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|October 16, 2010, 01:04 AM
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Scope suggestions? CX4 Storm
Just bought this shiny tool a week or two ago. Love it so far!
Thinking about a scope for it, but I can't settle on anything. I've been looking at some NCStar red dots lately. Saw the NCStar mark iii with quick finder today. I definitely have that on my consideration list but beyond that, what would work well with a .40S&W Pistol Cal Carbine?
Ideally, my criteria are:
~Illumination. Either red dot/green dot or some sort of lit reticule.
~Zoom. up to 2-6x would be fine. Adjustable would be nice, but not necessary. This is one of the more optional criteria.
~Reliability. Gotta be able to stay centered after having it mounted on my rifle without taking it off often and while taking the recoil from .40 shells.
~Price. I'd really prefer it to be around $150 or less.
~Eye relief. Another optional component, I'd like unrestricted/unlimited eye relief, but this is perhaps the least important part.
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|October 16, 2010, 05:44 PM
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I am not sure that any magnification is necessary. American Rifleman tested the Storm rifle, and the best group they could get at 25 yards was 2 inches. that is more than 8 MOA.
For the most effective aim, use one of the inexpensive Holo sights, for better target acquisition. To me shooting it with both eyes open would be a priority.
Enjoy it, they had a lot of good things to say about it.
|October 17, 2010, 07:26 PM
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I would leave it stock but if you feel the need, I would put a red dot on it of your choice, not a scope.
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|October 17, 2010, 11:22 PM
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Any names/brands/models you guys want to throw out there? Saw a cheap one by the name of Tascar or something?
Magnification is just more for luxury than anything, so I can see what my placement is at distances without having to wait for cease fire and that.
|October 18, 2010, 02:02 PM
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For cheap, I would go with a Tasco red dot. I have a Millet that I really like, but they can be pricey.
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|October 18, 2010, 03:24 PM
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With hand loads with lead bullets I have gotten sub 4 inch groups with my 9mm storm at 100.
That was with an Aimpoint on sand bags.
With cheep factory Remington white box it will hold 5 inches at 100.
I have had cheep Chinese red dots and all I can say about them is that they are made for paint guns not for real guns.
Buy American and buy an aimpoint.
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|October 18, 2010, 05:09 PM
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From October 2010 American Rifleman
(It appears as though I was confused. I did not realize it was available in different calibers. The results I saw were for the .45 ACP. My apologies.)
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|October 18, 2010, 05:17 PM
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i have the CX 45 ACP and mounted a Truglo 3X red dot sight. Allows me to get good groupings out to 50 yards - enough for HD.
|October 18, 2010, 05:25 PM
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i'm all for that aimpoint series, but I can't afford one Unless there are models that are sub $200 that I'm not seeing
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I have put just about every type of scope and optic I own on my CX4 (9mm) at one time or another. Generally speaking, you probably won't be shooting it much beyond 100 and very rarely beyond 200. The best groups I have gotten out of mine is 4-5 MOA at 100 yards with a 10x scope. With the "iron" sights it was closer to 8 MOA. If you don't aim at the same point each time (and my eyes don't allow for that with the funky iron sights), then your group size is going to be bigger.
Right now it is set up with a ATN MK390 NV scope and I can hit a 6x6" square at 80 yards consistently with Blazer 115 gr. ball ammo. I might be able to do as good at 100, but haven't shot it in the dark that far.
You can extrapolate from 25 yards with 2 MOA to 8 MOA at 100, but I have found that sometimes you can do better when you actually shoot the full 100 yards and have a way to aim precisely.
A 4 MOA dot optic is probably fine all things considered. Figure out the ballistics and I would be willing to bet that you would have a high (inside the 4 MOA dot) 25-30 yard zero that would keep the round inside the dot from 15-20 yards out to 80-90 yards or so. Of course, that will actually depend on the partcular ammo you are using and the actual sight radius height over the bore radius, but basically with a dot that big, it will be a good match for the capabilities of the gun out to that far. Place the dot on the target and that is where the bullet will go (somewhere within the dot).
In other words, I don't think I would spend extra bucks to get a finer reticle, but if you can find something with a finer reticle within your price range, that is great.
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|October 18, 2010, 11:38 PM
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Aim point micro or a trijicon reflex sight, neither have zoom though.
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|October 19, 2010, 08:55 AM
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Yeah, I just don't see either an Aimpoint Micro (my favorite) or a Trijicon Reflex going on sale anytime soon for $150.
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The ups and downs of life
I grew rapidly for the first few years of life, but once I celebrated my twelfth birthday, this remarkable development came to a dismal end. When I hit 4ft 11 ins and towered above my peers, everyone told me how tall I would grow and I believed every word, despite the fact that my father was a measly 5ft 7ins and my mother was not an inch taller than 5ft.
Thereafter, it was downhill all the way. I watched my shorter classmates pass me by, while I stayed put, expecting to catch up. But I never did. From once lofty heights I ended up in the basement of life, foraging near the ground while others picked juicy fruits from the top of the tree.
How did I adapt from the tallest to the shortest?
High heels, high hairdos and high bar stools all played their part, and the odd step or two outside the Roxy cinema or by the front door, helped along the courting process no end. There weren't many benefits of being short, I found, but did I feel smug as a bug boarding a flight and finding there was sooo much legroom!
With the passing of time, strangely, I began to feel tall again. I am never daunted in the company of six footers and those flat shoes and flat hairdos, once shunned, are now choices I regularly make without a second thought.
I am convinced that somewhere within my short frame there is a frustrated tall gene waiting to reactivate, and that somewhere within my psyche there is a tall woman who can never be cut down to size no matter what the tape measure says!
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Warning, this piece contains racial and homophobic slurs and some foul language. No, I do not advocate the use of racial or homophobic slurs, so please do not half read this and then send me messages accusing me of doing so. However, I do on occasion, advocate foul language. Thnx-glwwlg
The Height of a Man
Another Saturday night rolled around. We piled into the car looking for adventure in the land of the lost, Shreveport, Louisiana. As with every other Saturday night, we drove aimlessly for a while. Pointless cruising of the streets, powered by two bits a gallon gas or dropping by Moms, a drive through combination liquor store and six bar stool hang out for professional drunks, were about the only venues open for teens in my hometown. Moms establishment was rarely on our lists of Saturday outings. It was not that she would refuse service to five young men in a car, none of whom possessed proof of drinking age identification. On more than one occasion, I had seen twelve year olds riding stingray bicycles, purchase a fifth of Old Stomach Rot whiskey at Moms place. The police, appropriately paid off in relation the old gals disreputable dealings, allowed her business to thrive. We simply were not fans of Moms since none of us drank with regularity.
Onward we drove, through the night, downtown, north side, south, nothing. The town was as empty of anything to pique our interest, as ever. We headed west on I-20. That direction led to one place, the Shreveport Regional Airport. The airport was a place as welcoming to us on Saturday night as our grandmothers homes were.
The year was 1967. Few people owned color televisions at that time. One of the few places that offered constant access to such a marvel was the airport. Fifteen or so rows of semi-modern, uncomfortable, fiberglass, seating sat in the lobby with a huge color console perched on a dais, a three channel alter to the midnight horror movie. As had been the case many times before, we made for the airport.
