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In short: Thanks to the RO and all the marshalls for their support in such wet and muddy conditions todayDate of review: August 27, 2012
In short: Superb organisation which includes a series of organised recces which were greatIn full: A must for all those who enjoy off road marathons. Quite tough but no pain no gain - take advantage of the organised recces in the months leading up to the day of the event, the organisers and marshalls are friendly and helpful and want everyone to have a great race. Fab technical top I am proud to wear! Thank you Date of review: September 11, 2011
In short: Superb organisation and super-friendly marshallsIn full: I am overwhelmed by the quality of the marshalls on this one. Without exception they were all great - really good, solid and genuinely supportive, even asking how I felt near the end (!) that's a first. What a lovely lovely race. I simply can't wait for this opportunity again, roll on next year. Thank you for keeping such a great tradition going. Date of review: July 10, 2011
In short: Running this marathon was a dream, spectacular terrain and sceneryIn full: The organisation was very good, very friendly and supportive marshalls at checkpoints. The views were stunning it was a delight to be taking part in this marathon, the ladies' changing room and showers apparently an improvement on recent years, too. Date of review: June 4, 2011
In short: a really challenging race and great routeIn full: Very good organisation, marshalls really supportive and fab hoody at the end, thanksDate of review: June 4, 2011
In short: Kind of laid back and low-key but that's fine by meIn full: I thought there were improvements on the previous year eg baggage lorries were much closer to the new finish this year; also not running on those bouncy mats at the finish was a real treat. It's not London and it doesn't pretend to or aspire to be either. The Edinburgh marathon is more relaxed and support is better if the weather is. However the t-shirt is horrible. It does not even commemorate that you have run a marathon on it though, come on. I will come back but would like a nicer shirt please next year. Date of review: June 4, 2011
In short: very well organised and an overwhelming experience thank you Date of review: May 15, 2011
In short: The hardest half marathon I have done but one of the most enjoyableIn full: This was very hard. There were some good views of the South Pennines in the distance, other than that I was oblivious to most of the route as I was either running down hill at a pace my legs have never encountered or trying to work out the best way to get up the hills. Should I go for little shuffles or power strides, should I look up at the sky and pretend I am not running up a long hill, or look down and grit my teeth? By the time I was nearing the end all I wanted was my goody bag. There wasn't one! Just a great shirt and a bottle of water. I felt so great by this point that the missing goody bag was easily forgotten. They are for kids anyway. Great day out, superb organisation, friendly marshalls, good atmosphere, highly recommended. Date of review: February 13, 2011
In short: This was my fourth Dash, I always enjoy this oneIn full: My time has come down each year by around 2 minutes, I have no complaints at all it's well organised, a good atmosphere, obviously there is little to entertain you whilst running along a road out of town and back but if you want entertainment there are other races to look at. Date of review: January 5, 2011
In short: Thank you for all the organisation supply or provisions and support In full: The good people who provided much needed support in the heat should be applauded! Jelly babies, hose pipes, sponges, buckets of water... Really nice people shouting out whole hearted motivation - thank you to you all. I loved every minute of this marathon, my first and will definitely be back. Date of review: May 31, 2010
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"Finding out that your child has a disability is like a curve ball," Paul Rogers says. "You don't see it coming. Then you have two children with disabilities, and it's the curve ball that never ends."
Paul was a student at Mississippi College School of Law and his wife, Mandy, was a nurse at St. Dominic Hospital when their first son, Nathan, was born in 1985. Nathan was born with a range of serious physical and intellectual disabilities; the diagnosis would eventually include a severe hearing loss, speech and language disorder, seizure disorder, growth hormone deficiency, severe attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and an intellectual disability.
"What do you do when you have a baby who's so sick?" Mandy Rogers says. "You adjust."
While Paul completed law school and began his legal career, Mandy quit her job to care for Nathan. Over the next three years, the young family juggled the pressures of the legal profession with the challenges of caring for their son, who required treatment from a seemingly endless procession of doctors, therapists, and specialists.
In 1988, Paul Rogers opened his own law practice. That same year, the Rogers' second son, Ben, was born. At birth, Ben seemed to be a perfectly healthy baby, but by the time he was a toddler, the Rogers knew something was wrong. Ben was eventually diagnosed with many of the same disabilities as his older brother. There was no name for the spectrum of disabilities affecting Nathan and Ben; genetic testing revealed nothing. Paul and Mandy had nothing to guide them except a poor prognosis.
"I got in my car and I hit the steering wheel so hard I broke my ring," Mandy says of the day she realized she and Paul would be raising not one child with profound disabilities, but two.
But while life had thrown the Rogers a curve ball, they were far from out. Instead, Paul and Mandy responded with a game-changing idea that would transform not only their own family, but also the lives of dozens of people with disabilities.
In 1991, the Rogers helped organize a baseball game for children with disabilities. That first game was pla
yed on a field in Ridgeland, Mississippi, on a scorching afternoon in August. The 18 children playing had disabilities including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, blindness, and a wide range of intellectual disabilities. The stands were filled with parents who had never dreamed they would see their children do something as wonderfully ordinary as play a baseball game.
"That was the first team sport activity Claire had ever been able to participate in," says Charlotte Myers, whose daughter, Claire, has cerebral palsy. "For the first time in her life, she was more than just an observer."
"I think everyone in the stands cried the whole game," Mandy Rogers recalls. "Just seeing those kids on the field, having a good time with other kids like them, was really something special."
It was supposed to be a one-time event, but the game was such a hit with the players and their families that the Rogers organized four more games the following summer. The third year, what had started as a one-weekend event was expanded to an entire season. Paul and Mandy Rogers, an attorney and a stay-at-home mom, found themselves the "commissioners" of a full-fledged baseball league. Given the make-up of the teams' members, it was only fitting that the league be christened "Challenger."
