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Samba Parade became too big for improvisations. Until the
mid-eighties bleachers were assembled and disassembled every
year on Ave. Presidente Vargas. Samba Schools longed for and deserved a
more professional site to perform.
Governor Leonel Brizola believed in this dream, and in October 1983 he hired no one less than Niemeyer, Brazil's most prominent architect. Niemeyer more than lived up to the challenge of devising and building the Sambodromo within 110 days. "We built the capital Brasilia in four years. We certainly can build the Sambodromo in four months." The master was right. On March 2, 1984 the Sambodromo was inaugurated. Marques de Sapucaí was the street chosen by Vice-Governor Darcy Ribeiro. It holds historical ties with samba: Praça Onze is recognized as the birthplace of the most famous Brazilian musical style. The structure is officially named Passarela do Samba Darcy Ribeiro, and it is the permanent home of the Samba Parade. Mangueira was the champion in 1984, in case you are wondering. The Original SambodromoThe Sambodromo consists of several independent concrete structures along both sides of Ave. Marques de Sapucai The pavement of the street itself is painted white a few days before Carnival, and turned samba runway (or passarela). It ends at the Apotheosis Square, crowned by a large M in concrete, vaguely reminding the symbol of a fast-food chain. During the school year, parts of this structure are used as classrooms by public schools. The Square is often stage for shows, and major bands have already performed here. When Carnival magic takes over, the Sambodromo is the setting to the greatest show on earth. The Sambodromo is divided in sectors (see photo map), and each sector has different kinds of seats. Breweries compete to see which one attracts to their boxes the most famous international stars, socialites, soccer players, politicians, opinion makers, and fashion models. Some always misbehave, giving plenty of material for the tabloids and gossip columns to explore. The Renovated SambodromoOscar Niemeyer's originally had to be adapted to accommodate the old Brahma Brewery. The city reached an agreement with the owners of the factory, and it was put down to make place for the new and improved version of the Sambodromo. Now the odd and even sides mirror each other. Acoustics have improved dramatically, and there are more seats than before. The new structure was launched with the presence of Oscar Niemeyer, aged 104! It must have been a very special moment in the life of Brazil's most celebrated architect. The event happened just a few days before Carnaval. It was followed by the traditional wash of the Samba Runway by Baianas to bring good luck! There have been many changes. Sector 4, once a recessed ugly duckling, now has been renamed Sector 10, and has a top view to the runway. 12,500 new seats were added altogether. The boxes on the even side have an open balcony that was a big hit. So was the promenade of special chairs on Sector 10. Sambodromo Map after the FaceliftLiesa, the League of Samba Schools published a very handy map with the new disposition of sectors and how they can be reached by subway. They say that there are a total of 72,518 seats now! We will try to help you understand which is the right one for you. We are not talking prices here, this is discussed in detail a bit later. Choosing the Best SectorWith the renovations all special sectors are wonderful choices. The lower the number, the closer to the starting point. From Sectors 2 and 3 you also have a partial view to the concentration. This is sort of exciting, and you are also closer to the fireworks that signal the beginning of each parade. Sectors 5 and 7 and their even counterparts Sectors 4 and 6 are the most centrally located. It may take as long as 15-20 minutes for the first members of the Samba School to reach you. But when they do you, will see a tapestry of moving art. That's an 180 degree view to the parade, something to write home about! Sector 9 is on a class of its own, because seats are numbered. This is a mixed blessing, and you may be assigned a nosebleed seat. If your vendor knows beforehand they have front row tickets, something may be very wrong. Tickets at this sector are the most expensive, and have the privilege of being close to the percussion band. The only disadvantage is the clueless grumpy tourists may ask you to sit down (see etiquette above). Sector 11 shares with Sector 9 an area where the percussion band retreats while the school passes by. The name of this niche is Recuo da Bateria. Whenever passistas hear the band from up close their energies are recharged, and they always perform their best. Sectors 8 and 10 also share the benefits. This is a 360 degree show! If you are on a budget...Those who cannot afford a ticket may watch the schools line up at the Concentration, instead. As this is an open area, exercise caution - pickpockets sometimes try to take advantage of the crowds. Bring a discreet camera to avoid problems. You can later stretch the night at the Terreirao do Samba with a number of live music shows that are loads of fun. Provided you actually want to go inside, with the new layout of the Sambodromo there are no bad seats. Right before the entrance, near the Concentration, there's Sector 1, It has much lower-priced tickets, with a face value of about $10. Some are distributed among the communities where samba schools come from. Others are offered for sale a couple of weeks before Carnaval. Sectors 12 and 13, which are around the dispersion area, also have lower-priced tickets. Spectators enjoy schools leaving the Sambodromo, including the destaques, dancers who stay on the uppermost position of the floats. Beware that we have seen these tickets for sale online for about $100! If you have a local friend willing to wait in line for you, you can get it for face value which is ten times less. Ground-level Seats - Frisas, Cadeiras de PistaWhen you want to be as close as it gets to the Samba Runway, your first choice are the Frisas, ground floor boxes which accommodate six people each. There are chairs for each person, a table, and you have access to a snack bar and rest rooms inside your sector. Although seats within a frisa are numbered, if you are sharing yours with strangers try to make friends. They won't mind making room for you to take that special photo. There are 4 rows of frisas, and "Row A" is the closet to the runway. The view is great even from row D, though. Don't be too picky - especially if you have access to tickets at face value. An unobtrusive tripod or a monopod come quite handy, as you are dealing with moving images. Just make sure not to bother your frisa-mates. Cadeiras individuais, or Individual chairs are also at ground level. They are not available at all sectors, but as the name says you have actual chairs to sit on. This is quite a concept, when compared to the bleacher seats described below. There are also sitting areas reserved to spectators with special needs. All Samba Schools have participants on wheelchairs, and your presence is a more than welcome addition. The only disadvantage of ground-level seats is that some floats are big and high, and there's always someone in a fabulous costume right on top. But then again, when the percussion