Two lonely passengers curled uncomfortably on some seating in the back, attempting sleep, waiting for the flights to begin the next afternoon. Two bored employees staffed the counters, looking with dull eyes out over the virtually empty building, and engaged in conversation with an especially greasy looking baggage handler. He eyed us with malevolence. Looking back, I do not even know why the airport was kept open all night.
We quietly took seats on the front row as the movie began. I dont remember the title, most likely The Beast that Almost all those old 50s movies bore titles like The Beast that something. Five minutes in, a shadow fell over me. I looked up. A tall cop, six feet and probably a few more inches in height, leaned over me with a smiling face. Are you gentlemen waiting to meet a plane, he asked, voice dipped in honey.
Why, no, we are watching the movie, was my stupidly innocent reply. I would never figure in a thousand years that a public place was off limits to teenage citizens.
Well, git yer asses up and out thet thar door now, yeh little faggots! We were so shocked at the outburst; we could not even question what was happening. We complied. The sleeping passengers jolted awake, with faces that bore dumfounded expressions, as if awakened by a crash of thunder. Them payin fuckers couldnt even see the television with yall hoggin the front row!," the cop snarled, as we passed the laughing, fat, greasy, baggage man. He had reported our horrid transgression; summoning the police because we watched television.
Standing over us, the first cops height became more obvious. He stepped in close and hovered, looking down as if we were the worst vermin he had ever encountered. Shaggy haired scum, better to have been ripped from suckling our mothers breasts and had our brains dashed out on the hot southern soil where our ancestors fought and died for the right to dash unruly slaves brains out on that very soil.
The tall mans face was a long sharp angled contrivance that fit well with his height. He stooped a bit, bending over each of the dangerous, television-watching felons he held. Standing as my companions did, our backs against the outside wall, a hot summer breeze blowing across the front of the building, I could barely move my eyes from the large mole that marred his face. It bloomed in brown glory about one inch to the left of his nose.
He glared angrily into my face, his eyes mimicking those I saw once in an old film about Nazi concentration camps. An SS officer held a riding crop against the face of an old woman. Standing in the same posture as my imprisoner, the SS man bent and glared at the poor woman. She looked humiliated and he looked the perfect example of the triumph and the will.
My captors eyes mirrored those hateful orbs of the long gone monster of Berlin. His manner of speech though, told me that if he had been part of those horrid camps, his job would have been overseeing oven loading or beating slave labor. He was too ignorant to be a ranking officer, even in the Third Reich. Strangely, the tall cop was most likely drafted to fight the dirty Hun in World War II, yet he asked one of my companions if he was a Jew, and compared us with various races and a sexual preference that he held in contempt. At one point in his tirade, he asked if we squatted to pee, a common insult that police used at that time, implying that any man they encountered was actually a woman in disguise. That particular insult seemed rather nonsensical to me.
We gonna git the paddy wagon out hyear. Yew boys gonna take a trip downtown in the paddy wagon. Paddy wagons comin to git ya, he growled like the mindless beast he was. He stood straight up at that point, much as a primitive animal might, using his height to look regal and dangerous. He looked back and forth with revulsion. I watched the gray hairs in the nostrils of his snot locker twitch as he raved and his facial mole once again, hypnotically attracted my attention.
The next in our small group received the brunt of further insults, as the officer of dubious law passed from me to him. Pad-Dee Wag-Inn, he roared, trying to create sense of fear toward the as of yet unseen conveyance. Yew gonna ride! I should say, that as comical as the mole faced buffoon and his chubby sidekick appeared, I was terrified. Granted he and officer short fat had the combined IQ that probably fell just somewhere less than my shoe size, but he and his fat friend possessed the two things that struck fear into any person on the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana who was not a member of the citys elite. The elite being corrupt politicians, racist police, religious fanatics, but only the fanatics from the wealthy churches, and of course, the southern, conservative, old time, old money, wealthy. I digress. The two things the medium sized fish in a not too big pond possessed that struck fear into me were the badge and the gun. Even though both men fell just below the baboon on the evolutionary scale, they wore power, the badge, and the deadly ability to manifest that power, the gun. Police in Shreveport sometimes followed the old adage to kill first then doctor reports later. Paddy wagon, he shouted again in a near orgasmic display of bravado.
He stopped his orgiastic shouting, falling silent as he came face to face with the last of our crew of dangerous television watchers. M was the tallest of us and lived a rough home life that made it difficult for anyone to intimidate him. The tall cop certainly did not care for the fact that a sixteen-year-old boy stood eye to eye with him and returned the same glare he was giving. He was just about to speak, light the match that could lead to a real confrontation---.
Hey bubba, his fat companion called from the passengers side of the patrol car, short legs dangling out the open door nearly touching the curb, and his chubby hand clutching the microphone on their radio. Bubba, the paddy wagon caint make it. They pickin up some niggers. The partner, the one who had remained mostly silent until the announcement about the paddy wagon, was the absolute opposite of his more vocal, idiotic companion. For all the others tallness, he was equally short, five foot six at best and approximately the same distance around the middle. The two were a perfect human embodiment of Mutt and Jeff, the living personification of those two forgotten characters that once resided on the Sunday comics page.
I always found tall, thin cops more frightening than their short, obese, counterparts. With my tall nemesis at the opposite end of our pimple faced rouges gallery, I spied the fat man as he communicated with the dispatch office. I almost laughed aloud as I tried to picture the stubby fellow chasing an actual criminal. If his quarry shinnied over a three-foot high hurricane fence, the lardass could only stare over the fence at the escaping crook, further pursuit impossible for the donut-laden peace officer. Suddenly, I realized why the local constabulary shot so many criminals. It was easier than giving chase. I did not laugh or even smile.
Caint make it? The taller cop was enraged, the arrest of his career and no paddy wagon to transport the criminals. Damn, he said quietly, guess we gotta take em in in the back seat. The1965 Ford Galaxy was a large car but I did not relish a ride to the cop shop with five of us crammed into the back. It appeared that my vote did not count though.
Turn around and face the wall, the tall one screamed. We stood, lined up with our hands on the wall. The short fat policeman took position beside the open back door of the sedan. Tall, skinny cop ordered short, fat cop to tell him whom he wanted to pack in the back seat next.
OK bubba, fat man said, Gimme the big one. Looking down the line, I saw the boney hand of the tall cop grab M, roughly snatching his shirt in the center of his back, jerking hard away from the wall and he was gone. Ok bubba, the obese simian called out again, Gimme the other big one. I looked to my left, toward the other desperados in my gang, expecting to see the long arm of the law snatch one out of view. I suddenly felt a rough grab at the center of my back. The tall cop jerked me around and shoved me toward the waiting donut processor. Come on bubba, he said almost sweetly, scoot in there and make room for your friends. He must have been the den mother to the other cops, with his bubba this and bubba that, on Wednesday nights when they gathered in the basement of the precinct to view stag films, confiscated porno, evidence that almost every cop in town had to study.
