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Liberty's DI women double up Chatham in Pittsburgh
February 17, 2013 | Pittsburgh, Pa.
For the second day in a row, Liberty University's Division I women's hockey team spotted Chatham University's NCAA Division III program an early goal before rebounding to double up the Cougars, this time by a 6-3 score, Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Lady Flames (25-2) erupted for five second-period goals, including two by senior forward Stacey McCombe, who assisted two others in the productive 20-minute stretch, to win their fourth game against an NCAA Div. III team this season.
"Our girls played an awesome second period," Liberty head coach Paul Bloomfield said. "Everything clicked and we had great passing. We really dominated the play."
McCombe, the team captain, set up freshman center Carrie Jickling 31 seconds into the second period, tying the game at 1-1, before lifting Liberty into the lead to stay less than three minutes later, finishing a feed from Courtney Fischer.
A minute and a half after that, freshman defender Sarah Fowler gave the Lady Flames a 3-1 cushion off an assist from Nikki McCombe, the sister-in-law to Stacey, who made it 4-1 two minutes later, 6:22 into the second, with her second goal set up by Jenny MacArthur and Autumn Kucharczyk.
"We gave them a little break for about six minutes and got another one on them," Bloomfield said of the game's only power-play goal, Amanda Grainger off assists from Fischer and Stacey McCombe.
Chatham pulled back within 5-2 on a goal by Morgan Becer with 11 seconds left until intermission before Liberty got it back 5:46 into the third period, scored by Nikki McCombe and set up by Katie Girnus.
The Cougars capped the scoring 10:27 into the third on a second goal by Casey Morfeld.
"In the third period, we got into the penalty situation, which slowed us down a little bit," Bloomfield said. "At one time, we had three in the penalty box at once. We still outworked them and out played them (overall in the period)."
The Lady Flames outshot their hosts 32-17 with starting goalie Chantal Lischynski receiving solid defensive support around the net.
Though the Cougars' 4-21 record might not indicate it, they actually gave Liberty as good a test as it has had since traveling to Chicago and splitting two games against Robert Morris (Ill.) nearly a month ago.
"It's good for us to play these teams that are better," Bloomfield said. "It helps us sharpen our game. There's always risks involved. You could potentially have injuries, but we came out of it injury-free.
"I'm glad when we've got victories and everybody's healthy," he added. "Now, we've got two weeks where we can lay back and get ready for nationals."
The Lady Flames are expected to maintain their No. 1 ranking for a third consecutive ACHA DI poll this week and enter the March 6-10 national tournament in Ashburn, Va., as the top seed out of eight teams in the field, needing to win five games to claim their first championship title.


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Look at this piece of disgusting crap. It looks like something you could find in a clogged bathroom sink drain after not cleaning it for a decade. But as gross as it looks, it may be the key to our technological future.
It's a living sponge. Or something like that. But it's alive. Kind of. This deformed ball is a mass of artificial cells, created from genetically engineered marine sponges. The synthetic cells have a plastic nucleus coated by a bubble of oil that acts as a cell membrane. Inside the cell there's a piece of DNA made from a random combination of silica-forming proteins that has been randomly mutated.
Depending on the kind of original material used, the artificial cells produce different substances. Some create new structures of silicon dioxide, which could be used in future chips. Some other balls form new types of fiberglass and even magnetic nanoparticles.
Scientists are using genetics because they want to use the rules of evolution to obtain completely new materials that would be perfect for current and future, unknown technologies. According to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, "this approach will begin to allow the same DNA-based evolutionary processes that have created seashells and skeletons to be harnessed to advance human technologies."
That could be huge, as evolution is a powerful force that can push materials into places that we can't even imagine. [Ars Technica]

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GeneOntology - parse and index Gene Ontology Annotations In particular, the file 'gene_association.goa_uniprot' that contains links between GO terms and UniProt accessions.
- http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/gene_ontology.obo -- Contains the hierarchy including isA relationships.
- http://www.geneontology.org/GO.format.obo-1_2.shtml -- Describes the OBO format.
- ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/GO/goa/UNIPROT/ -- Contains the GOA-UniProt mapping (and a README file).
- http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/GO.defs -- Contains GO definitions (not supported here yet).
- http://www.geneontology.org/doc/GO.terms_and_ids -- GO definitions, simpler and more schematically.
- newtype GoTerm = GO Int
- data GoDef = GoDef !GoTerm !ByteString !GoClass
- type GoHierarchy = [(GoDef, [GoTerm])]
- readObo :: FilePath -> IO GoHierarchy
- readTerms :: FilePath -> IO [GoDef]
- data Annotation = Ann !UniProtAcc !GoTerm !EvidenceCode
- type UniProtAcc = ByteString
- data GoClass
- data EvidenceCode
- readGOA :: FilePath -> IO [Annotation]
- isCurated :: EvidenceCode -> Bool
- decomment :: ByteString -> [ByteString]
Basic data types
A GO term is a positive integer
Reading the OBO format
type GoHierarchy = [(GoDef, [GoTerm])]Source
A list of Go definitions, with pointers to parent nodes. Read from the .obo file. The user may construct the explicit hierachy by storing these in a Map or similar
readObo :: FilePath -> IO GoHierarchySource
Read the GO hierarchy from the obo file. Note that this is not quite a tree structure.
Reading 'terms and ids'
Reading UniProt associations
data Annotation Source
A GOA annotation, containing a UniProt identifier, a GoTerm and an evidence code.
type UniProtAcc = ByteStringSource
A UniProt identifier (short string of capitals and numbers).
data EvidenceCode Source
Evidence codes describe the type of support for an annotation http://www.geneontology.org/GO.evidence.shtml
Inferred by Curator
Inferred from Direct Assay
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
Inferred from Expression Pattern
Inferred from Genomic Context
Inferred from Genetic Interaction
Inferred from Mutant Phenotype
Inferred from Physical Interaction
Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
Non-traceable Author Statement
No biological Data available
Inferred from Reviewed Computational Analysis
Traceable Author Statement
Not Recorded
readGOA :: FilePath -> IO [Annotation]Source
Read the goa_uniprot file (warning: this one is huge!)
isCurated :: EvidenceCode -> BoolSource
The vast majority of GOA data is IEA, while the most reliable information is manually curated. Filtering on this is useful to keep data set sizes manageable, too.
Utility stuff
decomment :: ByteString -> [ByteString]Source


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Introducing Android Development with NetBeans
This wiki page described an old version of Android plugin and that's why I deleted the content here to avoid confussion. Read about current version at nbandroid website.
Namely look at the installation and first steps in project wiki. --Radim Kubacki on Jul 28, 2011 and Nov 2, 2013
If you really need to access old version of this document contributed by Amit Kumar Saha you can find it in history. Current maintainers of the plugin would be curious why you do this and you can contact them using one of the means described at contacts page.
if you need make some preprocessing of your code and text resources in android project then you can try to use the JCPreprocessor, it can be connected to NBAndroid project through ANT tasks.


