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Camping World Case Studies
The Challenge:
To drive qualified traffic to an upcoming RV show, Camping World needed to reach their target consumers in the Northern suburbs.
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- A highly-visable advertising wrap of TribLocal, Chicagoland's premier hyper-local community newspaper, targeted to citizens in the Northern suburbs
- Extend target reach with chicagotribune.com, Chicagoland's leading news and information website
The Results:
"The campaign worked great…especially the TribLocal wrap. We actually had people bring the wrap to the expo, point to an RV, and ask where it was." –Erika Williamson, Camping World
About Camping World:
Camping World is the nation's largest retailer of RV's and camping supplies, with over 8,000 products and accessories available for family campers.


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Export Archived data when the data is X years old.
Hi all,
A customer want the following functionallity. When Archived mail is older than 10 years it will be exported.
I do not know if EV support this, if I look on the retention policy I cannot do what the customer request. But I can migrate old archived data to another media (sata,tape,share) with the Migration setting at on the partition.
So I can export data, but is there a simple way to export all mail that has been migrated to any of this formats pst,txt,html? Is there a good way to delete the migrated data?
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You can't do this across all archives, nor can you do it automatically.
You can use the 'export archive wizard', and all the archives to that, but then you'll get a different PST per archive .. and the items will be a copy from the archive, the data in the archive will remain.


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|Healy Named Academic All-District
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Appalachian State men's basketball senior Nathan Healy has been named as a CoSIDA/Capital One Academic all-District selection, CoSIDA announced on Thursday. Healy, who carries a 3.99 grade-point average as a management major, is
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San Antonio, Army Take Key Step to Preserve Mission at Bullis
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With a recent agreement among Bexar County, the Army and the Nature Conservancy to permanently protect 1,244 undeveloped acres about 10 miles from Camp Bullis, San Antonio-area leaders have reached another critical milestone in their effort to protect the 28,000-acre installation from urban encroachment, according to a commentary in the San Antonio Express-News.
This month's agreement follows an extensive campaign by the city and county to regulate lighting and sound attenuation outside the facility, and to preserve much-needed habitat for the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.
Bexar County contributed $5 million and the Army chipped in $2 million to purchase the parcel outside of Bullis and hand it over to the Nature Conservancy. The acquisition provides the Army with enough mitigation credits to clear cedar trees from 900 acres at Bullis needed for training, according to a separate story in the Express-News.


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I'll be in ID this coming July and am looking for some information about the Sawtooth mtns. I've heard starting around Grandjean is good, for either 3-4 day loop or longer. Any. Ideas? Also, is there a post office or outfits that I can ship gear to in advance? I'll have many questions as I develop this tip, hope this forum is lively.Thanks,Ggryd
Hey Greg--saw that there were no replies--thought I'd just throw in another option to Grandjean.First I have not done much in the Sawtooths--last summer did a short trip into Imogene Lake.Which brings me to the other option--and that is to go in from the East side of the Sawtooths. 4th of July road give you good access to the Sawtooths going in through 4th of July Creek trailhead.Mind you--it's just another option--and from there you could plan a longer trip heading South.I am thinking of also doing a longer trip this summer--not sure whether it will be in the Sawtooths or in the White Cloud Mountains on the other side of the valley.Ron
Thanks, Ron. I will look into your suggestion, in fact it may be a good alternative. Since I am coming in from FL, my travel and logistical options are a bit limited, thus the need to ship gear to some location rather than as airline baggage. It worked well for me in Yosemite, so I thought Stanley might be appropriate for that.I'll rent a vehicle for transportation and changing opportunities on the fly, but I do want to optimize backpacking alternatives. Still looking for advice and local knowledge about serene, scenic, solitary trails and great places to camp, where ever they may be.Thanks again. Hopefully, this will generate some more expert advice and suggestions.
Hey Greg-I've been doing a little more research on the White Clouds--I figured out with the help of some other sites a 28 mile loop that takes you into many lakes, good fishing and not so many people(according to what I've read)I looked at it as a more relaxing trip being able to spend some time flyfishing at each camp and thus not doing big miles each day.If you have interest--let me know--I'll post it.Ron
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It's happened to most of us at one point or another: we look in our closet and see what's essentially a palette of three different colors to choose from, and then we vow to add more color variety to our wardrobe. The next shopping trip comes around and we can't resist buying that new top in navy, even though it comes in orange and red and jade. What gives? It turns out there's a reason we gravitate towards the same colors over and over, some colors just look better on us because of our skin tone. So how can you tell which colors will flatter you best? It's super easy if you follow these tips to help determine your best colors.
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In another, pivotal way, on the eve of the Conference USA media weekend that kicks off the season, Mike Price is picking up on a recurring theme. On the topic of Donald Buckram, he's still in the same campaign mode he was in the run-up to the postseason awards last November.
"You look at Donald Buckram, he looks like what an all-American is supposed to look like and act like," Price said of Buckram, who earlier this week was named Preseason All-Conference USA. "What a great person, what a great father, what a great husband, what a great student.
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Dec 6, 2012 7pm Theatre Studio
We're all told we need good role models. But who do we really learn the most from, our good -- or bad role models? In her new one person show, Polly Frost takes a humorous and heartfelt look at the eccentric, oddball and misbehaving people who have really made a positive difference in her life.