This year, the Ridgeland Challenger Baseball League celebrated its 20th season. The league has grown from the original 18 to 125 players ages five to 67 playing on four youth teams and six adult teams. The adult teams were formed, Paul explains, "because the original kids grew up and didn't want to stop playing." The season runs from April through June, with each team playing two games per week at Ridgeland's Hite Wolcott Park. The Challenger League is open to any child or adult with a disability who wants to play, at no cost to the players or their families. While most of the players are from the Jackson Metro area, the league includes several players who travel up to 100 miles for the opportunity to take a swing.
The Rogers and a dedicated group of volunteers work hard to give the games a Major League atmosphere. For two hours, children and adults who are relegated to watching from the bleachers during "regular" sporting events are transformed into superstars. The stands are packed with cheering spectators, and a photographer is on hand to snap team pictures and capture action shots.
As he or she approaches the plate, each batter's name is announced over the public address system and walk up music blasts across the field. When "Brown-eyed Girl" plays, the crowd knows it's Kayla Weaver up to bat. Jon Thomas Barnes takes the plate to the tune of "Big Bad John." Hearing his name called over the PA system and walking up to the theme from "Superman" is especially important to "Superman" Tyler Cannon, who is visually impaired. The first time he heard his name called, Tyler stopped in his tracks, turned to his father and said, "Did you hear that, Dad? He said my name."
Every player has a chance to bat. Players who cannot hit the ball or run the bases on their own are assigned a volunteer buddy who bats for them and assists them from base to base. No score is kept; the inning ends when every player has had a turn at bat.
It's a simple concept built a-round a simple game, but the results are nothing less than profound.
"The first two years, we just sat in the stands and cried because it was so wonderful," says Geri Clark, whose 29-year-old son, Jimmy, has Down syndrome. Jimmy has played with the Challenger League for 19 years.
"Even after all these years, I can't describe it without crying. Most of the time, it's like these children and adults are in their own world looking in on our world. For those few hours every week, it's their world and we're the ones looking in. We're the observers and they're the focus."
"I like to catch, batter, and outfield," Jimmy Clark says with a wide smile. "I'm a good player and I have a lot of friends on the team. I can't wait for baseball season. Can't wait."
Almost every parent describes that same sense of anticipation as the opening game approaches. Players ask about baseball weeks before the season begins, and some families have been known to arrive at the field hours early on game day because their player was just too excited to wait at home. The Challenger League eases the frustration and sense of "missing out" that children with disabilities feel when they can't participate in extracurricular activities at school, and the games add some normalcy to the lives of the players and their families.
Tim Matheny's 28-year-old son, Daniel, has an undiagnosed condition that may be a form of autism. Daniel still has the ball from the 1996 Challenger game in which he hit his first home run. Today, Daniel plays on a Challenger adult team and Tim Matheny serves as a volunteer coach.
"The Challenger League has meant everything to us," Tim Matheny says. "What other opportunity are these children ever going to have to play ball? Plus they have the camaraderie of playing with friends who are like them. It tickles me to see them enjoy themselves so much. The gleam in those eyes is something else. Even the ones who can't talk seem to be saying, 'Hey, hey, I'm on the ball field! Look at me!'"
The Challenger League could not operate without the generosity of corporate sponsors who provide uniforms and year-end trophies and cover other operating costs, or without the dedicated volunteers who serve as coaches, buddies, and cheerleaders. Volunteers come from all walks of life and include individuals, families, and groups from local churches and high schools.
"We target the high school girls," Mandy Rogers says with a smile, "because then we get the high school boys."
Laura Sue McClure is a science teacher at Madison Central High School and the faculty sponsor for the Interact Club, the high school version of the Rotary Club. McClure sends club members to volunteer at the Challenger games every season.
"I tell my students, 'If you hate school, if you're mad at your parents, if you're upset that you don't have a nice car, go over there and volunteer. You'll come back with a whole new perspective,'" McClure says. "It's really something to see these high school students – including the big, tough football players – go to a game, meet the players, and just melt. Once they've gone to volunteer once, they all want to go back again."
"What makes these [young volunteers] so special is that they go to school with our kids," says Ken Weaver, whose 16-year-old daughter, Kayla, has cerebral palsy. "No adult can take the place of these girls and boys. The interaction with peer buddies is invaluable to our kids' self-esteem and frankly, warms the parents' hearts like nothing else. Every parent knows that one day we won't be there to look after our kids, but knowing there are kids like these buddies out there helps."
One of those kids was Dustin Crum, who began serving as a Challenger League buddy when he was eight years old and continued to volunteer for more than a decade. Dustin was so inspired by the experience that he decided to make assisting the disabled his life's work. Today, Dustin Crum, now 27, is a recreational therapist with the North Mississippi Regional Center, a residential facility for people with intellectual disabilities located in Oxford, Mississippi. Crum has also launched an Oxford Challenger Baseball and Softball League modeled after the program begun by Paul and Mandy Rogers.
"Volunteering with the Challenger League gave me my first taste of the joy that comes from doing something for someone else," Crum recalls. "Without the Challenger League and Paul and Mandy Rogers' guidance, I would not be where I am today. I am so blessed to have this career and the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of people with disabilities."
The Rogers' efforts on behalf of those with disabilities made national headlines in 2006, when USA Weekend recognized them as among the three most "caring coaches" in America. The Rogers were chosen from among 700 youth sports coaches nationwide. The accolades are nice, but for Paul and Mandy Rogers, the enthusiasm of the players and the gratitude of their families is what truly make it all worthwhile.
