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Kim Koeller
Innovator in Local Dining and Global Travel
As Founder of GlutenFree Passport, Kim Koeller is a global business leader, sought-after educator, innovator and award-winning creator of the ground-breaking series, Let's Eat Out Around the World Gluten Free and Allergy Free.
This market leading series now includes her 4th edition 2014 book, 4 additional paperback books, 13 ebooks and 10 mobile apps. Trusted by customers in over 60 countries, the first–of-its-kind series is also the 2012 winner of the Best Health Book of the Year Award for Indie Publishers and has won 18 quality awards for 8 consecutive years.
After overcoming years of misdiagnosis, Kim has been 100% gluten and allergy free for over 10 years due to celiac disease and several food allergies including dairy, fish, shellfish and preservatives. She founded GlutenFree Passport to globally impact social change and improve quality of life through innovative resources, education and business consulting.
As an international business executive, Kim has traveled over 2 million miles around the world to six continents. She is fluent in French, studied 4 other languages and has lived in 9 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
The inspiration for Kim to author, develop and launch the pioneering Let's Eat Out! series evolved from a number of factors including:
- Her love of travel logging over 2 million miles and living on four continents
- Her personal health considerations including celiac / coeliac disease, over a dozen allergies, 12 orthopedic surgeries, 4 stress fractures and years of misdiagnosis
- Significant void in global market for dining & travel resources for special diets
- Combination of her in-depth research, worldwide travel and consulting expertise coupled with her co-author Robert's extensive culinary and food service background
- Desire to help millions of people impacted by special diets and improve quality of life across the globe
With 20-plus years of public speaking experience, Kim is an internationally recognized keynote and guest speaker educating business and consumer audiences at conferences around the world from Australia to the European Union and North America. She trains and consults with food service, product and health professionals from restaurants, schools, universities and manufacturers about food management and special diet wellness. In addition, Kim is qualified and approved as the health and wellness guest lecturer aboard cruise ships around the world to empower guests about gluten and allergy free diets.
As an authoritative expert on food, travel and special diet lifestyles, her media interviews include NBC and ABC TV, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Radio New Zealand, National Geographic Traveler, USA Today and Hotels Magazine. Kim and her team created the award-winning Let's Eat Out series, with the Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport, iEatOut mobile app and 25 more resources, which have been recognized by over 300 media outlets and endorsed by celiac and food allergy organizations around the world.
Prior to establishing GlutenFree Passport, Kim was a partner with Accenture, the world's leading management consulting firm. Specializing in customer innovation and emerging technologies for over 17 years, she was a practice leader and responsible for consulting with cross-industry Fortune 500 multinational clients delivering market-leading transformational project results worldwide including 12 industry first solutions worldwide.
Leveraging her extensive expertise with Accenture and currently as a partner with Horizon Group, she now consults with start-ups to Fortune 100 companies to develop and implement strategic customer solutions.
Kim earned her Masters degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Purdue University and the University of Strasbourg, France. She has been recognized as one of the top 50 Purdue alumni in the past 50 years and sits on the board of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. Kim also promotes global advocacy through her blog, YouTube channel and other social media.
Watch Kim on YouTube or Read about Where My Gluten Free Journey Began
Robert La France is a restaurant industry veteran and co-author of the multi-award winning series, Let's Eat Out Around the World.With a passion for the culinary arts, Robert has spent over 18 years across all aspects of restaurant operations and has worked with Asian, European & North American cuisines.
His experience has ranged from single restaurants to large publicly traded companies with 100-plus locations responsible for training hundreds of personnel. His first hand experiences have afforded him the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of guest requirements, concerns of cross-contact and hidden allergens in food preparation. Robert graduated cum laude from Arizona State University, has traveled almost 1 million miles and is conversant in the German and French languages.
The GlutenFree and AllergyFree Passport Story
As Featured in Allergy Today – New Zealand
For many people in today's fast paced world, social and even work lives are centered on eating out with partners, friends, colleagues and business contacts. Are food intolerances and allergies an impenetrable barrier cutting off from this primary source of social interaction? Do you have to stay home and miss out on this huge slice of life to stay safe?
This is what Kim Koeller and Robert La France wondered. We have their answer in their Let's Eat Out! book series, which takes you through all the steps needed to eat out successfully and safely. They tell Allergy Today why they gave up corporate careers to do what they do.
Living an active life while managing food intolerances and allergies can be challenging, particularly when those allergies affect your career and your family. The everyday difficulties experienced both at home and in the outside world may seem overwhelming, particularly when allergies are first diagnosed. Although you have a fair amount of control over what you want at home, it's another story once you venture outside your front door.
When Kim Koeller was diagnosed with food-related allergies as well as celiac / coeliac disease (an autoimmune disorder reflected in a life-long intolerance to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye and barley), she wondered how she was going to be able to eat away from home. At the time, Kim was an international business consultant (with a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird) and a partner with Accenture, the world's leading consultancy.
She had already flown over one million miles worldwide, eating 80 percent of her meals away from home in over 25 countries while working with clients across four continents. She was not willing to give up the travel and career she loved because of her diagnosis. So she needed to figure out how to safely eat gluten and allergy-free foods anywhere in the world, regardless of her location or destination.
To accomplish her goal, she conducted extensive research, scouring hundreds of websites, subscribing to all the allergy-related publications she could find and joining over 20 international allergy and coeliac associations. She also read numerous books and publications and hundreds of articles on allergies, auto-immune diseases and celiac / coeliac disease. However, she found that the focus of this literature was either on gluten and allergy-free cooking at home or providing background information about coping with allergies and gluten free diets. Only a very small percentage of the available material discussed eating in restaurants or traveling with gluten and other food concerns.
"I was very surprised to realize that books devoted to these topics had not been written. There was a significant void in the global market for products aimed at educating the 300-plus million individuals managing food allergies, celiac / coeliac disease and special diets on how to eat safely when away from home and while traveling!" So Kim started doing the market research and as the entrepreneur, established GlutenFree Passport and AllergyFree Passport. The mission is to shorten the learning curve associated with managing food allergies and celiac / coeliac disease for the millions of people affected by special diets; and to empower them to travel and explore the world.
