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Football: Hebron rallies past Lewisville to clinch playoff berth
By Chris Roark,
Published: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:16 AM CDT
LEWISVILLE -- If playing teams close was the name of the game, Lewisville (1-8, 0-4) would be district champions.
Instead, the Farmers' playoff hopes are officially over, and Hebron (6-3, 3-1) has clinched a postseason berth and is battling for a share of the District 5-5A title after getting past Lewisville Friday, 25-12.
The Hawks can finish in a tie with Coppell for the title with a win next week against Marcus and a Lewisville win over Coppell.
Either way, Hawks head coach Brian Brazil is glad to be in the playoffs.
"Our goal every year is to make the playoffs," Brazil said. "And when you play in a district like this, it's hard."
Playing a Lewisville team that consistently stays in the ball game adds to the difficulty.
The Farmers led, 12-10, as late as midway through the fourth quarter before things started to go Hebron's way.
With Lewisville threatening to pad its lead, Hebron senior cornerback Cardell Lue intercepted a pass from junior quarterback Matt McDougal. The Hawks took the lead on the next play when senior running back Vandy Parkes broke through the middle on a 44-yard touchdown run, putting Hebron up, 18-12, with 6:42 left in the game.
About five minutes later, junior running back Jamal Adams added to the lead with an 8-yard touchdown run. It was his second touchdown of the game as he also scored a on a 3-yard run late in the third quarter to pull to within two, 12-10.
The interception was a rare miscue for McDougal, who had been solid all night for the Farmers. He had to be as the team's primary offensive weapon, senior running back Deandre Brown, is out for the season with an injury he suffered last week.
McDougal led Lewisville in its two scoring drives in the third quarter. Trailing, 3-2, Lewisville took a 5-3 lead with 7:05 left in the third quarter when Tluang Hmung drilled a 22-yard field goal. McDougal completed consecutive passes of 19, 13 and 29 yards during the drive, the last of which was an off-balanced catch by senior receiver Jocqui Davis.
For the night, McDougal completed 13 of 24 passes for 176 yards.
"Matt put together a great game," said Gregg Miller, Lewisville head coach. "He pressed a little at the end, but overall he did a good job. He managed the game the way we needed him to."
Lewisville made it 12-3 with 3:55 left in the third quarter when senior running back Ahkeel Guy plowed up the middle for a 43-yard touchdown run, his longest run of the night.
Guy, who started in place of Brown, struggled early on to establish a solid running game. In the first half, he had 30 yards on 14 carries but finished with 113 yards on 27 carries.
"Deandre has the ability to do a lot of things," Miller said of his starter's absence. "But Ahkeel played really well. And our offensive line played as well as it has all season."
Each team had its chances that it didn't capitalize on early.
In the second quarter with no points on the board, the Farmers threatened by reaching the Hebron 5-yard-line. But consecutive penalties and a 20-yard sack by linebacker Gavin Burford and defensive end Daniel Wise, both juniors, killed the Farmers' chances.
"Momentum is a fragile thing in football," Miller said. "One thing we need to work on is developing that momentum and keeping it."
Hebron also had a missed opportunity when it reached the Lewisville 1-yard line with seconds left in the first half but had to settle for a field goal from junior Joel Carlos.
Despite falling behind in the third quarter, the second half was really when Hebron's offense got rolling. Parkes rushed for 96 of his 116 yards in the second half, and Adams collected 48 of his 76 yards after halftime.
Senior quarterback Brian Dean was solid throughout the game, finishing with 15-for-20 with 112 yards and no interceptions. He filled in for junior quarterback Carson Proffitt, who was injured last week.
"This is a guy we kept in the program, who rotated at quarterback on the freshman 'B' team," Brazil said of Dean. "Then he rotated on the JV 'B' team, and then he played backup to Carson on JV. So he hasn't taken a lot of snaps. But he took 20 snaps tonight, and that just shows the confidence that we have in him."
Miller said despite losing Brown for the season, his team played tough.
"Our guys could have shut it down, but they didn't," Miller said. "I'm proud of these guys for sticking with it. They played with a lot of pride, and they set the foundation for next week and for next season."
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News Update
Council fires town manager (updated)
By Chris Roark,
Published: Monday, October 8, 2012 8:45 PM CDT
After weeks of speculation, the Flower Mound Town Council unanimously voted to fire Town Manager Harlan Jefferson on Monday in a special meeting.
Jefferson, who has been the town manager since 2006, was placed on paid administrative leave Sept. 22 during a special meeting. His contract was set to expire in October 2015.
Chuck Springer, the town's chief financial officer and assistant town manager, will remain the interim town manager until a permanent one is found.
Jefferson was not at Monday's meeting.
Jefferson will receive 22 months severance per the terms of his contract, though an exact figure was not disclosed.
