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My grandson. When he was born his sister (2 at the time) could say brother. It came out bubba. So that's where it comes from. I thought it was a confederate thing. The wrangler got added at about a year and a half. He is a wild man. My oldest daughter said, "Ya gotta' wrangle him". Thus... Bubba Wrangler.
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Last Friday night, Sheila and I got back onstage at The Ice House in Pasadena in the name of raising money for a great organization, the Cancer Support Community, which provides support to cancer patients and their family members , all free of charge. Good cause, great event. We were honored to be a part of it.
And, can I tell you, we had a blast! The whole she-bang was fun, from writing the material to rehearsal to the obligatory hair and make-up. There were only a few tense moments backstage before our debut. I'll give you a hint: Sheila was hangry. ( You can listen to the behind the scenes on the Satellite Sisters podcast this week.) Once she was fed, we had a fantastic time being back on stage together.
Here's the clip provided by the Ice House. Please pardon the blurriness. It's long and,unfortunately, not as crisp on YouTube as it is on my home computer. But, take it from me, we looked fabulous. Hahaha.
Embracing my Chaos, Lian
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FLORENCE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - Charges have been filed against a man accused of threatening tubers on the Pine River Oxbow in Florence County earlier this month.
Authorities say 70-year-old Gary Bovee pointed a shotgun at a group of tubers floating on the river in Commonwealth Township and told them the river belonged to him and that he was, "King of America."
Sheriff's officials say Bovee also confronted other groups of tubers on August 9.
Bovee was arrested and was found with two guns and 280 rounds of ammunition.
He's charged with 13 misdemeanor counts, including 12 of intentionally pointing a firearm at a person.
A $10,000 bond was set for Bovee in court Tuesday. He was also ordered not to have any contact with the victims or DNR agents. He also cannot go onto any DNR property, not to drink or possess alcohol, not to go into a bar or tavern and not to have a gun.
According to court records, Bovee's address is listed as Cottage Grove, near Madison.
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U.S. Open champ Simpson is a father again
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson is a father again.
Simpson's wife, Dowd, gave birth Saturday to daughter Willow Grace.
Simpson's agent, Thomas Parker, said mother and daughter are doing well.
Simpson is expected to return to play at the PGA Championship on Aug. 9-12 at Kiawah Island, S.C. He skipped the Open Championship because of the birth of the couple's second child.
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Apple pie or pumpkin pie? Can't decide? This is the pie for you. A layer of tart apples in a caramel sauce covered with a layer of traditional pumpkin. Add some fresh whipped cream and you're in heaven.
Preheat oven to 375°. To prepare the crust, cut the butter into small pieces; it doesn't have
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Sprinkle a wooden board or counter top with flour, place the dough on the board, and sprinkle the top
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Just because the weekend is over doesn't mean you have to starve. Here's what we've got on the books this week. More events this week: - Heirloom Tomato Dinner at Binkley's in Cave Creek June 19 - go lb. salt Launches Salt Education Series in Gilbert This Spring - "Arizona History Dinners" Kick ... More >>
It's artichoke season, y'all, which means we're looking forward to peeling and devouring as many 'chokes as we can get our hands on. See also: - Boho Farm and Home's Caroline Van Slyke Offers Tips on Gardening in Phoenix - Six Spots to Get Fresh Local Produce All Summer Long This weekend Singh F ... More >>
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She's. In heaven. Jesus. Love's. All his. Children.
why would a married lady with two kids – go to a different country ? that too a liberal/nasty muslim country like Turkey.
stupid is what stupid does.
@ stupid_lady – I think the homicide rate in the US (4.8 per 100,000) is higher per capita than Turkey (3.3). Just sayin'. We need to quit pretending we haven't become a third world country before we act like it's too dangerous to go any place else.
The only thing I agree with in your comment is your conclusion, but I think I'm pointing that in a little different direction than you did.
@Mike,right Muslims are known for their respect for women.How could this possibly happen in that third world s@#t hole?
@stupid_lady, I find your description of Turkey totally absurd. "liberal/nasty muslim"??? What does that even mean???
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Metro police spoke out on Friday afternoon about an officer-involved shooting that claimed a man's life.
On July 23, two SWAT officers shot a home invasion suspect, who was wielding a hammer and a knife, clothed only in underwear.
The department said it is beginning an investigation into the shooting, in order to determine what went wrong, and if lethal force was necessary.
The suspect and shooting victim has since been identified as Southaly Ketmany. His ex-wife, Kim Reroma, told FOX5 that the cell phone store employee was in town from Sacramento, on vacation.
She said that while he was at a nightclub, located inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, he began hallucinating and acting strangely.
Ketmany became separated from his friends, turning up inside a home near Las Vegas Boulevard and Pebble Road, a few days later.
Metro police said they attempted non-lethal tactics to subdue Ketmany, but that they didn't work.
"None of these tools were effective. They included a 40mm rubber round, a K-9 dog, and an ECD, which is commonly known as a Taser. The suspect then charged officers with a knife and a hammer, closing the distance several feet, at which time two SWAT officers fired their weapons, striking the suspect," said Metro Undersheriff Jim Dixon.
Ketmany was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators are still awaiting the results of a toxicology report.
Reroma said she believes Ketmany's drink may have been laced. She was at the scene of the shooting, and believes police did not attempt enough non-lethal tactics to bring him safely into custody.
Metro police said it is possible the case could go before the department's Use of Force Board. However, that likely wouldn't happen before the district attorney investigates, because the shooting resulted in a death.
Metro police said they expect to have a final report on the shooting within the next 90 days.
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Five Things you Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.
Today is Tuesday, June 5. Here are five things you need to know.
1. Rain possible: Today's chance of rain is 40 percent, according to the National Weather Service. The day will otherwise be cloudy with a high around 59.
2. New principal: Recently, Mary Gormley, the Milton Public Schools superintendent, announced the hiring of Dr. Karen Spaulding as the Principal. A committee is being formed to fill Spaulding's position as Principal at .
3. New Assistant Principal/Math Curriculum Coordinator: Life LeGeros will join the Pierce Middle School staff as the Assistant Principal/Math Curriculum Coordinator. Legeros previously worked for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
4. Historical lecture: Historian Anthony Sammarco will give a lecture tonight at the about Milton neighborhoods. The program, which is co-sponsored by the Milton 350th Anniversary Committee and the Forbes House Museum, begins at 7 p.m.
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January 18, 2001
Tunisia is seeking to set a comprehensive scheme to support the banking sector and develop its services.
January 16, 2001
Sources at the Tunisian ministries of agriculture and industry estimated the local olive oil output at 150,000 tons for this farming season compared to 225,000 tons in the previous season of 1999/2000
January 14, 2001
European Commission President Romano Prodi on Friday signed economic accords with Tunisia amounting to €54.5 million ($51.7 dollars), during the first leg of his North Africa tour that will take him t
January 10, 2001
The President of the European Commission Romano Prodi will travel to North Africa this week seeking greater economic integration between Europe and Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.