"I have a longtime association with some of the adult players that means so much to me," Paul Rogers says. "If I walk into the Mustard Seed, they all call out, 'Hey, Coach Paul!' and want to high-five me. Parents tell me their kids start putting their baseball hats on in January. They are just so appreciative for the opportunity to participate in something ordinary that the rest of the world takes for granted."
The Challenger League players have that opportunity because Paul and Mandy Rogers never equated "disabled" with "hopeless." Their belief that individuals with disabilities can lead productive, joyful lives is exemplified in their sons.
Today, Nathan "Nate" Rogers is 25 years old and works at the Mustard Seed, a vocational center for developmentally disabled adults. In his free time, Nate enjoys working on his computer and predicting who will be the next couple to be eliminated from "Dancing with the Stars."
Twenty-two-year-old Ben Rogers works for the City of Ridgeland Recreation and Parks Department as a groundskeeper, keeping the ball fields where he loves to play tidy. Ben is proud of his recent blood donation, made in honor of a friend in need; he smiles when he shares that while he had no problems donating blood, his mother, a former nurse, got sick. In 2011, Paul and Ben Rogers will travel to Greece, where Ben will participate on a bowling team in the Special Olympics.
Nate and Ben both play in the Challenger League, and Nate has also served as a buddy for some of the other players. Both young men are graduates of Madison Central High School, where both won the Jaguar Spirit Award as seniors. Ben was the manager of the Madison Central football team and still contributes to the school's athletic booster club.
Of course, Paul and Mandy Rogers can't help but wonder how life would have been different if their sons had not faced so many challenges. They know they won't celebrate the traditional milestones, like seeing their sons graduate from college or get married, and they will never know the joy of having grandchildren. But at the end of the day, the Rogers choose to focus not on the difficulties, but on the blessings.
"As an attorney, I see a lot of families with children who have made bad decisions and caused their parents terrible pain," Paul Rogers says. "I know our boys won't do that."
"I guess the thing that upsets me the most is low expectations," Mandy Rogers says. "One of the few things that can still frustrate me is when I hear someone say that a person with a disability can't work or play or have a meaningful life. We look at the players in the Challenger League and we look at our own sons, and we see proof that that is absolutely not true."


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5 Tips For a Birthday Party on a BudgetApril 13, 2012
So, my almost 7-year-old is having a birthday next week. He's very excited. In fact, he's been talking about his special day for weeks if not months! He's really big into Lego's this year and he's having a Lego Ninjago party. The problem? They don't make Lego Ninjago birthday supplies. I had to think outside the box for this one. As much time as a mother of three has, I opted to go online for some help. I found many different people and websites that offer to make you specialized party supplies. I managed to go through a website called Etsy and I was able to get four goody bag favors for each kid and cupcake toppers all with Ninjago labels. They are really great and I know my little guy was pretty pumped when he saw them. I will probably add some candy fillers into the goody bags and we'll be good to go!
This year I really sat and thought long and hard about who to invite and who not to invite. The problem I ran into is now that my son is in first grade, he has many friends in his class. Since many of mine and my husbands friends had kids at pretty much the same time, I had to really cut the list down this year. What I really needed to do was ask my son who HE wanted to invite to HIS party. So, what it came down to was he wanted all the boys in his class.(He told me he doesn't play with the girls which is fine by me!) He also wanted to invite a few friends from his kindergarten class last year and a couple of his good friends outside of school. The grand total was 14 which is a perfect size right? Had I invited all my friends and all their kids the total would have been around 30. I really wanted to keep it simple this year. I think simple is better and I think having that many people at a birthday party can get overwhelming especially for a seven-year old. I know how overwhelming they can get because I've done the big birthday parties in the past and I know how much work it is for me!
I decided to come up with some tips to do a birthday party on a budget. Here they are!
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I think it's important to set your budget amount for your party. I know how crazy and out of hand birthdays cost! It's good to know how much you want to spend that way you can cut corners and/or add details to the party.
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Anyway, after the first week of slowly overcoming my fear of getting eaten by dogs and bears, I settled into a rhythm. I started to like it. Not many people are out at 3 in the morning and I took to running roads right down the painted lines with my headlamp off. I could see the potholes just by looking for breaks in the line. I never saw more than three or four cars, and the roadways became my own private trails.
I found routes I could do in two hours or less and looked forward to the constellations I'd see with each change in direction. The Big Dipper, Orion, Corona Borealis, the North Star and various shooting stars all became my night lights. When the moon was up, I took to real trails and needed lights only in narrow gorges or heavily forested areas.
The wild animals left me alone, though several close run-ins with foxes and deer scared the bejeebers out of me. Or maybe the coffee I slugged did that. Either way, no one can see the bejeebers on your shorts at 4 a.m. unless they've been eating a lot of carrots. The animals seemed like they couldn't care less, after leaping briefly out of my way.
I was thinking about some friends west of Denver who are banished from running trails at night by their local officials, and how in a similar situation, I wouldn't be allowed to run trails at all, when I heard it.
The noise sounded like the time I rolled a tractor tire down a big hill through the forest except for the fact it was rolling uphill! It continued for about 10 seconds; then, dead silence. It was not a fox, not a deer. It was big, judging by the sounds of the branches it was breaking. It was over an embankment, but my brain ceased to function rationally, as the drums in my ears were incessantly pounding one frightening thought into my head. "BEAR-BEAR-BEAR-BEAR!"
