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USANA Business Review - Is USANA a Scam?
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Dr. Myron Wentz founded the Usana Health Sciences, Inc. He obtained Ph.D. from Utah University in the field of microbiology with specialization in immunology. Moreover, from 1969-1973, he served for three hospitals as a microbiology director in Peoria city, Illinois.
Usana is amongst the biggest MLM corporations in the world having its headquarters situated in the Salt Lake City, Utah. It is an MLM (Multi Level Marketing) company manufacturing various products for health and fitness, weight control, personal hygiene, hair care, and nutrition. Apart from this, It formulates oral hygiene and skin care products. It has distributors in more than 13 countries.
Usana has built an amphitheater in the Salt Lake City, which hosts several concerts featuring popular bands and artists. Funds collected from these events goes in a charitable trust.
Usana employs nearly one thousand people worldwide having more than 170,000 preferred customers and associates in its global distribution network. The sales for the year 2007 were around $427 million of which about 87 percent was rendered by the associates and 13 percent by the preferred customers.
The products of this mlm company are of high quality, safe, and reliable satisfying the needs of customers. In fact, it has supplied and sponsored products for various sport clubs.
As it operates on MLM approach, it renders business opportunities for people by promoting and selling various products. People all round the world have good picture about the corporation. Products of this company are beneficial and effective for people suffering from skin inflammatory disorders, headaches, and arthritis.
People usually opt for business opportunity provided by Usana, as it offers additional income to people who work from home. Many people also lay complete concentration on business opportunity of Usana.
This MLM Company felicitates best performers in the presence of various members because it creates an inspiration for others to become the best performer. Usana has binary reimbursement plan.
Products of Usana encompass four brands namely Macro-Optimizer foods (nutritional bars and drink mixes), Rev3 Energy drinks, Sens Basics and Enhancers (hair, skin, and face care products), and Nutritionals (Essentials and Optimizers nutritional supplements).
From 2004-2006, this company was stated on the Forbes "200 Best Small Companies" list. In fact, in 2007, Forbes released an article quoting that government and industry experts have raised several doubts about the company's products and trading practices.
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Network Marketing Success " The Secret To Success In Your MLM Business
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This article is about finding the secret to network marketing success. In this article, the author maintains that success in network marketing is attainable only through hark work and by sticking to the methods or systems learned from your sponsor.
Success in network marketing is attainable by anyone who follows the system and applies the marketing methods (social networking, traffic exchanges, article marketing etc.) that are widely available.
It is very important to establish lasting relationships with your prospects with the purpose of building a successful business.
Network Marketing Success
Prepare yourself because you are about to learn what are the keys to having a successful network marketing business. This idea will aid you in making your business very successful.
Now think back and try to remember what brought you to your opportunity or what attracted you to your opportunity. When you think about this forget about the desire to make tons of money.
Chances are, it was almost certainly the prospecting strategy which was used by your sponsor in the system. Success in network marketing comes from hard work and commitment and you must stick to the system. There many great network marketing opportunities for you to cash in on if you you work hard.
Stick To The System
It is very important that you stick to the system. Once involved in your opportunity by one reason or another, you must not start buying leads or just cold calling. The system is centered on building relationships with people.
Lots of people that are new to the system do not understand that you cannot only utilize one system to introduce good targeted prospects. People dislike it when other people cold call them.
The very successful distributors on the market have a massive downline and frequently play a game of numbers with you. These enormous distributors are financially secure where if they lost their downline it would have no impact on them financially.
Relationship Building
The key to network marketing is mainly dependent upon finding potential prospects and then developing strong lasting relationships with them. You must first offer them something valuable to show that you are a sincere person. The secret is building lasting relationships to help you develop your business.
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Why Cash Gifting is Better than Typical MLMs
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Many people may think about leaving their job and wish they would land a great income opportunity - a home based business they can rely on and be successful at. Among these business opportunities is multi level marketing. If you have ever heard of multi-level marketing programs, you surely know that they sell different types of products. You have probably been convinced by a multi-level marketing agent to buy health drinks, anti-aging products, cosmetics, antioxidants, home improvement products and even pre-paid services.
A cash gifting system is similar with multi-level marketing in one way - you need to introduce people to it in order to multiply your earnings. Both referral systems are income opportunities and home-based businesses. However, multi-level marketing requires one to sell a product while cash gifting does not. For the typical person who is seeking to make money from home, cash gifting may be the better option. This is because not everybody is a good salesperson. If they were, they would probably be at the top of the sales career ladder in a multinational company already.
Many people have tried and experienced frustration over multi-level marketing programs because they have to explain over and over again the products they sell. They keep pestering their family and friends to buy and asking them to join an organization which would also require them to sell. There are a lot of emails to send and calls to make in order to make money from home. Not everyone they talk to will be interested in the product and some of these people they talk to might avoid them.
The multi-level marketer also has to buy a package of products before starting with the business. He also has to buy a certain set amount of products each month in order to qualify to earn from his downline's sales and recruits.
Cash gifting systems, meanwhile, require people to help each other out as a team. This system does not need one to be a good salesperson or have great phone conversational skills. There is no product or service to promote. You just need to share to your friends what good things have happened to you because of the cash gifting system and direct them to a website which did it for you. The promotions and marketing plugs are already automated so there really is no need to do much promoting and convincing.
After visiting the website and watching the testimonies, one can just request for a callback from a cash gifting team leader. Team leaders themselves take the time to explain the answers to a prospective member's questions. By joining at a certain level or tier for a certain fee, you can get cash gifts delivered at your doorstep by a legitimate courier service. You can have a residual income opportunity, too, when you introduce others to the program and they continue on to sign up. This is a legitimate home-based business that requires very little effort, very little time, and very little talk from you. One such website you could look into is http://t-o-c-s.com. It explains the different levels or tiers one can join to make money from home.
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Network Marketing Leads Vs. Warm Market
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by David Lawrence
You just started your networking business, you are excited to launch it to the world, then your upline says, "make a list."
Sometimes this request is met with absolute horror and dread because you would rather have some success under your belt before you share it with people you are closest to.
But then again, if you have a high quality and influencial group of family and friends, your warm market might be the best way to launch your business.
One of the main benefits to contacting your market as opposed to calling network marketing leads is that they typically already trust you. It is also gratifying to work with people you already have relationships with.
The problem for many is that you might have already approached friends and family unsuccessfuly in the past, or perhaps because of your lack of business experience they might not believe you can really help them succeed.
This is why many choose to utilize network marketing leads. You can have all the confidence you need on the other side of that phone to be the person they are looking for to help them succeed.
Don't forget, every lead you call is someone else's warm market. The big difference is that the person who is on the lead list has already raised their hand that they are looking for a way to make more money from home.
Ironically, contacting network marketing leads is a fantastic way to approach your new prospect's warm market via referrals if they comfortable approaching their friends and family.
Before you make your decision on which route to go or to do both, you may check out this source for network marketing leads or free mlm leads to help you build your networking business' cold market while you also build with your warm market.
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The List of Business and Personal Development Greats Keeps Growing!
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There are now a lot of gold nuggets for a small monthly fee! Over at iLearningGlobal, you can gain monthly access to hundreds and soon to be thousands of short video clips from big name people.
