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The State of Colorado keeps track of Coloradans hospitalized for the flu each flu season. News5 has compiled those numbers since the start of flu season (October 5, 2013) through the most recent reporting period (February 1, 2014). We will update this tracker each time the state updates their report, once a week. The map below breaks down those numbers by county as well as flu type. The active flu types for the 2013-2014 flu season, that the State of Colorado tracks, are type A, type B, type H3, and the 2009 H1N1 strain. The map is color coded based on flu hospitalizations per 100,000 people. Click on a county to see the number of hospitalizations and a breakdown of specific flu strains.
The CDC has the following advice for preventing the flu:
Wash your hands often with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Germs spread this way.
Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
Practice good health habits. Get plenty of sleep and exercise, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat healthy food.
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
If you are sick with flu-like illness, stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medicine.
The CDC also recommends that everyone above the age of 6 months get a flu shot.
The graph below breaks down the breakdown of the two most common flu types this season (2009 H1N1 and Type A) compared to the total number of flu hospitalizations this season. This graph compares the counties with the 10 highest total flu hospitalizations.
The physicians and staff at Penrose-St. Francis Primary Care want you to have as much information as possible to protect you and your family during the 2014 flu season. The leading source of information is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Below is some important information from the CDC related to influenza (flu).
Influenza Symptoms
Influenza (also known as the flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by flu viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The flu is different from a cold. The flu usually comes on suddenly. People who have the flu often feel some or all of these symptoms:
• Fever* or feeling feverish/chills
• Cough
• Sore throat
• Runny or stuffy nose
• Muscle or body aches
• Headaches
• Fatigue (tiredness)
• Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults.
* It's important to note that not everyone with flu will have a fever.
Flu Complications
Most people who get influenza will recover in a few days to less than two weeks, but some people will develop complications (such as pneumonia) as a result of the flu, some of which can be life-threatening and result in death.
Pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus and ear infections are examples of complications from flu. The flu can make chronic health problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have the flu, and people with chronic congestive heart failure may experience worsening of this condition that is triggered by the flu.
People at Higher Risk from Flu
Anyone can get the flu (even healthy people), and serious problems related to flu can happen at any age, but some people are at higher risk of developing serious flu-related complications if they get sick. This includes people 65 years and older, people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), pregnant women, and young children.
What is the difference between a cold and the flu?
The flu and the common cold are both respiratory illnesses but they are caused by different viruses. Because these two types of illnesses have similar flu-like symptoms, it can be difficult to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. In general, the flu is worse than the common cold, and symptoms such as fever, body aches, extreme tiredness, and dry cough are more common and intense. Colds are usually milder than the flu. People with colds are more likely to have a runny or stuffy nose. Colds generally do not result in serious health problems, such as pneumonia, bacterial infections, or hospitalizations.
How can you tell the difference between a cold and the flu?
Because colds and flu share many symptoms, it can be difficult (or even impossible) to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. Special tests that usually must be done within the first few days of illness can be carried out, when needed to tell if a person has the flu.
What are the symptoms of the flu versus the symptoms of a cold?
In general, the flu is worse than the common cold, and symptoms such as fever, body aches, extreme tiredness, and dry cough are more common and intense. Colds are usually milder than the flu. People with colds are more likely to have a runny or stuffy nose. Colds generally do not result in serious health problems, such as pneumonia, bacterial infections, or hospitalizations.
What kinds of flu tests are there?
A number of flu tests are available to detect influenza viruses. The most common are called "rapid influenza diagnostic tests." These tests can provide results in 30 minutes or less. Unfortunately, the ability of these tests to detect the flu can vary greatly. Therefore, you could still have the flu, even though your rapid test result is negative. In addition to rapid tests, there are several more accurate and sensitive flu tests available that must be performed in specialized laboratories, such as those found in hospitals or state public health laboratories. All of these tests require that a health care provider swipe the inside ofyour nose or the back of your throat with a swab and then send the swab for testing. These tests do not require a blood sample.
Will my health care provider test me for flu if I have flu-like symptoms?
Not necessarily. Most people with flu symptoms do not require testing because the test results usually do not change how you are treated.
Preventing the Flu
CDC urges you to take the following actions to protect yourself and others from influenza (the flu):
Take time to get a flu vaccine.
• CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against flu viruses.
• Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine as soon as the current season's vaccines are available.
• Vaccination of high risk persons is especially important to decrease their risk of severe flu illness.
• People at high risk of serious flu complications include young children, pregnant women, people with chronic health conditions like asthma, diabetes or heart and lung disease and people 65 years and older.
• Vaccination also is important for health care workers, and other people who live with or care for high risk people to keep from spreading flu to high risk people.
• Children younger than 6 months are at high risk of serious flu illness, but are too young to be vaccinated. People who care for them should be vaccinated instead.
Take everyday preventive actions to stop the spread of germs.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
• While sick, limit contact with others as much as possible to keep from infecting them.
• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Clean and disinfect surfaces and objects that may be contaminated with germs like the flu.
Take flu antiviral drugs if your doctor prescribes them.
• If you get the flu, antiviral drugs can treat your illness.
• Antiviral drugs are different from antibiotics. They are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaled powder) and are not available over-the-counter.
