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Tips for managing adult ADHD
Published: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 2:06 p.m.
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Four percent of adults have ADHD — attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder — although many don't know it and only about 25 percent of the 10 million adults in the U.S. with ADHD receive treatment for it.
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Among the signs to look for, according to psychiatrist Marc Swartz, co-editor of AdultADD.info, are chronic lateness, difficulty staying on topic during conversations, procrastination, disorganization, inefficiency in work, being forgetful about things that need to be done, trouble staying focused, trouble completing tasks, problems affecting work, relationships or schoolwork that cause moderate distress, anxiety or depression.
Here are 10 coping strategies that make life easier if you have ADHD.
1. Make a to-do list. Making a daily list is an essential tool for people with ADHD, but keep it short — one line for each task — and be specific. Don't write "Call Jeannie," write "Call Jeannie about picking up kids from school on Thursday." (If you make a lot of calls, keep a separate phone list.) Check off completed items as you go along.
2. Keep it simple. Break a big job down into its components. Rather than writing "Plan family reunion" on your list, itemize specific tasks to be accomplished each day, such as: "Make guest list," "address and mail invitations," "call caterer to plan menu."
3. Mark your calendar. Use a written or electronic calendar to keep track of appointments, birthdays and deadlines for bills or assignments. Most importantly, note each appointment on the calendar at the time you make it. You might forget to do it later.
4. Make a shopping list. Write down everything you need to get before you leave home, and use a different list for each store.
5. Remind yourself. An electronic reminder is a great tool, and most computers, iPods, PDAs, Blackberries and cellphones have them. Set the reminder when you make an appointment to prompt you a day before in case you need time to prepare, and an hour before, so you won't forget to go.
6. Look at the time. When planning your day, always consider how long it will take you get somewhere and allow for the possibility that a meeting may go long to avoid over-scheduling or being late for appointments.
7. Work through your issues. If you have hard time sitting still at a desk, consider replacing your chair with a large balance ball. Use a wireless phone, so you can pace as you talk. If you zone out during meetings, don't text under the table; try squeezing a stress ball or take notes to keep busy but focused. Work in a quiet room or block distractions with noise reducing headphones.
8. Leave yourself a message. To remember things you need to do and capture all the good ideas that occur to you while you're out and about, leave yourself voice mails or text messages.
9. Prioritize your life. Make a list of the things you value most, in order, and put it where you'll see it every day. Use it to help prioritize your activities. If spending time with family tops your list, for instance, decline an offer to work overtime on Saturday — realistically, you can't do everything.
10. Take 24. Instead of impulsively saying "yes" to every new project or invitation, tell the person making the request you'll need to check your schedule first. Take a day to think about it before accepting a big project, and review your calendar and your "to do" list to make sure it will fit into your schedule and is in line with your main priorities.
Find more information online at www.adultadd.info and www.adult-adhd.com.
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Why Is Underwear Such a Go-To Hiding Spot for People Sneaking Things on Airplanes?
A 64-year-old lady sewed 1,699 $100 bills into her bloomers.
First the underwear bomber, now a 64-year-old Queens woman was caught at JFK airport with $170,000 in a pair of underwear. She hid the money to avoid paying taxes on the sale of her late husband's property in Sudan. Claire Abdeldaim wasn't caught until after she removed the undergarment during a layover in Amsterdam and stashed it in her purse, but surely there has to be a better way than sewing 1,699 $100 bills into your bloomers? [NYP]

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A recent trip to the hardware store revealed Germany's options for toilet seat designs. Which one is your favorite? Submitted by WASH United via Instagram.
Pour-flush latrine and handwashing station in rural Bangladesh. Submitted by ICDDR, B.
Kenya: The Pit Latrine shown in the image is shared by a small homestead in the Mwea South area, close to the vicinity of Mwea Mission Hospital. Apart from its poor and quite shaky build, the toilet is riddled with rusty iron sheet walls and this has proven to be quite bad especially during the rainy season. Submitted by George Karugu Maina.
My Mother said she could hear the birds singing as she returned from the Ladies toilets at the petrol station at Norton Canes Service Station on the M6 toll road. I had to go & investigate the Gents & walked into this amazing display of Sunflower colour with bird songs recordings & all. Submitted by David Ditchfield.
West Bank: Use as little water as possible. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
West Bank: Little flush, big flush. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
Style of some toilets in Jordan. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
Poland: A place to wash hands after using the outhouse. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
Ethiopian guest house main floor bathroom: privacy concern. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
Customs, Middle East. Toilet paper is a luxury. Submitted by Lori Bakken.
"Bowl Plaza"- an eccentric, artistic 4 year project, 18' tall toilet tank, mosaic art work on the exterior and interior of the public restroom/art attraction. Designed and built under the supervision of the Grassroots Art Center. Submitted by Rosslyn Schultz, Executive Director.
You can´t see a toilet? It´s because they don´t have one and are using this river. For #PlacesWeGo, washing clothes, and even for drinking water. Submitted by Marin Wesian,
Northern Ugandan family toliet, no door. Submitted by @MaternalEarth via Twitter.
Rural Nepal school toliet with a door. Submitted by @MaternalEarth via Twitter.
Outside toilet in Tibet with stunning view. Submitted by Ina Jurga.
Everyone loves toilets. Even toy people. Submitted by Thorsten Kiefer, WASH United.
Everyone loves toilets. Even toy people. Submitted by Thorsten Kiefer, WASH United.
Taken at a school in the district of Atsaphone in Savannakhet province, Laos. Submitted by Liyen Chin.
