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Getting Baby Down to Sleep?
Getting Baby Down to Sleep?
posted at 2/10/2012 2:45 PM ESTMy 10 month old will not go down to sleep. She wails in protest when she goes to bed, despite very obvious indications of fatigue. It's worst at night, but problematic at naptime as well.We've tried creating a consistent ritual (two books, some cuddles, dark quiet room, noise machine etc). She's happy and calm until we put her down in the crib.We've tried letting her cry for a bit. Not true Ferberizing, but leaving her for gradually increasing perdiods (5 min/10 min/15 min) with brief soothing visits at the appropriate intervals. She's very stubborn and will cry for extended periods, then be wide awake from getting so worked up.She does have some separation anxiety, in general, so that could be contributing to the problem, but we're not sure.Once she's asleep, she's a very good sleeper. It's just the getting there where we're stuck.I took her in to the doc today to rule out ear infection, etc. She saw no signs of trouble.She's our second, so we have some experience with establishing sleep habits, but we're really stymied.Any ideas/advice?
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posted at 2/10/2012 2:50 PM ESTmy DS has gotten into a phase now where he needs verbal warnings and I ask- are you ready to go down now? he is older than your daughter, but it really curbed the crying when I put him down. I "give him" two no's and then say "next time, we really have to go to sleep." and it seems to help him to know it is coming.
also, is it possible that she is overtired?
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posted at 2/10/2012 2:51 PM ESTWhat is her bedtime? What are her naps like? MIght you be missing the best window? If she is visibly tired I would try putting her to bed earlier.
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posted at 2/10/2012 2:52 PM ESTI'd get her into bed earlier -- by the time she's showing fatigue she's already overtired. When a baby or toddler is overtired it's much harder for him to fall asleep because he's wired and emotional. I'd also cut the soothing out of the brief visit and do the true Ferberizing (which you're practically doing now anyway). By soothing her when you go in, you're just showing her that she can make you come back by yelling. And you're infuriating her every time you leave. No need to drag the process out, I say.
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posted at 2/11/2012 7:55 AM ESTHm, the more I think about it, the more likely overtired sounds like the problem. It's sort of demoralizing to think that it's kind of my fault.She tends to catnap in the car, but I've got her on a pretty consistent 12-3 nap and then bed time at about 8.A mitigating factor is that her brother goes to sleep at 7 PM. With rooms close together in a small house, we're trying to avoid putting them down at the same time.Am I way off base? What time should she be going down?
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posted at 2/11/2012 8:04 AM ESTCut yourself some slack while you experiment with earlier bedtimes. If you put the kids down at the same time they'll adjust to whatever noises come as a result if they are both ready, physiologically, to go to sleep for the night. I think that stipulation of not having them go down at the same time is the root of the troubles even though I understand your reasoning.
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posted at 2/11/2012 10:14 AM ESTFirst, don't beat yourself up about this.
Second, my twins have been in the same room since birth, and while that's a bit different b/c they are the same age, my kids will sleep through each other's crying or other noises. I think the same would be true for your kids esp. since they're in separate rooms.
As far as the overtiredness goes, if she's napping for 3 hours in the afternoon PLUS catnapping in the car, she's definitely overtired. All kids are different, and again, I recognize when you have an older child it's not always easy to do the "ideal" thing, but she should probably be taking two naps: one around 9 or 10 am for a couple hours and then another one around 1 for a couple of hours. I don't know if that's at all feasible with your older child's schedule, but if you can push two naps a couple days a week, that would probably help.
When my kids were that age, they would wake up by 5:30 am (UGH). They would play for a little while and have breakfast. They would nap from 8:30 - 10:30, play and eat lunch, and then down for nap as soon as they finished lunch--usually around 12:30. They would sleep until 2:30 or 3, and then play and eat dinner and some nights we'd do bath after dinner and then they would CRASH at 6:30. Even if we had wanted to keep them up, we couldn't have.
My suggestion is to pick up Weissbluth's Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child. It's separated by age groups, so you won't need to read the whole thing all at once. There are a few "general" chapters in the beginning and then you just need to read the other chapters that apply to your kids.
Weissbluth's main "thing" is "sleep begets sleep." The more sleep your child gets, the easier it is for your child to sleep. Creating a consistent, predictable, winding-down bedtime routine can also help.
If you still want to stagger their bedtimes, I would suggest getting DD back to a 6:30 bedtime and keeping DS's bedtime the same if it's working for him. I think Weissbluth recommends changing bedtimes by 15 minutes every few nights. So, maybe tonight you push it back to 7:45 and then in 3 or 4 nights, push it back to 7:30, etc. In your case, though, b/c she's already overtired and b/c it's so hard to get her to sleep in the first place, I would probably be more agressive--push it back to 7 for a few nights and then to 6:30. And if you start pushing 2 naps at least a couple days/week, I think you'll start to see a big difference in a couple weeks.
I don't know if you work and get home late, etc. but it used to kill DH and I that the kids crashed so early in the evening. We wouldn't get home until almost 6 some nights and immediately had to feed the kids and get them to bed. It s*cked. Our kids were well-rested and happy, though, so it was a trade off. I think it was when they were close to a year that we were able to push them to a 7 pm bedtime and only recently (at 2 1/2) it's been closer to 8.
Read Weissbluth, put her down earlier for nighttime sleep and more often for naps and I think you'll be amazed what a difference it makes.
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posted at 2/11/2012 1:13 PM ESTI totally agree with Daisy. I think most 10 month olds need two naps - not one. At 10 months my twins were napping at 9:30 or 10:00am and again at 1:30 or 2:00pm. And they were sleeping from 6:30pm to 6:00am. I think 8:00 is way too late for a 10 month old.
Get a copy of Weissbluth - he has great schedules of how long babies should stay awake at certain ages - it helps set the sleeping schedule so they don't get overtired.
Maybe it will work out that your 10 month old and your other child both take the afternoon nap at the same time. It will also give you some alone time with the older child when DD naps in the morning.
I'd bathe together at night and let the older one play in his room while you put the baby down. Then put the older one down at 7:00.
Good luck!


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I use a nex6 +
16-50 when portability is needed.
