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Tigers lose control, lead after Anibal's injury
Bullpen walks six, can't hold off Twins; Sanchez exits with blister
MINNEAPOLIS -- It's not often that one pitch in the third inning can radically change the course of a game. But when that one pitch sidelines a pitcher who was dominating the game, it can happen, and it happened to the Tigers at the worst possible time on Saturday.
Phil Hughes threw seven strong innings, and the Twins took advantage of an injury to Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez in a 5-3 win at Target Field.
The Tigers had the upper hand early, with a 2-0 lead and Sanchez cruising into the third inning. But Sanchez developed a blister on his right middle finger and had to leave the game with two outs in the third.
"It looked nasty. As soon as I went out there and saw it, I was caught between throwing up and pulling him out of the game," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "As soon as I saw it, I knew he couldn't pitch. It wasn't like, 'Could you make it through the rest of the inning?' I'm surprised he threw another pitch."
The injury forced Ausmus to turn to his overworked bullpen even earlier than usual, with disappointing results. Jose Ortega -- called up from Triple-A Toledo on Saturday morning -- faced nine batters, walking four and hitting one. The Twins rallied for four runs in the fifth on five walks, an error and one base hit, their first of the game.
Ortega (0-1) was called up Saturday in part because the bullpen needed a fresh arm. Tigers relievers have thrown 22 innings in the last seven days and Ausmus was at a loss for what to do next.
"I didn't want to use [Ian] Krol, but we could have," Ausmus said. "I didn't want to use Joba [Chamberlain], but we could have, and he started to just kind of toss there at the end in case we tied it. I certainly wasn't going to use Joe [Nathan] unless we got a lead. I didn't want to use [Evan] Reed. I used everybody that I could have used. ... Half of our pen, I basically wanted to stay away from."
After Ortega struggled, Phil Coke walked in a run and allowed a two-run single to Trevor Plouffe, but after he walked Chris Colabello to reload the bases -- still with nobody out -- he finally restored order by striking out Jason Kubel and getting Josmil Pinto to hit into a double play.
"We're just trying to make the pitchers work," Plouffe said. "There's the old saying, 'You're not going to hit a three-run homer with nobody on base.' So we're just going up there trying to keep the line moving, and we did that today."
Coke did bail out the bullpen by throwing two more scoreless innings, allowing Ausmus to breathe a little easier regarding the state of his bullpen going forward.
Though the Tigers couldn't get much going against Hughes, they did make things interesting again in the eighth against reliever Jared Burton. A walk and two singles loaded the bases with one out, but Miguel Cabrera grounded into a double play to end the threat.
"We couldn't draw it up any better, having Miggy up with the bases loaded, but he can't be the hero every single day," Ausmus said.
Hughes held Detroit to two runs (one earned) on four hits with no walks and six strikeouts. The Tigers' only run-scoring rally came in the first inning, and it was ignited with a single by Torii Hunter, who has worn out his ex-teammates with six hits in the first two games of the series.
Cabrera doubled home a run and Victor Martinez delivered him with a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead. But that was the start of a string of 16 consecutive batters retired by Hughes (2-1). Hunter broke the streak with a two-out double in the sixth, and Austin Jackson singled and stole a base in the seventh, but Hughes stranded both runners at second base.
"He threw first-pitch strikes from the get-go. We scored those two runs, but he was still pounding the strike zone," Ausmus said. "He's got good ride on his fastball, he gets guys to swing and miss, he uses his cutter and curveball effective. So he pitched well for them."
Pinto gave the Twins an insurance run with a towering solo homer into the second deck in left in the eighth, but Martinez launched a solo shot of his own in the ninth. It was his fourth home run of the season.
After surrendering the homer and a double to Jackson, closer Glen Perkins retired the side for his sixth save.


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We spent weeks nurturing our little seedlings. Watering them and loving them.
Abby had her USA program in 1st grade. This was my favorite page in her book. She picked the most important person in history to honor. Love that dove above the church doors.
Spring thunderstorm with the windows open and hot tea. The best.
Love this Mommy & Me photo session. These guys have my heart.
Garden soil prep! It was a little chilly, but we worked up a sweat.
So looking forward to a summer of gardening.
Such cute garden helpers!
We got chicks!!! Fingers crossed they are all hens and no roosters.
I have thought about getting chickens forever. After losing Latte to old age this year, I was heart broken & needed something to love & nuture so chicks it is!
They are Poppy, Daisy Mae, Polly Ann, & Marigold!
We love them so much!
We had our AHG end of the year badge ceremony. I went with a growing theme this year!
Had fun making Ab star hair for the badge ceremony.
This guy was all smiles after his hair cut.
I brought Subway & had lunch with AJ at school the last week of the school year. It was fun to see him during the day.
Abby requested Chick-fil-A for her lunch at school.
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The DSM-5, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, emerged last June after over 10 years of concerted effort on the part of hundreds of mental health clinicians in every field. This Herculean effort was sponsored by the APA and WHO and included a 28-member task force, a work group of 130 members and a 400- member advisory group. Mental health practitioners are just beginning to use it with some reservations, because this 947-page tome has renamed some categories of mental disorders, combined others, eliminated quite a few, and created new ones. Many clinicians feel that this further complicates the use of an already extremely confusing resource while others hail it as the new Bible of Mental Health.
Regardless of which side of the fence one chooses, the DSM-5 will continue in use for "at least another decade" according to a New York Times article that followed its release, republished here:
Psychiatry's Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say
By Pam Belluck and Benedict Carey
Reprinted from The New York Times, May 6, 2013
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government's most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific "lack of validity."
The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that his goal was to reshape the direction of psychiatric research to focus on biology, genetics and neuroscience so that scientists can define disorders by their causes, rather than their symptoms.
While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., is the best tool now available for clinicians treating patients and should not be tossed out, he said, it does not reflect the complexity of many disorders, and its way of categorizing mental illnesses should not guide research.
"As long as the research community takes the D.S.M. to be a bible, we'll never make progress," Dr. Insel said, adding, "People think that everything has to match D.S.M. criteria, but you know what? Biology never read that book."
The revision, known as the D.S.M.-5, is the first major reissue since 1994. It has stirred unprecedented questioning from the public, patient groups and, most fundamentally, senior figures in psychiatry who have challenged not only decisions about specific diagnoses but the scientific basis of the entire enterprise. Basic research into the biology of mental disorders and treatment has stalled, they say, confounded by the labyrinth of the brain.
Decades of spending on neuroscience have taught scientists mostly what they do not know, undermining some of their most elemental assumptions. Genetic glitches that appear to increase the risk of schizophrenia in one person may predispose others to autism-like symptoms, or bipolar disorder. The mechanisms of the field's most commonly used drugs — antidepressants like Prozac, and antipsychosis medications like Zyprexa — have revealed nothing about the causes of those disorders. And major drugmakers have scaled back psychiatric drug development, having virtually no new biological "targets" to shoot for.
Dr. Insel is one of a growing number of scientists who think that the field needs an entirely new paradigm for understanding mental disorders, though neither he nor anyone else knows exactly what it will look like.
Even the chairman of the task force making revisions to the D.S.M., Dr. David J. Kupfer, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, said the new manual was faced with doing the best it could with the scientific evidence available.
"The problem that we've had in dealing with the data that we've had over the five to 10 years since we began the revision process of D.S.M.-5 is a failure of our neuroscience and biology to give us the level of diagnostic criteria, a level of sensitivity and specificity that we would be able to introduce into the diagnostic manual," Dr. Kupfer said.
The creators of the D.S.M. in the 1960s and '70s "were real heroes at the time," said Dr. Steven E. Hyman, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the Broad Institute and a former director at the National Institute of Mental Health. "They chose a model in which all psychiatric illnesses were represented as categories discontinuous with 'normal.' But this is totally wrong in a way they couldn't have imagined. So in fact what they produced was an absolute scientific nightmare. Many people who get one diagnosis get five diagnoses, but they don't have five diseases — they have one underlying condition."
