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National Jan 14, 2014
Norris assumes executive director role for Northeastern PIA affiliates
Kelly K. Norris, CAE, has been named executive director of the Glenmont, N.Y.-based Professional Insurance Agents associations of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State, and their affiliated organizations. Each of the PIA affiliates are managed by PIA Management Services Inc., the umbrella corporation that manages 11 organizations, including Young Insurance Professionals and the Professional Insurance Wholesalers Association. Norris has served as deputy director of the PIA associations for 15 months, and replaces Diane Fowler, who retired from the position as of Jan. 1.
Kelly K. Norris, CAE
"Kelly is a seasoned and experienced association executive, who has undertaken progressively greater responsibility for our organization since she joined us," said CEO Mark LaLonde, CPIA, CIC, AAI, of PIA Management Services. "Her two decades of experience as an association manager and her knowledge and understanding of this business is a valuable asset to PIA and its members."
Norris joined PIA in 2012 as the organization continued to execute its perpetuation plan, after serving as executive director of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers for 14 years and executive director of the New York State Consumer Finance Association prior to that.
Since 1991, Norris has been a member of the American Society of Association Executives and the Empire Society of Association Executives. She is a graduate of LeMoyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., with a Bachelors of Arts degree in political science and a concentration in business administration. She obtained her Certified Association Executive designation in 2005 from the American Society of Association Executives. She resides in Rensselaer, N.Y.
PIA Management Services Inc. is the umbrella corporation that manages the Glenmont, N.Y.-based Professional Insurance Agents associations, representing independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire.
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Sea somersaulted with sky as Matt went upside down in Jack's strong arms. Matt's boyfriend loved to swing Matt head over heels. "Want to take a swim?" Jack teased, rocketing Matt's head down towards the foam that washed up to Jack's feet.
"No, thanks."
Matt's stomach hadn't felt right during the drive up to Ogunquit from Boston. The pills weren't sitting well with breakfast on the road. Diluted apple juice and oatmeal were the doctor's orders but his desire for hot coffee and honey-dipped donuts had been too strong. Bouncing along the highway for two hours in Jack's Jeep had taken its toll. When they'd finally pulled into the beach parking lot, Matt had needed a minute's rest.
Instead, they'd trudged across the sand immediately in search of their friends, who'd come up the previous night in another car. They'd hardly rolled out their towels beside Randall and Dan when Jack took Matt's hand and jogged him down to the surf, where they stopped at last to hold each other for a fleeting moment before Matt realized what Jack was doing.
As the world tumbled over, the sickness in Matt's stomach pounded into his head. Burying his face into the bottom of Jack's sweatshirt, Matt wrapped his arms around Jack's thighs. A moment later he was rightside up again with the breeze in his face, his legs straddling Jack's hips, and his feet dangling in midair.
"Put me down now?" he asked.
"Not on your life," Jack replied, pressing his cheek against Matt's neck.
Although it was August, the beach was cold. The sea looked wild, kicked up from a storm that passed ninety miles offshore the day before. Breakers rolled across a sandy ledge that stretched fifty yards out hidden beneath the dark green waves. The sky, too, was reeling.
A chill ran up Matt's spine. He felt a fever coming on. He thought of the Tylenol and water bottle tucked in his bag beside the towels. "Okay," he said, trying to work himself free. "The ride's over."
Jack whipped him upright but didn't let him down. Cradling Matt's body in his arms, he lowered him butt-first toward the surf as a big wave rolled over the sandy ledge and the tide surged. Ignoring the oncoming threat, Matt looked into Jack's blue eyes. Jack had a certain power over his fevers that sometimes staved off their ache and chill.
The excitement in Jack's eyes registered every detail of the approaching surge. At the last possible moment he hopped backwards, yanking them out of its path.
"All right, all right," Matt laughed. "Now put me down?"
Reluctantly, Jack returned Matt's feet to dry sand, twisted him around by the shoulders and kissed him on the mouth before sprinting off to join the others. Matt's lips buzzed from the soft, wet kiss as he watched Jack go. He regained his balance before following in Jack's wake.
There weren't many people on the beach except around the area below the parking lot and concession stands, where families clustered with umbrellas and folding chairs and children dug moats around lumpy sandcastles. Further down, past a few pockets of straight adults, the gay section was practically empty. On a day like this, brunch-serving restaurants and antique barns would be burgeoning with activity. Matt might be relaxing in some warm café rather than freezing out here on a cold beach. Then he thought what a plate of pancakes and more coffee would do to his stomach.
He should have stayed in bed. He'd been out of the hospital for only a couple weeks and while the pneumonia had cleared out of his lungs, fevers and fatigue kept him under the weather. Some new infection had to be brewing beneath his skin. This morning in the bathroom mirror, red streaks shot through his right eye. Retinitus?
"Pollen," Jack said, reading his mind from the open bathroom door. "It's that ailanthus tree out the window -- the one that smells like cum. My eyes itch too." He snagged a bottle of drops from the back of the medicine cabinet and stuck them in Matt's hand. "C'mon. Got to hurry if we want to beat the traffic."
Jack had a talent for distracting Matt from worrying too much about things. Now, Matt wasn't sure whether to thank Jack or blame him for dragging him out here.
Trudging up the sand to join the other guys, Matt saw that Randall and Dan had stripped to their briefs despite the cold. Sunbathing in underwear was in fashion that season. Jack tugged off his sweatshirt.
"You're looking well, Matthew," Randall observed through thick, round glasses as Matt dropped to his knees on the towel. "Something must be agreeing with you."
Jack shot Matt a see-I-told-you-so look and folded away his sweatshirt.
"It's a combination of drugs and Jack," he told Randall as he rifled through his bag for Tylenol.
He smiled at Dan. He and Jack had run into this guy only once before, coming out of a café as he and Randall had been going in. "Went through a rough period earlier this summer," he told him now. "AIDS," he explained. He tried to make his voice sound easy-going-like his status was something he revealed to a stranger every day. "I'm a lot better now."