According to his contract, Jefferson made an annual salary of $187,995. The contract states that if Jefferson is involuntarily terminated, he would be entitled to a severance equal to the total base salary, as well as "all accrued leave and town benefits, including but not limited to health insurance, vacation leave, sick leave and exempt leave."
The money will come from the town's general fund, which Mayor Tom Hayden said currently sits at $9.6 million.
"I expect that a year from now, it will be higher than what it is today," Hayden said of the general fund. "This won't have any meaningful impact on the town's finances."
Hayden said that at Jefferson's request, the town has agreed to a mutual confidentiality provision as part of the formal settlement.
Hayden did read from a prepared statement, stating, "A search for a permanent town manager will begin immediately and will be focused on transforming the town's municipal government into a customer centric organization for the benefit of the residents and business owners in Flower Mound."
While Hayden would not elaborate Monday on reasons for the council's action, he did address the situation at the Oct. 1 council meeting.
"The council wants to make sure that we feel like we're in the situation where we can move forward and put Flower Mound in the best place to achieve our goals and objectives," Hayden said at the meeting.
Later that week and before Monday's vote, Hayden discussed a new direction.
"There was a message that we came forward with when we ran for office, and that message was overwhelmingly accepted," Hayden told The Leader last week. "We want a new way of doing things. There is a spirit of cooperation that the council didn't feel like is entirely there."
At the Sept. 22 meeting, Jefferson's attorney, Don Colleluori, said Jefferson understands that it is the council's right to terminate his contract, but he said Jefferson had not been given the opportunity to address any concerns the council had of him.
Since then, sources have refuted that claim, citing several instances when Jefferson was aware of concerns. Among those were discussions at the town council strategic planning session and a council work session following the election in which the council outlined goals and discussed a desire to change the town's direction in certain areas, including the working relationship the town has with developers.
Colleluori also acknowledged the developer surveys in which area developers gave low marks to the town's processes. But Colleluori said those processes are set by the council and that the town manager only enforces those.
Others, however, have said the town manager has the right to make exceptions to help in the development process and that Jefferson did not.
When asked last week if he agrees with Colleluori's sentiment, Hayden pointed to the Oct. 1 meeting when David Watson of Direct Development discussed the issues his firm has had with the town when working on Cross Timbers Village.
The development, located near the intersection of FM 1171 and Bruton Orand Boulevard, will include Tom Thumb, as well as two other buildings.
Per the development agreement, landscaping was required to be installed around the property's perimeter before a certificate of occupancy would be approved.
Watson said his firm requested that the landscaping around the two buildings be allowed to be installed after the construction of the buildings since it would have to be torn up anyway during construction.
Watson said the town staff denied that request, causing a delay in the project and adding extra cost.
"It would have been typical, to say the least, for any other community to accommodate a request like this," Watson said. "You would have liked to have established good will to allow the town to say, 'We know you're good for it.' But that's not what you feel here at all. It's more antagonistic."
Watson also said his firm had to pull 33 permits for this project, noting that a similar project in Wylie has only required one permit.
Watson also said the town required signatures from the owners of all property the construction crew had been on to verify that they left the property in good condition. Watson said that was a last-minute surprise and another hassle.
Hayden said there have been several other instances in Flower Mound recently similar to what Watson described.
Hayden said the search for a permanent town manager will begin immediately.
"In the meantime, we have confidence in Chuck Springer," Hayden said. "He has a number of years with the town, and we know he'll do a fine job."
Copyright © 2013 - Star Local News


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The MeeGo SDK with Xephyr provides a development environment on Linux workstations for Netbook and Handheld applications.
This environment consists of a MeeGo image, converted for use as a chroot, combined with Xephyr, an X server for running the image's UX.
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You have two alternatives here. Either:
This is to allow Xephyr to access the display:
$ xhost +SI:localuser:<user name>
Example for user named "bob":
$ xhost +SI:localuser:bob
(You need to do this once before running Xephyr or Qt Creator after each reboot)
You need MeeGo Image Creator (MIC) for this: install it using the instructions at http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation#Installation if you haven't already.
