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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
My Christmas Journal...
First of all: yes I think I'd better do a journal this year too. If I have done it for a few years in a row I really can't stop now can I? :)
Spread through this post are a few images from last year's journal. This was what it looked like before I started adding things to it and this really worked for me.
Ali Edwards, Shimelle... or something else? I'm kinda going with my own version. I have done Shimelle's "Journal Your Christmas" in the past and will therefore get the prompts for free every year. Some days I will follow them, others not. Also her class goes onto the 6th of January. I find that I don't particularly need those last January days in my journal so I make my own adaptation. Then we have Ali Edwards and her "December Daily" album. This really appeals to me and I love what she does with her album but she ends on December 25th. Again this doesn't feel good to me as I really want New Year's Eve in my album. So last year I made my own version by going from Dec 1st to Dec 31st and that really worked for me. I got to feature the days I wanted without doing "days just for the sake of it". So I'm pretty sure I will got with my own 1st-31st format again. Also for each year I'm learning more and more to go with the flow, do what I want and stop worrying about what you "should" do. :)
Michelle asked me: when did I do the journaling/add photos and make the journal? The journaling and adding the photos I do on the day in question. So on the 1st of December I use a photo(s) from that day and journal about that day. On the 2nd of Dec I do that page and so on. As for making the journal. Before last year, I would make each page on the day of doing the journaling. Last year I took a different approach and made the journal (put together all the inside pages) before I started. This worked really well for me and I hope to do something similar again this year.
You can see some parts of making my journal from last year here:
Work In Progress - Christmas Journal 2008
Journal Ready To Use - Christmas Journal 2008
Finally Liberty asked if I would be using one of my journals from Karla's class as my Christmas journal? This is very easy to answer because it's a definite NO to that question. Why? Here comes one of my best tips for the Christmas album. Do NOT use a pre-bound album. No matter how non-bulky you make your pages, the album (with all the pages added) will turn out pretty bulky in the end anyway. You need something with a very wide spine, or something you have the option of changing along the way, or something you bind AFTER you have finished. This is just my personal opinion of course, but this is what I have learnt that I need myself. So I either go for bookrings (which I can later change to larger bookrings as I go along, if needed) or I don't bind my album as make it, but I bind it with my Bind-It-All afterwards (ie in January!)... normally needing the biggest o-wires available LOL!
So what am I doing this year? I wish I hadn't been so rushed off my feet at the moment that I could sit down and start making my album. I'm really looking forward to do this and I'm itching to start. I just need to find the time. Anyway, this is what I *think* I'll be doing:
* making my own covers totally from scratch (as usual!)
* format is more likely to be rectangular than square...but not sure yet (though it could be that I go for a square album cover with lots of rectangular pages inside)
* varied pages & sized inside (loved this from previous years!!)
* most likely bound afterwards with BIA machine, but possibly bookrings
...that's what I know at the moment. Are you doing a Christmas album? Have you started? What are your plans? I'd love to hear some comments about this and I hope you managed to pick up some tips above.
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- Heather said...
I do always try to journal Christmas but last years was awful so I stopped LOL! Maybe this year will be better and like you I have tried it several ways and this year am going to do it my own way instead of following any given class. Best of luck with it.
- 11/04/2009 10:39 am
- The Scrapping Edge said...
Great looking book. I am thinking of doing a cross between Ali and Shimelle myelf this year.
- 11/04/2009 10:56 am
- Liberty :) said...
Ooh Anso! Thanks for the tip! I just clicked on a blog on the Shimelle forum and found it was you! I was so excited! I felt like I had found a friend god bless me!! haha!
I loved the way your journal was all higgeldy-piggeldy last year, different sizes, layouts etc it made it so exciting so this year I combined a mini chipboard album (with D-rings) and see-through pages with bits of saved chipboard, envelopes and random sized pages. I've covered some chipboard in paper and left some blank. I will blog it soon but it was all down to your inspiring album last year so THANK YOU!!!
- 11/04/2009 12:53 pm
- Mary B said...
That looks great, I am doing the SYC for the first time this year and welcome tips.
- 11/04/2009 1:21 pm
- scrappyjacky said...
I'm looking forward to Shimelle's class starting....but like the notion of combining ideas from different sources....I love Ali's December Daily.....and will probably combine myself this year.
- 11/04/2009 1:59 pm
- Jen Martakis said...
What a beautiful journal. I should really do something like this.
- 11/04/2009 2:50 pm
Can`t wait to get started. Love your input here. I might end up with a 12 x 12 album this December - just for the challenge:)
- 11/04/2009 4:27 pm
- Therese said...
I've created both Ali's journal and Shimelle's also. Last year I made a December Daily journal and life became so crazy I never used it. I'm digging it out to use this year. I'm taking Shimelle's blogging class and your's is the first blog I've visited. Thank you for the inspiration.
- 11/04/2009 4:41 pm
- Cat said...
Oooh I love it!! Your photos show a very similar style (ie - lots of different size pages!) to the one that I started a few years ago and have never got around to actually filling in! Maybe this year...?
- 11/04/2009 5:28 pm
- Joanna said...
Last year i had my first attempt at Shimelle's JYC but found that having to follow the prompts resulted in some 'just for the sake' pages which were difficult to create and of no interest for future reads. I really like the look of Ali's December Daily and that's what i will be doing this year. I love the non-uniformity of the album so i will be following that format and will be creating pages only on days which inspire me....lets hope they will all be inspirational.
- 11/04/2009 5:42 pm
- Jessica said...
I've never done a Christmas journal! Imagine getting to be 60 yrs old and never having done one! Ahhh well, I do have lots and lots of Christmas pictures, in books, albums and storeage boxes! Many of them I didn't put dates on. I guess I thought I'd remember. HAH! Me with the swiss cheese brain! So the thing I've learned over the years...DATE ALL YOUR PHOTOS!!!! That way if you don't get them bound in some kind of book, right away, you'll know all the info you need when you do! I love your journal from last year. Can't wait to see the new one!
- 11/04/2009 6:00 pm
- Robyn said...
I lOVE it!! I've tried to make eclectic journals like this, but they always look messy to me. This looks fantastic!
- 11/04/2009 6:28 pm
- Deb said...
Love your journal from last year -- all the variety of page type and sizes! Last year was my first year - I sort of followed Shimelle's and Ali's like you. Love doing it that way. Mixes it up I guess. Good luck on this years!
- 11/04/2009 10:06 pm
- ComfyMom~Stacey said...
I do Journal Your Christmas too. This year I am thinking of doing an album from Thanksgiving to New years Day, or maybe when the kids go back to school rather than stick with Ali or shimelles dates
- 11/04/2009 10:13 pm
- karen said...
I stared putting my Christmas journal together today.I know of people who have fallen by the wayside in the past after a few days and others who are still finishing it months later.So I like you,wanted to get a head start.I blogged about this today ,for Shimelles new class.