January 4, 2001
The Tunisian government has announced a series of measures to promote information technology, including lower Internet access fees, a reduction in the
January 2, 2001
Tunisia's communications ministry said Internet subscription rates were cut in half Monday and that privatization of the telecommunications sector would likely begin this year.
December 27, 2000
A loan of €40 million was approved Wednesday by the board of directors of the African Development Bank, to help meet the growth objectives of Tunisia\'s tourism and manufacturing sectors during the co
December 25, 2000
A court hearing to consider overturning a leadership vote at the congress of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LTDH) has been put o
The end of Tunisie Telecom's monopolization of the Tunisian telecom sector drew one step closer, when Société de Banque Française et Internationale won the bid for a feasibility study into installatio
Ethiopian and Tunisian government representatives ended a meeting in Addis Ababa on Friday with the signing of two reciprocal investment and tourism promotion and protection agreements.
December 24, 2000
A senior source in the Tunisian Industry Ministry, reported Al-Hayat newspaper, recently revealed that Tunisia is planning to build a second oil refinery.
The end of Tunisie Telecom's monopolization of the Tunisian telecom sector drew one step closer, when Société de Banque Française et Internationale won the bid for a feasibility study into installatio
December 21, 2000
The Tunisian government, reported Al-Hayat newspaper, is planning to sell an additional 20 percent of its shares in the Tunisian Airlines Corporation through the local bourse.
December 18, 2000
A recent study has revealed that the output of the Tunisian spare car parts manufacturing sector had tripled in the past six years.
Brovig ASA placed a major contract with Malta Drydocks for conversion of the tanker Northia into a FPSO for installation on the Isis field offshore Tunisia.


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Weight change whether due to pregnancy or weight loss can often result in excess skin on the tummy. Sometimes the skin is fine, but there still is a pesky bulge of fat on either the abdomen, sides, or thighs and liposuction can be considered. The following are some of the body procedures offered at Buchele Plastic Surgery. Click on the links provided for more information.
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There are two issues that must be considered in tummy tuck.
The first issue is that there is a range of operations and therefore the operation should be customized to the patient. At one end of the spectrum is a "full tummy tuck." In this operation, because there is laxity or looseness of the muscle or fascia, these are tightened with stitches. In addition, the skin from the belly button to the pubic hair is removed. At the other end of the spectrum is a "mini tummy tuck" when just a piece of skin from right over the pubic hair is removed. In between these is an operation that can be designed to meet the patient's specific needs.
The more skin that needs to be removed the farther in a side-to-side direction the scar has to go. This is the trade with tummy tuck; the trade of "skin for scars."
The second issue is that I believe the tummy tuck is the biggest operation plastic surgeons do with regard to pain and recovery time. This is related to the stitches in the muscle and the goal of making the belly as tight as is safe. If you have a job that requires lifting, you may be off work 3 weeks. This operation is about skin and not fat. It is about tightening the skin. Patients who are overweight will still be overweight after the surgery. If you plan to lose weight, do it first so whatever extra skin you get from the weight loss can be taken care of at the time of surgery.
First done in France about 25 years ago, liposuction has become very popular and much safer. The areas to be treated are marked with a magic marker, flooded with a solution to reduce post-operative pain and containing medicine to reduce the bleeding, and then under anesthesia, has the excess fat removed by special metal tubes attached to a suction device. Saddlebags, inner thighs, love handles, and the lower tummy fat, are all good areas to be treated by liposuction.
The concept is straightforward: remove the fat and encourage the skin to contract and shrink around the new less fat internal structure. This effort to mould the skin is done with supportive garments. The elasticity of the skin is obviously critical. The smaller the amount of liposuction needed, the younger and the more elastic the skin, and the shorter the period of time the bulge exists, the better the results.
Recovery is much faster than with a tummy tuck, and may be as little as 3-5 days. There are safety issues with how much liposuction can be done at one time. I have an upper limit of 5 liters (about 10 pounds) at one trip to the operating room.
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In Dreams
In Dreams
directed by Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan knows what the screen is for. That's unusual for an artist who began in literature, but right for one who used words to evoke feelings and images. His new movie In Dreams overflows with sights that suggest an artist has opened up his subconscious for public display. This is not a gift to be taken lightly. Here in the digital age, technology has rendered most movie imagery unmemorable and inexpressive (you've every right to dread What Dreams May Come). But Jordan's artistic integrity constantly goes for the mythic.
As critic Gregory Solman wrote, this plot is "unworthy" of Jordan's talents, and yet In Dreams is not an example of impersonal hack work. His intelligence is still evident in this lighter vein (as Orson Welles' was in The Stranger) and a real movie lover is compelled to point this out. It stands in contradistinction to the fake cinematic extravagance of frivolous or bludgeoning movies. Jordan gives In Dreams an uncanny, dreamlike pace. He seems to be rifling through the plot, finding the exalted image, the indelible hue or evocative compositional
value to make it something more than formulaic.
In Saturday night terms In Dreams might be less efficient than I Know What You Did Last Summer or The Faculty; those movies attempt little, their essence being tied to manipulative plotting and easy scares. Jordan essays something subtler, more suggestive and lasting. From the opening scene of water rushing through a church vestibule toward the viewer, images come with startling immediacy. At the moment you register their exact symbolism, their lushness is overwhelming. More epiphanies unfurl: during the sequence of a worried mother searching for her daughter amid the costumed children of a school pageant; a woman escaping an asylum and finding herself in the middle of highway collisions at night; a boy swimming out of a flooded house to discover his entire town submerged; and the same child perched on a steeple–the highest point in town–while rescue boats motor by on the newly created lake.
Each of these moments (and many others) rates applause–and wonder. They enhance the screen, as did similar sequences in Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, Boorman's Deliverance, Kubrick's The Shining and Altman's The Gingerbread Man. Jordan rises to that class of imaginative fantasy, turning the medium's ability to capture human experience into extraordinary manifestations. It helps that Annette Bening as Clair, the distraught woman psychically alarmed for her husband and daughter's safety, and Robert Downey Jr. as Vivian, the killer avenging his abused childhood, have charismatic faces. Both are emphatic without being conventionally attractive–a subliminal avidity that suggests they belong together as psychic twins. Through them, Jordan seems to have channeled some substantive and affecting mental efflorescence. Dreams mix with memories and premonitions in the thickest profusion of dread, sadness and regret since Don't Look Now.
Such scenes as Clair, catapulted by grief, driving a car through a fence into a river or sensing Vivian's prison break and then following his path, step-by-intuited-step, occur in calmly measured strokes. Jordan, editor Tony Lawson and superb cinematographer Darius Khondji match two characters' pain through visual rhythm, achieving compassion (whereas in Don't Look Now Nicolas Roeg went for the creeps). These sequences are genuinely, fully imagined–not like the facile quick-cutting of Michael Bay or David Fincher–yet they don't seem fully dramatized. This problem points to the script (by Jordan and Bruce Robinson) being a too-commercial blueprint.
