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Primer on Voting Rules
The best voting rules are inclusive, well centered, and decisive.
The results can make a group more popular, stable and quick.
|The tools get stronger from one voting task to the next:
|Tragedies of democracy: What's wrong?
|Eras in Voting
|Voting Progress: 19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century.
|A Small Example
|Nine voters: Line up to vote, Plurality, Runoff, Two issues.
|Chief Executive
|Instant Runoff Voting: Principle, Merits, Patterns.
|Council Elections
|Proportional Representation: Principle, Merits, Patterns.
|Funding Choices
|Fair-share Spending: Old Problems, Principle, Merits. New
|Policy Decision
|Condorcet & Rules of Order: Principle, Merits, Patterns.
After this primer shows the need for better voting rules,
the voting games will show the simple steps in each tally.
The supporting references, statistics and glossary are online. All are in the pdf for mobiles or printing in English or español.
What happens when a policy pendulum swings?
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What's Wrong? ↓
The Northwestern U.S. was ripped apart for many years as forestry policies were reversed again and again. Hasty logging in times of weak regulation wasted resources. Sudden limits on logging bankrupted some workers and small businesses. The policy pendulum swings; it cuts down forests and species, families and towns.2
Businesses and agencies often lose money and power when a council changes hands and changes laws. Repeated reversals are a major cause of war-like politics.
Can we end such raging or silent tragedies? Better tools give real hope; we can stop the tragedies caused by the old voting tools.
Will their votes have any effect?
Our defective voting rules come from the failure to see there are different uses for voting; and these require different types of voting.
But as soon as three candidates run for one office, the situation becomes more complicated. Then that old 'yea' or 'nay' type of voting is no longer suitable.
Sometimes what we want is not the election of a solitary official. We want to elect a whole council that represents all the voters. Then we do not need a system of dividing voters into winners and losers. Instead, we need a way of condensing them, in the right proportions, into their chosen leaders.3
Yes-or-no voting is not good at giving fair shares of council seats, adjusting many budgets, or finding a balanced policy.
Eras in Democracy
In a district where only the biggest party wins a rep, only two big parties thrive. So the voters get only two real candidates; that is a very limited choice.4
A few of the voters who do get choices can make a council swerve from side to side.
A council majority (dark blue in picture) sets all policies and budgets. This is a war of winner take all.
Typical Council Elected By Plurality Rule
It elects several reps from each voting district. It gives a group that earns, say 20% of the votes, 20% of the council seats. Thus PR delivers fair shares of representation.6
So the side with the most seats (blue and black) forms the ruling majority, which then enacts policies skewed to one side.
Typical Council Elected By Proportional Representation
Most voters in the winners' wide base of support don't want averaged or centrist policies. They want policies to unite the best ideas from all groups.
Ensemble Elected By Central And Proportional Rules
A "compromise policy" tries to negotiate rival plans. But contrary plans forced together often work poorly; and so does the average of rival plans.
A "balanced policy" unites compatible ideas from all sides. This process needs advocates for diverse ideas. And more than that, it needs powerful moderators.
Old tally rules tend to cause one-sided results and tragedies.
An ensemble is inclusive; yet it is centered and decisive.
So it can make an organization popular, yet stable and quick.
We'll see these qualities again in the best ways to set budgets and policies.
A Small Example
Throughout this primer, we're going to show political positions in this compelling graphical way.
High taxes, great gov. services Low taxes, poor gov. services
Ms. K is the candidate nearest four voters.
L is nearest two and M is nearest three.
Candidates L and M split the voters on the right.
A mere plurality gives the winner a weak mandate.
That is the authority voters give to winners.
K is nearest four voters. L is nearest two. M is nearest three.
The two (teal) people who had voted L now vote for M.
Do votes that move count more than others? Yes, No.
This winner has the power of a majority mandate.
Only four "wasted votes" fail to elect anyone.
(Later, these voters will use a rule that asks,
"Where is our center?"
And a bigger group will use a rule that asks,
"Which trio best represents all the voters?")
Candidate M wins the runoff.
This photo shows voters choosing positions across two issue dimensions: left to right plus up and down. A person's position on the first issue does not help us guess their position on an independent issue.
Which leaves more wasted votes, plurality or runoff? Which gives the winner a stronger electoral mandate?
Kay wins a plurality. Em wins a runoff.
Chief Executive
How does it work? You rank your favorite as your first choice,
and rank backups as your second choice, third and so on.
Then your ballot goes to your first-rank candidate.
If no candidate gets a majority, the one with the fewest
ballots loses. Then there is another round of counting.
Here is an analogy: Each candidate puts out a box. A voter puts his ballot in his favorite candidate's box. The ballots are counted.
If the box gets a majority of the ballots, it wins. If not, the voter moves his ballot to another candidate's box. Or, he waits, hoping others will move their ballots to his favorite box.
To break that deadlock, we have a rule: If a round of counting ballots finds no winner, the box with the fewest votes is eliminated. Its ballots go to each voter's next (2nd) choice -- probably a candidate with similar views and more popularity.
These transfers make voters condense into large groups supporting strong candidates. Ballots are counted again to see if any candidate gets half of the current top ranks.
In practice, each voter ranks the candidates as 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd etc. Then election officials move ballots between boxes or a computer tallies them.
In a South Korean presidential election, two
progressives faced the aide to a military dictator.
The progressives got a majority of the votes but split
their supporters. So the conservative won under
a plurality vote-counting rule. These rules elect
whoever gets the most votes; 50% is not required.
The winner claimed a mandate to continue repressive policies. Years later he was convicted of treason in the tragic killing of pro-democracy demonstrators.4
With Instant Runoff Voting, ballots for the weaker progressive could have transferred to help elect the stronger one.
The U.S. also has seen major elections in which two candidates on the left split their voters or two on the right split theirs. Sometimes this increased our national tragedies. (Can you name such an election and its tragic results?)
From five factions to one majority.
In some places, people call this Rank Choice Voting, Preference Voting or the Alternative Vote.
IRV lets you vote for the candidate you really like. And even if that option loses, your vote isn't wasted; it goes to your next choice.
Council Elections
B wins 5 votes as J gets 4 in the top group.
A minority with 11 voters gets majority power with 2 reps. (But if it were spread out evenly, it would get none.)
Now a majority gets two reps and a minority gets one.
That is, 60% of the vote gets you 60% of the seats,
not all of them. And 10% of the vote gets you 10%
of the seats, not none of them. These are fair shares.
Those Chicago Republicans were usually moderates. So were Democratic reps from Republican strongholds. Even the biggest party in a district tended to elect reps who were more independent. They could work together and make state policies more moderate.4
(The transferable-vote game shows one way to get PR — which is also called Fair Voting, Proportional Voting, Full Representation, or Fair Representation.
The number of women elected rose from 21% to 29%. The number of native Maoris elected rose from 7% to 16%, which is almost proportional to the Maori population.5 Voters also elected 3 Polynesian reps and 1 Asian rep.
Print editions of this primer include stories and statistics on the effects of PR on election of women, on policies and on the quality of life.
New Zealand and Germany elect half of their MPs by list PR and half of them in single-winner districts. Their districts elect few women; but in the same elec¬tion, the PR lists elect three times more women.
In every one-seat district, a party's safest nominee is likely to be a member of the dominant sex, race, etc. That adds up to very poor representation of all others.
PR leads each party to nominate a balanced team of candidates to attract voters. This promotes women.6 A team may have class, ethnic and religious diversity. And that gives us diverse reps to approach for help.
This credible threat made some parties decide that job experience was not as important as gender balance. They dropped some experienced men to make more room for women on the party list. And they won.7 Now they are incumbents with experience, power and allies.
In a SMD, a landslide winner wastes surplus votes. But Fair Rep elects reps with equal numbers of votes. So any council majority really stands for most voters. That helps its policies match public opinion better.
If those urgent needs overwhelm us, we neglect the essential needs, the structural roots of our problems. We often get bad results from poor policies, due to poor representation, caused at the root by bad voting rules. We might agree, helping voters control government is now an urgent need.
The countries with the best voting rules get the best quality of life, as measured in their international scores. So the people who want to raise the quality of their city or country all need to take action for better voting.
Funding Choices
Proportional Representation distributes the council seats fairly.
Democratic rights fulfilled through history:
Voting for rich men, poor men, "colored" men, women.
Proportional Representation for large political minorities.
Fair-share spending by big groups of voters or reps.
Fair shares give minority voters some power.