Dan nodded. "You got a nice tan."
"That's the drugs too," Matt said. "Not a bad side effect."
Dan laughed. Matt found the Tylenol and swallowed it dry.
"You're the one with the nice tan," Matt told him. Dan had a nice everything. Good-looking from the get-go, he had the cut, clean look of someone who pumped iron several times a weeks and took men's style magazines seriously. Stretched out on a striped blanket, Dan made good health seem easy. He rolled onto his belly. Poking skyward, his butt was like of a pair of muskmelons, ready to rip through his white cotton briefs.
Matt glanced at Jack, who eyed the melons, too, with a hungry half-grin.
"Dan just got off a single men's cruise," Randall said, dog-earing his paperback Brothers Karamazov -- his idea of a good beach read. "Got himself a Caribbean tan."
"The Caribbean," Jack mused, wiggling out of his jeans. "Spectacular. Farthest south we've ever been is Cocoa Beach. Right, Matt? I've always wanted to take a Caribbean cruise. Nothing but blue sky, miles of ocean, a boatload of beautiful boys." He peeled off his t-shirt.
Dan smiled. "Why not?"
"Too busy," Jack replied. "But I can always content myself with an occasional cruise through the woods around the Blue Hills."
"A friend of mine got arrested out there," Dan said. "Lured a state trooper into the bushes."
"Really?" Jack shot him a mischievous grin. "What was the trooper's name? Do you remember?"
Dan didn't know quite how to take Jack's question.
"Sometimes we go on nature hikes," Matt interjected.
Randall put aside his book and gave Matt a curious look.
Jack pulled out the tanning lotion. His eyes wandered up the slab of Dan's back. He twisted off its cap. "Need some lotion, Dan?" he asked.
"No thanks."
Matt snagged the container from Jack's fingers. Crouching behind the boyfriend, he raised it high above his shoulders and squeezed out a long strand of the cold lotion. "Hey!" Jack protested when it hit his skin, but Matt knew he secretly dug it. Massaging his thumbs into Jack's muscles, he hit all the favorite tense spots.
"No one's got better hands than my buddy, here," Jack told Dan.
The sun cut through a weak spot in the clouds and they guys rolled back on their towels. Jack unbuttoned Matt's jeans, tugged them off, then draped a big arm across his chest. Nestled against Jack, Matt took stock of himself. His stomach was calm and no real fever had emerged although he still felt on the verge of one. Jack's breathing slowed, became deeper. Randall flipped the pages of his book. Matt sensed Dan adjusting himself on his towel; he snapped the elastic of his shorts and Matt knew that Jack heard it too.
Clouds moved back across the sun. Matt buried his face into Jack's neck. His whole body took in the familiar warmth and his mind strolled back to their trip to Florida four years earlier. They'd stayed at a terrific resort hotel on the ocean and their room was right on the beach; the first night they drifted off to the sound of lapping waves. After Jack's presentation the next day, Jack skipped the rest of the conference and spent the afternoon with Matt playing in the water. The waves were perfect for bodysurfing -- big four-footers that started rolling far enough out to give them one good ride after another. They had to swim through a few weak waves that washed over them and they ran into some rough ones that tried to twist them under, but most of the breakers carried them all the way to the shore.
After an hour or so, they lay down on the soft, white sand and caught their breath. That's when they saw him -- the beautiful Puerto Rican man who sauntered down to the water's edge and who turned and flashed them a smile. Splashing into the surf, his coppery skin glittered against the turquoise sea. Jack turned to Matt. His eyes lit up. "You want him?"
"Don't you think he's hot?"
"Well, yeah, sure," Matt said. "But I'm here with you."
"Course you are. And I'm here with you. But we could still have him," Jack said. "You and me."
"I don't know."
"C'mon, buddy. What's the matter?" Jack propped himself up on one elbow and stroked Matt's arm. "That guy couldn't come between us, he's someone we could share." Jack looked Matt in the eye. "Sex with you and me is great, but what we've got is a whole lot more than that. Life's short," Jack said. "Don't be afraid to dive in."
Matt looked down at the man as he pulled himself up from a wave. Beads of water glistened on his sinewy lats.
The man's name was Leo, and when Matt stuck out his hand, the man slipped his arm around Matt turning the handshake into an embrace. A nice local custom, Matt thought until he touched the soft, tight skin stretched over Leo's hard muscles. Then Matt knew -- here was a custom anyone could enjoy. Anywhere.
At some point during the daydream, Jack's arm had slipped off Matt's body. Now Matt reached out but Jack was not there. He opened his eyes. Jack was sitting up, alert, looking down at the water, where a few dozen boys were traipsing along with beach bags, blankets, and chairs. But these boys hadn't captured Jack's attention. It was one in the water he was watching. A tall, dark one with a lanky body.
Knee-deep in the waves the guy waded out into deeper water, then dunked himself under and swam out to the edge of the sandy ledge where the breakers started rolling. He was bodysurfing, out there on a day like this.
"Now that's a man," Jack said to the others, who sat up to see what he found so interesting. Matt knew Jack was comparing the man in the water to the buff puffs strutting along with their beach gear but he couldn't help wondering if Randall and Dan might think he was comparing the man to him. Matt turned to Dan, who gave him a slight, comforting smile that said he was thinking exactly that. "That's a man," Jack repeated.
"Yes," Matt said, as if to a small child just learning to identify every object he saw, "that is a man. And those are clouds and that is the ocean."
Jack turned to him with a curious grin. He tousled Matt's hair. Then he had his briefs down around his ankles and was fishing through the bags for his bathing suit. "I'm going swimming!" he announced. Suited up, Jack sprinted away.
"No stopping Jack," Matt said, trying to squeeze the nervousness out of his laughter. "That's my boyfriend."
"That's Jack," Randall agreed, laying aside his book once again.
"If my boyfriend looked at another guy like that I'd be worried," Dan said. Randall shot him a warning glance.
