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Brought to you by Texas Children's Hospital and the Houston Marathon Foundation
Families with children of all abilities are invited to participate in the Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Marathon Foundation Family Fun Run on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus. We are very excited to celebrate the third year including the entire family to educate and encourage Houston-area children and their families to adopt active, healthy lifestyles!The Family Fun Run will include both a 1K and 3K course. Participants of all abilities, including those needing walkers and wheelchairs, are welcome. There will not be prizes given for top finishers; all will receive an award for participating! The race will take place rain or shine.
Saturday, April 11, 2015Start time: 9:00 am
Texas Children's Hospital West CampusLocated at I-10 and Barker Cypress18200 Katy FreewayHouston, TX 77094
Post-race Family Fun Zone, presented by H-E-B, open until noon featuring:
Download for a kid-friendly guide to prepare for the Family Fun Run.
Review the pocket resource guide flipbook to help parents prepare their families for the Family Fun Run.
Registration will open in January 2015.
Check out some photos from the 2014 Family Fun Run.
All participants will be expected to collect their race materials (t-shirt, bib, etc.) on one of the dates listed below. One participant of a team/family may pick up the materials for the entire team/family. You may also have a third-party pick up your materials if you are unable.
Volunteer registration will open in January 2015.
Parking will be available at the following locations with shuttles to and from the race site. Strollers are welcome onboard the shuttles. We can also accommodate drop off at West Campus for those bringing small, infant children who may feel uncomfortable riding with them on the shuttles. If you plan to utilize the drop off, please ensure your child and belongings are accompanied by an adult, and allow yourself plenty of time to move your car to one of the off-site locations and shuttle back.
Parking will NOT be available at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus or Methodist West Houston Hospital. Look for signage and volunteers on race day for more details.
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"When I got there, they had already finished the set. The entire building was filled with smoke; it was screaming out of the windows. There were all of these firefighters there," Wolfinsohn recalls. "I asked them why they would put on such an elaborate show for radio -- it's not like anyone could see them. The drummer said, 'We're putting on a show. We didn't want the one DJ that was here to be bored.'"
The band was Friends Forever, the anarchic art-punk act that's best known for bringing its own venue to every show it plays. Drummer Nate and guitarist Josh tour, live and perform out of an orange Volkswagen van, the belly of which serves as a staging ground for the light-and-magic shows that accompany the band's fearlessly raw live performances. Most of the Friends' local gigs take place outside underground warehouse environs like Monkey Mania, although unsuspecting crowds have caught them performing on the sidewalks in front of such traditional venues as the Bluebird Theater, where the Friends recently showed up and astonished a post-Melvins mass.
Although Wolfinsohn missed the band's actual performance at Loyola, since then his life has revolved around Josh, Nate and their van, a temporary autonomous creative zone that houses a smoke machine, a shitload of fireworks and two dogs. The vehicle has a starring role in Friends Forever, Wolfinsohn's full-length documentary about the band. Shot during an eight-month period in 2001, when the director tailed the Friends from Las Vegas to San Luis Obispo, Denver, Boston, Rhode Island and points in between, the eighty-minute film has been screened at the New York Underground Film Festival and the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin; it's currently enjoying sporadic airtime on the Sundance Channel. And in early March, Brooklyn-based Plexifilm Company will release Friends Forever to retail on DVD. (Plexifilm's catalogue includes Style Wars, a breakthrough documentary about the graffiti movement originally released in 1983; in April, the company will handle I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Sam Jones's wonderful film about Wilco.)
Friends Forever offers a fascinating glimpse of a band that technically hails from this city -- but falls into none of its more conventional music-export categories. In the loose narrative, Nate and Josh navigate a tenuous existence between genius and loserville. They're inspired, fearless and brilliant in some scenes, especially when performing; at other times, they're self-defeating, nihilistic and depressing. At one point, Josh makes himself throw up and beats himself in the head with sound equipment as part of an on-stage act. The two spend much of their time on the road espousing a thoroughly un-bandish approach to creative life. "We're here to save the world from what rock and roll has become," Josh says in the film's early moments. "The battle is far from being won. There's a lot of blood to be shed. So we're nervous." While touring -- often traveling hundreds of miles to perform just one show -- they refuse to sleep on friends' floors or use their showers for fear of imposing. They show up at each performance about eight hours early in order to stake out the best parking spot. They regularly knock down the prices of the tapes, records and T-shirts they sell after each gig.
"Nowadays it seems like so many kids are trying to go out and do their thing. To get signed. Everyone has their own demo tape," Wolfinsohn says. "These guys take it five steps further than anyone else. They care more about what they are doing than anyone I've ever met. They'll go to any lengths to play a show. They will literally drive halfway across the country to play one show that lasts twenty seconds. Anyone who thinks that they have passion behind their music...they need to see these guys."
