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"For climate, it's the bottom of the ninth inning and the bases are loaded if we can just push these runs across the plate," he said.
The bill, to be called the American Power Act, is a chance for Congress to show it can still address major issues, while also creating American jobs, strengthening national security and protecting the environment, Kerry said.
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The legislation aims to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and more than 80 percent by 2050.
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Kerry and Lieberman said the bill would exempt farms and most small and medium-sized businesses, concentrating efforts on the largest polluters.
The bill would offer incentives of up to $2 billion per year for companies that develop so-called clean coal technologies, including methods to capture and store carbon emissions.
The legislation has several provisions aimed at boosting nuclear power. It increases funding for nuclear loan guarantees to $54 billion, the same amount President Barack Obama has proposed, and calls on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to speed the licensing process for new plants.
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|15th November 2007, 08:18 AM
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Formula Windsurfing vs Racerboard class: what to do?
Hi, we are looking in our region to add one new class to our race calendar.
We are looking for a class with this characteristics:
- Fun factor
- More 18 - 45 years oriented
- Less price to be competitive much better
- Atractive international events to participate
Would be good if we can try to be the most objective possible on this. All input is welcome.
|15th November 2007, 09:24 AM
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Formula means big heavy sails, high fitness levels and limited wind range.
Raceboard does not.
Just my take on it
|15th November 2007, 10:10 AM
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How about the Kona one design class?
Low cost, wide wind range and sail/weight catagories for fair racing.
|15th November 2007, 11:25 AM
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as a coach and race director, I think both classes have a good part. Personally, unless there is a government support as for RSX, is not good to have a class that is one design as the Kona, as it limits people to buy just to one company, better if you have at least a chance to choose.
If you go Raceboard class, then Kona, RSX, Starbaord Hybrids and many others can race and that makes things easier for many people and also interesting.
I think Kona is a nice concept but thats it...its like saying lets compite in Serenity class. Can be good, but its not complete for what you want...say, an international calendar of events.
About fun factor...i vote for formula windsurfing, its the best thing in fun factor. Have not checked the costs between FW an Raceboard class as I am not updated of detailed pricing. Now FW is frozen in boards each two years..thats a good thing. Dont know exactly what raceboard class says about board designs.
Then, you can also have the chance of Formula Experience, is a very good class we would like to have here too. There are two boards racing there Bic and Starboard and lots of sails companies. If you can work in a good 18+ fleet for this class, then all your requirements are completed.
Personal view...from your choices...I will say FW, but again, dont have costs in my hands.
|15th November 2007, 03:39 PM
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How windy?
One of the delights of raceboard is that you can race in light winds.
In the UK racing inland reduces formula sailors to spectators at the majority of events. At coastal events, the raceboards generally do more races than formula class.
Cheap second hand kit is available for both classes, though raceboards are getting harder to find as so few have been made in recent years.
It does appear that the industry is begginning to support raceboard again after a ten year period when they put all their marketing resources behind formula.
|15th November 2007, 10:54 PM
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You haven't said where is your region and how windy it is? Apart from a few windy places, I believe a Raceboard will be a better option in a wider variety of conditions. I agree there with poster #5.
I've sailed (and competed a bit) in Div2, Raceboards, IMCO and Formula before I finally gave up and went to enjoy freesailing on my own schedule (but that's another story). I would say that a lot of people have put too much hope in Formula (me included) when they first appeared, with regard to light wind performance. Yes, it can plane in ridiculous winds, but when you have light, shifting, fluky, holey wind (as in most inland places and many coastal), a daggerboard and a long waterline is needed. Also don't forget monster Formula sails, 550cm masts and 300cm booms. How many people (both sexes and all ages) are willing to handle these?
Fun factor? Well I don't know how it's called when you shlog a Formula for miles, on a day when a 5 seconds 10 knots gust is the best thing on offer ;-)
Fair winds
|18th November 2007, 12:15 AM
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If that is the case where you sail, I would vote for Formula, even after I criticized it. I won't comment on your goals (I think nobody could), there are still many ifs and potential problems as PG says.
Carlos wrote:
"up to 20 knots formula with ONLY ONE sail ONE board is enough. I have been sailing in FE the other day with Overdrive 11.0 in 28 knots with my 70 kilos...still possible."
This is the kind of comment that can create a lot of misunderstanding and confusion among less informed sailors (to put it very mildly).
After all the good discussion on these forums related to strong wind board choice (iS, Kombats, etc), I think most people can judge credibility of such claims.
|18th November 2007, 11:30 PM
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It's been said that the Kona is a problem class because you can only buy from one supplier - but for many people, that is not a problem but a plus. Some of us just don't want to get into a gear race. We don't want to spend our time working out whether a Brand X 2006 model mast works best with a Brand Z 11 or a Brand Y 11.3421......we just want to go out and become better sailors, and to know that when we win, we win because we sail better and not because we have spent more money, or because our sponsor has superior designers. I leave my fastest gear in the rack and race one design because I just cannot see the challenge in beating the fleet because of the stuff I own rather than because of how I sail. I also want to be able to sail when I want to sail, not wait for wind to get a decent day out.
However, of course, lots of people DO like tweaking their gear, and getting the ultimate in course racing planing performance. They don't want to sail something slower.
The problem is that given these very different extremes, any attempt to get 50 people to race windsurfers in an area on just one class may rule out too many possible racers, no matter what you do. There are always plenty of people who love FW and would not sail RB or Kona, and vice versa. The problem is that windsurfing seems to hate the idea of diversity amongst racers - the manufacturers want everyone to race in a small number of classes. That ignores differing tastes and conditions. Sure, numbers breed strength in some ways but not if you are leaving people out by not giving them a class that they find acceptable - maybe not ideal, but acceptable.
It may be more difficult, but a two-pronged approach could be a very good way to go. Maybe something like a Kona class and a FW class, since you have such good winds. People who like to sail in all winds and want cheap new one design off-the-shelf gear can sail the Kona, guys who want the ultimate in performance can sail FW. Actually wouldn't a Slalom class be likely to attract big numbers in 12 knot+ winds??
We have a total fleet of 50+, with 30+ racing on a good day. There are three classes - Raceboard, One Design and the kid's OD. Without the three classes, I don't think we'd get the same numbers overall as too many people would be unable to find a board to suit their tastes. However, we are sailing on a small inlet where FW and Slalom don't really work.
|19th November 2007, 03:22 AM
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Well, as I understand, there are many classes out there, I have checked in internet and there are many classes out there but just some of the mentioned are on IWA or ISAF.
Chances are simple, FW, FE, Raceboard, RSX as I understand. I dont think Kona because if you are going to work a serious fleet, that class is not ISAF class.
Of the others, as people said, depends on your wind conditions really. FW looks lots of fun, but still needs updating equipment and high costs. Raceboard is a bit simpler on this, but for sure, someone racing FW wont like to race in a Raceboard and RSX. From this side, best thing can be FE but its more young guns oriented. RSX, can be same as Raceboard but Raceboard gives the chance to many people to buy (same as FW) some Used equipment and race for fun.
|19th November 2007, 08:35 AM
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Raceboard Raceboard Raceboard!