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We've recently (finally) signed up for a vegetable box delivery - once a week we have an assortment of organic vegetables delivered to our door. We went with Abel and Cole after they were recommended by several friends, and are very pleased with them so far. Aside from the fruit and vegetables the specialize in, Abel and Cole also act like a small online grocery store, and we're enjoying batches of fruity soy yogurt as well as some incredible fresh fish and meat. What having a veg box also means is that we're landed with plenty of vegetables (a good thing, don't get me wrong) and have to think of ways of using them before they go off. It's helping us increase our vegetable intake while cutting down on the meat a bit, and whenever we're stuck with how to pull of the trick of cooking armfuls of vegetables at once, we revert to soup.
I found this recipe for a Portuguese soup on the BBC website, originating from the Hairy Bikers (for anyone not familiar with their show, they are what they say they are: two large, bearded bikers who ride around different continents and sample and cook local food. Great job if you can get it, I say). I was interested in the soup not just because it used the vegetables we needed to cook with, but because I don't have a huge amount of knowledge of Portuguese cuisine.
What I do know about Portuguese food, in fact, could be written on the back of a matchstick. I know that they love pork, as a lot of continental Europe does. I know that they were a great sea-faring country and so brought touches of their cuisine around the world (for example, firey-hot Indian Vindaloo is a corruption of the Portuguese term 'vinho de alho' or 'vinegar and garlic' which is what the meat is prepared with). I also know of their reliance on cod and salt cod in particular, illustrated by the story a friend told me about how a power outage when she was a child forced her family to get a take out meal since her mother couldn't cook that night's cod, and it lives in her memory as one of the more exciting nights of her childhood.
So the Portuguese soup? It was very tasty but I felt it could have been better with a slight tweak of both the recipe and my behavior. The recipe only calls for 1 chorizo sausage but I would be inclined to add 2-3 (Mr A&N pouted that I was making him eat peasant food when, the last time he checked, he hadn't been a peasant for at least 2 generations). I also always suffer from adding too much liquid to my soup stock since I make the stock in my large pot and always feel the chicken looks so lonely without more water around it. I would next time follow what's said and only add the amount called for. It was still a very good and hearty soup, and nicely livened up by the swirl of spicy oil added on the top. I'm intrigued to find out what else Portuguese food has to offer me.
Caldo Verde, from the Hairy Bikers
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- 2 nice fat onions, finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 60ml/2¼fl oz olive oil
- 1 chorizo sausage
- 6 large potatoes
- 1.5 litres/2 pints 13fl oz good vegetable or chicken stock
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 bay leaves
- large bunch of greens or cabbage
- smoked paprika and olive oil, for dressing
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After few hours from now Islamists from Muslim brotherhood youth members and Salafists are planning for another battle. The Muslim brotherhood youth and Islamists are planning a million man protest to besiege the media city in October 6 once again. They are calling actually for the storming of the city and to block the transmission of the following channels "CBC,ONTV, MBC Misr , El Kahara Wal Nas !!
This battle is led by none other than the king of talk shows who appeared on TV more than ElBaradei since the start of Egyptian revolution Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail.
The campaign or the battle does not stop in the infidel media city as some tweep told me on Saturday. The battle goes on personally targeting political and figures by names at their home like for instance Khaled Ali who was injured while protecting a MB member during the Clashes.
Now the following part will depend on storify leaving with no comment from me at all after the break with no comment what so ever.
The secretary general of MB Mahmoud Ezzat announced in the press conference held on Saturday claimed that the brotherhood was not participating officially in that protest planned at the media city and that "the brotherhood's members that are going to participate in this protest only represent themselves !!"
Last time I heard that the brotherhood's members were going to represent themselves only and not the MB was on 24 January 2011.
The big shots and MB spokespersons swear that they respect the media and so on, no one of them spoke on why Misr 25 TV channel has accused the Egyptian Christians of standing behind the attack against the MB members in Mokattam.
To be accurate the MB's official TV channel said that Half of the protesters are Christians and the other half are Pro-Mubarak regime supporters !!
BY the way blaming and accusing the Christians were a main theme on Friday among the MB members and Islamists in a sick way. Today we found them sharing a photo of some protester doing a victory sign in front of a torched bus during the Mokattam's clashes claiming that he was a Christian based on what they thin a cross tattoo on his wrist !!
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Mike Abram needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
We need a redesign/refresh of the F2golf.com website. F2 is a national golf brand.
Please come up with a fresh, new look, incorporating the current logo and elements, including video box, on the current f2golf.com website.
Our company has updated the logo and will be coming out with new wedges later this year. I am an owner and the producer of the tv ads that run on The Golf Channel.
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I have a 5yr old female Boykin, I would like to have 2 pups <same litter> from her before her years catch up to her. No, not looking to start or carry anyone bloodline, just looking for a hunting stud.
I know, most Good Breeders do not like to breed with "backyard breeders". I just want two pups from her to work Upland hunting, as a team. Yes, I know this is a long shot, as most breeders looking out for their bloodlines, cant blame them at all.
Lil Miss Sally has papers, but is not registered for breeding. (was and IS to be hunter, not a breeder) She has been a great hunter on both fur and feathers, yes fur, and she still has a soft mouth. Squirrels, mountain beavers, <nothing like real beavers, large prairie dog size> and opossum, peasant, quail and grouse she has hunted and gotten them all.
So... at 5yrs, is she too old for a first time litter.


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As Ireland reflects on a historic 100-year milestone, take a glimpse at what the next century might hold for Irish composition.
Future Composers brings together three of Ireland's most innovative new music ensembles – The Dublin Laptop Orchestra, Kirkos Ensemble, and Tonnta - to perform works by emerging Irish composers for electronics, acoustic instruments, and voices respectively, and culminates in all three groups joining forces to perform a new large-scale work by award-winning composer Linda Buckley, specially commissioned for the event.
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Gentleman Nick
- By Jeff Williams
- | From Jim Nantz, May/June 2011
In a barren porta-cabin not far from the 18th green at Royal Birkdale, Nick Price sat on a cheap folding chair as a group of somber journalists arrived, intending to gingerly ask him how it was that one of the world's best players had just shot an 82 in the third round of the 1998 British Open.
Golf being the psychologically delicate game that it is, and the game's journalists traditionally being loath to trod too heavily on a player's misfortune, there was little to suggest any sense of joy in the dim surroundings. For a few seconds, it was positively funereal.
Then Price, as he had always done—and always does—burst into his wide, toothy, crocodilian grin, appalled that anyone should be overly concerned that he shot a bad score in a golf tournament, no matter that he had been in contention after the first two rounds and now his chances had been blown away.
"What are you guys frowning about?" exclaimed Price, shaking the ink-stained wretches from their mournful postures. "You didn't shoot 82." Laughter ensued, as it always does when you spend any time around Nick Price, one of the world's most respected players, and indeed, its most respected person.