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18-55 for me is history. Maybe a tad better than the new 16-50, but to big for the difference in size. Can't put it in my pocket, must use a bag, and then the 18-200 is my friend;-)
I miss some super wide, maybe i will add the 16 2.8 with the wide adapter.
Choices choises.... always difficult.
Sorry, didn't answer your question, i would still stay with the 16-50, for the size. IQ isn't really that much different imho.
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Yesterday we reported that PlayStation Home began the 15-year mark celebrations, and today Ro Hernandez of the PlayStation Store Team has extended the news to the PSN store with some sale items and more!
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The Purpose of the AAT
An American Translation of the Bible (AAT) is an original translation.
This bible started as the work of Dr. William F. Beck, whose cause was to simplify the English Bible for people of all ages. There are almost 5,000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament all over the earth, plus many thousands of the Latin, Syraic, and other translations. Dr. Beck felt that God wants us to have a passion for the truth; to use all the best evidences from the manuscripts, dictionaries, and grammars as light on the text; and to search with burning hearts for its exact meaning.
Why The AAT?
The AAT puts understanding God's Word within reach of this multitude of English speakers. Linguistic and semantic advances have been incorporated into the translation, and it reflects changes in English style through contemporary punctuation, formatting, grammar, and vocabulary. At the same time, the An American Translation of the Bible retains meaningful theological terms while avoiding slang, regionalisms, or changes made simply for the sake of "political correctness" or other social agendas


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In 2010 we believe the biggest trend will be people moving away from being overly trendy. We are living in uncertain times, and because of this, clients will create homes that are comforting and familiar, with an edge of excitement. A focus on quality and value will be the biggest trend.
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As far as furniture goes, the trend is to create a home that is an expression of your own personality. We love mixing clean lined neutral pieces with globally influenced prints and antiques.
Comfort and longevity will be key, so natural pieces, solid wood and down filled upholstery will be hot. Distressed leathers, woods and industrial architecture are timeless and will continue to rise in popularity.
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Rush Limbaugh Was Right
Donovan McNabb isn't a great quarterback, and the media do overrate him because he is black.
In his notorious ESPN comments last Sunday night, Rush Limbaugh said he never thought the Philadelphia Eagles' Donovan McNabb was "that good of a quarterback."
If Limbaugh were a more astute analyst, he would have been even harsher and said, "Donovan McNabb is barely a mediocre quarterback." But other than that, Limbaugh pretty much spoke the truth. Limbaugh lost his job for saying in public what many football fans and analysts have been saying privately for the past couple of seasons.
Let's review: McNabb, he said, is "overrated ... what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well."
"There's a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
Let's take the football stuff first. For the past four seasons, the Philadelphia Eagles have had one of the best defenses in the National Football League and have failed to make it to the Super Bowl primarily because of an ineffective offense—an offense run by Donovan McNabb. McNabb was a great college quarterback, in my estimation one of the best of the '90s while at Syracuse. (For the record, I helped persuade ESPN Magazine, then called ESPN Total Sports, to put him on the cover of the 1998 college-football preview issue.) He is one of the most talented athletes in the NFL, but that talent has not translated into greatness as a pro quarterback.
McNabb has started for the Eagles since the 2000 season. In that time, the Eagles offense has never ranked higher than 10th in the league in yards gained. In fact, their 10th-place rank in 2002 was easily their best; in their two previous seasons, they were 17th in a 32-team league. They rank 31st so far in 2003.
In contrast, the Eagles defense in those four seasons has never ranked lower than 10th in yards allowed. In 2001, they were seventh; in 2002 they were fourth; this year they're fifth. It shouldn't take a football Einstein to see that the Eagles' strength over the past few seasons has been on defense, and Limbaugh is no football Einstein, which is probably why he spotted it.
The news that the Eagles defense has "carried" them over this period should be neither surprising nor controversial to anyone with access to simple NFL statistics—or for that matter, with access to a television. Yet, McNabb has received an overwhelming share of media attention and thus the credit. Now why is this?
Let's look at a quarterback with similar numbers who also plays for a team with a great defense. I don't know anyone who would call Brad Johnson one of the best quarterbacks in pro football—which is how McNabb is often referred to. In fact, I don't know anyone who would call Brad Johnson, on the evidence of his 10-year NFL career, much more than mediocre. Yet, Johnson's NFL career passer rating, as of last Sunday, is 7.3 points higher than McNabb's (84.8 to 77.5), he has completed his passes at a higher rate (61.8 percent to 56.4 percent), and has averaged significantly more yards per pass (6.84 to 5.91). McNabb excels in just one area, running, where he has gained 2,040 yards and scored 14 touchdowns to Johnson's 467 and seven. But McNabb has also been sacked more frequently than Johnson—more than once, on average, per game, which negates much of the rushing advantage.
In other words, in just about every way, Brad Johnson has been a more effective quarterback than McNabb and over a longer period.


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Hello Orchard – Creating a Orchard module using latest source code
by Patrick • July 25, 2010 • Orchard CMS • 11 Comments
What is Orchard?
Project Orchard is the latest open source CMS project by folks in Microsoft based on ASP.NET MVC platform. It has some relationship with project Oxite which is another CMS used by the MIX event website. You can read more about Orchard from the official website here. And you can also check out the official download as well as the latest build from Codeplex. It is light weight where you can do copy-paste deployment onto shared webhosting, doesn't require SQL Server to run yet at the same time you can add functionalities as a Orchard Module.
Official Download
The official download dates back to March 2010 at the time of MIX 2010. The feature sets are primitive and less composite than what's in the roadmap. It has been 4 months since the release and the team will release a official Alpha release by end of July 2010.
Having said that, the March release comes with a walkthrough which you can follow to build a customized module for Orchard. You can check out the walkthrough here.
Latest Build
In the true spirit of open source, the Orchard team chose Mercurial instead of Team Foundation Server to be the source code host of the project. Codeplex supports both source control systems maybe because of some non-.NET or non-Windows hosted there.
In the March 2010 release Modules are actually ASP.NET MVC 2 Area where else in the latest build, they are individual ASP.NET MVC Web App. The new module design makes Orchard more suitable for composition and multi tenancy, in a way like SharePoint features.
Because of this architecture change, the walkthrough mentioned above does not work with the latest build. So in this and subsequent blog post, I will share more about creating a customized module for latest build of Orchard
Downloading latest build
To get the latest build, you either download from the source tree using TortoiseHG which is a Windows based Mercurial client (instructions here) or you can download the latest changeset from the source code page at Codeplex.