Friends Forever may never be a band that's seen or appreciated by lots of people. The music is a haphazard symphony of sound: artful but unskilled, assaultive and sometimes tough to listen to. The band's Web site, ngwtt.com, promises that a forthcoming EP will be "unhearable." (Two soundtracks for the film -- one by Wolfinsohn, one by the band -- are also available through the site.) But while it's sometimes hard to take -- beware of scenes involving the Friends' friends drinking puke or discussing saline abortion -- Friends Forever may have a niche among cinemaphiles, cult lovers and fans of docs like Vernon, Florida. The film has already been reviewed favorably in Spin, Film Threat and the L.A. Weekly, which described it as an "energetic illustration of the true artistic impulse."
Friends Forever includes cameos by the dearly departed Rainbow Sugar, Denver band Bio-Bitch, Astrology Songs creator Harvey Sid Fisher, blind solo artist Sal Three Fold and a fellow who espouses the virtues of smoking crack cooked in urine. See it for yourself on Thursday, February 27, when the movie is screened at the Climax Lounge. The curtain goes up at 11 p.m., following the 9 p.m. airing of a Twin Peaks episode. We await the sequel.
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The graphics between the PS4 & X1 look identical in those vids to me.
Thank u guys...much appreciated
can u only dual wield the same weapon types?
Cant u throw the knife?
So glad your playing this on X1, this is what I might end up playing on too.
is the environment destructable?
Sweet, I was on the edge on whether or not to pick up this game or wait for "Watch Dogs". Solid gameplay always makes the decision easier to make, thanks gamespot.
@clr84651 same.. but the pc version they are running does not even have bloom and HDR enabled.. You can just see by the yellow stripes on the pilots uniform, they are not glowing at all in the pc version. But it sure as hell glows a lot on my PC version. So this comparison is not very good
Yes, I've been playing it.
@BrentBanner you get that in a skill upgrade I think
@Snyper22 I hate all Ubi titles other than Far Cry and Splinter Cell, but Watch Dogs could be really awesome judging by the open ended nature of its world as well as the frigging combat.
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We recently learned that some co-workers are terrible gift givers. Seriously, terrible. A used cookbook? A coupon to a strip club? These are not appropriate gifts for work, people, and many would argue they're not appropriate gifts for any occasion.
We also put together a workplace gift-giving guide to prevent you from ever being the subject of one of these surveys. Not that you'd ever give a used cookbook, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded not to. (Feel free to print out both of the aforementioned articles and leave them in the break room to give your co-workers subtle hints. Highlighting the items you want with a bright marker also does the trick. Just saying.)
The list also reminded me of an article from 2008 in which we asked workers what gifts they want from their bosses. One of the top responses was "show me a little respect." Not that bosses didn't respect them, but workers wanted signs that their needs and talents were taken seriously. And this holiday season, whether or not you celebrate any specific day, you might want to consider what similar actions you can take at work to show your co-workers that you care. Not to be too hokey, but sometimes these quiet gifts can mean a lot more than anything you can buy. And they're free, which is always a good thing.
In that spirit, we made a different kind of list of gifts you might think about giving your co-workers or boss. These aren't something you can find at a store; they're things you can do and won't cost you a penny. You can't wrap them and hand them over. In fact, your colleagues might not ever know you're "giving" them these gifts*, but they'll reap the benefits either way.
Here are some gifts of action you should consider this holiday season and continue into next year:
1. Put a lid on the gossip
Gossip is at every workplace. Everyone has participated in it–men and woman and blue-collar and white-collar workers alike. The problem is that spreading rumors about people (your cubicle neighbor) and events (supposed layoffs) leads to hurt feelings, bad morale and a sketchy reputation. You'd be surprised what a difference a zipped lip can make.
2. Break room manners
While you're taping up your holiday wish list in the office kitchen, take a look around. Did you use the last paper towel? Did you spill your soup all over the counter? Did your salmon explode in the microwave, creating a pungent mess? Please clean it up. Otherwise the next person is going to leave it there on principle—in the same way you won't make more coffee because you're not the one who finished the last pot—and eventually the break room is as tense as a Quentin Tarantino standoff.
3. Communicating more
Thanks to technology, we can communicate in more ways than ever, but it doesn't mean we actually do it. In the world of e-mail, voicemail, IM, text and the timeless act of walking down the hall, you don't have a reason not to let your boss or co-worker know you are arriving late this morning, running behind on a project, or have questions you'd like to clear up. You probably want to save face much of the time, but checking in with someone, even to ask if they need any help, can make your environment better. People are kinder and more understanding when they think of you as more than a name that appears in their e-mail inbox now and again.