M looked at me and silently shook his head. I returned the gesture. It was interesting. Growing up, I was always the runt of the litter, the smallest guy in class. For the first time in my life, on that hot night, while being shoved into the back of a police car, I realized that I finally reached the height of a man.
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When I saw the theme of this competition was height I thought I might tell you about the time I nearly plunged a thousand feet down a mountainside. It wasnt that long ago actually, and I still havent quite got my head around what happened on that strange day - in fact if it hadnt happened to me, I dont think I would ever have believed it. You probably dont know that I used to be a postman in Worksop; theres no reason why you should of course because I dont think Ive ever mentioned it. I say used to be but thats just because for me it seems to be in the past, its probably more accurate to say it was in another life.
To be fair I dont think anyone would broadcast the fact of being a postman in Worksop, especially if they had once been the top office furniture salesman in the North of England. Oh yes, I supplied NHS contracts, local and district councils, Northern Rock Building Society, the lot. I could finesse a tender; I knew who else was bidding, what my competitors margins were, what they had for lunch everything. I was earning £80,000 a year when the average wage was only £10,000. I had it all, a really nice house, brand new Jag, summer holidays in the Seychelles, winter ski-ing breaks, and I was stupid enough to think that was what life was all about.
While I was putting big deals together my private life was coming apart. I had become a cliché and didnt even know it. What followed was predictable - divorce, nervous breakdown; I turned from workaholic into alcoholic and faced financial ruin. It makes you wonder why I didnt see any of it coming. After five years of going down I managed somehow to pick myself up before actually ending on the street - kicked the booze and got a job. The office equipment companies laughed at me though, no-one was going to employ a sixty year old has been, so I became a postman.
Actually being a postman wasnt so bad, the wages werent brilliant but my needs were small. I had my little flat, well it was just a room really but it was fine for me. Once in a while I would make the trip down to London to see my daughters and grandchildren life could have been much worse. And my boss was good; he knew that I had no commitments and that if any odd jobs came up outside the normal routine I was always a willing volunteer. Thats why he asked me to go to Sheffield to pick up the new mail van. It was a warm, late August, afternoon and I took the train to Sheffield.
Sheffield Central Station is a busy place, always lots of folk bustling about, and when I say I bumped into Peter Baxter by the newsstand, I mean that literally. Nearly thirty years before we had been neighbours over in Macclesfield, Cheshire - I had been a struggling office furniture salesman with two young daughters and Peter had been a struggling journalist. We became fairly close for a while and his wife, Brenda, was good friends with Julia and always seemed to be in our kitchen. In the evenings they would often come round and play cards and wed share a bottle or two of wine. It must have been fifteen years since Peter and I had last met, hed just taken a senior job at The Sheffield Evening News. We looked at each for a moment and then nearly simultaneous recognition occurred.
Peter! I exclaimed.
Jack? he responded somewhat querulously, surprised to meet his old friend dressed as a postman.
How are you Peter, still in Newspapers?
Im the managing editor, Jack, but what about you - a postman?
Its better than not working, I explained, and it keeps me fit. Im just picking up a new mail van for Worksop sorting office, but what are you doing here at two oclock in the afternoon - sneaking off early? Havent you got a paper to get out or something?
All the work is in the mornings, Jack, he said, and anyway its my retirement tomorrow. Brenda and I are taking a World trip, doing the USA first and then Australia where our son lives now; well be staying with Tom and his family right through Christmas. How about you and Julia, what are you doing these days?'
Were not together now Peter, I said, decided some years back to go our separate ways, but we keep in touch. The girls are fine: Kate is married to a banker and Megan is a graphic artist, doing very well for themselves - they both live down South now. The postman thing is just temporary, until I get back on my feet you know.
Of course, he said. Anyhow, must dash. Well have to meet up some time, he called back to me as he hurried off. He was a worse liar than I was.
The short walk to the Royal Mail depot took me past the offices of Nicholsons solicitors, who had given me my first really big contract, a 30,000 sqft full office refurbishment. That was at end of August too, I remember it was a Thursday and we were going on holiday on the following Saturday. It was the only time Id ever been to Wales when the sun had shone for seven days solid. We camped at a place called Shell Island in a tent Id bought from Peter Baxter for £20. The entire holiday cost less than £50 but it was the happiest of times.
The new mail van was a Ford Escort, bright red and shining with the Royal cypher painted on the sides. I remember that new car smell was so strong. How do they make new cars smell like that? It reminded me of that first new company car Id had, a Fiat Mirafiori in bronze, with a factory-fitted radio. In those days most cars came without radios, so a factory-fitted radio was a cut above. It had plush velour seats and the registration was FNC 135V; dont some strange things stick in your head? We went to Shell Island in that car, I had been driving it when I got the Nicholson contract and it was one of the last vehicles to have been driven around Mam Tor before the road disappeared forever.
To folks who live in Switzerland Mam Tor probably wouldnt seem like a mountain at all, at just under two thousand feet it might be classed as a very small hill - but here in the UK its a mountain. The main A625 road heading west from Sheffield used to climb up the Hope valley and then wound around the south face of Mam Tor on a narrow ledge that defied gravity. The views from Mam Tor were stunning, but you kept your eye on the road if you didnt want to risk a thousand foot drop. Remarkably no-one was killed, or even injured, when a massive landslide swept down the mountain and a half-mile of major road just disappeared into the valley below. Nowadays what used to be an important route is just a backwater; the road ends halfway up the mountain in a viewing area with a few picnic tables.
I had all afternoon, so I decided to drive up to Mam Tor and take in some memories; I stopped several times on the way and it was early evening when I drove through Castleton and, with Classic Rock blasting out on the radio, began the ascent of Mam Tor. I was sure I was getting near the picnic site but the low evening sun was full in my face and I wondered for a moment if Id missed the signs. Dont be stupid, I thought to myself, The picnic site is the end of the road, so just keep driving, and I did just that. It was sometime before I realized I was on the descent, I remember thinking Wow, they must have re-made the road. The radio wasn't tuned into Classic Rock anymore it seemed to have lost the signal and picked up some talk show. I couldn't re-tune the unfamiliar radio on the move, so I pulled into a lay-by and only then did it occur to me that something very peculiar had happened.
I was no longer sitting in a mail van, it was, incredibly, and without the slightest doubt, a 1980s Fiat Mirafiori, beside me on the passenger seat was a familiar black leather briefcase. I had to be in a dream, but I could feel a warm breeze on my face from the slightly open car window. I sat for a long time motionless, one or two other cars zoomed past. I felt faint, I needed air, and I had to get out of the car before I passed out. I closed the car door behind me and stood with my back against it, facing the road, gasping, slowly I turned round - the bronze metallic paint was almost spotless. I walked, almost staggered, to the front of the car, the plate read FNC 135V. What was going on? When it began to rain I got back in the car and tried to collect my thoughts I opened the briefcase and there was the Nicholson contract, fresh and un-creased, it was signed and dated 28-8-1980.
As if on cue a voice came from the radio This is the BBC and here is the news at 7 oclock on Thursday 28th of August 1980. Only now was the unbelievable truth of my situation beginning to dawn on me.
