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I'm a baseball fan. I'm sure that this comes as a shock to no one reading this. I love the game. I can spend (and love to spend) hours talking on the subject. I am a baseball fan first and a Blue Jays fan second. The Blue Jays are my favourite team and they always have been. I like other teams as well but the Jays have always been number 1 in my heart. That's always been a constant. My favourite player though I will admit has changed a few times over the years.
My love affair with baseball started fairly early for me. From the time my parents first took me to the then Sky Dome in Toronto as a wide-eyed 9 year old I've loved the game. The Blue Jays lost that day to the Seattle Mariners. However what I took away from the experience (and my only real memory of the game) was Fred McGriff hitting a home run. From that day forth I decided that Fred McGriff was my favourite player. Apparently all it takes to win over a 9 year old is a home run. I still have a soft spot for McGriff and I am quite disappointed that he is not in the hall of fame (but that, my friends, is a rant for another day). I was a pretty devastated when he was traded that offseason. I had never heard of Joe Carter or Roberto Alomar and wanted no part of either one of them. McGriff was gone. That was all that mattered to me. Pat Gillick was my new arch nemesis.
Then this Alomar guy came in and won my young heart. The plays, the uncanny ability to make an off-balance throw, the range… He was unbelievable. A complete five-tool player. He could hit, he could run, he could throw, he could field like no one else and occasionally he could hit for power. Especially when it mattered (ahem Dennis Eckersley). Alomar became my favourite player and remained so throughout his playing career.
|Roy Halladay vs Baltimore Orioles. April 24, 2005
Then came a player like no one I had ever seen. Now I mention that I am a baseball fan, but I haven't always been an engaged one. Oh I've always loved the game, I have since that day at the ball park back in 1990. However after the strike in 1994, I like many other Canadians lost interest for a while. It was early in 2005 when Rogers offered my wife and I a discounted rate on a Blue Jays ticket flex pack. Stef asked me if I was interested in going at all and I said "sure, I love baseball I just haven't watched it since the strike. It would be fun to go to a few games though." We were young and didn't have any kids back then (or any money) so we thought it would be a fun thing to do that wouldn't cost a lot. This was when everything changed for me and my love for the game was re-ignited. Sunday April 24, 2005 was officially my first game back. The first game of our shiny new six game flex pack we had just purchased. Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays against Sidney Ponson and the Baltimore Orioles. I had heard about this Halladay guy and how great he was, so I was excited. Although I soon wondered what all of the fuss was about. Halladay gave up six runs over six innings including home runs to Melvin Mora and Sammy Sosa. Sosa ended up going deep twice that game in an effort to silence the Toronto faithful who had come armed with anti-Sosa, anti-steroid and corked bat signs seen all around the ball park. It was not Halladay's best outing. Lucky for me it was the first of many Halladay starts we would attend and I am pretty sure the only one I ever witnessed live where he would give up more than three earned runs.
Halladay very quickly became not only my favourite pitcher, but my favourite player as well. He was one of the best pitchers I've ever seen. His work ethic, his character and his dedication to be one of the best is nothing short of admirable. I admired him. If you know me at all you don't have to look far to see this. There is an autographed photo of him hanging in my office. An autographed jersey and baseball on display in my home. Numerous photos, cards, bobbleheads, collectibles etc. Even my car has a Toronto Blue Jays license plate with Halladay's number 32 proudly displayed on it. I loved watching him pitch. Hell, I loved watching him warm up.
On November 7 I received a text shortly after 3:30 in the afternoon from a friend. Did you hear? A plane registered to Roy Halladay has crashed in the Gulf. I started searching for details online and while searching my phone continued to go off with text messages, BBM's and Facebook Messenger messages from family, friends and acquaintances asking if I'd heard the news. Did they know how many people? Had I heard if it was him yet? Do they know what happened yet? It was heart wrenching. I immediately thought of his young family and hoped it wasn't him. Later that afternoon during the press conference we all learned the worst.
Now I'm a little late to the party here. Roy Halladay passed away over two weeks ago and his memorial service was last week. The truth is it took me a while to process my thoughts and how I felt about this. By now we have all heard what happened, so I don't want to revisit that. I don't want to bore you by rhyming off stats, awards and achievements that he earned because we have all heard them before and we already know how great he was. Any Google or YouTube search can quickly provide you with any highlights or statistical information you could ever want on Roy Halladay.
If you haven't watched his memorial service I highly recommend that you do. If you have then you have heard from many different accounts, not only what kind of player he was, but also what kind of man he was off of the field. I didn't know him personally, so I don't think it is fair that I talk about that either. What I do want to tell you about is what Roy Halladay meant to me as a fan, how he impacted me and what I will always remember him for.
I remember his curve ball. My word, what a curve ball. If you have never had the pleasure of watching Roy Halladay pitch please do yourself a favour and Google Roy Halladay highlights. Even if you are not a baseball fan, you can appreciate what he could do. I once told a friend of mine that I could sit and watch Halladay throw curve balls all day. There wouldn't even have to be a batter there. I would just simply watch in awe as he sailed in that pitch at letter height and then have it drop like a stone over the plate. The weekend after Halladay passed away, a good friend of mine who lives in a different city came to visit us at our home just to hang out and catch up. The conversation turned to Halladay passing away and he mentioned that he had never seen Roy pitch. My nine year old son immediately said "Oh, you gotta see this" so we quickly pulled up a Halladay highlight video on YouTube. "My goodness" my friend exclaimed "How did anyone even hit that?" The simple answer: When Halladay was on, you didn't hit it.
I remember being in attendance when A.J. Burnette returned to Toronto after opting out of his contract with the Jays and signing with the Yankees in the offseason. Halladay schooled him. Throwing a complete game allowing just five hits and leading the Jays to a 5-1 win. The fans ate it up. It really was an experience to be there.
I remember his competitiveness. One time Stefanie and I got to really see what Halladay could do. Whenever Halladay pitched, he pitched efficiently and worked quickly. He always had. That's one of the reasons why he was able to throw as many complete games as he did. However sometimes inducing lots of ground balls doesn't mean getting outs. At this particular game Halladay was on the wrong end of four close calls on the field in one inning and there had been others before then in the previous innings. After the fourth of these calls (which was obviously a blown call), Halladay was visibly frustrated. This, of course, was long before video replay was a thing. So, rather than continuing to get hosed by the umpires, Halladay simply decided to get the batters himself. He struck guys out. Repeatedly. He struck out the next three batters that inning. Struck out two the following inning. Two more the inning after that and then struck out the side the next inning. Even though he lost that start, it was amazing to watch. He was a machine. He really showed that if he wanted to go out there and dominate by beating hitters that he could. He chose to put balls in play to get outs.
He was tough. I was there when Kevin Mench hit a line drive back to the mound that broke Roy's shin. Halladay picked up the ball and made a perfect throw from his ass to first base to get the out. Another time Nyjer Morgan hit a ball off of Halladay's head and it was later learned that the first thing Halladay said to Rod Barajas when he got to him was "Did we get the out?" For the record, they did get the out.
I will never forget the autographs that we were able to obtain from him. He signed autographs like he played the game. Like he was in a zone. The first time we had the pleasure was at a game in Cleveland in 2007. Stef and I had taken a sign with us that read "Roy Halladay may I please have your autograph". When we reached the park we went down to field level and soon spotted Halladay shagging fly balls during batting practice. When he finally looked our way we held the sign high and it was evident that he turned and read it. Didn't acknowledge it, but had clearly looked in our direction and stopped on the sign. Then immediately snapped back to looking forward and paying attention to the hitters again. I was afraid we had picked the wrong time and didn't expect him to come over. He did. On his way off of the field he came to where we were standing and we each got our photo ready. He reached us and we greeted him but didn't get a response. He saw that we each had a photo, and he very carefully took the photo from Stef and signed it. Then signed a few other items for other fans and was gone as quickly as he had arrived. Many of us greeted him and asked how he was etc. However the only words the man spoke were "you're welcome" after each thank you he received. The second time was an organized signing, but wasn't much different from the first. Again, Halladay was in "the zone". This was at a game honouring some Blue Jays pitching alumni during the 2016 season. Pat Hentgen, Duane Ward, Mike Timlin, Juan Guzman, Dave Steib, Tom Henke and Roy Halladay were each there. Halladay was at a table by himself down at the end. I approached him and greeted him with a "Hi Roy, good to see you". No response. I handed him my jersey and he very carefully took it from me. "How are you doing today?" I asked. No response. Instead, he was staring very intensely at the jersey. With great care, he took his sharpie and slowly and carefully signed his name below the letters and above the number. It is a great autograph. He inspected his work, and only when he decided he was satisfied with it, handed the jersey back to me. "Thank you so much Roy, have a great day" I said. "You're welcome" was the first and only response I received from him. When Halladay had a job to do, any job it seems, he was going to do the best job he could do.
I will never forget Roy Halladay for his love of Toronto. For signing here and avoiding free agency more than once when he could have gotten more on the open market. Then when he finally did leave, he signed a deal with Philadelphia for much less than some of his counter parts did that same off-season. All because it was where he wanted to play and have a shot to pitch in the post season. It was another testament to his character. He wasn't in the game to make as much money as he possibly could.
I remember the first time I saw him in person in a Phillies jersey. Four of us went to Pittsburgh to watch the Phillies and Pirates play two games. A good friend and I wore our Halladay Jays jerseys with Phillies caps to both games. We took a pretty good verbal beating from the Pittsburgh fans. They didn't understand that we were Halladay fans, only that we were two idiots wearing Jays jerseys to a Pirates/Phillies game. It was worth it though, an experience I won't forget.
I have so many memories. I remember being in Toronto and watching Halladay and Buehrle go toe to toe in a game that lasted only an hour and fifty some minutes. It was a gem. I remember watching Halladay and Scott Kazmir also throw a game that was also under two hours. Between the two of them they only gave up 3 hits if I remember correctly. I remember his first perfect game on May 29, 2010. I was watching on television when he threw his no hitter in the playoffs against the Reds that same season. I will never forget game five between the Phillies and Cardinals. Halladay and his good friend Chris Carpenter pitched one of the best games I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Two aces in their prime going head to head. I loved every second of it.
So really what I am saying is: Thank you Roy. Thank you for everything you did for the city of Toronto. Thank you for all of the charity work that you did while you were here, and throughout your life. Thank you for everything you did for the fans. Thank you for all of the wonderful memories. Thank you.
I have a feeling that if Halladay were here and I could thank him in person exactly what his response would be. The only words he ever spoke to me. A very plain and simple:
"You're Welcome"


