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In 2007, Seattle Children's Hospital began early plans for a new clinic and surgery center in Bellevue that was projected to cover 110,000 square feet and cost $100 million.
Then the Great Recession hit, so the hospital chose a new way to design the center at less cost without sacrificing patient care.
To do that, the hospital set aside space in its parking garage for full-size mock-ups of patient rooms, hospital floors and sequences of hospital space. Staff members, administrators and family members walked through the mock-ups with an eye to improving the layout.
Is there a shorter path for patients to travel? Is the storage closet in a convenient location? Will the space work smoothly during a patient emergency?
Using the mock-ups helped catch problems before they were locked into place in architects' designs and contractors' work. By planning ahead, and by seeking input from everyone, from housekeepers to executives, Seattle Children's trimmed 25,000 square feet and saved $40 million.
The result was leaner. It was also Lean.
"Lean" refers to Toyota Corp.'s management approach based on continuous improvement and on respect for all people involved, not just the top dogs.
Bellingham author Naida Grunden wrote about the Lean approach in her 2007 book, "The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare," based on her time working for a regional health initiative in Pittsburgh. The book won an international award, The Shingo Prize, for its contribution to smart management.
Now Grunden has a new book out that applies Lean ideas and methods to the physical space of health care: "Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future."
For me, the book's strength is its numerous case studies of how Seattle Children's and hospitals improved patient care and saved money through cooperative, ground-up planning. Lean design ranges from big issues, such as the optimal flow of patients and staff throughout a hospital, to such particulars as storage cabinets and sink locations.
Example: A new hospital in Virginia had cabinets that reached to the ceiling. Bad idea, because it's inefficient and unsafe to store things that high.
Also, the cabinets were attached to the wall. Also a bad idea, because it will take time and money to change the cabinets if use of the space changes.
"The best thing you can do is to design the building so you change in the future," Grunden said.
Another example: To save on plumbing and wiring costs, hospitals often build mirror-image patient rooms on opposite sides of a common wall. Bad idea, because that means the sink, for example, will on the left side of the patient's bed in one room and on the right side in the other.
Mistakes are reduced when sinks and other fixtures in patient rooms are in identical locations. That way, medical workers don't have to think twice about where to find something.
A factory worker assembling a Toyota shouldn't have to look here and there for a door handle to install. Neither should a nurse looking for supplies.
"Things that make sense in an industrial setting make sense for hospitals, in most cases," Grunden said.
Yet the biggest challenge with Lean isn't installing sinks in the same location. It's breaking through barriers that arise between caregivers and administrators, between this hospital department and that hospital department, and between architects who design first and tweak later, and those wiling to listen first, and then design.
"It's a way of thinking," Grunden said. "Let the people who do the work supply the answers."
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The presence of palms in the fossil record is testimony to the former existence of a warm climate, since palms do not tolerate freezing temperatures. Typical examples of a tropical or semi-tropical flora, fan palms have large, thick leaves and grow near ponds, swamps, or lagoons, or in areas of moderate to high rainfall where there is high relative humidity.
The fossil record of plants in the palm family is very rich and widespread, starting as early as the mid-Cretaceous. Fossil material for palms includes leaves, stems, rhizomes, roots, fruits, seeds and more rarely, flowers or pollen. Some of the earliest records for fossil palm leaves are those of Sabalites. Fruits and seeds from Sabalites have also been discovered.
The related living genus of palms called Sabal contains plants commonly known as palmetto palms or hat palms. This genus consists of 16 species that are found in the coastal areas of the southeastern U.S. and west to Mexico, Bermuda, the Caribbean, Panama, and northern South America. These palms may be found in shady swampy areas, or along the sea coast or tidal flats.
There is evidence that living tapirs are associated with the distribution of palms. After digesting the fruits, tapirs defecate as they move from place to place, and palm seedlings germinate from the tapir dung. It is unknown whether extinct tapirs fulfilled a similar role in the spread of palms such as Sabalites. However, fossil remains of an Eocene tapir have been found locally in strata also containing fossil palm fronds.
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Despite what they may say, mothers have favorites among their children, and a new study finds that those preferences tend to continue into old age. The authors of the study suggest that doctors, hospital staff and family members need to take those preferences into account when decisions are made about caregiving and other matters for the aging parent.
"There's been a great deal of research done on younger mothers with young children in terms of favoritism," said Jill Suitor, a sociologist at Purdue University and one of the authors of the paper, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. "It's very common for parents to differentiate between their children" with regard to punishment and feelings of closeness, she said.
Researchers know less about favoritism among older parents, however, so Suitor and her colleagues began a survey of several hundred families 15 years ago. They found that older parents also tend to favor some children over others. "If anything, perhaps it becomes more common," Suitor said. "It certainly doesn't become less common."
As part of their survey, the group asked women between ages 65 and 75 about their relationships with their children. About two-thirds said they were closer emotionally to one of their children than another, feelings that generally persisted seven years later when the researchers surveyed the women again.
At that point, four-fifths of mothers said they preferred one of their children as a caregiver. Mothers tended to prefer the child whom they saw as sharing their values and their perspective on the world, the group found.
In previous studies, Suitor and her colleagues have documented the negative consequences for elderly people when they can't be near the child they trust most, consequences that included an increased likelihood of depression following an illness or an injury.
There are also serious emotional consequences for adult children who feel excluded. Suitor hopes her group's work can help them cope with those feelings by recognizing that favoritism is normal.
She also said that when adult children are asked to name the sibling to whom their mother feels closest, they are correct less than half the time, so some of that sense of exclusion may be baseless.
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Yes, Mom may like one child best
Despite what they may say, mothers have favorites among their children, and a new study finds that those preferences tend to continue into old age. The authors of the study suggest that doctors, hospital staff and family members need to take those preferences into account when decisions are made about caregiving and other matters for the aging parent.
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I was building shelves in my garage when a neighbor girl, one of my 4-year-old daughter's friends, approached me and said, "I just saw in your house. It's pretty dirty. Norah's mommy needs to clean more."
Arizona's prolonged lethal injection is fourth in U.S. this year
Arizona's execution of double-murderer Joseph Wood marked the fourth time this year that a state failed to dispatch a convict efficiently, according to the Constitution Project, a bipartisan legal group.3
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Allegations of police brutality are nothing new -- as long as there has been law enforcement, citizens have registered claims that some officers cross the line. But in the last few years, the claims of excessive force are being corroborated with new technology from cell phone cameras, police dash-cams and surveillance videos.
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Facebook seems to have figured out - for now at least - the holy grail for all media right now: how to make money selling mobile ads.
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Almost half of America's obese youth don't know they're obese
The good news is that after decades of furious growth, obesity rates finally seem to be leveling off in the U.S.. The bad news is that America's youth still appear to be dangerously unaware of the problem.
Darth Vader is polling higher than all potential 2016 presidential candidates
On the other hand, with a net favorability of -8, Jar Jar is considerably more popular than the U.S. Congress, which currently enjoys a net favorability rating of -65.
Llama on the loose corralled in Missouri town
A llama on the lam cruised Main Street Tuesday before it mistook a resident's fenced backyard for a place to grab a meal and freshen up.
An oncologist uses scorpion venom to locate cancer cells
Olson, a pediatric oncologist and research scientist in Seattle, has developed a compound he calls Tumor Paint. When injected into a cancer patient, it seems to light up all the malignant cells so surgeons can easily locate and excise them.
VIDEO: Train collides with semi truck carrying lighter fluid
A truck driver from Washington is fortunate to be alive after driving his semi onto a set of tracks near Somerset, Ky., and being struck by a locomotive, which ignited his load of charcoal lighter fluid.
What we get wrong about millennials living at home
If the media is to be believed, America is facing a major crisis. "Kids," some age 25, 26, or even 30 years old, are living out of their childhood bedrooms and basements at alarmingly high numbers. The hand-wringing overlooks one problem: It's all overblown.
Wal-Mart to cut prices more aggressively in back-to-school push
Wal-Mart Stores plans to cut prices more aggressively during this year's back-to-school season and will add inventory to its online store as the chain battles retailers for student spending.
Hospitals let patients schedule ER visits
Three times within a week, 34-year-old Michael Granillo went to the emergency room at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles because of intense back pain. Each time, Granillo, who didn't have insurance, stayed for less than an hour before leaving without being seen by a doctor.
Starved Pennsylvania 7-year-old weighed only 25 pounds
A 7-year-old Pennsylvania boy authorities described as being so underweight he looked like a human skeleton has been released from the hospital.