band and the alas pass - you see individuals. Each one doing their best to cause a impression. These are the seats we suggest to anyone who does not want to face the stairs to reach the other areas. If you are on high heels, or in the company of seniors stay on firm ground. Catered Mezzanine Boxes - CamarotesI don't want to shatter your dreams, but these boxes are sold bare with a capacity for 12 guests each. No decor, no catering... There are companies specialized in turning them into a comfortable living room for you to enjoy the party with your friends. Or strangers, wholesalers offer individual tickets. These modules of 12 seats can be added indefinitely, and sometimes they are, too! But the latest trend among breweries is keeping seats in all denominations, from ground to bleachers, and give guests a more diversified experience. Currently the most coveted seats are to the first floor of odd sectors, where they added an open balcony. As these boxes are quite close to the runway, they are perfect if you want to see all the details of the samba school from a higher, privileged position. Be ready to pay for it, unless you are Madonna, J. Lo, or something. And keep in mind that mere mortals do not have access to the VIP boxes they're invited to. About Bleacher Seats - ArquibancadasWe saved the most popular sets for last. Best prices, great elevated view, and a chance to mingle with locals in their favorite turf. Do not be surprised not to find actual chairs at the bleachers. They are more like bleacher stands, really. There's not much point in arriving very early hoping to get one of the front rows. There are people willing to camp outside to do stay on the front row, and you cannot compete with that... Make friends with your neighbors, as they may save your seat when you go for a break. Seats are only numbered at Sector 9, reserved for international tourists, and priced higher. Having a numbered seat is a mixed blessing - you cannot choose the row beforehand. But quite frankly, row Z has a wonderful wind blowing, and with a zoom or binoculars you get all the details just like the next guy. Do not complain if the person in front of you starts waving arms in front of your camera. Let them enjoy the moment, and if you're not happy, find some other seat. There are snack bars and rest rooms at the bleachers, so you don't have to climb the stairs all the way down when you need something. Transportation and the PromenadeThere are refreshment stands and rest rooms in all sectors. They are kept clean under the constant supervision of janitors. If you are on the odd side, you also have access to a promenade within the Sambodromo, right behind the bleachers. It is lined up with restaurants, ice-cream stands, shops with souvenirs, and more rest rooms They also sell disposable rain jackets when the weather is cloudy. The largest food court behind Sector 11. Taxis are available inside the Sambodromo between the back of Sectors 9 and 11. They charge a fixed rate to your destination, and you will be advised of the total and receive a ticket to deliver the driver once you board. We do not recommend walking out of the Sambodromo to try to find a cheaper taxi. You will have to compete with more people than if you wait in line within the safety of the gates. You should also call taxis from the authorized companies, as without a special sticker on the window taxis do not have access to the doors. Tour operators often take their clients in buses, and sometimes they can accommodate extra passengers. They are easy to find, usually holding a flag and a list with names at the promenade. They stop at many hotels along the way including, hopefully, yours. Otherwise you will have to take a taxi from where they drop you off. Ask first. The subway is the cheapest way to go, and you do not have to buy your pass ahead - but you can. It is not as easy as it sounds to get from the Subway to the Sambodromo, and you will have to do some walking. Hopefully in the right direction. Don't follow people in costumes, chances are they are going to the concentration. If you have a local friend invite him or her to join you (and guide you). To avoid frauds, the actual tickets are only distributed a week before Carnival. Buy yours from a reliable source to avoid major disappointments. Sometimes scalpers try to sell their last leftover tickets at the door, but there's no guarantee they are legitimate. You may try to haggle, but don't expect miracles. We always get e-mail from travelers who claim they heard from a friend of a friend that after midnight they give discounts, or even let people in for free. Urban legend! Basic Sambodromo Etiquette and InfoIt's very safe inside the Sambodromo You are welcome to bring your camera or camcorder. You may bring along two food items and one drink (can or plastic bottle). There are plenty of refreshment stands inside, though, so don't bother bringing the extra weight. Bring instead extra batteries and media. Wear comfortable clothes that breathe, shoes that actually protect your feet, bring a disposable seat cushion, and you are all set. Now a special note on your behavior. The Samba Parade is roughly a combination of an opera, and a sing-along. You are not supposed to remain seated as the samba schools pass, The school will get the impression that they are not doing a good job. It's discouraging. If you must remain seated due to some health problem or something,consider a frisa or a special chair. Otherwise at least don't keep asking other people to sit down while they are having the time of their lives. This is considered to be very rude, and it certainly will not make you the most popular person in your sector. Be a sport. You can always sit down during the intermissions, or when you ride the taxi back to your hotel...


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In addition to the security question update, players may now also update their Mobile Authenticators as well. Please note, this is only in regards to North American accounts; players in Europe need to do neither of these things. And remember, if you are a North American player and have not changed the password on your account, doing so is an excellent idea.
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The Back Country (Music)
With Jeff Corbin
Sat Feb 9th 2013 3.00pm–5.00pm
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
3:01pm | The Texas Troubadors "Buddy's Boogie (intro)" from Almost To Tulsa (Bear Family 2008)Buy it! |
3:04pm | Emmylou Harris and The Hot Band "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" from Luxury Liner (Warner 1976) —Originally recorded in 1976. Who knew Chuck Berry was bilingual?Buy it! |
3:08pm | Rodney Crowell "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" from Collection (Warner 1989)Buy it! |
3:11pm | Richard Thompson "Les Flammes D'Enfer" from Evangeline Made (Vanguard 2002)Buy it! |
3:15pm | Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet "Little Darlin'" from Alligator Purse (Yep Roc www.yeproc.com 2009) —Written by Julie Miller.Buy it! |
3:19pm | Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale "South in New Orleans" from Buddy and Jim (New West www.newwestrecords.com 2012) N Buy it! |
3:22pm | Joni Harms "Louisiana Hot Sauce" from Let's Put The Western Back In The Country (Wildcatter 2003)Buy it! |