Each video clip teaches something about a variety of business related topics, such as:
- business development
- tax saving
- time management
- goal setting and goal achieving
- problem solving
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The list of teachers is growing and now includes:
- Brian Tracy
- Mark Victor Hansen
- Tony Alessandra
- Sandy Botkin
- Omar Periu
- Leslie Householder
- Jim Britt
- Don Hutson
- Kevin Carroll
- Dan Clark
- Scott Michael Zimmerman
- Bob Proctor
- Patricia Fripp
- Dennis Deaton
- Paul Martinelli
- Steve Siebold
- Terri Murphy
- Tony Jeary
- Dave Sherman
- Tom Ferry
- Harv Eker
- Jim Cathcart
- Shep Hyken
To gain access to this awesome training program, click here now!
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New MLM Company - Brian Tracy is Chief Learning Officer
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Join us on a conference call tomorrow morning, Saturday the 14th, June 2008 at 10:00 a.m. MST.
The conference call line is 646.519.5830 (dial-in code is 6486#).
I am 6 levels from the top of this MLM chain. My direct upline, Drew Williams, is the former president of this new company, iLearningGlobal. I say "former president" because after he helped record the initial 70 business training videos of Brian Tracy, Omar Periu, and Sandy Botkin, he decided that the best way to help people to access this new program was to be a distributor–and also that the real money is in being a distributor!
Anyway, join us on the call if you'd like and ask Brian Tracy any questions about this new company that you'd like. If you have additional questions about joining this opportunity, leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Also, I will be posting more information about iLearningGlobal the next several days and I will be teaching my downline how to market on the internet using blogs just like I am doing. So come back often!
P.S. if you do a search on google right now for the phrase "mlm success" without quotes, you'll see that I am ranked #11 (see screen shot below). Not the most exciting result but I haven't had a compelling reason to try in several months until this opportunity came in to play. By the way, I do SEO (search engine optimization) for a living and have ranked dozens and dozens of phrases in the top 3 on Google. What I am trying to say, is that I know what I am doing when it comes to getting traffic from the search engines.
(you might see something slightly different depending on which Google data center your internet accesses)
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iLearningGlobal - What a product! and a Compensation Plan!
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iLearningGlobal is pulling together todays leading experts to teach us their knowledge via online video. Overtime, members will have access to thousands of videos on business development and other topics listed below by industry experts including Brian Tracy, Jim Britt, Omar Periu, Sandy Botkin, and a few other "Big Names" soon to be announced.
Each month, more than 50 new seven to nine minute video segments will be added from the content provided by these experts–all of which is accessible 24 x 7.
Some of the topics to be taught include:
- Entrepreneur Development
- Critical Qualities of Success
- Acres of Diamonds
- Build Your Own Business
- Business Laws of Success
- Setting Goals
- Time Managment
Not only does iLearningGlobal have a great product that in and of itself is worth sharing to others, the compensation plan is simple and yet POWERFUL! Check it out now by clicking here now ilgcompplan.jpg!
I will be giving you more information as it is released. For now you can go to ilearningglobal.tv to see a sneak preview of the videos.
Leave a comment below asking me any questions you have and also if you want to join, just let me know. I will help get the paperwork needed. Remember, NO ONE WILL BE CHARGED UNTIL LATE JULY and so you have just over a month to build a downline without any upfront costs.
I will be teaching my team how to build blogs and do SEO (search engine optimization) properly. My specialty is getting sites ranked on the first page of the search engines which means traffic. I currently get about 300 visitors a month to this blog with plans to grow that to 3000/mo. within the next 3 months. I can teach you this same strategy.
By the way, those who join my team first, will get the benefit adding new customers and distributors from this site to their downline. First come, first served. I am only building so wide, and after that, the only logical place to go is down.
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Great MLM Websites and Resources
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Mlm success is hard…if you're not properly trained. My two favorite network marketing trainers are Kim Klaver and Tim Sales.
Below you will find a list of mlm websites that contain great content (most of it is free). The training materials and resources are excellent. I can say that because these two don't sugar coat anything. They teach solid methods, not fluff.
I know it's cliche, but don't try and reinvent the wheel! If you are serious about achieving network marketing success, you need the proper training.
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Being Busy vs. Being Productive With Results
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Sometimes as human beings, we become caught up in details that don't really matter. I see this happen in MLM quite often, and it only delays our success. As I explain, I'm sure you will also have witnessed what I am talking about.There are certain people who join an MLM business and become excited about the prospect of making lots of money, but when it comes time to get going and work, they are better at making themselves look busy that actually being productive. It's not that they don't want it. They may want it really badly, but they can't focus on the tasks that will bring it to them quickest.
I believe this stems from fear. We have all experienced fear when we are about to call someone or visit someone to tell them about our product or business. It is a natural reaction. But sometimes when that fear presents itself, we face it by doing things that seem less difficult. We say we need more information on our product before we can effectively present it. We say we need to go get more forms because we're running low. We say we need to make our list bigger and then we'll start calling. We might even waste time sharpening pencils or neatly stacking papers just so we don't have to get on the phone and call.
We are wasting time! Those things will not make us money. Calling, talking, presenting, and networking will make us money. Forget the stalling tactics and go to work. We all need to be reminded of this occasionally because I believe we all stray off the path every so often. We just need to ask ourselves if what we are doing right now is making us money. If it is, then let's do more of it. If not, then let's get back on the money making track and focus. We'll feel so much better knowing that we are being productive.
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Stop Blaming Others And Accept The Responsibility
Society is plagued with the mentality that, "it's not my fault"!
Think about it; whenever anything goes wrong, or slower than planned, or doesn't get finished at all, people's fingers start to point. I am not excluding myself from this mentality. All the time, I catch myself blaming others silently or even subconciously. This needs to stop!
Truly successful people don't blame others when the going gets tough. They accept the responsibility and start looking for solutions.
To be successful in Network Marketing or any endeavor, we need to begin take responsibility for our lives. We are exactly where we are in life because of the decisions that we have made and because of the things that we have done and also the things we have not done!
Every time you catch yourself blaming someone else, recite this phrase 10 times: "Stop blaming others and accept the responsibility"!
I find that I get more accomplished when I know deep down that I am responsible for my life.
In this aspect, we all could use a kick in the butt every once in the while!
I would appreciate your thoughts on this subject. Make a comment below.
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Up through January 16th, 2010, this amazing group is titled Grifters, which focuses on all new work from the Outsider artists in all manner of mediums, from sculpture to installation, canvas to collage, paper to poster, performance to photography.
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February 8th, 2013 05:26 PM #1
Now i like this name.. quite alot,
It means Angel of thursday! / "My cover is God" in Theophory in the Bible (and misha collins plays a character in supernatural called this also)
Jus wanted to know what you think of it..
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It's so tied to Supernatural. Trying to think of it as a baby name, I can only imagine it being used by a Supernatural super-fan. It does have an appealing sound, but I would recommend against using it as a first name because it's so tied to one specific pop culture figure. For someone absolutely set on using it, I would suggest using it as a middle name or using an alternative like Casper, Cashel, Castor, Cassian, something along those lines. There are a lot of lovely, underused Cas- names out there.
