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NEW PALTZ — Winter storm Nemo brought snow to the Hudson Valley last weekend, a welcome sight for those that enjoy outdoor activity during the winter months.
NEW PALTZ — Winter storm Nemo brought snow to the Hudson Valley last weekend, a welcome sight for those that enjoy outdoor activity during the winter months.
Snowstorms of Nemo's magnitude have been rare in recent years, which has forced local high school Nordic skiers to get creative in how they practice and prepare when there isn't much snow on the ground.
Take the New Paltz Nordic ski teams, for example.
Each day after school during the winter months, a few dozen students make a beeline for Jon Stern's Earth Science classroom.
They're wondering what they are in for over the next few hours.
Such is the life of a Nordic skier in Section 9, a land of not much snow and few groomed trails. That means coaches, such as New Paltz's Stern, have to come up with innovative ideas for practices and training between races, even if it means crossing state lines to get on snow.
The same goes for the 114 student-athletes competing in the sport this year at the varsity and jayvee levels at the five schools in the section that field Nordic ski teams — Kingston, Monticello, New Paltz, Rondout Valley and Wallkill.
"We have a training sheet every Monday. We get it, but no one really looks at it because it's always changing," said Stern's son Tucker, a New Paltz senior. "If we get snow, we're going to be there. We always save spots Tuesdays and Thursdays for races, but you don't always know if there is going to be a race. You're always kind of on your toes."
On Jan. 24, Stern had a note taped to the outside of his door letting his 39 skiers know what to expect for practice.
It read: "Yes — we're going outside — dress for it. All complaints will be listened to with a deaf ear. Sorry — we are in need of a high intensity workout."
The skiers mixed in a bit of running around the hallways with some work in the weight room — and in between waxing their skis — also managed to run two miles around the outdoor track.
The wind chill that afternoon was a brisk 7 degrees Fahrenheit and there was definitely no skiing, at least not on snow.
"We had a motto that we used a couple of years ago," said Tucker Stern. "We're the dryland trainers. We're New York's toughest dryland trainers because we don't get any snow."
The Nordic ski team at New Paltz tends to draw many cross country runners as well as soccer players, the type of athletes that are already conditioned and prepared for a long-distance sport.
"We don't have an indoor track team, so for the past couple of years it's been like indoor track with no snow," said New Paltz senior Nick Zapotoski. "We've been doing a lot of running and core training, stuff like that."
One method Nordic skiers do have for cross training is the rollerski, a ski with wheels, an imperfect simulation.
"Usually your first meet is your second or third day on snow," said Gisele Trivino, a senior and captain of the girls' varsity team. "Before that, we'll rollerski out in the parking lot. It kind of translates into skiing, but not really."
New Paltz junior Kathryn Gaudette, who also swims, plays lacrosse and does karate, decided to try out for the sport as a sophomore after having Jon Stern as a teacher.
With very little snow on the ground this winter or last, Gaudette has had few chances to practice her new sport on snow.
"We take trips two hours away and during races I would learn," she said. "I didn't do any jayvee, so I went right into 5k, 7k, long races and I didn't know how to do it. I wouldn't do too well. In practice, we're doing a lot of hills this year, at least running up them."
As much as they train in other ways, nothing beats getting on snow, so that means some local skiers have to hit the road.
When Section 9 holds meets for the local teams, they're typically held at Minnewaska State Park or at Mohonk Preserve in Ulster County. With a lack of snow, however, the New Paltz team will often travel north.
New Paltz has occasionally gone to Prospect Mountain in Bennington, Vt., leaving early on a weekend morning and returning in the evenings. It's about 240 miles round trip.
The school generally picks up the transportation, providing a bus, but the skiers must pay the trail fees out of pocket.
"It's a full-day commitment," said Jon Stern. "We'll get on a bus at 7 a.m. and not get home until 6 in order to get in three or four hours skiing. I think that's one of the really remarkable things about the kids we do attract. They're very committed to the sport."
Last year, the mild winter prevented Section 9 teams from holding meets locally. Instead, they traveled to Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center in Northville in the southern Adirondacks for regular season meets. Lapland Lake is about 270 miles round trip from New Paltz.
The current season has been kinder to local teams — they were able to get in four meets locally in early January and two following Nemo.
Each season, the New Paltz and Wallkill teams have a tradition of traveling together to ski on the Olympic trails at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid. This season, the three-day trip cost skiers $165, which included lodging, five meals, trail fees and a T-shirt. Parents and chaperones provided the transportation.
It's a long trip, but after weeks of practices that involve anything but skiing, the athletes relish the opportunity to actually get out there and do what they've been training to do.
"It really makes you appreciate the sport more," Gaudette said. "We're on this team to ski and we don't get to do it, so when we take a trip and we do get to ski, it's really rewarding. It makes you work that much harder."
They also enjoy the social aspect of the trips, which makes it a sport unlike any other.
"This is your family, kind of, on the team," said Trivino. "Not that many people do it and a special kind of people do it, too. You're so close with everybody that it doesn't matter if you spend the entire Saturday with somebody. That's great."
"I don't take much thought into the skiing," laughed Zapotoski. "I think about more what else we're going to do, like hanging out in town or whatever."
One year from now, the Winter Olympics will begin in Sochi, Russia.
Don't expect to see much Nordic skiing on prime-time television. Those spots are reserved for figure skating and ice hockey.