Even in groups that lack competitive elections, some members compete over money to fund their projects. So some may connive to capture part of the budget. This injustice can push others to rebel or just leave. They have a right to fair shares of decision power.
Bad election rules are even worse at setting budgets: They're not 'cost aware,' and so increase tactical nominations and voting. For example, a majority needs many candidates to elect several; but if votes split badly, they win less than their share.
Consensus would struggle to weigh dozens of desires, of varied cost and priority, from dozens of overlapping groups.
Many empty hands Fair Shares
The old way to set budgets blurs responsibility. Take deficit spending: Progressives may say too much is spent on big weapons and corporate subsidies; conservatives often blame the money spent on health, education and the environment. Every rep can claim, "I didn't spend too much."
Protecting the environment is popular with both conservative and progressive voters. Reps don't dare attack it openly. So, to pay off some campaign gifts from corporate sponsors, reps slyly starve agencies that enforce environmental laws. Budget cuts have also starved OSHA, ATF and the auditors of corporate tax returns.
"Lower but constant funding is more productive than a roller-coaster budget that might average far more." Alvin Trivelpiece, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Texas Super-Conducting Super Collider was a multi-billion dollar project in the 1980s. This effort to build the world's largest cyclotron was supported by a majority in Congress for a few years... then dropped. The only thing built was a "billion-dollar hole in the ground."
Members might be more cautious about starting vast projects if they could not spend the opposition's share of the budget. And they should have the power to finish their projects with their own share.
The U.S. Congress let a single rep "earmark" funds for pet projects in her district. In 1994, the 4,000 earmarks cost us $23 billion. Ten years later, the 14,000 earmarks cost us $45 billion.
Earmarks let powerful reps take much more money to their districts than most reps do. Each rep voted yes or no to a huge "omnibus" bill. It held hundreds of earmarks, some good, some bad. This budget system made it hard to prove which reps are wasting money.
At their best, earmarks let a rep use federal money to fund vital local projects that only locals see the need and chance to do. But there is a better, more responsive and democratic way to select projects, Participatory Budgeting.
Participatory Budgeting is a big step up for democracy. It lets local meetings research, talk and vote on how to spend part of a city's budget. In South America, it spread from 1 city in 1990 to over 1000 today. The World Bank reports that the Participatory Budgeting or PB process tends to raise a city's health and education while reducing corruption.1
For the last four years, a savvy alderman in Chicago gave his "discretionary fund" to the PB process. It was a popular success. But due to an old plurality rule, similar to bloc vote, more than half the votes were 'wasted': a majority of votes went to losers.2
Even the winning votes were wildly unequal. A vote for the playground was worth $501. But a vote for the bike racks was worth only $31. That's too unfair; we can do better. We can give every voter the power to guide a fair share of money, with Proportional Voting: PV for PB.
Voting reform is hard because unfair rules have become entrenched by centuries of use. Because PB is still young, we have a rare opportunity to introduce better voting rules now — voting rules that are more expressive and fair.
That is, 60% of the voters spend 60% of the money,
not all of it. A project must show it is it is a common good worth group funds by getting grants from many voters
So we let a voter fund only a set fraction of a project.
How does it work? Like IRV: You rank your choices.
Then your ballot gives grants to your top choices. And a tally of all ballots drops the least-funded project. This repeats until all projects still in the race are fully funded.
(The voting games will make the details easy to grasp.)
Each proposal needs support
from a substantial group.
Every neighborhood and interest group controls its share of spending power; no one is shut out. This cuts the incentive for a group to dominate others. So it makes (hidden) empires less profitable.
If a plurality spends all the money, the last thing they buy adds little to their happiness. It is a low priority. But that money could buy the high-priority favorite of a large minority; making them happier.
In economic terms: The "social utility" of the money and goods tends to increase if we each allocate a share. Shares spread out opportunities and incentives too.
In political terms: Fair shares earn wide respect, as we each help big minorities to fund some projects. So our budget appeals to more people.
Each budget level of an item is like a project:
To win, it needs to get a base number of votes.
It gets a vote when a ballot pays a share of the cost
up to that level or higher. cost / base = 1 share = 1 vote
If more ballots share the cost, each of them pays less.3
One at a time, the weak ones lose and the money moves. The item that gets the fewest votes for its current top level, loses that level. Any money you gave it flows to your highest rank that lacks your vote. This repeats until the remaining top level of each item is fully funded - by a strong base of support.
1) In FS, the proper name for a base of support is a "support requirement" for each budget level.
• If a level gets more than enough votes and money, a share of the surplus goes back to each donor, as in STV.
• The voting game shows how to give your favorite two votes and lower choices less than one.
My second choice lost; did it waste any of my power?
My third choice was so popular, I paid only 2% of it. Did I waste much power by voting for this sure winner? How many ballots shared this cost?
Fair shares can set the budgets of departments too.
Each "line item" starts with most of its past budget.2 A voter may write-in and rank higher budget levels for a department.
2) Each item could start with all of its past budget:
A voter ranks the ones he is most willing to cut, with his share of "negative dollars". (A second poll could let voters try to restore and increase funding to their favorite items.)
Each agency starts with [80]% of its current budget.*
A rep may refill only a limited share of each budget.
So it takes many reps to refill one, and more to raise it.
You repeatedly adjust your grants, causing and countering budget changes, until a timer stops the voting.
* To vote less than about [80]% to basic services, such as
the police or public health, would be "stealing a free ride."
BRV lets a majority reduce their grants to agency X. This undercuts a minority's grants to X. So, to maintain the total for X, the minority must give it bigger grants. Then the majority reduces theirs again, and this cycle repeats. With BRV, nobody apportions the budget as they sincerely want it. In contrast, the fair-share rule above gives all large groups positive power to fund their favorites.
Here is a second Pairwise test with the same voters.
(Each person votes once with a ranked-choice ballot. There are several ballot styles.)
K is nearest four voters. L is nearest five voters.
She has won majorities against each of her rivals. So her position is the "Condorcet winner", the one policy judged to be best by every majority of voters.
Thus a Condorcet Tally picks a central winner.
For example, it can elect a moderator to a council.
And it can set the 'base of support' in Fair-share Spending.
Is it likely to elect diverse reps? Yes, No.
L is nearest 6 voters; M is nearest 3.
The sports analogy is a "round-robin tournament." A player has one contest against each rival. If she wins all of her tests, then she wins the tournament.
Option J tops option D if most voters rank J above D.
Each ballot's rank of J relative to D concerns us.
The numbers of first-rank votes do not.
If another rule picks a different winner our Condorcet winner ranks higher on most ballots. So it wins a one-against-one majority over that other rule's winner.
(More merits of the Pairwise or "Condorcet" rule...)
Everyone helps choose our center.
So the Condorcet winner is well balanced and widely popular:2 Most centrist and progressive voters like it more than any conservative policy. At the same time, most centrist and conservative voters like it more than any progressive policy. All sides can join to beat narrowly-centrist policies.
A Condorcet Tally can elect a central chairperson and a vice chair to hold the powerful swing votes on an Ensemble Council. They have strong incentives and positions to improve a council's process for setting all budgets and policies. Reps know proposals must please chairs who want to please all moderate voters.
Condorcet tallies elect about one out of four reps.
The old plurality rule is the easiest to manipulate. (Borda and point voting are often susceptible too.) But the Pairwise winner, L, doesn't change in this case. Proportional Representation or (post-election) proxy votes avoid even the common bias due to housing patterns.4
Now K has 3 votes. L has two. And M has four.
Voting rules that give fair shares of seats and spending also reduce the payoffs to those who bribe the biggest party. It can no longer seize more than its share of reps or money.
Or people may talk about all options at once but never clearly tell (vote) their second and third choices. So a few people pushing a single idea can appear to be the strongest group. And one person with a balanced solution but no eager supporters might drop it.
A yes-no process may let a committee report only two options for all members to choose between.
The best rules avoid all those problems by ranking the competing options on one ballot.
Public campaign funding in Maine and Arizona lets reps spend less time with rich sponsors and more with voters. One plan would gives each voter $50 of vouchers to donate. Such small, nameless donations or FS can cut corrupt paybacks.3
One-seat districts let the campaign PACs pour floods of money into the few tossup districts and thus win most of the swing seats. PR has close races in many multi-seat districts, forcing the PACs to spread out their money into most districts.
Ballot access laws make it hard for minor parties to get nominees on the ballot. The two big parties make those laws largely because they fear spoiler candidates. Better voting rules such as IRV can calm that fear.