"You know what?" says Lee Trevino, one of the all-time greats, when asked about Nick Price, the man. "You finally asked a question that everyone in the game will give you an honest answer to. I don't know anyone who has more respect for the game, more respect for people, more respect for the country than Nick Price. Of all the players I know, and I know a hell of a lot of them, I don't know a nicer individual."
Price's legacy can easily be defined by his extraordinary play in the early and mid '90s, by his ascendancy to No. 1 in the world, clawing his way over players such as Greg Norman, Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples and Ernie Els. It can be defined by his three major championships (the 1992 and 1994 PGA Championships, and the 1994 British Open Championship). It can be defined by his 48 victories worldwide. It can be defined by his Hall of Fame induction in 2003.
But as significant as any accolades he's ever received are those given to him for the person he is. Those would be the 2002 Payne Stewart Award, given by the PGA Tour to a player who shows respect for the traditions of the game; the 2005 Bob Jones Award, given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship; the 2011 Old Tom Morris Award, given by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America to a player "who through a continuing lifetime commitment to the game of golf has helped to mold the welfare of the game in a manner and style exemplified by Old Tom Morris."
"It's just always been my nature to be respectful of people and of the game I play," says Price. "I was brought up that way and there was never anything that would have caused me to change my personality in any way. Golf can be a maddening game, but you don't have to be mad about it."
At age 54, Price is now a Champions Tour player (though he intends to stick his foot back in the water of the PGA Tour at a few events in 2011). Born in South Africa to English parents, raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and having risen through the ranks of the game through Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States, Price's journey has been long, eventful, thrilling, rewarding and joyful. Along the way, he has earned the respect of everyone he has touched.
"With Pricey, what you see is what you get," says Ernie Els, the South African who is 13 years Price's junior. He looked up to Price as much as he did the iconic Gary Player for inspiration. "He is a straight up, honest human being. He was very much my mentor when I started playing in the United States. He gave me a lot of advice. He didn't have to do it, not to a fellow competitor. But it tells me about his character."
Character, of course, has many components. Price didn't make it to the top of the game without being a dedicated and steely competitor. Part of his character was defined by a mandatory stint in the Rhodesian military after graduation from high school, during a time of revolution when the country was on its way to becoming Zimbabwe. He was a radio operator, then involved with ciphers, signaling. And while on duty, he was shot at by insurgents. "I was shot at a few times," he says. "I never personally returned fire."
After military service, there was a golf career to pursue, and he did it with great verve. At the start of each season, he would begin with the same mantra: "Persistence, persistence, persistence."
Success in Africa, Asia and Europe finally brought him to the PGA Tour in 1982, where he not only found a place to play at the highest level of the game, he also found his home. He lived in Orlando to begin with, near his coach David Leadbetter, then relocated with his wife Sue to Jupiter Island, Florida, when their children were about to start school.
"I guess you could say that the most significant steps in my career were qualifying for the British Open as an amateur in 1975, winning my first European Tour event in 1980 and coming to the U.S. and qualifying for the tour by going through the tour school in the fall of 1982," says Price.
After an up-and-down start to his rookie season on the PGA Tour in 1983, Price made a deep impression by winning the World Series of Golf, holding off Jack Nicklaus in the final round.
"Look at the players I beat down the stretch," says Price. "I was a pigeon among the cats. I was cannon fodder, but I managed to win. Nicklaus, Floyd, Irwin, Aoki, the giants of the game. Nicklaus walked up to me on the green after I won and congratulated me. It meant an awful lot to me."
That victory looked to be the touchstone of an outstanding career, yet Price wouldn't again win on the U.S. Tour until 1991. He won tournaments worldwide and finished highly in several PGA Tour events, but he couldn't get over the winning hump in the U.S. Not that there weren't some real thrills along the way. He shot 63 in the 1986 Masters, lipping out a putt on the 18th for 62. "It was as if Bobby Jones said, 'Okay, that's enough,' " says Price.
For several seasons, it just didn't seem he had enough.
"I went through a period where I was playing well and just couldn't win," says Price. "I was winning overseas and on smaller tours but over here I couldn't win. I finished third, second, fourth, second, in the '80s. In 1988 I went to see [sports psychologist] Bob Rotella. From a mental standpoint, he turned me around. He simplified my thinking on the golf course. I was thinking about too many things. He got me focused. I built on that over the next two years. In 1991, I won my first event after all those years at the Byron Nelson. I didn't hit the ball all that well that weekend, but my game was so solid, I said to myself you don't have to play perfect golf to win, I just had to manage my game correctly. That was really the key to me starting to play really well."
Boy, did he ever. From 1991 through 1994 he won 12 PGA Tour events, including the Players Championship and his three majors. He was a force every week he played, and when he was on his game, he was unstoppable.
"Having been a journeyman pretty much up until 1991, having won maybe seven tournaments worldwide in 12 years as a pro, all of a sudden the floodgates opened," says Price. "It was so much fun. If you have that happen to you when you are young and you haven't put all those years of hard work in, it's probably not as much appreciated as when you have done all that. That's probably why I was so appreciative of it. I loved it. Playing against the greatest players in the world on some of the greatest golf courses in the best championships, PGA, U.S. Open, British Open and Masters, and having a chance to win."
At his side, as his caddy, friend and chief supporter, was Jeff "Squeaky" Medlin. With "Squeak" he shared the best of times—and the worst.
"At the end of 1990 my caddy told me he wouldn't be doing it anymore, he was going home. So we looked around for a caddy and I decided to call Squeaky because he had caddied for some big players like Fred Couples and John Mahaffey," says Price. "Squeaky told me that Tom Watson had just asked him to caddy for him. So I say I'd love to have you, but totally understand if you go with Tom. A week later he says he's decided to caddy for me."
It wasn't the Humphrey Bogart-to-Claude Raines "Louie, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship" moment, but it would become a beautiful friendship and a highly successful partnership.
"So I start with Squeaky in 1991 and in May we win the Byron Nelson," says Price. "We were getting along really well. He was a very positive guy with a great sense of humor. We won again at the Canadian Open. Things were going great and it really felt like we were a team. In '92 I played well, really well, and won the PGA Championship and won a few more tournaments in the U.S. and around the world. In 1993 I won the TPC in March. We were really on roll. No one was having more fun out there than us, and particularly Squeaky. Ninety-four comes along and I'm playing at a level I could only have dreamed of. I win the British Open and the PGA again. I'm No. 1 in the world. I have to think that Squeaky was a major component in that. And he was such a great friend. I had someone to share it with. It was really a wonderful time, riding on a cloud."
The 1994 season was the pinnacle of Price's career. He played well in 1995 but didn't win in the U.S. Then during the spring and early summer of 1996 he was plagued with a sinus infection that he couldn't shake, and he didn't play very much. He withdrew from a tournament the first week of June, skipped the U.S. Open and didn't schedule himself to play again until the first week of July, at the Western Open in Chicago.
