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Lies: Never a Benghazi Protest
The level of lying the president has engaged in personally to coverup what happened in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens has been nothing short of vulgar. But now it goes to another level as we learn that there never was a protest outside the consulate in Benghazi.
The State Department said Tuesday that it never concluded the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the US ambassador and three other Americans.
"That was not our conclusion," an official said. They said it was instead a co-ordinated assault involving several groups of men armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades over an expanse of more than a mile. "
There was no actionable intelligence of any planned or imminent attack," a top state department official said.


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New high end, lake front condominiums are coming to Saundersville Road on Old Hickory Lake.
The Condominiums at Cedar Creek Point will be located at 9000 Saundersville Road, next to Cedar Creek Marina. They will be four floors and have units ranging from 821 square feet to 2,260 square feet. There will be 30 units in total. There will also be a pool and outdoor use areas, as well as a boat dock.
The Mt. Juliet Planning Commission approved an annexation into the city, a land use plan amendment and a preliminary master development plan for the project in Thursday's meeting.
Some commissioners had concerns with the project, especially the location.
"In my opinion, this is totally out of place," said Commissioner Phil Smartt.
Most of the area is single family dwellings, so a multi-family dwelling would change the area, especially the traffic, which is held by a small stretch of Saundersville Road.
Many residents of Hickory Hills and Willoughby Station were also concerned about a concept plan for 72 new single-family lots, and an extra through road on Sydney Terrace in Willoughby Station. Many of the residents thought the road is too narrow, and there are no sidewalks to handle the traffic that cuts through from Lebanon Road to South Greenhill Road. There is already some existing drainage issues that residents fear will get worse with the new lots. Many said they had no idea that there was going to be an extra phase built.
The original plan for Phase 4 of Hickory Hills in 1987 was to have 158 single family lots. The concept plan was approved, but if the plans aren't approved in the future, the developer could go back to building the 158 lots originally planned.
The planning commission also approved a Mattress Firm site plan. It will be located at 85 North Mt. Juliet Road, which is the first lot off the interstate when traveling north on North Mt. Juliet Road.

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Columbia Basin College receives the stamp of approval to offer two new Bachelor's Degrees.
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Zoom Finesse Worm 20pk
These little Finesse Worms from Zoom are just the thing when the bite gets a tough or you're fishing clear or pressured water. The Finesse Worm is a small version of the popular Zoom Trick Worm and can be rigged in a variety of ways, including wacky style on a small hook, on a darter head, splitshot or on a shakey or finesse jig head. Zoom's soft, supple plastic is life-like to the touch and gives the Finesse Worm a seductive action that drives bass wild. All Zoom baits are also salt impregnated using Zoom's proprietary system, causing bass to hold on longer for a better catch ratio. Zoom continues to impress the bass fishing world with their innovative products that have been proven to catch fish all over the Country.
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Customer Reviews
Comments: Drop shot is the way to go with this bait. Caught 8 fish within and hour, all decent size.
From: Nathan: 9/21/16
Comments: This bait is astounding, I mean just look at all the positive review's, its incredible that a single lure can get so much recognition. I'm about to give it more as is I have recently purchased one hundred of these bad boys & I have been using them almost exclusively for almost 5 yrs now. As you may have guessed they are my go to lure I will use these any day all day no problem. Plus they are responsible for 5 of my pb fish. Including large & small mouth, pickerel & believe it or not trout. Not to mention they can be rigged in so many ways typically I fish them Texas rigged weightless & twitch it on the top like a popper jerk bait mix. They have a wiggle on the fall, good flexability, cent & price. All & all this bait has no down side accept for your rod tip. Fish on.
From: Eli: NY 2/29/16
Comments: A zoom finesse worm is my go to bait. the only way i fish them is on a drop shot. if the day is really tough & they wont bite anything they will definatly bite these on a drop shot
From: Matthew: TN 11/7/15
Comments: Used these worms for years causght over 100+ bass on them & my pb 12 pounder my favorite worm ever highly recommended.
From: Garrett: GA 10/6/15
Comments: I love these baits on a shakey head my go to if they are not bitin I have taken these up north form smallies cant beat them black junebug and green pumpkin for drop shotting
From: Matt: IL 2/25/15
Comments: I can't say enough about these baits, my go to bait on clear water lakes. My favorite way to rig them is on a 3/16 Charlie Brewer's slider pro heads and drag them on the bottom. My rod and real setup is a ML spinning rod with a quality spinning reel, and 6 to 8 # line. I have caught countless fish on these baits. Some of my favorite colors are, watermelon seed, green pumpkin , cherryseed, watermelon chart. Tail, and occasionally plum in stained water. Buy some, they are a great deal and they work great!
From: G Money: Knoxville, TN 2/22/15
Comments: i love this bait! i used to fish it weightless all the time, with a 2/0 Gamakatsu off set ewg it is perfectly weighted to sink slow and flat. However, I recently discovered that throwing one of these bad boys in green pumpkin on a shaky head equals big bites. I have not pulled a single fish in 4 weeks, but with the green pumpkin on a shaky head i pulled in 10 largies in an hour. including a solid 4 1/2 pounder. very impressed.
From: Alex: Forsyth, GA 10/22/14
Comments: Growing up out West, a 4.5" worm was kinda big. But I don't live out there no mo, so whatever. Since everyone and their mammy fishes a trick worm on a shaky head...you know what to do. I still prefer Netbait's version, but I am weird like that.
From: Jay6: USA 7/10/14
Comments: Wow this little worm just helped me land a ten pound bass! VERY durable. Perfect for clear water shakey head.
From: Michael: Oroville, CA 6/16/14
Comments: Awesome little bait. Great worm for any pond or any clear water situation. Had a pack for years and never used them until i decided to give them a try the other day. Def buying more
From: Michael: USA 5/31/14
Comments: Great bait, you cant fish it wrong, wacky, texas, dropshot, and shakeyhead.
From: Brodie: Selah, WA
Comments: Cant go wrong with these baits. Bass have been hammering them on dropshot!! I love to go with watermelon red flake.
From: Por: CA
Comments: The best soft bait ever, green pumpkin or watermelon seed = monster bass
Comments: watermelon seed works great on a drop shot
From: Gary, TX
Comments: This worm has the same shape and action as the old Creme Scoundrel. The first soft plastic worm I learned to fish in KY was the purple Creme Scoundrel. Today, I use the green pumpkin, lemon pumpkin, watermelon seed, and red bug colors to catch almost any black bass species on KY lakes, creeks, or rivers. Easily the best choice for finesse/shaky head presentation. You get 20 worms for under $5.00!! That makes this soft plastic one of the best values on the lure market today.
