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Sylane Mack — President, Principal Speaker, Lead Counselor, Author
Coming from a background of horrendous emotional, physical and sexual abuse, Sylane is unflinchingly convinced that GOD is greater than our greatest pains, shames and fears. With passionate strength, vulnerability, wisdom and humor Sylane shares her own life journey, opening up the power of Scripture — God's living and active Word — for all who will hear, or read, what God has given her to tell!
Sylane first began sharing her faith publicly as a teen at Lay Witness Mission events in the early 1970s. From the 1980s through early 2003 Sylane ministered and worked professionally in private counseling agencies and teaching in public schools. Her academic work has earned her Degrees and Certificates in various areas:
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, Psychology and Spanish — Keuka College and State University of NY at Potsdam, 1980
- Master of Science Degree in Education/Learning-Reading Specialist — California State University at Fullerton, 1990
- Counseling Certificates: Individual, Family, Crisis Intervention, Group Dynamics and Substance Abuse Intervention — NY State
- Teaching Certificates: Spanish, English, Social Studies, Reading Specialist (She has taught French, too!)
During these years, God grew Sylane in her love for Jesus, her love for people, and her knowledge, understanding and passion for God's Word. Often invited to tell her story — God's story –-Sylane spoke at retreats, conferences, pastoral/leadership programs and outreach events. Wherever she lived — NY, France, CA, PA, NJ — Sylane led (and still leads) weekly Bible studies.
On February 5, 2003, God called Sylane to take an unexpected step (jump!) of faith as she prayed with and heeded the counsel of two wise and loving Pastors: She should develop her own Incorporated Ministry — tied to no specific denomination, but solidly and powerfully rooted in the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the testimony of God's Word. Through God's plan, power and love the ministry of Transformed by Grace was born! By March 6, 2003 TBG was incorporated, established with a full and fabulous Board of Directors!
Sylane has also served as Assistant Chaplain on the National Board of Advisors for the Black African-American Association of Christian Counselors (BAACC) from 2010-2012.
It is with love, conviction and passion that Sylane lives out her God-given calling to tell others the truth — crossing denominational, cultural, economic, gender, age, ethnic and linguistic boundaries — about the unlimited, unfailing love and transforming grace of Jesus Christ!
Sylane and Tim (married since 1980!) live in Princeton — nicely situated between two great cities: Philadelphia and New York. Their two grown daughters, Erin and Julia, both live and work in Manhattan along with our two fabulous sons-in-love, Marcus and Mark. Travel, hiking, biking, eating and being at the ocean are favorites for her — and always enhanced by the presence of close family and friends! In November 2009 Sylane's first book was published: Convinced!
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Teresa Warren — Counselor, Bookkeeper, TBG Board Member
Teresa grew up in Northern New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Management from Rutgers University and worked in the financial service industry for a number of years. She earned a Master of Science in Christian Counseling from Cairn University.
She has enjoyed a second professional career in Counseling, in the management of holistic health practices and Life Coaching. She serves on the Transformed By Grace Board of Directors and speaker team. In her church, she volunteers with the Women's Ministry and mentoring. Out of her love of reading, she has also volunteered as a literacy tutor.
Teresa has personally experienced the power of God's transforming grace and is passionate about helping people to access this same power and victory through Christian counseling and life coaching. She is the proud mother of one daughter and son-in-law. In addition to reading, she also enjoys traveling and spending time with friends and family.
Heather Chabin – Counselor
Heather Chabin grew up in Massachusetts where she lived until she moved to
Pennsylvania to go to college in 1997. It was there that she met her husband and has been married since 2001. Heather attended Philadelphia Biblical University where she earned her BA in the Bible and studied youth ministry. She then went on to complete her Master's degree in Christian Counseling and is now licensed as a Therapist in the state of New Jersey where she works full time as a therapist in a partial day program in Trenton. It is there that she has gained experience working with grief and loss, family issues, drug addiction, trauma, and persistent mental illness.
Heather has worked for the past 15 years in the counseling field and has worked with children, youth, and their families doing wrap around treatment, and has worked in the Trenton school district as a school based therapist. She also was the coordinator of clinical services at a crisis pregnancy ministry working with women facing unplanned pregnancies and offering them hope and support. Heather and her husband served as the youth leaders in their church for the past 10 years.
Heather is a mom to 2 beautiful boys. As a family they enjoy spending time in the outdoors and share a love for music. Heather has experienced first hand the pain that comes from depression, loss, and abuse. She can also attest to the fact that God is so much bigger than all of this and has enabled her to share with others the freedom that comes from His amazing grace.
Geraldine Isme – Counselor
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Geraldine was born and raised in Trenton, NJ, and is currently residing in Chesterfield, NJ. She graduated from Bloomfield College with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. A few years later Geraldine earned her Masters Degree in Human Services from Rider University.
After that, Geraldine felt a calling to serve in the counseling/therapy field and attended the College of New Jersey where she received a degree as an Education Specialist in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Geraldine felt the call to reach people through counseling at her first job out of college. Her experience as a counselor at Anchor House, a shelter for runaways, ignited her drive and passion to assist and encourage others in the area of crisis and conflict. From that point on, she continued to earn education credits and served in a variety of positions, including as a therapist, an outreach counselor, and as an education specialist.
Currently, Geraldine is continuing her counseling work by serving with Transformed by Grace ministries while working on receiving her NJ LMFT license. Her passion for people, positive energy, and sense of fun are also made evident in the way she serves in the local church where she mentors teens and teaches dance to their youth and young adult dance ministries.
Geraldine's favorite scripture is Philippians 1:6 " He that began a good work in you shall complete it until the day of Christ's return."
Allison Taite-Tarver — Counselor
Allison is from Del City, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. She has lived in the Philadelphia area for almost 10 years. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Spelman College before serving as a Teach for America Corps member in Washington, DC, where she taught first grade and earned her Master of Arts in Teaching. In 2005, she received her Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr College, with a concentration in Policy, Practice and Advocacy and a specialization in working with children and families.
Allison is passionate about serving vulnerable populations. She currently provides school-based individual, family and group counseling to middle and high school students, including immigrant youth, some of whom are refugees and asylees. Her experience also includes counseling in an alternative school, outpatient and community settings, as well as providing case management and educational advocacy for children with disabilities and their families.
Allison loves the Lord, and she lives out her faith through seeking opportunities to allow the Fruit of the Spirit to grow in all domains of her life. She is active in her church's missionary and historic societies, and she participates in outreach with other area ministries. Gratitude for God's grace and mercy in her life is the lens through which she operates. She is "honored to be a part of Transformed by Grace." The mother of one, "joy" for Allison is "Mommy and Me" time with her daughter, reading and visiting family and friends.