Composting latrine in Belize. Submitted by Renée Johnson, Sustainable Harvest International.
Composting latrine, Belize. Submitted by Renée Johnson, Sustainable Harvest International.
Gladys Ndambuki, Sanergy Sales and Operations Area Manager reminding everyone to "Be You. Be Clean. Be Fresh." http://saner.gy. Submitted by Nicole Parisi-Smith.
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text: "Yes, Boss, I saw the movie. So What?" Lucas Crown sat in a very comfortable leather chair situated to his boss' right front but he was far from comfortable. Every time he sat here, he remembered, something bad happened to him, always in the form of an assignment he did not particularly wish to pursue. His boss, McCallum MacKenzie MacWhirter, known to his college friends as "Three-of-a-kind," sat on the other side of the his desk in a straight backed chair equipped with pillowed seat and lumbar support on its spine. In the other chair, the one on Lucas' right, was Herman Piltz, the Editor-in-Chief of the New York newspaper that "Three-of-a-kind" owned and for which Lucas reported. "Good movie, that Calendar Girls. I thought so, anyway," Piltz offered. "Forget the movie," MacWhirter said. "Concentrate on the organization it depicted." "Some women's group, right?" "The Women's Institute, to be precise." MacWhirter's identification seemed to carry more than a hint of disapproval but whether it was of the organization or women in general, Lucas was not prepared to say. Whatever it was MacWhirter was driving at, Lucas Crown did not get it; he told his boss so. Instead of answering, MacWhirter lifted an 8x10' paper from the center of his desk to peruse whatever was waiting him on the page. He read for fifteen or so seconds, then sighed, then extended the paper to Lucas. "This is an e-mail I received today," MacWhirter explained. "I've printed it out for you. Please take the time necessary to read it. Herman already has." Lucas Crown accepted the page and followed his boss' instructions. He read: "FROM: firstname.lastname@example.com TO: firstname.lastname@example.com SUBJECT: Chain Reactions Organisations arise every day, some open, some clandestine. Organizations that increase in numbers and last for more than a century are rare. Usually, such organisationa have more going on than is presented to the public eye. History books have little to say about such organisations for reasons both open and clandestine. In the case of one particular organisation, it is because history books are generally written by men and men have no clue. That organisation is The Women's Institute. A connection runs through it, you know, from London to Stoney Creek to Paris to Argos to Cairo to somewhere earlier than that. There are currents and cross-currents eddying across the world. And yet, we still have no clue, do we?" When he finished reading, Lucas could not resist asking if the author had been wrong about our having a clue. He thought from the expression on his face that "Three-of-a-kind" was about to throw something at him. "You're not taking this seriously, are you?" Lucas asked. "Hell, it doesn't say anything. No facts. No hooks. Just an accurate observation that we have no clue. That's generally true for just about everything, isn't it?" "That was my first reaction," Herman admitted. "My second reaction came after my eyes drifted across my bookshelf. Humor me for a moment, Luke. Name a female historian." "Ariel Durant," Lucas responded immediately "Precisely," MacWhirter said. "Now, name another." "Off the top of my head, I can't." Lucas said. "Ariel Durant is known because she joined her husband in his work. She is an anomaly. In this day and age, there are many female historians doing credible work but none acquires the reputation of a Churchhill or a Schlessinger or – for that matter – a Gibbon. Men write the most noted history books." "And they are generally on the winning side," Lucas added. "Stuff your snide remarks for a moment, here." "Yes, boss," but Lucas was grinning. "And wipe the silly grin off your face. Pay attention. Here's a list of rights that women might enjoy. You tell me when and where they were in effect." Looking at the new page, Lucas read: "The right to keep anything they inherit from their parents when and if they marry. The right to share equally with their husband any wealth both partners acquired within their marriage. The right to conduct business on their own. The right to own and sell property. The right to be a witness in a court case. The right to represent themselves in court. The right to make a will giving their wealth to whomever they might choose. The right to adopt children. The right to go out in public and be in mixed company with men. The right to keep their own name after marriage. The right to be supported by their ex-husband after divorce. The right to work at occupations other than housewife. The right to seek any employment for which they are qualified." Lucas grinned again. "That's easy. The U.S. in the last 40 years. Great Britain as well." "Wrong, Lucas. You didn't study enough history. That was Egypt close to 1500 years before Christ." Lucas took that in but failed to see where the conversation was going. "What's the link to your e-mail?" "Why did those rights, that kind of thinking disappear for 3500 years?" Slightly exasperated, Lucas responded with customary brusqueness: "How the hell should I know?" "Again," MacWhirter said but he was grinning now, "precisely. You shouldn't know and I shouldn't know and no man in the country should know because – as the letter says – we are clueless. Answer another question, Lucas. Are you smarter than your sister? Is your sister smarter than your mother?" "Better educated," Lucas said, "but not necessarily smarter." "Well, is today's woman smarter than her predecessors?" "Same logic, I'd think. Better educated; not smarter." "If we are no smarter now than we were 3500 years ago, how and why did women suddenly disappear from the world's stage?" "Because men wrote the history?" "You think your mother would let you get away with a column she found objectionable?" Lucas laughed. "I wrote one once about the glass ceiling and why I didn't believe it applied. Heard from her and my sister for weeks. Inundated with articles and data. Finally wrote another column where I presented their side." "So, why did the history change? What happened to keep it that way for close to 3500 years? My gut says there's a hell of a story there. Suppose the WI has a hidden agenda, Lucas. What would it be and how could we prove it?" Lucas sat forward in his seat, genuine interest now blossoming in his mind. "Your serious, aren't you? You really suspect there is something going on. Okay, I'll bite. How would we do that?" "We take the hint Anancient sent us. We discover the link between Stony Brook and Cairo and wherever else it leads. That's your assignment." "Stony Brook is on Long Island and that's where you graduated, boss. Anancient was talking about Stoney Creek. War of 1812. They stopped us cold." "The War of 1812 has something to do with this?" Herman asked. 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Mane 'n Tail Hoofmaker Hand and Nail Therapy
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83% would repurchase
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INGREDIENTSWater, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine Lactate, Distearyldimonium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Polysorbate 60, PEG-150 Stearate, Steareth 20, Cetyl Alcohol, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Hydrolyzed Protein, Lanolin, PEG-25 Castor Oil, Allantoin, Isopropyl Alcohol, FD&C Yellow #5, FD&C Yellow #6.