From: John: Lexington, KY, USA
Comments: this and the speed craws are my go to kudzu,watermelon red flake, and june bug keep it simple.
From: Russ: south carolina,USA
Comments: caught a 5+lb largemouth on this thing it was awesome!!!
Comments: These are great i live in florida and i fish the saint johns river every weekend for tourneys and you put these bad boys on a c-rig and drag it through a shell bed BOOM magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Wil: FL
Comments: these worms are good for shaky heading and also make very good spinnerbait and chatterbait trailers the tail just wiggles side to side on the retrieve and they wont add to much bulk to you spinnerbait!
From: Paul: WI
Comments: Great worms! drop shot, shakey head or ust texas rigged! watermelon or june bug are great colors!
From: Layne: OR
Comments: oh my gosh, I love this worm! I caught a 9 pound bass and a 7.3 pound bass off of a bed with this work in watermelon red. It works perfectly with a 3/16 ounce weight. It slays the big bass!
Comments: didnt catch anything the whole day until i used this
From: I$AI: San Diego, CA
Comments: best worm ever made!
Comments: Great product i use this lure in every body of water i go to always have one tied up they dont sell the color i use on here but if you can find it the name is kudzu color it is really bright colored but it gets lunkers. 14 oz bullet weight and your favorite worm hook your ready to go.
From: Nick: Ohio
Comments: Best shakey head bait out there. This worm is a killer when the bite is slow. Its won me a few tournaments during the winter and is more durable than you would think. Great worm.
From: Will: AL
Comments: Great bait! One of my favorite worms to rig wacky. I tear bass up at a local lake on these worms anywhere from 4-8 bass in a 2-3 hour trip. Rig these wacky on a finesse wide gap 3/0 hook, works like a charm. My top colors are watermellon red, watermelon seed, watermelon red w/ chart. tail. 20 worms for $4 cant beat that! Good fishing!
From: Joe: Southern NJ
Comments: This bait = money on tournament day. Rigging options are endless, drop shot, shaky head, texas rig, carolina rig, wacky, and more. This little worm catches numbers AND size.
From: Basswipe: Meatwads pond
Comments: really great worm. wack rigged works great, although it isnt very durable because it is so thin, texas rigged or weihgtless it is awesome, a very versatile bait.
From: Scotty: Vienna, VA
Comments: Best for dropshotting, caught 38 fish in 1 day, ranging from the smallest to even the 5 lbers. rigged with #2 hook is deadly. caught around 4 or 5 5 lbers. not bad for a day of fishin! best wacky rigged.
From: Silasa: Fresno, CA
Comments: I like to texas rig mine, and I like watermelon red, watermelonred/chartreuse, chartreuse peper,and watermelon magic.
From: Clayton: Carlyss, LA
Comments: Hands down this is a one of the best soft plastic worms on the market. even though it isn't a senko style bait i caught 90 percent of my bass last year wacky rigging it. also great for dropshotting and Texas rigging. a very versatile lure that is one of my favorites. Personally my favorite colors are Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Red, and Pumpkin.
From: Joe: Chicago, IL
Comments: My go to bait when it's tough, whether its on a drop shot, split shot or shakey head these always get the job done. If one color doesn't work try another, they're always biting these. Best colors for me are Red Bug, Green Pumpkin Magic, Okeechobee Craw if the water's dirty, and Smokin Shad if I'm around a bunch of shad.
From: Jake: Greer, SC
Comments: a GREAT bait for pressured waters! Rig em texas-style on a 1/0 hook, spinning gear w/ 8lb test line, with a small splitshot about 12-18" up the line from the hook... my favorite color is watermelon red flake.
From: Tony: Charlotte, NC
Comments: if you got these worms in green ppkn,watermelon,an red bug you ready for anything
From: Doug: Blacksburg, SC
Comments: The zoom finesse worm is much better than zoom trick worm. I have got 10 bass in 1 hour. Zoom finesse worm is the best and I also like the Zoom magnum worm , the tail action is great! the best color for thw finesse worm is the bait fish color.
From: Alex: Long Island, NY
Comments: I got some of these with some shakey head hooks with a cork screw, i found that if you cut a little off of the head of the worm it will make a nice solid head and makes shakey head rigging with a corkscrew ALOT easier. Favorite color is key lime pie.
From: Matt: MN
Comments: This is a great worm. My favorite color is Junebug/Chart. and Tackle Warehouse doesn't carry it. I like to rig it with an Arkie jighead, 6-10 lb. mono, and a 6' spinning rod. One morning I caught a 13'' Largemouth on my about my tenth cast, which is not a bad size for Northeast Ohio. I recommend this product to anyone
From: Mayfield Heights, OH
Comments: These worms are amazing! I recently caught about 30 rock bass and 20 smallmouth on these worms the biggest being a 5 1/2 pound smallie. I have also caught multiple largemouth over 5 pounds and 2 over 6. I rig them weightlessly and fish them on any shallow structure I can find. MY favorite color is green pumpkin, I have caught the most fish off of that color. I haven't just caught bass off of this lure, I have caught bluegill, catfish, pickerel, perch and even trout. I highly recommend this product!
From: Peter: Connecticut, USA


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Some Reviewers Found Apple Maps Troublesome
iPhone 5 Reviewers Find Imperfect Device With Much to Love
The iPhone 5 goes on sale Friday, Sept. 21, and the early reviews are in. It's surprisingly thin, wonderfully light, shockingly fast and improved in dozens of little ways, the critics agree. What they disagree about is the primary niggling annoyance-the bit Apple didn't quite get right. And on this, each generally went his own way.
On the whole, however, they agree it's a delight, a super-fast marvel. Most people, they suggest, will find it to be the best smartphone on the market, and for everyone else, thank goodness-diversity is a good thing.
The New York Times' David Pogue writes that Apple's typical obsession over details and its ability to call the shots with components suppliers are both working to the buyer's advantage in the iPhone 5. The camera is "among the best ever put into a phone," he writes, and the device is so thin and light, "it's well on its way to becoming a bookmark."
But then there's that connector issue. For the first time, Apple has changed the charging connector on the iPhone, rendering obsolete all iPhone accessories (many of them quite expensive) unless a user buys a $29 adapter, and sometimes not even then.
The change was inevitableâApple did hold out a very long time, by tech standards-and necessary to slim the phone down as much as Apple did. It's a better connector as connectors go, most agree. But it still kind of stinks.
"If you have a few accessories, you could easily pay $150 in adapters for a $200 phone," wrote Pogue. "That's not just a slap in the face to loyal customers, it's a jab in the eye."