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Baltimore, Md.—UMBC men's soccer plays host to rival #1 Maryland on Tuesday night at Retriever Soccer Park. The Retrievers are in the midst of a four-game home stand, and the second of three games against ranked opponents when the Terrapins head to Baltimore. Most recently, UMBC fell to #12 Western Michigan, 2-0 on Saturday to drop to 5-2-1 on the year.
-Break the Record Night! If the Retriever Soccer Park record is broken, all fans will win a special prize.
-Christos FC Recognition. Christos FC will be recognized at halftime for their U.S. Open Cup run this summer.
Maryland Match Info:
What: UMBC Retrievers (5-2-1) vs. #1 Maryland (6-0-2)
Where: Baltimore, Md. – Retriever Soccer Park
When: Tuesday, September 26 – 7:00 p.m.
How to Watch: Live stats and live video available at UMBCRetrievers.com
Social Media: @UMBCAthletics, @UMBCMensSoccer, #RetrieverNation, #AEMSOC
Scouting the Retrievers (5-2-1):
-The Retrievers come in to the match at 5-2-1, having dropped their first home contest of the year, 2-0 to #12 Western Michigan on Saturday night. It was the first match this season that the Retrievers did not score.
-Kyle Saunderson (Laurel, Md./Reservoir) leads the team with three goals for a team best six points in 2017. Senior Gregg Hauck (Linthicum, Md./North County) has recorded two goals, good for second best. Seven other Retrievers have scored this season, including Colin Weyant (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) who has two assists for four points.
-Freshman goalkeeper Ciaran O'Loughlin (Birkenhead, England) has started every game in net for the Retrievers, allowing nine goals for a goals against average of 1.18. He has made 25 stops for a .735 average with three shutouts.
Scouting the Terrapins (6-0-2):
-Maryland enters the match at 6-0-2 after drawing #6 Michigan State 0-0 in East Lansing on Saturday. The Terrapins are ranked number one by Soccer America entering the week, with a 2-0-1 record on the road this year.
-The Terrapins are led by Gordon Wild, who has scored a team best five goals for ten points. Jake Rozhansky, Eryk Williamson, Sebastian Elney and Eric Matzelevich has all scored twice with Rozhansky adding five assists for nine points.
-Dayne St. Clair has seen every minute in net for Maryland, allowing just four goals, making 22 saves (.846 percentage) with all six wins coming as shutouts.
All-Time Series:
-The Retrievers and Terrapins will be meeting for the 18th time in the all-time series, with Maryland holding a 12-3-2 advantage. However, the Retrievers are 1-0-1 in the last two meetings, including a 1-0 win in 2014 NCAA Tournament in College Park.
-The last time the two sides met in Baltimore was back in 2011, where current assistant coach Pete Caringi III scored a goal in a 4-3 double overtime loss.
Retrievers in the Rankings:
-The Retrievers are second in the nation in corner kicks per game, averaging 7.88 per contest. UMBC is also tenth in shots per game (16.25) and 13th in shots on goal per game (7.13).
Up Next:
-The Retrievers will conclude their home stand against #14 New Hampshire at Retriever Soccer Park on Saturday, Sept. 30. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.


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An Amtrak worker suffered serious injuries when he was hit by a Long Island Rail Road train.
Officials say the accident happened at about 3:45 a.m. Friday.
The worker's name was not released. He was hit on an eastbound LIRR track near the East River tunnel in Queens. The train had been coming from Penn Station.
It was not immediately known why the worker was on the track. The Daily News says he suffered serious, but not life-threatening injuries.
The MTA said Amtrak has been doing work inside the East River tunnel for several weeks.
No passengers on the train were injured. They were transferred to another train. Several LIRR lines were affected by morning rush-hour delays because of the accident.
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The Argonath.
Taken by boat on the river Auduin, as we entered the realm of Gondor, while on vacation in Middle Earth.
The Argonath (also known as The Gates of Argonath or The Pillars of Kings) is a monument comprising two enormous statues carved in the likenesses of Isildur and his father Elendil, standing upon either side of the River Anduin at the northern approach to Nen Hithoel. It marked the northern border of Gondor, as nearby down south were previous outposts, the Amon Hen and the Amon Lhaw.
These two lovely Argonath statues are actually sculpted bookends that came with a deluxe version of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dvd release somewhere around 2002. I missed the initial release of these because of price, but I went searching on eBay a while back and finally found a set.
These are so fantastic. One of my favorite scenes from Fellowship is when they pass into the realm of Gondor and see the Argonath.
This shot was taken on my back porch of our apartment; the bookends simply sitting on the railing, and me waiting for the sun to lower enough that I could catch a little bit of a "gleam" off of one of them.
If you dig this image, it's available as a print on my Society6 page starting at $22.00