Malaysians wonder 'Why us?' after second loss of airline jet
It was all too familiar. Grieving families rushing to airport. The flashing television graphics of a plane's last radar appearance. The uncomfortable officials before a heavy thicket of microphones.
For many Malaysians, the disappearance of Flight 370 in March has been a long trauma from which the nation has not yet recovered.
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While many people look forward to the holidays and yearly traditions, gatherings with family and friends, and the general good feelings associated with the season, some people dread the holidays. For those who have lost a loved one during the past year, the holidays may emphasize their grief.
The holidays, especially the first ones after losing a loved one, are especially difficult for one who is grieving. Often, friends and family members of those affected by a loss are unsure how to act or what to say to support their grieving loved one during the holidays.
Many people are not aware that their community hospice is a valuable resource that can help people who are struggling with grief and loss. Hospices provide bereavement support to the families they serve and often offer services to other members of the community as well.
Here are 12 steps to help you help a loved one who is grieving this holiday season.
1. Be supportive of the way the person chooses to handle the holidays. Some may wish to follow traditions; others may choose to change their rituals.
2. Offer to help the person with baking and/or cleaning. Both tasks can be overwhelming for one trying to deal with raw emotions.
3. Offer to help him or her decorate for the holidays.
4. Offer to help with holiday shopping or give your loved one catalogs or online shopping sites that may be helpful.
5. Invite the person to attend a religious service with you and your family.
6. Invite your loved one to your home for the holidays.
7. Help your loved one prepare and mail holiday cards.
8. Ask the person if he or she is interested in volunteering with you during the holiday season. Doing something for someone else, such as helping at soup kitchens or working with children, may help your loved one feel better about the holidays.
9. Donate a gift or money in memory of the person's loved one. Remind the person that his or her special person is not forgotten.
10. Never tell someone that he or she should be "over it." Instead, give the person hope that, eventually, he or she will enjoy the holidays again.
11. If he or she wants to talk about the deceased loved one or feelings associated with the loss, LISTEN. Don't worry about being conversational…. just listen.
12. Remind the person you are thinking of him or her and the loved one who died. Cards, phone calls and visits are great ways to stay in touch.
In general, the best way to help those who are grieving is to let them know you care. They need to be remembered, and they need to know their loved ones are remembered, too.
A free, six-week grief support group begins on Thursday, Oct. 15 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Blount Memorial Home Services and Hospice building adjacent to the hospital's campus for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. For more information or to register, call 865-981-2291.
Michelle Evans is the outreach coordinator for Blount Memorial Palliative Care. She leads a support group for women who have lost their mothers through death and helps organize adult grief support groups throughout the year.


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MLBTradeRumors claims that the Dbacks are in very very preliminary talks for a LaRoche extension.
I don't quite understand this move, and I'm not sure how I feel about this. For one thing, I thought we were supposed to be cutting costs next year. LaRoche's market value is probably somewhere between 8-10 million per year. Best case scenario for the Dbacks in my mind, is probably something along the lines of the 3 year 20 million range. That means we'd be chalking up 6-8 million next year. I'm not even convinced LaRoche will necessarily take that, but maybe he's willing to take less than market value since he does play better at Chase than away from Chase (though his splits aren't as insane as KJ's). If he does take something like that, we're getting a reasonably good deal as LaRoche is a pretty consistent 2+ WAR guy each year. And, I think LaRoche's defense is underrated. His overall ability to get to balls in his zone is probably depicted fairly well by UZR, but LaRoche's abilities to dig balls out of the dirt is pretty much second to none, and may be a big reason why a lot of our other infielders have shown significant defensive improvements. Which means his overall value might be even better than what Fangraphs suggests.
The thing is, what are we going to do with Brandon Allen? The kid is a legitimate prospect. His triple slash for the year in Reno is 265/406/549 for an OPS of 955. That's good for fifth among qualifiers in the PCL. And no, that is not a typo. His OBP is 140 points higher than his BA. It's true we should fear power slugging numbers in the PCL, and I'm sure Allen has benefitted a lot from that given his 23 home runs in 328 at bats. However, the PCL can't exaggerate OBP which bodes well for future success. This doesn't mean that Allen will be able to break 2 WAR next year if he starts at 1B, but all evidence suggests he'd be a more than adequate replacement for LaRoche. I could easily see Allen, at worst, posting a line something like 230/320/450.
Which brings me back to the point of, why bother doing this? True, LaRoche will almost definitely be better than Allen at 1B next year. But we can get Allen for 500k while we have to pay LaRoche somewhere between 6-8 million. Why bother doing this if we aren't even going to try to contend next year? And if we are trying to contend, doesn't it make a lot more sense to have Dan Haren and Allen for a combined 13 million than LaRoche and Joe Saunders for a combined 13 million?
This move only makes sense if we think we can get LaRoche on the cheaper side (closer to 6 million next year than 8 million) AND if we think Allen can play effective defense in left. Allen, offensively, is almost guaranteed to be an upgrade over any other in house option we have at left field for next year (Parra has just not been effective enough, Ryal has had an insanely lucky year, and Church is basically useless), but I have no clue as to how good Allen is defensively in left. He's supposed to be athletic, so...maybe it'll all work out? Because the alternative is to sign LaRoche and keep Allen in AAA, which would be a terrible terrible decision in my mind. Waste of money in a year we are probably throwing away anyway, and we'll be suffocating the growth of a player who deserves an opportunity to play in the majors.


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The Malverne Historical Society has decided to pull the plug on this year's Holiday Gala.
The glitzy party, which raises funds for the historical society, usually kicks off the village's holiday festivities. This year it was scheduled to take place on Nov. 30, but in the wake of a hurricane and a Nor'easter, the society's board made the decision Thursday to cancel the event.
Robert Powers, president of the Malverne Historical Society, posted this message on Facebook Nov. 8:
It is with a sad heart that I have to announce that the 2012 Historical Society Gala has been cancelled. The board has decided that between the two storm clean-ups and the timing of the Gala we would have limited time to raise the funds needed to have the affair.
At Wednesday's village board meeting, Malverne Deputy Mayor Joseph Hennessy said the Gala usually costs the society $7,000 to host, but due to Hurricane Sandy, Wednesday's Nor'easter and the aftermath of both storms, the society has not had the time to raise the funds needed to cover its expenses. It didn't secure any sponsorships and only sold two tickets, according to Hennessy.
Powers added, "I look forward to seeing everyone at The Holiday Lighting and will keep you posted on the Historical Society's 2013 Programs. In the mean time, have a great holiday season and we will see you around the village."


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By Michael Stewart / Executive Editor
The Meridian Star
The International Singing Brakeman's Association's (TISBA) tribute week to Jimmie Rodgers kicks off Sunday and runs through June 1 in the hospitality room of Best Western on South Frontage Road.
The event will feature musicians from across the country, including some from Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida and Texas. One musician — Wayne Ryan — travels from Ontario, Canada each year to participate.
"Some just come for a day. Most of those who come every year stay for the whole week. It's like a family reunion each year," TISBA secretary Leola Jones said of the annual event. "We always have it beginning May 26 because that's the day Jimmie Rodgers died."
Rodgers, known as the "The Singing Brakeman," "The Blue Yodeler" and "The Father of Country Music," was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1927 and died on May 26, 1933 while in New York City recording his last album. He was 35 at the time of his death.
The tribute begins at 2 p.m. each day. Anyone who can sing or play an instrument is welcome to join the musicians. The early musicians start clearing out about 6 p.m. for the bands that will perform that night.
The tribute typically runs until about 10 p.m. each night.
"We don't set a time to end it," Jones said. "So as long as they want to play and sing, we are there."
The music runs the gamut from gospel and bluegrass to traditional country.
"We try to keep the traditional country music going, like George Jones, Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams," Jones said.
Elvis impersonator Buddy Kidd returns this year, and there will be plenty of Jimmie Rodgers' songs as well.
And at 6 p.m., there will be food provided by the members of TISBA.
Admission is $10 daily at the door, or attendees can purchase a name badge for $25 that is good for the whole week. There is no additional cost for the food.
Founded by Charlie Ezell and Carl Fitzgerald in 1989, The International Singing Brakeman Association has been going strong ever since. In addition to the annual tribute, the group meets every Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Hospitality Room at Best Western. Admission is $5.
