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Brittany Guerriero Director, Corporate Relations United Way for Southeastern Michigan |
Want to get involved with Leadership Next, United Way for Southeastern Michigan's emerging leaders' society? Read on for ways to volunteer or network with our membership.
Take action: Volunteer
Join us in the fight against hunger September 1 and 2
Education and food are two of life's most basic necessities. Without them, children and adults have trouble learning, focusing, and creating a better future for themselves. Want to make a difference? Join United Way for Southeastern Michigan on September 1 and 2 to help distribute backpacks full of school supplies as well as food bags to residents, caregivers, parents in the Brightmoor community. Volunteers are still needed! Sign up here to participate: http://tinyurl.com/3cnzlh5.
Run for a cause with us at the Detroit Marathon
Can you run and help transform our region at the same time: Leadership Next members say they can! For the third year, United Way is a Charity of Choice for the Detroit Free Press Marathon on Sunday, October 16, 2011. This means that participants can run/walk on behalf of United Way. Help Leadership Next raise $1,000 towards transforming Greater Detroit into one of the top five places to live and work by 2030!
Join other Leadership Next members as they participate in the 5k. Register online now at http://tinyurl.com/43ba52x. The registration fee is only $35. Please be sure to select United Way for Southeastern Michigan in both the "Please designate a Personal Charity" and the "OFFICIAL CHARITY PARTNERS" fields during the event registration process. *Please note the $35 registration fee is not a donation to United Way rather it helps the Free Press to cover the costs associated with the event.
If you can't participate, but still wish to donate, please visit Leadership Next's 5k page here: http://www.active.com/donate/unitedwaysem/leadershipnext.
Join us for our Family Volunteer Day on October 1
Nearly 1 in 4 Michigan homes with children are threatened with hunger. Hungry children suffer developmentally, educationally, & financially from food insecurity. Join us for Leadership Next's Family Volunteer Day on October 1 to help combat this growing epidemic. We'll meet at Gleaners Community Food Bank to pack food boxes that will be distributed to local food pantries. Your entire family is invited and encouraged to attend. If you are interested, drop Brittany Guerriero an email at email@example.com so we can make sure to include you on our upcoming invitee list.
Volunteer Leadership program
Interested in expanding your personal and professional networks while making a difference in the region? Then this is the right opportunity for you! Join us in making Greater Detroit one of the top five places to live and work by 2030 by signing up for the Loaned Ambassador track of our Volunteer Leadership Program.
As a Loaned Ambassador, you will speak to a variety of groups from intimate settings with senior leaders to large gatherings of employees about current issues facing our region and United Way's strategies to turn metro Detroit around. Training is provided (scheduled for September 13 -15, 2011).
For more information, please contact Jessica Wayland at 313-226-9248 or firstname.lastname@example.com by September 2, 2011. To confirm your participation in the Volunteer Leadership Program and secure your spot in the Training Session, please sign up here http://tinyurl.com/Volunteer-Leader.
Seeking Champions
Are you passionate about metro Detroit, Leadership Next, sustainable community change? Are you ready to become the "go-to" emerging leader within your company? If you answered yes, then we need you to join the ranks of our Champions Council! This elite group of Leadership Next members work within their own organization to identify emerging leaders and encourage them to get involved, through United Way, in the issues that they care about most. We'll provide you with guidance on how to do this, as well as help develop opportunities just for you and your colleagues. In exchange, you will receive exclusive Champions-only invites to exclusive community events and opportunities.
Want to know more? Contact Brittany Guerriero via email at email@example.com or at 313.520.2183.
Get Involved: Network
There are a ton of great networking opportunities coming up this Fall and Winter with Leadership Next! All of these opportunities are by invitation only, so make sure you are a registered member of Leadership Next if you want to be included on our invitee list.
New member reception
Save the date for our New Member Reception to be held on Thursday, October 6. This will be an opportunity for new members to meet other Leadership Next members over drinks and appetizers at the new Fountain Bistro in Campus Martius.
CEOs: Off the Record
Go ahead - call it a come back! Ever wonder what ever happened to the Leadership Next Off the Record events? We are excited to announce that they'll be back shortly with an improved format! Designed to promote interaction between emerging leaders and regional leaders in candid discussions that address past, present and future regional issues, solutions, shortcomings and opportunities, these events have historically been limited to corporate executive leaders. Well, that is about to change! The new Off the Record series will rotate leaders from each sector: corporate, public and nonprofit.
Coffee with United Way's leadership
A group of Leadership Next members will be invited to a private coffee discussion with United Way for Southeastern Michigan's leadership to discuss regional issues, strategies and opportunities to make metro Detroit one of the top five places to live and work by 2030. This event will be part of a series of opportunities offered exclusively to members who have donated $500 or more in the past calendar year.
Take a tour
Do you want to learn more about the work of United Way for Southeastern Michigan? Then join us for a Learn United tour! These tours are opportunities for you to see, first-hand, how United Way for Southeastern Michigan is working to is make metro Detroit one of the top five places to live and work by 2030. Tours last about 60 minutes and take place at United Way for Southeastern Michigan's headquarters overlooking Campus Martius in downtown Detroit. For more information or to schedule a personal tour, please contact Brittany Guerriero at 313-226-9238 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Leadership Next Vice Chairman, Joseph Gaglio, makes the business case for volunteerism in Crain's
Our own Leadership Next Vice Chairman, Joseph Gaglio, spoke recently with Crain's Detroit Business about the business case for volunteerism. Check out what he had to say here: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110814/FREE/308149983.
