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Honda Odyssey vs. Toyota Sienna
We're starting up a new comparision topic since the Odyssey just had a redesign for 2005 and the Sienna is still very fresh, so if you're comparing the newest model Honda and Toyota minivans, join in here.
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rorr Posts: 3,630Any word on when Honda will release official pricing on all trim levels of the new Ody? Cars are sheduled to hit the lots middle of next week; official pricing ought to be out any day now.0
knowing Honda, you might not see the pricing until the 22nd when the cars show up. I believe that's what happened with the TSX. There were rumors, but even dealers didn't know for sure until the first one rolled off the truck and they way the window sticker.
2019 Acura TLX A-spec 4 cyl. (mine), and 2013 Acura RDX AWD (wife's)0
The 05 Ody is so good that:
Members of the press have named the 2005 Honda Odyssey as a semi-finalist for "Car of the Year" to be named at the Detroit Auto Show in January.0
andrewtran71 Posts: 840Compared to everything out there, I think the new Odyssey is the best.
The only way Toyota can beat it is to turn the Sienna over to Lexus.0
timewaste Posts: 8So??? What do the stickers say?! How much is the Touring's MSRP?0
amykkbc Posts: 57HYPE...
Car of the year doesn't mean better than Bmmer, Lexus, Merc.
Car of the year can be a Civic, a Focus, can be a Kia...As long as it's creative enough for that model year.0
ceric Posts: 1,092Members of the press have named the 2005 Honda Odyssey as a semi-finalist for "Car of the Year" to be named at the Detroit Auto Show in January.
While I don't know how the auto show classifies a truck from a car, it is more likely that the Odyssey is a candidate for 'Truck of the Year'.
Past winners of "Car of the Year"
2004, Toyota Prius
2003, BMW Mini Cooper
2002, Nissan Altima
2001, Chrysler PT Cruiser
2000, Ford Focus
1999, Chevy Corvette0
alexmish Posts: 47BTW, Ivan did not veer away...0
"Car of the year doesn't mean better than Bmmer, Lexus, Merc."
Looks like you don't know the criteria or meaning to be car/truck of the year. Find out before you make yourself a fool here among those who know.0
What's the criteria? I know for sure Car of the Year doesn't mean it's better than all other cars that come out in the year. It may be the most innovative or interesting or whatever.0
mdsmithers Posts: 4NAME - The awards are the "North American Car of the Year" and "North American Truck of the Year," not "Car of the Year."
WHO GIVES THE AWARDS? - This year the awards were given by a group of 49 full-time automotive journalists from Canada and the United States. While the awards are announced at the North American International Auto Show, the show
does not give the awards.
HOW ARE THE AWARDS CHOSEN? - The awards are designed to recognize the most outstanding vehicles of the year based on factors including innovation, design, safety, handling, driver satisfaction and value for the dollar.
ELIGIBILITY - Vehicles must be new "substantially changed" from the previous model.
HOW DO THE JURORS VOTE? - Jurors are given 25 points to divide among cars and trucks. However, no more than 10 points may be given to a single vehicle. The ballots are counted by Deloitte. The three finalists in each category are released in mid-December but until the news conference in January only Richard Gabrys, the vice chairman of Deloitte, knows the winners.
HISTORY - The awards were started in 1993, were first given in January 1994, and were modeled after the Car of the Year in Europe. They are administered by a seven-person organizing committee and funded by dues paid by
the jurors.
As the Sienna was a 2004 canidate, I would imagine the Ody would fall to the car category.0
Looks like pricing is similar to Sienna. Touring Base MSRP is around $35K which is basically the same as XLE Limited Base which is also around that $35K. But XLE LTD Base sports a power passenger seat, Laser Cruise Control, & HID Lights. But Odyssey Base has memory seats, pedals, and is that it?0
Ody touring also has 6 cd changer wiht the Nav and Res. Sienna XLE Ltd gets a single cd player if you want Nav.0
....there is a reason I said BASE Ody & Sienna. Never mentioned a Odyssey Touring Nav/Res and Sienna HO Pkg, now did I?
Also, Sienna XLE LTD has power lumbar support (Driver), and 3rd row sunshades as standard equipment. Minor things like faux wood and gated is also in the Sienna.
Now, Odyssey have faux Aluminum, and Cylinder Deactivation and noise cancellation technology (which, mind you, is just covering up noise & fooling our ears.) And 3rd Row sunshades as optional.
Now, I hate Honda for putting important buttons on the dash to the left of steering wheel. Moonroof on the dash. Why can't they just get it right and put it on the overhead console? But all this is just personal preference.0
indy93 Posts: 97The big bad Ody monster is out and not such a super deal after all! Features and pricing are virtually head to head with Sienna. Looks like a draw.... each having advantages and drawbacks. Honda is not a religion... but there must be faint hearts and wallets in the temple of Vtec tonight.0
jimxo Posts: 423Which van has better resale value 2005 Honda or Toyota?
Your best guess is fine0
The difference in re-sale is negligible between these two vans, and shouldn't be the reason you choose one over the other.0
bshawn Posts: 8Always Honda. Best place to check is "resale values" on edmunds.
Does that mean you should always buy a Honda - NO! Even if you get a good deal on either brand, make sure you REALLY like it before you buy. Do not buy just for resale, you will not be HAPPY.
Resale values are driven by a lot of factors, most important of them being reliability. I think the perception is that Hondas are more reliable - although, it does not come close to Toyota in comfort and luxury. And you know what's ironic - Honda is considered a cheap brand in Japan compared to Toyota.0
GM is considered an expensive brand in Japan. Will you buy a GM?0
I'd probably take any Cadillac product over any Honda product any day of the week.0
Go ahead and buy the olds minivan which is the cadillac minivan. Good luck.0
raydahs Posts: 449My best guess would be to use data from a residual value lease guide. Here's a link
http://www.alg.com/news-information.asp?page=news_depreciation_ra- - tings0
It's been seen by some customers. Touring MSRP plus Destination charge is $35,010. That does not include DVD nor Navi. Just like the XLE Limited.0
pluto168 Posts: 44I test drove a 05 Ody EX-L w/ RES and a 04 Sienna Limited back to back today. (I wanted to test drive a XLE w/ pkg 15 but they don't have that. Here is my comparison:
What I liked the most about the Ody over Sienna: The engine was really smooth, responsive, and powerfull, the handling was excellent for a van. The pickup of the Ody was very good. In comparison, the Sienna was a joke - weak engine and coushy handling. When I tried to gain some speed while merging to the freeway, the Sienna did not respond much. So I push the gas pedal a bit more down, this time, the Sienna's engine rev'd up too high and too soon, caused a big jerking feel - very unpleasant.