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They call them "river wolves" - hundred-pound salmon large enough to
snack on ducklings and on mice and muskrats fording the rivers. Five species of these huge fish inhabit the river waters of China, Mongolia, and eastern Russia, and all of them are finally on the "red list" of species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Newly added are the Sichuan taimen in China, listed as critically endangered; the Hucho taimen or Mongolian (or Siberian) taimen, listed as vulnerable; and the Korean taimen, listed as "data deficient," meaning that far more information is needed on its status.
Taimen(pronounced tye-MEHN) salmon can grow to be six feet long. Aside from waterfowl and bite-size mammals, they will eat smaller Pacific salmon that share some of their rivers. They are also long-lived: researchers have found some that they estimate to be 30 years old. Since these animals are typically found in remote locations and are sparsely studied, it is possible that they grow to be much older.
The longevity of taimen salmon is part of what makes them an especially important target for conservation measures, said Pete Rand, senior conservation biologist with the Wild Salmon Center, a salmon research and protection group based in Portland, Ore. "They're much more sensitive than other salmon to environmental change" because they are are slow to grow and slow to mate, he said. As a result, they are also slow to adapt to and recover from negative impacts like pollution, overfishing and loss of habitat.
The taimen also have evolutionary significance, given that they are thought to be an ancestor of the familiar Pacific Northwest salmon. And they are an important part of the cultural landscape. "They're iconic in Mongolian folklore," said Olaf Jensen, an ecologist with the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University who has studied taimen in Mongolia for the past five years.
Dr. Rand led the International Union for Conservation of Nature group that gathered the research on the taimen, much of it by Dr. Jensen, that led to the new listing. He also part of an initiative that led to the initial listing of the two other taimen species, the
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Inclusion on the red list does not afford the species any specific protections, but underlining their potential vulnerability can make it easier for conservationists to push for regulation through other means.
Dr. Rand noted that shortly after the Sakhalin taimen was added to the list in 2006, freshwater protected areas for Sakhalin taimen were put into effect in Japan and Russia.
The Wild Salmon Center would like to see similar areas created for other taimen species, but the fish need other protections, too. "Poaching is certainly a pervasive problem," Dr. Rand said. And Pacific salmon fisheries in Asia, tend to land taimen as bycatch. Dr. Rand said he and his colleagues were working with the fisheries to minimize the bycatch problem.
Sport fishing is another threat to taimen, but "Mongolia has taken a leadership role in trying to reduce the impacts of recreational fishing," Dr. Jensen said. Fishermen in taimen habitats there are required to release those fish if they catch them, using easily extracted hooks that do little damage to the fish.
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This is cool. The company 23andMe creates reports for people on their genetic profiles - it doesn't send anyone their entire DNA chain, but just notifies about the presence of SNPs ("snips"), which, as I understand it, are DNA sequences considered specifically informative. (The company's also known for being founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife, but I digress.) Anyway, in April they ran a contest in which they published the 23andMe data for an anonymous woman, and those who took part had to guess at as many of her attributes as possible. The winner was announced three weeks ago, and it was Mike Cariaso, whom I always enjoy talking to, and who runs the site SNPedia.com ("snipedia"). In his winning entry, he gave details for her race, hair and eye color, proclivity for diseases, and more intangible things like personality and intelligence. In their announcement of the winner, the company didn't say which of the details were accurate, but if even half of them are, it's a surprising (to me) level of detail.
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Wanting to Have Kids is Selfish.
Sure it was a brazen statement, but I was just a punk teenager. I had barely adopted the practice of non-judgement and had a LOT to learn about inclusive communication. Plus, she was family and I was simply speaking my truth. My aunt wanted to know:
"So, do you think you might want to have kids someday?"
Having two of her own, she was flabbergasted by my answer; "Selfish!?!"
She was a little offended and a lot annoyed. I wasn't a mother, "how could [I] possibly understand that giving birth to and caring for another human is the single most gigantic lesson in selfLESSness?!?!"
But it isn't the giving birth part I was referring to as selfish. Not the pregnancy. Not the parenting that comes with the post-birth daily operations. It was the intention leading up to all that: Why did you want to have a child in the first place?
Chances are it was to enrich your own life in some way.
Did you want to experience the joys of maternity/paternity?
Did you want to have a little version of you to play ball/piano/"when I grow up, I'll be…." with.
Were you wanting a second chance, at the life you always wanted, through the life of your child?
Did you want to get your in-laws off your case? Or make your mother proud? Or try your hand at parenting? Or do it better than your parents? Or share a special bond with your partner?
Were you bored of all things you, and wanted to concentrate on someone else for a change? Were you caught up in the heat of passion, and it just happened? Or, did you just WANT to?
Whatever the real reason, it probably started with, "YOU wanted…."
Of course, it was for you. It wasn't for your child; he/she/it wasn't even born yet.
And it wasn't for the world, 'cause there are certainly enough children out there.
And that's o.k. It is totally natural—even crucial sometimes—to desire things for your self. In fact, Yoga philosophy teaches that the whole universe is born (just like most children) out of a burning, yearning, passionate desire.
Here's my advice, though, as someone who is NOT a parent:
When your child is two or nine or 17—and acting out in that especially frustrating way that only a two year-old, nine year-old or 17 year-old can—think back to before they were born. Remember why you wanted to have a child in the first place, and chuck that original selfish idea right on out the window! Then, embrace the opportunity to experience the true freedom of selfless un-attachment.