New leadership team members
Three emerging leaders joined the Leadership Next leadership team last month. A big, "Welcome!" to Ms. Kara Tertzag-Lividini, attorney at Ford Motor Company; Mr. Michael Mendez, former Regional Director for Governor Jennifer M. Granholm; and Dr. Syed Mohiuddin, Internal Medicine Resident at DMC.


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The Texas Attorney General wants to know what your kids are doing online. And he wants you to know, too. According to the Cyber Crimes Unit, there's been an increase in children using webcams to take inappropriate photos and videos of themselves and posting them to websites. Cyberbullying, sexting and instant messages soliciting children for sex continue to proliferate.
We all hear the stories and see the headlines. But do we really know what to do? You can find out tonight at 7 p.m. at The Winston School San Antonio when Sgt. Amy Padron shares ways to keep kids safe online. She'll talk about the three main risks:
• Inappropriate contact
• Inappropriate content
• Inappropriate conduct
Did you know if privacy settings are set correctly, your child's photo could be in the public domain? Did you know that what your children post lives indefinitely online, available for future potential employers to find and digest?
This is one free event you don't want to miss. You can find out more with details on how to register at www.winston-sa.org.
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Apr. 9, 2013
Storm Lake, Iowa
The Buena Vista junior varsity baseball games against Briar Cliff University scheduled for Wednesday, April 10, have been postponed due to an inclement weather forecast for the Storm Lake area.
The two teams are attempting to find a date to make-up the games, but no such date has been determined at this time.
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Mission & History
Blue Water Baltimore's mission is to restore the quality of Baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment,a strong economy, and thriving communities.
We work towards a future when our neighborhood streams are safe for fishing and swimming and our clean harbor is the pride of our city. To achieve our mission, we need the help of people like you who care about clean, healthy neighborhoods and waterways.
- We mobilize volunteers to monitor our streams for pollution, plant trees, and participate in trash clean-ups.
- We provide a helping hand to property owners who want to do their part to reduce polluted runoff from their properties.
- We advocate for stronger laws for clean water, both locally and state-wide.
- We run educational and community programs out of our headquarters, the Blue Water Baltimore Watershed Center.
- We are the home for the Baltimore Harbor WATERKEEPER, who patrols the harbor, takes your calls on the pollution hotline, and holds polluters accountable under the law.
- We run the Herring Run Nursery, selling native plants and providing landscaping and design services.
Blue Water Baltimore is a not-for-profit organization and your charitable donations are tax-deductible.
History of Blue Water Baltimore: Five Organizations Become One!
We began as five separate Baltimore organizations doing something about their neighborhood stream or water body. Although individually successful, we realized that to continue growing and be even more effective, we needed to work together toward our shared mission. On September 8, 2010, the Jones Falls Watershed Association, Herring Run Watershed Association, Gwynns Falls Watershed Association, Baltimore Harbor Watershed Association, and Baltimore Harbor WATERKEEPER legally merged.
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Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Please join us for the commission's 4th Saturday Hike on March 24, 2012 at Monson Center. Monson is a 269 acre property owned by the Society For the Protection of NH Forests and managed by Russ Dickerman. There is limited parking on Adams Rd with a ¼ mile walk down Adams Rd to the trail system. Plan to meet at the parking area at 9:00. Dogs are welcome.
Directions – Coordinates: N 42° 47' 6.00", W 71° 37' 26.40"
Rt 101 bypass around Milford. Take the exit for Rt 13 South. First left onto Emerson Rd. First right onto Federal Hill Rd. After about 2.4 miles, dirt parking area is on the left. Please do not block the access gate when parking.


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It has been some time since we have done a Bella Buzz podcast with only Desiree and Joe chatting about the latest and greatest in the world of online business. We have had many wonderful guests over the course of this past year and we encourage you to check out each and every one of them. The conversations allow us an inside look into the transformative efforts and the business rationale behind these entrepreneurs.
On this episode we go back to our original format in order to discuss a recent revelation that has led Desiree to take some action that she calls "The Great Unfollow Experiment." As social media began to take off in adoption rate a few years back, there was a reference made to a Dunbar Number. We have mentioned it in previous podcasts, but essentially it relates to the maximum number of people an individual can have some form of meaningful relationship with. Social media was supposed to allow us to expand our Dunbar Numbers due to the ease of connecting and communicating.
It turns out the Desiree, and others such as Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuck on The Daily, have determined that following a massive amount of people simply renders the various platforms and networks useless. A platform like Twitter is only as good as the information that you can get out of the links from trusted people, and if you have six figures worth of people in your stream, there is no way to pull anything of value from that fast flowing gauntlet.
Some social networks are even taking this limitation into account. Path has released an app that allows users to share with a limited number of connections. It started at 50 and has been raised to a Dunbar friendly 150 people.
So Desiree decided to start over and wanted to start using Twitter better again. She used Social Ooomph and over the course of about 19 hours unfollowed 19,000 people! The response has been quite (strange) interesting actually as some have been hurt and angered by this action. If the value of the connection is simply just as a number, then the purpose is lost. The only reason for following someone is because you are able to glean knowledge, insight or business opportunity. #Followback arrangements are not what the founders of Twitter ever intended.
Desiree will be speaking at SoCon 2012 this February about this experiment, and it will be interesting as it proceeds to see if there is any business impact pro or con to reducing the amount of Twitter connections. There might actually be some benefit to using the platform to discover new insights.
The use of Facebook as a platform is also an interesting development as we move forward. Services such as Foursquare, Get Glue, Spotify … the number of followers on these services does not matter if your true social graph resides on Facebook. These services are simply User Interfaces for posting things and managing preferences. The value of the service comes from its ability to provide recommendations based upon their wealth of data!