Dr. Hyman, Dr. Insel and other experts said they hoped that the science of psychiatry would follow the direction of cancer research, which is moving from classifying tumors by where they occur in the body to characterizing them by their genetic and molecular signatures.
About two years ago, to spur a move in that direction, Dr. Insel started a federal project called Research Domain Criteria, or RDoC, which he highlighted in a blog post last week. Dr. Insel said in the blog that the National Institute of Mental Health would be "reorienting its research away from D.S.M. categories" because "patients with mental disorders deserve better." His commentary has created ripples throughout the mental health community.
Dr. Insel said in the interview that his motivation was not to disparage the D.S.M. as a clinical tool, but to encourage researchers and especially outside reviewers who screen proposals for financing from his agency to disregard its categories and investigate the biological underpinnings of disorders instead. He said he had heard from scientists whose proposals to study processes common to depression, schizophrenia and psychosis were rejected by grant reviewers because they cut across D.S.M. disease categories.
"They didn't get it," Dr. Insel said of the reviewers. "What we're trying to do with RDoC is say actually this is a fresh way to think about it." He added that he hoped researchers would also participate in projects funded through the Obama administration's new brain initiative.
Dr. Michael First, a psychiatry professor at Columbia who edited the last edition of the manual, said, "RDoC is clearly the way of the future," although it would take years to get results that could apply to patients. In the meantime, he said, "RDoC can't do what the D.S.M. does. The D.S.M. is what clinicians use. Patients will always come into offices with symptoms."
For at least a decade, Dr. First and others said, patients will continue to be diagnosed with D.S.M. categories as a guide, and insurance companies will reimburse with such diagnoses in mind.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, the chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the D.S.M., said that the new edition's refinements were "based on research in the last 20 years that will improve the utility of this guide for practitioners, and improve, however incrementally, the care patients receive."
He added: "The last thing we want to do is be defensive or apologetic about the state of our field. But at the same time, we're not satisfied with it either. There's nothing we'd like better than to have more scientific progress."
A version of this article appeared in print on May 7, 2013, on page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Psychiatry's New Guide Falls Short, Experts Say.


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#568 XML checking in for duty.
#568 XML checking in for duty.
Normally the word "registry" makes me sick to my stomach but in this case it's actually pleasant. Units 0272 and 0347 are now safely in my collection!
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My first SPY007 SWGG XML 0558
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My spy 007 XML is 0572
Thanks dad
During the day when I don't need a torch ... RC is my hobby http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/gallery/47842/Always on the lookout for McGizmo/Kuku Titanium torches with Trits..
One more Agent arrived in Canada.
Sign me up for #504 XM-L GGSW Cool.
After touring the world, #344 is back in Wild Rose Country
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#584 XM-L Neutral is part of my herd!
Karl H. Riedel III. Realtor and a WHOLE lot more!
I finally understand what the fuss is all about. The Spy is an absolute masterpiece of engineering art. Useability, versatility, aesthetics, ergonomics, all top notch!!
Spy 007 XM-L Neutral #0590 registered for badtziscool
DOB: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Who needs to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you have friends on CPF?
My flashlight videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...9TIYcGeuBXa5m0
#0285 no longer belongs to me, so please delete it from the list. (I don't think the new owner wants his identity revealed)
We are all flotsam and jetsam being carried by a relentless tide towards our ultimate fate!
#0595 XML Neutral In the right pocket.
I'm baaack! After being Spy-less for too long, #0309 is in my posession. Prototype XP-G, with the new programming (4 slots, fully adjustable levels) and a one-off finish. Thanks to CGPS for letting this mint example go from Colorado to New York. Pics to follow...
Perhaps one-off finish was overstating, but the difference is easy to spot. It'll be easier to find mine the next time there are a bunch of 007's out on a table at once... Thanks again to CGPS, and thank you easilyled for the good wishes!
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Stonewashed Gunner Grip Spy #586 has landed in Northern Virginia!! Photos and impressions later, but for now, I am happy that I held out for the gunner grip stone wash and went with the cool XPG
I love it! I'm back in the "Spy game"!
Thanks, Dave!
#216 please sign me up!
"haben ist besser als brauchen"
Congratulations, scout24.
Those photos are great.
Thanks CGPS! And thanks again for letting it go!
Great pictures of your unique 007, scout24. They induced a covetous reaction in me.
We are all flotsam and jetsam being carried by a relentless tide towards our ultimate fate!
Well, Spy 007 # 252 reported for duty here today, graciously released from its prior owner, jemab. (Thanks, Liz!) This light has been expertly modded by Milky with a new McR18 reflector and a warm XPG, plus some diffusion film on the lens. I may - MAY - mod it with a Nichia 219, but am enjoying the warmer, slightly floody goodness for now.
Hey, a man needs a backup! This beauty will back up SWGG cool XPG #586
So please update the list with #252 in the possession of run4jc!
And now Spy 007 #529 direct from Dave just arrived at the run4jc domicile!!
To summarize - 3 Spy 007s - #252, 529 and 586
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We are all flotsam and jetsam being carried by a relentless tide towards our ultimate fate!
Happy to say that 007 #507 just arrived!!!
529 is a neutral XPG - both are new as received from Data
252 is actually a Milky mod with a warm XPG but I sent it to Dave for refurb - and included a couple of Nichia 219s with it...hoping Dave might see fit to install one of those!
Lousy iPhone photos -
The one that is away being modded...
And the two new ones from Dave...
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Congratulations on the new additions,looks like the spy "bug" is making the rounds
Spy 007 Stonewashed gunner grip XML #582 just landed.
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The ECU was taken from a JDM Toyota Soarer with the automatic trans-axle.
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I've opened the ECU to check for any visual defect but I found none. Since I don't have a working 7M-GTE engine I cannot test this and my TCCS checker doesn't support his ECU either.
Comes with the atmospheric pressure compensation sensor.
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This is a guest post by Sylly Syll who writes about the cons of being a sought after healer.
Certainly, negatives might not immediately leap to mind for a healer who has a lot of friends, is generally considered to be talented and capable, and is offered seemingly endless opportunities to do runs for which other classes have to sell their soul to get a spot. (WTB Healer PST). However, for me there have been some definite downsides to this situation since WOLK hit. Specifically, being constantly whispered by friends, guildies, and strangers to heal. "Please, please, PLEASE heal this run for me so Ican get the much coveted Epic Boots of Awesomenessâ€Â, I hear, leading to me running more instances than I'd ever dream of initiating on my own, which leaves me struggling often with the following three issues:
1. Poverty: Repair bills, raid and instance pots, buff foods, enchants, gems vs. no time to raise gold to offset costs leaves me perpetually scrounging for cash. And, of course, even when I find the time to quest or farm, healers are faced with the daunting task of boring mobs to death. No lightning-fast, face-ripping pew pew for us. Alas and alack, none at all. Over the holidays I blew through well over 1000 gold sending toys and purely frivolous fun things to dozens of people who make me smile on my server. It was without contest the best time I've ever had spending gold in WOW. It lit me up like a Christmas tree. And as great as that was, a couple of weeks ago when I was scraping by to get pots for a Naxx raid, I almost regretted spending that gold. Best gold I ever spent, and I almost lamented having spent it. That's pretty gristly food for thought.
2. Healing burnout: On occasion I just want to sit on a mountaintop and take in the amazing art of the game, or putz around Dalaran checking out all the vendor goodies, or doing some other innocuous, ultimately unproductive activity. Sometimes I just want to quest all by my lonesome, where the only death I could possibly be responsible for is my own. From time to time I just feel like parking my carcass in a quiet corner of the world and carrying on a long conversation (typed or otherwise) with one of the friends I treasure in the game. Because of the healer shortage, finding time for these things can be hard, which can leave me a little grouchy, a little snarky, a little closer to trading bark for feathers and doing the Chris Farley bop.
3. Guilt: When I log on and my guild message of the day is replaced instantaneously by a sea of purple text with friends saying "omg now we can run!" "SYLL! come heal x for us!!!" "Have you done the daily?" etc. etc. ad infinitum, I feel instantly guilty, whether I tell one or none of them yes, because ultimately I have to turn someone that I like down.