It took two seconds to shine my light toward the invisible noisemaker, but I quickly realized my vision hadn't yet developed enough to see through rocks, dirt and trees. I figured it couldn't, either, so I turned tail and ran without sticking around to find out anything else. For the next few nights I took a different route, but I'm going back tomorrow. If you don't hear from me, look for bear scat with a headlamp stuck in it.
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One summer we managed a guest ranch in the New Mexico mountains. Besides taking reservations, cleaning cabins and doing laundry, we had a string of dude horses. We took care of the horses and accompanied guests on trail rides in the nearby forest.
We had one other duty —trash. The cabins were built around a square, and the middle space had firewood for the fireplaces, children's swings — and trash cans. Those were the days before bear-proof trash receptacles, and most of our guests LOVED watermelon. Bears loved it, too.
Most mornings began with watermelon leftover cleanup, because during the night the bears would dump the trash and help themselves, making a huge, sticky mess in the process.
The guests, of course, wanted to "see a bear." They often did, but we worried about their safety. They paid no attention to our insistence that wild bears are NOT gentle, cuddly animals.
We got along all right, though, until one night a bear got in the horse pen. The horses, being for the most part smarter than people, knew the bear was not their friend. They ran over the fences, majorly wrecking the pens, and scattered into the woods. A couple of horses met the sharp end of the bear's claws during their getaway.
After we fixed the damage, gathered and doctored the horses, we called the local game warden, Clifford, although we hesitated because he was one of those guys who's "proud of themselves."
He brought a culvert trap and set it up by the barn. The idea is for the bear to crawl into the culvert to get to the bait in the back. When he pulls on the bait, a door slams shut behind him. It's mounted on a trailer so the problem bear can easily be hauled farther into the wilderness and released.
The bear we caught turned out to be a "she" — and she had a cub.
When we showed up, Mom grunted to her baby. He minded Mom as good little young'uns do, and shinnied up a nearby scrawny pine tree.
We called game warden Clifford again. After surveying the situation, he hitched onto the trap and moved it a bit. The baby cried and started down the tree, but Mom wouldn't hear of it. She REALLY grunted at him that time, and he climbed almost to the top of the tree — at least 40 feet.
What to do. He couldn't shoot it with a tranquilizer dart because the fall would be too far. We sorta enjoyed big ego Clifford's dilemma.
Finally, Clifford put on heavy gloves and a long-sleeved jacket, tied a rope around himself and a fairly stout branch and started climbing.
The baby cried, Mama grunted, the tree swayed, Clifford climbed. At last he was just under the baby, within reach, and we all learned that people aren't the only mammals that lose control of bodily functions when they're REALLY scared.
Whatever that baby ate the night before gave "stink" a whole new dimension. Clifford was covered in it. He bravely held on, though, and they made it down in a crumpled, smelly heap.
Poor Clifford got no sympathy at all.


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Who's to blame for the teachers' crisis in Wisconsin? Andrew Rotherham has blame to go around.
The liberals want local control in Wisconsin, while Republican Gov. Scott Walker doesn't trust local school boards to drive a hard bargain with teachers' unions, writes Mike Petrilli on Flypaper.
Indiana Democrats left the state to block a right-to-work bill. Gov. Mitch Daniels said he won't ask state police to pursue the missing legislators. He wants his fellow Republicans to postpone the bill.
Teachers' pensions are unsustainable, writes RiShawn Biddle.
Does the conflict in Madison represent "creative destruction" or plain old destruction? Government workers are in for a painful transition, writes Walter Russell Mead in The American Interest. But the only alternative to improving productivity is seeing living standards decline for all Americans, he argues.
What we've got to do here is to deploy technology and aggressive, creative reform and restructuring to health, education and government. Much bureaucratic work in government is routine; computers are going to have to replace people wherever possible. Staffs are going to have to shrink in ways that are simply unimaginable to present day government workers and their union leaders.
The educational system is going to change radically, Mead predicts. Students will be "evaluated and credentialed on the basis of what they know, not on the basis of time served." That will end the pressure to earn meaningless degrees.
Employees will demonstrate their competence to employers by passing exams in different job-relevant subjects that test real skills; the training for these tests will be provided by entrepreneurial organizations that are likely to rapidly replace many of the inefficient and expensive post-secondary educational institutions around today, once appropriate systems to regulate their practices and monitor their performance can be developed. (Traditional liberal arts education needs to survive, and it will, but education and training are very different things that require very different approaches. To promote economic growth and social mobility, and to help individuals continually retool their skills in a changing economy, we need to separate training from education and make training as widely available, cheap and convenient as possible.)
I was a union (Newspaper Guild) member for many years when I worked for a Knight Ridder newspaper. Knight Ridder, once the second largest newspaper chain in the U.S., no longer exists. My former colleagues have taken wage cuts, unpaid furloughs, "give backs" on benefits and still seen two thirds of the editorial staff laid off. If your employer's business model becomes obsolete, workers have to adapt, which means working harder and smarter to replace your laid-off colleagues, finding a new job and learning to live on less money. "Creative destruction" is a bitch, but it beats destruction.


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Executive Director's Report - Week of March 15, 2010
By Steve Locke
Christine Battcock, Manager of Junior High Performance and Marketing, let us know of a visit last week by the USA Field Hockey National Women's Team to El Capitan High School in Lakeside, CA. The team was promoting the upcoming AtaHolding FIH Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier to be held later this month at the United States Olympic Committee's Training Center near San Diego. They also spent a fair amount of time discussing what it was like to be an elite athlete and Olympian.
Sandy Martinez is the Athletic Director at ECHS and she was amazed at the positive impact the visit had upon her students. You don't meet Olympians every day, and when you do it is incredibly meaningful. Athletes participating were Carrie Lingo, Lauren Crandall, Sara Silvetti, Jesse Gey, Sarah Dawson, Katie O'Donnell, and Pam Spuehler.