Run this command to chroot into the unpacked image:
$ sudo mic-chroot /path/to/chroot/dir
The output from running mic-chroot
should look like this:
+====================================================================================+ | WARNING: this script is very dangerous, it may damage your system data, | | so please use it carefully and read this warning seriously. | | | | mic-chroot will create some temporary directories under /var/tmp, their names | | look like 'mic-tmp-*', mic-chroot also creates a directory to save image | | file system for chroot. For such directories, please use mic-rm-chroot-dir to | | remove, otherwise, you may remove your whole system by 'rm -rf <yourdir>' if you | | terminate mic-chroot because of some exceptions or unknown errors, the root | | cause is mic-chroot will bind mount / to chroot directory, exceptional | | terminations didn't unmount it, so you may damage your system, we have warned you. | | Please use it very very carefully, and don't use 'rm -rf' for such directories, | | instead, use 'mic-rm-chroot-dir' | +====================================================================================+ Launching shell. Exit to continue. ---------------------------------- bind_mount: /proc -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-126.96.36.199.20101012.1-chroot//proc bind_mount: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-126.96.36.199.20101012.1-chroot//proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc bind_mount: /sys -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-22.214.171.124.20101012.1-chroot//sys bind_mount: /dev -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-220.127.116.11.20101012.1-chroot//dev bind_mount: /dev/pts -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-188.8.131.52.20101012.1-chroot//dev/pts bind_mount: /dev/shm -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-18.104.22.168.20101012.1-chroot//dev/shm bind_mount: /var/lib/dbus -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-18.104.22.168.20101012.1-chroot//var/lib/dbus bind_mount: /var/run/dbus -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-188.8.131.52.20101012.1-chroot//var/run/dbus bind_mount: / -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-188.8.131.52.20101012.1-chroot//parentroot bind_mount: /lib/modules/18.104.22.168-149.fc13.i686 -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-188.8.131.52.20101012.1-chroot//lib/modules/18.104.22.168-149.fc13.i686 bind_mount: /lib/modules/126.96.36.199-54.fc13.i686 -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-184.108.40.206.20101012.1-chroot//lib/modules/184.108.40.206-54.fc13.i686 bind_mount: /lib/modules/220.127.116.11+ -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-184.108.40.206.20101012.1-chroot//lib/modules/22.214.171.124+ bind_mount: /lib/modules/188.8.131.52-56.fc13.i686 -> /home/ell/meego-netbook-ia32-184.108.40.206.20101012.1-chroot//lib/modules/22.214.171.124-56.fc13.i686
This is now a MeeGo chroot terminal. It behaves just like a terminal running in the MeeGo OS: paths, programs, libraries, and environment are all the same as those on a MeeGo OS netbook or handset.
Caution: If you later decide to delete the directory that you created, use mic-rm-chroot-dir
to delete it. Otherwise the contents of the host file system may be destroyed.
$ sudo mic-rm-chroot-dir <image destination directory>
You only need to follow these steps if you are creating your own chroot from a stock image.
You must do these steps once inside the chroot.
First, add the SDK tools repo to the chroot:
$ zypper addrepo http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/sdk/target/repos/meego/1.1/ meego-sdk
Note that if you're using a different MeeGo image (for example, from Trunk), change the repo URL, replacing MeeGo_1.1 with the correct version for your image.
Then install the software using the instructions for your type of image, below.
$ zypper install meego-simulator-launcher-netbook
$ zypper install meego-simulator-launcher-handset
Launch Xephyr from inside the MeeGo chroot terminal with:
$ startmeego &
This starts the Xephyr server and runs a script to start the MeeGo UI.
When you're done, stop Xephyr by closing the Xephyr window (click X in the upper corner).
Finally, exit the MeeGo chroot terminal with:
$ exit
This closes down any processes started inside the chroot and unmounts directories used by the chroot environment. The output should look something like this:
umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/proc umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/sys umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/dev/pts umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/dev umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/tmp umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/var/lib/dbus umount /home/ell/meego-sdk-0524/var/run/dbus
GL acceleration for MeeGo images under Xephyr only works on Intel graphics chipset. Images may run without it, but performance will be poor.
To identify your graphics chipset, run the following:
$ lspci | grep VGA
Example output: | |
Intel mobile: | 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) |
nVidia: | 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) |
ATI: | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] |
If you get an Intel Corporation chipset, GL acceleration should work.
There is also a known issue with the netbook UX running under Fedora Core 13, where GL acceleration causes the UX to truncate.
However, even if you can't start a MeeGo image in Xephyr with GL acceleration, you should be able to use the UX without acceleration. This can be done by editing the Xephyr start command in /usr/bin/startmeego-debug
in the chroot. Change the line which starts Xephyr $DISP
to the following:
Xephyr $DISP -host-cursor -screen 864x480 -notfp -nodri2 -ac &
Replace the -screen
resolution with whatever is appropriate for the image you're running (use the existing Xephyr command as a basis). This disables GL acceleration in Xephyr, which will result in a slow, but just about usable, UX.
Another approach is to use the host's default Xephyr package, rather than the MeeGo SDK package, to run an image: this article explains how to do this on Ubuntu 10.04.
Regardless of whether you can run the UX, you can always use the chroot to run MeeGo applications run on your desktop, or compile MeeGo software. Go to Application Development, below, for more details.
If you are having issues running Xephyr, use the debug script to see what's happening:
This shows the console output from the script, which may give you some clues if it's not working correctly.
