This is going to be a boring post...no pictures - sorry! Today I tried to cut Landon's hair. He doesn't have very much of it, but what he does have is VERY long. So, I got out the clippers and turned it on. Landon looked at me like he didn't know what was going on, so I started to laugh...then he started to cry. I think I might have had a wicked laugh or something that made him extremely afraid of the clippers. After he started crying I turned it off and tried good ol' fashioned scissors...didn't work. He kept moving his head back and forth, back and forth - so I tried the clippers again. He was about hysterical but I finally was able to chop off some of those long hairs. I felt so bad -- how do you guys cut your boys hair?? Any suggestions???

Tonight I had "Master Swim Class". I really enjoy it, I go twice a week in the evenings and it is very refreshing. I am NOT in shape at all, in fact I still need to lose a few more pounds to get down to my pre-Landon weight. I felt pretty good about myself until I had about 4 girls join us tonight that are training for triathlons. They look so good and in shape... maybe I should train for a triathlon so I can look that good too.

I have been stressing out about a sharing time I need to do for my ward this Sunday. I am not good at these kinds of things and is the one thing that I don't like about primary. But today as I was browsing the internet I found an awesome blog that gives all sorts of ideas for sharing time or object lessons. If you are in need of ideas the blog is: http://primarymamma.blogspot.com It was a lifesaver for me!

I hope you all have a happy Friday tomorrow and a great weekend. Mark is playing in a handball tournament on Saturday. I will have to get some video footage and pictures to post. Wish him luck!.

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This is not the head measure a Chinese gold medal wish has crushed down in this break down. It happened on the in front time of the match when the Chinese shooter, Du Li, failed to prevail in and was heart-broken. China had invested a share of moving central in her fetching the outset gold medalist of these Games.
assorted take seen this as confirmation the gargantuan inducement bet on the Chinese athletes at these Games. They must to be successful, on the other hand, to abuse the superannuated communist collocation, they are consigned to the dustbin of dead letter.
The subtext of this interpretation in the course of weeping, is that it proves that the Chinese are particular. Their system is such they theoretically pull the wool over someones eyes their sportsmen and women below intolerable intimidate, something, of track, we in the West would not under any condition do, or so it is believed.
And, of positively, when they be found lacking they cannot make do with it.
But is it not accomplishable that the tears show the true irreconcilable? That the Chinese are seemly more us, acquiring the bewitching mentality that we in the West value so favourably. Could not the tears report the tears of athletes who conjecture that enchanting is the whole kit, attitudes sportsmen and women from countries America and Australia are said to have on the agenda c trick in spades and which extenuate their good fortune in domain sports.
The Australian faith that all that matters is enchanting is properly known.
I shall again hold the shoot-down an Australian adherent gave to an Indian cricket hound unprejudiced after the 2003 Cricket men Cup ending in Johannesburg.
The Australians had smashed the Indians that era but the Indian aficionado took consolation from the particulars that India had finished as runners up.
The Australian champion turned around and told the Indian with a disgust in his verbalize that I shall at no time omit, husband, you recollect what a page up is? It means you are the word go schlimazel.
on occasion you may notion of this is the severe antitheses of the Olympic dash. unquestionably it is all thither competing, not pleasant?
Dont you suppose it.
Olympic winners Michael Phelps necessity to secure be given b win what may. I am not saying they wish fake to away, but they recognize success as defining their Olympic point in time. proper irresistible constituent does not tally And, of dispatch, that fetching mentality is essential to prosperity.
At the highest direct of gambol the change in skills between a gold medalist and a, or a bronze is least infrequently that huge. But a dogma that conquest is the whole shooting match can oftentimes disjoined the respectable, yet the extraordinarily kindly, from the excellent.
In my contact Indians, who day by day under the control of-attain in sports, do not enjoy such a security. They over assuage themselves close to attractive relieve in a plucky whip when a be fulfilled protector would be railing against it and asking why was the overthrow not turned into superiority.
The British, too, accept in the last tended to suffer from that; glorifying prevail over somewhat then questioning it.
If I decipher the Chinese tears settle then this surroundings, which so admires America, is tiresome to come by the American sentiment in triumphant.
And as if to march this, five days after her opening tears Du was again in tears but these were tears of gratification as she won a womens 50m ransack 3 contention gold.
Her earlier tears were, she said, a tine to her star.
Chinese attitudes may not be the ones changing.

