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For people who naturally love caring for people, becoming a home health aide (HHA) could serve as a calling. Women and men in these professions love caring for people as if they were their own family. Home health aides tend to shower patients with love and care to help promote healing and overall well-being.
Being an aide is so much more than just assisting the person as they heal and go through life. In fact, it is about building trust with the patient and the family when they are at the most vulnerable moments of their life. Not only that, but home health aides also serve as the eyes and ears of doctors and nurses. Whenever the doctors or nurses need assistance with a patient, they are always sure to consult the aide first because they are oftentimes the first to notice a change in the patient's condition.
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A HHA holds a number of responsibilities in their job and has to be very versatile at what they do. They must assist the patient in the activities of daily living, also known as ADLs, and provide basic routine care (such as assistance in bathing and brushing teeth). This care normally takes place in the privacy of a person's home or in an assisted living home.
Home health aides are usually employed by staffing agencies, hospice, and home health agencies, so patients can remain at home and maintain their dignity while receiving assistance. Some home health aides may go to convalescent or nursing homes and act as private aides, but most cases involve going to the patient's home.
Whenever an aide notices a change in a patient's condition, such as a new cut or bruise or if the patient is having a change in breathing capacity, the aide holds the utmost responsibility in documenting the change and notifying the family, nurse, or doctors.
While some states require a Certified Nursing Assistant license, many other states do not. However, receiving such a certification always puts the HHA above other competing students, as they may have better knowledge of certain medical situations. However, it remains important to contact the local school about such requirements.
Along with having a positive attitude, proper use of body mechanics, critical thinking skills, a loving nature and optimistic attitude, the home health aide candidate must be able to pass a background test and a urine test before a license can be granted and a job attained.
For people interested in becoming a HHA, it is advisable to check out links for their state department of public health for a listing of schools that provide HHA training. Generally, home health training courses can also be found at local community colleges and universities, or they can also be provided by the facility for which the candidate already works.
HHAs may move on to other professions and attain their nursing license too and always count their HHA experience as a great steppingstone.
Home health aides can work in a variety of settings. Many are employed in the home health care services field and are staffed out to homes. Other facilities include mental health and substance abuse facilities, nursing care facilities, community care homes for the elderly or individual and family employment. Out of all these workplace settings, hospice, home health, and private care remain among the most popular locations to work among health aides.
According to the United States Department of Labor, 10% of HHA workers receive an hourly wage of $7.89. It should also be taken into account that this number is totally dependent on minimum wage set by the state or home health and hospice agencies.
Also, 50% of HHAs reported to be earning $9.91 per hour whereas 90% of home health aides are supposedly earning $14.20 per hour. The yearly salary falls between $16,000 and $29,000.
The United States Department of Labor also predicts that between 2010 and 2020, this career will have grown by 70%. The states where there is rising employment for home health aides are California, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Certificate or Associate's degree required
Growing by 48.5% over the next 8 years
$22K Average annual salary


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Saint John's alumni and friends gathered together with Fr. Don Talafous '48 at Grandma's Sports Garden on February 16th to celebrate the re-starting of the Duluth & Lake Superior Alumni Chapter, as well as Fr. Don's homecoming. A great time was had by all as Johnnies and their families from all eras were present.
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Today Sony has launched their official PSN / SEN Web-based online store, accessible from Internet browsers (although Linux users http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/new-playstation-psn-web-store-blocks-linux-computers they are blocked) in several territories with more expected to arrive soon.
Those interested can check it out HERE, simply select your language region (such as THIS one) and wait for the page to load a selection of games, deals and offers including PlayStation Plus.
To quote from SCEE Blog Manager Fred Dutton (via GameChup.com linked above):
"We are testing a new web store, which we look forward to announcing and launching to the PlayStation/Sony community shortly."
Also from Jemal Alexandar, ex-marketing manager for Square Enix, who revealed how important this was for Sony:
"Web based store for PSN is pretty huge, though. I remember being in many meetings with publishers who wanted to see it happen. 3 years ago."
