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Movies for hospital patients, Toronto, Canada.
Exterior shot hospital with car drawing up outside. Man gets out and opens door. C/U side of van "Variety Club of Toronto", "Free Movies for Shut-Ins". M/S porter carrying portable movie screen from van, the driver carries the projector. They walk into hospital.
L/S man clad in mask and robe setting up screen. M/S screen, pan to nurse tending girl in iron lung. M/S girl in iron lung and nurse. C/U girl in iron lung showing her reflection in mirror above her face. M/S man in mask and gown lacing up projector. C/U girl in iron lung. L/S screen showing credit titles. M/S ward with children lying in bed. M/S film playing on screen. M/S girl lying on bed. M/S film on screen. M/S doctors and nurses watching film and laughing. M/S little girl sitting up in bed looking on and laughing. L/S film on screen. C/U girl lying in bed and smiling.
Date given on old records is 04/11/1948.

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With Hispanic help, Democrats hope to win in Eastern Washington
Long in the shadow of Republicans, Democrats in Central Washington are hoping to get a foothold on elective office in 2008, banking on a maturing Hispanic community, particularly in Yakima County, and political enthusiasm seems to be running high.
Democratic hopes center around Vickie Ybarra, a nurse and former State Board of Health member active in the Hispanic community, which makes up nearly 40 percent of Yakima County residents. The 14th District hasn't elected a Democrat to the Legislature since 1992, but Ybarra would not be the first Hispanic. Rep. Mary Skinner, a Republican retiring after seven terms, is Hispanic.
Yakima and the 4th Congressional District in general make up the heartland of Republican territory in Washington, but veteran Democratic activists are talking about a "blue wave" that they hope will put Ybarra in Olympia and — a long shot to be sure — send a Democrat to Congress for the first time since 1994.
For as long as most can remember, Yakima County has been to Republicans as central Seattle has been to Democrats — inviolable territory where the minority party had to look for sacrificial lambs (or donkeys or elephants, as the case may be).
Why are central Washington Democrats feeling better about 2008?
Several reasons are cited by Paul George, Yakima County Democratic chairman, beginning with huge (for his area) turnouts at political meetings this year. He cites more than 600 at an annual county Democratic convention in April and a record 1,800 at the presidential caucuses in February, compared to only 400 at Republican caucuses.
Ybarra is the best candidate the party has fielded for the Legislature in some time, and the 14th District seat is open, vacated by Skinner. The president of the Yakima School Board, Ybarra is a nurse, former member of the State Board of Health, and director of planning and development for the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. She is an instructor with the University of Washington's School of Health and Public Medicine. She figures to be a key in getting out a larger Hispanic vote than in most elections. George sees the Hispanic vote, which has been depressed by the complexities of the county's all-mail ballot, as the key to resurgence of Democrats in the region.
Despite their numbers, Hispanics have not been a strong political factor in the county. Seattle Democratic Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney grew up in the southern Yakima Valley, but her political career came on the west side of the Cascades. Hispanics have won some local contests in the southern part of the county and hope to elect Wapato Mayor Jesse Farias, a Vietnam War hero, to the county commission, which hasn't had a Democrat since 2000.
Arid Eastern Washington is changing demographically, and although most of the attention has been on growth in the Hispanic community, there has been an influx of outsiders attracted to the region for its expanding wine culture and appeal as a retirement destination. Yakima, the Tri-Cities of Kennewick, Richland, and Pasco, and Walla Walla in particular are impacted by the incomers, who may bring with them a more liberal political outlook than the conservatives who have dominated the political scene for generations.
This impact is most apparent in Walla Walla, which has been the subject of flattering profiles in The New York Times and other national publications, but expensive new housing and other indicators of a changed population are beginning to be in evidence in the Yakima area, as well.
While this will not necessarily mean a loss of Republican control, it bodes well for attractive candidates from either party, particularly those who can speak to cultural and livability issues that will be of more importance to the incomers than party loyalty or family voting history.
Yakima County is the largest in the seven-county 4th Congressional District and perhaps the most vulnerable to changing demographics. The county supported Jay Inslee, a Selah Democrat, in his successful race for Congress in 1992 and stayed with him two years later when he was defeated by Republican Doc Hastings of Pasco, who has represented the district since. Hastings handily won each election since, but in 2008 a Kennewick lawyer, George Fearing, hopes to take advantage of anti-Republican and anti-Bush sentiment — as Hastings took advantage of the Republican "Contract with America" in 1994.
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Posted Mon, Jun 2, 12:45 a.m.
Fearing's chances: A Republican would have a better chance of taking Ted Kennedy's seat than Fearing has of beating Hastings.
Posted Mon, Jun 2, 11:08 a.m.
First off, Vickie Ybarra would not be the "first Hispanic ... elected to the Legislature from Yakima County." The sitting state representative, Mary Skinner, is Hispanic. Maybe the fact that she is a Republican Hispanic means she's not Hispanic enough for your reporter.
Secondly, Jess Farias may be a nice guy and we should all recognize the sacrifices he made for his country during the Vietnam War, but I have never heard him referred to as a "war hero" as did this "objective" story. Once again, your reporter's views are creeping into the piece.
Thirdly, your reporter's statement that the county commission has not "had a Democrat since 2000 and never a Latino" is also wrong. Jesse Palacios, a Republican Hispanic, served two terms and retired in 2007. He now sits on a Lower Valley city council. Once again, maybe the fact he is a Republican makes him less of a Hispanic in your reporter's eyes.
It would be interesting to know what evidence there is that backs up your reporter's assertion that the Hispanic vote has been "depressed by the complexities of the county's all-mail ballot." I found it to be a very simple ballot. Why would Hispanics have a more difficult time than Anglos completing one? More importantly, how can your reporter state something like that as fact? What proof does he have that statement is true?
By the way, Yakima County's auditor is a Democrat and she is the person responsible for counting votes. That is worth remembering when you read that 5,000 ballots from Hispanic-surnamed people were discarded because of ballot errors. (I assume that is a statewide number, but I am not sure since this is just another unclear part of this story.)
It seems to me that your reporter called just the Democrat operatives he mentions in the article and reprinted their "facts" as facts. Sloppy journalism, for sure.
The overall premise of the article is interesting and timely: Will strong Latino candidates (like Ms. Ybarra) help the Democrats gain a toe-hold in Central Washington? Unfortunately, the story so biased and full of errors and opinion that it fails to successfully answer that question.
Posted Mon, Jun 2, 11:56 a.m.
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Posted Mon, Jun 2, 12:06 p.m.