But you don't have a boyfriend, Matt thought. You've probably never had a relationship that lasted more than a few months. You don't understand.
And yet, something twisted inside him as he watched Jack sprint away.
Last summer, he might have climbed into his bathing suit and followed him into the water. No big deal. He'd have gone anywhere with Jack. They would have swum out there together and made a new friend. But since he'd been sick things had changed for him. His weight, for example: he no longer had a layer of fat to insulate him in the cold ocean. Once, he had been among the first in the water each summer. His all-time record was late April at Herring-Cove Beach in Provincetown. His skin stung all afternoon from that single quick dip. It felt great. But now he just wanted to stretch out on the sand and relax with his boyfriend.
He tried to lie back on his towel but without Jack beside him his digestive system tumbled around like he was back in the Jeep. He reached for his bathing suit, a short-sleeved wetsuit that Jack had bought him after his first bout of pneumonia last summer. He tugged it on and, nodding back to his friends, he trotted down to the edge of the surf, where Jack had plunged in and was paddling out in the direction of the tall, dark man.
"Good luck," he heard Dan call out.
And then his toes hit the water.
This was not the ocean but a vast caldron of icy fire. His ankles, knees, and thighs ignited; his entire body blazed down to the bone. Wait, he told himself. Be strong. Your skin will grow numb. It always does. In a minute, in just another minute it will feel good. Soothing. But it didn't. Flames rolled up his back, searing through the extra, rubber skin.
Out near the breakers Jack had met up with the other guy. They dove together; he was showing Jack a new way to catch the best part of the wave. Matt was completely out of the water now and shivering on the sand. The burning had eased only a little. It felt like a terrible fever racing up his spine, but the adrenaline was still kicking around, fighting the chill.
The two in the water caught a good wave and rode it to shore not far away from where Matt stood but still too far for him to reach. They were laughing and panting together, lifting themselves out. The other man seemed to be instructing Jack, and Jack seemed to be eating it up. He turned and waved for Matt to come out and join them before diving back in.
The sun broke through the clouds again and for a moment Matt felt warm enough to try once more. But the water was as merciless as before. All he could do was fall back on the sand, the embers of his smoldering skin fanned by the cool breeze, as clouds rolled back across the sun.
A peculiar sensation began to gnaw at Matt's belly. It was something he'd never felt before. A hollowness, an ache. It expanded throughout his body. Was this some sort of reaction to his new drugs or the warning shot of an impending infection? No, it was more of an emotional thing -- a sadness that carried the weight of nostalgia.
The sensation surged, flooding his chest. He couldn't breath. Grasping for something tangible, he focused on a fleck of spindrift, a bit of foam torn off the waves by the wind. Skipping across sand, it caught itself on his toe before splitting apart and somersaulting away.
Matt yearned to be out there with Jack and the guy. He wanted to be out there with Jack instead of the guy. He looked back at their spot on the beach. Randall was reading his book. Dan was sitting up staring at Jack and his new friend. Matt turned away when Dan met his gaze. Matt hated the handsome man in the water with his boyfriend. With each wave that pounded the shore, he prayed for the undertow to suck him down and hold him under till his lungs burst open and filled with brine.
He didn't want to be feeling this way. Did he really expect Jack to stay out of the water just because he couldn't get in? For a relationship to survive didn't certain sacrifices have to be made? Hadn't Jack made more than a few for him?
Matt thought of the night he went to the hospital. Jack sat by his bed holding up one New Yorker cartoon after another, reading each caption aloud and describing its illustration to Matt when he saw Matt was too tired to turn his head and look for himself. He thought of how Jack flipped him upside-down and how sometimes he made the fevers disappear. So what if Matt couldn't swim with him today. At least he'd tried. Maybe he'd do it again sometime, maybe he wouldn't. They could always fly down to Florida, where the water was warmer, before his next sickness set in or after he fought his way back.
Matt scooped up a handful of sand and let the grains fall between his fingers. The sand on Cocoa Beach was softer. Leo's skin had felt so smooth. Jack's and his own, too, after their day playing in the semitropical sea. That night, they wrestled together back in the room; and then, all tangled up, they slept. At some point Matt happened to look over and see Jack gazing back at him in the moonlight.
Out by the breakers the two caught another wave and this time Jack got it all perfectly right: the tuck of the head, the arch of the back -- whatever it was the beautiful, lanky man was teaching him. This time, Jack was taking the other guy for all he was worth as they rode in together and hit the beach tumbling into each other's arms not ten yards from where Matt sat.
Disentangling himself, Jack rose and jogged over. He hoisted Matt up and dragged him toward the surf. "No, Jack." Matt said. "I'm serious. I can't."
Jack stopped and looked at Matt. "Too cold?" he said. "Okay, then. I'll be back in a few."
As the other guy scrambled to his feet he gave Matt a quick nod and a tentative smile before jogging back into the waves.
Matt didn't try to go in again after that. He knew Jack would come back to him before long. He'd lie down beside him, his pulse racing hard. He'd press his icy skin against Matt's, eager to tell him all about it, and perhaps Matt's jealousy would begin to fade. Jack had the power to stave off all kinds of fevers. Maybe he'd introduce Matt to the guy while their friends warily watched Matt's reaction. Seeing everything was all right, the other guys would relax too. They could all have drinks together at the piano bar in town.
Matt dug his heels into sand. Propping himself back on his elbows, he opened his eyes and watched Jack and the other guy tumble through the waves as the strong, wild current carried them back to shore.
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random21 wrote:What?
Make this quick:
"After all, if you win 6-0 in dice, it doesn't matter what tactics you are using"
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Of course it matters what tactics you use. If you invade the 1 stack with your 4 stack before attacking the 3 stack, you won't get 6-0 with the dice period. The whole point is to attack the 3 stack while you still have a potential assault to do so with it being a 3 vs 2 die roll. If you assault the 1, then you are left with 3 vs 3. You won't get 6 - 0 odds, when its a 2 vs 2 dice roll... You lose any chance of getting 6-0, if you invade, because you lose the assault on the other territory. Who after invading decides to make an assault 3 vs 3. If you want 6-0 you assault territory b, then C. After you invade b first, C can not be attacked with 3 vs 2 dice.
