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Wouldn't it be nice (sometimes, at least) to know what's in store for you in the future so you make the right choices and avoid mistakes?
Karl A. Pillemer, Ph.D. is a professor of human development at Cornell University and professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the author of "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans," proposes the next best thing to being able to look into the future: listen to your elders.
He has authored several studies involving 1,200 older Americans regarding the advice they would offer to members of the younger generation. Participants ranged in age from age 60 to 108 (average age was 74) and they were asked: "What mistakes should younger people avoid?"
According to America's elders, here are some of the biggest mistakes young people make:
1. Putting too high a priority on money. Most of the elders believe that a fulfilling job trumps a higher-paying but unsatisfying one any day.
2. Getting into debt. These are folks who have lived through economic hardship so tough that it makes what we're experiencing look like a minor blip. So listen to them when they point out the dangers of going into serious debt.
3. Worrying too much. They said this as clearly as can be: "Worry wastes your life." "Worrying never solved anything. So don't."
4. Excessive drinking and drugs. They don't ask you to be a puritan, just to know what moderation is and practice it.
5. Rushing into marriage before you're ready. As a 93-year-old put it: "Well, nowadays there are so many divorces, and I think they should be more careful about their decisions to get married. I mean, they should think at the beginning, is this going to be for a lifetime?"
6. Passing up opportunities. The elders much more strongly regret things they didn't do than what they did.
Some wise advice to heed as we start our new year.
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*Otomen Book 5 — Recommended
Posted in Manga Reviews on February 2, 2010 by Johannaby Aya Kanno
published by Viz; $9.99 US
This series has grown into one of the most reliable for amusing romantic comedy with a touch of gender-bending.
The first story features one of those shojo standards, the embarrassing school contest. Somehow, martial artist and "eccentric beauty" Ryo has been selected by her grade to compete in the "Ideal Woman Contest". Since the areas of evaluation are cooking, flower arranging, tea ceremony, and kimono dressing, she doesn't seem to have much of a chance … especially since her competition is the perfect girl, who's won the contest the previous two years running. Just to complicate things further, that girl has a crush on Asuka, since she thinks he's the ideal man. She doesn't know about his girly habits, which ironically make him perfectly complementary to Ryo.
I know these competitions are ridiculous, but they bring into sharp relief the core struggles that define the characters. I see them as exaggerated symbols of the conflicts that the teens face: is Ryo a desirable woman even though she's physically skilled but can't cook? Of course she is, and the validation of her peers, even through unexpected avenues, affirms that. That her classmates have no question about her ability to win is a comforting reassurance, as is the way she's praised for having both beauty and strength.
I also found it hilarious that, as a throwaway gag at the festival, there's a "Bespectacled Butler Cafe", playing on a couple of fan obsessions. It's a very specialized eye candy. More thought-provoking is the way that, in the first chapter, Ryo's competitor only smiles once, and that's when she's pretending to be a good sport. The rest of the time, she glowers or looks stern. Is that a comment on how males are attracted to women they think are too good for them? Or a fantasy that they would be the only one to see her softer side? I much prefer looking at the happier Ryo. (Especially since the other girl has the weird idea that a clumsy person who can't cook can't be loved by anyone.)
Enjoyable as that story was, my absolute favorite chapter of the series so far is the one where friend Juta, who's secretly a manga artist, wins a major award for his series Love Chick. The problem, of course, is that he works under a female pseudonym. As he tells his sister when begging her to pretend to be him,
I'm the author of a heartwarming shojo manga about pure love … My fans will be shocked to find out I'm actually a frivolous, womanizing ladies' man.
But the story is about a lot more than just that — although that part is pretty funny as Juta gets more and more desperate. Juta acknowledges his idol, the author of several romantic series that inspired him from a young age, and several of the characters talk about how meaningful manga is to them. It's both touching and hilarious.
There's also one other chapter, about the Beauty Samurai, one of whom is Asuka. A magazine promotes them as a recurring feature, mysterious men with amazing makeover skills. Working behind masks allows them to indulge their girly hobbies without restraint, but building up a secret makes them vulnerable to the potential reveal.
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Ever wonder about how much of your content actually reaches your fans? Is your ideal target market hearing your message? Who exactly are your fans and do they refer your page or share your images with others? You can answer those questions through analytics.
Using analytics you'll be able to determine what type of content resonates the most with your audience. Through effective analysis, you'll not only find out the best day of the week to post, but the best time of day as well.
By digging deeper you can find out the true nature of your fan base. You'll want this beneficial information when tailoring landing pages, website content, and overall marketing messages to your potential clients. Having demographic data about your followers allows you to connect with your target audience a whole lot more deeply and you will begin to understand them on a whole new level.
By gaining even a passing familiarity with metrics, you will begin to make much wiser decisions regarding your social media strategy and make far more effective and engaging interactions with your fan base.
Facebook provides a decent application named "Insights" for those wanting to track user interaction on their fan page. Insights seeks to help you identify the most meaningful information so you can make the best decisions about your engagement and content strategy.
The Insights dashboard helps you determine the effectiveness of your page at attracting followers, encouraging engagement, and gaining effective reach. Any admin of your Facebook page can access Insights but for user privacy reasons data only reflects for pages with greater than 30 "Likes." Don't worry if you just started out, Insights will begin appearing once your page has 30 users who like it, so even more reason to start engaging!
Facebook currently offers two variations of Insights: User Insights and Interactions Insights.
User Insights reflects your:
- Total number of fans
- Total active users
- New Likes and Unlikes
- The sources of your Likes
- The demographics of your fan base
- Total page views, tab views, and incoming links
- General media consumption and a whole lot more!