Whenever you download source code packages as a zip file from the Web, remember to 'unblock' it from the file property page else Visual Studio will give you a not trusted source warning message which can be annoying at times.
Understand the Orchard architecture
I won't dwell too deep into this as Bertrand Le Roy wrote an extensive document titled How Orchard Works here. Architects should read this document first to understand how things work.
Accessing the latest change set
I downloaded the latest change set as of today and from Windows Explorer you will notice there are 2 Visual Studio solution file. Note also that it has been updated to support Visual Studio 2010 solution. You also note that there is a Windows Azure solution file here but let's check this out in my future post.
The whole Orchard application framework is inside the Orchard folder while Orchard.Web is the ASP.NET project which can be hosted inside IIS. Let's open up Orcahrd.sln using VS2010.
All in all there are more than 30 projects in project Orchard with Orchard.Core, Orchard.Framework and Orchard.Web at the center of this CMS. On top of that there are some core modules which Orchard needs such as the User, Pages, and Setup modules.
Build and setup a sample site
Orchard supports both SQL Server and SQLite database but for sake of debugging and troubleshooting I will choose SQL Server. Let's create an empty database inside SQL Server called OrchardTutorialDB in the local SQL Express instance.
Back to Visual Studio 2010 with the project opened, press Ctrl-F5. IE will be opened and you will see the Orchard setup page
At this page, you need to give a name for the website and assign a website admin account. Then click on 'Use an existing SQL Server database' to setup SQL Server. Key in the connection string in the following format
Data Source=.\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=OrchardTutorialDB ;User Id=myUsername;Password=myPassword;
Note: Skip and leave the Database Table Prefix empty at the moment because of a known bug with using the prefix
Click 'Finish Setup' and a few minutes later you will see the website up and running!
I will normally change my theme to a more presentable one.
Hello Orchard – Adding a new Module
Note: from this point onwards I will reuse some of the text in the Orchard Walkthrough document.
NOTE: Step 2 to 4 and 15 to 17 are very additional steps to make the walkthrough works in the new change set.
The objective here is to build a very simply Hello World style webpage themed by Orchard with a menu item on top.
1. A simple custom area that renders "Hello World" on the app's front-end
2. Views in the custom area that take advantage of the currently applied Orchard theme
3. A menu item on the front-end for navigating to the custom area's view
Follow These Steps:
1. Right-click the Modules node in VS Solution Explorer, and choose "Add > New Project…"
2. In the project creation screen, choose "ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Empty Web Application"
<Very Important> On the path text box, it is default to <Orchard location>\src folder. Change it to <Orchard location>\src\Orchard.Web\Modules\ folder (Screenshot below). Else Orchard will not recognize the new module.
Finally Type "Orchard.Commerce" for the area name and click [OK].
3. For Orchard to discover this module, you need to add a module.txt file at the project root folder and insert the following content.
name: Commerce
antiforgery: enabled
author: Patrick Yong
website: http://patrickyong.net
version: 0.1
orchardversion: 0.1.2010.0312
description: Commerce
features: Orchard.Commerce:
Description: Commerce.
Category: Commerce
4. Modify the web.config file accordingly. Basically I added <httphandlers> and <handlers> in <System.WebServer> for MVC routing.
<?xml version="1.0"?>  <configuration> <system.web>  <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"> <assemblies> <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> <add assembly="System.Data.Linq, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/> </assemblies> </compilation> <customErrors> <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" /> </customErrors> --> <pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID"> <namespaces> <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/> <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax"/> <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html"/> <add namespace="System.Web.Routing"/> <add namespace="System.Linq"/> <add namespace="System.Collections.Generic"/> <add namespace="Orchard.Mvc.Html"/> </namespaces> </pages> <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="*.mvc" validate="false" type="System.Web.Mvc.MvcHttpHandler, System.Web.Mvc, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> </httpHandlers> </system.web> <system.web.extensions/>  <system.webServer> <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"></modules> <handlers> <remove name="MvcHttpHandler"/> <remove name="UrlRoutingHandler"/> <add name="MvcHttpHandler" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="*" path="*.mvc" type="System.Web.Mvc.MvcHttpHandler, System.Web.Mvc, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> </handlers> </system.webServer> <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /> <bindingRedirect oldVersion="220.127.116.11" newVersion="126.96.36.199" /> </dependentAssembly> </assemblyBinding> </runtime> </configuration>
5. Right-click the newly created "Ocrhard.Commerce > Controllers" folder, and choose "Add > Controller…"
6. Name the Controller "HomeController"
7. Right-click on the "Index()" method name and choose "Add View…"
8. Selected the "Create a partial view" option and click [Add]
9. Add the following HTML to the View page:
Hello World

10. Add Orchard.Framework and Orchard.Themes to the project reference
11. Add the following namespace imports to the HelloController.cs file:
using Orchard.Themes; using Orchard.UI.Navigation;
12. Add an [Themed] attribute to the HelloController class:
[Themed] public class HomeController : Controller
13. Add another class to create a new Menu item, you can create a new .cs file in the project root folder or add it inside the controller class
public class MainMenu : INavigationProvider { public Localizer T { get; set; } public String MenuName { get { return "main"; } } public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) { builder.Add(menu => menu.Add(T("Shop"), "4", item => item.Action("Index", "Home", new { area = "Orchard.Commerce" }))); } }
14. Type Ctrl-F5 to build and run in VS.
15. Login as admin (using the admin account you created during setup) and navigate to the admin page
16. Scroll down to look for Site Configuration menu and click on Features
17. Voila! If you had done everything right, you will see Orchard.Commerce as a module under the Commerce category. Now click on the 'Enable' button.
18. After a moment, message(s) will appear and to try out the feature, click on Your Site on top.
19. Now you notice an additional item on the top menu
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When the time comes to repair these systems, Transtar has the parts you need to do the job right, the first time, every time. Whether you are looking for a harness repair kit, a replacement solenoid, or the complete valve body with all the solenoids and sensors installed, Transtar has you covered.
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When is it ok to switch from breast feeding to whole milk?
