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In most design firms, the overall workload is uneven from month
to month. This makes it difficult to have the right resources in
place when they are needed. If you don't have a reliable method of
forecasting the workload, you could easily find yourself
overstaffed (and unprofitable) or understaffed (and having
difficulty delivering on client commitments). In this two-part
article, we'll discuss two different types of forecasting for
design firms. The first is a short-term projection of the workload
based on specific projects and client accounts; the second is a
longer-term projection of overall financial activity based on past
performance, adjusted for new assumptions about market
Of course, trying to predict anything is a guessing game.
However, if you come to the process with enough relevant
information, you can in fact get useful results. The crystal ball
needs to clear up just enough to give you an indication of whether
your company will be at or near its productive capacity. As soon as
you know this, you can make any necessary adjustments-such as
accelerating (or perhaps delaying) the start of any large new
projects or arranging for more (or fewer) resources. In particular,
a reliable projection of the workload can help you determine
whether any changes might be needed to your company's head
Before you can begin to predict tomorrow's workload and
finances, you need to know exactly where you stand today. This
essential business information needs to be coming to you
Let's take a quick look at each of these individually.
It's vital to track the time and materials going into open
projects. You need easy access to real-time totals of labor and
outside costs, which means that daily posting of timesheets and
vendor invoices is required. Many different project-tracking
systems are available. Among other capabilities, the system you
select must compare estimates to actuals and calculate the
remaining balances on projects. These numbers are necessary for the
workload projection that we'll be discussing in this article. Also,
keeping a close eye on the time and materials remaining is an
essential part of tracking the burn rate on large projects, as
discussed in a previous CPM
article on project management.
Your weekly recap of all new business development efforts should
include rough estimates of the schedules and expected billings for
pending projects. Quantify each opportunity as best you can. Also,
make sure you're capturing all marketing activities. In many
studios, several people are involved in soliciting new projects.
Preparing and discussing a weekly recap allows the group to
exchange information, develop shared priorities, and coordinate
Your monthly financial statements (balance sheet and P&L)
must be timely and accurate. As discussed in another article on financial
management, you need to track key financial indicators and
watch for trends. To help with this, it's a great idea to maintain
a set of monthly charts to visualize the data. (We'll come back to
the topic of charts in a moment.)
If you have all of these prerequisites in place, you're ready to
move forward to the process of preparing projections. Our
discussion will focus on two formats. First let's examine a
short-term approach.
This type of forecast can be described as a "bottom up"
projection because it's built up from specific details about active
projects and client accounts. It's quite realistic because it's
firmly anchored in today's information. The general concept for
this is visualized in Figure 1:
Figure 1: The projected workload includes current projects
winding down and new projects ramping up. Ideally, the combined
total is close to your firm's productive capacity.
In preparing this projection, you'll be bringing together two
sets of current numbers: actual projects that are winding down,
plus new business that you expect to be ramping up. Figure 2
contains some sample data in this format. As you can see, the upper
portion of the worksheet shows active projects. The columns show
the approved total for each project, minus the amount already
billed, leaving you with the amount remaining. This remaining
balance is then spread across the number of months left in the
Figure 2: This short-term projection shows the workload in terms
of anticipated monthly billings. From this, we can develop a rough
idea of the head count necessary to produce the work.
Please note that we're looking at dollars rather than hours.
This means we're making an important assumption that the two are
still largely in sync. However, this might not be the case if
you're working on a fixed-fee project that has turned out to be
much more labor-intensive than you originally anticipated. The real
work might extend beyond the end of the negotiated billings. As you
read down this list of open projects, you'll see that some have
just begun, while others are almost finished. When each project
does come to an end, the individuals or teams involved will become
available for new assignments.
Now let's move to the middle section of this worksheet. It shows
potential new projects that will be ramping up. Each new business
opportunity has been assigned an estimated schedule and a total
billing value. To be conservative, these estimated billings must
then be factored back to reflect the probability of you landing the
assignment. This probability factor is a judgment call. If a
potential project is add-on work for an existing client, it's an
initiative that the client is definitely committed to and you know
for certain that no other studios are being approached, then you'll
assign a high probability. In contrast, if you're in a competitive
bidding situation to land a new client and you know they're talking
to three or four different firms, you'll assign a lower
probability. Your chances may be one in three (33 percent) or one
in four (25 percent).
Compiling this new business data every week is an ongoing
challenge. To quantify each opportunity, you need to be far enough
along in your conversations with the client to have sufficient
information for your assumptions to be reliable. Any preliminary
conversations that are still too vague for you to quantify should
only be listed here with zeros.
Regarding schedules: the upper portion of this projection should
guide you in setting potential start dates for future work.