After all, there is no guarantee that, even with all your positive influence and good intentions, your child will become the next righteous leader of the "free world." In fact, It is much more likely that they won't.
But rather than dwell on the myriad possibilities of human life, both really really beautiful and really really ugly, let me just say this:
To all of you who have decided to be parents for WHATEVER reason, I whole-heartedly put my palms together and bow to you. You have one of the most challenging, thankless, and yes, selfless jobs on the planet.
While I honor you a lot, this is an attempt to turn the tables just a bit for women and men who have chosen not to have children. Those who catch a ton of flack. Those whose in-laws are on their case or their friends constantly goad them to join the diaper club.
So if you decide not to have kids, I also salute you. There are other ways to learn selflessness. Like using all that free time NOT herding your own little ones to support orphaned children or at-risk youth.
And talk about selfless: A-D-O-P-T-I-O-N.
My sister and brother are adopted. My life partner is adopted. My dad adopted me (thanks pops). And although she was offended and annoyed at first; my aunt went on to later adopt two gorgeous little girls from Haiti. Through all of the major challenges that country has seen, I have often thought of my cousins and how different their lives could have been if not for my aunt.
She really is an amazingly selfless mama.
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11 Responses to "Wanting to Have Kids is Selfish."
This isn't the first time I've encountered childless people on Elephant talking about the pressure they get to break down and have children; I heard from a few of them in response to my very first post here: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/07/too-busy-t…
I'm sorry that parents have put you through that; it must feel like people think your life choices aren't valid, and people have no business telling you that.
I do want to make one suggestion, however. I've known a couple of former Roman Catholic priests who gave up the priesthood to marry. One of them used to do, of all things, marriage counseling–while he was a celibate priest. Years later, with a family of his own, he said, "I can't believe the shit I used to tell people about marriage!"
Likewise, I'd be very careful about "advising" parents; becoming a parent isn't just taking on a job–it's a change of state, something I would never hold a childless person responsible for understanding. I must lovingly submit that you have no business advising parents on how to parent.
Thank you so much for your response.
I agree with you, completely, that I cannot know what it is like to be a parent. My suggestion was less about how to be a better parent, but how to embrace the paradox of being human. And truth be told, I don't personally get ANY pressure from my parents to have children and very little from my friends. Yet I have clearly seen the pressures all around me. This article is less a response to emotion, than to observation. An observation, that for me is rich and timely; because (again, truth be told) I haven't decided if I want to have children or not. I am in a spiritually solid and intimate relationship. I love the idea of being a mother. I believe I could rise to the challenge. So far, the desire just hasn't been strong enough. And I don't have much time left to think about it.
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You have it, sister!
Fair enough!
I know exactly what you mean about being pressured to have children. When I was married and of childbearing age, so many people pushed my husband and me to have kids. I never had the compelling desire to have children that so many other women feel, and the time was never optimal within the context of my marriage, so I chose not to do it. When people prodded us to have kids, the reasons they would give us were all selfish: Who's going to take care of you when you get old? (I don't feel it's fair to lay this responsibility on kids.) You'll never be fulfilled as a woman. (Again, do I want to make this the responsibility of children I might have?) And my favorite in the arrogance department: You should have kids because you are educated and will raise better kids. I found this to be profoundly presumptive.
I unequivocally respect the choice to have children. It is a noble and selfless pursuit. But I also ask for the respect for those of us who have profoundly personal and valid reasons to have made a different choice.
You have it, sister.
In Love and Light,
r.r. Shakti
I have mulled over these same thoughts. There ARE certainly enough children in the world, and children who need loving homes! To me, that makes the greatest case for giving birth to a brand new child at least partly, if not totally selfish. I also think it's ego driven as well as biologically instinctual to some degree to want to procreate. Of course there are the people who actually name their children variations on their own names (mini-me)! Dead giveaway in my book for the ego-driven.
When I had my first child, I remember what I was thinking/feeling exactly. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget what it felt like to be me at that moment. I wrote in a letter to my unborn child that I wanted him to know how wanted he was, and that I loved his dad so much that I wanted to have more of him (his dad) in the world! I suppose we were in the infatuation state still : )
16 years later we have 2 children who are 13 and 11, boy and girl. It's hard work. I worry about them and I worry about the world. I am also a teacher, and I worry for the children who lag behind and don't get proper care, love and support for a variety of reasons.
There is a video on TED about parenting and the "real" things people don't tell you or you are oblivious to when in the infatuation state. http://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volk…
One slide shows a graph of personal happiness of the parents relative to the age of your children – ha ha! It gets into the real work of parenting.
When I think of myself the teacher, I remember a line from a poem I think of often. ALL of our children are ALL of our children. I'd like to live it that way.
Thanks for your interesting and honest article.


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Speaking of real writers, here are some recent articles I've liked elsewhere on the web:
Many people ask me, "Should I invest while still in debt?" There's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question; as with most decisions, you must do what works for you. Still, Matt at Debt-Free Adventure has taken a stab at exploring the pros and cons of each option. If you're in debt and thinking about investing, take a look at his suggestions.
