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The Adriana wicker outdoor accent table is stylish and convenient for your outdoor needs. With its contemporary shape, you can place it near your seating area for serving snacks and beverages, or even use it as a stand for your garden. Made of environment-friendly synthetic wicker, you'll find many uses for this table.
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You should have seen his face when he realized we had enough sushi leftover for his lunch. He's obsessed!
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Shelia Martin changed her outfit twice, from a flair-legged jumpsuit to a long black dress with a thigh high slit on the left side. She reapplied coral lipstick that had faded an hour earlier. She brushed her hair back with her hands and headed downstairs to check on Roger's favorite dish—grilled chicken with garlic and butter sauce, roasted asparagus, and sage rice, which she had timed to perfection so the moment he walked in the door, removed his jacket, washed his hands, she could serve him a steamy hot dinner.
At the bottom of the staircase she surveyed the set up in the living room, sparkling fire, cozy blanket, oversize floor pillows, flute glasses, Moet and Chandon for Roger, and sparkling cider for herself. As of last week, she hadn't had a drink in three years.
Her feathered slippers clacked across the shellacked floor. She entered the kitchen with its fug of sage, garlic, onions, and vanilla. The moment Shelia heard about Roger's new advertising contract —something he'd bid on three months earlier to help pull his business out of arrears—she decided to celebrate with a special dinner.
After twenty-three years of marriage, raising four children—two in medical school, one college freshman and a high school junior—and helping her husband launch an advertising firm, romantic rendezvous were few. Her heart pounded and butterflies knotted in her stomach, as if she were entertaining this man for the first time.
Tonight, Shelia baked a pecan pie torte, simple, easy, but his preference.
She swaddled the utensils in linen napkins, carried them into the living room and placed them on the blanket adjacent to the sweltering ice bucket. She looked at her watch wondering what was keeping Roger; their daughter Rose was expected home by ten, and Shelia was counting on a night with only her husband.
Shelia slipped off her slippers and paced the floor. The neighborhood lamppost flickered, the Maltese barked, indicating the arrival of her neighbor's husband. She looked at her watch, ten o'clock. Rose would arrive fifteen minutes later than her curfew, her method of challenging authority.
Dinner was spoiled. She scooped up the ice bucket and took it into the kitchen. She clicked off the oven. Her stomach growled, but she had lost her appetite.
"Wasted," she said. "Where is he?" Scraping the food into the garbage disposal, she glanced at the microwave: ten thirty.
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I loved the meticulous attention to detail in this submission. Without telling the reader what is going on, this author is showing the woman's expectation of perfection or her intent to please her husband, her way. I would definitely keep reading.
I love the minimal back story, without embellishment. The fact that she's having Apple Cider, suggests she's a recovering alcoholic, for example. Her meticulous staging of her home and the dinner suggests she's a stay at home wife and mom who likes a tight ship. It reflects her character in what she does, rather than the author "telling" the reader this. That's the real strength behind this piece. Rather than me focusing on craft issues, I'm able to delve into character motivation and layering of emotional content, but only to the extent of adding a different dimension that the author may not have intended. Here's what I mean by that caveat.
There is definitely a mystery about her husband not showing up when he's expected. As a reader, I'm hooked as to why. I don't find this woman particularly sympathetic or warm, however, but that could be the author's intention. It's like Shelia wants to show off her efforts, more than her husband's accomplishment. This dinner is HER accomplishment. She has expectations for the evening and he's messed them up, rather than her being worried about why he's late.
She throws out the dinner, almost as if she's punishing him for being late (or she doesn't realize there are starving kids in Africa), when she doesn't know the facts. If this happened to me, I'd be trying to reach him by cell phone and worried if he's gotten into an accident. She's more worried about her dinner being ruined and her plans upset. It sounds as if her husband is very reliable when it comes to his arrival time, if she can time her dinner to him walking in the door. So this would mean that if he's late, it's a big deal, right? (Okay, in reality, who can really do this? My husband is working in the yard and I can yell out the back door that dinner is in fifteen, and he's still late.)
|Roger could have a very good reason for being late for dinner.
If the author did NOT intend for this woman to read as cold, it would be an easy fix to add more tension when Shelia shifts from being irritated to worried. She could cover her worry by making him a plate (meticulously arranged) that she puts in the fridge, to mask how her nerves are fraying. (She could cut herself on the plastic wrap container. Lord knows I always do. The blood could be a foreshadowing of danger.) Roger's never late. She loses her appetite from worry, not irritation that he's messed her up. Ramp up the pacing, take off the earrings, wipe off the lipstick, look at the clock more.
But I find this writing compelling and I would definitely turn the page. Well done, mystery author! I also want to eat at Shelia's house, except she'd probably make me dress up.
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Callous thieves have taken food tins and prayer cards from a rural church.
The thieves struck at St Mary's Church in High Street, Stalham sometime between midday and 3pm on October 13, taking 32 prayer cards, 20 bookmarks, 10 handmade celebration cards, a notebook and food tins from a food bank box. Three plastic display stands for the cards were also completely emptied.
Further items were also taken from an unlocked vestry area, including a tin of 50 pens, two boxes of tissues and a carrier bag full of tea towels.
It is not the first time thieves have targeted the church. Earlier this year there was a spate of thefts and attempted break-ins at the church and others in Sutton, Happisburgh, Sea Palling and Waxham.
At St Mary's, which was broken into three times over one weekend, an estimated £3,000 worth of electrical equipment, including a sound system, microphone and large custom-built trolley, was taken.
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call Norfolk police on 101.
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The performance of the Dual Graphics solution depends greatly on the driver support for the used games. In some games the performance may even degrade by 10-15% compared to using only the APU graphics card. Only in best case scenarios the performance of a GT 640M is possible. Therefore, due to the micro stuttering and performance problems, Dual Graphics may impose more problems than bring performance gains.