It is the most accessible to a wide range of skill levels and allows for exciting racing even when the wind is too light for formula boards. Raceboard should be the primary class, which forms the base of your fleet. Some of the earlier posters brought up the excellent point that the raceboard class allows many different styles of boards to compete; almost anything with a daggerboard can be used. For example, I sail a Kona ONE, but I compete in the raceboard class because there is no one-design fleet for Kona in my area.
In my area, only the big, strong, experienced, aggressive, wealthy men race formula, whereas the raceboard class is a good mix of different types, including women, kids, and old people.
Having said that, if your fleet grows and you have many aggressive, expert windsurfers, then you could create a second class for formula windsurfing.
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Stores are dressed up in lights, garland and tinsel in preparation for Thursday's event, ready to welcome shoppers with hot chocolate, free trolley rides and, of course, unique gifts.
"The people who come make it really fun," said Ruis, owner of Art of the Table at 606 Wealthy St. SE. "It's just a night full of people."
From jazz and art to photos with Santa Claus and lots of goodies, more than 50 businesses are kicking off the holiday season in their own way.
"Everyone really pulls out the stops for this," said Ruis, who will have representatives from Smitty's Hot Sludge, of Ada, passing out cocoa, a chef offering hummus samples and sparkling Shiraz.
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Uptown was created by the adjacent business districts East Fulton, East Hills, Eastown, and Wealthy Street to work together to create buzz and serve as a resource for a variety of products and services. Events like Shop Hop are a great way to do that, store owners said.
"What I love most is that the entire strip comes to life," said Stephanie Johnson, owner of women's consignment store Urban Exchange, where shoppers can sip mulled cider, eat desserts and take advantage of a promotion. "There are so many lights and people walking around that it looks like a big city."
Shoppers will find stores specializing in home décor, pet products, paper goods, coffee, books and more. Many area restaurants plan to offer offer specials during the event.
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Hello again! It has been awhile. I disappeared off the boards for awhile too. It's been three years since we had our 3rd child now. I wish you the very best! I'm still plugging along.
Soooo, I'm going to revive this thread because I think I'm going for 3 kids. I had a lot of fun posting during my last pregnancy. I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I think I'll birth this one (if it happens) at home, so I should have a lot of fun things to write about. I'm not knocked up yet, so this time around I'll include the getting pregnant part as well. This will be instructive, too, as my 2nd pregnancy took me about 1.5 years to achieve. However, I became preg within 6 weeks of switching to a primal diet. I don't know how much I'll write leading up to a (possible) pregnancy, but I'll try to check in. Right now, my preference would be for an Aug-Oct conception so I can have a nice summery or fall maternity leave. Ha, I know!
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This is a bit early to assume much but I'd really like to document my pregnancy as early as possible. So, here I am, with my period 5 days late. I did a home test a few days ago but it was negative. However, my skin is nice and I don't have any normal symptoms that I expect leading up to my period, so I think there's a chance that the test was just a pinch early (or diluted or whatever). Just in case, and in the interest of documenting from the very beginning, I thought I'd check in and record what's going on. I think I'll follow the same format I used last time- food, activity, thoughts.
So, food:
Scrambled eggs and green onion in coconut oil, salsa, black coffee
Lunch- planned- probably SFH protein, as I plan on going to crossfit at lunch and don't usually have time to sit down and eat
Dinner- I've been wanting to make a big pot of chili. tonight should be good for that.
I had some fun reading through my journal last night. It reminded me that it wasn't so bad to be pregnant. I still hate it times 1 million, but it's temporary and you get a baby at the end.
Oh, and beginning stats- I weigh between 145-150 and am 5'6". I've actually gained a bit from my lowest after my last pregnancy (I was down to about 139 at one point) but I can deadlift and squat about double the amount I used to so I like to think it's mostly muscle I go to crossfit 5 x's/week, try to walk 2-4 miles most days, and eat pretty well, though nowhere close to perfect. My weaknesses are popcorn, fried foods when I'm out with friends and wine. I measured my stomach around the belly button this morning and it was 28 inches and my chest is 34.5. I want to track these two because they were the ones that changed so much last time!
I feel completely normal and fine. So, no signs of pregnancy yet. I did a heavy deadlift workout last week, a 40 mile bike ride this weekend and didn't notice any difference. This is one reason I'm somewhat doubting that I'm pregnant. I guess I'll know eventually.
Still no period today. So this would make it 6 days late. I'll test on Friday. If it's neg., I'll just assume that my cycle is out of whack this month.
I made a yummy thai beef soup last night instead of chili.
And we did "Helen" at CF yesterday. This is normally one of my favorites but I felt really out of breath the whole time and my forearms were crampy, probably from our bike ride this weekend. I was not excited about my time. I was hoping for a sub-9, but ended up with a mid-9. Ah well.
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Lunch- protein
Dinner (planned)- grill some steaks! With spinach salad or wilted spinach and roasted 'taters.
Activity- CF, also plan on walking later
I feel fine. I don't like this limbo. No symptoms but I've been more thirsty and hungry than normal.
Today I'm 7 days late.
B- big jar of bone broth (with fat), coffee
s- orange
L- (planned) protein after workout + salad at lunch meeting
D- Another meeting, this time at dinner. It will be a drinks and appetizers even from 5:30-8 or so. I will probably have some crap like wings, quesadillas, etc.
Activity- CF, maybe walk later.
I'm weaning myself off coffee. Right now I don't have any after noon. I'm going to keep bumping that time back until I only have 1 cup in the morning. However, with all of my past pregnancies I lost the taste for it sometime in the second month (weeks 8-12 are my least favorite). I am going from being an all-day, unknown amounts of cups, coffee drinker, so this is going to be a bit of a project. I am happy about having a real reason not to drink alcohol, though. My social groups are all big on alcohol and I like the 9 month break from it.
I've felt a bit snappish with my kids and husband. Maybe I'm finally getting my period?
So, I ended up getting my period super-late back September but am now 5W pregnant. This is a lot earlier than when I started posting to this thread with my last pregnancy, so I should have a pretty good record of the toughest time- the first trimester. I think I usually feel perfectly fine until week 8 or 9 and then exhausted until week 15 or so. We'll see. The only symptom I've had is (embarrassingly) an increase in gas. Ugh. I am also on day 23 of a Whole 30 that has been surprisingly easy. I'll be curious to see if an elimination diet like that has any effect on these early weeks. I may even extend it for another 30 days to see if that helps ward off the extreme exhaustion I'm dreading.
Some differences between now and my pregnancy in 2009: I've been doing Crossfit 5x/week for the past year and about 3-4x/week for two years before that. I've also been eating primally for almost 4 years. Wow, that's crazy to say that. I'd describe my last pregnancy as easy (with the exception of weeks 9-15 where I just wanted to sleep all the time) and far, far better than my first. I gained about 30 lbs, I think? And I was able to run a pretty competitive 8K time just 6 weeks after the birth.