Linda Donohue — Counselor
Linda grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling from Rider University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice and Psychology from LaSalle University. Linda is also a Certified Guidance Counselor. She currently resides in Holland, Pennsylvania with her husband of 18 years, John, and their four children, Kristin age 13, Kelly age 11, Jack age 6 and Nicholas age 3. Linda enjoys learning to deal with the new adventures of the teenage years while still being able to appreciate pre-school activities. She has a passion for her family and has followed God's lead when making her family and career decisions.
Linda's 20 years of experience involves working with many different facets of the mental health field. She began her professional career working as a court advocate with sexually abused children. From there she moved on to work with the chronically mentally ill in community and inpatient settings. Linda then focused on family issues, such as counseling with children and adolescents, developing treatment and behavioral plans for children and families, dealing with the parent-child relationship as well as marital and individual issues. She also has experience collaborating with schools, criminal justice, mental retardation and other systems and has worked in various school systems performing individual and group counseling and mental health assessments.
Linda has coordinated the nursery at Grace Point Church since 2006, while working closely with and under the guidance of Pastor Steve Johnson. She also oversees Kidsafe –– the child abuse prevention program for all volunteers working with children at her church.
Some of Linda's favorite activities are spending time with her family at the beach, doing aerobics, reading and having coffee any time of the day.
Linda is honored to be part of Transformed by Grace and is excited for God to use her in helping others. Most of all, she is blessed to be able to combine her number one passion, God, with the love she has for counseling.
DeAnne Harland — Administrative Assistant, Founding Member on Board of Directors
DeAnne has served as Administrative Assistant for Transformed by Grace since March of 2005. She first joined the ministry at its birth in 2003 as a founding member of the Board of Directors-and continues to serve faithfully in this capacity.
DeAnne's background is in education. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a Master's degree in Education-both from Purdue University. DeAnne has experienced great rewards and challenges while working with Special Education students in church and public schools.
DeAnne is married to Ron, has four children, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law and six grandchildren!
Spending time with her family, playing flute and piano, and horseback riding are some of DeAnne's favorite activities.


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Imagism was a poetic movement which flourished in London between 1910 and 1917 and had an enduring and pervasive influence on English-language poetry in the twentieth century. The Imagists published four annual anthologies from 1914 to 1917, with a final anthology in 1930. They were led by Ezra Pound who first called them "Les Imagistes", chosing a French term to associate the group with the various French avant-garde movements which became the all the rage following Roger Fry's influential Post-Impressionist exhibition in 1910. The group included H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, and, marginally, D. H. Lawrence, but they had only a loose and shifting affiliation and it was …
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Before Kaleb Eulls stepped on the Mississippi State campus, he had already made headlines.
The junior defensive lineman became a hero on a school bus while in high school. Eulls, who played high school football at Yazoo County High School, tackled a girl who pulled out a gun on a school bus.
Eulls' story became national news, as he saved several kids on the school bus from the girl.
Eulls earned the characteristic of being brave that day.
Although he didn't hesitate with a gun in the equation, when air planes are involved, that's a different story.
Eulls represented the Bulldogs in Hoover, Ala. at Southeastern Conference media days this week. Since there are very few going, head coach Dan Mullen and the players took a small plane to the event. The flight is just around 30 minutes.
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Balkan-Istanbul, exploring the gems of south-eastern Europe
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Crossing the border to Croatia was easy-peasy - a short passport check and off we go. Unfortunately, we end up on a newly built stretch of highway and have to pay some toll. Toll! (german for great)
In Rijeka we get onto the coastal road. There is quite some traffic heading south, with many motorcycles from throughout Europe. We decide to grab something do eat when the clouds seen in the pic above form on the horizon.
We end up in a Pizzeria where I order a Pizza with anchovy. Now, living in a landlocked country I'm not to keen on fish - but anchovies are great. What I didn't expect was that they put almost a whole fish on my pizza. With eyes and some bones, too. Shudder. After a quarter of the pizza I'm done. Sorry.
The rain isn't going to stop so we just ride anyway. The coast road is beautiful and we have the road almost to ourselves. After about 150km in the rain, we stop at a roadside café to have a drink. There we meet three austrian guys enjoying their vacation in underwear, drinking and joking around with the waitress.
View from the camping place in Starigrad.
After a stormy night of little sleep I awake with eyes full of sand. Our dutch neighbours invite us for a coffee before we make our way to the back country.
After a while we take a small gravel road for a few minutes to have a break there.
Looks like a fun road! Would be great to ride a dual sport here.
A fun way to get your bread.
The road leads us through beautiful wide valleys, sometimes with lakes or rivers beneath. There is quite some lorry traffic and some of them honk and wave at us.
The contrast to the coastal regions is immense. Not a lot of tourist money ends up here. A common sight: half-finished building, sometimes abandoned, sometimes with people living in the finished parts.
It's time for us to head to the next country: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We definitely arrived in eastern Europe - many drivers are way too fast (so are we
) and motorcycle riders wear helmets only if they are safety fanatics.
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Republika Srpska
. While the former is mainly inhabitated by Bosniaks, the Republika Sprpska is dominated by bosnian Serbs. This led to ethnic tension and, among other reasons, to the Bosnian War after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. While the Serbs wanted to stay a part of Yugoslavia and be close to Serbia, the Bosniaks thrived for independency.
The Bosnian War may be over, but there are still many relicts of the war. Many bombed houses remind you of the war that has ended in 1995 - mere 17 years ago. The country still has a high density of land mines, so it's wise to stay on marked roads.
Land mine contamination in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Traces of the war are also still in the heads of some people. In the Bosnia and Herzegovina part, the city names in cyrillic is painted over, while some signs on the Serb side have the latin ones painted over.
The countryside is beautiful, with a lot of rocky hills.
I am only navigating with a big map of Southeastern Europe. So we take a wrong turn and end up on a gravel road. Although we know we might not be on the right road, we decide to follow it for a while.
After a few kilometers we decide to turn around and get back on the main road. A great fast gravel road it was.
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Today, I wrote about the practice of moving teachers from school to school, weeks into the school year, to balance the budget. It's happening to five Oakland teachers this year, including Breianna Davis, shown above with her kindergarten students at Carl B. Munck Elementary School. Next week, she'll be at another school, and her 22 students will be divided among the remaining kindergarten and first-grade teachers at Munck.
Three other elementary schools will undergo a similar adjustment: Bella Vista (which is losing two teachers), Laurel and Community United. All but one are kindergarten teachers.
According to Brigitte Marshall, the district's new director of HR, the original list of consolidations was at least three times as long. Troy Flint, the district spokesman, said 400 fewer students enrolled than expected (and 28 fewer at Munck), creating a $1.4 million deficit. As I've written before, many families don't show up on the first day — or even the first week — of school, which makes it hard to make staffing changes early in the school year. They rely on a count taken on Day 20, which is in late September.
But I imagine such explanations make little sense to the teachers and families making this kind of adjustment on the eighth week of school.
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The 10-8 round came from the point deduction.
It was a close fight, I have no issue with the scoring. I don't agree with it but I can see where they got it. I personally gave CB the first but if you overvalue the take down I can see how they gave it to Tim.
