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I have taken the Bar Method classes and variations on the classes. Key is light weights and incredibly small movements - you work the muscles to exhaustion, over and over. It's a great workout, but..... IMO is lacking a lot because you never work the muscles to their full extension. Think of how dancers workout, strengthening AND working every muscle through it's full range, then stretching. Bar Method misses that full range. As PART of a varied routine it's definitely worth doing, but I know women who do this exclusively and that's a very limited routine. |
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Blindfolded Jump Rope
As a father, I've had a great time coaching my son's teams and watching him grow into a competitive athlete. He loves to play sports and loves to win.
When my daughter was born, I didn't know if she would follow the same path. What I'm seeing though is yet another competitive child. Once she sets her mind on something, she'll keep practicing for as long as I let her. She's got no quit in her and loves to play in the gym.
She's recently taken quite the interest in jumping rope. It's been a blast teaching her how to skip. Over the weekend, I was explaining to her that she'll eventually have such a feel for the rope that she won't need to see it. She laughed and asked why I don't skip rope in the dark. She definitely one-upped me there so I had to do the next best thing. I showed her that it's possible to skip with a blindfold.
The smiles and laughs that followed were priceless. It's just another reason why I enjoy working hard so I can be active with my kids. There is no greater joy in this world.
A leader leads by example, not by force. – Sun Tzu
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Josemar Castor August 11th, 2013 5:57 pm
Funny you should put a Picture of your daughter today. It's Father's Day here in Brazil. I don't know if you celebrate it in the same day in Unites States. Happy Father's Day, Ross.
Denny Jewell August 11th, 2013 10:35 pm
That's it…I'm throwing away my jumprope…that's a priceless picture, Ross…
Ronn August 12th, 2013 10:35 am
Ross, you were one of my very first inspirations to start hardcore training. And you still remain one. Heart warming is the only adjective I can recall right now.
Hop August 12th, 2013 10:57 am
All I have is applause.
http://www.titaniumpro-x.com/ August 13th, 2013 5:37 am
Dad is the only friend which wants his children ahead of him. The best gift you can deliver is the one you stated above. Best wishes for you man. I like the way you want to build your team.
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Connecticut's DeAndre Daniels, right is guarded by New Hampshire's Chris Pelcher during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Storrs, Conn., Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham) |
NEW YORK — Kevin Ollie welcomes the opportunity to play on national television tonight against No. 25 North Carolina State in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
The UConn coach likes the chance to honor Jim Valvano, whose early coaching years included a two-year stop as an assistant to Dee Rowe at UConn.
Ollie loves the idea of being able to showcase his team, one that won't play in the postseason but wants to show it still has plenty for which to play.
He won't welcome the team that showed up Thursday night in a rather lackluster win against New Hampshire, however.
"I think it will be a great opportunity for us to show what we're really made of," Ollie said. "We've got to go out and play UConn basketball. That's the only thing I'm concerned with. It can't be New Hampshire, it can't be N.C. State.
"We just want to show our talent and show everybody how we can play offensively and defensively and execute."
The Huskies (6-1) did one of those things well against New Hampshire. Their defense was fine. The offense was awful, partially because the execution was sub-par. UConn can't afford that against the likes of the Wolfpack (4-2), a team many figure will challenge for the ACC title.
N.C. State is a matchup nightmare for the Huskies. The Wolfpack doesn't have a lot of size up front, but it has a point guard in Lorenzo Brown who stands 6-foot-5. Their other guards are big, at least in comparison to Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright. Forward C.J. Leslie is an athletic freak who can take over games if he puts his mind to it.
Beating Michigan State to start the season was as much a result of an emotional high — new coach, a team with tons to prove, playing in Germany — as it was anything else. Now that the Huskies have settled into a more normal routine, they face a test that will certainly provide a better glimpse of who and what they are.
"We showed that we can compete with Michigan State and then we kind of fell off," UConn forward Tyler Olander said. "So just to play in the Garden, against a very good N.C. State team and play well and come out with a win, would be huge to us."
The Huskies might get guard R.J. Evans back today, which would help against those big N.C. State guards. Evans has been sidelined with a shoulder issue for the past two games and was initially targeting Friday's game against Harvard as a return date.
He has progressed more quickly than expected in his rehabilitation. Whether he plays will be a game-time decision for the training staff and Ollie. Evans has been like another coach for the last two games but Ollie would much rather have him on the court.
"His numbers don't even tell the different things that he brings and the added dimension he brings to the team," Ollie said. "His energy, his leadership, being an extension of the coaches, it definitely makes us deeper. If he does come back in this game, it is definitely going to be a lift for us."
UConn could use a lift. It struggled to get past Stony Brook, needing a hot shooting streak late to put distance between itself and the Seawolves. The New Hampshire game is best forgotten. In fact, since beating Michigan State, the Huskies have had more bouts of inconsistency than moments of fluidity.
That was hardly unexpected, but putting things together tonight will set a good tone as the Huskies bear down on the final-exam break.
"Hopefully, we can come in and be engaged and be in tune early," Ollie said. "Make sure we plug in and make sure we're connected on the defense and offensive end."
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Hi Beth, welcome to the forum. You'll have a wonderful time in here - great folks, great help. Sure hope something here inspires your decorating. Sal |
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Welcome Beth, there are some great ideas in the posts here, and a group of very talented ladies. Hope you find lots of things to make for your home, family, and friends. There is also a Home Decorating forum that you might enjoy, be sure to take a look over there too. Luvs |
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I like the recently created "Comprehensive Guide to using Todoist" posted in your blog (I came across it through a recent email I received from Todoist) - it provides quite a nice overview. I think it would be helpful to include a link to this guide on the "Help" page since I'm guessing most users would be more likely to look for this kind of information on the "Help" page vs. the blog. Once the "Guide" moves off the blog's main page, those who may not have seen it before would have no idea it even existed unless they purposely drilled through the blog archives and discovered it that way. The "Guide" is too useful to be buried in a place most may not look for it.