Jem Alexander (@https://twitter.com/jemalexander/status/277011986141806592) December 7, 2012
The Web Store allows you to buy games and also queue them in the download list. As always, we'll update this article once an official press release surfaces from Sony but in the meantime there is a FAQ Available for those interested in downloading content from Sony Entertainment Network Store to their PS3, PS Vita or PSP devices.
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Dalesburg Scandinavian Assn. will hold annual meeting Nov. 11 The Dalesburg Scandinavian Association will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 12 p.m., at Dalesburg Lutheran Church.
There will be a potluck luncheon at noon, followed by a business meeting. Please bring nominations for the Lucia Court.
At 1 p.m. there will be a program presented by Dr. Wayne Knutson of The University of South Dakota.
Knutson will speak about the once-ubiquitous country schools found in South Dakota and many other states. Knutson is a graduate of a country school in Roberts County. He is a former dean of the USD College of Fine Arts.
After years of service to the university, he has retired. His program will be enjoyed by those who wish to learn a bit about education in "the good old days" as well by those who attended such a school and wish to reminisce a bit.
If possible, please bring something (a picture, a book, artwork, a certificate, textbook or other memorabilia) from a country school.
This program is made possible by a Speakers Bureau grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for The Humanities.
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Wichita >Women's Clothing > David's Bridal
8141 E Kellogg Dr, Wichita, KS | Directions 6720737.678208 -97.240077
my first wedding dress – i signed up for an appointment at David's bridal not knowing what ot expect. then after reading these reviews i was very nervous about going.
i have a very tight budget and was worried because my price range was under $400 dollars. i told this to the girl and she brought me several beautiful dresses under that price. I was waited on hand and foot for 3 hours, I tried on 7 dresses and I fell in love with an 'as is' dress that was marked down to $298. I bought the most beautiful dress and I was treated wonderfully. i am glad i went to david's.
Treated like trash... – ...until we mentioned buying something, of course.
First of all, these women work off of commission-- that turned me off to this store immediately bc when employees work for commission, all they care about is making money--not about your big day.
It took the specific employee at least 20 minutes to get the 2 (ONLY 2) dresses I wanted to try on. Only for her to come up to me 20 minutes later and tell me shes been waiting for me on the other side of the store--which was a blatant lie b/c she was helping another girl who obviously had more expensive taste than I.
To make a long story short, the dress I loved happened to be completely defective. The back hem was an inch off centered, although, if you unzipped the back and moved it to be center in the back, then the front was HORRIBLY off centered to the point that my entire left "ta ta" was showing. Come on, for a bridal shop that supposedly has designer dresses--this dress was seriously damaged. they said they could order me another one, but I would have to do it within 12 hours, or the dress from the warehouse would be discontinued. What?! HA! Does that not sound like a sales ploy?! The store manager came out to look at the off centered hem dress and mentioned "wow, we are going to have to mark this WAY down, no one will ever buy this".....(direct quote from the store managers mouth") I took this oppurtuinty to ask how much they would mark down the dress seeing how NO ONE would ever buy it---she replied with 10%. HA, what a bunch of crooks. The dress was in fact, gorgeous and I honestly just wanted to get it and get out. It was originally 600, but was marked down to $300 b/c of their sale(not b/c it was damaged). I bought the dress 40 dollars cheaper and insisted on a free press, steam, and dry cleaning. They agreed (the only good part about my experience). My grandmother has been a seamstress her entire life, so she agreed to fix the dress for free. So, all in all, I did get a beautiful dress for 10% off with a free steam clean. But the staff is more than terrible and the store is filled with a bunch of rich wanna be brides. If you are an average joe with an average amount of money for a dress--I would not recommend this shop. I dont, however, now what else tor recommend b/c this is the only bridal shop I know of in my area. good luck
Terrible – I had a horrible expeirience at DB and i wasnt even the bride!. So i show up to Davids bridal for my Sister-n-law to be's appt. we waited and waited the appointment was at six, and i guess one girls shift was about to end but they had alot of people out there so they wouldne let her leave, well she had the worst attitude the whole time we were there. She DID NOT help my sister-n-law try on the dresses I HAD to help. none of the dresses were her size either.... Dont go there. Check out Reni;s
An Honest Review – This is long but VERY worth reading.