It was a close fight, I'll give you that, but how can anyone NOT have an issue with scoring when one judge gives all three rounds to one fighter and the other judges give all three to the other fighter??? It is tough to imagine any scenario where that would be reasonable
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LEAD pollution from traffic fumes and tap water may cause tooth decay, say Spanish researchers. Francisco Gil and his colleagues at the University of Granada have found that teeth from children and adults that contain high concentrations of lead have more caries, plaque and dental staining.
Measuring the lead content of children's milk teeth as they are shed is a standard test for exposure to environmental lead and its accumulation in the body. Gil's team also found that children with 10 or more sites of decay in their mouths had three times as much lead in their blood as children with no decay.
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May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
awwww....happy anniversary! You guys are so cute together and I LOVE that picture!
your card is gorgeous...LOVE the coloring!
Happy Anniversary Lesley!! Love your card, the watercolour look to it!
Deanne :)
This is beautiful, Lesley! Happy Anniversary!
Love this card! And happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary...what a beautiful picture of the two of you! And congrats on your 100th MM!!
Beautifully watercolored bloom Lesley, this is wonderful! Happy Anniversary to you and hubby Corey!
Happy Anniversary Lesley! xoxo Beautiful photo.
Love your card for the 100th challenge. Lovely watercolouring!
Beautiful card Lesley. I love watercolor. And Happy Anniversary....
Happy Anniversary, Lesley!! Very pretty watercolored poinsettia! Love the CAS layout!
Happiest congratulations to you and your husband! Love all you do, Lesley!
Happy Anniversary! Love your beautiful photo.......such joy! Lovely card too!
Happy Anniversary and many many more
Happy Anniversary! And you've created a BEAUTIFUL card as well...I love that you used lighter shades of these colors!!
What? Your first time watercoloring? Are you sure.....lol... This is just beautiful, I love watercoloring, but sometimes it's hard to relinquish a bit of "control" and just see what comes out (at least for me!) Congrats on 100 challenges at MM, what a milestone! And Happy Anniversary :) Have a lovely St. Pat's!
happy anniversary! love your awesome card, Lesley!
What a gorgeous card, Lesley, and Happy Anniversary to you and your hubby!
Wow, Happy Anniversary to you and your hubby. Congrats on the 100th challenge at Merry Monday, and Happy St. Patty's day to you.
Love your pretty card with the watercoloring. Great job.
Your card is absolutely beautiful! Great job with the watercoloring!!!
Happy Anniversary to you and your hubby & Happy St. Patrick's Day to you!!!
Super pretty, happy anniversary!
Congrats for both anniversaries, Lesley and many more to come! Love your card; the white does make the poinsettia really pop.
First of all, I CAN'T believe this is your first try on water-coloring...look at the gorgeous result, Lesley! The shading and colros really enhances the overall design!! Love it! And your Corey are so blessed to have each other! Happy 7th Anniversary! Congrats! So happy to see you are having fun with the first Virginia's View Challenge! Your FB "likes" give me a few happy thrills :)
You have watercolored this poinsettia beautifully, Lesley! I love the banner sentiment that fits perfectly! Happy anniversary! I hope you celebrate in style!
Happy Anniversary to you & your husband as well as the challenge. Your card is beautiful. Love how the pointsettia turned out with the water colors.
Well you and your hubby are both just adorable!! It's that simple :) I hope you have a wonderful anniversary! Your card is stunning! The watercolor is just beautiful!
Happy Anniversary and Happy St. Patrick's Day, Lesley! Just love the look of your beautiful watercolored poinsettia! Fabulous card! Have a wonderful week! :)
LOVE your card and fabulous coloring! Happy Anniversary - here's to many, many more wonderful years together!
Happy Anniversary to you, personally, Lesley (and Corey), and happy 100th challenge on your delightful Merry Monday challenge!! Your white n' wonderful card is so beautiful with that pretty poinsettia!! Hugs, Darnell
Happy Anniversary to you both Lesley! You both look so happy and adorable! Congrats on 100th challenge.
Your card is so elegant and beautiful. I have my card made and ready to go already..can't post it until late tomorrow.
So many congrats are in order here! Congrats on your Anniversary - gorgeous, gorgeous photo! And congrats on 100 Merry Monday challenges - I am in awe of your "challenge energy" LOL. Finally, this is a stunningly beautiful CAS card. Would you believe I bought this set when it first came out and still haven't used it (hangs head in shame...)
Beautiful card Lesley, lovely water colouring. Congratulations on the 100th post for MM, Happy St. Pat's Day and Happy Anniversary to you both!
Great photo....Happy Anniversary...your a beautiful couple! Congrats on the 100th post....I wish I had more time to play along on all your wonderful challenge sites...but i guess I have to sleep too. Hope you week slows down! Love the colors this week!
Happy Belated Anniversary Lesley and Corey :). Your card is beautiful, this poinsettia is gorgeous.
Happy Anniversary!
What a great card - love your clean fresh take on our sketch! Thx for joining us at SPD and hope to see you again!
Such a nice clean and simple card for this challenge. I like that even though you went for the color combo and not the sketch you got a flag banner in there!
Well, Lesley, happy anniversary! And Happy St. Patrick's Day! And good for you, playing along with Virginia's new challenge and trying something a little different...your card is absolutely beautiful! That big poinsettia image is just begging to be painted...your watercoloring is fabulous!
A real milestone--Happy 7th anniversary, Lesley! Your card is just stunning--perfect design for that gorgeous poinsettia!
What a gorgeous card, Lesley! I've seen this stamp used many different ways, but what you've done with it on this card is my absolute favorite! So simple, yet so beautiful! Congrats too on your recent anniversary! What a beautiful picture of the two of you!
This is simply AMAZING!!!!
Such a beautiful card, Lesley!! Happy Anniversary to you both - wishing you a lifetime of happiness together!!
Thank you for stopping by! I appreciate the time you took to leave me a little stamping love!!
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Team effort and leadership can go a long way to having success in athletic competition.
On Saturday, the Starkville Academy Volunteers used those areas against the Copiah Academy Colonels where after being down by 10 points, they mounted an impressive comeback to win 58-53.
While the last minute heroics are certainly impressive, the teamŌĆÖs coach is not a big fan of what it is doing to his health.
ŌĆ£I told them after the game that I am too old for all this,ŌĆØ SA boys coach Mark Alexander said with a smile. ŌĆ£I am so proud of their effort. Scoring 25 points in the fourth quarter, you canŌĆÖt say enough about that, but they are absolutely killing me with the stress.ŌĆØ
Following a 7-2 run by Copiah, action between the two teams tightened and play went back and forth. As the buzzer sounded signaling the end of the first quarter, the score reflected the tightness as the teams were separated by two with the Colonels holding a 14-12 lead.