Tribute Lineup
This year's lineup for the International Brakeman's Association tribute to Jimmie Rodgers includes the following acts:
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Mary McDonald & Dhana Cooper
Thursday, May 30
• The Skys
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Friday, May 31
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• Dean Mitchell
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The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn't have a robust public option, but also sells out women's civil rights. The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber was a frat house. Then there were the 39 Democrats who voted against any health care reform. But the worst of it was, in the end, the Stupak amendment passed, 240 yeas, 194 nays, 1 present, with the names of Dems who voted for it totaling 64; the health care bill passing 220 yeas, 215 nays. Now it's up to the Senate and the conference, because if the Stupak amendment is in the final bill it will be a setback of monumental proportions for women.
Yesterday, long before Mr. Stupak beat Speaker Pelosi, the insult coming down was foreshadowed. Driving in DC I heard Speaker Nancy Pelosi on C-SPAN, in response to a question from a reporter about a rumor circulating that she was angry about the Stupak amendment making it to the floor for a vote, brag that she was actually part of making in manifest. The New York Times has the quote:
"I was part of recommending that it come to the floor," she said. "Both sides are whipping, the pro-choice side and others who want to support the amendment. But no, that was my recommendation to allow a vote on that amendment."
That stomach churning moment yielded a nightmare manifestation from the first female Speaker of the House in history, and a Democratic Party that is getting further and further away from where we need to go on women's civil right in the 21st century. The Times catches a critical element, which I believed made Pelosi blink. Two words: Catholic bishops:
The representatives of the nation's bishops made clear they would fight the bill if there were not restrictions on abortion. In an extraordinary effort over the last 10 days, the bishops conference told priests across the country to talk about the legislation in church, mobilizing parishioners to contact Congress and to pray for the success of anti-abortion amendments.
But let's be honest. It was Pres. Obama who opened the door to sell us out when he decided to put the Hyde Amendment in the budget, something Bill Clinton never did. But Mr. Obama didn't stop there. During the stimulus fight, at the first sign of displeasure, our President personally asked that contraceptives be taken out. Now the President seems ready to finish the job, with Democrats in the House helping him do it.
This means that any woman opting to join the exchanges would not have access to full women's health care and abortion coverage. Segue to Ezra Klein:
Because of the limits placed on the exchanges, most of the participants will have some form of premium credit or affordable subsidy. That means most will be ineligible for abortion coverage. The idea that people are going to go out and purchase separate "abortion plans" is both cruel and laughable. If this amendment passes, it will mean that virtually all women with insurance through the exchange who find themselves in the unwanted and unexpected position of needing to terminate a pregnancy will not have coverage for the procedure. Abortion coverage will not be outlawed in this country. It will simply be tiered, reserved for those rich enough to afford insurance themselves or lucky enough to receive from their employers.
Of course, this discussion on health care doesn't impact wealthier women or women with access and means. Something I never forget.
… .. It was back in the late 1970s and I was living on the New Jersey coast, just outside New York, before I hit Broadway. My boyfriend and I were very careful about sex, never forgetting to use contraception. In fact, we both protected ourselves so we wouldn't become one of the small minority where protection doesn't work. It happened anyway. It's a very personal story, but lets just say what I went through never leaves my consciousness.
After what I experienced so long ago, to this day I think of poor women who don't have the support or means to take care of themselves. What might have happened if my boyfriend hadn't supported my decision, but also helped me pull it off. The desperation women must feel when they have so system on which they can rely, so they're forced to endure a pregnancy and a child they cannot handle. I put myself in their place and I shudder at what might have been for me.
There is no health care bill worth supporting that sells out women's civil rights.
Right now every woman who values her civil rights should understand how the gay community feels. Democrats just sold us out too.
Progressives in the House should have killed the bill.
Civil rights begin with autonomy over our own body. If we don't have that we have nothing. So, to hear Rep. Clyburn talk about "privacy rights" after passing the House bill was laughable.
But at least Mr. Obama and Speaker Pelosi's Democratic House got us closer to an "historic health care win." That they did it on the backs of women's civil rights isn't mentioned, though some of us will never forget.
It's up to the Senate now and the conference to strip Stupak out, with help from Pres. Obama, of course. He will help, right?


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The most valuable gift you can give your child is to listen to the little and big things in his life. Begin early so that the lines of communication will be open during the teenage years.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 15 Minutes
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- Stop what you are doing.
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- Pay attention to your child's nonverbal language. Does the child look happy, sad, afraid?
- Be silent.
- Use simple acknowledgement responses that show you are listening. "I see. Oh. Uh-Huh. Hmmm."
- Use door-openers, phrases that encourage further talking. "Tell me more. Go on. How do you feel about that? I know what you mean. Then what?"
- Listen for and name the feelings you think you hear from what your child is telling you. "That made you pretty mad, didn't it? You seem really happy about that!"
- Use problem-solving phrases when needed. "What do you wish you could do? What do you want to happen? What do you think will happen if you do that?"
- Don't feel that you must advise or help your child come up with a solution all the time. The value of listening is in the listening itself.
- Listening helps parents and children avoid the power struggle cycle. Instead of arguing, listen. Show your understanding while maintaining your position.
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When feeling bad is good for you
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Just as our bodies signal us to tend to our physical well-being, so our emotions act like messengers to mind our emotional well-being. When we are rested and energized, we can take on life's challenges with ease. Feeling tired indicates we need to retreat and relax. Likewise, feelings of joy, contentment, and love say "everything is fine" while feeling angry, anxious, or depressed make us uncomfortable and think "something is wrong."
The happiness road beckons all of us yet trying to follow that path by avoiding painful emotions is a gateway to living a less-than-authentic life. Meeting difficult emotions face-to-face is the foundation of resilience and can help guide our lives. When struck by a spark of rage or held immobile by despair or fear, we must ask ourselves: What purpose does this emotion serve for me? What am I trying to tell myself? How can this emotion best guide my decisions and actions in the next moments?
In his book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, author James Martin points out that any emotion can overwhelm us. We might feel a joy out of proportion to a particular event or moved to tears for something insignificant and wonder: What is wrong with me? In those distinct moments, we don't quite feel right. There is a certain emptiness, a longing, a desire to connect with a larger understanding that seems just outside of our reach. Martin calls those moments invitations from God asking us to communicate with the greater power of our origination. And if we connect with the power that gave us this life – the power that wants us to have a good life – we know we are getting the best counseling available.
I frequent a blog, Domini Canes, where a recent post reminded me that we look to God for answers through prayer, but prayer is not a man-made action. Rather, prayer is a gift, a door eternally open to connection with God. We are both the seeker and the sought.
Our lives shout at us through our feelings and in the silent circumstances of our deeds. Your emotions will tell you everything you need to know about your journey. As you sift through the results of your decisions and actions, look at how your trials made meaning in your life and know the presence of God within you.


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Stealing Wins: The 2010 Yankees & BaserunningBy
For the most part, we recognize that the game exists in three distinct parts: hitting, pitching, and fielding. The last two go together to a certain extent. Those are just broad generalizations of course, we know that fielding consists of catching and throwing, that pitching consists of game-calling and executing the pitch, and that hitting consists of swinging a bat and baserunning. That baserunning part is what we're going to focus on here, and it's probably the most ignored skill in the game.
The Yankees as a team come off as a terribly bland baserunning squad to the naked eye. Oh yes, it's fun to watch Brett Gardner soar around the bases at the top speed, and thanks to him the Yanks stole 100+ bases for the fifth consecutive year (103 steals at a 76.9% success rate, to be exact). Beyond Gardner though, the team is loaded with a pack of cloggers led by Mark Teixeira and Jorge Posada. Both Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez are slowing down, and even Robbie Cano is nothing special on the basepaths despite being young and relatively athletic. When I looked at the team's baserunning ability last winter, I found that the 2009 squad was worth 10.30 runs below average in non-stolen base situations. I suggest you go back and read that post just to get familiar with the tools we're working with here.
That -10.30 run output was an eight run drop-off from 2008 and was the third worst in the game, ahead of only the Braves and Orioles. In sabermetric jargon, it means that the Yankees essentially cost themselves a win on the basepaths. That's not good, obviously. Thankfully the team improved in these non-stolen base baserunning situations in 2010, jumping all the way up to 0.32 runs above average. It's a negligible amount when you look at it on its own, but in the context of the last two years it's a considerable 10.62 run improvement that should not be ignored. Here's a breakdown of the team's baserunning performance, and like I said before, I recommend re-reading last year's post just to get familiar with the stats used…
The most noticeable improvement comes from two players: Gardner and Posada. Gardner went from 284 plate appearances and 2.50 runs above average in 2009 to 569 plate appearances and 4.81 runs above average in 2010. It's quite simple, they gave the guy more playing time and he rewarded them on the bases. Posada was the game's worst baserunner a season ago (8.23 runs below average), but he improved his effort by two-and-a-half runs this past season for a total of 5.66 runs below average. Yes, it was still the second worst baserunning performance in the league (sorry, Adam LaRoche), but it was an improvement. Jorge stole a career high three bases in 2010, and he also performed better when it came to advancing on base hits according to the component data. That doesn't necessarily mean he advanced more often, it just means he got thrown out less. Sometimes staying put is the best thing to do.