The major gripe of All Things D's Walt Mossberg-who, of course, also found the iPhone 5 to be significantly faster, thinner and lighter almost to the point of seeming a mock-up rather than the real thing-was Apple's proprietary mapping application that replaced Google Maps.
Some Reviewers Found Apple Maps Troublesome
While Apple's Maps offer iPhone users turn-by-turn directions-a feature that Android users have long enjoyed but that Google has left out of Apple's version of Google Maps-Mossberg found it to be "a step backward" from the Google app.
"While Apple's maps feature a 3D 'Flyover' view of some central cities, they lack Google's very useful ground-level photographic street views. And they also lack public-transit routing," wrote Mossberg. "Apple will instead link you to third-party transit apps. Also, while I found Apple's maps accurate, they tend to default to a more zoomed-in view than Google's, making them look emptier until you zoom out."
Bloomberg's Rich Jaroslovsky found the "fit and finish" of the iPhone 5 to be "more like a fine wristwatch" than something one should throw in a purse with keys, and praised its performance, particularly on AT&T's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, as "roaringly fast."
But he also bumped into the trouble with Apple Maps.
In an initial test, Jaroslovsky wrote, the iPhone 5 was "too easily confused, especially in urban areas. At one point, as I was driving south on San Francisco's Embarcadero, it thought I was going north; at another point, it mistakenly thought I was on Fremont Street, a couple of blocks away."
Apple gave him a second unit to try out, which behaved better. Though when the GPS system was in use for an extended period, Jaroslovsky wrote, "the phone grew noticeably hot."
In Engadget's Geekbench test suite, wrote Tim Stevens, the iPhone 5 scored an impressive 1,628, compared with the iPhone 4S' 634.
"That's more than twice as fast," he wrote, "and while you won't necessarily see such huge increases in day-to-day usage, apps do load noticeably quicker, HDR images are processed in half the time and tasks like video rendering in iMovie are equally expedient."
But Stevens went on to write that, while much about the phone is ahead of the curve, "it's the operating system here that's beginning to feel a bit dated and beginning to show its age."
Still, like the others, Stevens agrees it's an excellent phone, "a hallmark of design," and no doubt-as Apple has also asserted-the best iPhone yet.
If you're an Android user and you love it, great. Stick with it. But if you've been thinking of switching or are a current iPhone user ready to upgrade, it's a no-brainer. As Stevens writes, "This is the one you've been waiting for."


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The Emery County Business Chamber is beginning 2012 with exciting business information for local businesses. Emery Telcom will be the featured presenter at the January Lunch and Learn. The Lunch and Learn will be held on Jan. 18 at noon at the Museum of the San Rafael in Castle Dale.
Brock Johansen, CEO for Emery Telcom will discuss their services and how they can help your business to operate more efficiently. Learn how the latest technology can help your business.
The local business spotlight for January will be Darcey Powell of the recently expanded business of Forbidden Fruit.
The Emery County Business Chamber is continuing their shop local campaign: Emery County, Your first choice, into 2012. Watch for cans at local businesses where you can enter to win Emery County bucks and a $300 gift certificate to Earl's Furniture and Applicance. The first winner will be drawn at the January Lunch and Learn. Watch for drawings to win prizes throughout 2012.
Please RSVP if you would like to attend to:
Patsy Stoddard, 435-381-2431,
Taina Benson 435-384-3333.
Chamber president is Tyler Jeffs: 650-4222.
Cost is $12 per person.
Lunch catered by Gillys
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By Brendan Conway
Here's some underappreciated good news for investors in Vanguard Group funds: It's been a pretty quiet few weeks since the company's index changes — which are set to affect half a trillion dollars of mutual funds and ETF assets — got underway.
It's good news because we haven't heard much about big transaction costs for Vanguard, nor about what academics call the hidden "index premium." This is the cost that arbitrageurs exact when they move in ahead of index-fund changes, buying or selling stocks that the fund itself will need to trade. Such costs are good for arbitrageurs, bad for long-term investors.
But while history offers cases where index funds have suffered from benchmark shifts, I can't see much sign that this is happening here. One reason: Vanguard is spreading its buying and selling out over half of 2013. This frees investors to think about what matters more in the long run: What exposure do I really want in my funds? Which index do I like better?
Even so, I'm keeping an eye, as the subject of index-transition costs is interesting for several reasons. The place to watch right now is the popular Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets (VWO), which is a few weeks into its transition. It's moving from an MSCI (MSCI) benchmark to another designed by the FTSE Group. You can keep an eye on the week-by-week changes here, here and here. It's tracking a sort of hybrid index as Vanguard spends 25 weeks reshaping the portfolio.
In particular, I'm keeping an eye on this fund's South Korean stocks, if only because the index change requires Vanguard to sell VWO's entire slug of Korean stocks — nearly $9 billion worth the last time I counted. The fund has to remove its Korean stocks because FTSE considers the country "developed," not "emerging." MSCI keeps it "emerging" because of currency-convertibility issues. The FTSE site says 92% of Korean stocks are currently represented in the hybrid index — meaning the buying and selling in Korean shares like Samsung (005930.KS) has already begun.


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Version 2.0. I wanted to make the dress from scratch since my first version was an altered halter top gown. I bought the fabric from a Texas pageantry fabric store & all I could think about was Toddlers & Tiaras while I was sewing...
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- JESSICA RABBIT'S ACTUAL GOWN IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. It literally can NOT exist in this world AND stay on her chest without falling off. I want to yell that to her character designer. Physics & gravity obviously don't apply in Toon Land. OH MY GOD MY BOOBS IN THIS DRESS. I am being held in, once again by about 5 yards of 3 different kinds of tape.
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We have arrived at the end of our physical journey. But for most of the students, and many of the staff, the mental journey continues. We spent a lot of time in the last couple of days "processing" the experience -- taking what J.R. Raffan described as "public knowledge" and converting it into "personal knowledge". This means taking what we have seen and learned and making sense of it, and then learning both how to understand and to communicate it. Both of these processes are inter-related. There is no formula that guides the time it takes an individual to develop this personal knowledge, and there is no set "outcome". What the students experienced will continue to influence them in years to come: some will become social and political activists, some will be researchers, and others will incorporate the experience into their daily lives, into the decisions they will make, in very different ways.
Thomas Dewey, the American philosopher (1859-1952) is credited with being the "father of experiential education". Dewey wrote that the value of an experience can be judged by the effect it has on a person's life -- their present, future, and the extent to which an individual is able to contribute to society. Only time will tell where this experience takes our enthusiastic cast of 72 students from 15 countries.