I had been to DB twice with bad experiences. The first time I went was to try on a wedding dress. My appt was at 4pm and wasn't even helped until 5:40 (closing time was 6pm). I believe if a customer makes an appt, someone should be waiting there and ready to help their client. We were given a room and that is about it. The lady gave me a size 6 slip. I am not a stick figure, but anyone would know I am not a size 6. We had to find someone to help us find a specific dress in a size and she said she would go find it and bring it to us. Ten min. later she came back with the dress that was 4 sizes to small. She said they didn't have it in my size and that was the closest size for me to try on. I didn't want to try it on and hurt the dress, but she said trying it on was ok. Needless to say a dress 4 sizes to small with not look the same on a girl as it would in the right size. I didn't think that was professional at all. Over all, I went somewhere else for a dress.
The second time I went to DB I was looking for flower girl dresses. I swore I would never to to DB again, but there is really no other place in town to buy them at with a selection like theirs. Once again, they did not help me at my appt time. They helped a walk-in-bride and left me and another lady who HAD appts with no one to help us. Once again, I believe they should help people with an appt, and have someone waiting to help. Someone came up to us asking if we were doing fine, but had a huge attitude like we had done something wrong. Once again, I pulled the dresses and had the girls try them on and the whole nine yards. I was promised I would have gotten better service after my first visit, but was left extremely disappointed for a second time. The only time someone was helpful was checkout.
Over all, I had two horrible experiences. It is so frustrating sitting and waiting for an appt you had an hour later and doing all the work yourself.
needs more help – I was in this store on a Wednesday evening, by appointment, thinking I would get good customer service. Unfortunately, not the case. The poor sales clerk was working the floor by herself, and they had 2 appointments booked at the same time along with fittings coming and going. After trying on 3 dresses, with the help of my friend, and not really liking any of them, se started exploring the racks of gowns ourselves and came up with a couple possibilities, but by then, we were forgotten, we cleaned up our mess, put everything back in the bags, and walked out. They are losing business for being understaffed.
Too bad.
And the big sale of $99 dresses, not a one in the store I could see.
Horrible – They were unprofessional. My veil had holes in it. Do to what we were told in the store we ended up having to order brand new bridesmaid dresses. They wouldnt replace them. The two options was a refund or pay for new dresses. We opted for the refund and had to go somewhere else.
My sister also had all of her bridesmaid dresses messed up and her dress as well not to mention five other of my friends.
Wedding dress hunting ground for real-world brides on a budget. Princesses need not apply. – In Short
A chic, sleek boutique, it's not. But those willing to look carefully will likely find a big-time bargain. The staff is helpful and knows the merchandise but doesn't provide extensive one-on-one attention or advice. Stores (particularly on weekends) can be swamped with brides-to-be. David's specializes in beaded satin A-lines and simple lace sheaths that just hit the $500 mark. Most labels are tasteful but of medium-quality: Gloria Vanderbilt, Lady Eleanor, Oleg Cassini and the likes.
Horrible Organization – Do not get your dresses here. I ordered my bridesmaid dresses (quoted at 12 weeks to come in) here. Three of my bridesmaids got one dress, the other three another. They said that one of my bridesmaids changed the dress, but couldn't tell me when, or who or anything. Thus, two dresses were on my registry. Don't you think they would have called the bride before placing the order? Nope. Highly recommend getting dresses elsewhere.
If you want to wear the same dress everyone else is wearing, go to this big corporation. They don't carry any real designer gowns that you see in magazines and they can't get them. They just have their own dresses and they are cheap in quality and some of them were priced way too high. They claim to have designer Olig Cassini gowns. You can't buy these gowns anywhere but Davids and Mr. Cassini, who designed back in the 1970's died several years ago. Davids just bought the name and uses it. Most young women have never heard of him, I had to look on the internet to find out about him and his wedding gowns. He didn't design anything for them. It's just a marketing ploy to make you think they have designer gowns. They also charge three times what any other store charges for alterations and they make you use their alteration department or they won't press your gown for your wedding day. Not really fair. I did have one decent looking dress on and I looked up and two other girls had the same dress on. Boring.