As you can imagine, this was no small task and Kim decided that she needed help. Her good friend Robert La France, a restaurant industry veteran, turned out to have the ideal background to make her vision a reality. During his 14 years in the industry, Robert had worked extensively with Asian, European & North American cuisines.
The spectrum of his professional experience ranged from small single restaurant operations to large publicly traded companies with 100-plus locations. His experience across all aspects of restaurant operations had given him extensive insight into guest requirements, including the need for people with food allergies to be confident that their concerns about cross-contamination and hidden allergies in meals would be listened to and understood.
He had also devoted his spare time to his passion for the culinary arts. Independent study and many informal cooking sessions with professional chefs had given him a breadth and depth of understanding, as well as a practical working knowledge of most international cuisines. And Robert also had a personal understanding of the impact of living with food allergies. Not only as a restaurant professional had he witnesses the struggles and anxieties associated with dining out for people with food allergies, but he had also seen his brother struggle with gluten intolerance, and now his close friend Kim with celiac / coeliac disease, as well as other food allergies. So supporting family and friends and having compassion for restaurant clients with food allergies was an important part of his personal and professional life.
"For me, deciding to work with Kim was a 'no-brainer'. Because of my background, I felt that I had a lot to offer. More importantly, I understood Kim's vision from day one. It really made the perfect atmosphere for collaboration: Kim had the perspective of the business consultant and individual impacted with food allergies and celiac / coeliac and I had the restaurant perspective of serving guests with special dietary requirements." The result was that Kim and Robert continued doing extensive research and began creating an approach to safely eating in ethnic restaurants based on ingredients, food preparation and culinary techniques. They then both changed their careers to devote 100 percent of their life energy to achieving their mission. The only question that remained was how!
They decided that based upon their 3-plus years of research that a book series would be the best way to share the knowledge base they had developed and to gain the interest of the global media, which would in turn broaden people's awareness of food allergies and celiac / coeliac disease. Book proposals were sent out to major publishing houses and feedback was extremely positive; however, the publishing industry would take years to produce a finished product and would also allow them only minimal control over the marketing and design.
"Additionally, the marketing companies we met with wanted to position our concerns into this big cloud of fear and impending doom. That type of fear goes completely against our message of hope and empowerment through knowledge," stated Robert. "I completely agree," added Kim, "We want people to know that they can do it, all it takes is education, communication and preparation. Educate yourself on what you can and cannot eat. Communicate effectively with the restaurant staff so they can work in collaboration with you to manage your diet. Finally, you need to be prepared in the event that something goes wrong. In the case of anaphylaxis, you must always carry your adrenaline auto-injector and know how to use it. Following these key steps will alleviate most of the stress and anxiety associated with living with food allergies and celiac / coeliac disease."
Getting the book series out quickly and controlling the way in which their message would be presented were the driving forces to start their next company, R & R Publishing, whose mission is to create pioneering media for people managing special diets. In 2005, after significant focus group testing, they released their 1st edition full color book: Let's Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free. This was the world's first book dedicated to eating "around the corner and around the world while managing 10 common food allergies". They also released three paperback pocket-sized cuisine passports designed to be carried in a purse or jacket pocket. These included the American Steak & Seafood and Mexican Cuisine Passport, the Chinese, Indian and Thai Cuisine Passport and the French and Italian Cuisine Passport. A month later, the Let's Eat Out! series was expanded by the release of the Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport, a language guide that provides over 1,200 phrases to help people communicate about their food allergies in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
While presenting at hundreds of conferences worldwide, Kim and Robert received tremendous positive feedback about the book series and its impact on special diet lifestyles. At the same time, individuals and businesses requested even more detailed information specific to eating out and traveling. After more years of extensive research and testing, subsequent editions were written and published including our most recent 4th edition, full color book Let's Eat Out Around the World Gluten Free and Allergy Free. Then the team created numerous ebooks as well as Apple and Android mobile applications to provide individuals and businesses alike information instantly at their fingertips for dining and travel everywhere.
The Let's Eat Out! series of books, ebooks and apps has received over 18 awards from various mobile, digital content and publishing industry organizations. Awards include 2012 Best Health Book of the Year, Best Healthy Eating, Best Health & Diet, Best Non-Fiction, Best Health & Wellness, Best Travel, Best First Non-Fiction & Best Classic Reference.
In addition, the Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport has also received Best Language and Best Travel Guide awards. The Let's Eat Out! book series has been featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, radio and TV shows as well as endorsed by celiac / coeliac and food allergy associations across the globe.
So where do they go from here? "While we've achieved a great deal, our mission is far from being accomplished," says Koeller. "We're continuing our educational initiatives and consulting services to help the restaurant and hospitality industries worldwide develop a higher standard of service for those with food allergies and special diets. Our ultimate goal is to raise awareness of food allergies and celiac / coeliac disease around the world to a level where the lifestyle is universally understood and supported by businesses."
Both Kim and Robert agree that living with special dietary requirements takes a bit of work but it doesn't need you to sacrifice your quality of life. "With my diagnosis, I felt like I was holding a bag of lemons. Now that I've learned how to make lemonade I look younger, I feel better and the quality of my life has improved dramatically."
Kim reflects, "When it comes to our work at GlutenFree Passport and AllergyFree Passport, the thoughts of Ralph Waldo Emerson sum it up best: 'If I have helped just one person in exploring a new location, be it in the city or country side, within their own country and/or on foreign lands, I will feel as though I have succeeded.'"
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text: I am surprised the Lions haven't signed Jackson yet. While he hasn't lived up to his first round status, he hasn't been terrible either. In fact, in limited role with the Lions, he was consistent. 2012 season was the first time he stayed healthy if I remember. I was hoping to see him as a starter when they decided to cut KVB and there were talks of Avril playing on the blind side. Then when Avril left in FA, I was hoping to see Jackson move to his more natural left side on the line. With the signing of Jones followed by coach Schwartz's endorsement that Jones will be playing the left side, I am finding it hard to figure how Jackson will fit in any longer. They have Jones and Lewis signed until 2016, Young for one more year. This makes it only two DEs in 2014 which points to them stacking up DE and DT (which is needed even for this year) positions in this draft. His cap number last year was just over a million though it was his rookie deal, which means his expected numbers aren't going to be out of the affordable range for the Lions. With the market being a buyer's market this year, and the premium and more famous ones already out (except Dumervil who isn't a target anyways), why isn't motown showing no love towards Jackson?