Some of the experiences that will stand out for all of us include:
On our final zodiac cruise we found an island free of bears, though there were guards posted on all the hills. It was foggy and quiet. We had just watched a peregrine falcon hunt and not quite kill a glaucous gull three times its size. The falcon, covered in the blood of its prey, retreated to a rocky outcrop to let nature and the damage it had inflicted take its course. For some of the students, it was a stark lesson in the cycle of life in the Arctic.
We landed and told the students this was the last time they would be on the land and they should take advantage of it by just being there. "You can chat with your friends when you get back to the ship," we told them. The next hour was for quiet, and preferably solitary, reflection. All within sight of the bear guards, of course.
For the most part, it worked.
I climbed a rocky slope encrusted with black lichen and from the top had a 360-degree panorama of water and rock. We were actually in Nunavut, which includes the very tip of the Labrador peninsula, at the edge of Ungava Bay. One might be forgiven for thinking that the land was empty, that humans had never touched it. But a closer look revealed a cove with rusted fuel drums dumped on the beach. And from a stone seat that very much resembled a living room couch, I looked out and saw Killiniq or Port Burwell about two kilometres in the distance.
Now just a few abandoned and decaying houses, Killiniq was once a trading post, mission, fishing station and Royal Canadian Mounted Police post. It's been on European maps since the 1560s. In 1978, it was evacuated by the Northwest Territories government and its 47 residents moved to Kangiqsualujjuaq, about 250 kilometres to the southwest on Ungava Bay.
The repercussions of that move, including an ongoing housing crisis, are still being felt. Looking at the abandoned village, I can't help but think about how everywhere we have been has a story, and sometimes those stories are painful. At every turn on this journey we have been confronted with change: from ancient glaciers carving the land, to the recent history of the changes wrought by the coming of European society, to the modern story of renewal and revival in both Greenland and Nunatsiavut.
We have been privileged to pass through these places. And we will have a reservoir of personal knowledge to draw upon once back in the whirl of everyday life.


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Skip to comments.Prayer Request For My Wife
Posted on 09/06/2013 6:21:06 AM PDT by pgkdan
My wife is very ill and in need of prayer. She was diagnosed with blood clots in her legs several weeks ago and was put on Cumadin and sent home. The Cumadin didn't work, she developed additional clots and several migrated to her lungs. She was sent to the ER and then admitted to the hospital and a CT scan was ordered. The scan showed several clots in her lungs and it also showed a mass on her liver. The oncologist first diagnosed liver cancer and since the mass was relatively small we were hopeful that surgery and a round of chemo would take care of it. Yesterday the oncologist informed my wife that her situation was 'much worse than I originally thought' and told her that the tumor on her liver was a met, not a primary tumor. However, they haven't yet found out what her primary cancer is...they told her she metatastic disease but can't tell her what cancer.
We're both in a fog and feeling lost. I feel like I've been through hell these last three days, I can't imagine what my dear wife must think! She's putting on a brave face and trying to stay positive but this week has been brutal.
Please pray for her. Pray for healing and for her comfort. She is my wife of thirty years, my best friend and soul mate. I will be absolutely lost without her...
Prayers for you and your wife.
Prayer BUMP!
My prayers for your wife and family.
My prayers are with you and your wife. Most sincerely.
Joining you in prayer. I am deeply moved by your story.
Prayers for your beloved wife.
Our prayers are sent and our thoughts are with you.
We call upon the healing power of the blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross at Calvary to restore, refresh and renew every cell in your precious wife's body. Amen.
Prayers up...
Prayers from here!
My sincerest prayers for your wife and many, many prayers for strength for you as you care for her.
God Bless you both!!!
We ask that you guide the minds of the doctors and supply the needed means for a cure.
In Jesus' name, Amen
It says in YOUR WORD:
Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by MY FATHER in heaven. Matthew 18:19
In the name of JESUS we speak to cancer and bloods in this precious woman. Be gone.
By JESUS' stripes we were healed. YOU, FATHER GOD make a way where there is no way. Have mercy on this situation, and may YOUR will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
In JESUS name we pray. Amen.
I describe my wife in the same way and share your grief and concern for her illness. The Gospels are filled with examples of Jesus' love and compassion for those that are suffering, He is the divine physician and may his gentle touch heal your wife's cancer.
Please keep my family in your prayers as well, we are also fighting illness.
May HE provide a way for your wife to pull through this. May HE guide the surgeons and associated doctors in providing her the best care available. And may HE give you the strength to be strong for her as well as for yourself. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Praying now.
Praying for you and your wife .
Preying for you and your wife. I am a widow, My husband had meatasic Melanoma, which took several months to diagnose
my heartfelt prayers for your wife and for you. May God's love keep you both strong.
Keeping you both in my prayers.
Yes, I'll pray for you and your wife.
Prayers for her (and tears).
Prayers up.
I will pray for you & for your wife's healing, "our help comes from the Lord"...
I will be praying for you and your wife. Keep your faith strong and constant.
I pray to help you thru this ordeal. God blesses you and your Dear wife now and always. You and your Family are in my heart now. God's Blesses you all!
Prayers up for your Wife
Prayers lifting, for you both.
May God hold you closely together, in the shelter of His hands.
I pray that some treatment options are found that will help your wife.
Praying for you and your wife right now.
Prayers for you, your wife and your family. May God Bless all of you and give you peace, comfort and the will to press on. Though the road ahead may be long, know God is with you every step of the way.
You'll never lose her. She is with you always.
Prayers for your comfort ...
Your dear wife is now in my prayers. May I ask for her first name so that I may make my prayer more personal?
Healing prayers sent for your wife.
Saying a prayer for her.
May the Lord heal your wife, and give you both His divine strength and comfort. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.
God bless you both
Prayers up for both of you. God is by your side and I truly believe in miracles. May he comfort and strengthen both of you during these difficult times.
Your wish is granted by a humble FReeper.
I'll be praying for you and your wife!
Her name is Janet. Thank you very much! I'm heading back to the hospital but wanted to jump back on and thank everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers. Freepers really are some of the best people out there!
Prayers for healing and comfort. May you both have peace, may she be healed soon, and may He be glorified.
You and Janet are in my prayers. Please keep us posted. Stay strong!
Immediate and heartfelt prayers for your wife and for you.
May the Good Lord be by her side....
My thoughts and prayers are with you both.
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Skip to comments.Senators to Bush: Stay out of Iran
Posted on 01/11/2007 11:34:17 PM PST by Greystoke
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's warnings to Iran and Syria to not interfere in Iraq and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by U.S. troops raised eyebrows Thursday on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.
Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.
"I believe the...
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Senator Biden is a bozo. Those 6 Iranians were in Iraq when they were arrested.
Until then, STFU!
Facts don't matter to Biden.
They NEVER have done, why should they matter to him now?
Surely Hagel wasn't referring to John EFFEN Skerry's (who's on the committee) Christmas trip to Cambodia?
Sure he does.
Biden's a moron.
Exactly, facts don't matter to eggheads like Biden. In fact, I heard those Iranians were in Baghdad when they were arrested. Hardly a border town.
I just hope he wasn't wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat when he said that.
I can hardly wait to see him get creamed in his run for his party's nomination.....LOL.
Biden's a moron.......... I just love that word, moron. It fits so many of the people who are against this war.
The response from the senators should be Applause followed by the question......" Do you have the funds an equipment you need Mr Secretary?"
Instead these wanna be minipresidents can't get out of their own way. They are so laden with their own self importance they not only don't see the big picture .....they simply don't care about it.
This country could go to hell in a handcart and all they would car about is that they are still in power.
"Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"
I notice CNN really likes to lay on all the 'titles' when referring to rats like Biden, but when they're talking about the President it's just "Bush".. disrespectful bast@@ds. Biden ought to shut his stupid trap.
I'd like to see him concede his presidential bid by going into a blubbering heap of flesh like Gephardt did when he ran.
That all teeth evil grin and his arrogance. Wow, such a nasty little twerp.
Offputting. I agree. His arrogance reminds me of a father scolding his kid for wrapping the family truckster around the 200-year old oak tree a block from the family home on a Friday night.
The Democrats are going to be put in an extremely uncomfortable position when we take out Iran's nuclear facilities -- they condemn a successful military operation that eliminates a nuclear danger from an avowed enemy of the U.S. at their own political peril. But Biden is stupid enough to do it.
Agreed. Biden is plenty stupid.
He's also the unofficial record holder of the longest question ever asked behind the committee room table. (15 minutes).
I truly despise him and all who continue to reelect him.
I do too. I get dry heaves just looking at him and his dripping arrogant evil toothy grin.
Just as during the Vietnam War, some of our politicians are trying to illegally restrict our military forces to stay within certain borders, while the same politicians are facilitating enemy mobility to attack however the enemy wishes to do so.
It appears that some of our politicians are again working for special interests that are supporting the wrong side.
If you cannot offer support.
Get the F-outa the way!
This country could go to hell in a handcart and all they would car about is that they are still in power
Stupid Iranians.
Don't they know the trick to jumping the border is to pretend they're Mexicans going to Iraq to pick lettuce?
If they did that, we wouldn't have paid any attention to them at all.
"Amedinejad isn't an insane, terror loving, anti-American, anti-semetic nutjob. He just needs a hug, silly!"
Who says the KGB is dead.
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
You have your orders!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yep we should stay out of Iran, just shoot a few cruise missles with nukes there, no troops.
FOX has done it also. Couple years ago the news reader Sally something was covering the WH and kept calling him "Bush". I fired off a note to FOX about the disrespect of the Office. Noticed almost immediately that she began calling him by his title. But there are several who do not use the title unless they are talking about Clinton as if *he* were still the president.
Just one of those things that grate on me.
Git 'er done!
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Residents are rallying to support a family whose home was destroyed by a fire Wednesday, three months after two of their children survived the shootings Dec. 14 that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Hans and Audra Barth and their three young children were not in their Sandy Hook house when firefighters responded.
Newtown Fire Marshal Bill Halstead said firefighters fought the fire in the Barths' one-story home for 3 1/2 hours Wednesday and had to return to the home that night when a small fire in a wall rekindled.
Halstead said the fire started in the basement laundry room, but its cause has not been determined.
Two firefighters were injured, including one who was taken to a hospital and later released.
A family dog, Goliath, was killed, says Christine Wilford, who has a child at Sandy Hook school and has established a Web page for donations for the Barth family.
The Barths' 7-year-old son was in the first-grade class of Kaitlin Roig, a teacher who locked a classroom door and hid her students in a bathroom during the shootings.
Wilford says many families with children in Sandy Hook school have gotten to know one another better since the tragedy.
The Barths "are a very nice family that I am friendly with from school," Wilford says. "I felt a need to do something to help them — to tell them it's going to be okay, and we're going to get through this together."
Patricia Lansing, a religious education teacher at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, teaches one of the Barth children and says the Barths are "a very lovely family." She set up a fund through the church to assist them.
Wilford says Barth family members were at a school conference when their house caught fire. She says the family is in a hotel that was arranged by the Red Cross.
Lansing says donations can be sent to St. Rose Church, c/o Lansing, 46 Church Hill Rd., Newtown, Conn. Checks should be made out to St. Rose and "Barth" should be written on the memo line.
Monsignor Robert Weiss, the pastor of St. Rose, says the Barths "lost everything" in the fire, and the fund was established through the church "to help them rebuild their life."
Weiss says the Dec. 14 tragedy and the fire have been "overwhelming." The Barth's son — like so many others in Newtown — was traumatized by the Dec. 14 shootings and now has lost "his puppy, his toys and his home," the pastor says.
The Barth family, though, "is strong and doing their best to keep this all in perspective," Weiss says. The family attended a Good Friday service Friday afternoon at the church and is "grateful" for everyone's support, Weiss says.
Wilford, who can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com, says donations can be given at www.gofundme.com/2fns60. She says all monies will be given to the Barth family except a fee to pay for the website.
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Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private customer information were sought pursuant to various NSL statutes. Prior to 2011, the constitutionality of this legal authority to investigate the records of Americans without court oversight had been challenged in court -- as far as we know -- exactly one time.
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Ten years ago today, in the name of protecting national security and guarding against terrorism, President George W. Bush signed into law some of the most sweeping changes to search and surveillance law in modern American history. Unfortunately known as the USA PATRIOT Act, many of its provisions incorporate decidedly unpatriotic principles barred by the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution. Provisions of the PATRIOT Act have been used to target innocent Americans and are widely used in investigations that have nothing to do with national security.
EFF just received documents that reveal additional post-9/11 Defense Department misconduct, including attempts by the Army to investigate participants at a conference on Islamic law at the University of Texas Law School and Army-issued National Security Letters (NSLs) to telecommunications providers in violation of the law.
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By Rheta Grimsley Johnson
There was this glorious routine. My Mississippi Coast visits in the 1980s were frequent, full and never varied.
Every nice weekend, three or four of us newspaper buddies would pool our resources, fill up the Mustang with cheap gas and drive down from Jackson to catch the first ferry to Ship Island. That was the main event.