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January 18, 2013
With a population of just 350 people, what Chappell Hill lacks in size — it more than makes up for in flair.
"You never know who's sitting in this bank," said Ed Smith, president of the Chappell Hill Bank. "If you're coming in to rob it, I think you're going to be in a world of hurt."
That's because the person standing next to you could be packing heat. You see, the Chappell Hill Bank is the first in the nation that actually welcomes legally concealed handguns.
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John Harbaugh, Mike Tomlin share awkward handshake after Steelers beat Ravens
Another Harbaugh, another handshake controversy.
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh was involved in a testy handshake with Mike Tomlin on Sunday, moments after the Pittsburgh Steelers last-second win in the bitter division rivalry.
Harbaugh said "congratulations" as the two met at midfield following Shaun Suisham's game-winning field goal at time expired. Tomlin, who was jogging and looked disinterested in exchanging pleasantries, stabbed at Harbaugh's hand from a distance, grabbed it briefly and continued on his way without breaking stride. He wanted the run-off handshake.
But Harbaugh didn't let go and pulled Tomlin back toward him, while saying, "hey, hey, hey I said congratulations." He had the tone of a mother reminding her son to say "thank you."
A bemused Tomlin didn't resist. He reluctantly came back to Harbaugh, said "thank you, good job," and ran away. Not that we ever want to assign a thought to another person, but it's not too much of an assumption to say Tomlin may have been thinking something else. His eyes said it all during the brief moment he and Harbaugh made eye contact.
This is all on Harbaugh. He acted like a petulant child, which is to say he acted like his brother, Jim, who gained handshake infamy last year when he swatted Jim Schwartz on the back after his San Francisco 49ers won in Detroit. Tomlin offered his hand. That's all he needs to do. Pulling him back and admonishing him was petty and juvenile.
Some will say Tomlin wasn't a good winner. He didn't make eye contact, he didn't acknowledge Harbaugh's initial words and he ran away from the handshake. All true and all nonsense. Perfunctory exchanges make not sportsmanship. Why does Tomlin need to act like Harbaugh's "good game" was a heartfelt expression from a defeated gladiator? It's phony. It's meaningless. You may not believe that. Regardless, can you deny Harbaugh was more of a bad loser than Tomlin was a bad winner?
If you were watching the game on CBS, you would have missed the awkward moment. The network was showing a long embrace between 37-year-old quarterback Charlie Batch and injured starter Ben Roethlisberger. Only the briefest flicker of the handshake was aired live.


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Having lived my entire life in Minnesota, my ability to handle spicy food is lacking. Although I love it, it does not love me and the way I feel the day following a spicy meal is bad enough to make it not worth the bother.
However, I am interested in the way individual growers manipulate peppers genetically, a la Mendel, to come up with ever-more piquant peppers. (BTW: MAKE Volume 07 had a nice section in it called "Hack Your Plants.") I have a Google alert set to alert me when new developments on the hot pepper front occur, and lately, there has been a flurry of activity.
A couple years ago, I blogged about the Bhut Jolokia, an ultra spicy pepper grown in areas of India and Pakistan. This thing is freakishly hot; it's so high in capsaicin that it was used as elephant repellent.
But the Ghost pepper ("bhut" means ghost in Hindi) has fallen from the top, apparently. Earlier this year, Australian pepper grower Marcel de Wit unveiled a super pepper, called the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, which tested hotter. Just two weeks ago came news reports that a Taiwanese farmer, Yeh Wu Shun, claimed his new cultivar is even hotter, scoring 1.5 million units on the Scoville scale of pepper hotness. (By comparison, a really hot jalapeno scores around 8,000 units.)
Yeh planned to debut his chilli at a chilli-eating contest in Taipei. "The person who will eat the most of this hot chilli will win my antique Jaguar," he said.
Bio: Bill Gurstelle is a contributing editor for MAKE. Visit his site, www.thepracticalpyromaniac.com


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GMG ColorProof Now Offers Windows 8 Support
Version 5.4.2 from GMG extends to support of Windows 8.
GMG, a developer and supplier of high-end color management software solutions, supports the new Windows 8 operating system with the latest GMG ColorProof now with Windows 8 support in Version 5.4.2. As a result, the operating systems Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or higher are now supported.
Version 5.4.2, and thus Windows 8 support, is also available for GMG DotProof and GMG FlexoProof. Likewise compatible with Windows 8 is ProofControl 2.0, which is used to check the color accuracy of proofs and also verifies spot colors in the new version. Consequently, the complete proofing solution from GMG can now be used with the latest operating system from Microsoft.
Users of GMG ColorProof 5.4 and customers having a maintenance agreement can download the new version for free from the Support area of the GMG Web site. A chargeable update is available for users of older versions. More detailed information can be obtained at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mouse And Keyboard: Ethan: Meteor Hunter In October
Platforming side-scroller Ethan: Meteor Hunter – which seems to pit a time-controlling mouse against various kinds of systematic peril – is set for PC release in October, say devs Seaven Studio. With that in mind they've launched some pre-order options for the game that they describe as mixing "puzzles and platformers core action mechanics with an innovative mechanic: telekinesia".
I'm sure I had a bout of telekinesia a few years back, but some antibiotics cleared it right up.
The team also send word that they're searching for Greenlight votes.


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Frugal Friday~
You know "da rules"...
1. Please link directly to your post and not just to your blog. Please refrain from linking posts for Etsy shops, giveaways, reviews or features of other bloggers' work. Please only link posts of yourown projects.
2. Please link back the Shabby Nest. I only feature projects in my Frugal Round-up that link back to The Shabby Nest. I have passed up some great features because they didn't link back..so please use common courtesy and return the link! MWAH!!
3. Please visit other participants and leave them comments! Help them feel "the love!"


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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, who are often recognized as the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in popular music. From 1962, the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as the "Beatlemania" fad, transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
Initially with a five-piece line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums), The Beatles built their reputation in Liverpool and Hamburg clubs over a three-year period from 1960. Sutcliffe left the group in 1961, and Best was replaced by Starr the following year. Moulded into a professional outfit by music store owner Brian Epstein after he offered to act as the group's manager, and with their musical potential enhanced by the creativity of producer George Martin, The Beatles achieved mainstream success in the United Kingdom in late 1962 with their first single, "Love Me Do". Gaining international popularity over the course of the next year, they toured extensively until 1966, and then retreated to the recording studio until their break-up in 1970. Each then found success in an independent musical career. Lennon was murdered outside his home in New York City in 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain active.
During their studio years, The Beatles produced what critics consider some of their finest material including the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), widely regarded as a masterpiece. Four decades after their break-up, The Beatles' music continues to be popular. The Beatles have had more number one albums on the UK charts, and held down the top spot longer, than any other musical act. According to the RIAA, they have sold more albums in the United States than any other artist. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the all-time top-selling Hot 100 artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with The Beatles at number one. They have been honoured with 7 Grammy Awards, and they have received 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. The Beatles were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people.


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Here is the video I am talking about the same things with a Bing Search sample in Silverlight TV show
I am just listing down few common tips which can greatly improve the performance and effectiveness of your application. And also please note that some of the points might not be applicable for certain applications especially for very small apps.
- Use JPEG instead of PNG whenever possible – Jpeg decodes faster than PNG image. If there is no transparency needed, use Jpeg with a compromised quality
- Optimize your static Image quality : Medium quality compressed Jpeg requires less memory to render as compared to a full quality Jpeg. So there is a big savings in memory and performance, if we can compromise on the Jpeg quality slightly. I am pasting two images below, one is 100% and the other is 97% quality, you can hardly make out the difference so the gist of it from a file size perspective is that the 97% one takes only half the size of the 100% image(108KB and 58Kb) ( of course the size and compression varies depends on the color information of the images). Now if you have got so many static images in the project, this trick can reduce the XAP file size considerably smaller as well as runtime memory usage will be quite less. You can consider this tip when you use large background images like Page/Panorama/Pivot background or splash screen images etc..
- Use images instead of complex gradients or vector graphics(XAML).
- Never bind server-hosted images directly to the <Image> control, because Silverlight runtime will use the UI thread (using WebClient) to fetch that image from the server, that can make the UI unresponsive for some time.
- Use a background thread and HttpWebRequest class based implementation to download the image data in an efficient way which finally creates BitmapImage and sets that as the source. A clean MVVM wrapper around this would make your entire Image management pretty easy.
- When large scrollable list boxes need preview again don't use vector/gradients instead use small Jpeg/png, that helps the system level caching effectively and improve the performance of scrolling.
- Never let any image downloads happening while scrolling : Image downloading on long Listboxes should be controlled by the ScrollViewer state and position to optimize the network activity and also it would be effective to download the images in a queue based background thread system. This will ensure scrolling performance by downloading only the visible set of images, that too only when the scrolling activity stops.
In the below code snippet I have a collection of ViewModel instances bound to a ListBox and the ListBox has a ScrollViewer in its control template. We need to do two things to make sure there is no unnecessary image download happening 1) Detect the scroll stop event 2) Calculate the scroll position to find out the range of items which are visible to the user. Our aim is to just download the images associated with the ViewModels of that particular range when the scroll operation stops.
I am using the code snippet from Peter Torr's blog for detecting the Scroll state and applying some easy math to find out the index range. Here I am assuming my Collection class has some method to do the Queued image download in background thread with the signature void LoadImages(int startIndex, int count)
In the code snippet you can also see the place where we can detect the scroll end. That is very useful for pagination scenarios to download the next set of data from the service.
Please take a look at the source code, that shows the image download in a background thread and the visible range of visuals getting downloaded when we stop scrolling.
Have fun with Wp7 development!