Obviously, you can't promise to start a big new project tomorrow if
you already know that the essential resources for it are still tied
up with a previous assignment.
The next step in preparing this short-term projection is to
combine the two pieces we've been discussing: project tracking data
plus new business information equals a rough projection of the
total workload. Based on this projected workload, we can now
estimate the total head count that will be needed. At the bottom of
Figure 2, the monthly number shown for "head count required" is a
very loose estimate-it should be calculated using your own firm's
history of average billings per person. This is not an exact
science. It's just a very quick and simplistic comparison of total
employees to total revenue. The number includes all staff, not just
those doing hands-on creative work. Billings per person can vary
quite a bit from firm to firm, depending on the nature of the work
being produced by your employees and the amount of third-party
services being purchased. For example, a media placement firm could
have very high billings but a low head count.
As we discussed in the article on financial
management, design firms often expect annual labor billings to
average somewhere between $100K and $125K per person. This
represents a monthly average of approximately $8K to $10K. For
discussion purposes, if your projected monthly billings for the
entire company are about $200K and your past billings per employee
have averaged $10K per month, then you would need approximately 20
people to support the projected workload.
Once you've calculated the head count required, compare it to
the actual size of your staff. The two totals will never be an
exact match because capacity and demand are never entirely in sync.
However, if the discrepancy between the two is large, you should
consider making some changes to your resources.
If the projection indicates that you're going to need more
people than you currently have, you now have some lead time for
booking freelancers or making new hires. In many industries,
managers think it's desirable to have demand that is slightly
beyond regular capacity because it puts pressure on the company to
become more organized and efficient. In manufacturing, a short-term
spike in demand temporarily takes the company into overtime
capacity. If workers are being paid on an hourly basis, overtime
scheduling results in increased costs. Analysis is done to make
sure the additional costs are more than offset by increased
In contrast, design firms usually pay creative team members a
fixed salary. This means that temporary spikes in the workload can
result in additional billings without any change to labor costs.
(Some design managers refer to this short-term dynamic as
"compression.") However, if such a situation continues for too
long, it has the very real potential of lowering morale, which
negatively impacts the quality of work being performed. It also
leads to employee burnout.
The opposite situation would be a design firm operating below
its regular capacity. If there are not enough client projects to go
around, a portion of the workforce will be idle. Typically, design
firms have limited financial reserves, and they cannot afford to
carry labor costs that do not contribute in some way to client
billings. If your short-term projection indicates a workload that
is too light to support the number of people on the payroll, you
might consider several management options:
Obviously, staffing and payroll issues are very important to
your company and to the individual people involved. You won't make
such decisions lightly. Fine-tune the format of your short-term
projection to fit your own company's situation more closely, and
make sure all of the numbers are as current and reliable as you can
make them. Run this projection at least twice over the course of a
month before making any decision about resources.
In the field of personnel management, issues related to
projected staffing levels are often referred to as "workforce
planning." Every business faces the challenge of having the right
workers with the right skills at the right time. Head count is only
one aspect of this. You must also consider skill sets.
The supply and demand equation for specific creative skills is
different in each city. As a design firm owner or manager, you are
of course on the demand side of this equation. Keep in mind that
the requirements of your organization today may be different from
tomorrow. You may need to make gradual changes to the mix of skills
if your firm is evolving away from one design discipline and toward
another. New project types will require different design and
implementation capabilities. On an even larger scale, you might be
contemplating a shift in your company's basic business model. If
so, the staffing implications could be significant. For example, if
you move toward more brokering of third-party services, it's likely
that your company will need a much smaller core staff.
At this point in your planning process, you've determined
whether different skills need to be brought into your organization.
If the answer is yes, we need to shift our attention to the supply
side. What are the conditions in your local labor pool? Is the
available workforce supply a match to your company's needs? How
many good designers are available in your particular discipline and
how much competition is there for them? Recruitment of creative
staff tends to be a slow and careful process. In the meantime, you
might need some immediate assistance in producing short-term
projects. If so, it may be possible to bring in one or two
freelancers on short notice. To keep this option open, you need to
consciously maintain a broad professional network, with information
about who is available, their specialties, and their billing
To effectively manage long-term client relationships, however,
you'll want to assign staff members to important accounts. If
you've done a good job of forecasting, you should have enough lead
time to go through a careful employee recruitment process. This can
easily take a month or more.
One final note about the format of this short-term projection:
when you prepare the worksheet for your own firm, the time frame
may vary -- that is to say, you might need more columns on the
right side. Four or five months, as shown in our example, would be
a typical horizon for many graphic design firms, which tend to have
lots of small, fast projects. In contrast, six months or more would
be typical for product development or environmental graphic design
firms, where projects tend to be larger and have extended
Now that we've looked at a short-term projection, we're ready to
turn our attention to a long-term forecast (that is to say, a
projection that covers a year or more). That will be the topic of
part two of this article.