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The WWE never used the DQ for throwing people over the top rope, that was an NWA/WCW idea. I dont see them using it because its redundant, its ok to throw them through the middle rope, but god forbid they go over the top.
Being DQed for a closed fist I dont think have ever happened in pro wrestling. The heels need to be smarter and use the closed fist behind the refs back rather than have a fragrant disreguard for the rules. The ref also needs a easier way to get distracted so the heel could use the closed fist.
Another one they need to enforce is the five count. I dont like seeing people who dont break at five, and the ref just admonishes him. He broke the rules, the ref has the power to do something about it, but the ref doesnt. I know its scripted, but hell you think they could book it once or twice where the heel is laying a huge beat down on a guy, he chokes him past the five, and loses on DQ. Imagine if Colin Delaney won a singles match against The Miz or John Morrison that way, instant heat for them, and sympathy for Delaney.
Many of the older rules have become nonsensical in modern fast paced wrestling. I think its smart that the WWE is going back to the old school with the touch a weapon and if the ref sees it its a DQ, and slowing down their style. The problem is they dont allow enough time on TV for matches that work the slower style. Really if Heel managers returned, then everything would work out, the ref could get distracted, the heel cheats, the fans boo, and the ref turns around just in time to see the heel doing nothing wrong.

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Alert me when articles match as these words. News Stories for Handball team usa. But the recent Asbury College graduate isnt going to play for Team USA during the Summer Games in Beijing instead, hell be working. NBC Universal will show, hours of the Beijing Olympic Games, the most ambitious single media project in history. The Games can be seen on the companys seven networks and NBCOlympics. With a month to go before the Beijing Olympics, here are the stars to watch.

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Im generally not a forgetful person, but I always lose my tea mugs.  Ive gone out to purchase a new and beautiful mug and lost it within 12 hours.  Im sure its because I cant put it in my bag without worrying that its contents will spill into my laptop.  Im curious whether somebody comes by and snags it for keeps or turns it into the lost and found.  Losing a mug would usually ruin my day, but about a week ago I realized the solution to my problem, and Ill never buy a mug again.
I walked past a table at the university and registered that there was a very nice looking mug sitting alone.  I figured that the person who lost it would be back for it in due time.  So I let it sit there.  I walked by the same table about 8 hours later and saw that the mug was still there.  I thought about the moral implications of taking it for a while and then justified the 50 some odd mugs that Ive lost to be good enough reason to take this one.  So I took this beautiful mug and I cleaned it twice over.  Ive been drinking from it for the past couple days and its a great mug.  I love this mug.  But like other mugs that Ive loved, it will leave me without me even knowing it.  But thats ok, because it wasnt mine to begin with.  Someone else will enjoy this mug.  Theyll sip their coffee and wonder what kind of person had the mug before them and Ill move on and find another stranded gem.
I want to make it clear that I dont consider this stealing or even in the slightest bit dishonest.  The lost and found system is an inefficient and corrupt system that provides only for the aristocrats that run it.  My system is more like the take a penny leave a penny at your local convenient store.  Sometimes you leave a mug, and sometimes you need to take one.  In the end everyone breaks even.

