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6 out of 6 in group stage, I think you might win the Europa this year
6 out of 6 in group stage, I think you might win the Europa this year
Looking good for the title race, pity about the dropped points at Bristol City. I keep finding that teams in the relegation spots throw banana skins my way quite a bit. Good luck against Benfica too.
You should breeze the Europa League.
Player Offer
Now I'm not normally one to buy a player that has been offered out by another club, I like to find my own talent or breed my youth, [which I haven't done at Man City], but I've put a bid in for this player.
A few other big clubs are also in for him. I think he will jump to a Champions League side over me though.
Oh Well
Loving the reason why he wanted out.
Love that as well.
Unlucky on not getting him but you were never really in contention.
That would have been ludicrous.
Barclays Premier League 2021/22
These draws are killing my title ambitions
Five points off the top with 12 games to go - if you can pull off good results from now till the end and Chelsea and Man Utd, slip up, it could very well be possible.
As abulezz said, it is still possible if you put a good run together.
Not quite out of it yet.
FA Cup 2021/22
The ref was just a tad bias towards the home team. Both my bloody CB's.
Unlucky against Hull, Suprised it wasnt Howard Webb as the ref :L
Shocking result against Hull, surprised you haven't been sacked yet!
Surely you can't survive a season without winning anything!?
UEFA Europa League 2021/22
1st Knockout Round
Carling Cup 2021/22
Carling Cup 2021/22
I was hoping for anyone other than Bristol City, my old club and bogey team.
Carling Cup Final Preview 2021/2022
Wembley Stadium
90,000 all seater
Built: 2007
Referee: Darren Scaife
Carling Cup Final Preview 2021/2022
Route to the Final
Man City
Bristol City
Head to Head
Carling Cup Final Preview 2021/2022
Match Odds
Starting Lineups
Carling Cup Final 2021/2022
Hopefully that's my job safe for another season.
UEFA Europa League 2021/22
2nd Knockout Round
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It all boils down to this, what a stinking 3 games I've got left.
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Final 3 Fixtures
Man Utd
Man City
Arsenal are 5th on 74 points but are -27 goals behind.
Ouch, that's an unlucky end to the season! However if you stay undefeated and nick a win against Arsenal surely it's yours?
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Finally after 3 years the Premiership trophy is ours, It might be time to look for a new challenge elsewhere....... BUT WHERE
International Friendly
International Friendly
International Friendly
I don't fancy our chances in the WC.
International Friendly
Next stop Qatar
World Cup 2022
World Cup 2022
Group D
vs Algeria
Not the best of starts
World Cup 2022
VS Mexico
I'm 1 game away from the sack.
World Cup 2022
VS Russia
It hasn't happened yet... But I know it's coming. Shameful they couldn't score in a brothel.
Great end with Manchester City! Cracking league win!
I wont comment on Brazil
Thats a nasty shock. Wasn't a hard group.
World Cup 2022
Oh dear Argentina
World Cup 2022
World Cup 2022
World Cup 2022
World Cup 2022
Manager Casualties
I knew it was coming.
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Best 11
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Transfers In/out
Players Awards
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Charity Shield 2022
Job Offer
Brave move I think.
Oh god, I dread to think why you'd be appointed after your exploits with Brazil
Losing on Penalties? ENGLAND!?!?!? GET OUT!
Community Shield Preview 2022/23
Wembley Stadium
90,000 all seater
Built: 2007
Referee: Darren Scaife
Community Shield Preview 2022/23
Community Shield 2022/23
International Friendly
I don't think a Community Shield win would make fans 'jubilant'
Hehe, good job beating Tottenham - a nice omen to start the season with!
Is Nathaniel Chabolah still at Chelsea on your game mate cus I see he scored for you?
Screenshot Possible Buddy?
Thanks buddy, he looks a top player
Champions League 2022/23
Monthly Awards
Euro 2024 Qualifier
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Should **** all over that Group with England and Man City!
Monthly Awards September 2022
Euro 2024 Qualifier
Euro 2024 Qualifier
Steklo X2 by TomDixon
Fantastic skin again by Tom.
International Friendly
International Friendly
Barclays Premier League 2022/23
UEFA Champions League 2022/23
UEFA Champions League 2022/23
UEFA Champions League 2022/23
600th Game
This by far my longest save for a while
You weren't holding back in the Champions League.
I guess you fielded a weakened side against CSKA?
Good start to the season mate!
Taking a little break from this save.. Will be back after a horrible week of working nights.....
I can't stay away anymore It's back up and running.
Great updates Barney .
Congratulations on winning the league by the way & unlucky in Qatar. Best of luck with England.
Carling Cup 2022/23
3rd Round
4th Round
Quarter Finals
Carling Cup 2022/23
Semi Final 1st Leg
Semi Final 2nd Leg
FA Cup 2022/2023
3rd Round
4th Round
Oooh tough losing to Reading.
Transfers this Season
Transfers In
José Borges - Cardiff - £3.9M
Roger Aubert - Auxerre - £1.3M
Steven Smith - Celtic - Loan - Made Permanent - £3.5M
Luca Di Santo - Roma - £7.5M
César Carrión - Porto - £2.5M
Transfers Out
Rémi Pillot - Atalanta - Free
Paulo Barros - Napoli - £15.75M
Gustavo - Napoli - £16M
Luca Lazzari - Porto - £1.1M
Barclays Premier League 2022/23
Another season we have thrown away to Chelsea.
International Friendly
Carling Cup 2022/23
Cup Final
Nice bit of success, having a run of cup glories.
Nice cup win.
Nice work winning the Carling Cup.
Cheers guys
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1st Knockout Round 1st Leg
1st Knockout Round 2nd Leg
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BEECH BOTTOM - In some communities, the vinyl "Coming Soon: 'Bottoms Up' Roadhouse" sign strung above a plain block building wouldn't have warranted a second look.
But not Beech Bottom, where filling up the gas tank or running to the grocery store for a loaf of bread means hopping in the car and driving a good 10 minutes north or south.
"This town was just dead, it really was," said Councilwoman Becky Uhhly. "No activity anywhere. The whole area was dead. It's come to life, it's just a positive thing for this area."
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BOTTOMS UP — The oil and gas industry has transformed a once-sleepy stretch of state Route 2 in Beech Bottom into a beehive of activity, persuading Wheeling Island resident Paul Shearer to open a pub across from the old corrugating plant-turned-industrial park. Shearer said he expects the club, Bottoms Up, to be up and running later this month. — Linda Harris
BUSY BEECH BOTTOM — Traffic on state Route 2 through Beech Bottom has increased exponentially since oil and gas interests moved into the old Wheeling Corrugating property. — Linda Harris
Less than a year ago the community was on the rocks: It's largest employer, Wheeling Corrugating, had been idled by the bankruptcy of RG Steel, leaving a gaping hole in the local economy. Then came State Route 2 LLC, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Hackman Capital, and the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle, teaming up to acquire the sprawling 650-acre riverfront property and then develop new business opportunities there.
