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Share on the Square
Lighthouse Youth Services will hold its annual "Share on the Square" noon-1 p.m. Tuesday to collect gifts, gift cards and cash donations for its Happy Holidays program for at-risk and homeless youths. Bengals players scheduled to participate include wide receiver Andre Caldwell and punter Kevin Huber. For information, go to lys.org or call 513-475-5674.
Need knows no season for the needy, yet the period from Thanksgiving into the New Year is the time of year when the fortunate tend to reach out to the less fortunate.
Long a staple of religious congregations and communities, adopt-a-family or adopt-a-child programs have become popular with social service agencies. Beyond participating in one's faith community, people can get involved through a number of agencies in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Adopt programs at the holidays also are becoming increasingly popular with co-workers at a business, schools and community groups.
A sampling of programs:
St. Vincent de Paul Cincinnati Council has one of the most established adopt networks. Each sponsor is provided with a Christmas wish list for a family. Lists frequently include toys that children have asked Santa for and basic household items and toiletries. The list also is likely to contain clothing sizes for the children and adults in the household because the families are in need of the most basic items, such as shoes and sweaters. The agency asks that a new outfit be provided to each family member.
The agency provides sponsors a guide on how much to spend, ranking from $150-$200 for a family of two to $350-$450 for a family with five or more members.
Some potential sponsors are unable to shop, but they can still help. St. Vincent de Paul recommends that a gift card can be purchased to a big-box retailer and then donated to the agency. Its staff will make sure the card gets into the hands of the head-of-household.
If sponsors do shop, they have the option of dropping off items at the St. Vincent de Paul headquarters, 1125 Bank St., West End, and volunteers will take the clothing and toys to the family. In recent years, sponsors have wanted to deliver to gifts themselves to their adoptive family, an option the agency makes available.
To adopt a family, contact LaMonica Sherman at St. Vincent de Paul, 513-562-8841, ext. 237, or at email@example.com. Please include your name, company or school name (if an organizational donation), phone and fax numbers, address and email address. The agency will respond with a letter, list and complete instructions.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Northern Kentucky will accept financial donations, which it will pool and purchase gifts for needy families. The agency also has a direct holiday adoption program that gives sponsors much the same options as its Ohio counterpart: direct delivery to the adoptive family or anonymous delivery that is handled by agency volunteers.
Cash donations can be send to: SVDP - NKY, Attn: Executive Director, 2655 Crescent Springs Road, Covington, Ky., 41017. Secure donations may be made Online at SVDPnky.org.
To adopt a family, contact Joyce Hudson at 859-341-3212, ext. 2, or email at email@example.com.
Lighthouse Youth Services' Happy Holidays program provides gifts to 2,000 of the communities' most vulnerable and forgotten youths - homeless teens or the 550 teenagers in foster care, group homes or older youth living independently. The list also includes 18 year olds just dropped from foster care at age 18.
The agency offers four ways to participate: People or groups can sponsor a struggling family unable to provide gifts for their children, donors can set up a "Giving Tree" in their office or club with need ornaments provided by the agency, they can make a cash, check or credit card donation, or they can buy items from the Top-10 Wish List to meet the needs of the 200 new clients who come to Lighthouse each December, they can
IContact Andrea Granieri at 513-475-5674 or email@example.com to participate.
For 20 years, the organization For AIDS Children Everywhere (FACE) has brought light into one of the darkest corners of the community - to children and parents affected or infected by HIV or AIDS. Beyond its summer trips and food and toy pantry in its Holmes Hospital office space, FACE reaches children through its annual holiday adoption program.
Sponsors will be matched with children who either have AIDS or are HIV-positive or have a parent in that condition. Donors will be asked to buy a new outfit of clothing and two new gifts for each child in the family. FACE will provide that ages and sizes and interests of the children. Organizers ask that donated gifts and clothing be brought unwrapped but marked with the provided child identification number to the FACE office before Dec. 10.
For adoption forms, call 513-584-3571 or go to facecincinnati.org.
Brighton Center provided gifts and food to 834 needy Northern Kentucky families with 2,192 members in 2010 and is again looking for community support to meet an even greater demand. All families are connected to the Newport-based center through one or more of its 38 programs that strive to help families reach self-sufficiency.
Interested sponsors and donors are asked to contact M. Beth Hodge, Brighton Center's donation and volunteer manager, before Dec. 2 so they can be matched with an appropriate family. She can be reached at 859-491-8303, ext. 2331 or at email@example.com.
