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The Goal
In an effort to recommit myself to improving my fitness, I'm going to set myself a goal for the next 365 days. My goal is to row 500,000m (indoors) between August 1st, 2014 and July 31, 2015. I first got this idea when I heard that Rich Froning, 4-time CrossFit Games Champion, set out a goal of rowing 1,000,000m in 2014. I did the math and knowing I don't work out for a living like Rich, I knew that 1,000,000m was not very reasonable. So I took Froning's goal and cut it in half. I think that's more reasonable for me.
Why Is It A Reasonable Goal?
- I'm lucky in that I have access to Concept2 rowers at all places in my day to day life. I have a Concept2 at home, there's an old school original Concept rower at the gym at work and there are Concept2 rowers at the gym where I drop into here and there (CrossFit Calgary). With all this access to rowers, I should be able to be on a rower every day of the year with exception to the days I am away for vacation and rest days.
- I feel it's unlikely I'll get injured rowing 500k. In my experience, I've never been injured from rowing and I feel it's a fairly low risk task from an injury perspective. I was even able to row lightly after a few weeks after spraining my ankle badly while playing basketball and I could barely walk at that time. If this goal was to run 500k in the next year, it would definitely not be attainable for me as I injure very easily while running[1]. Obviously, I'd like to stay healthy while trying to attain this goal.
- It's not a lot of time on a rower. I figure that I'll be on the rower for 300 of the 365 days in the year (approx 30 days of vacation out of town and 35 rest days), that means I'll need to row at least 1,666m per day on the rower. At a fairly leasure pace of 2:00m/500m, I could do that in under 7 minutes. That may not sound that bad but if you've ever been on a rower keeping a sub 2:00m/500m pace for 2k or longer, you know that it can get pretty uncomfortable.
- Lastly, I don't mind rowing. Some people hate it because, let's face it, it can crush you.[2] But I like getting lost in the movement, listening to some music or a podcast and trying to be the most efficient with my strokes. I'm definitely not the strongest or faster rower but I feel like I can go hard, get completely exhausted and stay injury free while doing it.
An Added Wrinkle
I feel like anyone could obtain this goal by just spending a lot of time on the rower and rowing at a slow pace. Sure, you'll obtain the goal but you won't be pushing yourself much. I intend to push myself while obtaining this goal which why I added the following wrinkle to this challenge - at least 50% of the 500k needs to be rowed either for time or as a part of a workout. By doing this, I know I'll be pushing hard in at least 250,000m of my goal. I'll keep track of my PRs in the 500m, 1000m, 2000m, 3000m and 5000m[3]. Will my times get better as the year goes by? We'll see I guess.
What Will This Do For Me?
Will this make me a fitter person? Will I lose weight? I really have no idea. I think there are a lot of other variables besides rowing a lot that goes into answering those questions. I just want an attainable goal that I can work towards and we'll see what the results will be. Rowing will just be the foundation of my workouts as I still intend to do a lot of CrossFit-style workouts on top of my rowing and also, I'll play hockey in the winter and baseball in the summer. And yes, I'll still drink a lot of beer and eat pizza.
How Will I Track My Progress?
I will track my progress honestly through a public Google Spreasheet that I put together. In the spreadsheet, I will log each day I row and if I was rowing as part of a workout, for time or a cool down row (at a slow pace). Using that, I can calculate the running percentage of rowing that I'm doing for time or as part as a workout so I can keep it above 50%. I'll also keep track of my PRs in the same spreadsheet. If you'd like to follow my progress, I've embedded the spreadsheet below or you can see it here.
Shin splints start hurting after 2–3k, then knees after 5–8k and then my hip flexers in the 10–15k. In the 10–15k range, my pace is so terribly slow because of my injuries, not because I'm tired, then I'm a wreck after. I know this would probably get better if I ran more but I would have to go through a lot of pain and recovery. ↩
Don't believe me? Row 2k as fast as you can and reconsider as you lay on the ground in a pool of sweat. ↩
I have some good 500/1000/2000 PRs from a year or two ago when I was in better shape but I'm going to reset and retest my PRs so I can better gauge my improvement throughout the year. ↩


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Bringing High-Speed Rail to America
Posted byon February 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM ESTEd. Note: Read more from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on his blog.