Now, my starting weight is a bit higher (though I fit into the same size jeans) and I'm less of a runner and more of a lifter/crossfitter. Aaaand, I'm 32, not 27. I've got my work stress pretty well managed though it still runs me ragged sometimes. I'm so much further along in my health journey but slip ups seem to affect me so much worse these days. We'll see! I'm bursting with excitement about baby #3 and September can't get here soon enough.
For tracking purposes, here's what do most weekdays:
3 eggs, leftover meat of some sort, sauteed peppers and sweet potato (everything cooked in CO)
Coffee (black during whole 30; with heavy cream all other times)
Late morning/pre-workout a big chicken breast with mustard or homemade mayo
Noon- crossfit
afternoon/lunch: tuna w/ homemade mayo and salad
Dinner: varies, but generally meat/veg/starchy veg; snacking on almonds while cooking.
Some nights I'm hungry after dinner and have some celery and almond butter or an apple, or beef jerky or something. Last night I was starving so I had a banana. I also take fish oil, magnesium, vitamin d, zinc and a prenatal vitamin now.
I have a pedometer and strive for 10,000 steps/day but the last week or so has been about a million below 0 so I've just snuggled in on the couch. La-zy. I just want the temps to get above 0 so I can go for walks!
Pregnancy news: none really, except a lot of hunger yesterday. Workouts, sleep and eating all seem the same.
Congratulations! How exciting for you! I loved being primal with our second, didn't need the after Christmas lunch nap last year!! Managed to keep off heartburn as well, it was anything with a trace of any flour, kept me on the straight and narrow
I look forward to hearing more about your journey
Thanks vickyb! How old is your little one? I agree, my primal pregnancy was so much better than my SAD vegetarian first pregnancy. Ugh, I cringe thinking about 23 year old me being pregnant and finally just craving meat so much that I ended 9 years of vegetariansm. I guess that was a good thing- it led me to figure out that there was a reason I was starving for protein.
But, heartburn, backaches, a mouthful of cavities, stretch marks, insomnia, yeast infections and constipation were all something I just lived with during that first pregnancy. I had none of that during my second. Not to mention that the 2nd recovery was absolutely amazing to me. This time around I'd like to be a lot more mindful and hopefully the rewards will be even better. Also, I plan to keep up my activity level more this time (it wasn't bad during #2 but it can always be better). I'd also like to improve a few mental things: not hate my body so much, not focus on and be frustrated by what I CAN'T do, sleep when I need to sleep, stuff like that.
Ok, I just went back and read some of my old journal entries and here's one that kills me:
Today I'm feeling really positive about my fitness. After making up my own lifting schedule in a somewhat haphazard way for the past year, I've decided to follow the Starting Strength program and see how that works. It's deceptively difficult, which really just shows me that my "do whatever" program was probably more of a play time than a true lifting program. Yet another indication that when you are a beginner weightlifter it's super easy to gain strength just by regularly touching weights. I'm hoping I can see some real strength improvements now! Here's where I'm starting (in lbs):
Squat: 120 (goal: 200 LIKE BATTY!!!! And be able to rock the overhead squat)
Bench: 90 (goal: my body weight so 135-140)
Dead: 145 (no clue what I can get this up to)
Clean: 75 (yep, no idea on this one either)
I'm so glad I found this! As my 3 year update, I've blown all of those starting numbers out of the water. This makes me really happy. Here are my somewhat recent max efforts:
1. Squat 215 (OH squat 105)
2. Deadlift 290 (can I get to 300 while pregnant? Haha, maybe I should try quick this week)
3. Bench- no clue, haven't done it in a while but 2 years ago I did 115.
4. Clean- 160 (that was yesterday).
I don't think I've kept any records from my lifting back then anywhere except this journal. But now I have proof that I've improved!


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PS Plus to feature prominently in the PS4 landscape says Sony
PlayStation Plus has become a very useful service for exclusive access to demos and full games for the PS Vita and PS3 and Sony is planning to make it even more important for the PS4.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Jim Ryan has stated that will play a key role in their strategy moving forward especially for the PlayStation 4.
He explained, "We're very happy with the service that we've been able to offer with PS Plus. It's been really well received - the value is quite extraordinary and the take-up has trebled over the course of the past year."
"We definitely see that as a core part of the way forward. We're not yet in a position to disclose our plans for the future of PlayStation Plus, but there will definitely be a prominent role to play for it in the PlayStation 4 landscape," Ryan added.
Thanks PlayStation Blog Europe.
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FLEMINGTON — Agnes V. Dombrosky passed away on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. She was 90.
Born in Manville and a former resident of Bridgewater, Agnes resided in Flemington for the past four years.
During World War II, Mrs. Dombrosky worked for the Ration Board in Manville. She was a former clerk at Somerville Lumber and then held the position of secretary at Research-Cottrell before becoming the executive secretary to the chief financial officer at the Veterans Administration Depot in South Somerville. Before retiring, Agnes was the secretary to the farm manager at the Doris Duke estate for 10 years.
Agnes liked to decorate her home and was an avid seamstress who liked sewing and knitting. She was a fabulous cook and enjoyed the presence of her family around her all the time.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Julius, in 1985; three brothers and one sister.
Surviving are her two loving daughters, Carole Dombrosky of Flemington and Beverly DiGeronimo and her husband, Michael, also of Flemington; her two cherished granddaughters, Christina Master and husband, Sameet and Nicole DiGeronimo; two great-grandchildren, Mahlia and Benjamin Henry; and her four sisters, Wanda Davidson of Florida, Ann Abramski of Manville, Bernice Crisologo and husband, Frank of Florida, and Julia Ajamian and husband, James, of Bridgewater.
Services: Funeral services beginning with a prayer on Friday, Feb. 17, 9:15 a.m. at Branchburg Funeral Home, 910 Highway 202 south, Branchburg 08876, phone 908-526-7638 followed by at 10 a.m. funeral liturgy at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 500 Route 22 east, Bridgewater 08807. Entombment at St. Bernard Cemetery and Mausoleum, Route 28, Bridgewater. Viewing hours Thursday, Feb. 16, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
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Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades on Saturday returned to the midstate to dedicate the new St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Roman Catholic Church in Susquehnna Twp.
Rhoades served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg for five years until becoming bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind. in January.
The new $5.2 million Romanesque church at 2800 Paxton Church Road replaces the church building on Herr Street, Penbrook. The new church has more pews, more parking and a traditional interior with vividly-colored stained glass windows.
More than 850 people attended the 2 1/2 hour rite of dedication, which included a Mass concelebrated by 12 priests.
Rhoades dedicated the church to God, then poured chrism, the same holy oil that is used at baptisms, confirmations and ordinations, on the altar. He called the altar the most important part of the church "because it's where the memorial of the Lord is celebrated, the sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated on it, and from it we receive the Body and Blood of the Lord."