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So why was Monica on stage singing that damn hard? She was doing a tribute to Willona Woods, of course.
Tidbits of behind the scene gossip from the BET Honors leaked out earlier this week. Here's the scoop via That Bitch from Rhymes with Snitch:
The second annual BET Honors taped the other day and gossip is starting to leak out from behind the scenes. They say producers were really hot to have Keyshia Cole sing a tribute to Mary J. Blige, who was honored along with Tyler Perry and Magic Johnson, but Mary's husband/manager nixed the idea claiming there too many comparisons between Mary and Keyshia as it is. Instead, Monica and Anita Baker sang the tribute to Mary while Keyshia was relegated to introducing choreographer Judith Jamison.
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Recently I came upon the idea of using commercial tomato juice instead of water to can whole tomatoes. Essentially, it would replace the water in the raw pack recipe for tomatoes packed in water (from the Ball Blue Book). I would still add citric acid to the jars but I would skip the optional added salt. The idea seems legit to me, would cut down on my processing time because I would use it instead of my preferred taste method of tomatoes packed in own juice. |
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It won't reduce your processing time. It increases it to 85 mins. BWB and almost doubles the PC processing time too because of increased density. Dave |
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The BWB processing time for canning whole or halved tomatoes (packed raw without added liquid) and just using the juice made by the tomatoes themselves is 85 min., not the 40-45 min. listed on the website. Dave |
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+ Sarasota cops keep drama all in the family
After playing the part of a cop for 26 years, Linda DeNiro is ready to slip into something a little more glamorous.
The longtime city of Sarasota police officer will don a frou-frou period dress this month for her role in the Venice Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol."
DeNiro is the only member of her family who hasn't performed on the Venice Theatre stage.
In July, her police officer husband, Phil, made his acting debut in "Jesus Christ Superstar" alongside their two children, Teri and Tony. He followed up the performance by playing the father to his son's Huck Finn in "Big River."
Now he'll appropriately play Mr. Fezziwig to his wife's Mrs. Fezziwig.
The characters appear in a lively Christmas party scene during Scrooge's journey with the Ghost of Christmas Past. If you catch the show, which runs Dec. 16 to Dec. 18, at the Venice Theatre, you'll see the entire DeNiro family singing and dancing around a Christmas tree.
"I'm dipping my toe in the water to see how it feels," DeNiro says. "My son is leaving for college next year, so this might be the only chance we'll have for all four of us to do this together."
+ Art Center Sarasota has good taste in 'Material'
Kudos to the five artists who placed at the top of Art Center Sarasota's juried "Material World" exhibition.
Co-juried by Brian Haverlock and Tom Stephens, the show drew an eclectic selection of entries from artists all over the area.
If none of these names rings a bell, you should make an effort to seek out their work: Jo Proietti, Janice Ketley, Gary Gorman, Marianthe Pastore and Pat Kaufman.
Their entries are up now through Dec. 31 in the lobby at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune building in downtown Sarasota.
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Moving Ethos is reprising its popular art-meets-dance-meets-quirky social statement this month at Art Center Sarasota.
"The Ability to Talk Socially With Others … Or Lack Thereof" premiered in October to rave reviews at Holley Hall in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center.
The work, which was choreographed by company directors Courtney Smith and Leah Verier-Dunn, is meant to represent the communication foibles and breakthroughs we experience on an everyday basis.
Inspired by an actual "how-to" conversation manual that exists on the Internet, the hour-long performance includes a mixed bag of banter-gone-bad, nasty gossip and funny miscommunications.
In addition to Smith and Verier-Dunn, the piece features dancers Claudia Rightmire, Keely Sullivan Henry and Jennifer Maecker.
The contemporary dance troupe — now in its fifth year — is also collaborating with local abstract expressionist and former gymnastics coach Beverly A. Smith.
If you've ever met the outspoken Smith, you know she doesn't mince words. Her involvement can only add to the experience. Trust me.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail. For more information, call 312-1693 or visit movingethos.com.
+ 'Butterfly' nets record sales at Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Opera played it safe this year by picking "Madama Butterfly" for its fall repertoire.
Sure, it was a mainstream choice, but in tough economic times, you'd do the same thing.
The three-act romantic melodrama is one of Puccini's most beloved operas. After running for six performances, it closed Nov. 15, after having grossed more than $500,000 in ticket sales, making it the best-selling fall production since the organization launched its pre-season opera series in 2008.
Well done, Sarasota Opera. Here's hoping your shows continue to give us butterflies as the season continues.
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'Next to Normal': This Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical about a mother with bipolar disorder was nominated for 11 Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway two years ago. Directed by Richard Hopkins, the show stars Stacia Fernandez, Mike Backes, Leo Daignault, Ashley Picciallo, James LaRosa and Scott Guthrie. It runs though Jan. 7, at Florida Studio Theatre. For tickets, call 366-9000 or visit floridastudiotheatre.org.
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I have always loved cars since i was a little kid. My father owned a 1978 ford F250 lariat that he had fully restored and took to car shows, unfortunatly he sold it because he used it as his daily driver and a 400 big block wasnt cheap on gas. I had worked for 3 summers full time in a row to save up for a car and insurance because my parents and i believed the best way to get something is to earn it. I have spent hours working on my car, getting it to look and run right, i spent atleast 2 hours cleanign out the engine bay and sanding down the top so it didnt look so dull.
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In her bestselling novel Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Award-winning author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver here introduces a wildlife biologist whose reclusive life in a mountain cabin is disrupted by a young hunter; a city girl-turned-farmer's wife who must decide whether or not to fight for the land she now inhabits; and a pair of feuding, elderly neighbors who forge a bond neither of them could have predicted.
As the humid summer progresses, the characters grow closer to each other and the nature that surrounds them in this beautifully-written work that helped solidify Barbara Kingsolver's place in the literary firmament.
This Harper Perennial Deluxe Modern Classic edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."
Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn


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How does that happen? Well, when you're writing copy for your website, and specifically your blogs, you should be writing for two audiences: your prospects and Google.
The really good tag lines stay with you, like the one above for Lay's Potato Chips. Of course, they've been using it for decades, but think about what your tag lines says about your company.
The organization Neuromarketing (yes, that is an actual discipline) recently wrote an article entitled: How to write tag lines that double sales. Personally, we're not sure any tagline can manage that, but you can read the article here.
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Yes, we are all members and there's no way that's gonna change anytime soon. It's the reason news programs work with sound bites instead of in-depth coverage.
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Make you visuals different, interesting, attention-getting, and tell a bit of a story about what you do that helps your customers.
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This is an example of 1) and ad series we wished we'd done, and 2) something so beautifully simple and memorable it deserves to be recognized.
There's this website called Neuromarketing, whose focus is "Where brain science and marketing meet." Marketing has come a long way...
This is a guerilla marketing and social media success story from a politically-focused website in "Yekaterinburg" one of the largest cities in Russia. It is, however, a lesson we can all learn from. It's all about someone's efforts to get the mayor of Yekaterinburg to fix some major potholes.
Another example of very cool work coming out of other countries. The über cool thing about it is when the billboard is viewed from the side, the knife is actually a 3D element. And we imagine, you just can't help but touch the edge sticking out to see how sharp it is.
This billboard for a home and garden store in Beijing, China shows a knife cutting food, in this case, carrots. In other billboards, the knife is cutting fish and other vegetables.
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Crowded US Airwaves Desperately In Search of Spectrum Breathing Room
Re:Obvious (105 comments)
Seriously, FPGAs are cheap, why the hell not?
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Re:Obvious (105 comments)
Seriously, FPGAs are cheap, why the hell not?
Re:Awesome! (313 comments)
The number of games they have is growing at least. Now, if only I could buy Linux games on Steam using Bitcoin...
Re:MATLAB? (332 comments)
That's what I'd suggest MATLAB or Sage. Just because spreadsheets handle (or try to handle) numbers means they are the best tools for it.
On "Smart" Phones (138 comments)
I think of them more as Modems that happen to have computing and voice messaging capability...
Re:Elementary education (263 comments)
This. There are open source textbook projects that float around somewhere, but the one I've seen seem to focus on collegiate level general education texts. Writing for younger learners isn't as simple as putting the information together. There's a big component in using information from studies of childhood development and learning theory that shapes the presentation in quality elementary school texts. This is something that takes resources, but if a group can be found it would probably be one of the causes with the potential to have a broad impact.
Re:Pathetic (171 comments)
Well most computing hardware is etched onto the fairly stable medium of silicon. Most cells, pretty much all of them in persons have membranes have membranes composed of phospholipids studded with proteins. Which substrate seems friendlier to work with.
Re:What's the point? (221 comments)
They kind of do. There is this powerful tool known as the Orange book with all approved medications including generics listed with separate entries for each dosage. There is a lot of information out there. Even if you just count the free stuff. The thing is a good portion of it is only really accessible in a useful way to professionals, because the body is a complex system. You pharmacist, the guy who checks your prescriptions for dangers and counsels you on proper drug therapy has at least four years of professional education. Saying any given normal adult should have to accept all of the responsibility for themselves is opening the door for abuse.
Look at statins. There are dangers popping up now that didn't appear in a statistically significant way during the original trials that only had thousands of participants. Now, with post market surveillance more of them can be identified. On the flip side, there are benefits of statins being explored that weren't conceivable during per-approval trials.
Re:What's the point? (221 comments)
How many high blood pressure patients understand the nuances of the rein-angiotensin system.
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I had a second generation Acer Aspire One and moved to a Lenovo X120e. The SSD I was using in the Acer survived the move and is still stable. If I'd ever moved my video collection from DVDs and streaming I'd run into space trouble, but I can live within the 128 gigs the SSD leaves me with plenty of comfort.
My three big concerns are battery life, time to wake, and time to launch new applications. I spend a lot of time moving around campus and every second faster the laptop wakes up is more time I have before I have to get my A game on. The biggest speed difference I've noticed with the SSD is using Adobe Lightroom, but its still nice to bring up Firefox, Word, and Power Point faster.
The thing I love about the E-350 is how well it sleeps. I don't hibernate or use virtual memory due to the write cycle lifespan limit on SSDs, but damn AMD fusion sleeps well. Being a graduate student I've seen my current setup against student's, classmate's, and faculty's setups (overwhelmingly MacBook Airs and iPads this year). It is competitive against anything anyone else in the classroom uses. When the warranty on the SSD quits I might be scared, but right now I am enjoying it.
Right now I feel more limited by the E-350's ability to only use single channel DDR3. My documents are backed up on a form of media and my documents live somewhere in the cloud. It feels like I have the best of the mobile and desktop worlds for the tasks I need the notebook for. This would change though if I needed to edit video or compile code on the mobile.
Re:vaporware (286 comments)
Agreed. For anything I'd want to do on a 12" laptop an E-350 plus and SSD just kills lag. Especially compared to my previous configuration of Atom and the same (intel) SSD.
Re:Ah, central planning. (611 comments)
The Department of Defense has believed in the tremendous margin of safety not having that additional methyl group confers. Chemically that extra methyl group confers a greater stuctural similarity to epinephrine upon methamphetamine, while not having that extra methyl group makes plain old amphetamine and dexamphetamine more similar to dopamine and norepinephrine. The way the rest of the molecule is shaped, that extra methyl group being in that location is a big difference. It's the difference between Paul Erdos and Faces of Meth. Between your stealth bomber crew flying 36 hours uninterrupted or the 2 billion dollar plane crashing halfway because the flight crew killed each other in a Lord of the Flies reenactment.
Re:Ah, central planning. (611 comments)
Well, these and the drugs that had all of the adds for the past 13 years until they went off patent.