• Antiviral drugs can make illness milder and shorten the time you are sick. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For people with high risk factors, treatment with an antiviral drug can mean the difference between having a milder illness versus a very serious illness that could result in a hospital stay.• Studies show that flu antiviral drugs work best for treatment when they are started within 2 days of getting sick, but starting them later can still be helpful, especially if the sick person has a high-risk health or is very sick from the flu. Follow your doctor's instructions for taking this drug.


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Am I the only one who thinks that the bonus tracks on Hurley are pretty weak. This is kinda strange to me, since Red and Rad have really good deluxe edition bonus tracks. All My Friends Are Insects is really the only one I listened to more than twice. Viva La Vida barely sounds like Weezer, and I Want To Be Something and Represent are just overall weak tracks, lyrically and musically.
Miss Sweeney, The Spider, Pig, and King were definately worth the extra 3 bucks or so, and TPGITWWW, Get Me Some, Run Over By A Truck, and The Underdogs may be better than half the songs on Raditude
It kinda makes me regret spending the extra money on the Hurley deluxe edition? Kinda
EDIT: I know Viva La Vida is a cover of the Coldplay song. I meant that it didn't have that Weezer feel to it. Before I heard it, I was thinking they'd make the cover a little more original.
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That Viva la Vida recording doesn't have anyone else from the band though as far as I know - isn't it just Rivers on vocals, Josh on percussion, and some other session musicians on piano and strings? Certainly not a bad cover though, I quite like it - better than the original, over-produced, Brian Eno-aphied version.
Finally, someone who doesn't think "I want to be something" is some great song. It blows.
i've never liked it either.
all my friends.. - good song but i don't get why people think it's so endearing that it sounds like a kids song, i think that's pretty f******* lame.
viva.. - bare bones basic. its not bad but there's nothing uniquely weezer about it. and i hate coldplay
i want to be.. - don't get why people love it.
represent - is this song just a b-side from the hurley sessions? nothing special.
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A CORNER store! And instantly on my mind's screen I'm walking up the few steps on one side of the glass frontage and in through a screen door with several bells and a noisy spring-loaded clasp in time to see a round woman making hard work of rising from a stool. She calls me love and asks if I have a note, which later I come to see as a slight, and after packing a few things into a string bag she adopts her long-suffering pose at the lolly counter while I choose two black cats, four mint leaves, a gob stopper and the rest of the threepence in cobbers please.
Ian Wells tells me that while he might be overweight he is not round, but he does own, he wrote in a letter in this paper this week, one of the few corner stores still trading in Newcastle, and, I'd imagine, anywhere else within nipping distance of a supermarket. Mr Wells was protesting that because his house is zoned commercial, because he has a shop in what is effectively the front room of his home, he is not eligible for a recycling bin or the free bulk collections available to other residents.
You may have seen the Wells family's corner shop on the left of Lambton Road, Waratah, as you drive north from Griffiths Road towards the Mater Hospital. It's been there since about the end of World War II, and Mr Wells and his father bought the business almost 25 years ago and operated it while the former owner lived in the house, and when she moved out 15 years ago Mr Wells and his wife, Dianne, bought the property.
Ian mans the counter and Dianne is in charge of sourcing stock at the best price, and the hours are long, 12 hours weekdays and eight on Saturdays. Five years ago they decided to close on Sundays to spend time with their two daughters, now aged 14 and 11.
For the first few years older people in the area would buy groceries at the shop, Mr Wells says, but the deregulation of retail hours and consequently the open-all-hours supermarkets mean now that customers, mainly people stopping as they drive by, buy just the staples and cigarettes. They tried videos and DVDs but the specialist stores put paid to that, they found that more fruit and veg went into the bin than out the door, and while they sell phone recharges and iTunes gift cards the margins are low. It is, though, still a livelihood, their only livelihood, and Mr Wells, who's 52, says they wouldn't like to walk away, but he fears the impact of the carbon tax. He sees pricing as important and says corner store prices are between those of supermarkets and service stations.
Until supermarkets changed people's shopping habits in the 1960s people bought most of their groceries at corner stores or in shopping strips at bigger shops often called general stores, and there were so many of these outlets that pricing was competitive. It is likely that higher prices had more to do with an individual shop's low buying power than anything else. My wife recalls that there were six corner stores (not always on a corner), in the two blocks around her family's Merewether home 45 years ago, and often in the old suburbs we see a house that used to be a corner store, the front room on the fence line and the frame of the shop window filled in with sheeting or bricks.
I watched a very old corner store near my home die after we moved in 20 years ago. A young fellow had bought it and over a couple of years he went from selling the staples plus some fruit and veg, cold meat and tins to just the staples, just bread, milk, soft drink and cigarettes. Finally a young woman bought it as a job, she told me, and after the first week she told me her week's takings hadn't reached a day's turnover reported by the seller. She walked away two weeks later and I felt so sad for her.
Convenience stores have become common in the Hunter, but since they're in shopping strips rather than in the midst of houses they don't qualify as corner stores. I don't think they would anyway, they're too flash.