The oil and gas industry responded: In March, Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Co. leased a 20-acre parcel for a staging yard. A month later, Integrity Kokosing signed up for a couple acres. And in June, Illinois-based Jupiter Aluminum decided to purchase and refurbish corrugating's paint line instead of moving it, rehire many of the steelworkers who'd operated it for years and added a slitter line.
Now comes Paul Shearer, soon-to-be proprietor of Bottom's Up, who figures the pub will be the go-to place for area residents looking for food, beverages and entertainment.
"It had been empty for years," said Shearer, a Wheeling Island resident. "I had to start from the ground
up. It's been a lot of work, but I think Beech Bottom is going to grow and thrive."
Shearer said the building was an obvious pick: It's located on state Route 2, directly across from the corrugating plant-turned-economic hub.
"It's a good location, the people are friendly," said Shearer, who hopes to be ready to open at the end of August. "Workers are coming back to the plant. The residents are excited - they're telling me they see a lot of change, a lot of traffic. They're just excited people are willing to give them a shot again, especially the plant - they're hiring back the workers who were here before. To me, that's a positive thing."
Mayor George Lewis said the before and after for his community is like night and day.
"It was unfortunate, the mill closing down," he said. "But now, Jupiter Aluminum is in there and I understand they're calling back people who worked there because of their expertise, they know the machinery. They really did a lot of good for people in this area - when you're 50-some years old and out of work, you're out of work. But their experience paid off for them."
When the corrugating plant shut down, "We lost a good bit of revenue from B&O (business and occupation) taxes," he said. "This is replacing some of it. Of course, we also cut corners at city hall.
"It's brought a lot of hope and faith to the people of Beech Bottom, actually all of Brooke County," he added. "The (businesses) coming into the old corrugating plant are doing wonderful things for the community, they're really easy to work with. I'm hoping we can get more of them, and that what we've got there now is planning on staying a while."
Uhhly said the pipeline workers have made their presence felt in the community in a big way: Whenever they're off the company clock, they're out in the community looking for ways to help.
"Pay it forward, have you heard of that?" she asks. "That's what they're doing. They've done work in the community, they've done work for the church, they've donated more than you can imagine to the food pantry. One of them noticed there were no balls on the playground (so) he went to a sporting goods store and bought three dozen balls, then stood outside the fence and kicked them in. The balls disappeared but he said he didn't care, he'd just go get more. Little things like that mean so much to these kids, having a ball to take home."
Uhhly said their latest project is to make sure every child attending Beech Bottom primary school gets a backpack stuffed with school supplies. She said the workers "probably spent $3,000 just on school supplies."
"I'm on council and I do hear a lot of positive comments," Uhhly adds. "The only negative I hear is about mud on the road. ... If that's what you've got to put up with for some development around here, that's not a bad price to pay.
"It's nice for people to finally realize we are here and there's lots of available space to develop, it's just a good place to be. I credit the BDC for that: if they hadn't stepped up and been able work with Hackman to purchase that place, none of this would have happened."
Lewis, too, said the partnership has been good for Beech Bottom, even if it means having to clean mud off the road.
"They do their best to keep it cleaned off," he said. "And when they're done with it they actually come up and clean some streets for us, just to help out. And about any time we need something above our capabilities, we go to Sheehan and if they have the machine to do it they'll send somebody out. They're a good neighbor.
"We're definitely no longer a ghost town," Lewis adds. "It's been a shot in the arm for our economy - for the whole county. There were some concerns about what we'd do when the fracking was done, but we'll deal with that when it gets here. Right now, we have several new businesses in and some of them have plans to stay an extended time. Hopefully, when their job is done and they need to move on, we'll get someone to replace them. ... Keep a positive attitude and it will keep coming."

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Editing component properties as object causes crash
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- Build: 676
- ExtJS 4.1.3
- When I try to edit a property as an object in the project inspector's configs, in this case "root" on a treestore and "layout" on a panel, Architect quits with a runtime error. This happens both on a Windows and a Mac machine. It crashes after I enter a few lines or even characters, either when clicking "save" or spontaneously.
- For now, how could I fix this manually? Writing directly to metadata?
- UPDATE: Adding a proxy to the treestore before editing the root object seems to fix at least the crash on the root object.
- Not sure
- Win 7 & OSX
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Okay so you add a TreeStore and then go to he root configuration and put
{ expanded: true }
Any additional steps or a video may help us.Aaron Conran
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3 Jan 2013 2:35 AM #4
I was able to reconstruct both issues:
1. In the attached sample, if the tree store does not have a proxy defined, almost any input to the tree store causes a crash, such as changing the class name. It's not just the root property. With the memory proxy, it works fine. I remember reading that a memory proxy is default, so I assumed I don't have to specify it.
2. If I add a panel to the views in the attached project and edit the layout object, it crashes while typing. The error message says: "TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'layoutDefinition.layoutConfigs')"
That happened on different machines (mac and win). One issue might be that I have the development folder in dropbox. But when reconstructing it, it even happens outside of the dropbox.
7 Jan 2013 11:30 AM #5
Looking into this now, get back to you soonPhil Strong
7 Jan 2013 11:53 AM #6
I can get this to crash on number 2 using build 676 (latest production). In the next release you will no longer be able to convert layout to an object. Layout is fairly special and should have never been given a multi-type.
Number 1 however I could not get to occur. Editing the userClassName and the root property did not provide errors or anything unexpected.Phil Strong
7 Jan 2013 6:23 PM #7
Hi Phil,
Just to confirm, did you remove the proxy before editing in the attached example? When I do that, it crashes in a runtime error.
Do you see a problem with having a project within dropbox? I think dropbox improved on "open files syncing", but some time ago it could cause corruptions.
9 Jan 2013 12:28 PM #8
I did remove the proxy as a first step. Must be something else that we're missing as a factor.
We certainly don't officially support the use of a dropbox folder. However we also don't condemn it either. I will tell you that with the next major release, Architect will be responsive to any I/O that occurs on the metadata directory. This might be very good or potentially very bad wrt dropbox folder.
I will admit it's not a scenario we test. This however would not cause the issues you're seeing here.Phil Strong
9 Jan 2013 5:49 PM #9
I just tried it again and it crashes already when I try to delete the proxy. No idea what the difference is...
10 Jan 2013 2:31 PM #10
As a side, I use DropBox for all of my Sencha projects (as well as other types of dev). Perfect for moving between machines as often as I do.


