RR Vol 1 issue 24 October 20, 2014

Life is a journey, not a destination.

2014 Girls Soccer Regional Champions

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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS

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Cover photo : Cascade’s girls soccer team seniors proudly display their 2014 Girls soccer Regional championship trophy. the lady Cadets won 2 - 1 over park tudor.

WHAT TO EXPECT

In this issue...

Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.

Say What?!

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Ronnie’s Ramblings

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soccer

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Masthead RONNIE WILSON -

FOUNDER PUBLISHER EDITOR WRITER PHOTOGRAPHER

NOELANI LANGILLE

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- CREATIVE DIRECTOR - ART DIRECTOR - DESIGNER - PHOTO EDITOR - PHOTOGRAPHER column photo, pages 4 & 7

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SAY WHAT?

October edition

From ancestry.com bore a sword. Other ocThere Are 7 Types of cupational names include English Surnames — Archer, Baker, Brewer, Which One Is Yours?

Butcher, Carter, Clark, Cooper, Cook, Dyer, Farmer, Many of us have sur- Faulkner, Fisher, Fuller, names passed down to Gardener, Glover, Head, us from ancestors in Eng- Hunt or Hunter, Judge, land. Last names weren’t Mason, Page, Parker, Potwidely used until after the ter, Sawyer, Slater, Smith, Norman conquest in 1066, Taylor, Thatcher, Turner, but as the country’s popu- Weaver, Woodman, and lation grew, people found it Wright (or variations such necessary to be more spe- as Cartwright and Waincific when they were talk- wright) — and there are ing about somebody else. many more.

Thus arose descriptions This kind of name also like Thomas the Baker, gave a clue about whom a Norman son of Richard, servant worked for. SomeHenry the Whitehead, one named Vickers might Elizabeth of the Field, and have been a servant to Joan of York that, ulti- Mr. Vicker, and someone mately, led to many of our named Williams might current surnames. either have served a WilThere are perhaps liam or been adopted by 45,000 different English him. surnames, but most had From the obscure fact their origins as one of department: In medieval these seven types.

England, before the time of Occupational professional theater, craft Occupational names guilds put on “mystery identified people based plays” (“mystery” meaning on their job or position “miracle”), which told Bible in society. Calling a man stories and had a call-and“Thomas Carpenter” indi- response style of singing. cated that he worked with A participant’s surname wood for a living, while — such as King, Lord, Virsomeone named Knight gin, or Death — may have

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What ‘s In A Name? reflected his or her role, which some people played for life and passed down to their eldest son.

Describing a personal characteristic Some names, often adjectives, were based on nicknames that described a person. They may have described a person’s size (Short, Long, Little), coloring (Black, White, Green, or Red, which could have evolved into “Reed”), or another character trait (Stern, Strong, Swift).

Someone named Peacock might have been considered vain.

From an English place name A last name may have pointed to where a person was born, lived, worked, or owned land. It might be from the name of a house, farm, hamlet, town, or county. Some examples: Bedford, Burton, Hamilton, Hampshire, Sutton. Writer Jack London’s stepfather may have hailed from London.

From the name of an estate Those descended from landowners may have

taken as their surname the name of their holdings, castle, manor, or estate, such as Ernle or Staunton.

Windsor is a famous example — it was the surname George V adopted for the British royal family.

From a geographical feature of the landscape Some examples are Bridge, Brooks, Bush, Camp, Fields, Forest, Greenwood, Grove, Hill, Knolles, Lake, Moore, Perry, Stone, Wold, Wood, and Woodruff. Author Margaret Atwood is probably descended from someone who lived “at the wood.”

Patronymic, matronymic, or ancestral Patronymic surnames (those that come from a male given name) include Benson (“the son of Ben”), Davis, Dawson, Evans, Harris, Harrison, Jackson, Jones (Welsh for John), Nicholson, Richardson, Robinson, Rogers, Simpson, Stephenson, Thompson, Watson, and Wilson.

Matronymic ones, surnames derived from a female given name, include Molson (from Moll, for Mary), Madison (from

Maud), Emmott (from Emma), and Marriott (from Mary).

Scottish clan names make up one set of ancestral surnames. These include Armstrong, Cameron, Campbell, Crawford, Douglas, Forbes, Grant, Henderson, Hunter, MacDonald, and Stewart.

Signifying patronage Some surnames honored a patron. Hickman was Hick’s man (Hick being a nickname for Richard). Kilpatrick was a follower of Patrick.

The bartender says, “No going to nail your beak to we only sell beer here”. The the bar.” So the duck leaves. duck leaves.

The next day the duck The next day the duck walks back into the bar, and

BY NOELANI LANGILLE walks back into the barPHOTO and asks the bartender “Do you asks the bartender, “Do you have any nails”? The barhave any grapes”? tender says “no”.