Stay tuned over the course of the next few weeks as we discuss some of these developments during our annual recap and prediction shows, and look for some great guests lined up in 2012 already!
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House Prices
I just heard on the business news that the average house price in the US is $153K.
In Canada it is $250K.
Here in our city the average price is $353,000, as of July.
What's it like in your area?
Way too high! I want to buy my first house but I'm looking at $500k easily for a decent starter home in my area. :( Southern California. There are a lot of foreclosures and good deals but it's difficult for regular people to get those as investors are paying all cash and swooping them up.
Yes, California is way too high in the cost of living arena. It's one reason why we moved from there back to Nashville. Median home price here? $145,912 Sounds about right. However, median apartment rental costs are $1,700 for a 3 bedroom. Hm, buy a house for $1100 a month or rent? What does that tell you about us?! Something wrong with that picture. The flood did displace some people, but housing costs are still stagnant, or rent is outrageous. Or both.
Our median house price is $353,000, and we live in Northern CA. We bought our house last year and it has gone up in value, despite all of the short sales and foreclosures around the area. Our house was listed for 4 days before we saw it and it had another offer on it. We ended up getting it for a few thousand over asking. Given all of the problems we've encountered with it, sometimes I wish the other offer would have won. LOL Anyhow - we live in a fairly large city but there is very little inventory and that's driving prices up. Most houses are sold over asking with multiple offers according to our realator.
We live just a few blocks from Chi83. I just looked it up and the average home price in our city is $550. And we're talking small to average homes on very little property. In fact, our home is on what is called a zero-lot-line which means it sits to one side of the property leaving only a small side and back yard and almost non-existent front yard.
Our home of 1,500sf sells for nearly $700k. When we bought 33 years ago we paid $165K. Crazy, crazy.
Our neighbor's young daughter and her DH (ages 35) are shopping for their second home right now and are finding it nearly impossible to find anything for sale in our city. There is basically nothing in their price range ($600K) and size (3 bedrooms). Housing is so in demand, offers of many thousands more than asking price are being offered resulting in bidding wars on many homes. The daughter, her DH and their 14mo baby are now all living with mom and dad for the unforeseeable future.
In So Cal I think it depends where you want to move but I would say 250-300 average. My son and his wife got a wonderful bank repo in Menifee which is really not close to much, but the area is growing big time~~it is a 2000sq ft manufactured home 10 years old seems in almost perfect condition on an acre it is all fenced horse country where they are at. The starting price was 162,000 about 5 bids came in the bank asked every one for their highest bid son went 165 and got it! YEA for them it is a wondeful house~~it sold about 2-4 years ago for 400~~Crazy!
If you want to live on the cheap move here to Ocala. The average price of a home is $89,200. Overall for Florida, the average price is $127,600 (according to Zillow).
We closed on our villa on August 31, 2007. Three months later it was worth about 40% less than what we paid for it. We refinanced in 2009 and just a few days after we closed, our finance company, Taylor, Bean and Whittaker was closed by the feds. Seems the owner of TBW was making some very illegal deals. That immediately put 1300 employees out of work. They were told to gather their personal belongings and get out. Combine that with the recession and Ocala was in a really bad position, economy-wise. Even Hooters went out of business.
Things are getting better employment-wise, but the housing market is still low. Many people bought houses they couldn't afford and lost them. Many moved back to their home states or rented. It sure was a sad time around here.
We have many horse ranches surrounding the town and those still go for millions of $$$ and seem to sell, so somebody's got money, God bless 'em.
But it's still a buyer's market around here if you're looking for a deal. We have fairly decent weather if you like mild winters and hot summers.
Oh, and the head of TBW is now serving 30 or 40 years in a federal prison :-)
A story in this morning's Chicago Tribune quotes a RealtyTrac report. It says our county (north of Chicago) has one of the nation's worst housing markets.
Banks are continuing to roll out their foreclosed properties throughout the Chicagoland area. That perpetuates a down market. At the same time, banks are reluctant to lend without large downpayments.
The median home price in my town went from $975K in January of 2007 to today's $675K.
This is a hardship on municipalities as RE tax income falls.
In our area you can buy a very nice home for 250K. It would be on a sizable lot, brick or rock, and inside you would have very good appliances and flooring and probably granite counters..2400 or so square feet, 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2 and 1/2 baths and double garage.
$150 K would buy a comfortable and nice home....15/1800 sq feet and builder quality but a nice home.
Our nearest neighbor sold their home in California, a small ranch more than 30 years old, a home they paid not a lot for and came here and bought a home for $270K....
Here is a link that might be useful: Examples 250K to 150K
A median house or condo in a small town near here was just $98,419 in 2009, according to the link below. The nearest town is too small to even be listed.
Here is a link that might be useful: City Data across the country...lots of interesting info.
Median home price in my area of Northern CA is $550,000. For the past year or so, my DS and DIL have been trying to buy their first home, but there is no inventory and if there is something available there are multiple offers. They have been outbid 6 different times with the other offers being all cash. Unfortunately he and DIL don't have that luxury.
median list for Winter Park FL (north burbs Orlando) is $555K glad I bought 11 yrs ago LOL. BUT we are now looking at moving south along the coast from Jupiter to Palm Beach (jobs for DH) and I will barely get something I want for my median budget, let alone something cheaper so I can just work part time LOL. I have looked for 2 years at housing all over middle to south FL east & west coast and it looks like the cheapest time to buy is quickly fading. My own area often sees houses going for asking and sometimes over asking. Nothing is on the market for months now either. now if we could move to Savannah or Atlanta I could spend a lot less and get a full blown mansion on acreage. I hate to move from warm FL too! ~ liz
Chemocurl, that's a neat site!!
I thought so too.