"What's tough about it is that it's not an American sport," Zapotoski said. "It's a lot of Europeans dominating the sport. In swimming, Michael Phelps is a household name in the United States, but there aren't any Nordic skiers that are household names. It's tough to follow because you don't know anybody. It's also not the most exciting thing to watch. It's a lot more exciting to do it than watch it."
Coaches aren't expecting a big bump in participation in late 2014 because of the Olympics, but the sport is still finding ways to recruit new athletes, despite all the challenges.
"We have 114 total athletes in the section," said Jon Stern. "That's one of the higher numbers we've had. I've been chairperson for about 10 years, so I have a pretty good handle on the numbers. The involvement hasn't dropped."
With school budget votes right around the corner and with many local districts considering cuts to arts and sports — if not laying off teachers and closing schools — some are worried about the future of the sport at the high school level in Section 9.
"Every year I worry that the program is going to get cut," Fitchett said. "It's a small group. What we have going for us is that it's not that expensive of a sport. We don't have to pay officials and there is only one coach. It's basically just travel expenses."
The Hudson Valley and Catskills haven't been blessed with a great deal of snow the past few years, but if it ever does snow significantly this year or again in the future, this area has potential to be a Nordic skiing hotbed.
"We have some of the best skiing in the Northeast right here," said Stern. "When there is snow, Minnewaska and Mohonk Mountain House do a great job grooming. There's no place I'd rather ski. The trails here are meticulous and the scenery is spectacular. We really are lucky that way and that's a big reason we're able to pull this off because we do have access to trails locally."


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Reds fall to Yanks, off to slow start in second half
NEW YORK -- While the Reds were on quite a roll at the end of the first half, a myriad of injuries made the four days off at the All-Star break extremely welcomed. Instead of returning fresh and ready to tackle the second half, there are some troubling developments after two losses vs. the Yankees.
A 7-1 loss to the Yankees on Saturday assured the Reds a losing three-game series -- only their second series loss in the last 12.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- While the Reds were on quite a roll at the end of the first half, a myriad of injuries made the four days off at the All-Star break extremely welcomed. Instead of returning fresh and ready to tackle the second half, there are some troubling developments after two losses vs. the Yankees.
A 7-1 loss to the Yankees on Saturday assured the Reds a losing three-game series -- only their second series loss in the last 12.View Full Game Coverage
Through two second-half games, the offense hasn't looked good. Here's the tally:
• Cincinnati has more strikeouts (23) than hits (14). That included 13 K's on Saturday.
• There has been only one Reds walk in two games. It came on Friday in the second inning from Jay Bruce.
• Catalyst Billy Hamilton is 1-for-8, while Bruce is 0-for-7 with three strikeouts on Saturday.
"We're certainly not a 13-strikeout-a-game team," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "Twenty-three strikeouts in two games ... it can't be a part of our offensive personality if we expect to be successful."
Yankees starter Brandon McCarthy, pitching for the first time at home for his new team, struck out nine batters without a walk over his six innings. McCarthy, acquired from the D-backs on July 6, entered the day 3-10 with a 4.80 ERA and 0-2 with a 14.73 ERA in three career starts against the Reds.
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In five innings of work, Reds All-Star starting pitcher Alfredo Simon gave up four runs (two earned) and five hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Cincinnati came in 8-0 over Simon's last eight starts, with the right-hander getting six of the victories.
Simon left the clubhouse before reporters were granted access following the game. Price felt his pitcher's curveball lacked effectiveness and it cost him.
"A lot of times, I think he was trying to go below the zone with a finishing pitch," Price said. "A couple of those situations with guys in scoring position, our infield in, [Simon] used the curveball to try to finish the hitter below the zone for a strikeout there, and [they] put it in play for both hits and sacrifice flies. So it just wasn't really a great pitch. It's a pitch that's been pretty reliable for him in the past, it just wasn't today."
With two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Simon's 0-2 breaking ball to Carlos Beltran was deposited into the right-field seats for a solo homer and the game's first run. The next two runs came as a result of defensive mistakes by a team with the fewest errors in the Majors.
Starting the New York third inning, Brian Roberts lifted what seemed to be a routine fly ball to right-center field. Bruce ran and seemed to glove the ball before it popped out for a two-base error. That led to an unearned run on Brett Gardner's RBI single through the right side of a drawn-in infield.
Following back-to-back singles by Roberts and Kelly Johnson in the fifth inning, a passed ball by All-Star catcher Devin Mesoraco advanced the runners. Another unearned run scored on Gardner's sacrifice fly. Derek Jeter's RBI single to center field made it a 4-1 game.
"A couple of uncharacteristic plays that got some things going," Price said.
J.J. Hoover took over for the Reds in the sixth inning, and although there were no hard-hit balls, he still allowed four costly ground-ball singles for three more runs. It was Johnson's slow roller down the first-base line that scored two of them and created more daylight.
"Really in the end, we didn't have an outstanding pitched game, outstanding defensive game and didn't do anything productive offensively, and that's just not going to work against anybody," Price said.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — AMC says it has ordered two new dramas that are expected to debut in 2014.
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Bremen swim teams topple Rochester
BREMEN — This year Bremen's swim teams have shifted their focus a bit in practice.
The Lions are sweating some of the finer details, and the change has already done them some good.