Too generic for my taste! – I went here originally because I always see their ads about $99 wedding gowns. Well they had one, but it looked like a nightie. They had one pretty gown but they had it about 12 times and while I tried it on, three other girls were trying on the same dress. It also was expensive for a store that advertises $99 gowns and claims that their average gown is around $500. The only good looking dress in the store was $1,200 and everyone had it on. Too common for me. No customer service. The girl helping me left for lunch while I was in the dressing room and didn't come back and no one else helped me either after she left.
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Luxury Weddings in Telluride, Colorado
"I love her and that's the beginning of everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Begin your life together with an enchanted wedding at The Peaks Resort & Spa in Telluride, Colorado. Internationally renowned as one of the most beautiful mountain towns, a wedding here is like no other. Exchange vows overlooking the magical views of the San Juan Peaks surrounding the Resort or in the timeless magnificence of the Crystal Room. Dance the night away in our ballroom, styled and decorated to realize all your wedding dreams and desires. The Peaks will transform your special day into a one of a kind wedding celebration – both modern and timeless.
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The ultimate wedding and reception are as easy as a phone call to one of our Wedding Specialists. Our professional team's attention to detail is impeccable, as the best day of your life comes to fruition. It is no coincidence generations of families return to the Peaks to celebrate the most special of life's moments.
The Peaks Resort & Spa is proud to feature:
- Numerous venues to accommodate your perfect day – from an intimate ceremony at sunset and candlelit dinner at the newly renovated Palmyra Restaurant to a gala banquet in the ballroom with capacity for up to 500 guests
- The Spa at The Peaks is the largest in Colorado, and recently named 15 of 100 top spas in the nation by Condé Nast Traveler.
- Superior guest rooms and accommodations.
- Superb dining options including a wide variety of menu/bar selections.
- Complimentary Valet for Event Parking.
- Schedule your ceremony during any time of day followed by breakfast, brunches, luncheons, cocktail receptions and/or dinners and dancing.
Plan Your Telluride Wedding
To get started, please submit a request for proposal or call 1-800-789-2220 to speak to a Peaks Resort Wedding Specialist today!
For more information out our facilities, view our capacity chart and floorplans or peruse our banquet menus.
When you plan your wedding with us at The Peaks Resort and Spa your package will include:
- Complimentary bridal suite the night of the wedding
- Discounted hair and nail treatments for bride and bridal party
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- Professional banquet staff and personable bar staff
- Four hours of reception time with an option to add additional hours
- Breathtaking photography venues
- Complete custom set up of tables, chairs, full table settings
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- All of your linens
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- An experienced Catering Manager to help you plan your day
- Discounted room rate options for your guests (with group rooms agreement)
Additional Ceremony/Reception Enhancements are Available
Services included in the venue rental fee:
- Banqueting Tables and Peaks' white linen table cloths and napkins
- All flatware, glassware & stemware
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- Service Staff (Bartenders are additional fee)
- Access to our catering services manager
- recommended list of local preferred vendors
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Plan Your Telluride Wedding
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Both Hug and Reed suffered upset defeats Friday night, but they had to face off against each other in the second-to-last regular season game in hopes of avoiding dropping back-to-back contests.
Unfortunately for the fans of the east Sparks school, too many unforced turnovers did in Reed as it fell 66-61.
"We had a lot of unforced mistakes. You lose a game by five points, you look at possessions where we could have just gotten a shot. The law of averages says we would have been OK," Reed boys basketball coach Dustin Hall said. "Offensively, I was very disappointed with our ball possession and execution."
Still, the Raiders did out of the gates and fired up their fans.
Senior Kyle Ross poured in five points during a string of nine unanswered points by the Blue and Gold for a 9-2 edge two and a half minutes into the game.
However, Reed went cold for almost the rest of the first half, scoring eight points over the next 11 minutes and 49 seconds.
The Hawks erased a seven-point deficit with a 9-0 run and took that two-point edge into the second quarter.
Hug immediately built on that 13-11 lead. Sam Williams scored down low and Robin Dhatt knocked down his second 3-pointer, forging the visitors ahead 18-11, barely a minute into the second period.
Hall called a timeout to try to stop the momentum but there was no stopping the Green and White.