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This past holiday season, I lost four articles of clothing/accessories. This might be a record for me. I'm the type who nearly always forgets my bag of "wrapped," leftover food when I eat out (cue the sweet waiter running out of the restaurant shouting that I've forgotten it). I've lost countless pairs of gloves and umbrellas. Then there were the five rings I wore in junior high—including a silver one my mom had worn in her teens—that I left at one of the bathroom sinks when I went to wash my hands. I didn't notice I'd left them there until I was already sitting in class. (When I went back for them minutes later, they were gone.) This time around, it was two gold-plated midi rings (you can see them pictured above, at the tippy top of my fingers, and below), a scarf that one of my good friends gave me when she was abroad, and a pair of silver shoes I got for Christmas from my sister. Oh, and those shoes? I left them behind on a train along with all the Christmas gifts for Tom's family. This is (my) real life.
Losing things, like an umbrella or a glove, happens often enough—at least to me. I'm distracted, I'm rushing, aren't we all? (Note: This is not a good thing!) As soon as I realize I don't have, say, that umbrella or glove, I feel a burning moment of nostalgia for the item. (I once cried—for real—thinking about the yoga mat I left behind at college after I graduated. I kept picturing it cramped in a locker at the gym. Look, that yoga mat had feelings, just like you and me, ok? Ha! Plus, graduating college: always a tough time. Enough said.) The process of losing something usually goes like this for me: moment of realization, that burning nostalgia, frantically retracing my steps. Sometimes, through some Good Samaritan or a phone call or two, I can find the item and get it back. Phew! But most of the time, when it doesn't turn up, the sinking feeling of knowing it's really gone hits. Then, the acceptance. ("Oh well, it's just an umbrella.") After all, material things are, well, material and replaceable. I've learned a few things from these losses though.
1. Because of all the glove-wearing in winter, I try to wear less rings. I lost one of the midi rings at my friend Mitch's Friendsgiving. Looked down at my hand and, to my horror, saw it was gone. I checked the bathroom and quickly scanned the floor. But what was I going to do, halt the party and have everyone get down on their hands and knees to search for it?! No. (Ok, maybe if my contact lens fell out I'd do that.) I lost the other ring after leaving a restaurant in Noho, also with Mitch. This one must have slipped away when I pulled off my glove. Grrr! So I'm more careful about wearing rings that are loose on my fingers when I'm wearing gloves. I'd almost rather wear rings that are better fitted (and not a midi style) that are likely to stay on, or no rings at all, in winter. Otherwise I'll spend the whole day/night checking my hand like crazy, and that won't work.
2. Always check your seat before you leave. I used to be adamant about doing this, but obviously I've gotten lax. I loved the scarf that I lost, with it's dark, bold colors (pictured above and down below), and wore it all the time. I must have left it behind at a restaurant where Tom and I met another couple for dinner. I wore it for years and years, so I know it got lots of good use, but it's definitely upsetting that I lost it, especially since my friend got it for me. I think that's what can make losing things tough: when they're sentimental and remind you of a certain person or place. This scarf reminded me of my good friend Maggie.
3. Figure out your travel schedule before you go. So, I left a whole bag of gifts for Tom's family on the train, along with some cool silver flats (from my sister) that I was going to wear for New Year's. This all happened because I didn't check whether I had to switch trains at Jamaica on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), and I got into this weird panic and just left the train while trying to get the schedule up on my phone. The thing is, I ride the train all the time. Almost every week. I'm used to checking times and knowing when I have to switch and when I don't, but this one time, I didn't think about what I was doing and didn't prepare. Standing on the track, just as the doors closed, I realized I did need to get off. I felt relieved, but that was quickly replaced by a sick feeling in my stomach when I realized (and didn't want to believe it was true) that I had left the bag on the floor where I had been sitting... on the train that was now pulling away. What a helpless feeling I had as it picked up speed and left the station! I couldn't believe I was going to show up to Tom's empty-handed. I pretty much burst into tears and somehow made it to my next train. I talked to the LIRR employee on the train and the conductor to see if there was any way they could contact the train I had been on. I knew it was heading to the town my sister lived in and I was hoping she'd be able to get it. Trying not to blubber in front of these kind strangers, I persisted and asked if there was anything they could do to help. (I learned later that the employees aren't supposed to radio other trains for lost items, which was probably one of the big reasons why they were a little hesitant to help me.) Luckily, the train employee relented and asked what was in the bag and what it looked like. I explained it had a bottle of wine, another bottle of liquor, wrapped gifts, and a pair of silver shoes. Over the radio, she called it "a bag of alcohol," which made me laugh through my tears. My sister, being the amazing person she is, walked the entire train to try and find the bag when it stopped at the station by her. Nada. I was still hopeful, and filed a report on the LIRR website and called every day for a week. Still nothing. I really do hope someone had a grand time drinking the wine and the special-edition Game of Thrones beer, reading Marie Kondo's book, wearing the silver shoes, and spraying on Nautica Blue cologne (a silly gift I'd gotten for Tom's dad).
The best part about losing things that we love? It teaches us to let go and attach less importance to material stuff. It doesn't mean that when I lose something I won't try my hardest to find it. And it could have been worse with the bag I left on the train: I originally had my handbag in it! But luckily I took it out and transferred it to another bag at some point. Losing my license, my money, etc., would have really sucked.
So, my goals as of late: Take things slow, give myself lots of time when I'm traveling, avoid gloves when wearing midi rings, and always, always check the seat before I leave. Cheers to losing less stuff!
Xoxo, Heather
P.S. Do you have any crazy stories of things you've lost (and then found?!). I'd love to hear in the comments below!


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High School Sports
Girls Golf Preview: Porter Ridge's Emily Anderson hunts state crown in 2016
Emily Anderson didn't start playing golf until she was in the eighth grade at Porter Ridge Middle School.
But in the last four years, Anderson "has lived on the course," as she "eats, sleeps and breathes golf," according to Porter Ridge golf coach, Kevin Jarman.
In that same span, Anderson's game evolved from a beginner to one of the top golfers in Union County. She has also become one of the top golfers in the Southwestern 4A conference, 4A West Region and the state.
Anderson has been the medalist in all of her regular season matches during her sophomore and junior years at Porter Ridge.
The 2014 SW4A player of the year, was the SW4A tournament runner-up in 2015.
Anderson also finished eighth at 4A West Regionals and 24th at states as a sophomore, improving to fourth at regionals and 24th again at states last year.
Now, the Porter Ridge senior -- currently ranked No. 74 in the state (Tarheel Youth Golf Association) and No. 34 in the state (Peggy Kirk Bell Prep Series) -- hopes to have her best for her last high school season.
"My main goal is to get my scoring average down," said Anderson, who averages a 38 per nine holes ; 80 per 18-holes; averages a 230-yard drive off the tee. "But, I would also love to win a conference championship and maybe even a regional championship."
Anderson also hopes to earn an opportunity to play college golf, where she says she has several schools showing interest.
Girls Golf Featured Player
Name: Emily Anderson
School/Class: Porter Ridge senior
Sport: Girls' Golf
2015 Golf Stats: Southwestern 4A conference runner-up was medalist in each of her regular season matches, also finished fourth at 4A West Regional, 24th at the 4A state meet.
Why Her?: Anderson has been the medalist in all of her regular season matches over the past two years. Now, the Porter Ridge senior wants to finish her prep career with a championship run (conference, regionals, etc.).
Charlotte Observer Girls' Golf Players to Watch
Kathryn Carson, Lake Norman, Sr.: 4A West Regional champ came up one spot short of a 4A state championship, now looks to cap her career with state title.
Moon Cheong, Charlotte Latin, Sr.: CISAA conference champion, NCISAA runner-up looking to finish her career in style with an individual and team title in her final high school season.
Jodee Tindall, South Pointe (SC), Sr.: Mercer University commit looks to be even better than her S.C. AAA co-Upper state champion, AAA state runner-up finish from a year ago.
Keri Kenkel, Charlotte Catholic, Jr.: SoMeck8 conference champion proved she could contend on the biggest stages, finishing third at 4A West Regional, seventh at state meet.
Parker Melting, Independence, Jr.: The only girls' golfer in Independence history will be a one-woman team again this year as she looks to be even stronger than her 2015 season, where she finished as Southwestern 4A conference champion, seventh at 4A West Regionals and 12th at the 4A state meet.
Ellie Porman, Stuart Cramer, Sr.: Big South conference player of the year looking to top a dream junior season helping her team to school's first league title in any sport while finishing as 1A/2A West Regional and state runner-up.
Charlotte Observer Girls' Golf Teams to Watch
Charlotte Latin: The Hawks finished last season in heartbreaking fashion, losing on third hole of a playoff to rival Providence Day. With their top two players back, in all-state performers Moon Cheong and Alexis Sudjianto, look for Latin to contend for the top spot again.
Cannon School: Coach Pat Whisenant has made a habit of putting together championship teams with both the Cougar boys and girls. This season, the Cannon has the young talent -- led sophomores, Sophie Holland, Mirabelle Callabrase and Muskan Uppal as well as freshman, Elena Jacoby – to make a run at a state title, again.
Charlotte Catholic: The Cougars return two of the states' best in Keri Kenkel and Michelle Harn, and look to prove they can contend for conference, regional and state bragging rights.
Gaston Christian: All-state performer, Taylor Hinson, led the Eagles to their first state tournament in school history, finishing fourth in the state individual. Now, the Gaston Christian senior and UNC Asheville commit headlines a team that has six of their top eight players back and believes they be contenders.
Hough: The Huskies have proven they can dominate the MECKA 4A conference, now look to do the same in regional/state play with senior, Natalie Cleveland and junior, Hannah Hovsepian, leading a talented team.