Sabbatical terms make the current rep run against a former rep returning from sabbatical. Voters get a real choice between two winners. Each has a record of what they did in office. Plurality rule would tend to make the current and former reps both lose by splitting their party. But these rank-voting rules do not split parties. A sabbatical might pay the rep to work with others from all parties on a service project, a bus tour and a rural retreat.
Initiative voters get more choices and power through ranked-choice ballots and better tallies. They should set the political rules and ratify the laws about lobbyists, PACs, campaign ads and salary for reps. But minority rights to ballots, reps and funds need constitutional protection from the majority of the day.
Official rules model the goals and methods for shared decisions. They teach some patterns often followed by workers, friends and neighbors.
Fair rules make cooperation safer, faster and easier. They favor people who tend to cooperate, and may lead others to cooperate more often.
They change our concepts and expectations about voting. Our politics are more principled when our rules tend to help us find fair shares and central majorities.
So better rules may help build better decisions, plus better relationships — which tend to raise the "life satifaction" of a person,1 and the happiness in a group.2
Why Take VotesGroups with little time and many issues or competing interests, often end a discussion by asking for votes not consensus. Their methods of discussion and of voting each affect the quality of their decisions and the group's morale.
The secret ballot can protect voters from many types of coercion.
The Condorcet policy can please most members best; it is not biased for any group or the current policy. It also does not need to favor the status quo, except bylaws.
Fair-share Spending can give fair shares of power. Inclusive yet fast, it doesn't let one member block action. It is co-operative decision making, not individual nor hierarchical, not consensual nor adversarial. Multi-winner rules are less about blocking rivals, more about attracting allies.
One set of policies sometimes cannot suit two groups with opposing values.
Moving to a better place is the surest way to get the policies you want.
This is often called "voting with your feet".
That is practical when you have the freedom to move and diverse destinations to choose among. Such diversity is more likely when culture and technology give places economic independence through "local self-reliance".
Even when you can't move to a better city or country, you may still avoid willful authoritarians. Build your democratic groups with fair egalitarians.
Democracy improves in eras such as The Enlightenment. Many people restrained blind faith, obedience and ideology. They expanded our knowledge of the universe and understanding of life through rational, skeptical, empirical thinking.
Benefits and Costs
Many people are excited to learn that voting does not have to mean "winner take all."
The best voting rules strengthen the ballots for voters.
This page shows different voting uses
Give fair representation to all major groups. So the council enacts laws with real majorities.
Elect a central chairperson with wide appeal. This swing vote pulls reps from many factions to moderate policies.
Reduce deadlocks and upheavals in budgets or policies. Make shifts in power small, common and smooth.
Cut chances for agenda scams; detach poison-pill and free-rider amendments. Speed-rank all options at once.
Give all reps fair-shares for optional projects and agencies. And let the voters easily see each rep's spending.
The data make it clear: Advocates for education, health care, a clean environment and a clean government should all work for better voting rules. Donors should too.
If we are overwhelmed by urgent needs, we neglect the essentials, the structural roots of these problems. We continue to get bad public policies, due to bad representation, due to bad election laws.
Your work goes on giving to a school, club or town.
Election campaigns cost a lot all at once. If you win control, you can help all issues for two years.
Reform campaigns cost no more than elections. A win affects the whole council for many years. Your work keeps giving to a school, club or town.
Which is more stable and quick?
Help your college, co-op, club or congregation.
Does your car have an 1890 steering tiller or a new, power steering wheel? Does your organization have an 1890 voting rule or a new, centered and balanced rule?
Today's drivers need the skill to use power steering — but they don't need the math or logic to engineer it. Same with voters and voting rules.
Many groups adopt a standard book of parliamentary rules; then they amend it with their own "special rules of order". So they own a modern vehicle for making their decisions more popular, stable and quick.
Learn more in this e-book, Accurate Democracy. Then build support in your school, club or town with FairVote, The Center for Voting and Democracy.
Steps toward accurate democracy include:
This website has sim games and handouts,
This text is © CC BY-SA 3.0, so edit it as you will and add your own slides for other topics. For example, U.S. voters need concise statements of the principles and benefits in non-partisan redistricting, as practiced in Iowa, and public campaign funding, as practiced in Arizona, Maine, or North Carolina.
You may want to skip some topics or change the wording to suit an audience. For legislators you might change "voter" to "rep" or "member" and you would do the opposite for a direct democracy.
Thanks to Steve Chessin for writing the original version of the "elevator pitch" for Proportional Representation. He, Terry Bouricius, and Zo Tobi each wrote quick pitches for Instant Runoff Voting which were the basis for the IRV slides above. Overall editors include Tree Bressen, Cheryl Hogue, John Richardson, and Rob Richie. Many others have contributed ideas and writing.
BooksThis primer is part of a free booklet for printers or screens. It has the voting games, colorful graphics from both PoliticalSim™ and the budget voting games, data to compare nations and references. A few hard cover copies are available for college libraries.
This page showed the need for better voting rules and their merits. The next page, voting games, show the simple steps in each tally and how they meet their goals.
After that, you may want to read the one-page introduction to each of the six voting tasks. These tell how a task is like and unlike other uses of voting, what it must do, stories of tragedy and success, the best rule's name, its ballot and its main merits.
Accurate Democracy is organized by uses of voting:
Accurate Democracy
|Electoral Systems
|Legislative Systems
Teacher's guide
Quotes game
Anti democracy
Ads versus info
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- Snow tubing nearby
- Playground on site
- Boat tours nearby
- Rock climbing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
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Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service dogs are allowed
24-hour check-in
- Pet fee: USD 20.00 per pet, per night (maximum USD 100.00 per stay)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per day
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) March 20, 2014
Celebrate spring with the return of Beck and Bo as they extract an E from an egg, jump and jiggle on a jelly to find the J and tie a tire to a tree to touch the letter T. In Avokiddo ABC Ride the wide-eyed cardboard cutout dolls are out for a bike ride and need your child's help to find all the hidden letters of the alphabet. Doing so will require some creative problem solving, good listening skills and a bit of hand-eye coordination. As they locate the missing letters and set them free, children will quickly associate them with words since the H is hidden in a hat, G is in a gift and W is pulled from a well.
Finding letters is only one of the activities at each stop on Beck and Bo's ride. Kids also get to spell a new word using simple drag and drop letters in each of the 26 scenes. The name or sound of each letter is repeated as it's placed, thereby reinforcing early literacy and phonemic awareness.
Avokiddo ABC Ride goes far beyond the average alphabet app. A isn't just for apple, it's for apricot, appear, acquire, applause and attention. The app uses alliteration and introduces some big words to little people. Kids hear strong action verbs like cram, disclose and manage and descriptive adjectives including cavernous, flowing and impatient.
In addition to the many impressive new vocabulary words introduced, each scene in Avokiddo ABC Ride presents a new puzzle for children to work through and highlights a different set of preschool skills. Several of the activities involve shapes, colors, sorting and matching which will be familiar to preschoolers while others will require some creative thinking and use of imagination. Following verbal directions, paying attention to visual cues and deductive reasoning are all needed to complete the objectives.
The tasks required to help Beck and Bo complete their bike ride are meant to be challenging while still maintaining a lighthearted, relaxed feel that's fun for children. Some will take several attempts and offer the chance to learn perseverance and determination. Kids receive lavish praise throughout the app. Their hard work pays off because when the newly minted wordsmiths make it to letter Z, they'll be rewarded with a cameo appearance from their friend, the zany zebra from Avokiddo Emotions.
A trailer video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTKr1pZH2g
Pricing and Availability:
Avokiddo ABC Ride is available worldwide through the App Store in the Kids & Education categories at the special launch price of $1.99. From April 3 the app will be priced at $2.99.
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avokiddo-abc-ride/id827657068?ls=1&mt=8
Device Requirements: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch - Requires iOS 5.1 - 106 MB
About Avokiddo:
Avokiddo is a creative studio specializing in the development of quality educational apps for children. Avokiddo's award-winning apps have received excellent reviews and feedback from respected reviewers, parents, kids and educators. Avokiddo Emotions, their previous app, is featured in Apple's website as #1 favorite app for the new iPad Air and iPad Mini. As a MOMs with Apps member, Avokiddo follows the "Know What's Inside" best practices for kids' apps. Learn more at http://www.avokiddo.com and http://www.facebook.com/avokiddo.