My daughter is 7 months old and I feel like my milk supply is dwindling. She eats a few solid foods and eats baby yogurts, but I am wondering when is it ok for me to give her a bottle of whole milk and oatmeal for bedtime? I have asked a few different moms and my mother also told told me that she started me at 6 months. And I would like to think that I am pretty normal... What is the correct answer?
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technically ur not suppose to start whole milk until 1 year because of the proteins they might not be able to digest it, that's why you use formula because the proteins are partially broken down and easy to digest...as you know all kids are differnet what works for one might not work for another... up to you whatever you want to try but that's the reasonsposted 08/10/2011 by ruthless09
Not until a year. If you feel your milk supply is decreasing, then try nursing her more often. Be sure you are nursing her before offering solids (continue to do that until a year, then you can give solids before nursing) At 7 months, solids should not be replacing nursing sessions.posted 08/10/2011 by momsangel03
It is totally normal for your supply to start dwindling now that your baby is starting to eat table foods. I agree with the other moms here who have said to wait until 1 year to introduce milk (or wheat) especially if your family has a history of food allergies. My advice is to work at boosting your supply. Make sure you're getting plenty of liquids, especially water and not too much caffinated and/or carbinated drinks and also try to get a little more rest. If you can lay down for just 10-20 minutes that often helps.posted 08/23/2011 by Faith-simplymama
12 months old. See a lactation consultant for your milk supply issues. Formula can be used if a lactation consultant is unsuccessful. Good luck.posted 03/20/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
At my LO's 9mos appt, my ped told me to slowly start introducing whole milk to LO around 11 mos. That way when he is allowed to have it at a year, we've been slowly progressing for an entire month. I started giving him about an ounce every day last week (he'll be 11 mos in a few days) and he's doing fine. No funky diapers or upset tummies. I think if you go nice and slow closer to the year mark you'll be fine. But for right now, I'd probably stick with breastfeeding or formula so your LO can get all the added nutrients and steer clear of tummy issues. Good luck!posted 08/11/2011 by emily50
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The Obama Watch
The President's Snub
Unlike his predecessors, our current president is not one to be clubby with former presidents.
Shortly after winning reelection in 2004, George W. Bush was asked whether he thought more or less highly of his predecessors, now that he'd been in office awhile.
"Of my predecessors? Very interesting," he said, before immediately adding, "More highly of them all" because "I've got a much better appreciation of what they've been through."
That anecdote, told by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy in their new book The Presidents Club, captures how most American presidents feel about one another. Nobody quite knows what it's like to be president except other presidents.
American presidents "are the jurors who will not pronounce a verdict, because they know they have not heard all the evidence," the authors write in their closing sentence, "and they are predisposed to be merciful."
If the Presidents Club had a charter, it would be guided by the three S's: support and silence and solidarity. While most U.S. presidents have followed those protocols, even across party lines and with former rivals, President Obama has consistently and conspicuously broken them.
Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman became extraordinarily close. "I feel that I am one of his closest friends," Truman said, "and he is one of my closest friends."
After Kennedy beat Nixon by a slim margin in 1960, the president-elect invited his former adversary to meet. "I would like to fly down from Palm Beach to have a chat with you -- if it won't interfere with your vacation," Kennedy said to Nixon. Nixon was happy to go, and they had what Kennedy described as "a very cordial meeting."
After the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy reached out to Nixon, who visited the president in the Oval Office to offer his advice. The young president also met with Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower. "I asked President Eisenhower here to bring him up to date on recent events and get the benefit of his thoughts and experience," JFK said. He called on all three for guidance again during the Cuban missile crisis.
Lyndon Johnson was, the authors found, "fully conscious of the power of his predecessors and protective of their privileges. He studied them, fed and tended them, sent flowers, cuff links, statues, put Air Force jets and helicopters at their disposal, had his aides research every single contact he had ever had with any one of them, going back to his earliest Senate days."
"I cannot tell you adequately my gratitude for your wisdom and counsel, and, for the fact that no one has found it possible to divide you and me," LBJ told Eisenhower, whom he called "the best chief of staff I've got."
Johnson solicited advice from both Ike and Truman, especially as the situation in Vietnam deteriorated. In asking Truman to visit him in the White House, Johnson wrote, "I don't want to tax you, but I always want you to know I need your counsel, and I love you." LBJ called Truman "One of the few comforts I had during the war."
Nixon and his staff kept in touch with Johnson down on his Texas ranch. "Cabinet members called him regularly with updates, and Henry Kissinger came in person to discuss the progress of the peace talks," Gibbs and Duffy write.
In August 1969, to mark Johnson's 61st birthday, Nixon flew the Johnson family to his Western White House at San Clemente for a party, where Nixon led the group as the guests sang to Johnson, who "stood smiling, holding his felt hat and looking a little dazed in the brilliant California sun."
During the Watergate scandal, Nixon refused to release a story about how LBJ had wire-tapped the Republicans in 1968. He didn't want to expose LBJ -- that was against the code. "The difficulty with using it, of course, is that it reflects on Johnson," Nixon said. "He ordered [the bugging]. If it weren't for that, I'd [exploit the crime]."
President Gerald Ford performed perhaps the greatest act of graciousness toward a predecessor in pardoning Nixon even though Nixon refused to admit he had done anything wrong. Ford's decision helped cost him the 1976 election.
Ronald Reagan helped rehabilitate the image of Nixon, who regularly advised Reagan on political and foreign policy matters.
When George H.W. Bush became president, he sent National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft to visit all four living former presidents (Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon). He asked them what they might want in the way of regular briefings and other logistical favors. Bush also offered to install secure telephone lines so that he could reach them at a moment's notice. He also sent them semi regular dispatches to keep them informed of what was going on in the White House -- what the authors refer to as "a kind of club newsletter."
George H.W. Bush deployed Ford and Carter to help oversee an election in Panama, and sent Carter again to usher in a peaceful transfer of power in Nicaragua. Former rivals George H.W. Bush and Clinton have taken many trips together and are so close that Bush has suggested on a few occasions that he might be the father Bill never really had.
Clinton made good use of the five presidents at his disposal at the start of his presidency, especially Nixon, who practically served as a part-time advisor. A Clinton aide called his relationship with Nixon, "something of a mutual admiration society." Clinton compared Nixon's death to the passing of his own mother.