Bremen claimed a pair of wins over visiting Rochester in a boys and girls dual swim meet at home Thursday. The Lions won 98-86, and the Lady Lions were victorious, 97-89.
"We're focusing more on intensity and endurance this year and a lot more on technique work, and I think it's paid off for some of them already," said Bremen head swim coach Meredith Eakins.
"A lot of our swimmers are starting where they left off last year, so I'm very happy with that."
It was the first win of the young season for the boys' swim team and the second for the girls. After a pair of tough losses swimming against big programs Northridge and Penn on the road in Middlebury Tuesday, it felt good for the Lions to pick on someone their own size Thursday.
"What I told the team when we swam with Penn at Northridge is we have 450, 490 kids at our school, and we're also competing to get kids from all the other sports. Those schools get to pick up whatever kids they want, they have year-round feeder teams and everything else," Eakins said. "I said to go out there and swim your best and take places from them or keep up with them in some races, but… I also said to focus on your times, not on them. Especially for the boys because I didn't want them to get discouraged their first meet."
The Lions were led Thursday by Nolan Filchak's clean sweep of four first places in the butterfly and the backstroke as well as on Bremen's winning medley and 400 free relay teams. Joe Zeltwanger won the 50 free and was a winner on the medley relay team, and he bounced back from a disappointing false start in the 100 free with a winning turn on the Lion's winning 400 free relay team. Jack Fanning earned victories in the 100 and 200 free swims and on Bremen's 200 free relay team, while Krent Hueni won the 500 free and swam legs for his team's winning medley relay and 400 free relay squads, and Will Serf also notched a trio of wins in the individual medley and on the 200 and 400 free relay teams.
"The boys are strong. We have a strong group of boys, but our numbers are where we hurt," said Eakins.
"They rise to the challenge, and they always pull it out at the end. It's good to know you can count on those guys every meet to put in their best effort. They're dropping time left and right, so I'm very pleased with how they've started the season."
The Lady Lions' biggest points producers were Katie Lafferty with wins in the 50 and 100 freestyle races and on her team's winning medley and 200 free relay teams, and Mattie Hershberger, who won the IM, placed second in the breaststroke and helped Bremen to wins in the medley and 200 free relays along with Lafferty.
"Those two girls and a few of the others, I think they're putting in harder work in practice, and they're seeing the times come off already, and I think when they get to the end of this year they're going to see even more come off," Eakins said. "The same goes with them — they put in their best effort every single meet. They want to win, they're out there to win, and if they don't they give it their best effort."
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200 medley relay: 1. Bremen (Krent Hueni, Stuart Schmeltz, Nolan Filchak, Joe Zeltwanger) 1:46.51, 2. Rochester 1:51.19; 200 free: 1. Jack Fanning (B) 2:04.21, 2. Sawyer Cripe (R) 2:09.92; 200 individual medley: 1. Will Serf (B) 2:17.8, 2. Schmeltz (B) 2:17.86; 50 free: 1. Zeltwanger (B) :23.2, 2. Steven Newton (R) :23.91; Diving: 1. Cameron Bugno (R) 177.35, 2. Tyler Byerline (R) 125.4; 100 fly: 1. Filchak (B) :54.92, 2. Patrick Kays (R) :56.66; 100 free: 1. Fanning (B) :54.3, 2. Jace Bixler (R) :57.95; 500 free: 1. Hueni (B) 5:19.28, 2. Patrick Kays (R) 5:23.56; 200 free relay: 1. Bremen (Fanning, Kris Wickens, Schmeltz, Serf) 1:44.07; 100 backstroke: 1. Filchak (B) :56.93, 2. Newton (R) :57.64; 100 breaststroke: 1. Schmeltz (B) 1:08.85, 2. Cripe (R) 1:15.72; 400 free relay: 1. Bremen (Serf, Hueni, Zeltwanger, Filchak) 3:27.5, 2. Rochester, 3:44.9.
At Bremen
200 medley relay: 1. Bremen (Bailey Richards, Jess Bollenbacher, Mattie Hershberger, Katie Lafferty) 2:08.06, 2. Rochester, 2:13.14; 200 free: 1. Alison Webb (R) 2:22.27; 2. Kerygan LaVine (B) 2:28.35; 200 individual medley: 1. Hershberger (B) 2:34.37, 2. Anna Bearss (R) 2:42.91; 50 freestyle: 1. Lafferty (B) :25.3, 2. Sammy Ruppert (R) :29.82; Diving: 1. Quinn Bixler (R) 200.8, 2. Traci Burch (R) 116.3; 100 butterfly: 1. Anna Bearss (R) 1:14.35, 2. Kaitlyn Ahlenius (B) 1:21.74; 100 freestyle: 1. Lafferty (B) :55.27, 2. Erica Abbott (R) 1:02.95; 500 free: 1. Ruppert (R) 6:36.91, 2. Lacey Miller (B) 6:44.97; 200 free relay: 1. Bremen (Hershberger, Ahlenius, Amanda Nusbaum, Lafferty) 1:53.51, 2. Rochester, 2:08.58; 100 backstroke: 1. Abbott (R) 1:10.49, 2. Richards (B) 1:12.89; 100 breaststroke: 1. Webb (R) 1:18.37, 2. Hershberger (B) 1:18.63; 400 free relay: 1. Rochester (Bearss, Webb, Ruppert, Abbott) 4:27.64, 2. Bremen 4:33.13.