Interactions Insights reflects:
- Your daily story feedback, such as Likes on your posts
- Comments on your post
- Number of impressions
- Frequency of mentions
- Engagement in discussions, reviews, wall posts, and video attachments
When sorting by these specific categories, you'll see specific information regarding each post such as its title, its original date, how many users engaged with that particular post, and how many spread the word about it – otherwise known as "reach."
Through graphs and other statistical data, Insights will measure your reach and virality.
Virality indicates which posts had the greatest spread and dissemination. By knowing the virality of your posts, you can create more content that your fans like, which will then increase your branding, reach, and overall volume of traffic.
Insights also allows you to drill down into demographic information as well so you can see the geographical locations of your fans as determined by their browser IP address. You can also find out the age group distribution of your fan base and whether it consists of more males or females.
Convinced? Ok, here's how to get started:
To access Facebook Insights click on the gear wheel on your Facebook fan page just below the right hand corner of your timeline banner picture. Select 'View Insights' from the dropdown menu. This will take you to the main Insights dashboard.
On this page, you'll see the total number of likes on your page and whether they trend up or down in volume. You can also find out how many friends of fans you have exposure to so you can determine your potential reach and how many people actively talk about your page.
Like to get hands-on and dig more into the numbers?
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Click the button that sits near the top right hand corner of your Insights dashboard. Select a date range for the data and choose "Page Level Data" or "Post Level Data" depending on the category of information you seek. You have the option between two output formats: MS Excel or Comma-Separated Values (CSV). People tend to use CSV when uploading to a database or other program. If you just need to print or want to crunch some numbers, go with Excel.
Upon opening the downloaded file, you may initially feel overwhelmed by the amount of data provided. Don't worry, once you dig in you will find that everything has been sorted out for you. The output file breaks down key metrics, such as daily like sources and daily viral reach, into labeled tabs towards the bottom of the worksheet.
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Three Ladies, One Night! Who Wore It Best at TeenNick Halo Awards?
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Yesterday night, Nickelodeon's 2012 TeenNick Halo Awards was held at the Hollywood Palladium in California and these three ladies helped honor teens who work hard to make the world a better place! Victoria Justice glammed on the orange carpet i a ravishing red gown while Mariah Carey opted for a floor-grazing black number while posing in front of the cameras. Lucy Hale looked fantastic in her cute Cameo dress, combined with a pair of Pelle Moda shoes! Who was bessed dressed of the night? Vote in the poll below!
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The 2000trees festival is one of the leading small festivals in the British summer calendar. This intimate and friendly event, which takes place at Upcote Farm in Cheltenham, has become an inspiring and chilled out haven for music fanatics.
The festival promotes the finest up-and-coming, UK-based talents alongside more established acts. More than 50 acts perform on three stages, alongside daytime comedy shows, DJs and impromptu camping-site sing-a-longs.
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Tonight of the first Exposure of September, host Abbie Newton talks with Carl Borchgrevink, a Michigan State University professor, about a class that explores the history, tastes, and fancy of wines. Carlee Henderson of VIM Magazine also visits the studio to speak about Michigan State's only fashion magazine on campus. Later on the show, we speak about Spartan Remix and Student Ticket Day at the Wharton Center.
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Four people die in house fire in Wood Hill, Leicester
Four people have been killed in a house fire in Leicester.
Police and firefighters were called to Wood Hill, in the Spinney Hill area of the city, at about 00:35 BST.
Neighbours said a woman and three children lived at the property, which was extensively damaged by the fire.
Police said officers were "unable to rule out" the possibility the fire was linked to the murder of a man in the city centre on Thursday.
The four people were already dead when they were found in an upstairs bedrooms.
Police said they could not confirm the ages or gender of the people killed.
Neighbour Soheb Ali, 22, who could see the back of the house from his own, said people were throwing bricks and stones at the windows, trying to let the smoke out and find out if anyone was inside.
"I heard people screaming and my mum could hear popping sounds, a bit like fireworks going off, and my dad could smell burning plastic," he said.
'Good family'"We came outside. The whole staircase [of the house] was in flames. If you were upstairs you would have no chance of getting out."
He added: "There were loads of people trying to help. My first thought was 'Could anyone get out?'
"They were a really good family. They were religious; went to the mosque.
"When you see a fire like that you just freeze. You don't know what to do. It's terrifying."
One woman said her brother had been socialising with one of the boys who lived at the address until about 23:30 on Thursday.
"When my brother saw the smoke coming from the house he shouted to my uncle and they all went outside and shouted their names to the house [to warn them there was a fire]," she said.
"They were really good people. They are so innocent. They don't know anybody here. They had only just come from Ireland."
At the scene
I've just spoken to a man who lives next door to the scene of the fire and he is very upset.
The flames, he said, were so fierce they were licking the door of his car.
It's a row of terraced houses with bay front windows and I can see the top of the bay windows is completely blackened and melted.
There's no glass in it. All I can see is the blackened insides of what would have been a bedroom.
A police spokesperson said: "The circumstances and cause of the fire are currently under investigation and officers would ask anyone who has any information regarding the incident to please contact them."
'Stabbing'A murder investigation was launched on Thursday after a man in his 20s was assaulted in Kent Street at about 17:30 and later died in hospital.
Police said officers found "a large number of people in the street" when they were called to the scene of the attack. They are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the assault or saw any suspicious activity.
Leicester mayor Peter Soulsby said he had been briefed about the murder in Kent Street and described it as "a stabbing".
He said: "It's all the more surprising because both the stabbing and indeed the fire are actually quite unusual in Leicester."
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Police said a post-mortem examination was due to take place to find out the cause of the man's death.
BBC Radio Leicester's Kamlesh Purohit was in the area shortly after the assault, and saw a man lying on the floor.
"The police were already there," he said.