Estimated median household income in 2009 in that town was $36,573, so a median house would cost less that 3 years of median household income.
I have a house and 40 acres, that would be worth a small fortune if it was located in a different part of the US.
Try living in parts of ND with this oil boom --houses just a few years ago less that 100,000 now getting 200-400 thousand and rents completly out of control Jobs all over the place with places like MdDonalds, Pizza Places etc starting pay 13.00 per hour and up, with benefits.
Hey, Liz! Always happy to see you post. Are you happy about your up-coming move? If you are going to look at houses in your new area, I think you may want to check with a realtor or the site Chemocurl posted above first. Prices have gone down quite a bit from the price you posted.
I live in a suburb of Vancouver and the average sale price of a SF dwelling is over $900,000. Our real estate market continued to be strong over the past few years. There has been a slight decline over the last couple of months because of some mortgage changes (no more 30 year mortgages) that have been brought into effect. This was done to cool off the housing market and to lower the debt/income ratio of households.
We bought our house in 1989 for $250,000 and it is probably up to about $1.4M and it is nothing fancy. We could not afford to buy it today.
$93,800 median for the state but even though this is the median much of it is driven by Morgantown (WVU and NIOSH)and the Eastern Panhandle (part of it is a suburb of Washington DC.
An area popular with faculty has a median price of $222,200.
$73,000 median where I live (I commute almost 50 miles a day each way to Morgantown). Even with gas prices, I think it is cheaper to live here and commute- plus Morgantown has college sports so sanity is better where I live!
Some of the more rural areas have median house prices closer to $35,800.
oakland county, se mi, uswed to be right up there with places like beverly hills ca, ect...we have such an odd county...we go from small dinky homes to areas with 2-3 stories, and the newest toy for some of these home, are elevators that dh has sold...oh...and driveways with hot water pipes running under them so they don't have shovel snow...
15 miles outside the center of Milwaukee, WI. Prices vary widely. It depends on the subdivision and town. In a working class subdivision, 3 bedroom house averages
$150,000. In the same town in another subdivision where empty lots run $90,000, the average home is $300,000.
In the depressed area of Milwaukee, houses run less than $100,000.
In the greater Milwaukee area, the price of a lot with utiltites is about 1/3 the cost of the total property. Lot prices are crazy here.
I can still buy a fixer up dump in a bad neighborhood for $50K or my next door neighbors house sold for $487 with a leaky roof, outdated everything and a gravel driveway. Then a block over from me as the crow flies, on top of a hill, $1.8 million on 11 acres.
I sold my 38 year old split level in southern Mass. for $297,000 last July. It was on a big lot in a wonderful neighborhood. It had 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, no garage, screened porch, updated kitchen, new windows, new roof, new furnace. Since we paid $27,000 for it 38 years ago, I was happy.
At first it seemed that we had done well when we sold our home of 30+ years in 1999. Then I added up repairs and improvements -- and *inflation*. We made about 4% 'profit'. Of course, we also had a nice HOME to live in all that time!
The RE bubble was an unregulated credit market 'churn'. The administrations bragged about the all-time high percentage of home 'ownership' in the US. However, completely unqualified 'buyers' were financing homes with zero down and artificially low adjustable rate mortgages they couldn't afford to pay a year later. Existing homeowners borrowed on inflated home 'values'and were left with 'minus-zero' equity when the market tanked. The credit industry was concentrating on *volume*. If I may mix my party games, The music for Musical Chairs went faster and faster until the poor Cheese was left standing alone -- and in debt.
I wish I would have bought about 4-5 years ago like I wanted to do. Housing all across the state is going up again after dropping dramatically during the devastation years. I would have had to hang on to my place but I'm looking to move to a smaller and cheaper place and area.
There's no way to give a real idea of pricing around here. You can buy for $30-$50k or go to multi-million dollar places. About the closest I could suggest is probably $75k-$600K for essentially blue collar average places. Location, amenities and such make such a difference.


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The newsletter to our Southern California Mining Section members is now being sent only by e-mail. Please be sure to update your personal information, including your e-mail address with SME Headquarters or through your profile on the website.
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SME-Southern California Section's Field Trip to Rio Tinto Minerals, Boron Operation on January 28, 2012. Safety Training at Rio Tinto's Boron Operation in Boron, California.
Looking for the perfect samples of Ulexite, Colemanite, Kernite, and Borax at the bottom of this 2 mile long by 1-1/2 mile wide by 800 foot deep open pit. This level is below the original underground mine.
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The master bedroom is also clad with recycled porcelain flooring, which creeps into the glazed bathroom and walls for minimal, functional and sustainable aesthetics. A solution for future urban housing, hedonistic sustainable design, or just a way to think how to re-organize our lives within the cities, the INACHUS floating home represents an urban ideal.
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Bladder exstrophy repair is surgery to repair a birth defect of the bladder. The bladder is inside out and sticks out of the abdominal wall. The pelvic bones are also separated.
Bladder exstrophy repair involves two surgeries. The first surgery is to repair the bladder and the second one is to attach the pelvic bones to each other.
The first surgery separates the exposed bladder from the abdomen wall and closes the bladder. The bladder neck and urethra are repaired. A flexible, hollow tube called a catheter is placed to drain urine from the bladder through the abdominal wall. A second catheter is left in the urethra to promote healing.
The second surgery, pelvic bone surgery, may be done along with the bladder repair, or it may be delayed for weeks or months.
A third surgery may be needed if there is a bowel defect.
Bladder birth defect repair; Everted bladder repair; Exposed bladder repair; Repair of bladder exstrophy
The surgery is recommended for children who are born with bladder exstrophy. Bladder exstrophy occurs more often in boys and is often linked to other birth defects.