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The Final Countdown
In the world of rock music, the group "Europe" released a song a few years back titled "The Final Countdown." Not a bad tune, it made for great stadium theatrical rock, with pyrotechnics, smoke, and of course, LOUD, but it was a catchy tune none-the-less.
Now, here we are, Election Day Thankfully, we are in the final countdown of what has to be one of the most contentious, bitter, acrimonious election campaigns in recent memory. Sadly to say, it hasn't only been at the national level. There have been plenty of controversial races around the area for various positions on the ballots, which seems to send some kind of message.
The problem is, I'm not all that sure just what that message is.
At the national level, current polling, depending on which news organization you happen to be tuned in to at the time, has the Presidential election at as close to a draw as you'd want.
Now, isn't that interesting? No matter what one side says about the other, the other has an equivalent comeback. Go figure. It's just like little kids on the playground.
Then there are the Congressional and Senatorial races. More of the same. This candidate has a plan. The other candidate doesn't. But, the first candidate doesn't say what their plan is, and the second candidate says they'll listen to the voters. Go figure.
At the state level, the factor that comes into play for our statehouse elections is the mandated re-districting that was completed last year in accordance with the Code of Iowa. New districts were drawn and the voters are learning about people they've never heard of before. Kind of hard to trust someone you've only met once at the coffee shop.
That re-districting carries over to our local county elections. Re-districting of our county supervisor districts created one district pitting current supervisor against their fellow supervisor, and left one district with no incumbent, but two political newcomers competing for a seat on the board.
And then there is the race for county sheriff. Four candidates are vying for the office, in a campaign that has seen its share of advertising and mailing blitzes over the past few weeks as the candidates work to get their message out before the county's voters for consideration before today.
When the election passes, our world may seem a whole lot calmer and quieter. One thing I will not miss will be the daily phone calls from research firms wanting to know my opinions on the upcoming presidential election.
We have a duty as citizens to vote, to speak our mind with our vote, and yet, some fear that negative campaigns may drive voters away. The only answer in such cases is to speak out with your vote. If you haven't done so yet, go to the polls. The polls are open until 9 p.m. tonight.
Cast your ballot. Good men and women have died so that you can do so. Don't ignore your opportunity to stand and be counted, if not for you, for those who gave all for our right to vote freely.


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One of the big misconceptions in the advisory business is that clients refer new business because the advisor asks for the referral.
"But that's not it at all," says Stephen Wershing, author of "Stop Asking for Referrals," newly released by McGraw-Hill. "As social beings we refer all the time, but we don't appreciate [them] so we attempt to hijack the process for our purpose."
Wershing, a CFP and former financial advisor and now principal of the financial advisor-oriented consulting firm The Client Driven Practice, cites social network research by Scott DeGraffenreid suggesting a more personal motive for referrals.
"We refer because it increases our esteem in the eyes of our peers," Wershing told AdvisorOne in an interview. "We do it because we like to be the answer guy. It's social currency. It expands our networking."
While it is true that referrals are key to business expansion, asking for them is ineffective because it is not likely you're asking precisely when the client's friend is in need of your services. The better approach, Wershing says, is to prepare your clients for the opportunity to refer by taking up residence in the client's brain.
"First, understand who your ideal client is—and we tend not to do that well. Second, satisfy a need that makes you different from the rest of the advisor population. When the client's friend describes that problem that you solve, you'll come to mind.
"It's almost Pavlovian—you become the answer to the Ghostbusters' question: 'who you gonna call?'"
Finding that differentiation is one of the biggest challenges advisors face. Spending as much time as he does with advisors, Wershing says it's impossible not to notice that most tend to give the same pitch. But if they specialize in say, helping corporate executives diversify a portfolio of concentrated illiquid securities, then by solving that problem they've earned the right to solve all of the client's other problems.
It needn't be a strictly financial problem that the advisor solves. The advisor can be an expert in grief issues that new widows face. Wershing cites an advisor whose website is a comprehensive resource for the financial, legal and emotional issues surrounding divorce. After a client seeks that planner's help with a divorce, initially, the planner has earned the right to address the client's other issues.
Perhaps the best, and often overlooked, way to discover the unique value an advisor provides to clients is through client advisory groups.
"We think all the financial stuff we do is important to clients. But it might be the kind of experience we provide to them. They might choose one advisor over another purely for service reasons because they assume the technical expertise [advisors provide] is all the same," Wershing says.
"If you ask people what's the most valuable service you provide, I promise you they won't say rate of return," Wershing adds. "Even if advisors have a good idea of what's important to clients, it's good to get it in their words. We tend to talk in jargon. If somebody asks, 'Why should I hire you?' it can be very powerful to say 'Let me tell you what our clients say about us.'
With the feedback from a client advisory group, you can avoid making the same jargon-based pitches—"We follow a bottom-up approach that generates high alpha…"—that his competitors are making, answering instead that you invite meaningful client participation by inviting the whole family into the planning process, or whatever it is that distinguishes your service.
Vital to discovering your firm's strengths is to have an experienced facilitator conducting your client advisory group meetings, which Wershing recommends take place two to three times a year.
If the clients like the firm's great service, the facilitator will probe further to find out what constitutes great service: always calling back within 24 hours or providing a bottle of Perrier every time the client comes in the office. Once you learn your strengths, you begin to be able to say things to prospective clients that differentiate you from competitors.
Many advisors brag about their great team, Wershing says. "But it's not your people," he says. "It's what your people do." If you can identify that, you can replicate it, and then if a trained member of your team leaves, his or her successor can be trained to do it too.
The facilitator can get meaningful answers by drilling down to significant details and, importantly, by being able to ask questions the advisor cannot. An advisor can't ask his biggest client to shut up, for example, and there are questions that – if a facilitator asks – are seen as seeking information which, if asked by the advisor, can be seen as selling, Wershing says.
Thusly armed with vital feedback about the advisor's key value to clients, the advisor's task becomes one of creating a "learning plan to develop the expertise to solve the special problems that those clients have and then a communication plan to tell the world about it," Wershing says.
While Wershing's book advises advisors to stop asking for referrals, he says that doesn't mean stop talking about referrals. The book provides advice on how to engage clients in conversation that can stimulate referrals, and explains how a "bad" referral can be a good opportunity to "own a spot in the client's brain" (all the while not taking a client who is outside of your target market).
"You have to honor the referral, but you don't have to take it," he says. Rather, you train both the client and prospect what kind of problems you solve, while making a valued referral to the prospect you don't take as a client.
Financial advisors are uniquely positioned to own a spot in the client's brain, Wershing concludes, by virtue of the sensitive subject they help clients with.
"People would sooner talk about sex than they would talk about their money," Wershing says. "People's portfolios are in their hands; this is an important relationship for them."
"The clients vaguely relate their advisor's success with their own success," he says. "They believe their advisor needs to do well."