I also liked the Ody power sliding doors better than the Sienna's. I felt they were more sensitive to pressure.
The tailgate of the Ody was not as heavy as I thought originally. I thought it was a deal-breaker for us because the EX-L lacked the power tailgate. But it was very easy for my preganant wife to close it. Thus this "must have" item is off her list now.
It was a breeze to fold down the 3rd row seats, easier than Sienna, and much easier than the 2nd gen Ody.
What I liked the least of the Ody were the steering wheel - I can't believe it's not leather-wrapped for a $30k+ vehicle, just rediculous. I also felt the Ody was much smaller than the Sienna. I knew it was smaller in dimention just a bit, but I guess the interior color of the Ody, which was a dark gray, did help either. It made the van feel smaller than it actually should. But in any case, I like the Ivory interior better, just need to see one in person.
Both me and my wife felt the Ody's driver side seat was not as comfy as the Sienna's. The lumber support wasn't that good.
I also felt that the visibility to the left rear side was poor when changing lane to the left. The dealership put the window sticker on the 2rd row driver side window. So when I was merging to the freeway, I could not see anything when turned my head to the left. So I rolled down the 2nd row window, it was better, but still not as good as the Sienna's.0
carguy1234 Posts: 233There hasn't been much mention on the '05 Sienna, so here are some details. Seems like the option packages have been simplified a little:
http://pressroom.toyota.com/presstxt/2005toyotakit/2005_Sienna_s.- - pdf
http://pressroom.toyota.com/presstxt/2005toyotakit/2005_Sienna_f.- - pdf
http://pressroom.toyota.com/presstxt/2005toyotakit/2005_Sienna_o.- - pdf0
anonymousposts Posts: 4,202pluto: Here's some advice, speaking from experience. Don't let your wife make a vehicle decision until she has the baby. I thought I wanted an automatic Accord when I found out I was pregnant so that's what I traded my 03 Accord coupe 5-speed for. I thought a minivan was unnecessary as well. 7 months later I bought an Odyssey and then traded my 04 Accord EXL automatic for a 2004 Accord EXL manual.0
MY wife might actually consider the Sienna again, sinc eyou can now get the power drivers seat on the LE. Of course, now that the Ody EXL has the moonroof, that pretty much upped the ante to the XLE.
It will be interesting to see what the resl-world Sienna pricing ends up being. If the LE package 6 (safety stuff + power seat) has TMV in the 26-27 range (like today), it might make it hard to justify the EX-L at 4-5K more.
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eiffiex3 Posts: 3I have driven a Suburban for years, but I'm now ready to try a Minivan. I've finally convinced my husband that we are now middle-aged geezers with 3 kids and it's time to move on. The one feature of a minivan that is very important to me, is the 60/40 split in the 3rd seat. Since we need 5 seats, this would give us much more cargo space...the one thing I do hate giving up with the Suburban. So from what I've researched, this really limits my options to Chrysler, Toyota or 2005 Honda. Am I right on this? I drove a 2004 Toyota, and really liked it. I'm very used to driving my tank, so this was quite a change. Next I drove a Town and Country, and I just couldn't do it. I suffer from motion sickness very easily, and this thing had me queasy in 30 seconds on the road. I don't know if it was because I had no hood to look out onto (like in a Suburban) or if it was the curve of the windshield. A couple of people have said that different vehicles bothered them if the windshield curved too much. I am waiting to drive the new Honda to see if this creates a problem. I'm not sure why the Sienna didn't bother me. I probably need to drive it again to make sure. We live 50 miles from Honda and Toyota dealers though, so it's a little difficult to just hop over for a spin. Also they don't have the 2005 Hondas yet, so I'm waiting to make the trip. Has anybody ever experienced this with any minivans?0
jsmath5 Posts: 77Use ALG.com for resale comparisom. Hondas are typically worth 5-8% more than a Toyota across the board. Honda just got #1 position for resale value on their entire model lineup from ALG.com. That was for last year, new results should be out soon. Toyota offers rebates on their vehicles, this hurts resale values. Look at Dodge's $6000 back, what are Dodge's worth a year later...nil!!! REBATES are not your friend.0
Hey, Honda offers rebates, too-- they just disguise them in the form of cheap lease deals or factory-to-dealer incentives. Honda is famous for this. They're not fooling anyone.
You don't think the factory-to-dealer incentive and cheap lease on the '04 Ody hurt resale values? Think again.0


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STOCKTON - The fact that a restaurant can remain open for nine years in a nondescript and virtually hidden location sends a couple of simple but important messages.
STOCKTON - The fact that a restaurant can remain open for nine years in a nondescript and virtually hidden location sends a couple of simple but important messages.
It means the owners must know what they are doing.
And it means that many of the customers who try the restaurant once wind up becoming regulars.
Such seems to be the case with Bayon Restaurant, which has been serving savory Vietnamese and Cambodian dishes for nine years from a location that is hidden from busy March Lane by Stockton's Marshalls discount store.
We went for lunch this week to give Bayon a try. We entered a simple but tidy restaurant that has about 15 tables, several of which have lazy Susans in the middle and are large enough to seat parties of eight.
There were just two of us, so we were promptly seated at a small table close to paintings of scenes in Cambodia and Vietnam. In one of the paintings, statues of Buddhist deities smiled down at us as while we ordered.
Bayon's menu lists 77 items, including beverages. None of the items costs more than $7.50, and many cost less than that.
The call of duty prompted us to order an appetizer. We could have ordered the spring rolls, which are served cold, but we went conservative with the egg rolls.