"What I saw right next to my car was a car parked in the middle of the street and just in front of the car was a man lying on the floor.
"He appeared to be of West Indian origin and at that stage I thought perhaps there had been a car accident."
Councillor Abdul Osman said: "This is a young family that died in the fire. It's very regrettable."
Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, a Leicester imam, said:"They were regular worshippers at the Jame Mosque in Asfordby Street.
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Kingfield Community Garden Group
Kingfield has a variety of options for those who want to get their hands dirty!Gardeners who are confident and ready to get in the ground—and who want to work on building our network of gardeners and green activities in Kingfield—might want to apply for a Pleasant Garden Plot. This garden group works together to plan events and educational opportunities to share their love of gardening, and to fundraise to expand gardening opportunities within our community.
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Veg Garden Basics Application 2014
In collaboration with Minnesota State Horticultural Society and the University of MN Extension Master Gardener Program in Hennepin County, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association Community Gardening Group is offering a FREE 5-week class series on vegetable gardening. The classes are comprised of lectures and hands-on demonstrations. You will receive a certificate upon completion of the class if you attend at least 4 of the 5 classes.
Classes are on 5 Tuesdays, 6-7:30 PM, beginning April 1 at Dr. Martin Luther King Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South. The dates are: 4/1, 4/8, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6. This class is taught in English. Contact email@example.com for more information on this class. The application form can be found here.
A Spanish language class is also being held on Saturdays at Sabathani. The six-part class will be led by University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners in Hennepin County and translated into Spanish by Kingfield neighbor Marianna Padilla. Call 612-547-6910 to register for "In the Garden." The class will be held from 9 to 11 AM on the second Saturday of the month for six months: April 12, May 10, June 14, July 12, August 9, and September 13. Por favor llame al 612-547-6910 para registrarse.
Community Garden Plot Application
Kingfield Community Garden Application 2014
Now in its fifth year, the garden (located just north of the CPFA, Center for Performing Arts) is available for use by individual gardeners in our community. At least seven plots will be available to new gardeners this year! Plot rental for one season is $40. Each gardener must also agree to perform 1 hour per month minimum in service to the common areas.
Applications and fees are due by March 21, 2014. You will be notified on or before March 28 if you will receive a garden plot. If more applicants are available than plots, a lottery will take place. We reserve 20% of the plots for CPFA tenants (either studio or hourly).
A mandatory meeting will be held on the evening of April 16th for those who receive garden plots. You can find the application form here or outside the KFNA office door at #101 in the Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant, Minneapolis, MN 55409, as well as printed copies of the Garden Rules 2014.
Applications and plot fees can be mailed to this address or slid under the door; fees must be included with the registration. Note: If your application is not selected to receive a plot this season, your fee will be returned.
Garden Fundraising is FUN!
Kingfield Community Gardens fundraising 2014! Fun, community-building and earth-embracing ways Kingfield supports local community gardening. Details on these 2014 events will be available later in the growing season!
- Garden to Table Dinners
- Kingfield Gardens Walking Tour
- Bread Oven Build
- Plant & Bake Sale
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Kingfield Community Garden Wish List!
Spring is around the corner and the Kingfield Community Gardens are in need of the following equipment and items:
* Gardening tools (new and used)
* Working hoses, sprinklers, split spigots, and timers
* Bird Baths and Stone Pavers
* Wheel barrow
* Rakes, garden shovels, pitch forks, potato forks
* Decorative fencing
* Solar-powered garden lights
* Compost lawn and garden paper bags
* Use of a Pick-up truck for occasional hauling
Contact KFNA at email@example.com or 612.823.5980 if you have items to donate and to arrange for drop-off; all items are tax-deductable.
Also please make sure you are signed up for the weekly KFNA e-news on the left-hand side of our homepage so that you won't miss any announcements regarding applications, including potential new garden sites within the neighborhood!


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After the taquiza we had last weekend I have been talking about tacos for several posts. But I haven't talked about the secret for a good taco. Yes, the filling is very important to make a delicious taco, but a taco is not a taco if you don't use the right tortillas. And that is what made my taco party a true Mexican taquiza. Here in the States I have seen that several places (even Mexican restaurants that call themselves authentic) serve tacos in hard shells. I am sorry (and please don't hate me for this) but those are not tacos.
The secret to a real, delicious and authentic taco is a soft and warm corn tortilla (or flour tortillas in some cases) This was something new for some of my guests, but they seemed to like it! There were some positive comments about the softness and warmth of the tortillas that, by the way, I didn't make myself. When I was first planning that dinner I thought about making homemade tortillas, but when the list of guests grew to more than 20 I decided to buy them at a tortilleria close to my house instead. To keep them warm they filled up a little cooler with fresh tortillas that afternoon and by the time we started eating they were still warm. That saved me a lot of work and time!
And continuing with the tacos that were served at the taquiza, here I present to you one of my favorite taco fillings, alambres. There are several schools of thought when it comes to Mexican alambres. The word alambre literally means wire. This might refer to the original Shish Kabobs, but in time this dish has changed in Mexico to become the alambres most people know today.
Like Shish Kabobs, the main ingredients for alambres are meat (chicken, beef or lamb), onions and bell peppers. These ingredients can be marinated in lime juice and spices or just seasoned and cooked in a griddle or cast-iron skillet before serving. So what's special about them? This is added when the ingredients are almost cooked:
Queso Oaxaca gives this dish its distinctive flavor, or you could use queso Asadero (a tastier version of the same cheese) like I did last weekend. Once the cheese has melted, serve alambres on soft and warm corn or flour tortillas, top with your favorite salsa and enjoy. This is a perfect dish for your summer parties since it doesn't require much preparation or cooking time and your guests make their own tacos. They look yummy, don't they?