Jeter's overall offensive performance cratered in 2010 but his baserunning did rebound. He went from just about a full run below average (0.90 to be exact) in 2009 to 1.76 runs above average, back in line with his career performance. Looks like his '09 baserunning was just a blip on the radar. Of course, I'd gladly give up those extra three-ish runs of baserunning if it meant Jeter would hit like he did in 2009 again. Replacing Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon with Curtis Granderson and the Nick Johnson/Marcus Thames/Lance Berkman mash-up resulted in a 0.82 run upgrade on the bases. Replacing Melky Cabrera with Greg Golson, Colin Curtis, Chad Huffman, and Austin Kearns was a tiny little 0.23 run upgrade. Nick Swisher's baserunning performance fell off by close to two-and-a-half runs, and he was the most significant decline.
Cano's baserunning skills caught my eye so much last year that I wrote an entire post on the topic. I showed that while he was generally a crappy basestealer, he had improved in the other aspects of baserunning in each of his four big league seasons. Unfortunately the improvement did not continue, as he dropped from 2.46 runs above average in 2009 to just 1.37 runs above average in 2010. A little more than a run isn't that big of a deal, but it would have been cool to see that improvement continue. I guess Robbie had grown accustomed to simply trotting around the bases last summer (hiyo!). As long as he's in the black, I'm cool with it.
The Yanks have added just one significant position player this offseason, importing Russell Martin to be the everyday catcher. Unlike most backstops, he's not a total slug on the bases. He swiped 21 bags in his breakout 2007 season and has stolen at least ten bases in each of his five professional seasons (although he has just a 70.2% success rate) save for 2010, when the hip injury robbed him the season's final 55 games. Martin's legs were worth 0.22 runs below average in non-stolen base situations last summer, an improvement from -1.58 runs in 2009 and a downgrade from +0.04 runs in 2008. By no means is he a great baserunner, but for a catcher, he's pretty good.
Once again, the big thing to take away from this is that baserunning doesn't impact the game all that much on an individual level. You'll live with Tex being a below average baserunner because he does quite literally everything else in the game well. Nick Swisher cost the team three runs on the bases? Who cares, he can make that up in a week with his bat. The overall impact at the team level can be significant, and it's worth nothing that the difference between the best baserunning team (Texas, +12.08 runs) and the worst (Arizona, -10.29) was more than two full wins last year. The Yankees are one of about a dozen teams scrunched right around the league average, give or take three runs in either direction.
More playing time for Gardner, a healthier and improved Granderson, and the addition of Martin should be enough to mitigate any decline by Posada, A-Rod, and Jeter in 2011, hopefully keeping the team right around that league average mark. It would be nice if they were a better and more dynamic team on the bases, sure, but that's just not their game. Considering the minimal overall impact, that's perfectly fine with me if they mash away.
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Out of curiosity, why pick a picture where he is clearly out?
Looking at that slide, it is no wonder Gardner gets beat up as the season goes along.
No shit.
He just wanted to get Betancourt in the post.
Sort of off topic, but is there anyway to find out what count the Yankees were most likely to run on? My perception was that the Yankees (and Gardner in particular)almost never ran before two strikes, which was incredibly frustrating in game situations.
Gardner's base stealing acumen (not sure if this is measureable in terms of the above numbers related to his pure speed like 40 time or something?) seems to the naked eye to be very poor. He never seems to know what count or pitch to steal on and never recognizes that he needs to run every time on base against the victor martinez's of the world.
Gardner in particular bothered me, but it seems to be almost a team wide policy to wait until two strikes to run since at least Girardi came in. I didn't notice it as much under Torre, but I'm not going to say it didn't happen then as well.
Only 11 of Gardner's 47 SB came with 2 strikes.
2010: 31 of the team's 103 came with 2 strikes. (30%)
2009: 31 of the team's 111 came with 2 strikes (27.9%)
2008: 35 of the team's 118 came with 2 strikes (29.7%)
2007: 50 of the team's 123 came with 2 strikes (40.7%)
2006: 38 of the team's 139 came with 2 strikes (27.3%)
2005: 24 of the team's 84 came with 2 strikes (28.6%)
So yeah, basically no difference.
I completely agree with this. The earlier you run in the count the more of a chance there is for someone to drive you in or move you over. But we usually wait until 2 outs or 2 strikes when the benefit is so much lower than it should be. We shouldn't even be running that late.
There are so many times were gardner or another SB threat gets a leadoff single or walk and then he just sits there. And if you play out the inning(disclaimer: the inning isn't guaranteed to play out the same way but there's no chance of it working out if he doesn't run) he would have scored. Example, a groundout moves him up to second, then a deep fly ball moves him to 3rd and he's stranded there where if he was on 2nd that's a run. Especially when the pitcher is horrible at holding runners or the catcher is Vmartesque. Gardner seems to have frozen up after last years stretch run/playoffs where he got caught stealing in several very important games. I hope it wears off for next season.
I'm particularly a fan of putting in a pinch runner to stand around until the inning ends. We do that alot.
Hey man, Posada was a speed demon on the bases this year! He stole as many bases as his last 3 years combined at a 75% success rate, showing your new-fangled stats is a bunch of hogwash!
(/sarcasm, if it wasn't obvious)
Montero is slow as well but hopefully it won't matter with doubles and homers. If Gardner leads off and Jeter bats second, the Yanks have to figure out a way to maximize the stolen bases and minimize the gidp's.
jeter is probably not going anywhere.
It's better to be poor on the bases than it is to not get on base at all.
No its not. If your slow you are just clogging up the bases.
Dusty Baker
And PS, get me Wily Tavares and Corey Patteron.
I bet Ruben Rivera wishes he was never on base: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ94rkwdTvQ
Gardner (often hitting ninth) would have gone more earlier in the count if Jeter (often hitting first) had not followed him- Girardi put the clamps on because he felt Jeter would hit in the hole created by holding Gardner on- The problem w/ this was when Jeter hit into the double play too often Move Jeter to the seven spot and let Gardner run!
A healthy Nick Johnson is the perfect lefty to bat after Gardner. Such a person does not exist however.
what should your CS rate be? obviously if its 90%, you're stealing too often, and if its 0%, you're not trying enough.
is Gardner making enough attempts?
There are problems with the table above. When someone is negative in both categories, the total should be more negative, not less. Looks like you had the same issue last year.
I noticed that too. If that is in fact incorrect we are much much worse because there are a bunch of double negatives there.
Another frustrating thing with the Yankees last year was how when Gardner got on base, Girardi would bunt him over instead of letting him steal.
I mean, really Girardi?


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Officials, survivors honor Ventura County fallen officers
As Jan Bryant rubbed and patted her daughter's name on the Ventura County Peace Officers' Memorial outside the Government Center, she kept her composure and didn't cry Thursday as she had done at past memorials.
Bryant also rang the bell during the roll call at the 13th annual ceremony honoring local law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Bryant's daughter, Lisa Whitney, a Ventura County Sheriff's Department senior deputy, died in 1998 after a traffic collision involving a woman driving under the influence. Bryant said ringing the bell was a cathartic experience.To the families that have lost a father or mother, a brother or sister or son or daughter or friend ... we are here with you today and we will be with you tomorrow.
"Being able to participate in the memorial is important for me," Bryant said. "It's very honoring, but it also triggers memories of loss."
The ceremony honored 31 officers, including Robert Reed of the California Highway Patrol, who died in 1957 and was remembered with a flag donated by Rep. Elton Gallegly.
The memorial was held as part of National Police Week and was organized by the Peace Officers Association of Ventura County.
The podium was adorned with a wreath of blue carnations, and a blue carnation sat on every folding chair in the audience. As Ventura traffic roared in the background, Sheriff Geoff Dean advised the audience that the best way to honor those who have died to protect others is to be compassionate in the future.
"To the families that have lost a father or mother, a brother or sister or son or daughter or friend ... we are here with you today and we will be with you tomorrow," Dean said.
He said the bravery of the officers listed on the memorial made it possible for others to enjoy basic freedoms and safety.