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Country Club & Brantwyn Estate Weddings
The DuPont Country Club, nestled within the historic Brandywine Valley, is one of the finest venues for events in the area. Elegantly decorated rooms, magnificent natural surroundings, customized event planning and impeccable service make any event at the DuPont Country Club truly a special occasion.
Recent renovations have enhanced the overall elegance and stature of the Club while preserving its rich history. Design and décor changes upgraded the banquet, meeting and wedding venues to enrich the guest experience.
On the grounds of the DuPont Country Club and a former du Pont family residence, Brantwyn is a marvel of Georgian elegance in the wooded countryside of the Brandywine Valley. Brantwyn's eleven rooms on two floors are richly appointed with tasteful furnishings that lend them a refined yet relaxed ambiance ideal for weddings, special events, family celebrations, social events, and business meetings. The estate's exquisitely manicured 60-acre garden setting offers a breathtaking backdrop for photographs in every season.
The lush landscape, diverse venues and first class service creates the perfect DuPont hospitality experience for you to enjoy.
Du Pont Country Club Clubhouse
Surrounded by three lavish golf courses in the heart of the Brandywine Valley, the Clubhouse features two spacious ballrooms, eight banquet rooms, and a lovely outdoor terrace. Our Crystal Ballroom is an ideal setting for receptions up to 300 people with beautiful parquet floors and a 20 foot high ceiling. The Christiana/Black Gates Suite is perfect for smaller receptions of 75-120 people.
Brantwyn Estate
Located on the grounds and part of the DuPont Country Club, Brantwyn is a former DuPont family residence, a marvel of Georgian elegance in the wooded countryside of the Brandywine Valley. The various rooms in the Estate are appointed with tasteful furnishings which provide a romantic ambiance. The countryside tapestry is a lovely backdrop for wedding receptions any time of the year. For those outdoor wedding ceremonies, the formal gardens offer an elegant setting. Brantwyn can accommodate up to 160 people for dining and up to 200 people for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.


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Discover PS.org's Framing and Tactical Assault Projects!
Two different views of Iraq keep emerging: is it more like World War II or like Vietnam?
A group of talk radio reactionaries are visting Iraq so that they can tell Americans that things are going just ducky in the country.
Henry Waxman asks the GAO to investigate whether the $2.2 million that the Busheviki have spent on propagandizing their social security "reform" (read: destruction) crosses the line.
In 1981, Audrey Santo became a living relic after an accident left her permanently brain damaged. Today, we compare Audrey to our own living relic of political convenience.
Bush's daily attacks on Social Security are still failing to win converts.
The Bush Administration's deceptive Public Relations offensive, funded by tax-payer dollars, is more widespread than once thought.
We've all come across the type who still believe that man's landing on the moon was just a production of good old American cinematography. Ironically, these same people are the ones who would sacrifice their dignity to fawn over recent works of Bush propaganda. You can bet they were gaga over the manner in which Saddam was captured -- how appropriate it was that he had to be dragged from his vermin infested, rat hole... like the cowardly filth that he is. To others however, the 'capture' seemed just a bit too perfect in its symbolism -- as though the entire thing had been a staged event, perhaps even requiring signed 'affidavits of loyalty' to behold.
Liberal bloggers over at Daily Kos have pooled their resources in order to investigate the Propagannon scandal. Now they prepare to ask questions of Guckert/Gannon himself.
An interesting question: what does Bobby Eberle mean when he says that Guckert was a volunteer? That he wasn't paying him this entire time? Then who was?
A look at some of the coverage of Guckert/Gannon. The NY Times talks to Eberle and Guckert, but there's not much information in the piece.
the real importance of the Gannon story had nothing to do with sex or prostitution but about our growing knowledge of the elaborate Soviet-style White House propaganda network, and, potentially, about how a paid propaganda agent may have been involved in the outing of an undercover CIA agent.
Let's see, Hillary performs significantly better than Kerry, handily stowing her victim in the electoral trunk -- and yet, Hillary is perceived as being nontrivially more liberal than Kerry. How does that synch with the assertion that liberalism is 'out of touch with mainstream America'?
Okay, okay. I guess we have to start keeping track of these asses. So far, the Bush Payola Propaganda Puppets include -- but Im sure are not limited to:
It's bad enough that Bush's "town hall meetings" are obviously scripted. You'd think * would at least try to get his lines right.
Atrios blasts apart any remaining iota of credibility to the long running myth that there is a liberal media by looking at who gets canned and who gets a pass when they fuck things up.
Remember the question that I asked at the end of my last post on Bush Propaganda? Well, the answer is... we haven't even begun to see the extent to which this administration will go when it comes to asserting their agenda. And why should we? They committed atrocities beyond compare in their first term and the American electorate gave them a free pass. I don't blame the Republicans one bit for relentlessly pursuing their agenda.
The USA Today reports that the Bush administration paid a prominent black commentator $240,000 to plug No Child Left Behind. Your tax dollars at work, promoting Bushevik propaganda.
Who in their wildest crackpot imagination (prior to Bushs takeover of the White House) would think that the US would be found in criminal violation of producing and distributing propaganda within our borders? Sure, during war you have Psych-Ops dumping this crap on the opposition and other foreign targets...but within our borders...on a domestic topic.
Finding credible information at the Economic "Summit" is proving to be more illusive than Bernie Kerik's "nanny." I doubt anyone familiar with Bush's record on the economy took the Economic Summit this week seriously, but at least the outrageous comments and mock discussions have gotten some fair criticism this time around.
There is definitely a need and a place for commentary and editorials but when obvious opinions and partisan politicking replace news and journalism, the "truth" becomes quickly lost in the shuffle. When one looks at the current climate of news and information in the US, specifically the mainstream corporate media, the lines of demarcation are not as clear.
What incredible timing -- amazingly convenient for the Bush-lapdog we all know as Tony Blair. On the eve of the 'Queen's Speech' where government officials plan to roll out such civil-liberty-trouncing policies as national ID cards, there is a 'report' that ensures us that these policies are just what the doctor ordered.
More on Friday's CNN press conference with Pentagon Spokesperson Lawrence de Rita, and Major Austin Pearson regarding the Pentagon's newest assertion that some of the Al Qaqaa explosives might have been removed by US troops.
Does a former FCC chairman have any pull in a situation like this? Is this a sign that the current FCC, and hopefully the FEC are addressing this aggressively?
Yesterday, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt sent the following message to executives at Sinclair Broadcasting Group (Thanks to TPM)
Regardless of Friday's release of payrolls and the unemployment rate, one of the candidates will be touting it as proof of their assertions...either Kerry, "I told you Bush's economic policies suck." or Bush, "I told you my economic policies don't suck." Also regardless of this data release's outcome, Kerry will be right.
Something's making me smile, and I'm sure you want to know what it is. Because you do. You really do.
It's time to put this unfounded "hoax" assertion to rest and time for Bush to start answering some hard questions.
OK, so we now that yes, Virginia, there were typewriters with proportional spacing in 1972. But, alas, that fact alone is not enough. You see, the forgery would-be scandal is what brother-in-arms Tbogg refers to as an evolving smear. If you check the post on Powerline (no, Im not linking to it) youll learn that the original accusation has been modified 14 times. Basically, a series of self-styled experts wrote in to talk about what else is wrong with the documents, and the wingers treat it as gospel.
Okay, so now they are 'questioning' the authenticity of the Bush Gaurd documents presented on '60 Minutes' this week. They are in a quandary as to how the documents from the early 1970s could possibly have 'proportional spacing' when that phenomenon at the time was only available in a sparsely distributed word processor that was virtually nonexistent in governtment ranks. For some reason, the 'experts' seem to have overlooked a conventional, widely used typewriter born of IBM in 1941 that had as its claim to fame...none other than....proportional spacing!!
Today, it was announced that the economy added 144,000 new jobs in August.
Reuters Headline "PAKISTAN CAPTURES A "MOST WANTED" QAEDA MAN WITH UP TO $25 MLN BOUNTY-MINISTER TO CNN" Recall the article written in the New Republic that accurately reported that the 'July Surprise':
Atrios links to the priceless Daily Show bit on GOP talking points from last week, which is now up at the Comedy Central website. If you are able to view streaming video, it is a must see.
A friend of mine sent me the following to illustrate the way taxes work in America. What it succeeded in illustrating was that my friend is either blindly partisan or grossly ignorant.