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A Syracuse woman was shot in the leg at 3 a.m. today when she arrived at a party in the 200 block of West Lafayette Street.
Tonete Butler, 28, rode with three other people to the party, said police Sgt. Tom Connellan.
Butler was shot in the thigh as soon as she got out of the car, an injury that severed her femoral artery. She was transported to University Hospital, where she was in serious condition on tonight.
Connellan said there is no indication that Butler was the target of the shooting.
Police ask anyone with information to call 442-5222.


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HUNTERTOWN, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) – Huntertown City Council has given reports on the current water and sewer rates during a evening meeting on Monday, October 1, 2012.
Council members said the water rates are good and most likely will not have to be raised to build the water treatment plant. The plant is expected to be completed by 2015. The sewage fund is running short and rates could be raised within the next 90 days. All residents pay a flat rate each month.
Council discussed going on a metered rate which allows residents to only pay for what they use. City Council will meet again in two weeks to discuss further details.
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Guy "Ronnie" Mullinax, 60, of Dawsonville, died Oct. 5, 2011.
He was a member of Lebanon Baptist Church.
Rebecca J. Burruss, 69, of Cumming, died Oct. 7, 2011.
Her parents, Brooks and Emma Ava Johnson, preceded her in death.
Larry Jewell Dixon, 57, of Dawsonville, died Oct. 6, 2011.
He was a member of Settingdown Baptist Church.
Emory Madison Martin, 75, of Cumming, died Oct. 2, 2011.
Born June 3, 1936 to the late Rena and Florene Martin, he was a native of Forsyth County and became a lifelong resident in the Coal Mountain community.
Jesse Lee Murphy, 88, of Cumming, died Oct. 2, 2011.
He is retired from business. Jessie is a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army and a loyal member of the American Legion and the VFW.
Myrtle Lois Guest, 78, of Dawsonville, died Sept. 26, 2011.
Born June 2, 1933 in Lithia Springs to the late Henry and Cora Belle Cochran, she had lived in Dawson County for more than 30 years having moved from Forsyth County.
Laddie H. Long, 82, of Dawsonville, died Sept. 30, 2011.
Mr. Long was born April 12, 1929 in Lincoln County to the late George and Marie Long.
Donna Jean Edgil, 73, of Cumming, died Sept. 28, 2011.
She attended River of Life Church of God.
Eula Idelle Evans, 96, of Dawsonville, died Sept. 28, 2011.
Born Dec. 15, 1914 in Hall County to the late Ode and Ommie Kemp Elliott, she lived most of her life in Dawson County. A homemaker at her death, for many years she and her husband owned and operated a poultry farm.
Eula Belle Grant, 91, of Gainesville, died Oct. 2, 2011.
Born Oct. 5, 1919 in Hall County to the late Joseph Benjamin and Fannie Pearl Robinson, she lived most of her life in Dawson and Forsyth counties.
Hazel Castleberry, 70, of Dahlonega, died Sept. 29, 2011.
Born Nov. 11, 1940 to the late J.W. and Mary Helton, she lived most of her life in Dawson County before moving to Lumpkin County in 2006.
Terry Shelton Allen, 56, of Cumming, died Sept. 22, 2011.
She was a member of Mountain Lake Church.
Robert "Bobby" Burns, 29, of Cumming, died Sept. 17, 2011.
He was a soldier in the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment at Fort Stewart in Savannah and was proud to be in the military.
Hugh Henderson, 67, a native and lifelong resident of Cumming, died Sept. 25, 2011.
Survivors include his loving wife of 48 years, Janice Henderson of Cumming; daughters and sons-in-law, Lisa and Shane Henson of Dawsonville, Leah and Kevin Satterfield of Gainesville, Betsy and Blake House of Gillsville; son and daughter-in-law, Hugh Jr. "Bud" and Mindy Henderson of Dahlonega; seven grandchildren; brothers, Larry Henderson, Roger Henderson; sisters, Vivian Martin, Betty Forbush, Velma Stickel; various other relatives also survive.
Connie Ann Hoogerhyde, 57, of Dawsonville, died Sept. 22, 2011.
She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister, who will be missed dearly.
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Virginia Ann Hammond Martin Sefzik, 76, of Cumming, died Sept. 6, 2016.
Sue Styles Bailey, 75, of Dawsonville, died Sept. 5, 2016.
Onie Bruce, 93, of Dawsonville, died Aug. 30, 2016.
Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Harmon, 63, of Murrayville, died Sept. 3, 2016.
Winfield Scott Wilson Jr., 79, originally of Philadelphia, Penn., and lately of Dawsonville, died Sept. 4, 2016.
Rebecca Diane Freeman, 37, of Gainesville, died Aug. 24, 2016.
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text: Do You Think Guys Should Wax Their Eyebrows? [POLL] By Cefus June 7, 2012 4:08 PM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter townsquare media Do You Think Guys Should Wax Their Eyebrows? Filed Under: eyebrows | poll Category: Poll Share on Facebook Share on Twitter More Leave a comment Send to a friend! Print this page Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr! Best of KDBL Couples Court: Will Her New Guy Really Leave His Estranged Wife? Couples Court: Is Mom-to-Be Being Selfish to Keep the Job She Loves? Couples Court: Bride-to-Be Must Choose Between Her Father, Stepfather Couples Court: My New Man's Allergic to Cats — Should I Keep Him Or Them? Recommended for You ZergNet Best of the Web ZergNet


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This week we're going to focus on some of the best practices of youth ministry nationwide and hope that it generates some helpful conversation as you agree, disagree or have no opinion either way!
Right up front we want to let you know that there is no PERFECT way to do youth ministry; our hope is that you prayerfully consider your context and determine what would and wouldn't work in the ministry you lead.
BEST PRACTICE: Dividing up junior high and high school students.
There is simply too much difference between a 12-year-old 7th grader and an 18-year-old graduating senior—specifically, the developmental differences. Plus, on a practical note, keeping them separate gives the junior highers something to look forward to.
**FREEBIE #4 from the Jordan Howerton Band**
Having said all that, there are some incredible opportunities when you keep these groups together. The older students can disciple and model what younger students can become over the next few years.
• Do you have separate ministries for junior and senior high?
• Why or why not?
• What are other pros and cons of dividing up these age groups?
• What would happen if you made the switch?
BEST PRACTICE: Small groups being the primary method of discipleship and fellowship.
Most youth groups meet once a week for a large-group time of celebration, fun, and worship; and then either as part of that gathering, or at another time during the week, divide up into small groups for fellowship and discipleship. The overwhelming model has been for groups to work through a curriculum and also share life and Christian community together.
**FREEBIE #4 from the Jordan Howerton Band**
• Does your church have small groups, Sunday school, or just large group times?
• Why have you chosen this strategy?
• What is the weakness of this model?