"The actions of these people ... remind us that heroism is not only found on the fields of battle on the other side of the world, where men and women help preserve our freedom, but on the fields of battle in our neighborhoods every day," Dean said. "Their heroism didn't come from training. It came from their souls. It was a part of what they were."
Tobi Haynie was 4 and Dona Haynie-Peters hadn't been born yet when their father, sheriff's Deputy Donald Haynie, died in 1970. Tobi Haynie remembers everyone around her crying but not much else.
The sisters attend the ceremony every year, partly because they feel the other survivors have become part of their own family. "They do understand what it's like," Haynie said.
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Officer James H. VandeWeg, California Highway Patrol, July 12, 1945
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Officer Albert Gasperetti, Oxnard, April 15, 1956
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Deputy Donald Gregory, Sheriff's Department, Sept. 9, 1961
Deputy Chester Larson, Sheriff's Department, Jan. 20, 1969
Deputy Donald Haynie, Sheriff's Department, June 5, 1970
Officer Frederick Clark, Oxnard, Oct. 12, 1971
Lt. Harvey A. Varat, Sheriff's Department, Oct. 20, 1973
Officer James Doyle, Ventura College, March 23, 1975
Sgt. Thomas K. Collins, Sheriff's Department, Oct. 25, 1975
Sgt. Dee Dowell, Ventura, Aug. 7, 1978
Officer John Adair, Oxnard, Oct. 7, 1980
Officer David W. Copleman, CHP, April 6, 1985
Officer James C. O'Conner, CHP, Nov. 15, 1990
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In that spirit, the Scope asked a handful of folks to endorse a book they read in 2012. (Full credit was also given for audio books.) Here are some of the recommendations:
Courtney Coffey, owner of Rococo Boutique on Market Square -- If You Have To Cry, Go Outside by Meredith Bryan
"It's kind of a funny story of her life and how she went from being homeless to having one of the most amazing ... PR firms in New York."
Jack Neely, associate editor, Metro Pulse -- Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser
An economics professor at Harvard, Glaeser makes some points we've heard before, like that people who live in high-density cities are healthier, richer, and live longer -- plus, they use less energy -- but he takes it a bit farther, and well outside our political boxes. I don't like all of Glaeser's recommendations, but his take on things is mentally refreshing, with elements designed to infuriate liberals and conservatives alike.
Lauren Rider, president, Old North Knoxville Inc. -- Bossypants by Tina Fey
Fey's observations are hysterical and quite obvious, moments in life we can all relate to -- she's a regular woman (juggling career, family & awkward moments in life) but she's very, very funny. Highlights of the book are her dad, back stories of her show '30 Rock' and how she came to play the role of Sarah Palin in SNL.
Shadab Siddiqi, broker, NHS Development -- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields, including economics, medicine, and politics.
Ward Phillips, partner, Kramer Rayson LLP -- The Bruce Trilogy by Nigel Tranter
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By 1999, it was no longer possible to imagine the Weekly—or, for that matter, Seattle—recovering its equilibrium. And with each passing day, it was increasingly difficult for me to tell whether I wanted it to. The city was spinning glamourward, and while there had been times1 when I regarded such a trend as the death of everything I treasured, now I found myself more often than not excited by it, convinced that the Squishes and Joeys of the world were Promethean purveyors of the technological fire that would make gods of us all. I decided that the flow of wealth toward them for business models that made no apparent sense was proof that they knew something profound about the future that the rest of us could only dimly sense was there, and I came to believe, happily, that my destiny, and the city's, lay in the direction they were taking it.
I became quite insufferable on the subject, dismissing my erstwhile coevals' alarm over the opening of retail outlet after retail outlet—Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Tiffany's—as Chicken-Little thinking, the panicked focus on risible side effects when Seattle's ascent into glory was the real story. We are not, I would insist, being transformed into Bellevue, Sausalito, LA; what is really happening is that Seattle is coming of age, leading the world into the 21st-century Technological Era, and being well compensated for it in the bargain. We were changing from backwater to bellwether. The dramatic transformations all around me—the quickening of the pace of life, crowding on the freeways, the frenetic rush everywhere all the time, the heightened sense of urgency and excitement in the streets—all testified to Seattle's arrival at the cutting edge, and the mushrooming population here testified to the world's endorsement of The Seattle Way. We were arriving at a point relative to the rest of the world that back in 1990—during the hype and heyday of the Goodwill Games—had been mere pretension. Rushing headlong into the New Technology and the New Economy, following the Squish-and-Joey generation, we were realizing that long-held vision of the Greater Seattleites of yore: Seattle had finally arrived among the trend-setting cities of the world. New-York-Pretty-Soon had grown into More-than-New-York-Right-Now.
Yet I fell prey at the same time to an unacknowledged unease. I lapsed into a careful, steady schedule of drinking through the workday, editing and writing Weekly stories in an anesthetized haze, downing pints of sanity-pickling local microbrews2 at lunch and dinner, and employing massive doses of coffee to get me through the mornings. I couldn't see that I was in mourning. While my dismayed family watched me grow fat, glum and comatose, Squish and Joey chose to be enormously entertained by this regimen, and came down to my office nearly every day to take me to lunch and watch me drink while they sat there regaling me with insults, tales of their travails and battles with the Wee Little Man, and visions of the world after F5 went public and made them multimillionaires.
They insisted constantly that I didn't really work for a living, and that my enterprise—the Weekly—was an outmoded, no longer useful artifact from a bygone age. Hence my depression. When they hit it rich, they were going to give me a real job with a real salary. I was going to be half employee, half biographer, writing business plans and product documentation for them while gathering material for a new masterpiece—about them. "Squish and I aren't getting' enough lovin'!" Joey would complain. "You gotta get started on another book!" Until I did, I was essentially useless. Joey's greeting whenever he popped up in my office was always the same: "You're not workin'! You're slackin'! Let's go to lunch!" With each of them at an elbow like guards escorting a condemned man to the Chamber, we would head off to a nearby tavern, Joey calling me "slacker," "bum," "derelict, "loser," and other endearments along the way, pointing out the occasional drunk slumped against a wall or lying on the sidewalk, saying, "That's you in five years," while Squish would be acting out what he saw as my life's quest: the search for the "Magic Beer." Growling, twisting off an imaginary bottle cap, pantomiming a drunken draining and tossing away of a bottle, repeating the cycle again and again, he would mutter, "Where's the Magic Beer? Where's the Magic Beer? Are you the Magic Beer?" Then suddenly he would be brought up short when a "beer" bleated, "Don't drink me! Don't drink me! I'm the Magic Beer! I have the secret to eternal wealth! Eternal happiness! All you have to do is not drink me, and you will be happy forever!" Pause. Baffled look. Sudden guzzle. Growl: "I don't care! I can't help it! It's worth it!"
Safely in the bar, pint in my fist, I would listen to their tales of impending glory. F5 would go public, their stock would make them insanely rich, and they would then build what they were calling their "Empire": a two-company communications conglomerate that would realize their worldwide system of networked human-computer dyads. One company would be an "Internet backbone" company, deploying a worldwide fiber-optic network with Squish-designed hardware throughout. Built with state-of-the-art telecommunications equipment, and enhanced by Squish's "magic boxes," the network would be by far the world's fastest, allowing for true, real-time, multimedia communication in immersive environments. The other company would be an "applications" company that would market the conferencing product allowing up to eight people to meet in a "virtual environment" for face-to-face conversation and collaboration. The evolution of the Internet, the rise in consumer expectation, the wiring of the world, and the development of Squish and Joey's products all were converging at exactly the right time for their long-held dream to be realized.
And I was going to be there with them! They were going to take over the world, and I'd be there to tell the story—from the inside! No more editing lame fashion supplements! No more writing stupid lifestyle stories for a dying alternative newspaper! No more books about that boring Bill Gates! "Think of it!" Joey would say. "The day we're on the cover of Business Week, your book about us will be in every bookstore in the country! You'll finally write a book that sells!"
There were days when they made me feel like Jesus in the desert with Satan whispering in his ear, sweeping his arm out over the expanse before them, insisting, "Someday this can all be yours…just turn these stones to bread…work a pointless miracle…."
Get thee behind me, Squish and Joey! (Drunkenness and apostasy had me mixing my Bible stories.)
The better I got to know them, the harder it was to believe that any of their dreams were realizable. Sometimes, in the dim tavern light, hunched over their massive meals, eating and talking at speeds ordinary humans can only imagine, spraying food and words all over the bar, Joey looked like Bill Murray in Caddyshack and Squish looked like the gopher. How could creatures like this possibly mastermind the birth and sustained performance of a multimillion-dollar corporation?