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Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Have been using this for 15 years. The best!
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Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I am surprised at the rave reviews. I love that it absorbs so quickly. First hand cream ever to do that. 2 mintues after applying, I could pick up a glass and not leave a fingerprint, it is genuinely non-greasy. However, it doesn't seem to moisturize at all. I notice there is a lot of alcohol in it. I put it on and half an hour later, my hands are just as dry as before.
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
Oh, how I wish I'd taken before & after shots of my nails just to show everyone how amazing this product is.
After having acrylic nails for 4 years, my nails were really awful. Sore, paper thin, weak and red raw. There were whole corners missing that had simply been worn away by the nail salon instruments. No one to blame but myself!
I bought Hoofmaker after reading about it online. It isn't available in my city but it was very cheap to buy online.
I massaged generous amounts into my nails three times a day and after less than a week, my nails were already looking stronger and healthier. I couldn't believe it. I had tried so many expensive nail treatments that did very little or nothing at all.
Hoofmaker actually works, it smells great and it absorbs incredibly quick without any hint of greasy residue.
I have already bought another bottle!
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Ok the packaging isn't sexy. It's not gonna look cute having a big yellow and blue bottle of lotion called "hoof maker"in your purse. But it is very moisturizing and it has made my dry feet and hands very soft. I am only using this as a hand and cuticle cream, not applying it to my body.
I bought hits because of the promise to make your nails less prone to damage due to the protein. I am rubbing this into my cuticles and I plan to use it at night under my moisturizing gloves. Their conditioner for hair has good protein and my hair loved it when I was relaxed so I hope the same protein will help my nails.
This product is pretty hard to find. It is only in one location near me And that was my local beauty supply store. Picked it up for 3 bucks, not bad for a 6 oz bottle.
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I found this for a few dollars online and wanted to give it a go, especially since I've heard rave reviews for this product. It's definitely not a glamorous product but it does what it promises. I kept this at my nightstand and used it before bed every night. Typically I like to apply hand creams before bed so I don't have to worry about touching anything or running into any issues afterwards, but this was by no means overly thick and greasy or filmy like some treatments can be. This lotion sunk into my skin so quickly I probably could've gotten away with using it in the daytime perfectly fine. There is a very subtle generic lotion scent to this product. My hands felt so nice and supple after using. I feel for the price point especially, you really can't go wrong in picking up a tube of this. I enjoyed the hand treatment from this line far more than the hair products.
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I've used this for years for its intended purpose -- on my horses' hooves -- as well as on my own hands and the results on both are amazing. With consistent use, the skin of my hands and feet, and my nails, are well-conditioned and healthy. I live on a ranch and my hands take a beating on a daily basis; this product helps to keep them in good condition. If it can keep a horse's hoof healthy, it can keep hands and nails healthy.
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What is the correct way (if possible distribution agnostic) to start application automatically in Linux (Debian Wheezy)? In need to know two things. How to autostart generally, so that the application runs in background even before I log in, and the userspecific autostart, meaning the application gets started as soon as the user logged in.
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List of Requirements as we look for a new space.
Add to these as you feel like it, and feel free to move them up and down the list; the top of the list is to be considered "most important" and the bottom of the list "least important," so if everybody moves things around we hope to come to some sort of consensus on priorities.
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Saluda nixes city manager idea
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 6, 2003 at 11:30 p.m.
SALUDA -- City Council will likely continue its current form of government, which includes a city administrator, Commissioner Rodney Gibson said after a weekend retreat.
Gibson said Monday that council "had not voted, but there was a consensus," that the city not move to a city manager form of government.
"We've seen the downside of that kind of arrangement in Tryon and Polk County," he said referring to financial and personnel problems that occurred with the managers of those two local governments, including a budget shortfall in Tryon.
A manager form of government gives the top staff member legal responsibilities over budget and personnel that an administrator does not have. Gibson said that can allow elected officials to dodge responsibility and use a manager as a scapegoat. Saluda's administrator is Shannon Baldwin, who is also a Henderson County commissioner from Clear Creek.
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After reading erica lewis's latest poetry collection daryl hall is my boyfriend, a collaboration that later became the first book in a box set trilogy, I felt as if I'd returned an epic hero who found a way back home to selfhood/personhood via a sea of layered memories, triggered by songs that change "even in the remembering."[1] Stirring up an accessible feeling of Odyssean nostos, or the journey home, lewis prefaces her collection with "this is an album about re-ordering the past"; anyone with room for nostalgia is invited to join t
Are they of the past, by the past, and for the past? This might be a way of evaluating the later-than-life productions of Marcel Proust. Thus there may be something to say for Peter Jaeger's A Field Guide to Lost Things even though it is not one of Proust's best.