Though I still haven't finished reading The Paradox of Choice, the book has had a tremendous influence on my life. I believe author Barry Schwartz has hit upon an important problem with modern life: Some choice is great, but too much choice is paralyzing. Over at The Art of Manliness, Brett and Kate have writtten a nice article on how limiting your choices can cure your restlessness. I agree. With fewer options, most people find they're happier.
One of my goals is to create a completely paperless personal finance system. I've made great strides in the two years I've been working toward this, but my money isn't fully automatic yet. I'm always looking for new tips. Last week, Jonathan at My Money Blog posted his own strategy for creating a completely automated financial household.
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- Wojciech at Fiscal Fizzle emceed the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights #25.
- The Skilled Investor entertained entries at Carnival of Financial Planning #108.
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In 2009, pastor Kenneth L. Miller of Virginia helped former lesbian Lisa Miller (no relation) leave the country with her daughter Isabella, after a court granted custody of the child to Miller's lesbian former partner, Janet Jenkins. Jenkins is not biologically related to the girl, and never went through legal proceedings to adopt her.
LifeSiteNews.com reported that "Isabella was conceived by artificial insemination while Jenkins and Miller were in a Vermont 'civil union,' which was dissolved in 2003. Following the end of her relationship, Miller returned to the Baptist religion of her youth and consequently disavowed homosexual behavior. She has raised Isabella with the same values."
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Zarzis, Tunisia (AFP) Feb 14, 2011
Tunisian troops patrolled southern fishing ports Monday, controlling access and checking identities in a bid to halt a Europe-bound exodus of illegal immigrants that has alarmed Italy.
Armoured vehicles moved through the town of Zarzis and blocked entry to the port where soldiers armed with Kalashnikovs and truncheons allowed only people identified as fishermen to enter, an AFP reporter said.
Several checkpoints were also erected in the town.
The Tunisian government announced Sunday it would send in the troops as Italy called for help after about 5,000 illegal immigrants, most of them Tunisians, arrived on its tiny island of Lampedusa over five days.
The massive influx has become a hot topic for the European Union, whose foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held talks with Tunisia's interim authorities in Tunis on Monday ahead of a later visit by Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
"The port is well guarded, we are doing everything to block the smugglers," an army officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The smugglers are stopping the activity of the port and preventing people from working," he said.
Troops backed by coast guard vessels also worked around the port of Gabes, further south, setting up a control centre and working to prevent people from trying to cross the Mediterranean, according to the official news agency TAP.
Hundreds of youths from southern towns of Zarzis, Ben Guerdane, Tataouine, Medenine and Gafsa, all of them with a high jobless rate, have tried to illegally enter Europe in recent days in search of work.
"I am trying to persuade my children not to leave," said a Zarzis resident who only gave his name as Mohamed.
"If I have to, I will sell everything that I possess. I do not have much but I will fight for them to stay with their family," he said.
The wave of emigration comes despite Tunisia's so-called "Jasmine Revolution" a month ago, where massive anti-government protests ousted longtime strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, raising the hopes of many that a page was turning for this north African country.
But not those of 29-year-old former prisoner Muhamed Handoula, who survived the capsizing of an overloaded boat of would-be migrants bound for Italy on Friday.
"A friend of mine drowned as he gripped my neck," Handoula said, showing a journalist the marks from the experience. He was saved by a fisherman, he said, after six hours at sea holding on to the boat's motor.
"If I could do it again, I would," Handoula said. "There is no place for me in Tunisia. The Tunisian revolution was just talk."
Italy has warned of a humanitarian crisis after an increase in the influx of migrants in the month following Ben Ali's ouster on January 14.
It has called for help from the EU and said it wants to send its own security forces into Tunisia to halt the migrants, a suggestion that Tunis angrily rejected.
The quiet southeastern coastal town of Zarzis, with its blue and white buildings, suddenly has been catapulted front and center of the migration debate.
For years, Zarzis and the arid surrounding region have eked out a living on fishing, olive oil and tourism.
"It's Ben Ali's politics that created an unequal distribution of wealth and sparked a high unemployment rate," driving the exodus, said Shamseddine Bourassine, head of the local fishing union.
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Amgen Q4 profit leaps 30 percent on higher sales
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Amgen Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit jumped 30 percent due to higher sales for nearly all its drugs, an acquisition and a tax benefit.
The world's biggest maker of biologic drugs says net income was $1.02 billion, or $1.33 per share, up from $788 million or per share a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, Amgen says earnings amounted to $1.39 billion, or 1.82 per share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting $1.69 per share.
Revenue totaled $5.01 billion, up 13 percent. Analysts expected $4.81 billion.
Sales were boosted by Amgen's $9.7 billion purchase of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. as part of Amgen's strategy to become a major player in the market for pricey cancer drugs.
The company, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., forecast 2014 adjusted earnings per share of $7.90 to $8.20.
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Stories of Marriage Champions
Imagine if every town in American had marriage champions like these.
You can make a difference in your community, too.
Nobody falls in love; they grow in love. That was the message from Allan and Mildred Hunt, organisers of the upcoming Marriage Week in Bermuda.
The Hunts have been married for 43 years and often counsel other couples. They started arranging Marriage Week a few years ago to promote the institution of marriage and its benefits which include, according to the Hunts, better health, a stronger financial picture, greater happiness and more stable children.
The Hunts not only aim to "big-up" marriage; they also want to help married people strengthen their relationships by giving them communication tools and advice.