Of course, all three of these issues could be solved very easily and with finality in a number of ways. I could give up the wait for dual specs, jump into a feathery owl suit, and leave it to others to heal me. Or maybe I could come up with a list of runs that I either needed or really enjoyed, and categorically refuse to run anything else. I could turn off WOW and go clean my house. No, not really. That third one was just silly. But I've come up with a couple of solutions that are not so drastic as these to keep this tree blooming and happy, willing to spread the leafy goodness around. They are not perfect or complete solutions, but for me they seem to be doing the trick. Even though I'm resto, this druid needed some balance in her life.
Here's some places I found it.
1. Loosening up the bank vault: I'm a terrific hoarder of mats. Leatherworking mats, enchanting mats, gear for 3 specs (even though the moon will fall out of the sky before I use my druid to tank), all KINDS of goodies find their way into my bank, or my bank toon's bank, never again to see the light of day. I've recently started to let these things make their way to the auction house or the vendor. Sure, some guildie might need me to make something for them and I won't have the mats immediately on hand. This is a possibility. But then he can farm the mats. Or I can. Or we can together. Surely the world will not end if I auction some of the goods I've leveled a profession to make, right?
2. Providing the hook up: To assuage some of my guilt over saying no to healing a run, I've been trying to hook up friends or guildies who might not have otherwise run together. So when someone asks me to heal heroic Old Kingdom, I might say to them, "You know that run is almost impossible with a resto druid in the group, right? Let me see if my holy pally friend is busy. Maybe he can go with you.†Even if the hookup doesn't happen, I still feel better for having actively tried to help, rather than just saying "no, kthxbyeâ€Â.
3. One hand washes the other: I've recently, when asked to heal a run, let some of my friends know that I need to get some work of my own done, and asked them if they would mind helping to speed me through some dailies if I help to heal their instance. This is definitely a win-win arrangement for all involved.
4. Where's Syll?: I confess; I hide on alts. DPS alts. This doesn't cut out on all of my invitations to heal, as many of my friends know who my alts are, but it does reduce the number of invites when I just don't feel like being a productive member of society.
5. Offpeak hours: I have a pretty strange sleeping schedule, and often am wide awake at 4:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m. is a wonderful time in WOW. Nothing is camped. Quest mobs abound. Quiet scenery is there for me to soak up at will. I get a lot done at 4:00 a.m.
Although these strategies are not perfect, they've made me a much happier healer. I have a comfortable amount of gold in my bank, I'm quite a bit happier to run the instances I do run, and I have a clear conscience about how I'm spending my time in WOW. No one wants their game to become their work. I know I don't. It is my disposition to be most happy in the support role that healers inhabit. As a rule, I adore healing raids and instances. But WOW is a huge game that offers opportunities for me to indulge many other aspects of my personality, as well. I can be social or introspect, helpful or greedy, ambitious or a big lazy sloth. It's a relief to work out these balances. It makes my healing stronger.
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"The great Calif. Sequoia tree grows to ovr 300 ft. in height, their roots, however extend only a few feet below the surface of the ground. How then can they grow so tall? Because they grow in groves. They never grow alone." (7-20-92---"Encouragement)
"You don't become a Christian by walking into church, anymore than you become a hamburger by walking into McDonalds." (10-18-92)
"The opposite of gratitude is not ingratitude. It's greed." (11-29-92)
"Christ, the bridegroom, may not have come back yet---because the "bride" is so ugly! (5-2-93)
"There are only two principles that are unquestioned in our society: freedom and happiness. That's translated into impulse and pleasure." (9-26-93)
"God expects us to open the gifts He's given us." (2-5-94)
"The Holy Spirit does not come into our lives to do His deepest work in our shallowest parts---our emotions. Rather, He comes in to do His deepest work in our deepest part---our wills." (3-12-95)
"God is less concerned with getting you into Heaven as He is getting Heaven into you."(4-2-95)
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Dental issues, parasites, hypertension, bacterial infections and colds: these innocuous-when-treated medical issues can be lethal in a community lacking in resources and medical service.
In 2010, two groups of San Jose State University students committed to travel to Honduras to treat community members with illnesses like these with dignity and respect.
A lofty goal, sure; but by recognizing the power of many and utilizing resources like MedShare's MedTeam Store, these students served over 300 patients over the course of two trips in 2011.
Lily Yu, President of the San Jose State University Chapter of Global Medical Brigades, shared with us her account of the trip:
On behalf of the San Jose State University Global Medical Brigades team, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the MedShare Team for all of your help and support once again.
In the summer of 2010, a team of 20 students came together to achieve a common goal: provide access to health care to a part of the world where it was limited. With MedShare's help, we were able to successfully operate mobile clinics to help treat some of the most preventable health issues in San Antonio de Oriente, Honduras.
Our first medical brigade was in January 2011, where we successfully mobilized a free clinic to Honduras, treating over 300 patients with severe wounds from working on sugarcane fields, intestinal parasites, hypertension, bacterial infections, dental issues, and coughs and colds that have turned lethal due to the community's location and lack of resources. After this first brigade, we knew that our work could not end there. In order to keep healthcare accessible to this community, my team and I decided we needed to continue our efforts.
In February 2011, we assembled another team of 25 student volunteers to mobilize a clinic back to Honduras for a brigade on August 14-20, 2011. I reached out to MedShare, and was delighted to hear that we had your support once again. Because MedShare believed in our work, we were inspired to serve San Antonio de Oriente again, where many new patients lined up to receive the care they deserved. We see the positive impact we made in this community in January and in August, and know that our efforts have helped improve their quality of life.
MedShare has empowered our organization to help change and impact the world, one healthy patient at a time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to continue our efforts with your support.
If you would like to learn more about MedShare's Medical Mission Team Store, click here.
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Midsummer is Sweden's most popular holiday after Christmas and New Year's Eve. Part of my tradition is sewing a new dress for the occasion.
Tomorrow we have a huge holiday in Sweden, I say huge because it's the most popular holiday after Christmas and New Year's Eve. So on Friday, we all, if we have the possibility, travel to the countryside.
The celebration of midsummer is actually a pagan tradition and was in ancient times a festival of the summer solstice. Today it means we eat a smorgasbord with a large selection of pickled herring and other type of finger food. The dessert is always strawberries in some way; Strawberries with whipped cream or strawberry cake. We dance around the maypole and wear flowers in our hair. If you want to read more you can find information on Wikipedia
So of course I want a new dress for this. It's a bit tricky because the weather is kind of cold and you might have to change into something else in the evening. But for me it's part of the tradition. This year I'm leaning towards wearing a dress I sewed some time ago, but only wore once. Actually the zipper broke (learning; always use best quality zippers) and then it has been hanging in my closet. You know how that happens…. I have a whole section of clothes hanging in my sewing room that needs some kind of fixing.
The dress is made in turquoise raw silk fabric. I cut strips on the bias that I sewed to a foundation dress made in more stable fabric. For the final touch I embroidered a lace with a heavy cotton thread. This one is from the #233, Bobbin Lace collection. I really love the fact that you can embroider your lace in any color possible to match your fabric and project. I really love turquoise.
But you never know…Midsummer isn't until tomorrow…I might sew a new one…
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From selling out to remaining competitive--here are some tips for finding your opportunities in a fragmented marketplace.
The health and fitness industry is fertile ground for growth through consolidation. Populated primarily by small, single clubs, the market presents the type of fragmentation that attracts larger companies looking to build a dominant brand name, to grow by placing acquired clubs under one banner.
If you've been paying attention, you realize that these larger companies have already arrived. Acquisitions by industry juggernauts such as Bally Total Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness and Town Sports International (TSI) are commonplace, while Wellbridge (formerly Club Sports International), a large consolidator in its own right, may be consolidated itself, according to industry insiders. Even the venerable Gold's Gym has new owners who want to expand the company's corporately owned locations through acquisitions.