Re:You'd think, but... (611 comments)
Methotrexate has been around since the 1950's and was one of the first generally safe chemotherapy medications.
It works and isn't hindered by intellectual property laws. Methotrexate is something you want to regulate the safety of. Methotrexate is one drug you really want to contain exactly the dose printed on the label. The methotrexate shortage is pretty much all on manufacturers.
Adderall though is probably a mix between Shire and the DEA. Shire wants people on Vyvanse because they make more per pill on it while the DEA likes that Vyvanse can't be abused (or used) IV. Are they colluding, probably not. Is there an incentive for either to try to fix the problem, not really. Patient and insurers who need to care about what this does to healthcare costs really don't have the clout to break this.
Re:You'd think, but... (611 comments)
Exactly, methotrexate is not a controlled substance like the amphetamine salts prescribed for ADHD. Methotrexate is an anti-folate used for serious illnesses. Methotrexate has a pretty intense side effect profile, and the last thing any manufacturer would want is liability for injuries caused by a tainted or defective version of a drug that already has a narrow therapeutic window.
This methotrexate shortage in the news getting the most attention is for the intrathecal preparation for administration directly into the cerebro-spinal fluid on the brain side of the blood brain barrier. Intrethecal drugs normally have to be preservative free and any chemicals in it have to be controlled for because the blood brain barrier keeps a lot of chemicals and pathogens on the blood side. If something dangerous gets in it may not be getting back out. Preparing a drug for market like this isn't something that can be half-assed unless you think Russian Roulette is too safe.
Re:Already been done without any hacking (162 comments)
Bachmann and Santorum were probably resigned to that when they entered, but Perry entered with the expectation of winning. Perry actually started the flavor of the month trend by knocking off Bachmann. For Perry the culture war isn't his message so much as the thing he was pushed into resorting to as his last agonal breaths before quitting after the South Carolina primary in a dignified manner. Entering the campaign Perry's message was simply "Texas, Fuck Yeah". Seeing 2000 and 2004 along with Texas's attempts to brand itself as America Plus, it wasn't and unrealistic expectation or strategy. It was just a dumb one.
Re:Whoa, fanboy mass attack! (542 comments)
The iPhone release, the App Store introduction, the iPad release... This is nothing.
Re:Apple Manufacturing (542 comments)
The public-private partnership has transcended from trend to religion. Obama/Gingrich/Romney-Care illustrates that. If only Hilary-Care happened.
Re:Sorry Ron Paul (162 comments)
There isn't a chance for Rove or 4chan to decide the president in 2012. Rove isn't endorsing primary candidates so much as eliminating them and there are too many olds for 4chan to take it to the convention.
Re:Already been done without any hacking (162 comments)
If I recall correctly a brokered convention wasn't necessary for Obama to trump Hilary as the Democrats used proportional representation in 2008.
In a brokered convention the most Ron Paul would be able to do is pledge his committed delegates to another candidate, provided the pledged delegates agree. Perry will probably be in a similar situation. What those delegates would probably do is support the not-Paul and not-Romney candidate. Huntsman will probably run on the Americans elect ticket turning the Charm up to 11 while being so economically conservative Paul would look like Kim Jung Il, Gary Johnson will run on the libertarian ticket as the marijuana candidate, the greens will put up a nobody, and Obama wins on the democratic ticket.
Re:The real story here... (162 comments)
Normally New Hampshire disagrees with Iowa, so they don't get to pick nominees on their own. It's just that they get to pick one of the two candidates that will be viable for the rest of the slugfest.
Iowans aren't the simpletons that they are often portrayed as. Maybe they aren't Masters of the Universe, but they know what the game is and the game is to milk every candidate for as much as they can. The most they have done so far this election cycle as far as picking candidates is bleed the Bachmann campaign dry, which I wouldn't class as a negative outcome. Mittens isn't my candidate, but he knows that Iowa knows they game and only started making a real effort once the other candidates beat each other to hell.


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On Jan. 7, 2013, The Washington Examiner released the outcome of the investigation finding Walmart's employee medical insurance is "significantly better" than Obamacare. Walmart originates under mega union labor union criticism like a retailer whose staff is both underpaid and mistreated. Like many insurance coverage that have been canceled like a result of Obamacare benefit regulations, Walmart's health care insurance has been called "substandard.'
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Pay-to-Pitch Comes Creeping Back: How Much Is Too Much?
Entrepreneurs and other startup economy workers have started complaining about rising fees of events around town—the sheer abundance of tech events in New York has us habituated to all-star panels and pizza for $0 to $5. But while $35 classes at General Assembly inspire the occasional grousing, there is one thing that seems to really get the startup community riled up: events that charge entrepreneurs to pitch. Read More


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Happy Pi Day, everyone!
I don't know about you, but I always enjoy a good date that has significance. Dates like 11-11-11, 10-01-10 and 7-9-79 are fun, but March 14th always tops my list! Maybe I'm a geek. Maybe I just like pie.
Either way, today is Pi day! We're celebrating with the handy infographic below, which offers us a whole bunch of fun facts about Pi. Get ready – there's lots here that you probably don't already know (unless you are a math teacher, and then you have an unfair advantage!) Keep reading to learn more.


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James Bulluck, who starred as a forward on Rocky Mountain College's 2009 NAIA national championship basketball team, will be serving as an assistant coach for the Battlin' Bears this coming season.
Bulluck will be joining his former head coach Bill Dreikosen and his longtime assistant Wes Keller on the Rocky bench. He was a student assistant for Rocky in 2009-10 while completing his schooling.
"James just has a really good mind for the game," Dreikosen said. "I think he understands the game well, and that showed when he played. We're just really excited to have him as a former player and as a part of our staff."
Bulluck, who is a Billings Skyview graduate, works as a home manager for Youth Dynamics in Billings.
He started 36 games for Rocky's national title team, averaging 11.4 points and 4.2 rebounds per outing. He was one of the Bears' leading 3-point shooters.