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That and in general your points still don't really make sense in your post. My post was clearly not surrounding universal play, especially optimal. I make numerous points of warning. And I gave context to mine, you just stated general nothings. Risky aggression is clearly there.
For instance, if I have nearby support, I definitely want the extra attack to lower the 3 troop stack. For instance, what if I have a nearby 9 stack to help me clean up? I gain more by using the assault to lower the 3 stack, then finish off the 1 stack.
so... what do you mean?
random21 wrote:My suggestion isn't about the mathematical odds being in your favour. When will it ever be in your favour to hope for dice that go 6 kills zero losses?
OK, I was mainly answering to someone asking me to expand on this subject and only indirectly to you
In any case, the scenarios in my own experience are 90% deploying four stacks to capture 2-4(+) bonuses on drop. This is not a strategy for maps where your initial troop income is 3. I.e. classic map. This is for maps where you are in Hive, Eurasia, or receiving larger numbers, and have higher ability to inflict damage, gain bonuses, and push your advantage.
On big maps like the ones described, I totaly agree that anything less than deploying all n troops in n different regions is a mistake, I have also played a few...thousands hives and yes, I almost always deploy 12 4s in first round. In fact, I usualy deploy only 4s in most maps anyway....
If I have initial 10 troops in Eurasia for example, or 12 in Hive, and have bonuses with 3 - 4 territories, where I have either 50% control 2/4, 66% control 2/3, or 75% control 3/4, in not just one bonus, but many. Splitting my forces between territories within the bonuses, or adjacent territories connected to opponents territory within the bonus gives me greater number of attacks and greater odds.
Of course, this is correct as well.
Also, depending on reinforcements. I like unlimited, so in the end, I will gather nearby forces to fortify the territories I take.
Playing those maps with unlimited reinforcements is out of my league. I never tried even once, first players advantage should be irreversible
Back to bonuses though...
Because I have so many four stacks in so many bonuses while the odds don't always give me all bonuses, Some of the 10 - 12 four stacks I create will have terrible dice rolls, others will have great dice rolls. And because of game settings that all you to recuperate after taking territories like unlimited, its worth going for 3/1 attacks. In hive, not so much for territory drop, as you can't lower initial troops, but for a number of other reasons it is good.
For example, in unlimited reinforcements, if taking these territories with 3 vs 1 increases your connection and ability to mobilize.
OK, but now, you are reversing the discussion, adding a completely different element. You create a new situation (huge map, multiple small bonuses, unlimited reinforcements) that where absent to the dicussion, where winning the 4 vs 3,1 means a lot fo things. Of course, if you are playing hive and you get a cell if you win such an attack, while at the same time opening the rout to 40 troops to come and defend the bonus...ehhh...then OK, you have my permission to make the 4 vs 3,3,3 as well if you like. I do not play Hive unlimited, but in my chained game, when faced with a 4 vs 3,1 situation, I almost always take the 1, split 2-2, thus optimizing defence and leave the conquer of the cell for next round. And in Hive, you should not act in a cell where you have 1 region and opponent 2 regions (as you have already stated), so the 4 vs 3,1 case should not be very common anyway. Eurasia has some 4-5 sized bonus indeed. I still think I would kill 1s and fortify myself with 2s though if such a case occurs
I'm wondering slightly if we are talking passed each other... my point has never been mathematical odds for doing this. It's simply if you are going to go for it, don't invade 4 vs 1, because an assault of 3 vs 3 is unwise. Whereas with the suggestion made, you need good dice, but it does happen on occasion. Not so much the end result. But cases of reducing both territories to one's I can tell you from personal experience... happens quite often. You don't necessarily get the invasion, but I generally have nearby support, i.e. another 4 stack within the bonus area to clean up.
1. Of course if I HAVE to go for it, I will attack the 3 first, that is obvious. The matter is how often such a forced need exists and my point is that it should not occur too often as your texts imply.
2. Again you add a new element, having another 4 from the other side. That is completely new situation and as far as I remember, I did not occur in previous posts as well. And again, I doubt such a case will lead to you making the 4 vs 3,1 attack. If the 4 contacts the 1, you obviously have to attack the 1 first and see what happens. If the 4 contacts the 3, you obviously have to make that attack and again see what happens. OK, if the new 4 contacts both the 1 and the 3 then well...that is a new case, it is not 4 vs 3,1 anymore, it is 4,4 vs 3,1 and has nothing to do with our discussion
In any case, I'm not so committed to the argument either way as it is progressing in the thread. This isn't about day to day strategy that you develop to become better.
It's precisely about those moments of either necessity, or bold aggression to seek an edge, willingly taking the risk.
Of course, if their is a necessity, there are much much worst things we all have done than dare attack 4 vs 3,1.
So I'm not so sure if your replies acknowledge my side already admitting to your side and agreeing... mathematically it isn't best to go for this, it won't always leave you well.
You can get two kills, then lose 2 men going for the other three and be far worse off. If you are talking, then, about the frequency to which you should use this... it varies. Again, with unlimited, first turn on the drop etc, many initial troops creating multiple 4 stacks etc, it just works to go for the bonuses, using 3 v 1 to gain better connections etc.
betiko wrote:I mostly use this when I'm desperate and it's kind of a do or die. Otherwise I'm not a big fan of 4v3 I try to avoid them, because if you don't have a perfect first roll you are done. I mean if you're feeling lucky going 4vs3 everywhere on the map can give you the best results possible; but some players make me laugh cause they do that then complain about dice cause they miss their spoil. a 4vs3 is way riskier than what lots of people think.
I completely agree if your goal is to take a territory, and lower opponents territory adding to your own. But sometimes reducing counter play is also good. Imagine he is receiving 4. If you lower is 3 to a 1, he will have a 5 stack. If you just leave as is, and take the 1, he will have a 7 vs 3.