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UK Carbon Emission Targets 'May Have To Be Jettisoned'
Britain may have to abandon its climate change targets if other countries failed to cut emissions, the chairman of the government's advisory body has said.
Lord Deben (formerly the Conservative Environment Secretary John Gummer) said: "There is no point in you doing your bit for climate change if no one else is doing it."
However, the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change also insisted that Britain "was not acting alone" and dismissed concerns that countries were already backtracking on their emission targets. The committee warns ministers in a report today that Britain's carbon targets "should not and cannot be changed under the terms of the [Climate Change] Act".
Manufacturers last night accused the committee of trying to keep Britain on a "unilateral trajectory" and of failing to consider the impact on energy intensive businesses of the increase in costs resulting from the targets.
Steve Radley, Director of Policy at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, said: "Industry will be deeply concerned that the Committee on Climate Change is advising that the UK remains on a unilateral trajectory towards a 50 per cent reduction in emissions. With other EU members showing little appetite to match our ambitions, this will continue to push electricity prices above our competitors and risks pushing investment abroad. Government must now demonstrate that it understands the competitiveness issues at stake by undertaking a hard-edged review of the committee's evidence."
More than 50 large companies, including Sainsbury's, Unilever, PepsiCo, Jaguar Land Rover and Sky, signed a statement calling on the Government to follow the committee's advice and stick to the target of halving emissions by 2025 [based] on 1990 levels.
Lord Deben defended the committee's advice that an extra £85 should be added to energy bills by 2020 and £20 more by 2030 to pay for green subsidies to help meet the target.
"If we don't pay the consumer will in the end be paying a great deal more. Most of us would prefer not to pay today and to put it off to tomorrow but down that route lies a really terrible cost to those of us who are going to live for 20 or more years and certainly an awful cost for the next generation."
However, he added: "If it became clear you have other countries not doing their bit and a very low gas price then you would change it."
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Dr Benny Peiser comments:
The Committee on Climate Change mistakenly believe that the UK's post-2022 CO2 targets are legally binding under the Climate Change Act. This is not the case. When the fourth carbon budget was agreed in 2011, the government confirmed that these targets were conditional on the EU adopting similar targets.
George Osborne has stated categorically that Britain will not "cut carbon emissions faster than our fellow countries in Europe." Given the EU's manifest reluctance to follow Britain's lead, there is no chance that the government will adopt new unilateral targets. The decision on post-2020 CO2 targets is likely to be postponed until and unless there is a legally binding agreement at the 2015 UN climate summit in Paris.


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Imhotep cruises to city AA crown
- Written by Donald Hunt
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It was a big weekend for high school football. City championships were on the line. Imhotep Charter stepped up and brought home the Class AA city title with an impressive 40-8 win over West Catholic.
In other action, Archbishop Wood spanked Bok, 49-28, to capture the Class AAA city crown and La Salle topped Frankford, 37-20, to grab the Class AAAA city championship.
Imhotep Charter put together a strong running attack in its victory over West Catholic. David Williams, Imhotep Charter's star running back, had 22 carries for 191 yards and two touchdowns. Williams scored on a three-yard run and a 63-yard scamper.
Archbishop Wood was led by running back Jarrett McClenton who had four carries for 138 yards. McClenton had a spectacular game. He had 56-yard TD run as well as 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Archbishop Wood will play the winner of the Interboro-West Chester Henderson in the next round of the playoffs.
La Salle got a big game from running back Jordan Meachum who had seven carries for 146 yards. Meachum got on the scoreboard early with a 15-yard TD run. La Salle will play the winner of Delaware Valley and Parkland in the next round. The game will be played on Dec. 1.
In the Class A subregional, Bristol edged Communications Tech, 27-24. Diquan Gilbert, Communications Tech running back, had 13 carries for 60 yards including an 88-yard kickoff return in a losing effort. Zaki Jaminson, Communications Tech quarterback, scored two rushing touchdowns. Jaminson also threw a 54-yard TD pass to wide receiver Devon Brunson.
NOTES: There are a number of Thanksgiving Day high school football games throughout the city on Thursday, Nov. 22. There will be 13 games played on turkey day. Neumann-Goretti at Southern (10 a.m.), Fels at Frankford (9:45 a.m.), Central at Northeast (10 a.m.), Archbishop Ryan at George Washington (10 a.m.), Father Judge at Lincoln (10 a.m.), Conwell-Egan at Truman (10 a.m.), Communications Tech at Olney (10 a.m.), Roman Catholic at Roxborough (10:30 a.m.), Overbrook at West Philadelphia (10:30 a.m.), Bartram at Delaware Valley (10:30 a.m.), Martin Luther King at Germantown (10:30 a.m.), Dobbins at Ben Franklin (10:30 a.m.) and St. Joseph's Prep faces Malvern Prep at Plymouth Whitemarsh (10:30 a.m.).


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It was another date night for Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer.
The lovey-dovey duo hit singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's concert last night at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.
"After the lights went down, they walked to their seats," an eyewitness tells me. "They were with two bodyguards and three other women."
It appeared that they had an entire block of tickets, because no one else was in their row, and three seats were left empty all night.
"They were hugging, but there wasn't any kissing," my source says.
"If you haven't heard Ray LaMontagne yet, you owe it to yourself to check him out," Mayer blogged on his official website earlier this month. "I've seen him twice in the past two weeks and I can't get over how powerful he is. He's so pure, it's arresting. People ask me all the time what artists I'm listening to, and what I think of certain singers or bands out there. I think Ray LaMontagne is as brilliant as any artist that has ever lived."
Also at last night's gig was Justin Timberlake. He, too, didn't take his seat until the lights went down.
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PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown did a great job pressing President Obama's director of domestic policy, Cecilia Munoz, about the logic of Obama's amnesty announcement Friday. Here is some of the exchange:
Brown: Now if this is the right thing to do as the president said several times today, what is the logic for stopping it at age 30? Why isn't someone whose age 31 who has gone all the same…who has spent all these years in the United States and gone to school and had a job or served in the military why not…why isn't he or she eligible?
Munoz: Well if you look at the version of the DREAM Act that passed the House of Representatives in 2010, the cutoff date in that legislation was the age of 30 so there has been some discussion about a similar population of young people and that is where the discussion landed.