The emergence of larger players doesn't signal an end for individual operations or smaller chains, however. Consolidation can be an exciting time with opportunities for everyone. As long as you're prepared. That's the goal of this feature: to help you stay on top of this changing industry.
Want some tips to sharpen your competitive edge? IHRSA executive director John McCarthy offers some business advice for independent operations (page 33). He also foresees a profitable future for both club chains and individual locations.
If you're a multi-club operator concentrating on one area, regionalization may be your ticket to a competitive advantage. Heed the advice of Australian Body Works' Tony de Leede (page 35). With 23 clubs and growing, de Leede has become a major player in the Atlanta market.
Perhaps you think a name change could boost your business. Look to page 34 for an interview with Mark Siebert, a franchising expert. Not only will you learn what to look for in a franchise, but you'll discover whether your club is in a position to become a franchisor itself.
Differentiation can give individual clubs an advantage when faced with competition from mass-market chains. That's why we sought the advice of three club operators for a separate section on specialty markets (page 36). Steven Bowcutt of The Kidz Club examines the children's market; Larry North shares his experience with executives in small, high-end clubs; and Sharon James of Club La Femme talks about women-only facilities.
Focusing on key demographics can help small clubs survive in tight markets. However, we realize survival may not be on your agenda. Maybe you want to cash out. If you're a club operator without an exit strategy, selling your facility may be your way to retirement. To make the most of acquisition opportunities, turn to our interview with Frank Napolitano on page 32. Having recently sold his Highpoint Athletic Club to TSI, Napolitano has personal experience working with a buyer.
Conversely, Rick Caro, chairman of the Spectrum Clubs, has personal experience as a buyer. Although relatively young, Spectrum Clubs is now one of the top 10 companies in the industry, thanks to consolidation. Flip to page 30 to get Caro's perspective on what buyers want from sellers, and how sellers can make the acquisition process go much more smoothly.
One of Caro's perspectives deserves attention right here. If you add up the clubs that have been consolidated in the last year, the sum only accounts for 1 to 2 percent of all clubs in the United States. So to say that consolidation is having a huge impact on the industry is an overstatement. In other words, you shouldn't feel that you must sell out before you are squeezed out. For the health and fitness marketplace, consolidation is very much in its infancy. "We are still a fragmented industry," Caro says.
All the more reason to get ready now, while consolidation is just gathering momentum.


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Bring Childcare to Your Club
With most families supported by two working adults today, it has become increasingly necessary for health clubs to offer high-quality childcare. A childcare program can make a significant difference in how many working parents become and/or remain members.
For a childcare program to be successful, it must keep the children wanting to come back. Otherwise, getting the children to the club is just another challenge for parents to overcome in an already hectic life. Also, the program must be safe and professional, putting parents at ease.
For clubs looking to start - or perhaps improve - a program, many organizations offer turnkey children's services. However, club operators may also choose to do a program themselves. If you decide to develop your own program, don't overlook these areas:
Quality Staff: Finding employees may be the most significant challenge you'll face. Look for childcare professionals with experience and references. You may even find qualified personnel among your membership - college students and parents who are looking for part-time work.
Safety: Equip the childcare area with commercial-grade equipment. Ensure that the ratio of staff to children is sufficient. Cleanliness is extremely important; you don't want children getting sick.
Entertainment: Make sure you hire an enthusiastic staff who can handle difficult situations with multiple age groups. Offer a variety of activities that stress both education and health. And don't forget to make the activities fun.
Reassuring Parents: Give parents professionally designed flyers that highlight the childcare program, describing what you do and how you do it. For example, most gyms only let children in the program while the parents are working out. If your club has this policy, mention it in the flyer.
Your flyer should also emphasize your procedures for dropping off and picking up children. Check local and state regulations for childcare pickup and drop-off requirements. Clubs are not normally governed by the same laws as a regular daycare, but following applicable guidelines can add to a program's credibility.
Fees: This is up to you. Deciding what to charge can be based on many factors, such as the expense, capacity limitations, time limits per visit, etc. Before putting any price on childcare, answer the following:
What type of programming will you offer, and what days and hours will it be available?
Can you accommodate varying developmental levels and age groups?
Will the program add revenues or will it be a liability?
Do you have sufficient space available during peak hours? How much space is sufficient?
How many staff members will be required?
What type of investment will be needed for the chosen program?
How much additional maintenance will be required to keep the childcare area clean and to maintain new equipment?
By providing childcare, you make your club more accessible to working parents. However, childcare programs do more than retain adults. Youngsters who learn about fitness in a club's childcare program could grow up to be your next club members.


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From the New York magazine archives, here's a 1969 piece by Nicholas Pileggi on the Renaissance of the Upper West Side:
Five years ago the West Side of Manhattan was considered such a dangerously blighted area that invitations to parties on Riverside Drive were often rejected, large rent-controlled apartments were voluntarily given up and even Chicken Delight wouldn't deliver. Today, while many of the area's most critical problems remain, an unmistakable mood of confidence has replaced earlier premonitions of doom. Merchants, real-estate men, bankers, theatre owners, city planners, restaurateurs, newsdealers and the trustees of private schools all agree with what Mayor John V. Lindsay admits privately: "The Upper West Side is probably enjoying more of a renaissance today than any other single neighborhood of our city."
In the 64-block-long area west of Central Park between Columbus Circle to the south and Columbia University to the north, the evidence is visible. Not only are there new low-and middle-income housing developments now where the rubble of abandoned buildings and slums stood just five years ago, but hundreds of the area's crumbling rooming houses have been renovated to accommodate increasing numbers of middle-class tenants, and even a few of the neighborhood's middle-European rococo hotels have been steam-cleaned. The same kind of young, successful and relatively affluent middle-class families that moved to the suburbs 20 years ago and to the East Side 10 years ago are moving to the West Side today, and while the neighborhood still has an ample supply of teenage muggers, parading homosexuals and old men who wear overcoats in July, the over-all mood of the area seems to have changed.
…Statistically the West Side's 1968 crime figures place the area in the unenviable top third of the city's 76 precinct-house totals. The 20th Precinct on West 68th Street and the 24th on West 100th encompass most of the Upper West Side, and their combined records show 36 homicides, 86 forced rapes, 8,478 burglaries, 1,097 felonious assaults, 3,233 robberies (muggings and stickups) and 6,762 larcenies (mostly pocketbook snatches) last year. The bulk of the West Side's street crime today is the work of roving bands of 14-to-20-year-olds who mug, jostle and threaten their victims around or near the neighborhood parks during the evening and early morning hours. The effect of these crimes, committed, it sometimes seems, on everyone, or at least a friend or relative of everyone on the West Side, has been to create an atmosphere in which sudden noises produce quick frightened looks.
Ah, the good ol' days.
[Photo Credit: Christian Monotone]


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These are words of one of my dear friends which prompted me to write the following piece. He might have said this in a wave of passion but it does reflect a collective thinking of common Indian men who want to take pride in them selves unconcerned of what reality is to the eyes of rest of the world.
Most of us in contemporary India believe or want to believe that India has risen from ashes to center stage of world; it is no longer a third world country; we stand side by side to the rest of world in development. But the reality which we do not want to believe differs by a significant amount. In other words there is another perspective to look at things which is hard to consume.
For coherency and better understanding I will make some statements and will then prove those.
- We have not risen to center stage in competition with developed countries; rather we attained a meek position at back stage following what west mandates.
- We have changed our behavior not exactly to improve ourselves but rather in accordance with west.
Some notes to be made are that development or progress (will use development from here on for such terms) alike terms are abstract in nature, and these depend much on individual's perception. It's not my purpose to demean the development we have gone through; my effort here will be only to point to the nature of this development.
Now first of all what I refer to 'We' is the common man of
Secondly, what I am proposing is not a scientific theory which can be logically proved. This is rather an observation based on social (as well as economic and political) behavior of human beings living in
The 100 year old slavery of British government has made Indians believe that they are inferior to west (I am not saying we are superior either, but to feel inferior is as much setback to the equality as to feel superior). The impact of feeling of inferiority is so profound that even if we are in race for something we race for only second highest position. When we compare ourselves with west, we take pride in 'next only to US' position (US is just an example of typical west).