And because of game settings that all you to recuperate after taking territories like unlimited, its worth going for 3/1 attacks.
Well that just depends on your goal. If you want to take territories, go for the 1. If you want to eliminate his counter play, attack his 3.
It's simply if you are going to go for it, don't invade 4 vs 1, because an assault of 3 vs 3 is unwise.
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welcome to here, glad to be able to find a special subforum just for English fans.
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Hello all!
I just wanted to come and say RESPECT to Legia fans, you have had to put up with many repressions from your government and national football association!
I have started a new website a few weeks ago, and I am tracking the news in Poland. please check it out at www.ultrasworldwide.net
if you have any info you would like to send me, private message me on here!
Because i can`t start a new topic i will write here what i have to write .
I am a Rapid fan and i just registered here to congrats you for the nice atmosphere against us on our match in the National Arena.
Too bad we had to play on this National Arena and not our stadium, and from our behalf the atmosphere wasn`t the best .
I don`t know what do u really know about the fans from Romania. We maybe are not the biggest mass of suporters at the moment, but u must know that Rapid fans are the most fanatics from Romania. We are the only ones that sings all the match, no matter the score. Against Legia our expectations were big, and a lot of people was dissapointed because of our team very poor game.
I must say that i didin`t know much about fans from Poland, but after the game from thursday u got my respect . I must ask you. You people don`t work? ). It`s very hard to understand how in the world u could get so many people in the middle of the week.
I really liked ur cap (bonnet) . Good luck in the future, and i`m waiting to see how is going to be the atmosphere on your stadium against Rapid .
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Hahaha Baratki one match and 7 day holidays, that's so simple
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Hello everyone,
I'm new here as well.
Hope to have a good time on here.
Cheers, Stephan
Hello guys I have a quick question and cannot make own thread.
Will the upcoming friendly against borissia Dortmund be open to spectators?
Yes I am from Australia so that will be fine. Do I buy tickets at the stadium or is this fixture going to be popular so I should buy on Internet?
IMO the attendance's going to be about 20-25 thousand spectators, so I think you'll have no problems to buy a ticket, but unfortunately if you want to get one via internet, you need that supporter card, so your only option is to buy it at the stadium.
Here are the tickets prices, for you it's going to be KAT. 1 Normalny: http://legia.com/images/Schemat_NSL_..._BVB_-_big.jpg
Thanks for your help. Would love to Go behind the goals but I guess I'll settle for the wing.
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Above: Photos of Ellen Degeneres and Whoopi Goldberg, taken by Annie Leibovitz.
Today Anna and I took Anna's ex-coworker (retired) Bridgett to the High Art Museum in Atlanta. It was our 3rd or 4th visit this year. We wanted to treat Bridgett to the Annie Leibovitz photo exhibit before it closes, which is soon.
But while there, we also pretty much covered the whole museum… studied almost every painting and every sculpture.
When we first entered we had to go through some kind of preliminary paper work. Anna took care of that while I looked at the people around us. I was pleasantly surprised to see an old high school class mate K. walk by. I called her name. She looked at me puzzled, trying to figure just who I was and what was I up to.
I told her I was Rock from high school. She remembered me and looked quiet taken back. I didn't know what to do – should I chew on a sugar cane or something? We hugged. I introduced her to Anna. Bridgett was a few paces away so it would have been awkward to pull her over.
K is a nice success story from what I have read in the papers. She has the prefix Doctor before her name. She is a college professor, has written several fictional books based on real history of the bondage of blacks, and I forgot what else. The important thing is she is not holier-than-thou or pretentious.
Her older brother and I did not get along and had a physical fight, back when we were grammar school age and I think we both held a grudge until his senior year when we went watermelon stealing together one night. Her twin brother I didn't know that well, he was scholarly, and I was er-well, unscholarly, to say the least.
She was telling me of another brother she has that I didn't know existed, about 4 years younger.
Also, I had the utmost respect for her mother and father. They have both each of their names household names in the community for themselves helping the less fortunate.
We spent about four hours in the museum. Afterwards it was dinner time. We decided to eat at place my son Rocky told us about called Taquaeria del Sol. Rocky told us if we ever at there, "you better know what you want when it is your time to order". You stand in line and order and then go sat down and they bring your food. While we were standing in line I asked the lady behind us what would she recommend and she told us. And had a few other suggestions…. Which she added: "You better know what you want when it is your time to order."… so, we waited in line and went over the menu, weighed her suggestions and was ready to order when it was our time. \
It reminded me of the Soup Nazi on Seinfield.
We all ordered tacos and enchiladas and for starters guacamole that was thick and lumpy with nachos.
After I paid we went to find a place and it just occurred to Anna that we did not get a receipt or a little sign with a number or anything… how will they know what to bring us? She asked a waiter walking by how would they know what we ordered. He smiled and said, "We'll know."
He was right. They brought the right stuff. It was good. Mine was spicy just as I ordered it. We will be back.
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This is a visual transposition of two cards - one which is stapled on top of a card box. The routine is very well structured and includes a clever logic disconnect where the spectator clearly sees both cards far away from each other - one resting face up on the deck and the other stapled to the card box. And then in an instant they switch places. Impossible! (Remember cards are signed!)
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The magician introduces a pack of playing cards and a stapler. He spreads through the cards to show that they are all different, he shuffles and cuts the deck and asks for a spectator to choose a playing card. For example, they choose the Ace of Spades (this can be signed by the spectator if you wish). This is put to one side as the magician again cuts the deck and asks the spectator to choose a card for him, they do, and it is the 10 of Hearts (the magician can sign his card if he wishes).
The magician then staples the Ace of Spades to the card box, and shows the spectator the card face while it is stapled. He then takes the 10 of Hearts and slowly rubs it over the stapled Ace. Suddenly there is a loud snapping sound. The magician shows two puncture holes have appeared on the back of his 10 of Hearts, he slowly turns it over to reveal it has in fact changed to the spectators Ace of Spades. The magician then slowly peels back and rips off the stapled card to reveal it is now his 10 of Hearts. The cards have changed places under impossible circumstances.