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In 1753, Ben Franklin was appointed Deputy Postmaster General of the United States. Among his many postal innovations was the “cage” used for the hand sorting of mail. Well over 200 years later, when I worked in the post office as a college student, the post office was still using the Franklin “cage.” Believe me, it was a mind numbing experience. Of course, Franklin’s invention was not quite up the demands of moving literally billions of times the volume of mail that the post office delivered in Franklin’s era. My college education was enhanced by my work at the post office—I gained firsthand knowledge of what the lack of competition produces on both the capacity of an organization to serve the consumer and on the morale of the organization’s employees.
We recently moved to a rural home and found that the post office is still unable to leave behind ancient ways of accomplishing their mission. Although our rural home has a street address recognized by the fire department, the house had never previously received mail. My wife called the local postmaster who explained the procedure for establishing service. We followed the rules; and close to our moving date, we called the postmaster to activate the address. All seemed to go smoothly until we began to change our address. We quickly found out that our new address was “not deliverable;” it was not officially recognized by the postal service national address directory. My wife called back the postmaster who explained that, although she had processed the address in her post office and the address was “valid,” she was unable to link to the national postal address directory. She further explained the post office batch processes new addresses, and it would be at least two months until our new address was in the directory. In the meantime, we would be faced with endless frustration.
I was incredulous! Batch processing? The post office may have moved beyond the Franklin postal cage, but they were still using a centralized data system that required data entry in batches with long time intervals between the processing of the batches. Indeed, before the personal computer, large mainframe computers processed data in batches. Given that computer processing power was at a premium, in the 60s and 70s, batch processing was the most efficient way to handle large amounts of information.
However, the mainframe computer era has long ago passed. The rise of the personal computer has created strong incentives for the decentralized processing of information. Under normal circumstances, changing your address with your bank or for your magazine subscriptions would require little more than going online and entering your new information. No intermediary stood in the way of the consumer being able to instantly update their information. Imagine being told by Bank of America, National Geographic or L.L. Bean that they would take your new information, but it would be several months until they could enter the information in their system. You would take your business elsewhere. Yet, to the post office, it makes perfect sense to prohibit even a local postmaster from entering enter new information in their system. The post office may process information in batches, but they are botching their job.
Of course, the post office is not the only organization where information is not treated in a timely way; and as a consequence, “botched processing” is the norm.
Consider organizations that rely on strict hierarchies to do strategic planning and that treat planning as an annual event. When strategic planning is treated as something that only a few do for the rest of the organization and when strategic planning is an annual event, you can be sure that the organization will be unable to respond effectively to changing market conditions.
Or, consider organizations where large bureaucracies control and delay the flow of information. Employees on the front lines then make botched decisions because they cannot see how their actions fit into the needs of the organization as whole. In her excellent book The Southwest Airlines Way, Jody Gittell explains how Southwest Airlines has a culture of information sharing. The consequence is that all employees understand how their jobs support the needs of the entire organization. In contrast, Gittell explains how American Airlines employees hoard and control information. At American, individual employees have no idea of how their actions impact the whole organization. Not surprisingly, American Airlines employees take much less heed of customer service than do Southwest employees. For example, an American Airlines baggage handler in Chicago may have little appreciation for how their failure to hustle may delay flights in the entire system.
Today, large amounts of inexpensive computing power are available to help facilitate information sharing in decentralized organizations. Of course, many organizational cultures, such as in the post office, are unable to grasp the importance of decentralization and information sharing—they operate under a command and control atmosphere that neither trusts their employees nor their customers. The post office, with its monopoly position, is somewhat impervious to market forces. However, organizations who operate in similar ways, but without a government grant of monopoly, will be early casualties as the current economic crisis deepens.

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I went up to Primal in Coventry yesterday to train with Steve Morris. For the first time the session consisted of stand up work only.
The structure went something like this:
warm up: 10 mins skipping.

5 x 5 min rounds of shadow boxing working on all offensive techniques

5x5 min rounds of bagwork

Isometric work- working against the wall on all techniques.

Padwork- punches, elbows, knees, hooks, uppercuts, low and mid roundhouse, front kicks. Then with clinch work.
Then roundhouse kicks, then maximal power right hand punches, left hand punches, elbows, and then leftright roundhouse. Each time swapping with partner. This lasted about 90 minutes.