Which is, of course, complete nonsense. Obama could care less what Congress thinks. That is why he ignored Congress and made the announcement he did Friday. More importantly, this is not the same "population of young people." Illegal immigrants who were 30 and eligible in 2010, are now 32 and ineligible through no fault of their own. The moral case for giving them work permits is just as valid today as it was two years ago. But because Obama waited two years, now they are out of luck. Brown pressed Munoz on this point:
Brown: It's a practical matter. It's not a logical matter. I mean if you had your way, and you applied the same logic, then it would go on to older people.
Munoz: Well the secretary has articulated a clear set of criteria and that's the criteria they are going to apply to people who come forward. We still hope for a permanent solution to resolve our immigration problems and the president is going to continue to work on an immigration reform
In other words, yeah, following our logic this amnesty would apply to everyone. But we can't just say that because then this policy would be a huge political loser instead of a winning distraction from Obama's terrible economy.
Better to keep the discussion focused on just the "dreamers," as Obama calls them, than admit what we really want is a blanket amnesty for everyone. Hence the first criteria identified by Secretary Napolitano: to be eligible an illegal immigrant must have "come to the United States under the age of sixteen."What is the logical or moral difference between granting amnesty to someone who came here when they were 16 but not to someone who came here when they were 17? Eighteen is the voting age in the United States, why not use that as a cut off?
That is not the only fictional line drawing in Secretary Napolitano's order. Her second criteria reads, "Have continuously resided in the United States for a least five years preceding the date of this memorandum and are present in the United States on the date of this memorandum."
And that is the lie at the core of every amnesty. The randomly chosen date that divides non-citizens who will be rewarded for illegally entering the United States from those who didn't illegally enter the United States soon enough. There simply is no moral or logical reason to reward the first group and punish the second. The moral and emotional case for granting citizenship to those in the country now is just as strong today as it will be for those who enter the country tomorrow.
President Reagan, liberals never tire of reminding us, granted amnesty to 2 million illegal immigrants. That policy compromise was predicated on the understanding that the amnesty granted was a one-time deal. But now there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. And if we granted all 11 million amnesty today, there would be millions more another decade from now too.
Libertarians are at least honest in immigration debates. They advocate open borders. I disagree with that position, but it is at least an honest one that I can respect.


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Falmouth's Lizzie Hosken of Clark Jenner Angove Accountants wins a National Apprenticeship Award
Posted: November 22, 2012|
A FALMOUTH apprentice has won a national award. Lizzie Hosken won the advanced apprentice of the year at the National Apprenticeship Awards.
She works as an apprentice accountant at Clark Jenner Angove Accountants at Perranarworthal.
Joining in 2009, when she was 19, she has been recognised for her contribution to the business, including introducing new measures to ensure high standards and playing a role in training a new apprentice.
She said: "I'm really surprised to have won as the two other candidates were so good. My fiancee, employer and parents will be really pleased and it's so
nice to be able to give something back.
"I started at the bottom and worked by way up and now I want to do a higher apprenticeship."
Her training was done at Camborne College and Clark Jenner Angove.
Jayne Angove, her employer, said: "She has always contributed greatly to the business and is a fantastic asset to us."


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For the past few months it has occurred to me that sometimes in life we assume we know more about things than we really do only because we have never taken the time to actually try and learn. If that's not the most generally vague statement you've ever heard, I apologize. That's what I was going for.
Allow me to clarify: How often have you thought you knew who someone was only to be thrown for a loop when you really got to know them? I'm no neurologist (I hope that's the correct term for someone who studies the brain) but from what I've experienced, the less we know about something or someone, the more our minds make up false realities to convince ourselves we're smart and still know it all. We're all guilty of this and it diminishes our awareness. I'll touch more on awareness in a minute. On the other hand, when we try to learn and dive into a subject, our minds are jolted out of compensating for the lack of knowledge and we realize how little we actually know. To a five year old, the food just appears on the table, toys are magically put away, and there are no worries in life except being put on timeout if you color on the walls. Adults are more learned and know there are a few more details to life than that.
We Are Not Alone
There are 6 billion+ other people on the earth besides you or I. I doubt anyone can even comprehend that number. That's a LOT of people. Like too many for my rich uncle's massive place in The Hamptons a lot… If he had one… or I had a rich uncle. The crazy thing about it is all these people have a story. They all go to sleep, wake up, and have a life to live on the exact same earth you and I live on. Some are poor, homeless, malnourished, or suffering. Some are rich, live lavish lifestyles, and have fancy beds with maids that clean up after them. Some are just somewhere in between. But out of all of those people in the world, you will never know most of them, their stories, joys, struggles, or even their name for that matter.
I love the story of the little boy walking on a beach with miles of beached starfish. The starfish are destined to dry out and die because they cannot get back into the ocean by their own power. One at a time the boy proceeded to throw starfish back into the ocean. It was obvious he would never be able to throw them all back in, and a bystander approached the boy and asked why he cared? Why even try? There was no way he could save them all. The boy's response, as he picked up a starfish and threw it back into the water, was simple but meaningful: "I made a difference to that one."
-We can't be content just living our own lives without caring about those around us.-
This Is Water
Now to the part I promised I would get to about being aware. Since I first heard these words by David Foster Wallace, I haven't been able to get them out of my daily thought process… not that I want to:
"If you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at [ people you encounter. For example, a ] fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she's not usually like this. Maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down." (Excerpt from his This Is Water speech)
Maybe going out of your way to say hi to someone you don't know and genuinely wishing them a good day won't change anything in their life. But why is that any reason not to do it? Why care about someone you'll most likely never see or come in contact with again? Why not care? What if a friendly action is just what someone needs that day and that is exactly the reason you were by them at that specific time? It may not be likely, but it's also not impossible. We are on this earth with so many other people. It would be selfish to not be so aware as to acknowledge that they exist.