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Walker has asked state Superintendent Tony Evers to revoke Harris' license, under an immoral conduct clause. The Department of Public Instruction says it has the case under review, but has not commented further.
Walker spokesman Tom Evenson told WKOW that Lund raised her concerns to the governor, but she's not the reason the Republican Walker made his request.
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WKOW also quoted what Lund wrote on Facebook about the matter recently. She blamed, "a system that puts what's best for teachers waaaay in front of what's best for students."
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Personally i enjoyed the 2D graphics on origins better.
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At the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, 1 or 2 PhD Scholarships are vacant at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University (http://www.epa.aau.dk/forskningsenheder/ccws/). The positions are open for appointment as soon as possible.
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UPDATE DEC. 5: KJ and his little brother are recovering and doing well. Doctors say they were able to get enough viable stem cells to give KJ a surplus for 10 years. He will be in the hospital for the next four to six weeks. It will be about a year before the family will know if the transplant was a partial or complete success.
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Just looking at 5-year-old KJ McKenzie you wouldn't guess he's just been through eight days of grueling chemotherapy. "His bone marrow transplant is tomorrow. The chemotherapy that he had is as intense as any chemotherapy we give. And how did he act? He just spent the entire eight days running around the ward. Nine out of ten adults would be laying face down in this bed. This guy doesn't let it get him down," says Dr. Greg Yanik, a pediatric oncologist.We first met the superhero fanatic almost a year ago when he was undergoing weekly blood transfusion for Sickle cell anemia, a painful disorder that blocks healthy blood flow to vital organs, muscles and tissues. Sickle cell causes life-threatening complications. Most with the disease don't live to 60. KJ's doctors said he wasn't a candidate for a bone marrow transplant. It's risky but the most effective treatment. But after our report in February viewers urged KJ's family to get a second opinion."She told me, as a parent, if her mother had an opportunity to cure her and did not cure her - she would never forgive her," says Tamiko McKenzie, KJ's mother. "KJ was already experiencing silent strokes. His heart valve was enlarged. So all of those things were uncovered after coming here.""There's approximately 100,000 Americans in the U.S. that are affected with sickle cell. It affects about one out of every 500 African American children in the United States. For those children, it's an incredible life of ups and downs that they face," says Dr. Yanik.He is KJ's doctor at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor where they perform 250 bone marrow transplants every year. Thursday little KJ will be one of them, getting bone marrow getting drilled from the hip of his 3-year-old brother, Carson. KJ Is lucky to have a match. There are more than 10 million people waiting for a bone marrow transplant. The test - a simple swab of the cheek, but people just don't do it. "For patients like KJ, we need more minority donors," says Dr. Yanik. "Our ability to help these children with sickle cell is really dependent on our ability to get individuals into that registry." "They have given us a chance for a new life, a normal life, a better quality of life for KJ, that we never thought we would have," says Tamiko. "It's a big deal because I'll have two children in the hospital."If the surgery is a success KJ can look forward to playing outside and chasing his friends, the normal kid stuff he couldn't do before. His superhero family can take a day off.
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Riches vis-a-vis respect.
I do not envy people who are rich. They must be terribly distressed by the idea of ever losing their riches. Second, they never know who their friends are, since "a friend in NEED is a friend indeed".
However I do envy people who are widely respected. It sort of humiliates me that I am insignificant. Hence I draw the conclusion that - in our heart of hearts - we are not craving for money, but we are all craving for respect, clout, sense of importance. The desire for respect stems directly from our basic instinct. Respectable status enjoyed by ourselves gives our genes a better chance to be passed on to offspring, and our offspring better chance to survive while under our parental custody. Those who try to accumulate a lot of wealth only do so, because they think they will be able to BUY other people's respect. They are bound to find out to their frustration that RESPECT CANNOT BE BOUGHT. Conversly you do not need riches to earn other people's respect. The obvious lesson from this analysis is that we should all concentrate our efforts, thoughts, attention on getting the real thing - the respect. The very first step in the process is to begin to respect yourself. Do not proceed to step 2, before step 1 is really and truly accomplished :-)
A word of caution. Respect is a dangerous possession. The more widely respected you are, the more limelight you are in. Make one false step and your ruin will be in proportion to the amount of respect you have enjoyed, and you stand to end up worse off that you would if you were a nobody. So if you are unsure of your own morality or integrity if you like, think twice before you embark on a journey in quest of too much respect from other people. In other words maintain the respect from other people at levels commensurate to the respect you have for yourself.