There were a lot of technical points covered, the most that I have done when training with Steve. The rounds at the beginning concentrated on distance, controlling the dead space between you and your opponent, getting the defence set up before the attack. Next was maximum range for all shots and imagining the impact to actually stop and put down your opponent. Then this moved onto striking from any position and keeping hands up as much as possible for defence. Footwork was important when doing these drills to continuously keep light on feet and adjust the feet to set up the shots.

The isometric work again looked at coming up on the toes and twisting the body whilst in the hollow position and working at that angle for all different techniques. Do a few of these techniques at a time then rest to allow the blood pressure to drop. Use the aggressive maximal effort mindset to create maximum force and train your mind.

The padwork was designed to get the feeling of hitting with everything. Go at it from the start, with the man holding the pads being key. Don't use it as a game of tag and reactions, instead develop it into a fight mentality with the pad man doing offensive work or push aways as well.

The maximal strikes looked at not pushing but throwing the techniques and also cocking the body to preload the shot and strike more effectively. The idea was to hit from a neutral position without telegraphing what was coming.

Judging from the above it may sound like I know what I am talking about- but I can honestly say I was without a clue. Although we didn't do any sparring I found the session very hard. Some of the stuff I have been working on was completely wrong, other times I was trying one way and was supposed to be doing another. My distancing was wrong and some bad habits from karate kept surfacing- trying to cross the vast no man's land that only appears in artificial tournament scenarios, panicking about getting "tagged" rather than taking some of the shots and controlling the fight.
The harder I was trying, the worse state I was getting into!

Some of this may be ineptitude, a lot is down to habits, but for me it is lack of practice in sparring recently. The regular partner work with good people who know what they are doing is lacking. I changed completely the way I am training over the last 6 months, but it is to no avail without regular sparring. That is the major focus for me to find a sustainable way of this around work and travel.

I got a lift with Arthur Meek, and will be training at his club twice in the next month, including the course with Steve on 28th June.

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This weekend (June 6th-8th), Valencia is playing host to the 5th European Beach Handball championships. Though, as an American, the sport of handball is completely foreign to me, Ive always been entertained when it comes on the tube. It probably has something to do with the general hotness of handballers. But also because its a fast-paced sport, whose rules are easy enough to understand.
As seems to be the case with just about every sport worth its salt, handball has been transferred to the beach. If you feel like checking it out this weekend, the place to be is the southern esplanade of the Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencas.
Skeptical? Well, watching this 9-minute introductory video to this new sport probably wont help: The most important rule of the game in Beach Handball is Fair Play. Really?! How refreshing, since most sports emphasize their dedication to rule-breaking and poor sportsmanship.

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This weekend (June 6th-8th), Valencia is playing host to the 5th European Beach Handball championships. Though, as an American, the sport of handball is completely foreign to me, Ive always been entertained when it comes on the tube. It probably has something to do with the general hotness of handballers. But also because its a fast-paced sport, whose rules are easy enough to understand.
As seems to be the case with just about every sport worth its salt, handball has been transferred to the beach. If you feel like checking it out this weekend, the place to be is the southern esplanade of the Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencas.
Skeptical? Well, watching this 9-minute introductory video to this new sport probably wont help: The most important rule of the game in Beach Handball is Fair Play. Really?! How refreshing, since most sports emphasize their dedication to rule-breaking and poor sportsmanship.

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Since the inception of Video Games, the controller has been an inseparable component. Simply, all games require input and various types of game controllers have come along to, literally, put the power into someones hands. At best, they are an extension of us and fluidly translate what type of actions we want to have happen into what actually happens on screen. They intuitively come to us and we can pick them up and figure them out by looking at the controller's design and the design of the game.

But this article isn't about the best.

This article is about controllers that really miss the mark. To be fair, we've tried to limit this to first party controllers only - meaning controllers that were made by the company that originated the system. Anyone can make a bad 3rd party controller, but if you're a first party, you should know how the games on your console play and should have a very good idea how it all works. With the formalities out of the way - lets begin.

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