The Project
For two weeks I made it a goal to talk to at least one stranger every day. Sometimes it was an employee at Panda Express or the super market, other times it was someone I went out of my way to say hi to at church or on the street. I have never been so outgoing. I had to make a conscious effort to be more aware of my surroundings. I have never been afraid to talk to new people, I just never really cared or knew what to say. I realized that was wrong and decided to change. In those two weeks I became more grateful for my life and the blessings I enjoy. I found opportunities and made new friends. I was able to brighten a few people's days and give them a break from the dull, monotonous work grind. I took many people by surprise with my genuine caring conversation and watched their spirits brighten. But the thing I enjoyed the most was how easy being aware of other people became for me. I no longer worried about what to say. I just started up conversations without even thinking. It opened the door to a whole new world I never realized existed all around me. I realized how little I had previously known about the world I've lived in for 25 years. I was no longer a five year old.
If all that happened in two weeks, I'm beyond curious what can happen in more time. I've decided to make this a permanent focus in my life and shoot for a solid year. 365 days. 365 new people I never would have known existed if I was content just doing me.
If you want to join in and give it a try even for just a day or two, I welcome anyone along and would love to hear about it. You can find my progress on the Lift App and Twitter #365Aware.


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Children Growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation
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In this project, I explore the power of place on a child's development; my photographs seek to illustrate the visual and emotional experience of growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation at the foot of Montana's Glacier National Park.
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... which school will be the first to jump to the CAA?
University of Rhode Island?
And will Charlotte now opt to become a full member in the CAA?
... which school will be the first to jump to the CAA?
University of Rhode Island?
And will Charlotte now opt to become a full member in the CAA?
Probably not going to happen, but if I had to wager it would be Charlotte, for football reasons.
Charlotte makes the most sense so that will probably never happen. I doubt UR would come back hat in hand to the CAA or that the CAA would be all that receptive about taking them back. Having UR back would help mitigate the VCU home court advantage at the CAA Tournament so that would be a good thing. Rhode Island is dropping down in football from the CAA to the NEC (?) so that would not be all that good of a move for them. Fordham could be interesting. It would give Hofstra someone close and they do have play football.
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Old Dominion Athletics: Time to get blue!
We are Old Dominion. We still don't play on Friday.
Richmond to the CAA would certainly silence the Coliseum. Half the crowd would have gray hair and never stand up or raise their voice.
I don't see Richmond or URI for the reasons mentioned. The Patriot League is now phasing in scholarships for football and moving away from their merit based aid model. So that likely means Fordham stays put in the A-10 with their Jesuit brothers. Charlotte would be the best bet but even then I'm doubtful.
pretty sure richmond is transferring down to D3 for their football program
Every game is a monumental war - Matt Brady
Si vis pacem, para bellum
The thought of Fordham as a basketball addition would make me want to vomit. Teams are leaving the #1 basketball conference in the big east for football reasons. We take on sh*t basketball programs for football reason. Let's further erode the conferences most visible (on the national level) sport.
EverRespect was quoted as saying, "Face it, VCU is a better team and the scary thing is they are all freshman and sophomores other than Burgess. It may be a long time before we beat them again."
Fordham will not come over. Pecora left Hofstra because he felt he could not win with the tournament in Richmond. If Fordham does join the CAA Pecora would either quit or commit suiside.
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The A-10 could stay at 13, they already have an unbalanced conference schedule. When the Big East eventually splits on football and non-football lines, that would allow for the top A-10 schools to join a hoops only Big East.


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Thread: Beware, Orton is on the move.
12-09-2005, 02:08 PM #1Prophet Guest
Beware, Orton is on the move.
NFL: Issues abound among NFC division leaders
In 55 games over the past five postseasons, a team won by scoring fewer than 20 points only four times.
That brings us to the increasingly ineffective Orton. His passer rating in three of the past five games has been 43.3, 42.8 and, in Sunday's win over the Green Bay Packers, a mere 23.7. Not surprisingly, his season rating of 60.2 ranks last in the league -- yes, behind even the Lions' Joey Harrington (66.5) and the Saints' Aaron Brooks (69.0).
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A league source tells us that multiple players on the Chicago Bears roster actively are pushing for the return of quarterback Rex Grossman to the starting lineup, now that he is healthy.
He looks better, we're told, in practice than current starter Kyle Orton, who was a dismal 6-for-17 a week ago, for only 68 yards.
For our perspective, it's hard not to think that there's an implicit punitive aspect to Grossman's current status, since significant injuries suffered by Grossman in each of the past two years led to a mountain of criticism of the team and G.M. Jerry Angelo regarding the absence of a meaningful backup plan.
Regardless of the reason for the reluctance to return Rex to his gig, we think it's a mistake for the Bears not to give him a shot. It would be different if Orton were having an MVP season, or even if his passer rating wasn't 32nd in the league. Though we don't think that a guy should always keep his starting job after suffering an injury, we'd like to think that, say, a rating of below 61 is enough to warrant a hook, especially when the player who entered camp as the starter is ready to go.
Besides, getting Grossman onto the field now gives him four full games to get ready for the postseason. We can't imagine Grossman playing any worse than Orton, and if Grossman can ignite the passing game, the Bears could be ready by February to pose a seriously challenge to the Colts or the Bengals or whoever comes out of the AFC field.
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Grossman is the far better QB of the two. I hope they stick with Orton because I feel we have a much better chance to win with Orton throwing picks and fumbling the ball.The best part of my day is when I get down on my knees, with my head in my hands, and thank GOD for everything he has given me.
Re: Beware, Orton is on the move.
Grossman's Career Stats:
In 6 games over 2 years he is 85/156 for 1044 yards, 3 TDs and 4 INTs. That gives him a passer rating of 71.1. He's also run 14 times for 47, 1 TD. He's fumbled twice, but both were recovered by his team.
Interesting note: his first appearance came in week 15 of 2003, against the Vikings in Chicago. They beat us that day, 13-10. His last appearance was in week 3 of 2004, against the Vikings in Minnesota. We beat them that day, 27-22.
Orton's career stats:
In 12 games this year, Orton is 165/309 for 1591 yards, 9 TDs and 13 INTs. That gives him a passer rating of 60.2. He's also run 20 times for 34 yards, and fumbled 5 times (losing two of them).
So, Grossman's completion % is only one point higher than Ortons. His YPC is about 1.5 yards better, but their TD to INT ratio is almost identical. Plus, Grossman hasn't played in a regular season game since 9/26/04. I know Orton hasn't been the best QB, and there's good reasons to look at other options. However, there are a lot of Bears fans that are sure that Grossman is the answer when there seems to be just as many questions about him as there are Orton. Should be interesting to see this play out.