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Jan 17 2013: Jarek, I notice you have no bio ... I always look so I can be able to reply apples to apples and use examples based on your occupation and hobbies etc ... I find this helpful.
I am not quite sure of what your idea is and therefore unsure of what type of response you are seeking.
I would appreciate clairafication please.
Jan 18 2013: My bio? Well, you asked for it and after all ego trips are everyone's favourie form of travel :-)
I am 50. I chucked my regular employment 3 years ago, after 20 yars of faithful, dedicated service, when it eventually (way too late) dawned on me that it was nothing but that proverbial rat race in that nothing mattered except the amount of money that I was able to generate for the company. I have a wife, but no children and being practically unemployed try to eek out a hand to mouth existence doing things which, for a change, do make sense to me.
What response to my post am I seeking? I just want to know what your thoughts are if any after reaing it.
Why am I curious to know? Because I see the world around me again sliding into the abyss of war. I would like to form some idea why this is.
Jan 18 2013: Jarek, Thanks for being so open. I have only my name and location in my bio which allows people to know when I say "here" where "here" is. Many people say our system is better than yours but will not say where they are from. To bad I would love to see the facts on their ideal world LOL.
I have been very luck and know some rich and famous people. Some are jerks and some are really good people. I do not respect anyone for what they are .... they earn respect by being who they are.
Is this war in the US? Is it the administrations war on the 1%? If not where so I can better understand and research a answer.
Thanks for the reply. Bob.
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7 U.S. Code § 1855 - Supplemental appropriations to encourage exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural products
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $500,000,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to further carry out the provisions of section 612c of this title, subject to all provisions of law relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated by such section, except that up to 50 per centum of such $500,000,000 may be devoted during any fiscal year to any one agricultural commodity or the products thereof.
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svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file size
In a recent post, we attributed the high performance of icon fonts over images to their support for vector expressions. Yet fonts aren't the only vector savvy players in town, and a few folks were left wondering, what about svgs?
In light of our recent announcement that pictonic's icon font packs now include svg files too, we thought we'd do a quick write up to highlight the main pros and cons of each.
Since svgs are written in xml, they're pretty easy to understand, and since they're pretty easy to understand, they're pretty easy to manipulate.
The implications of this are nothing short of revolutionary as far as web media goes… you can literally read write, generate and manipulate svg source code, on the client, in real time! Seriously, its a lot of fun, check it out and have a play!
Or for something more basic, go to the following code pen, and change this:
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cool eh?
SVGs also don't have to be monochrome, so you can create pretty complex pictograms with svgs, and like our font counterparts, they are easily styleable with css.
These things combined really make svgs an important part of the internet's evolution. So why then have svgs not taken the web by storm? Probably due to concerns about browser compatibility, and its not hard to see why. IE only began supporting svgs in version 9. But even the most standards compliant and forward looking browsers still don't meet the full w3 svg specification:
SVG Test Suite Results
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Don't be put off by this. The w3 standard for svgs goes way beyond basic svg functionality and those tests include advanced features like effects and filters. The bottom line is that every browser now has basic support for svg:
Browser support for basic svg functionality
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Fonts are monochrome, so they're not an appropriate medium for complex imagery. However, for simple shapes like user interface icons or logos they're ideal. Such icons prove to be very versatile, recognisable at really small scales, and as our designer says, naturally bring out one of the most powerful design forms - negative space (see our previous post on designing icons for use in icon fonts). This is why they're used a great deal in user interfaces, and why logos like the apple logo or the nike swish work almost anywhere.
However, where icon fonts really shine over svgs is in providing an unbelievably lightweight and efficient way to theme websites. You can cram hundreds of icons into a tiny font file. This makes it really convenient for serving up rich user interfaces with very little overhead. Binary formats are quite a bit more efficient than text formats, so the actual file size of a ttf font will often be many times smaller than the aggregate file size of equivalent icon svgs, or even an svg font. Also, browser support for icon fonts is pretty good, with native support going back till ie7, and simple workarounds to get it working in ie7 and under.
So for those of you who prefer to see some hard data, I whipped up some numbers to give some idea on how each format might impact your page load speed.
First of all, both formats are scale independent, so whether you want your icons at 16x16px or 512x512px, the file size will be the same. However, as you can see below, for a typical icon pack downloaded from pictonic.co (around 25 icons), the file size of a ttf is about 20% of its svg equivalent.
Filesize as scale increases
Furthermore, this gap widens considerably as the number of icons increases. At 50 icons, the ttf is roughly just 10% of the total file size of the svgs.