In Featherbone and Pink Reef, poets Erica Mena and Robert Fernandez make an argument for poetry's somatic effects. These two books are very different, but they share a spell-casting potency and embrace the power of language not just to denote the world, but to act, vividly and terribly, within it.
Kenji Liu's debut poetry collection does not start quietly; rather, it breaks into the world, denouncing the United States' attempted erasure of migrants through legalese that alienates non-English-speaking people. The collection begins with the birth of the speaker in Kyoto, Japan, and spends layer upon layer puzzling the violences that the colonial center wreaks against the periphery. Liu's overarching metaphor for intersectionality and assemblage of identities is the onion without a full and "real" center.
"[I]t is precisely a special way of writing that realism requires," writes Lyn Hejinian in her essay, "Two Stein Talks."[1] Site Cite City is a book of realism, in the sense Hejinian uses it: realism is the product of a method, of a "special way of writing." The realism of Read more


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From Possess and Ten author Gretchen McNeil comes a deliciously eerie science-fiction horror story in the tradition of Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy and the movie Sliding Doors.
Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. And just when she thinks it can't get worse, she wakes to an image of herself in the bedroom mirror. Except it's not her at all the girl in the mirror is blonder and prettier. And her name is Jo.
The two girls are doppelgangers whose universes overlap every twelve hours at 3:59. Fascinated by Jo's perfect world, Josie jumps at the chance to pass through the portal and switch places for a day.
But Jo's world is far from perfect, and the stuff of nightmares lurks around every corner. And when Josie finds herself trapped there, her life becomes more dangerous and more deadly than she ever imagined.
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Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, a writer, and a clown. She is also the author of Get Even as well as Ten, which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and an ALA Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth and was nominated for Best Young Adult Contemporary Novel of 2012 by Romantic Times. Gretchen blogs with the Enchanted Inkpot and is a founding member of the vlog group the YARebels.


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I'm running a dovecot/postfix mail server on debian and am having some issues. Everything is working fine except all emails to @aol.com are being deferred.
The error code gave me: "The Reverse DNS lookup for your IP address is failing."
I'm running a site (I'll be calling it site.com in this post) on server A. I'm then running this mail server on server B. I have a mail.site.com A record pointing to server B in my domains DNS, as well as an MX record pointing to mail.site.com.
I've set the PTR record of my mail server to site.com and this is the dig output:
*I've substituted 18.104.22.168 for the IP of my mail server
AND 184.108.40.206 as my main server IP
dig -x 184.108.40.206 @220.127.116.11
; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> -x 188.8.131.52 @184.108.40.206
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;18.104.22.168.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
220.127.116.11.in-addr.arpa. 21599 IN PTR site.com.
;; Query time: 58 msec
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 22 14:30:23 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75
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Straight male moths, that is.
Scientists are using a powder that spreads female pheromones—the smell of sexual attraction—and confuses the male moths, thus slowing the breeding. The powder is left near breeding grounds and, when larvae hatch, they are coated in it. Other male moths are then tempted naturally to make contact with them, believing them to be female. Moths have small brains and dreadful eyesight.
But, hey, those moths are totally qualified—and naturally tempted—to chair the Young Republican National Federation.
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Reuben Doty Stephens and Cynthia Annette Browning (Nettie) were married Feb. 5, 1878 in David City, Nebraska. Cynthia was born Oct. 10, 1858 in Mankato,MN.Her parents were Jasper Browning born 1824, Niagara Co. NY and Mary Gregory, born about 1829 NY. Reuben was born Oct. 19, 1855 in Juda, Wisconsin. His parents were Ezra Milks Stephens and Margery Decker. Ezra was born Jan. 8,1831, Enfield,NY to Reuben Doty Stephens and Sally Milks. Margery Decker was born May 30,1835 in NY to George Decker and Laura Churchill.Reuben and Nettie had the following children: Gertrude,born Jan. 10, 1879,Butler Co. NE,Walter, born Aug.5, 1880,Butler Co.NE, Mary Josephine (Dollie) born Sept. 3, 1884, Butler Co. NE, Estella born Jan. 9, 1893 Lincoln, NE and Jasper William born May 31, 1896 NE. Reuben and Nettie later moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, then on to Everson, Washington where they lived out the rest of their lives. Reuben died March 31, 1936. Nettie died May 15, 1945. They are both buried in the Lynden Cemetery, Lynden Washington
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in game four of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Staples Center on April 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
Linden: Virtanen must earn his spot on Canucks roster
The Vancouver Canucks are loaded with question marks for next season.
One of them will be about what is best for the development of right winger Jake Virtanen, who will turn 20 years old next month and is coming off his first NHL campaign. He scored seven goals and 13 points in 55 games as a 19-year-old rookie. On occasion, he showed an ability to drive the net and to be a physical forward capable of crushing the opposition.
That big, physical, powerful forward that can also score is something the Canucks need. Virtanen could still evolve into that player. (On a similar note: Evander Kane trade speculation has been rampant in Vancouver in recent weeks.)
Becoming a consistent performer, showing more than just flashes of potential, has been a talking point surrounding Virtanen this summer.
He'll be eligible to play with the Utica Comets in the AHL next season, and there is competition at the right wing in Vancouver, with numerous veteran players also listed at that position. That means a spot on the roster won't be guaranteed for Virtanen, taken sixth overall in the 2014 NHL Draft.