My home, what had been my home, was only twenty miles away. I cant begin to explain the emotions I felt on that drive - I remember laughing, my eyes were full of tears, I was terribly afraid, I had never felt so excited, so elated. The little driveway leading to our back gate was just as I remembered it.
As I drew up I heard her voice cry out, Jack! Where have you been? Julia flew out of the house and right into my arms. Oh, Jack, I was really worried, did you know the road had collapsed?
She was young, full of life, not the tired, unhappy woman that I had turned her into. Thirty years of guilt welled up inside me and the tears just rolled down my cheeks. Im so sorry, I blurted.
Hey, its OK she said, as she looked up into my face and brushed my fringe aside with her hand. The girls are just in the bath but they want you to go up and read them a bedtime story, and Peters coming later with the tent.
The tent? I echoed vacantly.
Yes, she said, were going away this weekend, surely you havent forgotten the tent?
No Ive not forgotten it, I said, in fact I remember it well.
Peter Baxters last morning news conference was a fairly low key affair. Pat Kellet and her team ran through the usual round of stabbings, muggings and rapes that seemed to be the main substance of big city news these days, while Peters thoughts turned to his World trip and the delights of Christmas in Australia with his grandchildren. Just one item made Peter look up from the notes hed been pretending to study.
What was that Pat? he asked.
What, the stolen horses? she queried.
No, about the mail van.
Oh that, said Pat. A Royal Mail van was driven through the picnic area and right over the mountainside at Mam Tor, fell several hundred feet and then burst into flames. The driver hasnt been identified but is believed to be . . .
A postman from Worksop, Peter interrupted.
Yes that's right, Peter, are you sure youre OK? You suddenly look rather pale.
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Could some one give me a straight answer to whether these references are correct representations of tenses?
[SYNTAX OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK, James A. Brooks, Carlton L. Winbery, University Press of America, Lanham, Md., 1988, pp. 104-5]:
"The perfect tense expresses perfective action. Perfective action involves a present state which has resulted from a past action. The present state is a continuing state; the past action is a completed action.
Intensive Perfect
Remember that the perfect conveys the idea of a present state resulting from a past action. This use of the perfect emphasizes the present state of being, the continuing result, the finished product, the fact that a thing is..."
[The Language of the New Testament, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, Chas. Scribner's Sons, N.Y., 1965, p. 293]:
"The Greek perfect differs from the Greek aorist in that it emphasizes the continuing result of the action which was completed in past time...
[SYNTAX OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK, James A. Brooks, Carlton L. Winbery, University Press of America, Lanham, Md., 1988, pp. 98, 118-120, 111-112]:
[p. 98]
"The aorist tense expresses punctiliar action. Indeed the word aoristos [aorist] means without limit, unqualified, undefined - which of course is the significance of punticiliar action. Only in the indicative mood [as in both verbs in Jn 3:16 main clause] does the aorist also indicate past time."
It often corresponds to the English perfect (I have loosed).
So the aorist is said to be "simple occurrence" or "summary occurrence", without regard for the amount of time taken to accomplish the action. This tense is also often referred to as the 'punctiliar' tense. 'Punctiliar' in this sense means 'viewed as a single, collective whole,' a "one-point-in-time" action in which from an external point of view the action is completed - no longer requiring further time to elapse, although it may actually have taken place over a period of time. In the indicative mood the aorist tense denotes action that occurred in the past time, often translated like the English simple past tense.
Greek grammar books often stipulate that present tense expresses progressive or linear action but then they add the proviso that such action is more specifically defined by context and modifiers such as adverbs, phrases and conjunctions - often to the extent that it is neither progressive nor linear.
[Compare A. T. Robertson, "A Grammar of the Greek New Testament, p. 864, 879]:
"It is not wise therefore to define the present indicative as denoting 'action in progress' like the imperfect as Burton does, for he has to take it back on p. 9 in the discussion of the 'Aoristic Present,' which he calls a 'distinct departure from the prevailing use of the present tense to denote action in progress.' In sooth, it is no 'departure' at all. The idiom is as old as the tense itself...
It has already been seen that the durative sense does not monopolize the 'present' tense, though it more frequently denotes linear action. The verb and the context must decide."
So the key common denominator relative to present tense verb usage is that the action is to be viewed as internal as opposed to external wherein the former has in view action from within as it occurs, and the latter has in view action which is completed or action which has not yet occurred.
An examination of the various present tenses used in the New Testament Books will corroborate and clarify this:
[From: "Syntax of New Testament Greek" in {} brackets, Brooks & Winbery, 1979, University Press, Lanham, Md, pp. 82-90]:
This category is sometimes referred to as the progressive present of description. This use of the present describes what is now actually taking place. It might even be called the pictorial present. It depicts an action in progress.}
Some grammarians call this the progressive present. An action or a state of being which began in the past is described as continuing until the present. The past and the present are gathered up in a single affirmation. An adverb of time is often used with this kind of present, but a verb alone is sometimes sufficient as in the final example given below. This use of the Greek present is usually translated by the English present perfect. Although impractical to bring out in English translation, the full meaning is that something has been and still is.}
The iterative present depicts an action which is repeated at various intervals. It might be illustrated by a series of dots (....) rather than a straight line (_______). Sometimes the repetition takes the form of a local, as opposed to universal, custom or practice. It is necessary to distinguish this use from those statements of universal truth called 'gnomic'...}
The present tense is sometimes used to indicate an action being contemplated, or proposed, or attempted but which has not actually taken place. The name is derived from the intention to produce the desired result. Other grammarians call this the conative present or the inchoative present. An auxiliary verb such as 'attempt,' 'try,' 'go,' or 'begin' may be used in the translation.}
The gnomic present is used to express a universal truth, a maxim, a commonly accepted fact, a state or condition which perpetually exists, and a very widespread practice or custom. The time element is remote even in the indicative mood because the action or state or truth is true for all time - the past and future as well as the present. Such words as 'always,' 'ever,' and 'never' are often used in the translation.
In attempting to determine whether a present which depicts a custom or practice is iterative or gnomic, the following should be taken into consideration. If the custom or practice is local in nature and/or is confined to a comparatively brief period, the present is iterative. If the custom or practice is widespread and/or extends over a comparatively long period of time the present is gnomic. It should also be remembered that the iterative present expresses linear action, the gnomic punctiliar action.}
For the sake of vividness or dramatic effect a writer sometimes imagines that he and/or his readers are present and are witnessing a past event. He narrates the past event as though it were actually taking place. The present tense is used for this purpose. The historical present is frequently found in Mark and John. It is ordinarily translated into English by the simple past tense}
The present tense is sometimes used for confident assertions about what is going to take place in the future. The event, although it has not yet occurred, is looked upon as so certain that it is thought of as already occurring. The futuristic present is often used in prophecies. A test for this use is the ability to translate the Greek present with an English future, though the future, will not always be used in the translation.}
What is here called the aoristic present and what some grammarians call the specific or effective present involves a simple expression of undefined action in the present time without any of the more developed implications of the gnomic, historical, or futuristic presents. The aoristic present presents the action as a simple event or as a present fact without any reference to its progress. By the nature of the case the verb "eimi" is often an aoristic present.}


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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-173
|Ottawa, 12 May 2004
CARE Radio Broadcasting Association
Red Earth, Alberta
Application 2003-1265-3
Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2004-9
1 March 2004
CIAM-FM Fort Vermilion - New transmitter in Red Earth
|The Commission approves the application by CARE Radio Broadcasting Association (CARE) to amend the broadcasting licence for the radio programming undertaking CIAM-FM Fort Vermilion, in order to operate a transmitter in Red Earth.
|CARE indicated that the new transmitter will provide better service to CIAM-FM listeners in Red Earth.
|The new transmitter will operate at 102.9 MHz (channel 275LP) with an effective radiated power of 50 watts.