The features like PureVideo HD (UVD3) or OpenCL support are similar to the two graphics cards.
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A dark twist on faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen Faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie. Magic and malice abound and nothing is what it really seems to be.
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Milestone owners aren't quite as lucky when it comes to viewing PDFs as other phone-model-owners: the Milestone doesn't come with a Document Viewer, which means that there's no preinstalled program that allows you to look at documents. That's why I've been using the free version of QuickOffice for some time now, and up until now I've been happy enough with it. Adobe Reader made me curious nonetheless—the program comes from the genesis and creator of PDFs, after all.
A PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader should be easy to use, have a clear and concise layout (so that texts are easy to read), and it should be able to open texts from both the internet and memory card. Furthermore, the true test of any PDF viewer is how long it takes for a page to open up: it should be fast enough to comfortable view documents that include images.
Let's start by discussing how a PDF document is opened up. It's pretty simple: your Android will download any PDF you click on in your browser. You can then open it up using an installed program, which, in this case, is obviously Adobe Reader. Alternatively you can also open documents stored on your memory card. A separate folder can be created but it isn't necessary to do so. Adobe Reader searches through your memory card and displays all available PDFs. Loading documents from both the internet and the memory card works perfectly.
And now on to the layout: Adobe Reader offers two display possibilities, the first being that all pages are displayed as a list so that you can scroll through them easily. Alternatively, each page can be displayed individually. If you go for the first option you can use the multitouch function in order to zoom in and out. If you opt for the second alternative the font will increase or decrease in size when you zoom. Both options can be controlled via signs: +/- for zooming and T+/T- for changing the size of the font. All these options work really well and without any glitches along the way, expect that changing the font size doesn't appear to have an effect when it comes to captions and headlines.
Adobe Reader's menu is straight forward and easy to use. Tapping on the screen will reveal the following elements:
• Document title and the symbol that allows you to switch the display mode as well as number of pages (all three elements are displayed in the upper half of the screen).
• +/- and T+/T- in order to zoom or change the font size, as well as an up/down arrow with which you can navigate within the text (elements are displayed at the bottom of the screen).
A downwards pointing arrow is permanently displayed and allows you to jump to the next page. You can also simply swipe your finger across the display. If you press on your Android phone's menu button two options will appear: Page View (change display mode) and Open. The latter will open up recently viewed documents or any available PDF.
The text formatting is always displayed correctly in the page display mode, but there are some inconsistencies with it in the text display mode. This doesn't really affect a document's legibility, however.
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The menus are kept pretty simple and accessible and the app is easy to use right from the get-go. The multitouch functionality and easy-breezy scrolling are awesome. The only two minor drawbacks I noticed are that the Page View button (which is visible when one is using the menu button) is kind of redundant as it's visible anyway when you tap on the document. I also think that it should be possible to easily scroll through texts when you're in the text display mode rather than just skip from page to page.
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Performer Biographies:
Edgar Viloria
Edgar came to Everett to study hip-hop twelve years ago when he was still in middle school and soon was drafted to join the improv and filmmaking classes as well. Edgar apprenticed under Sokeo Ros as an assistant hip-hop teacher at the age of 15 and became an intern under Aaron Jungels direction, editing films and assistant teaching film and improv classes at Everett. Edgar attended the Met High School, where he taught both hip-hop and improv in their afterschool program and created a school dance team. Edgar participated in the play Done at the Black Repertory Theatre that toured in New York City. Edgar is a founding member of Everett's Friday Night Live Comedy troupe. He is also a Co-Choreographer of Sokeo Ros's hip-hop dance group, Case Closed! and has been drafted into Everett's educational touring shows Written in the Air, Improv Comedy and Breaking Down Science. Edgar has taught hip-hop and improv to students of all ages at schools and organizations all over Rhode Island (PASA, City Arts, YMCA). Edgar is one of the eight performers in Everett's newest work BRAIN STORM, and has taught master classes and workshops at many colleges such as Keene State, Brown University, Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island to name a few. Edgar has used dance as an outlet for the struggles in his life and teaches his students that same principle.
Grace Bevilacqua
Grace performs comedy improv every week in Everett's Friday Night Live and teaches Story Ballet at Everett's School. Grace joined Everett's School at six years old as a ballet student and has trained under Rachael Jungels ever since. She has been a featured actor in the documentary Mama's Girls (directed by Aaron Jungels) and in her sister Justine Bevilacqua's movie, Cross Over Blues. Grace also performed in Silas and Silas the Teenager, directed by Aaron Jungels, in Everett's The Smiling Lady and in Everett's touring piece, BRAIN STORM. Grace, along with several other Everett Company members, was an artist-in-residence at the 2010 conference, Field of Vision, sponsored by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Grace is a member of Sokeo Ros's dance company, Case Closed!, and performs all over New England mixing her ballet technique with the company's hip-hop choreography.
Sokeo Ros
Sokeo was born in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand, arriving in the United States at the age of three. As a sophomore in high school he began performing with the Carriage House Performers, a Providence-based hip-hop group. In 1998, Sokeo joined Everett as a creator and performer and has taught many master classes in universities throughout his touring experience. Sokeo also tours throughout New England in Everett's educational shows. He is the director of the hip-hop program at Everett's School and has taught at many Rhode Island institutions including Central Falls High School, Highlander School, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Sokeo also directs the hip-hop based troupe, Case Closed!, which he founded in 2004. Case Closed! has performed at venues across New England including the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Brown University and the Providence Performing Arts Center. Sokeo received a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant to develop a hip-hop theater piece, Culture Shock. Currently, he is a performer and creator of Everett's new work, BRAIN STORM, and developing a new Case Closed! piece called "A Daydream in the Ghetto".