February 8th, 2013 05:53 PM #5
I love it, and I'm an avid Supernatural watcher.
I say use it, I also like Caspian.Nathaniel . Eden | Alessandra . Noel
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I like it spelt Cassiel better. Castiel isn't particularly more legit as a transliteration and it also reminds me Castile, Spain in general and Castile soap in particular.
In terms of obscure angel names, I like quite a lot of them for boys, including Cassiel, Zadkiel, Hadriel, and Katriel among others. My first pick wouldn't be what other people would think of as "the one from Supernatural."
February 8th, 2013 06:09 PM #9
Is it pronounced cass-TEEL? If so, all I'd be able to think of is castile soap.TTC #1!
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This gui draws a mandelbrot figure. # iteration, complexity, color can be change.
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This guide can draw a mandelbrot figure. In default values it calculates Z=Z^2+C for 20 iterations, where Z initally equal to zero and C has the values of every pixel created by meshgrid function(built-in).
although mandelbrot equation is Z=Z^2+C you can change the degree of the equation between 1 - 50.
higher number in iteration, points in axes gives better results in image besides more resulting time.
to zoom an area of the figure you must aproximately choose the point and then change the center values to this point values then push 'Show Graph' button. because of this is the first version there can be any lack of usage.
The function implemented is incorrect.
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Z0=-2 is a Mandelbrot number, Wiki.
The ability to zoom below 0.1 is desireable. This is where the interesting structures occur.
It does work in my tests, though the sliders were screwy, not at all as shown in the image. That might be OS or version related. I'm not sure what purpose this tool serves, except as a demo of a mandelbrot set. In the context of student interest, this fails my definition of good documentation by a long shot. It essentially contains no documentation. The only help it has is in the website description. The author should have included this in the function help. The uicontrols completely lack tooltipstrings - they would have been nice to provide, rather than having the user guess what they do given the lack of other help. Pretty picture though. While some might argue that I should vote for deletion, I'll just say it needs serious improvement in its help and documentation. Raising my rating would take only a few lines of help that explain what the user is looking at and what the controls mean.
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Faith Wesleyan Church is known for its "16-Cents Ministry" program to help the homeless. It provides warm meals and fellowship to the homeless on Saturday nights under the bridge on Spring Garden Street.
At some point between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, thieves stole the 16-foot black trailer. It was full of equipment and 140 chairs for the "16-Cents Ministry" program.
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It's all about ideas – The Ideapreneur to the Fore
By Dato' R. Rajendran
Steve Jobs always did everything a little different. He did things better than everybody else. At the helm of Apple Computers, his ideas created some of the most exciting personal computing products the world had ever seen. Most amazing of all, his best idea, the iPhone, wasn't even a computer.
The iPhone was perhaps Job's finest creation, his magnum opus, a great device that revolutionises the smartphone. At US$301 billion, today Apple Computers is worth more than Microsoft, HP and Dell combined. Such is the magnitude an ideapreneur has to business.
But don't go looking for the definition in the Oxford Dictionary. Ideapreneur is a neologism to describe a form of entrepreneur, a radical inventor of change, instigating original ideas that add value which are sustainable commercially. Like Jobs, an ideapreneur continuously initiates innovative ideas, which changes the business landscape entirely and raises the game that much higher.
Ideapreneurs shares many of the traits of entrepreneurs and artists. All possess focused and determined minds that generate ideas with the purpose of causing a reaction. Though like an entrepreneur they act upon their ideas to create a sustainable enterprise. Achieving results through a proactive attitude, leading others into the often unknown and therefore are considered risk takers and pioneers.
Restlessness, unpredictable, extroverted and creative is often words used to describe them. Ideapreneurs share the same leadership qualities as an entrepreneur; they often collaborate with individuals who have financial or operation management backgrounds.
Unlike entrepreneurs, an ideapreneur only represents those with original ideas that also bring value. An ideapreneur should be a catalyst within their industry evoking change and disrupting the status quo.
In his book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter F Drucker describes McDonald's Ray Kroc as the archetype ideapreneur. Kroc identified the opportunity for a standardised fast-food experience and developed innovation that standardised everything from food-production, food quality, staff training, and customer service – even the layout of the store.
Ideapreneurs are people who succeed in first identifying the opportunity for change in a field, and then execute a strategy that creates shareholder value by bringing innovation into the field.
Other well-known Ideapreneurs
Dean Kamen
An American billionaire entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire USA, Kamen is best known for inventing the product that eventually became known as the Segway PT, an electric, self-balancing human transporter with a sophisticated, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system. The device balances on two parallel wheels and is controlled by moving body weight.
Sir James Dyson
Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2011 was said to be £1.45 billion.
Sir Richard Branson
An ideapreneur known for his pioneering and risk-taking attitude, he is best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.
From a magazine called Student at age 16, he set up an audio record mail-order business. In 1972, he had already opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
Branson is the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom and 254th richest person in the world, according to the Forbes 2011 list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion.


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The 2006 Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, will showcase more than 1,500 artists in 20 venues at the Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend, September 2-4. The 36th annual three-day Festival features an eclectic mix of music, comedy, dance, indie crafts, spectacle, film, theatre, kids' activities, and literary and visual arts.
Take a sneak peek at just some of Bumbershoot's 2006 music lineup:
Kanye West • AFI • A Tribe Called Quest • Yellowcard • Atmosphere • Hawthorne Heights • Feist • Shooter Jennings • Mates of State • Of Montreal • Matt Costa • The Blood Brothers • Bettye LaVette • the subdudes • Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk • Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey • Yerba Buena • The English Beat • Gossip • 3 Inches of Blood • Deerhoof • Laura Veirs • Nouvelle Vague • Breakestra • Jamie Lidell • Vashti Bunyan • Dengue Fever • Metric
More acts to be announced in the weeks ahead.
Bumbershoot always draws you in with more than just outstanding music, and this year is no exception. Don't miss:
best bang for the buck. I've been going for seven yrs.
Bumbershoot is EASILY the best bang for your buck of the festivals. Under 15 bucks a day for AMAZING artistic endeavors!
Not bad, lineup...but what is Kayne West doing on all these bills, eh? Somebody, please, help!Oh, and definitely check out Breakestra - some of illest grooves I have EVER heard!
pop fest 2006, thanks MTV for grabing the vibe and making it into a dirty woodstock......although tribe is nice.....but this year will be messy trust me, think about a fest that has been around for three years and how it catches on.....watch out
this looks okay, a little too much emo punk for me. But Jacob Fred, Dumpstafunk and Breakstra are sweet.
Anyone see Carlos Mencia shit on Kanye West on his show? Good Stuff.
Before all these kids who think they are hippies because they don't bathe and get high get on here and start bashing the lineup, I want to say that this is an incredible, diverse lineup and i will see you all there.
If I could make it to the west coast for this one I'd be there... Atmosphere need I say more?


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A Day To Remember
Let's face it: these days, the aggressive music subculture is more heavily segmented than ever before. Kids aren't just into punk or hardcore, they're into metalcore, screamo, crabcore … the list goes on and on. Standing stridently at the center of this saturated scene is A Day to Remember, a band who has successfully managed to sound metalcore, pop punk, emo, and post-hardcore at the same time without paying much attention to what everyone is doing. This process, which has gone on for the past eight years, recently culminated with the release of a fourth studio album, What Separates Me From You.