• Sunday school used to be invincible; now it has largely been replaced by small groups. What's next?
Get talking and we'll take on a couple more tomorrow!


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There's a secularist party going on this weekend at Portland Humanist Film Festival, which includes a costume-contest screening of Monty Python's Life of Brian (9 pm Friday, Nov. 11), and 8: The Mormon Proposition (2 pm Saturday, Nov. 12), which broadsides the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' well-financed campaign against same-sex marriage. Narrated by J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, this 80-minute counterattack feels overly apocalyptic—it might have taken a less ominous, more satirical approach to the Mormons' unusually centralized religious authority and uniquely stupid beliefs about the afterlife. An approach more like...oh, Life of Brian. Showing at: Cinema 21, Friday-Sunday, Nov. 11-13.
- Best paired with: Ninkasi Double Red Believer.
- Also showing: There Will Be Blood (Laurelhurst), The Help (Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst).


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Niggas pop tags, I pop the four-five
Niggas got swag, I got the Tek-9
Niggas got cash better run it
Only dubs and hundreds, I don't do fifties, nigga
And I don't do 50-year-old Jiggas
Off that boss black Lamborghini, interior soft crack
Louis V golf hat, feelin' like a Tiger
I made something out of nothin' like MacGyver
Started from an eighth, flipped it to a key
I got 'em like ay, trappin' like Gucci
Plus I get more green than bleu cheese
And I keep a red bandana in my blue jeans
So, nigga calm your nerves, with all that absurd
Far from the curb bullshit slash spoken word
You nerd I'm from the same city as Venus and Serena
So don't get served I'm so wavy, I don't need no yacht
Ain't no Big Pimpin' on my block
But I'm an underground king, peace to Pimp C, yeah
Catch me ridin' through the hood, 20-10 Bentley
You got cheese and I kill rats
Translation: I still trap now do something with that
Or respond to this and with them big-ass lips
You got my name in your mouth I hope it tastes like this—Ahh
No homo, one more time—Ahh that's your promo
And I been hard to the core since I went solo
Only man on my horse like my all-black Polo
And where I'm 'bout to go is usually a no-no
But I'm loco, got the camel in a chokehold
Tryna son me, I'm not from NYC
You can't even have a child by your Destiny
And I ain't mean to take a shot at B
I blacked out like you did Free
'Cause I'm so wavy
Too hardcore to be a Jay-Z
Rock more red than Weezy Baby
Please say the Baby
Been around for years, so bitch, don't Drake me
And this is not a diss
'Cause I was just out in LA with Drake, bitch
And no disrespect to G and Hip-Hop
But nigga I'm a G and I'm doing this for hip-hop
And that's 'Ye's brother, and 'Ye my nigga so
I'mma give him some advice: Get rid of Amber Rose!
I'mma tell you how she get down
I was at Dig's afterparty, sippin' Cris
She was whisperin' to Chris Brown
I seen Chris turn his head like "No!"
Then Gold Digger came on, I pointed like, "Hoe!"
But this ain't 'bout her, this about Hov
I'mma chop down the Roc and take it to the stove
I apologize to B, 'cause this about Hov
I'ma chop down the Roc and take it to the stove
"D.O.A.?" No! T-Pain stays, old nigga goes
I'm so wavy too hardcore to be a Jay-Z
All up in your ear like Drake beats
So the nigga that cut 'Ye couldn't fade me
You took a shot and the shit grazed me
I wet up your block just like the Navy
Put a label on the shit and write "Play Me"
DJs go in, DJs go in
Cause I'm so..
Funk Flex, you my nigga. Clue, what up? DJ Enuff. I know y'all can't play this shit. It's too wavy. And Jay your boy, it's all good though, y'all still my niggas. DJ Drama, Kay Slay, lock in. I mean, this shit so hot DJ Whoooooo Kid might spin this shit at 50's birthday party. DJ Skee! Khaled know we the best! Yo, Don Cannon, Cannon! I know y'all niggas locked in
A fiery attack at Jay-Z, The Game calls him out on several rumoured events and even takes shots at Beyonce by questioning her fertility.


text: AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of July 18, 2008 eds. Joan Schmelz, Hannah Jang-Condell & Caroline Simpson This week's issues: 1. A New Frontier for Title IX: Science *** FOLLOWING POSITIONS WERE TAKEN FROM WIPHYS *** 2. Faculty Research Fellowship Program, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. 3. How to Submit, Subscribe, or Unsubscribe to AASWOMEN 4. Access to Past Issues of AASWOMEN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A New Frontier for Title IX: Science From: Geoff Clayton [gclaytonfenway.phys.lsu.edu] The New York Times July 15, 2008 Findings A New Frontier for Title IX: Science By JOHN TIERNEY Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports. But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science. The National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy have set up programs to look for sexual discrimination at universities receiving federal grants. Investigators have been taking inventories of lab space and interviewing faculty members and students in physics and engineering departments at schools like Columbia, the University of Wisconsin, M.I.T. and the University of Maryland. So far, these Title IX compliance reviews havent had much visible impact on campuses beyond inspiring a few complaints from faculty members. (The journal Science quoted Amber Miller, a physicist at Columbia, as calling her interview a complete waste of time.) But some critics fear that the process could lead to a quota system that could seriously hurt scientific research and do more harm than good for women. The members of Congress and womens groups who have pushed for science to be Title Nined say there is evidence that women face discrimination in certain sciences, but the quality of that evidence is disputed. Critics say there is far better research showing that on average, womens interest in some fields isnt the same as mens. In this debate, neither side doubts that women can excel in all fields of science. In fact, their growing presence in former male bastions of science is a chief argument against the need for federal intervention. Despite supposed obstacles like unconscious bias and a shortage of role models and mentors, women now constitute about half of medical students, 60 percent of biology majors and 70 percent of psychology Ph.D.s. They earn the majority of doctorates in both the life sciences and the social sciences. They remain a minority in the physical sciences and engineering. Even though their annual share of doctorates in physics has tripled in recent decades, its less than 20 percent. Only 10 percent of physics faculty members are women, a ratio that helped prompt an investigation in 2005 by the American Institute of Physics into the possibility of bias. But the institute found that women with physics degrees go on to doctorates, teaching jobs and tenure at the same rate that men do. The gender gap is a result of earlier decisions. While girls make up nearly half of high school physics students, theyre less likely than boys to take Advanced Placement courses or go on to a college degree in physics. These numbers dont surprise two psychologists at Vanderbilt University, David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow, who have been tracking more than 5,000 mathematically gifted students for 35 years. They found that starting at age 12, the girls tended to be better rounded than the boys: they had relatively strong verbal skills in addition to math, and they showed more interest in organic subjects involving people and other living things. Despite of their mathematical prowess, they were less likely than boys to go into physics or engineering. But whether they grew up to be biologists or sociologists or lawyers, when they were surveyed in their 30s, these women were as content with their careers as their male counterparts. They also made as much money per hour of work. Dr. Lubinski and Dr. Benbow concluded that adolescents interests and balance of abilities not their sex were the best predictors of whether they would choose an inorganic career like physics. A similar conclusion comes from a new study of the large gender gap in the computer industry by Joshua Rosenbloom and Ronald Ash of the University of Kansas. By administering vocational psychological tests, the researchers found that information technology workers especially enjoyed manipulating objects and machines, whereas workers in other occupations preferred dealing with people. Once the researchers controlled for that personality variable, the gender gap shrank to statistical insignificance: women who preferred tinkering with inanimate objects were about as likely to go into computer careers as were men with