You can install additional software into the MeeGo chroot environment. From the MeeGo chroot terminal:
$ zypper install <package>
You can also upgrade the whole MeeGo image using:
$ zypper dup
The MeeGo chroot terminal can be used to build, run, and debug your application. You can do this with or without Xephyr.
Running without Xephyr: If you run your application from the command-line, it will run normally on your workstation. Although it is not running inside the MeeGo OS UI, it is still using the MeeGo libraries. You can put temporary code in your application to manually set its window size to that of a netbook (1024x800) or handheld (800x480 or 480x800) device.
Running with Xephyr: If you have Xephyr running already, before you start your application from the command-line you need to set the $DISPLAY variable to :2 tell your application to display in the Xephyr window. Otherwise it will use the default DISPLAY value of :0 and show up on your workstation.
$ export DISPLAY=:2 $ <start your application>
Building your application in the MeeGo chroot terminal is the same as doing so on a MeeGo system. You can use gcc, emacs, or any other Linux development tools you are comfortable with. (See Developing with Qt Creator from the chroot, below.)
Source code is often managed by a version control system and checked in/out on your host workstation. To have your source directory available within the MeeGo chroot, you can mount --bind
your source directory to a subdirectory in the MeeGo chroot. From a terminal on your host workstation, outside the MeeGo chroot:
$ sudo mount --bind <full path to source directory on host workstation> <full path to MeeGo chroot directory>/<subdirectory in MeeGo>
For example, using the directories in the example above where the chroot folder is located at /opt/meego-handset, do the following:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/meego-handset/root/src <-- Create a folder inside MeeGo to mount the source to $ sudo mount --bind /home/bob/src/ /opt/meego-handset/root/src/
Caution: Be sure to unmount this directory when finished and before rm -rf /path/to/chroot/dir
at some later date or your source directory will be destroyed.
Qt Creator is part of MeeGo. You can launch Qt Creator from the MeeGo chroot. The following will open Qt Creator IDE on your workstation (not in Xephyr):
$ export DISPLAY=:0 $ qtcreator
To setup the project:
Next write some code:
Then configure the project:
Now you're all set to run the application.
First don't forget to generate the makefile (apply qmake).
From inside Qt Creator, click on the big green arrow (bottom-left corner) to run the application. This will build it first (using the Qt Version you set up) then run it on display :2 (inside the Xephyr simulated MeeGo desktop).
In the Xephyr window, you might need to click on the MyZone icon (the house icon) to reveal the application running behind it:


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Order the Aspria CVB294S On Vacdepot!The Vroom Brooms' hose is the Slinky stretch. The Canplas Slinky hose is the latest stretch hose and has many new features including longer stretch, lower weight, better airflow and low noise. The most notable upgrade is the new larger diameter for better airflow and a longer stretch ratio. Just two and a half inches of the Slinky hose can stretch over one foot, about 25% longer than the previous generation of stretch hose. Advances in the vinyl formulations that make up the skin of the hose now allow a stretch ratio of an amazing 5:1 with 9 threads per inch and lower weight than previous models. The new Slinky stretch hose also improved the static tension for a perfect balance of recoil, extension and hanging tension. Slinky hoses store without sagging and with excellent compression and are easy to extend even with airflow pulling the hose. Gone is the "springy" feeling of previous models which increases the farther you stretch the hose. The new Slinky has a smooth feel when stretched and the tension remains constant at every length through it's range. The Slinky stretch hose also completely eliminates the whistle sounds that previous models would sometimes emit when stretched and cleaning with particular attachments. The wall end of the hose features a quality 1.5" CVS semi-flexible vinyl hose cuff with metal band to activate the central vacuum power unit when inserted into the wall valve. The Slinky hose fits all standard wall inlets both Universal and Direct Connection styles, as well as most utility and unit mounted inlets. The tool end of the stretch hose gives you a full 360° swivel grip to prevent kinks in the hose. A thumb operated air-relief lets you decrease suction for easy expansion with airflow restrictive tools such as crevice nozzles and turbo brushes. The tool tip is a standard friction locking 1.25" diameter that fits most all cleaning tools and wands, and connects perfectly with the included RW2050B Aluminum Telescopic Wand.
The Vroom Broom's lightweight telescopic aluminum wand is manufactured in Italy by OMEC, a leading producer of exceptional quality vacuum extensions. Ultra lightweight at just 10 ounces, less than half the weight of two conventional steel wands, making the Vroom Broom great for zipping through the house while cleaning hard floors. The telescopic wand is a standard 32mm friction fit connection on both ends for quick connection of hose and tools. The metal surface is finished with a durable black baked enamel and the top of the wand is fitted with a nylon collar to protect the edge.