3:25pm | Radney Foster "Louisiana Blue" from Del Rio, TX 1959 (Arista 1992)Buy it! |
3:28pm | Jerry Reed "Amos Moses" from RCA Country Legends: Jerry Reed (Remastered) (Buddha Records 2001) —Originally released in 1970 on RCA.Buy it! |
3:32pm | Harry Choates and His Melody Boys "Harry Choates Special" from The Fiddle King of Cajun Swing (Arhoolie 1993) —Originally recorded on the Gold Star label ca. 1946. Lots of Bob Wills' influence on display here.Buy it! |
3:35pm | The Red Stick Ramblers "That's What I Like About the South" from Right Key, Wrong Keyhole (Memphis International 2005)Buy it! |
3:38pm | Wayne Hancock "Louisiana Blues" from Swing Time (Bloodshot Records www.bloodshotrecords.com 2003) —Recorded at the Continental Club in Austin, TX. Wayne has a new album on the cusp of being released.Buy it! |
3:41pm | Ed Gary & The Louisiana Cajun Aces "Le Reve du Soulard (Drunkard's Dream)" from The Road Back to San Antone: 30 years (Lanor Records 2001) —Going out to all the folks down in the Soulard neighborhood who turned out for the Grand Parade.Buy it! |
3:46pm | The Hackberry Ramblers "Grand Texas" from Cajun Boogie (Flying Fish Lyrics from a poem by Kahlil Gibran 1993) —As the intro notes, this melody was appropriated for "Jambalaya".Buy it! |
3:50pm | Moon Mullican "Jambalaya" from Cajun Capers: Cajun Music 1928-1954 (Proper 2005) —From Radio Recorders 1952, featuring Jimmy Bryant on lead guitar and Speedy West on the steel.There are some who say Moon wrote this and gave it to Hank.Buy it! |
3:53pm | John Fogerty "Diggy Liggy Lo" from Evangeline Made (Vanguard 2002) —J.D. Miller got some pretty substantial checks from this songwriting effort.Buy it! |
3:56pm | Link Davis with Benny Leader's Bayou Billies "Big Mamou" from Cajun Capers: Cajun Music 1928-1954 (Proper 2005) —Recorded for the Okeh label in 1953.Buy it! |
4:04pm | Johnny Horton "The Battle of New Orleans" from The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960: Honky Tonk Man, Vol. 2 (Sony 1996) —Recorded in 1959 for the Columbia label, one written by Jimmy Driftwood.Buy it! |
4:07pm | Johnny Cash "Big River" from The Essential Johnny Cash, 1955-1983, Volume 1 (Sony 1992) —Originally recorded in 1958 for the Columbia label.Buy it! |
4:10pm | Jo-El Sonnier "The Real Deal" (Musique de Jo-El 2008) —Sunnyboy Mason from the Howzit Bayou show maintains that Jo-El is part of Superman's family (Kal-el, Jor-el, etc.) from the planet Krypton. Too much voodoo juice, Sunnyboy.Buy it! |
4:15pm | The Zozo Sisters "Adieu False Heart" (Vanguard 2006) —One written by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, probably in the 1930s. The Zozo Sisters are Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy.Buy it! |
4:18pm | Hadley J. Castille and the Louisiana Cajun Band "Making Whiskey" from Cajun Swamp Fiddler (Swallow www.swallowrecords.com 1993) —Hadley J. passed away late last year. He will be missed.Buy it! |
4:21pm | Norman Blake, Nancy Blake and Tut Taylor "On the Banks of Lake Pontchartrain" from Shacktown Road (Plectrafone 2007)Buy it! |
4:24pm | Delbert McClinton "Going Back to Louisiana" from Live from Austin (Alligator 1989) —One of the best live albums I believe I've ever heard, a recording of Austin City Limits.Buy it! |
4:29pm | Levon Helm "Poor Old Dirt Farmer" from Dirt Farmer (Vanguard 2007) —The first of several late-in-life, Grammy-winning albums from the late and definitely great Levon Helm.Buy it! |
4:33pm | Maria Muldaur and Mavis Staples "Well, Well, Well" from Fanning the Flames (Telarc 1996) —Written by coon-ass Bob Dylan and Danny O'Keefe, Sonny Landreth playing wonderful electric slide and National steel guitars.Buy it! |
4:38pm | Emmylou Harris "Evangeline" from Duets (Reprise 1990)Buy it! |
4:41pm | New Grass Revival "Calling Baton Rouge" from Best of New Grass Revival (Liberty 1994)Buy it! |
4:45pm | Jimmy Newman "Cry Cry Darling" from Cajun Capers: Cajun Music, 1928-1954 (Proper 2005) —This was before he added the "C" to his name. Recorded at Fred Rose's house ca. November 1953 with a few friends--Billy Byrd, Chet Atkins, Don Helms, Ernie Newton, Jerry Rivers and Fred himself on piano.Buy it! |
4:48pm | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos "Louisiana Man" from I Don't Care (Sundazed 1995) —Doug Kershaw's classic, with Don Rich on the lead vocal. Originally recorded in 1964 for Capitol.Buy it! |
4:51pm | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown "Breaux Bridge Rag" from Down South In the Bayou Country (Maison de Blues 2006) —Katrina spelled the end for Gatemouth. I sure do wish he were still with us.Buy it! |
4:54pm | Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" from Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn: The Definitive Collection (MCA NASHVILLE 2005) —Recorded in 1973 for MCA.Buy it! |
4:56pm | Marcia Ball "Daddy Said" from Gatorhythms (Rounder www.rounder.com 1989) —Always rely on the wisdom and experience of the paterfamilias.Buy it! |
4:59pm | Jimmy Bryant "Georgia Boogie (outro)" from Frettin' Fingers: The Lightning Guitar of Jimmy Bryant (Sundazed 1995)Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.


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Monday's News & Ideas
Same-sex marriage comes to the Supreme Court
Religion & Politics: The Supreme Court will not decide based on the heartfelt stories of same-sex unions or on the moral rhetoric of traditional marriage's defenders.
Washington Post: Political debate on same-sex marriage is arguably over
NPR: 'Severing love from diapers': The other case against gay marriage
I bang my head against the wall when evangelicals turn Jesus into Cheesus
The (London) Guardian: No PR agency in the world could sell the disturbing message of a broken man on the cross. That's why we get Jesus-lite.
Relationships are the new religion for many
USA Today: For many people holy days such as Easter and Passover have become simply holidays -- celebrations with loved ones. But many see spiritual value in these gatherings.
The money man behind atheism's activism
CNN Belief blog: Todd Stiefel, a slim, scruffy ex-Catholic, is making an indelible impact on the nation's fastest-growing "religious" group: the nonbelievers.
Letter by letter, keeping a Catholic outpost alive
The New York Times: In late February, two weeks into Lent, Brother Norbert Karpfinger sat down to write a letter, one of hundreds he writes seeking donations for a Catholic daycare center.
The Spark
Your phone vs. your heart
Most of us are aware of the convenience that instant electronic access provides. Less has been said about the costs. Writing in The New York Times, psychology professor Barbara Fredrickson says research suggests that one measurable toll may be on our biological capacity to connect with other people.
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Nice job Adam.
I very much agree with the at the table interaction. For Instagram, the servers should all know the Twitter address of the establishment in case someone is taking photos of food and wants easy help to mention through Twitter.
To me, it is very unfortunate that Timeline for Pages puts updates from fans into a tiny out of the way box where they will barely be seen. It's such a gift when a fan posts a photo of themselves at your establishment but though it will boost edgerank, it is almost invisible on the Page.