The fundamental pillars of contemporary Indian politics are democracy and secularism. Both of these concepts have been adopted from British state. Do we ever wonder that both of these concepts have been tried in Indian state itself? We tend to accredit these with western notion that
After successful adoption of western politics, we were in race for industrialisation. This Industrialisation was again due to the Industrial Revolution that started in
Our whole political ladder from top to down is influenced by west. When government wants to do a nuclear deal, it is to enhance diplomatic relations with west and when left opposes it, it is for fear of western backstabbing. We don't think it in terms of what is valuable and beneficial to Indian people. At the lower end of ladder also situation is same. When there are elections for Panchayat or MLAs, the issues that are stressed in agenda are construction of roads, water or electricity rather than issues like agricultural improvement or employment which are more fundamental to
The bias to west is also seen in our changing societal behaviour. The Aryan culture had great and successful societal system that we inherited generation by generation. There was a definite family hierarchy and joint family system in Aryan culture which was also adopted (or say not rejected) by subsequent civilisations also. But with changing times more and more families are disintegrating and tending towards single family culture as that of west. And this change is leading to our own mockery as more and more people are living stressed and lonely lives.
Not to forget the consumerism and materialism we are adapting more and more vigorously with changing times. The difference between the old imperialism and the new consumerism is very subtle. The country suffered the brutalities of foreign envasions and foreign dominations. But until globalisation, if you look at the Indian culture for instance, its facial aspects remained Indian. Now, with the intensity of globalisation reaching into every little corner of life, even the comedians, the jokes, the rhythm of the music, the very fundamental life-style has started changing. This makes consumerism and materialism deadlier than old imperialism.
The driving point is that the influence of west is not absolute in itself. It tries to dominate domain of our discretion by excluding other references from our viewpoint. For example we don't try to emulate
In the end I will say that till now this was the trend that we Indians have followed. However optimistically we are climbing up in the value chain, though, to a limited extent and in a limited space. The obstacles are largely because of lack of education and excess of population.


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Further to this question I asked recently, lgritz makes a very astute observation about the massive fuel requirements to travel 36 lt yrs with known fuel technology today. So, if conventional rocket fuel is completely impractical, then what are the alternatives for interstellar travel?
And how big would the spacecraft need to be, assuming that we could make a structurally sound spacecraft of the required size and then what would be the estimated fuel requirements to travel 36 lt yrs taking into account acceleration and deceleration?


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I slept for almost 10 hours last night and woke up feeling relatively human! It was fantastic!
Anyway when I got to work I found out that it was just me and Matt2, with about an hour of Joey sitting with us after opening. It was so nice to sit and chat to her again, I really missed her and Lara while I was away!
The bonus about working with Matt, besides the fact that he's a really nice person, is that he works pretty much every day and so he's seen pretty miuch everything. Despite this, he's more than happy to let me pick the movie and to watch something again. That is really rare in a staff member, trust me!
So today we watched 'Thank you for smoking' which was brilliant! I don't know what was better, his amazing ability to shift his arguments and keep the opponents completely off balance, or the wqay in which he'd very reasonably allow his opponents to blow holes in their own arguments. It was very impressive and I think the writers deserve an oscar, although, considering the subject matter it's pretty unlikely.
It also brings me back to a topic which I've been quite interested in over the last few years. why is it that the tobacco industry is practically banned from any advertising at all, while adverts for alcohol are everywhere? When I was small, every movie would start with about 5 advrts of very tough guys climbing mountains and skydiving and then smoking. Fair enough, it puts ideas into children's head and so on and so forth. But a little while ago i was at a movie and we counted over 10 adverts for alcohol before the movie started. And I'm not talking beer. I'm talking whiskey and vodka type stuff.
If I was a parent, I would far rather have a teenage kid who smoked than one who drank that stuff.
I'm not saying that smoking is good. I'm just saying that if it's not ok to show an advert for it in any movie (and I'm delighted in the shift in perceptions regarding smoking over the last 10 years), why can you find adverts for alcohol everywhere, even in kiddies animated movies? Surely they should be restricted to movies that are R18, when they're actually applicable to the audience?
Just a thought.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Thank you for smoking
I slept for almost 10 hours last night and woke up feeling relatively human! It was fantastic!
4 comments:
- Luke said...
Hmmm...I'm not 100% sure that I'm with you on this one. Unfortunately, alcohol is only really dangerous in excessive ammounts while smoking is hazardous to ones health, irrespective of how much smoke is inhaled. I certainly am not condoning the advertising of alcohol because it's safe, on the contrary! I think that alcohol without a doubt, does more damage to human lives than any amount of smoking but unfortunately, the immediate effects are what people will be worried about and in that regard, smoking is worse...:(
- 5:26 pm
- Helen said...
teen pregnancy and HIV/AIDS vs emphysema years down the line? Not that either is right, I'm just saying that we should treat both industries similarly. That's all.
- 9:18 pm
- Jeff said...
Smoking--Lung cancer & emphysema down the road. 2nd hand smoke, as well.
Alcohol--Liver damage down the road. Drunk driving in the U.S... "A total of 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities were recorded in 2004. That's one death nearly every ½ hour in this country at the hands of someone who was drinking and driving." "Approximately 275,000 persons are injured or disfigured yearly by alcohol-impaired drivers. One third of these are children." (http://www.alcoholalert.com/)
Has Oprah received as much press coverage there as in the U.S. over her new school? I thought her response to why she built one in S.A. rather than the U.S. was interesting--"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
Any thoughts?
Also, friends have told me I'd love Thank You for Smoking. It's on my list.
- 11:52 pm
- Anonymous said...
You probably find that the anti-smoking lobby is far more stronger than the anti-drinking lobby because smoking is more outwardly-disturbing than drinking is and thus it's easier to fight against. Also, you probably find that the anti-smokers are a bunch of alcoholics too. hehe.
but you make a very good point.. food for thought indeed.
- 11:37 am


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An Extra Race
The 40th district has had no one representing it in the State Assembly since Diane Gordon's conviction on corruption charges in April. And most observers expected that is how it would remain until the new legislature assumed office in January.
But Inez Barron has sought to have a special election to put someone in the post between November and January. Voters would fill the partial term on September 9 -- primary day. The New York State Supreme Court has approved this idea although its decision is still pending appeal.
What was Barron's motivation for trying to squeeze in this election? "Well, it's the law," she said. "And the court upheld that."
Attorney Henry Berger, who specializes in election law, disagrees." Only the governor can decide to hold a special election," he said.
Before the court ruled, most of the candidates for the full term assumed that the governor's decision to leave the office vacant for the rest of the current term would stand. They petitioned accordingly -- except for Barron. "We have been petitioning for both," Barron said. "That's why we had to get it clarified in court that both elections were, in fact, taking place--so that we could petition for both terms."
Earl Williams found out about the special election only three weeks before petitions were due for all elections, but was determined not to let Barron run uncontested. He managed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot as Barron's only opponent in this election. He thinks he has a chance of winning, but still calls the special election "a waste of taxpayers' money."
"[The special election] will have no effect on the outcome of the general election," Williams assured.
"What could someone do in six weeks?" asked candidate Kenneth Evans.
It is likely that the State Assembly will never be in session during the brief stint the special election winner holds office.
Update: Inez Barron won the Democratic primary with 2,922 votes out of a field of five candidates. Williams had 1,360 votes, and Key had 1,172 votes.
Barron now faces Republican Kenneth Waluyn. Waluyn has not filed an itemized financial disclosure form with the state's Board of Elections. Barron has a balance of $13,195 in her campaign finance account.
District 40 is heavily Democratic and the Democratic candidate is pretty much guaranteed to win the race. Barron has received endorsements from the Working Families Party, numerous elected officials (including her councilmember husband, Charles Barron) and labor organizations.