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Charisma Ricksy, a junior majoring in African American studies and criminology in the College of the Liberal Arts, is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Lethbridge Tolerance Award.
The award recognizes a junior, senior or graduate student for outstanding efforts to enhance the understanding of diverse cultures and create a community where all individuals are accepted and valued equally. The award is named for its benefactor, a Penn State alumnus.
Ricksy serves as vice president of the University Park Student Minority Advisory and Recruitment Team, working with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to recruit and retain minority students. She is a Student Leadership Board member for the FastStart Mentoring Program, which pairs each first-year minority student with a faculty/staff mentor and an alumni mentor. For the American Association of University Women, she serves on the National Student Advisory Council, with the goal of raising awareness of women's rights issues on college campuses around the country. This year, Ricksy is program coordinator for the Be Engaged House living option for first-year students in community service, leadership and social justice.
"She has achieved an outstanding academic record while working tirelessly to make the University a more welcoming and inclusive organization," a nominator said.


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#1 The mystery object did not behave like any known kind of supernova.
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Hubble Finds a Mystery Object
Don't get the idea that we've found every kind of astronomical object there is in the universe. In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.
Now you don't see it, now you do. Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere apparently not even in a galaxy brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away. Its spectrum was like nothing ever seen, write the discoverers, with "five broad absorption bands between 4100 and 6500 Angstroms and a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500 Angstroms." Even the cause of the spectral features is unknown.
K. Barbary and othersThe project used the Hubble Space Telescope to monitor very distant galaxy clusters for supernovae. On February 21, 2006, in the direction of a far-away cluster in Bootes named CL 1432.5+3332.8 (redshift 1.112, light travel time 8.2 billion years), Hubble began seeing something brighten.
It continued brightening for about 100 days and peaked at 21st magnitude in two near-infrared colors. It then faded away over a similar timescale, until nothing was left in view down to 26th magnitude. The object brightened and faded by a factor of at least 120, maybe more.
The mystery object did not behave like any known kind of supernova. It is not even in any detectable galaxy. "The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with microlensing," say the researchers. They recorded three spectra of it and its spectrum, they write, "in addition to being inconsistent with all known supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database" of vast numbers of objects. "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class."
What's its distance? That would certainly be a first step to figuring it out, but only the broadest constraints can be put on its distance. Its lack of parallax motion means that it can't be closer than about 130 light-years, and a lack of cosmic hydrogen absorption in its spectrum means that it can't be farther than 11 billion light-years (when "distance" is defined by light travel time). That leaves a lot of leeway.
Here is the group's paper with all the details. The lead author is Kyle Barbary (University of California at Berkeley).
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That was the Death Star blowing up in a Galaxy far, far away. Since it happen "along time ago" the light from the explosion is just now reaching earth.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Casey Anthony: Motions Hearing for June 1 Takes New Direction
The first motion, the Motion to Seal Jail Visiting Log Records, is left over from the May 10 hearing. You can read more about that motion in my previous article.
The second motion is the Defendant's Motion for Reconsideration of Certain Prior Rulings by Disqualified Judge, filed May 6. While this was on the original agenda, the section of the motion dealing with TES documents will not be heard. Mark NeJame filed a Notice of Conflict with the court on May 24. He explained that he had received the notice of the hearing the previous Friday. He further stated that his family had a pre-planned vacation for the June 1 date. NeJame made it quite clear that he was not consulted about the setting of this date.
4. This aspect of the case regarding the Subpoena Duces Tecum is of a civil nature and therefore the Civil Administrative Policies and Procedures state under Section 11(b)(2) states. If at all possible, hearing time for complex motions or several motions to be heard at one time should be cleared with all affected counsel as to avoid calendar conflicts. This policy was clearly not followed by the counsel for the Defendant. Moreover, local custom has long established that out of professional courtesy that the opposing cousnes be contacted to coordinate a mutually convenient or available time. This was not done by Mr. Mason who scheduled the hearing.
Towards the beginning of the case when Jose Baez began filing motions and failed to notice parties to a motion, I called them "rookie mistakes". I can't say this for Mr. Mason, who has a long history as one of central Florida's outstanding attorneys. For the life of me, I don't understand why such "slip-ups" keep happening in this case. Clearly, the defense wants the documents. I have to wonder why they would fail to coordinate dates with the attorney who is representing the organization in possession of them?
In the meantime, we will hear arguments as to why the judge should give the defense a copy of George Anthony's testimony before the Grand Jury. The State had asked for this last fall in order to find inconsistencies in his testimony and later deposition. The defense filed a motion to join in that which was never addressed by Judge Strickland.
It will be interesting to listen to any objections the State may have.
The defense will again try and have Joseph Jordan's illegally made audio unsealed. Judge Strickland had ruled it was not necessary since the defense's own PI, Mort Smith had his notes from the meeting and could directly testify to the contents of the tape.
Finally, they want those 7,000 tips from the beginning of the case. I don't know if these tips could be considered discovery. One thing I do know is that the OCSO followed up many credible tips which were reported in discovery on an ongoing basis. It looks to me like another hunting expedition.
Next up will be the Motion to Strike State's Notice of Aggravating Circumstances, filed by the defense May 20. The defense is not happy with Jeff Ashton's reply which was filed with the court on May 13, two days after ordered to do so by Judge Perry.
If you read the judge's order, it says,
The Court agrees with the defense that this issue implicates Defendant's due process rights, and in the exercise of its discretion, the Court requires the state to provide notice of the aggravating factors it intends to prove. In view ofthe potentially unlimited list of possible mitigating factors, the Court will not require the defense to provide a reciprocal list.
That's all it says. It does not state that the prosecution has to provide the information on what information they will use to develop the content of these aggravating factors.
I was somewhat amused by paragraph 4 in the motion.
4. On May 14, after the state failed to serve the defense with a copy of the Notice, the defense learned through the media that the state had filed its Notice of Aggravating Circumstances. The notice provided that the state may rely on five aggravating circumstances...
If true, I'm wondering if someone on the prosecution team made the same little boo-boo the defense has made more than once? OH MY GOODNESS! I can still remember waiting for the four motions found on a tv site at least two weeks before they were even filed in court! Let's remember, this motion was filed by Jose Baez, himself!
He also complains that the prosecution MAY use these aggravating circumstances. Let's see, it's just about eleven months until this case goes to trial and we can be sure it is still under investigation. The prosecution could change its mind about one of them. They may learn of others during the further investigation.
Let's remember that Perry ordered the prosecution to give a list, he didn't have to order that. He ordered the list because "death is different". In addition, there is no law that says the judge has to order the prosecution to give a list of particulars.
I don't know if Perry will grant this motion. However, since the trial is so far out, there is still a lot of investigation going on. If those jail house letters Casey wrote can be incorporated into the case, who knows what other information may come out over the next eleven months!
The Supplemental Motion to Compel Forensic Discovery, was filed May 20 as a response to Judge Perry's instructions at the May 10 hearing. At that time, the defense had a hard time going through their lists and coming up with the material that was missing. In this motion, they have simplified the issues to make them more manageable.
Jeff Ashton wrote the State Response to Supplemental Motion to Compel Forensic Discovery. Complete with charts, he makes many of the same arguments he has been making all along.
Concerning all the defense requests, he states that
The State of Florida's discovery obligations are set forth in Fla. Rule Crim. Proc. 3.220(b). Sub section (I)(J) of that rule limits the obligations as they concern expert witnesses to "reports and statements of experts made in connection with the particular case, including results of physical and mental examinations and of scientific test, experiments, or comparisons". None of the documents contained in Excel Chart 1 or 2 fall within this rule.
The requested documents in Chart One are not alleged to be in the possession of the State of Florida or any of its agencies. As the undersigned has stated on numerous occasions over the two year history of this case any document desired and in the possession of an individual or entity outside of the State of Florida must be obtained thru contact with the individual or entity in possession of that document.
Ashton adds that the State has been helping the defense get documents such as these, but cannot be ordered to do so.
The second chart contains material that the defense can get on their own, according to Ashton. It is his position that
...any order requiring the state to obtain and produce a document, not specifically required to be produced by 3.220(b)(I)(J), should be contigent upon a proper motion and showing pursuant to 3.220(f) and a demonstration that the Defendant cannot obtain the document themselves thru request or an application under F.S.119.
It sound to me as though Mr. Ashton has gotten tired of facilitating the defense in obtaining all those documents! What the judge will say, I have no clue.
So, for those of you who haven't already started your long holiday weekend and read this, do have a wonderful Memorial Day and remember those who have given their lives to defend our country.
3 comments:
- donchais said...
I so love your breakdown of all the motions!
Somebody needs to stop this charade of a defense! Remember that old game Twister? Well, IMHO that is exactly how the defense is trying to go about even figuring out a defense- which by most accounts is indefensible!
Have a wonderful holiday and anniversary!
- May 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
Well, the crime Casey Anthony is accused of would seem to have Aggravating Circumstances. Is the defense trying by these motions to get the death penalty off the table before the trial?
David From TN
- May 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- ritanita said...
The defense has filed many motions to have the death penalty removed. Judge Strickland denied at least one. Judge Perry did as well at the May 11 hearing. There are other motions being considered right now by Judge Perry that deal with aspects of the death penalty laws. I would expect rulings from him shortly.
The only motion granted by Perry was the motion for aggravating circumstances. Now the defense wants all the evidence the prosecution intends to use for each one.
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Men of Honor (also released as Men of Honour) is a 2000 drama film about the first African American, then also the first amputee, US Navy Diver and the man who trained him.
- Directed by George Tillman, Jr.. Written by Scott Marshall Smith.
History is made by those who break the rules. (tagline)
Leslie William 'Billy' Sunday[edit]
- President Harry S. Truman had the courage and forward-thinking and enlightenment...to desegregate the United States military.