In addition to its holiday food giveaways and other anti-hunger programs connected to the holidays, the Freestore Foodbank is offering donors and sponsors an "Adopt-a-Family" program this year. Donors will be given the names, clothing and shoe sizes and children's wish lists. Contact Lisa Snorton at 513-357-4815 or email@example.com.
The local Salvation Army has a list of 500 families and senior citizens in Hamilton County that are available for holiday adoption. The agency receives referrals from its own social workers at its community centers as well as from partner agencies.
People who adopt a family or senior are provided with information about the family or individual and asked to purchase gifts, wrap them and bring them to a distribution center, where families pick them up. Seniors' gifts are delivered.
For information, go to http://tinyurl.com/7krsedj, or call Deanna Powell at 513-762-5600 or email@example.com.


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Cornerstone - Wes Hudson (18 points)
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The Golden Eagles shot 64.3% (9-14) from long range in the first half of play. They only shot 58.6 % (17-29) from the field overall in the half. That led to a 46-17 halftime score.
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traded baskets in the beginning of the game and were tied at 8-8 with 12:20
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offensively and put the locks on Aquinas defensively. Cornerstone made a 17-1 run over the next 6 ½
minutes of play to take a 25-9 lead with 6:56 on the clock. The Golden eagles made 5 straight 3-pointers
(Mason - 2, Yoder - 1, Possehl - 1, Hudson - 1) during that stretch. Cornerstone continue to pour it on outscoring
the Saints 21-8 during the remainder of the half and took a 46-17 advantage
into the locker room. The Golden Eagles came out in the second half
and preserved their lead throughout the second half. The pushed the lead to as high as 36 points
(76-39) with 7:31 on the clock but finished with a 24 point (81-57) margin of
victory over the Saints. Wes Hudson, Justin Yoder, Jake Plite, and Ronald Bates all scored in double figures for the Golden Eagles.
The Golden Eagles will travel to Ohio to take on Lourdes College at 7:30 p.m. as part of a double header with the women's team.

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I've been keeping my gelding in shape for eventing by adding in some local jump and occasional hunter shows.
The ones I've been doing have been Arg. 2.2c (or Table II2c) which I understand is I get through the first 8 jumps and if no refusals or faults (knocked rail) if I hear no BEEP, I keep going for the remaining 4-6 timed jumps.
I have another show this weekend but they're doing Table II2b arg ... which I think is different...
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GRAND RAPIDS (WWJ) – An accountant working for Munson Healthcare in Traverse City is accused of embezzling more than a million dollars from the healthcare provider.
No charges have been filed, but the disclosure was made last week in federal court in Grand Rapids.
The Associated Press reports that in a court filing, IRS agent Brittany Hofstra says Munson's loss totals $1.1 million.
The accountant, who's been suspended, had access to accounts belonging to Munson and the Munson Foundation.
The accountant was also responsible for paying payroll taxes and making deposits into employee retirement plans.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook's public apology over the company's warranty policies in China may or may not be enough to stop the recent harsh attacks on the company in that country's state-run media.
But even if they do stop — for now, if not for good — some amount of damage has been done to Apple's AAPL, -0.46% image there, which could reduce its share of the world's largest smartphone market.
And recent history suggests that the company's travails in China aren't over. Within the last decade, a series of large U.S. technology companies attempted to parlay leading global market shares into success inside China. Read: Apple risks becoming a niche player again.
Cisco Systems CSCO, +0.18% , Google GOOG, +0.48% and Hewlett-Packard HPQ, +0.00% all tried (in markets for networking gear, Internet search and computer hardware, respectively), and each soon found itself operating in a hostile environment.
Now it's Apple's turn, and Cook is dealing with Chinese authorities who know the company has already extracted enormous profits within the country, both from its sales of iPhones and iPads and its use of low-cost labor there, from suppliers such as Foxconn. Read: Why the new iPhone can't lose.
After a spate of suicides among Foxconn workers prompted negative stories in the U.S. press last year, Cook went to China twice, in March 2012, and again this past January. In the wake of his first trip, Apple said it would crack down on suppliers whose policies don't meet its code of conduct. During his more recent visit, Cook predicted that the company's business in China would one day surpass its U.S. sales.
At roughly the same time, new leaders were taking power in that country, and some may not have approved of Cook's statements. Soon after, the attacks in China's state-run media began, and this week Cook was forced to apologize and change Apple's warranty policy in that country. The critics charged that Apple's warranty and customer service policies were less favorable in China than they were in other markets.
One of those changes is going to cost Apple an amount of money that won't be insignificant, based on my reading of it. Apple is now on the hook to replace broken phones under warranty in China with new phones, rather than cheaper refurbished ones.