After the initial, superficial thought that this was another of the misbegotten Neil-Jordan-in-Hollywood movies like Interview with a Vampire (as opposed to his stronger British-made films), scenes from In Dreams left a sweet taste in my brain. Its school pageant scene, with gossamer-winged child fairies, an intense police hunt in the woods and the climactic predator-trickster scenes with Clair, Vivian and a kidnapped girl in an overflowing apple cider mill, all recalled Jordan's first great movie A Company of Wolves. That successful combination of high art philology and accessible generic storyline (Little Red Riding Hood) was key to Jordan's distinctive artistry. He uses pop myths to explore psychological complexity, which may be why Patrick McCabe's surrealist novel The Butcher Boy was the basis for Jordan's most critically acclaimed film (it provided the mythic link to Jordan's other fascination–Irish family heritage).
What In Dreams lacks, besides the old sod, is a clearer explanation of Clair's relation to Vivian. Jordan zips by the child Vivian's desperate need for fantasy as the link to Clair's profession as author and illustrator of children's storybooks. (Their sexual dysfunction is obviously paired.) The movie seems preoccupied with hocus-pocus when Jordan, at his best, unleashes the subconscious phantoms wrought by culture and parentage (Vivian's abused childhood and the flooding of his hometown by municipal edict are barely dramatized). Like Antonio Banderas
in Interview, the final scenes of Vivian's self-torment achieve an unsettling pity–the emotion always underlying Jordan's wonderment. As a companion piece to The Butcher Boy and A Company of Wolves, Clair's fated pas de deux with Vivian shows Jordan combining literary and cinematic devices with contemporary horror in an attempt to expurgate society's inner monsters. But being less socially/politically grounded than the tale of psychic twins in De Palma's magnificent The Fury, In Dreams' delirious high style wobbles on a sketchy premise. So while In Dreams joins the ranks of Jordan's most ruinously flawed movies High Spirits, We're No Angels and Interview with a Vampire, it's still an impressive eyeful of cinema.
Peeping Tom
directed by Michael Powell
Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese must have felt a collective dream was answered when, as young men in the early 60s, they both saw Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. This dirty, compassionate thriller expressed something then new in the culture to which they have kept faith, in De Palma's own movies and Scorsese's sponsoring of Powell's last years (including Peeping Tom's reissue this week at Film Forum). They recognized that in this one picture British veteran Powell, coincidental with the French New Wave, gave full, serious vent to the preoccupation with cinema as a way of seeing and pursuing life.
Despite the grim premise of a young filmmaker, Mark (Carl Boehm), whose avocation warps into Jack-the-Ripper pathology, the movie actually details an outcast's passion–as movie mania was once regarded (by some) as improper or obsessional. Even with the film's growing acceptance these past four decades, it still carries a stigma. Peeping Tom isn't really about voyeurism as some literal-minded critics like to say, but about private obsession. Powell and screenwriter Leo Marks closely parallel film with pornography and crime, exploring their own
subcult fascination. The movie verifies an unsettling promise: that the practice of cinema will always be disturbing. Scorsese and De Palma understand–as Michael Powell knew and Neil Jordan also shows–that movies can, with dreamlike precision, express personal and social disorder.
It was up to a younger generation of filmmakers, such as De Palma and Scorsese, to underscore Peeping Tom's implicit suggestion that such private pursuits had a primal, sexual nature.
They did it through a more egotistical implementation of film grammar and sensual, kinetic style. Powell, whose work had been quite flamboyant in the 40s, is at his most subdued, almost literal, in Peeping Tom. Except for the opening gambit depicting the action through a camera's viewfinder, Powell's style is unexceptional. Otto Heller's lustrous color photography conveys
a sinister, drab air that, at the time, might have been mistaken for realism. De Palma and Scorsese saw through it to a particular truth–the Atomic Age frankness about hidden impulses coming to light. The first daytime scene, in a smoke shop festooned with girlie magazines, features a vendor who secretly sells "studies" of models surreptitiously made by Mark, his timid
Identifying with Mark, Scorsese and De Palma recognized his hobby as a specialized passion, connected to the socially accepted attraction to disrobed models as well as the thrill of cinematic apparatus (film stock, developing wheels, projectors, screens, lights, the process of studio filmmaking) being openly fetishized at last. With all this, Peeping Tom is a poetic distillation of the creative urge behind cinema's new era. Released the same year as Hitchcock's superior Psycho, it's an art film of particular (scholarly) erudition: It is to Psycho what
Malick's Thin Red Line is to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Hitchcock's more dynamic approach to the changing cultural mood clarified the sexual neuroses on view while defining a new shock esthetic; Powell, in his usual, effete dream-state, effected a grisly rumination. "What's this war in the heart of cinema? Is there an avenging power in cinema? Not one power but two?"
Mark (cinema's most sympathetic miscreant since Peter Lorre in M) is torn between expressing his sexuality and his artistry, admiring the sweet, adoring Helen (Anna Massey) while killing other women with the blade hidden in his camera tripod. And Powell commiserated with this decrepit young artist out of a genius' typical ambivalence. Examining the thin line between death and desire, Powell works out a modern philosophical quandary. This came to be a central concern among psychoanalytic film critics but really it's just the male equivalent to the female dilemma in Powell's 1948 film The Red Shoes–art in a mortal struggle with life. It's a phenomenal thesis; it even questions a filmmaker's social responsibility and personal arrogance. Powell pushes Mark's (his own) audacity to the life-taking limit–a fictional confession as candid as Mohsen Makmahlbaf's declaration in Salaam Cinema of the "sadism" inherent in filmmaking.
For all this, Peeping Tom, a significant movie, is not a great one but it holds great fascination–and is to be honored–for revealing the locus classicus of Brian De Palma's cinema. Powell paved the way for De Palma to take themes of sexual guilt, social change, scopophilia–the puzzle of modernist film esthetics–and transcend genre as Peeping Tom simply does not. Most film critics, unsurprisingly, have misconstrued De Palma. Hitchcock is no more important to De Palma's filmmaking than Orson Welles; it's Peeping Tom that De Palma has been "remaking" throughout his career, from Wotan's Wake to Snake Eyes. It's his prime text the way some artists extrapolate from the Bible, Shakespeare or Sartre. In the 1970 Hi, Mom!, where Robert
De Niro played a Greenwich Village dissident trying to get laid and make "peep art" porn movies, De Palma advanced the relation between 16-mm photography and voyeurism that now shows striking resemblance to the videocam era. Powell's film title was also used as a multileveled tv joke at the start of Sisters. Mark's suffering as the subject of a mad-scientist father's cruel experiments were the basis for De Palma's best 90s film, the bad childhood nightmare Raising Cain. And in Mark's killing of an aged, mature Moira Shearer (the still-exquisite star of The Red Shoes) is a template for the heartrending sympathy and cosmic cruelty shown to Angie Dickinson in Dressed to Kill and all De Palma's screen ladies.