"Jake is going to be a big part of this team for years. It was a stepping stone for him and I was out there (Vancouver) for a week and saw him training and he looked good to me," Canucks' center Bo Horvat told Ben Kuzma of The Province newspaper.
"He doesn't have the mindset that he's on the team. He has to work for it. It's the consistency part of the game and you can't take a night off like in junior. You can take some off knowing it's a for-sure win and an easier night. There are no easy nights in the NHL. On any night, any team can surprise you."
Last season, the Canucks kept Virtanen and Jared McCann with the big club, despite the option of sending them back to junior and not burning the first years of their respective entry-level contracts.
It was a major step for a team as it transitions to a younger roster, a younger core. It also came with an abundance of growing pains, culminating in Daniel Sedin ripping into his team after a particularly poor effort versus St. Louis in March.
After the season ended, and the Canucks finished 28th in the overall standings, head coach Willie Desjardins threw down the gauntlet, saying the team would focus once again on trying to win, and putting the onus on the youngsters to be good enough to help in that aspect.
When it comes to Virtanen, his conditioning has turned into an emphasis this summer.
"I think Jake has … a very raw and very unique skill set," Canucks' president Trevor Linden told TSN 1040. "He's come a long way. Last year was an important year for him, just having him see what it takes to get to the next level.
"Jake knows he's going to have to come to training camp this fall and earn a spot."
Related: Since World Juniors disappointment, Virtanen has been 'a different player' for Canucks
NHLPA hire Bruce Meyer brings a 'wealth of knowledge,' says Fehr
Bruce Meyer's résumé of victories as a lawyer is a long and impressive one, and he has now joined the NHL Players' Association as a senior director of collective bargaining, policy and legal, the union announced Thursday.
During his tenure of more than 25 years at the law firm Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, Meyer represented the NHLPA, NFLPA and NBPA.
The NHLPA said in a statement that in his new position, Meyer "will focus on a wide array of policy and legal issues."
In working for those unions, he was involved in matters such as collective bargaining and arbitration, as per his online profile.
"Bruce will be a great addition to the NHLPA's staff. He brings a wealth of knowledge to this new role coming from his law firm where he gained three decades' worth of valuable experience, including effectively representing the NHLPA and other Players' Associations as outside counsel," said NHLPA executive director Don Fehr in a statement.
The NHLPA said Meyer will begin at his new position in mid-August.
The news of this hire comes more than a month after the league sued the NHLPA after Dennis Wideman's 20-game suspension for hitting linesman Don Henderson was reduced to 10 games by a neutral arbitrator.
Related: Report: NHL dismisses neutral arbitrator who reduced Wideman's suspension
Sweet ride: Blackhawks sponsor CJ Wilson Racing's Porsche Cayman at Road America
Chicago Blackhawks fans, start your engines!
Yes, according to MotorSportsTalk, the Blackhawks have become the main sponsor of CJ Wilson Racing's No. 35 car, a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport, for the upcoming IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge event at Road America next month.
That's a sweet ride.
The partnership will officially launch at the United Center on Wednesday, August 3, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m in advance of Saturday's race. Fans will have the opportunity to get up close to the car, meet the drivers and Blackhawks Ambassador Denis Savard, and have their picture taken.
The race takes place Aug. 6 at Road America in Wisconsin.
Third team's the charm? Devils ink Gormley to one-year, two-way deal
Since being selected by the Coyotes at 13th overall in the 2010 NHL Draft, Brandon Gormley has had a difficult time breaking into the league on a full-time basis.
On Thursday, the 24-year-old Gormley joined his third NHL team, signing with the New Jersey Devils on a one-year, two-way deal worth $650,000 at the NHL level, the club announced.
Despite his draft status, Gormley has yet to play a full season in the big league, although this deal could give him an opportunity to end that. For the Devils, the deal adds more depth to the blue line in the organization and for a friendly price.
Last season, Gormley split time between the Colorado Avalanche and its farm team, the San Antonio Rampage. Despite some high expectations about where he could fit on the Avs' blue line, he was eventually put on waivers in January.
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I have a program that I added to /etc/rc.local to have it run as soon as the server starts. The problem is that sometimes the program stops responding and I need to restart it but I can not restart the server. I can only restart the server at night but the program sometimes dies during the day.
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As mentioned by Shane you'll want to create an init script to start/stop/restart the service. As far as the program not responding, you'll want to find the root cause of that first. You can also use GOD http://god.rubyforge.org/ to monitor and automatically restart the program (using your rc.local entry)
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Park Ridge WoundCare helps healing process
Published: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 4:30 a.m.
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FLETCHER -- From time to time, even the most careful people injure themselves and when that happens the staff at Park Ridge WoundCare hopes to be there to aid the natural healing process.
Under the medical direction of Dr. Thomas Eisenhauer, a Park Ridge Medical Associates surgeon, the treatment center at the hospital opened in early December to help people prevent all types of injuries from evolving into more complex and expensive health risks.
"We coordinate wound treatment plans with the patient's primary and specialty care physicians," said Ellen Blackburn, program director at Park Ridge WoundCare. "We do that to ensure each patient's individual needs are met."
Because problem wounds are often associated with other underlying medical conditions, Park Ridge WoundCare is designed to combine wound care with ongoing health care.
At the request of referring physicians, patients enter an appropriate inpatient or outpatient program for evaluation and wound care.
"We provide an extensive assessment of the wound site as well as the patient's health factors that may affect the healing process," Blackburn said. "We develop individualized treatment plans, coordinate care and provide patients and care givers with education on how to care for wounds at home as well as lifestyle adjustments that will speed the healing process."