For $4.50, we were delivered six piping-hot egg cylinders that had been deep fried but were not at all greasy. The egg rolls were stuffed with ground pork and peas, and served with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce.
Ordering entrees was significantly more challenging. We had 27 noodle-soup options from which to choose, not to mention six choices of vermicelli noodles, two tofu plates and 22 rice plates.
Nos. 37 and 59 proved to be the winning selections on a menu that includes small photographs of many of the choices.
If you are wondering what the No. 37 tastes like, here goes: It's lemongrass chicken and grilled shrimp with mixed vegetables over vermicelli noodles ($6.50). The bowl was ample, and all of its contents - lettuce, carrots, cilantro, mint leaves, bean sprouts, chopped peanuts and cucumber - were appealingly fresh.
Fifty-nine - grilled pork and grilled shrimp with a fried egg over fried rice - was the same price and of equal quality. The generous portion of marinated pork was chopped into perhaps 24 tender bite-sized pieces, and was delicious. It would have made a meal all by itself.
If there was one disappointment, it was that we wanted to sample the coconut juice or the iced mocha, but Bayon was out of both. Avocado, strawberry and jackfruit shakes were available, we were told, but in the end we decided to pass until next time.
Bayon provides a healthy and flavorful cuisine at a very reasonable price, a fine choice for lunch or dinner. We expect Bayon will continue with its quiet nine-year success story well into the future.
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If there's one thing that many techies have in common, it's some form of insomnia. Whether it's because you can't fall asleep easily, you wake up too early, or you keep waking up throughout the night, not getting a good night's sleep can seriously affect your health and productivity.
From a personal perspective, staff members here at Ars (myself included) have had trouble sleeping for many years. We run the gamut from full-on CPAP machine users, to over-the-counter and prescription medicators, to new-agey meditators, and more. And now, some of us have become gadget experimenters.
Aside from the obvious advice—"go see a doctor, you freaking tool," as forum-goers would say—we wouldn't be geeks if we didn't investigate the various technological solutions that claim to help improve our sleep cycles. Some only track the quality of your sleep, while others actually try to make it better, but we thought we'd give a rundown of what's available to try and hack a good night's sleep.
There are a number of gadgets available that help you track how well (or poorly, as the case may be) you sleep at night. They all generally follow the same methods—you usually have to attach something to your wrist or clothing that will track the frequency and severity of your movements throughout the night. Then, you can see how many times you're waking up and attempt to adjust other things in hopes of fixing the problem.
The fitbit doesn't just track your sleep—it also tracks your physical activity. It's a tiny clip about the size of a third-gen iPod shuffle that clips onto your clothing and, if you're using it to follow your sleep patterns, will record how often you move during the night. The company claims on its FAQ page that "sleep data from the Tracker correlates very strongly with results from polysomnograms found in sleep labs," and the device will transmit your data wirelessly to both a Mac or PC. (Unfortunately, the fitbit's official release has been pushed back several times and it's not yet available.)
Similarly, sleep monitoring watches such as the SleepTracker Pro follow your nocturnal movements in the same way. However, this watch (and many others like it) also has an added feature: it will wake you up in the morning at what it considers to be the most optimal time in your sleep cycle. It determines this by the frequency of your waking periods towards the end of your sleep and determining a window of time when you should wake up, based around a "no later than this" time that you set.
The most expensive of these options, the aXbo "sleep phase alarm clock" does exactly the same thing as the other two combined, but does so wirelessly and can track two people at once. Both individuals (or just one if you're flying solo) must wear a soft armband that will transmit signals to the alarm clock across the room. The clock can gather data over a period of days and you can download it to your Mac or PC via USB. From there, you can view your individual sleep graphs. And, like the sleep monitoring watch, the aXbo lets you set a time to wake up and then wakes you up at the most optimal time for you within that window.
I have used the aXbo myself, but found it to be somewhat of a let-down. The alarm clock itself is very difficult to use without the help of its manual (and even with the manual, it wasn't exactly easy). It did, however, track my sleep movements very well. The feature that wakes you up at the "appropriate" time is easy to game, though—when you know it'll wake you up within a certain window if you're moving around too much, you learn to stay incredibly still to avoid setting the alarm off. Your mileage may vary.
So you already know you sleep like crap—what can you do to make it better? Again, there are a number of things you can try, but beware that without a doctor's diagnosis, there's no guarantee that all of them (or any of them, for that matter) will work for you. If you're looking for excuses to try out new gadgets and software, however, we suppose there's no better excuse than your sleep health.
One of the most well-known (non-medicated, anyway) methods of improving sleep is to use pzizz, a piece of software for both Mac and Windows that takes the concept of a "relaxation CD" to the next level. It pieces together unique audio soundtracks that help you to nap during the day or get to sleep at night with a mixture of voice, music, and other sound effects for every single time you use it. Theoretically, this means that your brain will never get used to the same sounds over and over. But that's not all pzizz does—the soundtracks contain inaudible "binaural beats" that supposedly stimulate a particular range of brainwave frequency to be more conducive to sleep. If it all sounds a bit new-agey to you, you can try out pzizz for free before laying down any cash.
I gave pzizz a try for roughly a week, testing out the sleep files (I don't take naps, so I didn't try the nap ones). The software is easy to use and, if you're on a Mac anyway, the files will import directly into iTunes so they can sync with your iPod. I found the audio files to indeed be soothing and falling asleep was very easy—then again, staying asleep tends to be my problem moreso than falling asleep. When you're creating the file on your computer, you can make it almost any length of time, though a minimum of 20 minutes is recommended. If you have trouble falling asleep, it's definitely worth a shot.
Another way to relieve stress and fall asleep is to try an acupressure band, like the Sleeping Aid Dreamate. Bands like this claim to massage acupoints—such as the "sleeping Golden Triangle"—in your wrists. Supposedly, this will enable to you to relax to the point of getting deeper and longer sleep without having to rely on medication.