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At CES 2013, Sony Network Entertainment COO Shawn Layden talks Music Unlimited and the PlayStation Store with CNET contributor Christopher MacManus. Discusses desires to advance music store capabilities and the creation of a North America PSN store via your Web browser.
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I'm not entirely sure what the difference is. However, I must say that having to update my store account upon entry is very irritating, hopefully this will solve the problem.
I actually kind of like the new PS Store, but the Android Music Unlimited App is awful! I do save a lot of money on the Music Unlimted PS Plus offer, but fix your product! And a little bigger selection wouldn't hurt either.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, citing an inability to pay back debt.
Eddie Bauer (EBHI) emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005 after being spun off from former owner Spiegel Catalog, which itself sought bankruptcy protection in 2003.
Costs from the 2005 reorganization, combined with pressure from the current recession, left the company "with no choice but to use this process to reduce the debt load," said chief executive Neil Fiske in a prepared statement.
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The outdoor clothing retailer plans to sell most of its assets to private-equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors for $202 million. It expects the sale will be complete in 60 days or less.
CCMP has agreed to keep most of the stores and employees, though the sale is open to other bidders per bankruptcy law. Eddie Bauer has 371 stores nationwide, with 8,600 employees.
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In April the company negotiated with lenders for short-term relief on its debts before "explor[ing] various paths for restructuring its balance sheet," the release said, but it was ultimately unable to do so.
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James Ford and James Anthony Shaw are together aka Simian Mobile Disco, James Anthony had this to say about the live shows:
Instead of leaving their studio behind for their first solo tour, SMD packed the whole thing up, brought it around the world and dissected it for us in this film [Taken from revision3 ]
You do live shows as well. How does it work?
James Anthony Shaw: Well there's loads of stuff for the live show. We have a mixer and loads of vintage analogue synths, a modular synth, lots of outboards. We can play the tunes, change the structure, the mix. There's loads of room for improvising, like segways between tracks, mixing them on top of each other or sections on top of each other. There are lots of bits we make up things on the spot. Depending on how that goes, we'll either develop that for a while or jump onto the next track. The whole idea is that it's fun for us.
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Class of 2011 - - Free At Last!
The Custer County Chief brings you coverage of all 13 area high school graduations! Last week we profiled six of those graduations - this week we feature the remaining seven. Our coverage includes photos from each school's graduation ceremony, a list of scholarship winners from the graduating classes and biographical information on each graduating class. At the Chief, we consider it an honor and privilege to have had the opportunity to cover these students throughout their high school careers and to be able to provide this final piece of the puzzle. Be sure and pick up your copies of the May 12 and May 19 graduation issues of the Chief! Congratulations Class of 2011!


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Animal Species:Jelly Blubber
The Jelly Blubber is the most commonly encountered jellyfish along the Australian eastern coast and large swarms sometimes appear in estuarine waters.
Standard Common Name
Jelly Blubber
In Sydney waters, the Jelly Blubber's large bell is a creamy white or brown colour, but farther north it is usually blue. This is because the jellyfish has developed a symbiotic relationship with algal plant cells that are kept inside its body. These plants vary in colour from region to region. The algae photosynthesise, converting sunlight into energy that can be used by the jellyfish.
Size range
35 cm
Jelly Blubbers are found in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Jelly Blubbers tend to be found in intertidal estuaries and coastal waters.
Feeding and Diet
The Jelly Blubber has no mouth but there are many tiny openings in its tentacles. The tentacles also have stinging cells that can capture tiny crustaceans and other plankton.
- Species:
- mosaicus
- Genus:
- Catostylus
- Family:
- Catostylidae
- Order:
- Rhizostomeae
- Class:
- Scyphozoa
- Phylum:
- Cnidaria
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
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A number of studies over the years have examined the developmental impact maternal depression can have on newborns and infants. Maternal depressive symptoms can be linked to poor feeding practices (including shorter duration of breast-feeding and attachment issues), and increased stress in children.
But one new study has come up with a surprising finding: children of depressed mothers are shorter on average than their peers going into preschool and kindergarten.
In the study, "Impact of Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Growth of Preschool- and School-Aged Children," in the October 2012 Pediatrics (published online Sept. 10), researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health tracked 6,000 mothers and babies to determine if maternal depressive symptoms at 9 months postpartum negatively affected growth in children over 3 years of age.
At the nine-month mark, 24 percent of mothers reported having mild depressive symptoms and 17 percent had moderate to severe symptoms.
Kids whose mothers displayed mild symptoms of postpartum depression were observed to be shorter than average, however, this trait gradually disappeared by age five. For children whose mothers suffered from moderate or severe symptoms of depression, the chances of being shorter increased from 40 percent to 50 percent during the transition from four to five years of age.
Plus: When Postpartum Depression Lasts
Based on the findings, the researchers advocated for prevention, early detection, and treatment of these symptoms in the first year after mothers have given birth.
Tell us your story. Did you suffer from postpartum depression? And if so, what impact do you think it may have had on your child? Let us know in the comments.