Apple watchers who think that will resolve the company's problems in China may want to read up on some recent history.
Google and H-P struggle in China
For its first several years as a public company, Google attempted to compete in China by providing uncensored search results. But the Silicon Valley-based giant was forced to revamp its approach in 2006 when it launched its google.cn site, which was subject to censoring from that country's Internet police. That capitulation was a dangerous precedent for a company that is said to value an open Internet.
It was also a strategy that completely failed. After launching a service that blocked results from many sites, Google ultimately withdrew from China in April 2010, or three years ago next week, after tracing a serious cyber attack against the company to a source inside that country. Google's site is still operating, but seems to have only a niche in market share.
Cisco doubles down on small cell
Cisco is buying femtocell provider, Ubiquisys for $310 million. Watch on Markets Hub.
Three years later, the general consensus among several recent market research reports shows that Baidu.com, a formidable home-grown competitor there, has a dominant 70% share of the China search market — slightly larger than Google's U.S. market share of about 67%.
H-P has also learned the hard way about competing in China. A report from Citigroup on Monday noted that the type of media attacks now being applied to Apple in the state-run press cost H-P almost half the market share it had earned in China in the 12 months after the stories appeared in March 2010.


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The Frozen Semen Experiment is closed due to an overwhelming interest. If you VERY interested, please still send your mare information because I am putting together a short list of back up mares in case one doesn't work out.
I am looking for a few mares to breed to Bravo with frozen semen for free. He has not been proven with frozen yet. Kathy St. Martin from Equine-Reproduction is coming to freeze Bravos semen on Feb. 4th and I will use this for my experiment.
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6. Extra Measures During Heat Waves
Because of extreme environmental conditions during a heat wave, employees' physical and mental condition can change rapidly into a serious medical condition. The onset of heat illness may be confused with other problems and may not always be obvious before it becomes life-threatening. Therefore, extra measures may be required to prevent and/or respond to heat illness.
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Extra Vigilance - Real Time Communication and the "Buddy System" - during a heat wave it is necessary to be extra vigilant. Your real time communication system and your "buddy system" are especially important to get more frequent feedback from your employees and supervisors in the field. Then, based on the environmental conditions present and the condition of your employees you can more quickly make the appropriate adjustments, communicate them, and put the changes into place before problems arise or become serious. In a heat wave:
Additional Cooling Measures - Remember that shade is adequate only when it completely blocks the direct sunlight and allows the body to cool. Shade is not adequate when it does not allow the body to cool. In a heat wave air temperatures in the shade may still be extremely high and not allow the body to cool. During a heat wave, you may need to use other alternative cooling measures in addition to shade, (e.g. allowing employees to spend time in air conditioned places or having them spray themselves with water). Provide Cooling Using Alternative Measures.
Additional and/or Longer Rest Breaks - During a heat wave, it is especially important to permit employees the freedom to interrupt work activities to take rest breaks and allow the body to cool. During a heat wave you may need to allow employees to take more frequent and longer breaks. Remember to provide areas for employees to take their breaks which are:
Changing Work Scheduling and Assignments - during a heat wave you may need to put into place one or more or the following additional measures:
Remember, even employees who were previously fully acclimatized are at risk for heat illness during a heat wave. This is because during a heat wave the body does not have enough time to adjust to a sudden, abnormally high temperature or other extreme conditions.
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Several cities in Nebraska's Platte Valley have formed a new organization that one official says should provide "a stronger and more cohesive voice ... and clearer, productive communication with legislators."
The official is Kearney City Manager Mike Morgan. He says the group's purpose includes collaborating on legislative issues and sharing best practices "to improve the delivery of services to our citizens."
The group is called Greater Nebraska Cities. In addition to Kearney, its members are Grand Island, Hastings, Holdrege, Lexington and North Platte.
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Marin Sonoma Concours to honor Iskenderian and Gejeian
Ed Iskenderian's 1924 Model T roadster will join other historic hot rods for a special class at the Marin Sonoma Concours d'Elegance.
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Hot rods are no strangers to the concours scene, but the Marin Sonoma Concours d'Elegance is doing something slightly different this year by bringing living hot rodding legends to its second annual event.
Slated to attend the Marin Sonoma Concours this year are Ed "The Camfather†Iskenderian and Blackie Gejeian, racer and tireless West Coast show promoter. The two will bring their own hot rods — Iskenderian his 1924 Model T roadster and Gejeian his Emperor and AMBR-winning Shishkebab Special — to show alongside the remainder of the Historic Hot Rods and Kustoms class.