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March 11, 2009
Complete Release in PDF Format
The Schedule
Friday March 13 - Saturday March 14, 2009
Sam Adams Combined Events
at Pauley Track, UC Santa Barbara
On the Horizon
Saturday March 21, 2009
USC Trojan Invitational
at Katherine B. Loker Stadium, USC
Last Time
At the Ben Brown Invitational at Cal State Fullerton, the Gauchos' Barbara Nwaba and Scott Smith entered the UCSB record books with great early-season performances in their respective events. Nwaba set a personal best of 14.94 in the 100m hurdles to reach eighth all-time for UCSB, and Smith set a personal best of 14:14.09 in the 5000m to also reach eighth all-time.
This Weekend's Meet
UCSB will be hosting the Sam Adams Combined Events--a decathlon and heptathlon competition--this weekend at Pauley Track. This will be the first opportunity of the season for UCSB's decathletes and heptathletes to set official collegiate marks.
Behind the Name
The Sam Adams Combined Events meet is held in honor of former UCSB coach Sam Adams, who arrived as an assistant in 1959. With the exception of a three-year period, he was head coach of track & field and cross country from 1964-1992. During his tenure he guided numerous athletes to All-American status and NCAA Championship appearances, and in 1967 and 1968 he guided UCSB to second-place finishes in the NCAA College Division Track and Field Championships. In 1982 he was named head coach of the United States National Team, guiding the U.S. in meets against the Soviet Union, East Germany, West Germany and Africa. He also served as the event director of the United States - Soviet Union Multi-Event Meet, which was hosted by UCSB at Pauley track in 1982. His leadership was integral in bringing the 1975 and 1981 National Decathlon Championships to UCSB. He also served as the manager of the decathlon and heptathlon competitions at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Smith Named Big West Athlete of the Week
Scott Smith has been named the Big West Athlete of the Week after running 14:14.09 in the 5000m at the Ben Brown Invitational. Smith finished fourth overall and first amongst collegiate athletes with his new 5k personal best. He shares the men's track honor with Thomas Phillips of UC Davis, who posted a Regional-qualifying mark of 52.30 in the 400m hurdles at the Cal Quad Opener in Berkeley, Calif.
Steady Improvements
Barbara Nwaba's performance in the 100m hurdles at the Ben Brown Invitational earns her another position on the UCSB all-time lists. She now sits tied for eighth all-time in the 100m hurdles at 14.94, and seventh all-time in the 400m hurdles at 62.48. A great all-around athlete, Nwaba will transition to the heptathlon this season while continuing to excel individually in her strongest events--the hurdles and high jump.
Maximum Velocity
Senior sprinter Max Bellissimo redshirted the 2008 season and has looked good so far in his return to competition. He has improved his 400m time every week and hopes to soon eclipse his personal best of 48.07 that he set in 2007. Bellissimo's performances include a first-place finish of 49.05 at the All-Cal Challenge, and a seasonal best of 48.49 at last weekend's Ben Brown Invitational. He finished in fifth place out of 45 runners at Ben Brown.
Men Win All-UC Meet
The men won the All-Cal Challenge Cup on Feb. 28, finishing with 198.50 points to take the cup from UC Irvine. The team was led by Jason Newland's victories in the 100m (10.90) and 200m (21.93), Scott Smith's victories in the 1500m (3:53.41) and 3000m (8:33.22), and Erik Aardal's victory in the steeplechase (9:36.74). On the women's side, Katie Voigtlander had the Gauchos' best individual performance of the meet by running a personal best of 10:49.82 to win the steeplechase.
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All regular season and playoff games will be available at ESPN730.com through the "listen live" stream and through the TuneIn Radio app for smartphones and tablets. A link to each broadcast will also be available on gocheckers.com prior to each game. All broadcasts will include a 15-minute pre-game show prior to puck drop with "Voice of the Checkers" Jason Shaya. Additionally, more than 60 games will be broadcast on the radio (AM 730).
"We're excited to once again partner with ESPN 730," said Shaya. "With the free TuneIn Radio app and other streaming options, Checkers fans can listen to each and every game from wherever they are."
ESPN 730 is the home of the Checkers, Charlotte 49ers, Appalachian State University, Clemson University, as well as national and local sports talk, including Mike and Mike in the Morning and The Herd.
The Checkers' home opener is Saturday, Oct. 19 at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com and the Time Warner Cable Arena box office.


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Tigers inform backup Pena he won't return for 2014
DETROIT -- The Tigers have a lot of decisions to make on their roster while they go about picking a manager. At least one player decision is already set: Backup catcher Brayan Pena won't be back.
Pena broke the news via his Twitter account in an announcement later confirmed by both his agent and the team.
DETROIT -- The Tigers have a lot of decisions to make on their roster while they go about picking a manager. At least one player decision is already set: Backup catcher Brayan Pena won't be back.
Pena broke the news via his Twitter account in an announcement later confirmed by both his agent and the team.
"Now I'm ready to accept the new chapter in my life like i always do, with FAITH & DEDICATION to play the game that I LOVE & RESPECT," Pena tweeted from his account, @cuban2727.
Pena's agent, Paul Kinzer, said they were told the Tigers are going in-house for their backup catcher. That means Bryan Holaday is in line to crack the big league roster and back up Alex Avila, with former top pick James McCann likely getting a look in Spring Training to show whether he can make the jump.
When asked to confirm, a Tigers spokeperson said that the agent reached out to the team and was informed that the Tigers will be going in a different direction.
Thus begins a process that had been delayed in the managerial turnover. When the Tigers were swept out of the World Series last year, team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski had the task of telling pending free agents in the clubhouse after Game 4 whether the Tigers would be interested in re-signing them. Between the Tigers' abrupt exit from the American League Championship Series this season and Jim Leyland's postgame farewell to players, that didn't happen this time around. Now, apparently, the decisions are coming out. Pena, a pending free agent, appears to be the leadoff man in this one.
Tigers officials saw Holaday as a Major League-ready catcher defensively last offseason, but had trouble convincing a third catcher to sign a Minor League deal. Instead, they signed Pena to a one-year, $865,000 Major League deal and reaped the benefits.
Pena was a boost in the midst of Avila's first-half offensive abyss, essentially splitting time with Avila for most of May and June. He was the everyday catcher while Avila was on the disabled list in late June, then took over again in August when a foul tip off the mask landed Avila on the DL with a concussion.