Surgery is necessary to:
Sometimes the bladder is too small at birth, so the surgery will be delayed until the bladder has grown. In this case, the newborn is sent home on antibiotics. The bladder, which is outside the abdomen, must be kept moist.
It can take months for the bladder to grow to the right size. The infant will be followed closely by a medical team to determine when the surgery should take place.
Risks with this procedure may include:
Most bladder exstrophy repairs are done when your child is only a few days old, before leaving the hospital. In this case, the hospital staff will prepare your child for the surgery.
If the surgery was not done when your child was a newborn, your child may need the following tests at the time of surgery:
Always tell your child's health care provider what drugs your child is taking, even drugs or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before the surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
After pelvic bone surgery, your child will need to be in a lower body cast or sling for 4 to 6 weeks. This helps the bones heal.
After the bladder surgery, your child will have a tube that drains the bladder through the stomach wall (suprapubic catheter ) for 3 to 4 weeks.
Your child will also need pain management, wound care, and antibiotics. The health care providers will teach you about these things before you leave the hospital.
Due to the high risk of infection, your child will need to have a urinalysis and urine culture at every well-child visit, and at the first signs of an illness. Some children take antibiotics on a regular basis to prevent infection.
Urinary control most often happens after the neck of the bladder is repaired. This surgery is not always successful, and the child may need to repeat the surgery later on.
Even with repeat surgery, a few children will not have control of their urine and must use intermittent catheterization.
Gearhart JP, Mathews R. Exstrophy-epispadias complex. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 124.
Elder JS. Anomalies of the bladder. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 535.
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Last week, we said Jonathan Broxton was the only closer with a chance of being traded. On Tuesday, it happened, as he was sent to the Reds to bolster their already-scary bullpen and, in the process, to the fantasy scrap heap as well. As expected, Greg Holland was named closer in the wake of the trade. Although his 2012 performance doesn't come close to matching last year's stellar campaign, where he posted a 1.80 ERA and 0.93 WHIP in 60 innings while striking out 74 batters, he's been steadily improving, posting a 1.66 FIP and 2.54 xFIP in July, his best monthly splits in both categories.
In New York, Frank Francisco is expected to be activated Friday, and he'll likely have to prove himself a few times before being shifted back to closer. Bobby Parnell did have a save on Wednesday and should count on remaining the closer throughout the weekend, but any slip up could accelerate the timetable on Francisco's move to the ninth.
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HOU Wilton Lopez
So, it turns out Francisco Cordero can't close anymore. Who knew? Cordero is 0-3 in his last five appearances, giving up multiple runs in four of them. As of Thursday, he's the no-so-proud owner of a 7.55 ERA and 2.01 WHIP in 39.1 innings. That's opened the door for Lopez, who hasn't pitched since July 29 because of a tight elbow, which doesn't sound good at all. It's supposed to be a minor injury, but the over/under on the number of saves he'll pick up this year should be set very low, especially since the Astros won't have many chances as the league's worst team. Add him, but keep an eye on Wesley Wright, the only other halfway decent reliever in the bullpen. Even as the lefty, he'd have to get the next crack at closing if Lopez has to miss an extended period of time.
MIL John Axford
We're back with the Brewers for another round after Francisco Rodriguez (a.k.a., BB-Rod) totally flopped in the closer role, posting 10 earned runs over a four-game stretch while walking eight guys in the process. That's given Axford the chance to get his job back, and he was able to lock down a save on July 30, though it wasn't a great performance on his part. It's still a "committee," but expect Axford to get the majority of save opportunities over the last two months.
ARI J.J. Putz
ATL Craig Kimbrel
BAL Jim Johnson
CHW Addison Reed
CIN Aroldis Chapman
CLE Chris Perez
COL Rafael Betancourt
DET Jose Valverde
LAA Ernesto Frieri
LAD Kenley Jansen
MIN Glen Perkins/Jared Burton
NYY Rafael Soriano
OAK Ryan Cook
PHI Jonathan Papelbon
PIT Joel Hanrahan
SD Huston Street
SEA Tom Wilhelmsen
STL Jason Motte
TB Fernando Rodney
TEX Joe Nathan
TOR Casey Janssen
Safe … For Now
BOS Alfredo Aceves
CHC Carlos Marmol
KC Greg Holland
MIA Steve Cishek
SF Santiago Casilla
WAS Tyler Clippard
Aceves will soon have to deal with Andrew Bailey's return, and I expect Bailey to be the closer when the regular season ends. Marmol should be "Safe" by dint of the Cubs having no options behind him, but he hasn't been good enough to earn the spot. Cishek should be "Safe" based on talent, but Heath Bell hasn't allowed a run since July 8, and his salary should put him back in the ninth eventually. Casilla has been on shaky ground, and Jeremy Affeldt could form a committee with him before long. Clippard was a little shaky in his last save opportunity, and Drew Storen has been good over the past week — a change could be coming at some point, even if Clippard doesn't deserve to be yanked.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Blackdyke has seen good sport on hoppers, muddlers, daddies and small lures. Charlie Bishop on Friday landed and returned a large rainbow well in excess of 10lb. Plenty of bag limits with fish rising all over the lake. We will be closed on Saturday from 12.30 for a birthday celebration.
Fishing has been excellent with the fish in both lakes just under the surface and coming to almost anything you care to throw at them. With fresher weather we have seen large hatches of buzzers which along with spent spinners has encouraged the fish to feed near the surface. Glebe lake is still gin clear whilst West Stow lake has a touch of colour.