similar personalities. There just happened to be fewer women than men with those preferences. Now, you might think those preferences would be different if society didnt discourage girls and women from pursuits like computer science and physics. But if you read The Sexual Paradox, Susan Pinkers book about gender differences, youll find just the opposite problem. Ms. Pinker, a clinical psychologist and columnist for The Globe and Mail in Canada (and sister of Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist), argues that the campaign for gender parity infantilizes women by assuming they dont know what they want. She interviewed women who abandoned successful careers in science and engineering to work in fields like architecture, law and education and not because they had faced discrimination in science. Instead, they complained of being pushed so hard to be scientists and engineers that they ended up in jobs they didnt enjoy. The irony was that talent in a male-typical pursuit limited their choices, Ms. Pinker says. Once they showed aptitude for math or physical science, there was an assumption that theyd pursue it as a career even if they had other interests or aspirations. And because these women went along with the program and were perceived by parents and teachers as torch bearers, it was so much more difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that the work made them unhappy. Ms. Pinker says that universities and employers should do a better job helping women combine family responsibilities with careers in fields like physics. But she also points out that female physicists are a distinct minority even in Western European countries that offer day care and generous benefits to women. Creating equal opportunities for women does not mean that theyll choose what men choose in equal numbers, Ms. Pinker says. The freedom to act on ones preferences can create a more exaggerated gender split in some fields. Applying Title IX to science was proposed eight years ago by Debra Rolison, a chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory. She argued that withholding federal money from poorly diversified departments was essential to transform the academic culture. The proposal was initially greeted, in her words, with near-universal horror. Some female scientists protested that they themselves would be marginalized if a quota system revived the old stereotype that women couldnt compete on even terms in science. But the idea had strong advocates, too, and Congress quietly ordered agencies to begin the Title IX compliance reviews in 2006. The reviews so far havent led to any requirements for gender balance in science departments. But Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who has written extensively about gender wars in academia, predicts that lawyers will work gradually, as they did in sports, to require numerical parity. Colleges already practice affirmative action for women in science, but now theyll be so intimidated by the Title IX legal hammer that they may institute quota systems, Dr. Sommers said. In sports, they had to eliminate a lot of male teams to achieve Title IX parity. Itll be devastating to American science if every male-dominated field has to be calibrated to womens level of interest. Whether or not quotas are ever imposed, some of the most productive science and engineering departments in America are busy filling out new federal paperwork. The agencies that have been cutting financing for Fermilab and the Spirit rover on Mars are paying for investigations of a problem that may not even exist. How is this good for scientists of either sex? Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Faculty Research Fellowship Program, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University From: WIPHYS, July 11, 2008 Call for Applications: 2009-2010 Deadline: October 15, 2008 The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University invites applications for residential fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. 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Capital Structure Choice When Managers are in Control: Entrenchment Versus Efficiency
Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of Chicago - Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Walter Novaes
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) - Department of Economics
December 1995
NBER Working Paper No. w5384
Recent capital structure theories have emphasized the role of debt in minimizing the agency costs that arise from the separation between ownership and control. In this paper we argue that capital structure choices themselves are affected by the same agency problem. We show that, in general, the shareholders' and the manager's capital structure choices differ not only in their levels, but also in their sensitivities to the cost of financial distress and taxes. We argue that only the managerial perspective can explain why firms are generally reluctant to issue equity, why they issue it only following a stock price run-up, and why Corporate America recently deleveraged under the same tax system that supposedly generated the increase in leverage in the 1980s.
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To be sure, the Oz Open has had its share of unexpected results recently, from Petr Korda and Thomas Johansson winning it all (in 1998 and 2002, respectively) to Ranier Schuttler, Marcos Baghdatis, Fernando Gonzalez and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga earning second-place honors (in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008).
The supposed reason behind this roll call of the unexceptional is easy enough to understand. The Australian Open is the first major, getting under way barely two weeks into the season. The big dogs, go the theory, often come into Melbourne feeling a bit bloated from the holidays, unprepared for the heat and intensity of Grand Slam tennis Down Under. On top of that, this is the only major at which second-tier players arrive without fresh memories of having had their butts kicked by the best of the best.
There's surely some truth to this way of thinking, but not much. And the most thorough debunking comes from the women's side. The last time a woman without a high profile won the Australian Open was 32 years ago, back when the tournament was holding onto its major status by its fingernails.**
Maybe Kimmie, who took the worst drubbing her life at last year's Australian Open (0-6, 1-6 to Nadia Petrova), will come through this time. She not only won her third U.S. Open last year, but she finished up the season by winning the tour championships. She comes out of the break as chipper as ever about her life and her tennis. She's a rhythm player, and she appears to have the groove going on.
But if she goes off the rails again?
Clijsters' countrywoman, Justine Henin, is the knee-jerk second choice, seeing as she's an established big-time winner and last year's finalist. But after missing the last half of the 2010 season, the seven-time major champion doesn't sound like she's ready to climb back up on the winner's platform. "When you have a break you come back with a lot of questions and a lot of doubts and I'm quite an anxious person, also," she said last week. She added that winning another major title -- no matter which one -- would "be a bigger achievement than what I did in the past." Some players, such as Rafael Nadal, play down expectations as an ambush strategy. But Henin just sounds downright gloomy.
So who else?
How about the number-one player in the world, Caroline Wozniacki, or World No. 2 Vera Zvonareva? Both had impressive 2010 seasons (hence their sky-high rankings), but they also both failed to take that last step at the majors. Until they do, it's difficult to call either a favorite. That said, Wozniacki should be given her due. She has the kind of patient, yeoman's game that can take you a long way on these squishy Melbourne hard courts -- especially if the weather heats up to its potential. And while the pressure of being number one without a major crushed Dinara Safina and Jelena Jankovic (and made Clijsters a bit twitchy, too), it hasn't dented Wozniacki's bluebird-on-my-shoulder demeanor. Zvonareva, on the other hand, still struggles to keep her blackest thoughts at bay during a tough match. She has been in back-to-back major finals and just obliterated Wozniacki with forceful courage in a Hong Kong exo, but increased expectations might be exactly what she doesn't need. If Wozniacki wins the whole thing in Melbourne, she'll do so without impressing anybody. It'll be like watching R2D2 deliver an important message for the princess. If Zvonareva wins it all, she'll do so in exciting, memorable fashion, like a hung-over, eyeliner-smeared Gelsey Kirkland sticking a quadruple cabriole on opening night.