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neither of the two are that good... Orton has the worst pass rating the the league. grossman's only good game was a few years back when he had a great first half, and got injured 2nd half...
Re: Beware, Orton is on the move.
beware, orton loses.We're bringing purple back.
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LOL in 2 years he only has 3 TDs passing and 1 rushing?! Now that's funnyThanks for the sig Pack93z
I love when you take breaks from plucking your unibrow and grunting/slapping to makes posts in this forum
Re: Beware, Orton is on the move.
Who cares who they have at quarterback?
They've got a defence as good as the 85 Bears remember?
Just kidding. The Bears offence is so terrible and even though their defence is pretty good, they've played nobodies and don't stand a chance if they make the playoffs.
Thanks PPE for the sig.
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Common sense should prevail over politics
There are few times when I'm impressed by the actions or words of politicians and government officials. But when former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs PJ Crowley came out and criticized the treatment and imprisonment of Bradley Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid," it rekindled my faith in such people, if only a little bit.
Manning was arrested after allegedly leaking massive amounts of classified information to WikiLeaks while a soldier in the U.S. Army. He has been detained in a military brig at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. since July 29 of last year and is being treated as a high profile terrorist.
He sits in a 6×12 foot, windowless cell for 23 hours of the day and is in shackles during his one hour outside. He is not allowed to wear his glasses, leaving him practically blind because apparently there are fears he will use them to injure himself. The list continues, stopping just short of physical abuse.
What strikes me about Crowley is that he is in full support of prosecuting Manning and considers his alleged actions to be criminal but can still see that the treatment of Manning is "stupid."
Most people get so caught up on one side of an argument that they don't see anything else. Many on the left demand the immediate release of Manning, while many on the right turn a blind eye to his treatment and expect full prosecution and punishment for his suspected crimes.
Crowley criticized Manning's imprisonment because he saw it as counterproductive to what he considers a very legitimate prosecutorial process.
It's heartwarming to see people put aside staunch ideology in favor of some degree of reason in the midst of rampant ignorance on both sides of the political spectrum.
Crowley resigned shortly after making his statement (reportedly under pressure from the White House, although he denies this), as is the norm for government officials who decide to speak their mind for a change. But he made an important statement in doing so. He claims to have no regrets in saying what he said, and while I may disagree with Crowley on various points, I can certainly respect him for standing up for his principles in an environment that is often quite hostile to such actions.
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In a Welterweight fight at UFC 148, former Middleweight title contender Demian Maia (15-4; 9-4 UFC) faces The Stun Gun Dong Hyun Kim (15-1-1(1); 6-1(1) UFC). This is the third of six main card fights on the UFC 148 PPV. The USA TODAY / MMA Nation Consensus MMA Rankings have neither man currently ranked at Welterweight, which is a bit surprising in the case of Kim. The UFC 148 PPV card airs live Saturday night July 7 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
This is an interesting fight as it pairs two men who were, at one time, near the top of the division, but are now looking to rebuild. Kim was undefeated and ready to make a run up the ranks when he was knocked out by Carlos Condit last year. Maia is a former Middleweight title challenger who now makes his debut in the Welterweight division. This will be a good step up for the winner, and a bad setback for the loser.
How do these two stack up?
Kim: 30 years old | 6'1" | 76" reach
Maia: 34 years old | 6'0" | 72" reach
What have these two done recently?
Kim: W - Sean Pierson (UD) | L - Carlos Condit (KO) | W - Nate Diaz (UD)
Maia: L - Chris Weidman (UD) | W - Jorge Santiago (UD) | L - Mark Munoz (UD)
How did these two get here?
Korea's Stun Gun Dong Hyun Kim started his MMA career impressively, going undefeated in his first 16 fights. After a dominating win over Nate Diaz he looked to be just one big win away from the upper echelon of the Welterweight division. Then, last summer, he suffered his first loss in the form of a spectacular Carlos Condit flying knee KO, and all that momentum vanished. He's had one win since then. For some reason, Kim has always seemed to get lost in the shuffle at 170, and a big win here would really help him.
Like Kim, Demian Maia also started his career with a big undefeated streak, winning 11 straight, including a submission win over Chael Sonnen. And like Kim, his first loss came via KO, this time at the hands of Nate Marquardt. Since that loss, Maia has really struggled. He's moved far away from his superb jiu jitsu roots, and now prefers to kickbox his opponents. That's earned him both mixed results (he's 4-3 since the Marquardt KO) and a lot of fan negativity, as his last two fights have both been heavily booed. He's hoping a drop down to Welterweight will be the spark he needs. He's desperately in need of not just a win here, but a stoppage.
Why should you care?
I'll be honest - this has real potential to be boring. But with the move down to Welterweight, I'm willing to give Maia one last shot. Perhaps he can show the brilliant ground work that earned him a shot at Anderson Silva. If he does, this will be fun. If not, expect the boos once again.
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article on Pivotal's blog. There's also a video of a presentation on the same topic, but for faster consumption of the material I recommend the article.At SoundCloud RabbitMQ is used to process transcoder workloads in parallel and also to gather updates for user browsers. The use case is nicely laid out with diagrams and key points in a nice Reference: http://blog.gopivotal.com/case-studies-2/scaling-with-rabbitmq-soundcloud
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The owner of the nearly-vacant Santee Outlet Mall hopes the Catawba Indian Nation can use it for a high-stakes bingo operation.
The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports owner Herman Lischkoff is looking for a new use for the 150,000-square foot mall that now has only one store.
Lischkoff points out the tribe recently received state permission to operate a high stakes bingo operation in York County, where it operated one previously.
Under a land settlement, the tribe may open another bingo hall somewhere else in the state.
Lischkoff has written the tribe.
Catawba Indian Nation spokeswoman Elizabeth Harris says the tribe is now focused on opening the York County site. She says if the tribe decides to pursue a second location, they will contact Lischkoff.
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Heh, yeah so yall already know, it's fantasy football season as well 8D. So share your team names? +points if your team name is niner related 8D.
This year, I'm going with "Playing Harbaugh." Definitely sets the tone for this season, yeah? Last year, I went with "inGOREous basterds." And I was looking at ESPN's Matt Berry's article where he would post 10 fantasy teamnames that he thought were cool...and ONE OF THEM WAS "Inglorious Bradfords" MAN. If I had entered in InGOREous bastard, I wonder if I would have had it make the list...