- My name is Master Chief Billy Sunday. There was a preacher by the same name who cleaned up Chicago of all the whoring spics, drunken wops and motherfucking niggers that was making that place unfit for decent white folks to live. The only difference between me and that old preacher is that he worked for God, and I am God!
- The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don't know why anybody'd want to be a Navy diver.
- You see this pipe? General MacArthur himself smoked this pipe. I served with him in Leyte Gulf. Biggest naval battle in history. Kamikaze ripped into this escort carrier, name of Saint Lo. She went down on a shallow reef, trapping me and six boys in the fire room. Only one way out. (Carl Brashear: Flood the compartment and swim up.) Five decks, cookie. Five fuckin' decks. Locked bulkheads, dead bodies everywhere. You got to have your balls screwed on tight for that swim. We still had intercom. Old MacArthur himself came over that squawk box, "Sunday, you cocky son of a bitch, I bet you can't hold your breath for four minutes and swim out ofthere." Know what I said back ? "No, Mac, I can't, but I'll bet you your cob pipe I can hold it for five, 'cause that's what it's gonna take, motherfucker."
- A Chief Petty Officer shall not drink. However, if he should drink he shall not get drunk. If he should get drunk, he shall not stagger. And if he should stagger, he shall not fall. And if he should fall, he will fall in such a manner as to cover up his rank so that passerbyers will think he is an officer.
- Goddammit Cookie, move your ass, I want my TWELVE!
- You know what the Chinese say Cookie, "Beware, what you wish for."
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- Sir, I am a Navy man. Where I come from, there are no oceans. Only dirt farms and ornery mules. And no self-respecting Navy man makes a living driving mules.
- You were right, Chief. You and I have nothing in common. I may be some dirt dumb nigger from Podunk, but at least I'm making something of myself. You, you're the same hateful, little man you started out as. Without diving, you're nothing but a lost, broke-down son of a bitch who used to be something.
- M-My name is...Boatswain's Mate Second Class... C-C-Carl Brashear. I am a Navy Diver.
- So I'm asking this: Cut off my leg and assemble a full medical review board 12 weeks from today. It is then that I will demonstrate that I am fit to return to full diving duty.
- Sir, I promise, if I am killed at sea, I will make every effort to die like a Navy man.
- Mac Brashear: Don't! Don't you ever come back here. Get in there and fight, Carl. Don't take promises. Bust all their rules if you have to. And when it gets hard, and it will, don't quit on me. Ever! Now, go on. Don't come back here.
- Recruiter: You got a big future... in the U.S. Navy.
- Mr Pappy:Billy, there may come a day when a colored diver graduates from this school, but it won't be tomorrow, or as long as I'm here.
- Carl Brashear: Permission to relieve the man below, Master Chief.
- Billy Sunday: What are you, cookie, some kind of goddamn hero ? I got no room in my class for heroes or stutterin' swim champs with a wife and kids to worry about, do you read me?
- Carl Brashear: If you wanna flunk me, flunk me, but don't punish him for being decent to me.
- Billy Sunday: I don't have to flunk you. You're gonna do that all on your own.
- Jo: Why do you want this so bad?
- Carl Brashear: Because they said I couldn't have it.
- Billy Sunday: Think you deserve to be here, don't ya? Fraternizing among navy men? Think you're as good as they are? How 'bout me, cookie? You better than me?
- Carl Brashear: You're damn right I am!
- Jo: Don't you see? I'm not like you. The things I want... The things I want are smaller. If I just work hard and keep my head down...
- Carl Brashear: Your whole life will pass you by.
- Mr. Pappy: Did you know that ordinary house dust is composed primarily of human skin?
- Billy Sunday: No sir, I didn't know that.
- Mr. Pappy: Makes you think twice about who you invite into your home.
- Carl Brashear:All I ever wanted to do was to make Master Diver.
- Billy Sunday:All I ever wanted to do was stay one.
- Carl Brashear: Forgive me sir, but to me, the Navy isn't a business. It's an organization of people who represent the finest aspects of our nation. We have many traditions. In my career, I have encountered most of them. Some are good, some not so good. I would, however not be here today were it not for our greatest tradition of all.
- Captain Hanks: And which one is that, Chief Brashear?
- Carl Brashear: Honor, sir
- Diving Student: (Standing in his underwear banging a pot with a spoon) I Stole a Pie! I stole a Pie! I stole a Pie!
- History is made by those who break the rules.
- Robert De Niro — Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William 'Billy' Sunday
- Cuba Gooding, Jr — Boatswain's Mate Second Class/Senior Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear
- Charlize Theron — Gwen Sunday
- Aunjanue Ellis — Jo Brashear
- Hal Holbrook — Captain 'Mr. Pappy'
- Michael Rapaport — Gunner's Mate First Class Snowhill
- Powers Boothe — Captain Pullman
- David Keith — Captain Hartigan
- Holt McCallany — Machinist's Mate First Class Dylan Rourke
- David Conrad — Captain Hanks
- Joshua Leonard — Petty Officer Second Class Timothy Douglas Isert
- Carl Lumbly — Mac Brashear
- Lonette McKee — Ella Brashear
- Glynn Turman — Chief Floyd
- Joshua Feinman — DuBoyce
- Dennis Troutman — Boots
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Ever since Dallas was listed as one of the country's worst cities for cycling by Bicycle Magazine (twice), folks have been trying to change that. The new Dallas Bike Plan was a huge step forward, but the momentum has slipped a bit. Politics and the lack of money are part of the problem.
I am keeping an eye out for any bicycle updates around town, and I'm seeing some street markings and signage pop up in random locations. Dallas has also just passed a safe passing ordinance. Some say all this is nice, while others are saying it's not enough.
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Alex Dowsett (Movistar) survived an early crash and bike change to win his third-consecutive British time trial title in Stewarton, Scotland.
Dowsett crashed heavily in the opening kilometres – landing heavily on his left-hand side – yet despite several cuts and scrapes was able to beat reigning National 100 champion Matt Bottrill (www.drag2zero.com) by 21 seconds.
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Bottrill was just five seconds in arrears halfway through the two-lap race held on rolling terrain in East Ayrshire. Nonetheless, he beat Ben Swift (Sky) by a tenth of a second to claim the silver medal. This was the first time Sky have failed to win the championships since their formation in 2010.
Doug Dewey impressed en route to fourth, ahead of the second Sky rider Luke Rowe, while James Gullen (Hope Factory Racing) came a strong sixth.
Early estimates suggest the 3,500 people turned out to watch the event, by far the most for the British Time Trial Championships in recent history.
Earlier in the day, Joanna Rowsell won her maiden National Time Trial title, while Sam Harrison (100% ME) successfully defended his Under-23 crown.
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Date Night: Vin et Fleurs
Spots for every kind of date.
With apologies to Auden, we'd like to point out that guidebooks make everything happen. Get a prominent mention in one, and your establishment will likely appear in others. Appear on a show like No Reservations, and you're even more set for patrons. During a recent Friday night dinner at Vin et Fleurs, a young lady from Japan wrote in her journal and scrolled through pictures from her SLR, while two tables of strangers became fast friends, bonding in their native French and sharing their itineraries for Brooklyn. At the bar, a woman playfully asked a man to guess her accent; after some awkward stabs punctuated by sips of wine, she revealed the truth: Yugoslavian. Name my accent, guess my ethnic heritage—in a cosmopolis like New York, these drinking games just invent themselves, and contribute to the sprightly atmosphere of this wine bar in Soho.
Since we already knew each other's geographic makeup, we went straight for the food. We started with an asparagus salad ($9.95), breaking the slightly salted poached egg all over the thin spears. Although there wasn't much asparagus, the cheese was surprisingly unstingy; we appreciated the heavy hand at the Parmesan grater. A pile of vinaigrette-dressed mesclun rounded out the plate, while the nubbins of baguette, shaped like pterodactyls, took the rest of the edge off.
The avocado crevettes ($9.25) offered two almost hollowed out halves of an avocado. And because nature abhors a vacuum, a chunky sautéed shrimp salad replaced the missing avocado. It oozed from the top like slow-witted lava. All had been mixed in a creamy cognac tarragon sauce, which evoked a milder Russian dressing. Billed as a starter, these crevettes were substantive, fuel for a shopping expedition in Soho or bar hopping in Nolita.
As you know, we're living in an informal era, where you can wear flip flops to four-star establishments. This attitude manifests at Vin et Fleurs via the large Kobe hot dog ($11.75), smothered in unassuming sauerkraut and bacon jam. Fancy meat in a decidedly unfancy preparation brings together high and low. Even better, using Kobe beef meant the hot dog lacked the typical saltiness and tough skin, offering instead a smooth butteriness.
This restaurant provides a reprieve from the commercial maw of Soho; it offers a skinny strip of cosmopolitan liveliness and tweaked French food. Its entire front opens straight onto a residential section of Thompson Street. Wine and flowers are a simple yet winning formula, worth naming a restaurant for, worth building a date around, worth including in a guide to New York City. Vin et Fleurs is best for: a traveler's date.
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Because I remember my best friend Jane Johnson's brother, a medic who was with a unit not heard from for about six weeks while on the delta, I have special feelings about the Vietnam servicemen. Fortunately, he returned, though jarred by the experience -- but at least he returned alive. I have tears of joy, awe and respect as I write about a special project by Footnote that will be unveiled at a press conference tomorrow at the NARA building in Washington, DC. The official word from Footnote insiders is:
"Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, will be doing the unveiling along with Russ Wilding, CEO of Footnote. The project has been months in the making and provides an interactive experience for searching out names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. It also provides the ability to upload photos and create tributes."
So Ol' Myrt here viewed the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwMAgCLdks, and discovered Richard Schroepher explains his initial experience visiting the Vietnam Wall in Washington, DC. He described the same feelings of reverence and respect I felt as I walked the sidewalk in front of The Wall. Richard says The Wall is more than than 58,000+ names. These are many of his friends, who lost their lives in that military conflict. Richard served in the 1st Infantry Division, 1st of the 19th Infantry "Swamp Rats".
In the YouTube video, Richard goes on to explain how he uses the always free Vietnam Memorial Wall at Footnote.com to search for his buddy William "Glade" Henderson. Once he clicked Glade's name on the hit list, the name is also highlighted a picture of the Vietnam Wall at Footnote. Options include "MORE INFO" where one can view Glade's public record info of name, birth date, home town, religious affiliation, enlistment date, unit, enlistment type, casualty date, casualty type and his age at death. There are also options to add images and personal recollections.
Amazed by the effort put into this collection for such a worthwhile cause, I visited the Vietnam Memorial Wall at Footnote.com, where I discovered the following one may also browse the collection by the following categories:
- All names by any category (58,256)
- Enlistment type: Regular(34,820), Selective Service(17,848), Reserve(5,842) or National Guard(97)
- Service: Army(38,641), Marine Corp(15,003), Air Force(2,611), Navy(2,584), Coast Guard(7)
- Hometown: New York (1,385), Chicago(973), Philadelphia(628), Detroit(533), Baltimore(422) (to name a few)
Facts about The Interactive Wall
At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall).
- Footnote.com found 58,320 names inscribed on The Wall.
- There are about 70 names, which are duplicates or misspellings.
- 8 names are women.
- 2,056 are listed as "body not recovered."
- Average age is 22.8 years old.
This is a marvelous use of technology in this modern day and age – to honor the men and women who served in Vietnam. Bravo to Footnote for combining information on each individual whose name appears on the Vietnam Wall, and for making this virtual memorial possible.
Happy family tree climbing!
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I'm participating in Gretchen's Glatitudes today.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.I guess what he was saying is that it sucks to get old (knees included), but there is always the hope of eternity! :)