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K. Aslihan Yener
During 1995/96, K. Aslihan Yener directed the second season of work at the Amuq Valley Regional Projects in the Hatay, Turkey (see 96-97 Amuq report), with Tony J. Wilkinson, who directed the geoarchaeological investigations. Preliminary investigation at the large Chalcolithic site of Tell Kurdu, which had been briefly surveyed in 1995, was continued with a exploratory sounding in 1996. A destruction event was found below the topsoil with collapsed architectural elements and carbonized grains spread over nearly the entire extent of the 5 x 5 m exposure. Fragments of mudbrick collapse and part of a wattle and daub wall of a structure emerged with remains of several large pottery scatters in situ. The regional survey included reconstructions of land use and geomorphological changes in order to assess the impact of human communities on the environment. Our Dutch colleagues from Gröningen cored samples of soil from the lake bed for pollen analysis and reconstructing the palaeoecology. An interrelated parallel investigation was a survey of Late Bronze Age sites to assess the nature of Aegean interaction in the Amuq. Progress was made on selecting a location for the excavation house, which we will call the Robert and Linda Braidwood Excavation House. The work in the Amuq is published in two articles: "The 1995 Oriental Institute Amuq Regional Projects," by K. A. Yener, T. J. Wilkinson, S. Branting, E. Friedman, J. Lyon, and C. Reichel, in Anatolica 22 (1996): 49-84; and in Turkish "1996 Chicago Oriental Institute Hatay Amik Ovas1 Bölge Projeleri," in XV. Arastirma Sonuçlari Toplantisi (Ankara: General Directorate of Antiquities). Two articles are forthcoming: "The History of the Lake of Antioch: A Preliminary Note," by T. J. Wilkinson, in Festschrift for Michael Astour, edited by R. E. Averbeck (in press); and "Holocene Valley Fills of Southern Turkey and Northwestern Syria. Recent Geoarchaeological Contributions," by T. J. Wilkinson (Proceedings of the International Quaternary Conference Meeting, Ankara, 1997), in Quaternary Science Reviews (in press). Yener delivered papers on the second season of excavations in the Amuq Valley at the May Meetings of the XIX International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys, and Archaeometry, Ankara, Turkey; at the Helene Kantor Symposium: The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium Conference, University of Cincinnati; and at the Chowder and Marching Society Meeting, Bryn Mawr. The survey and work in the Amuq became the background for a seminar, on the Amuq in the second millennium bc, taught during the winter quarter.
The last season of excavations at Kestel mine and its mortuary chamber took place in the summer months. The first aim was to investigate the initial ore extraction methods in the mine shaft and then to date the graves. As part of the program to open the mine to tourism, floodlights were installed in the first chamber. Our other aim was to map surface features related to ore processing and openwork mining above the mine on the mountain slope which were targeted for excavation. Our last objective was to build a depot/storage structure with working space to house the ceramics, groundstone tools, and crucible fragments from both the Göltepe and Kestel excavations. The building, located in the Celaller village grammar school yard, would make these collections available to scholars seeking to do research projects on any of the Göltepe and Kestel finds in the future. Two multi-authored articles appeared on instrumental analysis of archaeological materials from Göltepe and Kestel: "The Application of Surface Analysis Techniques to Archaeological Ceramic Crucibles," by A. Adriaens, K. A. Yener, and F. Adams, in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis, edited by H. J. Mathieu, B. Reihl, and D. Briggs (New York: Wiley, 1996), pp. 123-26; "SIMS Analyses of Ancient Ceramic Crucibles and Slags from Turkey," by A. Adriaens, K. A. Yener, F. Adams, and R. Levi-Setti, in Tenth International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry SIMS X, edited by A. Benninghoven, B. Hagenhoff, and H. W. Werner (New York: Wiley, 1997), pp. 877-80.
Another thrust of Yener's research was the establishment of a joint collaborative project with Argonne National Laboratory. With the construction of the University of Chicago beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and Argonne beamlines, synchrotron radiation became available to the Oriental Institute as a result of our successful grant application. The knowledge of how to benefit from modern x-ray techniques is now being transferred to a new field, the archeological community. By organizing pilot experiments and training graduate students in these modern techniques, interaction between x-ray experimentalists and archeologists have been established. Our graduate students and colleagues are now utilizing the APS facilities and other instrumental analysis techniques such as the scanning electron microscope available at the University of Chicago. They constitute the vanguards of a departmental field specialization now being developed in scientific techniques and archaeology that we hope to expand to include Argonne National Laboratory. To that end Yener taught a seminar in "Metal Technology and Social Organization: The Anthropology of Technology." Yener spoke about instrumental analysis and archaeology at a workshop held for the University of Chicago-Argonne National Laboratory teams who won the collaborative project grants. Another workshop on the "Shedding Light on the Past: Synchotron X-Rays and Archaeology" took place at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Remember a few years ago when the thought of working with your procurement department brought on anxiety attacks? Meeting planners, particularly those in the insurance and financial services industries, resisted like crazy — to no avail. Today, not only do most corporate planners work with procurement — 64 percent of respondents to Meeting Professionals International's 2007 FutureWatch survey said their purchasing departments were involved in hotel sourcing in 2006, with 27 percent expecting that involvement to increase in 2007 — but many have embraced the relationship as helpful rather than harmful.
Now there's a new sheriff in town: your compliance officer. And as with procurement, resistance is futile.
In fact, smart meeting managers like Allstate Financial's Laurie Fitzgerald, CMP, make it their business to take a strategic approach and show how they can be valued partners with compliance. When Fitzgerald joined Allstate Financial in Northbrook, Ill., about five years ago, Chief Compliance Officer Maribel Gerstner had just been transferred to her position. Rather than avoid Gerstner's involvement in meeting planning, Fitzgerald welcomed it. Today they are joined at the hip when it comes to ensuring that the 65 meetings, trade shows, and events Fitzgerald manages are compliant with NASD guidelines.