RE: My error, sorry!: Those corrections are reflected in the current text.
Posted Mon, Jun 2, 5:20 p.m.
Why publish McKay? What value does he add?: It kind of makes you wonder how many other pontifications by Mr. McKay are full of similar errors. Thank you Bruce for exposing the factual mistakes that Mr. McKay made in his original story. In Mr. McKay's defense I guess it's easier to skip facts that don't fit your storyline and blame it on too frequent trips to wine country.
Posted Mon, Jun 2, 8:27 p.m.
If you mean the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, she's certainly not the director of development. Here's her bio page.
Posted Tue, Jun 3, 11:39 a.m.
"The president of the Yakima School Board, Ybarra is a nurse, former member of the State Board of Health, and director of planning and development for the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. She is an instructor with the University of Washington's School of Health and Public Medicine."
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It's barely exists, but writers still write and talkers still talk as though there's a battle-line-drawn war between two sides of baseball fans, let's call them the seamheads and the old schoolers. In our simplified dichotomy, the seamheads want to use nothing other than their mathematical analytics to understand baseball, while the old schoolers use observations and a selection of largely meaningless numbers to support narratives they've already constructed in their minds.
There are probably extremes that actually exist on other side of this divide, but the majority of educated baseball fans likely find themselves somewhere in the middle, aware that both statistical analysis and baseball dynamics should inform one's understanding of the game. Despite this happily comprised positioning, there exists an incorrect notion that those who tend to favor analytics to predict outcomes despise when the actual outcome doesn't match their numbers based prediction.
Entire books have been written about this. And now, it appears as though whole movies have been made about the subject as well.
Of course, nothing can be further from the truth. The very first thing that statistical analysis shows us is there is a whole lot of randomness involved in every single baseball outcome. Predictions based on statistics are merely suggesting the most likely outcome. Not even Colin Wyers of Baseball Prospectus is so soulless as to not appreciate when something unlikely and random occurs during baseball. If anything, a basic understanding of statistical likelihood, enhances one's enjoyment of short hops, fielding flubs and unexpected performances.
And this is why Mike Fiers is the most enjoyable story in baseball right now.
For those not in the know, Fiers is a starter for the Milwaukee Brewers, whose 1.80 ERA and and 2.20 FIP currently lead all Major League pitchers with at least 80 innings pitched. His 5.00 strikeout to walk ratio, ranks him fifth in the league between Cliff Lee of the Philadelphia Phillies and Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals. He's currently striking out more than a quarter of the batters he faces, while walking only 5%.
Dominating performances by rookies is nothing new to this season. See Trout, Mike for an example. However, what makes Fiers' pitching so noteworthy is its complete unexpectedness. The 27-year-old right-hander was drafted in the 22nd round of the 2009 Rule IV Draft. He's at least partially repeated almost every level in the Brewers system on his way to the Majors, and has never put up the numbers that he's currently sporting in Milwaukee.
Making matters even more head-scratchingly difficult to accept is that he's dominating batters with the most pedestrian stuff imaginable: a fastball that averages 88-89 miles per hour, an 85 miles per hour cutter that has no discernibly crazy movement to it, a change up that's about nine miles per hour slower than his fastball with twice the movement and an admittedly good curve ball that likely causes batters to second guess their instincts coming from Fiers' exaggerated overhand arm slot.
Despite the relative anonymity that the best pitcher in baseball (at this moment in time) is currently enjoying, there have been a surprisingly large number of articles written about him, most notably our friend Sam Miller's piece for Baseball Prospectus and a fantastic breakdown of Fiers' mechanics, location and numbers by Nathaniel Stoltz for Beyond The Box Score. Those aren't necessarily the most mainstream of sources, but it does show that people are beginning to take note of Fiers, and here is what they're finding.
The pitcher with the "meh" stuff isn't pitching like a typical Major League Baseball pitcher. He seems rather unconcerned with such things as establishing his fastball in individual plate appearances, instead focusing on getting strikes. This is normally referred to as pitching backwards, when a pitcher throws breaking stuff early in the count, and then uses his fastball once he's already ahead. However, Fiers isn't pitching backwards in the traditional sense. Instead, he's throwing non-fastballs early in the plate appearance, and continuing with his cutter, change and curve ball even after he gets ahead, reserving his fastball most often for when he falls behind in the count to the batter.
How does he get away with consistently doing something that other pitchers get punished for trying all the time? It might just have something to do with this:
Combined with this:
Every pitch is coming at the batter from an overhand arm slot with an uncannily similar release point, and batters are rendered completely helpless.
Certainly helping Fiers is that he's currently an unknown entity to the batters of the league. However, there's a pitcher on the Brewers right now that isn't entirely dissimilar from Fiers with his underwhelming stuff, consistent release point and a high arm slot (although not as pronounced with the head motion) that has made a career for himself, and a very good one at that, through essentially tricking batters by not being like every other pitcher: Shaun Marcum.
Look at that pitcher's release point from April to the end of August, when he was at his most effective, during the 2010 season:
While columnists in Milwaukee are claiming that the emergence of Fiers allows the team to get over the departure of Zack Greinke in an easier manner, I'd suggest that Fiers coming out of the relative wilderness to become the Brewers' best pitcher this season is truly helping to replace the production lost with Marcum on the Disabled List. The question now is whether or not Fiers can remain a mystery to batters and also replace the production lost when Marcum hits free agency this coming winter.
I don't think I'm assuming too much when I say that both seamheads and old schoolers hope so.


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I am planning to finish my basement with bathroom (Just toilet). The sewage outlet is about 30" from the floor. What are the options I have to setup a bathroom in the basement. What are the pro's and cons of each option?
Thanks and appreciate your advise.