Patient treatment plans include individualized dietary regimes to ensure adequate levels of nutrients that promote healing. Appropriate support surfaces such as special beds, mattresses, seat cushions, or footwear are prescribed to reduce or relieve pressure on existing wounds and areas of weakened tissue.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, where 100 percent pure oxygen distributed within a pressurized chamber, is also used in treating acute and traumatic wounds such as crush injuries, diabetic wounds, radiation therapy burns and surgical complications.
Park Ridge WoundCare is at 50 Hospital Drive in Fletcher. Appointments can be made Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by calling 650-6822.
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Edwards the race's only original thinker
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
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To The Editor: What's new?
Two weeks ago I was inspired by the fresh, new ideas Obama expressed in his Iowa victory speech. But last night I heard comic Robin Williams originate many of those exact same phrases in a 2-year-old movie titled Man of the Year.
It was a real eye-opener and reminded me how closely we should pay attention!
To date, it seems Edwards is the one candidate talking about his own thoughts, not those of a Hollywood screenwriter.
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Technology: Using logic to cut review costs
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roadsby Pascale Le Draoulec, Pascale Ledraoulec
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Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie real, homemade pie has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world our fast-food nation does pie still have a place?
As she traveled across the United States in an
Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie real, homemade pie has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world our fast-food nation does pie still have a place?
As she traveled across the United States in an old Volvo named Betty, Pascale Le Draoulec discovered how merely mentioning homemade pie to strangers made faces soften, shoulders relax, and memories come wafting back. Rambling from town to town with Le Draoulec, you'll meet the famous, and sometimes infamous, pie makers who share their stories and recipes, and find out how a quest for pie can lead to something else entirely.
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U.S. Army and Navy nurses at the Santo Tomás civilian prison camp in the Philippines during the Second World War would have agreed; after months of near-starvation, they were freed by American G.I.s armed with rations of "liberation" cherry pies. The story, and the recipe, are found in Barbara Haber's history of American cooks, From Hardtack to Home Fries , culled from cookbooks in Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. Haber reminds us that familiar food and shared recipes made the kitchen range home for displaced émigrés, bringing Aunt Sylvia's soul food to Harlem, Sacher Torte to Harvard Square, and ice cream and oranges to dusty railroad depots along the Santa Fe trail. The collections of these recipes became a species of batter-spattered belles-lettres. In 1923, Joseph Conrad, in an introduction to his wife's cookbook, praised such literary undertakings as "above suspicion," for their object "can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind."
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Braham (as in "graham cracker"), Minnesota
strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply
to the superiority of their women."
-- Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The obvious destination in Minnesota would have been Betty's in Duluth, practically world-famous for its pies. But I'd heard of a little town called Braham in east-central Minnesota, which hosts an annual Pie Day and boasts a giant mural of a deep-dish pie in the center of town.
I was curious about this small town's love affair with pie.
We could have bypassed Minneapolis altogether, but since we ere so close and had both been weaned on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, we thought we should at least try to find the famous intersection where Mary Richards tossed her wool hat in the air, maybe even fling our baseball caps in solidarity.
City centers can be so stark and depressing on Sundays, and Minneapolis was no exception. We drove around in circles, recalling favorite episodes, and wondering why it was that Mary never stood up to Mr. Grant when she was in his office, or how Rhoda could fit all of that furniture in her tiny studio apartment. We finally gave up and headed for Braham.
Garrison Keillor kept us entertained on the drive north. We particularly enjoyed a sketch on the myriad uses for duct tape, having just borrowed some from Paul Willis that morning to strap that darn glove-compartment door shut.
Braham (pop. 1,300) is so small, we had no troublefinding the mural painted on the side of the Tusen Tack store right where Main Avenue hits Route 60.
We parked across the street from the mural, and leaned against
Betty Blue to admire it from a distance. It was a big pie, all right. Berry, judging from the purple-red drippings. Ribbons of steam billowed from the tawny top crust, its edges coarsely crimped. The mural was bordered with heavy ceramic coffee cups, giving it a real diner feel. The painting was so absorbing and comforting, we barely noticed the elderly woman slowly pedaling past us on her squeaky three-speed bike. I caught her cherry-red tennis shoes in the comer of my eye.
"Excuse me, do you know anything about this mural?" I shouted after her. She made a big circle in the empty street and rode back toward us. I don't know if she was tickled by out-of-towners ogling her hometown mural or if she was just plain happy to be alive and exercising at the end of a glorious summer day, but she was beaming.
She introduced herself as Jerrie Aune, and she wore her Scandinavian ancestry in her high cheekbones, her thin-lipped smile, and the slight tilt of the head.
"Well, you do know you're in the homemade pie capital of Minnesota, don't you?"
"Braham? Really?"
She laughed demurely.
"It's Bra-ham, like the gra-ham cracker, she said. "Braaaaaaam.
I had been mispronouncing Braham since we first saw it on the map, giving it a mystical twist-as in Brahman.
"For more than fifty years," she said, "people driving from Minneapolis to Duluth have been taking the shortcut through Braham and stopping for pie at the Park Caf�."
Of course, I pointed out, it's not much of a shortcut if you stopped and ate a slice of pie at the caf�.
"No, I guess not," she agreed.
She popped the kickstand on her bike and faced the mural as we did, her hands on her hips.
Her father opened the caf� in 1946. It had changed hands several times since, but the "hands" have always made the pies from scratch to keep the caf�'s reputation intact.
The Park Caf� was already closed for the night, she said, "but if you want to come to my house, I have all sorts of information about the town and the Pie Day festival."