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Wade Jermel Shippy, 23, charged with murder in the death of Antwan Bailey
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In November, the woman who cared for Antwan Bailey since he was a baby saw him leave their Highland Avenue home about 9 a.m.
The 18-year-old left the house with $2,000 the woman said he had saved to buy a car, according to a Spartanburg Public Safety Department incident report. She learned from his friends that Bailey got into a car with Jermel Shippy. Bailey never returned home and the woman, Bailey's guardian Kimberly West, reported him missing to the public safety department.
On Thursday, Sheriff Chuck Wright announced that Wade Jermel Shippy, 23, of 811 Jerusalem Road, Pacolet, has been charged with armed robbery and murder in connection with Bailey's death.
The skeletal remains of Bailey's body was found off Winding Way, between Pauline and Cedar Springs Sunday night.
Wright praised the work of his investigators in connecting Shippy with the case.
"We truly had a whodunit Sunday," Wright said. "We didn't have any clues, nothing to go on."
Public safety investigators had determined that Bailey had been last seen with Shippy. They interviewed Shippy in November, but did not name him a suspect or person of interest.
Sheriff Chuck Wright said Thursday that details of how Bailey died remained "sketchy," but he credited investigators for their quick work on the case.
"I don't know what goes through a man's mind, where he feels like he has to kill another man over money," Wright said. "Certainly it wasn't worth a young man losing his life."
According to an incident report, Shippy gave conflicting statements to city and county detectives, and statements he made, as well as records of cell phone activity, put him in the area near where Bailey's body was discovered. Wright said investigators believe Bailey was killed Nov. 22 near where his body was found.
Shippy later admitted to harming Bailey, according to the report. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said Thursday that a cause of death hasn't been determined yet.
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After Golden Star flowers in mid-spring (yes, that came much earlier this year) these plants send out lots of new shoots that eventually take root, making it an effective groundcover. Golden Star is adaptable to various soil types and will do quite well in the toughest of conditions: dry shade. Clumps should be divided every five years or so to maintain the plant's density and vigor.
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Lemon and lime tart
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Lemon and lime give this tart a refreshing zing.
Prep Time: 1H
Cooking Time: 45M
Serves: Serves 6
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 6 tbsp cold butter, cut into small cubes
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 large eggs
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- zest and juice of 1 lemon
- zest and juice of 1 lime
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- Sift the flour and confectioners' sugar into a bowl with a pinch of salt. Add the butter and cocoa powder and rub together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Add 1-2 tbsp iced water, a little at a time, and gather the mixture together until it comes away from the sides of the bowl. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured work surface and use to line the tart pan. Trim away any excess. Line with parchment paper, then fill with pie weights. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the weights and paper and set to one side. Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F (170°C).
- Put the eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until pale and creamy. Add the cream, the zest and juice of the lemon and the lime, and beat briefly to combine. Pour the mixture into the tart shell and smooth the top. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until set. Allow to cool to room temperature, then serve.
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Definitely - I cannot get into a game during match day???
This just started happening...
It plays the game without me... ???
What's going on? I'm not on holiday. The match just plays and I've no control.
Definitely - I cannot get into a game during match day???
This just started happening...
It plays the game without me... ???
What's going on? I'm not on holiday. The match just plays and I've no control.
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Actually creating a dump file now - sigh off to the bugs
Have you been on holiday though recently?
Is it pre season by any chance?
is this just a reserves fixture ? a screenshot you can show us ?
It's mid april. I try to holiday past it and it crash dumps.
It's been a month and I haven't picked a team. Not really sure what a screen shot will show?
Yeh it's 2015 and this just started happening. I usually holiday around the month of April.
I have some dmp files but can't open them. I've dropped the DMP files and the Game file into the bugs forum. If you want to look there.
No it's every game.
Literally can't play the game anymore. Went on without managing the side they are went from 13th to 22nd, in relegation position.
A load of pants! Argh, hope it can be fixed!
Have you not got another save to try?
did they fire you and you missed the news message ?
Nope still in charge... sorta
Rolling back to alternate save now.
Ok this is in 1 Feb.
Still can't pick team. It plays the game without me....
Verifying game cache now and "defragmenting game cache files" whatever that does
This is a load of crap. Seriously wtf is going on. Going back 18 real days to another save. It's now 2012... I was in 2015...
Ok trying to load in a more recent save. Now I'm 22nd, last two games are against Everton and Blackburn who are both promoted. WTF?
Game doesn't like me.
Ok time travel is over. I'm bac in good old 31 January 2015. Going to try make this save work...
I'm not listed as manager
I can't do anything in Team Policy
A search for me returns me as Manager of Hereford
I can't pick the team
Some guy just walked in and stole my job
Oh I see ... wtf????
I can still call team meetings.
Nobody is saying "You don't manage us anymore..."?
Do you have an assistant and what is he set up to do in the game?
Media Still think I'm in charge???
Well that didn't work.
Yeh you can see Team Policy screen shot. Exactly the way it is every game I play. except a few less greyed out areas.
Have you posted this in the bugs forum, and have you used FMRTE at all?
Have posted in bugs forum - I can't upload the FTP site as Windows 7 doesn't do that for some reason I haven't been able to figure out - it just brings me to the website and I can't upload things that way.
I put the game on my dropbox folder though http://community.sigames.com/showthr...sure-which-%29
I have not used FMRTE as you have to pay for it. Although I believe it's beta is free on the Mac. I've sent the game to my brother to see if FMRTE can fix the issue.
But I can't get this to work at all.
Hereford are now relegated, I haven't been able to pick a teams since January.
I'm applying for jobs - and getting laughed at - but wanted to see what happens
You tried removing the notes you've put on yourself?
Doubt it's related, but you never know.
Could be it. I'll check.
I put a note on myself so I can spot any media stories relating to me.
No that didn't help. Although I can still hire coaches. Weird.
I can still offer players for loan though, and put them on the transfer list. But I can't offer them to clubs.
The new Manager has changed formations and signed some players on loan.
It's like I'm a co-manager or something.
See look - signed a coach lol
Can't fire anyone though...
Maybe they've inadvertently leaked you a FM13 feature, assman
It's like I'm the Director - I can't do any ass man stuff, like control the reserves. I'm still getting scout reports from my scouts.
I can interact with the board. But I'm not in control of any of the Tactics. I can go into the training schedules and do stuff. I just can't pick a team.
I'm going to see if hitting a new season fixes things.
Have you tried to go back on holiday and tick the use current match tactic and team selection options? It might fix it when you return.
Any time I try go on holiday the game crashes.
Here's a new one - I've applied for the job I currently have lol
What happens if you fire the Assistant? Does it not let you release them at all?