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We finished our basement last year and installed a bath also. There are toilets that are made with a pump/grinder in a base below it but I believe it required a step up to the toilet. We installed a crock in the floor in a utility room behind the bath with a pump to the sewage line. You will need to vent this as well. This was the cleanest look for us and what we thought was the proper way to do it. The cost for us was about 800 in labor plus material to install the crock and piping. |
- Posted by blue_velvet_elvis (My Page) on Sun, Mar 4, 07 at 8:00
Just a toilet? I would think any future homeowner you'd want to sell to would demand a sink to wash hands after using the toilet. I would imagine you could use the drain and water lines. |
- Posted by lazypup (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Mar 4, 07 at 15:00
In most localities the health codes require that any room equiped with a watercloset MUST HAVE a sink for washing your hands. If the floor of your basement is lower than the gravity flow house drains you will need a sewage ejection pump to lift the discharge up to the drain line. There are small self-contained sewage ejectors that will sit on the floor and can be equiped with a conventional toilet as well as permitting the discharge from a sink however the plumbing codes are very restrictive in how to install a sewage ejection pump system. 1. The International Residential Code requires that we compute the load at 1.5DFU's for each 1GPM from the pump. Minimum pump size is 14.2gpm so the minimum DFU load is 1.5DFU x 14.2gpm = 21.3DFU's for the pump. This value must then be added to the existing fixture load on the drain line to determine the required size of drain line. Under the IRC a 3" horizontal branch line is limited to a maximum of 20DFU's therefore even though the discharge line from your pump may be a 1-1/2" or 2" line it may not be connected to a branch line. It must be connected to the house main drain line providing the combined load of the pump and existing load do not exceed the maximum rating of the main drain. (A 3" horizontal main drain with a 1/4" per foot pitch is limited to 42DFU's. The sewage ejector must also be equiped with a dedicated vent through the roof which may not be combined with any other vents in the structure. There are also a number of requirements on how the discharge line must be connected to the drain line. While the Uniform Plumbing Code assigns different DFU values to both the fixtures and the piping the end result is the same, the discharge line MUST BE connected to the house main drain line, not a branch unless that branch is at least a 4" line. |
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I am getting frustrated with lack of itinerary details... I noticed there are still quite a few TBA's on the itinerary posted on WDWRadioCruise.com page. I think all the details will be known the week before the cruise, but for people like me who make itineraries months to a year in advance its driving me nuts.
Also came up with an idea to post something like "Pretrip Pains" such as all the bad things that happen a couple weeks before your trip (may just be family bad luck). My microwave quit last week so it had to be replaced costing $470 (built-in unit with trim kit), water cooler sprung a leak costing $150 to replace, backed into some ice yesterday cracking my rear bumper, home phone service quit working although internet (DSL) is fine, my wife paid credit card balance showing $700 online when bill actually had a $290 credit and we can't cancel payment or get the money back. My mother Debbie, who is also going on the cruise, was in a car accident where she was passenger in a Ford Expedition pulling a trailer. It rolled over 4 times and stopped upside down with trailer still attached. She dropped to the ceiling and crawled out, but got some nasty bruises, one of the other passengers in the SUV (not a relative) is still in the hospital after having head and spinal surgery while another passenger is having chronic pain. A chunk of ceiling in my mother's house fell during snow storms last week and will cost $900 to fix. Thankfully we got our health mostly intact and even more persistence to be on that cruise!>)
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The not having info is driving me crazy too. I am also a big plan ahead type. We actually ended up having ADRs at crystal palace that I had to cancel in order to make the dessert party (or at least what time we are currently speculating the desert party to be). I wish I knew it when it was going to be when I was setting up my ressies.
I am sorry to hear that you and your family are having such a rough time. Hopefully a Disney trip will temporarily help you forget all your worries and give you a much needed break.
I just want to know which night of the cruise is the double of one of the three main restaurants. I understand that I can't find out my actual rotation ahead of time, and that's perfectly okay, but I would like to know which night is my double so I can hit Palo that night!
Less than 2 weeks til the precruise stay.
We can't wait. See everyone soon.
"I just want it to look like nothing else in the world... and it should be surrounded by a train" -Walt Disney.90 CB, 92 DI, 94 CR, 97 FWC, 99 CS, 00 CS, 02 CS, 04 POR, 05 POR, 07 POR, 08 POFQ, 09 POR, 11 POR.
Hi Ya!
Just confirming a previous post - The current rotation for a 4 night sailing is currently set at nights 3 & 4 as the repeat nights. With DCL that could change at any time, but thats how they have it currently.
For our group, we will not know the actual rotation until the day of sailing. For the new cruisers, just look at your key card and the rotation will be displayed as one of these: AERR - RAEE - ERAA
A= Animators / E = Enchanted Garden / R = Royal Palace
Also to address the concerns about the TBA s on the itinerary list...
We truly understand that this can be frustrating, especially for those of us who are very detailed planners, and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced. Unfortunately we are at the mercy of Disney and their time lines when it comes to coordinating such a large group. There is a lot that goes into planning, and more importantly getting approval for, meet times and locations that can accommodate everyone, yet not impact the other guests onboard. If we were 100 people this process would not be as slow becuase we would have many more venues to select from. And as it stands now, some of our meets are displacing other activities that Disney must find spaces for, so it has an impact on many peoples agenda's - not just ours. But the flip slide is... if we only had 100 people, we wouldnt have the opportunity to be sailing with such a great group of friends!
The better news is we started getting much more info on Friday then ever before so the beaver dam blocking the itinerary river is finally starting to break apart. (and believe me.. no one is happier about that fact then Lou & I cause there is much more prep work to be done and we needed info to get going on it ourselves!!)
Hope you find that helpful and please be sure to check out my posts in the other WDW Radio cruise related threads. And as I have said in other threads tonight, please dont hesitate to PM if you have any specific questions or concerns.
Cant wait to see everyone onboard!
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Dude, sounds like you could use a vacation.
Re: the itinerary, I wouldn't worry too much about planning. It's not like a WDW vacation where you have to factor in travel times to the parks, etc. We'll be on a ship where everything is a short walk away. Scheduling is not so crucial. Another factor -- you don't have to play the crowd avoidance game like we do in the parks. The guest number is fixed at 4000. You will always have a seat at every meal, and there will be of room for everyone at the shows. You won't feel so crushed by crowds.
When you get onboard: Relax, take it easy and try to forget all the troubles you're having at home. Look me up and let me buy you a tropical drink.
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- Newborn Care Class
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- Where:
- Women's Wellness Center Classroom - Marysville
- Category:
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Cost: $20
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Learning how to care for a newborn baby can be scary and intimidating. Let our experienced obstetrical nurse make you feel more comfortable with caring for your new bundle of joy. This class covers bathing, swaddling, diapering, and so much more. We will also cover how to reduce the risk of SIDS, car seat safety, and what to expect at the first doctor's visit.
These classes are taught by an experienced obstetrical nurse and are offered on Mondays from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
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Accessories and Documentation
Part of the included hardware contains the SATA cover for the S4 bay to keep them clean and dust free. You also get grommets for the oval holes in the motherboard tray along with four rubber support pads.