4. Stop being that guy or gal
You're probably a very nice person, but no one believes it when you keep ruining all the good stuff for everybody. Are you the one who made the wildly inappropriate joke during the meeting, which resulted in everybody undergoing sensitivity training? Did you decide that your easygoing boss wouldn't mind if you came in an hour late every day until eventually she had to crack down and set a rigid schedule for everyone? Remember that your actions sometimes affect your colleagues and can result in the good perks being taken away.
5. Be supportive
Let's be clear: You're not responsible for doing some else's job. If someone's a slacker, you don't need to do your job and theirs. But if you have skills and expertise that can make someone's job easier, be willing to offer help. If someone is giving a presentation and everyone sits silently when he asks for some participation, raise your hand and give him a little help. You work with these people every day, so it would benefit you and them to create some sense of camaraderie. Plus, one day you'll want the support and I guarantee people are more likely to help someone who's helped them in the past.
6. Pick your battles
In an ideal world, petty arguments would never happen. Realistically, they're here to stay. At the very least, distinguish between arguments that matter—someone stole your idea—and the ones that don't—you're sick of eating pizza for lunch. People get tired of listening to negativity and they'll eventually tune you out, even when you have a legitimate complaint.
*Seriously, we don't recommend you hand someone a card saying, "I'm going to stop telling everyone you're dating Tonya from IT." It just invites a lot of HR problems.
What say you, gift givers and recipients? Are there other little gestures you think your workplace could use this holiday season and beyond?


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Not yet but seriously considering Zimbra when our exchange box comes end of life (about another year.. god dammit). luckily we have a large crowd of calendar and webmail whores, so it should be worthwhile
I am currently contemplating migrating away from Exchange to Zimbra.
I must admit that my main reason for doing this is because I am cheap and don't want to spend ridiculous amounts of money just to publish OWA for the 2 people that might use it! </rant>
Anyway... has anyone else made the evaluation? Does anybody have any good reasons for or against?
I have just installed a test VM with v5 RC1 today to have a play with a view to swapping a couple of people across to ti as a trial.
As a note, we have exactly 2 people that use the contacts and calandering features of Exchange (me and the bursar) so much of the clever stuff is wasted. I think that this would change with adoption of Zimbra though because the web interface is MUCH nicer than OWA.
Not yet but seriously considering Zimbra when our exchange box comes end of life (about another year.. god dammit). luckily we have a large crowd of calendar and webmail whores, so it should be worthwhile
@TeddyKGB: Have you considered performing a trial now? I would be interested in sharing comments so that we can all make an informed decision.
I'm towards the end of testing Zimbra 4.5.X - just got email message migration to plan and test then arrange downtime to replace existing email server (Linux based though, not exchange). I'm documenting most of the process on our wiki.
We need to migrate pretty quickly now, and we can't really hold out for 5 - it will be an upgrade for us I think at a later date.
Zimbra will do everything we need, and we will be using the web client exclusively with a different Class of Service for staff and students. I'd also believe the manual when it mentions minimum specifications for RAM
I'm debating a zimbra install for a private (non-school) client and for myself but the thorny issue of security is putting me off as I'm looking at VM OS's to handle it all.
The only down side to it all is the fact that Outlook doesn't get supported until you go with a commercial license which on small scales is just not cost effective.
What thorny issues do you have regarding security?
If you go with Scalix you get 25 Outlook connectors for free if your users really must use Outlook and all of its features.
Oh they're unrelated to Zimbra itself, it's the question of putting things on a net facing box and making sure the whole thing is as bulletproof as possible. So more a generic security issue than anything specific to one app or OS.Originally Posted by webman
Out of interest, what are the ridiculous costs involved in publishing OWA for 2 users?
I thought you were going come down here and look at our Zimbra setup Ric?
Just Curious....Originally Posted by Ric_
Why are you facing ridiculous amounts of money to publish OWA?
Because for offsite access via the internet you need an 'External Connector' license. Which is hilariously expensive.
As I understand it, you just need a Windows and Exchange CAL for each user. It's usually cheaper to purchase an external connector for Windows if you're exposing a Windows Server to potentially hundreds/thousands of users.
But as you say, the external connector for Exchange is never going to work out financially, so you just purchase user CALs.
You misunderstand how Exchange licensing works. You can only buy CALs for employees. Students are not employed by the School thus can only be covered by a CAL when they are onsite. If you wish to allow external offsite access to OWA to students, the only way you can satisfy the license requirements is with an External Connector license.
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Are you sure?