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Dr. Robert and Stella Wilson have served more than 200 couples in the Atlanta, GA area by working as facilitators with Family Dynamics Institute, which offers both powerful enrichment classes, weekend workshops, and crisis intervention programs.
The Wilsons say "We invest in marriages because marriage is the foundation of church and society. If you get the marriage straight, everything else will follow. We'd been married for 25 years when we became FDI facilitators; we wish we had learned these truths long before. It took our marriage to a totally different level. It solidified the good and brought out the things we were missing."
For info about Family Dynamics Institute classes all around the U.S. go to www.familydynamics.net
Marriage Inc in Kankakee County, IL, directed by Dr. Kent and Beth Olney, is setting up a booth at their local shopping mall during Feb. 7 to 14 where 8 different churches will volunteer to man the booth each of the 8 days to provide information about marriage classes, plus free counseling for the week, offered both from local churches and from Marriage Inc (which has marriage class at the Fitness Center starting in February, 2013).
The shopping mall booth will direct folks to FREE counseling during National Marriage Week USA, set up at a nearby storefront in the mall. Six local marriage counselors have offered their services free of charge that week, by appointments made through the booth and through Marriage Inc. All year long, Marriage Inc offers pre-marriage prep, marriage classes, and marriage mentoring services. They have 80 couples who are trained to provide marriage mentoring.
And they used National Marriage Week USA to get local news coverage for themselves, citing NMW executive director Sheila Weber's statistics and overarching goals of a national campaign to strengthen marriage. Click here to read the local story.
Visit Marriage Inc. for more information: http://www.marriageinc.org.
|"We Vow Now," led by Tonya and Justin Waite in Longview, TX, has served more than 8000 couples in the last six years by offering private couple courses, weekend retreats, engaged workshops, and even marriage classes for businesses. They have a strong success rate—87% of their couples who graduate report they are happier in their relationship after graduation than when they started. Learn how this one community saturates their area with marriage strengthening opportunities at www.wevownow.com.
Tonya and Justin Waite of We Vow Now pictured with a group who "graduated" at their couples retreat.
Tonya and Justin Waite with couples near Longview, Texas, celebrating Hispanic Marriage Day.
Joe and Jackie Montalvo lead a marriage mentoring program every other Saturday at their church in the Bronx, New York City. Out of the 180 average attendees at their church, about 30 couples (60 people) attend the bi-monthly classes! Joe and Jackie have a heart for reaching out to married couples, specifically in their Hispanic community and throughout urban areas. They are a "poster couple" for making an impact in their neighborhood. Imagine if every church in America had marriage champions like the Montalvos!
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Executive Director Alicia La Hoz, Psy. D, has coordinated with more than 500 organizations and churches in metro Chicago to generate huge participation in a Date Night Campaign for married couples.
Family Bridges also coordinates workshops, family retreats, couple's retreats, marriage and family conferences and other family-friendly events throughout the year, both in English and Spanish. Imagine if every city had an effort to bring churches and organizations together to strengthen marriage. You can start the spark that leads to a brushfire in your town!
Learn how one city does it at www.familybridgeschicago.org.


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Dining Table Manners and Etiquette
Everyone should have basic dining etiquette. Practising so would make everyone at the dining table comfortable and allow for dining to be more pleasant. It doesn't have to be sophisticated manners, but a simple command of good dining table manners during dinner meetings or formal affairs. When one knows and practises proper table etiquette, one can dine with confidence in whatever restaurant or with whomever one is dining. Some basic guidelines include taking a seat. Most important of all, you need to remember that the host will lead and you will follow.
The host should be the first person to sit, not you. He or she is also the first to start eating and to get up from the table. Only take your cue to sit or dine first when the host says so. It is also proper for a gentleman to offer a seat to a lady before he sits down. Traditionally, a man should stand up when a woman would get up and leave the table but it is no longer practised.
Posture is also important in basic dining etiquette. You need to sit properly and not slouch. Remember you are not in the comforts of your own home, so do not rest your elbows on the table. When eating, bear in mind that you should not fill your mouth up. If its bread, tear off a little piece with your hands and pat a little butter if you like, but do not bite off a big slice and do not use a knife to cut your bread. Likewise, put your own butter on your bread plate and do not get from the main butter dish every time.
When eating soup, do not fill up your spoon to overflowing. Rather, scoop up three-fourths of the soup with a careful motion away from your body and sip silently. Do not bend over the food but bring the spoon to your mouth as you sit upright. It is good not to fill up your spoon so that your soup will not drip over your clothes or your dish.
|Always remember not to serve yourself first, people will ask you to pass the dish, and it is proper to pass it on to the person to your right. Only if the person on your left asks it should you pass it in that direction. Do not ever reach across the table for something you need but ask a fellow diner to pass it onto you. When eating, always bear in mind that you should not bite more than you could chew. Always slice or cut off just a small bite using your knife and fork. Chew slowly and do not talk when you have food in your mouth.
Formal dining also has certain place settings for utensils and it is also good for you to memorize these or at least have a general knowledge of where the plates go, as do the cups and utensils. You have to know which ones are yours. Your drinks shall be placed to your plates upper right corner, with your main dish directly in front of you. Forks are to your plate's left and your knife is at the right together with the spoons. Always start with the utensil placed at the outermost and then move inwards as you progress with your meal.