CopiahŌĆÖs Ty Quick dominated second period action with 10 points, but even with his impressive post play Starkville Academy hung around and as the half concluded, the Volunteers trailed 26-21.
Coming out of half, Copiah took control of the game racing out to 10-point lead as the clock ticked down. With seconds left in the period, Caleb Merchant hit a shot to cut the Colonels lead to eight heading into the final period.
Right on the heels of his third period shot, Merchant opened the fourth with a layup to make it 41-35.
MerchantŌĆÖs shots sparked something in the Volunteers as the team appeared reenergized. The energy of the team carried over onto the court as Starkville Academy fought back to within one point of the Colonels with under a minute to play.
Carnail Minor came through in a major way for the Volunteers as the senior sunk a 3-pointer with 40 seconds left to give Starkville Academy a 53-51 lead.
Brandon Sharp then hit a pair of free throws to push the lead to 55-51, before the team allowed Copiah to find the basket.
With 14 seconds remaining, Bradley Weseli stepped to the charity stripe where the junior hit a trio of shots to seal the VolunteersŌĆÖ victory.
ŌĆ£We picked up our defensive intensity during the final period and I thought that was a big difference,ŌĆØ Alexander said. ŌĆ£Carnail had struggled earlier in the game, but at the end, I asked him if he was ready and he said ŌĆśI got you coachŌĆÖ and then he went out there and nailed it.ŌĆØ
Following their impressive comeback Starkville Academy moves to (10-9 overall, 5-2 in Class AAA, District 2). On Tuesday, the team will travel to face Hillcrest Christian.
Girls Game
Starkville Academy 55
Copiah Academy 12
Defense wins games.
A couple of weeks ago Starkville Academy coach Glenn Schmidt said she wants the Lady Vols to be known for more than just an offensive team. She wants defense to be their ŌĆ£bread and butter.ŌĆØ
On Saturday afternoon, SA demonstrated that desire with unprecedented accuracy as it held Copiah Academy scoreless for a large majority of the game.
Beginning with a 13-0 run, the Lady Vols got off to a fast start which allowed them to play their game.
ŌĆ£We started off really strong,ŌĆØ Schmidt said. ŌĆ£After a tough game (Friday) night, they were a little hungry (Saturday). They believe that if they start the game fast, hard and strong, then it makes a difference and it does.
ŌĆ£Getting out early allows us to control the game and I have always felt it was better to let our team know that our game is more important than the other teamŌĆÖs game and if we do what we do well, then it is up to the other team to stop us.ŌĆØ
In addition to the 13-0 run, SA scored another 14 points to take a 27-5 lead into the second frame.
The defense of the Lady Vols stepped up during the second as the team held the Lady Colonels to a single basket and took a 37-7 lead into halftime.
SA's defense continued domination during the third period. With the offense posting 14 points, defensively the Lady Vols held Copiah scoreless to head into the final period leading 51-7.
With her team controlling the game offensively and defensively, Schmidt had the opportunity to bring in some of her younger players and give them some much-needed game experience.
ŌĆ£We held them scoreless for most of the second and all of the third which allowed us to take a comfortable lead and bring in some younger bench players,ŌĆØ Schmidt said. ŌĆ£I was relieved knowing we could do that and that our kids who come in, they play hard. They play as hard as the starters.ŌĆØ
Starkville Academy shot 47.8 percent from the field and was 5-for-11 from 3-point range.
Maggie Proffitt finished her night as the teamŌĆÖs leader with 17 points, followed by Sallie Kate Richardson and Anna Lea Little, who both scored nine.
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ag Harbor Village Trustees
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Given that there has been little squawking over a propose law that would allow residents to keep chickens in Sag Harbor, at its public hearing on July 12 the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees could make the legislation legal. The news comes much to the delight of residents like Mare Dianora, who is already scoping out chicken coops.
During a June 14 meeting, the Board of Trustees introduced the legislation, which will make it legal for residents to raise chickens, with limitations. The new law would allow hens, but prohibit their noisy rooster counterparts, and will likely be adopted, barring residents speaking out in opposition to it.
The introduction of the local law comes just two months after Dianora asked the board to consider legalizing the practice so residents like she and her husband, Claes Brondal, could keep chickens to provide fresh eggs and fertilizer.
This comes almost a year after North Haven Village couple Brett and Kristin Morgan successfully lobbied the North Haven Village Board to create legislation allowing residents the rights to keep poultry on their properties.
The proposed law, if approved, will allow residents only in residential districts in the village to keep chickens as a special accessory use. The law limits the number of chickens or bantams — a small variety of poultry — to six per 20,000 square-feet of lot area, which is just shy of half an acre of land. Residents will be restricted to a maximum of 18 chickens.
The selling of eggs or any poultry products is prohibited under the legislation, as is keeping roosters. Coops or structures used to house the poultry is also limited to 100 square-feet or 10 feet in height and must be kept in the rear yard. Setback of coops may be no less than 20-feet from the property line. Areas the poultry reside in must also be fenced.
Under the proposed law, the village's zoning board of appeals may not grant variances to any of the provisions in the legislation. Applicants hoping to keep chickens must notify their neighbors of their application, including a plan for where they plan to keep the birds.
The proposed law will be up for public hearing at the board of trustees Tuesday, July 12 meeting at 6 p.m.
Just months after the Board of Trustees introduced a proposed law that would have required homeowners to have their septic or wastewater treatment system checked every three years, the Town of Southampton announced it would draft similar legislation. The legislation is aimed at protecting the health of the Peconic Estuary by ensuring faulty systems are not seeping waste into groundwater and bays.
However, on Tuesday night, the village board decided to scrap plans, for now, to move forward with the legislation. Mayor Brian Gilbride noted it may be "a little too much" for the Village of Sag Harbor.
In March, at the behest of trustee Robby Stein, the law was introduced on the village board level. It would have required residents to have any in-ground cesspool, septic tank or drain field inspected once every three years, starting four years after the law is adopted by the board.
One impetus for the draft law, said Stein, was that Suffolk County was looking at select waterfront communities that have sewage treatment plants to see if those plants should be expanded to reduce the number of in-ground septic systems on the waterfront. Sag Harbor was one of those communities.
The draft law drew the ire of residents like former mayor Pierce Hance, who questioned the necessity of the legislation. But it also drew praise from Save Sag Harbor President Mia Grosjean, who said the village should do all it can to protect its waterfront.
In the meantime, as Stein noted on Tuesday, last month, the Town of Southampton announced it was drafting similar legislation with the aid of groups like the Group for the East End. That draft law, in its infancy, mandates residents have their systems pumped every five years, or whenever the property is transferred to a new owner. An inspection would also occur at that time, by someone licensed by the county to collect septic waste, to ensure the system was up to county standards.
However, for now, in the Village of Sag Harbor, it appears such regulation is off the table.
"It's a little too much for Sag Harbor," said Gilbride.