Bill OReilly recently lamented that the New York Times has vacated its former position of being Americas great newspaper of fact and has become instead a liberal mouthpiece. Yes, Bill, we remember how the New York Times was in the forefront of turning Al Gore into, in the medias jaundiced eyes, a serial exaggerator when he allegedly boasted of having invented the Internet and having been the true life example used by Erich Segal portrayed by Ryan ONeal in Love Story. In the first instance there was egregious misquoting. Those of us who took the trouble to read the full quote in question know that Gore stated that he had voted in the Senate to provide the Internets original federal funding. Gore made no claim about being Erich Segals true-life lead character in Love Story. That erroneous claim resulted from a story in Gores hometown Nashville newspaper which he did not inspire and over which he had no control.
Progressives at every level must be prepared to defend Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". This involves not only exposing the lies and misstatements intended to undermine Moore's credibility, but also keeping the focus on the big picture.
Technique: Focus on Major issues piecemeal. Do not address them as a controversial whole. Instead, focus on the least objectionable parts. Once these have been accepted, then it is much easier to lead logically from the accepted piece to the more controversial whole.
In Bill Clintons 1992 winning presidential campaign adviser James Carville achieved enduring recognition with the famous strategy saying he tacked up on the wall of the Little Rock war room, Its the economy, Stupid! The succinct message was that the overriding issue gripping the attention of Americans in the election was the economy. Now a new message should be appropriately delivered to the partisan Republican ranks, Its the Blood, not the Dress Stain, Stupid!
Russo and his Republican allies are using the same tactic employed by Karl Rove and George W. Bush. You avoid honest debate and instead fall back on a huge cash reserve to attack. They are unaccustomed to nothing but rigged games played with a stacked deck. The time to stop them is now!
Which is worse, death by terrorism or death by military strikes? Is there a difference? And if there is, does that difference matter? Do you think the families of the victims of either methodology feel any less pain and suffering because of the capabilities of the killer?


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Keynesians argue that in a modern industrial economy, many prices are sticky downward or downward inflexible, so that instead of prices falling in this story, a supply shock would cause a recession, i.e., rising unemployment and falling gross domestic product. It is the costs of such a recession that likely causes governments and central banks to allow a supply shock to result in inflation. They also note that though there was no deflation in the 1980s, there was a definite fall in the inflation rate during this period. Actual deflation was prevented because supply shocks are not the only cause of inflation; in terms of the modern triangle model of inflation, supply-driven deflation was counteracted by demand pull inflation and built-in inflation resulting from adaptive expectations and the price/wage spiral.
Monetarist economists such as Milton Friedman argue against the concept of cost-push inflation because increases in the cost of goods and services do not lead to inflation without the government and its central bank cooperating in increasing the money supply. The argument is that if the money supply is constant, increases in the cost of a good or service will decrease the money available for other goods and services, and therefore the price of some those goods will fall and offset the rise in price of those goods whose prices have increased. One consequence of this is that monetarist economists do not believe that the rise in the cost of oil was a direct cause of the inflation of the 1970s. They argue that although the price of oil went back down in the 1980s, there was no corresponding deflation.
The world economy is now slowing down, particularly in the OECD countries. This is blamed on mainly the credit crisis, and the prices of raw materials. Oil has increased by 40% in just a year, and other raw materials such as wheat and steel have seen similar increases. This means that costs increase to manufacturers who use these raw materials in production. Transportation and energy for industry and the service sector will also cost more as oil and gas increase in price. The result is a huge increase in business costs, and this cost is often passed on to the consumer, and so we have cost push inflation. There has been evidence of businesses shedding jobs in order to cut costs, and a number of airlines such as silverjet have gone out of business as a result of high fuel prices.
Cost push inflation as found on infocheese.com


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New Dog Park Opens at Bunker Hills Regional Park
Located near the Compost Site, off Hanson Boulevard and 133rd Avenue
(August 16, 2013) – There's a new place for dog owners to take their four-legged friends to play in Coon Rapids.
A new dog park opened recently near the Compost Site in Bunker Hills Regional Park. The project is a joint partnership between Anoka County and the cities of Coon Rapids and Andover.
The park is open every day from 6 a.m. until a half hour after sunset and the public may use the park free of charge.
Park patrons are asked to adhere to the following guidelines:All dogs must be legally licensed and vaccinated before entering the off-leash area.
- Dogs shall be leashed when entering & exiting off-leash area and owners in possession of a leash at all times.
- No more than three dogs per handler are permitted at one time in off-leash area.
- Children must be closely supervised by an adult when in off-leash area.
- Dog owners must be in control of their dog(s) at all time.
- Dog owners may not let their dog(s) out of sight.
- Dog owners must leash their dog(s) at first sign of aggression or unruly behavior.
- Dog owners are liable for damage or injury inflicted by their dog.
- No unauthorized furniture allowed, including tables and chairs.
- No dog food or treats allowed in off-leash area.
- Dog owners shall not permit their dog(s) to bark on a continuous or frequent basis.
- Dogs are not permitted to dig in the off-leash area.
- Dogs in heat are not permitted in off-leash area.
- All personal property, including water jugs, bowls and toys must be removed daily.
- Dog owners must pick up and dispose of pet waste in the dumpster outside of fence.
- Personal lawn furniture and other chairs are not permitted in the dog park.
- Users of the off-leash area shall comply with all other Anoka County Park Ordinances.
- Please help keep the dog park clean and safe by removing all garbage, pet waste and personal property from the off-leash area when you leave
Trackside dog park, formerly located at 10425 Hummingbird Street, is no longer in operation


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Gwyneth Paltrow Teaches Glee How to Use Condoms
Expect things to get pretty hot when Gwyneth Paltrow returns to Glee in March.
"All the kids are lost in their sexual knowledge," says Heather Morris, which means that Gwyneth is there to guide them. That's right: She's the new sex-ed teacher!
"She shows us how to put condoms on bananas," says Jenna Ushkowitz. Adds Harry Shum Jr., "I get a zucchini."
According to TV Guide, Paltrow encourages Santana to open up her bisexual side, while at the same time trying to push Sam out of his shell. "Sam's a conservative guy," says Chord Overstreet. "But now he's oddly turned on by Santana's forcefulness."
All this free sexual advice doesn't sit well with Emma. Neither does the fact that Gwynnie's character Holly plants a kiss on Will. "I am very, very excited about our kiss," says Matthew Morrison. "Gwyneth calls it her 'freebie work kiss.' That's how she gets to explain it to her husband."
Source: TV Guide


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Bruises: What are they and how to treat
April 23, 2009 by Melissa
Filed under All about Arnica, Bruising
By: Dr Lauri Grossman
What is a bruise?
You get kicked on the soccer field, drop something heavy on your toe, or bang your head on a low entryway. It might seem like nothing at the time, but all too often, you wake up the next day with a discolored bruise that is so tender to the touch, you want no one to come near. When this happens, you might reach for an ice pack or consider running to the medicine cabinet, but before you do, let's talk about bruises and learn what causes the rainbow of colors that appears as days go by.
Bruises (or what medical doctors call "contusions") occur when you get injured and break tiny blood vessels in the skin. These blood vessels or "capillaries", leak into the surrounding tissue and as red blood cells gather, you can see discoloration in the area. What starts off as a red-purple injury becomes green or yellow as the body works to heal the region and metabolize or gobble up the mass of escaped red blood cells.
The tendency to bruise varies from one person to another. Despite all their falls, young children bruise less readily. They have resilient blood vessels that don't break easily. Older people, especially those on certain medications, have delicate vessels; some find black and blue marks so frequently that they are forever wondering where the injuries come from and what it was they last bumped into. Medications that prevent blood clotting (like Coumadin) and prescription drugs that make blood vessels more fragile (like Prednisone) often contribute to the number of bruises one has.
After two to three weeks, most people find their bruises healed and their skin color returned to normal. Sometimes, however, the body will wall off the region instead of sending cells in to do the clean up work. When this occurs the blood pools and the area swells and becomes tender. If calcium is deposited, a bony condition called myositis ossificans can occur and the tissue becomes sensitive to touch and hard.
The natural chemicals found in Arnica help to heal or prevent these unwanted complications. Flavonoids decrease the permeability of the blood vessels and polysaccharideas stimulate the process by which helper-cells clean the tissue of unwanted debris.
When using Arnica, the best results occur when you match the severity of the injury with the strength of the homeopathic medicine. A lower potency is all you need when you bang your toe into a table or get a blow to the nose in a basketball game. For more minimal injury, topical Arnica is all you need for relief.