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Drew Boyd, marketing professor and expert, begins this online course by discussing the importance of a marketing leader establishing a good relationship with their boss. Professor Boyd particularly highlights the value of communication in this working relationship. And he provides specific points of discussion to talk through in order to understand your boss's agenda and expectations for you as a leader.
- I've held many positions in my long career.…If I've learned anything, it's this,…the sooner you can get together with your new boss…and understand his or her agenda,…the better off you're going to be.…You need to sit down with your boss…and have lengthy conversation to understand a lot of things.…First, I suggest you come straight out…and ask your boss this,…what are you trying to achieve in your role?…What ambitions do you have in the company?…And how can I play a part in helping you do that?…Now this may sound like you're sucking up to the boss…but it really isn't.…
It's having a clear conversation about your intentions…to help your boss succeed.…If your boss sees you making it a priority…to make him or her succeed,…they're more likely to do the same for you.…It's the rule of reciprocity.…Next, get a clear understanding from your boss…about the constraints that you must work within.…Constraints come in many forms like budget, head count,…geographical focus, and scope of responsibilities.…Believe it or not, constraints are not a barrier…
- Understanding your boss's expectations
- Building relationships
- Knowing your resources
- Defining marketing objectives
- Building a team
- Recruiting the best talent
- Measuring results


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Four men arrested for stolen car
Asanda Xongo
26 November 2015
Four men were apprehended this morning driving a suspected stolen motor vehicle. Two unlicensed firearms were recovered in the vehicle in Dyokoni Street, Phase Six in Browns Farm.
Members of the Flying squad were on petrol when they noticed a Ford laser driving in front of them with four suspicious looking occupants.
The members tested the vehicle registration number, and it came out as positively stolen in Nyanga during November 2015.
Captain FC Van Wyk added that "The vehicle was stopped and the occupants and vehicle was searched and a fire arm was found on the back seat."
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After resisting for years, Cucina Colore has caved to pressure and started a happy hour. They never really needed it, says general manager Chris Millette. Plus the "whole discounting concept" just didn't seem to pair well with the restaurant's upscale sensibilities.
But all that changed Monday when the Italian restaurant at 3041 East Third Avenue started up its first ever happy hour featuring a number of cocktails and drink specials as well as a small menu of Venetian small plates called cicchetti. "Quite honestly, we were getting asked [about happy hour] every day," Millette says. "It's a long overdue thing."
The cicchetti includes a selection of seven hot and four cold small plates, among them familiar items like wings and calamari but also more inventive ones like the asparagus "tartufo" with truffled egg salad and speck and the salmon "scapece" with watermelon, avocado, tomato and citrus vinaigrette. All are priced between $4-7.
An assortment of cocktails all run $5 each; a small selection of wines and beer run $4/glass and $3.50, respectively. Some of the cicchetti will be folded into Cucina Colore's new spring/summer menu, designed by Chef Michel Wahaltere, which will be coming out in the next few weeks.
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In Fall of 2013, the faculty and staff of the Tanner Health System School of Nursing moved into the new, state of the art nursing building on the Carrollton campus. In summer of 2015, the opening of the New UWG Newnan, which includes a beautiful skills laboratory and simulation suite for nursing took place. Combined, the UWG Newnan and the SON building at the Carrollton Campus provide a total of 17 stations for low-fidelity skills practice, two physical examination rooms, nine hospital simulation rooms with human patient simulators and two home health high-fidelity simulation.
The new School of Nursing facilities enhance enrollment growth to address the nursing and nursing faculty shortage by:
The new School of Nursing facilities enhance enrollment growth to address the nursing and nursing faculty shortage by:
- Providing the ideal environment to prepare BSN nurses to deliver safe and effective care in today's complex health care environment
- Advancing the education of nurses prepared to provide leadership and education through the RN to BSN and MSN programs.
- Preparing nurses qualified for academic educator roles with the EdD in Nursing Education program.
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Today, 30 more Americans from countries around the world will celebrate Veterans Day -- this time, as U.S. citizens. On November 7, 2013, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park hosted a ceremony conducted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at which the more-than-two-dozen candidates became citizens of the United States. Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel, Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, reminded attendees that President Roosevelt was a champion of freedom for all of his "fellow immigrants" as he described Americans in a famous speech at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall in 1939. His legacy, memorialized at the majestic Park on Roosevelt Island, set a powerful stage for the day's events. Following is the speech Ambassador vanden Heuvel delivered.
In February 1939 the DAR, the Daughters of the American Revolution, barred Marian Anderson, one of the greatest contraltos in the history of music, from performing at its auditorium in Washington, D.C., because she was African American. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the president, and a member of the DAR, immediately resigned from the organization and proceeded to organize a memorable event at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday of 1939, where Ms. Anderson sang to an audience of 75,000 people. It was an affirmation of the America that we wanted to be. President Roosevelt was scheduled to speak at the same auditorium the next day to the DAR. He began his speech by saying: "My fellow immigrants." In those few words he reminded them and now all of us that we are truly all immigrants but for the Native Americans whose land this was and whose special relationship to it we must always recognize. All of us came from foreign lands, from families that shared the same dreams that you have -- opportunity, freedom, economic betterment, a better life, education. We are all here because America is the land where all of us are equal and we believe, as the Founding Fathers wrote, that "we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights and among those rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That is the definition of America that each generation is challenged to understand, to advance, to make real.
My parents prized their naturalization certificates more than anything else they owned. Those certificates hung in our living room, as today they hang in my office, a reminder of the long journey that so many have taken so that their children for generations to come would have the opportunity of this free land.
Today is something more, however. It is not only a reminder of opportunity, it is also the challenge of responsibility. Today our country has a pre-eminent place in the world. We must make our country better in every way that we can. We live in a time of threat and danger. That is not unusual. The forces that destroyed so much at the World Trade Center, including the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens, are still threatening our way of life. We must not be afraid, but we must be vigilant. That is a citizen's responsibility. We must appreciate that our society and our civilization is built on law and order, where we respect one another, where we do not do harm and do not allow harm to be done to others. We must continue the hard work that has built the greatness of America. We must respect the environment and understand the threats to it and accept as our responsibility to future generations the protection of that environment in the years of our lives. American, with all of its flaws and even its failures, with all of its strife and conflicts, is still the beacon for the world because we have held true to democracy as our political system, because we elect our representatives and hold them accountable to us, the citizens of the United States. It is our continuing responsibility to educate ourselves as to our needs and dreams, to prepare ourselves to be responsible participants in the democratic process, to vote, to cause our political parties to have a broader platform than self-interest -- to have the responsibility of protecting the American dream for generations to come.
There will be days in our lives, as there have always been, that will be difficult, sometimes tragic and sometimes truly challenging. I suggest on those days that you come back to this, the Four Freedoms Park; that you share again the extraordinary panorama of this gateway to America, that you absorb the spiritual essence that it represents, that you read the words that President Roosevelt said on January 6, 1941, when he defined the kind of world we want to build, a world based on four fundamental freedoms: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom of Worship, Freedoms from Want, Freedom from Fear. You will gain strength from the ocean that leads us to great harbors. You will remember the purposes of the United Nations, an expression of American leadership to allow all nations to work together in the preservation of peace and the prevention of violence. You will recall a great President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in the prime of his life was stricken by polio and disabled so that he could never walk again or stand alone.
With the greatest of human endurance and strength he overcame that challenge so that just 11 years after his affliction he was elected President of the United States and lifted our nation from its knees at the time of the most terrible economic depression in our history. He then led the Allied effort to repel the forces of barbarism in World War II. He told his fellow Americans that all the sadness and sacrifice and brutality of war can only be justified in history if, surviving it, we seek to create a better world, a world based upon the four freedoms. Each of us has to respond to that challenge in our own way. President Roosevelt and the America he led made it possible for us to be here today, to welcome a new generation of citizens who will sustain the patriotism and devotion to freedom that American must always represent. Let us together accept the challenge of what this Park represents and let us, proudly as citizens of the world's oldest democracy, pledge "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" to make America ever greater as the guardian of freedom. And when you face tough times and difficult decisions, remember President Roosevelt's advice: When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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'File 13/4 III: Facilities for Foreign Companies using Arab Route' [13v] (26/144)
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The file, which is a continuation of correspondence in the volume 'File 13/4 II Facilities for Foreign Air Company's using Arabian Air Route' (IOR/R/15/2/512), deals chiefly with the use of air facilities around the Arabian peninsula by United States aircraft during the Second World War. The file contains correspondence relating to: plans of the Californian Standard Oil Company to construct landing strips along the Arab coast between Dhahran and Kuwait; Pan-American Airways aircraft being used by the United States military in the region, and an agreement that such aircraft should be entitled to the same privileges in using aerodrome facilities as British RAF aircraft; concerns among British officials at Pan-American Airways' attempts to further their commercial interests in the Gulf during the war. A final item of correspondence in the file, dating from 1950, concerns a request by the Lebanese authorities to extend an air route to Kuwait.
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I am always looking for interesting examples of machinery safety problems to share on MS101. Recently I was scrolling Reddit/r/OSHA and found these three real-world examples.
Broken Emergency Stop Buttons
The first and most obvious kinds of failures are those resulting from either wear out or damage to emergency stop devices like e‑stop buttons or pull cords. Here's a great example:
The operator device in this picture has two problems:
1) the button operator has failed and
2) the e‑stop is incorrectly marked.
The correct marking would be a yellow background in place of the red/silver legend plate, like the example below. The yellow background could have the words "emergency stop" on it, but this is not necessary as the colour combination is enough.
There is an ISO/IEC symbol for an emergency stop that could also be used [1].I wonder how the contact block(s) inside the enclosure are doing? Contact blocks have been known to fall off the back of emergency stop operator buttons, leaving you with a button that does nothing when pressed. Contact blocks secured with screws are most vulnerable to this kind of failure. Losing a contact block like this happens most often in high-vibration conditions. I have run across this in real life while doing inspections on client sites.
There are contact blocks made to detect this kind of failure, like Allen Bradley's self-monitoring contact block, 800TC-XD4S, or the similar Siemens product,3SB34. Most controls component manufacturers will be likely to have similar components.
Here's another example from a machine inspection I did a while ago. Note the wire "keeper" that prevents the button from getting lost!
Installation Failures
Here is an example of poor planning when installing new barrier guards. The emergency stop button is now out of reach. The original poster does not indicate a reason why the emergency stop for the machine he was operating was mounted on a different machine.
sure hope i never need to hit that emergency stop button. its for the machine on my side of the new fence. from OSHA
No Emergency Stop at all
Finally, and possibly the worst example of all. Here is an improvised emergency stop using a set of wire cutters. No further comment required.
If you have any examples you would like to share, feel free to add them in comments below. References to particular employers or manufacturers will be deleted before posts are approved.
[1] "IEC 60417 – 5638, Emergency Stop", Iso.org, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iec:grs:60417:5638. [Accessed: 27- Jun- 2017].