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ATLANTA -- Still giddy coming off the homestand-ending, walk-off win Sunday and facing an off-day in his hometown prior to opening a two-game set with his old team, the Braves, Jeff Francoeur came up with the perfect way to keep the Royals' good times rollin'.
He and wife, Catie, had the team over to his house for dinner.
"We had a good night last night," said Francoeur prior to Tuesday night's series opener with the Braves at Turner Field. "We just had everybody over, had dinner then we hit some golf balls in the back yard. It was fun to get everybody over at the house and show them Atlanta.
"For me, it's fun to be back home," he added. "This is a little easier now. When I used to come with the Mets, it was still kind of early and fresh. But now, it's going to be fun to be out there tonight."
Francoeur grew up in Atlanta as a Braves fan, was the team's first-round pick in 2002 (23rd overall), and played from July 7, 2005, through July 9, 2009, with the Braves before being traded to the New York Mets. The last time he played in Turner Field was Aug. 31, 2010. The Mets dealt him to Texas following that night's game. He joked that getting to play in the World Series that year with the Rangers was a fair trade-off. In December of 2010, he signed as a free agent with the Royals.
While his loyalties are with the Royals, he admitted it's nice to come to Atlanta every now and then and see some old faces, especially his best friend, Braves All-Star catcher Brian McCann. McCann is on the disabled list but flew into town to see him before flying back to Tampa to continue rehabbing his surgically-repaired shoulder.
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He also enjoyed playing host to the team, something his teammates appreciated.
"He was definitely a great host. I didn't realize how big his house was," said outfielder Lorenzo Cain with a laugh. "We had a great time as a team, spent some time together, got a chemistry even better than what it was. We had a blast. I'm glad we got a chance to do that."


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Next is trying to nail Sally's New Haven, CT "Apizza" style...which for me is impossible with my electric oven.
Very good looking pies Norma...I've always been a fan of Three Brothers pizza in Seaside as far as boardwalk pizza...I wasn't partial to Marucas. But when it comes to tomato pies..the end all, be all IMO is DeLorenzos... That's my personal mission right now
I just talked to Trenton Bill and what he recalls about DeLorenzo sauce was that it was made with 6-in-1's and Red Pack whole tomatoes American style, not the Red Pack Italian style. He also said that maybe a little sugar is used in the sauce, but no herbs. Bill also said that the Maggio mozzarella used to be used, but he doesn't know what DeLorenzo's uses now.Norma
Pete,The dough calculation tools here on the forum are not hard to use. If you take the first dough formulation Paul posted at Reply 133 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,25401.msg266219.html#msg266219 and use a size of a 14 pizza in the expanded dough calculation tool, or the Lehmann dough calculation tool this is what you will get. What Paul set forth for me for a 17.5 pizza.First Dough (1 @ 17.5" Pie), TF = 0.080Flour (100%): 330.56 g | 11.66 oz | 0.73 lbs Water (60.1%): 198.66 g | 7.01 oz | 0.44 lbs IDY (.25%): 0.83 g | 0.03 oz | 0 lbs | 0.27 tsp | 0.09 tbsp Salt (1.75%): 5.78 g | 0.2 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.21 tsp | 0.4 tbsp Olive Oil (2.04%): 6.74 g | 0.24 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.5 tsp | 0.5 tbsp Sugar (.89%): 2.94 g | 0.1 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.74 tsp | 0.25 tbsp Total (165.03%): 545.52 g | 19.24 oz | 1.2 lbs | TF = 0.08 This is using the Lehmann dough calculation tool for a 14 pizza at: http://www.pizzamaking.com/dough_calculator.html but you can also use the expanded dough calculation tool at: http://www.pizzamaking.com/expanded_calculator.html Flour (100%): 211.56 g | 7.46 oz | 0.47 lbs Water (60.1%): 127.15 g | 4.48 oz | 0.28 lbs IDY (.25%): 0.53 g | 0.02 oz | 0 lbs | 0.18 tsp | 0.06 tbsp Salt (1.75%): 3.7 g | 0.13 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.77 tsp | 0.26 tbsp Oil (2.04%): 4.32 g | 0.15 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.96 tsp | 0.32 tbsp Sugar (.89%): 1.88 g | 0.07 oz | 0 lbs | 0.47 tsp | 0.16 tbsp Total (165.03%): 349.13 g | 12.32 oz | 0.77 lbs | TF = 0.08 When you want to make a different size pizza than is given in anyones formulation all you have to do is put all of the numbers in the dough calculation tool that are given, except the pizza size. All depending on how long you might want to cold ferment your dough ball you might need to up that amount of IDY.You might want to note the bowl residue compensation for any dough that might be left in the bowl or on the dough hook. I usually use a bowl residue compensation.What style of pizza do you want me make in your BS? Do you want more of a NY style pizza or do you want to make a Neapolitan style pizza.Norma
I remember it tasting like Maggio Mozzarella, but we saw Sargento bags at Hudson ave one day.
Thank you for your assistance Norma. You've made the dough calculators a bit less intimidating for me.I am constantly tinkering and trying out new formulas. In my black stone I will be attempting NY style and Neapolitan. I am a large fan of the Neapolitan bakes, but I do like to make pizza for my folks, and they are more keen on NY style bakes. Although I think if they were having NP pizzas that were made by a true craftsman and not simply what I'm able to produce that they may change their mind. With your tomato pie recipe I'm planning on staying true to form and keeping it kind of NY style.Although I am curious what cheese blend you use for this style of pizza. I will look back on this thread and determine what flour is being used most commonly. I have access to AP flour, Bread flour, and 00 currently. I do not know anyplace locally where I'd be able to purchase high gluten flour and would likely have to order that online.Pete
I had meant to make a tomato pie crust with a lesser protein flour and add VWG, but life got in the way right now. I still want to do that though.