A low-key but powerful event, The USA Field Hockey Women's Indoor Open, was staged last weekend in Parker Ford, PA. KC Collins, of the USA Field Hockey staff, is the event director. KC indicated that this event has been in a decline for the past several years, but is now showing signs of renewed growth. Ten teams participated and, as this report is written the week prior to distribution, results are not included here, but can be found on the USA Field Hockey website (http://www.usafieldhockey.com/ ). The Women's Indoor Open was conducted at the Training Center, a facility owned and operated by Richard and Jun Kentwell. The event extended throughout the weekend, and hosted a Futures session Sunday morning with many of the Futures' participants anticipated to stay into the afternoon to watch the competitions. Thanks to Richard, Jun and KC for staging this event.
Mailbag. It is great to receive mail generated by the weekly report-especially when it is encouraging (this is not to say we don't like getting critical mail, too, as constructive criticism helps us grow). Here is a message from Maine concerning last week's report:
Great weekly report. Very informative and thought provoking on many fronts; playing, coaching, officiating, safety, etc. Our family, at the moment, fits into all of these categories, and has benefitted greatly from USA Field Hockey. We hope to have many more years of involvement watching one daughter play in college or maybe more, one officiate post college as well as coach in a small college, and the old man of the family continue to play at festival as well as at smaller venues ( often the only male). Maybe we can one day be involved in helping young men and women learn and love the sport as we have.-The Chadbourne family from the "boonies of Maine.
Below is apiece from our good friend Mim concerning last week's report and the Town Hall meetings held at the USA Field Hockey National Indoor Tournament:
As a long time (long in the tooth) official & coach, may I suggest the following to improve the game and help reduce the aforementioned concerns:
1. Players' safety is affected by game officiating: good officials control the game & still allow "flow", but not all former players can make the transition to officiating without mentoring
2. All new or returning (after an absence of 5 or more yrs) officials should be provided with a mentor: someone to discuss the game with during the season, someone to work games with (maybe 4 during the typical 20 game season), someone who would share insight into the art of officiating
3. Each officials' board should retain a portion of the dues of all members to hire an official to oversee the mentors and do at-game observations of newly rated officials--perhaps a retired or recuperating, experienced official could serve this role
4. Goggles--I'm from Massachusetts and have found that the goggles reduce not only eye injuries, but cheek bone injuries and do not impede the players at all ... mouth guards that are moderately priced ($5-10. range) offer far better protection to the teeth than the typically issued $.50 mouth guard provided by schools ... Lastly, for the players' safety: shoot any adult that says: "Just have them wear helmets and let them play!"
5. I welcome the training official into my practices--love the extra help when doing corner reps, half-field O v D drills, doesn't have to be formal 2-team scrimmages
Thanks for listening--grow the sport,
Mim Jarema
Receiving notes, obtaining input, and/or complaining or complimenting is helpful. We need to know what you are thinking and what you want. Thanks for writing!
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OK, guys, sorry about that. We have our 12th signed in, neither of us have power yet, but we will make something work. I have power at work, dunno if its blocked or not, but I can find a work around probably.
What I am hearing is that Tonight is out, Tomorrow is out (Eddie T), Thursday is out (multiple) and then we are into labor day weekend, which we are all trying to avoid I believe.
So far I THINK Wed night is ok for all - The only hangup is ed is flying in from NC wednesday, and would need a 7:30 start at the absolute earliest, and really 8 would be better to provide a bit of cushion, because he flies in @5:30 and has to get out to Mentor.
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Thankful part IIIPosted Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at 2:37 PM
This year, I will Thankfully celebrate my first Thanksgiving as Mrs. Wayne Lehto. I love the name, all that goes along with it, but I have to admit, I forget sometimes. I was Jessie Miller for so many years. Longer than I was Jessie Clark. I'm thankful that I was lucky enough to be married to 2 men that I can respect. Though it didn't, in the end, work out for my first husband and I, I have respect for him in many ways. I'm thankful beyond measure to be able to now be married to what I consider, "The Love of My Life" yes….I know that that sounds so gushy/mushy/cliché, but, hey, it's my life, and my blog, and that's the way I see it! Everyone should be so lucky and also, lucky enough to 'realize' it. Some people have a great life, but are too busy looking for 'something else'? There is plenty to worry about in these days… just watch the news to see and learn about it. But if you go ahead and take a deep breath, and look at what is already yours for the appreciation…. Life is Good. I've always had the support of the best Mom and Dad that I could imagine, Brother and Sisters who were able to fight/squabble and love with the best…. and children who blessed me with God's greatest gift…Grandchildren to love and torture to their little heart's delight. Adding to it, a man who loves me, and shares the love of everything I cherish…. well, what's not to appreciate? He is giving of his time, and his strengths…. I look forward to many many years of happiness with him.
We'll be doing our celebration this year, at Evan and Jessica's new house. This is their 1st Thanksgiving at their new place. I'm thankful to them, and for them, that they are hosting dinner this year. Jessica being married to Evan is one of my "Greatest Blessings" She brings to him a wholeness that is so good to see. I couldn't have asked for a better daughter in law than I've been gifted with. She is generous beyond measure and good to her core. She survived Cancer at a young age, and came out on top, when everyone told her it was basically hopeless. Even hearing those words would defeat a lesser person, but not her. She rose to the occasion and created more occasions along the way. This year, (last month) she had another birthday of what she calls her Rebirth. Being free of cancer. Thank God, for saving this life line and sharing her with my family.
The things to appreciate in life, tomorrow and all days, is love of God, who gave us our lives, family and ability to appreciate the 'tiny' things in life.