Remember that serious trauma and spontaneous bruising calls for a complete medical evaluation. Be sure to get checked for signs of internal injury and fracture. In addition, the word "RICE" can help to remind you of other valuable tips for bruising: REST, ICE, COMPRESS, ELEVATE. The application of a cold compress and elevating the body part reduces the blood flow to the area. This lessens the amount of bleeding in the skin and reduces that size of the bruise.
Even with the utmost caution, accidents will happen at home, on the field, in the gym, and in the workplace. However, with Arnica on hand and these tips in mind, you can speed the healing and prevent long-term disability that often accompanies bruises and physical trauma. So be sure to have a supply of Arnica in your kitchen cabinet, desk drawer, purse and gym bag. Then, you too will be able to experience the beneficial healing effects that Arnica has provided since mountain climbers discovered it centuries ago.
Treat Sprains & Strains with Arnica
April 23, 2009 by Melissa
Filed under All about Arnica, Surgery & Injuries
Effective Homeopathic Treatment of Sprains & Strains
By Dr. Thaddeus Jacobs
Regardless of the season, injuries are a common occurrence in sports and everyday life. High-level athletes, weekend warriors and the sedentary –who might consider simple household chores a workout- all succumb to occasional traumas, aches and pains. Homeopathy use for these problems and others is increasing in popularity here in the US because of its unique, safe, drug-free qualities.
The great popularity of homeopathic medicine worldwide is largely because it acts rapidly and without the side effects often encountered with conventional drugs. Homeopathy is a medicine of choice for many physicians throughout Europe and Asia and a growing number of doctors, athletes and families in the US. This article's aim is to discuss a few key remedies every household should have on hand for quick first aid self-treatment of strain and sprain injuries.
Strains and sprains represent the most common causes of pain and impaired function. A strain is a "pull" or tear, resulting from overstretching a muscle or its attaching tendons. Strains can occur during sports or normal day-to-day activities involving sudden, heavy lifting. Strains often cause damage to small blood vessels, causing bleeding, bruising (secondary to bleeding), swelling, and pain (from local nerve irritation).
A sprain involves damage to ligaments; the thick, strong, fibrous tissues that hold bones together around joints. When a ligament or ligaments are overstretched, they may tear partially or completely. A common sprain injury example is a 'twisted ankle.' Similarly, sprains cause swelling, bruising and pain in the affected joint.
Arnica montana represents the #1 homeopathic medicine any household should have on-hand. It is the first remedy to think of for any type of trauma or injury and is particularly helpful for sprains, strains and other muscular traumas. Remember arnica when there is: bruising; muscular soreness and fatigue; injury from falls, accidents and blunt trauma.
In addition to Arnica, there are a few key remedies one's medicine chest should not be without in order to be prepared for sprains and strains. While arnica can be used as a general first-line remedy for all injuries, the following medicines can be very helpful in specific situations when Arnica doesn't provide complete relief.
Ruta graveolens –ligament and tendon injuries; overuse injuries; bursitis; stiffness from exposure to damp and cold that is relieved by heat applications
Bellis –works like arnica, but for deeper muscular pains in the legs, abdomen and pelvis; excellent for repetitive strain injuries that are better with rubbing or massage
Hypericum –neck, back and hip strains and sprains involving the joints of the spine accompanied by shooting and sharp, pinching pains; numbness and tingling sensations; injuries to densely innervated body parts such as fingers, toes, spine and the tail bone.
Ledum –dark bruising that does not respond to arnica, particularly when injuries feel cold to touch and are also alleviated by cold applications
Rhus tox –severe stiffness that is worse with initial movement, but is relieved by continued movement; stiffness improved by warm applications and aggravated by cold applications, sitting and lying
Bryonia –any pains that are worse with even the slightest movement, even deep breathing; sprain or dislocation injuries around rib attachments
Symphytum (aka knitbone) –assist healing of broken bones; injuries to tendons and cartilage
Homeopathic remedies come in different potencies -6c, 12c, 30c, 200c, 1M and up. Most acute problems, such as twisted ankle or muscle pulls, respond well to using Arnica 30c potency every 15 minutes until there is improvement. If improvement is only partial, then give a single dose of either a 200c or 1M potency or switch to one of the other remedies discussed in this article if the symptoms match more exactly. As symptoms improve, less frequent dosing can then be given as needed.
The homeopathic medicines covered in this article are key players in any household's medicine chest or athlete's training bag. Trainers, athletes and the general public all over the globe utilize these important medicines because of their safety, lack of side effects, low cost and ability to support and speed the body's own healing processes.
Arnica for Dental Surgery
April 23, 2009 by Melissa
Filed under Surgery & Injuries
Dental pain! A trip to the dentist is commonly associated with a painful memory of a prior dental experience. The throbbing, swelling, bleeding, and aching pain vividly stands out in your memory. This typically does not occur during semi-annual cleanings or simple cavity fillings, but when the dental procedure involves an extraction, surgery or treatment for a dental emergency (most commonly from an accident with a blow to the mouth or head). This is when there is real value from using arnica.
Healing energy normally flows through the nervous and circulatory systems in the body. Under normal circumstances, this process occurs naturally. However, a trauma disturbs this normal flow and can create a visual sign (blood) as well as a very real sensation of pain. This is common to dental trauma.
When a dental procedure creates this type of trauma, the body typically creates inflammation as a natural defense mechanism to the trauma. The inflammation, although unsightly and painful, is just part of the natural healing process of the body.
A standard pharmaceutical approach to dealing with inflammation and pain is by using anti-inflammatory (examples include over-the-counter drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen) and pain-medications, like codeine. The anti-inflammatory medicine has both pain-killing response as well as the anti-inflammatory activity. Pain medication acts only on the brain, deceiving our perception of localized pain while doing essentially nothing to actually help heal the wound.
Arnica, on the other hand, effectively helps the body to overcome the trauma through the natural mechanisms already in the body to reduce the pain and inflammation, rather than by using man-made chemicals.
A good suggestion is to consider arnica for all dental traumas. The remedy will help the body control the inflammation and the perception of pain, naturally working with the body. Taking arnica after a dental trauma can help speed the healing process overall.
The most effective dosing with the arnica is to take a dose:
1. The evening before the procedure,
2. While waiting in the dental office immediately PRIOR to the procedure,
3. Immediately AFTER the procedure,
4. Then continue to dose the remedy every 6 hours AND as needed.
4.1. These additional as needed doses are practical to address potential break-thru pain that would normally be addressed by taking the "as needed" dose of the
pain or anti-inflammatory medication.
*IMPORTANT! Medications may be prescribed with specific dosing instructions AND/OR "as needed". Arnica can ALWAYS be taking "on top" of any prescribed regime,without causing complication or interruptions with the prescribed treatment plan .However it is always best to include your practitioner on YOUR treatment plans. Never change the plans the dentist gives you without consulting with the prescriber.
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The surroundings will be familiar for the Starkville High School cross country team on Saturday.
In their second run of the season, the Yellowjackets and Lady Jackets hit the path at the Mississippi Horse Park for home action.
SHS cross country coach Caroline Woomer was proud of how the team performed in the first race of the season and looks forward to hosting a home event.
"Our runners are a lot more mature than last year and are running smart," Woomer said. "They are training hard. I look forward to Saturday because it's kind of a home meet for us, but we're looking to get better at every meet."
Kate Mattox earned a top 10 place finish as the first Lady Jacket across at the Twilight meet and was followed by Walker Mattox, Shanika Musser, Abigail Arinder and Anna Jackson.
"Those are all girls to keep an eye on," Woomer said.
On the boys side, Starkville was led by Joseph MacGown, Damian Grady, Alex Ross, Ethan Musser and freshman Nathan Methvin. Woomer said Methvin "did a really good job for a first run."
Saturday's races begins with boys varsity at 9:30 a.m., then the girls varsity follows at 10:15 a.m.
Woomer said the public is invited and encouraged to attend.
"We'd love to have people out there," Woomer said.