Unfortunately, a close relationship with your compliance officer won't negate the detailed bookkeeping that most planners hate. "My desk is one big spreadsheet," notes Fitzgerald, who estimates that for a typical meeting she spends roughly 40 percent of her time issuing invitations and tracking approval lists of the reps who are invited to attend. But paying such diligent attention to details and partnering closely with Gerstner enables Fitzgerald to help keep her company off the front pages of the Wall Street Journal — and into the front pages of Financial & Insurance Meetings as a best-practices example of planner-compliance collaboration. Check out our cover story by senior writer Michael Bassett, on page 24, to get the scoop on how Fitzgerald and Gerstner ensure that every aspect of their meetings adheres to NASD guidelines.
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Keeping up with industry rules and regs is a complex job for compliance pros. Not only are many of the guidelines that apply to meetings open to interpretation, but the financial services industry is overseen by a variety of regulators that includes — but is not limited to — NASD, the SEC, various banking entities, and 50 state insurance and securities regulators. Some of these overlapping jurisdictions will be streamlined by the imminent merger of the New York Stock Exchange and NASD, which jointly regulate about 200 of the largest securities companies in the U.S.
The date of the merger had not yet been announced when this issue went to press in late June. But on June 20, NASD Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mary Shapiro announced that the name of the merged organization will be the Securities Industry Regulatory Authority. "We're working around the clock to see that the consolidation is finalized soon," said Shapiro. "Once that happens, SIRA will be largest self-regulatory organization for securities brokers and dealers in the world."
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Regulators are considering a proposed Florida Power & Light Co. base rate settlement with three groups of commercial customers.
The Florida Public Service Commission is scheduled Thursday to vote on the proposal that's opposed by the state's consumer advocate. Public Counsel J.R. Kelly says it's a bad deal for most customers.
Over a four-year period, it would raise base rates for a typical residential customer by nearly $10 per month. Company officials say they expect overall residential bills to increase much less due to reductions in fuel charges.
Commercial customers, though, would see their overall rates go down or at least remain flat while FPL stockholders would be allowed higher returns.
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Number of floors - 3
- Elevator/lift
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- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 189
- Patio
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Casa Chaco - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Ranchers Club - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
La Cantina - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
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The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute invites applications for its 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies. Candidates from all social science disciplines, including history, are welcome to apply. The fellowship will cover a 10- or 12-month period beginning July 1, 2005 or September 1, 2006. The Fellow will devote half time to his or her own research and will teach one course per semester. The stipend for 2005-2006 is $41,000, plus benefits.
Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements (completed and filed the dissertation) between July 2002 and July 2005. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. in a social science discipline, including history, working on modern Southeast Asia. Applications from individuals who hold or have held regular faculty positions will not be considered.
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When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, he didn't really have any toys, so he made his own, out of wood and string. He put on performances with homemade puppets and made cartoon flip-books. He pretended that there were magical realms hidden behind the sliding shoji screens in his family's little house. There was no television. His parents were of modest means but hardly poor. This was in the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties, in the rural village of Sonobe, about thirty miles northwest of Kyoto, in a river valley surrounded by wooded mountains. As he got older, he wandered farther afield, on foot or by bike. He explored a bamboo forest behind the town's ancient Shinto shrine and bushwhacked through the cedars and pines on a small mountain near the junior high school. One day, when he was seven or eight, he came across a hole in the ground. He peered inside and saw nothing but darkness. He came back the next day with a lantern and shimmied through the hole and found himself in a small cavern. He could see that passageways led to other chambers. Over the summer, he kept returning to the cave to marvel at the dance of the shadows on the walls.
Miyamoto has told variations on the cave story a few times over the years, in order to emphasize the extent to which he was surrounded by nature, as a child, and also to claim his youthful explorations as a source of his aptitude and enthusiasm for inventing and designing video games. The cave has become a misty but indispensable part of his legend, to Miyamoto what the cherry tree was to George Washington, or what LSD is to Steve Jobs. It is also a prototype, an analogue, and an apology—an illuminating and propitious way to consider his games, or, for that matter, anyone else's. It flatters a vacant-eyed kid with a joystick (to say nothing of the grownups who have bought it for him or sold it to him) to think of himself, spiritually, as an intrepid spelunker. The cave, certainly, is an occasion for easy irony: the man who has perhaps done more than any other person to entice generations of children to spend their playtime indoors, in front of a video screen, happened to develop his peculiar talent while playing outdoors, at whatever amusements or mischief he could muster. Of course, no one in the first wave of video-game designers could have learned the craft by playing video games, since video games didn't exist until people like Miyamoto invented them. Still, there may be no starker example of the conversion of primitive improvisations into structured, commodified, and stationary technological simulation than that of Miyamoto, the rural explorer turned ludic mastermind.
In his games, Miyamoto has always tried to re-create his childhood wonderment, if not always the actual experiences that gave rise to it, since the experiences themselves may be harder to come by in a paved and partitioned world. "I can still recall the kind of sensation I had when I was in a small river, and I was searching with my hands beneath a rock, and something hit my finger, and I noticed it was a fish," he told me one day. "That's something that I just can't express in words. It's such an unusual situation. I wish that children nowadays could have similar experiences, but it's not very easy."