Finally, you could try the DaVinci sleep schedule (also known as polyphasic sleep). This isn't so much a gadget as it is a method that involves sleeping in 10- or 20-minute bursts throughout the entire day. Supposedly, building up to a schedule like this allows people to sleep between two and five hours a day—much less than the typical person—and feel energized for longer. Proponents of polyphasic sleep say that this pattern mimics the sleeping pattern of infants and the body's natural sleep rhythms. Of course, the downsides to this are that you have to actually be able to nap frequently throughout the day, it practically destroys your social life, it's difficult to adjust to, and you can screw up your entire schedule by missing even one nap. However, if you're desperate to stay awake for almost 22 hours a day and try something new, have at it.
Are these things enough to turn you from an insomniac to a well-rested person? Maybe, and maybe not. Some of us at the Orbiting HQ have severe enough sleep issues that a sleep study and a CPAP machine are the only solutions (and believe us, if you have sleep apnea, it definitely helps). But if you have some time on your hands and some cash to burn, these solutions could be worth a little experimentation.


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There's a lot to chew on in this TechCrunch.com interview with Cavaliers owner/Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert about entrepreneurship and urban revival. It's a long interview, focused primarily on Mr. Gilbert's business efforts in Detroit. But it has significant resonance for Cleveland, where one of Mr. Gilbert's ventures, startup accelerator Bizdom, is trying to replicate some of the success it has had in the Motor City. Quicken Loans also has become a major job generator in downtown Detroit. Here are some of the highlights of Mr. Gilbert's comments:
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Comments from two economic experts from KeyCorp in Cleveland underscore what's at stake in the fiscal cliff negotiations. This MarketWatch.com story notes that the Nasdaq Composite index just scored its first positive November since 2009, even as the political rhetoric over the budget continued with little obvious progress toward a deal. "I don't think there is a politician out there that wants on their watch an adverse economic outcome. But they could wait for the 11th hour," said Nick Raich, director of Key Private Bank in Cleveland, of the possible repercussions of not reaching an agreement to block billions in automatic spending cuts and tax increases early next year. "Our base case is there will be some sort of solution, but it may not occur by or on Dec. 31, so the market is not pricing completely going off the cliff, but more of a roll down the hill," Mr. Raich added. This Bloomberg story says the world economy "has recovered to its strongest level in 18 months as China's stimulus measures bolster growth and the U.S. seeks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a Bloomberg Global Poll of investors showed." One of those polled was Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Kay Private Bank. "With so much monetary stimulus around the world, we've taken the brakes off the global economy," he told Bloomberg. "It should mean improved growth into next year. Officials in Europe and in the U.S. seem to realize that we're on the precipice of some pretty negative outcomes if they don't do something to find better solutions."
Taking it slow: Foreclosures in Ohio take an average of 571 days to complete, making it the ninth-slowest state in the country, according to this story from MarketWatch.com, based on data from RealtyTrac. The slowest state, at 1,072 days, is New York. Also slower than Ohio are Connecticut (661 days), Florida (858) Hawaii (662), Illinois (673), Indiana (603), New Jersey (931) and Pennsylvania (580). Business-friendly Texas will get you through the foreclosure process faster than any other state. It takes only 97 days, on average, to complete a foreclosure there. Move along: The New York Times profiles Dr. Michael Roizen, the chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic, and declares he's "at the forefront of the upright workers movement." That "movement," The Times says, "is not a union uprising, but a reference to the growing numbers of office workers who are rising from their chairs to stand, even walk, for health reasons." (Check out this story about Dr. Roizen, by Crain's Dan Shingler, from January 2011.) Dr. Roizen walks the walk, so to speak. He "typically works at a treadmill desk for hours a day" and follows a 10,000 steps-a-day regimen for better health, The Times says. "For me, this setup is a way around inactivity," he says. Dr. Roizen has "found he can effectively handle conference calls while walking at 3.3 miles per hour, typing to reply to e-mails at 1.8 mph, and more serious writing at 1.7 mph." Game on: Worried when you see your kid playing video games more than, say, reading books? Maybe you shouldn't be. "Over the last few years, there's been a lot of research done on the social, emotional, mental and physical benefits of gaming, and the results may surprise you: video games actually have considerable real-world benefits," USA Today reports. The newspaper cites data from the Entertainment Software Association that finds 62% of gamers play games with others, either in-person or online. These social games "teach kids leadership skills, including delegating responsibility, and working effectively as a team," according to the story. And research from Ohio State University "finds that players who engage in cooperative play in games show increased cooperative behavior," the newspaper reports.
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About error 53
After you try to update or restore your iOS device in iTunes on your Mac or PC, you might see error 53 in iTunes. Error 53 appears when a device fails a security test. This test was designed to check whether Touch ID works properly before the device leaves the factory, and wasn't intended to affect customers.
For anyone who experienced error 53, Apple released an update in iOS 9.3 to allow you to successfully restore your device using iTunes on your Mac or PC. Use the steps in this article to restore and recover your device. If you believe that you paid for an out-of-warranty device replacement based on an error 53 issue, contact Apple Support to ask about reimbursement.
What you should do
- If iTunes is open on your Mac or PC, quit iTunes.
- If your iOS device is plugged into your computer, unplug it.
- Make sure that your device has the latest version of iTunes.
- Connect your iOS device to your computer with a USB cable.
- Open iTunes and select your device.
- When you see the option in iTunes to Restore or Update, click Update. iTunes will try to reinstall iOS and restore your device without erasing your data.1
- If you can't get past the Apple logo screen, force restart2 your iOS device. When you see the option to Restore or Update, click Restore.
- When you see your iOS device's Hello screen, follow the onscreen steps to set up your device.
- If you previously backed up your device, you can set up from your backup.
- When you see the screen for Touch ID, tap Set up Touch ID later.
- If Touch ID on your device didn't work before you saw error 53, the feature still won't work after you update or restore your device. Contact Apple Support to ask about service options for Touch ID.
If you continue seeing error 53, contact Apple Support.
- If the restore won't finish and you see an error code other than error code 53, learn what to do.
- To force restart your device, press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo again.


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INDIAN LAND – Right now, she has 87 books swirling around in her head, on her computer and in boxes of notes she takes.
But Catherine Ritch Guess prefers to handwrite her books.
"Computers don't have soul," she explained to Kim Tallent's language arts class Dec. 6. She described for the students how each story travels from her head, down her arm, to her hand and then to paper. Students listened in rapt attention as she spoke of how her fiction is based on real people she meets and places she goes.