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God sees and knows your burdens. He cares and will provide the strength you need to face each day's tasks. Matthew 11:28 tells us, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Just when you think you can't do another thing, trust God to send help in the most unexpected way. Homeschooling forces us parents into knowing that it is not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit that we are able to love and teach the children He has given us. Take heart and know that He will never leave you nor forsake you. After all, these are His children, and He will keep His promise to lift every burden you have.
Lord, I feel so tired. Please, fill me with Your strength to make it through today. Thank You for Your promises and not giving me more than what I can bear. Please, send the help I need to face all the tasks before me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved" (Psalm 55:22).


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The 37-year-old Hitch star is delighted to be fronting the new advertising campaigns for the 19-year-old perfume – which will be joined by an eau de toilette version in August – because she has always associated it with femininity.
She explained: "I grew up with Angel. I remember thinking, as a child, 'That's what a woman smells like.' I'm the baby in my family by 10 years, and my sisters wore it. It comes full circle now that I'm the face of Angel."
Eva was chosen to front the campaign because of her versatility. Joel Palix, president of Clarins Fragrance Group and director general of the Mugler company, explained: "Eva can be demure one minute and sensual the next."
She also admitted she would consider releasing her own fragrance – but only if there was a good reason to do so.
She told WWD: "I'm Cuban, and it is a rite of passage to be doused in Les Violetas, a baby perfume, whether you like it or not.
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Keeping with the chic stylish trend of OPI's Vintage Minnie Mouse promo — which launched back in June 2012, OPI and designer Gerlan took Minnie on the runway at New York Fashion Week. Gerlan Jeans partnered with Disney — to debut a 14-piece Minnie Mouse collection to open the show, with models trending revamped Minnie looks — from head to toe. Models wore OPI nail lacquer in four different shades to complement Gerlan's designs, including No Room for the Blues, Fly, Need Sunglasses? and If You Moust, You Moust (from OPI's Vintage Minnie Mouse). Braided pigtail buns — in bright colors were worn high to create a mouse ears effect.
The rest of the designer's collection — focused on "Gerl Power;" as models wore metallic Dr. Martens combat boots with OPI nail lacquer in DS Radiance — to add to the pop art, punk vibe!
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Volume 65 Number 2, March/April 2012
Around A.D. 630, in western El Salvador, the volcano Loma Caldera erupted, burying the buildings, roads, and fields of a Maya farming community in up to 20 feet of ash. As with other cities and villages that have suffered this fate, this town, today affectionately known as Joya de Cerén ("the jewel of Cerén") is incredibly well preserved. Though the site is in a tropical environment—a setting not conducive to the preservation of organic materials—archaeologists have discovered individual corn kernels, food residue in pots, two species of ants, and thatched roofs with the remains of mice in them, alongside buildings and massive amounts of pottery. The only thing missing from the site are the bodies—the fates of the residents of Joya de Cerén remain a mystery. Discovered in the mid-1970s, the site has been excavated exclusively by Payson D. Sheets of the University of Colorado at Boulder. According to Sheets, when tourists ask Salvadorans what the biggest tourist attraction in the country is, they jokingly reply, "Guatemala." Sheets hopes that sites such as Joya de Cerén, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, will take their place alongside the Maya hotspots of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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The work I have created here represents contrast, similarities , methafors and the invisible symbol that I personally interpreted in use of videos as well as paintings, under the theme : Living and survival."
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But who, on this night, was not celebrating?
It was 1983 and the Baltimore Orioles had won the World Series.


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Robyn Gardner missing: Suspect Gary Giordano refusing to cooperate; FBI assisting in investigating
Updated: August 12, 2011 - 12:36 pm
Her best friend Christina Jones said she is still holding out hope that Gardner will be found. She said Giordano had invited Gardner on a previous vacation, but she declined.
"She's just a great," said Jones. "She's a wonderful female and I hope I can do some justice to bring her home or find out really what happened, the truth."
Jones said the women were roommates at their Frederick apartment, but that Gardner had been spending most of her time at her boyfriend's apartment.
Jones says Gardner spent Saturday night at her house before jetting off the next day to Aruba with Giordano. Jones says Gardner and Giordano knew each other for about a year. She describes the 50-year-old man Gardner met online as eccentric.
"You kind of get a vibe from someone if they have someone good or not great in their life and I just didn't get that vibe," she said.
Giordano offered to take Gardner on a cruise a couple of months ago, her friend said. When she declined, Giordano wasn't happy. "How he reacted about the cruise is the reason why I was worried about why she was going to be going to Aruba," Jones said.
Boyfriend suspects romantic relationship with travel companion
Gardner's boyfriend, Forester, said she lived with him in Rockville and that she and Giordano were platonic friends. The pair were scheduled to spend about five days in Aruba, Forester said.
"I'm starting to believe that's not true," Forester said in a phone interview. "I'm starting to believe there was some romantic thing."
Forester said he and Gardner had been in contact through Facebook until just before she disappeared. After she vanished, her Google Chat indicators showed she was active on Gmail, then on but not active, and finally off, he said. It seemed to indicate that she or someone else had been on her Gmail account, he said.
"I'm terrified as to what may have happened to her," he said. "I'm sad and scared that I might not see her again. I love her very much and all I am concerned about is that she gets home safely."
Aruba has experience dealing with missing person cases following the still unsolved disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway during a high school class trip to the island in 2005. Her remains were never found and the main suspect, Joran van der Sloot, is in jail in Peru on charges of killing a 21-year-old woman last May.
Jones says she's staying hopeful her friend is just missing. "I mean we have hope, that's all we've got right now," she said.
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Guided by the 3-P principle of People-Planet-Profit, Good Energies aims to bring financial success together with sustainable returns for the environment and for society. We seek to help drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, as well as to bring affordable renewable energy to the developing world.
The transition to more renewable sources of energy offers unique challenges and opportunities in each dimension of the 3-P sustainability principles which guide our investments:
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Outstanding business opportunities with superior returns
Because Good Energies believes that access to affordable renewable energy is a precondition of poverty alleviation, Good Energies has dedicated a portion of its investments to companies focused on expanding access to renewable energy in the developing world. We see our work in the developing world as an essential vehicle to spread the adoption of renewable energy solutions across the globe.
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While being a successful investment firm, Good Energies helps driving the global transition to a low-carbon economy and, in the developing world, supporting poverty alleviation through access to renewable energy.
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Renewable energy is projected to provide 80% of world energy demand by 2100, with solar representing the lion's share at 64% of demand.
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Good Energies aims to be the preferred investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. We focus on the areas of solar, turbine-based renewables, green building technologies, renewable energy companies operating in the developing world, and other promising game-changing renewable energy technologies. The key elements of Good Energies' investment approach are:
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It may be hard to believe nowadays but Colossus was known as a violent airtime machine in its very first incarnation. The advertising touted 11 moments of airtime and opening year it left my sisters with bruises on their legs from the violent ejector air it had then (I somehow escaped unscathed).