A duck walks into a bar, The bartender says, “No I The duck asks “Good - do and asks the bartender, “Do told you we only sell beer, you have any grapes”? you have any grapes”? and if you ask me again I’m

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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS

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hat was certainly a strange week; last week.

For a while I thought my calendar was wrong or I was in a time warp.

Five years ago in April I had hip revision surgery, (my replacement hip was replaced), four years ago in April I had open-heart surgery, three years ago in April I had a severe bout with kidney stones, a year ago April I managed to get by without any problems, this past April I had invasive kidney surgery to remove three stones, I was told, were about the size of jelly beans.

With that history in the month of April, I was a bit confused a couple of week ago when my doctor told me I had a bad case of gall stones.

My immediate reaction was that he could not be correct - it is not April.

To maintain the April connection, my symptoms began to appear in April right after I had my kidney surgery.

Initially, my doctor and I thought it might be just some muscle strain, because the pain was not constant and seemed to be situational; the right turn, the right twist, the right stretch the right sitting position caused the pain to increase significantly. The counter part was certain positions seemed to eliminate

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the pain within seconds.

After five months I was not getting any better, actually, I was getting worse. Much worse on occasions. A CT scan seemed to be in order, so I had one. Sure enough, there were several significant stones. My gall bladder needed to be removed fairly soon.

My plan was to wait until the Christmas break when I would have some free time. That plan was shattered when one afternoon after sitting at my desk for a couple of hours, (which usually resulted in the onset of pain) I stood up and the pain was so intense my knees buckled and the pain did not dissipate for almost a minute.

I was not going to wait until December. This had to be done now.

So, last Tuesday I was scheduled for surgery and all went well, except for the recovery orders of placing me on “house arrest” for seven days; no driving, no working, no yard work, no strenuous exercise and no lifting of anything in excess of 20 pounds.

I knew this was not going to be fun. By Wednesday evening I was stir crazy. I had been confined for only a day and a half. How was I

going to endure another 5.5 days of this inactivity.

Thursday, I went for a short walk down the street to Walgreens to get some fresh bandages to continue to dress my surgery wounds.

They were not bad at all, but they needed to be changed every day.

Friday I increased my light exercise by mowing my yard. My yard is very small. On a bad day it takes about 20 minutes to mow it. I have power push mower (not self-propelled). On this day it took almost 23 minutes. I rested the remainder of the day in my lounge chair.

I had no intention of covering any sporting events Friday night or over the weekend because I was not permitted to drive.

Then I had a brain storm, (or in my case a brain wafting breeze).

If I could get someone to drive me to one of the soccer regionals and took one camera only, I could get out of the house, cover an event and not violate any of my post-op restrictions.

I have known one of the parents of one of the players for Cascade for several years. I have photographed all three of her children playing soccer during their high

school careers. I called to ask if I could mooch a ride from her.

She responded she would be more than happy to be my chauffeur for the day.

She arrived at my house about an hour prior to the start of the game, we drove to Cascade. I took my small folding seat with me, I found a place with a good vantage point and photographed the game. Unfortunately, my vantage point was under a tent out of the rain, so I did not get to sit much, but I did take a break at half-time a. After

the game and a bit of post-game celebration, she drove me back to my house/office. I unloaded my camera equipment, gathered a few snacks, parked my rear-end in my recliner, kicked back and watched TV for much too long.

I soon fell asleep. I thought I would go to bed, but first I went channel surfing to see if there was anything worth watching. (I should/do know better.)

I got hooked on several successive episodes of “Chopped� and did not get to bed until after 3 a.m.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

-Thomas Paine

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Soccer

Photos by Ronnie Wilson

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Cascade’s Olivia Fisher (11) gets the ball up-pitch, despite a lilttl

le hinderance from a Park Tudor defender, (l - r, top to bottom).

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Cascade’s Jalynn Gorman in regional championship action versus Park Tudor.

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Cascade’s Haley Bennett in regional championship action versus Park Tudor.

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Cascade’s Bryanna Andrews in regional championship action and rain versus Park Tudor..

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Cascade’s Madison Berg in regional championship action versus Park Tudor.

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Cascade’s Kyndal Norris in regional championship action versus Park Tudor.

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Cascade’s Brooke Mourey in regional championiship action versus Park Tudor.

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Cascade’s Jalyn Gorman takes a shot on goal and the Park Tudor keeper pays the price for stopping it.

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Cascade’s Olivia Fisher goes vertical to avoid a collision with the Park Tudor keeper and a possible “card,” in regional championship actioin.

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Cascade keeper, Madison McGlaum rejects a Park Tudor shot on goal in regional championship action.

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Cascade’s Casey Bell in regional championship action versus Park Tudor.

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

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