A newly-inaugurated Clinton paid Reagan a special visit in Los Angeles, where the former president gave Clinton a much-needed tutorial on how to salute. Clinton deployed Carter to North Korea and to Haiti to handle very sensitive issues.
George W. Bush has been particularly gracious toward his successor. "We want you to succeed," he told Obama after the 2008 election. "All of us who have served in this office understand that the office transcends the individual." Obama, Bush says, "deserves my silence." He has said, "I love my country a lot more than I love politics. I think it is essential that Obama be helped in the office."
Perhaps the worst criticism Bush has leveled at Obama is "Well, I might have done it differently."
Bush's graciousness toward Obama stands out in part because it has not been reciprocated. Obama's 2008 campaign is remembered as much for Obama's berating of Bush as it is for his promises of unity and post-partisanship. As the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza put it, "There was an almost obsessive singularity in the way that Obama and [his strategists] saw the contest. In their tactical view, all that was wrong with the United States could be summarized in one word: Bush."
As president, Obama has continued his compulsive Bush-blaming. Obama's inaugural address was one long indirect but unmistakable swipe at Bush. With Bush only a few feet away, Obama declared, "Starting today we must pick ourselves off, dust ourselves off, and being again the work of remaking America."
Obama has continued to make Bush his scapegoat. As columnist Charles Krauthammer has said about Obama, "Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush for? The economy, global warming, the credit crisis, Middle East stalemate, the deficit, anti-Americanism abroad -- everything but swine flu. It's as if Obama's presidency hasn't really started."
That was 2009. Three years later, Obama is still blaming Bush. In December 2011, Obama was asked what he would say to black Americans living in poverty who are disillusioned by the administration. "[T]hey understand what an incredible mess had been made as I was coming into office, and we've been spending the last three years cleaning it up."
In February 2012, he said, "We've made sure to do everything we can to dig ourselves out of this incredible hole that I inherited." In March, Obama complained, "When I came into office there had been drift in the Afghanistan policy.… Over the last three years we have refocused attention on getting Afghanistan right. Would my preference had been that we started some of that earlier? Absolutely. But that's not the cards that were dealt." The same month he said, "When I took office, the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters."
Obama has not treated Bill Clinton much better. When he sent Clinton to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American women, the White House didn't want Clinton to get credit. It notified the two women that when the plane landed in California, they would descend the airplane steps alone while Clinton stayed hidden in the cabin. One of the women complained, and the white house eventually relented. "But it was a reminder that the White House was not really comfortable having Clinton back in the picture," Gibbs and Duffy write.
In September 2010, Obama introduced his wife at an event in New York City for the Clinton Global Initiative. As Jodi Kantor relates in her book The Obamas, Obama could not resist the urge to take a swipe at Clinton:
The former president came out first and praised the current one to the skies. The stimulus! A new college loan program! America's bright future, the coming wave of high-tech jobs! But Obama was not there to discuss his work; he was there to discuss his wife's. "Bill Clinton understands where I'm coming from," he said after taking the podium. The former president, perched on a stool a few feet away, nodded, smiling. "He knows what it's like to be married to somebody who's smarter, somebody's who's better looking…" -- the familiar Clinton smile grew a little tighter, as if he was not sure he appreciated the assessment of him or his wife by the younger man -- "somebody who's just all around a little more impressive than you are." On "impressive," Obama let out an uncharacteristic high-pitched giggle. Clinton's eyes crinkled and he broke into a slow, exaggerated clap.
We'll know much more about what goes on between Obama and his predecessors once he leaves office. Time will likely soften any hard feelings and animosities that have been created among them.
But from what we've seen so far, it's clear Barack Obama is at best a reluctant member of the Presidents Club. Obama has always seemed like he believes he's too good for the public who voted him into the presidency. It appears he feels similarly about those who were there before him.
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Remember this post? I shared with you some of the elements used to create my piece de resistance.
To make this twist on a wreath I purchased a large, three dimensional letter and wrapped the entire thing in 3-ply jute using hot glue, making sure to pull tightly. I didn't want any loose jute. Loose jute wouldn't be good. I'm sure you would agree.
I was lucky to find wide ribbon that matched the paint exactly and it is attached to the back of the frame using hot glue and staples. I used the bright, apple green, grosgrain ribbon in the piece because it coordinates with the bistro set on the front porch but it also provides a nice pop of color and an additional touch of whimsy.
The welcome sign is actually three pieces of textured, card stock layered one on top of the other and then stitched together using my sewing machine. The three layers will provide stability when the wind starts to blow. I attached safety pins to each corner and then to that some more jute so it could hang nicely from the little tree branch. The letters are actually black vinyl leftover from my days as an Uppercase Living® representative. That was short lived. I don't do well with home show sales. I hate pressuring people to buy stuff and home business sales require aggressive measures in order to be successful.
The letters are actually cut out of a plethora of individual words. Patience I tell you, patience but doesn't it look like the birds could have actually put the sign together themselves using individual letters from the local newspaper. LOL They also stand out much better than an ink jet print would have. All in all I'm happy with the final product. I wanted a fun twist on a traditional wreath and I think I succeeded in delivering just that.
On a side note: There's Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day and then Girl Scout Cookie Season. Just to list a few stumbling blocks to weight loss. I know you can relate. I'm just saying my New Year's resolutions don't begin until after Girl Scout Cookie Season.
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I just stumbled on this board. It's been almost 3 years now.....in 2007 I was pregnant with mono/mono twins for a short time.
The first ultrasound at 10 weeks was pretty exciting for a few minutes....."I see a heartbeat......there's two babies here...............(OB staring at the screen for a long time)..........I think they are in the same sac...."
So we quickly learned what monoamniotic/monochorionic twins were, and that it wasnt good. DH and I had many many ultrasounds and got to see them go from gummi bears to little babies, but at 14 weeks the OB couldnt find a heartbeat and that was it.
I still get upset about the fact that the egg decided to split into twins at all, and had to do it so late that they were mono/mono. The perinatologists could never find two spots were the cords joined the placenta. It appeared that the cord was joined in the shape of a Y, and there wasnt much chance they were going to make it very far, which they didnt.
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Meeting Archive:
Are Hybrid Clouds Ready for Scalable OLTP?