Imagine the last time you took a trip between two American cities. Maybe you had to wait in line at a crowded airport; maybe you spent hours in traffic in a car or a bus. Or maybe you made the trip on a train that had to slow down over and over because it was running on outdated tracks.
Now think about the fact that over the next 40 years, the population of the US is projected to grow by 100 million, and consider how much that'll increase the use of our roads, airports, and rail. Now imagine what that same trip you took will be like if we don't build the transportation infrastructure we need to accommodate those extra travelers.
The fact is, those folks are going to travel one way or another. But it's up to us whether they travel on the infrastructure of the past, or whether they travel on new 21st century transportation infrastructure that's fast, modern, efficient, and environmentally friendly.
That's why Vice President Biden traveled to Philadelphia today to announce a comprehensive plan to help the nation reach President Obama's goal of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years. The President is proposing to invest $53 billion over the next six years to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger rail network, which will create tens of thousands of private-sector jobs while helping to lay a new foundation for our economy.
Living Up To the Mine Act
Posted byon February 2, 2011 at 2:36 PM ESTToday the Department of Labor proposed a new rule that would help better protect Americans with one of the most dangerous jobs: miners.
For years, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has been overly restricted in its use of a powerful tool to protect the health and safety of our nation's miners: putting a mine on a "Patterns of Violations" (or POV) status and using the additional enforcement tools that determination brings with it. The current system makes it much too difficult to identify such patterns -- too hard for both mine operators and the workers who need the protection this new rule would provide.
In the 30 years since the Mine Act's passage no mine has ever been placed on a POV. That means that mines we know are consistently putting workers in danger are allowed to continue bad practices without making the needed systemic changes to protect workers. The current regulatory interpretation of the Mine Act fundamentally undermines its intent: to provide MSHA with the tools it needs to protect workers.
Our Plan to Put One Million Advanced Technology Vehicles on America's Roads
Posted byon January 26, 2011 at 6:37 PM ESTLast night, President Obama set a goal of making the United States the first country in the world to put one million advanced technology vehicles on the road. This goal is part of the President's plan to rebuild our economy by investing in innovation to create the jobs and industries of the future.
Today, Vice President Biden visited Ener1, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced batteries for electric vehicles, in Greenfield, Indiana to announce our plan to reach this one million vehicle goal by 2015. The facility that the Vice President visited would not exist if not for a $118.5 million grant from the Department of Energy, which was part of a $2.4 billion Recovery Act investment in electric vehicles . Ener1 added 120 jobs across the company in 2010 and the future looks bright. They expect to expand the manufacturing and assembly operation in Greenfield from 80 workers today to over a thousand by the start of 2013.
The Vice President got a first-hand look at Ener1's assembly line and had a chance to chat with several workers. The Vice President was introduced by Wendy Howard, a mother of three, who joined Ener1 after being laid off from her previous job. Wendy proudly said that she now makes "hi-tech batteries for electric cars that don't disturb the environment and don't drink up oil that we don't have."
Wendy and her co-workers at Ener1 will surely benefit from the three-part plan that Vice President Biden announced today, which will support electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption in the United States through generous new consumer rebates, investments in research and development, and a new competitive program to encourage communities to knock down regulatory barriers and invest in electric vehicle infrastructure, like public charging stations. You can learn more about the plan here.
As the Vice President said today, Ener1 and other companies like it are "building a brighter, cleaner, and more prosperous American future."
Brian Levine is Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President
Victories For Working Families and Jobs in the Agreement on Tax Cuts and Unemployment Insurance
Posted byon December 10, 2010 at 3:24 PM ESTThe President is committed to promoting a strong, growing economy – one that's creating jobs, fostering a thriving middle class, and extending opportunity to all American workers. That's why he fought so hard to ensure that the priorities of working families were advanced in the agreement introduced today in the Senate.
As the chart above demonstrates, the bipartisan agreement we've forged delivers several key victories – victories that will give the average American family assurance that there will be more money to pay the bills each month:
Learn more about TaxesHelping Middle-Class Families Pursue Justice
Posted byon November 19, 2010 at 4:31 PM ESTThis morning, the Vice President spoke at a Middle Class Task Force Event that was co-hosted by the Department of Justice's Access to Justice Initiative. He announced new steps that our Administration is taking in partnership with the legal community to strengthen foreclosure mediation programs, help veterans cope with legal challenges, and make it easier for workers to find a qualified attorney when they believe their rights have been violated.