I hope as everyone sits down tomorrow to appreciate a beautiful meal before you, take a moment to bow your heads …hold hands, and sincerely think of each person sitting next to you, across from you…all around the table. Remember those that are no longer here, but with you in spirit always, or those that couldn't be with you. They will be hopefully sitting at a table, and sending the same mirrored thoughts of love back to you. Don't just go through the "motions" but look inside your heart and feel it.
Don't waste a moment by not appreciating EACH moment that you have.
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Topic: [ANN] El Dorado - an open-source forum in Rails
I'm pleased to report that I got my pet project - El Dorado - finished up enough (when is anything ever truly finished?) to launch last weekend. So far, things are looking pretty good. I successfully imported an existing PunBB database from the forum I had running, and I also grabbed all of the user-uploaded files, etc. The resulting database has around 35k rows, and it's been up and running without any major problems for a week now. The best part is that my "loyal user base" - of 15 people or so - has found little to complain about so far. Rejoice!
You can check the live app out, and you can also checkout (as in 'svn co') the app if you're interested in playing around with it. Since I created this app to replace an existing site, you'll notice right away that there's some obvious stuff missing - in particular, there's no way to create new forums. I suppose I'll do that when somebody says to me "hey, Trevor, how do you make a new forum with this stupid thing?" But, until that day...
El Dorado: http://code.google.com/p/eldorado/source - the code
NewAthens: http://newathens.org - the live site running on the code
PunBB: http://punbb.org - the php forum app that the code is replacing
Known Issues: http://trevorturk.backpackit.com/pub/972326
Future Enhancements: http://trevorturk.backpackit.com/pub/972338
Refactoring Ideas: http://trevorturk.backpackit.com/pub/1150742
My weblog and support forum: http://almosteffortless.com
I understand that some of you RailsForum.com folk are working on their own project, but perhaps you'll be able to pick something interested up out of this one. The importing rake task is somewhat ugly, but it gets the job done and is certainly worth checking out. I'm fairly happy with the cached_fields stuff I'm doing for tracking the latest posts, etc. Anyway, if and when you guys publish your code, I'll be all over it, since I know there are areas in this app that could have been done better.
I don't intend for this app to be a simple "rails replacement for punbb," which I should make clear. I think of it more as an app for running a "community site," meaning I'd like to add more major features, which you can glean from the future enhancements list I linked to above.
I'd absolutely love to get some feedback about this. It's very easy to download and get up and running, simply have a look at the README file. Patches more than welcome.
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Posted on 06/22/2006 2:24:59 AM PDT by croak
The antiwar Lefts claim that Bush lied about Saddam Hussein possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction has itself been proven a lie.
Last night Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-MI, released the declassified overview of a report produced by the National Ground Intelligence Center, the group that has searched Iraq for Saddam Husseins WMDs since 2004. Its stunning revelation: there were WMDs, after all.
Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions, which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf war chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf war chemical munitions are assessed to still exist. That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-MI, noted this is significant, since the impression that the Iraqi Survey Group left with the American people was they didn't find anything.
The report further justified President Bushs rationale for toppling Saddam: he had WMDs that he may have transferred to terrorists.
Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the Black Market. Use of these weapons by terrorist or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside of Iraq cannot be ruled out. The most likely munitions remaining are Sarin- and mustard [gas]-filled projectiles.
For emphasis, Sen. Santorum added, And I underscore filled. Ready-to-use WMDs apparently dot the Iraqi map. As evidence continues to pour in about Saddams connections to al-Qaeda, Zarqawi, and other terrorist networks prior to the invasion, the nightmare scenario writes itself.
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(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
This has been reported over and over and nobody cares. To the world there never will be WMDs. There was an Iraqi general who wrote a book about how stuff was taken to Syria. There is a whole slew of information about that and where it was taken. It doesn't matter. Nobody is listening. And Bush won't detail what they found.
Liberals don't care. The Big Lie was shouted often and loud enough so that it's a given, along with 'Bush avoided duty in Vietnam, Bush is stupid,' etc.. The MSM will attempt to avoid discussion of WMD's except on Fox where Moira Laisson dismissed them as 'degraded, unusable, so what'.
A bigger nightmare for the MSM is the horrific torture/murder of those two US servicemen. They're terrified it will enrage Americans to the point where dem's 'get out of Iraq now' won't work with voters. If the admin. takes the gloves off and fights the Iraq war the way it should be fought, if they release more information, more sites of WMD's, sets up photo ops of what they've found, the press won't be able to ignore it although they'll say it doesn't matter...the amounts were too small, weren't used, blah, blah, blah.
Dems think the only thing republicans have as a winning issue is national security/military might. If they can turn this into Vietnam redux, they think they'll retake congress and the WH with the connivance of the MSM. They're traitors and they don't care.
It IS frustrating that the left has their collective heads in the sand on this. I wish they had better sense. The world would be a little safer.
You should see the Google news search for WMD right now... a slew of liberal activist groups burying all the "real media" articles... it's scary. First time I've seen that happen and I use google news search a lot... CNN buried the news in another story -- The Wash Post is saying; "These are not the WMD you were looking for..."
"If the admin. takes the gloves off and fights the Iraq war the way it should be fought, if they release more information, more sites of WMD's, sets up photo ops of what they've found, the press won't be able to ignore it although they'll say it doesn't matter..."
I agree with you on that - I believe our military and this administration needs to be more pro-active in getting this information out to the public -- talk about it constantly... say "I told you so" a little more often now...