A 19-year-old Lancaster man was shot in the leg Thursday evening in what he told Lancaster Police was a drive-by shooting.
The man was walking on Willowlake Road between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday when a white vehicle with tinted windows drove toward him from the opposite direction, according to an incident report.
He told police that as the vehicle passed, he heard three shots and realized that he had been struck in the leg, the report said.
The vehicle turned left onto Arch Street heading east.
Buford again used its comeback attack to up its record to 3-2 on the season. BHS, which trailed county rival Indian Land 20-5 in the early going only to charge to a 55-49 win, rallied to knock off Class A foe Chesterfield on Monday night.The Jackets, down 26-20, used a 19-12 run in the third period to take a 39-38 lead on the Rams. In the final period, Jabari Williams and Qua Reid took over to lead the Jackets to the six-point win. Williams paced the Jackets with 24 points, 17 in the second half.
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JEFFERSON Thomas Edward Price, 68, died Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007.
Survivors include two sisters, Doris Belk Funderburk and Joyce Price; five brothers, Tommy Price, Ricky Price, both of Jefferson, Jackie Price of Lancaster, John Dick Price of McBee and Marshall Price of Midland, N.C.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Johnny Heyward Price.
Graveside services were Monday at Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery.
Posing like a rock star is one way students at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster have been able to relieve the stress that comes at the end of the semester.
Some shoot pool and play ping-pong and others simply break to socialize. Inside the student center at USCL's Starr Hall, you're bound to see students engage in a host of activities to take their mind off the pressures of final exams, which began Monday and will run through Dec. 17.
If you're looking for a few holiday decorating ideas, the Lancaster Garden Club's 21st annual Christmas Tour of Homes may be just the place to find them.
Family, friends gather at Bailey home
By GREGORY A. SUMMERS - Features Editor
For Bobby and Thelathia "Thea" Bailey, Christmas means family and their Somerset Drive home has become the holiday gathering place for the Barneses, Baileys and their extended family, too.
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AYNOR - Rhonda Sue Cauthen, 44, died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007.
Born Sept. 24, 1963, in Lancaster County, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Benton Sims and the late John T. Sims.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Bob Campbell of Myrtle Beach and Louis Taylor of Aynor; a grandchild; a sister, Teresa Annette Sims of Lancaster; and four brothers, Ronnie Benton, Junior Cauthen, Philip Cauthen and John T. Sims Jr., all of Lancaster.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Floyd and Ola Benton.
No services will be held.
Betty Richardson Yandle, 73
LUGOFF -Betty Richardson Yandle, 73, formerly of Kershaw, died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007.
Born in Kershaw, she was the daughter of the late Troy and Bertha KnightRichardson. She was a Presbyterian.
Survivors include two sons, Gerald Ray Rick Yandle Jr. of Buffalo Grove, Ill., and Christopher Chris Yandle of Oceanside, Calif.
She was preceded in death by four sisters, Mildred Mickie Blair, Polly Epting, Norma Holms and Virginia R. Gardner.
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April 25, 2014 -- The big news out of the FDA's announcement on e-cigarettes is that people under age 18 will no longer be able to buy them.
That ban will go into effect 30 days after the rules are approved. But it could take more than 2 years for many of the other rules to go into effect. And while everyone from the American Lung Association to e-cigarette makers praised the plan, others say it won't do enough to keep the products out of the hands of teens.
E-cigarettes contain a nicotine solution that is heated to create a vapor the user breathes in, or "vapes." Before the FDA's announcement Thursday, no federal rules existed to regulate what's in them, who they can be sold to, or how they are advertised.
Here are some details from experts about the proposed e-cigarette rules.
Q: In addition to banning sales to minors, what else do the proposed rules do?
A: Makers of the tobacco products that would come under the FDA's new rules would have to:
- Register with the FDA
- Provide a list of ingredients
- Seek FDA approval to market their products
- Seek approval to make direct and implied claims of reduced risk
- Include health warnings
They could not distribute free samples or sell products in vending machines (unless the facility never allows people under 18 to enter).
Right now, "We can't even tell you what compounds are in the vapor," says Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA Center for Tobacco Products, who spoke at a press briefing about the new rules.
Q: What don't the new rules cover?
A: The new rules do not ban online sales, TV ads, or flavored e-cigarettes. Zeller says once the rules are finalized, the FDA could propose separate rules for those areas.
It's yet to be decided if cigars that are ''premium" -- hand-rolled with a tobacco leaf wrapper -- will be included. The FDA is seeking comments on that question, Zeller says.
Q: Why didn't they include the flavors and the marketing?
A: Public health advocates worry that the sweet flavors of e-cigarettes will continue to attract teens, along with marketing.
But CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, said in an interview with NPR that rules in those areas could be challenged in court.
"One of the challenges that the FDA has is the balance between stringent regulation and regulation that will stand up to a court challenge," Frieden told NPR. He noted that the e-cigarette industry has already won one court case against the FDA.
"It is a real balancing act between how effective regulation can be and how sustainable it will be in court."
Q: What other products are included in the new rules?
A: Besides electronic cigarettes, the proposed rules also cover cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine gels, water pipe tobacco, and hookah tobacco.
The FDA already regulates cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco.
Q: When do these rules take effect, if finalized?
A: The next step is a 75-day comment period. It's difficult to estimate how long it will take to review those comments and issue a final ruling, says FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.
Once that happens, the ban on sales to minors and from vending machines goes into effect in 30 days. For the rest, companies will have 24 months to meet the new rules. They can continue marketing their products during that time.
Q: Who is using e-cigarettes?
A: "At this point we have far more questions than answers about who is using e-cigarettes and how they are being used," Zeller says. There is some evidence, he says, that hard-core cigarette smokers may turn to e-cigarettes when they can't light up.
In that case, he says, e-cigarettes are not helping them stop smoking, but merely serving as a bridge from the last regular cigarette to the next.
Young people represent a growing group of e-cigarette users, and that concerns public health experts. Between 2011 and 2012, the number of middle and high school students who used e-cigarettes doubled, reaching 1.78 million, CDC statistics show.