Bulluck played two years at Sheridan College and one year at Regis University in Denver before transferring to Rocky for one season.
Rocky's men open the 2013-14 season Oct. 25 against Walla Walla University at the Montana Western Tournament in Dillon. The Bears' home opener will be Nov. 4 against Montana State Billings.


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Web analytics company ClickTracks to host Webinars
Web analytics company ClickTracks to host Webinars
Web analytics company ClickTracks to host live Webinars demonstrate product and service key areas
18 January 2007, London, UK---- Web analytics company ClickTracks (http://www.clicktracks.com) is now offering free Webinars for its customers to learn more about its Web measurement products and services online.
Entitled the 'ClickTracks Live Overview', the Webinars consist of online demonstrations of ClickTracks Web analytics products and services starting in January 2007, and are currently set to run throughout the rest of the year with the latest to be held on the 23, 24 and 25 January 2007.
Presented by Andres Galdames, business analyst and Gideon Amparo, European sales engineer at ClickTracks, the online Web analytics show customers how to benefit from maximising the potential of the ClickTracks tools.
The Webinars which maybe found at http://support.clicktracks.com/clicktracks/learn/webinars.php cover everything from how to segment visitors to how to set up revenue tracking. The online demonstrations also give customers tips and insights on interpreting specific results and are the only Web analytics virtual tutorials of this nature.
Using screen sharing inside the customers' browser, they are able watch live as ClickTracks' key features are demonstrated. The simultaneous toll-free telephone conference allows customers follow along with the discussion and ask questions in real time.
"The ClickTracks Live Overview compliments the range of Web analytics online classes, tutorials and seminars that enable business owners and marketers to perfect their traditional and digital strategy with our guidance. It allows our customers to tune in online in real-time, see the demonstrations live and interact with us asking any questions that may have ensuring that that are abreast of the latest developments to manage their businesses online," comments Michael Stebbins, VP of marketing for ClickTracks.
"Streaming video and live virtual classes is the perfect medium to deliver Web analytics to an audience and is intuitive for beginners and seasoned professionals using the Internet," concludes Stebbins.
----Notes to editors----
ClickTracks overview Webinars
The Webinars schedule normally fall twice on Tuesdays (14:00 PT / 05:00 ET / 10:00 GMT) and (11:00 PT / 14:00 ET / 07:00 GMT), Wednesdays 08:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 16:00 GMT and Thursdays 07:00 PT / 10:00 ET / 15:00 GMT.
ClickTracks Web analytics overview online Webinars to update clients of the latest developments of its tools with live demonstrations maybe be found at http://support.clicktracks.com/clicktracks/learn/webinars.php. Check the ClickTracks site for any changes.
ClickTracks online classes
ClickTracks is also hosting Web analytics online classes across 22 January 2007 at 18:00 GMT and 23 January 2007 at 15:00 GMT. To learn more visit http://www.clicktracks.com/seminars/.
Marshall Law online video tutorials
John Marshall delivers online video tutorials entitled Marshall Law, that address the Web analytics sector and subject matter that is pertinent to it; such as click fraud, data accuracy, data collection and so on.
To view the Web analytics online videos visit Marshall Law at http://www.clicktracks.com/insidetrack/marshall_law.php/.
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Based in Santa Cruz, California, ClickTracks is the maker of award-winning Web analytics software. The ClickTracks family of software was designed out of sheer frustration with existing Web analytics offerings. Spending hour upon hour trying to understand Website visitors was certainly a motivating experience: there had to be a better way.
ClickTracks was voted 'Best Web Site Analysis Tool' in ClickZ's 2005, 2004 and 2003 Marketing Excellence Awards and was rated "Positive" in Gartner's 2006 MarketScope for Web Analytics. The company received a "Very Good" top rating from the InfoWorld Test Center for its 6.1 product suite, and a Computerworld Innovative Technology award in the Website management category. ClickTracks' software has been reviewed and featured on CNET, ZDNet, Builder.com, TechRepublic, Internet.com, CRM Magazine, Media Magazine, MarketingSherpa and About.com.
ClickTracks is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, please visit http://www.clicktracks.com or send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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5.1.4 Adoption Support |
Adoption passport: a support guide for adopters
This chapter was updated in January 2014. The above link was added to the Adoption passport: a support guide for adopters. Additional information was added into Section 2, Examples of Adoption Support.This chapter is currently under review.
- What is Adoption Support?
- Examples of Adoption Support
- Adoption Support Services Adviser (ASSA)
- When to Assess the Need for Adoption Support
- Which Local Authority Should Carry Out the Assessment?
- Which Local Authority Should Provide Support?
- Process of Assessment for Adoption Support
- The Adoption Support Plan
- Financial Support
See also the Adoption 22 Consortium Guidance. Hard Copies of this guidance are available from Team Managers, Permanence and Adoption.
1. What is Adoption Support?
Adoption Support includes any support likely to be required for an adoptive placement to endure through to adulthood and is applicable to both existing and new situations.
Local authorities must make arrangements, as part of their adoption service, for the provision of a range of adoption support services.
Assessments carried out by social workers for the provision of adoption support will attend to the needs of adopted children, birth families and members of adoptive families and establish their entitlement to services.
Local authorities may arrange for the required services to be provided by appropriate voluntary organisations. In Lancashire, there are agreements with a number of different voluntary adoption agencies for this purpose.
2. Examples of Adoption Support
See also The adoption passport: a support guide for adopters
Adoption support may include:
- Financial support to adopters. This can include paid adoption leave at similar rates to maternity and paternity leave;
- Priority access to social housing, and access to additional support to cover a spare room whilst adopters wait for their child to arrive in their new home;
- Priority admission for school places, including academies and free schools;
- Services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive parents and birth parents to discuss matters relating to adoption;
- Assistance, including mediation, with contact arrangements between adopted children and their birth parents or others with whom they share a significant relationship;
- Therapeutic services for adoptive children;
- Assistance to adoptive parents and children to support the adoptive placement and enable it to continue, including respite care;
- Assistance to adoptive parents and children where a placement disrupts or is at risk of disruption;
- A range of adoption support services , including access to counselling, information and advice for both adoptive parents and their children, who may have complex needs;
- Intermediary Services - see Intermediary Services Procedure.