Fishermen have a saying, in reference to the addictive sensation of a fish hitting your line: "The tug is the drug." Gamers, as video-game players are known, thrill to "the pull," that mysterious ability that good games have of making you want to play them, and keep playing them. The pull used to extract quarters from your pockets. Then it became a force that pinned you to a couch. Later, it got your entire family to shadowbox in the living room. Whatever the interface, a great game invites and rewards obsession, and Miyamoto's games are widely considered to be among the greatest. He has been called the father of modern video games. The best known, and most influential, is Super Mario Bros., which débuted a quarter of a century ago and, depending on your point of view, created an industry or resuscitated a comatose one. It spawned dozens of sequels and spinoffs. Miyamoto has designed or overseen the development of many other blockbusters, among them the Legend of Zelda series, Star Fox, and Pikmin. Their success, in both commercial and cultural terms, suggests that he has a peerless feel for the pull, that he is a master of play—of its components and poetics—in the way that Walt Disney, to whom he is often compared, was of sentiment and wonder. Certainly, in Mario, the squat Italian plumber who bops around the Mushroom Kingdom in a quest to rescue Princess Toadstool, Miyamoto created a folk hero—gaming's first—with as great a reach as Mickey Mouse's.
What he hasn't created is a company in his own name, or a vast fortune to go along with it. He is a salaryman. Miyamoto's business card says that he is the senior managing director and the general manager of the entertainment-analysis and -development division at Nintendo Company Ltd., the video-game giant. What it does not say is that he is Nintendo's guiding spirit, its meal ticket, and its playful public face. Miyamoto has said that his main job at Nintendo is ningen kougaku—human engineering. He has been at the company since 1977 and has worked for no other. (He prizes Nintendo's financial and creative support for his work: "There's a big difference between the money you receive personally from the company and the money you can use in your job.") He has never been the company's (or his own) boss, but it is not unreasonable to imagine that Nintendo might not exist without him. He designed the games and invented the franchises that caused people to buy the consoles. He also helped design the consoles.


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Ash and friends are on their way to Icirrus City when they run into their old friend Stephan outside the Celestial Tower. Stephan explains that he has come to compete in the Wishing Bell Festival, in which a trainer partners with one of their pokemon and has to overcome various obstacles in order to reach the top of the tower. The winner gets to ring the Wishing Bell, which is said to make their wishes come true. Hearing this, Ash, Iris and Cilan decide to compete in the festival too. Which of them will be victorious?


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The Alexa Ranking Myth
Update: 4/20/08, Of course as soon as I post on my blog about Alexa's inaccurate ranking system they decide to update their system. Time will tell if it is an better.
SEO companies are at the front lines when it comes to educating customers and potential customers about what is important when looking at web statistics. I guess I've hit my breaking point, which is usually when I start blogging, about Alexa rankings. We have clients that ask why there Alexa ranking is so high (which is bad) and even though they are ranking in the top 5 for their most treasured keyword phrases. They have high traffic that is converting above their industry standards, but still they Alexa ranking rears its ugly head too often.
So I want to put this issue to pasture and definitively state that we do not care about Alexa ranking and do not monitor Alexa rankings, other to see estimated trends for pure entertainment value. They are of little importance an not worth the time to view them. Not only are the extremely inaccurate, but they can also give a false sense of security when they inflate your importance. You must remember that unless you have the Alexa toolbar on your site, your web visits won't be counted in the Alexa stats. What does this mean for the numbers that Alexa shows you? Well, think about who would have the Alexa toolbar installed: mostly people involved with Internet marketing such as SEO people, webmasters, consultants and other people whose job it is to track statistics. These aren't your normal site surfers and they skew the traffic numbers higher for Internet-related sites. If you have been reading this blog long enough you know I'm a big believer in actual case studies and real data to prove a point. To that end I have done some research to show the Alexa Ranking Myth and break its spell.
The first chart shows stats from Alexa for this site (BigOakInc.com, a Internet marketing site) and a smoothie recipe site (Smoothieweb.com, a non-Internet related site) and you can see that Alexa shows the Big Oak site with more than double the traffic of Smoothie Web. If you were to view or stats on Alexa it reports our site as being in the top 100,000 sites on the web, specifically we are ranked at 94,204. My, aren't we so important! Now,don't get me wrong, we have a nice number of visitors, but to think we are in the top 100,000 sites is a bit much. While SmoothieWeb.com, a highly trafficked site is only ranked at 310,192.
Now that we know what Alexa is reporting, let us look at actual site statistics as reported by Google Analytics. If you look at the graphs below you can see the dramatic difference from Alexa's reported rankings in traffic over the same 3-month period. BigOakInc.com has 20,311 visitors which is a very respectable number for a B2B site. But when compared to SmoothieWeb.com's 210,190 visitors you can easily see that Alexa rankings are highly skewed towards technical and Internet-related websites. SmoothieWeb.com had 10x the visitor traffic according to Google Analytics but less than half according to Alexa's estimates.
The BigOakInc.com site obviously pulls traffic from our competitors, webmasters in charge of finding a honest SEO company and research types for our informative SEO blog. And these users are more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed, if only to inflate their own Alexa ranking by visiting their own sites daily. And before you ask, no, I do not have the Alexa toolbar installed and neither does any of the staff at Big Oak.