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Recently South African Professors John Dugard and Kader Asmal have been in the news for their opinions for and against the Khulumani litigation currently before the US Court of Appeals in New York. That litigation involves claims on behalf of apartheid victims for reparations from corporate defendants; the argument being that the defendants, as companies, traded with the apartheid regime and thereby facilitated the crime against humanity of apartheid...[more]Written by: Max du Plessis, Senior Research Associate, ICAP, ISS; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
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After a little bit of research, I thought that all I would need to do was tell Flash to find the server's cross-domain policy file, which would hopefully say that any website on *.unl.edu would have access to the files. Apparently, flash automatically searches the root for cross domain policy files, and did not find one. so then I dug a little and found documentation for loading a policy file from a specific area on the server:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/mai ... 05403.html
And so I, or rather the guy in charge of me, called Paul Erickson, and he walked us through enabling our Content Collection area, where I loaded a crossdomain policy file in xml form(under threat of merciless beatings), as outlined by this website:
http://www.moock.org/asdg/technotes/cro ... licyFiles/
(puke green background notwithstanding, the site seems pretty solid)
And so, the cross domain xml file was loaded to:
http://blackboard.unl.edu/bbcswebdav/us ... domain.xml
Then, after that, i specified in my flash file that i wanted the file from there to be loaded, which would give me access to the rss file and....hooold on..... that did not work....
Quoting from Adobe LiveDocs:
This causes Flash Player to retrieve a policy file from the specified URL. Any permissions granted by the policy file at that location will apply to all content at the same level or lower in the virtual directory hierarchy of the server. The following code continues the previous example:
loadVariables("http://foo.com/sub/dir/vars.txt") // allowed
loadVariables("http://foo.com/elsewhere/vars3.txt") // not allowed
Uhm, the pertinent part of this quote is in bold above. Essentially the RSS file itself is located at:
http://blackboard.unl.edu/webapps/lobj- ... /index.rss
while the policy file is located at:
http://blackboard.unl.edu/bbcswebdav/us ... domain.xml
I cannot simply copy the rss file to the cbunck2 directory, as then i would have to do that EVERY time the feed is updated. Not an option. I do not have PHP or PERL(my very own personal favorite crutches) to play with on this particular server, and my knowledge of Javascript is insufficient to handle a job like this(im not even sure how i would do it). I cant add any scripts to the Blackboard server to automate the process(obviously) and I am not sure about how to go about getting a cross domain policy file on to the Blackboard root(which would make all the security professionals VERY nervous).
Essentially, I am lost. All I need to do is get an RSS file from the Blackboard server, parse it into a Flash file, and make the pretty words display. Why I am struggling with it still eludes me, but I can offer a Venti double extra shot Caramel Macchiato with soy milk mixed with 150mg pure liquid caffeine to anyone who can help me out. That, or a poodle


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Caltech's basketball team, above, just won its first conference road game, ever, against the Pomona Pitzer Sagehens, 76-61. See my Friday column for the details …
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Oh west Pasadena Christmas trees
Not only are the 12 days of Christmas long past — we're closing in on Valentine's Day. And yet the sidewalks and gutters of west Pasadena are still lined with browning yuletide trees that, in theory, the city's Public Works Department or its hired guns are going to pick up and mulch, as has been done for years.
So what gives? One neighborhood resident wrote to say that there are practically betting pools going on as to whether the pines are going to have to be taken back in by their hope-to-be-former owners and stuffed into the greeenwaste bins over the next few months.
Last days of The Countess
This past weekend was the last time to view Ingres's painting "Comtesse d'Hausonville" at the Norton Simon in Pasadena before it heads back to the Frick Collection in New York City.
The crowded parking lot — I grabbed a spot across the street — seemed to indicate that lots of people had come to Pasadena to do just that. I dropped in while running errands because I hadn't been to the Simon since the painting arrived in November and figured I better catch it. I don't know from Ingres, really, or any early-19th-century painters; it was more as a kind of duty.
But when I walked down the Old Masters corridor, where I usually don't tread in the museum, there were just a few people checking out the old girl, whose rendering has been described as a "rainbow of blues." Beautiful.
There was a nice little tribute to the late Jennifer Jones Simon in the front hall.
I feel on a weekend visit the way foreigners used to tourism must feel in their own museums — in the minority. Most of the hundreds of people there were speaking a language other than English — Japanese, French, Arabic among them.
Starving, so we got some soup from the stand near the garden, which food, bless her heart, wouldn't have been possible without Jennifer Jones — though she had to wait for Norton to die. He had locked up the auditorium and banned the notion of food or other frivolities when he took over the late, lamented Pasadena Art Museum. She finally was able to provide some sustenance.
Though the rains were long gone, and a walk down the garden path designed by Nancy Goslee Power would have been nice, a stern guard prevented that — as if the decomposed granite wasn't quite ready for our shoes after the storms. Norton would have liked that restriction of access.
But his art — can't fault that.
Floods close off The Meadows
Christopher Nyerges forwards this photo from early this morning after the reopening of Canyon Crest, the only road into the farthest northwest neighborhood of Altadena, The Meadows. Monday afternoon and evening the road was closed down because those logs in the picture had blocked off the culverts that run under the road and black mud piled up on its surface, making it impassable to cars.
The commandment at Mary's Market
There are other 11th commandments. Perhaps there are others memorialized in mock-Gaelic script. But there is none more worth following, or posted in a more endearing location, than this one on the corner of Mary's Market in Sierra Madre Canyon, where I did my Christmas shopping — E. Waldo Ward preserved fruit products galore! — and where I resisted the temptation to push the Cooper to zoom. It's too idyllic a glade.
Last of the BCS
At last week's Texas Exes party on Brookside Golf Course outside the Rose Bowl before the BCS game, amid a sea of burnt orange, this father-daughter team included the only person wearing anything resembling crimson within hundreds of yards.
And this fellow below, name of John "No Relation We Know Of" Wilson, told my Longhorn cousin Susie O'Brien, who pulled him over toward my lens, that he had found this Hook 'Em fabric and had these slacks custom-made:
The burning bus
There's a Metro bus on fire across the street from the Star-News right now — that's 4.20 Wednesday afternoon. Talk about your easy pickings for the journalistas! Walt's better shots will be up soon.
One of those natural-gas buses — so Janette Williams noted the irony, considering all the smoke, in its motto: "Nation's Largest Clean-Air Fleet."
It stinks of burning plastic around here.
As for me, since all the passengers had been evacuated and no one was in any danger in the surrounding stores over by Taste of Bangkok, I was mostly worried those leaping flames were gonna catch that huge and magnificent ficus tree on fire, giving the city's chainsaw-happy crew a chance to get rid of it, as they'd so like to …
But the FD came and knocked it down to save all concerned, including the arboreal.
Sully's doppelganger
Pasadena bon vivant, financial advisor, Rose Bowl Operating Company board member and wearer of fine Jack Purcell products Ross Selvidge sends over the world's most out-of-focus photo and this explainer:
One famous, one somewhat less famous… We are both pilots (with airplane and glider ratings) but I think he has more hours.
Taken at the Rose Bowl Kickoff Luncheon, 12-31-09. "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed the airliner in the Hudson River in January, is Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade for 2010.
While attending the luncheon more than a dozen groups of people asked me for my (Sully's) autograph and to have their photo taken with me. Lots of fun
By the end of the luncheon I was expecting people would be asking Sully for my autograph
So, when I finally meet the guy the camera moves and the exposure is wrong!
These "Sully sightings" have been going on since the beginning of the year. At Parkway Grill in Pasadena on Easter Sunday, the day an article on Sully appeared in Parade Magazine, a fellow came up and sheepishly asked "Are you a commercial pilot?" Last month in the Oakland airport a woman approached me and asked "Are you a famous pilot?" At the Kickoff Luncheon three former Tournament of Roses presidents in their red jackets (one of whom is a neighbor!) waved me over so they could have their picture taken with me. This weekend I may prowl Old Pasadena sporting my best Sully smile and see if I can score a couple of free meals at some of our fine restaurants.


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Greening of CeBit fails to revive shrinking IT fair
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CeBit 2008 was a slimmed-down, serious affair, cut back to six days from seven. Formerly sprawling exhibits were corralled into order by theme and publicity stunts banished to the weekend that now comes at the end of the show, not the middle.
The idea was to turn dwindling exhibitor and visitor interest into a virtue by using the lack of gadgety distractions to create a business-like arena where managers could get on with meeting, greeting, and checking out the competition.
The result was an atmosphere free of the chaos of previous years but also devoid of excitement, casting a feeling of desertion over the vast trade-fair grounds in the northern German city of Hannover.
"We decided to do product launches globally at CES," said Michael Langbehn, in charge of PR and marketing in Germany for electronics maker Panasonic, referring to the huge annual consumer electronics show held in January in Las Vegas.
"Then there's IFA, which is a must," he added, meaning the August/September consumer gadgets fair in Berlin that has drawn electronics makers and the German public away from CeBit.