Filesize as number of icons increases
To see how that might be impacting your website speed, consider the following. The average size of a webpage is 320kb, and according to research published by google analytics, the average page load is about 7 seconds. This means that on average, clients load pages at roughly 45kb per second. Therefore, assuming you're using a typical number of icons like 25, using an icon font instead of svgs could speed up your page load speed by about 8.5%.
For the specific use case of theming websites and user interfaces with icons, its pretty hard to beat icon fonts, both in terms of ease of integration and performance. This goes a large way towards explaining their unprecedented rise in popularity in recent months.
However, SVGs are literally amazing. With them, you're pretty much limited by your imagination and that's about it. Here at creative sloth, we're looking forward to seeing how their use in the web develops over time, and believe them to be an important part of its evolution. Thats why we've decided to include svgs with every icon font pack downloaded from pictonic.co.
That concludes our comparison, but we very much look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions on both!
All well and good, but what about compression? This followup post compares svgs and icon fonts when gzipped.
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Can a damaged optic nerve be repaired?
Several components of the human visual system must work together for an image to be detected, transmitted, and then processed by the brain. A simple model for the complex visual system can be represented by a video camera, wires, and computer. The eye is similar to a video camera with sensors that detect colors, shapes, and motion. The optic nerve is the wire that connects the eye (i.e. video camera) to the brain (i.e. computer) for processing of visual information. The average human optic nerve is about 1.5-2.0 mm in diameter (less than one tenth of an inch) and contains 1.2 million nerve fibers.
I came across your name while looking for information related to optic nerve repair – I was also trying to locate the email address of Dr. Neil Miller, which I couldn't find – then I came across your blog, and hence this email. This subject has been of profound personal interest to me – my sister, who is now 46, and lives in India, lost her eye-sight completely in 1991. She had undergone three brain surgeries over a 14 year period – the surgeries were done to remove a persistent brain tumor that occurred in the vicinity of the optic nerve. While the initial surgeries were successful, the final surgery in 1991 left her with complete blindness after the tumor was removed. The tumor has not returned since 1991, and neither has her vision.
I've been in the US for the last 14 years, and have been reading articles on this subject - perhaps neurosurgery would advance to the level that could result in a cure for my sister. I'd very much appreciate hearing your views on this. I am happy to bring her to the US for treatment, even if there were a slim chance of success.
The ganglion cells in the eye give rise to the nerve fiber layer which aggregate and form connections with the brain via the optic nerve. Disruptions along the path of the optic nerve result in visual loss. In the situation of a brain tumor, the tumor can compress the optic nerve and cause visual loss. When there are surgeries around the optic nerve, parts of the optic nerve may be damaged resulting in visual loss. Sometimes, during tumor removal surgery, the entire optic nerve can be cut.
When the entire optic nerve is cut, all 1.2 million nerve fibers within the nerve are also cut. Current research is focused on growth factors that guide the growth of a damaged optic nerve and assist the connection of the nerve with the proper areas in the brain [review article]. The problem is that 1.2 million nerve fibers must be reconnected properly for the visual system to function correctly. At the present time, we do not have the medical technology to repair damaged optic nerves in humans.
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"Voice of the Predators" Pete Weber (Twitter: @PeteWeberSports) enters his 15th season as the team's primary play-by-play announcer in 2012-13. His insight into the team and the game of hockey is a regular feature in local sports talk radio and television, and he also consistently contributes to the Predators' website and team publications. In January 2012, Weber was named the Tennessee Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Pete is slated to be a "Western Conference Insider" on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's "NHL Home Ice" shows (XM 204) once again in 2012-13, and is slated to join "Slapshot Radio" as a co-host this season. In addition to his duties with the team, Weber co-hosted SportsNight (a popular local sportstalk radio program) from July 2003 until August 2005 and has filled in as a program host for ESPN Radio. He has also called the Music City Bowl and done games for the Triple-A baseball Nashville Sounds' broadcasts, in addition to producing and hosting weekly podcasts: "This Week in the Minor Leagues" and the syndicated "Southern Pro Football."
Weber spent two seasons (1995-97) as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Sabres, three seasons (1978-81) as the color analyst for the Los Angeles Kings and also served as host of "Hockey Night with the Buffalo Sabres" from 1990-93. Along with his 23 seasons of NHL experience, Weber has served as a play-by-play voice in baseball (Buffalo Bisons, 1983-95), basketball (Seattle SuperSonics, 1981-82) and football (University of Buffalo, 1992). He has called the hockey action for the University of Notre Dame (1974-76) and the University at Buffalo (1976-78) and was part of the Buffalo Bills' broadcast team during their four Super Bowl seasons (1990-93).
Weber was inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. He has won Mid-South Regional Emmys for his work on Predators' broadcasts in 2003, 2008 and 2010. He also sits on the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Nashville/Mid-South Chapter's Board of Governors.