"A lot of bands today are put together and have people who write songs for them, so there's no story behind the band. I'm sure they've had life experiences but they don't write about it," says guitarist Kevin Skaff when asked why so many fans have gravitated to A Day to Remember's music (What Separates Me From You debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 58,000 copies in the first week of its release last November). "I think kids like our music because we've been through so much as a band and we talk about both the hardships of the road and the fun stuff, so there are a lot of different aspects of our music that anyone can relate to."
Glancing at an upcoming itinerary that includes main stage appearances on the Vans Warped Tour and Bamboozle festivals, it must seem pretty breezy to be a member of A Day to Remember right now. Hell, while they were on tour last year the band flew out tattoo artist Craig Beasley (of Monument Tattoos in Tallahassee, FL) for two weeks so he could tattoo sleeves on Skaff, vocalist and guitarist Jeremy McKinnon, and drummer Alex Shelnutt as well as a chest piece on guitarist Neil Westfall. However, it's important to keep in mind that the members of A Day to Remember, which also features bassist Joshua Woodard, spent their formative years touring in vans, sleeping on floors, and trying to figure out how to get their music out to prospective fans.
"I remember going to band practice and telling the guys we needed to put our music up on the internet, and half of us agreed and the other half were more interested in sending demos to labels and trying to get signed," Westfall recalls with a laugh when asked how things have changed since the act's early days. "I was 15 years old when I joined this band and I'm 23 now, so I think the fact we started out so young and spent all that time touring in a van and making that cult following at the lowest level is why a lot of our fans have stuck around and continued to support us."
Recorded in the band's hometown of Ocala, FL, and produced by Andrew Wade and New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert (both of whom also worked with the band on 2009's Homesick), What Separates Me From You sees A Day to Remember stepping up their aggressive and melodic tendencies. During songs like "Sticks & Bricks," the listener feels like he's in a prison at one moment and surfing the crest of a soaring pop anthem the next.
"I think we're really proud of the new CD because we really wanted it to sound pissed-off and convey those types of emotions, and I think that really comes across on these songs," Westfall says. "We wanted to write something that felt really real and raw."
Speaking of raw, when asked if the band has any memorable tattoo stories, Skaff harks back to the aforementioned experience last year when Beasley was trying to ink mind-boggling amounts of limbs during a two-week-long session on the road. "We were in San Diego playing at Soma, and I decided to get tattooed right before playing a show because that was the only time I had available," he recalls. "So I sat for six hours and got inked from my shoulder down to the middle portion of my forearm. We got the outline and half the shading done, and then [Beasley] put Vaseline all over it, cleaned it off, and I played a show." While Skaff says he was running so high on adrenaline during the gig he didn't feel the pain, he admits he definitely felt something after the show. When asked if he recommends this experience to anyone else he says, "absolutely not," with a laugh.
Westfall, who is such a hardcore Blink-182 fan that he proudly sports the band's name across his knuckles, has a similar anecdote about getting tattooed on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour. "We were in San Francisco and Oliver Peck was out tattooing, but he was really booked up so I came up to him and told him what I wanted and he said, 'Maybe I can fit you in now.' He drew up a gypsy head with a nurse hat and a banner that said Mom because my mom's a nurse. He had a dollar-sized tattoo designed and tattooed on my left leg in less than an hour," Westfall says, almost as if he can't believe it himself. "I'd say it was pretty insane."
When A Day to Remember is back home, the guys frequent shops like Ocala Tattoo & Piercing and Crawling Panther Tattoo, as well as Beasley's shop, but spending free time in Florida hasn't been a common occurrence lately. "We chose to tour this much because that's really the reason we wanted to be in a band to begin with," Skaff says. "We didn't get into this to make music videos and win awards and be millionaires. We just wanted to play shows, have a good time with people, and form a connection."
Having performed alongside everyone from death-metal-influenced acts like The Devil Wears Prada to pop-oriented icons like New Found Glory, A Day to Remember wears their individuality as a badge of honor. "Usually when we go on tour everyone either thinks we're too heavy or we're not heavy enough, but we think the fact that we don't fit in amongst a bunch of people who don't conform to regular society has helped us in the long run," Skaff says, adding that the band would rather burn out than stagnate.
"You either learn to swim or drown," Skaff summarizes when asked how A Day to Remember has remained so driven for nearly a decade. "If you don't keep up you're going to get left behind because the world's not going to wait for you."


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Izzy adds so much life in Greys Anatomy. I just simply love her character. Izzy and Danny make the bst couple ever in Greys Anatomy. Its so sad that we couldnt see alot of progress in their relation coz unfortunately left. But the last scenes of Izzy with Danny when he dies are awesomw and heartbreaking at he same tme. Go izzy you rockthe show girl!
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PEMBINA, N.D. – As an American re-entering the United States after a quick day-trip Saturday to Winnipeg, I figured I'd be greeted with a smile, welcomed home and sent on my way after the obligatory stop at the border.
What I expected to be a simple exercise in acquiescing to U.S. homeland security procedures turned into a half-hour delay that left me feeling slightly frustrated by the officers of one of the most-visible agencies charged with protecting our country.
Talking with friends and co-workers in the past couple days, I've found I'm definitely not the first to undergo such an experience. At various points of entry by car or at various airports after international flights, the anecdotal evidence seems to show U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents don't have the best reputation.
In a post-9/11 world, I completely understand Border Patrol agents have an important job to do, but what I was left wondering as I drove away from Pembina: Why do they do what they do, and must they be so stoic and unfriendly in the course of their duties?
I've had my fair share of border-crossings in recent years, including two trips to Europe and a few to Canada. In each experience, the border patrol agents at my foreign destination have tended to be polite, friendly and welcoming – even while asking the standard security questions: "What is your purpose of travel?" "How long will you stay?" "Where are you coming from?" "Where do you live?" "What do you do for a living?" "What are you bringing into the country?"
But upon my returns back to America, I've continually been greeted with a stern-faced agent who acts more as an interrogator than a friendly face welcoming me home, despite checking for security threats. Unfortunately, I've heard from many others that they've dealt with the same abrupt rudeness when they've returned to the States as well.
For me, that harsh welcome was never more evident than Saturday afternoon as I passed through the Pembina Port of Entry.
My boyfriend and I wanted to go on a day trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to get our fix on Tim Hortons and Pizza Pizza. Yeah, I know – That's random and laughable. It's a Canadian thing, but trust me, the donuts and pizza are more than worth the 3½ -hour drive north.
We arrived at the Emerson (Manitoba) Port of Entry at around 1 p.m. and waited in traffic for about 15 minutes before our turn at the inspection point to enter Canada. I handed our passports over to the Canadian Border Services agent, who checked us through politely but directly.
I told him we were going to Winnipeg on a day-trip just for some "shopping." When he asked me what we were shopping for, I blushed and turned to my boyfriend, who jokingly expressed his disdain for the high prices and poor quality of pizza and donuts in Fargo and how we were only going to pick up Tim Hortons and Pizza Pizza.