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Lake Geneva continues to produce some superb carp fishing now the autumn feeding has started. In a mid-week session, Phil Lee and Ian Jarrold slid the net under six good specimen carp. Ian added another 30-pounder to the ever increasing list, a superb mirror of 33lb 12oz. Phil banked three twenties, a 24lb mirror and two 23lb common. Ian's other fish of the session were a lovely 29lb mirror and an 18lb common. With settled weather forecast the possibilities of some very big fish showing are very good.
Hobbs Lake
It has been a great season so far at the new NVF Trout fishery. We have a winter permit available to fish from September 1 to December 31. Contact Chris on 01553 636507.
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Larger dry flies such as hoppers, small muddlers and sedge patterns have all been extremely successful and as long as they are fished on to a good ripple they should always produce results. A Costessey Bush Angling Club corporate day on Saturday was a resounding success, with many of the guests relatively new to the sport of fly fishing. With a spectacular evening rise happening most nights it is hard to see how things can improve. Water temp is dropping, so the fish should become more determined to feed in readiness for the winter. Call James on 01953 483971 or visit www.rocklandsmere.co.uk
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Trout fishing at Willow Lakes as never been better. A wide range of flies are catching, fished near the surface, though Hares Ear and Buzzer nymphs are still the favourite.
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Oven-Fried Almond Chicken
- Posted by Johanna on May 2, 2008 at 9:29 am
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It's been a while since I've put up a recipe because it's been a while since I've had time to cook, let alone trying something new that excited me. But my parents passed along a recipe that was both easy and delicious.
Mix up the following to make breading:
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- 1/8 cup (1/2 ounce) Parmesan cheese
- 1/8 cup finely chopped almonds
- 1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
- pinch ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Take a pound of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut them in half, and flatten them to about 1/2 inch thick. (Or use chicken tenders.)
Dip the chicken into olive oil, then the crumb mixture. Put in a shallow baking pan and bake for 25 minutes. That's it! Delicious with a green salad and a side dish (I chose corn in butter sauce). Best of all, it uses items I always have in the house, so it's great for last-minute dinner.
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During those early sessions, KC and Finch enlisted the aid of their pals at T.K. to play the many instruments they incorporated. Some of these - such as guitarist Jerome Smith and drummer Robert Johnson - along with associates from an earlier grouping called Casey and the Oceanliners came together as KC and the Sunshine Junkanoo Band. "We dropped the `Junkanoo,'" KC remembers, "and realized that we had something going here. We said let's be a group, and we all decided, Let's do it." Keyboardist KC discovered that his engineer pal, Rick Finch, was also a fine bassist. While the outfit was adept at reproducing the otherwise inimitable KC-Finch studio sound, they were also proficient at improvising in live settings.
Europe was onto KC before Miami and the rest of the U.S. - "Queen of Clubs" didn't hit here until it was reissued two years later. While "Queen" - with the coolest screams since James Brown, provided by George McCrae - was becoming aces with the Brits, Steve Alamo decided to take the Sunshine Band to England for a monthlong tour. The day before the transatlantic flight, KC underwent an emergency appendectomy. The tour was grueling - KC recalls performing 48 shows in as many towns. At one venue the singer was so exhausted he didn't bother to walk around to the backstage entrance. He simply strolled in the front door with the crowd. "This guy grabs me and hauls me out of the place," KC says with a laugh, remembering a time when his face was unknown to the masses, much less to concert security guards. "I made him get on his knees and apologize. That was a mistake. He got drunk, and after the show he kept apologizing all night."
By 1974 KC, Rick Finch, and the rest of the Sunshine Band were part of T.K.'s front line. The writing and production work by KC and Finch on "Rock Your Baby" elated Stone and Alamo, and KC-Finch songs that had been shelved now saw the light of mass distribution. One of those, finally released in 1975, began with a stinging guitar riff that couldn't have been human - KC and Finch had used studio technology to speed up the guitar track. As the tingling guitar winds down, a machine-gun drum riff takes over the beat, and then KC's voice lifts the groove, "Baby-babe, let's get together/Honey-honey, me and you/And do the things/Aw do the things/That we like to do." The lyrics may have been short on profundity, but KC's delivery was as soulful, spirited, cocky, and black as Sam Cooke or Larry Williams. "Get Down Tonight" became the song of the happy summer of 1975.
As in childhood, KC, at age 39, loves to be at home. Still boyishly handsome, and as the Swap Shop and other concerts this year have proved, still capable of delivering roughly perfect vocal performances, he enjoys a steady income from royalties. "That's what's kept me alive," he says flatly, confessing only that he is financially "comfortable." During the first three years of hitmaking at T.K., he says, "I was a millionaire living in a $250 apartment with no furniture."
In 1976, after "Get Down Tonight," he bought a house in Miami Lakes. "I didn't want to live on the Beach or any of that mess," he says. The place is a bachelor's delight - or a kid's dream. Georgia and Albert, brother-and-sister golden retrievers, greet visitors with ferocious affection. When KC sits on the living-room sofa, a dog is perched next to him in seconds, head resting on master's thigh. There's a swimming pool in the back, and in the rec room a pool table, Ping-Pong table, a Red Baron pinball machine, a Donkey Kong video game, and a bar. An autographed photo of the Beatles hangs in a hallway. Upstairs, where the dogs aren't allowed to go (KC's scolding is mild, good-humored, and effective) is a large room with only a round, white couch for furniture. Behind it, tucked away on a rear wall, are 31 gold and platinum records. Asked which one of the trophies is the most meaningful, KC grins and shakes his head: "They're all significant." During their reign from 1974 to 1979, KC and the Sunshine Band sold an estimated 75 million records.