Norma,I would be very interested in hearing why it is you would like to try a weaker flour and add VWG.I am currently experimenting with low carb pizza doughs using a flour substitute called Carbalose. Last nights dough included some VWG but I have no idea what I am doing just yet.Just interested in why you want to use VWG, thanks.
Norma,If you conduct a search of the Trenton/De Lorenzo thread at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,7841.0.html using Maggio as the search term, you will get several hits. Based on those posts, it does indeed seem clear that De Lorenzo's at one time used the Maggio mozzarella cheese. That cheese was shredded and came in unmarked bags. It was later reported, at Reply 115 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,7841.msg45024/topicseen.html#msg45024, that the Maggio cheese was replaced by another cheese because of inconsistency problems. The Sargento cheese was mentioned, and a couple of us speculated that the new cheese was Grande cheese. Looking back now, I am not sure that the replacement cheese was Grande cheese only because Grande does not ordinarily use unmarked shredded cheese bags.As can be seen at http://www.maggiocheese.com/ , Maggio cheese products still exist. They are sold at retail in a multi-state area that includes Pennsylvania and New Jersey (http://www.maggiocheese.com/findus.html). However, as was previously reported in the Trenton thread, Maggio's was sold in 1998 to Crowley Foods. At the time, Maggio had been using a New Jersey company to make their cheese under contract, as was reported in the article at http://articles.philly.com/1998-07-15/business/25736696_1_crowley-foods-cheese-anniversary. I would be surprised if Crowley Foods is still making and selling the original Mazzio mozzarella cheese product that De Lorenzo's used. One can see the shredded cheese that De Lorenzo's now uses in the photo at http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/images/dtp-shoot08-untouched/pages/100_3160_JPG.htm and, on a pizza, in the photo at http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/images/dtp-shoot08-untouched/pages/100_3163_JPG.htm. It will also be noted that Maggio's has a foodservice division. However, if one looks at the products at http://www.maggiocheese.com/foodservice_selections.html, it will be seen that the only bagged mozzarella cheese is Part Skim Shredded Mozz, in 5-lb bags. From what I recall, De Lorenzo's was said to be using a pre-shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese.For your purposes in making tomato pies, there is no need to try to emulate the De Lorenzo's tomato pies. However, the De Lorenzo tomato pies might serve as a style to consider in your efforts to make your version, particularly with respect to the types of the pizza sauce and cheese emblematic of that style.Peter
Do you think I should try an experiment with one of your attempts at a clone De Lorenzo's dough to see what I think of it? If you do, what would be your favorite dough formulation to try. Maybe I would like a De Lorenzo's crust better than what I am making now. Who knows what I like best at this point in time. I keep changing my mind.
Norma,As you may know, I have never had a real De Lorenzo's pizza. So, I never knew how close I got to one when I was engaged in the De Lorenzo reverse engineering and cloning project. Also, things have changed a lot since that time. For example, the Trenton Hudson St. De Lorenzo store shut down completely (due to advancing age--in the mid to late 60s--of the husband and wife owners, not because of lack of business). My work was conducted relative to the pizzas that were made at that location, based on information provided by several of our members. Then the Trenton Hamilton St. location, which was run by other members of the De Lorenzo clan, closed and moved to another location in Trenton. Along the way, before the closure of the Hudson St. location, the son of the owners of that location opened up a new location in Robbinsville. I would imagine that that location pretty much follows the practices that were used at Hudson St. but most likely with some changes since things rarely remain the same over a period of many years (several decades in this case).I mention all of the above in case you decide that it might be better to wait until you can visit either of the two remaining De Lorenzo locations. I did try several versions of De Lorenzo clone dough formulations but the early ones turned out to have been based on a false premise--specifically, that De Lorenzo's was using a sourdough culture or something akin to an old dough. That led to some dead ends, although I did learn quite a bit about the old dough method notwithstanding. If you can't wait for Robbinsville, I can perhaps point you to a clone dough formulation to try. Also, for some ideas that you might want to incorporate into your present Trenton tomato pies, you might take a look at the photos from the Robbinsville location at http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/images/dtp-shoot08-untouched/index.htm. De Lorenzo's used to do some fairly unorthodox things with its pizzas, such as partially baking a pizza and then adding toppings (like pepperoni), or partially baking a pizza and then adding sauce and maybe more cheese (e.g., see http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/images/dtp-shoot08-untouched/pages/100_3164_JPG.htm and http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/images/dtp-shoot08-untouched/pages/100_3175_JPG.htm), and shifting pizzas between upper and lower stacked Blodgett deck ovens during the bake. There were perhaps several different protocols that De Lorenzo's used to make different ones of its pizzas that we were not able to fully decipher. I think these wrinkles made it more challenging to come up with credible clones.Peter
It probably would be better to wait to try and make a De Lorenzo's pizza until I get to visit De Lorenzo's, but I am curious how a De Lorenzo's pizza would work out in my BS and maybe at market. I would be interested if you could point me to a clone dough formulation to try. I don't need a clone De Lorenzo's dough formulation to give it a shot. I like the looks of De Lorenzo's pizza even though I never tasted one.
Norma,I couldn't tell from the above whether you want a De Lorenzo clone dough formulation or not. Maybe you can clarify.Peter


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The Obama administration suffered a setback in its efforts to persuade the U.S. Senate to refrain from increasing sanctions on Iran, as a key Democratic ally said the chances of Congress passing tighter sanctions had increased because the U.S. gave more than it got under the new six-month deal aimed at freezing Iran's nuclear program.
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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � Realtors say sales of single-family homes in Maine have increased by 21 percent between January 2012 and the same month this year.
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It is interesting to note that while there were many friends among the eight, none of them knew all the others. During the discussion which took place, much loftier ideals were expressed than the mere formulation of plans for asserting sophomore honor. The men discovered that they shared values and the inspiration for the formation of a new fraternity came to them. During this meeting, it was suggested that the Greek Letters "Kappa Phi Omega" be used to symbolize the words "Cosmic Fraternal Order" as the new name for the fraternity. This proposal was accepted and the meeting was adjourned.