In the East New York section of Brooklyn it seems there are nearly as many people vying for the vacant State Assembly seat as there are vying for the primarily low-income neighborhood's limited affordable housing. The crowd that has submitted petitions to get on the primary ballot seems to echo the sentiment voiced by John Whitehead, a city sanitation worker and Community Board 5 member who considered running but decided against it, that, "Anyone who wants to change the community is qualified."
Will residents be as open-minded? They did, after all, re-elect Assemblymember Diane Gordon in 2006 after she had already been indicted for corruption. The seat became available when Gordon was convicted in April.
Six Brooklynites with varying degrees of prominence and qualifications are trying to take up residence in Gordon's former office. They are: retired educator Inez Barron (wife of City Councilmember French doors adorning her district office -- the only physical reminder of Gordon's venality -- the candidates say they want to help improve the neighborhood. To those invested in the community, its problems are glaringly obvious and seemingly ignored.
"I see a gap in our community," said Williams, who in his 70s is still active in community service projects in the Starrett City development. "There's no resources coming in; there's nothing happening. I just want to add the little bit of sense I have and see if we can turn it around."
The Community's Needs
In How East New York Became A Ghetto, Walter Thabit explains how real estate agents took advantage of the Puerto Rican immigrants and African Americans who migrated to the neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn in the 1950s. Today, the neighborhood still has housing problems, along with many other concerns, although there have been improvements.
East New York/Starrett City had the sixth highest rate of foreclosures among New York City neighborhoods in 2006, according to the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. More residents of the community have jobs than in past years, but the average commuting time, the second highest in the city, indicates the need to create more local employment. Felonies have fallen sharply (from 88.2 per 1,000 residents in 1990 to 28.6 per 1,000 residents in 2006), but remain high compared to other parts of the city, and residents and candidates still see violent crime as a big problem.
The candidates generally agree on many of the basic needs of the community. The big questions are what the priorities are and how to get things done.
Developing the Neighborhood
Housing is on everyone's list of needs. There are several public housing projects in the community, but still not enough affordable housing to go around.
Candidates Key and Williams say they have already had success in addressing that issue.
"Much of the new housing in East New York was during my tenure in Community Board 5," said Williams. "We were part of the plan that created the Nehemiah Houses, the Gateway shopping mall -- I advocated for that for at least 10 years."
The Gateway Center is one of the few commercial centers that has invested in and brought new jobs to the area, but the low-wage, high-turnover jobs haven't brought as much prosperity as some might have hoped.
Key is chief executive officer of East New York Urban Youth Corps, a non-profit that acts as a developer, among other things. Key says it has built a homeless shelter, affordable housing, a grocery store and the first AIDS center in East New York.
Education, Health and Jobs
Voters and candidates are concerned with severe social and health problems, a lack of quality education (Thomas Jefferson High School was shut down a few years ago due to poor performance) and a shortage of jobs in the area.
Key said he wants to expand enrollment in Head Start, the early childhood education program available to very low-income Americans, for which many East New York residents are eligible.
In addition to dealing with residents' demands for new and better schools, the new Assembly member will have the opportunity to vote next year on whether to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools.
Barron, who worked in the school system for 36 years including several as the principal of a Bedford-Stuyvesant school, objects to the system being run by people, including Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, who are not professional educators. "When I'm in Albany, I do not intend to extend mayoral control," she said. Barron said her main goals in education include increasing resources for teachers and reforming standardized testing in order to improve tracking of students.
Evans, who was the Brooklyn director of the Urban League for 10 years, said he is most concerned with the community having input in the system and hiring teachers whose backgrounds would enable them to communicate well with the youth of East New York.
But the candidates also addressed the need to reach out to high school age youth in the district, many of whom turn to gang violence and prostitution. Key, who has worked with youth through the youth corps, noted that many students drop out by ninth grade. He favors incentives to encourge employers to hire these young people. "There needs to be a youth job training program that has education and counseling built in," said Evans. "It would help eliminate some of the crime in the 40th district."
Health care is also a priority. Williams would focus on the elderly, whom he said often have to choose between buying food and medication.
Barron thinks there needs to be an increased effort to educate the public about preventing health problems that plague the community such as obesity, asthma and HIV/AIDS, which she said increasingly affects "women of color."
Evans, who has done health care consulting, said his main concern is revamping hospital facilities in the neighborhood so that people don't need to travel to distant locations for treatment. He would also advocate for a burn unit in Brooklyn, he said.
Jockeying For Support
Every candidate may find a base of support. Just as Barron may attract women voters (there was recently a women's rally in support of her), Williams, a Panamanian immigrant, may appeal to Latinos and the elderly. Bradley may pick up any Gordon loyalists, having worked as her main aide for 18 years. (He could not be reached for comment for this article.)
In an election with so many names on the ballot, though, name recognition could play a big role in determining the winner.
Evans ran against Gordon for this position, dropping out of the race before petitions were submitted in 2002 and winning 25 percent of the vote in the 2006 primary. He is appalled that many government officials supported Gordon in 2006 -- when she had already been indicted. Key also ran in the 2006 primary, getting 11 percent of the vote.
According to Key, this means he and Evans have the most name recognition. Evans refers to himself as a "long shot," but says he has received more support from officials and is more serious in this election than in the past.
But Barron, who is already prefacing sentences with, "when I am in Albany," is not the only one (see blogger Rock Hackshaw's prediction) who thinks she has the election in the bag.
"Inez Barron has the biggest name power," said Whitehead. "Her first name is as small as my pinkie, but her last name is as big as my leg." He suggested that some voters might not even know which Barron is running: Inez or Charles (her husband).
Councilmember Charles Barron (whose district overlaps with the 40th Aseembly district), a former Black Panther, is known for high profile, controversial comments. He is widely respected in the area. Inez Barron, who has been an activist in organizations like the Black United Front, said her husband has had a very positive effect on her campaign so far. "In introducing myself to people they are receptive of my information and then they ask if I'm related to Charles Barron and I say, 'yes,' and then they ask are my politics similar to his," she said. "And when I say, 'yes,' they say they will absolutely vote for me."
According to Evans, sophisticated voters could find candidates' closeness to other local elected officials a detriment due to what he sees as a lack of effectiveness on the part of many politicians. "But there are a lot of unsophisticated voters," he admitted.


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<webgoat/>WebGoat User Guide Table of Contents
In order to start using WebGoat, Tomcat must be launched using the startup script/bat in the Tomcat bin directory. For WebGoat to operate it must have permission to run as a server and allow some uncommon web behavior. When WebGoat is running it will make the host machine vulnerable to attack.
If the machine is connected to the internet it should be disconnected.
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From a browser, the Tomcat server can be accessed on localhost port 80, e.g. http://127.0.0.1
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Don't Kill Our Wild Life: John Wagner, 1940 (Dept of Interior/National Park Service)
I remember as a child in Europe gloating over a map of North America that had "Appalachian Mountains" boldly running from Alabama up to New Brunswick, so that the whole region they spanned -- Tennessee, the Virginias, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, appeared to my imagination as a gigantic Switzerland or even Tibet, all mountain, glorious diamond peak upon peak, giant conifers, le montagnard émigré in his bear skin glory, and Felis tigris goldsmithi, and Red Indians under the catalpas. That it all boiled down to a measly suburban lawn and a smoking garage incinerator, was appalling. Farewell, Appalachia! Leaving it, we crossed Ohio, the three states beginning with "I," and Nebraska -- ah, the first whiff of the West! We travelled very leisurely, more than a week to reach Wace, Continental Divide, where she passionately desired to see the Ceremonial Dances marking the season opening of Magic Cave, and at least three weeks to reach Elphinstone, gem of a western state were she yearned to climb Red Rock from which a mature screen star had recently jumped to her death after a drunken row with her gigolo.
Again we were welcomed to wary motels by means of inscriptions that read:
"We wish you to feel at home while here. All equipment was carefully checked upon your arrival. Your license number is on record here. We reserve the right to eject without notice any objectionable person. Do not throw waste material of any kind in the toilet bowl. Thank you. Call again. The management. P.S. We consider our guests the Finest People of the World."