Approaching the two-minute mark of the quarter, Hug's speedy point guard Andrew Johnson swiped a steal near midcourt and looked to take it in for a breakaway layup. But he laid up a pass off the glass for a trailing Williams, who slammed it home over the Raiders for the Hawks' second 12-point lead of the quarter, 29-17.
While the inspired dunk caused one side of the crowd to erupt, Hug didn't score again in the half. For the next two minutes, the Raiders plugged away and made sure the second half wouldn't just be a formality.
Reed scored the last eight points of the first half — half of which came from reserve forward Deyraun Stamps — and the home squad would only trail 29-25 at halftime.
Stamps continued earning his playing time in the second half. A Stamps putback cut the deficit to one, 35-34. Later, he drained a trey from the corner knotting the score at 39-39 with 2:53 on the third-quarter clock. It was the first time the game was tied since it was 11-11 in the first quarter. Still, Reed could not regain the lead.
Hug scored eight of the last 10 points of the third quarter. A Stamps layup down low off an inbounds play kept the deficit at six for the final minutes of action.
"Deyraun was great tonight," Hall said. "I was so proud of him. He's very capable and has a lot of potential . All his teammates know it. Tonight he showed it. I was proud of him and Kyle. I thought Kyle played his butt off and some of the other guys, too. But at the end of the day, we were one stop short."
The Hawks enjoyed an eight-point cushion five different times in the fourth -— the last being 64-56 with 1:27 left in the game.
Reed didn't quit. Ross dropped in a three-ball with 54 seconds remaining.
Hug broke the press, but an inexplicable alley-oop attempt went out of bounds, giving the ball back to the Raiders.
Reed came back down the court and Dylan McKenzie drove to the hoop and scored, making it a 64-61 game with 27 seconds to play.
The RHS cagers had to play the foul game from that point, but let seven valuable seconds tick off the clock before sending Johnson to the line. Hug struggled from the charity stripe in the clutch, but Johnson made 1 of 2 shots during both his trips in the final 20 seconds, accounting for the final score. The Raiders couldn't get any of their desperation shots to fall.
Williams finished with a game-high 22 points to lead Hug, while Dhatt and Johnson contributed 16 and 13 points respectively.
Ross had a team-high 21 points. Stamps was the only other Raider in double figures with 11.
Reed (11-8, 10-5 in Northern 4A) hopes to avoid a three-game losing streak heading into the playoffs when it hosts North Valleys Friday night for the Raiders' Senior Night and Homecoming.
"Friday night is huge. It's Senior Night and Homecoming, but more importantly, if McQueen won tonight, we need a win for a home playoff game," Hall said. "That's our focus. We'd like to have some momentum heading into the playoffs, but number one is we have to get that home playoff game."


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Grant-Writing Workshop held May 21-23
Submitted by Leigh-Anne Mauk on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:03pm
In May 2012, the Continuing Education and Community Services Division at Hagerstown Community College will once again host nationally-known instructor Denise Schlegel, who will offer her grant-writing workshop, "Grant Writing – Show Me the Money ©."
This three-day workshop provides instruction for both beginning grant writers and experienced professionals. Topics include grant components and development, the identification of funding sources, and the submission process for grant proposals. The workshop will be held daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., beginning Mon., May 21 and ending Wed., May 23, in the Career Programs Building on HCC's main campus. Cost is $349 per person after May 1, 2012. Participants who register prior to May 1 will be eligible to receive an early-bird registration rate of $295 per person. Registration fee includes all tuition, fees, and material costs including the "Show Me the Money ©" workbook. Students are asked to bring a project idea to the workshop and are also encouraged to provide a current funding announcement or a request for proposals.
"After taking Denise Schlegel's grant writing course at HCC, I am pleased to tell you that I have applied for and received three grants, one which was a $90,000 grant," said Laura Wilson, coordinator of grant and financial development, Shenandoah Valley Medical System, Inc. "The seminar was so interesting and useful. I cannot thank Denise enough for sharing her wisdom."
In addition the grant-writing course, Schlegel will also offer "Strategic Planning for Beginners," on May 24 and 25, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, in the Career Programs Building on HCC's main campus. This course will provide participants with information on how to develop a mission and vision statement; how to set organization priorities; and how to engage stakeholders. The course is designed for all levels of government and nonprofit organizations. Cost is $295 per person after May 1, 2012. Participants who register prior to May 1 will be eligible to receive an early-bird registration rate of $249 per person.