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Editor's Note: The following post contains excerpts from a blog by investment analyst Mike Cintolo, writing in a current issue of "The Iconoclast Investor." His blogs can be read at www.iconoclast-investor.com.
Interestingly, I'm seeing some positive action in many "non-growth" stocks. One of these is Thor Industries Inc., which was featured in Cabot Top Ten Report back on August 10. Here's what I had to say about it:
"You may not have heard of Thor Industries, but you've certainly heard of some of its brands of travel trailers, recreational vehicles and buses. Thor got started in 1980 when it acquired Airstream, maker of the iconic aluminum travel trailers. Thor bought General Coach in 1982, El Dorado Bus in 1988, National Coach and Dutchmen Manufacturing in 1991, Champion Bus in 1998, merged with Keystone RV in 2001, bought Damon in 2003, Crossroads RV in 2004 and Goshen Coach in 2005. This aggressive program of acquisition has made Thor a giant in the industry and a U.S. manufacturing success story. Investors see big potential in travel trailers and RVs as Boomers hit the road in retirement. The company's earnings took a big hit in its Q2 report, but it stayed profitable, which is more than can be said for many others in the automotive industry. This is a good story and a company making its debut in today's Cabot Top Ten Report. We like it."
Granted, it's not a revolutionary story, but companies like Thor often produce big gains early on in bull markets (their industries are some of the first to turn up) as earnings rise sharply. The stock itself broke out of a well-formed three-month base at the end of July, when it soared above 24 on gargantuan volume (there were two days of more than quadruple average volume!), and THO has since retreated in a very calm, cool and collected manner. It now stands around 26.
I think there will be good support in the 23 to 24 area, and think buying some THO here is a great risk-reward opportunity.
More about Mike: A growth stock and market timing expert, Michael Cintolo is editor of Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Report. In his 10 years at Cabot, he has uncovered exceptional growth stocks and helped to create new tools and rules for buying and selling stocks. Perhaps most notable was his development of the proprietary trend-following market timing system,Cabot Tides, that has helped Cabot place among the top handful of market-timing newsletters numerous times. An avid student of the market, Mike has appeared at the World Money Show in Orlando and is a regular guest on TopStockAnalysts.com, WallSt.net and WallStreetReporter.com.


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Patient as Center of the Health Care Universe
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Please give a summary of the author's main points in this article:
Then assess the value and challenges of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs), in general, and of computerized physician order entry systems (CPOEs), in specific, to achieve the patient-centered care goals set forth in the article
Explain and defend the rationale for classifying EHR, CPOEs, and CDSS as patient-centered management systems.
Please use two peer-reviewed articles and links so that I may learn from the information that you provide.
Thank you!
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Murphy, J. (2011). Patient as center of the health care universe: a closer look at patient-centered care. Nursing Economic$ 29(1). p 35-37
Article Summary
Murphy (2011) discusses the shift in health care from a "hospital-centric" view to that of a "patient-centric" one. She emphasizes that this is an important aspect of health care, especially when implementing and using health information technology (HIT). The vision of a successful system would include the patient involvement in their own care partnered with their various health care providers. Although this (patient-centered care) idea fits into the Institute of Medicine's six dimensions of quality, little is known about how it is supported or used by the health care providers.
Reviewed literature has suggested that only a small percentage of health care providers reach a high range of adopted patient-centered practice. Murphy feels that if health management were made accessible to patients as well as relevant providers, it would "impact patient care and satisfaction in a positive way" (p 36). She suggests ways that improvements could be made such as using computers-on-wheels during change-of-shift rounds to help the patient recall what has occurred on the previous shift and what to expect on the next. She also warns not to assume that all patients would embrace this integrated approach, but could be successful in decreasing health care cost in the United States and improve patient satisfaction and quality of care.
Kuperman, et al (2007), discusses how computer provided order entry (CPOE) of patient medication(s), with clinical decision support ...
Solution Summary
This solution analyzes the given article as well as providing three more references that discuss patient-centered management systems.


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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO has the ability to silence the noisy world with his camera. The sculture photography here is so clean and monumental, but it is elegent and soft at the same time.
These are my favorites from HIROSHI SUGIMOTO's Revolution series. The minimal representation of the sea makes this cliche subject of ocean innovative and effective. Even though the pictures looks very still, almost like a painting, I still can feel the movement of the ocean wave, sunlight, and wind. This reminds me of the feeling of watching a violent storm with no sound.
From the idea of a Silent Storm, I began to experiment with the contrast of soft and structural, movement and stillness, chaotic and calmness. The toils are made by using a "flattened box" technique, where same squares are sewn together along the edges but not matching any corners, or different shapes with same perimeters sewn together. The pattern making technique can create interesting volume in garments.
This collection has been built around this look, which also evolved as the collection developed further. The look sets the tone of fabrication, mainly linens, even some sheer linens, as well as sets the silhouette direction, relaxed, voluminous, and often elongated.
One night, I am desperate to find the best papers to draw my looks. I wanted a darker background so that I can illustrate white on top. After failed at buying colored paper or paint my own base color on white paper. I was frustrated. I looked down under my desk, and this piece of left-over indigo organza was laying right there; an idea sparked, why not draw on organza
Continue playing with the contrast of the masculine and feminine, I tried to use womenwear techniques into menswear, such as this embroidery work of mixing, sequences, plastic, vinyl, and white fur on layers of organza.
By putting the androgynous inspired clothes onto hip-hop singers helped me to use the extreme mansculen culture to balance the femenine referances.
I was inspired by a detail on sneakers, I did a collage of it as a part of garment, as belt, waistband, or shoulder elements.