I have to assume the risers are to replace the stud type on the tray, and you also get four long fan screws to add a second fan in the front. Then you see the seven expansion slot screws to hold cards in place. The bottom row has 12 screws to secure the motherboard and PSU, then six screws for the 5.25" bays, and a whole mess of tiny screws to use for adding 2.5" drives to the 3.5" trays.
These plastic trays were stuck in the 3.5" bays during its trip, but out of the bags you can see there are four for the 3.5" drives that will accept 2.5" drives, as well as a set of three specifically for the 2.5" drives.
I was also given two 30cm Alchemy LED strips, both are blue, and they are sent along to put under the chassis giving the chassis a glow that almost makes the case look like it is floating.
The quick start guide is plain black and white throughout to cut costs on the stuff that isn't used all the time to allow for all the features and goodies we just saw to come at this price.
Opening it to the middle I found a front fan installation guide insert added to the manual that covers everything else from start to finish with these top notch illustrations and basic text descriptions.
With a bit of super glue and the time it took me to get this far in the images, the base of the chassis is now one solid piece so I went ahead and added the Alchemy strips to it before I screwed it back onto the case. I also had to add pair of screws to the front to attach the bottom of the bezel to keep it from falling off the front since the pins were all sheared off.


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The New Hampshire Maple Producers Open House Weekend will be this Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20. The NH maple industry produces almost 90,000 gallons of syrup from mid-February through mid-April, with taps running full time for up to 6 weeks every spring. This year there will be public events at four local sugar houses.
Maple Butternut Farm, off Rt. 136 on Pine Echo Road (487-5508), will be open on Saturday 9-4:30, and on Sunday from 9-4. Jim Dane started sugaring back in the 1980s with a small rig and a bucket. "I helped my father do some sugaring back when I was a teenager- must be 70 years ago!" Butternut Farm produces 90 gallons on a good year. Dane explains that a good year is one with an abundance of snow, and temperatures in the 20ºs at night and bright sunny days in the mid 30ºs. For Open House, Butternut Farm will have free maple syrup samples, coffee & doughnuts, and a demonstration of making syrup with wood burning evaporator. Open weekends through the whole season, visitors are always welcome when you see steam!
Also in New Boston, Mt. Crumpit Farm, 207 Lull Rd off Rt. 77 (325-5900), will be open both Saturday and Sunday, 8-5. Dale Smith is the proud winner of the 2010 Carlisle Trophy, the state's top prize for excellence in maple syrup production. Smith has been sugaring commercially for 13 years, and remembers when, "A neighbor would give us 2¢ a gallon for the sap we collected in the garbage cans in our little red wagon!" Mt. Crumpit has 500 taps and produces between 100 and 200 gallons of syrup a year. Free coffee and donuts will be available to all who would like to see maple syrup made the old fashioned way over a wood fired evaporator with steam rolling off the pans.
Grant Family Pond View Maples will be open from 10-4 pm both Saturday and Sunday. Located at 224 Dearborn Road in Weare (529-6445), Dave Richards will make sure you and your family receive a warm welcome. Free maple hot dogs, chili, maple popcorn, maple cotton candy, coffee and hot chocolate will be available. There will be tractor drawn hay rides, and on Saturday come and listen to the live music trio. Facebook Grant Family Pond View Maples!
Easily accessible at 41 Tirrell Hill Road in Goffstown (361-3156), Nature's Sweet Secret Sugar House is owned by Eddy, Denis and Dan Caron and will be open from 9-4 on Saturday and Sunday. The picturesque location hosts a modern sugar house where sap boiling, tapping demonstrations, and walks in the sugarbush will be accompanied by free coffee and cookies and a coloring contest for the kids. Nature's Sweet Secret has a well-marked trail and visitors should bring sturdy shoes to follow the tap lines. Facebook Nature's Sweet Secret Sugar House!
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Enjoy The Mountain wants others to explore the beautiful terrain surrounding Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake?and provides the equipment to help them do so. The company organizes Jeep, mountain-bike, ATV, and Quad rentals and tours, and always includes extras such as transportation to and from desired trails, fuel, and comprehensive safety training. Every rental also comes with a map of the area and suggested routes to ensure guests get the most out of their adventure.
In order to pursue his passion for flying, Anaheim Helicopters founder Mark Skinner left his home in England and began the journey to his current West Coast home. Now, in stable, modern, and air-conditioned helicopters, Mark stirs the air above Los Angeles and Orange County to provide passengers with views of rugged mountains and iconic buildings. During tours, Mark points out landmarks such as the Sunset Strip, the Capitol Records Building, and Dodger Stadium before soaring between skyscrapers, over famous homes, and in V-formation with migrating geese. In addition to piloting helicopters, Mark joins with a team of FAA–certified flight instructors to lead aviation lessons for aspiring pilots.
Lux Travel Group's early-morning ground service chariots riders to Las Vegas in style, boasting luxurious service and perks similar to a first-class flight. Commence road trips with a champagne toast before sipping on two additional complimentary cocktails from the extensive drink menu. A continental breakfast or a lunch package consisting of a half sandwich, fresh fruit or salad, and a freshly baked cookie fuels passengers up for Olympic-level Internet surfing on the free WiFi (available on most routes, but subject to location and satellite interference from clouds and bandwidth-stealing UFOs). After reveling in the bus-centric festivities, wind down during a movie screening with a chocolate-mint-drizzled cake pop. Finally, a warm scented towel allows guests to freshen up for their triumphant arrival in Vegas.
At Wings of Valor LLC, chief pilot Daniel Wotring whisks passengers into the sky aboard a WWII-era Douglas DC-3 plane. The plane has a had a storied airborne career; before joining the company's fleet, it flew over Normandy on D-day and dropped paratroopers into Sicily. Nowadays, tourists strap into its restored interior for scenic flights over the Chino Valley or a bird's-eye view of local holiday displays.
Exhilarating music pulses amid the remains of a downed cargo airliner, its wreckage scattered across 4,000 square feet of fog-filled tropical beach. Two teams navigate through these surroundings—dodging strewn pieces of cargo, abandoned huts, and a miniature volcano. Black lights cause Laser Island's neon hues to burst to life. The red-orange glow of the volcano's lava, the vibrant green of the painted palm fronds, and the cerulean blue of the walls' ocean horizon all shine alongside the green flashes of streaking lasers. After roughly 20 minutes, the guests emerge and discover which team scored the most points.