Somewhere under all that current reprofiling and braking the original monster must lurk and if this is what it takes to unleash it we could be in for a surprise.


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Mass Hot Air Balloon Launches in France Set Records
Over 400 hot-air balloons take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off during the event "Lorraine Mondial air ballons", an international hot-air balloon meeting. (AP Photo/ Alexandre Marchi/L'est Republicain, Pool)
PARIS—A hot air balloon festival at a former NATO airfield in eastern France broke two records in as many days this week—first by sending up 408 piloted balloons in an hour, then by lining up 391 balloons on the runways and sending them up together.
The sound of hundreds of gas burners blasting simultaneously is extraordinary, said Denis Martignon, a pilot who flew both days.
"It was an impressive wall of balloons," Martignon said.
The annual Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons is organized by a descendent of the 18th century aeronautics pioneer Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier who took up the family hobby. Philippe Buron Pilatre has been piloting balloons since 1979.
"My father flew. My son flies. My brother flies. Someday my grandson might fly," he said Friday.


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How to find the best keywords
Keywords… are they important? Do I really need them? How do I find them?
Hell yeah, choosing the right keywords is essential to the optimization of your website!
Ok, here's a little keyword information…
What are Keywords?
Keywords and phrases are the words on your site that match the words or phrases that people type into search engines.
Why do you need Keywords?
Search engines do their text query and retrieval using keywords and then rank the most relevant websites highest. This means that when someone searches for a particular product or service they will find the information they are looking for… which is obviously the point of search engines! The best keywords are those that are very relevant to your product or service and are also frequently searched for.
Are the right Keywords important?
Absolutely! Use the right keywords and your website will be found, but target the wrong ones and the rest of your SEO efforts will be pointless.
Now the important bit….
3 Steps to finding the best Keywords
- Start with an educated guess… what do you think people will use in a search when they are interested in your product or service? Think about what you are offering to help customers, as people are far more likely to search for a solution to their problem instead of a service or product.
- Research with a Keyword Tool… here's three of the best:
Word Tracker
A subscription to Wordtracker's premium Keywords tool will help you to:
- Generate thousands of relevant keywords to improve your organic and PPC (Pay Per Click) search campaigns.
- Optimize your website content by using the most popular keywords for your product and services.
- Research online markets, find niche opportunities and exploit them before your competitors.
Word Tracker offers a 7-day free trial.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Using Google Adwords Keywoord Tool will enable you:
- To see how many people are searching for each keyword phrase
- Generate related keyword suggestions
- Show the level of competition for each keyword phrase
Not only is it a Google tool but it's also a free Google tool!
An interesting tool which will tell you:
- Which websites are targeting a particular keyword phrase
- Ideas for keyword phrases based on the search terms that competitors are using.
Keyword Spy offers a free trial
- Choose the best - you should now have an idea of the best keywords to use in your site. One final step; go to Google and search for your chosen keyword. You should now see your competitors on the results page together with their title tags. These title tags will show you the keywords that they are targeting for the same product or service. And of course we know these sites are optimized as they are on the first page of Google's results… exactly where you want to be!
Mission accomplished - the best keywords found - now go forth and optimize!
Hazel has many years experience in helping businesses achieve top Search Engine rankings and increased brand awareness. She's the SEO Consultant and owner of SEO+ in Devon, England and has a real passion for SEO and helping all kinds of businesses throughout the UK.
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These are great tips, Hazel. I love the fact that you can use free tools like Google AdWords Keyword Tool, and event Google's Wonder Wheel search option – and get really great results. Free tools are an easy way for people to try their own hand at SEO before they sink a lot of money into a keyword tool they may or may not use down the road.
Hey Leah,
Thank you for your lovely comment.
It is great that there are some good keyword tools out there and that you can get such good results from the free ones. I guess it's just a case of finding the best one for you.
I was going to mention Google's Wonder wheel as well. As a copywriter I've found it to be very useful for doing keyword research for my clients.
It amazes me that still so many sites don't have any keywords in their meta titles or descriptions. I always cringe when I see an H1 tag with "Welcome" rather than a relevant keyword/phrase.
Hey Jamie,
'Welcome to may website' text in that important H1 tag generally leads to me having a rant not just a cringe! Definitely one of my pet hates.
Hi, Hazel.
I am using Google AdWords and am glad for the fact that not only is it free, but that with it, we can make a comprehensive keyword search. I just have some certain questions bugging me about keywords though. Do we really need to maintain a certain keyword density in our articles? Does that really matter? Do we really need to have keywords in our articles or is having quality content that reads naturally more important?
I would really appreciate it if somebody can enlighten me on this.
Hi Kim,
Keywords do matter, but don't get too hung up on the keyword density; instead concentrate on writing quality content and keeping it focused to your topic as this will naturally include your keywords and therefore satisfy the search engines while still being useful to your audience and reading naturally.
Here's what Google says:
"Give visitors the information they're looking for. Provide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage. This is the single most important thing to do. If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract many visitors and entice webmasters to link to your site. In creating a helpful, information-rich site, write pages that clearly and accurately describe your topic. Think about the words users would type to find your pages and include those words on your site."


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Remember when Mitt Romney was repeatedly berated by President Obama and his campaign team for having perfectly legal investments in the Cayman Islands? As a reminder:
Romney has large investments in notorious overseas tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. He had $3 million stashed away in a Swiss bank account that was closed in recent years for fear of political embarrassment.
It turns out, President Obama's former Chief of Staff Jack Lew, who has been nominated to replace Turbo-Tax Timonthy Geithner as Treasury Secretary, also had large investments in "notorious overseas tax havens like the Cayman Islands." Not to mention Lew took a huge bonus in 2009 just after the financial collapse from a bank that was bailed out by taxpayers. Even Dana Milbank at the Washington Post can see the irony:
It's a bit, well, rich that Obama chose as his new Treasury secretary a man who received a big corporate payout for dubious work and who socked away money in the Cayman Islands.
This awkward fact pattern forced a role reversal Wednesday on Capitol Hill, as Obama's nominee, Jack Lew, came before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing. Republicans expressed outrage about his compensation and his investment — in other words, giving him the Mitt Romney treatment. And Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), an outspoken foe of offshore tax havens, helped Lew defend himself.
In Washington, where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit.
Lew, who was White House chief of staff while Obama's campaign was pummeling Romney over his pay and taxes, received a $945,000 bonus in January 2009 after a brief tenure at Citigroup — just as the bank announced huge losses and took a taxpayer bailout. Lew also invested $56,000 in a Citigroup venture-capital fund registered in the Cayman Islands — registered in the very building, in fact, that Obama labeled "the largest tax scam in the world."
So, when President Obama talks about "closing loopholes" for the rich who can afford fancy accountants who "take advantage of" the tax code, is he talking about Democrats too? Or just rich and evil Republicans? Mitt Romney never took a bonus from a company bailed out by taxpayer dollars, but Obama backed Jack Lew did.