Aaron Jungels
Aaron is co-founder and co-artistic director of Everett and brings a variety of skills in performance, design, and media creation to his work with the Company. Aaron graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in film and video, and studied acting at Trinity Rep Conservatory. In addition to designing and constructing many of the innovative props, set pieces, and non-traditional projection surfaces used by Everett, Aaron renovated a carriage house that is home to the Company's studio theater and School. For his work outside of Everett, Aaron has received fellowships and grants from the Creative Capital MAP Fund and from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
Bertrand Laurence
Bertrand has been teaching and performing guitar for over 20 years. His students range from 6 to 65 years old. Complete beginners and professionals alike gain powerful insights from Bertrand's easy method and approach. His body-centered philosophy is based on effortlessness and good ergonomics. Creative unique games bridging, improvisation, ear-training and singing makes learning theory and melody an addictive joy by engaging the whole brain. After learning basics, students can choose any songs and styles of their liking and are encouraged to create their own music.
Rachael Jungels
A dancer all her life, Rachael trained in ballet with Lydia Pettine in Providence, RI, and earned her BFA in dance from Juilliard. She continued her ballet studies with Alfredo, Andra and Ernesta Corvino, and performed with New York based dance companies. In 1986, Rachael returned to Providence to become a founding member of Everett. She tours nationally with the Company and teaches Ballet at Everett's School. Rachael has taught dance at Gordon School, Holy Name School, Rhode Island College, and Rhode Island School of Design and has conducted residencies throughout the United States. Rachael has received numerous project grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for her work as a choreographer.
Joseph Henderson
A member of Case Closed! for two years, Joseph recently joined the cast of Friday Night Live. Joseph had the lead last year in Everett's holiday show, Santa's Son, and performed at Brown's Granoff Center with Everett in the Freedom Café, Dear Mr. President. Joseph is currently in Everett's student teacher program working in area schools with Edgar Viloria teaching hip hop, and at Everett teaching beginner improv. Joseph founded hip hop group Shweaty Sensation in 2013.
Keith Munslow
Keith has made numerous recordings for children & families, including Accidentally on Purpose, and Dressed Up For The Party, both of which garnered Parents' Choice Awards. In addition to his one-man show for kids and families, he performs with the New Orleans flavored blue bands, Superchief Trio, and in a hilarious duo show with story teller Billy Harley. Keith launched the Empire Revue in 2006 and the revue is still going strong on the first Sunday of every month. For over a decade, Keith was the principal performer and musical director for Big Nazo. He is presently the keyboardist for the Providence improv Guild's (P.I.G.) Musical.
Dorothy Jungels
When Dorothy co-founded Everett in 1986, after receiving a Choreographer's Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, she brought to the Company a lifetime of experience in the visual arts, dance and education. She is also the recipient of a Rhode Island Foundation Fellowship and six fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Under Dorothy's direction, Everett has been recognized with a Bessie, a New York Dance and Performance award, a Pell Award for excellence in the arts, and the Rhode Island Alliance in Education Award for combining science and art.


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A CIA mole, a KGB defector, the height of Cold War tension, and American agent Sandy Grimes' race against time to protect her country.
That's the backdrop for the new ABC mini-series "The Assets," shot in Lithuania and debuting tonight at 10pmET. Co-executive producers Morgan Hertzan and Rudy Bednar recently spoke with TVNewser about what audiences can expect from the show.
TVNewser: What was the motivation behind producing a 1980′s Cold-War thriller in 2014?
Hertzan: The story. We went and met with the real Sandy Grimes, who this show is really about. Sandy was such an incredible character and so passionate about this story and so passionate about the patriotism that she had, we just felt we had to do this.
Bednar: Sandy sort of clinched it for me. Her husband [Gary] was lovely too. The two of them together is what this story is about. What is it like to be a mom at night and a CIA operative during the day. That whole funny constellation of one's life really made for an interesting drama.
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In this article, we'll look at some of the more impressive Eden rituals. These rituals are fairly large and have lots of powers for exploration, only one of which can be used each casting. They're also at the threshold to paragon, where the PCs have probably worn out mundane exploration and will begin to see greater challenges navigating dungeons. We'll also be looking at a more mundane ritual to accompany them.
You call upon the spirits of earth to manipulate their element in your favor.
Level: 10
Category: Exploration
Time: 10 minutes; 5 minutes if you are a Iomadi, Cuporo Elf, Eladrin or Dwarf.
Component Cost: Depends on the effect chosen; quartz pendant focus worth 200 gp.
Market Price: 400 gp
Key Skill: Religion (no roll)
Special: This ritual can only be used once a day, and an additional time after a milestone.
You can apply one of the following effects to pre-existing stone, cement, earth or steel within 5 squares of you:
•You can lift a 3×3 squares area of ground from the earth as a platform. It can move 20 squares in any direction before falling to the ground. It also falls to the ground when there are no longer any creatures standing on it, or when the last creature standing on it commands it to fall. This costs 80 gp.
•Flora of your choice grows over a 10 square area of the ground. This flora can be blocking terrain (masses of plants or wood that bar the way), hindering terrain (such as thorns which deal appropriate damage when a character tries to move past them) or difficult terrain (simple but overgrown plants that can be trudged through). The area has hit points equal to your own and defenses equal to 10 + 1/2 your level, and last until destroyed. Alternatively, you can choose not to affect the terrain and instead grow enough food to feed 5 persons for a week. This costs 150 gp.
•You can beautify and strengthen one existing stone, cement, earth or man-made steel structure (but not items or smaller objects) such as a length of a castle wall or a single house or temple. This structures gains resistance to all damage equal to half your level. If it had resistance to damage previously, the resistance increases by an amount equal to half your level. This lasts until the structure is destroyed or until the original caster of this ritual has been killed. This costs 500 gp.
You call upon the spirits of water to manipulate their element in your favor.
Level 10
Category: Exploration
Time: (See below); half that if you are a Damakran, Halfling or Dragonborn
Duration: Special
Component Cost: Depends on the body of water to manipulate; aquamarine pendant focus worth 200 gp.