An expert in her field, Schlegel has served as a peer grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; has developed curriculum for the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C.; and facilitated strategic planning with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She is the president and founder of DS Schlegel and Associates, LLC, and currently serves as the senior grant consultant and contributing author for PoliceOne.com.
For more information, contact Stephanie Powers at 240-500-2490, or email firstname.lastname@example.com. To register, call 240-500-2236, or go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/coned.


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Nature's beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. (Filmed at TEDxSF.)
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The RCMP is warning the public about a scam that originates with a phone call, but can lead to illegal access to home computers and banking information.
RCMP in Placentia received a fraud complaint Friday, in which police say the complainant's computer was hacked into and didn't work properly.
Shortly after, according to the RCMP, a person called the home, pretending to be a representative of Microsoft and took control of the computer remotely. The person then gained access to the owners PayPal accounts and asked for their banking information. The complainant caught onto the scam in time to prevent the suspect from obtaining funds from the PayPal account.
The RCMP said the culprits were successful in obtaining a sum of money from the complainant's VISA account.
The Placentia RCMP is advising the public not to have any dealings with unknown persons with regards to their personal computer equipment. Such scams can be reported to the Canadian Anti Fraud Centre at www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca


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pueraeternus wrote:deepbluehum wrote:Anyway this is very slippery terminology. Seriously. There is no factual basis for believing one came before the other. No point really.
I think the author's point that Buddhist tantra has a clear path of development, whereas the Hindu ones do not seem to exhibit such developmental characteristics, is interesting. At least from a textual analysis POV, there is merit to think so.
You don't agree obviously, but that is ok. Perhaps more research will come to light that will change either of our views.
My opinion is that this reflects the Hindu vs. Buddhist culture in India. Buddhism has always been very much about the letter and precision especially when it comes to lineages of deities and buddhas. Hindu yogis have a much more nebulous view of reality, especially history. They don't have a history keeping function. Screwing up timelines is fine especially if you are making a cool point. That's something to consider.


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CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying Preview
United States forward Clint Dempsey admits he is glad to be back training among a group after his stand-off with Fulham this season.
Having made his desire to leave the Cottagers clear, Dempsey had been spending a lot of time doing solo sessions over the past few weeks.
The situation was brought to an end on Friday when the 29-year-old completed a move to Tottenham and he joined up with his US colleagues soon after ahead of the team's CONCACAF World Cup qualifying Group A double-header against Jamaica.
The first of those games is in Kingston tomorrow and speaking about his preparation for the clash, Dempsey told www.ussoccer.com: "It was good. It was good to get back into the team, with the guys, and good for me to get back into training.
"I've been training with a trainer, but it's good for me to get back in playing with team-mates."
Following Friday's contest, the USA and Jamaica - who are currently joint-top of the group on four points from two matches each, with the former having a superior goal difference - meet again on Tuesday in Ohio.
Contemplating those two games together, Dempsey said: "You could look at it as a play-off fixture in the sense that there is a home and an away leg.
"We just need to make sure we get the points because they're vital and we need to make sure we put ourselves in the driver's seat so that we qualify for the next round.
"Everybody wants to be part of a World Cup and for some of these guys it'll be their last chance to do that.
"I think everybody here wants to do something special and playing in a World Cup is certainly that."
Friday's other game in Group A sees Guatemala host Antigua & Barbuda, while in Group B, there is another top-two clash as first-placed Mexico travel to Costa Rica.
The group leaders have six points from two fixtures so far but are travelling to a place where Spain and Argentina were both held to draws last year, and Mexico coach Jose Manuel de la Torre is certainly not about to take Costa Rica lightly.
"We have seen the circumstances in which Costa Rica have lived with their rivals," De La Torre told reporters.
"We are very respectful of our opponents and we know that no place is easy."
Elsewhere in Group B, El Salvador face Guyana at home, while Group C's games see second-placed Canada take on leaders Panama in Toronto and Cuba and Honduras go head-to-head in Havana.
After six rounds in this phase, the top two teams from each group go through to the final stage, to be played next year.