After a hard day of sunning and swimming, we'd always eat the gargantuan seafood platter at Fisherman's Wharf.
Sated by saltwater, sun and baby flounder, we'd spend the night at a little mom-and-pop motel called the Worth.
Before heading home the next day, we'd make a stop at Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs. For Curtis. He had to make a $10 or $20 payment on his Walter Anderson watercolor. How we teased him.
"Fine art on layaway," someone would say. "Let's go visit Curtis' painting."
Curtis had the last laugh.
It took him a long while to pay off the $250 or $300 bill for the painting on typing paper stored in a filing cabinet at the pottery showroom.
I remember how happy he was when he finally got to bring the art home.
He's probably a lot happier now, since Walter Anderson watercolors have increased dramatically in value. If only we'd followed Curtis' example.
For me, it was the art that got away.
I think about those halcyon days whenever I visit Shearwater or the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.
We young reporters weren't the first to appreciate Anderson's art, but we probably could have qualified for something like frequent flyer points. How we loved the story.
Van Gogh had nothing on Walter Anderson.
His insularity and eccentricities and, yes, mental illness made him the small-town character who was either ridiculed or avoided.
But there is a redemption element, as the artist's reputation and fame finally soared.
This oddball who lashed himself to pine trees to study the light during a hurricane, who rode his old bicycle while the rest of the world sped by in fine automobiles – he was the genius, the rest of us distressingly ordinary.
That his rise to artistic prominence happened posthumously doesn't much matter.
I don't see Walter Anderson attending gallery openings or enjoying fame. If anyone ever kept his own counsel, it was Walter.
"One single beautiful image is practically inexhaustible – man is a wasteful fool," Anderson wrote.
This was a man who could study a crab for hours, or sketch a dead bird from six different angles. He didn't waste those natural images that surround us all.
I don't have an original Walter Anderson, but I keep that feeling of intense, jaw-dropping appreciation whenever I see the work that is now out of filing cabinets and on museum walls. There is a primal urge to sit and stare.
I can pretend I am Curtis, "visiting" my painting until I pay up and carry it home. It is fine art on layaway, for whenever I want to enjoy it.
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Swansea manager Michael Laudrup wants Jonathan de Guzman to stay at the club but admits a deal could be tricky.
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De Guzman has expressed a clear desire to stay at the Liberty Stadium beyond the end of his season-long loan from Villarreal.
And while the Swans boss is keen to keep the Dutch midfielder, he claims much will depend upon the demands of the Spanish second-tier side.
"He is a player I'd like to stay and I hope we can work out a deal with Villarreal," said Laudrup, quoted in the Daily Mirror.
"Jonathan is very happy here but it depends a lot on what Villarreal want. We are going to try what we can and we will see if it is enough.
"We won't buy him in January. He is on loan until the end of the season, and then we'll see."
Meanwhile, Ashley Williams has revealed Swansea players have been trying to persuade Danny Graham to stay at the club.
The Swans striker has been linked with both Sunderland and Norwich in the current transfer window, and the club's fans made a public appeal to the player during his second-half cameo appearance in the 3-1 victory over Stoke at the weekend.
"We've just been saying to him that we want him to stay, saying 'don't go', said Williams. "We all want him to stay. He is a top player and has done well here.
"We definitely don't want to see him leave and I think if you asked any player here they would say the same thing. We want him here.
"He is going to make the decision on whether he stays or goes. He has to make the right decision for himself and his family and his situation.
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Canada set for three matches vs French ProsMONTPELLIER, France – Canada's Full Time Centre (FTC) men's volleyball team faces three teams from the French Pro A League this week to conclude its two-week European tour.
The first match is on Thursday against Montpellier, followed by Arago de Sete on Friday and Narbonne Volley on Saturday. Sete placed second in the league standings Narbonne fifth and Montpellier just missed the playoff cut placing ninth. The French playoffs start next month.
''They are our most important matches on this tour,'' said Canada's FTC head coach Vincent Pichette of Gatineau. ''We've prepared for these three matches and we are long forward to the challenge.''
On Wednesday played a four-set scrimmage match against the French national junior team winning 25-23, 25-23, 25-22, 25-20.
Louis-Pierre Mainville of Notre-Dame-de-l'Ile-Perrot, Que., led Canada with 22 points. Rudy Verhoeff of Calgary added 12 and Chris Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que., nine.
Team Canada arrived here March 17 for a two-week mix of training and matches. They return to their home base in Gatineau on March 31.
Canada's Fulltime Training Centre team on European Tour in Montpellier, France.
Players: Louis-Pierre Mainville, Notre-Dame-de-l'Ile-Perrot, Que., Devon Parkinson, Richmond, B.C.; Marc Howatson, Victoria; Nicholas Hoag, Sherbrooke, Que.; Rudy Verhoeff, Calgary; Graham Vigrass, Calgary; Christopher Hoag, Sherbrooke, Que..; Dustin Schneider, Brandon, Man.; Jay Blankeneau, Sherwood Park, Alta.; Jonathan Sloane, Winchester, Ont.; Allen Meek, Sherwood Park; T.J. Sanders, London, Ont.
Head coach: Vincent Pichette, Gatineau
Assistant coach: Denis Gaboury, Ottawa
Head of delegation: Julien Boucher, Quebec City
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|Head Graphene Prestige Rev Scores
Head decided to take a new route with the midsized Prestige this time around. Instead of the traditionally plush, solid, hefty feel, Head offers a much lighter and crisper feeling racquet in the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro. With its stiffer, more modern feel, this midsize Prestige is more usable to a wider variety of players. The addition of Head's Graphene technology takes the weight out of the throat area and redistributes it toward the tip of the frame, providing a bit more stability to an easy-to-swing racquet. This worked for some of our playtesters, especially on serve and around the net, where the maneuverability and precise feel really stood out. However, the team couldn't help but wish for a little more weight to provide the additional stability the racquet needed. Groundstrokes and returns were dropping short in the court far too often, allowing our playtesters' opponents to attack too easily. Overall, we could appreciate the added maneuverability and the more modern feel of this new version, but we longed for the more traditional, classic feel of the Prestige Mids of old.
While our playtesters described the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro as easy to swing, they were left wanting more weight in the racquet to help produce heavier groundstrokes. Sean never really got used to the unique weight and balance. He said, "With an interesting combination of weight and balance, this racquet took a fair amount of adjustment for me. My consistency faltered from the baseline because the smaller headsize and the lack of weight made it hard for me to redirect shots. While I did find decent access to spin and a remarkably forgiving, flexible feel, there just wasn't enough weight behind my shots to compete with my opponents' deep, heavy shots during baseline rallies. I had much better results when I did opt to take control of the rally early and move forward in the court."