Market Price: 350 gp
Key Skill: Religion
Special: This ritual can only be used once a day, and an additional time after a milestone.
This ritual allows you to manipulate a single pre-existing body of water within 5 squares, applying one of the following effects to it.
•You can freeze it, allowing you to walk over it at half your speed. Any faster and you fall prone. You freeze only the topmost section of the body of water so as to be able to walk over it – you do not freeze the entire body. The ice will not melt naturally for the duration of the ritual, but every 1 square of ice has 50 hit points and Vulnerability 10 Fire, and can be broken with enough damage.
•Part it, revealing a path the length of the body of water. This path is wide enough for your party to walk through either side by side or in a single file line, if the body is prohibitively small. You can jump down to this floor and walk across the body. You are flanked by the aqueous sections of the body on either side, and creatures may attack you from those sides if they can reach you.
•Oxygenate it, allowing you to breathe within it without the aid of other rituals. This does not improve your ability to swim.
None of these effects can harm any of the creatures within the body of water. The type of body of water you target determines the time the ritual takes and the price of the components:
10 gp: The town well, a small section of a river; 2 minutes
200 gp: A small lake, a 1 mile section of a river; 4 minutes
500 gp: A very large lake, a 10 mile section of a river; 6 minutes
50,000: A river and all connected lakes, a 50 mile section of the ocean; 10 minutes
You religion check determines the duration of this effect. You can spend 2 healing surges after you know the result of the check to double the duration of the effect.
9 or less: 15 minutes
10-19: 20 minutes
20-29: 30 minutes
30-39: 1 hour
40+: 1/10th the result in hours
You trace a sigil upon an object and summon a burly spirit to force it open for you.
Level 3
Category: Exploration
Time: 4 minutes
Duration: Instantaneous
Component Cost: 50 GP
Market Price: 100 GP
Key Skill: Arcana (no roll)
Special: This ritual can only be used once a day, and an additional time after a milestone.
You force open a single door or gate, even a door sealed by an Arcane Lock. This does not function on chests or other locked objects – only doors, windows, or other thresholds which would lead you from one place to another. You need not make a check to open the door – it opens automatically after you have cast the ritual.
You cannot open a door that has been locked with magic by a being of a higher level than you, or by magic locks with item levels above your own. An Arcane Lock is rendered ineffective only for as long as the door remains open – if the door is closed anew, the lock resumes. The caster of the Arcane Lock is warned when this occurs.


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For now, the French Open sits on the center stage of the World sports audience, and of course that means The Venus and Serena Williams Show is in full effect. But as much as it seems as though the Williams sisters dominate all things tennis, they both actually have a pretty tough record in the French Open. Serena has one French Open championship to her name, which she achieved in 2002 by beating her sister Venus. Other than that year, neither of the sisters has been in the French Open Women's Singles Championship, which is hard to imagine. Even more difficult to imagine is that the two ladies have not mastered the doubles competition for the French Open. The Williams sisters won the French Open Women's Doubles Championship in 1999 towards the beginning of their worldwide, decade-long, domination of the sport.
The French Open courts are made of red clay, which makes for one of the most unique terrains for players to compete in a major championship (the other major tennis championships are the Australian Open which was won by Serena this year, Wimbledon which is coming up in a month or so, and the U.S. Open which is at the end of the summer). The clay loosens as the players shuffle back and forth in competition, and slowly the competition becomes a dusty affair with players sliding back and forth across the court. This dynamic makes it hard for players to stop, and thus a very unique skill set is needed to achieve success.
For Venus and Serena the red clay courts are not the most complimentary to their skill set. Simply put, the Williams sisters are big, and big ain't where it's at with the French Open. As much as the Williams sisters are strong, powerful, and nimble, there are some terrains better suited for the smaller quicker ladies and gentlemen. For Venus and Serena, it isn't easy to stop those beautifully large bodies on loose clay, as opposed to the solid courts of the US Open, or the gripping grass of the Wimbledon courts in England, and thus they are historically more successful in those competitions.
Despite the natural deficiencies of the Williams sisters on the French Open courts, we all know that they make a habit out of coming out winners in most things that they do, it seems. I mean, no matter who wins this year's French Open, the story of the tournament is Venus Williams negligee inspired tennis outfit…complete with nude colored undergarments, Oh my! Venus had Paris on fire with that outfit, and fortunately her play in the early rounds says that she is on her A-game with the tennis competition, too.
Venus can always be counted on to go out on top, or in a blaze of glory, so the gorgeous ladies of Compton are set up well for the French Open. What about the other players you say? They're not from Compton, so they get no play in this column (smile).
Summer sports; It ain't just baseball. Tell the kids to pick up a tennis racket, golf club, or a baseball glove, and "don't come home 'til you win, or the street lights come on." Venus, Serena, and Tiger Woods need some young'ns to assume the mantle. Next.


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Last week, we hosted Ice House Facilitator Training here at the Foundation. We had people come from across the country and the international community to be trained in how to facilitate an entrepreneurial mindset to members of their community. I had the chance to sit down with one of the facilitators, Rob Elwood, and learn about his reason for coming to this training, and how he sees it benefiting his community in Annapolis, Md.
Q: What brought you to the Kauffman Foundation?
So here at the Kauffman Foundation I've been through the Ice House Facilitator Training. As a serial entrepreneur you're always looking for what you can do next, and you believe you can do any thing. Someone coined it as the "Superman syndrome. " But I knew that if I wanted to spread the word about this (Who Owns The Ice House book) and what I'd heard about Gary's program that I would have to come here (to the Kauffman Foundation) to hear it in person. The book will give you ideas but it doesn't put a structure around developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Being here at the Kauffman Foundation and hearing it live, and hearing the stories and going through the process I am now able to take something structured and bring it back with me to Annapolis where I very much plan on helping to start similar programs that have been introduced to me here.