I also doubted that F5's IPO would ever come off. Without Squish, and with the mercurial Wee Little Man at the helm, it didn't seem possible to me that the company could get itself into IPO-marketable shape. How could they possibly be making progress on BIG/ip if its inventor had been thrown overboard? I knew that the company had a new VP of sales and marketing, and that the board had taken enough control of F5 to consign the Wee Little Man to the sidelines, but even so it was hard to believe they could pull off an IPO without a fatal hitch.
Yet less promising enterprises were going public for hundreds of millions of dollars almost every day. Sitting alone in my office, surrounded by the escalating horror at the Weekly, it was impossible to imagine a world in which F5 failed to go public and give Squish and Joey the means to rescue me. But whenever I found myself in their company, it was just as impossible to imagine them as multimillionaire Captains of Industry.
I was not the only one struggling with this question. The Weekly by late 1998 had turned into a vale of tears. Men and women alike would come into my office just to cry, with the crier who most touched my heart being a young woman named Sumi Hahn. Raised in Ohio, educated at Harvard, she had moved to Seattle for the usual reasons, talked her way into a job at the Weekly, and had scarcely established herself there as one of the editorial leaders when the paper was sold and went into its tailspin. With both the paper and the city that had drawn her here changing into something foreign and unpalatable, Hahn grew so desperate and depressed that Squish with all of his peculiarities emerged in my beery imagination as an actual solution. I introduced them, on the theory that I could rescue two people simultaneously from their private hells: Squish from his involuntary3 celibacy, and Sumi from the kind of psychological collapse that had nearly overcome Katherine Koberg.
Almost immediately, Sumi and Squish started spending all their free time together—a development that gave me some relief from Squish and Joey's constant attentions, since now they were as likely to settle in Sumi's office as mine when the invaded the Weekly. But then just when it looked as if things were getting legitimately serious between Sumi and Squish, Sumi took a job with the New Orleans Times-Picayune and fled town.
In our frequent telephone conversations between here and there, she spoke of New Orleans as if it had everything Seattle had promised and withdrawn from her. It was a culture of words and food—she had moved there to be the paper's lead restaurant critic—steeped in a pre-technological tradition that New Orleans was committed to preserving rather than destroying. The computers in the newsroom were just writing machines—they weren't hooked up to the Internet. To get email, you had to go to a machine in a separate room and log on. Men showed up for work in a shirt and tie, books mattered more than bucks, people were allowed to walk the streets with drinks in hand—"You'd love it here, Fred! You'd love it here!"—and "no one here ever talks about Microsoft…no one seems to have even heard of Microsoft. Down here, it's like none of that exists!"
I felt a tremendous and telling surge of envy—not because she was in New Orleans instead of Seattle, but because she seemed to be in a city more like "Seattle" than Seattle was now.
When I talked with her about Squish, or about Squish and Joey, she would turn furious, ranting scornfully at me about how their dreams of Empire and even of simple impending wealth were "pipe dreams," how they were "just dreamers who would never amount to anything," and how F5's impending IPO was a "fantasy." "They're just talk!" she said again and again, whenever I tried to bring her up to date on their efforts and hopes.
Whether because of Sumi or because of what Squish would call "the usual madness," Squish and Joey's pretensions seemed less and less plausible to me as the date for the IPO—now scheduled for late spring or early summer 1999, the date constantly moving back—drew closer. Joey learned that Hussey had just finalized a divorce, and had kept secret from his estranged wife the coming F5 IPO and his attendant massive wealth. He drove across Lake Washington one day and mailed an anonymous postcard to Hussey's ex-wife, telling her that an upcoming "liquidity event" was going to make her Wee Little Ex-Husband a multimillionaire. Hussey's divorce was subsequently re-opened and in the ensuing discovery proceedings, Joey fed various company documents to the erstwhile Ms. Hussey's attorney. At one point, intending to return the documents to Joey, the attorney mailed them to Hussey instead.4 No sooner did Hussey learn that Joey was the source of his trouble than he and F5 sued Joey for breach of company confidentiality. Squish, possibly trying to evade getting swept up in the lawsuit, took off in pursuit of Sumi, Sumi kept calling me trying to get me to dissuade Squish from visiting, and Joey came down with Bell's Palsy—a paralysis of one side of his face that was caused, his physician assured him, by massive stress.
Not exactly a series of developments presaging riches and fame.
Things percolated along in this fashion for some months. I stopped thinking about the IPO, having decided that it would never come off. Even Squish and Joey stopped talking about it, Squish's talk being mostly about Sumi's disappearing act and his heartbreak, and Joey's talk being mostly about his and Squish's declining health. On those infrequent occasions when they brought up the IPO, I tended to tune them out the way you do to people who can't let go of a fantasy that's over, over, over.
Then one day F5 dropped its lawsuit against Joey, and a few weeks later—June 3, 1999, to be exact—Squish called to say that the next day F5 would be going public. When I got to work that morning, I logged on to Nasdaq and saw that F5 was indeed trading. It would close the day at $14.87 per share—a price that set Squish's worth at nearly $20 million.
Suddenly, Squish and Sumi were reconciled and Sumi was on her way to getting bejeweled, married and pregnant before the year was out. And a few weeks after the IPO, shortly after a visit by Squish to New Orleans, a cartoon by Walt Handelsman appeared in The New Orleans Times-Picayune. It depicted two chubby little boys, ten years old or so, wearing T-shirts and shorts, standing outdoors. They were holding bananas to their ears as if they were telephones, and talking to one another. "I gotta go, Joey," one was saying. "Someone just offered me $200 million for my banana."
Days passed. I kept trying to relieve my post-IPO numbness with doses of beer.
There was this weird way in which Squish and Joey's sudden wealth was an abstraction. They still hung around my office and hectored me about my worthlessness, just as they always had. They still talked in vague ways about my future with them. They still bought lunches and beer for me—although now we went to fancier establishments. They still dressed and acted like aggressively crude slacker adolescents. And although much of their talk now was about brokers and financial advisers and Goldman Sachs people and this whole new world they had been vaulted into nearly overnight, they didn't seem materially changed—it was as if the money they had now was symbolic, or virtual, or in some way not entirely legal tender. And it grew more abstract in my imagination with each passing day as the stock price shot into the stratosphere.
Perhaps it had to do with the unreal way they went about spending. Squish went out one day and bought a mansion—a huge, turreted, old classic home on Queen Anne Hill, looking down at the Space Needle. It had four stories and more rooms than I could count. He moved his three pieces of furniture into it and rattled around like a ball bearing in a boxcar, emailing photos of it to Sumi as part of his campaign of persuasion to get her to marry him ("Look at the house I bought us!") and calling me at home in the evening, offering me endless beer if I would just come over and keep him company. He would lie there alone at night wide awake and frightened by one noise after another, like a little kid alone in a haunted house.
Another day, he and Joey drove across Lake Washington and bought three new Mercedes (two Kompressors, Joey's being silver and Squish's the color of a pumpkin, and a larger, black four-door E320—the bigger car, Squish emailed Sumi, being their eventual "family car"), and came racing back across the lake in the Kompressors. A few days later, Joey drove his over the mountains to eastern Washington, where the highways are straight, and floored the accelerator. He was traveling at 160 miles per hour when the radiator hose burst. Night after night, Squish would come back to his mansion in his Kompressor after dark and crash into the pillar on one side of his garage door, the turn being too tight for him to make in the dark. Within weeks, he managed to make a $60,000 car look like a splendidly appointed piece of junk.
Squish also decided to "spread the love," as he put it, by doling out extravagant gifts. He started giving away F5 stock—he gave 100 shares each to everyone in my family, among many others—and told me he would buy me whatever I wanted for my next birthday. The first thing that popped into my mind was a private Screaming Trees show at the Showbox—a legendary music venue in Seattle—and Squish told me he would write the check for it as soon as I made the arrangements.5
Watching the vertical climb of F5's stock price, it occurred to me that the unreality of Squish and Joey's wealth might have something to do with the fact that no matter how fast and furiously they spent their money, the stock price was rising so much faster and more furiously that they could never catch up. Instead of depleting their stockpile, it was as if spending made it grow. One month after going public at $14.87, the stock was selling at $50.75; six months after F5 went public, the stock hit $160.00, and Joey had a net worth of $6.6 million, Squish a mind-numbing $200 million.