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The fishy-ness of the deaths of husband and wife Simon Monjack and Brittany Murphy might be solved by the L.A. County Coroner's Office.
The issue of mold in the house that Brittany and Simon lived in came up early in the investigation of her death, but was deemed 'not to be a contributing factor.'
Then when Simon passed away a few months later, the issue came up again — but Brittany's mom, Sharon, wouldn't let the L.A. County Coroner's Office in to investigate the mold. But now, for some reason, Sharon has agreed to let Public Health investigators into the home. She's probably worried about her own life at this point.
It won't make this whole sad situation any better for their families, but at least they would have some sort of explanation and closure.


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A £7M swimming pool will be built in Blackbird Leys as the centrepiece of a major overhaul of Oxford's aging leisure facilities.
Plans to build an indoor water park with slides and a wave machine next to the leisure centre on the estate have been dropped.
Instead, a six-lane competition pool will be built and both the Temple Cowley Pool and the existing pool at Blackbird Leys will close.
The city council hopes the new pool, which could be used by local swimming clubs, schools and the public, will be built as early as 2012.
The complex is also expected to have a second pool featuring a 'floating floor', which allows the depth of the pool to be adjusted for learners and disabled swimmers.
City council executive member for leisure Bob Timbs said: "It's an exciting project.
"The new pool will be built to high modern standards to meet the needs of competition, while providing good quality leisure swimming.
"It would be wonderful if it could be built in the year of the Olympics."
He said an indoor water park would have been too costly to maintain and a pool alongside a new Oxford ice rink was also too expensive.
The city council is hoping a competition pool attached to Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre will attract substantial funding from Sport England.
It would also be partly funded from savings from the closure of Temple Cowley Pool.
The new pool is part of an extensive package of proposals, which went before the city council's executive board last night.
The massive regeneration scheme follows the council's deal with Fusion Lifestyles. The charitable trust has been awarded a 10-year contract to manage the council's leisure facilities.
It is run in a similar way to SOLL leisure, which operates facilities for the Vale of White Horse District Council and ploughs money it makes back into centres.
Temple Cowley pool, where the ceiling is held up with temporary scaffolding , is expected to remain open until the new Blackbird Leys pool is completed.
The council currently has seven leisure facilities managed under a contract with Fusion Lifestyle that runs until 2019, with an option to extend this for a further five years.
Fusion has already announced plans to install a £90,000 gym above Barton Pool, in Waynflete Road.
Meanwhile, the outdoor Hinksey Pool should see new investment with the relining of the pool made a priority.
Ferry Sport Centre, the city council's busiest facility, which was refurbished in 2004/05, should get an extension to its gym.
Councillors were told Blackbird Leys Pool was not well-used.
A report said it was "a financial timebomb ticking away, with the pool plant in need of replacement at a cost of £275,000".
Oxford Ice Rink will need £1.7m investment over the next four years. But plans to transform it into a multi-million-pound leisure centre are to be dropped.
The report said: "Consultation has found an ice rink is viewed as a 'must-have' facility within the West End Development.
"Due to the recession, the likelihood of the ice rink being rebuilt within the life of the 10-year contract is viewed as minimal.
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RubyLearning's 3rd batch of the "Introduction to Merb" course starts today, 28th Mar. 2009. Satish Talim of RubyLearning caught up with Carl Lerche, Merb core team member, to learn more about Merb.
Satish>> Welcome, Carl and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. For the benefit of the readers, could you tell us something about your self?
Carl>> First off, thanks for having me. So, a little about me? Let's see, I've been working with Ruby for about 4 or 5 years now. I discovered Ruby a while back working with FreeBSD. I started using Ruby on Rails back before it was released as 1.0 software and have been enjoying the Ruby world since then. I've been involved with a number of open source Ruby projects and am currently employed full time by Engine Yard to contribute to Ruby on Rails.
Satish>> How closely have you been associated with Merb?
Merb – Ruby web framework for the enterprise
Carl>> I have been actively contributing to the Merb project for about 9 months and am on the core developer team. I started investigating Merb about a year ago when I needed a Ruby framework that offered greater flexibility than Ruby on Rails. It looked quite promising, but it had a number of drawbacks, such as the router. I decided to write the missing code and contribute back to the project. Since then, I have been actively involved in Merb's development.
Satish>> If someone wanted to learn and start using Merb, how does one do that? Can you talk about what all is being done for Merb in terms of documentation, books, tutorials and training?
Carl>> Even though Merb adoption has been picking up, it is still a fairly new framework. As such, learning resources can be scarce. I would say that one of the best ways to learn Merb is to read the source code and the specs. We make quite a bit of effort to keep the code readable and we only spec out the public API, so everything that happens in the specs is actually something that a developer using Merb should be using. That being said, the Merb website does have a wiki that is updated and that contains good information. The Merb community is also quite helpful and there are lots of people on the IRC channel that answer questions.
Satish>> What type of projects would you use Merb for?
Carl>> You can use for any web application. It is a very flexible framework that handles the VC bits of MVC in context of the web. This includes anything from large, complex, web applications to simple web services. Merb is ORM agnostic, so you can use it with ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel, or any other library. However, we do recommend using DataMapper, which is why it is the default ORM when you install the full Merb stack. Personally, I have never needed to use anything besides Merb in the context of the web.
Satish>> With Merb and Rails merging by the end of the year, how does it benefit the developer?
Carl>> The Rails/Merb merge is actually quite exciting. First, let me clear up a misconception that seems to be somewhat common. The Rails / Merb merge is not so much of a code base merge as it is a joining of forces of the developers. Anyway, coming from the Merb side of things, working on Rails 3 gives me the opportunity to revisit all the things that are already implemented in Merb and question whether they are as good as possible, such as AbstractController. As it turns out, AbstractController is not as abstract as it could be. In other words, Rails 3 will actually be a significant improvement over current Merb. Also, since Rails has a much greater reach within businesses, all developers who use Merb for their hobby projects but have to use Rails at work will be able to use Rail 3, the framework with everything that made Merb great and more.
Satish>> Tell us something about deployment of Merb apps.