Q: What has been your experience going through the Ice House Facilitator training?
I've been to the facilitator training now and I've had the opportunity to hear from what we'll call the experts in the field, and I don't think they'd proclaim themselves as experts but really just facilitators, which is the entire word that's been ingrained in us here. The networking that as happened through this event has inspired me to take action, I mean it goes back to Chapter 3 in the book ("Action"). When I go back to Annapolis I have the tools now as well as the motivation and inspiration to take action to start a program for entrepreneurs. I don't know what that program is going to be like yet, but I know I'm going to try it and we'll see what happens and they're probably be some failure along the way, but that's how we're going to evolve and thrive.
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District 218 school nurses (left side) Janet Callahan, Margaret Eber and Peggy Gbur lead a workshop on CPR and other life-saving techniques at Shepard High School. They trained nearly 700 freshmen in various life-saving procedures. | Supplied Photo
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As nurses in Community High School District 218 set out this semester to train freshmen in life-saving techniques, they noted a trend.
During their weeklong workshops at Richards, Shepard and Eisenhower high schools, students confided that they had suffered choking incidents.
"It's even more common than having to do CPR," Shepard nurse Janet Callahan said. "Many of the students said they had been victims of choking themselves, so I think now they understand the importance of the training and have confidence assisting someone who is in distress."
Over the course of three weeks, the nurses trained nearly 700 students in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, intervention with choking victims, use of automated external defibrillators, and other life-saving techniques.
"Statistically, 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur within the home," Eisenhower nurse Maureen Featherstone said. "Unless CPR is given within minutes of collapse, few attempts of resuscitation are successful.
"Therefore, effective CPR can double or triple a victim's chance of survival. Many students felt confident after completing the week lesson and felt confident with their skills."
The nurses said students maintained their focus during training.
"They were cooperative, enthusiastic and engaged in the training," Richards nurse Peggy Gbur said. "Their questions were well thought out."
The nurses agreed that helping someone who's choking or experiencing cardiac arrest can overwhelm anyone with fear or uncertainty. However, students felt pretty confident after training, the nurses said.
"They felt empowered," Gbur said. "You could feel their excitement and energy. I feel it was very worthwhile and hope to continue to train our young students."
When the nurses finished at each school, they performed an assessment to measure the effectiveness of the training.
"The evaluation day was such a positive experience," Margaret Eber said. "We were able to work with small groups to assess what the students had learned. To see the students practicing what they had learned and realizing that they could respond in an actual emergency was pretty inspiring."
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In 1994, the U.S. Congress established a federal holiday to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. A pastor at Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, King rose to prominence in the civil rights movement during the events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, and the Selma to Montgomery March. The holiday, established to commemorate his birth on January 15, 1929, is celebrated on the third Monday of January each year.
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EAU CLAIRE -- For some kids, the summer months can be filled with boredom. But that's not the case for more than 500 local children.
The 17th Annual National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) is well under way at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, providing positive reinforcement for area children ages 10 to 16 through a variety of activities.
The NYSP program began June 11 and will continue though July 16. It combines a variety of sports, math, science and other educational programs.
The children receive breakfast and lunch every day, and a physical at the beginning of the program, said Diane Gilbertson, activity director.
The goal of the program is to bring children from economically depressed areas to expose them to the university, Gilbertson said.
"Where else can they get a free breakfast, lunch, transportation, a physical, a T-shirt and excellent instruction," Gilbertson said.
The program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and the children are bused to the university, she said.
The return rate of participants is more than 30 percent each summer, Gilbertson said. There also is a large return rate of staff, she said. There are 27 counselors involved with the program, seven of whom are former participants, she said.
"They really like the kids and the programs, and the commitment goes beyond the summer," Gilbertson said. "If people didn't come back, we wouldn't have what we have."
Karen Maddox, medical coordinator, oversees the free health assessments for the children. Offering the assessments allows the children to identify with the staff before the program officially begins, Maddox said. It also incorporates the university missions of education and research along with services, she said.
During the past 10 years, more than 100 UW-Eau Claire students have taken a nursing elective which allows them to help with the health assessments for the children participating in NYSP, she said.
With more than 500 kids receiving health assessments, Maddox said she is able to do a comprehensive study on the health status of children in the Chippewa Valley area. The NYSP program has attracted more than 5,000 families in the past 10 years, Maddox said.
But also having that many kids on campus calls for discipline from the liaison officer Brad Chapman, or as the kids call him "Chappy."
Chapman, who is a Longfellow Elementary School teacher, said he hasn't seen too many problems. "So far we have been lucky," Chapman said. "A lot of that is attributed to the counselors and the professional staff."
The kids are able to spend more time on activities at NYSP than they do in school, said Chapman, who coached soccer in past years. They learn more because there is more focus than in a school curriculum, he said.
The other part of Chapman's job is to gather donations for prizes which are given out daily.
More than 1,000 prizes such as T-shirts, coupons and posters are awarded to kids who obtain "Chappy cash." To obtain this cash, counselors award children for participation and positive acts.
"The more prizes we can give away makes camp more fun," Chapman said.
The last day of the NYSP program will feature a family picnic, and larger prizes such as computers, bikes and YMCA passes will be handed out.
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Bracketology: Selection Sunday Edition
The intrigue started Wednesday night, when Delaware knocked off
Hofstra in the CAA semifinals. It continued Friday, when North
Carolina beat Notre Dame, and intensified Saturday afternoon, when
Colgate beat Maryland and Hartford pulled out a last-second win
against Stony Brook. Then Saturday night Villanova played its way
onto the bubble by losing at Georgetown.
The Seeds
1. Syracuse (At-Large)
2. Cornell (Assuming Ivy League automatic
3. Johns Hopkins (At-Large)
4. Notre Dame (At-Large)
5. Duke (At-Large)
6. Virginia (At-Large)
7. Maryland (At-Large)
8. North Carolina (At-Large)
The Rest
After the top eight, teams are unseeded in the NCAA tournament. Rankings of Nos. 9-16 here are included only to help paint a picture of how the unseeded teams compare to each other.