"I met Squeaky at the Western Open and he said that he had just had a physical and his doctor thought that he might have leukemia, but he was waiting for the test results to come back. It was like a kick in the stomach, man. I said you have to be kidding," says Price. "That Saturday morning when I showed up at the clubhouse, there was Squeak with my bag and I knew by the look on his face that it was bad. He said he had leukemia. I said 'We're going to kick this thing dead.' "
Price called upon all his resources, his medical contacts. Medlin began treatment and Price began a new phase of his career without Squeak on the bag. At the Hilton Head tournament in April of 1997, Price led wire-to-wire to win. "When Squeak was about to have a bone marrow transplant, I won the tournament at Hilton Head and as I was walking up the 18th, I remember having a green ribbon on my visor as lots of guys were doing. I said into the camera, 'We are all pulling for you for you Squeak.' "
Medlin had the transplant and Price went to see him in May. "Squeak was always such a positive person and he seemed in good spirits but he didn't look good. He was clearly sick," says Price.
On the Sunday morning of the 1997 U.S. Open at Congressional, Price got a sobering call from Medlin's wife. "She said that she was taking him out of the hospital, that there was nothing else they could do for him," says Price. "He had developed an infection in his lungs."
The next day Price flew to Columbus, Ohio, to visit with the Medlins. Medlin looked horrible, looked green, looked terminal.
With a heavy heart, he flew home to Palm Beach. When he got back there was a voicemail message from Medlin's wife. Squeaky had died.
"I just cried my eyes out," says Price. "Maybe it's selfish to think this way, but we had shared so many great times, had done so many great things together, that it left a big hole in my life. I still miss him terribly. One of the reasons that I didn't play so well afterward is that we worked so well together as a team. He knew my swing inside and out, knew me as a person. That's no disrespect to the caddies who worked for me, but it was almost impossible to have that relationship again."
Price didn't go away, though he never again played at the highest level. He would win a PGA Tour event in 1998, and his last one in 2002. Still he remains proud that he was still a strong player into his mid 40s, battling players of the Tiger Era.
"It was hard to come down from the top," says Price. "We all know it is not going to be like that forever. What I was really happy about was that I continued to play well even though I didn't play at that same level. Even in 2002 when I won a tournament, in 2003 and 2004 when I was 46 and 47, I was still competitive. I was still in the top 30 in the world ranking. I was very happy that I played so well, then my game went off in 2005. When you take into consideration all the changes that were going on, the golf courses getting longer and the equipment changes, that was a really good effort, I think. I was really proud of that."
Of course by the time he became eligible for the Champions Tour at age 50 in 2007, he had gathered a whole bunch of friends along the way, and a whole bunch of respect. Playing with, and against, Nick Price was always a pleasure, and for Price playing with his old cronies was like a homecoming.
"The big difference is all the guys out here [on the Champions Tour] have been there and done that in their careers," says Price. "There aren't the egos out here that there were when you first came out [on the PGA Tour]. Everyone knows everyone so well. It's more about entertaining. It's still about competitiveness."
As Trevino says, "You can't find a person out there that could say a bad word about Nicky. I've never heard one, ever."
Putting the question to Price's colleagues at the Charles Schwab Championship last fall—say something bad about Nick Price—elicited these responses.
From Jeff Sluman: "He's a horrible wine drinker. We rented a condo together with Jay Haas last year for a tournament and I brought along a lot of really unbelievable wine and he says, 'Where's the beer?' "
From Mark Calcavecchia: "He didn't get me into his golf club [McArthur] in Florida. I thought I would be in like Flynn with a guy like that. Other than that, I love the guy."
From Tom Watson: "He's not a wine drinker and he tells really corny jokes."
From Loren Roberts: "We were at that Kapalua tournament at the end of the year and the players and their wives were out on a whale watching cruise. Everyone had a couple of beers. Nick dove in the water. He popped up and mooned us. Now that was pretty funny."
From Tom Kite: "He smokes, man, he smokes."
Price is a smoker, but mostly cigarettes. He says he smokes three or four cigars a year when friends give him one. And, he says that when he plays in the Dominican Republic, he always brings some cigars back to his buddies. However, he says he doesn't smoke enough cigars to have a favorite, or even any way to talk about specific cigars.
Price, 54, has won three times on the Champions Tour through the early part of the 2011 season. He wasn't happy with the way he began his new career, but his swing consistency has improved and he feels better over the putter. When he's not fishing, he's working hard on his game, particularly now that his three teenage children, Gregory, Robyn and Kimberly, have their own active lives.
"It's truly amazing to be a parent and it's the highlight of my life, but it's now 'Hi, Dad,' and they are gone off to do things, so I have had more time to work on my game."
He feels good enough, in fact, to have played in the PGA Tour's Honda Classic where he finished in a tie for 55th place. Rory Sabbatini won the tournament. Now, he has to decide how many more times this year he will take on the host of younger players on the PGA Tour.
No matter where he plays, everyone will be glad to see him.
"How you can you be a great player and as great a person?" asks Tom Kite, rhetorically. "Just be like Nick Price."
Jeff Williams is a contributing editor for Cigar Aficionado.


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Fun with PCast
This article
Based on work by -, Robert Fenerty, frontalot, and nix.
Originally by nix at Linkstationwiki.org
Fun with PCast
This article tries to shed some light on the detailed workings of PCast. The information has been obtained using a mipsel-hdhlan LinkStation. It should apply equally to all LinkStations.
LinkStation users have surely noticed the PCast entry in the LinkStation's web configuration. PCast is apparently some server intended to work together with Buffalo's LinkTheater (a multimedia player). The question is, what does PCast exactly do, and can it be used for something other than the LinkStation?
This article is based on the rather old PCast version 1.00, as it comes with the mipsel-hdhlan 2.05 firmware. Firmware 2.22 contains an updated version of PCast. Depending on which source one believes, the PCast version in 2.22 is either 1.10-final, or 1.10-beta. Version 1.10 is supposed to provide more feature, the details need further investigation.
New Version | There appears to be a newer version of PCast, 2.00, included with the 1.51 Japanese firmware. I have not investigated any new features.
What is PCast?
PCast is a media server. Contrary to popular (for some value of popular in the small world of LinkStation hackers) belief, PCast is not a UPnP[1] Media Server. PCast uses UPnP at some point, but is in no way compliant to the UPnP Media Server specification.
Instead, PCast is based on the Syabas myi technology. Syabas is a relatively unknown company which produces OEM products that are the core of many network media centers. One of Syabas' OEM product is the myiBox. This is a hardware device which converts streaming data from a network into TV signals. Buffalo sells some TV devices in Japan which look remarkably like a Buffalo-branded myiBox.