It may sometimes be difficult, and some would say rather stiff but it is a great guide for formal dining events. It is best that you know how to handle your utensils, where they are placed, and how you should go about your meal for you to enjoy a good formal dining experience. After all, dining etiquette is not only for the elite or high class, it is also for ordinary people like you and me.
Lemon, Lime, Orange, and Peach - Cool Summer Table Linens
Summer is just around the corner and it is best to be ready for it. Whether you are a business owner, home owner, or even an ordinary person, you can always use cool summer table linens to set the heat. Truly, summer is very enjoyable but with table linens, you can always make it extra special. There are numerous colors of table linens that you can choose from. Just think of lemon, lime, orange, and peach – cool summer table linens that you will surely love.
Choosing the Right Color.
Sometimes, too many choices leave us confused and even in doubt if what we chose is the right one for us. For this reason, exploring the different options will help you to arrive at the right choice. The following are some of the best summer colors that you might want to consider.
• Lemon – as a radiant color, lemon can further heat up your summer. It is a color close to yellow and it can make a good table linen since it tends to absorb the sun's brightness. If you serve cold lemon juice, then lemon table linens will make it more delicious.
• Lime – as a summer color, lime will definitely juice-up your vacation. It is a color found between green and yellow but it is a bit more of yellow than green. Play with lime color under the heat of the sun by using it as a table linen. This color represents the color of lime, a citrus fruit known for its sourness.
• Orange – while lemon might be sour, orange can sweetened up your summer. Orange is found between the yellow and red color. Orange is a perfect table linen color as this is can mellow down the sun's rays. As a table linen, you can be fashionable with this color.
• Peach – derived its name from the peach fruit, peach is a color close to red. Imagine basking under the summer sun with your table drenched in peach, it will truly enhance your summer experience. For many decades, peach had been usually a choice for interior design. So why not use peach for your summer table?.
There are other summer colors that you can choose from but the aforementioned colors are among the best choices. You can even try to mix up the colors to come up with a playful combination.
Choosing the right linen.
Now that you know the different summer table linen colors, you need to know some of the tips to have the best quality. Remember, color is just one factor you need to consider. When choosing the right linen, consider the price. Most people might think that the price is a good basis to determine the quality of the linen. While this might be true, it does not always apply to some situations. So the best thing that you should do is to examine the linen very carefully. Furthermore, think about its durability. Investing in good linens can be a wise step so that you can use it for a very long time.
|Cheap Wedding Table Linens to Fit Your Budget
Wedding is one of the most significant and memorable event in a person's life. It is a kind of event that should be meticulously and carefully planned. There are a lot of things to be considered in planning a wedding because there are so many things that are involved in the wedding, from the venue of the wedding and reception, the suits and the dresses, the invitations, the flowers, the decorations etc. But one must not forget about the wedding table linens.
The most important part of the wedding of course is the union of two people but for a wedding event to run smoothly, planning the decorations is a must. When we talk of wedding decorations at the reception, the first thing that we would think of being the wedding table linen. The wedding table linens can be the main focus of your wedding reception's theme so you should really choose the ones that can have great impacts. The rest of the decorations in the wedding reception will be based upon the wedding table linen. There are a lot of wedding table linens to choose from. They range from color, styles and materials. If you want to have great wedding table linen but also do not want to overspend on them, you should find Cheap Wedding Table Linens to Fit Your Budget.
In finding the Cheap Wedding Table Linens to Fit Your Budget you can try going to the local fabric stores near you to check for the wedding table linens in bulk and any available discounts. This is quite a lot of work especially if you need to find a specific color, measure and style and it is not one of the most effective ways that you can find Cheap Wedding Table Linens to Fit Your Budget, it is much easier to buy online from us. It might be easy to find cheap wedding table linens at these discount stores but they can be very hard to find if they exist at all.
We offer great deals on prices in wedding table linens. You can also find a great range of choices at our store, if you want to do more research before you shop online you can ask your wedding or event coordinators if they can refer you to someone who sells cheap wedding table linens.
|Wedding Table Linens
All kinds of table linens have been used since the earliest civilizations, such as that of Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Phoenicia. In ancient times linens were made from yarn spun from flax fibers. Today, many good quality table linens are made from cotton, synthetic fibers, and poly/cotton blends. Aside from their other everyday practical uses, linens have become an essential part of weddings and event – adding a splash of elegance and style to tables and chairs alike.
These days, wedding ceremonies and receptions seem dull and incomplete without a decent set of linens. Table linens cover and beautify tables that would have appeared plain and simple. Napkins are also quite important, since they are items that family, friends, and loved ones interact with throughout their meal. Chair covers and treatments are also a must. Many wedding linen providers offer a wide array of covers that allow people to choose whether to cover the entire chair or just the back or cushion. Chair ties and bands finish the look of the chair covers, complementing their color and design. Indeed, linens spice up even the most solemn and significant of events.