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Opinion: A Politically Correct War Erupts Over Egypt's Coup
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the Twitter debate regarding what has provoked sexual violence in the wake of the Egyptian military coup. Photo: Associated Press
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... good afternoon and welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... one of the more disturbing aspects of Egypt's recent Louis the uptick in violence sexual violence ... against women so why won't the left discusses ... best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto joins me now James ... cut up up a quote from Twitter The really kicked off the long line to be the least about ... this violence is from Joyce Carol Oates the author she says quote ... for nine point three percent of women report having been sexually harassed in rate is academic Egypt's ... Nasser to inquire colon ... what's the predominant ... religion ... James isn't that natural for debate going up to after ... linking those two things religion and violence thousand and twelve What erupted wasn't really a due date was I what I call it quits store are the Readies tweets that came back ... and died you know was I oh you're Islamophobia cure or buy your your such a big it and so on and so forth it was an effort to shut down the discussion ... okay that this is a discussion that we should have ... um a there there and this is a very disturbing trends ... so what is it about the last thing links ... in ... religion and violence or do they do not read it that way well no it's not ... it's not necessarily in an old segues is a personable up but the U responses show is getting more people are offended by this ... one from the last one of them said now one of them said that while you blame Christianity for ... a gun violence in American schools ... and she actually said Yes which I thought that the Fortune one off the rails he said there is a crusader mentality some Christians or motive ... while the Crusades were seven hundred years ago ... ahh and I don't think that any of the school shootings in America have been ... remotely tied to ride the Christian religion ... but there is this problem of fired off by what Talks calls the rape culture ... in non Muslim society is on and we've seen from sexual violence perpetrated by Muslim immigrants in places like Australia and Norway ... I did that and this this has to do with I did archery Islamic law ... in in which women are enjoying to dress modestly if they don't dress modestly in ... that there's a tendency to think of them is fair game ... and died ... and in addition died of a woman who claims rate require is ... off four male witnesses under sure RIA in order to why ... in order to prove the case is concerned the clash into politically correct taboos ... Islamophobia ... and what you called the rape culture right ... these are both terms that are meant to shut up shut down conversation I was accused in we were talking night in the past weeks about to ... my reading songwriter Claire McCaskill in her war on men ... I was accused of floating rate culture ... because I've basically defended the rights of the men were accused of sexual assaults ... are defender constitutional rights and I said that women are responsible for their own actions ... when they behave recklessly sign accused of Hoffman recall for ... now ... I'm not easily intimidated by that sort of thing you feed the beast conversation Stoppers don't work on me because I'm an ornery God ... bought side you know these above mentioned things I find fascinating about this was ... a buy ... oh it's deployed ... the recall for ... conversation stopper ... as a rejoinder to the Islamophobia conversation stopper and it didn't work people still accused her of Islamophobia ... so it seems that for the politically correct laughed ... by ... defending Muslims from the insult is more important than defending women's recession ... any get past this because these are issues that we need to to talk about this a society have ... honey you get the conversation going that's the reaction well I just engage in anti an indicted in the only way to get past it is not being intimidated by these conversation Stoppers and two ... I'd to take them as a provocation for more conversation okay well the the the provocation from our conversation ... thus the mail today columnist ... thus the Web Today columnist James Taranto thank you so much


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Across South Carolina, options for care for senior citizens and persons with disabilities are dwindling, while our escalating population continues to place a greater reliance on our state's available resources.
Helping to fill part of this void is adult day care, which gives family members who care for a loved one the ability to have a break in their caregiving responsibilities in order to maintain their normal work schedule while a dependent family member receives valuable services at a day care center. Participants at these centers, including seniors and persons with disabilities, may require some assistance with the activities associated with daily living (such as bathing, eating, and dressing), but generally, they are not in need of advanced forms of care.
Adult day care centers are vital community resources that serve as life-savers for countless family members and individuals in our state.
First and foremost, adult day cares provide a much-needed benefit for working family members, who, without these facilities, would be forced to choose between their job and taking care of a loved one. These facilities allow a family member to continue to support themselves, keep the family unit together and prevent their loved one from becoming a ward of the state.
Secondly, these centers serve as an outlet during the day for similarly challenged individuals so they are able to associate with one another, receive nursing support and benefit from mental and physical stimulation.
Thirdly, these centers prevent the migration of their participants to more costly forms of care, such as an assisted living facility or a nursing home. In essence, these centers not only provide a benefit for the families and individuals who rely on their services, but they also save taxpayers money.
Some families are able to pay privately for services at adult day care centers. But for participants who qualify for assistance, adult day programs in South Carolina are reimbursed $43.75 per person per day for services. Nationally, the average rate for adult day care centers is $61 per person per day, which often includes eight to 10 hours of care.
Recent state Medicaid rate reductions have made providing day care increasingly challenging, and furthermore, South Carolina's Medicaid reimbursement rates are among the lowest in the nation. Compared to a Medicaid nursing home bed, which costs approximately $52,000 per year, the savings to taxpayers are over $40,000 annually.
In addition, adult day care continues to be plagued by government's regulatory environment. In one particular facility I visited, there was a strong interest shown by the participants, family, and staff for the center to open on Saturdays. However, for that to occur in the same center where they operate Monday through Friday with identical services, the center was required to jump through more bureaucratic hoops via a recertification process in order to receive special permission. Therefore, it just wasn't worth it to them in time, energy and money.