The Galesburg, Ill., native is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Weber and his wife, Claudia, reside in Nashville.
Terry Crisp, Color Analyst
Entering his 16th year with the Predators, Terry Crisp provides the color commentary on the club's television broadcasts and helps comprise one of the most well-known broadcast duos in the League. He contributes insight to the Predators' website and worked as a studio analyst for Canada's TSN during the 2000, 2002 and 2003 IIHF World Championships. Crisp also hosts his own radio show, Extra Crispy, on the Predators flagship radio station 102.5 The Game.
A part of the Predators' Emmy-winning broadcasts in 2003, 2008 and 2010, Crisp served as a color analyst for FOX Sports during the 1998-99 season and during the 1998 and 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, and has served in a similar capacity for TSN in past years.
Crisp posted 201 points (67g-134a) in 536 games during his 11 seasons in the NHL as a player for the Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers. He has won three Stanley Cup Championships, two as a player with the Flyers (1974 and 1975) and one as a coach with Calgary (1989), and he is one of only 14 people to have won the Cup as both player and head coach. The Parry Sound, Ont., native has a unique perspective on expansion teams: he was a player with the inaugural editions of the St. Louis Blues in 1967 and the New York Islanders in 1972.
Crisp was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning from the franchise's inception in 1992 through October 1997, coaching 391 games. He held the record for most games coached by an expansion franchise's first coach until Nashville Head Coach BarryTrotz broke the mark in 2003. In the 2004 NHL Stanley Cup Finals, the Lightning defeated the Flames – the team he coached to the Cup in 1989. Crisp also served as the assistant coach of the silver medal-winning Canadian team at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France.
Terry and his wife, Sheila, reside in Nashville. The Crisp's have three children – sons Tony and Jeff, and daughter Caley.
Stu Grimson, Television Color Analyst
Stu Grimson (Twitter: @asgrimson) enters his sixth season as a color analyst on the Predators Radio Network. 2013-14 will be his second full-time season with the Predators broadcast team. Grimson currently serves as the President of the recently-formed Nashville Predators Alumni Association as well as President of the Nashville Jr. Predators.
Grimson, who played in 30 games with the Predators during the 2001-02 season, posted 17 goals, 22 assists and 2,113 penalty minutes in 729 career games with Calgary, Chicago, Anaheim, Detroit, Hartford, Carolina, Los Angeles and Nashville from 1987-2003. After retiring from the NHL following the 2002-03 season, Grimson returned to school, finished his undergraduate degree and earned a law degree from the University of Memphis in December of 2005. The Kamloops, B.C., native then went to work as a labor lawyer for the NHLPA for two years before returning to Nashville to work as a defense attorney with Kay, Griffin, Enkema & Colbert, PLLC.
Mark Howard, TV Host
Mark Howard (Twitter:@MHowardZone) enters his fifth season as a member of the broadcast crew for all Predators' home games on FOX Sports Tennessee in 2012-13. Joining Pete Weber and Terry Crisp on the broadcast, Howard provides player and coach interviews during pre and post game coverage as well as intermissions.
Howard hosts the award-winning Wakeup Zone on WGFX, 104.5 The Zone which airs weekdays from 6-10 a.m. He also does a radio pre and postgame show for Titans Radio and has worked as a television host of TSSAA for the State High School football and basketball championships since 2004.
Prior to hosting The Wakeup Zone, Howard was a sports anchor at WTVF-TV (CBS) in Nashville and worked for 103.3 WKDF doing morning sports from 1997-2002. The West Hartford, Conn., native who also worked in television in Evansville, Ind., from 1983-86, has called action for Triple-A baseball in Wichita and Evansville, and college hockey at Cornell. He graduated from Ithaca College in upstate New York in 1980 with a degree in history and political science.
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The New Year has come, and 2010 flew by. What goals did you accomplish in 2010? Like many we always feel like we didn't do everything we wanted to do. But the gift of life is that we always have the present moment to change that. I'd say that many people have a 2011 resolution of losing some weight. When 2 out of 3 Americans are over weight, 1 out of 3 are obese, and there is growing health care costs every year associated with problems stemming from an unhealthy weight, it's a good goal. Like any goal it is very achievable with some planning and persistence.
The thing that I believe you have to remember when considering losing weight, is that there is no magic bullet. There are no pills, drink mixes, and potions, that are safe and reliable for long term weight loss. It will be a life long effort. It begins and ends with eating correctly. Eating a whole food, nutrient dense, plant-based diet will keep you at a healthy weight. Also remember, loosing weight is a calorie game.