Undeniably, weddings would never be complete without a nice set of linens. Many décor providers offer an enormous portfolio of colors and designs. Wedding linens certainly bring an elegant and stylish touch to the event, reinforcing its ambiance and leaving a lasting impression on each and every guest. Create a better memory of the most unforgettable event of your life with our fantastic range of wedding linens.
|Our table linens are perfect for wedding receptions, party events, rehearsal dinners, catering buffets, store displays, conferences, casinos and conventions. Colorful round, rectangle, and square tabletop linens that can be coordinated with accents and centerpieces in many ways to achieve a beautiful reception décor. These items work well in a banquet style reception, buy yours today!
|Restaurant Table Linens
Good quality, durable, table linens are a must for every restaurant. A restaurant is not a restaurant without its table linens. Fine dining restaurants and family diners alike need to dress their tables in linens that add style and elegance. There are many table linens restaurant owners can choose from and the absolute key to purchasing restaurant table linens is quality. Its fabric should be made from all-natural fibers like cotton or linen. Although man-made or artificial linen are easier to clean, they do not absorb liquids very well. And of course, it is to be expected that there will be accidents and spills that will occur. And you will need a tablecloth that can handle spills and assaults on the linen.
Linens that do not handle spills very well, though how attractive and easy to clean, are not suggested for restaurants. Surprisingly, the durability of an artificial tablecloth is relatively shorter than natural linens. Deciding on the perfect restaurant table linens is an important undertaking because, with the right selection, you can create a vibrant and inviting atmosphere for your participants.
A restaurant owner should also consider the design and color of the linens and if they complement the restaurants furniture and decorations. This is where the participants will spend the majority of their time, so having the perfect restaurant table linen color, style, and size will result in a wonderful lasting impression for your patrons. Restaurant table linens are an extremely important aspect of the restaurant business and are almost as essential and inviting as the food itself.
Countdown to Your Wedding Day - 30 Days To Go! Checklist.
After you've spent months or a year planning and scheduling every minute detail of your wedding, you will wake up one morning and realize that it's the last few weeks before the ceremony and there are things you haven't done. Don't be surprised if your mind goes blank and you just cannot remember what needs to be done. Stress!
Here is a quick checklist to get you back on track and relieve some of your stress:
• This would be a good time to apply for your marriage license, if you haven't already done it. Different localities have different requirements so you and your fiance need to take a little advance care with this process. Normally, this is a task handled by the groom.
The license is usually issued by the County Clerk or the Clerk of the Court. There will be a fee. Check in advance for the fee and method of payment required. Some states require blood tests and others require tests for German Measles, venereal diseases, sickle-cell anemia, tuberculosis, etc.
• Your dress needs a final fitting now to be sure there's time to make any changes needed. While you are at it, make sure your bridesmaids and groomsmen have their attire ready to go.
• All your vendors need to be contacted to confirm arrival/delivery dates and times. This includes your caterer, florist, musicians, photographer, hotels, reception hall, minister or other officiate, transportation and hotel reservations and the bakery creating your wedding cake.
• Take a little time to check your wedding program for accuracy before you print it. Send a future change of address form to the post office. Make a list of those invited guests who have not responded to your request for an RSVP and ask your mother or sister to contact them. As soon as you know how many out-of-town guests you will have, create your welcome baskets for them. • As soon as you receive gifts, write thank you notes. People consider it bad manners to have to wait weeks to get thanked for sending a gift.
Two Weeks To Go:
A couple of weeks before your ceremony, flesh out your seating plan and write your place cards. Confirm any last minute details and tell your caterer how many to expect. Complete your seating chart.
Pick up your dress and hang it where it won't wrinkle or get caught on something. Occasionally walk around your house wearing your wedding shoes to break them in and make them comfortable for your walk down the aisle.
Arrange for a house sitter while you are on your honeymoon, if necessary. You might need someone to water your plants or take care of your pets while you are gone.
Make sure someone has a list of your honeymoon itinerary and contact information in case of an emergency.
With your fiance, write toasts for the rehearsal dinner and reception. Attend your bachelor or bachelorette parties.
The Day Before:
Your out-of-town guests will be arriving. Relax with them and make them comfortable. Personally give them their welcome baskets or have them already in their rooms.
Take a break and have a manicure, pedicure and maybe a massage.
Confirm your transportation schedule.
Attend the rehearsal that afternoon or evening and hold the rehearsal dinner. Give your wedding party their gifts and make sure they know their individual responsibilities, like handing out corsages and boutonnieres, escorting guests down the aisle.
The Big Day:
Give your parents their wedding gifts, if you didn't do it at the rehearsal dinner.
Follow the schedule you have set up for the morning; hair dresser, make up, etc., and you'll make it just fine to the wedding with everything running fairly smoothly.


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ItŌĆÖs time to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. It must be done now, before the agency steps in to help squander international funds meant to help rebuild Palestine homes and infrastructure.
ŌĆ£UNRWA, the U.N.ŌĆÖs 65-year-old, internationally funded welfare organization for Palestinians, should be commended for providing much needed shelter and aid to displaced Gazans during the crisis,ŌĆØ write Middle East Forum fellows Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky. ŌĆ£But given several revelations during the current conflict between Hamas and Israel, UNRWA should have no role in any negotiated arrangement regarding GazaŌĆÖs reconstruction.ŌĆØ
Writing in the New Republic, the experts point out that the United Nations agency became part of the story in the recent conflict.
ŌĆ£On three occasions, rockets were found in UNRWA schools, closed for the summer, and at least once they were returned to Hamas,ŌĆØ they point out. ŌĆ£On another occasion, the UNRWA accused Israel of targeting civilians sheltering in a school when in fact those deaths were caused by a Hamas rocket that fell short. And on another occasion it accused Israel of targeting a shelter and civilians when in reality terrorists outside the facility were hit and civilian bodies possibly planted at the scene. UNRWA has condemned the rockets found in its schools, but it has not condemned HamasŌĆÖ firing rockets from in and around its facilities, or any other locations such as residential areas, hospital parking lots, and hotels.ŌĆØ
The conclusion to draw from these facts is obvious.