Once Avila returned with renewed pop in his bat, however, Pena became sort of a forgotten man, despite batting .397 (25-for-63) in August. He started only one game over the final three weeks of the regular season while the Tigers made their playoff push. Avila's hitting (.325, 25-for-77, 11 RBIs after return from DL), plus his comfort level with Detroit's pitchers and recovery on defense, prompted Tigers officials to move him into more of an everyday role, which continued into the postseason.
Pena batted .297 (68-for-229) with 11 doubles, four home runs and 22 RBIs for the season. He fared much better against right-handed pitchers than lefties, which defied the platoon he had with Avila, but followed his career splits.
When the season ended a week and a half ago in Boston, Pena made it clear he wanted to return.
"I want to be back here," he said. "Money's not an issue. I feel like I want to be here. The fans, the way they treated me, it was unbelievable.
Moreover, Pena said he wanted to lose 25 pounds in the offseason so that he could come to Spring Training and prove he's ready behind the plate.
The question now is whether Avila will be more of an everyday catcher from the outset next season with Holaday as his backup. Holaday's .260 average and .684 OPS at Triple-A Toledo last season were the highest of his four-year professional career. He was a more aggressive hitter, but his strikeouts also picked up. That said, his promotion would set up a lefty-righty mix on the roster and would also give the Tigers a strong defensive catcher as a more traditional backup.
McCann made it to the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game last summer amid a torrid start at the plate at Double-A Erie. He tailed off around midseason, then found a second wind in an outstanding August. He finished the season batting .277 with 30 doubles, eight home runs, 54 RBIs and a .731 OPS.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.


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Michigan Supreme Court Votes Unanimously to Require Michigan Court of Appeals to Explain Its Rejection of Day Care Unionization Lawsuit
Court of Appeals will have to elaborate on six-word denial issued last December
For Immediate Release
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
Patrick J. Wright
Mackinac Center Legal Foundation
Michael D. Jahr
Senior Director of Communications
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
MIDLAND — In a unanimous order yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court remanded the day care unionization case Loar v. DHS to the Michigan Court of Appeals for an explanation of its rejection of the lawsuit, which claims that the unionization of Michigan's home-based day care providers as "public employees" is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Mackinac Center Legal Foundation on behalf of three independent Michigan day care providers, was rejected on Dec. 30, 2009, by the Court of Appeals in a terse, six-word decision.
"We're extremely pleased by the state Supreme Court's ruling," said Patrick J. Wright, director of the MCLF and the plaintiffs' attorney in the case. "We believe that when the Court of Appeals attempts to explain its ruling in depth, it will have a hard time holding that the forced unionization of these private day care business owners and contractors is legal. The Michigan Constitution provides no justification for the actions of the Granholm administration in this case."
In the lawsuit, plaintiffs Sherry Loar, Michelle Berry and Paulette Silverson requested that the Court of Appeals issue a "writ of mandamus" instructing the Michigan Department of Human Services to stop withholding so-called "union dues" from government child care subsidies sent to them and approximately 40,000 other home-based day care providers on behalf of low-income parents. The money withheld by the DHS — estimated at more than $2 million annually — is eventually forwarded to Child Care Providers Together Michigan, a union formed by the United Auto Workers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
"The idea that the government can unionize day care providers as public employees because they happen to serve some recipients of government aid should trouble all of us, since it would mean the government could unionize doctors, landlords, grocers and virtually the entire private economy," said Wright. "But the problem here is even more basic. Under the Michigan Constitution, only the Legislature can pronounce a group of workers to be public employees, and that never happened with home-based day care providers."
Loar v. DHS was filed exactly one year ago today. The Court of Appeals faces no immediate deadline to respond to the Michigan Supreme Court's order, but the order implies that the Court of Appeals must clarify whether its previous rejection of the lawsuit was based on technical grounds or on the merits of the constitutional claim.
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Judge limits what Holmes jury is told of execution
DENVER (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shooting case says jurors will be informed that the state executes prisoners by lethal injection, but will be told nothing else about how the death penalty is carried out.
In a ruling made public Monday, the judge granted a prosecution motion to limit what jurors are told about executions if defendant James Holmes is convicted.
The judge cited other court rulings that arguments about whether execution is cruel and unusual are outside the scope of the jury during a trial's punishment phase.
Holmes faces multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. He's accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Denver-area movie theater in July 2012.
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No More Excuses…It's time to go… It's the playoff run!!
Good Morning Cowboy Fans:
The Dallas Cowboys and I just enjoyed our bye week, a little R&R and now it is back to work. Over the bye week I have pondered about this team, explained my thoughts to friends about this team and fought off the "doubters and haters" regarding this team. I have faced some ridicule and endured all the questions. I finally came to the conclusion it is time for no more excuses…It's time to go…It's the playoff run!!
I came into this season with the highest expectations for this team and through it all I have not waivered. This Cowboy team is still a very good team if not one of the two or three best teams in all of Pro football. I am not going to make excuses for Tony's "pinkie pain" or any of the other injuries the Cowboys have had. It is part of football. I will no longer accept the fact "Pacman" got into trouble and threw the team into a tailspin. We could have been 9-0 at this time and "Pacman" could have still gotten into trouble. I will not accept T.O. and his criticism of the team or talking negatively about the team to the media as the problem or the maybe the coaches not preparing this team to play on Sunday. In the end those are all excuses. Excuses are like ice cream sundaes, they are okay for awhile, but once you eat so many of them you get sick of em'!
As Brad Johnson walked into the Cowboy's locker room at Giant's Stadium he ripped off his sweat bands and tossed them at the television stand by the door.
It was about the only target he had hit all day.
And, in a way, it was kind of fitting as he has likely played his final football game.
But that's okay with the Cowboys, because after a well-timed bye week, they will roll open the training room doors like they are pushing a large rock from a tomb, and Tony Romo, the savior of the season, will emerge. And when the Cowboys resume their schedule this Sunday with a game against the Redskins in Washington, 52 guys will take the team bus.
Romo might walk across the Potomac.
After Sunday's 35-14 drubbing by the Giants, the Cowboys — who thought their roster had more Hall of Famers than Canton, but, in actuality, it was more busts — are in last place in the NFC East. At 5-4, America's Team is three games (plus a tiebreaker) behind the Giants, and clinging to the hope that the Dimpled One, with the blonde starlet on his arm, will save us.
Johnson was 5-for-11 for 71 yards Sunday. Battered by the Giants, he was sacked twice and threw two interceptions. Brooks Bollinger, in from the bullpen, threw for 63 yards and a meaningless TD, and was sacked twice.
But even with Romo healthy over the final seven games of the season, the Cowboys will be playing for, at best, a wild-card spot. At worst, maybe a good tee time.
After Sunday's game, when the Cowboys managed only 183 yards of offense — 75 on one drive — and committed four turnovers, things couldn't get worse. Romo, who watched from the sideline, has missed three games. The Cowboys are 1-2 in that span, and the victory came with 173 yards of offense against the Tampa Bay Bucs. In other words, brisk winds have moved the football more than the Cowboys in the past month.
But now the winds of change come blowing in. After the loss, the locker room sounded like an Obama rally in whispers: Yes we can! Yes we can!
Remember no more excuses!