The myiBox or any other device using Syabas technology, e.g. Buffalo's LinkTheater, needs a server which delivers the media (e.g. an MP3 stream). PCast is such a server. The myiBox also needs a server which provides the user interface (which it then just displays on the TV). PCast does this, too: The box can be controlled via a remote control and displays a navigation menu on the TV. The navigation menu can be used to browse the data available on the network. This menu comes directly from the PCast server and is not built into the box. myiBox-based products are rather popular in Japan. There is an active development community which provides customized user interface skins or custom implementations of the needed server.
Syabas' own server software is called myiHome. It can be installed on many different computers, including Windows desktop machines, since it is written in Java. Buffalo's PCast server is, however, a native binary for LinkStations/TeraStations and isn't in any way based on Java. PCast just provides the bare basics necessary to convert a device into a server for the myiBox technology.
How PCast 1.00 works
PCast listens on 2 ports in standard configuration:
PCast uses port 1900 for UPnP, the standard UPnP port. It uses UPnP's SSDP [2] for peering with a LinkTheater. Via SSDP the two devices can learn about each other. Actually, the LinkTheater is supposed to learn about existing media servers via UPnP. From the current investigation it is believed that PCast is not a fully compliant UPnP node. It does just enough UPnP in order to be found by a LinkTheater.
PCast runs a mini web server on port 8000. That server is responsible for delivering the myiBox navigation menu to select some media; it also is responsible for streaming the media. The server runs HTTP so a normal web browser can connect to it. However, the HTML (web pages) delivered by the server contain myiBox specific extensions (attributes in tags, meta data), which are not known to a normal web browser. Also, the provided HTML is designed for a fixed resolution of 670x560 - well suited to be converted for display on a 4:3 TV, but rather badly laid out in a normal web browser. PCast also comes with a second set of HTML files apparently designed for display on a 16:9 TV set. It is not known how PCast is supposed to switch to the 16:9 HTML - which looks as bad in a normal web browser as the 4:3 user interface.
The media which PCast can serve via port 8000 are audio, video, and image files of different types. It doesn't do so unless the URLs to access the media are specifically constructed. The server does not start to stream media once some media is selected via the web page. Instead, the server responds with descriptive text data. This data includes the URL under which the server streams the media. Unfortunately, normal browsers can't make any sense of the text description data. They just display it as text.
How to use PCast 1.00
The simple answer is that it probably doesn't make much sense to use PCast for media streaming unless someone owns a LinkTheater, some myiBox-based product, or some myiBox clone.
The longer answer is that the best way would be to use a special browser for accessing the server. Such a browser would have to make sense out of the specific HTML and the textual media descriptions coming from the server. The present author is not aware of such a particular browser.
If the correct URLs are typed in manually into a player like WinAMP, the data is streamed correctly and WinAMP plays. This is a rather inconvenient way to use the server.
PCasts UPnP support needs further investigation. Apparently PCast is not configurable or able to be queried via UPnP.
PCast 1.00 Configuration
PCast is configured via the file /etc/pcast/pcast.conf. The configuration parameters are not documented. Some investigation reveals that PCast 1.00 seems to understand the following configuration parameters:
media : root directory of media files
limit_media : root directory of access-limited (secret) media
limit_pass : password for access to limited media
flag_daemon : true or false: Run as daemon
flag_debug_log_output : true or false: Write debug log file
debug_log_filename : Name of debug log file (default /tmp/pcastd_debug.log)
server_name : Name
server_port : Port
client_language_code : sjis?
server_language_code : ?
auto : ?
skin_root : Root of the data for the HTML user interface
sort_rule : none?
flag_decode_samba_hex_and_cap : ?
flag_unknown_extention_file_hide : Only show files with known file name extensions
flag_filename_cut_parenthesis_area : ?
flag_filename_cut_same_directory_name : Don't show directory names
flag_allplay_filelist_adjust : ?
access_allow : ?
allow_user_agent : Limit access to HTML user agents (browsers) of a particular kind
secret_directory : ?
PCast URL format
PCast expects commands and parameters embedded in HTTP GET request URLs. For example:
would respond with single-play information for the file "some directory/latest hit.mp3". As already mentioned, it would not stream the file. It would deliver information which includes the URL under which PCast would stream the file.
These PCast commands are not documented. The known commands are:
page= : Which page of a directory listing (ten entries per page) should be displayed
action= : singleplay Return text description for playing file one time
- allplay Return text description for playing all files in a directory
- randomplay Return text description for playing random files from directory
- singlephoto Return text description for showing a single photo
- allphoto Return text description for showing all photos in a directory
- randomphoto Return text description for showing random photos from a directory
option= : ?
filter= : 1 Show list of video files
- 2 Show list of music files
- 3 Show list of photo files
file= : File or directory name
cmdOK= : ?
txtPasswd= : Password for access to limited area
PCast 1.10
One of the biggest changes between PCast 1.0 and 1.10 seems to be the support for the Buffalo [PC-MV7DX/U2 ]. The PC-MV7DX/U2 is a hardware analog-to-digital video converter from Buffalo Japan. It is supposed to feed digital video to a LinkStation via USB.
There seems to be some 'TV' software available which can be used to manage streams from the LinkStation. It may be worth investigating this software to see if it supports normal streaming from the LinkStation.
Up to 2 PC-MV7DX/U2 units can be connected to a LinkStation, and up to 4 PC-MV7DX/U2 units to a TeraStation.
PCast > 1.10
There are reports that later PCasts do use the LinkStation's thttpd web server for serving the media data instead of relying on PCasts internal web server for this purpose.
See Also
- Install TwonkyVision UPnP Media Server [from here] (commercial software, but a cheap classic)
- Install SlimServer [Slimserver]
- Use the LinkStation for what it was originally intended - a file server. Just navigate to a share with your favorite media player software like WinAMP and open a media file in the player.
- You could try to install [Icecast], a shoutcast-compatible streaming server.
- [WizD] - a Media Server Daemon for Linux (documentation in Japanese only)


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The Cal State Northridge softball team (5-7) defeated UNLV 4-3 Friday afternoon at the Amy S. Harrison Classic on the campus of UC Riverside. Hannah Fraijo tossed a complete hitter and Korinne Randazzo delivered the game-winning RBI in the seventh inning as the Matadors snapped a five-game losing streak.
Tied 3-3 and heading into the final inning, Randazzo picked up her first hit with the Mataors in driving home Jennifer Mosier for the game-winning run. She drove a hard liner to second base that took a funky hop on the Rebel infielder and squirted into right fielder.
Two of CSUN's runs came via the long ball. Mikayla Thielges and Jaci Carlsen each cranked home runs of the left field fence in the fourth inning with two outs. For Thielges, the home run was the third of her season and gives her 10 RBIs. Carlsen's blast was her second of the season and the 12th of her career.
Mosier had the team's fourth RBI, scoring Thielges on an RBI single to center that tied the game in the top of the second. For Thielges, the two runs scored represents a new career high.