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Spectrum Health is heightening efforts to ensure quality and safety for patients by naming Dr. Matthew J. Schreiber vice president of hospital quality and system patient safety.
Spectrum said his role is a new "key leadership" position created to help oversee quality efforts throughout the system.
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"In order to serve our patients, the previous roles of director of quality for Spectrum Health Medical Group and the vice president of quality for Spectrum Health Hospital Group have been elevated to have system-wide responsibility," said Dr. J. Michael Kramer, senior vice president and chief quality officer.
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My cat, Merlin, is 15 years old and had slightly elevated Bun (38) and Creatinine (2.5) levels on his last two blood tests. My vet says he has kidney disease, but his specific gravity is 1.050 (high normal) which I've read means that he has a pre-renal issue, NOT kidney disease.
Anyone know anything about pre-renal issues or renal function test results? I'm trying to figure out if his results may indicate something serious enough that I need to switch vets to get him treatment. Anyone have a cat with pre-renal issues or have any idea what pre-renal issues even would be?
If not, does anyone know of a trustworthy online vet, either for pay or not? I'm happy to pay for the second opinion if I know the vet is reputable. I'm kind of at a loss of what to do now that I'm not entirely trusting my vet's judgment.
I do not have any experience with feline CRF or kidney disease but one of our members here (growler) does and will be able to help. She usually doesn't log on until later in the evening (pacific time). Here is the thread she started that has lots of great information....
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Ooooops, I forgot to say welocme to pets.ca I'm sorry to hear about Merlin but it does sound like you have caught it early so hopefully diet modification will help. .....I know it has helped Growler's cat, Duffy.
Also, sugarcatmom (another member here) is another cat guru and will also be of great help to you.
Just out of curiosity, why do you suspect pre renal? Is it because they are still concentrating?
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As a general rule for tubular renal disease the concentrating ability of the kidneys will lost even BEFORE the BUN and creatinine will be elevated. There is a subset of cats that can retain the ability to concentrate urine and still have renal disease.
Was a complete urinalysis done? What is the protein level in the urine? Have radiographs or ultrasound been done?
Is there dehydration present which may explain the BUN and creatinine elevations as pre-renal?
Also do you know what the albumin, total protein and phosphorus levels are? Can you get these values?
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The thing here is pre-renal issues basically is early stage kidney failure. Unfortunately with most cases the kidneys cannot regenerate themselves - you cannot regain tissues whose function is lost. The difference in the name has to do with where the problem is, is it in the structure of the kidneys (kidney failure) or in the physical tubing structure just before the kidneys (pre-renal before the kidneys).
My cat Duffy was first diagnosed with pre-renal atozemia, with the next series of blood & urine tests it had progressed to renal atozemia, her most recent test results the Dr wrote renal insufficiency. Pretty much all the same to me - early stage kidney failure.
So yes my cat has had pre-renal issues and now has renal issues - they are the same, you want to treat this the same as you would treat it if they called it Chronic Renal Failure.
Your cat, same as mine, needs:
-a canned food that has good quality protein - no dry food,
-low in phosphorus and potassium,
-preferrably grain-free,
-they need to drink water,
-and they should have a tsp or 2 of water added to the canned food,
-you need to make sure the cat eats & doesn't go more than 24 hrs w/out eating
-full blood & full urine testing done @ least every 6 months
-you to be aware you will need to consider giving subq or have a vet give IV fluids at some point if your cat becomes dehydrated
-you to be aware that your cat may need medication @ some point
-you to have a positive outlook on the situation - animals can sense when you are upset and this may lead to their condition becoming worse ~ self-fulfilling prophecy
Do you really not trust your vet? Is that why you are thinking to switch vets to get treatment? Or are you thinking to try Homeopathy?
I have chosen to go the route of Homeopathy with my cat because her numbers were not high enough to need medication but I did not want to wait until that time before I took action. Duffy is taking some supplements prescribed my my Homeopathic Vet which has helped her overall health and has started to stabilize her numbers.
My thread has been linked for you, please have a read through the various links in it and please feel free to ask questions.
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I think we may be talking about a couple items here. I would like to explain some terms.
pre-renal is NOT early renal disease.
When talking about pre-renal it is an anatomic reference to azotemia. Just as post-renal causes of azotemia do not refer to complete renal failure. Pre-renal indicates factors that can raise BUN and creatinine before they reach the kidneys. If the BUN and creatinine rise because of the kidney, they are renal causes. If the BUN and creatinine rise due to causes after the kidney (such as an urethral obstruction) then it is called post-renal.
The most common and usual cause of pre-renal azotemia is dehydration.
Also note that you can have pre-renal, renal and post-renal causes of azotemia all together or in combinations. So just because an animal has pre-renal azotemia, it is does not mean that it will become renal or post-renal azotemia.
Hope that helps
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Preventive Medicine Specialist With a Focus on Immunology and Infectious Disease
Additional thoughts on Merlin.
Pre renal azotemia is often associated with mild azotemia - slight elevation of the BUN and normal or near normal creatinine. Azotemic patients with evidence of adequate urinary concentration (specific gravity >1.040 in cats) have pre-renal azotemia.
A list of pre-renal causes: consumption of a high protein diet, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, treatment with corticosteroids (as it creates a catabolic state), dehydration, hypovolemia and decreased cardiac output.
Side note on chronic renal failure in cats: most will have unconcentrated urine with a specific gravity of 1.008-1.012. Some dogs can have minimal concentration up to 1.025 and some cats can concentrate up to 0.035
Important note: since the specific gravity sometimes alters a diagnosis of pre-renal versus renal, it is important that this is not an old sample that has 'dried' up and become concentrated. I have seen cases misdiagnosed as pre-renal because of urine that was 'concentrated' by evaporation.
How is Merlin doing by the way?
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