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Smithfield High athletic director Miles Blount said that Brian White, the Packers' baseball coach the past few seasons, had to give up the job because the responsibilities of running his own business took up so much time. Blount's solution was to hire a successor whose business is baseball.
Allen Elledge, owner of the Hitters Warehouse in Newport News, is the Packers' new coach. Hitters Warehouse is a 2,000-square-foot baseball training facility with seven batting cages, a weight room, a ground-ball area and bullpen.
But Elledge isn't all about practicing indoors. He said that 30-40 players show up regularly for workouts at the school, and it's not uncommon for him to have them practicing bunts in the cold or running in the rain.
"We want to change the culture of how hard we work," Elledge said of his plans for Smithfield. "I don't want them to be scared of the weight room.
"If you look at the consistently good programs in the Bay Rivers District – at Grafton, with what Rusty Ingram does at York and with Poquoson – that's a hard group to break into. But we think if we change the culture here, we have the opportunity to compete."
Elledge was a standout catcher at Bethel High in the late 1970s, then played in college for two years at Ferrum, before gradating from James Madison. He served as head baseball coach at Thomas Nelson Community College for three seasons, and has since focused his efforts in the sport at the Hitters Warehouse.
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If you read my previous post about buying and installing car seats, then you're up to par so far. If not, go read it!
Now that you have a seat and it's safely installed (right?), the next step is making sure you're using the car seat correctly. After all, even the most expensive car seat, installed correctly, doesn't work at all if the baby isn't strapped in right.
So let's get started!
Rule #1: Make Sure Shoulder Straps Are in Proper Position
When baby is rear-facing, the top of the shoulder straps have to be at or below the baby's shoulders. When forward-facing (which your baby shouldn't be), they need to be at or above. This is measured perpendicular (at a right angle) from the recline of the back of the seat, not from the ground. When in doubt, put a popsicle stick into the slot with your baby in the seat to check -- sometimes the fabric of the seat can make it hard to tell where the strap really is.
Rule #2: Rear-Facing Is the Responsible Choice
Unless your child has serious medical problems, they have to rear-face until they literally cannot anymore. With all the new, cheaper seats with 40-pound or higher rear-facing limits, it's possible for anyone to have a seat that will keep their child rear-facing until the bare minimum of 2 years old and 30 pounds, as per the AAP's improved guidelines. But as they state, 2 years is the bare minimum -- your child is still significantly safer rear-facing until you cannot fit them that way any longer. After all, it's 500 percent safer.
Children's heads are a significantly larger portion of their body than an adult's and their spines are initially cartilage -- not bone. In the event of an accident, if their overly large head pulls on the weak spine (which doesn't fuse and harden until around 4 years old), they will likely suffer from internal decapitation -- this means that the cartilage and spinal cord inside their neck snap and they die instantly. It takes a serious medical problem to make that risk worth forward-facing a toddler before you absolutely have to. (I don't want to scare anyone -- this is all to help us keep our kids as safe as we can.)
Rule #3: No Gaps Allowed Between Baby's Crotch/Groin Area and Harness
This is really only an issue with newborns, but an important one. If there is a gap between crotch and harness buckle, roll up a washcloth or receiving blanket and put it in a upside-down U shape, with the middle between baby's crotch and the harness and the rest lying flat between the legs. This is one of the only "add-ons" allowed. When in doubt, call the manufacturer.
Rule #4: Be Sure the Chest Clip Is Positioned Properly on the Chest
The chest clip belongs between the nipples and armpits. This positions the straps so your child doesn't fly out of the seat -- and can cause damage when placed anywhere else.
Rule #5: Know the Proper Guidelines for Outgrowing a Seat
Outgrowing a seat has nothing to do with legs touching the seat. There has never been a case of legs breaking from touching the seat and even if there were -- would you choose for your child to break their legs or their neck? Only one of those can be fixed. Your child has outgrown a seat in weight when they reach the max limit for that position. This is non-negotiable. When rear-facing, your child has outgrown their seat in height when there is less than an inch of the hard shell left at the top of the seat above your child's head. This is measured perpendicular to the seat's recline. However, there is a new seat that has different guidelines -- so be sure to read the manual for your seat!
See how the strap can be pinched?
That means it's too loose.Rule #6: Straps Need to Pass "The Pinch Test"
The old rule of "two fingers under the chest clip" is outdated and resulted in straps that were way too loose. When straps are too loose, the child can fly out of the seat, or get stuck halfway and break god-knows-what.
The new rule is to first pull any slack tight from the lap-portion, and then pinch the straps at the collar bone (your fingers are pinching top-to-bottom as shown here). If you're able to pinch the strap, it's too loose.
Rule #7: Coats Are Not Allowed
A cop reports seeing a coat strapped into a seat, even after the child who had been wearing it flew out of it. Coats are not safe in car seats and almost all manufacturers have this rule in their manual as well. To understand why, place your child in a coat and put them in their seat and tighten the straps properly. Without loosening the straps, remove your child and remove their coat. Now place them back in the seat. That is how much room your child would have once the coat compressed under pressure, much like how you can squish a pillow if you sit on it. If there is more than a tiny bit of extra slack (like the difference between sweatpants and stretch pants), the coat is too bulky. Instead, try taking your child's coat off right before putting them in the seat, buckling them in quickly, and then putting their coat back on them backward. I also keep blankets in my car for safety in case I'm stranded, as well as for the kids to use in winter. I even just bought two kid snuggies for both of my children to use while in the car, or you can buy a car seat poncho.
Rule #8: RTFM (Read the #^!&ing Manual)
Most car seats have a specific location for the manual on the seat so that it's kept with it at all times. That's because almost every single question you could have is listed in that little booklet, and the manufacturer's number is there for anything else. Use it. Even car seat pros utilize this booklet. Every single car seat is different with different rules, and this booklet (or the PDF of it online if you lost yours) is your golden ticket to proper car seat usage.
Rule #9: When in Doubt, Get Help
Skip the fire stations and police department -- they mean well, but often are no more trained than you are. Contact SafeKids at their website or at 1-866-SEAT-CHECK.
There is no shame in asking for help, but there is shame in letting your ego or embarrassment stop you from making your baby as safe as they possibly can be.
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While selective herbicides seem to offer the ultimate in pest control — the ability to eliminate weeds without harming desirable turf and ornamentals — you sometimes need the opposite: a product that completely eliminates vegetation for renovations, vegetation management or simple spot spraying. For these situations, you need a non-selective chemical.
Non-selective herbicides work in different ways. Some are soil-applied and enter plants through root uptake, providing immediate, as well as soil-residual, control. Others are foliar-applied and eliminate existing vegetation, but with little or no residual. A few have both types of activity. All have their place, depending on your specific needs.
Systemic herbicides are effective at killing woody and perennial plants. By contrast, contacts tend to work very quickly, earning them the nickname of "burndown" herbicides, but may not be the best choice for controlling perennial weeds. Foliar-applied products with little or no soil residual, whether systemic or contact, are by far the most widely used non-selectives in grounds care. These are the chemicals used for spot spraying or general "clean-up" weed control.
Fumigants are valuable tools for treating soil prior to planting and may control nematodes, insects and diseases, in addition to weeds. Traditionally, methyl bromide has been one of the mainstay soil fumigants. However, the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty for reducing ozone-depleting chemicals, will eliminate nearly all uses of methyl bromide before 2005. Fortunately, other chemicals are still available for pre-plant fumigation.
Use this Update for preliminary planning only. Remember that you must follow all label instructions any time you apply a pesticide. Non-selective pesticides are valuable tools, but must be used with care. After all, their defining characteristic is their broad spectrum of activity, so misapplications carry potentially great risks. Their safe use depends on proper application. Properly used, however, non-selectives can be one of the most valuable tools that landscape professionals possess.
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Bush on Friday released a statement honoring the slain president on the 50th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas.
Bush described the events of Nov. 22, 1963, as a "dark episode" in U.S. history. The 43rd president says Kennedy dedicated himself to public service and "his example moved Americans to do more for our country."