Note: The External Connector license (EC) is an optional additional server license for external users that enables access to your servers running Exchange Server 2007. With this license, you do not need to buy individual Exchange Server CALs. The EC license is purchased for every copy of Exchange Server 2007 that can be accessed by the external user. An example of an external user is a person who is not an employee or similar personnel of the company or its affiliates. This license allows access to the Exchange server by an unlimited number of external users that can include, but is not limited to, business partners, suppliers, customers, retirees, and alumni. It is licensed per server.
On the last price list I saw, Ramesys were selling Exchange 2007 Student Access Licenses. Don't know if this is something that's been introduced new with 2007.
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surgical oncology were more likely than surgeons with general board certification to recommend BCS to elderly patients (Mandelblatt et al., 1998).
Delays in adoption or lack of compliance with practice guidelines can limit access to recommended cancer care. In 1985, for example, a consensus statement of expert opinion was published accepting the use of BCS and radiation therapy in selected patients with early-stage breast cancer (Harris, et al., 1985). By 1990, the rates of BCS among women 65 to 79 in the Medicare program ranged from only 8 to 26 percent across regions of the United States and rates of BCS use had not increased appreciably nationally (i.e., from 14 percent in 1986 to 15 percent in 1990) (Nattinger et al., 1996). Physicians have also not adhered to recommended chemotherapy regimens. In one study, more than half of patients had their chemotherapy modified by their physicians in ways that were considered inappropriate (Schleifer et al., 1991).
The quality of physician-patient communication can affect clinical outcomes (Greenfield et al., 1988; Kaplan et al., 1989), adjustment to cancer (Roberts et al., 1994), patient quality of life, and satisfaction with care (Greenfield et al., 1988; Kaplan et al., 1989). Evidence of communication gaps is therefore worrisome. Patients and their physicians report the content of their interactions differently (Mackillop et al., 1988; Mosconi et al., 1991; Siminoff et al., 1989), assess the role of the patient in the decision-making process differently (Strull et al., 1984), and have different expectations of treatment benefits (Mackillop et al., 1988; Mosconi et al., 1991; Siminoff et al., 1989). In one study, relatively few women with breast cancer (15 to 27 percent) who had had a mastectomy reported that their physicians discussed BCS as a treatment option (Guadagnoli et al., 1998). Physicians who believe that patients should participate in treatment decisions are more likely to recommend BCS (Liberati et a1., 1991).
Clinical trials are the mechanism through which new technologies, pharmaceuticals, or therapeutic strategies are evaluated against current standards of care. For patients with cancer, clinical trials can provide access to the best available and most promising new treatments.
There are striking variations in age-specific rates of participation in cancer clinical trials: more than 70 percent of children with cancer participate, but fewer than two percent of individuals age 50 and older with cancer participate in cooperative group clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (Tejeda et al., 1996). Pediatric cancers are relatively rare and care within the context of a clinical trial has become standard practice (Simone and Lyons, in press). The elderly have historically been excluded from cancer clinical trials because of concerns about treatment complications or side effects, comorbid conditions, and interactions with current medications (although this has been changing).
Studies conducted to identify inequalities in access to clinical trials among racial or ethnic groups suggest that African Americans are represented in treatment trials, but underrepresented in screening and chemoprevention trials, in proportion to their age-specific rates of cancer (Bleyer et al., 1997a, b; Chlebowshi et al., 1993; Tejeda et al., 1996; Thompson et al., 1995). Negative attitudes toward medicine and research may inhibit African-American participation in clinical trials (Mouton et al., 1997; Robinson, 1996). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993 specified that women, minorities, and other subpopulations must be


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- For most of the nation's largest credit card lenders, delinquency rates continued to decline during February, while card portfolio profitability increased.
Based on master trust filings, KBW reported on Friday that the seven largest credit card securitizers in February saw their average annualized loan charge-off rate decline to 4.15%, from 4.25% in January, and 6.61% in February 2011.
Meanwhile, the average card portfolio yield increased to 21.28% in February, from 20.06% in January, although it was down from 22.51% a year earlier.
Factoring in the improved loss rates, the average excess spread -- a profitability measure showing how much of the portfolio yield is kept by the secrutizer, after netting-out the securities' coupon rate, loan losses and servicing fees -- increased to 13.19% from 12.25% the previous month, and 12.55% a year earlier.KBW analyst Sanjay Sakhrani said that in "average industry charge-offs still remain in favorable territory below normalized levels of roughly 5%," and that in February "there was a clear industry-wide movement downward in delinquency rates, which should potentially be a positive for future charge-off rates." The average 30+ days delinquency rate (except for Citigroup (C) which reports delinquencies of 35 or more days) was 2.99% in February, improving from 3.05% the previous month and 4.02% a year earlier. Regarding the overall health of the major card securitizers, Sakhrani said "credit quality is trending better than our expectations. Delinquency rates continued to remain constructive with sequential movements in line to slightly better-than-typical seasonal trends seen in February. In terms of loan growth, balances contracted sequentially in February, but for the most part still remained in-line to slightly above our 1Q12 estimates. The following is a quick review of all seven securitizers covered in the KBW report, along with stock performance and price multiples, and KBW's recommendations. The seven are listed in ascending order by excess spread for their card securitizing subsidiaries. Sakhrani says that it's not really fair to compare excess spreads, because "during the downturn, some issuers
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Heroes Season Three Episode Titlesby Matt Richenthal at . Comments
As previously announced, the third season of Heroes will debut on September 22 with a two-hour premiere.