In the circle, Fraijo navigated her way through seven innings to earn her third win of the season. She successfully escaped multiple frames with runners on base and finished with a season-high three strikeouts.
UNLV scored a run in the first and then added a two-run home run in the third.
For CSUN head coach Tairia Flowers, the Matadors did some nice things Friday to end their losing streak.
Weather permitting, Northridge will play twice Saturday at the event. They will face the host Highlanders in a non-conference game starting at 11:30 a.m., and then face Boise State for the first time in school history at 2 p.m. The Matadors close out their stay at the Amy S. Harrison Classic with a 12:30 game against UNLV on Sunday, Feb. 27.
The Matadors return to Matador Diamond after that for a game against Cal State Bakersfield on Wednesday, Mar. 2 at 2 p.m.


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2011-11-28 BET Awards • Ryan restarts
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Seventies Soulchild: Hey just in here opening up. Type my name in to get my attention. Seventies Soulchild
Daviss: hello seventies Soultrain
Seventies Soulchild: Hey Daviss! lol That mess was horrible! lol
Daviss: lol I meant siuldchild soulchild I know, the whole durn show
Seventies Soulchild: I never thought I would say that, but really it was a sad state of affairs...
Daviss: I really do not understand how the entire thing was horrible. And where in the world did Celo deserve all those songs
Seventies Soulchild: Ok now, I like Ceelo Green. He was one of the few good singers there.
Daviss: not to me
Seventies Soulchild: Eric Benet, and Lalah Hathaway.
Daviss: Gladys was even off and she is never off
Seventies Soulchild: hi alt
Daviss: hi alt! yaaa Cardinals!!
alt: hello ladies, Seventies Soulchild & Daviss .. how are ya?
Seventies Soulchild: Doing great!
Daviss: you could not help but win alt lol
alt: Beannie had a good day, huh Daviss?
Seventies Soulchild: lol talking about the Soul Train Awards with co-workers... lol BRB
Daviss: seventies my right ear and my left ear is in tune with melodies and those peeps were off yes he did alt, he showed out lol
alt: Hehehhehe Daviss, I take it you didin't care for the performances at the ST awards show.
Daviss: so we know where we stand huh alt lol lol oh no, alt it was terrible
alt: yep, SS has he priorities and we ain't at the top of the list LOL he=her
Daviss: I know lol lol hee hee
Seventies Soulchild: quit y'all lol lol lol
Daviss: with that big ole BRB in our face lol
Seventies Soulchild: alt, I didn't even like it... ugh!
alt: oh my, sorry to hear that Seventies Soulchild
Seventies Soulchild: Then that guy with the shimmery leopard jacket on ... good god go get some fashion man! lol It was terrible from top to bottom. Black folks done slipped off. . .
alt: I just got this month's Ebony magazine and I was disappointed in the list of 100 most powerful/influential Blacks.
Daviss: oh really alt
Seventies Soulchild: I don't have the latest copy of Ebony... sounds like I shouldn't even buy it. sigh
alt: don't let me influence you Seventies Soulchild
Daviss: lol alt
Seventies Soulchild: Anyway, y'all I found a marriage record for my uncle Buddy on family search this morning. Didn't know about this wife...
alt: what state was he located in Seventies Soulchild?
Daviss: ;good for you seventies and Pat A really had a great find!!
Seventies Soulchild: Alabama, Jones, AL Get this, he married a Queenie Lanier.
alt: Pat A's find was terrific Daviss.. that document calls for a lot of 'looking at'.
Seventies Soulchild: the license also listed the maiden names of the mothers and the names of the fathers. very good find.
vkn: Lots alt and the slaver is a SLATER
Daviss: good looking out seventies
alt: they were married after 1900 Seventies Soulchild?
Seventies Soulchild: Married in .. 1947 AND she was an older woman.. lol Now, in my Lanier family there are two collateral families that we are supposed to be related to the Peoples and the Parkers. This Queenie was a Lanier whose mother maiden name was Peoples. But This uncle was NOT a Lanier, but a DeBardlabon and his last name was Evans....
alt: remember Rodney Slater from Clinton's cabinet... is he part of your Slater group vkn?
Seventies Soulchild: Ok on Pat A.'s find. I'm confused about her confusion on how her ancestor came to be in Ocean Springs, MS. New Orleans was a MAJOR slave trading port.
Daviss: If I remember correctly, I have a cousin whose great grandmother was a Dove in Texas
vkn: I am aware of the Slaters in Arkansas but no connection. I have databased them
alt: is that right Daviss?
Seventies Soulchild: Ocean Springs is just on the other side of Biloxi...
Daviss: The only thing is that she is clueless of her history to check with her
alt: I think the significance of Pat A's find is from where did the Dove's come from to be shipped from Baltimore.
vkn: Beautiful work with Kim. Just think two recovering brain surgeries within one week
alt: and were the 3 boys sold from their family, or are there other Dove's on another apge. Yes vkn Kim's road to recovery is a great story.
AYWalton: Hope you are all well.
alt: Hello AYWalton, how ya doing?
Daviss: oh yes re Kim!
AYWalton: fine alt, and you?
alt: doing fine AYWalton, thanks
vkn: Heyyyyyyyy AYW is there a site to calculate 1860 dollars with today? In other words 475.00 in 1860 would be what today?
Daviss: I used to have that in my favs but no longer
AYWalton: Here ya go, vkn: http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
Daviss: thx from me too AY
AYWalton: You are all welcome!
vkn: thanx ayw
alt: looks to be about 12K in today CPI
vkn: thanx ayw I knew you would be johnny on the spot lol
AYWalton: You are all welcome! I do try from time to time. lol
Daviss: hehehe
vkn: Thanx alt
alt: on Pat A's find... I wonder what the distinction is on the manifest betwee Negro, Mulatto & Person of Color? and were some of those slaves being hired/rented out, or were ther indentures among them?
vkn: It is such a terrific find. Prolly measured by New Orleans standards Did you see the PatA post AYW?
AYWalton: Ooops before stepping away---no I missed the PatA post. Where is it vkn?
vkn: Slave forum
alt: yes, it appears from that one page that the 3 teenage boys had been separated from the family. the Dove boys.
vkn: she found her kin listed on NOLA manifest
Daviss: http://tinyurl.com/7qn8h7o
vkn: with first and last names
Daviss: there you are AYWalton
AYWalton: thanks, Daviss
Daviss: I would still be doing the happy dance
Seventies Soulchild: 3/4 of an acre for 12k? smh
vkn: Glad to see response from Selma on lady from Ohio and AYW thanx so much for helping Rich to come clean
alt: yes, I looked at that 1860 census record vkn... first time I had ever seen folks described as 'emancipated slaves' on a census form.
vkn: I too have not seen that will have to take a look and post to mailing list Where is that county alt Preble?
alt: that record covered a lot of territory... she was born 1829 in Arkansas, her children in Tennessee and they are living on Ohio in 1860.... hmmmmn
AYWalton: He is preparing an exhibit on Freedom Seekers. He mentioned real people---yet Tom was fictitious.