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We all want to experience the benefits of cloud computing… from better utilization of existing equipment to leveraging low-cost, pay-as-you-need commercial infrastructures, cloud computing is quickly becoming an important consideration for new application architectures.
This webinar presents an architecture for scalable OLTP applications in distributed environments. Here's what you'll learn:
Why depending on a single database can result in disastrous results
Why 2-phase commit protocol fails to scale
The value of in-memory data grids combined with persistent storage
Key requirements for OLTP applications running in distributed architectures
Who should attend:
Chief Architects
Database Designers
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Directors and CIOs
Tue, May 17, 2011
1 hour
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AJ Brown
AJ Brown has been both a marketing executive and an engineering manager over a 30 years career in technology. AJ's experience includes working with several Silicon Valley start-ups as a consultant, concentrating primarily in OLTP enterprise software, database management systems, and analytical software. Prior to starting CloudTran, AJ was VP Marketing for Apptricity, a provider of enterprise applications for large organizations. He was also the Chief Marketing Officer for Rearden Commerce, a provider of a technology-based personal assistant, Senior VP Marketing for RightPoint Software, and VP Marketing for Red Brick Systems.
Matthew Fowler
Matthew Fowler is the primary inventor of the CloudTran technology, which uses all his 35 years experience in transaction management, LANs, WANs, enterprise software, J2EE and more. He has previously held positions with NatWest Bank, GEC Software, Softnet Systems, and MetaSwitch covering areas such as communications subsystems, cryptography, and security.


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B&W : Six reels / 5685 feet
Directed by John Ford
Cast: Janet Gaynor [Lady Sheila O'Hara], Leslie Fenton [Neil Ross], Willard Louis [Orville Finch], J. Farrell MacDonald [Con O'Shea], Claire McDowell [Molly O'Shea], Louis Payne [Sir Miles O'Hara], Georgie Harris [Jockey Benny Ginsberg], Andy Clark ['Chesty' Morgan], Ely Reynolds ['Virus Cakes']; Thomas Delmar [Michael], Brandon Hurst [the procurer]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [A John Ford Production]. / Scenario by John Stone, from a screen story by Peter B. Kyne (Peter Bernard Kyne). Assistant director, Edward O'Fearna. Photographed (cinematography) by George Schneiderman. Titles (intertitles) by Elizabeth Pickett. Presented by William Fox. / © 26 April 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP22716]. Released 2 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Ford's first film with an Irish theme.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
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Listing updated: 5 October 2010.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Gallagher-Ford pp. 34, 35, 56, 86, 467; McIlroy-Ireland pp. 158, 180-181; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40, 236-237 : Website-AFI.
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Jennifer Hudson Flaunts Toned Abs During Performance on Today Show (PHOTOS)
Jennifer Hudson ;impresses us every time she steps out on stage. Amazing abs and a Grammy-winning voice? The perfect combo!
The 32-year-old singer stepped out for a performance on the Today show in New York City on August 19, looking fit and fabulous. What did she wear for the live audience and millions of viewers at home? Tight high-waisted jeans, a black crop top that said "Strong", a black zip-up, and black boots. That pixie cut totally added to the edgy look.
Jennifer became a spokesperson for Weight Watchers in 2010, losing 80 lbs. through the program. She told People earlier this year, "The key about losing weight: You have to do it for you. It's not about even starting the journey, it's about you. You have to want to do it. And you can't let what everyone has to say overshadow what you want for you."
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Fed Basel III Rule a Win for Real Estate
NAR and industry partners notched a key victory in ensuring the continued availability of mortgage financing for borrowers when the Federal Reserve Board released its final rule implementing BASEL III international banking accords. The rule leaves out an increased risk-weighting provision in the earlier proposed version of the rule that would have made residential mortgages more costly to many borrowers. The proposed rule would have required banks to hold more capital on their books for the residential loans they make. The final rule leaves the risk-weighting requirement for residential loans unchanged. The rule also eases proposed standards on community banks and extends the time period for banks to adopt the new standards, but it also imposes some new standards on the country's largest banks.
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The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat Resources
Movie or TV Productions
The 1934 Film
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff star in this loose retelling.
The 1966 Film
This one sticks to Poe's story, and promises screams of horror.
The 1995 Film
An obscure film, but apparently worth a look if you can find it.
Our Author
The famous Edgar Allan Poe.
1901 Illustration
An illustration of the story's final moment.
Poe Page at the NY Times
You can use it to find some great sources for your paper.
Interactive Poe Timeline
Want to know what the world was like in the time of Poe? Here's a good place to start.
The Edgar Allan Poe Society
A fantastic website with tons of scholarly information on Poe.
A Brief Biography
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"About Poe"
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PROGRAM: The life of the Buddha in his own words – the evolution of his thought, his triumphs, and the rarely portrayed tragedy at the end of his life – all told from the original texts.
After playing in Boston and Los Angeles to sold out houses & rave reviews, the show is now touring select cities in its unplugged form — just the actor and the audience. Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience it at its most raw and intimate.
The man we know as the Buddha lived in Northern India around 500BC and introduced the teaching known as Buddhism. Approximately 300 years after his death, an extensive oral history of the movement was written down, carried and copied throughout Asia, and this canon is became the taproot of the entire Buddhist tradition. Framed in a most unusual and personal context, Buddha – Triumph & Tragedy brings to the stage these authentic texts to enact the extraordinary life of the man, start to finish.
The Buddha considered his own life a model for all our struggles saying, "He who knows me, knows the Dharma." It's no dry tale — The Buddha's life stands among the great archetypal adventure stories.
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Ted Deutch: tax deduction for tainted drywall good, but not good enough
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, said it's good that the Internal Revenue Service will allow taxpayers with defective drywall in their homes will be able to deduct the cost of repairs.
But it's not nearly enough, he said Friday
"Help has been slow to come for the thousands of families in South Florida and throughout the country whose lives have been turned upside down by contaminated drywall in their homes. The Internal Revenue Service's announcement that expenses related to the replacement of tainted drywall will be tax deductible is a critical step in the right direction. However, more must be done to help families whose homes have become outright uninhabitable and whose entire neighborhoods have seen property values decline as a result of tainted drywall. Replacing tainted drywall is an expensive undertaking and we need to assist homeowners whose property insurers and lenders are refusing any flexibility when it comes to making claims or mortgage payments.