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Those look fantastic! I'm going to have to get some queso Oaxaca for my next meal of tacos!
Looks sooo good!
That cheese looks great! love the texture.. I actually mistook it for shredded white meat chicken.
Oh my gosh Ben, this looks amazing! I'm a big fan of keeping authenticity right, and I am a purist about my traditional cooking. The world of Mexican cooking is kind of intimidating for me a little bit, because there are so many choices and the pairings are quite established, but I love the challenge and I constantly try to educate myself more about it… luckily, that involves lots of eating
Ben, they look freaking awesome! I would love to have some of these right now. mmm!
They do look yummy! What kinds of cheese can you substitute for the queso Oaxaca? I can get wonderful queso blanco, but not a wide variety of Mexican cheeses.
Yes they do look yummy! Want some for my dinner tonight.
I would love to come for dinner at your place. Always those interesting recipes. Nice pictures!
There are a couple of tortilleria's I've found in Pittsburgh. I love stopping by and picking up a pack of tortillas from time to time.
They do look yummy Ben:D


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A frozen berry mix linked to an outbreak of hepatitis A that has affected at least 34 people in five states has been recalled by Townsend Farms of Oregon, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
The recall involves the company's frozen Organic Antioxidant Blend, which is packaged under the Townsend Farms label at Costco and under the Harris Teeter brand at those stores, the Associated Pressreported.
The recall came three days after federal officials first announced a suspected link between the frozen berry mix and the illnesses in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. The FDA, which is inspecting Townsend Farms' processing facilities, did not explain why there was not an immediate recall.
The outbreak involves a strain of hepatitis A rarely seen in North or South America, but which is found in North Africa and the Middle East, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last week, a lawyer for Townsend Farms said the frozen berry product associated with the outbreak includes pomegranate seeds from Turkey, the APreported.
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A review found no serious misconduct or fraud in a controversial clinical trial that minimized safety issues involving the diabetes drug Avandia, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration experts.
The FDA team said they supported the findings of the review by Duke University researchers, who determined that any errors made by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline had no effect on the conclusions of the company's clinical trial of Avandia, The New York Timesreported.
The FDA experts' opinion was posted Monday on the FDA website, along with a critical memo by FDA scientist Dr. Thomas Marciniak, who originally raised concerns about the Glaxo study. Marciniak questioned whether the review by the Duke researchers was truly objective because it was financed by Glaxo.
In 2010, the FDA imposed tight restrictions on the use of Avandia after several analyses showed that the drug significantly increased the risk of heart attack. The drug was removed from the market in Europe.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009Here are two e-mails that I have received recently from coaches about effective social networking:
"Biana, for the last six months I have been telling people I meet on social networking web sites about my coaching services. No one has ever asked me a question about my services, and I haven't gotten a single client from social networking web sites. What should I do?"
"Biana, I have started using Twitter, but have been shy about promoting myself yet. I have been chatting with people and slowly building up my list of followers. I feel that now I should start letting people know about my coaching services – what is the best way to do that?"
As you can see from these e-mails, neither approach is working. Just telling people you meet on social networking web sites about your services does not work. They don't know you well enough yet to buy your services.
Not telling people about your products and services isn't going to work either. If they don't know anything about what you are offering, how will they be able to buy from you?
What is the best way for these coaches to promote their services on social networking web sites? It might be surprising to hear, but the most effective way to sell your products and services online is not selling at all.
Building the groundwork by generating leads for your business is the most effective way to sell your products and services. Your leads are people who are in your target market; people who want, need and can afford what you have to offer. Your goal is to get these leads on your list by offering them something valuable. Once you have them on your list, you can spend time on building a relationship with them and sharing information about your products and services with them.
When you bring leads into your business on a regular basis and are able to communicate with them, great things happen. You get more customers and more clients every time you send out an email how great is that?
If you are not getting clients from your social networking efforts, revise your social networking strategy. Instead of trying to sell your services, create a strategy to get more leads. It is much easier to turn your social networking contacts into leads and you will get much better results.
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You've scored an invite to a friend's beach house, but you can't show up empty-handed. It's time to do like your mama taught you and find a hostess gift. We suggest avoiding the tired old bottle of wine and instead opting for this nautical schnapps set ($29.95).
The mod stoneware carafe--designed like a New England lighthouse--is perfect for holding the chilled liquor of your choice. And the handblown glasses that stack on top gleam as blue as the sea. When it comes to getting invited back next year, we're pretty sure you'll find this little beacon to be a lifesaver.
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Ryan Roberts has refused to cool down after his hot start, and he's had an OPS over 1.000 for most of the season. He has a .333 average with five HRs and three SBs this season and a 10:10 K:BB ratio to boot. Is this 3B/OF-eligible player this season's Jose Bautista?
I'd emphatically respond, "No." He hasn't shown this type of power potential at any point of his career, and certainly hasn't done anything near Bautista's foreshadowing power run at the end of 2009. Roberts should also see a playing-time squeeze once he returns to normal levels. While I'd be ready to bail whenever he cools off, there's nothing wrong with riding him until that happens. Just be forewarned that the best has likely already come and gone, so if you can sell high on him to a true believer, I would think long and hard about doing so.
Also at 3B: Wilson Betemit (14 percent), Casey Blake (12 percent), Mike Aviles (49 percent).
Yorvit Torrealba, TEX (3 percent owned). In what kind of fair and just world do the Rangers trade for Mike Napoli and only give him half the amount of at-bats that Torrealba receives, despite Napoli's .303 average and 1.283 OPS? Honestly, it doesn't matter to owners looking for catcher adds, as long as it keeps happening for the good of Torrealba, who is slugging better than he ever has in his career and who pushed his average up to .292 with a 3-for-3 day Tuesday. The actual Rangers' starting catcher should be owned in all two-catcher leagues.