KC prizes other collections besides the gold and platinum discs - ashtrays, bric-a-brac, T-shirts, photographs of himself with famous peers including Cher, Michael Jackson, and Donna Summer. In the music room upstairs, where a Baldwin spinet awaits his next inspiration, are hundreds of albums covering all genres. "I love R&B, all that Sixties stuff," KC says. "A little bit of everything - Joe Cocker, Aretha, everything on Motown and Stax, you name it." Because his own music was so trend-setting, so different, it is difficult to cite anything that preceded it for historical context. Sure, there are some similarities to the Marvelows, Dyke & the Blazers, the Five Du-Tones, Jamo Thomas, and other early-Sixties R&B artists. But who remembers any of them? And none of those used whistles or congas or studio technology to enhance their funky dance songs. It would be much easier to list the dozens of post-KC acts influenced by the sound of the Sunshine Band.


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4 Best Beatles MovieTrefusis | 07/08/2012 | See all Trefusis's reviews (243)Top 10 Reviewer Top 10 DVD Reviewer Top 10 Games Reviewer Top 10 Music Reviewer Top 100 Books Reviewer Top 10 Sport and Outdoor Reviewer The most satisfying Beatles movie by virtue of the fact they're not in it; save for a cameo at the end, the voices are provided by actors so you're not constantly being drawn out of the narrative by wooden acting.Musically it's a mixed bag; there are a few classics, but the new songs written for the movie are nothing special.It's very much a product of the 60s, but the animation is serviceable, and the plot allows for plenty of interesting visuals, songs and one-liners. If you're a Beatles fan or are looking for a kid's film that's a little different to Disney fare, then this is definitely worth a look.
4 Upgraded Yellow Submarine - Yellower yellows in Pepperland!Chuffed | 06/06/2012 | See all Chuffed's reviews (40)The blu ray add a more vibrant picture and sharper sound to a much loved animation classic that really adds an extra layer to the inventiveness of the film. The Blu Ray release differs from the previous DVD release as it lacks the music only track but includes lots more promotional extras such as posters and stills included in the blu ray packaging. Having owned the previous dvd this is a great improvement on the print and looks fabulous on all HD televisions the only major gripe is the cardboard packaging that gets tatty quick - a steelbook would have been amazing but would really liked the plastic case to keep this classic movie protected (thats why it has not been given five stars).


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Is Voter Fraud Being Committed In Ohio?
Posted By admin On October 27, 2012 @ 1:43 pm In Featured Stories | Comments Disabled
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October 27, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.
While it's not unusual for get-out-the-vote groups to help voters get to the polls, the volunteers who talked to Human Events observed a number of troubling and questionable activities.
A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, "vote Brown all the way down." Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.
Non-English speaking voters may use an interpreter. The interpreters are permitted by law to interpret for the individual voting; however, they are forbidden from influencing their vote in any way. Another source who also wishes to remain anonymous has seen Democrat interpreters show the non-English speaking Somalis how to vote the Democrat slate that they were handed outside. According to this second source, there are not any Republican Somali interpreters available.
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[2] 22 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham: http://www.prisonplanet.com/22-signs-that-voter-fraud-is-wildly-out-of-control-and-the-election-was-a-sham.html
[3] Romney up ONE POINT in Ohio and TIED in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to internal polling: http://www.prisonplanet.com/romney-up-one-point-in-ohio-and-tied-in-pennsylvania-and-wisconsin-according-to-his-campaigns-internal-polling.html
[4] Could Voter Fraud Steal the 2008 Election?: http://www.prisonplanet.com/could-voter-fraud-steal-the-2008-election.html
[5] The Voter Fraud That 'Never Happens' Keeps Coming Back: http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-voter-fraud-that-%e2%80%98never-happens%e2%80%99-keeps-coming-back.html
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"I think this is a litmus-test issue," declares Alan Farago, a member of the Sierra Club's Miami Chapter and one of the staunchest foes of the development. "It's an instance where the rhetoric of protecting the environment meets the reality of insider politics, and there's a major question in the minds of the national environmental community whether or not the Democratic Party is able to represent the public interest in this matter."
While the Clinton administration might be torn on this topic, the same can't be said for the Dade County Commission, which, as a body, has tried to ram the deal through. The commission's most recent gesture came September 23, when it voted (nearly unanimously) in favor of a resolution that ordered the county's lobbyists in Washington, D.C., to fight a proposed bill designed to curtail airplane traffic above national parks. The bill, introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, would allow the secretary of the interior to regulate flights in order to protect the so-called natural quiet of the parks.
Dade commissioners want the wording of the bill changed so it exempts Dade County, thereby allowing commercial planes to continue passing without restrictions over Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. Under HABDI's plans, a commercial airport at Homestead would generate more than 250,000 flights annually, the majority passing over at least one of the parks. "By approving the resolution, Dade County has announced to the nation that this is one of the most anti-environmental jurisdictions in America," Farago says. "This resolution is a hostile act against the national parks."
Adds Joe Browder, an environmental consultant in Washington, D.C., and a board member of Friends of the Everglades: "Dade County has had a fig leaf concealing its real intentions. But now that fig leaf has dropped. Local government is saying that these parks can be the dumping ground for our noise and pollution in the interest of our economy."
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Wrecking ball John Ryder joins Colorado Eagles
Posted By Mike Chambers On August 20, 2013 @ 4:12 pm In Colorado Eagles,General Avs | 4 Comments
John Ryder, a former rugged defenseman for the University of Denver, will play for the Colorado Eagles of the ECHL this coming season. Ryder was a blast to watch, a collision waiting to happen. He messed up a lot of dudes on the blue line and was a team favorite during his five years with the program. The Colorado Springs native finished with a plus-29 rating in 142 career NCAA games.