"And then consider the BRIC countries, which also have their own fairs that are growing."
Like most exhibitors who still elect to come to CeBit--this year there are 5,845 of them, 5 percent down from last year--Panasonic is using CeBit to explain its less glamorous business-system products to potential clients.
Talk of "solutions" of all kinds--vertical, digital, and security--abounded at the fair.
Cisco was one of the few to talk about the problems demanding these solutions as it launched a new Internet router to help cope with a surge in monthly data sent over the Internet to 29 exabytes by 2011--equivalent to 144 times all the world's printed matter.
CeBit organizers declared the theme of this year's show to be the environment and built a "green village" to house companies peddling products to boost corporate energy efficiency and reduce toxic waste.
"CeBit Goes Green--Big Time" was the main headline of the official CeBit News on Wednesday, recognizing that "green IT" is a trend impossible to ignore as both energy costs and climate-altering carbon emissions soar.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, by far the highest-profile speaker at CeBit, conformed with the trend by announcing a deal with German energy provider Yello Strom for technology to display electricity consumption on a home PC.
But most journalists were only interested in quizzing him on Microsoft's campaign to buy Yahoo in a bid currently valued at $42 billion.
The information and communications industry has overtaken aviation in terms of carbon emissions believed to cause global warming, accounting for just over 2 percent of emissions, according to research firm IDC.
The picture is complicated, however, by the hidden environmental cost of transporting electronic parts around the world to assemble them where labor is cheap as well as the fact that IT can cut the need for travel to face-to-face meetings.
Environmental group Greenpeace promised a hard look at the green claims of electronics manufacturers, driven more by a need to cut costs than a desire to save the planet.
At a sparsely attended news conference, it singled out products from Apple, Sony Ericsson, and Nokia for praise while cautioning, "It's not enough just to offer a green computer for the tree-huggers."
Greenpeace's "could do better" verdict on the industry--following a gadget survey severely limited by manufacturers' willingness to cooperate--could apply to the new-concept CeBit as a whole.
CeBit continues in Hannover until Sunday.
Georgina Prodhan of ZDNet Germany reported from Hannover.
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CENTRAL CITY, Iowa - An 82 year-old man has died in a traffic accident near Central City, authorities said.
Linn County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the crash site around 11:30 a.m., along the southbound lanes of Highway 13 south of Central City.
Cletus Brecht of Central City was hit by a semi-truck and his car veered off the road into a ditch. The semi was driven by Robert Lawrence from Delhi. Lawrence was uninjured.
Traffic was blocked for several hours.
The incident is still under investigation by the Linn County Sheriff's Office.
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Najimy, Gottfried & More to Compete on Food Network's RACHAEL VS. GUY: CELEBRITY COOK-OFF
Food Network icon Rachael Ray and best-selling cookbook author and successful restaurateur Guy Fieri, return to coach and mentor eight new celebrity contestants for the second season of RACHAEL VS. GUY: CELEBRITY COOK-OFF, premiering Sunday, January 6th at 9pm ET/PT. The eight celebrities are divided into Team Guy and Team Rachael, as they head out to the west coast to compete over the course of six episodes in intense weekly challenges that are sure to have them working, fighting and laughing along the way. The losing team must send its two bottom-rated contestants to face off against each other, with one member sent home each week in a blind tasting elimination challenge. The last celebrity standing will join the ranks of season one winner, Lou Diamond Phillips, and win $50,000 for the charity which they are playing for.
"I am thrilled to be returning with Guy for a new season of Rachael vs. Guy," said Rachael Ray. "We are upping the ante this season, with eight new celebrity contestants, thrilling challenges and great humor. Viewers will be amazed at the contestants' skills in the kitchen as they battle it out for their charity. And it is always great to compete for ultimate bragging rights against Guy."
"Rachael's like family, and when we go into the show, our sibling rivalry comes out. It's fierce, but we have a blast," said Guy Fieri. "The great part of Rachael vs. Guy, outside of Rachael and I spending 14 hours a day together, is that our celebrity guests can actually cook. The reason they're on the show is because they truly want to become better cooks while raising money for charity."
The eight celebrity contestants competing for the title of Cook-Off champion and a cash prize include Chilli (member of pop/R&B group TLC), Gilbert Gottfried (actor, comedian), Cornelia Guest (designer, author, philanthropist), Dean McDermott (actor, reality television star), Kathy Najimy (actress, Sister Act), Hines Ward (former NFL player; Super Bowl Champion and MVP), Carnie Wilson (singer, Wilson Phillips) and
Johnny Weir (two-time Olympic Figure Skater, three-time U.S. National Champion).
In the season premiere, Rachael and Guy meet the eight celebrity contestants as they pick their teams, with Chilli, Cornelia Guest, Dean McDermott and Johnny Weir joining Team Guy; and Gilbert Gottfried, Kathy Najimy, Hines Ward and Carnie Wilson for Team Rachael. The competition begins as the teams must cook a prix-fixe tasting menu at a Los Angeles dinner theater, as well as perform a three-minute skit for one hundred theatergoers, including Rachael and Guy, and special guest judges from the editorial staff at Entertainment Weekly. The judges and dinner guests will vote on the team's dishes, leaving the bottom two celebrities to compete in a sudden death challenge. At the end of the day, one celebrity is eliminated from the competition. Throughout the season the celebrities find themselves in unfamiliar and grueling challenges, guaranteed to test their culinary prowess, including gathering and creating farm-to-table dishes served in the middle of a farm and revamping the dinner menu at the legendary Mel's Diner on Sunset Boulevard, as they cook and serve their dishes to customers in old-school, diner fashion, as they dress the part with outfits. And for the finale, the two remaining celebrities must host an elite Hollywood dinner party, as they plan, cook and serve a three-course meal for the dinner guests, which include surprise guests Kathy Griffin, Chef Nancy Silverton, Chef Suzanne Goin and other notable chefs, along with their charity executives. These dinner guests help determine which celebrity will earn a $50,000 grand prize for their charity and bragging rights as winner of Celebrity Cook-Off.
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Mary Kay and Avon, both heavyweights in beauty and personal care retailing, remain the leaders in the United States direct selling market, both with value shares of 8%, in 2012. Although a pioneer in the direct selling business, Avon has experienced increased difficulties in recent years and experienced an erosion in its share. Mary Kay, on the other hand, benefited from increases in both its sales force and overall sales in 2012, and it seems that its focus on product innovation, sales force development, and personalisation is paying off.
While the most prevalent form of direct selling is person-to-person, the party plan format continues to grow in popularity. Direct selling agents host parties that feature elements such as spa treatments, teeth
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Twenty people representing 11 households have filed a lawsuit against Pierce County, claiming blasting at the County Road VV quarry has destroyed the value of their houses. The lawsuit, prepared by attorney Warren Lee Brandt, asks for damages equal to the fair market value of the houses. The quarry -- which produces rock and sand for road projects -- is in Trenton.
The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board determined Thursday that John O'Boyle did meet deadlines to be on the ballot for the Pierce County judgeship, triggering a primary election on Feb. 16. "Mr. O'Boyle's candidacy lives," said GAB spokesman Reid Magney Thursday afternoon. The other two candidates for the office are River Falls lawyer Joe Boles and Ellsworth lawyer Robert Loberg. O'Boyle overnight mailed all his paperwork to the state office Jan. 4, intending that it meet the 5 p.m. Jan. 5 deadline. The material did not arrive at the GAB office until the morning of Jan.
John O'Boyle will drive to Madison next week in hopes of convincing the six-member Wisconsin Government Accountability Board that his name should be on the ballot for the Pierce County judgeship. If he succeeds, he will join River Falls lawyer Joe Boles and Ellsworth lawyer Robert Loberg on the ballot, triggering a February primary election. O'Boyle, currently the county's district attorney, overnight mailed his registration forms and completed nomination papers to the Government Accountability Office in Madison Jan. 4. The deadline for filing was 5 p.m. Jan.
A Minnesota man is a suspect in the death of his 18-month-old stepson, who died last week in Pierce County. Tylar James Hokanson, 22, is being held in the Dakota County jail as authorities from that county and Pierce County investigate the death of Nicholas Miller. A Northfield (Minn.) News obituary lists the boy's parents as Melissa Hokanson of Northfield, and Brian Miller of Castle Rock, Minn. His step-grandparents are Ruth and Walter Hunecke of Maiden Rock. Tylar Hokanson was taken into custody Saturday.