Cutting Calories
A pound of fat is 3500 calories. Therefore when you cut 500 calories from your diet a day, you loose a pound of fat a week. You can cut those 500 calories in two ways: not consuming them, or burning them off with exercise. The math is that simple. Cut back on eating 500 calories, and exercise to burn off 500 calories, and your burning off two pounds a week, 8 pounds a month, 48 pounds in six months.
To begin, I'd suggest switching to veggies. A vegetarian diet has many factors that can help people lose weight. For one consider this table:
Calories Per Gram
Carbohydrates – 4
Protein – 4
Fat – 9
Non plant based foods such as meat and diary are inherently high in fats. Not only fats but cholesterol, saturated fat, and lack important nutrients (although milk has good nutrients). So just by cutting down or taking out meat completely in your diet you can halve your calorie intake.
Benefits of Vegetarian Diet for Weight Loss
A vegetarian diet consisting of mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole grains can help you loose weight because they are low in fat and calories, but packed with nutrients to keep you full. Your diet will be high in fiber, which helps promote weight loss. Foods high in fiber keep you full longer, by slowing the process of food leaving the stomach. Fiber also collects carcinogens that make their way into our body and carry them out the intestines.
High fiber diets are associated with lower rates of cancer and lower levels of cholesterol. You can't find this fiber content in meat. And if you do it will be low and only because the animal was eating a plant based diet! Fruits and vegetables are packed with many nutrients, such as a antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that will keep your energy up, mind sharp, and disease free.
The important thing to keep in mind is eating the right plant based foods. You may be skeptical of this article because you know a few overweight vegetarians. Sure, its easy to gain weight on a vegetarian diet, if you eat mostly white breads, pastas, french fries, sodas, and all the rest of these high calorie and sugar and low nutrient foods. You have to make fruits, vegetables, and whole grains your foods of choice. Have a salad everyday. Put as many vegetables in it as possible. Buy a big tub of spinach and mixed greens from the supermarket, (organic if you can) and throw in as many vegetables as you like. Make a big plate of that for lunch everyday. Have an apple, pear, or other fruits between breakfast and lunch so you don't go into lunch starving. Plus its always better to eat your fruits first on an empty stomach, they are easier to digest that way.
For dinner have some whole wheat pasta, perhaps another side salad, or at least some kind of side vegetable. And of course NEVER skip breakfast. It sets up your whole day. Start buying cereals that are below 10g of sugar per serving in them. Get some with at least 20% of your daily fiber in them. This will keep your full longer and promote weight loss. Add fruits to your cereal, like banana slices. I personally like to add frozen blueberries and flax seeds for extra fiber and omega 3's.
Studies have shown that people on plant-based diets tend to actually eat more and still lose weight.
"So by eating a health meal, you may reduce the calories that you consume, digest, and absorb, even if you eat significantly more food" – The China Study
Diet can do a lot for you but adding a regular exercise routine will really help. 15 to 45 minutes a day is ideal.
Check out this great vegetarian blog that focuses a lot on weight loss, building muscle, be active as a vegetarian, at ActiveVegetarian.com.
"Vegetarians have been observed to have a slightly higher rate of metabolism during rest, meaning they burn up slightly more of their ingested calories as body heat rather then depositing them as body fat."
A plant-based diet will also give you more energy. In a study where 2 sets of rats where studied. One set was given a diet of 20% casein, (milk protein) and the other was given 5%. The 5% group voluntarily exercised twice as much. So you can be more inclined to work out, then once you start loosing weight, it will be easier to work out, and the effect snowballs.
What's important is to not think of it as a diet, but a lifestyle change. Next time you go shopping, go to the produce section first. Buy some organic fruits and vegetables. Try to eat in more. Make your own food. When you go out, get salads, and skip the fatty creamy dressings. Worried about your protein intake? Check out The Protein Myth post.
Thanks for reading, please feel free to comment with any weight loss tips or questions you may have.
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The so-called Alexander's Hill occupied a very strategic position in the landscape of Sagalassos. This flat-topped hill controlled the main southern approach to the town.
The Temple and Church on 'Alexander's Hill'
Test soundings carried out on the top of 'Alexander's Hill' between 2000 and 2003 revealed the partly rock-cut foundations of a 19.5 m long and 9.10 m wide building with an east-west orientation. The superstructure had disappeared completely, leaving only the partly rock-cut foundations of its walls and a rectangular niche at its east end, which must have served as the substructure for an apse. To the west, a 2.50 m wide zone paved with tile fragments, probably the narthex, preceded the building. The structure originally had a mosaic floor. The excavation of a marble chancel slab and a limestone door lintel ascertained the identification of the structure as a church.