Well that didn't work they hired someone else. But I'm still "manager" lol
My only option it seems
I can't even resign - however Upson has resigned???
can you retire out the game?
I'll give it a go.
When I resign nothing happens.
I retired successfully. Now what?
Added myself as a manager again. Currently on holiday awaiting an approach by a team.
Added new manager successfully now in control at América FC (RN) Brazil 2nd Division.
It's 3 August 2015. This is not where I want to be lol.
I built Hereford up from the ground and now I'm back to square 1. This sucks.
Why didn't you just add yourself back at Hereford? It wasn't like you left on purpose, you was forced to. That's what I'd have done.
The only thing I did was reject a contract offer. I might have holidayed over a contract offer. I asked the board for a new contract but they rejected lol.
The thing is Cleon - I waited till the new league to start up to see if that fixed it. Hereford were relegated. I am now going back to January 2015 and retiring and taking back over Hereford.
I am so annoyed, because I built up a reputation - all my hard work is still gone. Retiring and adding myself back is a way around it, but it doesn't fix anything.
It seems like you holidayed past the point where you should have signed a new contract and something has gone weird, never seen that one before tho, very unlucky!
Yeh I broke the game - definitely. What exactly broke it is a mystery though.
I hope SI take a look - it's definitely a bug.
Yeah we will take a look, thanks for bringing this up
Cheers Lucas.
Hi Eugene,
I have got back to you in the below thread. If we could keep feedback to that thread then that would be great.
Since SI are looking at this in the Bugs forum, will close this thread now.


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How do I know if I need genetic testing for a cancer?
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In general, people who are good candidates for genetic testing have these features:
they may be diagnosed at an earlier than typical age for their cancer
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With each New Year brings the desire – and pressure – to resolve to become a better version of you. But oftentimes, those New Year's resolutions quickly fall by the wayside.
This year, however, that could change for those who seek out the help of Charla Young.
Young, a former WAVE 3 reporter, will host "Power to Change," a new talk show debuting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, on Fox 41. The empowerment show is designed to help you, your family, the community and the world.
"This is not just a talk show, it's a change movement," said Young, who is president and CEO of Power to Change Communications, a for-profit business offering communication, customer-service training, leadership development and marketing services.
The idea to take on the endeavor of the company and talk show was inspired by a struggle Young experienced first-hand in early adulthood.
Twelve years ago, while working in Columbus, Miss., at the CBS affiliate news station, Young decided to take the leap to the ABC news affiliate in Lexington, Ky.
"It turned out (to be) the worst move I ever made," Young said. "I was literally sitting in the dark because I could not pay the light bill and I was eight months pregnant. I was $3,200 in the hole."
For about five months, Young avoided her landlord as she continued to collect debt and eventually packed her belongings to head home to Mississippi.
"I said, 'I am so sorry, I will find a way to pay you, but we packed up our car and we're headed back to Mississippi,' " Young said of the message she left her landlord upon departure.
It was then during Young's attempt to flee, that everything suddenly changed for her. Young's landlord called after receiving her message and gave Young the gift of a second chance.
"She said, 'Your future is so bright it burns my eyes,'" Young recited her landlord's words. "'One day you're going to be destined to help thousands of people, but today, I'm going to help you.'"
Young's landlord wrote a check out to Young for $28,000 to help pay off her debt and get back on her feet. "On that day, she gave me the power to change, and now I have the opportunity to help others do the same." Young said.
With her show "Power to Change," Young will feature segments on such topics as childhood obesity, following your passion, living above your financial means and weight loss.
"All of our shows come from one question: If you had the power to change, what would you change?" Young said. "This show is a breath of hope. We not only give (viewers) the issue and talk about the issue, but after the show they can be a part of an online forum and discussion."
"Power to Change" is taped before a live studio audience inside the Muhammad Ali Center, though on occasion, the show will be filmed on location at various sites around town.
Guests of the show will mainly include people from Kentucky but also feature individuals from outside the state, including Mozziz "Coach Mo" DeWalt, a contestant from the hit NBC show "The Biggest Loser."
"Power to Change" will also appear on the Internet at yourpowertv.com, where visitors can access live chats and forums in addition to the show. Young and Coach Mo will also host a family-friendly "change event" from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7, at Louisville Slugger Field that will include Zumba classes, circuit training courses and a variety of free fruits and vegetables.
Eventually, Young also hopes to one day syndicate "Power to Change" and isn't intimidated by the competition her half-hour program faces from other morning shows airing in the same time slot.
"I realize this show is going up against ("The Today Show") and CBS, but we believe this is a nice alternative and it's something different," Young said. "I'm competitive. I don't want to just do this show, I want to be number one. My goal is to start weekly, then daily and grow into syndication."
Having grown up in Mississippi, Young has no doubt that she can fulfill her dream. After all, someone else from her home state achieved the exact same feat – a lady by the name of Oprah Winfrey.
"I'm not trying to be Oprah, though," Young said. "I just want to be Charla making change happen. And, I believe if I'm true to that goal and true to what it is I'm supposed to be doing, then the success will come. It's not about me, it's about something much bigger. I'm just trying to drive it."
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John Doar, Ray Jenkins, Burke Marshall & Rev. George Washington Carver Richardson Jr.
Civil Rights - Then and Now
April 2, 1995
7:30 p.m.
Irma B. Moore Hall Auditorium
I think the courage being shown by the Williams and the Durrs and people like them in Alabama just at the present time is really something quite extraordinary and I hope it will get recognition and praise from the Negro leaders, though I would not like the praise to be voiced just now because I think it would make life harder for the courageous Southerners.
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Ann Durr Lyon
Introduction of Panel
John Doar: Senior Partner, Doar Devorkin & Rieck, Attorneys, New York; Former First Assistant and Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, 1960-67
Ray Jenkins: Former executive and managing editor and vice-president of theMontgomery Advertiser-Journal
Burke Marshall: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University Law School; Former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, 1961-65
Rev. George Washington Carver Richardson, Jr: Pastor, Hutchinson Missionary Baptist Church, Montgomery; Candidate for Mayor of the City of Bessemer, Alabama, 1970
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Closing Remarks
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John Doar
John Doar is senior partner of the New York law firm of Doar Devorkin & Rieck. Born in New Richmond, Wisconsin, Doar graduated from Princeton University and the University of California (Berkeley) Law School. From 1960 to 1965, he was First Assistant in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Attorney General, and from 1965 to 1967 Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division. Both Doar and Burke Marshall were active in numerous law suits in Central Alabama involving civil rights. Doar has been President of the New York City Board of Education; Special Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives during impeachment proceedings of Richard M. Nixon; and Counsel to the Investigating Committee to the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit in the Matter of Certain Complaints Against U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings. Doar is one of four recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor designated for extraordinary achievement in the Federal career service, and has received honorary LLD degrees from Brown, Princeton, Rutgers, Wisconsin, and Yale Universities.