ŌĆ£UNRWA is effectively a branch of Hamas,ŌĆØ write Joffe and Romirowsky. ŌĆ£The overwhelming majority of its employees in Gaza belong to the Hamas-linked trade union. An unknown number of employees are actual Hamas fighters (or at least know UNRWA employees with keys to the schools so that rockets can be stored in classrooms over the summer). The curriculum taught in UNRWA schools is shaped by Hamas, which earlier this year rejected textbooks that failed to tout ŌĆśarmed resistanceŌĆÖ as too ŌĆśpeaceful.ŌĆÖ Gaza cannot be rebuilt at western expense only to return to this perverse status quo.ŌĆØ
Of course, the United States canŌĆÖt unilaterally abolish UNRWA. That would take an act by the U.N. General Assembly.
ŌĆ£But if donor countries were to reprogram their funds, first by demanding that the PA take over UNRWAŌĆÖs employees and responsibilities, the effect would be the same,ŌĆØ the authors note. ŌĆ£In 2010, Canada shifted its contributions away from UNRWA, sending a strong message about the organization.ŌĆØ
The U.S. can send an even stronger message by pulling its funds, because right now those funds are desperately needed to rebuild a smashed region. UNRWA wants to get its hands on that money, but history shows that would be a monumental mistake.
Joffe and Romirowsky say that money should be routed through the Palestinian Authority instead. Sure, that agency has its own corruption problems, but at least could be held accountable by the Palestinians themselves.
ŌĆ£There is thus a unique opportunity, perhaps the last, to help Palestinians stand on their own,ŌĆØ they say.
We should take the first step by defunding UNRWA.


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The seroprevalence of sexually transmitted HCV among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam is stabilizing, recent data show. Little is known, however, about the incidence of HCV re-infection in MSM who have cleared HCV. In the current study, the team assessed the incidence of HCV re-infection in HIV-positive MSM who were HCV RNA-negative following HCV treatment of acute primary infection.
The subjects of the Amsterdam-based study were HIV-infected MSM attending two large outpatient clinics; the men were previously diagnosed with a sexually transmitted acute HCV infection and tested HCV RNA-negative at the conclusion of treatment. "We defined HCV re-infection as detectable HCV RNA in individuals with an undetectable HCV RNA at the end of treatment accompanied by a switch in HCV genotype or clade," the authors wrote. Re-infection incidence was calculated using person-time methods.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Alarming Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus Re-Infection After Treatment of Sexually Acquired Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection in HIV-Infected MSM
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Monk: Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door
(S07E12) "Be a pirate. It's fun to be a pirate." -- Marge to Monk
For a short time in this episode, you saw a glimpse of what Adrian Monk's life might have been when he was happy and with Trudy. A woman came into his life, not a romantic figure, but one who nurtured Adrian, admired him, gave him confidence in himself and gently eased him out of the shell of phobias and obsessions that dictate so many aspects of his life. The woman, Marge, appeared as the lady next door, and in the gifted hands of actress Gena Rowlands, she showed us another kind of Monk. For that reason alone, this was a superb episode.
Because this show is essentially not about the crimes but mostly about Monk, it was overall an emotional and sad hour. What it showed, ultimately, I'm afraid, is that Adrian is still so damaged by his childhood and Trudy's death that he may never find true peace ever again.
For a time it seemed like this was going to be one of those episodes predicated on the "big coincidence." It just so happened that Marge appeared when the case began, and it just so happened that the Guiness World Records Museum was the site of a murder and it just so happened the prime suspect lived next door to Marge. It was all looking like it was too neatly tied together. Then they threw in the red herring of all red herrings, the competitive egg eater which really was a canard that went nowhere.
To the writers credit, I couldn't figure out how Togo, the Egg Eating Robot was integral to the plot. To the writers discredit, I couldn't imagine a criminal committing multiple murders for what amounted to a heist. Also, Marcus Giamatti who played John Keyes the neighbor/killer, just seemed smarter than a mere thug. (By the way, he's Paul Giamatti's older brother and they really look/sound similar). He was smart enough to steal Togo and set up a foolproof alibi, so why pull the trigger on the jewelry store clerk.
The jewelry store was major coincidence number two when Marge recognized the pin. If she doesn't, does Monk go off on her and concoct a way to implicated her in the crime. But that did occur after his psychiatry session. Adrian gushed to Dr. Bell about Marge, whom the doctor called a transformational relationship. In his twisted mind, Monk can't believe she could like him, possibly love him, and there must be a catch. With no catch presented, he creates one. It was perhaps the saddest scene ever on Monk when he realizes what he's lost by pushing Marge out of his life. I actually wept.
Gena Rowlands made this episode for me. Her role reminded me of her character in the film Gloria, only older. She was a no-nonsense old lady, not a stereotype at all. That's what made her so attractive. Her power to get Monk to "be a pirate" was exciting, not to mention getting him to do things he fights like mixing his vegetables or moving the furniture. However, by next week, I suspect the chairs will be back where they were...and so will Monk.