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"Today we remember a dark episode in our Nation's history, and we remember the leader whose life was cut short 50 years ago. John F. Kennedy dedicated himself to public service, and his example moved Americans to do more for our country. He believed in the greatness of the United States and the righteousness of liberty, and he defended them. On this solemn anniversary, Laura and I join our fellow citizens in honoring our 35th President."


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These pillows are made from vintage Peruvian blankets called Frazadas. They're handmade out of wool and are all one of a kind. The pillows are finished with a simple wool backing and zipper closure.
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Year Built1999
Lot Size0.87 Acres (37,897 SqFt)
Parking3 Car Garage
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Single Family home located on quiet cul-de-sac in the center of Singletree! Home offers 3 levels with master on the main, two bedrooms on the upper level w bath and large lower level rec room with 1 bedroom and bath. Bonus rooms for office, workout room, etc. Radiant in-floor heat. The lockoff has a separate entrance with 2 bdrms, 2 baths for family, guests or rental income. Private flagstone patio and 3-car garage. Home offers much versatility depending on your family's needs.
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(1) By Parties. Except in actions in which property has been seized or is in the custody of the court, an action may be dismissed by plaintiff without order of court
(B) by filing a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared in the action. Unless otherwise stated in the notice or stipulation, the dismissal is without prejudice, except that a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits when served by a plaintiff who has once dismissed in any court an action based on or including the same claim.
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The annual Rose and Alex Pilibos Autumn Walkathon "Together We Make The Difference" was held on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Students, teachers, administrative staff, parents, community members and even Archpriest Rev. Fr. Vicken Vassilian, all joined to embarked on a 5K walk and make a difference in the community.
Rose and Alex Pilibos School students showed their school spirit by proudly singing and chanting as they walked on Hollywood Blvd in the Little Armenia neighborhood, while being escorted by the teachers, staff, parents, and the security.
"The walkathon is about giving back to our school as well as our community" announced Principal Dr. Alina Dorian to the students who were gathered outside before the walk. "The only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're going to stop and pick them up. We are all about helping one another!" said Dr. Dorian as cheers and screams generated from the crowd of kids, teachers, staff and parents.
In the weeks leading up to the walk itself, students gathered pledges from relatives, friends and neighbors to raise funds for their school and community. Books have been donated to the Los Feliz Branch Library, canned goods and clothes were collected for different organizations in need for the holiday season. The elementary students dedicated their time by volunteering at the St. Garabed Church and Mary Postoian Preschool.
This was the first year for the Magzanyan siblings, students of Rose and Alex Pilibos and founders of "Kids Help Kids" organization, to participate in the school's Walkathon. "I am looking forward to this walkathon just because I love to give back to my school and my community. I love the idea of kids, school administration, teachers and parents getting together to make a difference." said nine-year-old Katrina Magzanyan.
Her 7 years old sister, Isabella Magzanyan, along with her classmates planted trees in Mary Postoian Preschool's yard. Prior to commencing the walk, Isabella expressed her joy and excitement for the walk by jumping up and down with a big smile on her face. "I am super excited to walk in my neighborhood with my friends and help my school! " Isabella said as she grabbed Lilit's and Jennifer's hands, best friends back from preschool, and ran towards the crowd forming a line for the walk.
As for 6-year-old John Magzanyan, the walkathon was unimaginable due to his very first walk but he did mention "I'll be walking with friends and family to help my school and community". Earlier this year Katrina, Isabella and John joined Rose and Alex Pilibos Toy Drive for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles which was a major success.
Not only the walkathon was a fun and beneficial activity outside of the students' classrooms but it also brought the entire Rose and Alex Pilibos School and their community together! This was yet another year of wonderful learning experiences for the students. Together they have the power to do good and have fun at the same time!
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Not a problem with Newsbin but a Linux upgrade that went bad. I ended up re-installing Linux but figured I was safe beacuse I had all my Newsbin files on another disk. Did not go as well as I expected - Newsbin did not seem to be downloading new headers and the system would freeze at times. May have been my not updating the nbi file correctly or permissions on the disk. But I ended up re-installing Newsbin and want to recover my data so a few questions:
1. I set my DataPath to a folder called Data under the new Newsbin folder and copied the files that the new install created under Application Data/Newsbin to that folder. Changed the nbi and it appears to work. Any possible problems with this configuration?
2. Newsbin seems to want to keep the GuiItems.db3 file in the Application Data/Newsbin folder. Any way I can move that over to the new DataPath and make it stick?
3. I want to move over the files from the DataPath in my old installation to the new DataPath. Apart from headers, I think the only one I really need is the download signatures. Any others I should or should not move?
4. Headers - I'd really like to recover those that I have - tens of gigabytes. Any cautions before I start? What is the best approach: add the group in Newsbin, exit then copy the files over OR copy the folder over, run Newsbin and add the group?
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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF AXIS AKTIEBOLAG (publ) (Org. No. 556241-1065)
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The Company's name is AXIS AKTIEBOLAG. The Company is a public company (publ).
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The registered office of the Board of Directors shall be in Lund, County of Skåne.
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The objects of the Company shall be to directly or indirectly, through whole- or part-owned Companies, develop, manufacture and sell products based on microprocessors, own and administrate real estate and also conduct other activities that are consistent with the objects of the Company.
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The minimum share capital shall be Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) Swedish Kronor and the maximum share capital shall be Two Million (2,000,000) Swedish Kronor.
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The number of shares shall be Fifty Million (50.000.000) at the lowest and Two Hundred Million (200.000.000) at the highest.
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The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three and not more than seven Directors with not more than three Deputy Directors. The Directors and Deputy Directors are elected annually at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.
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The Company shall have one Auditor without Deputy Auditors. An authorised puclic accountant or a registered firm of accountants shall be elected as Auditor.
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A notice convening a General Meeting shall be issued through announcement in the Swedish Official Gazette and on the Company's website. It shall be announced in Dagens Industri or, if the publication of Dagens Industri should cease, in Dagens Nyheter that a notice to a general meeting has been issued.
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In order to participate in the negotiations at a General Meeting of Shareholders, the Shareholder shall be registered as Shareholder in a print-out or other presentation of the Shareholders' register regarding the situation five workdays before the Meeting, as well as notify the Company on the day stated in the notice convening the Meeting, at which time the number of advisers shall be stated. The last mentioned day may not be a Sunday, other Public Holiday, Saturday, Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve and may not fall earlier than the fifth workday before the Meeting.
A Shareholder may bring one or two assistants to the Meeting, if the Shareholder has given notice of this according to the previous paragrah.
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The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders shall deal with the following matters:
1. election of Chairman of the Meeting,
2. drawing up and approval of the voting list,
3. approval of the agenda,
4. election of one or two persons to approve the minutes,
5. resolution on whether the Meeting has been duly convened,
6. presentation of the annual report and the Auditors' report and the consolidated accounts and the Auditors' report on the consolidated accounts,
7. resolutions with respect to
a) adoption of the income statement and the balance sheet and of the consolidated income statement and the consolidated balance sheet,
b) appropriation of the profit or loss according to the adopted balance sheet, and
c) discharge of liability vis-à-vis the company for members of the Board of Directors and the President for their administration.
8. Determination of the number of Directors and Deputy Directors,
9. Determination of fees to the Board of Directors and the Auditor,
10. Election of Directors and, if applicable, Auditor and Deputy Auditor,
11. Any other matter to be addresed by the Meeting in accordance with the Companies Act or the Articles of Association.
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The fiscal year of the Company is calender year.
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The Company's shares shall be registered in a Central Securities Depository register according to the Financial Instruments Accounts Act (1998:1479).
These Articles of Association were approved at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 15, 2015.


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At BlogWorld New Media Expo in New York, John P. and Cali Lewis had me on their GeekBeat.tv show where we talked about a mix of digital marketing topics including "walk the talk" marketing consulting, the power of word of mouth, the value of influence, common marketing challenges for companies, ROI vs. the promise of ROI, budget limitations vs. culture, the "must do" of getting started with social media.
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