Care options, such as adult day cares, are the answers to many of our residents' prayers. They allow loved ones to live at home with their family close by, while creating social opportunities with fellow peers. They provide flexible nursing care, as needed, throughout the day, while monitoring and supervising the distribution of medication. Many of them offer transportation and are designed for adults of any age, including seniors, with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
I have toured similar facilities state-wide, and I have observed first-hand the severe need for care options, such as adult day care centers. We should be doing everything in our power to promote additional care options in our state. Yet, our state has created a regulatory road so bumpy that the effort required to offer additional services is barely outweighed by the advantages. Options for care, such as adult day care centers, should be encouraged instead of hindered.
Sadly, an increasing number of these facilities are struggling to remain open. Money is not the only roadblock these centers must overcome, and the desire for additional care options will only continue to grow as South Carolina's senior population doubles over the next 20 years. This is a trend that must be reversed, but it will take a more common sense approach from policymakers across our state.
For more information, contact the SC Lieutenant Governor's Office on Aging at 803-734-9900 or 800-868-9095 or visit www.aging.sc.gov.


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Three of the fitness industry's top writers and editors – Lou Schuler, Sean Hyson, and John Romaniello – show you how to improve your skills, build an audience, get the attention of magazine editors, create a revenue-generating business, and even achieve the ultimate recognition of your expertise: a published book
From the desk of Lou Schuler
You may not know me, but I think I know you.
I know you look at popular blogs and sites like T-nation and magazines like Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Shape and Oxygen. You see the same names over and over again. You see posts and articles written by your fellow fitness and nutrition pros and you ask yourself:
"What does that guy know that I don't?"
"How did he build the audience he has?"
"How did he get his name into all those places – the places where I want to see my name?"
Here's something else I know about you: I know you've probably tried to do exactly what those guys did.
You started a blog and a Facebook fan page.
You wrote articles and submitted them to magazines.
Maybe you even wrote a book, and sent it out to some agents and publishers.
And for all that, you're no closer to your goal of being published, of getting attention for your work, of being the guy or gal editors think of when they need exercise or diet tips.
Is there a secret handshake? Do you have to wait to be invited? Do you have to bribe somebody, and if so, can you pay in monthly installments?
I know you're asking these questions because I've heard them from more young fitness and nutrition pros than I can remember over the years.
I also know the answers. How?
Because, in many cases, I was right there when some of today's best-known fitness writers started out. As the fitness director at Men's Health magazine, I helped guys like Alwyn Cosgrove and Craig Ballantyne when they were unknown outside their small circles of friends and clients.
Because I've mentored two entry-level writers. Adam Campbell is now one of the top editors at Men's Health and menshealth.com. He's won a National Magazine Award and written a New York Times bestselling book. Nate Green is a published author, a writer for Precision Nutrition (following a successful stint at T-nation), and a popular blogger.
And because, over the years, I've worked with more brand-name fitness and nutrition experts – assigning and editing articles; making introductions to editors and agents; offering career advice; and in some special circumstances coauthoring or ghost-writing books for major publishers – than I could ever remember, much less count.
"Lou Schuler helped me go from a no-name grad student to a New York Times bestselling author. In fact, more than anyone else, he's the guy who taught me how to write. I simply wouldn't be where I am today without Lou"
~ Adam Campbell, author of The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises
"When I was a 20-year-old community college dropout, I sent an email to Lou Schuler – a guy I'd never met – and told him I wanted his job. My friends and family thought it was weird and were convinced I'd never get a response. I was more hopeful.
"Two hours later, Lou wrote back with some advice on how I could get started as a writer in the fitness industry. I didn't know it then, but that one email would provide me with a great mentor and be the catalyst for my writing career.
"Since that day seven years ago, I've gone on to write hundreds of articles for major online and print magazines, start two successful blogs, and write two books, one of which was sold to Avery Publishing, an imprint of Penguin.
"Lou helped me every step of the way as an editor, mentor, and friend.
"If you want to start your own blog, write for major magazines, or fulfill your dream of one day writing and selling a mass-market book, you should listen to Lou and follow the steps he gives you. The man knows what he's talking about."
~ Nate Green,
Program Director, Scrawny To Brawny
"As I said in the acknowledgments for one of our New Rules of Lifting books, Lou Schuler met a young Scottish immigrant working as a personal trainer in New York and saw something no one else saw. He's helped me improve my writing and communication skills in both large and small ways. I learn something new from him each time we work together."
~ Alwyn Cosgrove, owner of Results Fitness in Newhall, California, and coauthor of the New Rules of Lifting series
"Lou Schuler has been an essential part of my success in the fitness business. You must learn how to convey your message with clear, concise language in order to reach a large market to build your brand and business. Lou knows how to do this better than anyone in this industry. I'm always amazed by his ability to teach fitness professionals how to deliver a more engaging and comprehensible message."
~ Chad Waterbury, author of Huge in a Hurry and coauthor of the upcoming Eat, Move, Live, with Wolfgang Puck
Most of them were no more prominent than you when I started working with them.
I can't and don't take credit for the success of these smart, talented, ambitious, and hard-working individuals.
In some cases a small bit of offhand advice led to phenomenal results, like the time I suggested to Alwyn Cosgrove, my coauthor on the New Rules of Lifting books, that he start a blog. (I think within 15 minutes of his first post he had a bigger audience than me.)
That kind of advice, as I've joked in the past, is free, "and worth every penny."