3. Adoption Support Services Adviser (ASSA)
Each adoption agency must appoint an Adoption Support Services Adviser, who must be a person in the adoption agency with sufficient knowledge of and experience in adoption and its effect to give advice and information to anyone affected by adoption.
In Lancashire, the County Adoption Services Manager is the ASSA.
4. When to Assess the Need for Adoption Support
4.1 | Practitioners must assess the need for adoption support at the following stages of care and permanence planning:
4.2 | Adoption support must also be considered at a child's reviews following the adoptive placement. |
4.3 | Local authorities must undertake assessments of need for adoption support at the request of the following groups. However the requirement to assess the need for support is limited to their entitlement to such services. The adoption does not need to have been arranged by the local authority or an adoption agency in order to qualify for an assessment for adoption support. It is only where the adoption is by a step parent or partner that there is no requirement to carry out an assessment, although in such cases, counselling, advice and information may be offered as appropriate.
5. Which Local Authority Should Carry Out the Assessment?
The table below sets out which local authority has responsibility for carrying out the assessment of need for adoption support, and in what circumstances.
Circumstance | Responsibility for Assessment |
Lancashire Child being Looked After and in respect of whom an adoption plan is being considered | Lancashire |
Lancashire Child placed with or adopted by family living in the county | Lancashire |
Lancashire Child placed with and/or adopted by family living outside the county | Lancashire has responsibility at the time of the placement and for up to 3 years after the Adoption Order is made, and then the local authority where the adopters reside will have the responsibility in relation to any subsequent requests. |
A child from outside the county living with adopters in Lancashire | The placing authority retains responsibility for adoption support services for the first three years after the making of the Adoption Order. Thereafter the responsibility for assessment would be Lancashire's. |
In all other cases (i.e. non agency placements except step parent or partner adoptions) | The local authority where the requester lives must assess |
6. Which Local Authority Should Provide Support?
The local authority responsible for carrying out the assessment of need should provide support to meet the identified needs.
The exception to this is where ongoing financial support and/or support with financial implications and/or supporting contact arrangements have been agreed by Lancashire before the Adoption Order was made, in which case the responsibility to provide such support will remain with Lancashire.
7. Process of Assessment for Adoption Support
In all cases where an assessment is required, the practitioners involved should conduct assessments by following the guidance set out in the Assessment Framework. The assessment should take account of the adoption context and, where the assessment relates to the child, all the developmental needs of the child should be covered including health, education and emotional needs, and contact issues. The relevant education authority and health trust should be consulted as necessary.
Assessments of need for adoption support under Paragraph 4.1 above should be carried out by the child's social worker and/or the prospective adopters' social worker as appropriate and, if there are financial implications, have the approval of the County Adoption Services Manager prior to being presented to the Adoption Panel. The assessment at the time of the child's proposed placement with prospective adopters should be considered at the Matching Meeting and, if there are financial implications, have the approval of the County Adoption Services Manager prior to being presented to the Adoption Panel with the Adoption Placement Report. If there are no financial implications, the assessment should have the approval of the Team Manager. At all stages, the Adoption Panel must consider and may give advice on the proposed adoption support and this advice will be considered by the Agency Decision Maker, before making a final decision on the contents of the Adoption Support Plan see Placement for Adoption Procedure.
Any assessment considered necessary at an Adoption Review, as a result of which a change in the Adoption Support Plan is required which has financial implications should be referred to the County Adoption Services Manager for approval. Where the proposed change will involve increased costs, the County Adoption Services Manager will seek the budgetary authority, as necessary according to the amount.
Requests for assessment for adoption support under Paragraph 4.3 above should be passed to the County Adoption Services Manager/Post Adoption Support Administrator and, where necessary, the case will be passed to the relevant social work team for allocation. Where the request is passed to a children's fieldwork team, the allocated social worker should seek advice from the Permanence and Adoption Service as necessary.
The assessing social worker will usually need to interview the person being assessed - where this is a child, the adoptive parents will also need to be interviewed depending on the case and the age, understanding and wishes of the child.
An assessment will not be required before providing advice and information.
Where an assessment is carried out as a result of a request, a written report of the assessment should be produced on the Adoption 22 Assessment of Adoptive Family Form (for child and family) or a summary report (for the birth family). A Pro Forma for birth family assessments is being developed. The assessment will be agreed by the Team Manager and where there are no financial implications, the approval of the County Adoption Services Manager will be required. The County Adoption Services Manager will seek any necessary budgetary authority, according to the amount before giving approval.
A copy of the assessment, once approved, should be sent to the person assessed with notice of the outcome of the assessment, which should state:
- The persons assessed needs for support;
- Whether the local authority proposes to provide adoption support services and if so, what the proposed services are;
- Where the assessment relates to the need for financial support, how this has been determined and calculated and the conditions to be attached, (see Section 9, Financial Support).
Where the person assessed is a child, and it is not appropriate to send the notice to the child, notices should be sent to the adoptive parent or the most appropriate adult.
Where services are proposed, a draft Adoption Support Plan should usually be attached to the notice and those assessed should be allowed time to consider and make representations on the proposal (see Section 8, The Adoption Support Plan).
Where the service proposed is one-off, the notice of the outcome of the assessment will be sufficient to outline what is proposed and a draft plan will not be required.
8. The Adoption Support Plan
In Lancashire, the Adoption 22 Adoption Support Plan should be used as the Pro Forma.
An Adoption Support Plan should set out clearly:
- The objectives of the plan and the key services to be provided;
- The timescales for achieving the plan;
- Those responsible for implementing the plan and the respective roles of others; what should be provided, when and by whom;
- The criteria that will be used to evaluate the success of the plan;
- The procedures that will be put in place to review the services to be provided and the plan.