Beyond laser tag, the family-friendly entertainment center features a number of activities for virtually all ages. A nine-hole tiki-themed miniature-golf course challenges hand-eye coordination, and the CoCo Climb station allows adventurers to scale a 20-foot coconut tree while safely supported by a weight-bearing harness and an invisible force field. The arcade section tempts passersby to spend a few tokens on games such as Ms. Pac-Man or Time Crisis 3, and certain games reward players with tickets that they can redeem for prizes at the Ticket Hut. In between games or laser-tag matches, Laser Island refuels visitors with a snack-bar menu that includes everything from pizzas and toasted sandwiches to salads and buffalo wings.
Once an actual storage facility, Packing House Wine Merchants converted the novel space into a comfortable wine bar, shop, and lounge stocked with high-quality vintages from around the world. Silky libations like the Godspeed cabernet from Napa Valley ($11 per glass) seduce the senses with a complex balance of black cherry infusions, mineral hints, and spices. Opt for the chilled sweetness of Germany's Armand Kabinett riesling ($7.50 per glass) and be rewarded with the mingled pleasures of apricot, musk, melon, mango, and brown-spiced persimmon. The adventurous and mathematically inclined can pair a thematic tasting, each with two to six samples ($5–$17), with one of four specialty cheese plates ($15 each) for an endless permutation of tasty tippling. Packing House also offers live music entertainment on Saturdays to entertain the wine while it awaits its inevitable fate.


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Banquets and feasts are expressions of joy for the human beings. For the Christians, feasts are commemoration of faith and expression of their unity. It is also a witnessing of faith. Kaipuzha palli ever shares the same spirit in its fullness. The parish life filled with many feasts of major and minor importance is a sign of the joyous nature of the faithful. Persons of other faiths also participate with great enthusiasm, which makes them not only a feast of the parish but of the whole locality also. The main feasts of the church are:
1. Feast of St. Mary of Carmel and of St. Sebastian.
3. Feast of the foundation of the church.
4. Other feasts.
Feast of St. Mary of Carmel and St. Sebastian
The main day of the festal of celebration of St. Mary of Carmel, the main feast of the church, is on the 1st Sunday of February. Recently feast of St. Sebastian was also added to the darshana thirunal.
Feast of St. George
St. George is the patron of Kaipuzha palli. St. George is a martyr of the 2nd century. He was a roman solider converted to Christianity…?????.. The statue of St. George of the church is brought from Edathwa Palli ……?????? The feast is celebrated on the 1st Sunday of May.
Feast of the Foundation of the church
Kallitta thirunal is the commemoration of the faith and the sacrifice involved in it of the forefathers. Kaipuzha palli was built in thulam 1813. On this day we remember with gratitude of the struggle faced by our forefathers in forming this Knanaya Catholic Community.
Other Feasts:
1. Sacred Heart Feast:
Sacred Heart Feast is celebrated at Sacred Heart Chapel Kaipuzha on 30th June. This feast is celebrated to commemorate the unending love of Jesus Christ for the human kind. In preparation to this feast 'Vanakamasam' (a month long prayer) is conducted in the chapel in the evening and (pachor) is distributed as an offering.
2. St. Antony's Feast:
The feast of St. Antony of Paduwa is celebrated on ?????? at Parel Kurishupalli.
St. Joseph's Feast:
St. Joseph Feast is celebrated on ????? at St. Joseph Chapel Poozhikanada. In this connection the whole month of March 'Vanakamasam' is recited with great reverence. This is celebrated also at St. Joseph convent as he is their patron.
4. St. Sebastian's Feast:
St. Sebastian's??????? This feast is celebrated at St. Sebastian's church, Attukarankavala on the Friday prayer to the main feast of the church. In this day holy mass is celebrated???? in the morning and in the evening. The prosection to the church with the statue of St. Sebastian begins from the chapel.
5. St. Luke's Feast:
St. Luke the evangelist feast is celebrated on 18th October. St. Luke, a physician a patron of the H.D.P hospital hence this feast is celebrated at the hospital chapel.
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Washington, DC, Aug 15, 2013 -- WASHINGTON, August 15, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday the availability of nearly $40 million to provide housing for farmworkers and their families. Despite budget uncertainties, USDA remains focused on strengthening the rural economy.
"USDA's Farm Labor Housing Program is the only national source of construction funds to buy, build or improve housing for farmworkers, who are critical to the tremendous productivity of American agriculture," said Vilsack. "This program is an important way that USDA helps to ensure the well-being of itinerant farm labor families. Looking ahead to the future, we will also continue to urge passage of common sense immigration reform that will create rules that work for farm workers and producers alike."
Under the Farm Labor Housing Program, loans and grants are provided to farmers, farmers associations, family farm corporations, Indian tribes, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and farmworkers associations to develop or improve multi-family housing facilities for farmworkers and their families.
For example, USDA provided Bienestar, a nonprofit organization in Hillsboro, Ore., a grant and loan to construct a 24-unit farmworker apartment complex in Forest Grove, Ore. The complex opened in December 2012. In addition to providing new, modern two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments for residents, the facility also provides services such as English as a Second Language tutoring, and classes on computers, financial literacy, and nutrition.
Today's announcement makes available approximately $30 million in loans, $8.5 million in grants, and $951,000 in rental assistance. Applications for Farm Labor Housing assistance are due September 13, 2013. More information about how to apply is available in the August 14, 2013 Federal Register www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-08-14/html/2013-19774.htm or by contacting any USDA Rural Development state office.
In Nebraska, applications should be submitted to USDA Rural Development, 100 Centennial Mall North, Room 308, Lincoln, NE 68508. Contact Linda Anders at 402-437-5734 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Vilsack said the nearly $40 million in grants and loans is another reminder of the importance of USDA programs for rural America. Since 2009, the Obama Administration has provided more than $137 million in Farm Labor Housing assistance to construct or renovate 2,165 apartment units for farmworkers and their families.
Secretary Vilsack said that today's announcement is another reminder of the importance of USDA programs such as Farm Labor Housing loans and grants for rural America. A comprehensive new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would further expand the rural economy, Vilsack added, saying that's just one reason why Congress must get a comprehensive Bill done as soon as possible.
President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way - strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities.
USDA's investments in rural communities support the rural way of life that stands as the backbone of our American values. President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has a portfolio of programs designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as the Department implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act.
USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.
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That afternoon we went to England. There was grass and olive-green water and tall trees looking into the water. This, I thought, is England. If I could be here I'd get well again and the sound in my head would stop. (III.4.25)
What's interesting about this passage is that England isn't a thoroughly horrible place, but actually has some redeeming features. The nature Antoinette describes invokes a typical English pastoral scene, a literary mode that celebrates England's natural beauty as representative of everything that's great about being English. For a novel that's a pretty obvious critique of British imperialism, it's interesting to think of what it finds redeeming about English culture. After all, it does adapt one of the greatest novels in the English literary tradition.