Tony Snow needs to fill the Press Room with pics of what's been found - better yet - offer the press up-close personal views of some of the canisters and see if they are willing to take a sniff -- after all this stuff is all harmless now that it's so old, right? (o:
This isn't even on the radar at DU, as far as I can tell. They're still hung up on threads about why Bush is evil, why he hates the American people so much, which syndrome of alcohol abuse he is exhibiting, etc. That place truly is a mad house.
The same could be said re: Bill & Hillary. Look at all the stuff that's out there about the two of them. There's a whole slew of information and it doesn't matter.
They'd say so what if NYC & DC were nuked on the same day... and then they'd blame Bush.
Alan Colmes on H&C said they were the "wrong WMD" and were "all pre-1991 and unusable" and that this report doesn't mean anything, implying that the release was for a Santorum election boost. The impression I had from the 2 congress-critters was that they found out about this report from an outside-the-government source, and only got access to it because they asked specifically for this report.
They said that Intelligence will only provide any information to congress if you know exactly what to ask for. That makes me wonder if part of the issue isn't so much the preference for 'closedness' of the Bush administration, but that the Intelligence Agencies are playing the same game with this kind of info they are with translation - 'we don't have the resources, that report isn't ready to be released, we don't have enough info to put together the pieces of the puzzle', etc.
The Left are testing the resolve of the Right.
You will never 'convince' the Left of anything, since reason is not part of the Liberal mindset.
You will only RIDICULE the Left incessantly until they drop the subject.
Get busy!
Ridicule the sheep Left about WMD, and they will bleet something else.
The Dems have been having a very hard time lately. The bad news just keeps on coming.
Don't worry, those weapons were old and degraded. If so, have the msm go into a room and open them.
Interesting wording. I believe only mustard nerve agent degrades, while sarin is still as potent as it was when made.
Can we come up with a stupid slogan like their's?
Dems lied, now they're fried?
I'm sure there's a better one out there but just can't use my brain that well before coffee. :)
It enraged people around here! ALOT of the cars have flags on them again, I saw 4 bumper stickers that neighbors added that say NUKE Mecca, people have put their flags back up outside their houses...all this started on the day we found the soldiers. Reminds me of 9/11 again and how many cars had flags and ribbons on them.
Efforts to Lengthen Shelf Life
# According to the CIA, nations such as Iraq have tried to overcome the problem of sarin's short shelf life in two ways: The shelf life of unitary (i.e., pure) sarin may be lengthened by increasing the purity of the precursor and intermediate chemicals and refining the production process.
# Developing binary chemical weapons, where the two precursor chemicals are stored separately in the same Shell (projectile)|shell, and mixed to form the agent immediately before or when the shell is in flight. This approach has the dual benefit of making the issue of shelf life irrelevant and greatly increasing the safety of sarin munitions
That is scary.
A good start. Certainly more of these found than has been reported, and it shows Saddam didn't destroy his old stockpiles.
Still, we need to find what was moved to Syria and the Bekka Valley. Those will be the nails in the coffin of the 'Bush Lied' crowd.
I read your post with interest and then your tag line (My job is to manage and negotiate chaos). So basic "null void" or marketing 102 "nuttin' happens till its sold!" ?
From two years ago:
According to UNMOVIC's Working Document of March 6, 2003:
Iraq primarily filled 155-mm projectiles [the same caliber as the IED in question] with high purity Mustard that remained stable during long-term storage. However, Iraq also provided some information and documents on the development and tests of 155-mm binary nerve agent (Sarin and Cycolosarin) projectiles. UNSCOM found several examples of these munitions at the Muthanna State Establishment. Iraq stated that, despite positive test results, no industrial-scale production of binary 155-mm projectiles occurred. . . . Iraq has provided a number of explanations regarding the disposition of approximately 550 unaccounted for Mustard filled 155-mm projectiles. UNSCOM, having determined that the Mustard . . . was likely to remain stable for a long period treated this issue as a serious matter.
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The UNMOVIC document makes clear that Iraq had provided no evidence to support its claim that its binary nerve agent projectile--the exact type detonated in Baghdad--had not been moved to large-scale production. If UNMOVIC suspected the Iraqis of lying about moving their binary projectiles into large-scale production, should we simply assume these shells, and at least 550 high purity Mustard shells, were merely lost in the process of a preemptive large-scale destruction? Furthermore, besides UNMOVIC's clear concern for the potency and long shelf-life of Iraq's Mustard gas, the only purpose of designing a binary projectile is to improve shelf-life by separating the nerve agent into two stable precursors. After consulting with U.N. experts, Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for UNMOVIC, was not comfortable speculating on the shelf-life of such shells--shouldn't the Times be uncomfortable as well?
STILL, the foolishness at the Times pales in comparison to that displayed by everyone's favorite arms inspector, Scott Ritter (for background on "Saddam Hussein's American Apologist," see Stephen F. Hayes's cover story in the November 19, 2001 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD). Ritter has his own theory on the source of the sarin shell, which he outlined in the Christian Science Monitor on May 21, 2004:
Iraq declared that it had produced 170 of these base-bleed [binary] sarin artillery shells as part of a research and development program that never led to production. Ten of these shells were tested using inert fill--oil and colored water. Ten others were tested in simulated firing using the sarin precursors.
And 150 of these shells, filled with Sarin precursors, were live-fired at an artillery range south of Baghdad. A 10 percent dud rate among artillery shells isn't unheard of--and even greater percentages can occur. So there is a good possibility that at least 15 of these sarin artillery shells failed and lie forgotten in the Iraq desert, waiting to be picked up by any unsuspecting insurgent looking for raw material from which to construct an IED [improvised explosive device].