First, the Department of Labor (DOL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) are launching a new partnership to help workers resolve complaints received by DOL's Wage and Hour Division, such as not getting paid the minimum wage or overtime, or being wrongfully denied family medical leave. DOL resolves more than 20,000 of these complaints every year, but because of limited resources, there are thousands more they are unable to pursue. Starting next month, people whose cases cannot be pursued will be provided with a newly created toll-free number that will connect them with an ABA-approved attorney referral service so they can find a qualified lawyer to help with their claims.
The Importance of Equal Pay For Women
Posted byon November 17, 2010 at 7:00 AM ESTYesterday I picked up my Wall Street Journal and read an opinion piece "Washington's Equal Pay Obsession" arguing that the Paycheck Fairness Act is unnecessary because, in a nutshell, women don't face rampant pay discrimination. Instead, the author asserted, the wage gap exists because women are mothers.
So let's break this down.
First, there is ample evidence that women – regardless of their parental status - do face pay discrimination. Yes, part of the wage gap is a result of occupational choices and other factors. No one denies that. Most economists agree, however, that no matter how many variables you control for an unexplained wage gap between men and women persists. For example, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn did an excellent breakdown of the wage gap in 2007 and identified that 41% of the wage gap between men and women could not be explained by controlling for variables. Regardless of the precise percentage of the wage gap, we have a responsibility to ensure that no one in this country makes less as a result of his or her gender.
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There is an important distinction between "equality-in-law" and "equality-in-fact". When legal equality is not matched by substantive equality on the ground, policymakers might need to redress this imbalance through special, targeted measures.
There is no way that exempting members of some racial groups from requirements applicable to others will not be seen as stigmatising, demeaning achievement, validating stereotypes and inconsistent with interracial respect.
First, many thanks to our debaters, Ashwini Deshpande and Lino Graglia, who have courteously and clearly laid the framework for this debate. They approach the subject from different perspectives and countries: Ms Deshpande has done excellent work on India's caste-based system of reservations, while Mr Graglia is steeped in American law. Thanks also to our dedicated readers and arguers for commenting and voting. Affirmative action, reservation, racial preferences: whatever you wish to call such policies, this is a sensitive subject, and Ms Deshpande, Mr Graglia and our commenters deserve credit for keeping the conversation civil.
In our opening round, Ms Deshpande defended affirmative action as an essential "mechanism for including members of groups that would otherwise be under-represented, relative to their share in the population, in elite positions". This, she argues, is necessary because when entire groups are left out of the elite, or present merely in diminished or token numbers, social unrest follows.
If the market could correct for these hierarchies automatically, gauging talent accurately and rewarding it fairly, affirmative action would not be needed. Alas, it cannot. Ms Deshpande notes that in most countries, "inequalities are entwined with the underlying socio-economic hierarchies". Members of disadvantaged groups often have to work twice as hard to prove that they are just as good. I was especially glad to see that Ms Deshpande's defence rested entirely on practical grounds; nowhere did she suggest that affirmative action was a form of atonement, merely that it corrects persistent imbalances.
Mr Graglia, by contrast, holds that discrimination of any sort, however well-intentioned, "is inconsistent with the ideal that all persons are equal before the law and must be treated as individuals, not as members of racial groups". Affirmative action violates this principle, and is a "prescription for unending hostility". Moreover, he contends that the benefits of affirmative action flow not to the truly disadvantaged, but to wealthy minorities, who have an advantage in university admissions that poor white students do not.
If disproportionately few black students attend select universities, he contends that the culprit is not discrimination, but "poor black academic performance". Preferential admissions do nothing to address this problem; they simply conceal it. As a result, students get admitted to institutions for which they are unprepared, where they are more likely to drop out or finish near the bottom of their class. Mr Graglia thus contends that "racially preferential college and university admissions are not merely unhelpful, but counterproductive".