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In the pre-dawn darkness of the equinox, you enter the single, small door of this ancient burial chamber. You walk down the 21-meter passage until it widens into a chamber in front of you. Suddenly, the first rays of sun strike the doorway, and the whole chamber is illuminated. In those brief few minutes of light, you could be sharing in a ritual of life and death first imagined around 4200 BC.
This enormous structure is the Soto dolmen in Trigueros, Spain, which has been returned to its prehistoric glory after a nine-year restoration. The mound is 60 metres across and 3.5 metres high, making it the largest of more than 200 dolmens, or megalithic tombs, that dot the Huelva province.
The stones that support the Soto dolmen's interior were originally arranged as a Neolithic stone circle similar to Stonehenge, before being repurposed in this structure. When Don Armando de Soto uncovered it in 1922, he found eight bodies inside, posed in crouching positions near the wall and surrounded by stone utensils, pottery and decorative items.
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In honor of its fifth anniversary, Tor.com is offering a free e-book of all the original fiction published on its site in one handy edition. All you have to do is register with the site (painless), and you can download it.
It's DRM-free (here's looking at you, Joanna) and available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF. Fair warning: It's a monster. The EPUB is the smallest file, at 68 MB.
Eyeballing the table of contents, it looks like you'll be getting 150 stories and some amazing authors, including Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Stephen Brust, Brandon Sanderson and more. Each story includes cover art.
Really, I can't say enough about this. If you like short fiction, this will keep you in reading material for most of the summer.
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Too bad you have to 'register' for it. I already receive Tor.com emails so I assumed I was 'registered' but when I tried to get this book, they told me I had to sign up for the website and give them more information. I am not interested enough in science fiction to do that. They have my email already; I don't want to jump through more hoops. I wish there was a direct download link…
The sign up process is very simple. The only information they need other than an email address (that is not checked) is your age (in a very large 18 and over chunk). They ask for a zip code but it is not required.
After filling out you go right to the download page to chose which type of file.
I am willing to admit to being over 18 to get a bunch of free works with an email address that does not work.
@Joanna, if you are getting their emails, you're registered. Just sign in with the same info you used to get their emails.
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Lol...I'm in my second midlife crisis. My wife also says, I pretty much have a midlife life crisis all the time and apparently I have an addiction for motorcycles. I used to ride hare scramble and all things motorcycle when I was in high school/college, and then life happened and the next thing I knew I was 45 before I got to ride again.
at that point, I got a cheap dual sport (xl600) and have been riding standard dual sport stuff (fire roads, etc...) and have been into riding hard single tracks. I have been itching to get back into hare scambles and endruros. money is an issue for me, since this is a hobby and my philosophy is "ride what you have". in any case, I came into a '84 xr350r, which I plan to race. having an old bike is a challenge sometimes for getting parts, but at the price, I think it's the most fun I could have for the $, since I don't have a small fortune tied up in a KTM or Huskie. besides, it's probably worth putting more money into safety gear, see below.
my training tactic is do do a lot of rugged terrain hiking/ride, some workouts, etc... but most of all, I found that if I ride the same difficult single track with my xl600, then riding the xr350 on the same terrain feels like a breeze. our terrain varies from hilly technical rocky stuff in the woods, to desert/prairie. I have found that staying in shape is really hard. if I don't ride for a couple of weekends, I really feel it. also, compared to when I was 16, everything heals much slower. nowadays, if I have a get off and twist/wrench my shoulder, it will hurt for the next 4 months, compared to a week or two when I was a kid. lol.
things to practice and get good at:
1. technical riding. practice slow riding with control and balance. imagine doing some low level trial bike type things with your dirt bike, riding up rocks, following creek beds, steps/ledges, riding over logs, etc... able to stop and balance your bike. I'm old school and ride with my feet on pegs, i.e.not motocross style, but you'll develop you own style. whatever works an minimizes your energy spent.
2. practice picking up your bike. you will drop your bike and nothing saps your energy on a 1-2hrs hare scramble then picking up your bike. lay it on the side and pick it up, then switch sides, do this until you can't anymore. that's the feeling you'll have when you drop your bike on the trail a couple of times.
3. starting your bike on all conditions, cold/hot. less of an issue with electric start, but still it's a pain when you flood you bike and don't have the technique down for getting it started again.
4. practice riding to minimize your and your bikes energy, learn to use momentum and ride smooth, you should get to the point of looking ahead and planning your line, rather than worrying about the rock right in front of you, because if you have a good line, the rest sort of takes care of itself.
5. pace yourself. typically, the guys that gets the hole short, is not likely to win or even finish anyway. most likely most of the experienced Super Sr. (50+) will pass you after the first couple of laps anyway... lol. after a couple of races you should be in the the "that wasn't so bad, maybe next time I can ride a little more aggressive" place at the end of the race. the first challenge will be to finish a hare scramble and want to come back the next time. so work up to riding a couple of hours without stopping.
I would look for a used bike in the 200-400cc range, a lighter bike (less than 300cc) is probably better if you're new at this (easier to pick up). smaller bikes are generally better for tight woods/rocky stuff, larger bikes for desert/speed/hill climbs. some of the bikes people have suggested are good choice. if you get hooked, this is not going to be your last bike, and you're going to find out what you want next after you ride for a little while. most of all, just have fun with this.
when I was a kid, I was racing an old xt250 (dual sport) and my brother had a xr200r.
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Monday's 2004 Southeastern Louisiana Beau Chene Collegiate Classic was canceled due to unplayable course conditions from severe weather that moved into the area overnight and in the morning hours.
An attempt was made early Monday to start the event but as conditions continued to deteriorate, Southeastern head coach Tim Baldwin canceled play.
"It's certainly unfortunate that we had to cancel this year," remarked Baldwin. "But the course had already soaked up significant rain from late Sunday and early Monday and with weather conditions worsening, we had no other option."
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There seem to be all kinds of stucco questions (and I am having difficulty finding it too) so maybe some of this lengthy information will be helpful (stucco recipes to follow in next post) ...
Stucco has been used since ancient times and is still one of the most common of traditional building materials. Up until the late 1800s, stucco, like mortar, was primarily lime-based, but the popularization of portland cement changed the composition of stucco, as well as mortar, to a harder material. Historically, the term "plaster" has often been interchangeable with "stucco", particularly when referring to the traditional lime-based coating. By the nineteenth century "stucco," although originally denoting fine interior ornamental plasterwork, had gained wide acceptance in the United States to describe exterior plastering. "Render" and "rendering" are also terms used to describe stucco, especially in Great Britain. Other historic treatments and coatings related to stucco in that they consist at least in part of a similarly plastic or malleable material include: parging and pargeting, wattle and daub, "cob" or chalk mud, pise de terre, rammed earth, briquete entre poteaux or bousillage, half-timbering, and adobe. All of these are regional variations on traditional mixtures of mud, clay, lime, chalk, cement, gravel or straw. Many are still used today.