Although he did appreciate the added maneuverability and access to spin, Chris couldn't help but wish for the signature heft and feel of previous Prestige Mids. He said, "Wow, what a change up to the midsized Prestige! Just picking this racquet up offers a different feel. This racquet played very differently to the Prestige Mids I've loved over the years. This version is much lighter. I could sense the change in balance and could feel the weight out toward the tip as the racquet came through my swing. At impact this racquet is not nearly as solid or as sweet feeling as most of the previous Prestige Mids I've hit, and I've hit just about all of them. Gone is the plush yet solid feel I've always expected from a Prestige. This racquet is crisper, lighter and faster. I never got that classic Prestige plow through or that sweet buttery touch and control. What I did find was a faster and easier to swing racquet. I found it easy to generate spin, but I couldn't hit the ball through the court like I can with older Prestige Mids. While this racquet seemed better suited to flicking topspin angles, it wasn't as good for driving a solid backhand slice."
Granville offered his take on this lighter, easier to swing iteration of the Prestige Mid by saying, "The Graphene Prestige Rev Pro feels maneuverable as I swing it around, but that maneuverability comes at a price. This racquet is both lightweight AND head light, and on my groundstrokes I rarely (if ever) felt the 'node,' the perfect center of the sweetspot. Additionally, the racquet seems greatly underpowered. My balls were landing short, and it took great effort and focus to dial my shots in with depth at the other end of the court. The 93 inch headsize just seems small when not backed up with some mass. I was never comfortable or at ease when the ball left the stringbed, and I just wasn't confident in my shots when playing with it."
It took a little while for Mark to get used to it, but he eventually found the benefits of the added maneuverability. He said, "I had heard that Head sort of changed up the configuration of the Head Prestige Mid, and I figuratively scratched my head because it has been such a successful recipe up to now. I am used to the Prestige Mids being in the 12 ounce range of strung weight, so the fact that this model is around 11.5 oz was appealing to me. I did have a bit of an adjustment period that I did not anticipate since I regularly swing racquets in this spec range. After the second hour with the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro I began to get a feel for it. I was pretty confident with it after a few groundstroke games and loved the backhand slice, but it was a challenge to find easy access to spin."
While the new specs seemed to hamper our playtest team at the baseline, they had a bit more success with the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro at net. Mark felt the racquet had a combination of maneuverability and heft that allowed him to wield it successfully. He raved, "This is one area that the racquet really shone for me. There was enough mass in the hoop portion of the racquet to keep it stable when my opponents tried to fire one past me, and it's light enough for me to get it there on time. Top notch in this aspect."
Sean also had more success at net than he did at the baseline, saying, "While I didn't have much success from the baseline, my net game was far more solid using this racquet. It felt very swift and maneuverable, and I found that my ability to turn defense into offense was better than expected at the net. The smaller headsize was far from ideal, especially when dealing with reaction volleys and hard shots, but I enjoyed the touch and precision it offered. The depth I was able to generate on my volleys was somewhat inconsistent and seemed completely dependent on how well I hit the sweetspot."
Chris also had a better experience with the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro while volleying, but he would prefer the classic Prestige layup to this crisper, stiffer layup. He offered, "This racquet was fast and easy to get around at net. It worked better for me on volleys. I found it easy to find my targets, and I liked how I could snap the ball away when given the opportunity. There was ample control, and I found it easy to cup under the ball thanks to the racquet's mobile feel. I would have liked the racquet to be more solid on my first volley when I was caught a little deeper in the court. As far as comparing it with previous Prestiges at net, it simply doesn't. This is a very different feeling racquet. It is fast, crisp and a tad hollow feeling - not very Prestige-like."
The Graphene Prestige Rev Pro just never seemed to win over Granville at net. He said, "Here again, the racquet is brassy, unforgiving and lacking the mass to stabilize a volley. The balls just did not sink into the stringbed; the racquet seems to be reacting to the ball. There was little to no touch, feel or power at the net."
The lighter weight and more open string pattern of the Graphene Prestige Rev Pro made it easy for our team to generate racquet head speed and spin while serving. Chris was confident stepping to the line during service games. He said, "I served well with this racquet. It felt easy to swing, and I was finding good pace. The level of spin I was getting was decent and I was happy with the way both my first and second serves were feeling. Serving felt very natural with this racquet, and I was in the groove with it from the first serve I hit until the last. I don't serve as big with it as I do with a classic Prestige Mid because it doesn't come through with the same weight, but I felt more consistent."
Sean thought the racquet was fast, at times almost too fast, through the air. He explained, "Serves were also an area where I thought the smaller sweetspot had less of an impact on my strokes. On first serves this racquet offered good pop, and I liked that I could generate accuracy and power with fast swing speeds. A slight increase in weight would have really improved the stability of the racquet on impact. I did lack some of my normal confidence when hitting my second serves, but only because I framed a few serves when trying to produce a big kick serve or taking an aggressive cut at the ball."
The racquet suited Mark's service game as well. He said, "I didn't have to make much of an adjustment on my serve, and I was able to get more pace than I expected from a mid-11 ounce tennis racquet."
The maneuverability stood out the most to Granville on serve, but he still wished for more heft to produce heavier serves. He said, "The lack of weight makes this racquet very easy to swing. I can feel the racquet flexing at the top of the stroke, bleeding any power I might have imparted on the ball. I found too little power, and it was tough targeting with any confidence. Targeting was affected negatively because I could not find the sweetspot."
There were mixed emotions from our playtesters regarding service returns. Mark was able to dial in his signature chip returns, neutralizing his opponents' big serves at will. He said, "Once I got the hang of how low-powered it was, my chip return was in full effect. I did have great directional control with it, especially off the backhand slice."
Chris was also returning well, especially off the forehand side. He said, "With its light and fast feel, this racquet was a good fit for my return game. If I wanted to be hypercritical, I could have done with a tad more weight on my backhand slice, but that really is nitpicking. When given even the slightest amount of time I found I could take a good rip at the ball. I liked driving through my forehand. I was getting good pace, a solid level of spin and ample control."
On the other hand, the bigger-swinging Sean needed a slightly larger and more forgiving sweetspot to feel completely confident returning serve. He offered, "I felt very restricted with my return options with this particular racquet. Like my groundstrokes, there was little stability to be found against harder shots, and I found myself choosing to push returns back into the center of the court rather than risk mis-hitting them or leaving the ball short. The smaller headsize and low weight made it tough to produce the shot I wanted, especially when I needed to react quickly to an oncoming serve. I did find that most of my flat returns were difficult for my opponent to deal with as long as I kept them deep in the court."