Here are the titles for the season's first four episodes:
- The Butterfly Effect: Written By: Tim Kring, Directed By: Allan Arkush
- Dreamtime: Written By: Tim Kring, Directed By: Greg Beeman
- One of Us, One of Them: Written By: Joe Pokaski, Directed By: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
- The Year of Our Lord: Written By: Aron Coleite, Directed By: Adam Kane
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So if we follow the hip-hop and hoops theory to its logical conclusion, we're left with this:
Allen Iverson gets the Wu Tang Clan, which leaves Larry Bird with Delbert McClinton, Magic Johnson with the Ohio Players, Kevin McHale with U2, Bill Russell with John Coltrane, and Jerry West with Ernest Tubb.
In fact, this has the makings of a deliciously weird yet very tavern-ready bar game. Name a player, and name the artist that most reminds you of that player.
Long before hip-hop put bounce in today's ballers, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain played during the age of the Birth of Cool.
Of course, this trivializes the social and cultural links between the hip-hop generation and its most skilled basketball practitioners being made elsewhere on this, your favorite non-pornographic Internet site.
But, well, why should the kids have all the fun? Did the old-timers, your Syracuse Nats, Rochester Royals, Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, Baltimore Bullets and Chicago Zephyrs not listen to music? Was it all libraries and YMCAs on the road in the old days?
Of course not. Music is a constant (just ask anyone driving a teenager back and forth from soccer practice), as much a constant as America's dominance in international baske... oh, damn. That's right.
But even allowing for the latest results, this does not mean that salsa and bouzouki solos have replaced Usher and Ludicrous as the sounds of the sport. It just means that the jukebox (sorry, MP3 player) has room for more than one play list.
Then again, it always has. It's just that nobody was listening back then.
Buddy Jeannette had his Dorseys and Glenn Miller. George Mikan had his Frank Sinatra. Chuck Cooper, the first African-American player in the NBA, surely had his Jackie Branson and Louis Jordan.
And on, and on, and on. True, Rosemary Clooney never tried out for the Indianapolis Olympians the way Percy Miller tried to make the Denver Nuggets, and we're still waiting on that first Louis Prima/Bob Pettit video.
But that's just technology not being up with the ballers. In a parallel universe somewhere, everyone's got headphones and all the vertical leap a person could want. It's just a matter of mixing and matching.
Wilt Chamberlain? Thelonious Monk.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? Miles, who else?
The '60s Celtics built around Russell? James Brown's Famous Flames.
Dave Bing: Smokey Robinson. No, not just Smokey. The whole damned Motown machine, from the Four Tops all the way down to Chris Clark.
Pete Maravich? The Allman Brothers Band.
Bill Walton? Please don't make us say. It will only get him started.
The entire ABA, except for Billy (The Whopper) Paultz? Sly and the Family Stone.
And Billy (The Whopper) Paultz? A rathskeller oompah band, complete with accordions, tubas and leather shorts.
Now, there are some truly great players who don't make a popular band of the time leap immediately to mind. Oscar Robertson doesn't seem like the Jimi Hendrix type, except that like Hendrix, the Big O dominated his stage and commanded constant and piercing attention.
Or Elgin Baylor. His game was so silky and airborne that one could imagine something Phil Spector-ish, but we don't know if that would have been his choice, and David Stern wasn't around at the time to tell him what his choice should be, marketing-wise.
Or the '60s Lakers as a whole. So close, and yet never close enough. Sort of the British Invasion after the Beatles and Rolling Stones already seized the high ground.
As for the Beatles themselves? Nothing jumps out, except that in one way they could have been the '67 76ers, who still have the single most dominant team ever. Five Hall of Famers, including sixth man Billy Cunningham, crushing all before them like the bugs they are, and then going into the studio thereafter as the aging Celtics caught and passed them once again.
And for the post-Celtics champions? The Knicks, the Bucks, the Sonics, the Blazers, the Warriors, One-hit wonders, by and large, until the Celtics and Lakers put down '60s revivals in the '80s, and then the Bad Boy Pistons (MC5, with a hint of Prince), the Bulls (ad jingles for Jordan to hum while he was cutting the league into strips), then the Rockets of the Chicago interregnum and the Spurs that followed them (Stevie Ray Vaughan).