Also: Yadier Molina (20 percent), A.J. Pierzynski (15 percent).
First Base
Brett Wallace, HOU (19 percent). MLB front offices played a game of musical chairs with Wallace over the past two years, and it looks like the Astros may be the big winner. After striking out 50 times while walking just eight times in 2010 over the course of 144 at-bats, Wallace has just as many walks this season in his first 71 ABs, and he's only struck out 14 times. The improvement has led to a .324/.400/.451 line through Monday as well as a 3-for-4 day Tuesday. He has decent power potential as well, hitting over 20 HRs per 500 at-bats in the minors. However, I'd roll with the first guy below over Wallace if I had the chance.
Also: Freddie Freeman (32 percent), Justin Smoak (17 percent).
Second Base
Ryan Raburn, DET (48 percent). The Tigers have been shuffling Raburn between second base and left field, and the constant moving has seemed to help his bat. He sported a six-game hitting streak heading into Tuesday's three-K letdown and hit home runs in back-to-back games last week while adding eight RBIs over a three-game span. Raburn headlines a strong crop of second basemen available in a majority of Yahoo leagues, with the injured Juan Uribe and the sometimes starting Mike Aviles also checking in at just under 50 percent owned.
Also: Darwin Barney (19 percent), Daniel Murphy (2 percent).
Ryan Theriot, STL (33 percent). Theriot hasn't hit over .300 since 2008, but he's posted a .311 average thus far leading off for the Cardinals. If he can keep his on-base percentage up he should score a massive amount of runs for the Cardinals while chipping in his fifth straight 20-steal campaign, making him a great three-category fantasy player at a discount price.
Also: Barney, Uribe, Aviles, Cliff Pennington (5 percent).
Coco Crisp, OAK (45 percent). The A's have a very weak lineup (as usual), and leadoff hitter Crisp has actually been their best bat to date. He's turned up the production over the last few days, posting three straight three-hit games from Saturday to Monday to loft his average up to a deceptively strong .281. Where fantasy owners can feel save knowing Crisp will contribute is in the stolen bases category, as he ripped off one SB per 10 ABs in 2010 and remains close to that pace this season. Unfortunately the perennially banged up Crisp had to leave Tuesday's game early, so make sure he gets a clean bill-of-health before adding him to your roster.
Also: Roberts, Chris Coghlan (30 percent), Cameron Maybin (20 percent), Michael Morse (10 percent).
Starting Pitcher
John Lackey (44 percent). The former ace seemed to take offense to being skipped in the rotation and dropped in many fantasy leagues across the rotosphere, and he's run off two great starts since the snub. After posting six one-run innings in Oakland, Lackey dominated his former team in Los Angeles, throwing eight shutout innings in his last start while adding six strikeouts and one walk. If he's turned a corner, he could be a quality fantasy starter that contributes a bunch of wins to fantasy teams once Boston hits its stride.
Also: Kyle McClellan (42 percent), Anibal Sanchez (35 percent), Randy Wolf (32 percent), Scott Baker (28 percent), Brandon McCarthy (24 percent), Brandon Beachy (24 percent), Bud Norris (12 percent).
Relief Pitcher
Sergio Santos, CWS (29 percent). Former Wide World picks Mitchell Boggs, Kyle Farnsworth and Jordan Walden have all graduated to more-owned-than-not territory, and Santos is likely to be next. He's pitched 11 scoreless innings to open the year while racking up 14 Ks. Ozzie Guillen gave him the chance to protect Phillip Humber's gem against the Yankees on Monday, and the righty did not disappoint, recording four outs (one K) while allowing two hits for his second professional saves. He came in again on Tuesday with men on first and second in the ninth and retired Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano to earn quite a second save. A high walk rate (Santos' is about 4.5 per nine innings over his career) isn't necessarily a death knell for potential closers — think Carlos Marmol — so look for Guillen to stick with Santos as long as he's effective.
Also: Jon Rauch (49 percent), Johnny Venters (49 percent), Darren Oliver (19 percent), Mike Adams (17 percent).
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CFT has been administered to more than 600 subjects in multi-phase clinical trials to date. Results from these clinical trials have demonstrated that CFT has high affinity for DAT and rapid kinetics which enable the generation of clean diagnostic images quickly, beginning within approximately 20 minutes after injection. In addition to its potential use as an aid in the differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, CFT may also be useful in the diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), which after Alzheimer's disease, is one of the most common forms of dementia.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Earnings season peaked this week in terms of the number of stocks that reported. On July 23 I profiled nine stocks that reported results on July 24 in Boeing, Caterpillar, Facebook Earnings Ahead . Seven beat their EPS estimates and only one missed.
On July 24 I profiled 13 stocks in Amazon, GM and 3M Earnings Preview. These stocks reported earnings results Thursday, and on Monday I will provide a scorecard for these names. I will also profile eight stocks that report their earnings on Wednesday.
Today I provide my buy-and-trade data for five stocks that report results on Tuesday.