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The purpose of Social Security Disability benefits is to provide aid to those people who are unable to work due to a medical condition. Unfortunately, many disabled people who meet the requirements are often turned down the first time they apply. In fact, 65% of all initial claims for disability benefits are denied.
While there is an appeals process, it is very time-consuming, sometimes taking years to resolve. Enlisting the assistance of an attorney at the beginning of the process can cut down on the amount of time spent waiting for a decision.
Even if an attorney is not retained during the initial phase, seeking legal counsel during the appeals process may decrease the overall amount of time it will take to obtain a decision and start receiving benefits. In addition to the use of a lawyer, a basic knowledge of the disability determination process may also help shorten the wait.
Disability Process
An applicant's file is reviewed by the Disability Determination Service in the applicant's state. This group is composed of doctors and disability specialists who evaluate the application and then contact the applicant's doctors to determine:
– Status of the applicant's medical condition
– Date of onset of medical condition
– Limitations resulting from medical condition
– Results of medical tests
– Treatment received
This group will review several other factors, including the severity of the medical condition, whether the applicant is currently working, and whether the applicant can perform any other type of employment.
In order to manage the system's backlog, Compassionate Allowances (CAL) are granted for some terminal diseases that qualify from a list of 165 medical conditions (includes many types of cancer). This system is meant to promptly provide a determination for benefits to obviously disabled applicants; however, even these applicants have been known to wait up to six months for benefits.
After the Social Security Administration has reviewed the application, they will issue a letter explaining whether an applicant has been found eligible for benefits or not. If benefits are denied, the decision can be appealed but it must be requested in writing within 60 days after the initial letter is received.
There are three levels of appeal for denied disability claims:
1. Hearing by an administrative law judge
2. Review by Appeals Council
3. Federal court review
An applicant must begin with the hearing before moving to the next stages. If a hearing is granted, the applicant is allowed to attend, review the file used to make the decision and provide additional information. The administrative law judge may question the applicant and any witnesses the applicant chooses to bring along. After the hearing, the applicant will receive a letter and copy of the judge's decision.
If another denial is issued, the applicant can appeal by requesting a review by the Social Security's Appeals Council. The council will review the information, but may deny the appeal without a hearing if it agrees with the administrative law judge's determination.
The last step requires the applicant to file a lawsuit in federal district court.
In 2009, the initial determination took an average of four months. If appeals were required, they could take several years. Having the counsel of an experienced Social Security Disability attorney as early in the process as possible greatly increases the chance of receiving an accurate, timely decision, by helping to create an effective initial application and gathering the evidence needed for a successful appeal if needed.