To sum up, do not look at Alexa rankings with any more than an passing curiosity, for that is all it is. Instead look at your site's analytics and try to see where you are getting traffic and what traffic is converting. Look at the keywords your site is ranking for and how the visitors from those terms are using your site. In short, look at all the data you can around your actual visitors and leave the estimated numbers based on a toolbar installation to those who need the ego stroking of a high Alexa ranking. And if anyone asks you about your Alexa ranking, please refer them to this post.


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I love all animals, specially horses and kitties and this was so sick and cruel, I would like to see these butchers put to hard labor in a prison in Siberia with no coats and no fire.
Pork also in the beef "shipped around the world."Seems to me, so Muslims need to be calling in a fatwah on these guys -- but it will probably be McDonald´s, instead.
horsemeat...that´s gross and horrible enough! But as a dog lover, I´m going to be sick! Dog meat?! Those poor horses being beaten and starved! I can´t stand it. It just breaks my heart!!! *tears*
I won´t eat horse meat, but it was common in times past. It was fed to our soldiers in WW II. I remember it being available in grocery stores in the´50s.
Before we´re too quick to judge, horses in the USA are sent to Mexico, for cruel slaughter because people here can´t stomach the thought of them being slaughtered (humanely and under FDA control) in the US. The meat is then sent to Canada and worldwide. What frosts governments is that unregulated suppliers are taking profits from the beef suppliers, which in turn isn´t being taxed. The meat misrepresentation in products is a distant, secondary consideration.
I like the solution proposed by #1.I thought about this article while I was at Publix today, looking down the aisle with all the pet food that contains "meat by-products." You may not care about the ethics of horse meat or the means of slaughtering--but what if it´s from race horses and tainted with a dangerous drug, as the article describes in some cases? Not good for you or your pets.We haven´t given the cats mystery meat (at least, not to our knowledge) for years and now we start with ourselves. It´s enough to make us go back to a vegetarian menu--or heavily so, at least. And I may end up making my own cat food after this, not forgetting the taurine cats desperately need.
At least now we know what Italian Mafia guys do with the rest of the horse, after they leave the head in someone´s bed.
Fair warning in OP´s comments. I ought not to have even scanned this article, it is just too, too horrible.


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Mullet Toss - 3 Nights $395.00 in Gulf Shores
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community The Village
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 510 - $ 1,050 / week
$ 800 - $ 850 / month
vacation rental description
Spacious, beautifully decorated two-bedroom / two-bath condo located
in the Village complex in the West Beach area of Gulf Shores.
Floor to ceiling windows offer a view of the gulf of Mexico from the
family room and kitchen. The master bedroom overlooks the
swimming pool and has a queen-size bed, and a separate tiled
bathroom with tub & shower.. The second bedroom has a full-sized
bed and a second bathroom. Additional guests can use the queen-size
sleeper sofa in the living room.
The condominium is beautifully decorated in calming beach colors,
with nautical touches throughout.
The fully-equipped kitchen is very spacious
and opens to the dining
area in the family room. The balcony has patio furniture for you to
enjoy your coffee, a good book, or a glass of wine after dinner.
Having a washer and dryer in the unit adds to your comfort and
Write us an e-mail or give us a call at any time for more
information about the accommodation or the area.
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Dean & Andrea Martin & Jana Phillips 251-605-7416
condo rental amenities
Handy Beach Access
Air Conditioning, Cable TV, & DVD, Stereo, CD Player, fully
equipped kitchen (Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Cooking
Utensils), Washer-Dryer in unit.
Swimming Pool Picnic Area
Walking distance to local shopping and restaurants
Close to Family Entertainment
activities and attractions in Gulf Shores Alabama
Swim in the warm gulf waters, jump into the private swimming pool. Take your
evening walk on the 30-mile-long white-sand beach. Enjoy the crystal
blue waters of the Gulf, and watch dolphins play offshore.
Conveniently located across the street from the beach
and within walking distance of the lagoon.
For families, visit the Gulf Shores State Park Fishing Pier,
Waterville USA, the Gulf Shores Zoo, go-kart and mini-
golf parks, Fort Morgan, countless golf courses, deep-sea fishing
charters, or local water sports rental companies.
vacation rental rates
03/1-05/10 . . . Spring ............. $678/week
05/11 -06/20 . . . Summer...........$858/week
06/21- 08/01 . . . Peak Summer...$1050/week
08/02 -09/06. . . Early Fall...........$798/week
09/07 -10/31 . . Fall/Winter........$630/week
11/1 - 2/28.... Winter.....$510/week $850/month
*Call for daily and weekend rates.
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50% of total rental/fees due at time of reservation, balance due
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
We would like to clarify a situation that seems to be confusing a few people out there.
When we issued our press release to announce the farewell tour - we stated that it was the last major world tour for Judas Priest - nothing has changed - we didn't say it was the end of the band or that we were going to retire or the band was going to break up........... Just that it would be the last major world tour we would be doing which is still the case.
We have plans for a new album (which we have already announced in an earlier press release) plus possible future releases and we would still consider doing the odd live show - if it is something special or for a great cause - but no more world tours.
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Why the djembe matters to me (Part 2)
In 2003, I attended a men's gathering where a group of men congregated in the Australian bush for a few days to talk about men's issues. There were various personal development workshops, ceremonies, yoga, singing, sports, dancing, meditation—you name it. One thing that is popular at such gatherings is drumming and, at this particular event, a group of Australians were (skilfully) playing Mandingue rhythms with a full dundun and djembe ensemble. I remember listening and being absolutely fascinated by the richness of the music, and by its depth and complexity. It was like no other music I'd ever heard before. Whenever there was drumming, I was there to listen and feel the music.