Thank you very much Joel! Using that source, I was able to find the Comscore figures of 11.7 million unique visitors/month for the USA and 13.76 worldwide. Maybe better to state "monthly" than "weekly"?
Here is the most useful board I have seen so far on Pinterest that collects Pinterest accounts for business, brands and blogs large and small. It is up to you to evaluate how well they are doing. http://pinterest.com/mshahab/brands-businesses-blogs-on-pinterest/ You can tweet @MShahab to ask to have your relevant account added.
I would very much appreciate your verifying this information as I am working on the final edit for an article about Pinterest for a local newspaper. I was surprised to see you write "debuted in 2008". I looked into "when Pinterest started" a month ago and collected some notes here: http://lindasherman.tumblr.com/post/16849074038/when-did-pinterest-get-started
From Quora: "Work on Pinterest began in December 2009 and the site achieved closed beta status in March 2010." From Pete Cashmore writing for CNN published Feb 6: "launched almost two years ago"
"loyal following of more than 11 milliion visitors per week" - since Pinterest gave you the information about which companies THEY think are doing best on Pinterest (I assume very recently) is that figure also from them or is there a source for that and as of when?
Well done Maria! I have always used #11 as a differentiator when talking to social media marketing consulting prospects. It makes a tremendous difference to be able to help them formulate a social media marketing plan within the context of their business (and depending on the size of the company - their personal life plan).
All 11 points are excellent. I would go a bit further with #5. Before the days of social media, I was known for having the largest number of influential face to face connections in my community. How did that happen? Easily meeting people and genuinely enjoying them. A social media manager is a personality. There are some people who think that a social media manager need never be seen in public. I disagree. They should be someone you are proud to have associated with your brand and happy to have out there networking IRL (in real life) - of course with smart phone in hand - as well as from behind their computer.


text: Outside of Spinnin' Records' "joke," this has been a decent week for electronic music, hasn't it? Loads of solid material coming out, with producers and labels letting the world know that the final months of 2013 will be ones for the record books. Get pumped for some solid releases by taking a glimpse at this week's best in EDM, curated by DAD for our homies over at Pigeons & Planes.


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1 Are you cheerful because you belong to Christ? Does his love comfort you? Is the Holy Spirit your companion? Has Christ been gentle and loving toward you? | 1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, |
2 Then make my joy complete by agreeing with each other. Have the same love. Be one in spirit and purpose. | 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. |
3 Don't do anything only to get ahead. Don't do it because you are proud. Instead, be free of pride. Think of others as better than yourselves. | 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. |
4 None of you should look out just for your own good. You should also look out for the good of others. | 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. |
5 You should think in the same way Christ Jesus does. | 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: |
6 In his very nature he was God. But he did not think that being equal with God was something he should hold on to. | 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, |
7 Instead, he made himself nothing. He took on the very nature of a servant. He was made in human form. | 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. |
8 He appeared as a man. He came down to the lowest level. He obeyed God completely, even though it led to his death. | 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! |
9 So God lifted him up to the highest place. He gave him the name that is above every name. | 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, |
10 When the name of Jesus is spoken, everyone's knee will bow to worship him. Every knee in heaven and on earth and under the earth will bow to worship him. | 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, |
11 Everyone's mouth will say that Jesus Christ is Lord. And God the Father will receive the glory. | 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
12 My dear friends, you have always obeyed God. You obeyed while I was with you. And you have obeyed even more while I am not with you. So continue to work out your own salvation. Do it with fear and trembling. | 12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, |
13 God is working in you. He wants your plans and your acts to be in keeping with his good purpose. | 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. |
14 Do everything without finding fault or arguing. | 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, |
15 Then you will be pure and without blame. You will be children of God without fault in a sinful and evil world. Among the people of the world you shine like stars in the heavens. | 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe |
16 You shine as you hold out to them the word of life. So I can brag about you on the day Christ returns. I can be happy that I didn't run or work for nothing. | 16 as you hold out the word of life--in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. |
17 But my life might even be poured out like a drink offering on your sacrifices. I'm talking about the way you serve because you believe. Even so, I am glad. I am joyful with all of you. | 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. |
18 So you too should be glad and joyful with me. | 18 So you too should be glad and rejoice with me. |
19 I hope to send Timothy to you soon if the Lord Jesus allows it. Then I will be cheered up when I receive news about you. | 19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you. |
20 I have no one else like Timothy. He truly cares about how you are doing. | 20 I have no one else like him, who takes a genuine interest in your welfare. |
21 All the others are looking out for their own interests. They are not looking out for the interests of Jesus Christ. | 21 For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. |
22 But you know that Timothy has proved himself. He has served with me like a son with his father in spreading the good news. | 22 But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. |
23 So I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. | 23 I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. |
24 And I'm sure I myself will come soon if the Lord allows it. | 24 And I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon. |
25 But I think it's necessary to send Epaphroditus back to you. He is my brother in the Lord. He is a worker and a soldier of Christ together with me. He is also your messenger. You sent him to take care of my needs. | 25 But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs. |
26 He longs for all of you. He is troubled because you heard he was sick. | 26 For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill. |
27 He was very sick. In fact, he almost died. But God had mercy on him. He also had mercy on me. God spared me sadness after sadness. | 27 Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow. |
28 So I want even more to send him to you. Then when you see him again, you will be glad. And I won't worry so much. | 28 Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety. |
29 Welcome him as a brother in the Lord with great joy. Honor people like him. | 29 Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him, |
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We've had a Michael's and an AC Moore for some time, and now we have a Hobby Lobby. I went there for the first time this week, and was not impressed. It's huge, and in order to get to where I was going (papercrafting) I had to walk through large sections devoted to home decor items--none of which were in my taste. That was a little off-putting, and so were the prices, which seemed higher on a number of items than I was used to.