The agent laughed and chatted with us briefly before welcoming us to Canada and bidding us a good day. We were at the window maybe 5 minutes at most.
Fast-forward about 2½ hours later, my boyfriend and I had checked off everything on our Winnipeg shopping list and were en route back south into the United States via Pembina.
We pulled up to the inspection point, expecting the same routine as we'd gone through a short while before. I handed over the passports and waited for the Border Patrol agent's questions. She asked much the same as the Canadian agent had earlier but pried a bit further – and in a wholly unfriendly manner.
Perhaps her stoicism was merely overly-forced professionalism, but it came off to us as unnecessarily stern and abrupt. Nonetheless, we answered her questions honestly and directly in the hopes of passing through quickly.
When she asked the purpose of our trip, my boyfriend again jokingly explained our affair with Canada's exclusive food offerings. She didn't seem to find it at all humorous, nor even crack a smile. She only looked annoyed and rudely asked my boyfriend, "Are you an American?" even though she had his passport in her hand.
After a minute or so, she told us to pull around to the first garage bay, where we'd get our passports back. Obediently, we drove over and waited as a different Border Patrol agent guided us inside the building.
This agent told us to turn off the vehicle and put the keys and our cell phones on the dashboard. His demeanor was intimidating and slightly alarming – even though neither me nor my boyfriend had any reason to feel nervous.
We got out of the car and walked over to a nearby metal table, where a third agent searched through my purse and my boyfriend's wallet. He asked us the same questions the window agent had, plus additional questions that seemed to be aimed at whether we were up to any criminal activity. (We weren't). We answered, feeling slightly unnerved as about five other agents hovered behind us near the back of the garage bay.
The agents then directed us to a small waiting room just off the garage, while they went through the car. As we sat there, I couldn't help but be reminded of an interrogation room. The glass on the wall was a one-way window, so we could only see a reflection of ourselves instead of the garage on the other side.
The stone walls were lined with notices and legal advisories of how anyone entering the U.S. is required to submit to a search. "How apropos," I remember thinking.
After about 10 minutes, the first agent came back and told us we could go. No explanation of why we'd been flagged for further search; no thanking us for our time; no welcoming us back to America – not even a simple "have a good day." It only made my boyfriend and I all the more eager to get home.
We understand the need for national security, but yet we asked ourselves: Why does it have to be done in such a rude, interrogatory manner? Is that the price of national security for all?
Learning in the past few days that I'm not the only one who's been subject to such experiences, I'd bet many more of you would ask that same questions, too.
The main purpose of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is to secure America's borders and prevent entry of illegal immigrants, criminals and suspected terrorists. Meanwhile, CBP is also tasked with "making sure people get down the road swiftly and efficiently," in the interest of free-flowing commerce.
"To be able to have goods and people move across the border is a real important part of what we do," regional CBP spokesman Mike Milne told me.
Like most modern security agencies in America, CBP was born after 9/11 after the federal government took a close look at how its various agencies communicate with each other. The combination of such departments as immigration, customs enforcement and border patrol under one agency was aimed at improving communication to better defend America's security.
On an average day, more than 965,000 people are processed through America's 330 ports of entry. Of those travelers on an average day, only about 75 are arrested and only some 225 or so are denied entry for one reason or another.
By those figures, literally 99.9 percent of people wanting to get in the U.S. each day are allowed in – whether they're Americans returning home or international travelers paying a visit.
North Dakota alone has 22 ports of entry, including the main port of entry at Pembina, about 2½ hours north of Fargo.
About 1,000 to 1,500 passenger cars enter America's northern border at Pembina, N.D., during an average summer weekday, Chris Misson, chief spokesman for CBP's Pembina facility, told me today. On the summer weekends, that number jumps to about 2,000 or more at that port of entry. In the wintertime, the traffic diminishes substantially, Misson said.
Federal laws and regulations grant CBP somewhat wide-ranging authority to search and inspect all vehicles and individuals seeking to enter the U.S. In the interest of national security, a lot of the details about how CBP operates are hidden in a shroud of secrecy, but Milne and Misson explained what they could to me.
"Generally when people cross the border, most are cleared at primary," Milne explained. "You pull right up to the inspection booth, show your ID, it's run through the system to ensure there aren't any warrants or intelligence, and then most people go down the road."
"However, if there's anything that we need to check on in terms of border security or if we have any additional questions, then we just pull you out of the main line and you go into 'secondary' for a more thorough inspection," he continued. "Random (selection) is part of it. Sometimes there's something that an officer on primary may think not only is suspicious but may require a little additional information."
They couldn't specify what indicators might be "red flags," but Misson said each inspection can be different depending on what answers people give to the basic questions.
A question that an average person might see as intrusive or irrelevant could actually indicate important information to security officers, Misson said.
The Canadian Border Services Agency – Canada's version of the CBP – trains its officers in interview, examination and investigative techniques to aid in their determination of potential security threats, regional CBSA spokesman Sean Best said.
"Based on the travelers' responses, documentation presented, verbal and non-verbal indicators, if the officer is satisfied the individual will be allowed to enter/re-enter Canada," Best said. "If the officer has concerns, the individual may be asked additional questions or be referred to secondary for further exam."
Being asked to submit to further examination "should not be viewed as an accusation of wrongdoing," Best added.
In order to ease the entry process, Milne recommended travelers "know before you go" and visit the CBP's website for information on the required documentation, the entry process and other helpful tips.
"If you have the information you need to be in compliance, that's less trouble for you, less trouble for us at the border," Milne said.
Misson offered these other tips to travelers:
- Plan ahead and prepare for the inspection process.
- Consider alternate, less heavily-traveled entry routes during busy weekends or holidays.
- Build extra time into trips in case of delays at ports of entry.
- Check wait times for ports of entry at International Falls, Minn., and Pembina, N.D., by visiting apps.cbp.gov.
- Understand that CBP officers have the authority to conduct enforcement examinations without a warrant, ranging from a single luggage examination up to and possibly including a personal search.
Best also advised Americans traveling to Canada to visit the CBSA's travel website for similar details that are applicable to our northern neighbor.
As to the complaints of poor treatment by Border Patrol agents, Misson and Milne both said it's not anything they haven't heard before – but CBP doesn't excuse or condone rude treatment toward American residents or international visitors.
The CBP pledges to "cordially greet and welcome you to the United States," "to treat you with courtesy, dignity and respect," and "to explain the CBP process to you."
"We have that focus to protect the homeland from any wrongdoers," Misson said. "There is no excuse for rudeness – that shouldn't be tolerated and we try to instill that in our officers."
"We still have to do our job and question people, and make sure they're out doing what they say they're doing," he added. "It's a fine line to walk: You have to be professional but you still have to be able to ask the right questions and dig deep enough to find out if this person is going to do something wrong, or wants to do something wrong."
And while each traveler might only interact with Border Patrol agents for only a few minutes, Milne emphasized how many travelers the agents must evaluate each day.
"There's a common misconception that by our officers maintaining a level of professionalism to do an important job, some people may construe that as rude or unfriendly," Milne said. "It's certainly not the intention. We remain a welcoming country – both for visitors of the United States and certainly for Americans coming home. We just ask people to understand the important role and how high the stakes are for our officers at the border: They have to deal with those million people every day and really only have a short period of time to make those kinds of determinations that can have a real lasting impact on our country."