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One of the victims of Sunday's train derailment in the Bronx was a nurse living in Woodside who cared for children after immigrating to the United States from South Korea and was known as "an exceptional person."
Kisook Ahn, 35, was the youngest of the four people killed in the accident, which also injured more than 60 as a southbound Metro North train left the tracks near the Spuyten Duyvil station at about 7:20 a.m. The federal government says the train was going 82 miles an hour around a curved section of track where the limit is 30, reportedly because the engineer had dozed off.
Ahn was a registered nurse who worked at the Sunshine Children's Home and Rehab Center in upstate Ossining and had completed a program to become a family nurse practictioner.
A wake for her has tentatively been set for 8 p.m. Friday at Central Funeral Home in Flushing, and her funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church in Woodside, according to Sheldon Meikle, the director for international nurses at Perfect Choice Staffing of Woodbury, LI, which sponsored Ahn's immigration here.
"She was an exceptional person," Meikle said. "Anywhere she worked, people had good things to say about her. She was the epitome of a nurse. She was very caring and loving, and she cared more for others than for herself."
It was Meikle who had to identify Ahn's body and notify her family in South Korea. His company had offered to pay their travel expenses, but then the Metropolitan Transportation Agency covered those, he said. The family arrived at Kennedy Airport Wednesday.
Before her current posting at Sunshine, her second one there, Ahn had worked in the pediatric unit at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, from July 2011 to December 2012. She had earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from Lehman College in the Bronx, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.
"We are completely stunned and saddened by today's news," Catherine Alicia Georges, chairwoman of Lehman's Nursing Department, said in a statement when the college learned of Ahn's death. "Kisook was a model student, who did well in both her undergraduate and graduate programs."
Myung Sook Cho, president of the Greater New York Korean Nurses Association, also had only positive things to say about Ahn.
"I admired her," Cho said. "She was there whenever we asked her to do something, and even though she had a tough time adjusting to America, she always had a smile on her face."
Cho explained that by "a tough time adjusting to America," she meant that Ahn had to balance work, school and a long commute — all so that she could stay in the country and get the green card that members of the nurses' group said she was on the verge of receiving.
"It's so sad she had to go through such a tremendous accident and lose her life," said Cho, who like her organization's members, immigrated to the United States from Korea. "She was so young; she was 35 years old. We are very sad at the nurses association."
Ahn's closest friends could not be reached for comment about the kind of person she was, but her Facebook page showed that she had changed her profile photo to one of yellow roses, a symbol of friendship, in early November. It also showed that she had visited the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in early August.
The Woodside resident was the youngest victim of the accident, which derailed the 5:54 a.m. train from Poughkeepsie. The other people killed were all upstate residents: Donna Smith, 54, of Newburgh; James Lovell, 58, of Cold Spring; and James Ferrari, 59, of Montrose.
"The MTA extends its deepest sympathies to the families of the victims," the agency said in a statement, adding that it is "fully cooperating with the investigation being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board."
Borough President Helen Marshall also issued a statement expressing her condolences to those who knew the victims.
"I cannot even begin to comprehend the grief Ms. Ahn's family and friends must be feeling right now," Marshall said. "Ms. Ahn came to America looking for a better life, and unfortunately her life was taken away from her much too soon."


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Addressing memory
This lesson builds directly on the material in the section "A first look at variables".
In the previous lesson on variables, we talked about the fact that variables are names for a piece of memory that can be used to store information. To recap briefly, computers have random access memory (RAM) that is available for program to use. When a variable is declared, a piece of that memory is set aside for that variable.
The smallest unit of memory is a binary digit (bit), which can hold a value of 0 or 1. You can think of a bit as being like a traditional light switch — either the light is off (0), or it is on (1). There is no in-between. If you were to look at a sequential piece of memory, all you would see is …011010100101010… or some combination thereof. Memory is organized into individual sections called addresses. Perhaps surprisingly, in modern computers, each bit does not get it's own address. The smallest addressable unit of memory is a group of 8 bits known as a byte.
The following picture shows some sequential memory addresses, along with the corresponding byte of data:
Because all data on a computer is just a sequence of bits, we use a data type to tell us how to interpret the contents of memory in some meaningful way. You have already seen one example of a data type: the integer. When we declare a variable as an integer, we are telling the computer "the piece of memory that this variable addresses is going to be interpreted as a whole number".
When you assign a value to a data type, the computer takes care of the details of encoding your value into the appropriate sequence of bits for that data type. When you ask for your value back, the program "reconstitutes" your number from the sequence of bits in memory.
There are many other data types in C++ besides the integer, most of which we will cover shortly. As shorthand, we typically refer to a variable's "data type" as it's "type".
Declaring a variable
In the "basic C++" section, you already learned how to declare an integer variable:
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int nVarName; // int is the type, nVarName is the name of the variable |
To declare variables of other data types, the idea is exactly the same:
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type varName; // type is the type (eg. int), varName is the name of the variable |
In the following example, we declare 5 different variables of 5 different types.
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bool bValue; char chValue; int nValue; float fValue; double dValue; |
We'll talk more about what the different types mean in upcoming sections.
You can also assign values to your variables upon declaration. When we assign values to a variable using the assignment operator (equals sign), it's called an explicit assignment:
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int nValue = 5; // explicit assignment |
You can also assign values to variables using an implicit assignment:
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int nValue(5); // implicit assignment |
Even though implicit assignments look a lot like function calls, the compiler keeps track of which names are variables and which are functions so that they can be resolved properly.
Declaring multiple variables
It is possible to declare multiple variables of the same type in one statement by separating the names with a comma. The following 2 snippets of code are effectively the same:
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int nValue1, nValue2; |
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int nValue1; int nValue2; |
You can also assign them values on the declaration line:
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int nValue1 = 5, nValue2 = 6; int nValue3(7), nValue4(8); |
Which is effectively the same as:
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int nValue1 = 5; int nValue2 = 6; int nValue3 = 7; int nValue4 = 8; |
There are three mistakes that new programmers tend to make when declaring multiple variables in the same statement.
The first mistake is declaring each variable as int (or whatever type it is) in sequence. This is not a bad mistake because the compiler will complain and ask you to fix it.
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int nValue1, int nValue2; // wrong (compiler error) int nValue1, nValue2; // correct |
The second error is to try to declare two variables of different types on the same line, which is not allowed. Variables of different types must be declared in separate statements. This is also not a bad mistake because the compiler will complain and ask you to fix it.