Ray Jenkins
Ray Jenkins is remembered by most Alabamians as the city editor, managing editor, and then executive editor and vice- president of the Montgomery Advertiser-Journal from 1959 to 1979. Jenkins left Montgomery to assume the post of editor of the editorial page of The Evening Sun in Baltimore. After ten years in that post, he retired to write books. Jenkins is a native Georgian and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He began his newspaper career as reporter for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirerand in 1955 won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Phoenix City upheaval. Jenkins, admitted to the Alabama Bar, is a graduate of Jones Law School in Montgomery. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1964-65 and has lectured at such outposts of Montgomery as Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and the University of Beijing. In 1985, he was awarded the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting and in 1988 the Elizabeth Gilman Award of the Maryland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He has written extensively on southern politics and culture for The New York Times, and his columns were syndicated by the Baltimore Sun/Los Angeles Times news service.
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Burke Marshall is Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor Emeritus of Law and George Crawford Professional Lecturer in Laws at Yale University Law School. Marshall is a graduate of Yale with two earned graduate degrees and one undergraduate degree. He practiced law with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington and Burling until 1961. He then he joined the U.S. Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, a post he held until 1965. Both Marshall and John Doar were active in numerous law suits in Central Alabama involving civil rights. From 1965 to 1970, Marshall was General Counsel and Senior Vice President of IBM. Other posts held by Marshal include Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to review the selective service system, and Chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. He is a director of numerous corporations and is the author of several books, includingFederalism and Civil Rights,The My Lai Massacre and its Cover-Up (with J. Goldstein and J. Schwartz), and Workable Government? The Constitution After 200 Years.
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The Rev. George Washington Carver Richardson, Jr., is Pastor of the Hutchinson Missionary Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Richardson is a teacher, lecturer, and evangelist of national note. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, he has held many distinguished chairmanships and trusteeships of community and church related organizations, including the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention, Interdenominational Theological Institute, and the State Board of Corrections Advisory Board. He is a member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A native Alabamian, Dr. Richardson entered the 1970 race for Mayor of Bessemer, Alabama, where he was Pastor of the Mount Hebron Baptist Church. During the mayoral campaign, Dr. Richardson encountered bomb threats.
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5 Myths About Curing Common Injuries (You Probably Believe)
#2. Don't Try to Fight a Burn With Something Cold
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If you've ever fried up some bacon and just tried to grab it out of the pan with your bare hands because the desire to eat it momentarily overpowered your ability to think thoughts, then you probably know what a burn feels like. And at that point, instinct kicks in: cold defeats hot, therefore we must apply something cold to the burn. You grab some ice or a bag of frozen peas to soothe the pain, figuring why else would the Ice Amulet be so effective against Fire Ogres in Orcs Must Die, if not to teach us proper medical treatment for burns?
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"Everything I know about video games tells me this man should have lived."
But Actually ...
You might temporarily make the pain go away, but putting ice on a burn is sort of like stitching a wound with a nail gun -- you're just inflicting more damage. In one study on lab rats, researchers compared different remedies for burns, including a 10-minute application of ice cubes to the burn. They concluded that the ice cube treatment resulted in "the most severe damage," which careful readers will notice is not at all how remedies are supposed to work.
In another study, researchers gave 24 healthy volunteers first-degree burns and then measured how they responded to what was a lab equivalent of ice-cooling a burn. The study has proven that the line between "researcher" and "sadistic madman" is often nonexistent, and that ice-cooling a burn did not result in less pain and inflammation when compared to the "doing nothing at all" treatment.
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"You call it laziness, I call it medicine."
The thing is that ice can cause frostbite, which in itself is a form of burn and can only worsen the injury. Have you ever responded to a sudden cold breeze by lighting yourself on fire? It's kind of the same logic.
What Can You Do Instead?
If you want immediate cooling, you can run some tap water over the burn to soothe the pain. Covering the burn with a sterile gauze bandage prevents air from getting to it, which will help further reduce the pain. Painkillers are also good for reducing pain, but hopefully you didn't need a comedy website to bring you such groundbreaking insights.
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#1. Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting Just Increases the Pain
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At some point in humanity's long history of terrible ideas, somebody got stung by a jellyfish and somebody else decided to unzip their pants and try to piss it better. The remedy was popularized in that Friends episode where Chandler had to pee on Monica's sting, and it's entered our mythology as the right thing to do because we are the kind of society that gets its medical advice from 1990s sitcoms. And yes, we're aware that we are a pop culture comedy site and we're making that joke immediately before doling out medical advice.
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But Actually ...
If you're stung by a jellyfish and someone starts spraying their pee all over it, you're going to wind up in more pain than you were before. You see, jellyfish stinging cells are actually activated by fresh water. That's their cue to start pumping venom into your flesh. Surprise: Your urine is mostly fresh water. If it's not, you have far bigger problems than jellyfish stings to worry about.
So you no doubt think, as Chandler did, that you're heroically coming to a woman's rescue by bucking up and doing what needs to be done, gross as that may be. But if Friends were realistic, she'd be shrieking in pain as though he was pissing acid. That'd be the rest of the episode: Monica lying in a puddle of piss, howling in pain, and begging him to kill her for 20 straight minutes until they just cut to commercial.
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Although this assumes that Monica was not into watersports.
What Can You Do Instead?
The most important thing is to try to get rid of the stinging cells. You can try to scrape these away with something (like a credit card). Afterward you can pour some salt water on the sting. Salt water, unlike urine, deactivates the stinging cells and eases the pain. As for the urine myth, professionals concede that, after the stingers have been removed, "warm urine might soothe the sting based on its warmth alone." You know what else can do that? Literally anything else in the world that happens to be warm.
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Huskies draw coach's ire as practice ends early
Kinder, gentler Geno takes a timeout
|Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Villanova in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Connecticut won 76-43. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)
STORRS -- Two days after proclaiming that the biggest difference in the UConn women's basketball team over the past two weeks was his patience with his players, Coach Geno Auriemma lost his patience.
As he was trying to prepare the No. 3-ranked Huskies (23-1) for a challenging weekend against the Rutgers defense on Saturday and the Brittney Griner-Odyssey Sims show on Monday, Auriemma let a frustrating day of practice get the better of him on Thursday.
He halted practice 19 minutes early, skipped the tradition practice-ending five-spot layup drill and then laid into the Huskies about their carelessness with the ball and their lack of sincerity with regard to trying to fix the things going wrong right now. He chastised the team for being content with thinking that the team's flaws were simply going to fix themselves.