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Legendary boxing writer Bert Sugar dies at 75
MOUNT KISKO, N.Y. -- Bert Sugar, an iconic boxing writer and sports historian, has died. He was 75.
Jennifer Frawley, Sugar's daughter, says cardiac arrest caused his death on Sunday at Northern Westchester Hospital. His wife, Suzanne, was by his side when he passed away.
Sugar was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005. According to the hall's website, Sugar wrote more than 80 books, including "The 100 Greatest Boxers Of All Time." He also appeared in a handful of films, including "The Great White Hype" starring Samuel Jackson.
Frawley says anyone wishing to honor Sugar should make a donation to the boxing hall. She says, "he was really a brilliant man."


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Inoculating children against flu protects more people of all ages in the larger community, probably because young people tend to spread viruses through physical play, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.
Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario found there were 61 percent fewer flu cases in isolated communities where children and adolescents received the seasonal influenza vaccine, compared to communities where children received an unrelated vaccine.
Targeting children with a vaccine could protect the wider population, researcher Mark Loeb and colleagues concluded in their report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Influenza struck 2,326 unvaccinated participants in the 46 religious Hutterite communities in western Canada that were chosen for study because they have limited outside contacts.
In communities where roughly four out of five children aged 3 to 15 were vaccinated, 3.1 percent of the people got the flu compared to a 7.6 percent infection rate in communities where no one was vaccinated against flu.
This demonstrated the widely-accepted concept of "herd immunity" -- that vaccination programs can still be effective even if not everyone is vaccinated -- which could have public health implications, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"Before, the healthy adolescent kids were not among those that were highly recommended to get vaccinated," said Fauci, whose NIAID is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which helped fund the study.
"Now, this shows that even though they don't usually get into trouble from the flu, you can get double bang for the buck by protecting not only them but the people they come in contact with."
For instance, if there was a shortage of flu vaccine, it might be more effective to vaccinate the young, even though the flu presents less of a danger to them, because their rough-and-tumble socializing habits can easily spread viruses.
Last month, vaccine advisers to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention recommended everyone over the age of six months should receive seasonal flu vaccines every year.
Seasonal flu is blamed for 36,000 U.S. deaths each year.
Fauci said the same universal vaccination policy might apply against the pandemic H1N1 virus known as swine flu, which the CDC estimated has killed about 12,000 Americans.
"Now that we're talking about vaccinating everyone, this (idea of selective vaccination of children) becomes a little bit of a moot point," Fauci added in a telephone interview.
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Remember when politicians up and down the Eastern Seaboard were whipping citizens into a frenzy of panic and last-minute purchases before big, bad Irene hit? With the hurricane—well, not even a hurricane anymore, since it was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday morning—done and gone, there's some damage: around a dozen people were killed, countless trees fell, and many people lost their homes.
So the fuss turned out to be rather overblown. What does that mean for the politicos who issued those dire warnings Friday? It's often hard to assign blame or credit directly, since much of the impact is a matter of luck or the effectiveness of utility companies—but that won't stop us from grading some of the leading figures.
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue
On Friday, Politico veered close to self-parody by asking how the still-awaited Irene would affect the first-term Democrat's election chances, which look bleak. So far, she seems to have weathered Irene all right. The Tar Heel State got pummeled with nearly the full force of the storm and experienced more deaths than any other state so far. But power is already back for many of the approximately 500,000 North Carolinians who had lost it, and Perdue has arrived in Trenton, one of the harder-hit areas, to survey the damage and direct clean-up efforts.
Grade: B-
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
The belle of the panic ball on Friday was Bloomberg (well, aside from cable news). And who could blame hizzoner? He desperately needed a better performance in Irene than he delivered during a late-December blizzard. During that storm, the city's response was lumbering and ineffective, and Bloomberg was forced to take personal responsibility. So on Friday, he issued mandatory evacuation orders for nearly 400,000 New Yorkers, insisted that residents stock up on essentials, and announced that the subways would close at noon on Saturday. It set off a flurry of activity, although in classic fashion some jaded New Yorkers refused to evacuate. What happened? Well, not much. Parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn saw minor flooding, and trees are down all over the city. Despite fears that ConEd, the power company, would preemptively cut electricity, the lights stayed on. Bloomberg seems to be on the defensive, insisting on Sunday that the measures his administration took were prudent and wise. Overall, however, initial reviews are mixed but leaning toward positive. It looks like Bloomberg may have overreacted—but better safe than sorry, and this was a vast improvement over past performance. The city also deserves plaudits for moving quickly to rescue some 60 people trapped on Staten Island. But watch for New Yorkers' patience to wear thin Monday: the subways may not be up and running until well into the day, which could paralyze the city and bring out the Big Apple's testiness. In the meantime, many New Yorkers seemed to have decided to discard Bloomberg's counsel altogether on Sunday—despite admonitions to stay inside, Brooklyn's Prospect Park was hopping.
Grade: B-
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
Like Bloomberg, Christie had something to prove: when the December 2010 snowstorm hit, not only did his state fumble the response, but the governor was in Florida, cavorting at Disney World. This time he gave the storm his all, with trademark panache—telling Jerseyans to "get the hell off the beach!" Given the serious damage across the Garden State, his warnings seem to have been on the mark—although New York magazine couldn't resist tweaking him for tweeting about his own media appearances while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was tweeting actual, useful hurricane info.
Grade: A-
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell
The Old Dominion, too, was hard-hit by the storm, with four fatalities and the second-largest number of power outages in state history. But McDonnell, a first-term Republican, probably can rest easy: the reaction of many residents on the coast seems to be a shrug of relief. McDonnell went on Meet the Press Sunday morning and looks good now—but could be in trouble if the power isn't back on for most Virginians within a couple of days.
Grade: A
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley
The Democrat had ordered some evacuations, including in the resort town of Ocean City. But although there are some power outages, Maryland looks to be sitting pretty. Even in Ocean City, where the storm produced dramatic images, the iconic boardwalk escaped serious damage and residents have returned. Given earlier predictions that Irene might head straight up the Chesapeake Bay, O'Malley lucked out.
Grade: A
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate
The reputation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has never recovered from Hurricane Katrina, so Irene is a big test. So far, the agency seems to be doing a decent job. Across the country, FEMA has teams on the ground and is in contact with state officials, and administrator Craig Fugate made the rounds of Sunday shows to make sure his message was getting out. Maryland Governor O'Malley praised the agency for a fast response during a Meet the Press appearance on Sunday. But with millions of Americans still without power at best or homeless at worst, it's too early to give Fugate a grade. Meanwhile, funding for whatever FEMA does is likely to become a partisan football.
Grade: Incomplete
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
In typical fashion, the Democrat has taken a lower-key approach than Christie. But he's been active in responding to the storm and dispensing useful advice on Twitter—even doing a bit of citizen journalism of his own by taking surprisingly good photos of flooding upstate. Most of the media attention so far may have been on Bloomberg's turf in New York City, but much of the damage is outside the city, in Westchester County and Long Island. That means Cuomo will have his work cut out for him over the next few days.
Grade: A
President Barack Obama
Forget the actual actions; the biggest danger for any president during an emergency is simply appearing to be detached—just ask George W. Bush about Katrina. Obama declared states of emergency in several states even before landfall, a move that ensured that they'd have access to federal cash for clean-up and rescue efforts. Since Irene hit, he's been keeping tabs on FEMA's work. And his decision to leave vacation on Martha's Vineyard early and return to Washington may not make much difference in government response, but it's good optics.
Grade: A