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int nValue1, double dValue2; // wrong (compiler error) int nValue1; double dValue2; // correct (but not recommended) // correct and recommended (easier to read) int nValue1; double dValue2; |
The last mistake is the dangerous case. In this case, the programmer mistakenly tries to initialize both variables by using one assignment statement:
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int nValue1, nValue2 = 5; // wrong (nValue1 is uninitialized!) int nValue1 = 5, nValue2 = 5; // correct |
In the top statement, the nValue1 variable will be left uninitialized, and the compiler will NOT complain. This is a great way to have your program intermittently crash and produce sporadic results.
The best way to remember that this is wrong is consider the case of implicit initialization:
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int nValue1, nValue2(5); |
This makes it seem a little more clear that the value 5 is only being assigned to nValue2. The explicit assignment case is no different.
Where to declare variables
Older C compilers forced users to declare all of the variables in a function at the top of the function:
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int main() { // all variable up top int x; int y; // then code using namespace std; cout << "Enter a number: "; cin >> x; cout << "Enter another number: "; cin >> y; cout << "The sum is: " << x + y << endl; return 0; } |
This style is now obsolete. C++ compilers do not require all variables to be declared at the top of a function. The proper C++ style is to declare variables when and where they are needed:
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int main() { // then code using namespace std; cout << "Enter a number: "; int x; // we need x starting here. cin >> x; cout << "Enter another number: "; int y; // we don't need y until now cin >> y; cout << "The sum is: " << x + y << endl; return 0; } |
This has quite a few advantages. First, variables that are declared only when needed are given context by the statements around them. If x were declared at the top of the function, we would have no idea what it was used for until we scanned the function and found where it was used. Declaring x amongst a bunch of input/output statements helps make it obvious that this variable is being used for input and/or output.
Second, declaring a variable only where it is needed tells us that this variable does not affect anything above it, making our program easier to understand and requiring less scrolling. Finally, it reduces the likelihood of inadvertently leaving a variable uninitialized, because we can declare and then immediately initialize it with the value we want it to have.
Rule: Declare variables where they are needed.
2.2 — Keywords and naming identifiers |
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Importance The use of epidural analgesia in laparoscopic colorectal surgery has demonstrated superiority over conventional analgesia in controlling pain. Controversy exists, however, regarding its cost-effectiveness and its effect on postoperative outcomes.
Objectives To examine the use of epidural analgesia in laparoscopic colorectal surgery at the national level and to compare its outcomes with those of conventional analgesia.
Design, Setting, and Participants This is a retrospective review of laparoscopic colorectal cases performed with or without epidural analgesia for cancer, diverticular disease, and benign polyps. Patient demographic characteristics, disease and procedure types, and hospital settings were listed for patients in the epidural and conventional analgesia groups. A 1 to 4 case-matched analysis was performed, matching for patient demographic characteristics, hospital setting, indications, and procedure type. Data were obtained from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2010.
Main Outcomes and Measures Total hospital charge, length of stay, mortality, pneumonia, respiratory failure, urinary tract infection, urinary retention, anastomotic leak, and postoperative ileus.
Results A total of 191 576 laparoscopic colorectal cases were identified during the study period. Epidural analgesia was used in 4102 cases (2.14%). Epidurals were more likely to be used in large teaching hospitals, cancer cases, and rectal operations. On case-matched analysis, epidural analgesia was associated with a longer hospital stay by 0.60 day (P = .003), higher hospital charges by $3732.71 (P = .02), and higher rate of urinary tract infection (odds ratio = 1.81; P = .05). Epidural analgesia did not affect the incidence of respiratory failure, pneumonia, anastomotic leak, ileus, or urinary retention.
Conclusions and Relevance The perioperative use of epidural analgesia in laparoscopic colorectal surgery is limited in the United States. While epidural analgesia appears to be safe, it comes with higher hospital charges, longer hospital stay, and a higher incidence of urinary tract infections.
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I have a mountain ash tree which is covered with bunches of red berries. How do I go about drying them. I want to use them in a wreath.
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I hope someone with actual experience with Mountain Ash berries will respond but in the meantime I'm going to suggest you experiment if you have enough time (and berries). I've never even seen a Mountain Ash but I've dried berries from lots of other trees and shrubs by just clipping twigs or branches and standing in a container with no water. Or lay them out on newspaper or racks to dry. When I try something unfamiliar to me, I try a few just barely ripe (red) and some ripe, as often one type will last longer dried or shrink/discolor less. It's mostly just trial and error for me. Some might even drop off the stem once dried when you work with them so it might be better to make your wreaths with the fresh berries and let them dry on the wreath. Just pick a few twigs and experiment. This is just to maybe get you started...still hoping someone who really knows their berries ~smile~ will chime in. Good luck. josh |
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Archive for the 'Strengths' Category
The LAST time I want to be FIRST
July 14, 2008 by: michelle
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to post on Friday. Like a million others (or 425,000 others depending on who you believe) I was waiting in line and at the Apple Store for my new 3G iPhone – for a total of 7 hours!
Now, to be honest, I was ready for a long wait. I knew it was a little silly to be in line at 7:30 am, but there I was. I realized, of course, that being in line at 6:00 am would be truly insane and besides would only mean being a little closer to the door – with 2 hours more to wait until the store actually opened. But after waiting a year and 11 days, I was prepared for 3-4 hours in the thick of things for the thrill of being one of the First, even if it was the second time around.
What I wasn't prepared for was the utter lack of competency and caring on behalf of AT&T. (My alternate title for this post was "AT&T made me cry.")
At 10:30 and with just a few people ahead of us (my husband and owner of an original iPhone for a year and 11 days was with me to acquire his own bigger, faster, stronger gadget), I was pleased that my estimated hours of anticipation were right on the money. However, I was also nearing full-on panic because we'd been on the phone with AT&T for over half of that time. Not withstanding endless loops of IVRs and vague menus that naturally had no selection for "If you're one of the million people we hope will buy a new iPhone this weekend – Press 7″, not a single one of the 11+ real live (supposed) people we spoke with could seem to solve this puzzle:
Hi, I use your service and send you quite a lot of money every month. I'm planning on buying something that I really, really want and know I will love that will enable [a.k.a force] me to send you even more money for even longer, doesn't that sound great? can you help me? In other words, I'm a current AT&T customer with an iPhone, I'd like to UPGRADE to a Family Plan with another iPhone. Can you do that?