Here's my scorecard for the July 24 field of stocks:
Akamai Tech (AKAM - Get Report) ($45.19) matched estimates earning 37 cents a share. The stock opened lower Thursday with a low at 42.40. Buy-and-trade investors who had GTC Limit Orders to buy weakness to my monthly value level is $43.27 were filled at the opening price at $42.50 and the stock popped to $45.59. Boeing (BA - Get Report) ($106.70) beat estimates by 9 cents earning $1.67 a share. Boeing reported premarket on July 24 and traded up to a new multi-year high at $109.49 at the open. Buy-and-trade investors with a GTC Limit Order to sell did so as $109.49 is my semiannual risky level. My monthly value level is $103.24 with a weekly pivot at $105.72 and semiannual risky level at $109.49. Caterpillar (CAT) ($82.14) missed estimates by 26 cents earning $1.45 a share. This stock disappointed once again and traded to a low of $81.35 on Thursday. Failing to hold the 50-day simple moving average at $84.91 lead to a test of this week's pivot at $82.80. Citrix Systems (CTXS) ($67.98) beat estimates by 2 cents earning 47 cents a share. The stock opened Thursday with a high at $70.66 then fell to $66.98. Buy-and-trade investors with a GTC Limit Order to sell strength to my annual risky level were filled at the opening price at $70.45. Support is the 200-day SMA at $66.44. EMC (EMC) ($26.75) beat estimates by a penny earning 35 cents a share premarket on Wednesday. The stock spiked to $27.34 then declined to $26.31 on Thursday. My monthly value level is $23.59 with a weekly pivot at $25.75 and semiannual risky level at $32.66.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Sam is playing it again: Denver's Archbishop Samuel Aquila touting Catholic corporate position
Posted By Terrance R. Kelly On September 5, 2012 @ 8:58 am In Abortion,atheism,Catholicism,Charity,Christianity,Clergy,Contraception,Culture,Evil,Gay Rights,God,Immigration,Marriage,Morality,Philosophy,Politics,Priests,Protestants,Reform,Same-Sex Marriage,Secularism,Sex Abuse Scandal,Social Justice,Social values | 4 Comments
The search for a new archbishop of Denver had just come to a close when a knowledgeable Catholic commentator wrote a column that was published in more than 60 Catholic diocesan newspapers. With relief and a bit of glee, George Weigel announced the successful completion of a lengthy purge by U.S. bishops of "social welfare state" staff [1] from all senior positions within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"The Church has no special expertise in the technicalities of public policy," said Weigel, who continued by chastising a bishops' conference committee for publicly rejecting on religious grounds the federal budget proposed by Republican Vice-President nominee Paul Ryan.
There is an occasional bishop's conference committee that strays off the reservation, and an infrequent bishop, such as Bishop Richard E. Pates, who publicly acknowledges "the slashing of federal programs, including those for the poor, and proposing anti-immigrant legislation" as matters for episcopal concern [2].
However, it is increasingly clear that the bishops who now dominate the U.S. Bishops' Conference bring a new corporate face and voice to the nation's "public square." These bishops have trivialized the social justice issues of poverty, immigration, war, racism, the treatment of women, capitalism and labor, health care, education, and human freedom.
When the bishops do address these issues, they specialize in self-centeredness — for example, the propriety of health care legislation is tested solely against remote applications of Catholic contraceptive doctrine; the significance of inhumane anti-immigrant legislation is determined by its effect on Catholic charitable practices; absolute fetal rights are politically demanded by doctrine that absolutely denies any consideration for the circumstances of any woman involved. Meanwhile, distributive justice is outsourced to people who believe that God is a free market capitalist and that government should be drowned in a bathtub.
Enter stage right Samuel J. Aquila, the new Archbishop of Denver.
In his Q & A interview with the Denver Catholic Register Aquila described his new role in Denver to be one of "challenging the culture of secularism." This secularism "promotes atheism, or the absence of God." Aquila says the challenge will be met by "bring[ing] our faith into the public square as our forefathers did," demanding that our national government act politically to forbid procured abortion, forbid euthanasia, forbid violations of religious liberty (all as defined by the Catholic Church), and opposing the governmental recognition of same-sex relationships.
Aquila appears to believe that the government's imposition of Catholic doctrine concerning abortion, euthanasia, and marriage upon the people of the United States is within the power of our constitutional government. Apparently, such doctrinal interpretations are consistent with what "our forefathers recognized in the preamble to the Constitution — the Creator and that it is he [God] who bestows human rights."
Aquila informs us that the Catholic teaching regarding abortion, euthanasia, religious liberty and denial of legal status to same-sex relationships has been in our federal Constitution all along. He appears to believe that secular atheists have successfully blocked the Catholic teachings — many of which are infallibly taught — from national enshrinement.
Aquila's perception of his role and his challenges appears to be widely shared by almost all of today's U.S. bishops, both in what it says and in what it doesn't say. Many see it is a road map for success; many see it as a recipe for disaster.
First, what is Aquila's message — what does it say? Bishops like Aquila seek to place the Catholic Church in polarized opposition to a broad "culture of secularism." The Catholic Church has the truth, the secular culture shops lies; the Catholic Church is aligned with God, the secular culture is aligned with the devil; the Catholic Church provides the culture of life, the secular culture promotes the culture of death. When the Catholic clerical culture slides into a deep and broad conspiracy enabling the institutionalized sexual abuse of children, who is to blame? Secular society.
The bishops' view of the secular as fundamentally evil is seriously mistaken. For example, these bishops show no historical understanding that a secular U.S. society, joined with the heroism of the Black American Church, challenged the evil of racial segregation, one of the uglier remnants of the Christian slave state. With a handful of exceptions, the U.S. Catholic bishops sat on their cathedras during the 20th century Civil Rights Movement.
History also teaches that generations of "radical feminists" finally secured the right for women to vote, to own property, to enter into contracts, to participate in democracy, to share human rights. These were feminists who were generally vilified by Catholic bishops for corrupting Christian marriage, at a time when Catholic religious authorities were also vilifying democracy.
Second, consider what the bishops' message doesn't say. No traditional social justice issues make Aquila's list of challenges. Instead, the challenges are deeply devoted to perceived social-sexual immorality.