For more information on the Marin Sonoma Concours d'Elegance, visit www.marinsonomaconcours.org.
(This post originally appeared in the April 8, 2010, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)
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While former University of Florida coach Urban Meyer is still in line to become the next coach at Ohio State in the coming days, WKMG Sports Director David Pingalore has learned from sources close to the situation that a rift between Meyer and OSU Athletic Director Gene Smith could be delaying the hiring process.
According to sources, Meyer originally sought to have Smith removed from his position as AD as a prerequisite for him accepting OSU's head coaching position.
Ohio State is also delaying the announcement of Meyer's hiring while it awaits a pending Notice of Allegations coming from the NCAA regarding ``failure to monitor'' claims. Ohio State is being investigated for its athletes allegedly trading memorabilia for tattoos and cash benefits while Jim Tressel was coach at OSU.
Smith has been the AD at Ohio State in 2005 and is considered one of the most powerful men in college athletics.
According to sources close to the situation, Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee balked at Meyer's demands that Smith be out as the AD.
The two will apparently will have to coexist once Meyer officially becomes the Buckeyes' coach, which is likely to come this week even though no news conference has been scheduled at this point.
Pingalore broke the news last week that Meyer had agreed in principle to a seven-year, $40 million contract to coach the Buckeyes.
Meyer, who won two national titles during his six seasons at Florida, has also spent the past few weeks assembling his OSU coaching staff, attracting assistants from several schools.
LSU offensive line coach Greg Studrawa will be Meyer's offensive coordinator at Ohio State, according to sources. Studrawa has ties with Meyer from Bowling Green, where he served as Meyer's offensive coordinator.
Pingalore's sources confirmed that Stan Drayton will be retained by OSU, but will move from the wide receivers coach to running backs coach. He worked previously with Meyer at Bowling Green and Florida.
Also, on the move with Meyer, will be Zach Smith. Smith, who was a graduate assistant under Meyer at Florida, will leave Temple as the wide receivers coach and do the same job at Ohio State.
He is legendary forward Ohio State coach Earle Bruce's grandson.
In Pingalore's original report, sources confirmed that Mickey Marotti will become Ohio State's director of football operations. Marotti is currently Florida's strength coach. Sources on Tuesday also confirmed that D.J. Durkin will leave Florida as the linebacker coach and join Meyer as OSU's defensive coordinator.
Luke Fickell, who has worked this season as Ohio State's interim head coach, will be retained by Meyer and serve as OSU's assistant head coach.
Sources confirmed that Fickell played a major role in recruiting Meyer to Ohio State.
Meyer, an analyst all season for ESPN, asked off the coveraqe of the Ohio State-Michigan game this past Saturday, a game won by the Wolverines to snap a seven-game losing streak to OSU.
Meyer released a statement late last week denying that any official agreement has been reached with Ohio State.


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I just called my awesome friend, Karen McCullough, to pick her brain about the business of speaking.
Karen is a brilliant speaker who has been in the speaking business for a long time. I'm doing some profiling right now for the MarketectU Mastermind project I've been telling you guys about lately, and I wanted to get a fresh perspective from Karen. As it turns out, she's just returning from the national convention for the National Speaker's Association and she was a full cup!
Karen and I always have the most stimulating conversations. I have a tremendous amount of respect for her because she's a true artist when it comes to the business of speaking: in every way, she hones her craft, reinvents herself and her message over and over again and is always getting better! Creating longevity as a speaker (especially when speaking is your primary form of income) is no easy feat: the marketplace is changing so rapidly and you have to constantly be reinventing yourself. She and I groked some awesome gems that I'm incorporating into this new program, but I couldn't make you wait a couple more months to hear about them!
We really got going when we started talking about what it takes to be a successful business person in the "information" space: speaking, coaching, training, writing … whatever it is you do to package your knowledge and expertise. With so many "marketing experts" telling you how easy it is to become an expert and grow your own platform, we know the truth: building a platform is a lot of work. It takes time, and energy, and an incredible amount of resilience to "make it." So here is our impassioned food-for-thought!
- The most important component to building a successful platform is strong, relevant messaging (and offerings!) that matters. No matter your expertise, there is a problem that you are obsessed with solving. Solve it WELL. And don't stop solving it … in a dynamic, expanding, connected world, the way our problems "look and feel" are shifting all the time. The way you communicate these problems, the way you understand these problems, the way you resolve these problems is affected by this dynamic environment. You must constantly be reinventing your messaging.