The telescopic wand adjusts fully from 22 inches compressed to 39 inches at full extension in one inch increments. The ratcheting mechanism is a positive ratchet design giving a firmer lock into the desired height allowing the tool to be resized on the fly for the user. The latching system is internally sealed from the dirt control tube for perfect air-flow with no catches and the wand extension action is very smooth and easy to operate. One of the best built multi-surface combination floor tools on the market today. The RD294 is adjustable and built for use on all textile and hard floor coverings. Using the RD294 combo nozzle will allow you to clean hard floor surfaces and soft floor surfaces of any type utilizing the high suction that is evenly applied to the floor by the unique design of the tool.
A large centered opening allows for maximum airflow through the nozzle directly to the surface. This suction is carried to the edges with deep "V" shaped grooves, ensuring constant airflow for any texture of flooring. There are also two independent liter pickers on the cleaning surface to help capture threads or lint that may be stuck in carpet or rugs.
Changing the RD294 from carpet cleaning to hard floors requires you to only move the toe operated switch, releasing the hard floor bristles. The polypropylene bristles are strong enough to clean any hard floor surface from tile, wood, linoleum or concrete. The bristles are packed tight to give the tool a firm base and are wrapped on the sides of the nozzle as well as the front and back. The bristles on the RD294 are scallop cut with slots on the brush surface to let dirt into the airpath of the vacuum, not pushed in front of the nozzle like a broom. The great design of the RD294 makes it easy to use with many labor saving features. At the heart of design for the RD294 is the large centered roller wheel. This soft texture wheel is important to both functions of the tool; making it easy to glide on hard floors - using its convex shape to track straight and keep the brush from "digging in". As you clean with the combo nozzle the wheel transfers your forward motion directly to the floor so you do not have to fight the resistance from the bottom plate to the surface. The RD294 also has a full swivel, triple action joint making this vacuum nozzle more flexible to ensure optimum contact with the floor from any angle. Finally the top mounted toe switch is large and textured with grips that make it easy to use and easy to change from hard floor to carpeted floors in just a couple of seconds. The RD294 not only looks beautiful but is also built strong. The outer housing is durable polypropylene with a textured surface that won't mar your walls or cabinets. The base plate is nickel plated steel with recessed screw heads that won't damage floors. The ruggedness of the design has been recognized by many vacuum manufacturers as well, including commercial vacuum makers who include the RD294 on their new cleaners. The RD294 is truly commercial quality, exceptionally rugged and one of the lowest noise nozzles available. The RD294 is a 11.75" wide all surface floor tool is manufactured in Germany and designed for heavy usage applications in the home or on the jobsite. Vroom Broom storage is simple, efficient and small enough to keep in a closet or pantry. Thanks to the collapsible wand you can even store the entire kit in a large drawer. Included with each kit is the PH400 single loop wall mount hose hanger. The large open loop hanger can be attached to most any wall surface with the appropriate fasteners or anchors and will keep the Vroom Broom easy to access and ready to clean. With the hose hanger mounted between 3 and 4 feet from the floor you can loop the Slinky hose over the hanger and stand up the wand with floor nozzle attached. When you need to clean fast just grab the hose and go. The Vroom Broom stretch hose kit is an excellent addition to any CV system, and can even be used as the primary cleaning set in mobile applications such as RV's and boats with CV Systems.
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People tend to be kind when someone messes something up (as long as they are remorseful), and the phrase "Everyone makes mistakes" is a common tool to comfort those who are being hard on themselves for an error.
In the newspaper business, unfortunately, when we make a mistake it gets reproduced thousands of times and distributed to the masses. We, of course, strive to make our newspaper as accurate as possible and go through a tedious process to make sure that everything that runs in The TD is checked as carefully as possible.
Even so, there are times mistakes get past us — sometimes small ones and sometimes big ones. This week, in a miscommunication, we believed there to be only two sons in the Bailey family and therefore thought that Eugene Jr. and Leslie must be the same boy. When we ran the story on the tragic loss of Eugene, we used a photo from a Hoxie annual of Leslie and only later discovered that Eugene and Leslie were actually two different people.
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Eight months ago I started insulin therapy for treatment of my diabetes. I really hated the thought of sticking myself with a needle every day for the rest of my life. Now, with the addition of yet another drug to my daily medications, I am up to three shots a day.
I often feel like a pincushion and look like I came out the looser in a boxing match. Sometimes I get down in the dumps about the whole thing and feel as if nothing is ever going to be right again.
Then there are those moments when things seem to take a turn for the better. I had one of those last week when I went for my regular checkup.
My doctor came in carrying my chart and asked me what in the world I had been doing. My heart plummeted and I was expecting the worse.
He waved the papers he was carrying at me and finished his query with, "because your glucose levels have really dropped. These results are half of what they were last time."
Then he grinned and said, "I think I get bragging rights for this!"
My sigh of relief was probably audible clear out in the waiting room.
With the upcoming holidays temptation will be everywhere. My next checkup is in January, and I hope that my doctor will still have bragging rights.