So we climbed back in the car and, at 10 miles per hour, followed Jerrie across Route 107 (called Pie Tin Alley as it goes through Braham) pas t the old railroad tracks and to her quiet, tree-lined neighborhood. Her husband, Herman, was reading the Sunday paper in the living room, and he didn't seem the least bit surprised that his wife could go out for her evening exercise and come back with two strangers. Jerrie poured us each a tall glass of cranberry juice and set out a tray of pecan-turtle cookies she kept in her freezer for surprise guests.
No sooner had we finished explaining our quest to the Aunes than Jerrie grabbed the phone and asked her friend Phyllis Londgren to come over.
"Phyllis is our own Barbara Walters," she explained. "She knows everything about Braham."
"But I have to warn you... she's very intense." I could hear Herman snicker from his recliner. "That Phyllis. She's something all right."
Herman had the most amazing way of looking at his wife. Miss Sweden could have walked into the living room in a bikini and stilettos, and Herman would barely notice. The two had met their senior year at Braham High School where Herman had gone on to become the music teacher and bandleader.
Herman knew what about Jerrie had caught his eye back in high school, but he wanted to know what had made us stop her on her bike.
"Those snappy red tennis shoes," I said. "If she hadn't been wearing them, we might have photographed the mural and forged on to South Dakota."
Herman crinkled his nose. "I really like those a lot, too," he said.
Then Herman excused himself to go find something he thought I might be interested in. He returned ten minutes (and three pecan turtles later) with the September 1956 issue of Ideals magazine, which contained the following Harriet Beecher Stowe excerpt on pie:
The pie is an English institution which planted on American soil forthwith ran rampant and burst forth into an untold variety of genera and species. Not merely the old traditional mince pie, but a thousand strictly American seedlings from that main stock, evinced the power of American housewives to adapt old institutions to new uses. Pumpkin pies, cranberry pies, huckleberry, cherry, green currant, peach, pear and plum, custard, apple, Marlborough pudding-pies with top crusts and pies without, pies adorned with all sorts of fanciful flutings and architectural strips laid across and around and otherwise varied, attested the boundless fertility of the feminine mind, when once let loose in a given direction.
Fancy the heat and vigor of the great pan formation, when Aunt Lois and Aunt Keziah and my mother and grandmother all in ecstasies of creative inspiration, ran, bustled and hurried, mixing, rolling, tasting, consulting, alternately setting us children to work when anything could be made of us and then chasing us all out of the kitchen when our misinformed childhood ventured to take too many liberties with sacred mysteries. Then out we would all fly at the kitchen door, like sparks from a blacksmith's window.
The doorbell rang and Phyllis Londgren blew in like a twister. Her arms were loaded down with history books, folders, pictures, and even official Braham pie tins -- as though she had been preparing for this moment for years.
Careful to pronounce Braham correctly, I asked Phyllis how the town had earned the title of pie capital of the state, particularly when lutefisk eaters across Minnesota speak so highly of Betty's Pies, off of old Highway 61, in Duluth.
The mere mention of Betty's made Phyllis bristle.
"Betty's may have good pies, but Braham is the pie capital," she said, and, in one long uninterrupted breath that would have put Harry Houdini to shame, recounted the story.
It all started when state officials launched a "Celebrate Minnesota" campaign to promote tourism across the state. They encouraged smaller communities to "brighten themselves up a little," put their best foot forward, even host an annual celebration of some sort. Since Braham had long been known for its-Park Caf� pies, Phyllis suggested at a civic meeting that the town host an annual Pie Day. The first festival was held on July 20, 1990. All the church ladies of Braham made pies by the dozen. There was a pie-eating contest for the kids. "It was all very garden-variety," Phyllis said.
About a year later, then- governor Rudy Perpich stopped into the Park Caf� unannounced, with his wife, after visiting a local rodeo. Perpich had made a campaign stop at the caf� once, and he'd remembered the pies.
Phyllis heard that the governor was in the house, as it were, and she raced over to the Park caf�. "I grabbed a pot of coffee and refilled his cup and then I sat down right next to him in the booth," she said.
"And that's when I told him, 'Governor, you should name Braham the Homemade Pie Capital of Minnesota!"
Phyllis pounded her fist on the table so hard that both Herman and the pecan turtles jumped. Phyllis popped one in her mouth,
"Jerrie, you're a regular Perle Mesta!" she said.
Because no one ever says no to Phyllis, the governor's official proclamation arrived in the mail within days and was immediately hung in the main dining room of the Park Caf�. Bolstered by its official status, the town's annual Pie Day just grew and grew until it finally required a committee to make preparations year-round.
A group of women named the Peach Ladies-all in their 70s and 80s -- are called in to peel and slice buckets of peaches for the event. Entertainers are flown in from Sweden, and competitive pie bakers travel from as far as Maine to participate in the various contests.
"It's gotten totally out of control," said Phyllis, beaming. Of course,with expansion have come problems.
A few years ago, the committee approved a "cow pie" contest, in which festivalgoers had to guess in which section of an open pasture a Holstein would leave, ahem, a cow pie.
"The Swansons would bring in a couple of their heifers, and then you'd have to wait all day for those cows to crap," Phyllis said, rolling her eyes. The event was shelved after three years. Herman snickered.
Pie Day has even had its first political scandal.