It's no surprise that De Palma's movies are constantly as misinterpreted as Peeping Tom was in its time. Sex, violence, guilt and art are rarely well understood, but that's the challenge some pop artists boldly undertake by fearlessly putting those issues together–out of dreams onto the screen.
A dream to some, a nightmare to others. Robert Bresson's Les Dames de Bois du Boulogne (at MOMA Fri., Jan. 29, at 2:30) is the most oneiric of masterpieces. This peep into several Parisians' souls is rarely screened; its lasting influence is worth discussing next week.


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i also heard what the weight was Vogelpohl hit last weekend. crazy s***. he will hit 1200 at the pro am, no doubt.
i also heard what the weight was Vogelpohl hit last weekend. crazy s***. he will hit 1200 at the pro am, no doubt.
That is some strong squatting, man! I did choked blues and purples a couple weeks ago and I worked up to a single at 175. Squatting it wasn't hard, but getting the bar out of the rack, like you said, was hell! I couldn't even imagine doing that with 295 on the bar! Good work, man!
Also, what is the point of doing Zercher squats? I'm not doubting their effectiveness; it's just that I've never tried them and would like to know more about them. Thanks, Lones!
zerchers are kind of like front squats. louie and the guys at westside have seen great success with them building a bigger deadlift. they don't look it, but they work the back a lot because you are trying to keep from falling forward. the also hammer the posterior and groin. westside makes a harness for them, the are hell on your forearms as well. you can walk them out, do them from pins, or from the floor if you dare.
Nice squattin' Lones! Purples and blues will add about 295 of tension at the top, 175 at the bottom. Blues and greens will be 340/205. Just general numbers, definitely not specific as will vary depending on band age, lifter height, etc. Too many consecutive weeks with bands is pretty rough on me, particulary hips.
Sorry about that ticket man!
This week is almost over.....you'd better be sleeping, eating, and recovering these next 2 days.
I won't be there on Sunday - MSF course this weekend
Hey, Lones, thanks for the quick response regarding Zercher squats. I appreciate your time, man!
oh and those purples were pretty worn out, but the blues were brand new. my monolift height is 18 if that says anything to you about how big of a b**** those were to unrack!
I'm at a monolift height of 18 as well, so I know what you're saying.
And if I tell you that I saw a blue/blue/green last weekend, with even more weight on the bar than that tension, I think you'll figure out the rest.
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Hey lones, someone on another board asked me what chuck v rows are and I can't find a pic of them and not really sure how to explain them. Can you direct me to an example?
i usually just describe them as face pulls towards the belly
very nice squatting Lones. The most I ever did was 3 blues, but I think I only worked up to 1 plate bar weight. It felt awesome to feel you spine compress a good 3-4inches
yeah, maybe it was. I looked back and it was actually only a quarter per side, lol. Band tension is weird you know though. 700 band tension is much much different than 700 straight weight. But damn that **** was still heavy.
Heavy band tension is fun, but it can really kick your ass. I think you really have to use it in moderation and see how you recover.
I have witnessed Bernor do over 700 bar weight for a few reps with two sets of blue bands. FREAKY!
Best Meet Lifts(Raw w/wraps):
@165- 435 SQ 270 BE 560 DL.....1255 total
@181- 535 SQ 300 BE 570 DL.....1400 total
Best Meet Lifts(Multi-ply):
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@165- 680 SQ 380 BE 540 DL.....1555 total
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and this is my first time doing a heavy band squat cycle. i deadlift next week then theres only 1 more week of it left. it really is kicking my ass. my back and knees are both very sore...good sores though.
Hey, what time tomorrow? I can workout anytime but would prefer to a bit earlier. Vicki won't be there because she has her motorcycle class.
ME bench
stretching and junk
DB floor press:
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60's x 5
75's x 3
85's x 3
95's x 3
100's x 1
power rack was taken by some guy doing quarter squats with 365 and knee wraps on. dude was squatting when i got there and i don't think he was done when we left.
CSR, 3 x 10
purple band pull aparts, 3 x 12
seated chest press machine w/purple band:
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135 x 10
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20 min elliptical
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active youth and education component. Each summer,
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presentations and workshops for youth. Stay tuned
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In June, 2009, FUSION Theatre Company,
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and were presented at Albuquerque Academy and outdoors
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and Kit Carson Park, near Tingley Beach. Here are
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Back: Bruce Holmes, Scott Bryan,
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Front: Jared Herholtz
"The Invention" at various locations
in 2009. The play is
highly interactive and was a wonderful vehicle to engage
the imaginations of children and adults alike.
FUSION Theatre Company's
Young Artists Exchange launched a
two-week intensive workshop and rehearsal of Alexander
F. Smith's original play, Blow by Blow.
The process culminated with a performance at the Ronald
Gardenswartz Jewish Community Center on Friday, July
30th and was followed by a tour throughout Albuquerque
schools during the fall of the academic year. Directed
by Smith and Derek Brown, the piece centered on Stanley,
a boy struggling with being bullied in school. Traveling
through Stanley's waking hours as well as his
dreams and nightmares, ten Albuquerque high school
students brought to life the serious nature of Stanley's
trial. Funded in part by the Urban Enhancement Trust
Fund, Blow by Blow featured a diverse
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high schools.
Bullying has often been considered a
natural social occurrence in childhood. From Mark
Twain to J.K. Rowling, the class bully has been a
subject of interest and plot development. However,
as life has become increasingly challenging for children
and their world has become more violent, bullying
has led to extremely serious consequences including
fatal violence and teen suicide. It is the serious
nature of bullying that has compelled playwright Smith
and educator Brown to tackle the issue within a dramatic
structure that can speak to young teens. "Our
focus is on middle schoolers. We want to address the
problem early enough so kids are aware and don't
fear reaching out for help," says Smith. Brown
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one priority is for their child in school and they
will say safety. This makes sense as very little educational
development can happen when a child is fearful of
the school environment and peers. In England, we have
adopted a national anti-bullying policy within schools
that also incorporates teacher training. We are seeing
positive results."
Included in the tour of Albuquerque
schools, Brown provided supplemental materials for
teachers that gave clear and tested suggestions for
addressing the issue of bullying within the classroom
and school as a whole. "We feel the play and
the materials provided can launch positive action,"
says Brown.
Derek Brown is the Artistic Director
of Actorshop Ltd, a Forum Theatre based training company
in London, England which provides training to private
companies such as Ford as well as in-service educational
training for schools. Additionally, Mr. Brown is a
visiting lecturer to the Central School of Speech
and Drama, the Institute of Education, and University
of North London. Playwright Smith is currently attending
Ithaca College in New York and has performed throughout
the United States and London.