The top three sides then qualify directly for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, with the fourth-placed team facing a home-and-away play-off against a team from Oceania.


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See Your Baby While At The Womb With A 3d Ultrasound
Having a baby is truly an event that is exciting. For first time parents, this is something that they have been looking forward to for years, and will surely be a cause of great joy. Not only are the parents themselves are very excited, but the whole family should be as excited, if not more.
A few months of waiting however, could be too long to handle for many. This is why going for an ultrasound is something that the whole family is looking forward to. While the ultrasound can give an image of what the baby looks like inside the womb, that image could not be the clearest. Traditional ultrasounds do not give the best image of a baby inside the womb because that is not its primary purpose. The ultrasound is primarily for diagnostics. In a pregnancy, the ultrasound is used to show the outline of the baby, its current position inside the womb as well as its sex.
If you have seen an ultrasound image of a baby inside the womb, you will most likely not be able to interpret the image properly, save probably for the outline of the baby. It really was just meant to be interpreted by a doctor or an ultrasound technician.
While most families are content with seeing just this vague image of a traditional ultrasound, other families want more. The excitement can be just too much that seeing the baby is something that they cannot wait for. If you or your family feels this way, then there is a means for you to get a glimpse of your baby while he or she is still in the mother's womb.
Thanks to advancements in technology, a clearer and more accurate ultrasound can now give you the clear image that you need. Called a 3d ultrasound, this new technology will allow you to see not just the outline of y our baby, but a more accurate image of him or her.
With a 3d ultrasound NJ, you can actually see your baby's faced and appreciate his or her facial features. This modern form of ultrasound will also allow an ultrasound technician or physician to more accurately determine your baby's gender.
While 3d ultrasounds are a great way for you to see your baby before he or she is born, there are not too many clinics that offer this service. If you are in the New Jersey area however, Love at First Sight 3d Ultrasound is one clinic that you can go to. It has been offering 3d ultrasound for quite some time now, with staff that is pleasing to interact with and is very professional in assisting you with your ultrasound.
Since this 3d ultrasound is more of a photo-shoot for your baby than it is a diagnostic procedure, you will notice that a lot of care is given in doing the ultrasound and taking the best pictures of your baby possible. You can then use these pictures to make a small photo book, print it onto t-shirts, mugs or souvenirs and many more.


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Commerce over the internet has grown in unprecedented ways and magnitude over the past decade. "Hurdles to eBusiness" is a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute of Applied Studies in International Management on Thursday, October 11, 2007, that examines the frictions in this deployment of business over the Internet, by identifying hurdles and solutions. Conference topics include better usability, spam, security, privacy and trust issues.
A: While business over the internet has grown tremendously, and has become a disruptive force in business overall to be reckoned with, it is perhaps not still at its full potential. This conference asks of people at the front line if that is truly the case, and if so, how and why? Think of this as the early days of the stock market when people from the bourses address academia of trends they see in the trading floors and practices and collusions that potentially add friction to the trading process. This is the same for the Internet business era.
Q: Hosting top researchers from eBay, Google and Yahoo! offers a great opportunity for insights into the current state of on-line commerce. What connects these three presentations?
A: The common theme is to learn about hurdles to doing business on the web and trying to turn those hurdles into problems in a scientific way for investigation. The issues are clickspam (Google), classification and finding items (eBay) and overall frictions in
the web economy (Yahoo). These are areas that are critical for business, and are becoming more important and interesting to researchers in academia. The conference is trying to hasten the transfer of these problems from the frontline to academic research.
Q: How might this conference help the consumer better understand on-line shopping and business managers thinking about or operating in the on-line world?
A: This is probably not too interesting to a casual Internet shopper, except maybe for the eBay talk on long-tail searching. It is more useful to a business user of these channels, and for those potentially considering use of the auction medium or other features of the big portals such as Yahoo! For the academic audience, they will better understand what kinds of sophistry exists for click fraud and other frictions in ecommerce and hopefully try to find ways of using their expertise to frame and solve problems in these topical areas.