I think getting Romo back will make a huge difference. I'm not giving up on this team. We have gotten a lot healthier over the bye week and I feel like the attitude of the whole team will be much better.
Remember no more excuses!
For now let's look at the wild card way down the road and just win the next game.
Some people say that yet after the biggest fuss made over a pinkie since Fonzie fell in love, will the Cowboys expecting too much from Romo? Will he return rusty? I say "No more excuses"!
We can't expect that just because he's coming back that everything is going to be just fine; of course he will be a little rusty. Even a little rusty will produce more than 71 yds of passing offense with Romo at the controls.
Come on we are the Dallas Cowboys! It's time to man-up and stop letting people hit you in the face. Punch back. It's like we have been taking shots and hoping to connect with our own wild punch. We're leaning against the ropes and hoping to survive.
The Cowboys head into Fed-Ex field this Sunday night to play the "hated skins" and its time to get back on that road to Tampa and off the road to no-where.
I'm tired of all the excuses!! There's no reason for it. It's time to regroup, get back to the freakin' drawing board, and do whatever we need to do. This is the Dallas Cowboys!! This is our team!! This is America's Team!!
Cowboys 31-17
Go Cowboys!!


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It's great Good for many occasions and fun. Besides it's a Karen Burniston creation so you know it's great quality and you can get help and inspiration from her or Sizzix with great videos.
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A Michigan School Money Primer
For Policymakers, School Officials, Media and Residents
By Dr. Ryan S. Olson and Michael D. LaFaive,
published on May 30, 2007
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A Brief Overview of the Structure of Michigan's Public School System
- Revenues
- Appropriations for K-12 Education
- Distribution of Tax Revenue
- State Budget Process
- State Spending on Elementary and Secondary Students
- Center for Educational Performance and Information
- Michigan Department of Education
- Local Receipt and Expenditure
- State Aid Financial Status Reports
- Reading a State Aid Financial Status Report
- 'Current Year Allowances' in a State Aid Financial Status Report
- '22a Prop A Obligation (Statepp: $3,873.11)'
- '51c Spec Ed Headlee Obligation'
- '26a Renaissance Zone'
- '22b Discretionary Payment'
- '22c Equity Payment'
- '29 Declining Enrollment'
- '11F Nonplaintiff Durant Settlement'
- '24 Court Placed Children'
- '31A At Risk'
- '31d School Lunch'
- '32d Mich School Readiness'
- '53A Court And State Agency Placed Pupi[ls]'
- '61a.1 Vocational Education'
- '99c Middle School Math'
- '107.1 Adult Education Participants'
- Districts' Receipt of Funds
- School District Budgeting
- General Format of a School Budget
- The Government Accounting Standards Board
- The Budget Process
- Step 1: Local Program Review and Preliminary Revenue Forecasts (August-November)
- Step 2: Request Early Cost Estimates (September-December)
- Steps 3 and 3A: Board of Education Workshop and Budget Submissions (January-February)
- Step 4: Central Office Review (March-April)
- Step 5: Budget Review With Board of Education (April-May)
- Step 6: Preparation of Final Budget (April-May)
- Step 7: Adoption of Final Budget (June)
- Expenditure Reporting
- Fund Balance
- Deficits
- School District Financial Audits
- State Aid Financial Status Reports
- Appendix 1: U.S. Department of Education Spending in Michigan
- Appendix 2: Summary of 'Durant' Court Decisions
- Appendix 3: Guide to a New School Finance Electronic Module
- About the Authors
- Endnotes
"A Michigan School Money Primer":
"I have long believed the media generally does a disservice to its readers, listeners and viewers by failing to convey factual information about Headlee rollbacks, bond millages, foundation grants and similar subjects. Due to the complexities of the subjects, many reporters are content to simply allow a school official to spout the company line. I can't count how many times I've heard or read (unchallenged) that a Headlee override is not really a tax increase.
"Reporters are entering the field, in some cases, without even a basic understanding of auditing, budgeting and taxation. A few years back, I asked a prospective reporter to define a mill as used in property taxation. He thought about it for about 30 seconds and told me it was the clearinghouse for property tax collection!
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— Holly Nelson
Oscoda Press
"'A Michigan School Money Primer' was very helpful to me while writing my newspaper stories regarding school financing. The Michigan public needs to know the eye-opening information that is in this book! It is a complete and understandable resource that is useful on many levels."
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It took me a while to get around to it, but I finally made my own desserts charm bracelet this weekend. It's hilarious and silly and I love it. With the proper tools it was quite easy to make; the instructions on Onward, Lulu are thorough, but I still have a hard time wrapping headpins neatly & messed up my fingernails in the process. Good thing I haven't bothered to put on nail polish for, oh, a month or more.
I also decided to make a quick & easy new camera strap. I have a few camera straps at this point but this camera has become such an important part of my life/prized possession that I feel compelled to accessorize it. I found this chain belt with tassels at Zara & decided instantly that it would make a great camera strap (and also a great belt). Obviously had these straps on the brain! I took off the lobster clasp it came with—although I kept it, because it would be easy enough to make into a belt again—and added new, smaller lobster clasps. I found these clasps at Michael's, but the selection was so limited that I got silver ones and spray painted them a flat black (I already had the gold-tone jump rings). Ta-da.