However, disgruntled travelers who are unhappy with their treatment at the borders aren't without options.
Milne said travelers can always ask to speak to a Border Patrol supervisor during their inspection, or file a complaint.
"We have an important job to do, and we try to do that in a courteous and respectful manner," Milne said.
As maybe we've all seen since 9/11, enhanced security for our country requires a little bit of sacrifice, compromise and understanding from all of us, it seems.


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The Bowie Baysox are proud to present Food Allergy Day.
Come watch America's favorite pastime in a safe and healthy setting for those affected by food allergies, intolerances and anaphylaxis.
One of the stadium's Exclusive Suites will be designated a "Gluten-Free Suite." Watch the game from the inside or outside of the Exclusive Suite Level and receive a special gluten-free food voucher good at the concession stand on game day. Voucher includes a hot dog on a gluten-free bun, chips, regular soft
drink, and a gluten-free cookie.
The Chesapeake Support Group will have a table downstairs to share as well as the Suite. One Dish Cuisine is hand-making all if the hot dog rolls as well as a crab dip for the Suite. David's Natural Market is providing the gluten-free cookies. The Chesapeake Support Group also has 25 Goodie Bags - 1 per family.
When: Sunday, June 5, 2011
Time: 2:05 p.m. (Gates open at 1 p.m.)
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Ellie Goulding & Skrillex Are No Longer An Item
Ellie Goulding and Skrillex were such a cute couple but The Sun reports that their love is sadly no more.
A source said, "It's really sad, they were really good for each other. They just couldn't make it work. They both have successful careers and live in different countries."
Goulding was really feeling Skrillex and was even planning on moving to Los Angeles just to be closer to him but things just didn't work out.
While the two may not be "motivating" each other anymore, we hope that they can still find the time to work together.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A Kansas Senate committee's chairman says the panel will sponsor a bill designed to attract a casino to southeast Kansas and bring slot machines to dog and horse tracks.
Chairman Pete Brungardt, a Salina Republican, scheduled Thursday's meeting of the Senate Federal and State Affairs to launch a push for the gambling legislation. He expects his committee to vote to sponsor the bill.
A 2007 state law allows slots at now-closed tracks in Kansas City, Wichita and outside Pittsburg, as well as a state-owned casino in southeast Kansas.
Gambling supporters say the law's financial requirements are too strict for a southeast Kansas casino or slots at the tracks to be economically feasible. The committee's bill would change the requirements.
But such efforts have found little support in the past.
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Committee gives unanimous wags to Dog Protection Act
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Brittany Moore said the awful sound her 4-year-old German Shepherd, Ava, made as an Erie police officer fired a bullet that severed the dog's spinal cord was all part of the most tragic day of her life.
"Imagine watching your best friend get shot to death," she said at a rally Wednesday at the Capitol, as tears welled behind her thick sunglasses. "Watching her in agony when she is dying, moaning in pain, and you're not able to comfort her; not able to hold her until she breathes her last breath; not able to say, 'I love you' one last time."
State Sen. David Balmer, R-Centennial, leaves the speakers lectern to join his wife Karen Phillips and their dog Digby.
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Moore has become the face of a growing movement to train Colorado police officers in an effort to cut back on seemingly senseless dog shootings by law enforcement. More than 40 such incidents have been reported across the state. Senate Bill 226 — the Dog Protection Act — has been introduced to advance that effort.
State Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, addresses the rally as state Sen. David Balmer, R-Centennial, carrying Guzman's beagle Lula, listens. State Rep Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, is seen in the background.
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The measure received unanimous approval Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was its first hearing and now heads to the Senate floor. Sens. David Balmer, R-Centennial, and Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, and Reps. Lois Court, D-Denver, and Don Coram, R-Montrose, are sponsoring the legislation.
Barbara Millman arrives with a placard as a reminder of the tragic death of Chloe, whose demise was captured on video.
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The measure would require police officers to offer owners an opportunity to save their dog if the officer is responding to a nonviolent call. It would create a volunteer task force, including animal welfare experts, to create a three-hour training webinar. Because the effort is a largely volunteer effort, there is no cost to the state.
ASPCA state legislative director Deborah Foote bears doggie emblems for participants in the Dog Protection Act rally at the Colorado State Capitol.
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Moore, 30, is the perfect poster child for the popular measure. Her harrowing incident in May 2011 has brought some of the most emotional testimony to face the legislature this year. Before testifying, Moore joined about 200 dog lovers outside the Capitol. They brought their dogs — big and small — in tow. The crowd cried as she recalled her devastating tale.
Digby and his master, state Sen. David Balmer, R-Centennial, enjoy a quiet reunion following the Dog Protection Act rally at the state Capitol on April 3.
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"I watched as Ava, my best friend, was shot in the back by officer Jamie Chester. The rawhide bone fell from Ava's mouth and she made the most awful sound that I have ever heard, and then immediately fell to the ground," Moore told the crowd. "She tried to get up one last time, but her hind legs wouldn't work because her spinal cord was severed…
State Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, shows off an ASPCA doggie in his jacket pocket while waiting for the rally to begin.
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"Our golden retriever went over and was nudging Ava trying to help her," Moore continued. "Ava fell back on the ground and laid there and died slowly… I will never forget the sounds of my daughters' torturous cries that night…"
Carol Altvater's dog, Mik, kisses Suzanne Lively as her dog, Dandy, and Ernie Altvater and his dog Daisy (at left) listen to a speaker at the rally.
Photo by John Schoenwalter/The Colorado Statesman
Moore was not allowed to comfort Ava in her last moments on earth. Since the incident, her daughters have stopped trusting police officers.
"I raised my girls to trust police officers, that if they ever got lost, to find a police officer and they would help them. Now they don't trust them," said Moore.
State Rep. Lois Court, D-Denver, and Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, (with her beagle Lula) get the Dog Protection Act rally off to a lively start from the steps of the Colorado State Capitol.
Photo by John Schoenwalter/The Colorado Statesman
Chester was cleared by the Boulder County District Attorney's Office in the shooting. Moore has filed a lawsuit against Erie and the officer in federal court.
The department claims that the dog acted aggressively toward Chester, and the officer has reported that the dog flashed its teeth and lunged at him. The department has declined to comment, citing the ongoing lawsuit.
This sign seems to express a major concern of the participants at the rally on Wednesday.
Photo by John Schoenwalter/The Colorado Statesman
Moore's tragic story cast a shadow over an otherwise joyous rally on a beautiful day outside the Gold Dome. Citizens walked their best friends on leashes by the west steps as a DJ blasted "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by Baha Men. The crowd carried signs that read, "Gone, but not forgotten!" with photos of Moore kissing Ava.
It's been a long Dog Protection rally for Obie, who rests on a cushion provided by 'mom' Laura Hagan, near the Capitol's west steps.
Photo by John Schoenwalter/The Colorado Statesman
"This bill that we're hearing today is not anti-police," said Guzman. "It's pro-cops, pro-dogs, pro-Senate Bill 226, because we want to make sure that the police in the areas in our local communities do everything they can to learn about dog behavior."