9. Denver (ECAC automatic qualifier)
Denver is the best of the unseeded. It's quite possible they end up with an eight seed, but either way I think North Carolina-Denver is the 8/unseeded matchup.
10. Bucknell (Patriot League automatic
The next best unseeded team outside of Denver; will almost certainly be on the road to face one of the ACC teams in the first round.
11-13. Bubble teams (see below)
14. Delaware (CAA automatic qualifier)
Delaware is in theory locked into the 14th overall seed at this point, unless Hofstra makes the tournament. Then the Hens would hold an edge over the Pride, whom they've beaten twice this season. This is one reason to think Hofstra shouldn't make the tournament. Any of the other bubble teams would likely be regarded higher than Delaware.
15. Hartford (America East automatic
16. Siena/Detroit Mercy (MAAC automatic
The Bubble
If Cornell beats Harvard in the Ivy League championship, the bubble looks like this: Three at-large spots up for grabs among Villanova, Hofstra, Penn, Harvard and Colgate.
If Harvard beats Cornell in the Ivy League championship, Cornell slips to No. 3/4, with Johns Hopkins at No. 2 and Notre Dame at No. 3/4, and the bubble looks like this: Two at-large sports up for grabs among Villanova, Hofstra, Penn, Colgate
The resumes for the bubble teams (if Harvard wins Sunday, the Crimson's in anyway):
None here. No matter how you slice it, two teams Sunday will have legitimate beefs about not getting in the tournament. Just which two will they be? We report, and you can let your mind wander. Leave some comments below, or send me an email at email@example.com. Check back to LaxMagazine.com Sunday night for the brackets in all divisions and back often this week for analysis and breakdowns of the selections.
* Strength of Schedule rankings and RPI numbers are from LaxPower.com, which uses the NCAA formulas.


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ŌĆśBecause the World is Changing Very FastŌĆÖ
A Q+A with Cygnus CEO John French on companyŌĆÖs new architecture.
Cygnus Business Media is moving in a direction it says no other media company is: It is rolling the majority of its brands into four affinity groups that will be headed by four executive vice presidents. The aim of the changes, it says, is to build a framework that is better equipped to handle market dynamics and more effectively execute media strategies.
The new organizational structure comes about 10 months after the trade publishing company emerged from bankruptcy protection with new ownership, a new CEO and $120 million less in debt. It also comes about three years after the company created five director positions to oversee the company's portfolio of 15 brands.
Here, CEO John French talks with FOLIO: and dives a bit deeper on the reasoning behind the companyŌĆÖs newest transformation:
FOLIO: In announcing these changes, you talked about the idea of being more transparent to the customer. Can you expand on that? How exactly does this new structure improve that?
John French: A couple ways. WeŌĆÖve seen a lot of announcements from media companies that are going in this direction, that say they need to be more transparent, that they need to bring their groups together, to establish portals and other positions. That all makes perfect sense but, frankly, we believe they havenŌĆÖt gone far enough. Everybody stops at some line. We think weŌĆÖve gone beyond that.
We think that weŌĆÖre in a position to bring everything together under one EVP. That person is going to spend every day thinking about whatŌĆÖs going on in their marketplace and not be constrained by platform. Our employees, publishers and show directors live in their marketplace and do a good job serving it, but anything that gets beyond what they can controlŌĆöbeyond the magazine, maybe beyond their trade show or beyond onlineŌĆöthey have to go and talk to someone else, and maybe they arenŌĆÖt on the same team.
For us, weŌĆÖll have one person at the top, identified in one of the four networks. That person will have three pillars reporting to them: sales, content and marketing. ItŌĆÖs so simple when you think about it, but I donŌĆÖt think many companies have had the guts to do it, frankly, to make that one final completion where it becomes totally market facing. Cygnus is going to do it.
FOLIO: How many Cygnus brands wonŌĆÖt be rolled under these four new networks? Which markets are they in?
French: About half a dozen, I think. TheyŌĆÖre in all different markets, and thatŌĆÖs the problem ŌĆ" These brands are still a vital part of our company. WeŌĆÖre going to stay in those markets and help them to continue to grow. All weŌĆÖre doing is picking out where there is symmetry around the company and building a position in each one of those marketplaces. WeŌĆÖre not throwing those other products away.
FOLIO: What types of efficiencies on the business end do you expect to realize from this new structure?
French: We didnŌĆÖt go into this looking for efficiencies or to save costs. This plan calls for more jobs, not less jobs. This company is very well run on the costs side. By doing things this way, using public safetyŌĆöour biggest position as an example: If someone wants to do business with us, they can do it through EMT, through Officer, Security or Fire. They have to talk to three or four people. With this, weŌĆÖre going to have one point of contact. Someone comes to us and says they have a big products launch and they want print, trade shows, online, then our people will able to turn it around instantaneously. Today, itŌĆÖs a complex process. As self-serving as this might be for us, the big winners here are the customers.
FOLIO: You said the new organization will help create new jobs. How so?
French: This is an investment for us. Every time this company has gone through a reorganization of some sort it always meant cutting costs. WeŌĆÖve turned that around, and thatŌĆÖs why we intentionally termed it a new architecture, not a reorganization. WeŌĆÖre talking about the best practices of marketing at each one of these portals. This wonŌĆÖt be the historic marketing person weŌĆÖve all knownŌĆöthe person who sent out the electronic media kits, the updates for the next issue or the attendee brochure for tradeshows. The top marketing person (and their staffs) will continue to do all that but will unify one message that will go to everyone in their industry. They will get one Cygnus message to people who advertise, who exhibit, people who come to our tradeshows and the people who read our magazines.
FOLIO: In terms of the company overall, how's performance for 2010 year-to-date? What's up? What's not?