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You are such a talent and inspiration, Anabela!!!!!ReplyDelete
These are all amazing. :)
I have that camera, though I haven't used film in so long, le sigh. Nice work on that strap. Hope it's comfortable enough.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't wear the camera around my neck for very long periods of time, and my hair makes a nice pillow for the chain.Delete
I love the size of the dessert charms. Nice and chunky!ReplyDelete
Genius camera strap idea too!Replies
Yeah, the ones I got were huuuuge. I should have used a thicker chain!Delete
The camera strap is perfection.ReplyDelete
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your camera is even more beautiful now, and that bracelet is adorable - i'm especially fond of the ice cream cones!ReplyDelete
i just checked out that website for Japanese erasers and, holy mackerel, i had no idea you could basically get ANYTHING in eraser form... yikes, this could be dangerous.Replies
Thank you! Yes, the food ones are particularly dangerous for me. Tiny food! So cute.Delete
Cute bracelet! I made chocolate cake the other day, so delicious. So glad you're committed to cake :).ReplyDelete
I love the camera strap, too!Replies
Oh yum, bet it was delicious!Delete
That bracelet is so fun!!! And I love that camera chain. I would love to make my own strap for mine too!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! If you can find a chain it's pretty simple.Delete
I had actually thought about doing something similar with ones from that japanese brand of erasers...I have them sitting on my dresser as something to get to eventually. I definitely prefer cute sweets and junk food to a fruit bracelet, hah! The bracelet does look really nice!ReplyDeleteReplies
That's funny. Yeah, I had been collecting them and didn't know what to do with them other than hold them up to my cats' mouths. They're not very good as erasers, I don't think.Delete
That is one badass camera strap!ReplyDelete
lookin good! you sent me a slice of cake a while back and it's been on my desk ever since! i may need to make one of these..ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh! I forgot about that! Cake for cake.Delete
this is so perfect. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Haha! LUV U 2.Delete
That little bracelet is so stinkin cute! The kids at my school are obsessed with those erasers, they would die if I came in with that bracelet! Now I know hat I'm doing next weekend :) thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh man!! I bet they'll want their own! Adorable.Delete
i feel like that bracelet could also be made to *smell* like dessert (remember those erasers?!)...and that would be AMAZING. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Indeed! I used to practically shove those up my nose.Delete
the bracelet is too cute and i think i'm going to have to copy your camera strap!ReplyDeleteReplies
Do it, girl!Delete
Your eraser charm bracelet is the cutest thing! My daughter will love it :) Thanks for sharing the how-to link!ReplyDeleteReplies
Good luck! Glad you enjoyed it.Delete
That bracelet is so cute. And I've just had a Canon A-1 for a month or so, it has already become my favorite camera ever! Your photos are a major inspiration, I have been browsing the A-1 photos on your blog & they are so lovely. I just use the strap that came with the camera. Your strap is very pretty, sadly I don't think I would find most of the stuff needed to make it here.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, glad you've enjoyed them! Have fun with that camera.Delete
So clever! While I'm not particularly deft or dextrous, I'm definitely going to have a look at my local $2 shops to see if they've got any mini candy erasers, and if there's anything I can do with them...feeling inspired :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Good luck! It's pretty fun. I didn't enjoy the headpin wrapping part but that's mostly because I am impatient & wanted it to look perfect on the first try.Delete
Glad you like it!Delete
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Thank you! Have fun with it!Delete
anabela, love the camera strap! also - random question, I've been looking for a nude pleated maxi skirt! do you mind me asking where your skirt is from?ReplyDeleteReplies
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Thanks! It was fun to do.Delete
i love the fruity charm bracelet, thanks for sharing! i will hit up my local dollar (well, euro) store and use the cold weather as an excuse to brighten up my wrist.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope you do!Delete
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You need one!Delete
I love the bracelet. I now have an idea what to do with the old broken case on my dad's film camera.ReplyDelete
That hair would look good on you!ReplyDelete


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I have developed separation anxiety for the first time in my life. In the 10 years I've been dating I've never been one to be overly attached to my mate. I mean I'm full of affection and miss my beloveds when we're apart but this time it's different. My man was recently away for seven days, and unreachable by phone, and in that time, when I wasn't fervently finding things to try to distract myself from the empty feeling he left me behind with, I was literally staring at the phone wishing it would ring. I'm a little worried for myself. I don't want to find myself creating a secret closet shrine if he's ever out of touch again in the future. Got any advice that'll keep me from turning into a bad '50s love song?--My Boyfriend's Back
That song always makes me think of zombies, as in "My boyfriend's back …from the dead!" In which case, of course he wouldn't be reachable by phone. Because he's dead. But now he's undead and he's comin' after you, so run for the hills, girlfriend!
We happen to live in an era where being out of communication with someone is increasingly impossible, what with texting, IM, e-mails, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and those creepy eyeglasses from Google that turn your head into a smartphone. With all that hootin' and hollerin' all day long, it can be really scary when suddenly those means of communicating are taken away. One time I went camping and the wifi in my cabin kept going out, and I was like, "If I can't watch '30 Rock' on Hulu, I'm going to eat someone's brains!" And my girlfriend was like, "Oh shit. You're a zombie!" And she ran for the hills. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Separation anxiety develops when one's sense of security in a relationship is uncertain. You don't say how long you've been together, but if this is a newer relationship, the anxiety you feel may reflect you trying to find your footing and figuring out how to establish healthy boundaries of attachment to someone who clearly means a lot to you.
Since some aspects of life will always be beyond our control, (taxes, death, people calling themselves Social Media Gurus on Twitter) the next time you are feeling angsty, focus on what you can control--yourself and your interests. Of course, you should be doing this throughout your relationship as well, but especially when you know you're going to be spending time alone or with little contact. Often when we become attached to a partner, we tend to slack off on meeting new people and maintaining social relationships and activities outside of our romantic relationship.
Also, don't discount the helpfulness of regular exercise, which has been proven to reduce stress and anxiety as much as antidepressants. Instead of staring at the phone, for instance, have a friend hide it somewhere in your house and then make her get a stopwatch and time you to see how long it takes you to run around and find it. This activity provides two-folds of awesomeness--exercise and quality time with friends.
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ATLANTA — LSU didn't play like a team that was disappointed to be in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Monday night.
Though the Tigers lost 25-24 they showed they were ready to play the way they had played in finishing the regular season 10-2, building a résumé worthy of a BCS bowl team and narrowly missing a chance to play for a berth in the BCS Championship Game.
In fact, LSU's loss to Clemson was a microcosm of a season in which the Tigers flirted with greatness but never quite achieved it.
The 2011 Tigers had the most impressive regular season in school history, tackling one of the most challenging schedules for any team and going 13-for-13 with only one game being competitive.
That team overwhelmed the opposition, never playing to the scoreboard or the clock. It was relentless and, with the exception of Alabama, opponents cracked.
The 2012 team didn't have that rare trait. Too often it seemed to play to the scoreboard and the clock, sometimes seeming content to have a seemingly adequate lead rather than never being content while any time remained on the clock.
Sometimes it didn't matter that LSU allowed more points in the fourth quarter than any of the first three. No outcomes were affected when North Texas drove to a fourth-quarter touchdown, or Towson drove to two fourth-quarter touchdowns, or South Carolina drove to a late one or, Texas A&M drove to one in the final two minutes or Arkansas drove to a fourth-quarter field goal.
Similarly, no outcomes were changed when the Tigers offense figuratively took a premature knee, scoring three points in the final 49-plus minutes at Auburn and scoring three in the final 24-plus against Arkansas.
But it mattered a lot when LSU had the lead and possession of the football with an opportunity to finish off Alabama and Clemson without either ever getting the football back and didn't.
One time-consuming drive, whether it yielded points or not, or one defensive stop at the end would have finished off victories in two games that turned into defeats.
In both cases, the Tigers offense couldn't run out the clock, and the defense subsequently gave up a touchdown drive to Alabama and a field-goal drive to Clemson. As a result a team that could have been 11-1 and playing Georgia in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game for a berth in the BCS title game instead returned to Baton Rouge a disappointing and disappointed 10-3 team on New Year's Day.
It's hard to understand why LSU chose not to try to pass for a first down against the Tide when the passing game was what put it in position to win in the first place.
It's equally as hard to understand why LSU didn't run the ball and force Clemson to use one or two timeouts after a pass completion set the Tigers up with a very makeable second-and-2 situation.
This season was defined by questionable coaching calls and inadequate execution by the players that combined to produce a last-minute loss and a last-second loss, which turned what could have been a special year into a run-of-the-mill one.


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I respectful understand that life gets busy and volunteers with hundreds of requests can often loose the requests. However, after multiple attempts and 9 months... how can I get a response? At this point, I just want to have the transfer of my relatives and I'll let the corrections on memorials not directly related to be go.
I have enjoyed the emails when I submit a request using the form method (see below). I think the processing is insanely faster. I submitted 6 corrections and received a "Edit Processed" confirmation email within 24 hours. Yep. Fast. But not every correction submission looks like this. Why? They really should.
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