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A new video release featuring highlights from a star-studded August 2012 event commemorating what would have been Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia 's 70th birthday will hit stores on October 29. Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday combines documentary segments with footage from a tribute concert held at Dead singer/guitarist Bob Weir 's TRI Studios in San Rafael, California.
Among the many musicians who are interviewed in the film are Garcia's Dead band mates Weir, Phil Lesh , Bill Kreutzmann , Mickey Hart and Donna Jean Godchaux . Also appearing are such stars as Carlos Santana , Sammy Hagar , Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and Jane's Addiction members Perry Farrell and Stephen Perkins . The interviews are conducted by actor Luke Wilson .
Meanwhile, the concert portion of Move Me Brightly features renditions of various classic Grateful Dead tunes played by an eclectic lineup of artists, including Phish 's Mike Gordon , members of the alternative rock acts The Hold Steady and Vampire Weekend , and Joe Russo and Jeff Chimenti from the Dead spinoff group Furthur . Among the songs that were performed are "Terrapin Station," "Shakedown Street," and "Friend of the Devil."
Move Me Brightly was directed by founding Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann's son, Justin . The flick will be available as DVD, Blu-ray and digital video.
Here's the track list of songs featured in Move Me Brightly :
"Cumberland Blues"
"Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad"
"Mission in the Rain"
"Shakedown Street"
"He's Gone"
"Eyes of the World"
"Terrapin Station"
"Days Between"
"Franklin's Tower"
"U.S. Blues"
Bonus Performances
"Friend of the Devil"
"Bird Song"/"New Speedway Boogie"
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"the idea of the tanking figure is fairly unique to the MMO genre"
I have to disagree with this comment. As long as there have been roleplaying games, there has been the concept of a class or unit that is able to withstand huge amounts of damage while standing right in the face of the enemy. That's what a tank does. MMOs may have enabled tanks to take incredible amounts of damage thanks to being healed, but they didn't introduce the concept. We had everything from fighters to clerics to assault mechs doing the tanking. They sought to take the damage while the weaker classes and units tried to dish it out.
I know there are many people who are growing tired of the tank-healer-dps design, but there are many players who aren't and still enjoy it. The problem with WoW is that so many people have become too attached to the game, and they want to change the game to suit their own desires, instead of playing a different game altogether. Of course, Blizzard doesn't want to lose subs and money, so they capitulate.
WoW may change from the trinity concept, and that will make a lot of people happy. Others, like me, will move on to other games to continue playing that style. I already play several different games to fulfill different needs, i.e. I'm not going to play Madden when I want to roleplay or grind up some gear. As it stands, I'm not very happy with the proposed changes to tanking coming in 4.3, so in all likelihood I'm going to take a break for a while or perhaps even quit WoW altogether. And that's perfectly fine.
"Tanking" in PnP RPG's didn't even emerge until after WOW was released.
To my knowledge, it's not even a common trait in PnP RPG's, there is nothing in an encounter preventing the GM from having all the NPC's "Kill the one in the dress". I believe one version or other of AD&D has some form of "taunts".
Sure, there's always been plate-wearers and shield-users, but they had no abilities whatsoever to force an NPC to attack them instead of the flimsy caster.
D&D 4th Edition was the first edition to ever include mechanics that forced a monster to attack a particular target. This concept never existed previously in D&D, and was introduced after WoW was released because it was a method to attract WoW players back to PnP gaming.
The reason taunt mechanics were unnecessary was because if your GM was enough of a douchebag to coordinate the monsters to focus fire the clothies instead of the big angry barbarian with the battle-axe, that GM quickly found himself without players.
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I'd say the idea of the "meat shield" was always in D&D, but that it was a part of the game that the guy with lots of health/armor would stand between you and the bad guy so you could sling spells or heal folks.
4e introduced the MMO mechanics to D&D, but the "idea" of a fighter being the guy that takes the hits and gets the heals was always around, it's just that players/ DM's could handle the "realism" in a way aside from having to invent "threat'.
I'm surely not the only one to remember the standard D&D marching order: melee in front AND back, casters in the middle, scouts on the flanks and ahead.
We did this not because the melee were tanks, but because they were physical obstacles to take the initial rush of whatever we encountered. They took up physical space with a lot of armor. Fighters, Barbarians, Cavaliers, Paladins - they were meat shields for the casters and archers.
The lack of collision detection in MMOs negates the value of this simple, yet logical arrangement. You can't put your head down, shield up, and barrel through a group of mobs to push them back, away from the clothies in WoW. Threat was an interesting innovation to compensate for the lack of solidity in the game, but it doesn't make much sense in an RPG where you can, oh, enforce the laws of physics.
It actually makes me sad that the concept of tanking has been added to D&D 4E. I like my monsters smarter than that. :-(
Vocenoctum is correct. While there was no incentive for the monsters to attack the fighter or paladin, they were generally expected to interpose themselves between the monsters and the squishies. This worked pretty well in dungeons, where there was very little mobility (the "conga line of doom" of monsters attacking plate-wearers in a doorway while the mage fireballs everything) is an example), but doesn't really work well outside without significant terrain obstacles. And flying, teleporting, or incorporeal monsters can ignore even those. Pretty much, you had to rely on the DM having the monsters act suboptimally by engaging the fighter or barbarian instead of ripping the mage in half and *then* wheeling onto the fighter.
4e has the Defender role, classes of which encourage monsters to attack them, primarily because their marks penalize the marked monster attacking anyone other than the marking defender. I'm of mixed feelings about this; it does lessen the value of that social contract, but I have had enough RBDMs that ignored that that I don't mind a rules mechanic that helps. And it's not like the monster has to attack the fighter; it can choose to turn and savage the rogue or cleric and just accept the penalty to hit.


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I personally am sad to see it go. I tried it out for one run through of ICC and was asked by my raid not to run it for fear of banning/losing kills over it. I have a hard time measuring distances in game.
In the Blood Princes fight for example when Empowered Shock Vortex is about to go off, you have to be 30 yards from the tank/boss and 10 yards from any other player. I as a Resto Shaman tank healer on this fight, have a hard time when I have 4 melee characters all running in my direction. Yes DXE/DBM has a range check box that gives me a name, and a distance, but I have very little to no time to react to this, realize they are too close, decide which onscreen character it is, see if they are continuing to move out of my radius, or whether I need to move. All while trying to focus on healing my tank, and anyone else in range that needs a little touch up to stay alive. That visual ring radius around me, made it a little quicker in telling which character was too close, and which direction I needed to move in to be safe.
I remember reading this somewhere else recently, it wouldn't be such a big deal if there wasn't such a huge difference in the amount of damage you took if you were say 6.99 yards away from someone versus 7 yards.