Daviss: her post sounds like she started researching the day she posted
alt: It is on the Indiana State line in SW Ohio vkn.
Daviss: oops sorry
AYWalton: So how does Tom become a Freedom seeker. I am asking that question now. because it has nothing to do with the negative term implied by the term today. Robert Smalls, Ellen Craft, and others---what do they have to do with Uncle Tom? And did Uncle Tom seek freedom?
vkn: Heaven was his freedom I reckon
AYWalton: The other REAL people did.
alt: Wasn't the character "Tom" taken from Josiah Henson of the UGRR and Buxton/Chatham ontario, Canada?
AYWalton: so I have heard---but he is not representing Josiah Henson---he used the name Uncle Tom. Now if he wishes to say Josiah Henson that might be different. However, I don't know much about Josiah Henson's story. Was he a freedom seeker--a runaway or a manumitted slave.
vkn: I saw an article authored by Lisa Lee on Archives on the UGRR but did not read as yet. have it marked Have you read ?
AYWalton: ahhh ok, I just googled his name and see that he was a runaway who made it to Ontario.
alt: don't let me confuse the issue on Tom/Josiah Henson... Uncle Tom's Cabin
AYWalton: exactly. I just posted a question to him. I started to include Josiah Henson's name, but changed my mind. He will have to find Josiah on his own--I am not going to give him the name.
alt: Isn't Rich a little late with his Freedom Seeker's, which btw is the Title of the FOFS/OURA book of a few years back dealing with the UGRR in OHIO.
Seventies Soulchild: I'm reading the thread now...
alt: and his references have been written about over & over. Craft, Smalls & "box' Brown
vkn: Did you learn anything about Pittman ayw
Seventies Soulchild: He don't have much to say, so I think it may be best to leave this guy to his own research.
Daviss: well he did say he was a long time researcher :o
vkn: ww1shaft.gif for the military peeps
Seventies Soulchild: I hadn't been on the military forum in a while. Are we doing anything specific for WW I AA's??
vkn: I will repodt back tomorrow
alt: got a discussion going on the DNA test African descendant page on Facbook.... Cousin/Generations/Time Periods & matches on FTDNA & 23andme.
AYWalton: I see that Rich was also looking for Dred Scott's descendants.
Daviss: I read that post also alt.
AYWalton: Somebody found a link for him.
alt: one person states that genealogically a generation averages to something like 31 years.
Daviss: lol AYWalton so he is all over the place
AYWalton: He is truly scouring the boards for folks to do his research, when sometimes all he had to do was to use a search engine to find data. I know we can't prevent folks from using the boards like that---but something about it is ---what is the word I am looking for---I'll just say raising my eyebrows about their sincerity.
alt: If that's the case 6-7 geneartions only gets us back to around the CW
Seventies Soulchild: I would be willing to guess that Rich isn't AA. . . but that's just my opinion.
alt: how about lazy AYWalton
AYWalton: I wondered about that SoulChile.
Daviss: wondering how that was figured out alt, the 31 yrs
AYWalton: that word works, alt.
vkn: ahhhh he is the one who started that. Great link from someone to article from ggranddaughter of Dred Scott
alt: that was stated by FTDNA according to one of the posters (31 years) Daviss
AYWalton: and of course there is a book written about the Harriet and Dred Scott by the woman in St. Louis--Ruth Hagler or Hager.
Daviss: oh @alt awwww Barney Frank retiring
vkn: Ehe objected to thhe Q how do you feel and answered wuth How do I think. It was stunning
alt: his request makes you wonder how much "reading' some "researchers" have done when they undertake the writing of a book, huh AYWalton?
AYWalton: well I am sure that many folks take shortcuts. and think about it---AfriGeneas is the largest online community of African American researchers of history. So what a shortcut for a newspaper man (as his email reads) to take! and there are the "professional genealogists" who watch and lurk and do their thing as well.
vkn: not shortcuts lol high dives lol
alt: vkn must be used to that type of request.... you could even use Essence magazine as an example of writers/shortcuts/deadlines, etc.
vkn: indeed
AYWalton: good choice of words, vkn! I wonder how many "careers" AfriGeneas has unknowingly launched or at least helped along the way. you still getting requests, vkn from the Essence article?
alt: good question AYWalton
AYWalton: Hello ryan
alt: hello stranger.. how are ya ryan?
Daviss: hello ryan!
ryan: Hello ay, Davis, vkn, 70's, alt
Seventies Soulchild: hi ryan! How are you? How was your Thanksgiving?
vkn: Heyyyyyy Ryan
ryan: All is well, got busy at work, made it through another year.. Time to buckle down
AYWalton: how's it going, ryan?
Seventies Soulchild: Good. So you are going to start up work research again?
ryan: I'm good.. No new "big" finds, just maintenance, closing little gaps where I can. Started more in earnest on my mothers side...
Seventies Soulchild: Family search has some new Mississippi records online. Taxes, Educable children etc. this year.
alt: good move ryan.... maintenance & closing gaps.
Seventies Soulchild: Also military burials. It depends on the county you're looking at.
ryan: Thanks 70's, will be on the lookout for those..
Seventies Soulchild: I found some good information there. Now your mother's family is from MS also or TN?
ryan: MS, Leflore county, deep in the Delta... (Greenwood)
Seventies Soulchild: Ahhh okay.
vkn: Yes AYW they still dribble in. mostly from incarcerated men and from the computerless
AYWalton: Mississippi is the only state with that list of educable children. I have found relatives on that list.
Seventies Soulchild: I finally got a look last weekend and found a lot of relatives in Adams Co.
ryan: Found out that move "The Help" was filmed in greenwood, they interviewed one of my moms cousins for that story. she cooked for the man that owned the house the movie was filmed in..
Seventies Soulchild: nice!
alt: that's a great question Seventies Soulchild .. Where from? anymore it seems like "where found" as records are revealing where we find folks ain't necesarily where they are from/
Seventies Soulchild: yep. It seems like black people were always moving. Especially after the USCT. ok my mind... lol the USCW
AYWalton: ryan---that sounds like a good article to write or to blog about.
alt: some of Selma's findings in RG105 are proving that point over and over again,
Seventies Soulchild: Yes... I really want to take a quick look at some specific RGs myself..
ryan: Yes, I have not talked to her. One of her nieces told me about it. She cooked for the man the last 40+ years..
Seventies Soulchild: I cannot wait to go to D.C. I am going to be 'busy' on vacation! lol
Daviss: later folks!!
alt: my turn to scoot... later's folks
AYWalton: that alone should have been a fun story to hear about her own expereinces as "the help". she has to have good stories. Well I too better run. Have a good one folks.