At the gathering, the musicians passed around flyers for an African concert that was taking place a few weeks later, and I decided to go along. As it turned out, Epizo Bangoura performed with the ensemble there, and I got to hear a master djembefola for the first time. This was the most jaw-dropping musical experience o...
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I've been thinking of writing down this story for about three years. Both for my own sake, because I think it is useful to reflect on the past, but also because I think other people might find something here that will touch them. This is a very personal account of why the djembe matters to me and why I continue to pursue Mandingue music. Mine is only one story out of thousands; the djembe has many ways to teach what people need to learn…
My name is Michi, and I live in Brisbane, Australia. I'm 50 years old now, and I've been drumming for six years—with a passion. The way I found the djembe is tied up with my upbringing and life as an adult, and with my journey from music to science and back.
Music and the performing arts were a big part of my early life. I was born and raised in Germany as the son of a professional musician. I grew up literally swimming in music and was recognised as musically gifted from an early age. I played harmonica by the time I was three, picked out simple tun...
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A three-pointer by ECU's Robert Sampson with 1:03 remaining brought the Pirates to within three (80-77), but eight successful free throws by UMass's Chaz Williams in the game's final minute helped the Minutemen to put the game out of reach.
Williams finished with 26 points in the game, a season-high, while adding 11 assists in the ECU loss. Maurice Kemp led the Pirates with 21 points, followed by Robert Sampson with 14 and Akeem Richmond with 11 points.
Though it ended as a close fought game, the beginning of the contest was anything but close. UMass scored the game's first 14 points with four different players to open up a commanding lead. ECU made its first basket, a Kemp jumper, after 4:57 had gone by in the first half.
UMass led for the entirety of the first half, and led by as much as 16 with six minutes to play before halftime. But in the half's final minutes, ECU began to find a rhythm offensively.
Richmond tallied all 11 of his points in this span, including 3 three-pointers, as the Pirates fought to within three (39-36) with eight seconds to play in the half. The Minutemen's Jesse Morgan hit a three-pointer with one second left for UMass to take a 42-36 lead into the half.
ECU remained close out of the gate in the second half, but could never get any closer than the three-point difference. UMass, which nursed a 47-44 lead with 16:01 remaining in the second half, began to turn on the offensive onslaught. In the four and a half minutes that followed the Minutemen went on a 16-0 run in which five different UMass players scored. Williams led the Minutemen with six points during the stretch.
UMass's lead remained in double digit figures until there was about four minutes remaining in the game. The lead was narrowed to single digits by a Kemp layup that made the score 75-66. From then on ECU was able to pull within three before ultimately losing in the final minute.
UMass's Terrell Vinson and Morgan each added 15 points, with Freddie Riley adding 14. Williams, the team's leading scorer, finished the night going 15-for-16 from the free throw line.
The Pirates away game record dropped to 1-3 while their home record remains a perfect 6-0. ECU's home record will be put to the test in its next game on Dec. 29 against Norfolk State in Minges Coliseum. Norfolk State participated in the NCAA Tournament last season.
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Last year, the nonprofit Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) announced plans to host a conference in December. Apparently, the IMA wanted to preview a fledgling internal-controls framework — one aimed at helping publicly traded companies cope with tough new monitoring requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The IMA's offering, devised in conjunction with Paisley Consulting, was intended to be an alternative to the well-established COSO controls framework. That framework, used by the majority of Sarboxers, was first promulgated in 1992 by the Treadway Commission's Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (hence, COSO).
But when word got out that the IMA, one of the five sponsoring organizations, was offering a rival framework, things turned ugly. Attendees quickly began pulling out of the event. One source close to the situation claims government regulators — many of whom have publicly backed COSO — refused to attend, because they didn't want to give the appearance of endorsing a rival system. Ultimately, the IMA had little choice but to cancel the event. Larry Rittenberg, COSO's chairman, says he advised IMA executives to delay the unveiling until he had a chance to talk to them. "We think everyone ought to look for ways to better implement the COSO model," he explains. "But we should work within the COSO structure."
Seemingly chastened by the incident, in late January IMA officials agreed to work on developing a management-focused system within the COSO framework. Jeffrey Thomson, vice president for research and applications development at the group, says the template (called Collaborative Assurance & Risk Design: Management Edition, or, unfortunately, CARD: ME) will allow managers, rather than external auditors, to take the lead in setting internal controls. But the IMA's near-defection speaks volumes about the troubles with COSO. Critics claim that the framework is a broad, principles-based document not particularly suited to internal-controls monitoring. Parveen Gupta, an accounting professor at Lehigh University (who is helping the IMA form a CARD: ME advisory panel), likens COSO to a lifestyle guide for a healthy heart. It's helpful, he says, but specific cholesterol counts would be even more useful in determining the exact health of a patient.
COSO is also complicated — some say too complicated for midlevel managers. It's no snap, that's for sure. The framework has three key objectives (operations, finance, and compliance) mapped across five components, in a manual that runs 353 pages.