"It's February and we're still trying to gauge when we make substitutions where our team is," Auriemma said. "And as we get closer to March you want to make sure that when you make substitutions, when we get people in and out of the lineup, that the productivity doesn't change that much. And we're still not there yet. We still have a core group of guys that when they're on the floor things happen with a certain sense of precision and we get the shot we want and we get the screen set the way we want it. Things happen. But we're not quite there yet that it can continue like that regardless of what the substitution pattern is."
Auriemma had collected himself by the time he spoke to the media, spending 10 minutes talking to his assistant coaches after sending the team off to lift weights. Even though the mild frustration he admitted to while speaking with reporters centered around the lack of continuity resulting from substitutions, the team on the floor when he stopped practice prematurely included four starters.
Playing at the time were Bria Hartley, Stefanie Dolson, Kelly Faris and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis along with reserve Breanna Stewart.
The Huskies' had eight straight possessions resulting in either a turnover or a missed shot against their white-jersey practice team comprised mostly of male practice players before Mosqueda-Lewis hit a jumper and Auriemma stopped practice.
"You always have to kind of take kind of what Coach says and obviously listen to it, embrace it and then respond,'' Stefanie Dolson said. "We might not have had a great practice today. But tomorrow we're going to come in and practice just as hard if not harder to prove to him and to respond to what happened today. Today was a tough practice. The guys came out strong and defended us really well and we turned the ball over. So we've just got to do a good job tomorrow of making sure at practice we're taking care of the ball, kind of slowing down our offense and just responding to what challenge Coach gives us.''
The Huskies weren't bad all practice. They had moments when they played really well, but they clearly unraveled at the end of practice and tested Auriemma's patience. In the final drill against the male practice team the Huskies were tied, 27-27, at one point but then trailed, 62-40, when Auriemma got fed up. While practice is structured to make the team fail at times and then fight back, he became frustrated at how easily the team accepted losing on Thursday.
"We always say that they make practice 10 times harder than the games because it's going to prepare us for those games," Dolson said. "So practice we know coming into it every day is a tough day. But we've just got to come out and be mentally prepared for that and be mentally ready to respond to any challenge that he throws at us.''
``He definitely opened our eyes a little bit,'' Jefferson said. ``Basically, we just have to be more consistent. You can't keep falling off and start practice good and at the end of practice go bad. So you have to be consistent."
Auriemma said on Saturday after the win over Providence that he understands this team needs more coddling and positive reinforcement than criticism. In fact, he admitted it was a change in his temperament that had been the most positive part of the team's improvement of late.
"I would say my attitude has been better" Auriemma said. "My approach has been better. I just pretend now that everything is OK. I spent four months harping and bitching and moaning on doing every little thing right, and then I realized two weeks ago, or maybe it was just after the St. John's game, that if I pretend that everything's OK, these guys really like that. And then they just play.
"That is what they want from me, so I am giving it to them. That is why we are being so successful. You think I am kidding, but it is the honest to God truth. I am not trying to be a smart ass. I'm not trying to be funny. This particular team does not respond very well to me putting like heavy demands on them to be really, really good every possession. I tried that, it doesn't work. There is a reason all those shots are going in now. You would be surprised."
When the shots stopped going in at practice Thursday, the kinder, gentler Geno disappeared, even if just briefly, to demand more.
Bria Hartley said the players can't accept letting the practice players have their way with them to the point they let a drill or a challenge get the best of them.
"We just have to be better," Hartley said. "I think we have a pretty good mindset. Coach just reminds us that we always have things to work on. He tries to show us that you can never be satisfied. You always have to strive to get better. Even if you figure something out you have to keep working to see what other things you can improve on."
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Would You Strip for Beauty Salon Treatments?
The economy sucks, but that doesn't mean your blowouts, facials or waxes should be the first to go
If you don't believe that these things are actually happening (or even if you do), you must check out these stories. We heard them from experts in various beauty businesses (beauty salons, spas, dermatology and plastic surgery offices), and directly from women who were willing to divulge their secrets (anonymously, of course).
What do you think? Would you or are you taking similar measures in order to keep up regular hair cut or color appointments? Or indulge in massages or luxurious manicures and pedicures? Or do you think this is all crazy talk? We'd love to know, so please share by commenting on this story.
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Absolutely not! Time to sort priorities here. As one savvy readers says below me, "true beauty and happiness come from within, and not from salons." Well spoken!
by GigiSD Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 10:13PM Report as inappropriate
it's sad that people forget that true beauty and happiness come from within, and not from salons.
by venenumletalis Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 07:04PM Report as inappropriate
Oh no!!!!!!!!! Thats crazy, and the said thing is nobody notice you did anything different.
by nicky22 Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 10:32AM Report as inappropriate
deff not
by aishak55 Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 09:27AM Report as inappropriate
Umm absolutely not. There are better ways to get things you want...I'm just saying.
by MizzPink Friday, May 4, 2012 at 12:47PM Report as inappropriate
Or, ya know, decrease your spending.
by krycekov Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 06:32AM Report as inappropriate
Well, pretty insane at the lengths people for maintaing a "beautiful" look. And absolutely no to stripping!
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I'll wax what I can at home but a good haircut you can't do yourself.
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I am currently doing a self study on Algebraic geometry but my ultimate goal is to study more on elliptic curves. Which are the most recommended textbooks I can use to study? I need something not so technical for a junior graduate student but at the same time I would wish to get a book with authority on elliptic curves. Thanks
Silverman and Tate to start, then Silverman, and finally Silverman again. These are basically canonical references for the subject.
The other book suggestions are all so far excellent; the only caveat with them is that they all get into the number theoretic aspects very soon. I am taking the guess that you are more geometrically minded since you are starting with algebraic geometry rather than with number theory.
Also I am taking the guess that you are reading algebraic geometry from the standard book of Hartshrone. I assume you are reading the first chapter.
My advise to you would be to first understand affine and projective varieties as given in Chap I. of Hartshorne, and then move straight ahead to chapter IV on algebraic curves. You would have to take a few things like the Riemann-Roch theorem(rather, Serre duality theorem) for granted and you would have to replace any occurrence of "scheme" with variety, and there may be a few gaps. I suggest that you ignore these and read it. This will give you a very solid and rather modern introduction into the subject algebraic curves, and to elliptic curves in particular.
Afterwards you can go back to chaps. II and III and read the theory of schemes and the machinery of sheaf cohomology, if you wish to further pursue algebraic geometry.
I highly recommend Elliptic Curves by Alain Robert. It is very clearly written, has few prerequisites, yet brings the reader straight into the connection between the complex analytic side of algebraic curves and the algebro-geometric side. It eventually discusses $p$-adic curves and their relation to $p$-adic analytic functions, as well as using these to prove the main theorem of complex multiplication (that $j(\tau)$ is an algebraic integer).