Our voters thus far seem inclined to agree more with Mr Graglia than Ms Deshpande. Our most-recommended comment, from Lawrence Bevir, argues that affirmative action "is fundamentally dehumanising" and it "propagat[es] outdated concepts like race, caste and the other divisions it hopes to break down". Another commenter, Ms Paty, reminds readers that American slavery began in 1619 and ended in 1865; segregation persisted for another century after that. She says that she comes from "a poor educational background" that resulted from a legacy of discrimination; for her, affirmative action "means a fair opportunity to level the ground, not a free ride".
Now our debate moves on to the rebuttal phase. We will hear once again from Ms Deshpande and Mr Graglia, and we will also feature two supplementary comments discussing affirmative action in South Africa and Malaysia. We hope to hear some more from you as well.
Lino Graglia's statement focuses entirely on a small, albeit important, component of the gamut of policies that constitute affirmative action (AA): race-based admissions in American universities. He argues that "official race discrimination" is inconsistent with the idea that all individuals are equal before the law. Most countries guarantee legal equality for their citizens, and yet several have special programmes targeted towards subsections of the population (races, castes, ethnicities, the poor). Thus are all targeted programmes, of which AA is one example, illegal?
The chief architect of India's constitution, B.R. Ambedkar, made an important distinction between "equality-in-law" and "equality-in-fact". When legal equality is not matched by substantive equality on the ground, policymakers might need to redress this imbalance through special, targeted measures. But targeting one group of people for extra entitlements (college admissions, scholarships, jobs, electoral representation and even subsidised food) necessarily involves making their identity salient, which can always be viewed as violating the principle of legal equality. So, should states always strictly adhere to legal equality and only have universal programmes? And if some groups gain disproportionately from these race-neutral programmes and others are excluded, so be it? Well, no. That would be exactly the recipe for long-term social disharmony that I mentioned in my opening statement.
One of several myths surrounding race-based college admissions in America concerns the number of institutions that actually take race into account in making admission decisions. Less than one-third do. The popular imagination vastly overestimates the extent of racial preference in America.
An important component of the research on achievement gaps highlights the role of stereotype threat, which could be internalised or externalised by those who are pejoratively stereotyped, and lower academic performance. Externalisation of negative stereotypes—expecting to be judged prejudicially by majority group members on the basis of a stereotypical belief in minority intellectual inferiority—increases the performance burden experienced by individual minority group members, and this extra psychological burden lowers grade performance. Internalisation—believing that at some level the myth of intellectual inferiority might actually apply to them—leads students to reduce their academic efforts in keeping with a psychological process of "disidentification", which results in minority members disengaging from grade achievement as a domain of self-evaluation.
Next, is AA in selective schools harming the beneficiaries? Data on student test scores, school selectivity and graduation rates from the "College and Beyond" dataset show that even those black students in the lowest SAT band (those with combined scores under 1,000) graduated at higher rates, the more selective the school they attended, and this result persists after controlling for several characteristics (SAT scores, gender, high-school grades, socio-economic status). The most selective schools in America tend to be residential, and have relatively small enrolments, sufficient endowments and other financial resources to allow smaller classes and other support services—all factors that would facilitate high graduation rates.
To what extent does AA lower standards by admitting blacks who would otherwise not be admitted? An analysis of the 30 most selective law schools in America reveals that the differences in scores of black beneficiaries and the lowest decile of admitted white students is only 10%, thus even a small magnitude of preferences can lead to a big difference in the number of blacks admitted.
Is a racially mixed student body desirable in higher education? American society is becoming increasingly diverse, and diversity inside educational institutions means that the ability to work with those who might think and function differently and to lead groups with a mix of social identity is going to matter increasingly more later in life.
Lastly, is race a good proxy for disadvantage? The same question is asked in India about caste. This is an empirical question. And to settle it, it would be wrong to compare a few rich blacks with a few poor whites, since both races have a distribution of incomes, ie, have both poor and rich members. The question is: is one group disproportionately poorer than another? Not randomly at one point in time, but is the disadvantage persistent?
On this, the evidence is unambiguous and compelling: race, or caste, is a good proxy. Also, the recent indignant uproar from the Indian middle class over reserving places on the basis of income (not caste) for poorer kids in elite private elementary schools in New Delhi demonstrates that the argument about "income-not-caste" and "early-intervention-not-higher-education" is a fig leaf. The crux of the opposition to AA is the resistance to sharing privilege. The status quo is always seen as meritocratic and any attempt to change it is challenged, whether the change is based on income/socio-economist status or social markers such as race, caste, ethnicity or gender, and whether the change comes early or late in the life span of individuals.