Carl>> Deploying Merb apps is actually relatively easy. Merb has an executable that handles creating all the child processes. As of the latest version, it also monitors the processes for memory and will restart them if they start getting out of hand. Also, apache passenger works quite well with Merb. Also, something to checkout would be Engine Yard's new Solo offering. It's pretty slick. You can deploy a Merb app onto amazon's AWS platform quite painlessly through an easy to use web interface. No matter which way you want to go, I would definitely recommend hitting up the IRC channel if you have any questions.
Satish>> Carl, thank you for your time. Anything else you would like to add?
Carl>> Well, I'll mention a cool new feature that will be in Rails 3 and most likely Merb 1.1. That would be mountable apps. I've started working on this recently and it's shaping out quite nicely. It'll basically let any application developed with Merb or Rails 3 be reusable in any other application. So, if you develop a blog or forum application, you could just release that app as a gem and mount it in any other app and share the models and other fun stuff. I'll be talking more about this at railsconf, so, if you are there, be sure to stop by. I'll see you all there!
Satish>> Carl, thank you for your time.
The opinions expressed are those of Carl Lerche and do not necessarily reflect those of www.RubyLearning.com.
Post supported by Railsware: At Railsware we chose Ruby on Rails as the core technology from the very beginning. As a product development company we build web applications for our clients and for ourselves and have experienced the benefits of both Rails and Merb. We are looking forward to this merge of Rails and Merb for better performance and keeping the best of both frameworks, and a rigorous API which will definitely result in reliable results and lower amount of patching. As the big result, developing a web application on Rails 3 will become even faster and cheaper. We are eagerly waiting to start building and delivering more great web apps using Rails 3.
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News: Cam'ron Still Blazin' After Just Dispute, "I Didn't Know We Had A Problem"
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Diplomats leader Cam'ron has weighed in on super producer Just Blaze recently revealing their alleged falling out during the break-up of Roc-A-Fella Records around the mid-2000's.
While Just claimed tension developed over the placement of his loyalty, Killa said he is unaware of any past problems they previously had.
"I haven't spoken to Just in years" Cam said in an interview. "I heard something about it. I didn't know we had a problem. I'm cool with Just. I'm proud of everything he's done. I appreciate everything he's done for me and Dipset. I never even knew it was a problem. I was unaware of it but I don't have a problem." (RapFix)
Around mid-May, Blaze revealed his past separation from Killa Cam.
It was an incident surrounding a Dipset chain that stood out in Just's mind. "I walked into the studio one day and Cam said to me, 'You should've been Dipset,' " he said. "He had just bought like 10 Dipset chains, so I was like, 'I need my chain -- wassup?' " A week passed, and Blaze again asked Cam about securing a Diplomats piece. "He was like, 'Yo, I had the chain but you should've been Dipset,' " Blaze recalled Cam'ron saying. "I said, 'I'm Dipset just as much as I am State Property, just as I am Get Low, just as I am Roc-A-Fella.' " (MTV)
While an eventual apology allegedly later took place, Just said Cam cut off association with him for a period of time.
The breaking point in Cam and Blaze's relationship came after a studio mix-up. According to Just, the Diplomats CEO booked studio time, expecting Blaze to show up to work, even though the producer never agreed to the date and time. Around the same time, Blaze reached out to Killa Cam to record a feature he was producing for Mariah Carey. After exchanging a few emails, the two got on the phone, at which time, according to Blaze, Cam said: "F you, F your beats. It's no drama, we're just not F'in with you no more." Just Blaze went on to say that Cam'ron eventually apologized and that he harbors no ill will towards the Harlem rapper, but "the relationship was never the same." (MTV)
In addition to the chart success, Just and Cam's "Oh Boy" received a Grammy nomination following its 2002 release.
The song samples "I'm Going Down" by Rose Royce. It held the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles for five weeks straight. It also held the number one spot on the Hot Rap Tracks. It peaked at number four on The Billboard Hot 100. The song is produced by Just Blaze who originally made the song for Memphis Bleek. The song ranked 89th on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. (Wikipedia)
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There's a role for everyone. A recent local call for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 sought "men and women skinny types," while Teen Wolf wanted "shirtless guys with athletic bodies (solid chests and abs)" between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. There's a part for every body—it just might take a little patience to find yours. Other past calls: a Tiger Woods look-alike, Caucasian twin or triplet babies, youth soccer players, tennis players, a Rastafarian, and people with cars made from 1980 to 1993.
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The county has pulled nearly two million dollars from the general fund and reserves to cover the extra costs. Now, employees will likely be forced to pay more for the health benefits they receive.
Asst. County Administrator Mike McCoy said, "We have to make sure we collect enough premiums to cover our claims. Historically, we haven't. In 2009, the claims outstripped the premiums and so it was supplemented by the general fund and the reserve fund and as you know we are in a financial crunch."
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Sort of like The Doors sandwiched between The Cult and Black Sabbath with extra cheese, Danzig is not for everyone. But any honest hard rock fan will have to admit that this is a really good record. I think it borders on great.
There's not a boring track here, and everything is produced and mixed PERFECTLY. Seriously, Rick Rubin has made some great records, but this is ridiculous.
I'm not a big Danzig fan, but I'm a big fan of this album. It has a dark, dirty, spontaneous feel, like G'N'R's Appetite For Destruction. It just works. If you like bluesy metal, you gotta love it.


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This post is only possible with the gracious approval of photographer Scott Slingsby, who attended Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2010 AHL Eastern Conference Finals between the visiting Hershey Bears and home team Manchester Monarchs.
He was covering the games for InGoal Magazine, and his own writeups of each game and full photo galleries are available here:
Game Three - Story / Photo Gallery
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Scott's pictures were so well done and good action shots from AHL games so hard to come by I thought it would be nice to highlight a few of them. As you will see his vantage was right by the visiting team's net so each game has two periods of Michal Neuvirth and one of Jonathan Bernier. The pix I'm posting will not be in chronological order; you can explore the galleries yourselves to see which pix came when.
Thank you Scott!
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Jay Beagle fights gravity and the opposing goalie, losing both battles, but ultimately winning the war.
Francois Bouchard is about to bury the game-winning overtime goal off the rebound of the Mathieu Perreault shot that Bernier is saving.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night Manchester! Egad.