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These days moms name their parenting styles the way women only used to name their political parties. And I get that. For the sake of discussion, you never know it you're a sitting Democrat walking into a room of Republicans. And you'd hate people to assume. It's nice to get it out in the open so there are no misconceptions. It also forces you move beyond these issues and find other kinds of commonalities.
But now that we let it all hang out — from where our child sleeps and what our child eats to whether or not we vaccinate and how we discipline — can it get in the way of friendships with other moms?
What do you think?
The moms in The CafeMom Newcomers Club are talking about parenting styles and friendship in the thread Do other mom's parenting styles affect your friendships?
Some women's friendships have been affected by differing parenting styles; however, many say, with the exception of abuse or kids allowed to exhibit extreme behavior problems, that they could care less how other moms parent.
Among my girlfriends, parenting styles really run the gamut.
I have mom friends who breastfeed and formula feed, spank and don't spank, work outside the home and stay home with their kids, use disposable diapers and use cloth diapers, practice attachment parenting, cry it out, and a few even consider themselves to be "recovering" attachment parents. I have friends who don't circumcise and wear their babies, ones who find television to be fine in moderation, and some who detest all plastic toys.
Does that mean there has never been the occasional awkward moment when our parenting styles collide? Not at all. Of course, it happens. However, I also find that when it comes to my close friends and their kids, I can pretty much live and let live — and even learn from their parenting experiences, successes, and shortfalls.
What has been your experience with your mom friends who practice different parenting styles?
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There are some things I could care less about...like I cloth diaper, but if another mom doesn't..whatever. But there are some things that I just don't know if I could bend on. I don't think I could be friends with someone who was a big spanker. I just couldn't stand to see it.
It's really fabulous of people to say that they are open minded and expect everyone to accept their parenting ways. I find that many times, these people are the ones that aren't interested in what is best for their child, but what is best for them. This isn't a parenting style. This is a core value. I tend to spend time with people who have the same value set that I do. There is a wide range of parenting styles within my values. But I can't have respect for a woman that puts her very selfish needs ahead of her child, or who thinks that safety isn't really important (gun safety, playing in the street or unsupervised, car safety). It's not intolerence. I just actually care about my children, and can't wrap my mind around a mother who doesn't. We have nothing in common. When I hang out with a mom, and she spends her time telling me that I'm overprotective for not letting my 2 year old play unsupervised in our (UNfenced in backyard) or how her chlidren eat cookies for breakfast and are just fine, she comes across as defending herself. I don't have time for that. I can't be friends with a mom that I can't trust to care for my child. I can't! It's not judgemental. It's caring about my child more than caring about your feelings.
Yeah I kind of agree with the entire above comment too. Especially the part about being told that you're overprotective because you don't let your child do things that are downright foolish or unhealthy. Quickest way to get me to never want to talk to you again is to do that.
apexmommy said it much better than I did.
Awe....apexmommy....we can never be friends. I have, on occasion had cookies for breakfast with my son. Just out of sheer fun.
I agree. All my mommy friends and I do have some differing ideas about how to raise our children, but we get along in general. For example, one of my friends is crazy granola and I'm very Gerber and Pampers. I think she's nuts for being so overzealous (making her own baby food and using cloth diapers), and she thinks I'm lazy for buying everything. Also, I didn't (couldn't) breastfeed. Some moms are like OH MY GOD I can't believe it. That is the most judgemental thing about many moms, that I am a terrible mom because I didn't BF. My daughter is just as smart as yours, bite me.
Sometimes my daughter won't eat eggs for breakfast, so she eats Little Crunchies and Next Step. I figure if she eats, it's better than nothing! Some moms think that's terrible. Hey, at least she's not in the plug sockets, bite me.
Yes, I have a bite me attitude. She's healthy, happy, SMART, and an amazing child. Don't judge my parenting style and I won't judge yours. If you child is healthy and happy, then you're cool in my book. Don't push your granola on me, sister.
Proudsinglemum, I bet you don't do it everyday. Nor tell me I'm a bad mom if I DON'T do it. That is the key. Treats are to be expected, and are awesome. For moms, too!
I agree with a PP that said that the real issue was core values, not necessarily parenting styles. It might be difficult for me to be friends with someone whose core values were completely opposite, kids or no kids. That said, I have made mistakes in the past when I was a new mommy and was trying real hard to do everything "right". I really upset one of my best friends by questioning the fact that she put her newborn on a feeding schedule. I breastfed my children on demand, so it made me upset to see her baby crying out of hunger but not being fed because "it wasn't time". I was pushing my views on her, I suppose, and offended her in the process. Since then, I have really had to watch what I say around my friends. My parenting "style" is completely different than ALL of my friends. And their perception of my views (which I try to keep to myself unless asked now) is that I am saying they are a bad parent. I think all of my friends, as well as myself, are wonderful mothers. We are all doing the best we can with what we have. But I do have to say if/when a friend questions something I am doing with my children, I have NEVER been offended. I am comfortable with my parenting decisions, and just answer their questions honestly. So I don't always understand why one mother friend can't discuss issues with another mother friend without someone getting their panties in a ruffle :)
There have been multiple times where i was friends with women with children and once there is one little confrontation they start to attack your parenting. It seems like anytime there is an issue with another person with kids they automatically attack your parenting, almost like they have nothing else to say so they hit you where they know it will hurt... Its extremely annoying at times.
It depends on what it is. It can definitely have an effect, because while I never attack another mom for a different parenting style, certain things make me cringe. And seeing those things on a regular basis can put a real strain on the relationship for me. It hasn't ever made me drop a friendship completely, but my closer friends are those whose parenting style is closer to mine. It's just easier to talk with them, you're not constantly tiptoeing around contentious issues.


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I think this must be an American thing because ninja-ing isn't such a huge problem in the UK, at least not on Dragonblight. OK the occassional row will erupt in an heroic or (rarely) a raid, but it's not common. Mostly in guild people are just glad to see the raid getting gear: this increases it's viability and your chance to progress - and get better gear yourself.
Do a larger ratio of kids play in America, I know you really like Alliance which we do associate with kids over here. It seems to hold true that kids like alliance and more mature players like Orcs, Trolls, Undead and Tauren in the EU. Is that why ninja-ing doesn't seem such an issue for Euro Horde?
I'm 26, I'm in the U.S., and my main is Alliance, though I've played both sides. I've run into just as many immature morons who roll Horde as roll Alliance. Feel free to cling tightly to that illusion of superiority if it makes you feel better about yourself, though.
After playing both factions on many servers for long periods of time, EVERYBODY on one side thinks EVERYBODY on the other is much younger and much less mature. In the vast majority of cases, this simply isn't true.