The other thing was that in Michael's and AC Moore I know the layout and know where I'm going. At Hobby Lobby I had to ask for help finding everything on my list--and I ended up buying nothing. The capper was the fact that unlike the other two stores, Hobby Lobby is not an easy in, easy out location. Took awhile to navigate both ways. |
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Susan, I mostly shop using their 40% off coupons. Usually I take someone in with me, in order to get more than one item for the coupons. Moni |
I don't care for it much either. The prices are high and the few times I've bought something I had one of the 40% off coupons that Moni talked about. |
I don't really care for it but in this town it is the only place I can buy Aunt Lydia's size 30 crochet thread. We only have a couple craft stores here, the other two are Michaels and a Walmart that carries crochet thread but they don't carry size 30 extra fine. Deb |
I do shop there some. I buy nylon net to make kitchen scrubbies and I use the 40% off coupon. As long as they only cut it one time, I can buy as many yards as I want at 40% off. |
- Posted by LuAnn_in_PA (My Page) on Sat, Nov 10, 12 at 22:39
No AC Moore or Hobby Lobby anywhere near me! |
- Posted by FlamingO_in_AR (My Page) on Sat, Nov 10, 12 at 22:45
I love Hobby Lobby and I'm in there a lot so I know where everything is. Well, I did, they just rearranged my store, but it won't take long to find everything again. I think their craft prices are the same as everyone elses and they have terrific sales on the home decor stuff. And now that they offer a 40% off coupon every week, I rarely pay full price for anything over a couple of bucks. We don't have a Michael's here and the nearest Joann's is a good 40 miles away, at least 15 miles further away than the Hobby Lobby. So the LQS and HL get almost all my business, I do some online fabric and quilt book shopping, too. |
It is really a great craft store with lots of sales and of course the 40% coupon. sign up for emails and you will alwys get one that way. like any new place have to get used to it |
Our first one in Tucson will be opening in a few months. I'm looking forward to it! I shop at Michaels but it would be nice to have another option. We have JoAnn's, but I seldom go there. |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 0:22
Love it. This topic has come up here several times. I started going there when they only had the one original store in OKC. The family that owns it are awesome people, are excellent to work for, donate a lot of money to charities. I have had the pleasure to meet and work with them on some big charity events. I have always liked the store, they have changed a lot from the original which was mostly craft based. Now they have furniture and home goods. The sales are awesome usually at least 50% off the various departments. Plus the 40% off coupon. I watch the sales and go when what I need is on sale. I collect fleur de lis items and that place is a treasure trove. My husband loves going there to. But don't bother going on Sunday because the family will never be open on Sunday, so their employees can be with their families. |
Hobby Lobby is just about my favorite store. I use the 40% coupons often, mostly for yarn.I was in there this afternoon.Candles are often 50% off and also picture frames. I shop there so often I know the layout of the merchandise.It impresses me that the owners close on Sunday, just like Chik-fil-a. |
- Posted by sheilajoyce (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 2:54
I have to pretty much agree with you, Alisande. I don't shop there unless I have remembered to print out one of their daily 40% off coupons. I don't have a Smart Phone, but if you do, you can just go to their website and show the cashier the picture of the coupon and you get your 40% off on an item. |
Judging from the responses I've seen on this and other threads about Hobby Lobby, I'm wondering if the stores aren't very different, with different inventories in different locales? One opened near us about 6 months ago. In a bad location--run-down, depressed shopping center (many of the other stores are vacent, it's in a VERY bad neighborhood) Hard to understand why they opened there, when there's a much more upscale shopping center across the road, and a mall on the other side of the highway behind them. Anyway, the store itself--is MOSTLY over-priced home decor stuff. I've seen some of their $6-9 items half a block away in the Dollar Tree! (for a dollar, of course). Our HL has very little craft stuff--and it's all pushed into the worst areas--the very back of the store, an obscure front corner, super high priced, and VERY limited selection. Their fabrics are really high--and no better than the stuff I can buy at Wallmart for about a third of the price. I've been really disappointed. Having ordered from their website in the past, I expected a large craft store, not a large, overpriced junk store (I mean, really--how much 'home decor' can you buy?) |
I don't have a smart phone either, but I signed up for their emails and will print out the coupons, just as I do for AC Moore and Michael's. When I framed my photographs for exhibit a couple of years ago, those coupons saved me plenty! Hobby Lobby had one sale going on that I might have taken advantage of: 50% off on glass, including canning jars. I no longer can anything, but those jars are cute for storing beans, etc. Had I thought about it, I would have picked up some. |
We don't have Hobby Lobby in Canada but when I travel, I always go to their website and print out a coupon. |
I do like Hobby Lobby, and I think that if you go there a few times and get oriented to the layout, you will too. The housewares/gifty departments have a lot to interest me. There is a lot of garden decor in the spring that goes for half price in the fall. Each season has it's own merchandise and later sales. I don't particularly like the fact that much of the mercahndise comes from China, but that is everywhere. I am selective when I can be. |
- Posted by Marilyn_Sue (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 9:21
I like going to Hobby Lobby. I am on their email list and always get the coupons and sale flyer on Sunday. I seldom buy home decor there but we have bought a lot of flowers for floral arrangements for our church and I always look at the clearance items, especially the fabric. Always take my coupon. None in the local town the nearest is about 20 miles away. I never cared for Micheals. None near us anyway. I like Joann's too. Sue |
- Posted by nancylee_ky (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 10:05
I like shopping at Hobby Lobby too. There are always sales going on, and the 40% coupon is handy for items that are not on sale. Joann's opened in our area a few months ago but I haven't shopped there yet. |
I enjoy shopping at HL for seasonal decor. I was so excited to have one open somewhat close to me this year. Usually, their seasonal decor is at least 40% off which puts their prices right in line with Michael's and the local floral supply house. |
- Posted by marie-ndcal (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 13:18
Our HL store has a good layout and wonderful help. I also had some picture framing done at a great price and they did a good job. Great selection and good variety from stamps, scrap booking, jewelry, childrens, minature furniture, art supplies, kits, but not too much on yarn and counted cross stitch, but lots of ribbons and even some magazines not found in other stores. Guess it depends on location and manager. |
I love Hobby Lobby. If you wait long enough, whatever you want will go on sale,not to mention the coupons. I also respect that they are closed on Sundays. Good for them, b/c they are missing a lot of business on Sundays from folks who work during the week. Also, Chick-Fil-A. They're probably losing even more business, b/c they are ALWAYS packed. |
Love Hobby Lobby! There is no telling how much money I saved while planning my daughters wedding. The key is to learn their cycle of sales and just wait for whatever you need to go on sale. My only gripe is that it is too far away!! |
- Posted by linda_in_iowa (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 19:57
When I moved to Iowa, I was excited to have a HL in my town. I had read so much about it here at the KT. I rarely go there now. Too much junk that they call home decor and they are closed on Sundays. |
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a pinched leaf of a tomato.. smells like tomato .. no missing that ... when i see that runner of a root ... i would hesitate to plant it .. until i had a full ID ... pot it.. and grow it on.. until it flowers.. or the form is more fully developed.. and then ask again ... if its a keeper.. plant it in fall ... ken ps: what kind of nursery couldnt ID it for you ... or did you grab it and run.. laughing maniacally to your car.. lol... |
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- During Rich Brooks' tenure as coach at Oregon, campus recruiting visits were more of a walk of shame than a chance to show off.