Ashwini Deshpande's defence of "affirmative action" in the Indian context has little application to the United States. In the United States, it is a euphemism for race preference, and its use by government or government-supported institutions violates the basic democratic principle that all persons are equal before the law and must be treated as individuals, not as members of racial groups.
In this country, no groups are "left out of the process" of higher education; here it is not racial exclusion but racial advantaging that is the source of resentment and disharmony, though not of the "heinous and bloody consequences" experienced in India. There is no way, despite Ms Deshpande's denial, that exempting members of some racial groups from requirements applicable to others will not be seen as stigmatising, demeaning achievement, validating stereotypes and inconsistent with interracial respect.
Racially preferential admission to selective institutions of higher education is not in this country a programme for the disadvantaged. No black, for example, is denied preferential admission because he or she is not disadvantaged, or is even (typically) exceptionally advantaged, while less advantaged and more highly qualified whites and Asians are rejected. President Obama's daughters, a Stanford admissions officer insisted, would be granted preference, if needed, whether they wanted it or not; it is enough that they are black.
Because the gap in academic preparation to be overcome is very large, the amount of preference must be large, used not to overcome but to create a "highly unequal playing field". At the University of Texas law school, for example, the presumptive admission score for blacks was lower than the presumptive rejection score for whites and Asians. Checking "black" on a college application form is typically worth at least 200 points on the combined reading and maths SAT (200–1,600) score.
Selective colleges and universities are not meant to be "representative" institutions. It is not to be expected and it nowhere occurs that members of different racial, ethnic, religious and other groups will appear proportionately. Gross racial and ethnic disproportions characterise American higher education as well as sports and other areas. Should the disproportionate number of Jews as law professors, Chinese as doctors, Indians as engineers and blacks as basketball players, for example, be seen as a problem requiring racial adjustment?
Lastly, it should have always been clear that causing students to move from a school for which they are fully qualified to a more selective one that they could not otherwise be admitted to is not likely to be for their benefit. Large gaps in academic achievement cannot be ignored or wished away, as recent studies confirm. Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor's book "Mismatch" claims to show that more blacks would graduate from law school, pass the bar exam and be practising lawyers today if the schools did not practise race preference. Other studies show the same to be true for scientists and engineers. When California abolished race preference by law, black enrolment in the two most selective University of California schools declined, but at other University of California schools it increased, resulting in a greater number of black graduates. If that does not settle the issue, assuming that the objective is to help blacks, it is difficult to see what can.
Affirmative action in South Africa is not a good idea. It is at best a mistaken one, which has benefited a small minority of black South Africans while eroding efficiency, adding to waste and corruption, restricting growth and jobs, and thus harming the majority of apartheid's former victims.
Affirmative action has been most energetically implemented in public-sector employment, where an 80% turnover in senior management between 1994 and 2007 helped bring about an often crippling loss of skills and institutional memory. Though some successes have nevertheless been achieved in rolling out housing, electricity and sanitation, the skills shortage has become particularly acute at municipal level in small towns. Here, as the (black) president of a business association said in 2008: "Sewerage often runs down the street, street lights don't work, roads are disintegrating, refuse is not collected, water supply is erratic, and water from taps is unsafe."
Affirmative action in the public service has also contributed to poor policing, forensic backlogs, rail bottlenecks, congested ports, crumbling roads, uncertain electricity supply and a host of qualified audits among state entities.
All this affects the business climate too. In recent years, Global Competitiveness Reports issued by the World Economic Forum have repeatedly flagged "an inefficient government bureaucracy" as one of the "most problematic factors for doing business" in South Africa. In 2010 and 2011 this emerged as the worst factor of all, before dropping to third place in 2012.
Most private firms have yet to reach the government's goal of 75% African representation at all levels of management. Hence, under an amendment bill currently before Parliament, they could in time face massive fines, of up to 10% of annual turnover, for failing to achieve this target. Yet fines of this magnitude could force firms into bankruptcy and cost the country still more jobs. In addition, a 75% target is difficult to meet when only 3% of Africans have the tertiary qualifications often needed in management posts and only 25% fall within the 35-64 age cohort from which managers are usually drawn.