"I applaud the IRS for stepping up to the plate with this commonsense assistance for homeowners, but this is not a comprehensive solution to the problem. We must continue to press the Administration, specifically FEMA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to recognize this problem as the emergency it is and get these families the help they need and deserve."
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Sunday Oct 28 2012
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Colfax-Lincoln Game Holds Keys To Placer Playoff Destination
By: Mike Ray, Gold Country News Services
Del Oro Needs Win vs. Rocklin To Qualify For Playoffs
For the first time since 2006, the Pioneer Valley League football championship will be decided in Week 10 by two teams bringing perfect league records with them into a regular season closing game. When Placer's Hillmen (9-0, 4-0) tee it up with Center's Cougars (8-1, 4-0) in the PVL showdown Friday night at LeFebvre Stadium, it will mark the first time since 2006 when an undefeated Colfax team defeated equally undefeated Bear River, 30-7, in the regular season finale to decide the league crown. But while all the PVL attention will be in Auburn Friday night, for the bigger picture of what lies ahead in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs, both Placer and Center followers might want to tune their I-phones into what's happening in two other games – one 20 miles away in Lincoln and another 100 miles away in Modesto. For Placer, another Friday PVL finale, Colfax at Lincoln – will carry the key to unlocking the post season scenario for the Hillmen. "It's looking a lot like the Colfax-Lincoln game is going to be pivotal for the make-up of Div. III and Div. IV brackets," said CIF assistant commissioner John Williams. "Regardless of the Placer-Center outcome, the playoff fate of those two teams actually rests in other games." When the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section revised its playoff format in 2010, football divisions were broken down for bracketing purposes by criteria such as school enrollment, league finish, league wins, total wins and opponent win totals. So, basically, with nine games already into the books, both Placer and Center, which remarkably are only five students apart in enrollment, will put their post season destinations Friday into the hands of Lincoln hosting Colfax and Orestimba of Newman traveling to play Modesto Christian. "There will be some five win teams make the playoffs," said Williams. "Right now we just don't know if they will be in Div. III or Div. IV." Here's the latest playoff scenario for local area teams: Placer (9-0, 4-0) - The Hillmen with a win on Friday can complete a perfect regular season for the first time at Placer since 1980 and give the Green and Gold their first league title since 1998. Also by winning on Friday, the Hillmen would gain the No. 1 seed for the playoffs regardless of whether they land, in Div. III or Div. IV. Now, this is where things start to get interesting. The Hillmen, who have competed in the Div. III level for the post season the last two years, have been projected to play Div. III again, providing Colfax defeats Lincoln on Friday. A Lincoln win, however, and providing Orestimba loses to Modesto Christian, would push Placer into Div. IV. Meanwhile, wins by both Colfax and Orestimba would elevate both Placer and Center into Div. III. Bear River (7-2, 2-2) – The Bruins qualified for the playoffs with their 24-14 win over Lincoln last Friday. With a win over Foothill on Friday, the Bruins at 8-2 will most likely end up with a seed that could range from nine to eleven in Div. IV providing where Placer and or Center wind up. Colfax (4-5, 1-3) – According to sources in the southern part of the section, there are a lot of Div. IV teams rooting for Colfax to win Friday at Lincoln. That's because a Falcons' victory would keep Placer in Div. III. If the Falcons do get into Div. IV, a first round game opponent could be either Ripon or Argonaut. Del Oro (4-5, 3-1) – It's simple for the Golden Eagles who host Rocklin Friday - win and go to the playoffs, lose and stay home. For Del Oro, the Golden Eagles, who are Div. II this season, can only go either as the Sierra Foothill League's No. 1 or No. 2 team. Rocklin, Del Oro's opponent this weekend, has already qualified for the playoffs. Foresthill (8-1, 7-0) – The Wildfires have wrapped up the Sacramento Metro League title and will attempt to finish 8-0 in league when they host Cristo Rey Friday night. Foresthill figures to be a top seed in the Div. VI bracket.


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I am now on nightmare difficulty with my level 48 barbarian and I start getting bored. I can illustrate one of the problems in pictures:
level 10
level 18
level 29
level 35
level 44, but still looks the same at 48
The only difference of my barbarian, apart from the weapon she carries, is that I used dye to change some colors. The Armor is exactly the same for the last 13 levels.
I picked up tons of loot. White, blue, yellow, doesn't matter. Not a single piece of armor I picked up for the last 10 hours I played was as good as what I am already wearing. And by that I mean
for my character. I find ton's of rare weapons and armor with bonus for intelligence. Too bad I don't play a wizard. The secondary stats on the pieces are usually useless for wizards, like +strength or the generally pointless "increase gold pickup by 2 yards". Hence it doesn't sell in the auction house.
I could buy some armor in the auction house you say? Spendid idea! But wait, there is one important problem: most people don't have a buyout-option and those who have want a stupid amount of gold for a
slightly better
pair of boots than I already wear. Most auctions I find either run out in the middle of the night, where I can't just sit there and refresh to make sure no night-owl takes away my presumed bargain, or they run out in 2 days. In 2 days I'll be of much higher level already, hence the slightly better piece of armor which will cost me a fortune will be out of date.
ARPG like Diablo rely on steadily growing numbers. Increasing levels, increasing damage, increasing armor, increasing amounts of enemies. If at some point this process of gearing up stops, it shows how hollow the game actually is. At nightmare it's still not difficult. I die quite often, but that's not a result of difficulty. It's because the game has plenty of cheap deaths. Since everything is random, it can happen (and to me it happens quite often) that one rather small room contains three packs of champions and minibosses, with insane combinations of powers.
For example one room with a pack which could fear my character and did so constantly. The second pack had the ability 'waller', which build a wall around me which prevented me from getting anywhere, while being feared, hence having no control over my character. The third pack had the ability 'mortar', which does what it says on the can and rained a continuous volley of fireballs on me. I have more than 10.000 hitpoints at that point and have a ability that reduces magical damage by 20%. That didn't help me from being stuck and watch as my health-globe dissipated within a second.
Often there is no tactic I can use to prevent me dying. What I did in some cases was charging into the middle of the pack, fire all my abilities, use 'earthquake' (which does massive damage and continues to do so even after I'm dead) and hope that at least one of them dies. Rinse, repeat.