"We housed [recruits] at the Valley River Inn," Brooks recalled. "Coaches would meet with them at the hotel. We didn't want them to see our offices. They were atrocious."
"It was terrible," Brooks said.
One thing Brooks and his coaches did show recruits was a model of a proposed domed stadium. No more practices in the rain and cold, they assured the kids whom they were trying to woo from California and other sunny climes. Just wait.
When practicing in a freezing rain for the 1989 Independence Bowl -- the Ducks' first bowl game in 26 years -- the Oregon seniors wryly asked Brooks where the dome was. Like many other Oregon capital improvements, it never got off the drawing board.
Monday, Brooks will watch the Ducks play for the national championship. In amazement.
"It's almost surreal," said the guy who first got the program up off the ground on its way to the stratosphere. "The players that are there now don't understand where it came from."
It came from nowhere and landed here, site of the Tostitos BCS Championship Game. In roughly 15 years, Oregon has gone from having almost nothing to having an excess of everything.
Today's Oregon players enjoy facilities that compare favorably to any in America. They enjoy every imaginable creature comfort, technological advance and fashion indulgence. A program that once was as trendy as Larry King's suspenders is college football's capital of cool.
"The performance wear we get, from a fashion standpoint, and the facilities and infrastructure, they fit with the innovative theme of who we are," said Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens, who just arrived at the school during the summer. "Very forward-thinking. It is kind of a hip brand."
Mullens said that while wearing DayGlo green Nike sneakers and a sweatshirt with DayGlo trim. His football players were walking around in sharp hoodies with their numbers on them in the same futuristic font the Ducks use for their jerseys.
Auburn's players looked good in their Under Armour sweats. Oregon's players looked better in their Nike gear.
And yes, that four-letter word is vital to understanding how the Ducks went from football pushover to powerhouse. The benefits of Nike founder Phil Knight bestowing most-favored-program status on his alma mater are impossible to understate.
One question for former coach Mike Bellotti, who succeeded Brooks and set the table for current coach Chip Kelly: How important is Knight's influence on Oregon football?
"How important is the sun to life on Earth?" Bellotti said. "We wouldn't be here without him."
By most calculations, Knight has spent more than $300 million on Oregon athletics. The money just keeps coming, and the facilities just keep getting built. A $41.7 million academic-support building is under construction. Then there will be a six-story football operations building.
And unlike that old domed stadium, those will get off the drawing board and into active use.
Like a lot of big-money boosters and a lot of big-time schools, Knight got seriously invested in Oregon football when Oregon football showed signs of serious promise. He'd helped bump up coaches' salaries, but he got really interested during Brooks' breakthrough Rose Bowl season of 1994.
The correlation was direct and dramatic. When Oregon won nine games in '94 for the first time since 1948, Knight went all in. From that point forward, the Ducks have won nine or more games in a season nine times.
The more they spent, the more people noticed. Facilities lured recruits on official visits. Bold marketing moves -- remember the huge Joey Harrington Heisman Trophy billboard in Times Square in 2001? -- drew media curiosity.
And then Nike went all mad fashion scientist with the uniforms, turning initial public disapproval into widespread public fascination.
And that's the interesting thing about this "hip brand": It's radically different from the other great brands in college football.
Think of Notre Dame, Alabama, Penn State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Ohio State, and what generally comes to mind? Tradition and continuity. The uniforms almost never change, and neither does much of anything else associated with those programs.
But Oregon has gone the other way, building a brand on constant change. The Ducks change clothes more often than Vegas showgirls, making their uniform combinations a newsworthy item every football game. Anticipation for the Dec. 14 unveiling of what they would wear in their first title game was immense.
(The answer: white jerseys, white pants, pewterish helmets, DayGlo green socks, white cleats with DayGlo green accents. I was hoping for jerseys with built-in cloaking devices.)
It's a smart strategy. If the object is to appeal to teenagers who are so comfortable with the staggering pace of change in today's society, then what better way than putting an emphasis on here-and-now trendiness?
"If anybody pays a visit to Oregon and sees the facilities and the uniforms and everything," said star running back LaMichael James, "as a 17-year-old or 18-year-old kid, who wouldn't want to go to Oregon?"
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Prostate Cancer – Recurrence
Improving Treatment and Quality of Life
Saturday – September 9, 2006
Golden Eagle Ballroom
California State University, Los Angeles
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8:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Prostate Cancer Research Institute,
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8:30 Intermittent vs. Continuous Hormone
Blockade for Recurrent Prostate Cancer:
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When is the Best Time to Stop?
Glenn Tisman, MD (Medical Oncologist),
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Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, MPH (Radiologist)
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At initiative of Manuel Bonnet, and with Jean-Louis Bruley's technical supervising, Spéos and Maison Nicéphore Niépce have decided to celebrate the bicentennial of the Pyreolophore by rebuilding it as it was originally. It is the first internal combustion engine ever, which was invented and patented by the Niépce brothers in 1807. 10 years later, they were the first in the world to make an engine work with fuel injection system. A celebration took place at the occasion of the "Journées du Patrimoine" (National Heritage Days) 2008, in the very place of the invention…in the House of Nicéphore Niépce ! > See Pyreolophore in 3D In partnership with the Institut Image de l'ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers) in Chalon sur Saône, the Niépce House presents a 3D video showing the internal functioning of the Pyreolophore. A creation by Hadrien Duhamel, supervised by Jean-Louis Bruley. > See the exhibition They participated to the reconstitution of the Pyréolophore: From right to left, Jean-Louis Bruley, Olivier Pironneau from the Académie des Sciences, and his wife: - - - It was in Nice that Claude and Nicephore started their first works as inventors.Their interest was first focused on creating a new engine principle based on the use of air dilatation during an explosion. Did they have any knowledge of the works of Huygens (1625-1695), who had already used air dilated by the explosion of gunpowder in a cylinder to move a piston ? |
The Niépce brothers at first used as an explosive a powder made with the spores of a plant : the Lycopodium (broad moss), then they used coal mixed with resin. So they invented the first internal combustion engine, which they named Pyreolophore (Pyr=fire,eolo=wind and phore=I carry or I produce ). In 1806, they wrote a first report.A commission of the National Institute, also known as the Sciences Academy, that had been given the task of evaluating the invention gave its verdict : « The fuel ordinarily used by M.M.Niépce is made of lycopodium spores,the combustion of which being the most intense and the easiest one ; however this material being costly,they replaced it with pulverized coal and mixed it if necessary with a small portion of resin, which works very well , as was proved by many experiments.In M.M.Niépces machine no portion of heat is dispersed in advance ; the moving force is an instantaneous result,and all the fuel effect is used to produce the dilatation that causes the moving force. In another experiment,the machine installed on a boat with a prow about two feet wide by three feet high , reduced in the underwater part and weighing about 2,000 pounds, went up the Saone river with just the engine power, with a speed greater than the rivers in the opposite direction; the amount of fuel burnt was around one hundred and twenty-five grains per minute,and the number of pulsations was twelve to thirteen in the same amount of time. The Commissioners then conclude that the machine proposed under the name Pyreolophore by M.M.Niépce is ingenious, that it may become very interesting by its physical and economical results, and deserves the approbation of the Commission » Report by Lazare Carnot and C.L.Berthollet on December 15th 1806. First plan of the pyreolophore, drawn by the Niépce brothers Nicephore and Claude kept improving the Pyreolophore.On December 24th 1807, they informed Lazare Carnot that they had obtained a highly flammable powder by mixing one part resin with nine parts coal. But in 1816 their progress was not sufficient to obtain some subsidies from their invention.The patents end was near and Claude decided to go to Paris and then to England, hoping to exploit the engine. |


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Propantheline is one of a group of antispasmodic/anticholinergic medications used to relieve cramps or spasms of the stomach, intestines, and bladder. Propantheline is used in the management of neurogenic bladder symptoms to control urination.