- Creating an experience for your customers matters. Branding really is king. It's important that you learn to pair your message with strong branding.
- If YOU are the cornerstone of the brand, it matters how you look. Looking good, staying lean, taking care of your appearance is really important in this space. This is not a value judgement — I'm not telling you that it should be this way. I'm just acknowledging that it IS. Self care matters. It not only matters because people are going to derive meaning about your competence from how you look, but it matters because …
- To build a successful business, you've got to become an endurance athlete. Everything about building a career in this space hinges on your ability to create and sustain momentum. You have to get knocked down and get back up more times that you will ever want to count! You need resilience emotionally and physically. It's very important that as you get older, you pay a lot of attention to your own health and vitality (both physically and emotionally!).
- People that have the list (and relationships!) have the power. If you are building a business that does not include a concerted effort to growing your list, you are entrusting your career into the hands of others. In our ever-shifting world, where we are seeing the epicenters of power dissolving and reorganizing at a breakneck pace, it is absolutely crucial that you take building your own list seriously. IT MATTERS.
There are a lot of talking heads out there who'd want us to believe that growing a kick-ass business is easy if you know the right marketing strategies, or if you just "follow this formula." Things are always easier on paper than in the trenches. Those who've been in the game for a while know that it's a lot of hard work. If you want easy, get a job. Business is for gladiators, baby, and if you are serious about competing, you've got to learn to play the game by the rules if you want any chance of succeeding.
My beloved Scott Jeffrey told me early on in my career that as an adventurer, I must always be contemplating: Who must I become to complete this quest?
What is YOUR secret to staying in business when the going got tough? Share in the comments!


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About 17" x 19" this art quilt includes hands and face made of polymer clay. The swirls and the linear lines of the hills are done with a felting machine. All layers are quilted together and embellished.
Lover your use of yarn for the hills! Neat! Did you felt into cotton or wool?
This art quilt caught my eye - as I have just started machine felting - and loving it. It is interested to see what other people are doing with felt. It is lovely. Did you put a backing on it to hang it up? I thought I could stitch the quilt onto a firm piece of material with a sleeve for a branch or bamboo cane. Happy felting.
Love your felting work, loads of action ! I have a felting machine for four years now and have never used it ! I love your work , and look forward to seeing more, maybe I will get brave and use mine. Great work of art..
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High Country Hospice is hosting their 2nd Annual Embers Retreat Event on Saturday, October 15th from 10am-5pm at Greenway Baptist Church Gymnasium. This retreat is for any individual between the ages of 13-18 who have experienced a loss or other major transition.
The retreat is free and open to the public. There will be activities to facilitate the process of moving through grief and loss and there will be time to share experiences. Snacks and lunch will be provided. To get an application please go to our website at www.highcountryhospice.org. Registration is open until Friday at 4pm. For additional information please contact the Bereavement Coordinator at High Country Hospice at 828-265-3926.
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57. Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography
Sunday, 3 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Hynes
Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Presiding: Jo Labanyi, New York Univ.
1. "The Man Who Had No Biography: Ramón Mercader," Gina Ann Herrmann, Univ. of Oregon
2. "Twenty-First-Century Spanish Life Writing from the Holocaust," Sara Brenneis, Amherst Coll.
3. "'Me robaron la infancia': Autobiográfico, nuevos medios y los niños robados," Patricia Lopez, New York Univ.
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I recently retired from the carpenters after 35 years. I started working this business from home because I like to help others, I care about the environment, and I needed something to do.
By showing this video to others, I am able to help save people money, change the lives of those that are looking for a home based business, helping to reduce greenhouse gases,it pays very well; but the best part- SyntekGlobal, the parent corporation, has a Helping Hands program- i donate $60.00, they match it and then take the money and feed (120 people)people around the world!
For me, this is as good as it gets! I detest the struggle people are having, given that it is not necessary to begin with. I do what I can


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Unscheduled and urgent health care represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and having structures at different scales which requires modelling at different levels. The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a multifaceted approach to study and optimise this complex system. We aim to integrate four different methodologies to gain better understanding of the nature of the system and to develop ways to enhance its performance. These methodologies are: (a) Lean/ Flow theory to look at the process and patients and other flows; (b) Simulation/ System Dynamics to undertake analytical analysis and multi-level modelling; (c) stakeholder consultation and use of system thinking to analyse the system and identify options, barriers and good practice; and (d) visual analytic modelling to facilitate effective decision making in this complex environment. Of particular concern are the boundary issues i.e. how changes in unplanned care will impact on the adjacent facilities and ultimately on the whole Healthcare system.
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