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Wolverine have been in the work boot game for over a hundred years now. And like most respectable boot manufacturers, they've continued to innovate and refine their products within that time.
Today, I'll be talking about one of their latest boots, the Men's Edge LX.
I decided to give them a try them because it contains Wolverines latest innovation, a safety toe made with nanotechnology. This apparently allows for a significant drop in both weight and size.
One of the my favorite things about Wolverine boots is that they rarely have a break in period. The Edge LX is no exception. They're good to go right out of the box. The fit also seems spot on.
As for the nano toe, it's nothing special. In fact, it's only purpose appears to be to make stupid people like me buy the boot out of curiosity.
Yes, it's lighter and thinner than steel. Yes, that means more room in the toe box. But that's a characteristic found in all well designed composite toes. So, there's nothing really innovative about it.
The uppers are made primarily from soft nubuck leather. They're cut relatively low at the back and the lacing system is adjustable at the top. Throw in mesh panels at the side and you have a very breathable boot despite being waterproof.
The best thing about these boots is the anti fatigue technology at the bottom. Called EPX, it consists of your standard outsole, a stabilizing midsole, a cushioned midsole, and then a footbed with a honeycomb heel.
Different manufacturers take different approaches to keeping your feet happy during long shifts. And the Edge LX is up there with the best of them. Long shifts, concrete floors, uneven surfaces, it handles them all with ease.
All in all, full marks for comfort but zero marks for the fake nanotechnology.
Safety Features
Safety features consist solely of the composite safety toe (ASTM rated) and high visibility tags on the sides. There's no electrical hazard protection. The heel is too low for safe ladder climbing. And while I found them slip resistant against both oil and water, the manufacturer makes no such promises.
Wolverine wasn't lying about the boots being waterproof. Despite the presence of mesh panels, the Men's Edge will keep your feet dry in both rain and 2-3 inches of water. Insulation on the other hand is effected by the mesh panels. These boots are designed to be breathable not to protect your feet against freezing temperatures.
Style wise, they come in 4 different colors. I opted for the black and they have a nice high end, modern appearance. One thing they're not however, is casual looking i.e. they're plainly designed for work. So if you're looking for something to wear at the weekend too, there's better options out there.
Customer Reviews
First released at the start of the year, customer reviews currently total just 34 on Amazon. They're currently rated 4.2 stars out of 5 but I expect that to increase as more people weigh in. The most popular features are general comfort, waterproofing and the distinct lack of weight. Negative reviews don't appear to focus on one particular fault which is usually a good sign.
I haven't owned this boot long enough to judge. But if there's one brand that I've never had a problem with in this department, it's Wolverine. That coupled with what appears to be very high quality materials mean that I expect to get at least a year out of this boot. I'll update this review at a later date.
I tried these boots expecting a brand new take on toe protection. I obviously didn't get that. What's left however is a well designed boot that does provide just about everything else.
The anti fatigue technology works as advertised. These boots are lighter than average. And they are one of the few boots that manage to achieve the competing goals of letting your feet breath while still keeping them dry in wet conditions.
In other words, provided they're not looking for a special safety toe, most people will be happy with their purchase.


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One of the cool new additions to EPUB 3 is the ability to include schema.org metadata. Although, in truth, it's actually two new additions in one… or is that one new addition in two?
The obvious way to include schema.org metadata is in XHTML content documents now that both RDFa and microdata attributes are in the soon-to-be-final 3.0.1 update. If you're wondering why you would want to do this, think about your book being opened up to indexing by a search engine. Rich metadata in the source sure isn't going to harm your chances of improving your discoverability.
The less obvious place where schema.org properties can be used is in the package document metadata. The 3.0.1 revision saw the prefix 'schema:' reserved for adding this metadata, meaning you don't have to declare it in an epub:prefix attribute every time you want to use it.
So what are the cases that might prompt you to include schema.org metadata in the package? Well, the primary one that led to the prefix being added was to be able to express accessibility and educational metadata. The LRMI project already has a set of properties in schema.org, and the a11y metadata project is about to see four properties added with a few still under discussion and hopefully to be added not long after. I won't go into details of those now, as they're both on the radar for EDUPUB, so there will be more info coming (I know because it's on my plate), but here's a quick example of how you could indicate that the publication includes captions for video content:
<meta property="schema:accessibilityFeature">captions</meta>
It's as simple as that when it comes to using schema.org properties now. Well, almost…
(If the mechanics of metadata make your head spin, best to stop reading now. I'm thinking a new accessibility hazard is needed to warn people my posts may cause delirium and fatigue:
<meta property="accessibilityHazard">describesMetadata</meta>.)
There are some limitations to the metadata you can express in the package document, which is what I'll be looking at in this post. For one, EPUB has a quirky form of metadata that's sort of like a really reduced form of RDFa but limited to property expressions. There's no equivalent to the typeof/itemtype attributes, for example, in part because all primary metadata expressions apply to the publication, and without nesting of
meta tags there is no reason to set a new type. That's really a pain when you get into the kind of structured metadata many schema.org properties take, and also makes it ambiguous what item type you're taking properties from.
So where does that leave you in terms of how to use schema.org metadata… that part's a little unclear. The "publication" can be interpreted a number of different ways in schema.org. My personal take is to treat the package metadata section like an instance of the CreativeWork type and use whatever properties are allowed in it to make statements. Reaching for the Book type might seem more natural, but as EPUB is intended to be usable across publishing formats, it's a little limiting. You certainly won't do any harm if you limit yourself to the Book properties, since it is a subset of CreativeWork. (You can find the whole list of available derivations of CreativeWork on its definition page or in the full hierarchical list.)
It does kind of stink that you can't say what item type you intended to use, though. And it does kind of stink that the EPUB model sort of encourages treating all of schema.org like a buffet. But after a while you get used to the smell.
The inability to nest metadata is more of a kick in the old you-know-whats, at least to a metadata purist like me, as you lose the ability to create rich expressions. It's not the end of the world in a lot of cases — schema.org is pretty lax about how you express metadata — but you're going to have to use string values where a schema.org property prefers a subtype. Take the author property, for example. If you were to express this in HTML, it might look like this:
Matt Garrish
The above is just scratching the surface of what you can say about someone using the Person type. In the EPUB package, on the other hand, all you can define is a property and value, so there's no way to indicate that the value is a subtype or to provide any context to the name:
<meta property="schema:author">Matt Garrish</meta>
As I said, this simplicity isn't the end of the world for basic property expressions, but it does get to be a nuisance when you do want to express structured metadata.
But then I'm trying to suggest that schema.org metadata is arriving as a replacement for the DCMES elements. It's more just a complement at this time, since those elements are so engrained. It does leave me lamenting that schema.org was a couple of years too late arriving, though, or we might have had an alternative.
It would certainly be interesting to see whether the CreativeWork metadata could replace the metadata EPUB has right now. It would take a major new revision that puts RDFa Lite attributes into the package metadata (another development a couple of years too late), plus allow nesting, but the horror that is hacking meaning onto the DCMES elements has to end some day.
For now, adding the prefix in 3.0.1 addresses a key need for a11y and educational metadata, so I can live with the ambiguities that come alone with grafting the mechanics onto the EPUB metadata.