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Online content marketing is getting tougher day by day. Online marketers are trying to come up with different strategies to promote a website, product, or service. One of the strategies that is fast becoming a trend is video marketing. It is estimated that video marketing will increase by 50% by 2015.
Top Reasons Why You Need Video Marketing In Your Website
- Video marketing can give you a huge advantage against your competitors. An online video is 53 times more likely to be ranked on the search engines according to the Forrester Research.
- Customers are more likely to buy from your company after watching a video of your product or service.
- Videos can increase traffic to your website especially if it there are YouTube videos that are SEO optimized.
- Videos are more personal because it implores a human element to it with the characters and voice. People would rather choose a video with a cartoon character than read a 4 page article.
- Online lead generation is easier when there is a video either on your site or other video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
- A video is more likely to be shared on the different social networks. Notice that videos tend to go viral instead of just regular articles and posts.
- An online video can convert a cold into a hot lead. And more hot leads can yield more conversions.
- A video is more effective to produce and promote throughout the web.
- Video marketing increases online reputation which makes potential customers trust your service or product leading to a successful conversion.
Where to put your online videos
When you've decided to implement a video marketing strategy, the next step is getting it produced and where to place it. On your website you can place it on your homepage, sales pages, and lead pages. You can also share your videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and other video sites.


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My original surgery in 2007 was for a slipped disc L5/S1. When I had my huge fast leaks after the surgeries I suffered terrible constant cramps in my back stomach and legs during the leaks for days and days to the point where I was in such agony I begged them to let me die. This was relieved a lot after each of the repair surgeries.
During the last few months the pain in my back and legs has increased a lot. I feel like all my nerves are being squeezed in my legs at the front of my thighs and from behind my knees down into my calfs. This is especially worse as the day goes on and the more I am upright. When I go to bed at night I have what I call irritable leg syndrome and really struggle to get to sleep because of it. When I wake up in the morning my legs are fine and so is my back until I get up and start walking about, doing things etc. I have had nerve testing done which came back normal in my legs and arms.
So I was wondering if this is because of the scar tissue from all the surgeries causing this and if so why is it getting worse recently, or could it be yet another sign of CSF leak? Could the leaking CSF (if there is any) be affecting the nerves? Given my headaches are getting worse too, and the worse my back and legs are the worse my head is I do wonder if it this is related or incidental?
Hope Im not annoying people by posting too much on here. I find this site, csfleak site and facebook such a source of information, comfort and support, and I dont have any anywhere else. I dont have anyone I can talk to, discuss my fears with, cry with, fight with. I am completely alone with this. My partner is very supportive and always there for me, doing everything all the time, but is completely saturated with all of this and just says he doesnt know what to say any more and reads his book.


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Elise Katherine Moore
Jade Moore and Katie Jo Lively, both of Barnesville, announce the birth of their daughter Elise Katherine "Ellie Kate" Moore at 5:19 a.m. Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston.
She weighed 7 pounds, 15.5 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Kay and David Lively of Barnesville. Maternal great-grandparents are Eleanor A. Selsor of Barnesville, Arlene and Bill Veasey of Jonesboro, Bill Lively of Hampton and Elaine Mobley of Sautee.
Paternal grandparents are Jeff and Gwen Moore of Barnesville. Paternal great-grandparents are Jimmy and Dolores Moore of Barnesville and Jean Compton of Barnesville.
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Independent financial advisors are deeply committed to their clients and are proud of the level of service they provide. When a Main Street investor sits down to discuss his or her financial future with an advisor affiliated with an independent financial services firm, they can have confidence that the professional across the table has been examined on a regular basis by their broker-dealer compliance department, FINRA and the SEC.
What many investors don't realize, though, is that this level of examination doesn't exist for all advisors offering that same advice.
This gap exists because, under current conditions, broker-dealer affiliated financial advisors and independent RIAs operate under a fragmented regulatory framework, with FINRA regulating broker-dealers and the SEC overseeing RIAs. The SEC lacks the resources to adequately oversee the RIA sector, as the agency concluded itself in a study it conducted under Dodd-Frank. As a result of this regulatory patchwork, RIAs are only examined, on average, once every 11 years; Here is another astounding statistic: according to the SEC, nearly 40% have never been examined at all.
The current fragmented system of oversight creates risks for Main Street investors that are clearly unacceptable. Fortunately, leaders in Congress and within our industry are aware of this problem, and are working toward a solution.
Dodd-Frank, as imperfect and, often, infuriating as it is, nonetheless mandated that the SEC study and make recommendations to Congress for reforming the current regulatory system to protect Main Street investors. In order to address that law, on April 25, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) introduced legislation that would accomplish this vital goal by creating a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for RIAs. The legislation, if signed into law, would dramatically improve oversight for RIAs and ensure a much greater degree of consumer protection.
We applaud the bipartisan efforts of Chairman Bachus and the House Financial Services Committee to remedy this urgent regulatory imbalance. FSI has long called for a single SRO to oversee both the broker-dealer and RIA segments of the industry, as well as for a properly structured and uniform fiduciary standard. And our members agree: a recent FSI poll of over 2,000 financial advisors showed that roughly 75% of them favored an SRO for RIAs.
We believe that the best candidate to serve as the unified SRO for our industry is an established organization with a deep understanding of effective oversight. As FSI has said before, that organization is FINRA. While no regulator is perfect, and FSI fully understands the problems and our members' frustrations with FINRA, the simple fact is, FINRA is in the strongest position to close this unacceptable regulatory gap, improve investor protection and establish an even playing field for all financial advisors.
FSI's members and senior staff have maintained a strong and open dialogue with FINRA. The professionals there have been consistently receptive to our members' feedback and have been willing to make changes in proposed regulations in response to our concerns. Our members are highly engaged with FINRA at the grass-roots level, as well: in January, 16 additional FSI members were elected to FINRA District Committees throughout the country.
While effectiveness is the key issue in determining the unified SRO for our industry, cost is also a critical consideration. In this area as well, FINRA represents the best option.
FINRA estimates its one-time startup costs to serve as the SRO for RIAs at approximately $12 million to $15 million, with ongoing annual costs of approximately $150 million to $155 million. These projections, compiled by experienced regulators with first-hand knowledge of the costs of running an SRO, are much lower than estimates from another source (that never even asked FINRA for input on its study), and reinforce FINRA's position as the most appropriate organization to serve as the unified SRO for our industry.
Consumers deserve much greater transparency than they currently receive when it comes to securing their financial futures. Main Street investors deserve a unified standard of oversight that provides necessary assurances of quality and compliance, enforced by a capable and experienced SRO: FINRA.
Hard-working Americans do not have the time or the resources to determine on their own whether their financial advisor is receiving the proper oversight. Thanks to Chairman Bachus, the solution for this regulatory disparity is now on the table. We look forward to working with all of our members and leaders in Congress to make it a reality and then to hold FINRA accountable to deliver the best, most effective and least intrusive oversight of our members in the future.


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Impact at BCG means challenging our clients to think critically about their business to unlock new sources of value.
BCG was recently asked to help evaluate the strategy for a destination-focused airline. The company had enjoyed immense success but found itself facing increasingly strong headwinds, which posed a significant threat to the business and its growth ambitions. Our task was to evaluate the biggest risks to the go-forward strategy.
As the project leader on the case, I worked with senior leaders across the organization to not only get their thoughts on what the strategy should be but also challenge their underlying assumptions with data and rigorous analytics. Our team worked together with the clients to pressure-test the key tenets of their strategy and come to consensus on the viability of the model.
As a result of this case, we identified the top value drivers for the company and crafted a roadmap to capture this value. Through the process, we challenged our clients to think more broadly about their business to unlock new and different levers of value.
Pallavi holds a biomedical engineering degree from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started at BCG as an associate in 2008. Outside of BCG, Pallavi has worked at Goldman Sachs in the investment banking division and at Apple.