$200 million is not a number that can be made to make sense. Obsessively, I would check the share price every day and multiply it by 1.3 million, give or take a few thousand shares, trying to find a way to describe Squish's wealth and its metastatic growth in terms that could make it "real" for me. The raw number might as well have been in a foreign language—I couldn't picture what it was, really. I could not look at Squish and find a way to see him as someone with $200 million in the bank, nor could I find a way to look at the two years or so of F5 work he'd done and make it seem worth $200 million.
In fact, I couldn't think of anything that was worth $200 million.
Squish, though, grew less and less aware of the roles of luck and market mania in his enrichment, and more and more convinced that he had earned his $200 million the old-fashioned way. He noticed that whenever he was out in his Kompressor, people would shout insults at him and flip him off—an indication that not everyone was thrilled with the Seattle technoboom and its overnight millionaires. "I feel like screaming, 'Fuck you! I worked hard for this!'" he told me, as if his millions were an appropriate reflection of the quality and quantity of his work at F5. And while Joey, with his relatively modest $6.6 million, began selling his F5 stock off in pre-planned, scheduled installments, Squish decided the stock would rise to at least $300 per share, so he sold as little as possible, keeping his eye on the bigger prize.
I suppose the height of the mystery came the afternoon Squish was in my office directing me to bigcharts.com. He guided me to its "market capitalization" entry for F5, pointed to the figure there, and said, giggling, "Hee-hee…look at me! I started a $3 billion company!"
The last time I had been in the F5 offices,6 the place was a mess, Hussey was jumping up and down on his desk screaming "Mother of God!" over and over, waving his arms, and the programmers were safely behind a door they had duct-taped shut, with a sign on it telling everyone else to stay away unless they were willing to sacrifice a goat to gain entrance. Safely behind the barricade, they were playing networked Duke Nukem. Now American investors had decreed that F5 was worth $3 billion, and Squish expected it to be worth nearly $6 billion before the run was over.
I walked out of my office a few hours later, with that "Hee-hee…look at me!" still ringing in my ears, and looked around at a wasteland. I had just spent the afternoon editing down Mike Romano's unreadable 7,000-word piece on the New Pornography to an unmemorable 2,000-word piece entitled "Not Your Daddy's Porn." That was my job now—turning the unreadable into the unmemorable. The walls looming up behind the cubicles in the Weekly looked like they were crumbling; the computers were covered with grime. Only a few dispirited souls were still there, trudging around as if trying to cultivate that precious updated Dickensian look. I hadn't had a beer for four hours and was a walk, ferry ride, and bicycle trek away from my next one. Soon the Weekly would hit the newsstands with a dull thud, a few days later the leftover copies would be retrieved, a new Weekly would thud standward, the owners in New York would call to complain about each issue the day after it was released, and the bad copy would come pouring through my computer from writer to reader, just keep coming and coming and coming like that relentless hair would, years hence, through that unbearably depressing barber shop in the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There. Every word I edited and sent on to typesetting was an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
How much was the despair I felt about the Weekly at that moment, in those days, in the ensuing months, a function of Squish's astounding, inexplicable wealth? I would look at him and think he could see where the world was headed while I—helpless, old, outdated, Seattlebound, Maynardblinded—had no idea what was happening around me. I saw my life at the Weekly as a pointless exercise in fighting a losing battle to keep a failing paper from abandoning a tradition not worth preserving. And all the while, Squish and Joey were ridiculing me for feeling hesitant about leaving the Weekly and going to work for them.
They found my doubts about their next enterprise to be tremendously amusing. "Why the hell are you hesitating over this?" Joey asked me one day. "It's like a book contract with a salary—you won't have to live on those disgusting publisher's advances anymore, you won't have to edit all those lame-o articles anymore."
"What if the economy starts turning down?" I asked one day.
Joey looked at me as if I'd gone mad. "Why would the economy go down?" he asked. "And even if it did, the technology sector wouldn't!"
They were certainly betting heavily that it wouldn't. They contracted with Seattle's Sabey Construction to build a Network Operations Center south of Seattle, in Tukwila. They formed a property-management company, called Limpopo Properties, which bought leases on land in the Fremont District, northwest of downtown, and began construction of three buildings—one for Indaba, their applications company, which would take up half of the building, the other half being leased out to technology tenants; and the other two to be leased to more technology tenants, the income from their renters covering the costs of their construction loans and ownership and half-occupancy of one of the buildings, while delivering them extra cash in the bargain. They spent their days now either hectoring me, laughing about how easy it was to get richer once you were rich, or meeting with architects, financiers, prospective employees for their two new companies, and countless other crisp business types of the sort who inhabit the world of multimillionaires.
They loved taking me out to lavish "business dinners" where we would eat and drink and talk about their Empire-building. They would run through the rapid-fire math of their property management "scam," as they loved to call it. They would sketch out timelines to their next IPO, with Squish, who had officially become a millionaire just after his 31st birthday, crowing out his life's plan: "A millionaire by 30, a billionaire by 40!" Joey would talk not about if I came to work for them, but when—as if the decision, while yet unmade, was too obvious to deny.
I met them after work one night at El Gaucho, a high-concept steak-and-martini place in Belltown, to spin fantasies while eating and drinking to excess. Everyone in this place, except for me and the courtly old men who were our waiters, was young. I sat down, picked up a glass of million-dollar wine, sipped it and was stunned at its marvelous taste, set down my glass and looked across at Joey, who was wearing an enormous Stetson and grinning from ear to ear. "You're gonna live high on the hog now!" he bellowed, lapsing heavily into his native accent.
A few days later, I had lunch with Katherine Koberg. She was like the Katherine of old, only incredibly happier. Amazon's stock had soared so high since she signed on that ordinary human-built computing machines could no longer calculate its value. The famed (and now notorious) analyst Henry Blodgett had predicted it would hit $400 per share, and now, factoring in splits, it was nearly there. "I can't believe how my life has changed," she said. "I have four financial advisers now." She said this as if it were the most unlikely thing that ever could have happened to someone like her. "I just can't believe…I tell people all the time, you know, the story about how you found this job for me. It's my favorite story—I just…Fred…thanks. Thank you."
I walked back from that lunch in the usual energetic stupor—lingering effects of hangover complicated by massive doses of caffeine further complicated by lunch's microbrewed anesthetic—called Squish, arranged for the date I would begin working for him and Joey, and gave notice at the Weekly. A few days later, I gathered my beleaguered editorial minions and gave them the news. One of them asked me what I was doing next, and I said, "Going to work for a startup."
"Yes!" he shouted, punching his fist in the air. "Every journalist I know is going to work for a high-tech startup! All right!"
And a few weeks after that, I found myself wading through the WTO riots to my new life.


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A diligent professional with a deep-seated passion for helping people and an in-depth knowledge of all things New York City, Jonathan Soleimani's diverse skills are a natural fit for the real estate industry.
A New York native and current resident of the Upper East Side, Jonathan specializes in brownstone and luxury apartment buildings all across the city. He possesses a comprehensive understanding of the local real estate market and greatly enjoys imparting this knowledge to clients and helping them achieve success in their own real estate transactions, whether buying, selling or renting.
"I chose this career because I love working with people," says Jonathan. "There's nothing I enjoy more than working alongside clients to help them find a new home or secure the best possible deal for them."
Currently pursuing a degree in business administration, Jonathan's top priority is making time to help others. In addition to donating part of his income, he regularly volunteers at hospitals and within his community.


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The Valdosta Daily Times
Emergency crews load a patient into a lifeflight helicopter at South Georgia Medical Center Sunday night
following a major wreck on I-75 near Exit 18 that killed one person, according to authorities. The driver of an SUV
heading northbound on I-75 near Exit 18 ran off the road for unknown reasons, overcorrected and lost control around 6 p.m., said Sgt. Carl Taylor of the Georgia State Patrol's Valdosta post. The SUV flipped several times, ejecting the driver, Jake Daughtrey of Adel, into the southbound lanes, where he was run over multiple times, Taylor said. Daughtrey was found dead on the scene, he said. Three passengers — a teen-aged boy and girl and the girl's 9-year-old sister, all from Adel — were injured and had to be lifeflighted to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., Taylor said. There were no indications that intoxicants were involved, he said. The wreck backed up traffic on the interstate for hours, but all lanes were cleared by about 9:30 p.m., Taylor said.


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I wrote an not long ago about grandparents that got me to thinking about my own.
My Grandpa passed away a few years ago, my Grandma followed him about a year later. It's funny how I go through periods in my life when I don't think much about them at all, and then something will stir up a memory and there they will be, front and center.