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CIRCULUS is a new, beautiful poster displaying a fragment of a flower. The B&W motif is daringly disrupted by the orange lettering, which interrupts the serenity and the subtle balance between the light and the dark areas of the bloom. It is a simple but eye-catching motif that will add a touch of boldness to any modern décor. The poster is also available in a toned down version with grey lettering. The poster can be obtained in two different sizes: 70X100 cm – with orange lettering; 50X70 cm - with grey lettering. CIRCULUS is printed on 200gr. LuxoSatin "Poster Colors" 4+0 with a matt finish.
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Guerbet Announces AHRA Charitable Contribution
Guerbet Announces AHRA Charitable Contribution to Support Next Generation Leaders in Medical Imaging
PRINCETON, N.J., July 24, 2018 -- Guerbet LLC USA, the U.S. affiliate of the global specialist in contrast product and solutions for medical imaging, announced today a contribution of $50,000 to the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) "Defining Our Future" campaign, an initiative to support the education, development, and empowerment of new and future medical imaging professionals.
"Guerbet is honored to support AHRA's ambitious initiative to shape the future of medical imaging and quality care," said Massimo Carrera, Guerbet Vice President for North America. "As a global leader in medical imaging, we are excited to partner with AHRA to help equip members with the tools they need to create positive change in medical imaging management space."
The contribution echoes Guerbet's growing partnership with AHRA to deliver the highest quality of care to patients with pioneering technologies in diagnostic and interventional imaging. For many years Guerbet has led industry advances with AHRA's support, including the L-F Hydra Vision™ Digital Imaging System, a real-time digital X-ray imaging device in urological imaging; the OptiStar® Elite injector for improved MRI contrast delivery; Contrast & Care data analytics to enhance imaging center capabilities; and the Imalogix ™ dose management system to increase patient safety in interventional imaging procedures.
To learn more about AHRA's "Defining Our Future" campaign, visit www.ahra.org.
Guerbet is a pioneer in the contrast-agent field, with more than 90 years' experience, and is a leader in medical imaging worldwide. It offers a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and services for diagnostic and interventional imaging, to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients. With 8% of revenue dedicated to R&D and more than 200 employees distributed amongst its four centers in France, in Israel and the United States, Guerbet is a substantial investor in research and innovation. Guerbet (GBT) is listed on Euronext Paris (segment B – mid caps) and generated €807 million in revenue in 2017. For more information about Guerbet, please visit www.guerbet.com.
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The Call
(November 2 - December 7, 2014)
The Call
God expects and calls us to love Him with everything we have. We call that worship. The key to worship is surrender. Romans 12 says, "I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual act of worship." God has called us to worship him through surrender. In the next six weeks we are going to be challenged to surrender our past, our present, our plans, our future, our money, our me, our talents, and our whole lives to Him.


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Time for some more readings!
This week on Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry, Tyler Henry had some interesting readings to say the least. He connected a Vanderpump Rules star to his grandparents and gave Tituss Burgess a very heartfelt moment with someone special from his life.
First, Tyler sat down with Real Housewives of New York City star Luann de Lesspes and channeled her dad. "He's putting a big red 'X' around this other thing," Tyler shared with Luann. "Of like a suggestion of we can extend someone's life for a period of time and he's saying no with this."
She instantly knew he was referring to the circumstances under which he died. "He had cancer and he could have been operated," she revealed. "He had friends that were operated for the same thing and they died. So he thought, 'I'm okay. I don't need to be operated. I can deal with this.'"


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Los Angeles Immigration
Article provided by: Law Office of Todd Becraft
If you are a young immigrant who came to this country as a child you may be known as a Dreamer. Dreamers are children who were brought to the United States illegally when they were young. Many of them are adults now, some are in college and still others are youngsters. Dreamers are impacted by the latest political debate regarding DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. If you are affected by DACA you may need assistance from a Los Angeles immigration lawyer.
Immigration Help
Current laws are in place to protect Dreamers. These laws are in jeopardy of running out and Dreamers may have a limited time to resolve their citizenship. The problem is that Dreamers really know no other country than the United States, having lived here most of their lives. Their parents and likely many other relatives are all living here in the U.S. Therefore, they have no country to return to, but may be forced to leave anyway. It is important that you speak with a qualified Los Angeles immigration lawyer as soon as possible.
There are a number of paths to U.S. citizenship and legal status here in the United States. As a Dreamer, you may want to start to consider the options that may be open to you. A Los Angeles immigration lawyer will review the details of your situation to help determine your choices. Then, you can begin to take action to resolve your legal status.
Resolving Immigration Issues
There are a number of different types of immigration problems that may arise for immigrants. If you are in fear of deportation you need to take action as soon as possible. The best thing to do is discuss your concerns with a Los Angeles Immigration attorney. Your lawyer will answer your questions and examine the issues that are of concern. There may be some solutions to your situation. Rest assured that your lawyer will find every possible way to keep you in the country legally.
Another problem that you may encounter is deportation. You could face potential deportation, especially if your visa expired or if you are accused of a serious crime or if you are in the country illegally. If any of these situations apply to you it is advisable to speak with an attorney as soon as possible. Your lawyer will help to review your particular situation and determine how to proceed.
There are many confusing issues that are related to immigration and many of the laws continue to change. It is essential to take action sooner rather than later because sometimes obtaining a visa can be a lengthy process. You and your family may have questions about the process or about how to go about obtaining a visa. You can put your mind at ease and learn all the answers to your concerns when you meet with an attorney. Visit Becraft Immigration Law, the Law Office of Todd Becraft, to discuss the matter with an experienced and compassionate member of our legal team.
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Saying no does not make you a bad person. It is something you have to do, if needed, for your wellbeing. It is impossible to meet everyone's expectations and spread yourself thin doing all the things you have committed to. If you want to avoid needless pressure and stress, you have to firmly say no to things you cannot do without sacrificing the time you need to focus on the more important ones. Setting clear boundaries protects your emotional, mental, and physical health. It is necessary in building positive relationships to people around you and in nurturing your self-worth.
Know and accept your limits
You have to know and accept your boundaries. Understand the limits of what you allow to happen in your life. Everything you accomplish depends on your ability to focus on the things that are important in pursuing your personal goals. You cannot let anyone use your compassion, kindness, and willingness to help manipulate you to abandoning your own goals. You have to protect your own dreams and the time you need to work on them. And you have to stay true to your own beliefs.
Emotional boundaries. Healthy relationships uplift and strengthen you. On the flipside, unhealthy attachments can make you emotionally vulnerable. Behaviors and words that chip away your self-esteem should not be acceptable. The longer you stay in relationships that do you no good, the longer it robs you of opportunities to grow.
Mental or psychological boundaries. Your beliefs, choices, and decisions are your own. Weak boundaries, however, can inadvertently allow others to influence your thoughts. Finding ways to set boundaries empowers you to gain clarity of your personal belief systems and try to live up to them in your own way.
Physical boundaries. The sense of privacy and personal space may vary from person to person. But they form part of the physical boundaries many choose to protect. Setting clear physical boundaries can help establish limits as to how much physical distance, level of closeness, and infringement on your privacy you are willing to tolerate.
Setting boundaries
Be nice but stand your ground. Your personal boundaries and feelings matter as much as others'. Use assertiveness and directness to send your message. Just make sure to do it in a nice way. Be clear about the message you wish to send instead of letting others guess or figure it out for themselves. While many people may be more discerning than others, being direct minimizes the chance of misinterpretations and misunderstandings.
Honor your feelings. Pay attention to your feelings, especially when it involves anger and discomfort. Anger caused by resentments or frustrations may suggest that you are pushing beyond your limits to meet others' expectations. It would help to keep in mind that something that you would willingly or happily do for others would not trigger ill feelings or negative emotions from you.


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Webster calling for "consistency" from Millwall teammates
MILLWALL defender Byron Webster is calling for more "consistency" from his side.
The Lions have the worst home record in Sky Bet League one and are aiming to avoid a fifth successive defeat at SE16 with Rochdale the visitors this weekend.
And Webster is calling for the Lions to me ready to bounce back in what the defender calls a "mental league."
"It's about consistency," Webster said. "My previous club when we got promoted we were unbeaten for five, lost five on the bounce and then won five.
"If we'd won on Saturday it would have taken us up towards the play-offs. It's so tight it's a crazy league.
"You look at the Championship and the number of teams that make a late surge into the play-offs and nine times out of ten they're the ones who go up in the end. So it is massively about consistency.
"Rochdale are up in the play-offs but we're all the same, anyone can beat anyone.
"You look at Sheffield United, favourites to go up. They're seventh at the moment.
"They lost their opening game of the season, won a couple, then lost and then they drew.
"It's a mental league, and it's all about your mentality."