Balmer asked the crowd to symbolically "scratch the grass" in an act of solidarity: "An army of dog lovers started to contact us…" he said. "We're going to be a giant movement nationwide that began here in Colorado."
During testimony later in the day, there was no opposition to the measure. It has the support of the County Sheriffs of Colorado, who helped write the bill. The Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police has also been working on the bill, according to Balmer.
"This bill represents an opportunity to make local law enforcement more effective, more efficient, and very frankly, presents another unique opportunity for government to avoid or prevent any potential future liability," testified Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, a member of the Judiciary Committee and a former police officer, was careful to point out that dog shootings by law enforcement are not a common occurrence.
"Is it your experience that the vast majority of law enforcement is dog lovers?" he asked Robinson, fishing for the sheriff to of course say "yes."
The committee also heard from Gary Branson, whose pit bull, Chloe, was Tasered and fatally shot by a Commerce City police officer in November. Branson told the committee that the incident could have been avoided had the officer been trained.
The shooting received national attention when video of it surfaced on the Internet. The officer, Robert Price, has been charged with felony-aggravated cruelty to animals.
"It's a shame that a dog could be lost out of someone's ignorance about how dogs act," he said. "It's like losing a family member… there's no difference to me."
Jeffrey Justice, a former UPS delivery driver, said he never found a need to shoot a dog in his 14 years, pointing out that he came into contact with multiple dogs every day on his routes. He said he's not a dog expert, but a little training could go a long way.
"I was charged by dogs many times over those years," he said. "More times than any Colorado law enforcement officer."


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|A real-time data-logger system using an optical disk WORM for archiving continuous 12-lead ECG data during exercise testing.
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|An exercise ECG analysis program was developed over 15 years on a number of mainframes, minicomputers and, most recently, microcomputer-based systems. It has been rehosted into both Motorola MC68000 and Intel 80286 microprocessor-based development systems and is currently used with a removable 200 Mbyte optical disk (Write-Once-Read-Many, WORM) based data-logger system that can record and store all 12 leads simultaneously and continuously for an entire exercise test (up to 38 minutes). Data is acquired with 12-bit A/D resolution at 500 samples/sec. All ECG data and patient information are archived on the optical disk for later off-line recall and analysis on a PC or real-time replay through a D/A converter. Recorded ECG signals are at patient levels so they can be replayed through the patient cable box on any commercial system. Current development includes both simultaneous on-line processing and storage of 12-lead ECG data and off-line processing and development performed on the long-term, continuous ECG data being archived on optical disk. Patient medical histories and clinical information are separately entered into an applications database, where ECG measures and test results are later included. This new optical disk based exercise ECG database contains more than 600 complete exercise tests and is projected to increase to nearly 3,000 within 2 years.
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JAN 17 — Now that the verdict on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II trial is in, the focus is on the next general election which is very important to both Barisan Nasional and the opposition but it will also be symbolic to another group of people —- the young generation.
Though many might be aware of the general election in 2008, almost all could not vote then.
Every generation plays a major role in Malaysia's political scene. My generation will do too. The more relevant question is when. And when we have reached that time where the torch is passed down, another question arises: which group of people will pick up the torch and carry on the journey to manage this beloved country of ours?
Will the young generation hate us as their politicians, worse than how we hate our politicians now? Or will we be able to produce our version of Najib Razak, Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir Mohamad or Lim Kit Siang? Or will we fare much better where the politicians of our generation will be the noblest, smartest and cleanest?
After all, that is what we are preaching now as today's youth: condemning our politicians as being dirty, stupid and corrupt.
How do we retain our best pool of talent is one matter, the other is how do we get them to fill up the most critical sector which affects the most life in Malaysia — politics.
I was given the chance to be a part of a selection-based, tip-top internship programme last July where I met many brilliant minds from brilliant universities and outstanding personalities with captivating ideas. Though what surprised me most was this one occasion where somebody asked who planned to be a politician? I, who by far am the least brilliant there, was the only one with my hands up in the air.
And then there is another group of youths who aim to be in politics but for a particular reason. To scale the corporate ladder, earn money and then quit corporate and join politics. Sounds smart and idealistic, but might be impractical in real life in Malaysia where only a few manage to be both good at corporate, and clean and honest in politics. In this cut-throat era, some if not most might lose their humanity even if they did make the jump to politics.
So again, how do we retain these talents?
One of the biggest factors is money. Let us be frank and honest, money is important for three reasons; personal security, integrity safety net in the political world and also the rewarding factor as the carrot on a stick.
Politicians in Malaysia are not even one of the best paid in the country so it is not surprising corruption is quite rampant. In the ideal world which does not exist, it is okay but we cannot expect many people to be like Robin Hood or that other noble leader, former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for that matter.
The second factor is job satisfaction. I cannot deny there are many other people of my generation who are noble and want to be a politician not because of the popularity or power but to make a real difference in the society. But this argument is baseless if the political career itself is not noble and considered dirty.
If you are a very clean and noble person in Malaysia, why should you risk your integrity by joining politics when you can make an impact by doing charity work or fighting a civil society cause?
These two biggest factors might make you think that my generation is unpatriotic, greedy and inhumane. But think deeper and consider the fact that it is a free market and the best will be recruited by the best and usually the rewarding corporate world and the noble civil society are the best recruiters.
In this competitive world, we cannot hide under the argument of patriotism to solve the brain-drain issue and we sure as hell should not do the same if we want the future politicians to be the best Malaysia can produce to steer this country to be a better place to live in.
The future of Malaysia depends on how good our teachers are, how competitive our corporate leaders are, how creative our engineers are, how noble our judiciary system is and all the relevant similarities. But all these depend on the quality of policymakers and executive branch which has the power to achieve all of those above and brighten this country's future.
I do not know about you, but I prefer our politicians to be guy A who spent his developing years analysing the best policies and improving his personal and management skills and not guy B who lowers down a banner with the prime minister's face on it.
Even guy B wants guy A to change the system which slapped the former with a ridiculously long three-term suspension.
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October 9, 2009 at 9:25 pm #1084
Hi guys…
A couple of months ago i started researching deeply about pitcairn islands political status etc… After that i tried to find details on Bir Tawil region… Most of my research was for fun, and for my interest in micronations. I also spent some time on island leases and related laws in some countries. Conclusion of my research was the only terra nullius with a chance to create a brand new country was Bir Tawil though since it carries great risk of intervention it would require an insane amount of capital and diplomatic effort… Still its actually quite doable for a billionare if he/she really focuses on the topic… It may actually be insanely profitable too especially for such people focusing on banking and gambling. Anyways after i crossed out Bir Tawil i spent some time thinking about Minerva. It was my mid-high school dream to create a self sustaining island nation. Since i was addicted to playing fallout-fallout 2 i was mostly focusing on vault desings, a single gargantuan building constructed inside islands, underwater mountains… I was researching about kelp farming n other types of nutrient underwater products' production methods, attempts on generating energy from underwater waves and orthodox hydroelectricity, megabuilding ventilation systems so on… As a lover of rpg i had quite alot of experience in dungeon mastering, and i was especially in love with Alternity campaigns. I was using my own designs and designs i found over net as reference in my games, but since my fellow player friends were freaks (2 architects, 1 captain n nautical expert, 1 dutch emissary, 1 ship engineer, 1 metallurgy-geology expert) i had to give it my best to make the game realistic as possible, it really becomes weird when your player constructs a house/ship ingame, and designs it in detail usin 3dmax n maya or gets u sample alloys and raw ores right from his workplace. Ehh…i guess i m a bit off from my point 😀 anyways i really love to think about alternate societies. And i found seasteading institute intriguing. Though i was a bit dissapointed in various ways since it was too realistic due to low funds, I hope you guys can manage to incease your funds in near future and be able to create more futuristic concepts… e.g. I'm sick of living between concrete walls, its been 2400 years since carthage started using modern concrete and we are still using it as the primary construction component. For stuff i can and can not do please look at my profile and if your further interested simply pm me…October 10, 2009 at 8:27 am #8102
Greetings Shouri. Sorry we're not as sci-fi as you'd hoped. I wish we were too, but we've got to take things one step at a time. And the first step is getting on the water to begin with.