Seventies Soulchild: bye AYWalton
ryan: yes, will be back.. I will keep you posted.. later yall
Seventies Soulchild: Thanks ryan. welll vkn I have to get going. Have a good day. :}


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PREP NOTEBOOK: Maiden, Bandys win CVAC titles
Behind 17 hits, the Maiden Blue Devils won the 2012 Catawba Valley 2A baseball tournament final against Draughn at L.P. Frans Stadium on Monday night, 12-3.
Seniors Dustin Hipps and Jason Gantt led the charge with four-hit performances at the plate.
The Blue Devils scored in all but one of their innings, including one run in the first, second and fourth, four runs in the third, three runs in the fifth and two runs in the sixth.
CVAC softball final
No. 1 Bandys 2, No. 2 Draughn 1
Senior pitcher Taylor Sigmon tossed a three-hitter, allowing the Lady Trojans to collect their fourth CVAC tournament title in the past six seasons.
Bandys scored a run each in the second and third innings to take the title, including an RBI-single by Kathleen Reardon in the second.
Anna Hughey plated the lone run for Draughn on a single in the top of the fifth inning.
2A Western Regional golf
Red Devils win title, Lail and Lilly headed to states
Newton-Conover won the 2A Western Regional golf tournament Monday at Fox Den Golf Club in Troutman.
The Red Devils shot a team score of 303, one stroke better than North Lincoln.
Maiden and Shelby tied for third with a score of 306, but the Golden Lions owned the tiebreaker to advance to the 2A state golf tournament at Longleaf Country Club in Southern Pines next Saturday.
Maiden's Thomas Lilly took medalist honors with a 68. Bunker Hill's Tyler Lail was three strokes back in second place. Both move on to the state tournament.


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A Poor Record on Poverty
8.29.2006 -- This morning, the Census Bureau released new poverty, income, and health insurance figures for 2005. Through 2004, the poverty rate had increased each year of George W. Bush's presidency -- from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.7 percent in 2004. New 2005 data released this morning shows the problem didn't get any better. The numbers "mark the worst performance in recent decades for poverty and median income during an economic recovery." The Bush administration "dropped the ball entirely" on poverty since the issue "forced its way to the top of President Bush's agenda in the confusing days after Hurricane Katrina." ("Does [President Bush] often talk about poverty? No," Tony Snow admitted recently.) But in a "sign that the income inequality may rise higher on the US policy agenda," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson admitted this month that "many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits" of economic expansion. Now it's time for Bush to take action.
The inflation-adjusted median hourly wage for American workers has declined two percent since 2003, the New York Times reported yesterday, and "wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947." Unlike late 20th-century trends, wages have not kept pace with increasing productivity. "Worker productivity rose 16.6 percent from 2000 to 2005, while total compensation for the median worker rose 7.2 percent," with benefits -- not wages -- accounting for most of the increase. Meanwhile, the top one percent of earners "received 11.2 percent of all wage income" in 2004, "up from 8.7 percent a decade earlier and less than 6 percent three decades ago." America's growing income inequality led economist and columnist Paul Krugman to label the past 25 years the "The New Gilded Age." From 1980 to 2004, "real wages in manufacturing fell 1 percent, while the real income of the richest 1 percent -- people with incomes of more than $277,000 in 2004 -- rose 135 percent." Administration policies are only widening the gap. Aug. 20 marked the 10-year anniversary of the last federal minimum wage increase to $5.15 an hour. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 51 years, but conservatives played politics with the proposed increase by tying it to estate tax cuts for multimillionaires.
Our broken health care system has made surviving in today's economy more difficult. The new Census data for 2005 shows 46.6 million Americans do not have health insurance, up from 45.3 million in 2004. Since 2000, the Bush administration has created three times as many uninsured Americans as new jobs: six million uninsured versus 1.9 million new jobs between 2000 and 2005. The cost of employer-based insurance increased 9.2 percent in 2005 as hourly earnings climbed by only 3.2 percent. The average costs of providing medical care for a family of four rose 9.6 percent. The Commonwealth Fund found 50 percent of families earning less than $35,000 a year reported having trouble paying medical bills. (The percentages are similar for families earning $35,000 to $49,000, making it more likely medical costs could drive them into poverty.) Ninety-five percent of companies polled by benefits consultants Watson Wyatt expect to restrict health benefits for retirees in the next five years. And recently, the administration angered governors by announcing plans to "cut Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes that care for millions of low-income people." The administration's focus has been on health savings accounts (HSAs) and Association Health Plans (AHPs), proposals that "will not begin to solve the problems of the 46 million Americans without health insurance" and "will cause new dilemmas for those fortunate enough to have health care coverage." "We've had absolutely no federal effort or interest in insuring the uninsured since 2000," Emory University's Ken Thorpe said. "This has not been a priority of the Bush administration." To fill the void, states are working to provide comprehensive health care coverage.
Housing costs are also eating into the budgets of low-income Americans as "the scarcity of affordable housing" becomes a "deepening national crisis." Roughly 15.8 million households spend more than half their incomes on housing, a 14 percent increase between 2001 and 2004. Low-income Americans have been hit the hardest. "Neighborhood decline is fueling the loss of affordable housing and exposing residents to poor neighborhood conditions," Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found. "From 1993-2003 the supply of rentals affordable on a $16,000 income fell by 1.2 million, while in 2001 12 percent of such rentals were operated at a loss." The report concluded: "Unless governments step up to these challenges, spending on housing will increasingly crowd out spending on pensions and savings among those with low and moderate incomes." The federal government is taking a step back. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced a $600 million public housing funding shortfall, which means "public-housing agencies now must deal with an unexpected 14.5 percent cutback in federal funding."
Ten years after welfare reform passed, many single mothers and their children have been unable to escape poverty; "social workers and researchers are raising concerns about families that have not made the transition and often lead extraordinarily precarious lives." "With some one million single mothers -- with some 2 million children -- in an average month being both jobless and without income assistance from TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), other cash aid programs, or other household members, it is clear that much work remains to be done." The Economic Policy Institute found the poverty rate for low-income single mothers increased three percentage points from 2000 to 2004, but annual hours of work fell from 1,170 to 1,068. Over the same period, child poverty rose from 15.9 percent to 17.5 percent and the "number of children with cash incomes below one-half of the poverty line increased by 758,000." Despite the increasing poverty, the number of children receiving TANF assistance or related state benefits declined. New welfare rules from Congress and the Bush administration create a strong incentive for states to cut their caseloads, whether or not families find jobs. For states whose caseloads don't fall, the new rules will "require states to focus intensely on making more poor people work, while discouraging other activities that might help untangle their lives." "nder new federal rules, studying for a bachelor's degree no longer counts by itself as an acceptable way for people on welfare to spend their time." "I feel nauseous," one welfare recipient and incoming college senior said about the change. "This is my ticket...out of poverty." Source: Center for American Progress
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