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Use Winter Break to Make Something Cool
If the thought of heading back to your hometown for winter break has you bummed out, you're not alone. Leaving college friends, obeying parental rules if you're still living with them, and negotiating the family drama that holidays bring out is never fun. If you're staying on campus, there might not be that many people around. Even the welcome break from school can get a little boring after a week of catching up on TV that you've missed.
If this sounds like you, take advantage of winter break to be productive by picking up a winter project. Ideally, it's something that you don't have the time or resources to do during the school year. You might finally move all of your files to the cloud, write that piece of software you keep saying you'll make, or scan all of your paper notes so you can recycle them. If you want to stay away from the computer, you can learn to bake bread or play the ukelele. I'm going to be trying to publish an ebook that I've been messing with off and on. The project itself doesn't actually matter much, so long as it's something you want to do for yourself and you will be able to do while you're away from school.
One of the best/worst things about school is that you're so immersed in it that you completely forget about outside hobbies, interests, or activities. Even if you love your major, this can be a recipe for a somewhat lopsided person. Winter break projects give you a chance to break out of that rut and round yourself out in a way that few college students do.
What's your winter break project? Do you have an old one you'd like to share? Let us know in the comments!
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LTCI Mission
The mission of the Learning to CARE Institute is to provide quality consulting and training on all aspects of volunteerism with the long term goal of expanding the number and improving the quality of specialists in volunteerism who can promote, facilitate, and improve volunteering throughout the Arab region and beyond.
The Learning to CARE Institute is a social venture. This means that, while it is a for-profit institution, its main objective is to contribute positively to society. Our need to make profits is to assure the sustainability of our work, without the need for a Board of Directors, members, or fund-raising programs. Most of our consulting and training is for a fee. But much of our work is non-for-profit, such as our newsletter, our online resources, and our promotion of independent initiatives that support volunteering like the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and Global Youth Service Days (GYSD).


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The Plan Institute Newsletter contains information on issues related to disability policy, stories, upcoming events, and more. If you wish to subscribe, enter your information below.
Newsletter Archives
- Canada's taxman shouldn't decide who has a disability
- "Lives Too Easily 'Written Off': A Family Advocate Argues for Robust MAiD Monitoring"
RDSP Q & A: The 10 year rule is almost up. Now what?
- Filling the Caregivers Cup
- An Update from Plan Institute and PLAN
- Tackle Your Taxes and Reap the Rewards
- The Power of Collaboration Over Competition
- Income Tax and Disability with the Future Planning Tool
- Changes to the Disability Movement in 20 Years
- 5 Things to Think About When Succession Planning
- The RDSP – A Huge Win for Advisors & Clients
- Managing your money: New indigenous financial wellness resource
- RDSP Q & A: The 10 year rule is almost up. Now what?
- The Future Planning Tool
- Plan Institute & Prosper Canada Launch The Future Planning Tool
- How to Find a Lawyer who Understands Disability-Related Trusts
- The RDSP: What is our professional and personal responsibility?
- What are personal networks of support?
- Endowment 150 – $150 Grant for BC Residents for Their RDSP
- It's Time for a Basic Income
- Filling the Caregivers Cup
- Citizen Advocacy's Lifetime Networks Pilot Project
- Future Planning Tool
- An Update from PLAN
- Art of Belonging – A Night to Remember and Build On
- Partnering to Spread RDSP Awareness
- Qualified Disability Trusts
- Working with the Korean Community
- Reaching First Nation & Aboriginal Communities
- The World's Mine Oyster
- The RDSP: Even Better than Expected
- Investing in an RDSP
- The Soul of Poverty
- Basic Income for People with Disabilities


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Membership in the Art League is open to all Sun Lakes Residents. Dues for membership $20, are due in January. For more information, please contact Membership Chairperson Gladys Burks at 951-769-8208.
General Meetings are held in the South Clubhouse from 2 to 4 pm on the 4th Thursdays of the month. Art demonstrations and mini-shows are conducted during the monthly meetings.
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The Art League sponsors painting classes and workshops on various Mondays from 9 am to 12 noon at the MCH Arts & Crafts Room. Flyers for the upcoming classes will be placed in the Art League bin in the MCH.
The Art League has two judged shows each year. In 2018 the shows are scheduled for Saturday, April 14, and Saturday, October 6. Both shows are in the MCH Ballroom from 11 am to 2:45 pm. All Sun Lakers and guests are invited at no cost!


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Sculptra® Collagen Stimulator The Sculptra injection has been used throughout Europe since 1999 to improve the appearance of aging skin folds, indented chin surfaces, hollowed cheeks, and sunken eyes.
Sculptra Collagen Fillers for the face is US FDA cleared, clinically proven, non-surgical treatment that works by stimulating your skin's own natural collagen. It helps to restore your youthful features by smoothing out deep lines and wrinkles and by filling areas of volume loss.
On average, three injection sessions are needed over a period of a few months. The number of injection sessions and the number of injections per session vary from person to person. Call now for a natural looking improvement that can last up to 2 years.
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Rising rents for street-side properties and a push for infill development drive trend in urban alleys.
By Ed Murrieta
SACRAMENTO — Alleys in America are most commonly associated with illicit activities and unsavory characters. Even if people visit such alleys, few know their names.
Today in Sacramento, alleys within the city's downtown and midtown core are breeding grounds for hipster entrepreneurs, urban infill development and local branding — homes to third-wave coffee roasters, a kaleidoscopic cantina, a displaced dive bar and a beer-and-pizza joint where you can play games like corn hole inside a foodie fortress made of shipping containers.
Unlike like San Francisco's Belden Place, a narrow pedestrian alley in the Financial District that serves as the main entry for a cluster of well-known restaurants that border its one-block path between Bush and Pine streets, Sacramento's alleys hide single outposts that feel like real finds when you happen upon them as you crisscross leafy-green streets and paved alleys while looking for parking.
Utilization of Sacramento's alleys is driven by a public-private project that funds alley repaving, sewer upgrades and new names that that replace alphabet-based names (B Street Alley, C Street Alley, et. al) and honor Sacramento culture and history with names like Tomato Alley, Solon Alley and Liestal Alley, the latter for the Swiss town where Sacramento pioneer John Sutter was born.
I propose a go-and-do day-trip travel story that spotlights Cantina Alley, Federalist Public House, Pre-Flite Lounge, Old Soul Coffee, Pachamama Coffee and Oakhaus — the latter being the latest Sacramento project opened by Bay Area restaurateur Thomas Schnetz on the edge of an alley in a brand-new development in a gentrifying neighborhood.


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Published at Sunday, May 12th, 2019 - 12:42:45 PM. Coffee Table. By Deon Benoist.
For the enhanced coffee theme, coffee tables come in just about every shape, size and decor to enhance the theme of your living area, be it casual or formal. It is essential to realize that if you enjoy good fresh brewed coffee, which is a gourmet treat, you need to enhance the experience with the setting of the mood.
Whilst a dining table might be out of reach for small children a coffee table is the perfect height for tiny fingers to investigate. Many small children have a particular fascination for coffee tables, spending hours investigating the treasures that they can hold.
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We spent quite some time mulling over the headline for this post.
We really wanted to get across how we feel about how 'Ms. Basia' , tv host and magazine publisher Alicia John-Powell has dealt with her breast cancer diagnosis and battle - with fierceness and grace and can-do spirit.
This is the way I choose to do my fight and anyone who wants to join me is free to do so," she told the Trinidad Guardian about her all guns blazing approach to the disease.
John-Powell, who is the wife of former WI cricketer Ricardo Powell, found out she had breast cancer earlier this year, on a family trip to Disney Land.
Since then, she has undegone chemo and a bilateral mastectomy (removing tissue from both breasts - done for patients considered to have a high risk of reoccurence).
She has also used her high profile and media outlets to push a message of hope for others with cancer.
Her mastectomy is set to be shown on the Basia TV show at a later date. She explained to the Guardian that she wanted to demystify the disease and educate people.
"I had sad moments, I cried, I had different people hold my hand at different stages. I want to expose things people don't tell you about, like the early menopause. I know I will save lives and people will discover lumps and go to the doctor."
She has also formed the Basia Support Network, which was launched last Monday in Trinidad. The theme of the network is 'Maintaining Happiness' and the network will seek to do that for cancer patients and survivors, through a different means, including medical sponsorship, therapeutic yoga, inspirational lectures and diet consultations.
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John-Powell explained the thinking behind the theme at the launch:
"I am living proof that it's not always that bad, with support and love you can win the battle and that is what the network is about."