The discovery of numerous architectural elements belonging to a substantial building of the Ionic order dated to the mid-2nd century AD, probably a temple, as well as the presence of several altars, indicated that this church probably occupied the former location of a pagan shrine. One of the altars suggested this had been dedicated to a goddess, whose cult was served by male priests. Based on the chronological evidence from the church foundations, the construction of the basilica itself was dated to the early 6th century AD. Yet, some of the decoration suggests an 11th century phase, also confirmed by Dark Age pottery (9th-11th century).The ecclesiastical structure was depleted not long afterwards and some of its elements were reused in the foundations of a circuit wall surrounding the top of the hill.
As Alexander's Hill is the most prominent landmark of Sagalassos, both the alleged shrine and the church must have been visible from everywhere, and will therefore have been significant sanctuaries. Given the fact that ostothecae and sarcophagi of the city's southern necropolis cover the slopes of the hill, a role in the funerary cult seems likely for both.
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Early in the morning of Jan. 15, 2012, John Stump and his parents got the phone call no business owner wants to get: their store near Troutville, The Virginian Markette, had gone up in flames.
"I'm pretty empty today," Stump's father Gregg told Fox 21/27 that day. "It could've been worse, I guess. So we'll just wait until tomorrow and see what happens."
Their insurance company brought in a fire investigator, who determined a squirrel got into their attic and chewed several wires, which sparked the fire. Stump says the loss was hard to take and admits there was a time they weren't sure they'd rebuild. But the outpouring of support from their loyal customers quickly cast those doubts aside.
The building the store was in was first built in the early 1900s and was nearly 100 years old when it burned down. Many in the community told us they felt like a piece of their history was lost.
"It's something that we really had to bring back," Stump said, "and it's something that folks in the community all asked us to bring back."
It took about 11 months to settle with their insurance and get their plans and permits in order. Then in December, they broke ground on a new store, and they're quickly making progress.
"It's exciting to see how many folks in the area and that pass through the area are stopping in and still remembering our store," Stump said.
Stump says even though the building will be brand new, it's important to them that it keep some of the historical charm the old store had. For that reason, it will have wood siding. And they plan to incorporate items they were able to salvage from the old building.
"Once we get done with this structure, we're going to have a few pieces of the old building in there that we're going to do some creative things with," Stump said.
The Stumps say they want to thank everyone for their support and that they can't wait to welcome people back to their store.
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Florence Mills was a Harlem Renaissance singer, who fought against trials and tribulations during a time of segregation. She enchanted many with her beautiful voice and used her talents to help others along the way. It is an inspirational story about how something so simple such as singing can have such a positive effect. This is a great book to use for elementary levels up to about fourth grade.
Florence Mills was born at the turn of the twentieth century and grew up to be a prominent jazz singer. She faced challenges as she was coming into her own as a singer, such as her family and friends not being allowed in to a white-only theater when she was performing one of her first shows. After her family moved to New York and as time went on, Mills became part of Harlem Renaissance and was the first black woman offered a leading role in Ziegfeld Follies, but she turned it down and chose shows that would give other black singers and actors a chance to perform. Harlem's Little Blackbird tells her story in picture book format and is an engaging, vividly illustrated biography. It would work well as an introduction to biographies for late elementary school students, as the text is a bit complex for younger students. Unfortunately, while it includes an author's note about Mills' life and legacy, it does not include any source notes, which would be useful to educators, librarians, parents, and even students who want more information on her life.
Florence Mills was a singer and dance who became internationally known and used her fame to help other people. A true hero. I cannot believe I haven't heard of her before today. I read in the Author's Note that she has never been recorded or taped and I am reallllly bummed out about that. I wish I could hear this remarkable blackbird sing.
Lovely, affectionate portrait of Harlem Renaissance singer Florence Mills.
This short nonfiction picture book that will introduce readers to Florence Mills, a popular Harlem Renaissance's singer whose voice and shows mesmerized audiences. Readers benefit from Christian Robinson's illustrations as well as Renee Watson's telling, which includes Florence's own words. Even though we sadly have no recordings of Florence's voice or singing, Watson gives us much to appreciate and discover.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375869735, Hardcover)Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissance had a court, they were its kings and queens. But there were other, lesser known individuals whose contributions were just as impactful, such as Florence Mills. Born to parents who were former-slaves Florence knew early on that she loved to sing. And that people really responded to her sweet, bird-like voice. Her dancing and singing catapulted her all the way to the stages of 1920s Broadway where she inspired songs and even entire plays! Yet with all this success, she knew firsthand how bigotry shaped her world. And when she was offered the role of a lifetime from Ziegfeld himself, she chose to support all-black musicals instead.
Fans of When Marian Sang and Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa will jump at the chance to discover another talented performer whose voice transcended and transformed the circumstances society placed on her.
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