Ryder, 24, signed as an undrafted free agent with the Dallas Stars a year ago, and played with the Stars' ECHL affiliate, the Idaho Steelheads, in 2012-13. Injuries limited him to just 28 regular-season games but he played another 17 in the playoffs.
"John had a tremendous career with DU and we were always impressed with his performance during his time in the ECHL," Eagles president and general manager Chris Stewart said in a release. "We expect him to be a very reliable player on the back-end and he will also be a guy that will bring a very physical brand of hockey to the ice every single night."
Bank on it. Ryder is as fun to watch as a gifted scorer. He used to open up a lot of ice at DU and will do the same for the Eagles.
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By midafternoon, shares had added 2.6% to $48.02.
The Minnesota-based business reported a 79% drop in earnings year-over-year due to falling prices for crop nutrients potash and phosphates. Net income of 30 cents a share fell short of consensus by 14 cents, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
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Contact: Nash, (307) 344-2010 Contact: Vallie, (307) 344-2012 Work on a long-term plan to guide management of winter use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks took an important step forward today as the National Park Service provided a preliminary version of the Draft Winter Use Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for technical review by the ten Cooperating Agencies involved in the planning effort. Throughout this current winter use planning process, the National Park Service (NPS) has provided the Cooperating Agencies with an opportunity to provide scoping comments, and to review preliminary alternatives, draft monitoring reports, draft modeling reports, and other special studies before they are finalized. The ten Cooperating Agencies participating in the planning process under Memorandums of Understanding with the National Park Service are the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; counties of Park and Gallatin in Montana, Park and Teton in Wyoming, and Fremont in Idaho; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the U.S. Forest Service. Alternatives contained in the Cooperating Agency review document are a refinement of the preliminary draft alternatives which were made available for public review and comment in March 2006. The technical review draft identifies an agency preferred alternative, which would generally continue the current managed snowmobile and snowcoach program. Technical comments received from the Cooperating Agencies will be reviewed and incorporated as appropriate in the Draft EIS which is expected to be released for public review and comment in March 2007. The NPS intends to complete the EIS process prior to the start of the 2007-2008 winter season. Under the preferred alternative, up to 720 guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles would be allowed each day in Yellowstone. Snowcoaches would be subject to both sound and emissions requirements, and a daily limit of 78 vehicles. There are currently no sound or emissions requirements or daily limits on snowcoaches. Snowmobile and snowcoach travel remains restricted to existing park roads which are groomed for motorized oversnow travel. The preferred alternative would also close Sylvan Pass to all motorized oversnow travel due to unacceptable risks to visitor and employee safety in this lightly traveled corridor. In Grand Teton, up to 140 snowmobiles would be allowed each day, and most of the snowmobiles would have to meet BAT requirements. Commercial guides would not be required in Grand Teton, and access to adjacent public and private lands would continue. The temporary plan has addressed most of the concerns regarding the impacts of historic, unregulated winter use. During the last two winter seasons, guided, limited snowmobile access using cleaner, quieter machines has been effective in improving wildlife and resource protection, and in providing safe and more enjoyable visitor experiences in accordance with the 2006 NPS Management Policies. The NPS is also continuing its commitment to keep the public informed on the progress of the current winter use planning process by posting the Cooperating Agency Review Draft EIS on the web at http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/winteruse.htm. To update those interested in the winter use planning process, the NPS is also hosting a public information fair on Friday, December 8, 2006, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Cody, Wyoming.


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The WAC Lighting QP-501-BN socket set is designed for flat ceilings. The set comes with 6 feet of cable and may be field cut to any length. Uses 50w Halogen JC-50-CL lamp (one 12V lamp included).
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Calories | 185 |
Total Fat | 7g |
Saturated Fat | 2g |
Cholesterol | 214mg |
Sodium | 705mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 21g |
Dietary Fiber | 3g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 12g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 6
Yields: 6 main-dish servings
Total Time: 40 min
Prep Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Oven Temp: 350
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- 1 teaspoon(s) olive oil
- 1 package(s) (8-ounce) sliced mushrooms
- 1 large red pepper, coarsely chopped
- 1 package(s) (10-ounce) frozen corn kernels
- 1 package(s) (10-ounce) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup(s) reduced-fat (2%) milk
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 1/3 cup(s) bottled stir-fry sauce
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan with nonstick foil, leaving 2-inch overhang at each short end. Evenly spray foil with nonstick cooking spray.
- In 12-inch skillet, heat oil on medium-high until hot. Add mushrooms and red pepper, and cook 6 minutes or until vegetables are tender and all liquid evaporates, stirring frequently. Add frozen corn and cook 2 minutes or until heated through, stirring frequently. Remove skillet from heat.
- In blender, combine spinach, egg yolks, and milk; cover and blend until pureed. In large bowl, with mixer on high speed, beat egg whites with 1/4 teaspoon salt until stiff peaks form when beaters are lifted. With rubber spatula, gently fold spinach mixture, one-third at a time, into beaten egg whites just until blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan; spread to an even layer. Bake 10 minutes or until spinach mixture is set. Lift foil with spinach mixture and place on work surface.
- Return skillet, with mushroom mixture, to high heat; add green onions and stir-fry sauce. Cook mixture about 1 minute or until hot, stirring. Run knife along sides of spinach mixture to release it from foil. Reserve 1/4 cup corn mixture to garnish top; evenly spread remaining corn mixture on top of spinach mixture, up to 1 inch from long side farthest from you. Roll up from long side nearest you, lifting foil to help roll. Roll onto platter or cutting board. Top with reserved corn mixture. To serve, use a long serrated knife to cut roulade into 6 thick slices.
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