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I am so pleased that Lawrence County will be an Angel Food distribution point. Thanks to all the hard working volunteers the group no longer has to travel to Jonesboro to pick up the food. What a time saver that will be.
Angel Food Ministries is a fantastic resource for those on a fixed income. A box of food containing meat, vegetables and other food items is available for just $25. If you haven't heard about this wonderful program contact Debbie Spangler at 759-0135
To order a unit of food contact Spangler or Vicky Davis at 759-1568. Other contacts for ordering include: Kristen West, 886-5709, at WestWeb in Walnut Ridge; Betty Ross, 886-5460, Main Street Church of Christ; Teresa Helms, 886-7856, United Free Will Baptist Church; Paula Decker, 886-6681, First Free Will Baptist Church; Susan O'Connor, 870-528-1111, Smithville/Lynn area; Kathy Lee, 870-219-4385, Alicia area; Cathy Harthorn, 886-2752, College City area; and Rhonda Turbyeville, 501-412-4464, Imboden area.
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Chain letters have always made me crazy. But at least in the good old days of snail mail the things came less often because the sender had to pay for postage and then get them in the mail. Now they just zip through my e-mail at all hours of the day and night.
Threats of retribution and bad luck often accompany them or they whine about friendship. If I'm a real friend I'll pass them on to all the people I know and continue the chain.
I always break the chain. I do not want to receive it, and I do not want to send it. So far the only bad thing that's happened to me is that the stuff keeps showing up in my inbox. I guess that's bad enough.
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The Christmas season has begun. Some of us look forward to it with real anticipation while some of us dread it.
I love Christmas. It is a time when the people you meet have a smile on their face and they speak to total strangers wishing them a "Merry Christmas."
My house is already showing signs of the season. A Christmas tree (only one so far), the teddy bear, snowmen and Santa Claus collections are in place. This weekend we will set up the crèche and our old time village. For me Christmas is a time of anticipation and excitement and a time when I can once more look at the world, if only for a moment, with a child's sense of wonder.
But I can also sympathize with those who dread the day. I often believe I must shoulder all of responsibility for our family's Christmas experience. I am slowly learning to let go, but still for one month out of the year I try to don a red cape and blue spandex (not attractive, believe me) and create a perfect moment in time.
This year I intend to stop and realize Christmas is not about me. It is about hope, love and compassion. After all the angels sang about peace on earth and good will not about figgy pudding demands.
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I have always been interested in words and phrases. We have a lot of peculiar phrases in our language and sometimes I wonder how they came about. Phrases often were derived from a specific use. One of these phrases has come my way lately — close but no cigar.
I never really thought about what the words meant but generally accepted that the phrase meant one hadn't actually hit the nail on the head. That's one cliché for another.
After a little investigation I found that the phrase originated in the 1930s as carnival lingo to tell a patron who had fallen just short of winning the prize of a cigar that he was a loser.
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I stumbled onto a great website for parents called Common Sense Media. The focus of the site is providing parents with the info they need to judge whether or not a particular movie, television show, website, book or game is suitable for their child.
The site gives the pros and cons for a particular piece of media and includes ideas for discussing it with your child.
I appreciate the openness of the site and that they provide the information a parent needs to make their own judgment call about whether their child should have access to a particular piece of media.
The website is located at www.commonsensemedia.org
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As a proofreader I constantly struggle with current usage questions. The English language is a living language and as such it constantly changes and reinvents itself.
The grammar that I learned as a student is still basically sound, but not all of it is still correct. Many of the taboos of a half-century ago no longer pertain and now there is a new list.
In addition to desk references we constantly browse the Internet looking for those sites that provide sound writing advice. As a college student I found myself dreading those long research papers I had to write each year. The Internet would have been a great blessing to me then.
A couple of sites I have found to be particularly helpful are dictionary.com and askoxford.com. Both of these sites deal with current usage and both have several reference tools. They are a wonderful resource for students at any level of study.
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Our family just returned from my husband's family reunion. It's always the weekend following Father's Day, but the location changes on a yearly basis.
We gather each year to renew our family ties and meet the newest additions. It is also a time to remember those who are no longer with us.
Our reunions include not only Heyls, but also the blended families of remarried siblings. We all have a great time, and we have become one big family.
If I have had doubts about the need for these once-a-year gatherings, they were laid to rest when Matt, the child of my husband's brother's second wife said, "Aunt Viv, let's not wait so long to get-together again."
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My husband and I have been going to the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival, FKA The King Biscuit, for many years now. I know folks who have been to all 22 of them.
The King Biscuit is not the granddaddy of blues festivals but it is the largest. Each year there is doubt as to whether it will be happening and somehow each year it does.
This year they brought Pinetop Perkins to the stage. He is the last of the old Helena blues men. He played with Sonny Boy (Rice Miller) Williamson on the old King Biscuit Time radio show.