– NickOctober 10, 2009 at 11:43 am #8107
Hello U., interesting post and profile.
Bir Tawil? I recall reading that neither the Sudanese nor the Egyptians want it. There is probably a good reason for that. I'll check it out via Google Earth.
Anyway, good luck, man.October 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm #8108
The reason neither the Sudan nor Egypt claim Bir Tawil looks to be purely political; an issue of diplomacy. And that could easily change with time.
This area would probably be claimed as part of Palestine under Arafat's 1988 declaration.
The Kingdom of Finismund has supposedly laid claim to the area, but they seem to be just fantasy roleplayers.Shouri wrote:
Anyways after i crossed out Bir Tawil i spent some time thinking about Minerva. It was my mid-high school dream to create a self sustaining island nation.
Yes, I feel you! And I can identify with much of your experience: thinking, dreaming, fantasizing over the years. Now I'm very much into doing. Actually, I would have preferred that before, but there were some obstacles to deal with.October 10, 2009 at 12:57 pm #8109
Yeah really hard obstacles tbh. Primarily funding, it requires really alot of ambition and effort to create an island nation but seriously if i was michael oliver i dont think i would fail in the way he did, all that money such a waste, 100$ seems good enough to start with such a project, failing with such funds is unforgivable 😀October 10, 2009 at 1:44 pm #8110
Sea stead of my dream (little detail)
A seastead&island nation in the middle of an ocean (like: great meteor tablemount, middle between hawaii and kiribati, or middle of indian ocean) At first there will be a permanent center piece, to serve as a dock, workshop, warehouse, offices… preferably in the middle of a large natural breakwater. Primary income of the seastead will be info. tech.; as the colony grows, medical supplies, (like keroten, and daily vitamin&nutrient pills, and perhaps some herbal medicine for cosmetic use) algae cultivation, fish&shrimp cultivation (and processing them) will be added to colonies main income. With high tech installations in near future many eco friendly heavy industry may be added to this list.
As for its government, a system like oligarchy-monarchy based on aristocracy would work fine i guess, representatives from companies in the seastead and certain gifted well educated people perhaps… e.g. Representatives: Mercanary Corporation owner, Medical Research&Industry Corporation owner, Geology&Metallurgy experts, Botanists… (Any scienctist with studies focusing on stuff related to our subject: ecology,botany, zoology, recycle, biology, medicine, programming, architecture, engineering of almost any sorts etc etc), Software Corporation Owner, Law&International Law,Relations experts so on… Also if a president,monarch or such is needed as the head of the state it would most probably be a philospher, thinker kind who strongly believes in ideals of the nation and his/her debative skills and knowledge of modern economy must be exceptional…
Policy: Every bit of the seastead belongs to goverment. Government is a council, a union of subject corporations and their staff, leaded by a charismatic individual with a noble ideology. He/she thinks himself as the protector, father/mother of the nation thus acts only on his nations benefit. Defence is mercanary corporations responsibility, Healthcare is medical corporations responsibility etc.
if you wanna hear more about 'Orb Union' (named after a fantasy nation, Orb Union/ Gundam Seed [Japanese Mecha Anime]) just pm me and i ll open a thread about 'dreamsteads' or pm me n tell me if already such thread exists.October 10, 2009 at 7:47 pm #8123
Heya Shouri, seems we've got our eyes on the same geographic locations i.e. Indian Ocean. =)
And it's nice to see another Fallout fan here =)October 10, 2009 at 7:58 pm #8124
hey xns, i dont specifacally look for indian ocean there are few places around the globe to construct something major tho and it would be really nice if there is a suitable place on Nikitin Seamount south os sri lanka, though Vitória-Trindade Seamounts seems a more ideal place, as well as Great Meteor Tablemount, closer to land, but out of their EEZ… But my seasteading colony concept focuses on legal mercenary services and ifrormation technologies, so indian ocean will be a perfect spot, since its closer to software giant india, and closer to warzones when compared to other suitable locations.
Nice to see you as well, i m browsing the forum a bit more than i should since there is alot of stuff to read aroundOctober 10, 2009 at 11:29 pm #8127
Btw xns, you arent actually planning to get your hands on a maldive lagoon right? 😀 if anyone manages such thing it would really be worthier than buying an island+manor at pacific… you can get your hands on a really well established island+manor for a bit more than 10mils in pacific, and there are really cheaper ones too, but mostly they belong to countries with big guns which wont let you have nuff autonomy… but maldives on the otherhand might actually sell a remote lagoon for a good deal i guess, though the price can be …astronomic…October 12, 2009 at 5:06 am #8156
You might notice that my sig doesn't refer to an existing island or nation :p So no, the existing island thing is off the table. Partly for the reasons you mentioned, but more because of rising sea levels and a lack of expandability. That and the cool factor of building it myself :p
King Shannon of the Constitutional Monarchy of Logos.November 10, 2009 at 9:02 pm #8606
Long time DM. Original member of the A-list, which is to say I LOVE ALTERNITY! Still run an active Star*Drive Campaign. =)
Welcome to seasteading. =)
Live Well!
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When Laura Twing uses the words and actions of Christ to argue against pro-life legislation in North Dakota, she misses the clarity from the Bible about what he's like.
The commandment against murder was central to His thinking, as it is to the legislators in question. This is a legitimate use of legislation and the power of the state.
The Jesus who rebuked his disciples for keeping mothers from bringing their children to him is not a man to pit mothers against their babies. He instead blessed them. Making it harder for babies to be killed is completely consistent with Jesus' character.
The mercy Jesus showed to the woman caught in adultery is followed by his words, "Go and sin no more." He didn't excuse her sin or encourage her to return to it but instead showed that God's grace should result in a changed life. Nothing about this account can rightly be used to argue against legislation to protect the unborn.
Perhaps Twing's intensity can be understood from her believing that women are being made to "bear children that they aren't capable of, or interested in, raising well." Were she to make friends with any pro-lifer, she'd find this is a caricature. Abstinence outside of marriage would make a great difference, coupled with the compassion shown in crisis pregnancy centers across America, compassion given in the name of Christ.
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