But what about the advice that's not free? What if I distilled 20 years' worth of hard-earned knowledge as a fitness writer, editor, author, and mentor into one product? What if I could offer a systematic way to help fitness and nutrition pros …
Obviously, I can't guarantee any of those outcomes. And to be honest, the possibility that someone like you would invest your hard-earned money in my advice and not use it successfully has kept me from pulling it together into a single product.
Until now.
What changed? Two things.
For starters, some of the people I helped over the years encouraged me.
Their knowledge, and mine, is now available to you in
Each of us could give you a solid guide to writing and publishing. But the three of us combined offer you something you can't get from any single author:
How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry is actually five ebooks in one product:
Part 1: Sit Your Ass Down and Write helps you understand the basics of writing. I explain that all good writing is a conversation you have with your readers, while fitness writing is a type of conversation in which you offer the promise of a specific biological benefit in exchange for the reader's time and attention.
Part 2: Fitness Blogging for Fun and Profit shows you Roman's step-by-step system, from choosing a name for your blog (and, by extension, your online identity), to attracting an audience, building an email list, and eventually creating steady, dependable, and in some cases substantial income from your efforts.
Part 3: How to Get Published in Magazines lifts the curtain on a business that seems mysterious from the outside. How do you make contact with an editor? How do you know what he's looking for? How do you craft a pitch that stands out from the others? And if you get the assignment, how do you actually put your article together? Sean answers these questions, along with all the ones you would never think to ask.
Part 4: How to Write a Book takes you through the process that begins with an unformed idea and ends, in the best-case scenario, with a published book that not only satisfies your ambition but also finds an audience and lifts you into a new tax bracket. I explain what readers are looking for, what editors want to see from a first-time author, how conventional publishing works, and how to decide if you should self-publish your book.
Part 5: The Writing Life answers more questions a fitness or nutrition professional would never think to ask about your new part-time career in publishing.
That's a lot. But it's not all. In addition, you get five bonus interviews Sean conducted with…
How much is all this worth?
Honest answer: I have no idea. All I can tell you is how much we decided to charge.
To put that in perspective:
If Sean's advice helps you sell one article to one fitness magazine or website, you've paid for How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry at least three times over.
If Roman's advice helps you build a loyal group of readers and fans who buy your products and support your affiliates, you've paid for How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry a hundred times over, if not a thousand.
And if my advice helps you sell a book … well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
How much our product is worth depends on how you use it. If you're an entry-level writer, just getting started with your first personal blog, you'll certainly find solid advice on how to improve your communication skills. But the most valuable tips are probably those that tell you what not to do.
Two examples:
Don't go out of your way to antagonize, call out, or pick arguments with better-known fitness pros. It may entertain you and your friends. It may even gain you a small following, the same way a three-car pileup always draws a crowd. But you'll never know the true price of making enemies. There are communication channels you can't see from the outside, and once your reputation as a trash-talker is established, you may never get opportunities that would otherwise come your way.
Don't spend a lot of money hiring an expensive, well-known web designer. (Sorry Jason!) Use a standard blog template until you've built a substantial following and are getting ready to launch a product. That's when you spend your money on a custom-designed site. (Jason: you're welcome!)
If, on the other hand, you're someone who's already built an audience and is ready to move up to writing for magazines and well-known websites, the value of How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry is more immediate and tangible. The first article you sell will more than justify the cost.
But suppose you've already done all that. You have a website with a growing audience, and you contribute to a variety of magazines, both online and off. You're actually in demand, and have so much work that it's a struggle to balance training your clients and meeting your editorial obligations.
What you really want is to write a book. Or I should say you want to get paid to write a book. You've been around long enough to know that anyone can throw some chapters together, sell it online, and declare him- or herself a "bestselling author." (If he sells two copies in Latvia, he becomes an "international bestselling author.") By this point you've probably put out an ebook or two, and you know how easy it is. (With an estimated 300,000 self-published books appearing each year, how hard could it be?)
I'll be brutally honest:
What I can't tell you is how much money you'll make off this book, or if you'll make any at all. That's how competitive and unpredictable the publishing business can be. No matter how many books I publish, or how much success I have, I never know from one project to the next exactly how things are going to shake out.
My advice might help you land a six-figure advance. (And what the hell, the bonus interview with Roman might help you hit seven figures.) It might convince you to stick with producing and marketing your own products. Or anything in between. All I can promise is that I'll show you exactly how it's done, and nobody on earth can predict what happens after that.
Sorry, I'm 55 years old, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no guarantees.
I started off saying you don't know me, but I think I know you. I know you're ambitious. I know you want more from your career – more clients, more money, more recognition. Some days you want to fast-forward your life 10 years to see the results of all your hard work.
I know, because that's what I was like when I was your age. It doesn't matter how old you are. I was like that at 25, 35, 45. I'm like that now. I've been writing since I was a teenager, and I'm still waiting for the day when I decide I'm as successful as I want to be.
I've had some knocks along the way. I've failed at more things than most people have attempted. In fact, I almost failed at fitness writing. True story.
In the fall of 1991, when I was a graduate student at USC, I was about as broke as a middle-class adult ever gets. My last paying gig was a freelance article on methylene chloride paint strippers for a magazine called Painting and Wallcovering Contractor. The paycheck bought me some groceries, while I paid my rent with a credit card.