As for black economic empowerment (BEE), the value of declared ownership deals—aimed at transferring 25% of equity to black South Africans—has been estimated at around R550 billion between 1998 and 2008 alone. This is an enormous sum to allocate not to productive investment, but rather to the racial reshuffling of share ownership for the benefit, in general, of a small and politically well-connected elite.
In addition, preferential procurement has contributed to wasted revenue. In 2012 the secretary general of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Gwede Mantashe, urged BEE companies to "stop using the state as their cash cow by providing poor-quality goods at inflated prices". He also said: "This thing of having a bottle of water that you can get for R7 procured by the government for R27 because you want to create a middle-class person who must have a business is not on … It must stop."
Preferential procurement has also given impetus to corruption, as one BEE businessman implicitly acknowledged in 2012 when he said: "You pay to be introduced to the political principals, you pay to get a tender, you pay to be paid [for completed work], and you must also … make donations to … the ANC … and the SACP [South African Communist Party]."
At the same time, BEE has done little to help small black businesses, says Lawrence Mavundla, outgoing president of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Nafcoc). According to Mr Mavundla, BEE has "marginalised" existing firms by promoting "tenderpreneurs who are tender thieves because they get their tenders through [political] connections".
Moeletsi Mbeki, brother to former president Thabo Mbeki, has long criticised BEE for "striking a fatal blow against black entrepreneurship by creating a small class of unproductive but wealthy black crony capitalists made up of ANC politicians". BEE, he says, thus robs South Africa of the key to economic and industrial development: "an entrepreneurial bourgeoisie".
In 2010 the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, summed up the situation when he said: "BEE policies have not worked and have not made South Africa a fairer or more prosperous country."
In addition, affirmative action and BEE measures are largely irrelevant to the poor. The demand they create is for a small elite within the African population, which has gained significantly from racial set-asides. However, affirmative action will never bring ownership deals, management posts, preferential contracts, or new small businesses to run to 19m black South Africans still living in poverty.
Affirmative action, in short, might help the top 15% but it holds no benefits for the remaining 85%. Worse still, it harms that 85% by deterring investment, growth and jobs. This is particularly serious in a country where unemployment among Africans has more than doubled since 1994—and currently stands at 42% on an expanded definition that includes those too discouraged to keep up the futile search for jobs and income.


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That's right now you can make barbacoa as good as Chipotle's at home! Perfecting this recipe started as a bet... while my husband Scott and his good friend Steve were enjoying one of their many grad school barbacoa lunches from Chipotle, Steve made the comment, "I don't think even Jan could make it this good." Oh, the challenge was on! I searched the web and found several recipes claiming to be the real deal but I decided to base mine off a copycat recipe I found on Todd Wilbur's Top Secret Recipes. So how did it come out? Let's just say Steve ate his words and several of these burritos :) Heads up, you'll need a crockpot for this one.
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- 4 teaspoons minced garlic cloves
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- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
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- 3/4 cup chicken broth
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Craig When the Colorado Optometric Association said no, Drs. Craig Eckroth and Ron Danner said yes.
Until 2005, the Optometric Association sponsored a statewide program offering eye exams and one pair of frames and lenses to schoolchildren whose parents couldn't afford them.
A general lack of interest in urban areas, however, prompted the association to discontinue the program, Eckroth said.
The news hit Moffat County hard.
"We really were on board here," Eckroth said.
So, he and Danner, his business partner at Eyecare Specialties, decided to continue the program themselves.
Each year, Eckroth and Danner provide eight vouchers apiece that provide eligible area elementary school students a free eye exam and discounted eyeglasses. Vouchers are given to area elementary schools, which then determine which students are eligible for the program based on results from routine in-school vision screenings.
The program is tailored specifically for students without Medicaid, insurance or other means of paying for eye care.
"We try to catch kids who fall through the cracks," Eckroth said.
Of the 16 vouchers he and Danner provide annually, Eckroth estimated nearly all of them are redeemed each year.
Eckroth said he thinks the program's success is measured by the effect it has on student's academic achievement.
"There's such a major part (of learning) that we acquire through the visual system," he said, adding that about 80 percent of what students learn in school comes through sight.
"You can't perform at a high level if you're not seeing clearly or comfortably," Eckroth said.