Two of Aquila's particular challenges, abortion and contraception, involve women intensely and intimately. Another challenge continues the Church's hostility to the public recognition of same-sex relationships, because such recognition allegedly is a serious threat to the institution of marriage and is also the disordered fruit of disordered individuals.
Aquila's list of challenges does not include the huge and growing disparity between the extremely wealthy and the economic insecurity of almost everyone else; the social gap in educational opportunity; a bankrupting health care system; vicious anti-immigration policies and practices. Those challenges are apparently left to liberal politicians and women religious. You won't find them on Aquila's List.
And speaking of women religious, you won't find the disconnect between women and the bishops on the list of important episcopal challenges either.
Meanwhile, Catholic bishops continue to pump incense into a theology that denies religious authority — not just ordination, but authority— to women. The syllogism behind the teaching goes like this. Religious authority in the church is solely within the domain of the ordained; only males can be ordained; therefore only males can exercise religious authority. It is a syllogism without an acceptable premise. Limbo, without the charm.
Finally, there is the bishops' manner of messaging. What are they saying in the public square about their challenges? Too many of them have been saying outrageous things. They present a model of religious freedom that arises out of Emperor Constantine's theology— true religious freedom exists only for those who have the Truth, as determined by those who have the Authority.
Using that theology, several bishops have made outrageous charges. For example, Obama is like Stalin; he is like Hitler (Bishop Jenky). He will imprison the bishops, where they will die (Cardinal George). He is the Abortion President, a material cause of millions of murders (Archbishop Chaput). The government's contraception mandates are the work of the devil and must be "violently opposed" (Bishop Nickless, who later retracted his use of "violently").
Aquila? Well, Aquila has previously seized an opportunity to appear on Fox News. (Bishops do not get on Fox News to preach the beatitudes.) There he attacked the University of Notre Dame for allowing President Obama to receive University honors at 2010 graduation ceremonies. Obama, you see, is "pro-choice." The Catholic hierarchy has a long history of being against choice. If you had been openly pro-choice concerning freedom of religion in medieval England, St. Thomas More would have had you disemboweled, and then burned you and your bowels at the stake. Chancellor More, like our bishops today, wasn't really very big on other people's rights to choose about religious matters.
Then again, a few months ago, Aquila was on radio, where he informed listeners that Obama's government had embraced atheism, just like Stalin's and Hitler's governments, so we need to understand that the results of electing atheists will be similar to communist and Nazi government election results. You know what happens— "religious rights are going to be violated."
The Obama government's Affordable Health Care Reform employer mandates regarding contraceptive insurance coverage have been widely characterized as an example of that inevitable Stalinist, Hitlerian, atheistic violation of the religious freedom rights of those Catholic hospitals and universities who are required to provide such coverage to their students and employees.
Then on May 31 of this year, Aquila actually YouTubed himself into the public square to assure us that these insurance coverage provisions were indeed violations of the U.S. Constitution, as well as a "lie," the work of the devil, the "Father of Lies." By the way, Aquila is prepared for martyrdom.
So we now have bishops lecturing us about constitutional law and practice, while leaving traditional social justice work to communities of religious women for whom they have shown little respect. These bishops are sufficiently informed to teach constitutional complexity, but insufficiently educated to remark on the moral ramifications of a national budget proposal.
Some Catholics think that this is the new "Good News." Some Catholics think it is very sad, even tragic. A dear friend recently reminded me of some additional responses. "The British," she said, "will speak of things being serious, but not hopeless, while the Irish tend to see the very same circumstances as hopeless, but not serious."
Take your pick. Acknowledging hopelessness is perfectly acceptable, if you reduce the seriousness of it all. That's what the younger generations are doing.
Terrance R. Kelly belongs to Cure d'Ars Catholic Community in Denver, Colorado.
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[2] Bishop Richard E. Pates, who publicly acknowledges "the slashing of federal programs, including those for the poor, and proposing anti-immigrant legislation" as matters for episcopal concern: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13529&comments=1
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By RANDY GONZALES
Ellis County Commission Chairman Dean Haselhorst vowed there would be better communication with the county's architect concerning plans for a new EMS/rural fire building.
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Ellis County Commission Chairman Dean Haselhorst vowed there would be better communication with the county's architect concerning plans for a new EMS/rural fire building.
"I think going forward, I know the commissioners will be more involved, instead of taking the architect's word," Haselhorst said after Friday afternoon's special meeting with the architect via conference call. "Everything now going forward, I think we're going to be very involved as commissioners."
County officials joined Haselhorst and Commissioner Swede Holmgren at the special meeting at 718 Main. Commissioner Barbara Wasinger was absent.
Officials discussed the EMS/rural fire building project with Brad Teeter of Spangenberg Phillips Tice Architecture, Wichita. All six bids last month came in over the budget of approximately $3.5 million. After accounting for professional fees, the total cost for the project would be $3.8 million. The lowest bid was $3.95 million.
The project is one of two approved by voters in May to be funded through a 0.5-percent county sales tax. The other project -- remodeling and renovation of the Ellis County Courthouse and Law Enforcement Center -- is estimated to cost $8.5 million. The sales tax will sunset after five years, or when the projects are paid off, whichever comes sooner.
Haselhorst asked Teeter, if the architectural firm believed costs for the building were going to be 20-percent higher due to being in Hays, why the commissioners weren't informed of that.
"Typically, in what I would consider rural areas -- not near a big city -- it does cost more," Teeter said. "When we get our cost estimating, we get the numbers what we thought the Hays project would come in at. We did take that into account. Apparently, we didn't adjust enough."
Haselhorst, who plans to take an informal tour of a metal EMS/rural fire building in Dodge City, wants the architect to come up with the cost for an all-metal building.
"My opinion is -- and I can't speak for the other two commissioners -- I want to see a metal building (specification)," Haselhorst said. "I want to know what it's going to be. I know it's going to be considerably less (cost).