French: The good news is that weŌĆÖre seeing some light. In terms of our performance against our plan, weŌĆÖre beating it. We did very well year-end 2009 and weŌĆÖre beating our goals for the first three quarters this year.
In terms of platforms, the decline in print is slowing pretty dramatically compared to last year. Online, we just brought on Tom Kohn as executive vice president of digital, and online is doing very well. Agriculture continues to do well for us. WeŌĆÖre seeing the declines in construction, in both commercial and residential, slowing down.
In a lot of ways I think we kind of mirror the economy where everything is a lot better than it was this time last year. At the same time, thereŌĆÖs still caution, and weŌĆÖre taking it day-to-day, month-by-month.
FOLIO: In addition to the companyŌĆÖs new logo, Cygnus also has a new tagline: ŌĆ£Because the world is changing very fast.ŌĆØ Where did that come from?
French: We believe the world is changing very fast. All the other things weŌĆÖve gone through in other recessions, when we thought weŌĆÖd come out of it with big change, it hasnŌĆÖt happened. This recession is forcing us to make the big shift to online, audience development and audience engagement.
WeŌĆÖre also using it as an analogy for Cygnus. Not to be over dramatic, but just the fact that you and I are talking right now about what we think are some very positive things for Cygnus, youŌĆÖve never had the chance to write about that before. The world is changing very fast and our company is changing very fast. WeŌĆÖre going to stake our claim on that tagline, that says because itŌĆÖs changing very fast, weŌĆÖre going to lead it.


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"I'll Remember You"
Kui Lee
Kui Lee was a legend in Hawaii. He wrote the song, "I'll Remember You", sung by Don Ho and made even more famous by Elvis Presley. Kui also wrote "Days of My Youth", that Don Ho imortalized in Waikiki. Kui's sister, Leilani Lee, was my Hawaii manager back in my Empress Pearls days. When visiting Hawaii she would take me back stage at Don Ho's show. That was a rare treat. She told me countless stories about Don Ho and her brother. Kui Lee died from cancer at only 34 years old, on my mother's birthday, December 3, 1966.
"One Paddle, Two Paddle"
When I was growing up, "One Paddle, Two Paddle" described disciplinary action by my school teachers. In Hawaii it is the name of another song written by Kui Lee. I snapped this photo while doing my power walk at Ala Moana Beach Park this morning. My mind went back to the 70's, and I thought about of Leilani, Kui, my mother and the lyricks of this song.
One paddle, two paddle, three paddle,
Four to take me home
Fourteen on the right, fourteen on the left,
Take me to Hawaii nei, no ka best.
I went away a long time
Such a long time, a long time ago
Seen enough cities to last a lifetime
Goin' away no more
I want to smell the fowers,
The sweet flowers when the trade winds blow
Seen enough fences to last a lifetime
Goin' away no more
Yes, take me to my lover
My fair lover, I left long ago
Felt enough sorrow to last a lifetime
Goin' away no more
Hawaii No Ka Oi
We should all be aware of the special things about wherever we live. Young people, up early on a Saturday morning, competing in their canoes, with their frinds and family cheering for them on the shoreline is very special indeed.


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Over 300 jobs at the eight DVA offices across the region are set to go, Westminster Roads Minister Stephen Hammond has confirmed.
Northern Ireland politicians have campaigned to save the jobs since the announcement of the consultation exercise was announced in December 2011 and a 30,000 signature-strong petition was delivered to Downing Street in protest over the proposal.
It has been claimed the move will improve services and save millions.
In total 309 equivalent full-time jobs are affected with 240 based in Coleraine and 69 across other offices in Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, Londonderry and Omagh.
The offices are expected to close at the end of the year and it's hoped that all the staff can be redeployed across other parts of the civil service.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said he was "outraged" at Thursday's announcement and said it would have a knock-on affect on 500 jobs with around £22m taken out of the local economy.
He said: "This is devastating news for all the hard working staff of the DVA and their families.
"Motorists in Northern Ireland are accustomed to getting a very high standard of service from the DVA and no doubt this will be significantly affected when the service is delivered remotely from Swansea.
"The dedicated staff in DVA will also feel completely betrayed by this decision.
"They have consistently demonstrated their efficiency, hard work and commitment, producing customer satisfaction levels of over 97%.
"During the public consultation on these centralisation proposals, the motor trade and the motoring public demonstrated their overwhelming support for retaining local delivery of vehicle licensing and confirmed their high regard for the work of DVA.
"This announcement completely ignores all of these facts."
I appreciate that this will be a very worrying time for staff and their families, who will be feeling very let down by London right now, but I will work hard to bring some certainty to the situation for these dedicated and committed people as quickly as possible.Mark H Durkan
I appreciate that this will be a very worrying time for staff and their families, who will be feeling very let down by London right now, but I will work hard to bring some certainty to the situation for these dedicated and committed people as quickly as possible.
Mark H Durkan
He continued: "This is purely a narrowly focused cost-cutting exercise made with no regard whatsoever for standards of service, the impact on customers, or the wider impact on the economy of Northern Ireland and, in particular, of Coleraine.
"I have consistently made it clear to ministers in London that there is no justification for the centralisation of these services and jobs in Swansea.
"This decision represents the loss of funding for over 300 jobs, 235 of which are in Coleraine and an assessment by independent economists estimates that the knock-on impact will equate to the loss of around 500 jobs and will remove £22million from the economy.
"The Executive, political parties, trade union and DVA staff all campaigned to prevent this ill-judged decision being made but now that the decision has been made, my focus must now be on ensuring that the impact is lessened, as far as possible, for customers and for staff.
"DVA will continue to deliver services to customers to the highest possible standards right up until DVLA close the local service down but I am sure that the public will appreciate that, as that point approaches, it will be increasingly difficult to sustain the current high standards of service.
