racing oval located off the shores of Lake Ontario in scenic Oswego, NY. Oswego Speedway has been a continuously run weekly racing venue since August, 1951. The premier open-wheel pavement short track cars in the world, Supermodifieds, run weekly at Oswego Speedway making Oswego the only weekly Supermodified racing venue in the world. The Small Block Supermodifieds accompany the full blown Supers on a weekly Saturday night schedule which runs from May through September. Oswego Speedway is mentioned in racing circles as the "Indy of the East," as no fewer than a dozen past and present competitors have competed at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway including Mario Andretti, arguably the greatest driver of all time, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, along with former International Classic Champions Bentley Warren, Joe Gosek, and Davey Hamilton.
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Parent advice
From our panel of staff contributors
You could explain to him that others are getting the wrong impression of him. That probably won't turn him into a latter-day Cary Grant, but it might at least get him thinking. A shy teenage boy is dealing with a lot of issues, so you can't push him or nag about this. He'll likely grow out of it. And you never know, that perceived rudeness might make him a hot commodity among a certain segment of the female teenage population. There is no explaining how teen brains work.
I'd first take a look at who is telling you he is shy and in which situations? Is this something that's appeared with the teenage years or has he always been shy? Is it only with outsiders or within the family unit? Are there some areas of interest that he's more comfortable talking about? Model for him appropriate social behavior (introducing yourself to new people in comfortable social situations, greeting people he already knows) and explain (lightly) how you handle such things. If he has a tough time thinking of something to talk about, mention fallbacks: weather, sports, movies.
Expert advice
Get to the bottom of two questions before you decide whether his shyness is truly a topic that needs addressing.
"Is he shy in every venue?" asks child psychologist Jennifer Powell-Lunder, co-author of "Teenage as a Second Language" (Adams Media). "Often you'll see teen boys open up with their teammates or friends or people they feel more comfortable around."
If he has the ability to successfully engage and socialize with others, you have less to worry about.
"He may just feel like he doesn't have much to say around adults," Powell-Lunder says. "He could be intimidated."
Second, she wonders, "Is this about you or him?"
"If he has friends and he's getting along with others, is this really a big issue?" she asks. "Certainly, people need to be socialized. But are you sure that people think he's being a snob or is that just a perception you're worried about people having?"
Then again, if he appears to be genuinely struggling with social skills in multiple settings, and people are truly responding negatively to him, you should step in and give him some gentle guidance.
"You can't just say, 'Hey, you know people think you're rude,'" Powell-Lunder says. "Adolescence is all about egocentrism, so they already have an imaginary audience they believe is watching every single thing they're doing. You're going to create so much more anxiety if you draw that kind of attention to his shyness."
Find ways to make him more comfortable, not less. Help him find activities in which he can excel and spend time with like-minded peers, which should ease his anxiety and boost his confidence. And let him know how much he adds to a gathering.
"Tell him, 'You know, people like to hear your opinion,'" she says.
Then listen, and encourage others to do so, when he does speak up.
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