Take this medicine thirty minutes to one hour before meals unless otherwise directed by your physician.
Do not stop this medication abruptly. Stop gradually to avoid possible vomiting, sweating, and dizziness.
Anticholinergic medications such as propantheline can cause blurred vision and light sensitivity. Make sure you know how you react to this medication before driving.
Anticholinergic medications may cause dryness of the mouth. If your mouth continues to feel dry for more than two weeks, check with your dentist. Continuing dryness of the mouth may increase the chance of dental disease.
No studies of the effects of this drug in pregnancy have been done in either humans or animals.
Anticholinergic medications have not been reported to cause problems in nursing babies. The flow of breast milk may be reduced in some women.
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Greenville – The City of Greenville stands to benefit from an upgrade of its general obligation debt by Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Service.
S&P raised Greenville's underlying rating to AA. The upgrade was made based on the City's strong financial position, evidenced by very strong reserves, despite recently planned drawdowns and its diverse and historically sustainable revenue stream.
Finance Director Cliff Copeland says the upgrade will provide an increase in the number of buyers interested in purchasing city bonds, which should equate to lower interest rates on their bonds.
The S&P report indicated that the rating reflects the City's stable local economy with access to the Dallas metropolitan statistical area, diverse and steadily expanding property tax base, and good financial management policies and practices.
The report goes on to state that Greenville's financial performance is strong and considers the City's financial management practices good. The City's diverse property tax base is steadily expanding, which effectively helps lower the property tax rate.
Total assessed valuation has increased by an average of 7.5% annually since 2007 to $1.2 billion. The City's overall debt burden is a moderate 4.9% of market value and annual debt service requirements accounts for a moderate 12% of expenditures in fiscal year 2008.
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Sigma-Aldrich continues to evolve our environmental sustainability approach. We began with water, energy, emissions, waste, product, transportation and shipping operations and supply chain management. Now, our broader focus also includes the effects our operations have on biodiversity, animal welfare and more.
To continue improving in these areas, we are seeking out more data and applying the findings to our facilities around the world. For example, a partnership with EnTech USB helps us translate our utility bills into greenhouse gas values, which we can use to improve energy efficiency. Our efforts also include more detailed reporting on our water footprints, energy footprints and carbon footprints; engaging stakeholders to find partners who can help us create mutually beneficial, sustainable solutions; and designing additional assessments to better understand the scope and scale of the effects of our global operations.
While maintaining a strong work ethic and focus on efficiency, our employees remain our ambassadors of global citizenship and environmental stewardship. Via our invaluable Green Teams, resourceful Sigma-Aldrich employees are expressing our passion for sustainability through community service. They're also changing day-to-day habits and practices within our offices to help create a more sustainable tomorrow.
In 2012, we implemented a total cost of ownership program that emphasized total cost analysis. The program focuses on how processes can be improved, the sustainability of raw materials supply and improving yields to reduce the carbon footprint. One aspect of this program is working with our suppliers to consolidate our freight in daily or weekly shipments to minimize the number of shipments. The program is being rolled out globally and we expect to see continued improvements and sustainable impacts through working with our suppliers.
It is the policy of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation to provide small business concerns, including veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, HUBZone small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses and women owned small businesses the maximum practical opportunity to compete for the procurement of goods and services. This commitment extends to the procurement of goods and services according to our Procurement policy, whether the purchases eventually support sales under Sigma-Aldrich's General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Contract, sales to state or local governments, sales to academic and other industry customers or in-house needs. We are committed to maintaining an effective supplier diversity program that is consistent with contractual expectations and that maximizes procurement opportunities for Small Business Concerns to the fullest extent consistent with efficient performance.
In 2012, Sigma-Aldrich was able to increase its SBE expenditures by 6% and also improved its system to allow Small Businesses to more easily reach procurement and to communicate the goods and/or services new companies can offer.
The improvements in processes and system functionality that we implemented in 2011 enabled us to expand our Air to Ocean Project in 2012. By analyzing all of the ocean routes we use to move product and raw materials, starting with shipments leaving our Teutonia facility in Milwaukee and following the shipment to its final destination at our Schnelldorf facility in Germany, we were able to make significant improvements in the total transit time. Our initial transit time took approximately 30 days. Through process improvements, we are able to make the same shipment in 19 days. This reduction in lead time allows us to ship more of our slow selling products via ocean as opposed to air without having to worry about back-orders or service issues for our customers. Some of the changes we made to accomplish this include loading the container on site versus consolidating at a freight forwarder and trucking our containers directly to the port in New York versus using rail. The successful implementation of this project increased our volume of ocean freight from 200 tonnes in 2011 to 350 tonnes in 2012, equating to significant cost savings and reducing our CO2 emissions by 701 tonnes.