That's when I answered a blind ad in the Los Angeles Times for an editor at a fitness magazine. The magazine turned out to be Men's Fitness, and although I didn't get that job, I hit it off with the editors, and got a part-time copyediting job at Muscle & Fitness along with some freelance work at MF.
I screwed the pooch on one freelance assignment. It was about using anti-inflammatory medicine – aspirin and ibuprofen – as a prophylactic, to prevent joint pain. It struck me as a ridiculous thing to do. But I did the best I could, same as I had with the story about paint strippers. This time, unfortunately, it wasn't good enough. Another writer had to step in and finish it for me.
I was lucky my fitness-writing career didn't end right there. I got the next full-time job that opened at MF, and six years later, in 1998, I moved across the country to work at Men's Health.
Paradise found? Dreams fulfilled?
Not even close.
I barely survived the first year at MH. Every article I wrote or edited was ripped to shreds. Everybody told me what I was doing wrong, but nobody explained how to do it right. I was 41 years old. I had just moved my family (including my pregnant wife and two-year-old son) 3,000 miles to take this job. And almost every day I came home from work fearing that I was about to lose everything.
The turning point came near the end of my first year at MH. The magazine brought in Mark Bricklin, a legendary editor at Rodale – the parent company of MH, Prevention, and Runner's World – to explain to the staff what we do, and how we do it. (Apparently I wasn't the only one struggling with my job.)
I had been a fitness writer and editor for seven years, and this was the first time anyone had told me that the goal of service journalism is to promise readers a specific biological benefit, and then show them how to achieve it.
Maybe others were smart enough to figure it out on their own. But I wasn't.
Remember, I wasn't just some meathead they recruited from the nearest squat rack. I have a bachelor's degree in journalism, and studied creative writing in grad school. I've considered myself a writer for almost 40 years. But despite all that time, money, and ego invested in the outcome, I couldn't figure out the basic rules of my own profession.
So how in the world is a personal trainer, nutritionist, strength coach, or any other fitness professional supposed to grasp what I needed to have explained to me?
Doesn't matter if it's with colleagues, clients, friends, or the unknown masses of people who need the advice you have but don't yet know who you are, or what you have to offer. If you have something worth saying, How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry will help say it well.
Is it the only way to improve your writing skill? Absolutely not. If you have the time to research and experiment, and don't mind falling on your face a few times, you can learn it on your own. Lots of people have.
But most people don't.
Here's how I look at it:
How many people become decent lifters without any hands-on instruction? Quite a few, right? They watch others squat, deadlift, and bench press. They read magazines like Sean's, read books like mine, watch instructional videos by coaches like Roman. Over time, despite a few inevitable setbacks, they develop good form and respectable strength.
And if that's all they want, fine.
But how many competitive powerlifters, or Strongmen, or athletes in any sport make it to an elite level without any professional coaching? That list is a lot shorter.
So ask yourself:
Bigger question:
Would your career improve if you …
How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry can't guarantee any of those outcomes. But the people we've helped over the years have achieved all that, and more.
But let's look at it a different way:
Until now, fitness and nutrition pros who wanted my advice – or Sean's, or Roman's – had to go out of their way to ask for it. And even then they had to ask a specific question that we might have time to answer.
Now, for the first time, everything we know is available in one place, for one price.
That's great for you … but also great for every other fitness and nutrition pro who shares your goals.
If every ambitious trainer or nutritionist you know, and thousands you don't know, has How to Get Published: Writing Domination in the Fitness Industry, can you afford to not have it?
Dedicated to Your Writing Success,
Lou Schuler
3-time Bestselling Author


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NCIS to Explore Love ... in an Elevator?Steve Marsi at . Comments
It was no accident that fan favorites Tony and Ziva ended up in an elevator at the tail end of NCIS Season 9 ... which makes sense, considering that most people take the stairs during an evacuation.
Where does that leave them when we pick up next fall, in the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed the agency's headquarters? Show-runner Gary Glasberg weighed in on that with TV Guide.
"We'll pick up with them in that elevator and, with the situation that they're in, there will be some conversations," he says. "Hopefully we'll scratch our way a little bit deeper into the relationship."
How's that for ambiguity? Read into it however you like. Time will tell if it serves as an actual turning point for the "couple," but either way, those are guaranteed to be must-watch scenes.
Tony and Ziva aren't the only ones in precarious positions after the end of "Til Death Do Us Part."
As for whether the team will end up with new digs after the bombing, that's unclear, but the emotional cleanup of the team will be more significant than the physical rubble, Glasberg says.
"There are psychological ramifications that will carry over," he says, in particular Ducky's heart attack.
"How will that affect his character as a medical examiner and his long-held approach to dealing with the dead? How might it change him and the way he views things?"
We welcome your theories on that in the comments below. Follow the link for more NCIS Season 10 spoilers, and tell us how you think things will shake out with Ducky, Tony, Ziva and everyone else ...
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.


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The CAR range of industrial type actuators offers a unique standard of performance, durability, and reliability. The compact design incorporates well proven parts, like the SKF high efficiency ball screw, a sturdy gearbox assembly and high quality DC and AC motors. All to give the best performance possible with extensive operational life. Individual application requirements can easily be matched thanks to the modular design concept. This variant is equipped with a ball screw.
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