Helping students reach that goal comes with a price.
An eye exam and eyeglasses, complete with frames and lenses, usually cost at least $200, Eckroth said.
Through the voucher program, however, $20 buys needy students an eye exam and a new pair of glasses with lenses, if the child needs them.
The elementary eye care program will take a respite until school starts again in the fall.
However, a similar service at the clinic operates year-round.
InfantSEE, a nationwide program, offers free, one-time vision assessments to children ages 6 to 12 months. The service is open to any infant between those ages, Eckroth said.
Through the program, Eyecare Specialties offered the free assessments to 55 area children last year, he said.
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kkcmsw 6 years, 7 months ago
Well, I'm glad that Eyecare Specialties does something to help those who fall through the cracks but they do very little in comparison to other places (other communties) that I have witnessed. It would be great if they could step their generousity up a notch.
George Robertson 6 years, 7 months ago
Well kkcmsw, how about you kick in the cost of another 16 vouchers out of YOUR pocket. I can not imagine that you would question the generosity of these two men and indicate that THEY should do more!
Craig_gal 6 years, 7 months ago
its great that they GIVE this service I feel it is unfair to ask anyone to step up their generosity. Now I just wish someone in this area would see children that are on Medicaid.
lonelyone 6 years, 7 months ago
You know, with the cost of everything going up and everyone with their hands out for this program and that, it's hard for these business' to give to everyone. And believe me EVERYONE feels like they deserve it more then the next person or club that walks through the door. Maybe Eyecare Specialties could do more, but I think we should just give them an atta boy for what they already do. I know years ago an exam cost about $70 and an average pair of glasses.......lens and frames where about 150.00 or more. Now inflate that for todays prices and that is alot of money that these guys miss out on. I know that is not what they actually pay, but it's what they lose in dollars for their business. For that we should not complain they don't do enough.
50cal 6 years, 7 months ago
wow, I think they were very generous good for them. Now they didn't do enough? How about parents get jobs with benifits? make enough money to pay for their kids. don't have kids if you can't pay for them. Ask not what your country can do for you Ask what you can do for your country.
ANYONE remember anything about that? I've got an idea, stop for a minute tomorrow and think about the men who stormed ashore on some beaches in france 64 years on the sixth of june ago fighting for your freedoms. Then get off your butt and by your own glasses.
lonelyone 6 years, 7 months ago
I know times are tough and many people can't get jobs that pay 20 some dollars an hour and have full benifits too. I know it's hard to pay for things kids need and still put food on your table at times....or now, gas in your car so you can go to work to pay for everything! but there has to be a way to get glasses for your kids if they need them. Sometimes these eye Drs. will have old frames that just don't sell anymore at a very cheap price and you can maybe make arrangements to make payments with them. Craig gal, are you saying none of the eye doc will take kids on medicad? If they take adults, they have to take kids don't they??
Really 6 years, 7 months ago
Lions' Club has scholarship programs to get glasses for kids who need them - they have done this for years.
50cal 6 years, 7 months ago
Just saying lonely that people need to stand up for their ownselves not rely on everyone else the times were allot tougher when I came home, we never not once took hand outs or government money to pay for the things we needed if that meant that I had to work two jobs to pay for the things we needed then i did it charity starts at home. People should pick them selves up not wait for others to do so. the whole point was, someone wrote that eye care spec. should do more. Obviosly someone feels that they are entitled to charity when they are not. Rainbow your right there are actually many places in craig that will help out people only have to ask.
Lonely find me some of these people that need jobs with benifits and are worth a damn and I will hire them because in all this economic downturn i still can't hire enough people.