Anti-tobacco experts are concerned that the e-cigarettes will lead the teens to become regular cigarette smokers. Most smoked both types of cigarettes.
Q: What are the health effects of e-cigarettes?
A: The FDA and other experts are still trying to find that out, Zeller says.
The FDA has funded numerous studies to look at the health effects of e-cigarettes, he says. Nicotine, the main ingredient, is addictive, but little research exists on its effects.
A recent study with 1,000 smokers in "real world" conditions found that e-cigarette use did not help people quit smoking.
Another study funded by The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association says e-cigarettes pose no health concerns for the average person. They evaluated 9,000 samples from vapors of e-cigarettes.
And earlier this month, the CDC reported that calls to poison control centers about the nicotine in e-cigarettes rose dramatically in the past several years. More than half of the calls involved children under 5. The liquid nicotine is toxic, and children can be poisoned by swallowing it, inhaling it, or absorbing it through the skin.
Q: What is the industry reaction to the proposed ruling?
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Lorillard, which produces blu eCigs, says it applauds the FDA efforts and that it has already initiated some proposed measures, such as limiting minors' access.
NJOY, another e-cigarette maker, says its mission is to make regular cigarettes obsolete. It contends that e-cigarettes are better alternatives that can reduce cancer and heart disease.
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"It's getting a message out, even if the regulations don't start right away, about the harm these products can have in getting youngsters and others hooked on a nicotine-addictive product."
The e-cigarettes may play a role in helping people quit, he says, ''but have them be governed by the same FDA regulation.''
SOURCES: FDA press briefing, April 24, 2014. News release, American Association for Cancer Research. Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, chief, medical oncology, Yale Cancer Center; chair, AACR Tobacco and Cancer Subcommittee. American Lung Association statement, April 24, 2014. News release, FDA. News release, NJOY. News release, Lorillard Inc. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, February 2014. Igor Burstyn, PhD, associate professor, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia. BMC Public Health, Jan. 9, 2014. News release, CDC. CDC: "New CDC study finds dramatic increase in e-cigarette related calls to poison centers." NPR: "Despite popularity, mysteries of e-cigarettes persist."
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The Viroqua Public Market is located in Viroqua, WI, population 4500, which is the county seat of Vernon County. Viroqua sits in the enchanting unglaciated part of Wisconsin, in the southwest corner of the state.
Viroqua is 30 minutes SE of La Crosse, approximately 3.5 hours from Milwaukee and the Twin Cities, 4 hours from NW Chicagoland; just 20 minutes to the Mississippi River.
The area is one of the only parts of America consistently missed by advancing glaciers over the millennia, hence the name "Driftless or Unglaciated Region". This has preserved the unique topography of the region. The famous bluffs, coulees and small winding streams are mesmerizing. This rich, organic, ancient earth tends to capture the soul. The interesting topography was formed over 100 million years ago. This entire region was a vast prehistoric sea, with an underwater mountain range.
The sea eventually disappeared, leaving just the sea-floor mountain range, which now defines the landscape of southwest Wisconsin as it slowly changes, shaped by wind, water, and man.  When you walk these lands, you are literally in the same space that massive sharks glided through, separated only by the passage of time.
About 12,000 years ago, when Mastodons still roamed the area, a land bridge was formed between North America and what is now Russia, allowing the first Americans to descend into this region. About the same time, great receding glaciers covered the northern half of America, except, of course, for this area! These first Americans inhabited, loved, and died in this pristine, fertile and spiritual area, as we do today. One can only image what it must have been like to be in this sanctuary place, surrounded my thousands of miles of ice.
The image above is of Three Chimney's rock formation, just outside of Viroqua. It highlights the ancient seafloor mountain range that makes up the topography of the area.
Many of the locations people congregate now in the 21st century, are the same exact places thirty thousand generations of humans were also draw to. Were modern campers from Chicago pitch tents, archeological evidence show peoples from the Paleo-Indian Tradition (10,000 B.C) , Archaic (7000 B.C.), through to the Kickapoo Native Americans of the 1600s, also chose to make camp! The spirit that drew them here remains, and continues to beckon visitors.
As a fascinating aside, the entire Valley was slated to be flooded as part of a huge Army Corps of Engineers damn project. For several reasons the project was halted in 1973... now, we can enjoy the land and its spirit everyday, just as it has been for thousands of years. A large part of the Valley is permanently protected in the 8,500 acre Kickapoo Valley Reserve.
The old, rich soil has supported decades of farming, and has been particularly suited to organic farming. The surrounding area has become one of the most successful organic farming regions in the entire world! In fact Organic Valley / CROPP organic farming coop, located 20 minutes from Viroqua, has grown into a multi-million dollar international company!
Numerous unusual round barns keep watch over the rolling pastures of Vernon County. Many of the barns were built by Algie Shivers, around the time Main Street Station was built, in the early 1900s. Algie's family, and others of African American descendents, were drawn to the area 1850s because of the area's tolerance and integration. His descendents still own property in eastern Vernon County.
Viroqua is a proud member of the coveted Main Street Program. Most of the downtown is part of a National Register of Historic Places Downtown Historic District, including the historic Viroqua Public Market. The Viroqua Public Market, founded in 2004 by the Macasaet family (who continue to manage the business), has become an anchor shopping, entertainment, and culinary destination for downtown Viroqua, helping to instill life back into the city center. The grand brick complex houses an impressive array of ninety local micro-merchants and artisans as well as a world-market of fair-trade goods from around the globe.
The Viroqua Public Market is also home to Kalapaca Crafts, Woodhookers Fine Antiques, VIVA artists gallery, and more.
The downtown and city in general are undergoing a Renaissance. Buildings like the market are being restored or rehabbed. Life in the city center has sprung forth again! Viroqua is very proud of the multi-million dollar restoration of the vaudeville era Temple Theater, which sits just down the block from the market. Viroqua also has a thriving farmers market, which takes place across the street from Main Street Station. The markets have a friendly relationship.