Also on stage was Sam Carr. Sam is the son of Robert Nighthawk another legendary Helena musician. Sam also played music with Sonny Boy and was a member of his last band.
Sam is ailing and was wheeled on stage in a wheelchair to play one song on the drums. He came straight from the hospital and was taken back there as soon as he finished his performance.
Both of these men have paid their dues over and over again. It will be a shame when we lose them.
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I was surfing the Internet news feeds the other day when I came across an article about a website set up to test the stupidity of computer users.
The website offered a free virus to those who didn't have one. "Is your PC virus free? Get it infected here!" the site asked and there was a clickable link to get the virus. In the six-month campaign over 400 people chose to get a free virus.
There was no actual virus. The whole setup was an experiment to see whether advertising with an overtly malicious intent would work. It appears it will.
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I am a big fan of good news and of positive outlooks. I think that one of the nicest things about The Times Dispatch is that we don't just focus on the gloom and doom of today's society. There is always a positive bent to the paper overall.
Most of us suffer from news overload. Our ears and eyes are assaulted with sensationalized headlines from the time we wake up until we go to sleep. The news channels on television are in such a hurry to report the latest scoop that they don't stop to get all the facts anymore, but rely mostly on shocking us with a barrage of images and staccato sentences to emphasize the enormity of the event no matter how trivial it might be.
Sensational journalism is not new. I suppose the forerunner of this type of journalism was gossip. Gossip takes some truths and some speculations and presents it as fact. This is not sound reporting, but for many it's the only type they are exposed to.
If every news media tried to find something positive to report along with the bad, perhaps there would be more hope in the world. Something we all desperately need.
Good news is rapidly disappearing from our broadcasts and from our newspapers. Thankfully The TD still manages to find space for it.
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I had a brief moment of nostalgia recently when I ran across a website devoted to obsolete computers.
We still have an original IBM PC, which only has two floppy disks (the 5-1/4 inch variety), no hard drive and basically runs on 16 KB of RAM.
Next we had an IBM XT (extended technology) system. When the XT arrived on the scene with a five-megabyte hard drive, this was the ultimate in computer technology. It ran on PC-DOS and BASIC. No more swapping out floppy disks or running out of room to store information. Five megabytes was an impossibly large amount of room and no one could possibly fill it up. Unfortunately we found a way.
Then the IBM AT (Advanced Technology) was developed and was it ever a hotrod computer. It could hold up to 16 megabytes of RAM and support a 20-megabyte hard disk. I ran AT systems for years and years.
These systems were for the most part stable. Occasionally a floppy disk would bite the dust, especially if your mother pinned it to the fridge with a magnet. They ran day in and day out and seemed to be virtually indestructible.
We had other computers as well, Commodore 64, Atari 400 and 800 and Apple II. It wasn't until the "Clone" became available that computers hit the mainstream. Everyone was learning computer technology. Even I could change cards and mount hard drives. Now I want a cross and holy water to approach a computer.
Anyway, if you have one of the old "boat anchor" computers hanging around and you would like to get it rolling again or you just want to reminisce here's the website, obsoletecomputermuseum.org.
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Being pregnant at 31 is no fun. Jason and I were married seven years before we had our first son, Conley. I was 27 for the latter part of my pregnancy, and I can attest that four years can make a big difference.
The crazy thing is that 31 is not that old for having babies anymore. My mother had her youngest at 40, though it was not planned. I now wonder how she ever survived.
Now, with improved fertility drugs and what I would call some women's crazy notions, the childbirth age is being extended up into the 40s and sometimes the 50s. It is especially crazy to me since the drugs that allow them to conceive often also cause multiple births. Being 55 years old and pregnant with twins does not sound anything like fun to me.
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I watched coverage of the 875th homecoming on television Saturday. Every image brought tears to my eyes, as did each of the banners as I drove along Highway 49 from Jonesboro to Brookland the previous evening.
The tears were, of course, tears of joy for the soldiers and their families who were at long last reunited. But, they were also tears of distress for those who remain deployed and those who are preparing to go.
While the soldiers are proud and willing to serve, a yearlong trip to Iraq is undoubtedly not high on their list of desires. As the war has continued, and support for the effort has waned, it is always a concern that support for our soldiers might fade as well.
Perhaps we might get bored with the same old, same old — another group leaving, another group coming home. Apathy can take hold easily, especially when the conflict seems to have drug on so long already.
One gentleman in my church, who served in Vietnam, said his heart was filled with joy to see the welcome the 875th received. He said it was a much different welcome than troops received when returning from Vietnam.
We should remember every night as we settle into our beds that they are suffering hardships and risking their lives in service to our country. I hope and pray that though individuals may not support the war, the support of our soldiers remains strong.
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Conley and I were driving home the other day when a police officer did a U-turn in front of us to go after a car that was speeding.