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March 8, 2014
Head judge Kaite Stover, second from right, informs the Sophia Hoffman, second from left, and her family that her misspelling of the word "stifling" in the 28th round of the Jackson County Spelling Bee was confirmed.
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A marathon spelling bee between two Kansas City-area students who exhausted the initial word list last month ended after 29 more rounds Saturday when the eventual runner-up stumbled over the word "stifling."
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As I'm sure most people do, I've gotten accustomed to inventing semi-witty expressions (or bon mots, as the French say). It wasn't until my brother mentioned to me that he thought I should list them somewhere, and after I saw this one (which I didn't create), that I decided to compile them on my blog. Feel free to pass them around as if they were your own.
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Building a Future for Distributors and Dealers of Building Products
Volume 44, Issue 8 October 2005
Company Makes Changes to Better Service Customers
by Samantha Carpenter
Wholesale distributor Brockway-Smith Co., also known as BROSCO, is a company old in name but not in spirit.
Through its headquarters and a distribution center in Andover, Mass., as well as distribution centers in Coxsackie, N.Y., Hatfield, Mass., and Portland, Maine, the company, which has 825-plus employees, services all of New England and the Eastern part of New York, and in April of this year, BROSCO Millwork Products extended its territory to include New Jersey, Long Island and the New York City Boroughs.
"Separate and Stronger"
Over the years, BROSCO has made improvements to its company structure and technology to help better service its customers.
In 2001, Brockway-Smith Co. and Andersen Corp. entered into an aligned distribution agreement. This agreement positioned BROSCO as the sole distributor of Andersen Products in New England and Eastern New York State. However, the Andersen and BROSCO relationship is not new; it dates back to the 1920's—one of the longest business relationships in the millwork industry. To ensure BROSCO's ability to manage and grow Andersen product market share, a 100,000-square-foot addition was completed at the company's Hatfield facility in 2001.
In 2004, BROSCO reorganized the sales, marketing and purchasing functions of the business into two divisions. This project, referred to as "Separate and Stronger," aligned the divisions along the two major product groups—Andersen Products and BROSCO Millwork Products. The company now had two separate divisions that shared warehousing and logistics and delivered a more focused and effective business model for its customers.
"BROSCO is very fortunate to be associated with many of the best brands in millwork," said Greg Libby, BROSCO's systems quality control manager.
Out of its BROSCO Millwork Products group, the company distributes windows, doors, trim, garage transoms, architectural and commercial products, stair parts, folding stairs, specialty millwork, fireplace mantles, moulding, jambs sills and more. The Andersen Product group distributes angle-bay windows, casement windows, double-hung windows, optional accessories, patio doors, picture windows as well as transoms.
Over the years, BROSCO has worked to develop product packaging that allows its products to be delivered to its dealers and to their customers in top-quality condition.
"The bracing, cardboard sleeves and other protective measures are continuously being refined to improve customer service and product quality," Libby said.
The company uses its own fleet of trucks to deliver its products.
The Big Bang: 03/03/03
Dividing its product lines into two different groups isn't the only way BROSCO has improved its business recently. In 2003, the company implemented the DMSi ERP system with Majure Data's WMS system.
Libby says the WMS system has allowed the company to be much more efficient in the picking, staging and delivery of its products.
"The use of wireless terminals and barcode scanning has improved accuracy and has helped BROSCO maximize our delivery fleet," he said.
The company went from a legacy ERP system to the new system—all four Branch locations at once—on 03/03/03.
"We referred to it as the 'Big Bang,'" Libby said. "We knew it was going to be tough, and we have to give credit to our customers and vendors. They stuck with us; customers stuck with us, but respectively, they said, 'we've been through this, we know what you are going through.'"
Libby says that the company couldn't be doing the things it's doing today without Majure Data's WMS.
"Using a WMS has significantly improved the accuracy of our inventory. That alone has improved our organization's effectiveness," Libby said. "We make better purchasing decisions, it's increased our ability to confidently tell customers that we can fulfill their orders and it has increased our overall efficiency in the warehouse."
Libby says the implementation of the new system has had a significant impact to the company's business.
"Just about every member of Team BROSCO experienced a change in his or her daily responsibilities," Libby said. "In the course of 'moving the cheese' on everyone, the culture of BROSCO is moving as well. WMS has moved BROSCO into a 'real time' environment where personal, professional and business discipline is critical to the success of the WMS system."
The company saves a lot of time with the new system, too. No longer do employees spend time performing stock checks in the warehouse—if the system says the company has a product in stock, the salespeople trust that the customer will get his requested product on-time.
A Sense of Belonging
Another way BROSCO helps its customers is being involved in millwork associations and learning from other companies in the business.
The company belongs to all the local association chapters—millwork and homebuilders.
"We belong to all the state lumber associations. We try to be supportive of our industry by being part of all the associations that are connected—the Association of Millwork Distributors, National Association of Home Builders and National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors," Libby said.
"We know that we have to earn our business one order at a time," Libby said. "We strive everyday to out perform our customers' expectations. Our customers count on BROSCO to be a reliable business partner. Going the extra mile is part of our culture of customer service at
Samantha Carpenter is editor of SHELTER magazine.
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Tie 'er up at the hitching post and indulge in some cowboy music of the American West. Lyrical master, Tom Russell returns to the stage with Gretchen Peters performing songs from his new CD Love and Fear.
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(NEWS CENTER) -- Summer is coming to an end and some kids are already back at school, while others are still making last minute jean and pencil purchases. Many school buses are back on the road, which means drivers need to be aware during the morning and afternoon commute of children getting on and off the bus.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the greatest risk for children is not riding the school bus, but approaching or leaving it. Some drivers don't stop when the school bus stop sign is out or pass when the red lights are flashing, despite the fact it is illegal and dangerous. The school bus "danger zone" is about 10 feet around the entire bus and children must be careful in that area. It's a good idea for parents to go over safety tips with their children. Kids need to wait until the bus driver indicates it is safe to make their way to the bus. Students should also always cross in front of the driver and never walk down the side of the bus.
For drivers when the red lights flash it is the law to stop and wait. Passing is illegal and the traffic ticket is very expensive. Bus drivers have the authority to report cars who pass to the police.
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