Ritter's theory is as bizarre as it is illogical. For one thing, it is contingent upon absolute faith in the word of the Iraqis. In other words, if they said they only produced 170 shells, then they only produced 170. On matters of national security, as President Reagan famously said, trust, but verify. UNMOVIC and UNSCOM were never able to verify these numbers. Ritter treats them as if they had the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
Ritter then claims that a likely 10 percent dud rate would leave approximately 15 unexploded shells in the desert. This scenario seems implausible for two reasons. Out of 15 duds, most would surely penetrate the soft sand and dirt of the desert, the impact craters covered over by the winds of time so that they would not be "waiting to be picked up." But say a few were not immediately swallowed by the desert. If the assumption is that these 150 shells were being tested, surely the scientists and technicians would be curious as to why the duds had malfunctioned. Would they have not ventured out to discover the outcome of their tests? A well-placed source with the U.S. military in Iraq confirmed that the shell had, in fact, not been fired, but was almost certainly removed from one of the dozens of unsecured arms caches that dot the country. If the shell wasn't fired, then it wasn't a dud. Ritter's theory, based in his unwavering faith in the Iraqi military and the off-chance that insurgents, combing the desert for duds rather than harvesting the country's overflowing arms caches, stumbled upon this magic shell, is suspect.
The detonation of the sarin shell should not be dismissed. It may yet be proved that Saddam's biological and chemical weapons programs were, in 2003, too diminished to be considered a major threat to national security. But, at present, such conclusions are based on nothing more than wishful thinking. If this shell really was the only WMD in Iraq, it will be a welcome blessing.
Michael Goldfarb is a staff assistant at The Weekly Standard.
Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.
"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."
Binary VX program
During Powell's U.N. presentation, he stated that the Iraqi regime had lied repeatedly regarding its weapons programs, saying that it took Iraq years to finally admit that it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent VX.
Powell said, "The admission only came out after inspectors collected documentation as a result of the defection of Hussein Kamal, Saddam Hussein's late son-in-law."
Regarding Iraq's VX program, the documents indicate that the Iraqis "finished work on binary that had a long shelf life."
Kamal states they were able to stabilize VX: "They were able to do it by splitting VX into binary. Bombs consisted of two parts, and they made it during the last days of the Iran-Iraq war. So the components were only mixed when fired."
The Left lives on another planet. It has a fair climate, and is the third one from our sun, but in no way can it be said they live on Earth.
Ritter's position is neither bizarre nor illogical. It is the position of a man who is undergoing blackmail, or who has been paid off.
Remember the phrase, "None dared call it treason"?
People dislike levying such an accusation, so I expect I shall never learn what really happened.
I wonder how many times you can punch a DU'r in a nose before he pees his pants?
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense.
Mr. Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm
and that life isn't always fair.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn)and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).
His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. - Reports of a six -year old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Mr. Sense declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student; but, could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, she spilled a bit in her lap, and was awarded a huge financial settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is
survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
In addition, the 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq could have been given to terrorists. However, we are not saying the 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq mean the CIA estimated were correct. We're just saying the 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq prove Saddam was lying all along. In fact, the 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq were never found during 12 years of inspections. UN inspectors are capable of verfying destruction of weapons, not for finding hiddne ones.
A lot of independent-minded Americans will say: "500? Close enough. Dems lied, not Bush"
The Wash Post is saying; "These are not the WMD you were looking for..."
And I am getting really sick and tired of the moving of the goal posts. These are dangerous shells that Saddam could have used on coalition troops, on the people of Kuwait and again on the Kurds during Gulf War two. He was suppose to get rid of them and this proves he did not!
Exactly!!! LOL -- Ugh this is so frustrating. The left is refusing to admit the fact that these discoveries prove that Saddam was breaking the rules, had chemical weapons, and lied about it. It doesn't matter if this was the WMD we went to war for or not frankly. It still proves part of the left's equation false.
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quote:Originally posted by scrodfish256
LOL, sorry nito. [:D] We have so much slang in english, it's crazy.
I'm really bad for that too.
Oh, I don't mind Scrod, I'm learning...[;)]
peace out in the hood and i'll catch ya on da flip side. [:D][;)]
Hmmm...even with a dictionary I didn't get the meaning, but it seems it's a funny joke...[?]


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Dorotha E. Schavey
BLUE EARTH – Funeral services for Dorotha E. Schavey, 94, of Blue Earth, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Emerald Township, Minn., with Rev. Wesley Hafner officiating. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.
Dorotha passed away Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, at St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at Patton Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 400 E. 14th S., Blue Earth, and one hour prior to services Tuesday at the church.
Web tributes may be left at:
Dorotha E. Wagar was born March 5, 1918, at Silver Lake Township in Martin County, Minn., the daughter of Byron and Ada (Bartlett) Wagar. She graduated from East Chain High School in 1936. She married Marvin W. Schavey on June 25, 1940, at the St. Paul's Lutheran Church Parsonage in Fairmont. She worked 29 years at the United Hospital Districts as a cook and dietary manager. She loved collecting recipes, and won many recipe contests in and around Blue Earth. She loved sewing, quilting, making lap quilts for United Hands Hospice. She was a past president, and secretary for the church ladies aide, volunteering for many years.
Dorotha is survived by her daughter, Nancy (Norm) Wille of Red Wing, Minn.; son, Paul (Mary) Schavey of Blue Earth; son, Dan (Paula) Schavey of Blue Earth; son, Glen Schavey of Mankato; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; brother, John (Nancy) Wagar of Fairmont; sister, Geneva Wood of Granada; brother in law, Russell (Delores) Schavey of Blue Earth.
She was preceded in death by her husband; son, Thomas; parents; and brother, Donald Wagar.