The blue lights caught Conley's attention in the back seat and he asked me what the policeman was doing. I told him he was probably going to catch the car that had just passed us and give them a ticket.
To this, he offered the ever-popular four-year-old question, "Why?"
I told him they were driving too fast and that is why they were getting a ticket.
Now, it didn't occur to me that to my four-year-old son tickets are a good thing. He acquaints tickets with riding rides, winning a prize or going somewhere. It didn't take me long to realize he did not understand that in this case getting a ticket was not a happy occasion.
"You better hurry up, Mom," he told me. "Why?" I asked him. "You have to go fast so we can get some tickets, too," he said grinning.
I explained to him that when you get a ticket from a police officer it is because you were doing something bad and you have to pay money as punishment for getting in trouble. I also told him that driving too fast can cause an accident, which he took very seriously.
The next day he told his grandma that you can't drive too fast because you might get a ticket, and even worse, you might crash.
So often, we want to make the police be the bad guys for writing the tickets, but my four-year-old son really got it. It's not about driving slow so you don't get a ticket. It's about driving safe so you don't get in an accident.
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If there is one thing I have learned about children it is that one should always expect the unexpected. Nevertheless, my boys still managed to surprise me this Christmas.
Conley is four and has a pretty clear concept of what happens when Christmas rolls around. Colter, on the other hand, at four months, is a complete beginner.
As we prepared for the holidays, I found myself purchasing more presents for Conley than for Colter. Mainly because Colter's wants and desires are pretty much limited to a bottle, a jar of baby food, a clean diaper and a warm blanket. I was looking forward to Conley's excitement on Christmas morning, but did not expect Colter to really even be interested in the presents.
Boy, did they pull a switcheroo on me. Conley opened his stocking and then was ready to go to his room and play. The other gifts and the pop-up tent under the tree seemed to have no attraction at all. I had to call him back into the room to open the rest of his gifts.
Colter on the other hand, loved opening the presents. At first I thought he just loved the paper, which he'd grab and tear off the gifts. I realized, though, that he really enjoyed seeing what was inside the packaging too. Each time we would hold up the opened toy or book, his face would light up.
I guess it just goes to show that one can never be prepared for life with children. I look forward to more of the "unexpected" in the new year.
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There's been a lot of talk in the Hoxie and Walnut Ridge area, since the election results were announced, that the newly elected mayors might be able to bring about needed progress for the community. Citizens who cast their ballots because they want to see that progress need to remember that for good things to happen it takes the involvement of many, not just the elected officials. Great things can happen in Walnut Ridge and Hoxie, but they won't happen magically and they won't happen without hard work. If Hoxie and Walnut Ridge residents want to see forward progress, they need to pull together, set some goals and put one foot in front of the other.
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My baby is growing up. Of course, if he knew I was calling him my baby, he would quickly correct me and tell me he is a big boy now. Conley already didn't like being called my baby before we had our second son, Colter, but now he gets downright offended. I think in his mind he thinks if I call him my baby that means Colter can't be my baby. He always tells me "Colter is your baby, I'm your kid."
Monday, he started school at Greene County Tech. He is in the Pre-K program and though he is not technically in school, it is on the school campus and they have class time and eat in the cafeteria and he will even be able to ride the school bus (which he is quite excited about). He had a great first
day and I was so happy for him, but I was also a little sad. I guess it made me realize that he is in fact right — he's not a baby anymore.
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I have always felt blessed to be a pretty much sickeningly healthy person. I am grateful that I rarely catch the bugs that are going around and I have had no major health problems, having only been in the hospital to be born and to give birth twice.
In recent months, my gratitude for my health has increased even more. One co-worker, Howard Golden, lost his wife, Darlene, earlier this week after a battle with cancer. Another, Amber Adams, was recently diagnosed with Addison's Disease, an auto immune disorder, which has left her sick more often than not over the past year.
It is easy to feel sympathy for people when you hear about their health problems and struggles, but when close friends or family members are dealing with problems, you begin to feel empathy. While I cannot say I know what either of my co-workers are going through, I can feel their pain and look forward to times when I can share their joy.
I know there are no guarantees in life, and I could be facing health issues myself some day. Knowing that makes each day even more precious, and I hope I can make the best out of each one I am given.
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I love the holidays, but they sure make life more hectic.
At work, we have to adjust the day the paper comes out or adjust our deadlines to be able to complete a paper on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's weeks.
At home, there is the hustle and bustle of decorating, shopping, wrapping, etc. Most homes also include lots of cooking, but that never seems to be a priority for me. I do love to eat, though.
At church, we have a children's Christmas production to rehearse, a parade float to build and many holiday activities to prepare for and attend.
Hopefully, I will be able to find some time during all this activity to relax and enjoy the holidays a little. They will be here and gone in a flash.
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