I recently read a young adult novel called " The Summer of Hammers and Angels" by Shannon Wiersbitzky. It's the story of a girl named Delia who lives with her mother in a small town in West Virginia. Their house is about to be condemned when her mother ends up in the hospital. The work it will take to fix her house is more than Delia can handle on her own. It's a book about friendship, community, and angels in plain sight.
My grandparents were angels on Earth.
My grandparents did not do the things they did out of a sense of duty or for charity. They took care of others because that's what you were supposed to do.
One of my favorite stories about my grandfather was told to me by my father. Grandpa worked at a filling station shortly after he and my grandmother were married. A family appeared one evening and told my grandfather their car had broken down but they had no money for repairs. Even though Grandpa needed that job, he went against the stations policy and allowed the family to have store credit to pay for the work on their car. He was let go, but he wasn't sorry for helping that family.
My Grandmother loved taking care of people. Once a man came to the door, dirty and disheveled, holding a sign that said he was deaf and mute and needed money. My grandmother brought him into her home and made him a hot meal while she washed his clothes. She then sent him on his way with enough leftovers to last him for days. She loved children. She was constantly feeding treats to the steady stream of kids that sat with her on her front porch or played in her yard.
I remember getting jealous when some of the neighborhood kids called her "Grandma." She would always pat my hand, smile, and say, "You know you're my little Holly Berry."
They helped friends, neighbors, and strangers alike.
It's a quality I want to instill in my own children. Helping others not out of a sense of duty, but because it's the right thing to do. Never before has that been more evident than with the amount of destruction in Joplin, MO. Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring a family, a community, a country, together. But I believe that a sense of community thrives all around us.
It's in the food we make for a neighbor when we hear a family member is sick. It's in the clothing we donate to a family who has lost a home to a fire or flood. It's even in the way we care for someone's animals or collect their mail while they're away, or pull trashcans to the curb for someone who may not be physically able to, or shovel the snow from the driveway of a stay-at-home mom.
I hope that my kids can see the extended hands all around them so that they will extend their hands right back. My grandparents were angels on Earth- but they would scoff to hear it. They would merely say that they were doing what anybody should.


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DIY Twig and Copper Bracelet Tutorials. "I'm Sticking with You" Valentine's Day idea.
- Top Photo: Delicate Twig and Copper Tube Bracelet from Touche du Bois. Detailed tutorial and the photos are enough so translating from French to English not necessary.
- Bottom Photos: Twing and Hardware Store Copper Pipe Bracelet from The Merry Thought.


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|Church events 5-29
|Written by Sentinel-Tribune Staff
|Friday, 29 May 2009 09:16
Craig Gunnett will be speaking on "When God Says No," Sunday at Bowling Green Alliance Church.
Evangelist Harold Driver's sermon Sunday morning at Bowling Green Church of Christ will be "The Four Biggest Fools." The evening service will be "The Ten Commandments, Part 2."
"He Has Quenched Mt. Sinai's Flame," will be Rev. Michael Malanga's message Sunday at Bowling Green Covenant Church.
Pastor Kevin Crawford will be speaking on "OMG Life Seems Unfair: Woes God From Habakkuk," Sunday at Brookside Church.
Rev. Mack Armstrong's sermon Sunday at Cloverdale United Methodist Church will be "Pious Prisoner Produces Prophetic Perceptions."
Are We Resentful?" will be Pastor Brian Snyder's message Sunday morning at First Baptist Church as he begins a series on the Book of Malachi. The evening message will be "Are We Reckless?"
Rev. Brent Pomeroy's sermon Sunday at First Christian Church will be "Spirit Power."
New members will be received during worship Sunday at First Presbyterian Church. The youth group will host a dessert auction following the service.
Pastor Becky Schofield's sermon for Confirmation Sunday at First United Methodist Church will be "A New Adventure."
The sermon Sunday by Curtis Miller, pastor, at Grace Brethren Church will be "Who Will Lead, Who Will be in Command," continuing the summer series, "Living Relationally Within the Family Unit, According to the Word of God."
The program Sunday at Maumee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation will be "YRU UU?, Part 2," by Kate O'Connell.
Pastor Gary Gutknecht's sermon will continue his series on "Life Lessons From the Disciples," Sunday at Northside Baptist Church.
Pastor Gregg Swope's sermon Sunday at Plain Congregational Church will be "Four Lessons From a Dead Man."
"From 'Go, Wait and Pray,' to 'Come, Receive and Live,'" will be Rev. Eric McGlade's sermon Sunday at Trinity United Methodist Church.
Pastor Larry Whatley's sermon Sunday at Turning Point United Methodist Church will be "One Life to Live."
The sermon by David K. Boswell, minister, Sunday at Village View Church of Christ be "Parables of Jesus: The Mustard Seed."
"How God Uses Suffering," will be Dr. David Lindeblad's sermon Sunday morning at Wood County Baptist Church.
There will be a guest speaker Sunday at Bradner Community Christian Church.
"Over the Top," will be Pastor Jeff Ridenour's sermon Sunday at Bradner United Methodist Church.
Rev. Deb Widdowson's sermon Sunday at Faith United Methodist Church will be "Come, Holy Spirit."
Pastor Timothy Rothfuss' sermon Sunday at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church will be "The Spirit of Truth." Pentecost will be celebrated with flowers and helium balloons. Those attending are invited to wear red.
Brother Thurman Grass will be the guest speaker for "God and Country Day" Sunday at Christ's Bible Church. A celebration potluck will follow the service.
Pastor Susan St. Peter's sermon for Graduation Sunday at Union United Methodist Church will be "Interceding According to the Will of God."
Rev. Jennifer Jackson's sermon Sunday at Haskins Community Church will be "One in Spirit."
"When it is Good to be Convicted of Wrong Doing," will be Pastor Rick Adams' message Sunday at Hoytville United Methodist Church.
Pastor Ron Shinkle's message Sunday at Lemoyne Baptist Church will be "Why the New Covenant Motivates all That We Do."
Pastor Peter Johnston's sermon Sunday at Faith United Methodist Church will be "On all Flesh."
Pastor Jeanne English's sermon title Sunday at Zion Lutheran Church will be "Get Blown Away." The congregation will celebrate Pentecost with a procession of kites. Graduate recognition will also be held during the service.
Pastor Melissa Steinecker's sermon topic Sunday at Zion United Methodist Church will be "Fire Power."
"The Church's Birthday," will be Pastor Andy Wilson's sermon Sunday at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Members will observe Confirmation and recognition of graduates.
Members of Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church will lead the worship Sunday at Briar Hill Health Campus at 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Susan Kronbach's sermon will focus on Pentecost on Sunday at Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist. Those attending are asked to wear red.
"When it is Good to be Convicted of Wrong Doing," will be Pastor Rick Adams' message Sunday at St. James United Methodist Church.
Pastor Ralph Mineo's sermon topic Sunday at St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church will be "All Heaven Broke Loose." Those attending are asked to wear something red in honor of Pentecost Sunday.
Pastor Peter Johnston's sermon Sunday at Pemberville United Methodist Church will be "On all Flesh."
Blessed John XXIII Parish will celebrate the ordination anniversaries of Father Herb Weber and Father Al Ceranowski on Monday evening.
Rev. Bruce McDaniel's sermon Sunday at Christ United Methodist Church will be "There's a lot Going on Here." The children's sermon is "Filled With the Holy Spirit."
Pastor Ernie Unholz's sermon Sunday at Rudolph Christian Church will be "MasterCard."
Pastor Daniel Beaudoin's sermon for Pentecost Sunday at St. John Lutheran Church will be "Day 50."
Pastor Robert E. May's sermon Sunday at Stony Ridge United Methodist Church will be "For Pentecost; Earth, Wind and Fire."
Pastor John Randall's sermon Sunday at Sugar Ridge Community Church will be "Does God Still Hate Esau?"
Pastor Mark Montgomery's sermon Sunday at Calvary United Methodist Church will be "Goaded to Goodness Loaded With Language."
Rev. Mike Denman, assistant to the district superintendent of the Maumee Watershed District will be preaching Sunday at Wayne United Methodist Church. Members of the congregation will lead the worship.
Pastor John Merseth's theme Sunday at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church will be "The Work of the Lord and the Giver of Life."
Pastor Chris Boggs' sermon Sunday at Sonlight Christian Assembly of God will be "The Absurd Mathematics of Grace." The church's rummage sale will be held today and Saturday.
Rick Broughton's message Sunday at Weston Church of Christ will be "Ruth: A Picture of Redemption."
Rev. James Stewart's sermon Sunday at Weston United Methodist Church will be "Imprisoned by our own Fears."
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