"I don't have any problem going with a metal building. There's beautiful metal buildings in this town, all over."
Haselhorst said he felt blindsinded when he saw the bids for the EMS/rural fire building, to be located at 22nd Street and General Hays Road.
"Some of the changes we found out was the day they had the bid letting in this very building," Haselhorst said. "I feel, as a commissioner, I probably let the general public down a little bit, not staying on top of that as much as we should, by taking an architect's word. ... Then I find out on the bid letting all these changes. I think the big thing we had was a lack of communication, not keeping the commissioners informed."
That will change, Haselhorst said.
"I will guarantee all three commissioners will be very much involved," he said. "If we're making changes in this project, we need to know."
Holmgren told Teeter what he is hearing about the EMS/rural fire project.
"I can tell you the opinions about the price of this thing vary from outright hostility and animosity to a very deep concern about the amount of dollars we're spending on this thing," he said.
"Obviously, our concern as commissioners is to get the biggest bang for the buck that we can. Personally, I don't feel like we're doing that right now.
"I think, for lack of a better word in my vocabulary, we're building a Taj Mahal in the middle of Hays, Kansas, to have fire trucks and ambulances."
The new administrative center at 718 Main, in the former Commerce Bank building, was not brought up at Friday's meeting. Spangenberg Phillips Tice Architecture also is in charge of that project, which had both bids for remodeling of that building be more than budgeted. The county has $600,000 budgeted, and the bids came in at $944,000 and $995,000. That project is not part of the sales tax, but will paid for through the budget.
"That concerns me, it really does, where the same architect has went over that much on both projects," Haselhorst said after the meeting.


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West Ham saw themselves easily overtaken by a slick Arsenal side which put five past them at the Emirates stadium.
To compound their misery, the team saw rookie Dan Potts stretchered off and taken to hospital following a horrible aerial collision.
West Ham United confirmed that the left-back will undergo scans and further assessment in hospital today, Thursday.
After the accidental clash with Arsenal right-back Bacary Sagna he was attended to by the club's medical staff and on-site pitch rescue team contributing to 12 minutes of injury time. Social network sites lit up with good wishes for the teenager who spent Wednesday night in hospital.
On the pitch, Sam Allardyce hailed the "genius" of the North Londoners who put Jack Collison's early strike in the shade with a showcase of precision passing and spectacular finishing.
Podolski, Cazorla, Walcott and two from Giroud left the Irons almost spectators in what was an exciting match for the neutral. The last four happened in a blur.
"It was a horrible 12 minutes for us," Allardyce said. "When they hit top gear, we just couldn't live with them. They tore us apart."
West Ham have now only won twice in 14 league and cup games since the end of November.
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Manti Te'o Is A Herb, Could Have Bought A Fake Brazilian Internet Girlfriend For 20 Bucks A Week
All those lies and all that deceit when all it would have taken is four Jackson's a month to keep his imaginary girlfriend alive and fake-cancer free. What a sucker that kid is, eh? Paying God knows how much for one non-internet photo and a bunch of late-night Jesus scripture pillow talk. Total clownnose. Twenty bills a week could have secured a BRAZILIAN (probably Catholic) girl that the Irish fans would have loved.
Plus since she lives in Brazil he could've made up all types of elaborate sob stories. Forget a car crash, can you imagine the sympathy Manti would have gotten if his girl was assassinated in Rio during an ass-shaking competition or sprayed with bullets from a renegade favela drug cartel? That's the kind of impossible-to-check international Smokeshow fake girlfriend murder story that takes a kid from slow, non-tackling liar to a first round draft pick.
You live and you learn, I guess. Or your fake girlfriend dies and takes your career with her.


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I had this happen a while back, I changed all my throttle cut-offs to the same switch on my DX7s for all my planes After that I would check the signal wire from the RX to the ESC.. |
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Remove the prop for safety. Disconnect the battery from the ESC. Turn on the transmitter. Set throttle trim to neutral. Push the throttle stick all the way forward. Connect the battery to the ESC. Wait for the beep tones to stop. After the beeps pull the throttle stick all the way back. The motor should then give the normal set of start-up beeps. |
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Found problem ....loose nut at the controls!! I had the wrong aircraft selected set it to aircraft 1 and all is well. Thanks for all the input. I said I was going to build "bubbles" again I am getting old and should have said "Guppy" I will be giving the Pro away with my 12 year old radio to a wanna be. It will be a good trainer for him even though its full house. |
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PS Some ESC's do require you to enter programming mode to set throttle end point so check the ESC instructions. |
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hi guys.
weather has been really bad here on the south coast of england, today has been the first good day for flying the radian pro. so i left the girlfriend at home for an hour while i went flying just for a bit till i got too cold. i got to the beach and stepped out of the car, brrrrrrrrrr, it was still cold. pulled the plane out of the car and rigged up slightly exited to get flying. once all sorted i launched into the steady breeze and flew a few laps of the feild, slightly showing off for a family that stopped to watch when something caught my eye..... i dont know how i missed it before, maybe it just never occured to me while flying rc, which is weird because i do it all the time in the full size gliders. as i looked to my left, into the wind, there were several seagulls soaring in the breeze and marginal lift on the seafront. well i didnt think it would be strong enough as the slope of the shingle beach is very shallow but i had to give it a go. power on and into the wind i flew and as i joined the gulls i cut the power, flicked the camber and hovered there for an hour powerless amongst the birds. reminded me what its all about and how much i missed it after flying a stryker all this time. i knew i was getting bored of the stryker, but never thought it worth buying a powered glider. im so glad i did. from now on ill be looking for every possible sources of lift i can find. love the challenge. |
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