In short, it's all out there somewhere, music to
Like, say, the U.S. Olympic team. A bassoon solo through a fuzz box. A weird beat, and so far nobody's dancing to it. We're giving it a 35.
Ray Ratto is a columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to ESPN.com
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US Food Security - Through Cooking Classes for Kids?
A cooking class and food security? Cooking classes might seem to be a frou-frou addition to an upscale household. But take a closer look, and you will realize that food preparation is an essential life skill, and definitely not a frill. Those who don't cook depend on the nutritional content of takeout, pre-made and restaurant food. It's a loss of food autonomy, which is a loss of food security. Something as basic as baking bread or cooking up a fall soup is a powerful contribution to a family's ability to sustain itself in a healthy manner.
North Americans are gradually losing our ability to cook. More specifically, we're losing our ability to preserve foods, because we haven't grown up watching our parents can, freeze, ferment, and dry the harvest for the winter season. We're also losing our interest in cooking. With a plethora of available restaurants in almost every neighborhood, many of which seem to boast prices that are so much cheaper than what you could create from scratch, why would people bother? Lives are busy, the children need to go to soccer practice, and people are tired from a hectic work day. Making food and eating food get placed on the back burner, and there they stay, slowly simmering until they eventually start to disappear.
This means that the children of this generation are growing up without a sense of how to bake, preserve food, or even throw together a simple dinner. While restaurants are lovely places to visit, if we want to eat food that comes from whole, local and sustainable foods, we need to learn how to cook. This whole food tends to be cheaper than boxed food or restaurant food, contributing to family food security. It also contributes to health: families can choose the fat and salt content of this food to a much greater degree than at a restaurant.
What's the solution to create a generation that is food savvy and food secure? Organizations that focus on local food security and organizations that focus on community building are seeing the trend and seeing the need. They're organizing free or low-cost cooking classes for families. In Arapahoe, even the library has gotten its hands into the cooking scene by offering a series of free cooking classes for children. New companies are also springing up that focus on children and cooking. Restaurants offer some of these classes, and some like the Young Chef's Academy are completely focused on education.
This summer, the Washington DC-based group Share Our Strength offered free cooking classes for lower-income families. Operation Frontline takes a direct approach to increasing nutrition, connecting families with nutritionists, chefs, and most importantly, nutritious groceries to facilitate healthy cooking.
Is cooking out? Maybe right now, but with the rise of cooking classes, the future of cooking could still be secure, local, and delicious.


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I have a problem with the program i am in the level 23 and i m stuck with the task of having a baby, i bought the crib around level 12 after they got married and i did clic , so it started the timing but the baby never arrive!!! Now i cant add any sim!!! Please help me i dont want to start from 0 again !!! It comes the message "not so fast! You have to wait until your new sim has arrived before adding another sim" Help!!!
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Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
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4-star Art Deco hotel in Muscat with 2 restaurants
Situated in Muscat, this hotel is close to Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque and Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex. Area attractions also include Royal Opera House Muscat and Qurum Beach.
Hotel Features
In addition to 2 restaurants, Al Maha International Hotel features an outdoor pool. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café and complimentary wireless Internet access.
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In addition to complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access and air conditioning, guestrooms feature climate control along with DVD players and safes.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Al Maha International Hotel features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. This Art Deco hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, a shuttle from the airport to the hotel (available on request) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Al Maha International Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
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- Total number of rooms - 70
- Number of floors - 5
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Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM
Check-in time ends at 11:30 PM
Minimum check-in age is 20
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Airport shuttle fee: OMR 10.00 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: OMR 10.00 per night
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Greenwashed! A Look Behind the Ski Industry's Eco PromisesOctober 9th, 2008 by skigreenguy | Filed under How to Ski Green, Ski Resorts, Ski Vacations, United States.
The mainstream ski industry, true to character, is very good at taking your money. And if being green helps them take your green, that's what they will do. You've seen the little card in hotels: "Re-use this towel to help stop global warming!" Right. Like if I reuse the towel then the impact of my flight across the country is forgiven? Hey, maybe I should recycle this plastic water bottle and go heliskiing! There's a term for this clever repackaging of polluting ways: greenwashing.
Skiing and Consumption
Let's face it: skiing is consumption. From the carbon-titanium-who-knows-what in my skis, to the 5,000 acre manicured mountainsides, getting your carcass down some 12,000-foot mountain produces some carbon. And let's not forget the Ritz-Carlton-walk-to-the-lift hotel or the non-stop flight from New York. While it's out of the question that I'd ever give up skiing (don't get me started), I realize that I have some responsibility in this situation. After all, I'm paying the bills. I'm using the resources. Maybe that's why ski resort greenwashing works so well: it takes some of our guilt away.