Granville also felt limited on returns. He said, "Underpowered. Unstable. When returning with this racquet I feel vulnerable and lacking in weapons."
Chris - "I liked the access to spin and the ease of mobility."
Granville - "Great cosmetic and part of a great line of racquets."
Mark - "Love the aesthetic and the new red grommet, along with the fact that there are now frames with midsized hoops other than those in the 12 ounce range. I definitely liked it for its stability, particularly in the groundstroke/volley department."
Sean - "A very fast and maneuverable racquet that performed well at net and offered a flexible and forgiving feel on contact. Shots that required precision and touch were where this racquet really stood out for me."
Chris - "This one lacked the buttery smooth Prestige feel, wasn't solid enough and felt too hollow to me to be called a Prestige."
Granville - "Small sweetspot, underpowered, unstable. Trying to be constructive here, but the 93 sq inch headsize at 11 ounces and 8 points head light with Graphene in the shaft may just make this racquet too hollow to be of use to the traditional Prestige player."
Mark - "I was a little challenged with this racquet, and my only guess why is that I am not used to playing with such a light, small headed racquet. Compared with the newer Graphene Prestige Pro, which has the larger headsize, I felt like the Rev Pro was a noticeably lower-powered setup."
Sean - "I would've enjoyed this racquet far more with a slight increase in overall weight and a 98-100 square inch headsize. It had an unstable feel upon contact, especially when redirecting well-hit shots. The midsized head also resulted in a smaller than average sweetspot."
Chris - "I was reminded of the Dunlop 100 line when hitting this one. Both are lighter weight midsize racquets that lack enough mass for my playing style. However, both are good starting points for weight and balance customization. I think I could get this one closer to the feel of a Volkl Power Bridge 10 Mid with some lead tape, and it would be all the better for it."
Granville - "This is not the typical midsized frame, so it's hard to compare it to anything else. The Dunlop 100 comes to mind because of how light it is, and also the Volkl Organix 10 Mid because of the crisper feel. The Organix 10 is more solid, though."
Mark - "I usually have at least a few different frames to compare, but this one is somewhat of an anomaly. I would say it is similar to the Dunlop 100 frames, but the swingweight is much lower on those, and the pattern is open. I cannot really say that this Prestige Rev Pro plays like the older Head Prestige Mids either. The Slazenger Pro Braided sort of qualifies, but the beam on it is much stiffer than the Rev Pro Prestige, and the Slazenger has the open pattern, too. Then there is the Volkl Organix 10 Mid."
Sean - "There are only a couple frames that sport similar qualities to this one because of its unique combination of specs. Because of the light, fast feel, I first thought of the Wilson Six.One Team BLX, which is also incredibly maneuverable. It's a bit further off the radar, but I was also reminded of the control-oriented and flexible feel of the Donnay X-Dual Silver 99, although the Donnay is far more stable."
(Scores are determined by averaging individual play test scores)
|Chris' Scores
|Granville's Scores
|Mark's Scores
|Sean's Scores
Chris: 5.0 all-court player currently using the Wilson Six.One 95 S. Chris uses a semi-western forehand grip, has a fast swing style and hits a one-handed backhand.
Granville: 5.5 all-court player currently using a Babolat Pure Drive 107. Granville is an aggressive player who uses an eastern forehand grip and goes continental on everything else, hits with a flat swing and a one-handed backhand.
Mark: 5.0 lefty all-court player with a one-handed backhand. He currently plays with the Wilson Steam 99S.
Sean: 4.5 baseliner using the Head YOUTEK Prestige Pro. Sean has a semi-western forehand, 1 handed backhand.
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Impact on Firm Performance? A Literature Evidence
Dr. Ronald Chibuike Iwu-Egwuonwu
Stride Associates Consulting; University of Abuja, Nigeria
August 16, 2010
The shouldering of social responsibility by firms is an issue that continues to generate mixed considerations, debates and thoughts by different subsets of the corporate world and the academia. The proponents argue that "it fosters and promotes ethical behavior by managers, and this has a positive impact on firm reputation". In other words, shouldering social responsibilities is a feeder to corporate reputation. However, opponents of CSR "claim that it is expensive and inconsistent with the preeminent goal of maximizing shareholder return." To these opponents this paper presents the case of the festering wound of Nigeria's Niger Delta region so that they can clearly judge which is better: to stand on the side of society and the environment and still achieve a high shareholder value or to turn their back on society and risk public odium and the likelihood that shareholders would either risk their stake in the organization or engage perpetually in damage control activities while also remaining in the negative spotlight which is not good for business.
This writer reviews current literature on the subject and urges those who argue that CSR is not necessary to consider what has happened in Nigeria's Niger Delta and the problems oil companies face in that region today. Today, a monster has been created in Nigeria's Niger Delta region out of alleged neglects that good CSR policy and strategies would have nipped in the bud. Thus, for companies to survive in today's world, they must be seen to act in society's best interests.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 31
Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, maximizing shareholder return, Nigeria's Niger delta region, CSR policy & strategies, corporate social performance theory, shareholder value theory, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship
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By RICHARD SHAWSun Advocate publisher
This past weekend the project to place at least one flower on the estimated 40,000 graves in Carbon and Emery counties began in earnest as groups of people rolled up to various cemeteries and begin the work.
The project, known as No Graves Unadorned, has developed legs of its own throughout the community. It's estimated that as many as 1,000 people have been involved in the making of the plastic flowers for graves over the last month and now some of them, along with other volunteers, are placing flowers throuhout this week on graves, just in time for Memorial Day.
The number of flowers that had come into the Progress/Sun Advocate offices by Monday afternoon counted nearly 30,000. The goal is to produce 40,000 flowers to cover graves that have no decorations at all. But materials for thousands more flowers are still out with more coming in every day. What needs to be done now is filling the manpower needs to actually put the flowers on graves. The biggest need appears to be at the Price Cemetery where there are thousands of graves to be decorated.
It also means that flowers that have been under construction by groups throughout the counties need to be brought into the Sun Advocate and Emery Progress offices by Thursday so that there are enough to go around.
To keep track of the numbers of flowers brought in, each issue of the papers has a flower clock printed on the front page. This indicates how many of the flowers are being produced and delivered to the newspaper offices.
Anyone wishing to donate their time to make flowers or to place them on graves this week can contact Shayla Winder at 637-0732.
The volunteers that have donated their time have been tremendous. Both paper's staffs look forward to working with even more people over the next week to place flowers.
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