To celebrate and cement its new identity as the "pie capital," the people of Braham decided to put out a cookbook of prize-winning pie recipes in 1993. They solicited pie recipes from all over the state to compete in a number of categories. The clear winner in the custard-and-crearn pie category was the creamy peach pie "family" recipe submitted by a certain state senator. None of the judges noticed that the creamy peach pie, made with Jell-O, ice cream, and instant-pudding mix, was, in fact, absolutely peachless. The local press had a field day. What's more, the governor's "family" recipe had, in fact, come from the back of a General Foods package. The scandal erupted the same week said governor had been slapped with a paternity suit.
Phyllis insisted we meet with the pie committee at the Park Caf� early in the morning before leaving town. She would make sure Gary, the high school media center director, would be there. Gary was in charge of the pie-baking contest, she said, and "he's a very eligible bachelor." She winked at each of us.
Phyllis snapped a picture of us in front of our license plate. Then she handed me a soft-cover book the size of Webster's Dictionary, on the history of Braham -- a little something she threw together for Braham's centennial.
Our heads were spinning when we got in the car. As much as we loved Phyllis, we thought of calling up Garrison Keillor and suggesting another use for duct tape.
There were still about thirty minutes of daylight left, so, as soon as we got to the dreary Cambridge Imperial Motel about 12 miles away, we put on our roller blades and headed toward the local high school, where we bladed in circles in the newly paved parking lot to work off our day's intake of calories: pork sausage and pecan turtles,
I stayed up far too late reading about the history of Braham, with characters straight out of Lake Wobegon.
My favorite was J. Wallace Rock, an undertaker and fireman who also served as city clerk for thirty-four years. Rock always did his books in the mortuary or the fire hall. I learned that the "pooper-scooper" was invented in Braham, and that Braham was also the birthplace of the first handheld egg beater.
I stayed up so late reading that I managed to sleep right through the alarm. The committee was waiting for us at the caf�, tapping pencils, at a U-shaped table when we came screeching in, without our morning coffee, "like sparks from a blacksmith's window."
We were surprised at how serious everyone was about Pie Day, especially Gary the Bachelor, a real stickler about the entry rules for the contest. The event was only a couple of weeks away, and, dearly, nerves were a tad frayed.
What's more, the committee was on pins and needles, waiting to hear if their request to have a highway sign posted on Route 107 promoting Braham as Minnesota's pie capital had been approved.
No one was more serious than pie baker Lola Nebel. Though not on the committee herself, Lola had gotten a call from Phyllis late the night before, urging her to attend our breakfast meeting.
Lola had been the first-prize winner at the very first pie-baking contest at the first Pie Day in 1990. She had since gone on to win several state-fair sweepstakes and had even recently been a finalist in the Pillsbury bake-off held in San Francisco.
"I guess I've always been kind of competitive," she said, her hands resting on her stack of winning recipes.
Marilyn McGriff, a local historian and librarian, was much more low-key, even though she is the one who is ultimately responsible for getting five hundred pies baked for Pie Day each year,
"Basically, we've got it down to a science now," said Marilyn. "As long as you're breathing, you can volunteer to help make pies for Pie Day."
The pies are prepared over a three-day period, with volunteers working three shifts a day, mixing the dough, then pressing the crust in tins, then filling the shells and layering them with a top crust. The pies are baked off in the high school cafeteria -- about eighty at a time. Most of the pies are fruit: rhubarb, raspberry, cranberry, and apple, and many combinations thereof, she said, because the local health inspector, rightly, had "issues" with cream pies being sold on the sidewalk unrefrigerated.
Pies are so integral to the identity of Braham that when Marilyn visits local schools on Community Day, she always brings a justbaked pie to illustrate the meaning of community.
"I tell the children that every community needs a good foundation and infrastructure -- that's the crust," she said. "The filling is made up of churches, businesses, banks, and schools -- all the things that make a community work.
"The fluted or crimped edges are more decorative than essential," she went on. "They are the trees on Main Avenue, the gazebo in Freedom Park. They are what makes a community a much more pleasant place to live."
The banana cream pie at the Park Caf� is what makes Braham such a nice place to live, a customer at the counter chimed in. "We never go without it," said owner Ellie Grell.
Kris and I ordered a slice of fresh rhubarb with a Dutch-crumb topping instead. It looked healthier, and maybe we needed some tartness to transition back to the real world.
When I returned to New York, there were two pieces of mail with a Braham postmark waiting for me. One was Lola Nobel's recipe for Rosy Raspberry Pear pie, which follows. The other was a copy of the July 22 issue of the Star, Braham's local newspaper, with the words "See Page 4" scribbled on the front page.
I turned to Page 4 and saw this screaming headline:
"Pie Book Author to Include Braham in U.S. Pie Book."
Beneath the headline was a very large picture of Kris and me, standing next to Betty Blue, in the Aunes' driveway. Jerrie and Herman are standing close together, on their lawn, off to the side. Oddly enough, the setting sun is hitting the IBRK4PIE license plate in such a way that is glows.
"Your license plate looks like a halo, " Phyllis Londgren had scribbled on a Post-it note affixed to the article, which was, I'm guessing, written by her, although it had no byline.
The article related our visit-blow-by-blow -- and ended with this paragraph:
By the time they left Braham, around noon, they had a vast amount of information regarding the role pie plays in east central Minnesota. There are many in Braham who are looking forward to the book. The author had not arrived at a title yet, but Braham hopes to be one of the first communities to know when the book is available as well as its title ...
You betcha, Phyllis.American Pie. Copyright � by Pascale Le Draoulec. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
Meet the Author
Pascale Le Draoulec is the restaurant critic for the New York Daily News. Her stories ran over the Gannett wire service and in USA Today among other magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City. This is her first book.
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