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On Sunday, Dec. 16 at 3 p.m., the St. James Festival Choir will present its annual Christmas Concert at St James Episcopal Church in Montross. The program will feature the short, but beautiful "A Ceremony of Carols" by the twentieth century British composer, Benjamin Britten.
The work was written in 1942, for female voices and harp, but it became so popular in England, and the United States, that Britten's publisher insisted that he create a version for mixed chorus and piano. This is the version to be performed by the St. James Festival Choir, in this concert. The second part of the program will feature arrangements and compositions of Christmas carols and anthems by two Episcopal Church musicians, Lindsay Lafford, and Robert J. Powell.
Lindsay, who lives in Tempe, Arizona, has been the Guest Conductor of the St. James Festival Choir, at least once a year since April of 2000. Robert J. Powell, one of the composers whose service music appears in the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal, just recently retired, as Choirmaster and Organist, at Christ Church School and Cathedral, in Greenville, South Carolina. The next section of the program will feature a cappella arrangements of English and German, Advent and Christmas Carols, that the St James Festival Choir has presented over the last thirty three years.
The featured soloist will be soprano, Larisa Filipenco, who now resides in the Boston area, but lived in Montross from 1981 to 1986. Larisa has been singing with the Festival Choir at most of the concerts since 1981. She will sing three Ukrainian Carols, as well as "Rejoice, Greatly O Daughter of Zion", and "Come Unto Him", from the Messiah by G.F. Handel. Larisa will also sing the beloved "O Holy Night". The concert will also feature the joyous "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah. Ben Cox will be the pianist and organist, as he has been for the last twenty years.
Two friends of the St. James Festival Choir from Northern Virginia, will be returning to Montross for this concert. One of the original members of the Choir, Galen Boyer who grew up in Montross, and graduated from Washington and Lee High School, will be returning home with his family from Newton, Massachusetts, to solidify the bass section, as he has done for most of the last thirty three years.
All lovers of great music are welcome, and please call Donald Boyer, music director at St. James 493-9721, or the Reverend Alan Hooker, Rector of St. James, 493-8285 if there are any questions.


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Happy Daze Treehouse Bar, Koh Tao
Happy Daze Treehouse Bar, Koh Tao
Located in Chalok Baan Kao, southern end of Koh Tao.
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Cashew shaped Ko Tao, or Turtle Island, is one of Thailand's top diving locations, with plenty of amazing dive sites within easy reach of the Gulf of Thailand destination. Whale sharks are seasonal visitors and this is probably one of the few places in the world where you can see these gentle giants while scuba diving. But Ko Tao also has plenty to offer non-divers, with an array of non-water based activities such as hiking and yoga. Those willing to escape from the congested diver hotspots are rewarded with gorgeous beaches, great viewpoints and hospitable locals.
But it hasn't always been snorkels and sunscreen here. In the past, Ko Tao has been a pirate's hideout, a layover for fishermen, a prison and a badly-kept hardcore backpacker secret. While some say the island took its name from its turtle shape, others say it was named for the turtles that used to breed plentifully in its waters. Today, the turtles largely go elsewhere and instead thousands of recreational divers ... Read our complete Ko Tao travel guide


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I have been running Ubuntu (64-bit) on my HP 6710b laptop (Core 2 Duo with integrated graphics) for several years, and the backlight brightness keys have always worked. Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 earlier today, those keys do not work any more.
The secondary function keys:
- Fn+F3: sleep; still works (and considerably faster than ever before!)
- Fn+F8: battery info; still works
- Fn+F9: reduce brightness; stopped working in 12.10
- Fn+F10: increase brightness; stopped working in 12.10
It may also be worth while mentioning that X does not appear to be receiving the brightness events at all, or at least not sending them out further. (This I detected with a key logger I wrote for a Uni project, which uses X's Record extension; it is informed of the sleep and battery info keystrokes, but doesn't receive the brightness ones at all.)
In the mean time, I know that I can use the Brightness & Lock settings screen to alter the brightness. (Wow! I can suddenly make my backlight darker than I could before—I can go right down to turning the backlight off, something I couldn't do before... but this model has a fairly dim screen, so I don't expect to use that much, if ever.)
How can I get the brightness keys working again?
This question is probably strongly related to I can't control my Brightness in HP Compaq 6710s.