The good news is that skiing consumers have a huge power to change how resorts operate. Why? Because skier numbers have been flat for nearly 20 years. Resorts are competing for a relatively small population of skiers. So, if skiers vote with their dollars and support truly green resorts (versus those tending towards greenwash), the other resorts will follow suit.
What Does the Socially Responsible Skier to Do?
Being socially responsible is more than adopting one or even several "green" practices, but changing the way resorts (and you) think about the our limited resources and the mountain environment.
As guest, we have the right to ask questions. Is there a way you can get to the resort without driving and parking? And how about ski culture? Is there a honest-to-goodness ski bum working here or is every job filled by a "guest worker" expected to work 50+ hours a week? Is there employee transportation? Is there an environmental policy at the resort with real outcome measures that demonstrate the policy's impact? Learn about your favorite resort and how they support conservation, what kinds of policies they've put into place to conserve energy or water or manage waste, and how they educate their visitors about conservation.
There are organizations that can help. Like Green Building Initiative which markets a rating system called Green Globes to validate a resort's commitment to everything from greenhouse gas emissions to land-use planning. The National Ski Area Association has the Sustainable Slopes Program. (Interestingly, a 2004 study appearing in Policy Studies Journal found that participation of western ski areas in the Sustainable Slopes Program was related to demands by state agencies, local environmental groups and public opinion. In addition, participation was correlated with lower environmental performance ratings.) The Ski Area Citizens Coalition, independent the ski industry, helps differentiate between those ski areas that truly engage in environmentally sound practices versus those that merely claim to do so.
Skiing "green" is not impossible. As long as you pay attention to what other people are saying about the resort's sustainability efforts, have a critical eye of your own and ask the right questions, you can avoid being scammed by the ski industry's greenwashers.
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I'm being both dense and impatient...
I've asked my reseller where to get my old UPS battery recycled and they've not gotten back to me yet... I've looked through the paperwork and all I can find refers to the US... which is the wrong side of the pond...
I've got an APC Smart-UPS 1000 and the old (dead) battery is on the floor in its box waiting for me to trip over it for the third time today...!
We have a local firm that we use but nowhere near you so i'd give the below a call. It should be free
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There is no obligation on the part of the reseller to dispose of the old battery but under WEEE compliance you are responsible for making sure it is done responsibly.
Lead Acid/Gel Batteries surprisingly have a huge reclamation rate and almost everything gets reused and the lead content is the most valued.
As such most civic amenity points (tips) are more than happy to take them so why not stick it in your boot and drop it off when you make the next dump run. The carbon footprint of having somebody come and collect it and ship it onwards is not practical so if your serious about recycling it do it yourself and save a tree.
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Breastfeeding, whether a mother chooses to do it or not, is the focus of the "Latch On NYC" campaign, a new way Mayor Michael Bloomberg flexes the long arm of the nanny state. Why won't he butt out of a mother's personal choice?
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Even as a woman who breastfed four babies, I think New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's well-intentioned but hotly contested breastfeeding initiative is going to be a bust for taking the so-called "nanny" state to a place where most moms just wish he'd butt out.
When I had the first of four sons, 18 years ago, after 24-hours of natural childbirth in a New Jersey hospital, my baby and my body did not click. I could not get that kid to latch on even with a La Leche League coach. And when he did I could not fill the order on demand. The child had lungs like an opera singer and could be heard a mile away. Finally, another nurse bustled in and barked, "You just have the wrong kind of nipples. Here's a bottle."
No, there's no such thing as having the wrong kind – that was absurd – but perhaps this is the kind of misinformation that New York public officials are trying to correct. I did eventually breastfeed the baby, as well as the other three, so I'm the most militant of breastfeeding supporters. But it's no moment of celebration for me seeing the roles reversed and women who can't or simply choose not to do what I did feeling like they're being butted by the Bloomberg nanny state.


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Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Ōkami) is an iconic manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, describing the adventures of Ogami Ittō, former executioner for the Shogun, and his son Daigorō. Ittō, after being framed for treason against the Shogunate by the Yagyū clan, faced a choice between death and dishonor. Instead, Ittō Took A Third Option: abandon bushidō to follow "Meifumado" - roughly, either "the way of the demon" or "the road to hell". He would become a ronin assassin, Walking the Earth while planning his vengeance. And his son Daigorō, due to a Secret Test of Character from his father, now follows the same bloody road.The original manga was published from 1970 to 1976. The series has been adapted into several movies and a live-action TV series in Japan. An English-dubbed "adaptation" of the movies was released in 1980 as Shogun Assassin. AnimEigo has released both subtitled and dubbed versions of the films. A sequel, called Shin Kozure Ōkami written by Koike with Hideki Mori doing the art (since Goseki Kojima died in 2000) is currently running in Japan. Dark Horse Comics has announced that they will publish Shin Kozure Ohkami in English early 2014.There is also a spinoff series, Samurai Executioner, focusing on Yamada Asaemon, the Shogun's sword-tester.Lone Wolf also inspired the American comic Road to Perdition, which changed the setting to 1930s Illinois and aged up the son to a pre-teen. Road To Perdition was later made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.Unrelated to the famous Lone Wolf gamebook series by Joe Dever.