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The Miami front office recently launched a more organic "Heat Nation" marketing campaign focusing on the city's culture and devotion for its basketball team. The Heat website recently launched a six-minute video encapsulating this post-LeBron movement. In the video, the organization attempts to send the message that it is much bigger than LeBron. While this may be true, King James' tenure in Miami seems to suggest otherwise. The Fields of Green
Brian Windhorst: Correction: LeBron spoke to Pat Riley and Micky Arison on the phone before essay posted. They were informed first. Twitter @WindhorstESPN
Marc J. Spears: "Mickey (Arison) will do anything to get those guys to come back," Riley said. Riley added its "BS" to think Arison won't pay luxury tax. Twitter @SpearsNBAYahoo
The Heat are the favorites; this is not in question. But there is a window of doubt due to the way the season ended, Wade's health and some bitterness James harbors that Micky Arison put the brakes on spending over the past year. ESPN.com
Shane Battier: Extra special to win titles with @Micky Arison.Between you, me, and Nick we don't make too shabby of a team. Thanks for bringing me to Miami! Twitter @ShaneBattier
Micky Arison: Congrats @Shane Battier Been a joy to know u & watch u grow & play from the 01 title at Duke to 3 great yrs w/ @Miami Heat #TrueChampion Twitter @MickyArison
As team insiders have maintained for months, James isn't interested in reducing his salary from $20.6 next season and $22.1 million in 2015-16 just so that team owner Micky Arison can avoid paying luxury taxes. As they say, been there, done that and all it got James was second place. New York Daily News
Micky Arison: I want to thank @Miami Heat fans all over the world for their amazing support & of course our fans in So Florida thank u. . Twitter @MickyArison
Holt never thinks he's smarter than his top basketball executives, Gregg Popovich and R. C. Buford, while Arison has left all of the basketball decisions up to Pat Riley. "Micky has allowed me to do what I had to do as a coach and then as a president," Riley told me the other night, before the Spurs won the opener. "That's really been the key for me. Obviously, there has been a short leash on certain things. But overall, he's allowed me to do what I've wanted to do. He's had his business to run and so he's been hands off." New York Daily News
"It wasn't a big factor then — it is now," James said. "I mean, out of the four years I've been here, I've had an opportunity to grow and to be around Micky and see him. He allows Riles to be the brains behind the team. Riles does a great job of figuring out personnel, what fits in our locker room. And it starts with Micky, because he allows Riles to do that." New York Daily News
Based on everyone's comments throughout the season, everything points toward LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh staying in Miami beyond this season. All three are on long-term deals with the freedom to opt out after this year. The most recent indication that those three will stay, be it through not opting out or by opting out and signing longer contracts, is from owner Micky Arison. When asked Monday by 790 The Ticket to give a percentage chance of keeping them with the Heat, he responded, "100 percent." Palm Beach Post
Arison also was asked about the biggest challenge to resigning the Big Three. "I hope it's not gonna be a challenge at all," he said. "We'll see. Our challenge right now is the Charlotte Bobcats." Palm Beach Post
Saying they reaffirm the team's commitment to the city, the Miami Heat announced Wednesday night that they have agreed to extend their partnership with Miami-Dade County another 10 years through 2040. The deal is still subject to approval by the county's commissioners, with a vote possible on May 6. USA Today Sports
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via VG247.Deus Ex domain registrations have popped up for something called Deus Ex: The Fall. Variants for the UK, France, Italy, Germany and your standard .com and .net are listed. As usual, the lot was found by Superannuation. Over the weekend, it was confirmed that the Deus Ex: Human Defiance trademark which popped up last week were for the movie based on the franchise and not a new game in the series after a domain registration filed by CBS Films was discovered. Is it a new game in the series? We're not even going to try and guess what it is for at this point, but we'll still send a mail.
Oh, yes! Pretty sure this one's for the fourth title. It doesn't remind you of the other games, like Human Defiance does with Human Revolution.
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Deus Ex: The Fall domain registrations pop up
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Ok so there can't be two domains registered for movies! I know with the success of HR there was no reason to worry about a sequel. There will be another Deus Ex coming. I can't friggin wait! What a gem HR was.
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Yay. Looking forward to it.
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The subtitle makes me think it's a prequel much closer to the events of Deus Ex, which is great because I loved the atmosphere more in the original.
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I never played the previous titles so I didn't know much about it than the character's name. I'm glad they made it so people who didn't really know much about the series could jump in and feel right at home. It makes me want to go back and play the original and Invisible war. Although I heard Invisible War wasn't that good. Maybe I'm mistaking it for something else though.
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I know some of the more hardcore fans don't like it as much as the original and Human Revolution but I didn't really find anything wrong with Invisible War, apart from the game using its own client on the PC version once you load up a level which disables Steam's ability to keep track of the playtime.
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18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail? | 18 Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? Will you be to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails? |
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