"I will be focusing heavily on the needs of the staff affected in DVA."
I would like to thank the staff in DVA for their continued support, and their hard work in delivering vehicle registration and licensing services to Northern Ireland motorists over the years.Stephen Hammond
I would like to thank the staff in DVA for their continued support, and their hard work in delivering vehicle registration and licensing services to Northern Ireland motorists over the years.
Stephen Hammond
Westminister Roads Minister Stephen Hammond said the move will improve services, saving £12m a year and allow Northern Ireland motorists to carry out services like taxing vehicles online.
He added: "Motorists in Northern Ireland have not been able to access many of the vehicle registration and licensing services that are taken for granted in the rest of the UK.
"These changes will address this and will mean that for the first time, Northern Ireland motorists will have greater choice and flexibility or where, when and how they use these services.
"We have listened very carefully to the points raised during consultation, particularly about the uncertainty for the staff affected.
"While the changes mean DVA will no longer provide these services, the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland has said that they will try to avoid redundancies and minimise the amount of compulsory redundancies as a result of these changes.
"DVA staff will continue to provide support to customers until the end of the year while the new services are fully bedded in."
Loss of 300 DVA jobs, means 300 families spending a lot less with local traders & even more pressure on our retail sector- terrible news— Glyn Roberts (@NIIRTA) March 13, 2014
Loss of 300 DVA jobs, means 300 families spending a lot less with local traders & even more pressure on our retail sector- terrible news
— Glyn Roberts (@NIIRTA) March 13, 2014
Reacting to the announcement, Coleraine Mayor, councillor James Harding said: "This is the worst possible outcome for the staff in the DVA.
"This decision will come as a devastating blow to the economy in Coleraine and the surrounding area," the UUP representative said.
East Londonderry MLA John Dallat added: "There are no depths the British Government will not stoop to when they want to offload bad news involving Northern Ireland.
"This calls into question the sincerity of the Tories when they claim they are on the side of rebuilding our economy and pointing to a better future for everyone," said the SDLP representative.
Sinn Féin Assembly Assembly man Cathal Ó hOisín added: "This is a massive financial blow not only to the workers but the entire community.
"It is now important that the needs of the workers are paramount in ensuring that they have their full redundancy entitlements and access to benefit advice as they face an uncertain future," the East Londonderry MLA added.
The MP for the area, Gregory Campbell, said the news was "deeply disappointing".
The DUP member said: "It is appalling that those who have done so much in being heavily involved in the campaign to retain the jobs are treated like this, everything possible that could be done was done.
"It is important that we give every support to assist the people who have received this devastating news," said the East Londonderry representative.
24 staff at the DVA office in Belfast among the 300 impacted by the transfer of motor tax work to Swansea pic.twitter.com/BACoK5X0ti— Jamie Delargy (@Jamie_utv) March 13, 2014
24 staff at the DVA office in Belfast among the 300 impacted by the transfer of motor tax work to Swansea pic.twitter.com/BACoK5X0ti
— Jamie Delargy (@Jamie_utv) March 13, 2014
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You can't put a value on Vicente
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He may be only the seventh-highest paid manager at this tournament, despite leading Spain to World Cup and European Championship success in the past four years, but for Vicente del Bosque it's not all about the money.
Russia's head coach Fabio Capello, on almost £7million a year, not surprisingly heads the list of earners, according to the Daily Mail, with Roy Hodgson, the Italian's successor with England, coming in second on £3.5m a year. Not bad work if you can get it.
In third is Cesare Prandelli (Italy, £2.57m), followed by Luiz Felipe Scolari (Brazil £2.36m), Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland, £2.31m) and Joachim Low (Germany (£2.14m). Del Bosque, on just over £2m a year, is a relative pauper. Not that he would complain.
Subscribers to the theory that David Moyes was on a hiding to nothing when succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United may not have envied Bosque's task as he inherited from Luis Aragones the newly crowned European champions in July 2008.
How could he possibly better that? Well, better it he did, initially setting a world record by winning his opening 13 matches and steering Spain to the 2010 showpiece in South Africa with a perfect qualifying record.
Still, not everyone was willing to back a team short of genuine strikers to lift a first-ever World Cup, on foreign soil, but those cautious punters paid the price as Spain's now famous tika-taka football eclipsed the uncharacteristically ruthless Dutch in the final to land the ultimate prize.
Spain's array of ball players and pressers like to dominate possession and the threat they pose is as much mental as physical: opponents are unable to rest for fear of being undone by a pin-point pass or a lightning quick attack.
It was a style of play that served Spain equally well as they defended their European crown two years ago. In Russia and Ukraine, critics again pointed to the fact they were lacking an end product but the moustachioed Del Bosque could be forgiven a wry smile as they swept aside Italy 4-0 in an audacious display in the final.
For Del Bosque, once a gifted midfielder for Real Madrid, it's not just about spectacular results. Unlike Van Gaal, he puts man management high on his agenda. Xavi, one of his most important players, recalls having to persuade his boss to take him to Euro 2012 as there were suggestions he would be dropped. After successfully doing just that, Xavi said: "Vicente is the most human person I have ever seen in a dressing room."
For the former international striker Luis Garcia, Del Bosque's skills as a footballing alchemist struck a chord. "Vicente [Del Bosque] is one of the best coaches Spain have had," Garcia says. "He has the ability to make players better and to mix the quality of each one to make a perfect machine."
There are still doubts about the focal point of Spain's attack, and all Del Bosque's personal skills may be required to help ingratiate the Brazilian-born Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa, who was ruthlessly targeted by Spain trio Pepe, Sergio Ramos and Alvaro Arbeloa in a Madrid derby last season.
The 63-year-old Del Bosque declared himself "disgusted" by that behaviour, and made his feelings known to the players in question. "We have to set an example," he said. "Being world champions demands that you are still more honourable in your behaviour."
A sentiment which rather sums up this world champion coach.