As a weather-repellent coating, stucco protected the building from wind and rain penetration, and also offered a certain amount of fire protection.
Before the mid-to-late nineteenth century, stucco consisted primarily of hydrated or slaked lime, water and sand, with straw or animal hair included as a binder. Natural cements were frequently used in stucco mixes after their discovery in the United States during the 1820's. Portland cement, first manufactured in the U.S. in 1871, gradually replaced natural cement.
After about 1900, most stucco was composed primarily of portland cement, mixed with some lime. With the addition of portland cement, stucco became even more versatile and durable. With this increased strength, stucco ceased to be just a veneer and became a more integral part of the building structure.
Today, gypsum, which is hydrated calcium sulfate or sulfate of lime, has to a great extent replaced lime. Gypsum is preferred because it hardens faster and has less shrinkage than lime. Lime is generally used only in the finish coat in contemporary stucco work.
The composition of stucco depended on local custom and available materials. Stucco often contained substantial amounts of mud or clay, marble or brick dust, or even sawdust, and an array of additives ranging from animal blood or urine, to eggs, keratin or gluesize (animal hooves and horns), varnish, wheat paste, sugar, salt, sodium silicate, alum, tallow, linseed oil, beeswax, and wine, beer, or rye whiskey. Waxes, fats and oils were included to introduce water-repellent properties, sugary materials reduced the amount of water needed and slowed down the setting time, and alcohol acted as an air entrainer. All of these additives contributed to the strength and durability of the stucco.
The appearance of much stucco was determined by the color of the sand--or sometimes burnt clay, used in the mix, but often stucco was also tinted with natural pigments, or the surface whitewashed or color-washed after stuccoing was completed. Brick dust could provide color, and other coloring materials that were not affected by lime, mostly mineral pigments, could be added to the mix for the final finish coat. Stucco was also marbled or marbleized--stained to look like stone by diluting oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) with water, and mixing this with yellow ochre, or another color. As the twentieth century progressed, manufactured or synthetic pigments were added at the factory to some prepared stucco mixes.
Stucco is applied directly, without lath, to masonry substrates such as brick, stone, concrete or hollow tile. But on wood structures, stucco, like its interior counterpart plaster, must be applied over lath in order to obtain an adequate key to hold the stucco. Wood lath was gradually superseded by expanded metal lath introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.
When stuccoing over a stone or brick substrate, it was customary to cut back or rake out the mortar joints if they were not already recessed by natural weathering or erosion, and sometimes the bricks themselves were gouged to provide a key for the stucco. This helped provide the necessary bond for the stucco to remain attached to the masonry, much like the key provided by wood or metal lath on frame buildings.
Like interior wall plaster, stucco has traditionally been applied as a multiple-layer process, sometimes consisting of two coats, but more commonly as three. Whether applied directly to a masonry substrate or onto wood or metal lath, this consists of a first "scratch" or "pricking-up" coat, followed by a second scratch coat, sometimes referred to as a "floating" or "brown" coat, followed finally by the "finishing" coat.
Up until the late-nineteenth century, the first and the second coats were of much the same composition, generally consisting of lime, or natural cement, sand, perhaps clay, and one or more of the additives previously mentioned. Straw or animal hair was usually added to the first coat as a binder. The third, or finishing coat, consisted primarily of a very fine mesh grade of lime and sand, and sometimes pigment. As already noted, after the 1820's, natural cement was also a common ingredient in stucco until it was replaced by portland cement.
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Creator/DakotaFanning plays Lewellen, a preteen [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] fangirl living in the DeepSouth during TheFifties. The movie she inhabits is a SliceOfLife ComingOfAgeStory. The other main characters include her careless father Lou, her religious psycho grandmother, her playmate Buddy, local MagicalNegro Charles, "Big Momma" Thornton (Music/JillScott), and [=mini-=]SouthernBelle [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Grasshopper]]. What little plot there is centers on Lewellen's desire to see Elvis perform in person.
!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Lou shoots Lewellen's dog because it barked too much.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Lewellen's father gets struck by lightning and her grandmother believes it's this trope at work. And clearly God did it to punish Lewellen and ''not'' her father.
* BreakTheCutie: Lewellen's life basically sucks worse and worse as the movie goes along, culminating in her traumatic rape by Wooden's Boy.
* TheCaretaker: Lewellen becomes this for her father after he's hit by lightning.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with Buddy, who unwittingly helps lure Lewellen into Wooden's Boy's clutches, then fails to help Lewellen or tell any adults after the rape. To boot, when Wooden Boy gives him Elvis tickets, he takes Grasshopper to the concert instead of Lewellen.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* CoveredUp: [[invoked]] Noted in-universe. Lewellen is surprised to discover "Hound Dog" wasn't originated by her beloved Elvis.
* DeathByDespair: Nearly. Lewellen is so depressed after the rape that it causes her to get very sick and almost die.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Lewellen is barefoot for nearly the whole movie.
* TheFundamentalist: Lewellen's grandmother.
* IHaveNoSon: "My daughter is dead."
* InnocenceLost: Buddy, thanks to Wooden's Boy's influence.
* KarmaHoudini: Wooden's Boy, who is never held accountable for raping Lewellen.
* KickTheDog: Wooden's Boy not only rapes Lewellen, but he also taunts her mentally disabled father one night when Lou wanders off.
** Given that Lou shot Lewellen's dog earlier in the movie, this could also be interpreted as a {{Kick The Son Of A Bitch}} moment.
* LuredIntoATrap: Wooden's Boy has Buddy lure Lewellen into the shed where the rape takes place with the promise of Elvis tickets.
* MagicalNegro: Charles, perhaps the only character, other than Lewellen, who is not a {{Jerkass}} to at least some degree.
* TheNewRockAndRoll: The TropeNamer is viewed as the "devil's music" by some characters, most notably Lewellen's grandmother.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Grasshopper's real name is Gwendolyn, but everyone just calls her by her nickname.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Lou and Ellen.
* ParentalSubstitute: Ellen, until she runs off. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she returns for Lewellen at the end of the film.]]
* PlayingDoctor: Lewellen and Buddy in the opening scene.
* RaisedByGrandparents: After Lou is struck by lightning and rendered mentally disabled, Lewellen's grandmother becomes the parental figure in her life.
* RapeAsDrama: The part of the film you've heard of.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: After the rape, when Lewellen plunges into a deep depression, she hallucinates that she is surrounded by snakes.
* {{Squee}}: Lewellen's reaction to Elvis-related things.
* TeensAreMonsters: Wooden's Boy.
* TitledAfterTheSong: And boy do we get to hear that song a lot
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lewellen is seen smoking and drinking. This is apparently normal for her.


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Brent for December settlement fell 78 cents, or 0.7 percent, to end the session at $113.22 a barrel on the London- based ICE Futures Europe. November futures expired yesterday.