It also fortuitous that the region maintainers its easy-going, peaceful pace of life. There is no traffic congestion or stressed out masses. Viroqua has genuine charm and authentic small town warmth. Almost all of the area land and business are owned by people who live here - they are not controlled by distant owners simply looking for a "good investment". Unlike many other well known tourist areas, one can truly escape to these hidden valleys!
Here in Vernon County, just past a bend in the road, a different outdoor adventure awaits. You might find...incredible fishing in the numerous pristine streams and lakes, horseback riding (check out the KV Ranch), some of the best bicycle touring in America (we are minutes from the famous Sparta Elroy Bike Trail), great back roads to explore on motorcycle, superb golfing (Viroqua Country Club), ski jumping at the Snow Flake Ski Club, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, camping, hunting, hiking, Amish area tours (Down A Country Road), and canoeing on the Kickapoo River, to name but a few things. It's a blast just to drive around and explore the winding back roads.
The area is revved up by several area festivals every year, like the well established Wild West Days, the Viroqua Bluegrass & Gospel Festival, and the Market's own November Olde-Town Holiday Fair, to name a few. The Viroqua Chamber keeps up to date listing of events. The Driftless Wisconsin Area Guide provides a broader guide to the Driftless region.
The people of the Viroqua area ultimately are it's greatest asset. Generations of families have loved the Coulee Region, the land and our common humanity. People here are strong, warm, and genuine. Recently, the families several generations deep in the area have been complimented by a large group of new-comers. Viroqua is seeing several entire families each year move into the area, many because of a very special school system.
Pleasant Ridge Waldorf and the Youth Initiative High School offer an alternative to the public school model. These schools have received international praise for their focus on principles and the spirit of the child. As they say "The curriculum speaks not only to the intellect but also to the physical and emotional capacities, linking head, hand and heart to educate the whole child". Viroqua is also blessed with a superb public school system (which I attended - '87).
And still others are moving to the area for their own reasons, maybe to simplify, to connect, to live. The reasons are numerous. Viroqua is also seeing a steady influx of retirees, many drawn for what Conscious Choice Magazine called Viroqua's Sustainable Retirement. Joe Hart, contributing editor of the Utne, in a great article on Viroqua said, "Here in Viroqua, the primary collective structure is, well, us -- my circle of friends and neighbors, held together from year to year by a thousand shared moments." The intermingling of these diverse humans, with many others, has created an amazing Wisconsin village!
The Public Market is fortunate to have another Viroqua landmark, steps away from its doors for visitors to enjoy - the elegant and wonderfully restored Victorian style Heritage Inn B&B. Vendors and visitors may spend a relaxing night in the B&B and stroll over to the market for a blissful, truly unique experience.
Viroqua has been at the center of a 12,000 year-old history of humans in North America... the land where if lies has seen a 100- million-year-plus history of sea, land and life... now as Viroqua's newcomers bring ideas that add to the rich tradition of the original settlers, Viroqua is a town in evolution, in real-time!.... an evolution you not only can experience, but, indeed, contribute to. Come evolve. ..
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Let me begin by saying how happy I am to be back in Istanbul, a city which lies close to my heart and to which I have returned regularly since I was a schoolboy. That, incidentally, in case you had not guessed, was a very long time ago.
Istanbul holds a very special position, both geographically and in the history of world culture. The City has for me a special meaning, too, since historically it has been the bridge between Asia and Europe, between the cultures of the East and the West, between the world of Islam and the non-Muslim world. Istanbul embodies a theme which is of particular interest to me, personally, which is the dialogue of cultures. Whether it occurs along the great trade routes, over land or over sea, or whether it occurs for reasons essentially geographic, this dialogue of cultures has nearly always resulted in an upsurge of creativity, in a continuing cultural renewal.
In my view, this dialogue is more essential today than ever.
I should like also to express my most sincere thanks to the Sakip Sabanci Museum and in particular to the Chairperson of its Board, Ms Güler Sabançi, as well as to Dr. Nazan Ölçer, for hosting this presentation of some of the works from the collection of the future Aga Khan Museum. I am delighted that this should take place precisely this year, when Istanbul is being celebrated as the Cultural Capital of Europe, a distinction which, if I may be permitted to say so, is amply justified.
The Aga Khan Museum, which is currently under construction in Toronto, Canada, is expected, Insh'Allah, to open its doors in 2013. It will be the first museum in North America primarily devoted to Islamic arts and culture with a potential range of visitors stretching from New York, Chicago and Detroit to Vancouver. It is our intention that our museum should play a leading educational role enabling visitors from the area of Toronto and indeed from around the world to discover and to understand better all aspects of Islamic arts and Muslim culture.
The Museum's collection spans a millennium of Muslim history and I think I can say that it is particularly strong in the arts of the book, in works on parchment and paper. It has been meticulously constituted through a long process of acquisitions made by my brother His Highness the Aga Khan and it integrates the collection of my late uncle, Prince Sadruddin, and his wife, my Aunt Catherine, a collection that is well known and which was the object of exhibitions organized by them some years ago in cities such as London and Geneva. I should like to thank my Aunt Catherine here for her generous donation to the museum of works currently in her home in Geneva, some of which, such as the splendid ceramics with calligraphic inscriptions, you will be seeing today.
In view of Sakip Sabanci's special interest in the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy, we have decided to focus on these art forms in the exhibition presented here. However, the works on parchment and paper shown here are complemented by a range of objects, metalwork, ceramics, wooden beams, textiles and jewelry, all of which are examples of fine epigraphy, either Qur'anic or poetical. In this fashion, we have sought to create an exhibition that is synergistic with the Sakip Sabanci Museum's own collection, while simultaneously presenting objects and materials from Islamic cultures, other than exclusively that of the Ottoman world, on treasures from all parts of the Muslim world, from Andalusia to China.
It is my hope that the collection presented here will provide the public with an appreciation of the pluralism of Muslim cultures emanating from different and varied regional and historic aesthetics, some as different as those characteristic of the Mughul Empire or of the Egyptian Fatimids, but that all nevertheless shows the unity of Muslim cultures as well as their pluralism. Unity within diversity. These are essential aspects of the arts of Islam (both the diversity and the unity) which I feel are too often forgotten nowadays, within the Muslim world and outside of it. As the exhibition shows, both the ethic and the aesthetics of Islam are cosmopolitan.