The Adoption Support Plan will need to be completed after consultation with the appropriate Health Clinical Commissioning Group, CAMHS or education departments where any special arrangements may need to be made. Where the child is placed in the area of another local authority, the Adoption Support Services Adviser for that authority's area will need to be consulted as to what services may be available for adopters and adopted children.
The Adoption Support Plan should include any proposed financial support, how the amount has been calculated, where it is to be paid in installments - the frequency of payment, the period over which it will be paid and when the first payment is to be made, the conditions and the consequences of failing to meet them and the arrangements for review, variation and termination, (see Section 9, Financial Support).
Once a proposed Adoption Support Plan has the approval of the relevant Team Manager and, if there are financial implications, the County Adoption Services Manager, a copy should be sent to the proposed recipients of the support, as well as to any party involved in the delivery of the plan.
The recipients of the proposed support should be given 10 working days to consider the proposals and make representations to the local authority about the proposed plan. Any representations made should be considered by the Team Manager or, if there are financial implications, the County Adoption Services Manager, who will amend the draft plan as appropriate and inform the recipients of the outcome of the consideration.
In relation to proposed agency adoptive placements, the proposed Adoption Support Plan should then be submitted to the Adoption Panel when a matching recommendation is being considered. The final Adoption Support Plan will be approved by the Agency Decision Maker, taking into account any advice given by the Adoption Panel. See Placement for Adoption Procedure.
In relation to other situations in which adoption support is proposed, the Adoption Support Plan can be approved by the relevant Team Manager or, if the proposed support involves a regular financial commitment, the County Adoption Services Manager who will obtain budgetary approval as necessary depending on the amount.
In these situations, a copy of the final Adoption Support Plan should always be sent to the County Adoption Services Manager.
In all cases a copy of the final Adoption Support Plan should go to all those involved in implementing it, and to the recipients of services (or appropriate adult). Where the plan relates to a child Looked After, a copy should be sent to the child's Independent Reviewing Officer.
Where adoption support is in place prior to an Adoption Order, the Adoption Support Plan should be reviewed at the reviews of the adoptive placement- see Adoption Review Procedure - or at any time if there is a significant change of circumstances, within four weeks of the notification of the change.
After the Adoption Order has been made, the Adoption Support Plan will be reviewed if a change in circumstances is brought to the notice of the local authority. The County Adoption Services Manager will decide on the format and content of any such review, which will depend on the circumstances of the case. It may refer to only one element of the Plan or be relatively minor in which case an exchange of correspondence may be sufficient. (For annual reviews of financial support, see Section 9.7, Annual review of support).
Where the change of circumstances is substantial, such as a serious change in the behaviour of the child, it may be appropriate to conduct a new assessment of needs involving other parties.
If as a result of a review, whether before or after an Adoption Order has been made, it is proposed to vary or terminate the support, the proposed change must be referred to the relevant Team Manager for approval. In any case, where the change will involve the authority in additional regular financial costs, the County Adoption Services Manager must approve the change and will obtain budgetary approval as necessary depending on the amount.
Once approved, the person concerned must be notified of the proposed change, together with a copy of the revised Adoption Support Plan in draft. He or she must then be given 10 working days to make representations on the proposals.
Any such representations should be submitted to the relevant Team Manager for consideration. The decision as to the final contents of the revised Adoption Support Plan should take into account any representations made. A copy of the revised plan should then be sent to the County Adoption Services Manager.
Notice of the decision must then be sent to the person concerned with reasons and, where appropriate, a copy of the revised plan.
Where there is an urgent need for support, the support can be provided before a Plan is drawn up but the above procedure should then be followed as soon as possible.
9. Financial Support
This section should be read in conjunction with Lancashire's Adoption Allowances Scheme.
9.1 Introduction
Financial support is intended to supplement existing means of support available to adoptive parents and the child or children being adopted. Adopters should be advised to seek appropriate advice from relevant agencies (e.g. Welfare Rights) regarding entitlements to benefits, tax credits and allowances, and these should be taken into account when considering amounts of financial support.
9.2 Criteria
The circumstances in which provision of financial support may be paid are as follows:
- Where it is necessary to ensure that adoptive parents can look after a child, e.g. where the proposed adopters have a pre-existing relationship with the child and could not otherwise afford to adopt;
- Where the child needs special care which requires a greater expenditure of resources by reason of illness, disability, emotional or behavioural difficulties or the continuing consequences of neglect - and the child's condition is serious and long-term;
- Where it is necessary for the local authority to make any special arrangements to facilitate the placement or the adoption by reason of the age or ethnic origin of the child or the desirability of the child being placed with siblings or a child with whom he/she has previously shared a home;
- Where such support is to meet the recurring costs of travel for visits for the child to members of the birth family/significant others;
- Where the local authority considers it appropriate to contribute towards expenditure on legal costs, including Court fees (in cases where the adoption is supported by the local authority), or expenses associated with the child's introduction to adoptive parents or expenditure on accommodating the child (e.g. adaptations to the home, furniture, clothing or transport).
9.3 Types of Payment
Payment to adoptive parents may be made in the following ways:
- Regular payments (previously referred to as Adoption Allowances) - which will be based upon the age of the child and calculated as agreed from time to time by the local authority;
- Lump sum payments (settling in costs, special needs and adaptations), which will cover items or adaptations that are required as a consequence of assessment of each child's individuals needs. Payment may be in installments and will end at a time specified by the local authority;
- Payments in special circumstances (for example, a child with additional needs or where foster carers adopt a child for whom they are already caring or where adopters incur legal expenses in contested cases.) Payment may be in installments and may end at a time specified by the local authority.
Information about the level of financial support available can be accessed via the Team Manager, Permanence and Adoption or from the Central Adoption Support Service. This includes information about settling-in-grants, Court fees, introductory costs etc.