I'm sorry, Sir, you'll have to buy your phone from an AT&T store. I'm sorry sir, we can't help you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry…
Are you kidding me? How did they not foresee this particular scenario? Wouldn't this be the very definition of "low hanging fruit"? Didn't they imagine that lots of wives and sons and daughters and lovers and all sorts of iPhone-maniacs that have "family" would naturally think, "hey, honey, you should get one now too?" Apparently not.
And though I'm sure between my husband and I we must have read every blog, factoid, rumor and innuendo in the previous month, no where did we think that we would have to go to AT&T to get our new phones – or we certainly would have been in another line!
So there we were, the next in line, with no way to get a second line! Well, alright. Lucky for us we were at Montgomery Mall, where there is an AT&T store around the corner from the Apple Store about 20 yards away. So around the corner we go. Only to find a line full of other disappointed Apple fans. The lady with the baby carriage who had been a little ways ahead of us. A family with two kids whose cheerios and sippy-cups had long ago run dry. Oh, and the "Manager" of the AT&T store, informing us that they were sold out. He – another real live person – shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, made a face and said, "I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do."
How sad. What a heartbreaking story of…uhm…I can't think of the word…D'uh-ness? With over 5 million phones in the market, AT&T had hundreds of thousands of opportunities to turn current customers into loyal fans, and new customers into delighted buyers who loved the ease and sophistication of switching to AT&T. Instead, they became The Bad Guys, the ones keeping me (and lots of others) from what I loved and longed for.
But what's worse, instead of Insidious Masterminds or Evil Geniuses, they just seemed ill-trained and un-empowered. A legion of bumbling henchmen and loser lackeys who are always the ultimate undoing of any brilliant plan. And they made me feel almost as stupid. They made me regret my feverish excitement about being the First. That's the Last time. Because they also made me dig my heals in and refuse to buy my phone from AT&T. (I did not, I'm happy to report.)
I was ready to love them by association. Instead, every day in my contract with them is just another day closer to the end of their exclusive agreement. The day I jump ship. When will the cell-phone industry realize that indentured servitude isn't the same thing as loyalty?
For toppers, now more than 48 hours later, my phone is still not receiving calls.
But tune it next time to learn why I can still love Apple, even though they broke my heart, a little.
Today was Michel(l)e Day
July 7, 2008 by: michelle
I've lived near, worked around the corner or down the street and passed by Palace Florists at 19th & N near Dupont Circle for many of my nearly 20 years in DC. I don't remember when I first noticed the sign, but for several years they have had a sign out front that reads "If your name is ______(fill in a name) come in for a free rose." There is a different name everyday. They seem to roll through the alphabet.
It always makes me smile, but I've never seen my name before. Once I sent an email to my friend Lisa that worked around a different corner nearby to let her know it was Lisa day.
Well, today was Michele day. With one "L". That's what the sign said. I smiled, and also felt sort of desperate and full of anxiety and wondered would they turn me away for my extra-L? After all these years of telling people, "Hi, my name is Michelle with two L's, like the song" would I come to regret the traditional French spelling? Would they card me?
As I entered the lushly green store, there was a female customer at the register. From behind one of the counters filled with beautiful arrangements appeared another woman who obviously worked there – the single rose in hand gave her away. As she notice my "gee-I-wonder-how-this works" look, she smiled brightly and asked, "Michel(l)e??"
She asked in the way you say someone's name when you go out on a blind date or think you recognize someone from Jr. High, full of hope and anticipation. I didn't recognize her. I felt that brief deer-in-the-headlights sensation. What a coincidence to run into someone who knew me here. How did she know me? My mind raced…then I remembered why I had come in to the store.
She must see that same look on lots of people's faces each day. It turned out the woman in line was also Michele, with the requisite single L. But it turned out it didn't matter. They didn't card me after all. But they did gain a loyal customer. No more plain old FTD or 800flowers for me.
No, from now on Palace Florists will be a part of my family too – check out their tagline.
Strengths & SuperPowers – Kind Trusting Service, Engaging Anticipation
Welcome to The Burning Desire
June 20, 2008 by: michelle
Hello, and Welcome!
Today is the longest day of the year – here in the Northern hemisphere. That means more daylight hours to devote to doing what you do best and what you love the most.
What's that you say? You can't remember the last time you spent more than an hour doing what you do best? You hardly ever feel like you get to really shine at work and lately it seems like every day is so draining? Well…maybe last quarter there was that one great strategy meeting…or a few months ago you got to work on that special project for a couple weeks. But it's certainly not an everyday occurrence, right?
Unfortunately, studies show you're not alone. Over the last decade, the Gallup Organization has gathered information from the more than 10 million participants who have taken their Clifton StrengthsFinder profile. Data indicates that only 30% of respondents strongly agreed that they have the opportunity to do what they do best everyday at work.
So that means a vast majority of us spend a vast majority of our time doing things we may not be very good at, or even like very much. For employees, that means things like dreading going to work and spending a lot of time telling people about the terrible place they work. For companies it means disengaged employees and higher turnover. And for small businesses, it can be the root cause of stagnant business growth.
Like most superheroes, we all have a few things that we can do better than almost anyone – innate talents and signature strengths that make us soar high and shine brightly. (Okay, maybe not fly or wield a golden lasso, but, hey, we've got planes and polygraphs for that stuff now.) But in this Universe, individuals with the innate abilities for developing loyal customer relationships, strategic planning, innovative conceptual thinking, or mad number crunching can save the day faster than any magic bullet.
Yet the sad truth is that, also like many superheroes, we spend most of our time masking those talents or pushing them to the periphery, focusing our energies instead on our weaknesses or "areas for improvement." Essentially, hiding our x-ray eyes behind our horn-rimmed glasses.
So, if you need rescuing from your mild mannered life – welcome to The Burning Desire. Here at TBD, you'll find a fun, lighthearted approach to help you identify your innate talents and signature strengths so you can get more of what you want from life whether it's a new and improved career path, better team dynamics and collaboration, or a new business venture.
Along the way, we'll look at ancient wisdom, new research, and comic book philosophy to help you identify your strengths so you can ignite your passion, create focus and "unmask your inner superhero."
You'll also meet the "League of Legends" – thought leaders, business gurus, and Jedi Masters of everything from music to gardening to database developing, inspiring people who seem to live by The Burning Desire's philosophy -
- - Do what comes naturally and what you do best
- - Do what you love the most and with the greatest of passion
- - Do what you do to make the world a better place
Oh, and of course, you'll learn more about The Burning Desire herself.
So tune in next time…