And Fleety, I think it just takes people to pay attention regularly to the happenings of their server to notice ninjas. I've personally been in only one raid where an item of importance was ninja'd. However, if you regularly pay attention to trade chat, (or in my case anyway) every few weeks you'll see somebody post "So and so ninja'd the VoA mammoth!" or "So and so ninja'd the gbank and gquit!". I think on almost all servers, this is something that occurs at most two or three times a month across the entire server. I don't think this is any different on EU realms.
No, not all stereotypes are inherently bad. It's a natural way of classifying a group that allows you to have some idea of how to act about them. Unfortunately, we must also be very careful about stereotypes, since if they are taken too far, they can lead to offensive situations, especially when it does not apply to someone.
Claiming that children play [Faction 1] and mature players play [Faction 2] is one such offensive situation. You would find an equal number of players who would take offense by claiming that children play horde because they like to play the "big", "tough", "cool" races where they can run around going "ORC SMASH!", whereas mature players prefer the "stoic", and "heroic" races of the Alliance. Neither your assumption nor this one are particularly accurate. Each faction has their mix of both children and mature players, who play the side they do for a myriad of possible reasons. One reason many seem to think "the other side if full of children" is probably because the only direct interaction they have with the other faction is either PvP or when an obnoxious member of the other faction is making an ass of themselves. You can't talk to the other faction, can't trade, and don't usually have a reason to interact with them, so the mature players of the opposite faction go along without being noticed, whereas the immature jerks (who are often assumed to be children, which may or may NOT be true in any given situation) are the ones who will walk up to you and start /emoting rude gestures, spitting, laughter, etc. or attempting to ninja your kill or whatever. And because they're the only ones you seem to interact with, it gives you a false impression that the other faction is full of immature jerks. At least with your own faction you have your guild, friends, etc. as proof that your side isn't all idiots.
So, as you see, claiming that one side is for children and the other for mature players is one of those poor stereotypes that just isn't true, and it's why you've gotten such a poor reception here.
Fleety is absolutely right, all mature players are Blood Elves. ;)
When WoW came live, there was this general idea that Alliance was the protagonist in Lore (which is true, but anyway) and Horde were the "bad guys". Most newbs didn't want to be on the "wrong" faction, so they chose Alliance to play. To avoid those newbs, more mature players, specially the ones that played Warcraft 3 and liked Thrall lore, chose Horde.
Fact is, after BC came out, there are more kids playing Horde than Ally, mainly because of Blood Elves. All human males look like they are 30+ while Blood Elves look like the pretty 18 from teen magazine. You have any doubt of that? Just check Barrens chat, Alliance has no such thing as Elwynn Forest chat. Or maybe Anal jokes, anyone?


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B) An upstate New York J-V football coach is in trouble for imitating a scene from "Remember the Titans." While on the way home from a loss, the coach made his players lie down on graves. He's been suspended for two weeks without pay.
C) This crook tried to rob the same New Jersey bank three times. First he got 22- hundred dollars, then 14-thousand dollars. The third time was NOT the charm. Police were waiting outside for him with surveillance photos from the first two robberies.
Winner: C
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A) Firefighters in Macon-Bibb County Georgia got more action than expected after a masked man burst into their Firehouse threatening them with a gun. Not only was it a bad prank, but fellow firefighters were in on it and taped the whole thing.
B)Two men in Rhode Island tried robbing the pizza delivery guy with a BB gun...only to find the delivery guy was carrying more than pizza, he also had a badge, and a gun - he was an undercover cop.
C)One woman thought she was getting a great deal on a new iPad, but when she got home she found that she had just paid $180 for a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back.
Sept. 19, 2011
a) A Florida man who drunkenly walked up to a Taco Bell drive-through window demanding food. After being denied service, the man called police to see if they could help him get his tacos. He was charged with misuse of the 911 system.
B) A Pennsylvania jewel thief who called the store he stole from, offering to help catch the criminal if given a reward. Police later followed a trail of sold stolen items back to the supposed good samaritan. He was arrested.
C) A Brazilian man who tried to smuggle pythons and turtle hatchlings in his pants past customs at Miami International Airport. Airport screeners noticed the strange bumps in the man's cargo pants. The smuggler was fined and given probation.
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A) A Mississippi man caught stealing from a grocery store after stuffing his shorts with shrimp, pork loin and live lobsters. The man threw the pork product at the grocer while attempting to get away. He was charged with shoplifting.
B) A person dressed in a life-size Gumby costume tried to rob a California convenience store, but was unsuccessful after the outfit's large green gloves slowed down the robber. Gumby jumped in a get away car after the fumbling attempt. No arrests have been made.
C) An Oregon Mayor who has been kicked out office for simply not showing up for work. The former mayor of Sodaville says he focused more on his responsibilities as a firefighter and student. He was replaced by the city council's president.
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A) Unfortunately, a 24-year-old Missouri woman may want to double check the phone number before sending a text. She mistakenly sent a text message to a sheriff offering marijuana for sale. Police took her up on the offer, arranged a meeting and arrested her.
B) A Connecticut man was so upset about the lack of parking enforcement in his town, he parked his car illegally in a handicapped space and called police over a dozen times. When they showed up, he screamed at the officers that they weren't doing their jobs. He was charged with breach of peace and was given a parking ticket.
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A) A Missouri man is in the doghouse because he tried to rob a bank at gunpoint -- until he realized his wife was standing in the teller line. She refused to get down on the floor and simply told him to "go home." He complied and was arrested shortly after.
B) In Germany, police had no trouble in finding the suspect in a meat shop burglary. A trail of ham pieces led them from the butcher's broken window to the door of his nearby apartment.
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In 1968, the year when Richard Nixon was first elected U.S. president, Led Zeppelin made their American debut and Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon, Peggy Stanley's historic career of service had an inauspicious beginning: a tip from her beautician.
Stanley laughs at the thought, but if she hadn't acted on an invitation to check out the Beta Sigma Phi sorority – a social and service organization that is not affiliated with any college or university – many Utahns might have been worse off.
"I really liked it, it's a really good morale-booster," said Stanley, who is naturally bashful and credits the sorority's events for helping her come out of her shell. "It gives you the confidence to get up and speak in front of people."
Forty-five years later, the Sandy resident can confidently say she's played a key role in service organizations throughout the Wasatch Front, and it's that legacy of service that led the Salt Lake Council of Women (SLCW) to induct her into its ultra-selective Hall of Fame.
"It was quite an honor," Stanley said, adding that her nomination from Beta Sigma Phi came as a surprise to her, as did the short biography prepared for the induction dinner hosted by Gail Miller at the Little America Hotel in February. "The judges didn't even ask me, they just came up with the information themselves."
Joyce Short, a member of Stanley's sorority chapter who has herself served 53 years in Beta Sigma Phi, said her friend has a natural gift that makes her better-suited than most to helping people in need: energy. A whole bunch of energy.
"She doesn't work anymore, but she used to have a full-time job and do a lot of this stuff," Short said. "She's kind of made people her life. I don't think 'no' is in her vocabulary."