The other Top 5 player with a right to front-runner status is Samantha Stosur. Finger-snap forehand, scythe-like serve, rippling biceps -- no one on tour looks more impressive doing her thing. Stosur has all the tools to make her home crowd proud, make no mistake. In fact, I believe she'll win her first major singles title this year. It's just not likely to happen in Melbourne, where the country's hopes and dreams will thump away inside her skull like an updated version of "The Tell-Tale Heart." The big win is more likely to be at the French Open or even the U.S. Open.Read about Wills' death-defying role in the Great Berkeley Fire of 1923.) After the war, Maureen Connolly was unbeatable, then Margaret Court and Billie Jean King reigned. Next came Evert and Navratilova, the Age of Graf (briefly interrupted by the Seles insurgency) and the now-ending Williams Family Saga. Any woman not listed above who won a major title over the past 90 years was just picking up scraps.
So far, there appears to be no one on the horizon to take up the cudgel from Serena. The official start of this strange parity thing came during the 2009 U.S. Open semifinals, when Serena went bananas over a foot-fault call. Her pique had little do with the lineswoman's eyesight; it was about Serena's frustration that she was losing to Clijsters, a sweet, dough-soft young mother who had been retired from the game just a month before. Earlier in the summer, Clijsters had barely been able to outplay a 40-year-old Steffi Graf in a exhibition, but that was enough to convince her she could win more Grand Slam titles. And she was right.
This widespread mediocrity (relatively speaking) being the new normal, could we have a surprise winner on the women's side, like we did at last year's French Open? Let's consider the possibilities.
I'd love to pick an American to have an unexpected breakthrough, but alas, it isn't easy. Venus Williams, of course, never can be counted out. But retirement rumors hang over her like a rain cloud, and to be taken seriously in Melbourne she needed to prove right out of the gate this season that she still wants to play. She hasn't done that. Melanie Oudin is still too small and athletically limited to make much of an impact on the mind. She's cute as a button and a pugnacious kid of the all-American, let's-put-on-a-show variety, and that's made her a marketing marvel. But she'll have a very frustrating 2011, as it begins to sink in that her 2009 U.S. Open run was an anomaly, not a harbinger of things to come. Big-hitting teen Coco Vandeweghe made a splash last fall. The 6'1" Californian could be the next Lindsay Davenport, but heavy feet likely will be more of a liability for her than they were for Davenport. As a Nike ad featuring the Oregon Ducks put it: "Yesterday's fast is today's slow." What does that make yesterday's slow? You heard it here first: Bethanie Mattek-Sands will go deeper in the draw than Oudin or Vandeweghe.
Thus, here's my list of not-really-surprising surprise runs in Melbourne: Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka, Jelena Jankovic, Marion Bartoli, Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova. I won't be shocked if two of these women -- take your pick -- make the Final Four. I will be shocked if any of them wins the tournament.
Clijsters: The one thing we know for sure about the sunny Belgian is that everything has to be just right for her to win it all. She has to guard against the laid-back Aussie lifestyle, her natural state of mind, infecting her game and bringing her crashing down.
Henin: Despite the Gloomy Gus act lately, she'll have her game face on when it's time. She's a long shot to hold up the trophy, but she won't go down easily.
Zvonareva: She could sweep to final-weekend glory like the Unsinkable Molly Brown, or she could fall early in a shock upset. There's really no telling.
Wozniacki: She's had the worst warm-up for a major that it's possible for a World No. 1 to have. Which could mean she's one forehand from clicking into sync.
Stosur: As she does everywhere, she'll look unbeatable in Melbourne ... even as she suddenly starts shanking shots into the third row.
And so, with a shaking hand, I pull the lever for ...
-- Douglas Perry; Twitter
More: Australian Open preview: The men.
* The French Open provides the most surprises because, historically, the top players are at their best on fast courts. That means that now and again a player who's barely ever heard from for nine months out of every year -- most recently 2002 Roland Garros champion Albert Costa, 2004 champs Gaston Gaudio and Anastasia Myskina, 2005 runner-up Mariano Puerta and 2010 winner Francesca Schiavone -- can make hay in the clay, his or her little niche, during a single, glorious once-in-a-career run. On the other hand, the Australian Open surprises listed above (Korda, Johansson, Schuttler, Baghdatis, Gonzalez and Tsonga) all have reached at least the semifinal round at a major at another time.
** The 1979 women's champion is Barbara Jordan -- the former Stanford standout, not the late Texas congresswoman.


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I know what some of our local politicians have been saying, but trying to weed through the facts and actually start to have some confidence that our political climate is seriously changing for the better is difficult for me.
Our recent state budget was on time and that's a plus for those who have to plan their budgets based on the states funding or not funding of various items and programs. I'll give a few points for that, although filing timely budgets is their job, at least for a change it was done.
Our illustrious county executive is happy about the cap on Medicaid, purported to save us billions in the next three years.
Really? What it actually does is to cap the estimated rise in Medicaid expenditures, by capping that rise at 2 percent for next year and 1 percent the year after followed by no rise. All well and good, but it does nothing to reduce the already crushing weight of current Medicaid costs, does absolutely nothing to the unfunded mandated costs that have essentially bankrupted our county. So, since we are reportedly $14 million in the hole for this year, and nothing is in that budget to help us this year, why all the hand clapping? I don't get it.
We're fighting hard to get some commitment on keeping the NRG plant operating, and the state budget doesn't address that at all. The closing of that plant would be an economic disaster for this area, and I mean the entire county, not just Dunkirk and Fredonia where most of the NRG employees live.
I understand the cheering on the sidelines from the Green Energy folks, but they're wearing blinders as to the immediate economic impact of NRG closing, or just don't care as that one issue is overriding of all others for them. So be it, but count on a huge tax rise afterwards and don't complain, please.
We have an agreement on teacher evaluations and again, a lot of hand clapping there too from the anti-teacher, anti-public employee crowd. And after all, how could one not be happy over a process that ensures our children will be taught by the best available?
Well one could if that evaluation process is so flawed as to be meaningless. Much was made over teachers' unions fighting a portion of the evaluation that doesn't allow for attendance to be weighted when scoring student performance, and accusing the teachers of being unreasonable. Really? If a teacher is in a district like Buffalo, where student truancy runs about 25 percent, how can you not give that some weight as to student test scores? Don't students who miss school and assignments get zero for at least some grades and tests? Won't that affect their scores?
I'd be more concerned if missing assignments don't affect their grades. And, in all fairness, is it fair to have the exact same criteria for a teacher evaluation in all school districts without any allowance for the student body contained in it? Is it reasonable to expect a teacher in the Buffalo school system to meet the same standards as say Amherst?