In 2013, we will expand the project to include hazardous materials that will have a much higher impact in freight savings since these products are extremely costly to ship via air. We will also continue to optimize our route planning to further decrease the transit time with a goal of reducing it to 15 days. We plan to optimize other ocean lanes such as our route from Germany to India.
Our large manufacturing footprint creates the opportunity for us to better manage assets through increased communication between facilities. In 2012, we were able to redeploy seven major assets to different locations in our manufacturing network, which reduced the need to purchase new equipment enabling us to be more conscious of resource usage and reusing our existing assets. We were also able resale 40 items into a used secondary market. This program delivered substantial savings to the organization in 2012, and kept more than 10,000 pounds of waste from entering landfills.
The Virtual Boxing project was implemented in our Milwaukee Distribution Center during the first quarter of 2011, with the goal of reducing the number of boxes used to ship products to our customers in the United States and around the world. The project involved installing systems to evaluate customers' orders and to determine how best to package shipments to insure customers receive a quality product and to ensure that shipments are in compliance with regulations for shipping hazardous materials. For 2012, we estimate the number of boxes saved due to Virtual Boxing at 62,000, accounting for about 30,000 pounds of cardboard. Over the life of the project to date, the number of boxes saved is estimated at 125,000.
The St. Louis Green Team is the longest serving sustainability related employee volunteer group at Sigma-Aldrich. Through its tenure, the Green Team has pushed for policy change and has driven waste reduction and increased recycling rates. They've also engaged employees with opportunities to volunteer at environmental clean-up days and electronics recycling days at work. The Green Team has also been active in the greater St. Louis community through the St. Louis Regional Chambers Green Business Challenge. This gives employees the opportunity to network, collaborate and learn from other businesses in the area and to share the progress and approaches that Sigma-Aldrich has used. In 2012, the Green Team introduced a No Idling Policy at St. Louis sites to decrease unnecessary emissions from vehicles on site. While it's not possible to measure the impact of this change, the policy change is a move in the right direction to reduce unnecessary resource usage and to decrease pollution, while improving air quality. The team also introduced a holiday lights recycling program in conjunction with a wider St. Louis area initiative. After the holidays, employees were able to bring in their non-working holiday lights that would then be 100% recycled.
The Green Team has an ambitious plan for 2013, which includes projects that have local, domestic and international reach:
Our goal of providing consumers with safe, efficient and environmentally responsible products starts with making sure that our customers receive full disclosure as to why certain products may be more sustainable than others. Currently, there is no reasonable quantitative standard in our industry that explains a product's environmental impact. A consistent and easy-to-understand system is an important tool to help consumers make informed decisions about "greener" products.
To address this issue, we launched a project to quantitatively determine relative "greenness" of a product based on the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry.
The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, originally published by Paul Anastas, Ph.D. and John Warner, Ph.D. in Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press: New York, 1998)
We continue to fine tune our algorithms that use readily available manufacturing and safety data to generate individual "scores" for each principle as well as an overall weighted score. In collaboration with our World Green Chemistry Committee, the system has been applied to an extended group of products. We are in the final stages of finishing the review of our methodology by an outside third party. In our 2011 report, we communicated that we would have all of the products in the Greener Alternatives section scored by the end of 2013, due to increased review cycles, we now plan to have all manufactured products scored by the end of 2013 and we plan to release the information on our website so consumers have access to a simple and effective methodology giving them a better understanding of environmentally conscious, alternative options. We are working with our procurement team to collaborate with vendors of these products so we can get the information needed to score the products and to provide that detail to customers.
The Greener Alternative Matrix is not only going to be applied to our Greener Alternative Product line. We also plan to integrate this system into our manufacturing procedures so as we develop and modify the way we make our products, the system can serve as a standard to encourage more efficient and sustainable processes. We are working to make the system fully automated using internal data so the matrix can fit seamlessly into product designs and protocols. Sigma-Aldrich's commitment to being a leader in green chemistry drives its goal to develop cleaner, safer and more efficient products with a new level of transparency through the Greener Alternative Matrix, providing our customers with a better understanding of how we are living up to that mission.
BioReliance provides specialized toxicology (Genetic Toxicology) and Biologics Safety Testing services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences and other industries. These services are provided from facilities in the US and UK. Studies including mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters are performed, where appropriate, in order to supply our clients with services that meet international regulatory requirements and guidelines for the testing and manufacturing of their products. Throughout its business, BioReliance adheres to the highest standards of humane, responsible animal care. The company is in full compliance with all NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare policies (US), all criteria outlined by the US Public Health Service's (PHS) "Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" and is licensed in accordance with the UK Home Office Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) after transposition of European Directive 2010/63/EU. BioReliance also complies with the requirements of the US Animal Welfare Act (AWA) which is administered by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Finally, BioReliance actively implements the practice of "The 3 R's" - Reduce, Refine and Replace – and encourages the adoption of these principles by our clients. BioReliance is fully accredited by AAALAC International (Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care). The use of animals is monitored by our Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee which evaluates all proposed protocols for compliance to global animal welfare regulations.
Since 2005, Sigma-Aldrich has steadily reduced the number of catalogs printed and distributed to our customers around the world. In 2005, more than 1.3 million catalogs were printed and distributed. That number was reduced to 750,000 in 2012. We've also worked to make better use of the space on each page by improving how information is displayed, which helps to reduce our page counts. These changes have allowed us to reduce paper consumption in the past seven years by 50% or 4.8 million lbs.Another step we've taken to reduce the number of printing cycles for catalogs is to extend the lifespan of each book. Our flagship catalogs, the Sigma Life Science catalog and the Aldrich catalog, used to be printed bi-annually, those cycles have now been extended to between 36 and 48 months.
To respond to our customers' desire for digital content, we've started developing and publishing content specifically for mobile use - giving the next generation of scientists and our sales teams ease of access to valuable scientific information. We have also transitioned to providing more of our newsletters in an "e" format, helping to reduce the amount of paper needed for newsletter production. By making this change, we have reduced newsletter printing by 43% since 2009 and we expect that number to increase to 57%, or 224,000 lbs. of paper by the end of 2013. We have also committed to printing our newsletters and other printed collateral on FSC certified paper that uses Green Power when manufactured.


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The Alamance County Arts Council presents Nathan Sawaya's The Art of the Brick, an exhibition of 34 large-scale sculptures created from iconic LEGO bricks. Sawaya has taken this small toy and made it into one of the largest and most popular art exhibits currently touring the country. Awe-inspiring, thought-provoking…and so much fun! This exhibit is offered free and is open to the public through generous community gifts.
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