Beginning in 1966 Stanley worked for 30 years as a machine records supervisor for the Salt Lake Police Department – "We made out the reports that went out to the FBI and the state" – before she retired to care for her aging parents. She continued to work part time doing "odd jobs" for the department until 2010, when budget cutbacks eliminated her position.
As at the department, much of the work Stanley does for her organizations is behind the scenes: registering people for events, collecting money and creating oversize scrapbooks – or more accurately, "history books" – to present in thick three-ring binders to organization presidents and the University of Utah archives. She currently serves as president of the Beta Sigma Phi's City Council, and has to her credit two terms heading the SLCW.
"It's mostly just stuff you do in the background, but you know you're helping people," she said. She appreciates the opportunities — handing out toys to needy youths or serving food at a homeless shelter — to see the impact she's having on those she serves. But Stanley says she isn't after instant gratification. "You do it because you want to help people, you don't do it because you want the glory."
Or, for that matter, the free time.
If you want a dinner date with Stanley, good luck. She meets a handful of times each week for her social and service commitments with the aforementioned groups, through which she is affiliated with a lengthy list of high-profile charities, including Toys for Tots, YWCA Abused Women, the Utah Food Bank and Saint Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. The Pioneer Theatre Guild member is also a huge fan of the arts, and she often attends the ballet, symphony, theater, Shakespeare festivals and opera. "My niece and nephew always say, 'You've gotta call her WAY ahead,'" she said.
Short says it helps that Stanley is a pre-eminent organizer. What's more, she always shows up. "I don't think Peggy has ever taken a leave," she said. "As a matter of fact, I know that she has had perfect attendance. She never misses a meeting. That's very unusual."
Stanley extends her service to the members of her sorority chapter, which consists of six women who are older than her and often require her help getting to and from appointments. For about 30 years, Short estimates, Stanley has invited the group over to her house for Thanksgiving, with each bringing canned goods and money to buy turkeys that Stanley then takes to the Utah Food Bank.
For Stanley, who is unmarried and has no children, her chapter is her family. Short says it's Stanley's above-and-beyond efforts that keep the tight-knit group together.
"We have sisters in our chapter who have ended up in assisted living, and she visited probably two to three times a week," Short said. "When we'd have a get-together, she'd do everything she could to get them there. She knows how to help people who can hardly walk or get around, and she tries to make it so they won't be left out. That isn't necessary. That's just Peggy."
Stanley's sorority chapter once had as many as 26 members, but lately the group, like many other women's organizations, has had difficulty attracting new blood. Stanley thinks younger women are deterred both by the difficult economy and commitments that didn't exist when Beta Sigma Phi was funded, before World War II. That's a shame, she says, because Beta Sigma Phi offers so much.
"The feeling it gives you to help somebody else is amazing," she said. "Especially for me, because I don't have a family. It's something that I can do."
She's done an awful lot, Short said. "She's loved by a lot of people. A 'what would we do without her' kind of person. She's just too good. She takes on … too much sometimes. But she's up to it."
SLCW Hall of Fame
The SLCW, which celebrated its 100th year in 2012, inducts seven women into its Hall of Fame every five years. The other six inductees this year, all of whom gave at least 25 years of volunteer service to the Wasatch Front, are: Mary Gail Brassard, Linda Kuenstler Itami, Gwendalyn Larsen, Lona Mae Lauritzen, Carol Jo Rimensberger Radinger and Catherine Tucci Perryman.
Peggy Stanley's service resume
Festival of Trees
Sub for Santa
Toys for Tots
Saint Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen
Dimple's Darlings
First Baptist Church of Kearns food pantry
School With No Name
YWCA Abused Women
International Peace Garden Festival
Pioneer Theatre Company
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Cindy Parchert always has had a knack for numbers.
When she was growing up in Orion, her father owned a trucking company. Ms. Parchert said she'd tag along when he went to work on weekends and count the coins people used to buy sodas.
"I would always take out all the pop money and count it," she said. "I would sit there and count it."
That love of counting and numbers turned into a career for Ms. Parchert, who took over as Rock Island's finance director in January. She said she always wanted to become a certified public accountant so she could work for her father's business, but he sold it before she could.
When she started in January, it was actually the beginning of Ms. Parchert's second stint with the city of Rock Island. She worked there as an accountant for 11 years but left in 2000 to work as a controller for the CPA firm McGladrey and Pullen.
"I left here for more money so I could help pay for my stepkids' college," she said.
She loved working at McGladrey, she said.
"To be a controller at a publicly traded company is the dream," she said. "Everything that you're taught as an accountant is geared toward those big, publicly traded companies."
After getting laid off from McGladrey, she became the controller at WQAD before she came back to the city of Rock Island. She replaces longtime finance director Bill Scott.
Ms. Parchert's life is more than just numbers. Off the clock, she said she loves to sew window treatments and even offered to make drapes for the offices of Rock Island Mayor Dennis Pauley and city manager Thomas Thomas. She also enjoys working in her garden.
"I love gardening," she said. "I like to get outside and weed the garden. It's a great sense of accomplishment when you're done weeding."
Ms. Parchert is looking forward to starting a garden at the house in Rock Island that she and her husband, Rich, bought in January. They and their 4-year-old Cairn terrier Dee Dee will move in when renovations are completed, she said.
"I'm anxious to plant flowers in my yard," she said.
The new house doesn't mean she and her husband are giving up their current residence in Taylor Ridge. Ms. Parchert said they plan to keep it as their "country home."
Ms. Parchert said she and her husband met each other in an unorthodox way -- through his former wife, with whom she was acquainted. One night, she said, she ran into Mr. Parchert while she was out with friends.
"He came over and said, 'I'm getting a divorce,'" she said. "Inside I'm thinking, 'Hot damn.'"
Though she never wanted to move away from the Quad-Cities, Ms. Parchert does love to travel, mostly within the United States. She said Alaska is one of her favorite travel destinations.
"It's very beautiful," she said. "That was probably my best vacation ever. I went in the winter time. We saw the Iditarod."
While she's only been finance director for about three and a half months, Ms. Parchert said a lot has been accomplished, including the passing of a balanced budget and changing the way the city does utility billing to allow residents to pay in installments.
There's still much work to be done, she said.
"The city of Rock Island has lots of challenges," she said. "There's never enough funds."
Ms. Parchert said that, while she's had a lot of different jobs, she wants this one to be her last.
"I always said I wanted Bill (Scott's) job when he left," she said. "This is where I want to end my career."
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"dap·per/ dean"
dapər/ den
noun: ideal perception of oneself in dress, appearance, or bearing.
dapperdean is a collector of age and character. dapperdean is a rotating closet of classic and proper vintage accessories.
follow. like. dress.
dapperdean shop
i have a bag obsession… billykirk may be a big part of that.


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