Looking at the population, income and educational levels of the parents in Amherst relative to Buffalo would lead a logical person to say no to that question. But logic has nothing to do with this, and politics has everything to do with this issue. And nothing has been even mentioned as to the curriculum and teaching methods forced on teachers over the last few decades leading to the current crisis in education. There have always been good, bad or average teachers so blaming everything wrong with education on them isn't reasonable or logical. I'm assuming the hand clapping is the result of a perception that a group of public employees lost an argument and due to the demonizing of all public employees that's automatically a good thing. I don't think so.
We have a Tier 6 retirement program now, with changes from Tier 5 that will save us money in the long haul - billions again according to Albany sources. Really? The main thing driving up retirement costs in a system that should be fairly self-sustaining is the inclusion of overtime wages into the salary on which ones retirement is based. This allows people to retire at salaries often triple their base pay. Now, in my estimation, if a person is working 80 hours per week and more, they can well afford to start their own retirement account to pad their retirement income.
Nobody would be hurting if they retired on what their base pay would have brought in, especially if they worked until they were 62. Most of the changes to the retirement system, from what I saw, is not going to address the biggest issues and the worst abusers of the system, which are police and fireman. Why? Because unlike the majority of state workers where overtime is rotated, the police and fireman give all the overtime to the most senior employees, So, for police and fireman, they can double and then some their income in the last year or two they work as nobody else can get any overtime. It makes a much easier process.
This is all legal by the way, I'm merely pointing out the process. I'm not sure about that limit on 15 percent of overtime counting either. What happens now is it's 20 percent per year. How that works is, year one allows for 20 percent over your base pay as your income for retirement. Year two allows for 20 percent over year one, including that 20 percent overtime. Therefore, by year six, you've effectively doubled your base rate of pay for retirement figuring.
If that 15 percent is applied the same way, all it will do is extend the amount of years needed to work to double one's pay. Since most public employees will work for at least 30 years, how much of an issue is that going to be? So, you really want to do some hand clapping? You create Tier 7, you eliminate all overtime for retirement purposes, and that alone would stop the drain that requires local municipalities to send such large amounts to Albany to replenish a fund that ought to be almost self sustaining by now. My point is, the changes may not be what you think they are, and that's what the issue really is here, reality versus perception and "spin".
The downstate versus upstate issue hasn't changed a bit. While NRG in Dunkirk is hanging on, plans are being made to build transmission lines to the New York City area from New Jersey! Why? My understanding is that it's various connected construction companies from New York pushing for it.
I'm not sure why we've also had discussions with Canada for power while we're potentially losing jobs and closing a plant that exists right here, but we have. I might add that coal-fired plants might be an endangered species anyway, but this plant is the cleanest a coal plant can be. For now, it's better and cheaper than any alternatives, unless of course you support gigantic Transformer looking and bird killing windmills that the government guarantees three times the rate per wattage than it costs NRG to produce, just to make them viable.
The bottom-line is nothing happens overnight, but if you look carefully, much of what we're praising are cosmetic changes at best and aren't going to do anything but position certain people for political advancement.
That's not good enough.
Paul Christopher is a Dunkirk resident. Send comments to email@example.com


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Pregnant Radio 1 presenter braves the chilly weather after hormonal break down in the cinema
Posted: Thursday 29 Nov 2012
Above: Fearne Cotton and her baby bump braved the chilly weather as she headed to the Radio 1 studios today
Above: Fearne Cotton struggled to fit her coat over her growing baby bump
SHE'S ready to pop.
Fearne Cotton and her baby bump braved the chilly November weather this morning when she ventured out to the Radio 1 studios.
But instead of wrapping up her growing belly, the 31-year-old presenter couldn't even button up her stylish grey jacket.
The mum-to-be had to make do with a cosy scarf to keep her snug, while the bump was exposed to the cold.
Buy some maternity clothes, woman!
As her due date approaches, Fearne's not only been struggling to fit into her fashionable wardrobe, she's also been failing to control the dreaded hormones.
On a recent trip to the cinema, she broke down in tears at the end of new movie, Silver Linings Playbook.
[See more celeb news: The X Factor's Rylan Clark tipped to appear in Celebrity Big Brother 2013]
After the film, an emotion Fearne Cotton hit Twitter, writing: "Just saw Silver Linings Playbook! Brilliant, beautiful, clever film. Also as I'm extra emo right now I cried at the end. A LOT!"
We feel your pain, Fearne, and we're not even preggers.


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A wheel chair participant was given a head start to begin the JP Morgan Chase two mile fun run down Onondaga Lake Parkway. Mike Greenlar / The Post-Standard.
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Halloween is a pretty cool time of year.
I mean, I'm not personally the type to dress up in a costume and hit the town in search of like-minded costumed party-seekers. I can't remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween, and I have no idea what the costume was, either.
But I realize I'm in the minority, and the following slides will show you that MMA fighters, by and large, really do love dressing up. And since most of them make a decent chunk of change just for punching other dudes in the face, they have the means to make some awesome (and downright frightening) costumes.
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In the wake of his controversial comments regarding Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews, WEEI's Kirk Minihane has issued an apology that is now up on the station's website, saying that his statements were "immature and completely uncalled for."
During Wednesday's broadcast of the "Dennis & Callahan Morning Show," Minihane sounded off on Andrews during a segment discussing her in-game interview with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright.
"What a bitch. I hate her. What a gutless bitch, seriously, go away, drop dead. Seriously, What the hell is wrong with her?" Minihane said before uttering ""I'm gonna get in trouble for this" under his breath.
Here's Minihane's full apology:
"This morning on the radio I used a series of words to describe Erin Andrews' work at the All-Star Game. My choice of words was wrong; I was wrong to have used them. To all whom I offended -- particularly Ms. Andrews -- I apologize. There is no place for what was said. It was immature and completely uncalled for. I am often critical of media members and their work and recognize here that I've made the kind of mistake I would call out if it was done by another sportscaster or writer. Again, to all involved, I'm very sorry."
According to The Boston Globe's Chad Finn, Minihane will not be suspended or fired for his comments. Finn is also reporting that, per Entercom vice president Phil Zachary, Minihane was already schedule to miss Thursday and Friday's show, and that his absence wasn't a result of disciplinary action.
"Because Kirk was scheduled to be on vacation tomorrow and Friday [a topic discussed on Wednesday's show], some will conjecture he was suspended or terminated,'' Zachary said to Finn in an email. "That is not true. His time off was already scheduled in order for Kirk to attend a wedding.
"Knowing him as I do, he's legitimately sorry for what he said and, more importantly, the way he said it."
Minihane's comments on Wednesday morning's show sparked immediate outrage as the video clip (available here) spread across the internet, with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley the voices.
Comments on WEEI on @ErinAndrews are unacceptable. Criticism is fair but words matter & those words are offensive -mc http://t.co/f4DcjYzur3— Martha Coakley (@marthacoakley) July 16, 2014
Minihane has been with WEEI as an online columnist and co-host since 2009 and has been a regular co-host of D&C since Feb. 2013.


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