Of particular interest to me is the question of museography: how best to exhibit works on paper and other objects typical of Muslim cultures that originally were destined to be picked up, touched, examined and used but whose fragility now imposes constraints and challenges. I find that the current, "traditional" means of exhibiting such works of art -- untouchable, often almost invisible -- runs in some measure contrary to the essential nature of the objects. I would like to discover a means of exhibiting them which is new and original. This exhibition is one in a series of exhibitions of different works from our collection that have been seen by several hundred thousand people in Italy, England, France, Portugal, Germany and Spain, with more exhibitions to come in the months ahead in the United States, Russia and elsewhere in places such as India, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. It is my hope that all these exhibitions will lead us to identify precisely such an original and new museography to which we can turn when it comes to finishing the proposed Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada.
It is our intention to enter into agreements and to create working relationships with a number of museums and private collections that have distinguished collections of Islamic art, so as to be able, in the years ahead, to put together top flight temporary travelling exhibitions.
To this end, we have already initiated discussions with the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan in New York and others.
This exhibition at the Sakip Sabanci Museum will thus be, I trust, the first step in a durable and continuing cooperation between the Aga Khan Museum and the Sakip Sabanci Museum. I hope that, in the years ahead, we will be able to organize together joint travelling exhibitions and other forms of cooperation destined to bring a greater understanding of the cultural accomplishments of Muslim civilizations and, in so doing, to combat the ignorance that too often surrounds us and that is the father of so much intolerance. Our essential aim should be to underline commonalities and shared heritage as a way of counteracting misconceptions and prejudice.
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Wigan boss Roberto Martinez accused Theo Walcott of buying a penalty for Arsenal as the Gunners claimed a 1-0 victory at the DW Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Mikel Arteta's 60th minute spot-kick, given after Jean Beausejour was adjudged to have felled Walcott, proved the decisive moment in a very tight game played in sodden conditions.
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BOSTON - Boston Red Sox closer Joel Hanrahan left Monday night's game against the Minnesota Twins with right forearm tightness after giving up a tying home run in the ninth inning.
Hanrahan entered a 5-4 game in the ninth looking for his fifth save of the year. But Brian Dozier homered with one out to tie it and, one out later, on Hanrahan's first pitch to Justin Morneau, Red Sox manager John Farrell came jogging out of the dugout with the training staff.
Hanrahan left the game and was relieved by Clayton Mortensen.
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The Houston Dynamo Academy U-16 squad continued its April struggles in USSF Development Academy league play Sunday, losing 5-0 to the Dallas Texans Houston at Meyer Park in Spring. Since their run to the Dallas Cup U-16 bracket title, the U-16s have been outscored 9-0 in three loses.
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 Another way to approach the problem without adding attributes is to define your language priority list structure to be more complex than just a comma-separated list. An example of this would be the Accept-Language header defined by HTTP, which uses "q" weights to control how the list is ordered. For example, you might have one that looks like: Accept-Language: en;q=1.0,fr;q=0.6 An obvious extension to this would be to define negative weights or a "0.0" weight to exclude items. Then you might have:
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Timbaland has had a great year so far with production credits on Justin Timberlake's 'The 20/20 Experience' and Jay Z's 'Magna Carta Holy Grail.' However the same can't be said for his married life as his wife is divorcing him.
Timbaland's wife, former publicist Monique Mosley, is filing for divorce and she has steep demands, according to TMZ. Mosley wants him pay child support for both of her kids, alimony, vacations, summer camp and life insurance, among other expenses.
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A Derry woman who wrote a letter to Adele about how she got drunk and sang along to song 'Someone Like You' has created a media storm.
Stephanie Pope posted on the pop sensation's facebook page about the night she came home drunk with dog dirt on her shoe trailing it across the house, vomited in the kitchen bin and then wet herself.
She then put on a recording of Adele performing The Brits and belted out 'Someone Like You' at the top of her voice.
Stephanie said experience helped her get over her boyfriend.
Here is an abridged version of that letter .... be warned there are some expletives.
"Dear Adele.
I had just split up with my fiancée 2 weeks previous when you sang at the Brit Awards.
I still lived with the p**** and went on a 'f*** you' night out with my mates. I had got p***** as a newt in an hour! Ya know when they say you get p***** quicker when your an emotional wreck?!.. Yeah it was one of those nights. Anyway, in my black dress, black tights, black heels, I came home crashing through the front door absolutely wasted, obliviously trailing dog s*** on my shoes, right through my lovely hallway. I made my way to the kitchen bin where I puked my guts up and p***** my pants whilst doing so, I stumbled into the living room and pressed play on your recorded performance of 'someone like you' on the TV. I sang and cried at the top of my lungs, believing I was you as I belted out every word to the b****** In the doorway looking at me with disgust! He closed the door on me and went to bed! I didn't give a s***, I was p***** and I was a woman, with feelings, and a heart, and I deserved better. All I needed was me and you, because you understood! Lol!! We connected that night! There I was with dog s*** on my shoes, sick on my dress, standing in p***y tights and pants, with zero dignity and not knowing a f*** what I was gonna do now. But in that instant you became me and I became you!!
Feels like a million years ago now but I just wanted you to know about it!!
I'm Now free of the ex fiancée, totally cured and healed by the man of my dreams, my best buddy (and now husband). Thanks for helping me through it all.
All my love, respect and deepest thanks.
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*The Collins girls' basketball team (12-12), coming off Thursday night's loss to Gallatin County, will try to get back on track at 1 p.m. today when it hosts Bethlehem. The Banshees (6-12) have won two in a row since they lost seven straight.
*The Shelby County girls' basketball team (15-12), which has won two in a row, hosts Atherton (6-13) at 2:30 p.m. at Mike Casey Gymnasium. The Rebels, who started the season 3-11, have won three of their last five games.
*The Collins boys' basketball team (16-7) puts its five-game win streak on the line tonight, when it hosts Harrison County (16-10) at 7:30 p.m. in the Titans' Homecoming. The Thorobreds, who lost 70-61 at Mason County last night, are led by junior forward Dillon Pulliam (14.6 ppg, 5.4 rpg).
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