The books by Silverman can't be beat and I won't simply repeat what's been said below.
Adding to the books already mentioned, Lawrence Washington's recent text is supposed to be excellent, but I haven't seen it yet.
Miles Ried also wrote a beautiful set of lecture notes that was used at Cambridge for many years-they may or may not still be available online for download.
And of course no introduction to algebraic geometry through elliptic curves would be complete without mentioning the classic introduction to algebraic curves by William Fulton, which is available online free for download by googling it.


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During a recent internet vote to choose four new vehicle license plates, the voting was neck and neck between the two eagle designs that benefit wildlife conservation. Because it was too close to call, there will be a run-off to pick the next new eagle design, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division.
You can cast your vote for either the eagle and the flag design or the soaring eagle design at www.georgiawildlife.com . Simply click on the "Run-Off: Go Online to Cast Your Vote For Your Favorite Eagle Wildlife Tag Design" link cast a vote for your favorite eagle design.
The deadline to vote on the run-off for a new tag design is November 7, 2012.
Two other wildlife designs were successfully selected to benefit trout restoration and bobwhite quail restoration efforts by the Department of Natural Resources. The third eagle design will benefit Nongame Conservation of the DNR.
The winning designs will then be announced and made available shortly afterward in local tag offices and for online renewals. Specialty plates cost $60 (plus ad-valorem taxes and other fees standard for all plates). There is an annual renewal of $35.
"We received more than 18,000 votes to help us pick the next set of wildlife license plates," said Wildlife Resources Division Director Dan Forster. "Although voters had 5 animals to choose from, their top picks were the two eagles. Our hope is that with the second round of voting a clear winner emerges."
Georgia's Nongame Conservation Section receives no state general funds for its mission to conserve wildlife not legally hunted, fished for or trapped, as well as rare plants and natural habitats in the state. Instead, Nongame Conservation depends on direct contributions, grants, and fundraisers such as the nongame plates, which account for about two-thirds of funds raised. Learn more at www.georgiawildlife.com/conservation/support .


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The fastest recorded skydive was by an Air Force officer who jumped from a helium balloon at an elevation of 103000 ft, three times higher than airliners fly. Because the density of air is so low at these altitudes, he reached a speed of 614 mph at an elevation of 90000 ft, then gradually slowed as the air became more dense. Assume that he fell in the spread-eagle position and that his low-altitude terminal speed is 125 mph. Use this information to determine the density of air at 90000 ft.


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In WSFB's Dracula, the classic tale comes to life with Gary Taylor's powerful choreography and an expanded score by Chris Heckman, putting contemporary twist on the familiar story. Told from the viewpoint of the vampire himself, the audience comes to understand Dracula's undying love for Mina, spanning centuries and continents. See the world through the eyes of Dracula as he pursues his one and only love.


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Q: My husband and I decided to homeschool both our children. They welcomed this change of educational style, but want to go back to public school next year. My daughter doesn't want to miss out on all the high-school activities, and my son wants the chance to play basketball at the junior high school.
Also, in our state of New York, homeschooled children are only eligible for a GED diploma. My daughter's dream is to study business administration at NYU. I've told her that this would still be possible if she was homeschooled through twelfth grade. Can you offer any more advice?
A: My first suggestion would be to connect with a homeschooling support group in your area. Meet with other homeschooling families, and try some group activities geared for older kids. Here's a list for support groups in New York: www.midnightbeach.com/hs/listlist.f.html.
As a homeschooling parent of two very social girls, one a preteen, I find there are more social activities available to us than we are able to attend. My family initiated several of these activities with little or no organizing. For instance, we love to ice skate. I emailed several local homeschool groups a message that Friday mornings at our local arena would be homeschool skate day. Within a few weeks, we had a very nice turnout of homeschoolers.
On another occasion, several of the moms of teens complained there weren't enough teen activities. With the guidance of another dedicated mom, we put together a teen group that meets on a regular basis for socializing and group activities (laser tag, movie night, game night, etc.). The first few get-togethers were a bit awkward as the kids got to know each other, but now friendships have formed and it is quite successful. In fact, for the second year, they've had a homeschool prom with almost 150 kids attending. For our family, the extra work of coordinating or assisting teen activities is far more desirable than participation in what passes for "socializing" in many public schools today.
As for the sports, perhaps your son can participate with a community-based team. My daughter is active in soccer and tennis. There are also basketball, softball, swim, and hockey teams, to name a few. Unless the child is truly gifted athletically, community team sports fill that need for competitive group activities.
As far as a diploma, have you considered a correspondence or online diploma for your kids? There are several private schools that will provide a diploma that is acceptable to most, if not all, colleges. Try Clonlara School (www.clonlara.org), Oak Meadow School (www.oakmeadow.com), or Calvert School (www.calvertschool.org).
Lastly, I suggest you read Homeschooling: The Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- to 18- Year Old and And What about College? How Homeschooling Leads to Admissions to the Best Colleges and Universities, both by Cafi Cohen.
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Isabel Shaw is a freelance writer and homeschooling mom of 15 years. She and her husband Ray homeschool their two daughters, Jessica and Amanda. Besides being a contributor to FamilyEducation.com, Shaw has written for Home Education Magazine, The Link, Homeschooling Horizons Magazine, The Homeschool Gazette, and other publications.


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Our website is just one way of demonstrating the sense of commitment, professionalism and dedication that the members of our department tirelessly work to achieve. We believe a critical component of our mission in making Frisco a safer community to live, work, and raise our families is the obligation to keep you informed of the many officers, individuals and activities of the Frisco Police Department.
This website is prepared with recognition of the department's mission, values, and organizational philosophy. All of our efforts are designed to this end; that we are always working to better serve, protect everyone who lives, works, or visits the City of Frisco. We welcome your comments, thoughts, and observations.
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The day after PDC10, 150 conference attendees extended their stays for an extra day of Windows Phone 7 app building at the PDC10 Workshop. For most, this was the first time they were able to deploy to actual Windows Phone 7 devices and watch their applications come to life.
This video showcases a few of these workshop participants talking about why they love developing for Windows Phone 7.
If you missed PDC10, it's never too late to get catch up. Start at www.microsoftpdc.com to access on-demand session recordings. Then get going with free tools and more for developing your Windows Phone 7 apps at http://create.msdn.com.
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@LukasM: Glad you like it. It was my first foray into WP7 app design. I think it may just work as a way to test lack of sobriety Thanks to Tim Nolan for implementing the How Drunk Am I spec!
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When is enough enough?
Ok this is a fairly serious thread, designated for the more mature, and older members of the forums.
When is enough enough in the violence of GTA and similar games?