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First of all, I'm not sure what the other reviewers are talking about ��this light was a breeze to install, and I'm definitely no expert. It probably took me 30 minutes total. Maybe it helped that we have a vaulted ceiling, so I could hang the chain from a (securely attached) ceiling hook first, then to the electric box. Anyways, this chandelier is very nice quality for the price. Looks great, the shades throw off a nice amount and color of light. Definitely classes up our dining room - it could pass for a P-ottery B-arn light no problem. I will say, despite the description, it seems more "classic" than "contemporary." The only problem that might be a deal breaker for some people is that the light is directed mostly downward, a little bit upward, and not much to the sides. So, there is a bit of a spotlight effect on your table, but the entire room won't be as brightly lit as other styles of chandeliers. Also, some nitpicky things, that you might expect from a light this inexpensive: 1. The shades don't sit very firmly, so you have to do a lot of tweaking to make them all line up properly. 2. The cord runs through one of the supports, which seems to be causing the chandelier itself to be slightly off-parallel from the plate at which the supports all meet above it. It's not that noticeable, though. Note on bulbs: unless this chandelier will be way up high in your room, get the frosted type bulbs, not the clear, or it will be too bright. Also, the website says "type e12" but the instructions in the box say "type B" - which seem to be much easier to find. Overall, this light is a steal!
We installed this chandelier over the weekend and it was not fun. The problem is that the fixture is designed to hang from a chain. Anything that hangs from a single point has a tendancy to move - there's nothing stabilizing it. This doesn't work when you have a rectangular shaped fixture. Also the fixture is so large that there is no need for a chain unless you have a vaulted ceiling. Because of both of these issues, we ened up reworking the fixture so that it hangs right from the first face plate to which the entire fixture hangs. This was not easy and it still needs some fine tuning. Luckily my husband is handy and patient and was able to make it work. Because we needed to put it up and take it down so many times, the paint has chipped and needs to be touched up. Also the shades are not linen as described. They're an off-white fabric. O.K., but I'll replace them over time. Overall disappointed in this item.
This chandelier is an excellent value for the price. It is at least half the price of a P-B lamp, but definitely has a P-B look to it! Very pleased with the quality of the item, especially for the price. I like that I can change out the shades if I want. We did not find it difficult to hang, but my husband is handy, and I helped hold it up.
Fixture is VERY nice. Looks great with my d�cor. Works great over my 98 inch long table. Others stated the item wouldn't square up - this happened to me too. My handyman simply went to the "hooks" on the lower metal plate & slightly rotated them, as well as the one hook at the ceiling plate. Didn't take but a minute to make those adjustments & it sat evenly!
beautiful fixture, mostly dark black/bronze with a little antique brass. had our electrician install, took him a hour. Our ceilings are not hi, so had to only use 1 chain link to get the right height from the table/floor. look is still great. Good quality product.
I bought this light because it was exactly the look I wanted and definitely the right price point, After spending weeks debating about other lights that were very expensive and not exactly what I wanted I came back to this. I knew we would have to do some manipulation as we only have 8' ceilings and this would hang too low since it does not have a flush mount option. The instructions that come with this light are useless. They tell you absolutely nothing and probably confuse more than they help. The light is made of cheep painted metal (you get what you pay for). Some of the fixtures came bent and the more you handle it the more wear you will see before you even hang it. We first hung it without manipulating it to see what height we could get it at. The closest to the ceiling with only one chain link would be 6" (overall of 42" from ceiling). This is far too low for an 8' ceiling. Figuring out how to make this a flush mount fixture took a bit of thought (including drilling a hole in my new light fixture), trial and error, and time. Now that it is done it looks absolutely gorgeous and I couldn't be happier. Definitely looks like a much higher grade light and I keep getting lots of compliments by everyone that comes by. My husband may not agree...he says the next light we buy for the house I can spend the money on. Overall I guess I would recommend this light...to anyone who has 9' ceilings or higher!!
This chandelier is very impressive and adds character to our home. The quality of the product is excellent. We did hire an electrician to install it but that was only because our initial wiring in the wall was not correct. Otherwise we could have installed this light ourselves. Overstock was quick with delivery and everything was in the box that was needed to install the light. Highly recommend this product.
My bro-in-law assembled for me with no issue. He needed some assistance hanging and it still needs slight nudges to get the chandelier exactly in line/straight. Otherwise, it's a great value for the price and very reminiscent of a XX type item. Quality is fine. I am overall pleased so far.
I was very hesitant to buy this because other reviewers said it was a nightmare to install, but my electrician said it was not too difficult. The styling of this fixture is really unique and it looks great over my dining table. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is because the square plate at the top of the fixture (the one where all the bars come together, not the one that attaches to the ceiling) does not sit perfectly parallel with the ceiling. However, it is not too noticeable, and does not take away from the overall appearance of the light. Other reviewers had mentioned that it did not hang correctly over their table and tended to turn the other direction. Mine has stayed perfectly aligned over the table except for one time when I bumped my head on it! I love that light is a bit different than your traditional chandeliers. I have received a lot of compliments on it, and the value for the money is good.
I looked high and low for a nice but not too fancy rectangular chandelier large enough for a dining table that extends to seat 12. Couldn't find anything better than this at any price! The actual one I received was slightly different design as the base of each light there is a brass accent, and the stems for the lights are smooth round, not square with ridges. It is nicer than what is displayed. While the linen lamp shades are nice, they cast an opaque light downward and look yellowish when lit. I purchased mercury glass lamp shades from a popular chain home furnishings store instead, which really made a difference - added light and interest day and night. You won't find a 36" rectangular chandelier at this price and quality anywhere else - I already searched!
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