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About the ManufacturerIn January 1950, Wilbur Berger established Monarch Glass on Rachel Street in Montreal, providing quality custom mirror and glasswork for both retail stores and the home. Understanding that there was more business with glass, Monarch started manufacturing and then diversified to importing mirrors and frames. In 1965 Monarch Glass got the very lucrative contract of manufacturing frames for the Expo and renamed itself Monarch Specialties Inc. During this time, they moved their operations to a larger location to increase their import business, while continuing to use their extensive glass knowledge to manufacture furniture such as glass top tables and TV stands. In 1997 they started importing from Asia offering over 1000 different items of furniture for virtually every room in the home. The addition of their import line has increased the Monarch catalog to the impressive size it is today, featuring bedroom, living room, accent, home office and many more categories. Monarch is a leader in the furniture import and distribution business. Their fashion forward designs, attention to quality and on-time customer service make them a value driven leader in the home furnishings industry.
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This list of the ten best road trip destinations in America will help you decide the perfect destination for your road trip, no matter what season or region. Taking a road trip anywhere in America can be very delightful and adventurous, too. There are certainly plenty of road trip destinations all throughout the country, and so, whether your road trip is just throughout your state or across the nation, there is a destination for you and your road trip companions to enjoy. Here are the ten best road trip destinations in America.
- Grand Canyon. On your visit to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, you can take a shuttle bus, a guided tour, or even a mule trip into the canyon.
- Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls is one of the most beautiful road trip destinations in America. Another one of America's free National Parks, Niagara Falls offers many beautiful attractions and sites in New York State and into Canada.
- Calico Ghost Town. Calico Ghost Town in California was developed during the silver rush of the late 1800s, but after the silver rush, Calico became a ghost town. This inexpensive American road trip destination has fun for the whole family!
- Las Vegas. If you are traveling without children, definitely consider Las Vegas as a road trip destination. This city in Nevada is full of endless entertainment, including gambling, restaurants, and plenty of attractions.
- New York City. If you're planning your road trip on the East Coast, consider going to New York City. New York City has something for everybody including shopping, sports, Broadway shows, historical sites, and almost any kind of restaurant you could imagine!
- Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is one of the best known National Parks in America and one of the best road trip destinations, as well. Yellowstone offers tons of beautiful wildlife and natural phenomena, like hot springs and geysers. Enjoy this beautiful National Park as your road trip destination.
- West Virginia. If your looking to get away from it all on your road trip, go to West Virginia. This state has some of the most beautiful and serene mountain, parks, and campgrounds in the country and is one of the most peaceful and best road trip destinations in America.
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine, Florida has plenty of odd attractions and exhibits for people of all ages. This weird museum is certainly one of the best road trip destinations in America for anyone who likes oddities.
- Cave City. Cave City in Kentucky is one of the best road trip destinations for anyone traveling through the South or Midwest United States.
- Coronado Trail. This driving trail takes you through high deserts and forests of Arizona, and offers beautiful sites that will delight any American road tripper.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.Niccolo Machiavelli
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.Indian Proverb
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.Daniel J. Boorstin
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.Henry A. Wallace
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.William Graham Sumner
Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.Thomas Jefferson
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.Benjamin Harrison
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.Tony Snow
The battle for conservation cannot be limited to the winning of new conquests. Like liberty itself, conservation must be fought for unceasingly to protect earlier victories. There are always plenty of hogs who are trying to get natural resources for their own personal benefit! Public lands and parks, our forests and our mineral reserves, are subject to many destructive influences. We have to remain constantly vigilant to prevent raids by those who would selfishly exploit our common heritage for their private gain. Such raids on our natural resources are not examples of enterprise and initiative. They are attempts to take from all the people for the benefit of a few.Harry S. Truman
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.Henry David Thoreau
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.William Orville Douglas
the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads�as an anthology of imagesRick Steves
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.Arthur Henderson
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.John Michael Crichton
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature�a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules�out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answerJacob Bronowski
There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the peopleLord Acton
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.Winston Churchill
The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.Jerry Falwell
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.Edward Gibbon