Point, I am 30, nearly 31, I have been gaming nearly my entire life. Violence I guess doesn't phase me as it should. In light of recent events however, I started to question my morality in regards to these games. Now of course I know the games are fictional, have nothing to do with real life, and for the majority, is a parody of the modern world. Yet, something still claws at the inside of me, something wants me to embrace that elephant in the room. I dunno. What is everyone's thoughts on the issue? Are games getting to be too violent? Or are we just getting older?
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Higher game fidelity means more realistic violence, which is down to to how bloody the developer wants it to be.
And I don't see any major leaps these days apart from graphical fidelity. Soldier of Fortune where you could blow away individual body parts and have a unique death animation for each, the variety of games where you get rewarded for higher kill amounts. It's all the same today.
Personally, a violent game is a stress release mechanism. Or at least that's what I used it for. I've moved on to boxing and hiking for that, and I don't get the same rush of excitement that I once had. Moving down scores of pedestrians in Vice City just doesn't have the same vibe you know?
The elephant in the room would be video game violence leading to acting upon those urges in real life right? If so, I'd say it's down to the individual person. A mentally unstable person or someone with anger issues bordering on breaking will always find something to indulge his urges with.
Empathy and the sort, that's what a serial killer lacks. That's what anyone trying to hurt others will be lacking in. Because a normal person will probably put himself in the position of others and bask in their misery and see how fruitless it is.
That doesn't mean we all don't have occasional episodes where we want to kill someone who pissed us off. But you never get there because you either figure it's not worth wasting your life over, or you can't bring yourself to inflict pain and suffering on others.
Now, everybody has a breaking point. Beyond that point anything can happen, and the results are almost always ugly. Do video games tug at that breaking point and capacity for violence? Who knows.
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Ive seen and experiened some violent things in life like being in a few serious car accidents, seeing a double murder in the street, people mangled by cars and trucks, ive been stabbed in the arm by a random in a crowd and witnessed plenty of gory accidents of people breaking bones, cutting themselves open and blood everywhere... Im not bothered by video games, sure i do have a fairly strong mind to cope when I do see things in real life but what does separate the two is that one of them are fiction, the other is not.
I can deal with games, i dont think increased detail in violence is a problem. Its all a part of the ever growing gaming capabilities, the technology comes along and the games become more realistic.
Like xan, i do feel like killing someone when they piss me off but i just move on. If it makes you uncomfortable or concerned that its giving you urges then stop playing it...
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Can the Fourier transform of a whole function $f:\mathbb R\mapsto\mathbb C$ be defined as integration over $\mathbb C$ instead of $\mathbb R$ as well, such that $$\tilde f(k) = \frac{\mathcal N}{2\pi} \int_{\mathbb C}f(x) e^{-ikx}\,dx,$$
and (if so) what is the correct value of the normalization $\mathcal N$ for consistency with the $\mathbb R$-integration?
Given a whole function $f:\mathbb R\mapsto\mathbb C$, its Fourier transform
$$ \tilde f(k) = \frac1{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^\infty f(x)e^{-ikx}\,dx$$
can be determined by other integration paths as well by using Cauchy's Residue Theorem, for example by shifting $x$ by an imaginary constant $ic$. Assuming a sufficiently fast decaying function for $\Re(x)\to\pm\infty$ (and using the fact that a whole function has no residues), this results in simply adding that constant to the integration boundaries, i.e.
$$ \tilde f(k) = \frac1{2\pi}\int_{-\infty+ic}^{\infty+ic} f(x)e^{-ikx}\,dx,$$
which can be expressed by substitution as well:
$$ \tilde f(k) = \frac1{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x-ic)e^{-ik(x-ic)}\,dx.$$
One can then average over different values of $c$ to obtain
$$ \tilde f(k) = \frac1{2\pi\cdot 2T}\int_{-T}^{T}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x-ic)e^{-ik(x-ic)}\,dx\,dc.$$
Now my question boils down to
1) Since infinity is involved, is this equivalent to
$$ \tilde f(k) = \frac1{4\pi T}\int_{\mathbb R\times[-iT,iT]} f(x_1+x_2)e^{-ik(x_1+x_2)}\,d^2x,$$
2) Can the limit $T\to\infty$ be taken such that $\mathbb R\times[-iT,iT]\to\mathbb C$
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Have the exchanges disclosed their criteria?
Does anyone have a best guess based upon observations of volume (however you wish to define it)?
Please no qualitative answers.
You are referring to the Penny Pilot Program. Only options whose premiums are quoted at a price less than \$3 may be eligible for penny increments, except for IWM, QQQ, and SPY, which are always quoted in pennies.
The list of permitted classes doesn't seem to come from specific volume criteria. Instead, the SEC and the exchanges together roll-out names in phases.
CBOE's proposal for mini-options gives some additional insight:
This is why GOOG is not in the Penny Pilot Program, for example.
The best bet is to use the list of eligible classes from ISE or CBOE. Note that Rule 6.42 states, "the Penny Pilot shall expire on June 30, 2013".
The first 13 were some pretty active securities, but they definitely weren't the most.
chrisaycock's noted $3 threshold undoubtedly plays a role, so does volume, but there's probably some sort of other political consideration (like "don't leave out the small caps!") that could be quantified.
It looks like, generally speaking, it's the highest dollar volume underlyings with most option premium volume under $3 as well as a few political choices here and there.
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I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to all of the area restaurants that honored our vets this past holiday.
It means so much to know that those serving, past, present and future are remembered and respected for all they've done and continue to do for our country. God bless America.
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Peter Dundas: 10 Things Every Woman Should Have
Though psychedelic prints are the Emilio Pucci signature, creative director Peter Dundas designs for a more subtle woman. Her essentials? Blush pink poppies, white jeans, a bright red pedicure, and more.
What Emilio Pucci realized with jersey fabrics and psychedelic prints—a kind of wild exuberance in the '60s and '70s—current Emilio Pucci creative director Peter Dundas accomplishes more subtly with shape and embellishment. "I like freedom," says the lanky Scandinavian. "It's part of my Nordic heritage and love of sports." So he slips pockets into evening dresses and adds compartments to structured bags. The "Pucci girl," his name for the Gwyneth Paltrows and Kylie Minogues of his client roster, has a more complicated wardrobe agenda than previous loyalists like Sophia Loren and Jacqueline Onassis. "She travels differently; she works; her needs are a bit larger," he says. That's also true of Dundas, who's never happier than when dashing off in white jeans to his favorite windsurfing haunts in Greece. He says, "It feeds me; it inspires me."
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"There's a mystery, a sophistication to Asian-inspired pieces." Leather-and-plastic shoes, $4,695, at Emilio Pucci, N.Y.C. (212-230-1135).
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