Financial support cannot generally include the "reward" element which may be payable to foster carers and neither will payments be made so as to provide an income. However, payments may be paid above the usual level where it is regarded as necessary to ease the transition from foster care to adoption. Generally such additional payments can be paid for a period of two years although in exceptional circumstances, additional payments may be paid for a longer period.
9.4 Assessment for Financial Support
Where regular financial support is considered appropriate under Section 9.2, Criteria (i) to (iv) above, the actual amount to be paid to adoptive parents may be determined by an assessment of their means. This will take account of the adopters' income and resources (excluding their home), reasonable outgoings and commitments, and the financial needs and resources of the child.
N.B. Support provided under Section 9.2, Criteria (v) and any other lump sum payment will not be subject to an assessment of means. However, payments in special circumstances may be means tested.
As part of this assessment, the adopters should be asked to complete a Financial Assessment Form (Adal 1) and the completed form should be forwarded to the Post Adoption Support Administrator, who will send it to the Financial Department to calculate the level of financial support
9.5 Notification
The adopters will be sent written notification setting out the decision to provide financial support. This will include the amount and terms of the support and information about annual reviews.
9.6 Terms and Conditions
If it is decided that financial support should be given to adoptive parents, payment may be subject to conditions and a date specified by which the condition is to be met.
Prior to making financial support available to prospective or adoptive parents, they will be required to inform the adoption service:
- Of changes to their home address;
- If the child (for any reason) no longer lives with them;
- If there are any changes to their financial situation/the resources of the child.
Where information is given orally, adoptive parents must confirm this in writing within 7 days.
Should adoptive parents fail to comply with the requirements, the authority may suspend payment of the financial support provided.
9.7 Annual review of support
Adoptive parents must also agree to complete and supply the authority with an annual statement of their circumstances for the annual review.
The adopters should specify the following in the statement:
- Their financial circumstances;
- The financial needs and resources of the child or children;
- Their home address and whether or not the child or children live at home with them;
- If there have been any changes to their own or the child/children's circumstances.
The Finance Department will carry out an annual review of the financial support, taking into account the information given. Any proposed variation or termination of the financial support must be notified to the person(s) concerned and dealt with by the County Adoption Services Manager in accordance with the procedure set out in Section 8, The Adoption Support Plan. Any decision to vary or terminate should also consider whether it is appropriate to seek to recover all or any of the financial support already paid.
Should adoptive parents fail to supply an annual statement, the authority must send a written reminder and give 28 days to comply. If they fail to comply, the authority may suspend payment of the financial support provided.
9.8 Ending of financial support
Financial support will end in the following circumstances:
- When a child reaches age 18, unless he/she continues in full time education or training when support may continue until the end of the course of education or training being undertaken, subject to any other financial support the child may be entitled to receive;
- Where a child ceases full-time education or training and commences employment;
- Where a child qualifies for income support or job seekers allowance in his/her own right;
- Where circumstances have changed significantly and the criteria are no longer met;
- If a child leaves the adoptive home and this is regarded as a permanent departure. Temporary absences do not apply, e.g. boarding school, hospital, and respite care.
- The child dies.


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The student who submits the winning entry (only one submission per student will be considered) will have his/her photo featured on the Celebration '14 program cover and in the event's publicity materials. In addition, a $150 gift card from Amazon.com will be awarded.
To submit, please email a jpg attachment to email@example.com with "Celebration Photo Contest" in the subject line. Please send the largest version of the image, as the image should be 8.5" x 11" in size to fit as a background for the cover.
All entries must be submitted electronically by 5:00 pm, Saturday, March 1, 2014. No late entries will be accepted. In addition to the photograph, each entry must also include a paragraph in the text of the e-mail which describes what is depicted and how it relates to this year's theme of "Beyond Curiosity."
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text: | Seanad Éireann - Volume 157 - 19 November, 1998 Business of Seanad. An Cathaoirleach An Cathaoirleach An Cathaoirleach: I have notice from Senator O'Meara that on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today she proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health and Children to address the urgent matter of the threatened disbanding of the adoption assessment team of social workers by the Eastern Health Board as reported in the national media at the weekend. I have also received notice from Senator Tom Hayes of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the reasons for the delay in filling the advance factory at Cashel in County Tipperary. I regard the matter raised by Senator O'Meara as suitable for discussion on the Adjournment and it will be taken at the conclusion of business. I regret that I have had to rule out of order the matter raised by Senator Hayes as the Minister has no official responsibility in relation to the matter. Seanad Éireann 157 Business of Seanad. General Debate 19981119 | ||||||||||||||||||||||


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Here are some interesting tidbits about the kata named "Bassai" in which there are two forms – Bassai-Dai and Bassai-Sho.
To begin with, the kata was originally named "Passai" and was named after an Okinawan family. Where they came into possession of the kata is a mystery, however, it most definitely came from China, and it has at its roots elements of the Leopard and Lion forms. This kata is over 400 years old, as they found a tapestry with figures doing the kata and has been carbon dated.
The Passai kata was taught to Sokon Matsumura who taught it to K. Oyadomori and Itosu, however, the Oyadomori family claims to have learned it from a Chinese man living in Okinawa at the time. Matsumura kept the form in its "Chinese" state, and it eventually found its way to the Shorin-Ryu (Goju-ryu) disciplines.
Itosu, on the other hand, "Okinawan'ized" it (as if there is a word). Itosu also supposedly created the "sho" part (Passai-sho) and taught both to Shotokan founder G. Funakoshi. It was Master Funakoshi who changed the name to Bassai – in order to please the mainland Japanese who wanted nothing to do with Okinawan or Chinese sounding names. Funakoshi chose the name Bassai because it was similar to Passai, but the exact meaning of Bassai is to "Extract from a fortress" (and not penetrate as is commonly mistaken), where as Passai is a family name with a different meaning.
Two other interesting tidbits are that the kata was created by a left handed person (which is good to keep in mind when working on the bunkai), and also the beginning of the kata is very similar to the Kung Fu bow (right fist in left palm).